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Library and Archives Canada Blog
The beginning of Canada: Through the eyes of Lady Susan Macdonald
Posted on December 18, 2017 by Library and Archives Canada Blog
By Ayla Maud
“Behind every great man, is a great woman.” Or at least that is how the old saying goes. But how often do we get the opportunity to really know these great women? We see them standing next to their successful partners, but do we ever know what they contribute behind the scenes? This summer Library and Archives Canada created an opportunity to get into the mind of one great woman in particular—Lady Susan Agnes Macdonald (née Susan Agnes Bernard).
Susan Bernard married Sir John Alexander Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (or the Dominion of Canada, as it was known at the time), in 1867. Five days after Sir Macdonald’s inauguration, his wife began documenting their new life. The very diary Susan Macdonald used was digitized this summer, in commemoration of Canada’s 150th anniversary, and made available online for the public to transcribe. In addition to providing a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to take on an elite title, Lady Macdonald shares some of her insights into how the Dominion of Canada was formed. She gives a first-hand account of key historical moments that many of us have since learned about in school.
A hand-written page showing the first entry in Lady Susan Macdonald’s diary, dated Friday, July 5, 1867 (MIKAN 122166)
One of the first things we notice as Lady Macdonald begins to share her thoughts and experiences is the love she had for her husband. Multiple entries gush about Sir John’s patience, love and ability to always put his best foot forward. Susan Macdonald was a strong supporter of her husband, in terms of both his career and character. Her love led her to join him on many confederate-related work missions, socials, voyages and more.
Macdonald of Earnscliffe, Agnes Macdonald, Baroness. Photographed by William Topley, September 1873 (MIKAN 3194713)
Due to her strong interest in her husband’s political life, Susan Macdonald was able to witness multiple events that are taught as pivotal points in many history classes today. One example is a series of entries that follows the assassination of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Father of Confederation, and the subsequent trial. Lady Susan’s writing gives insight into the details of McGee’s death (for instance, that he was killed while unlocking his front door after coming home one night), the thinking among the populace at the time, and the process of collecting evidence against suspected killer Patrick Whelan.
Susan Agnes Macdonald’s diary gives readers the opportunity to time-travel back to the late 1860s and bear witness (although from one person’s perspective) to a segment of early Canadian society. It was not just by sharing public opinion regarding specific events that Lady Macdonald painted an image of her life for future generations to discover; it was also in the way she described Ottawa at each time of the year, enabling us to compare it to the city we know today. She shares details of meals eaten and customs followed, some of which may be very different from current practices. The theme of religious faith recurs often throughout Susan Macdonald’s pages. Whether she was writing about going to a church service or documenting prayers she hoped would be answered, every few entries highlight moments in her and her husband’s spiritual lives.
A watercolour painted by Lady Susan Macdonald, undated (MIKAN 161120)
It is possible to relate to some of Lady Macdonald’s diary entries describing the stresses of her new responsibilities as the Prime Minister’s wife. Just as you or I might experience the pressures of a new chapter in our lives, she describes being nervous or fearful that she does not know what she is doing. At one point, she describes herself as “a novice” in her new life.
Macdonald of Earnscliffe, Agnes Macdonald, Baroness, photograph taken by William Topley, undated (MIKAN 3192012)
The transcription of Lady Susan Agnes Macdonald’s diaries is now complete, but the digitized diary is still available online. It gives insight into not only the type of woman Mrs. Macdonald was, but also the type of world Canada was as it first began.
Ayla Maud is a student archival assistant with Regional Services and the ATIP Division of the Public Services Branch at Library and Archives Canada.
This entry was posted in Our Collection and Facilities, Politics and Government and tagged 1867, baroness, Diaries, Dominion of Canada, John A. Macdonald, Lady Macdonald, Susan Agnes Macdonald by Library and Archives Canada Blog. Bookmark the permalink.
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Dee Nigam on December 18, 2017 at 11:30 am said:
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Elizabeth Vincent on December 27, 2017 at 12:31 pm said:
I am glad to learn that the transcription of Lady Macdonald’s diary is complete and that the original will still be available online. Unfortunately the finished transcription does not yet seem to be available, or at least I could not find a link to it, though there is a link in this posting to the working documents for the transcription. Has a final version been edited and put online, complete with index and notes? It is unfortunate that this article was not edited before it was posted. To begin the title is incorrect – “Lady Susan Macdonald” indicates that the subject of the article was the daughter of a peer. From the time that her husband was created a Knight Command of the Bath (1 July 1867) Susan Agnes Bernard Macdonald would be referred to as Lady Macdonald. After her husband’s death she was created a baroness and would still be known as Lady Macdonald. Also, she was not known as Susan Macdonald. She used her middle name, Agnes (see the first page of the Diary), rather than Susan. And Sir John A. was never referred to as “Sir Macdonald.”
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When I arrived at the Millibo Art Theatre for our monthly meeting last night, a dreaded feeling settled over me. The theater was completely dark.
Had I gotten the date wrong? Apparently not, because there, in front of the theater, were several intrepid writers and actors huddled in their cars.
No, good ol' Jim had forgotten about us (first time too!). Fortunately, I was able to get him on the phone and he zipped over from his home to open the door for us. Good thing too, because the temperature was in the single digits.
Things quickly turned cozy once we got inside though. I laid out the buttery cookies I brought from Boonzaaijer's (you really gotta try this place) and Jim promptly had a hot pot of coffee brewing. Better yet, we had 15 warm bodies to fill the place.
The meeting went fantastically well. We were delighted to welcome one new writer--the great Phil Ginsburg--who I've been trying to reel in for over a year, and one new reader, the equally great Ashley Crockett.
We started with Jeff Schmoyer's suicide piece, Back From the Dead. He was worried it would be too somber, but it got some of the biggest laughs of the evening. Jeff did a great job balancing the dark stuff with the light stuff. I know I can't wait to see more of his writing in the future.
Next we read a brief scene from Tim Phillips' edgy girl band drama The Decibelles. The characters are really starting to show some depth here, and the dialogue is taking on a fun, sassy tone. We even got a bit of a song. I can't wait to see the road this takes.
After that we read Crypto-Spam, a really innovative piece by Phil. In it, a family argues over an inheritance while speaking only in sentences Phil collected from email spam. There were lot of laughs here too.
We turned a little darker with a new section from Katherine Gee's full-length play Selkie, which is based on the Orkney myth of the seal-wife. Everyone found it quite beautiful and haunting.
Sadly, Katherine announced that she and her husband will be moving to Seattle in a couple months, but at least we'll get to hear the end of her piece before she leaves.
We wrapped up the evening with my 10-minute comedy, How Not to Behave at the Theatre. I wrote it as a fun way to communicate the "turn off your cell phones and pagers" warning at the start of a play. It turns out the play needs a lot of tightening, both in the length and the number of characters.
I also had a big announcement. I'm going to be producing a full-blown production of my backstage farce, Kill the Critic! We read it last summer and people really seemed to like it. It's got a lot of physical comedy, however, so it'll be quite a feat to pull off.
Fortunately, I can count on the very capable assistance of Drama Lab member Nancy Holaday, who has agreed to direct it. Believe it or not, she has cast a professional stuntman as the critic. The poor guy is also a trained fight choreographer, which will come in handy when we work through all the physical comedy.
Oh, and I can't forget the eminently talented Karann Goettsch, who'll play the cougarish diva Sylvia.
The show runs June 28-29 at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts in Palmer Lake. For more info, click here.
I also brought up one issue for discussion. We've been steadily growing over the last year, which is a truly wonderful thing. Unfortunately, it also presents a challenge: how do we fit an increasingly number of plays into our one-evening-a-month format?
I originally had seven writers scheduled for this month's meeting, but two had to drop out at the last minute. Still, it's only a matter of time before we have to come up with some solution.
I thought of four:
1) Meet twice a month. This gives everyone a chance to get read, but would be a lot to ask of Jim and may require us to cough up more rent.
2) Cut back to 10 pages per playwright per meeting. This was roundly rejected by the attendees as it would take forever to get through a full-length play, which more and more of our writers are tackling. It would also make it harders for audience members to follow the flow of the play.
3) Run the meeting as long as it takes. This also met with some resistance. Two and a half hours seems to be the limit for people's attention, and there just won't be any useful response to feedback after that point.
4) Limit each meeting to five or six plays. This seemed to be the most popular option, although it means that some people won't get read at a particular meeting. I would have to work out how to decide who gets in and who doesn't. First come, first served is the obvious answer, but then where would I fit in the mix (after all, I'm the first to let me know what play I'll be bringing!)?
Anyway, we can discuss this some more at future meetings. If you have any additional comments or alternate suggestions (please!), you can always email me.
See you all next month. And let's hope it's a whole lot warmer!
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Abraham Lincoln remarked at Gettysburg in November 1863 that ” . . . the great task remaining before us (is). . . that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish . . .”
TRRG has taken up “government by the people” as a mission, in looking for sufficient avenues for public engagement in local government decision making and process operation that effectively allow for a balanced expression of all peoples’ values. TRRG believes that a variety of barriers impede a balanced consideration of some stakeholders’ points of view and concerns. TRRG seeks to understand these barriers and to promote changes that overcome them.
Community Planning: Brief summaries of methods for helping people get involved in planning. With links to further information, on this and other websites.
City of New Orleans Neighborhood Participation Plan
“This document provides a clear path towards more meaningful participation between the local community and government. Everyone who participates in local government decision making, regardless if as an advocate or as a public administrator, can use the City of New Orleans Neighborhood Participation Plan as a guide that will help improve how they come together to find solutions tomorrow.” Source
More: New Orleans Neighborhood Engagement Office
“The Mayor’s Neighborhood Engagement Office is the City’s permanent mechanism for public participation in government decision-making. We create opportunities for dialogue, information sharing, partnership, and action between City government and neighborhood residents and leaders.”
Public Meetings and the Democratic Process – Brian Adams
” . . . public meetings serve an important democratic function by providing citizens with the opportunity to convey information to officials, influence public opinion, attract media attention, set future agendas, delay decisions, and communicate with other citizens. Meetings are a tool that citizens can use to achieve political objectives.
This tool is ill-suited for fostering policy deliberations or persuading officials to change a vote on a specific issue. But meetings serve another purpose: By giving citizens a venue in which they can achieve political goals, public meetings can enhance the political power of citizens and, consequently, improve governmental responsiveness to citizens.
Public meetings can complement the structures that foster citizen deliberation (such as citizen panels, forums, and roundtables) by providing citizens with the opportunity to engage in the political process before deliberations commence and after citizens have developed a set of recommendations or a consensus policy position. Even though public meetings themselves are not deliberative, they can facilitate citizen participation and the development of good policy by assisting citizens in achieving their political goals.”
Read more here . . .
Topic from TRRG’s founding discussions: “Flawed (City) processes, procedures and policies were at the root of everyone’s problems. Unless these basic systemic weaknesses could be addressed, the possibilities that residents would continue moving from crisis to crisis were all too real.”
” . . . whether decision makers are willing to listen”
Perhaps the most important factor to be considered is whether decision makers are willing to listen and take into account the result of citizen engagements processes in decision making.
” . . . create dialogue around key questions and issues . . .”
“. . . citizen dialogue must be meaningful . . . people must know that they are being listened to, and get feedback on how their views have been taken into account.” To ensure that this is the case, before embarking on a citizen engagement initiative, there must be commitment and “honest intent” by both politicians and public officials within the locality to use the information and preferences expressed by the community.
Citizen engagement is also “not an alternative to representative government.” Empowerment of citizens is not the top rung in a contest of control, but rather one of the optional ways that citizens can be involved that will be appropriate to some situations but not to others. Citizen engagement occurs along with, and not in place of, the work of the city council.
If active citizen engagement occurs, the locality does not have to be divided into camps of officials and citizens. The views of officials will be affected through dialogue with citizens and vice versa when there is ongoing interaction rather than isolated instances of citizen review and advice.
Source: The Connected Community: Local Governments as Partners in Citizen Engagement and Community Building – a White Paper edited by James H. Svara and Janet Denhardt, 2010 (Suggestion: Bring up this pdf file and search for the word ‘dialogue’ – this will provide some interesting reading.)
ICMA Civic Engagement
In 2014, the International City/County Management Association’s Center for Management Strategies focused on civic engagement as one of its priority areas. Here is the Management Strategies Center’s Civic Engagement page.
The following information was compiled through the Enhanced Research Partnership of ICMA, the Alliance for Innovation, and Arizona State University and represent best practices in the practice of civic engagement/public participation. These documents are designed to assist local governments in creating strong, multi-faceted programs for engagement. Documents
National League of Cities – Democratic Governance & Civic Engagement
“A growing disconnect between citizens and government – complicated by the challenges of financial strains, demographic changes, diminishing social capital, and increasing demands from citizens – has renewed the need for local leaders to revisit issues of democracy and governance.” More
City Manager Position Paper
TRRG met June 21, 2014 to discuss what characteristics should be sought in a new city manager for Tucson. A document was created, available here, summarizing TRRG’s input to Tucson Mayor & Council as they seek the right person.
Plan Tucson
Plan Tucson, the updated general plan that was prepared with extensive community input and was adopted by Tucson voters in November 2013, offers significant guidance on how Tucson’s government should operate (Plan Tucson, Chapter 3, Governance and Participation, 3.42).
City government derives its legitimacy from the citizens it serves. To effectively determine citizen needs and acceptable ways to meet those needs, City government must interact with residents, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and other governmental agencies, broadly referred to here as the public . . .
In recent years, City departments have undertaken more highly interactive processes. These processes begin early in the policy, program, or project planning and invite participants to help create alternatives in contrast to the traditional request for feedback on a predetermined alternative. These more hands-on processes can result in increased “ownership” of an outcome, more trust in the public process in general, and less likelihood of eleventh-hour dissension.
To help ensure success, such efforts require:
upfront planning,
sufficient resources and time,
careful identification of potentially affected populations,
a clear understanding by the City and public of each other’s roles,
and a commitment to honoring the process or having open dialogue about proposed changes to the process.
Adopted Policies
G1 Provide the public with regular communication and sufficient information regarding policy, program, and project planning and decision-making via multiple methods.
G2 Offer opportunities for productive public engagement in City policy, program, and project initiatives from the beginning of and throughout the planning and decision-making process.
G3 Emphasize interactive participation methods that solicit input from the public and provide feedback to the public on input received and how it was used. (3.46)
Plan Implementation
Measuring progress toward fulfilling Plan Tucson goals and policies is a critical component of successful implementation. (4.7)
TRRG plans to monitor the City’s adoption of these policies and to seek examples of the “early, interactive, hands on, trust building” processes referred to in Plan Tucson.
Authentic – real or genuine; not copied or false; reliable; trustworthy
Collaboration – the act of working with another or others on a joint project; the situation of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing
Consensus – the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned
A consensus decision making process attempts to help everyone get what they need.
Participants contribute to a shared proposal and shape it into a decision that meets the concerns of all group members as much as possible.
Participants in an effective consensus process should strive to reach the best possible decision for the group and all of its members, rather than competing for personal preferences.
All members of a consensus decision-making body should be afforded, as much as possible, equal input into the process. All members have the opportunity to present, and amend proposals.
As many stakeholders as possible should be involved in the consensus decision-making process.
The consensus process should actively solicit the input and participation of all decision-makers.
Consensus decision-making attempts to address the problems of both Robert’s Rules of Order and top-down models. Proponents claim that outcomes of the consensus process include:
Better Decisions: Through including the input of all stakeholders the resulting proposals may better address all potential concerns.
Better Implementation: A process that includes and respects all parties, and generates as much agreement as possible sets the stage for greater cooperation in implementing the resulting decisions.
Better Group Relationships: A cooperative, collaborative group atmosphere can foster greater group cohesion and interpersonal connection.
Source with extensive information: Wikipedia, et. al.
While consensus decision-making may at first glance appear to be an impractical way to get things done, it has been proven effective in even large groups.
A common question asked is: “What if a decision absolutely has to be made, but no consensus can be reached?” The simple answer is: if there is no consensus about a solution, then is there really an urgency to the situation?
If there truly is urgency, then people will simply have to work harder to achieve a consensus. They might even have to degrade to a compromise, though it is hoped . . . that instead they can find a synthesis which brings opposing views together to a consensus.
Source: Metagovernment – Consensus
Dialogue – an exchange of ideas or opinions on a particular issue, especially a political or religious issue, with a view to reaching an amicable agreement or settlement.
. . . a discussion between representatives of parties to a conflict that is aimed at resolution
. . . the power of discourse to increase understanding of multiple perspectives and create myriad possibilities
. . . a rigorous bottom-up democratic form of dialogue must be structured to ensure that a sufficient variety of stakeholders represents the problem system of concern, and that their voices and contributions are equally balanced
. . . dialogue is used in classrooms, community centers, corporations, federal agencies, and other settings to enable people, usually in small groups, to share their perspectives and experiences about difficult issues. It is used to help people resolve long-standing conflicts and to build deeper understanding of contentious issues.
Responsive – reacting quickly and positively; responding readily and with interest or enthusiasm; readily reacting to suggestions, influences, appeals, or efforts
Stakeholder – a person or organization that has interests that may be positively or negatively affected by the performance or completion of the project. “Once you understand the stake the stakeholder is seeking to protect, profit from or enhance, you can structure your communications to let the person know you understand their hopes or concerns. From this starting point, you’re in a much better position to manage the relationship to the benefit of both the project and the stakeholder.” Source
Though focused on the federal government, some useful insights for local government are contained in: Why Government Fails So Often – And How It Can Do Better – Peter Schuck – 2014
Here is a sample of Schuck’s observations:
. . . the administrative agency occupies a peculiar position in our government, being not directly accountable to the citizenry, claiming the authority of expertise that the public does not readily grant, and often exercising vast, difficult-to-control discretionary powers to shape policies in ways that can affect the vital interests of all citizens.
More excerpts are here.
The Demise of the Public Hearing
An article on recent developments in citizen engagement in public processes was published in the October 2013 issue of Governing magazine:
“Citizen engagement is coming of age. Local governments are experimenting as never before, pushed by the excruciating decisions that come with tight budgets, the ubiquity of social media and the development of new online deliberation tools. Behind it is a recognition that the time-worn public hearing may not be the best and is certainly not the only way to interact with the public.
. . . there is a wide spectrum of public participation. The International Association for Public Participation, known as IAP2, says that spectrum runs from
a bare minimum of informing the public about problems and alternative solutions,
to collaborating with them and
empowering citizens to make the final decisions.
Countless city officials still think that giving residents three minutes at the microphone makes for citizen engagement.
. . . local governments across the country now seem to be at a tipping point. “We’re in a period of great ferment,” says James Svara, a political scientist at Arizona State University who studies public engagement efforts. “Governments are trying all these things, and eventually it will become a standard practice and we’ll see a new consensus about what it all means.”
Source: Governing – The Demise of the Public Hearing – October 2013
TRRG may benefit from using the tools and approachs of investigative or collaborative journalism.
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8 Quotes That Explain Why Sexual Assaults Aren’t Ending On College Campuses
By Molly Arenberg & Katie Dunn, June 30th 2014
Unless you have been living under a rock, or are in complete denial of scientific studies, you probably know that sexual assault on college campuses is a huge problem. It has been getting a lot of attention lately, but a law was passed regarding it back in 1972.
The US federal government passed a law called Title IX in 1972. It’s simple: if universities want to receive taxpayer money, they can’t actively or passively discriminate against half the population–women.
Fast-forward to today. Women are still missing classes because of sexual assaults. They are still dropping out of universities because of sexual assaults. They can’t enjoy all that campus has to offer because of sexual assaults. Some men are also experiencing this, but the issue affects women in a massively disproportionate way– hence it’s an issue that falls under Title IX. Why is this still such a huge problem?
Most universities will say they are doing everything they can to prevent sexual assaults. But is that true? We decided to travel across America to find out. We talked to the people who were hired by universities to address sexual assault. Surely the universities were doing everything they could if they took the money to hire these people, right?
People hired to address sexual assaults on campuses are being held back, even undermined, by top university officials.
Here’s how they described the situation:
“Those power control dynamics that we talk about within domestic violence relationships are very much present in the work environment.”
“Our hands are tied.”
“I feel like sometimes I’m beating my head against a wall or screaming in a room and nobody can hear me.”
“We don’t have any type of power.”
“You get invited to pretty much every seat at every table but there’s a weird sort of silencing thing that happens.”
“We have no budget.”
“The university [says], ‘We must have the sexual violence expert’—and then they kind of pull me in and push me away at the same time… it’s scary.”
“The university has never had our backs.”
Based on our research, people hired by universities to address sexual assault are then shut down and undermined by top university officials. This means top university officials are breaking Title IX.
It’s time to hold them accountable. Mandate that top university officials receive training on Title IX and sexual assault, and then if they are still breaking the law, remove them from taxpayer funded positions. It’s the law.
A version of this post originally appeared in ThinkProgress.
College Campus Health & Wellness Quotes sexual assault Title IX Writing & Expression
10 Things You Can Do For Sexual Assault Awareness Month
The Injustices Of Sexual Harassment And What We Can Do About It
Betsy DeVos Passed A Rule That Will Protect College Students Accused Of Rape (But Not The Victims)
College Culture & Sexual Assault: A Step In The Right Direction, But Still A Long Way To Go
Take Back Your Campus: What You Need To Know About The University Sexual Assault Epidemic
Why You Need To Think About A School’s Reputation With Sexual Assault Before Picking A College
Title IX Is Not Solving The Problem Of College Sexual Assault (And It’s Creating New Ones)
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Militarized Police, Police State, Uncategorized
Rural Wyoming County Scores Grenade Launcher from Feds
Date: September 23, 2014Author: captaindonn 0 Comments
The small rural county of Goshen in Wyoming didn’t take advantage of the U.S. government’s discounted military surplus program to buy an MRAP but they did decide that they wanted a grenade launcher. It must be one heck of a status symbol to have something like that out in the boonies along the Nebraska state line. This is yet one more example of how the feds are contributing to the militarized police madness in America.
As reported by a story on the website of the Casper Star-Tribune entitled “Goshen County buys grenade launcher”:
Three grenade launchers have been moved in and out of the Goshen County Sheriff’s Office in the past 65 years.
Yet not one of the weapons has been used by the county’s deputies.
Sheriff Don Murphy said the county bought its current launcher, which was made by Casper weapons manufacturer Defense Technology, for use in the county jail.
“We would use it in situations when less-lethal force is justified to get the situation under control,” Lt. Jeremy Wardell said. “That tool gives us an option not to use lethal force.”
Wardell called the Defense Technology weapon, a 40mm single-launcher, a “less-lethal” option. He compared using the grenade launcher to utilizing pepper spray or a Taser.
“It’s just another option in that middle area between verbal and lethal force,” Wardell said. “We have the ability to use it in the jail as well.”
Murphy said the launcher would predominantly be used for riot control. If a fight broke out between 16 people in a pod at the jail, a deputy could fire rubber pellets at the ground in front of the brawl to get the attention of the inmates.
Wardell oversees the jail, which currently houses 25 inmates. He said there hasn’t been a large fight there in the past year.
“I’ve worked for the agency for 16 years, and we’ve never had a riot we couldn’t control,” he said.
The sheriff’s office also stocks non-lethal sponge grenades, which provide temporary incapacitation through blunt trauma, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
Murphy said the launcher could be used for a long distance shot if deputies wanted to fire a tear gas round into a hostage situation.
Goshen County hasn’t had a hostage situation for at least 15 years, Wardell said.
Goshen County seems to have some sort of particular fetish towards grenade launchers with this one being the third in it’s history. The question is that if the previous two were never used then why of all of the things available through the Pentagon military mega-mall that is the 1033 Program would the county choose a grenade launcher. According to the story:
“Goshen County, population 14,000, is the only county in Wyoming listed by the defense department as having received a grenade launcher from the government.”
Lt. Wardell states that it would give his department the option to use non-lethal force in the event of a jailhouse ruckus but the small local pokey only houses up to 25 inmates. Not only is the jail small enough to not need a grenade launcher to control but has no history of prisoner uprisings.
Law enforcement authorities in Goshen County, Wyoming need to realize that Red Dawn was just a movie and there is not going to be any foreign invasion let alone a riot or an Ebola virus outbreak there. They must be watching way too much television which is understandable given the remote locale.
You just can’t make stuff like this up.
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The Town and the City – Photographs of Lowell, Massachusetts by Jeff Caplan
Jeff Caplan – Photographer has been creating compelling images with his camera for over 30 years. Born and raised in Lowell, MA, his early work was often against the backdrop of the historic Mill City. In the early 90’s Jeff further developed his photographic skill set by delving in to advanced black & white printing techniques and alternative processes through the fine art photography program at The Art Institute of Boston. Jeff lives and works in a digital world, but is a traditionalist at heart. Still shooting and developing film. He stays involved with a local darkroom collective at Western Avenue Studios where he also resides.
“The Town and the City” has been an ongoing personal project for over 25 years. This part of the project contains most recent work spanning over the past three years. The landscape of the city of Lowell is rapidly changing. Jeff’s photographs capture the beauty and grit of a city striving to re-invent itself while keeping one foot firmly planted in history.
His work has been seen at: Noisey/Vice.com in 2017, The Lowell Cemetery, Lowell MA in 2017, Uncharted Gallery, Lowell, MA in 2015, The Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios, Lowell, MA in 2014, The Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA in 2013 and Merrimack College, North Andover MA, in 2001.
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Opening reception for “The Town and the City”, an exhibit of black and white photographs of Lowell, Massachusetts by Jeff Caplan. Come celebrate the opening of this show with some delicious pizza and a superb selection of craft beer & wine.
Reception: Sat, January 13, 2018
Opening: Mon, January 08, 2018
Closing: Sat, February 03, 2018
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What we know (and not know) about testing a Russian vaccine against coronavirus infection
From the Scientific and practical center of interventional Cardioangiology sechenovskiy medical University was discharged volunteers who participated in the first phase of clinical trials of vaccines against coronavirus infection — vaccine on the base adenovirus vector, was developed in NRC epidemiology of Gamaliel (about this and other vaccines, we wrote in the material “On the tip of the needle”).
38 subjects (the youngest 18, the oldest 60, 17 men, 21 women) conducted in hospital exactly a month, where they experienced one of the dosage forms of the vaccine.
“The volunteers were divided into two groups, — says Elena Smolyarchuk, head of the Center clinical study of drugs sechenovskiy University. The first group received vaccination only once, the second twice. This so-called booster circuit, which accentuates the effect of the first vaccination”.
Perfavore phase
The first phase of clinical testing, strictly speaking, says nothing about the effectiveness of the test drug. It is performed only for security check. The most that you can say definitely in its end — harmed if the drug is subject. What discharged the day before yesterday, the volunteers feel good, in fact, is the answer to the question, can it be considered successful this phase.
Speaking about side effects from trial participants, Smolyarchuk said that all the responses from volunteers did not differ from those that are after the introduction of other vaccines: someone had a fever, someone headaches.
“No way our volunteers did not differ. But these data are comparable with the reactions to the introduction of any other vaccines, absolutely,” said the interviewee ,N+1, no exact numbers, however, are not calling.
The effectiveness of the vaccine say on the outcome of the first phase prematurely. To check the efficacy of the drug need a second phase of the research, and efficiency third (read more about the phases of clinical trials, read our article “Last check”). However, some data about the immunogenicity of a vaccine that is, if she generates in humans the immune response to the virus, harvested of course, and during the first phase.
“There were tests on humoral and cellular immunity. These analyses holds [the developer of the vaccine] Institute Gamalei,” says Smolyarchuk, adding that “immunity” is generated.
All of the subjects he has formed, and what is its strength, the data from Smolyarchuk no.
The center of Gamaliel will have to provide to the Ministry of health the test report, where, in fact, are processed as data on safety and preliminary data on vaccine efficacy. According to Smolyarchuk, this should happen somewhere in August, so detailed information about the success of the vaccine will have to wait for some time.
Commenting on the completion of the first phase of testing, Minister of health Michael Murashko has mentionedthat in two weeks I will complete the second phase of clinical trials of the vaccine. The representative of then direct investment Fund, an organization that supports the development of a vaccine, said N+1, the second phase began almost simultaneously with the first — June 18 (officially, the first phase started on 16 June).
Smolyarchuk recognizes that the phases of clinical trials are sometimes combined “for various reasons”.
“It is generally accepted that the later phases include more people, hundreds of volunteers, — he says. — Secondly, it is a longer period of observation. The first phase is 28 days, the period of observation in the later phases of is months.”
Perhaps the second phase of the tests conducts the Main military clinical Burdenko hospital, where she tested on 50 soldiers.
Thus, the second phase of clinical trials coronavirus vaccine development Centre Gamalei will last about a month and a half and the new data should be expected in August (possibly simultaneously with data on the results of the first phase).
Emergency registration
According to the head RFPI Kirill Dmitriev, the second test phase will end on 3 August, and immediately after the start of the third phase of the vaccine trials. The third phase will be conducted not only in our country but also in other countries in the middle East to provide “mnogocentrowoe” tests. Approval of the vaccine by the regulator planned to record time — in September. Whether this will happen before the end of the third phase or even before it — is unclear.
“We expect regulatory approval to start using then vaccine is literally in the August-September… She may become the first registered vaccine against coronavirus infection,” — said Dmitriev.
Reason for optimism, according to Dmitriev, gives the fact that the adenovirus platform has already been validated on a vaccine for Ebola. In addition, the booster circuit — two injections — allows you to provide long-term immunity of up to two years, according to the head RFPI.
Earlier in the same record time was approved for use by then generic of favipiravir aviewer. To register drugs under the accelerated procedure allows the RF government decree of April 3, 2020 No. 441, which States that “the reduction … of expertise” permissible “under the threat of occurrence and liquidation of emergency situations”.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova saidthat the production of the vaccine could be launched in September. In turn, Dmitriev said that the production of vaccine are already beginningn company “R-Pharm” and “in Durban”. It is expected that in our country until the end of the year will be produced 30 million doses of the vaccine. In addition, it is assumed to arrange the production of vaccines in other countries — in this case, the volume of production could reach 200 million doses before the end of the year. Talks about the start of production, according to the head RFPI, is underway with five countries.
Officials demonstrate optimism, promising that the production and use of vaccines could begin in early autumn, but on what is based this optimism is not clear. The results of the first phase – accurate data about the side effects of immune response are not yet public, it is unclear exactly how organized the second phase of the test, how and in what time frame will be the third phase. It seems that the launch and registration will take place before the completion of the third phase in emergency mode.
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10 Amazing Albums With Just One Song
These 10 records may have a normal looking track listing, but they're all written as one long, continuous piece of music. Start in the middle or skip a track… and you’ve ruined your whole listening experience.
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon isn’t just one of the greatest albums of all time, it’s a conceptual masterpiece splitting one long work of art into 10 distinct cuts. Though songs like “Money” and “Time” have a distinct character to them, a full listen to The Dark Side of the Moon reveals the role each song plays in a much larger, bewilderingly accomplished picture.
Between the Buried and Me strived to become the Pink Floyd of modern metal with 2007’s Colors. The experiment was unheard of for a band lumped into the metalcore genre, but with Colors, BTBAM triumphed as progressive metal giants. The North Carolina band integrated Russian folk music, country hoedowns, piano ballads and acid rock into a 64-minute trip of inspired brilliance.
When Sleep write a single song, they keep it as a single song, even if it’s an hour long. Sleep’s worship of the 12th fret has never been more blatant than on Dopesmoker. Only in stoner metal can a band essentially play one note for 63 minutes and never sound boring, which makes Sleep true legends of the genre and of one-song albums.
Check out these 10 Amazing Albums With Just One Song in the Loud List above.
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Culture ministry promotes Việt Nam as a destination for South Korean tourists
Update: June, 27/2019 - 16:37
The art performance at the Vietnamese Festival of Culture and Tourism in South Korea. — VNS Photo Mỹ Trà
HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam will create good conditions and offer a warm welcome to tourists from South Korea, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism said during a show held on June 26 in Seoul to promote Vietnamese tourism.
The ministry, in collaboration with the Vietnamese Embassy in South Korea, organised the show, called the Vietnamese Festival of Culture and Tourism.
Minister Nguyễn Ngọc Thiện, Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyễn Vũ Tú and national football team coach Park Hang-seo hosted the event with the participation of Korean authorities, media and travel agents.
In his speech, Thiện praised the co-operation between the two countries in various fields, especially in culture, sports and tourism.
“We will try our best to help tourists, investors and enterprises from South Korea come to Việt Nam, hence strengthening the partnership between the two countries,” he said.
“The festival is our effort to continue bringing ‘Việt Nam - Timeless Charm’ to the Korean people”, he said.
The festival included a photo exhibition showing Vietnamese tourism and a performance by artists from the Việt Nam National Academy of Music and the Việt Nam National Opera and Ballet Theatre. They performed dances and songs with traditional musical instruments. — VNS
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Mexico: over 5,000 federal troops to tackle violent crime surge
Update: January, 31/2018 - 11:15
MEXICO CITY — More than 5,000 federal security forces are being deployed across Mexico this week as violent crime has surged in popular tourist areas such as Los Cabos and Cancun, the interior minister said on Tuesday.
The non-military forces will work to "swiftly reduce these levels of rising violence," Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete told reporters, noting that neither the army nor navy was involved.
Topping the list of places the mostly federal police were reinforcing were the city of Tijuana in the northwest just south of the US city of San Diego and the popular Los Cabos resort area in Baja California Sur from Los Cabos to La Paz.
Cancun, the Caribbean coast resort that is Mexico’s top international tourist draw, has been hit with some disturbing violent crime in its metro area as well.
The states of Colima and Jalisco, and the city of Chilpancingo, which is Guerrero’s state capital and one of the country’s deadliest, will also see more troops.
Mexico is battling increasingly widespread violent crime linked to multiple factors. In 2017, more than 25,339 killings were reported, the worst since records began in 1997.
Since the federal government launched a huge multifront anti-drug operation in 2006, more than 200,000 people have been killed. Official figures do not specify how many are from organised crime such as drug cartels. — AFP
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I choose all Sides
Filmmaker Joe Singh finds his Cherokee Roots
Joe didn’t look like his siblings. He didn’t look like his classmates or his friends. His skin was darker than his moms but lighter than his dads.
“What am I?” he’d ask his mother growing up.
Filmmaker Joe Singh (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
“You’re Mormon,” his mother would answer, but it was never a good enough answer for him.
Joseph Singh (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) is a standup comedian, actor, writer and filmmaker. Growing up Mormon in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joe was sheltered from his mother’s Cherokee heritage due to his mother’s concern that it would be negatively influential. But Joe persisted.
“I believe in genetic memory,” Joe said. “ I believe that I can learn from my ancestors. Even the ones who have done wrong. I can learn from their mistakes”
When he turned 18, Joe’s life took a sudden turn. His parents separated after his father fell ill, and his family lost their home.
“I was sort of an orphan even though I was 18,” Joe said. “I had nowhere to go.”
Photo from "Across the Creek"
Alone, lost and driven by his pursuit of self-discovery, Joe ventured to a homestead in Oklahoma where he was welcomed with open arms by his great aunt and mother’s relatives.
“Being in that place and being with her felt like home,” Joe said.”I felt the spirits around. I felt a lot of love, like the whole place was a big hug.”
During his time in Oklahoma, Joe felt like he was finally discovering who he was. He learned from his great aunt about the history of his family and the present state of Indigenous culture. He studied family medicine, and wrote down many of his family stories.
“There isn’t really anyone around to tell these oral stories,” Joe said. “Really important things are getting lost.”
Throughout his self-discovery, Joe recorded his experiences into film. Growing up, he and his brothers and sisters spent their days as kids making short videos and movies with their cameras.
“I always had an open mind and a creative spark,” Joe said. “It was a nice outlet when I came across these moments that I could apply to film and story.”
The horror genre specifically called to Joe. Whether it was being afraid of the dark as a child, the dismantling of his family, or even being homeless at certain times in his life, Joe wasn’t a stranger to pain or fear.
Photo from "The Vampire Upstairs" by Joe Singh
“I’ve encountered plenty of horror in my life,” Joe said. “I just became friends with the darkness and therefore horror is easier.”
His passion for the horror genre is what led him to Vision Maker Media to be a part of Nightmare Vision, the first ever online Indigenous horror film fest held in October 2020. Joe didn’t grow up learning traditional dances or hearing his family’s stories, but he said honoring his culture through storytelling feels right to him.
“I didn’t know my roots for a long time, and so I’ve been looking for a way to contribute to Indigenous culture for a while,” he said.
Although his journey exploring his Cherokee heritage after years of being raised in a dominantly white society has been a rollercoaster of emotions, Joe said his unique situation is what makes him who he is. Joe isn’t just Cherokee.
“As much as we want to honor our culture and our heritage, it’s evolved into people like me,” he said. “I’m the product of races that used to hate each other. I am a kymara of bloodlines. I can’t choose one side, so I choose all sides. I choose to be everything.”
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Drivers will push hard from start to finish in Spa
Date: 28th August 2012 at 9:33am
The Belgian Grand Prix is a favourite amongst many Formula One fans around the world.
It’s hugely popular in Britain due to it being such a good weekend away, but also because it’s a fantastic circuit which often creates great racing.
The Pirelli tyres in 2012 have often proved controversial.
The new rubber compound for this season heavily played it’s part in a record breaking seven different winners from the first seven races of the season, with multiple teams standing on the top step of the podium.
Teams have had to work hard to find the sweet spot of the tyre, sometimes drive conservatively to get the best tyre wear and performance throughout the Grand Prix and that has led to criticism from some in the paddock, including seven-time former F1 champion Michael Schumacher.
But the German will not have anything to moan about according to Pirelli this weekend. With the selection of the hard and medium compound tyres, teams should be able to race from when the lights go out to when the chequered flag falls.
‘From a tyre perspective, it’s certainly one of the most demanding circuits that we face all year, because of the high speeds and extreme forces involved, which are often acting on the tyres in more than one dimension,’ Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery told Autosport Magazine.
‘The nomination of the hard and the medium tyres will allow drivers to push hard from start to finish, which is what Spa was designed for.’
‘The first half of the season began with the most close and competitive start to a year ever seen in Formula 1’s history, so I am looking forward to seeing how the rest of 2012 pans out, and which teams have made which steps forward over the summer break, Currently the grid is so closely-matched ? particularly in the midfield ? that it’s impossible to predict.’
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ANIME EXPO 2017: FLCL Seasons 2 and 3 Trailer and Details Revealed
Posted on July 3, 2017 by Tyler Schirado
The long awaited return of “FLCL” has finally come to fruition now that the trailer for seasons 2 and 3 were revealed at Anime Expo this week. Announced during a panel with Production I.G.’s Maki Terashima-Furuta and Toonami’s Jason DeMarco, we have come to find out that each season will be six episodes that will come some time in 2018. Continue reading →
Posted in Anime Trailer Tagged Adult Swim, Anime Expo, FLCL, Jason DeMarco, Katsuyuki Motohiro, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Maki Terashima-Furuta, Production I.G., Toho, Toonami, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
The Coolest Comic-Con 2015 Booths, Exhibits, and Experiences
So here we are again. San Diego Comic-Con. The place that makes geek wet dreams come true. I definitely was excited to get my nerd on this weekend, and I’m always looking forward to seeing what new booths, exhibits, and experiences SDCC has to offer. Suffice it to say, I was a tad underwhelmed by most of what I saw inside and out of the San Diego Convention Center.
This is my fourth year attending Comic-Con. Every year I’m always expecting something different, looking to see new things, but as far as booths go, Comic-Con 2015 seemed a bit lackluster. Most of the major booths and exhibits such as Lionsgate, Warner Bros., DC Comics, Fox, Weta Workshop, Gentle Giant, Image Comics, Marvel, Nintendo, and X-Box among others were pretty much the same as the last few years. And even exhibitors like PlayStation were completely absent. Ubisoft and a few others cut back on the scale of their booths. Even Marvel downsized from a big video screen on their booth to just a giant scrawl to promote Ant-Man.
Last year, DC Comics gave a preview of the cape and cowl that Ben Affleck’s Batman will be wearing in Batman v Superman. This year they went one level up by showcasing the costumes of
However, there were some Comic-Con 2015 booths that did impress me. It wasn’t the movie studios who were going all out, but it was TV series who were making their mark on the show floor, and even outside. As per usual, The Walking Dead booth dominated the floor with a fun experience with multiple photo ops with the undead to tease the upcoming season – they also spoiled some major plot points from the last season. MTV’s Scream and History’s Vikings had fun booth experiences to get splattered by blood and walk away with some swag.
The most comprehensive Comic-Con 2015 booths weren’t inside however, they were outside the convention center. MTV’s Scream Queens had a carnival giant drop ride and FX hosted huge experiences such as an America Horror Story: Hotel recreation and a giant Fargo snow globe. Even Adult Swim had its own area for fans to play around in with a little carnival setting for folks to play games and win prizes.
Nerd HQ changed venues this year and instead of taking over PETCO Park they inhabited three levels of the New Children’s Museum. It was closer to the convention center and had more room for activities.
These are a few stray observations I noticed that I thought I would share. Many folks are not able to make it to Comic-Con and I hope this photo gallery will at least give you a solid taste of what it is like to walk around the epic convention.
For more info on the exhibitors, visit Comic-Con.org
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Comic-Con 2015 Events and Parties Calendar
Posted on June 28, 2015 by Tyler Schirado
San Diego Comic-Con 2015 will be busier than ever with all the events, parties, and activities to choose from. And who wants to wait in long lines for panels while you’re missing out on the action elsewhere? Luckily for you, we have compiled an official list of the Comic-Con 2015 events and parties inside and out of the San Diego Convention Center. Enjoy! [If you have an event you wish to include, write to us at info@turntherightcorner.com]
Multiple Day Comic-Con 2015 Events
Conan O’Brien at Comic-Con [Wed. 8:00 pm; Thurs. 3:00 pm; Fri. 4:00 pm; Sat. 1:30 pm
Where: Spreckels Theater Cost: SOLD OUT
Conan’s taking the show on the road to Comic-Con, taping all-new episodes at the historic Spreckels Theater. [See the complete guest list here.]
The Art of Comic-Con [Jun. 20 – Aug. 30]
Where: San Diego Central Library Cost: Free
Comic-Con International has partnered with the San Diego Public Library to present an exhibition that celebrates art as an integral tool in promoting the organization’s mission of creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular artforms. Providing unprecedented access to original art by over 60 comics artists, the exhibition traces the history of Comic-Con through art and provides a sneak peek into the evolving process of creating comic art. The Art of Comic-Con presents select pieces from the organization’s archives, including works by Sergio Aragonés, Howard Chaykin, Cliff Chiang, Michael Cho, Colleen Coover, Rick Geary, Gilbert Hernandez, Jim Lee, Dave McKean, Frank Miller, Marshall Rogers, John Romita Jr., Bill Sienkiewicz, William Stout, Babs Tarr, and others. The exhibition was developed and jointly organized by Kara West, the Library’s Arts and Culture Exhibition Manager and Gary Sassaman, Comic-Con International’ s Director of Print and Digital Media.
Assassin’s Creed Experience [Thur-Sat. 10:00 am – 6:00 pm; Sun. 10:00 am – 5:00 pm]
Where: MLK Promenade, next to the Hilton Gaslamp Hotel Cost: Free
The Assassin’s Creed Experience returns to San Diego Comic-Con for its second year with bigger and more challenging obstacles that will have players parkouring and soaring through Victorian-era London. Course attendees will receive instantly shareable action shots of them tackling two of the course’s obstacles, the overhead glider, new to this year’s course, and the iconic 25-foot Leap of Faith. Additionally, fans who pre-order the game will receive The Rooks Initiation Kit, which includes everything they need to join Jacob and Evie Frye’s gang on their quest to liberate London. They’ll also be offering free shaves located next to the course.
Game of Thrones: Experience the Realm [Thur. – Sat. 11:00 am – 5:00 pm; Sun. 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Where: 628 L St. across from the Omni Hotel Cost: Free
Paying homage to beloved character Arya Stark’s early days of sword training, the experience will feature an installation that is part sword-handling skill and part artistic process, to create a beautiful, graphic Game of Thrones-style self-portrait. There, they will use a replica of Arya’s wooden training sword to strike targets as they appear on screen. Upon completion fans will receive an artistic portrait made entirely of their sword strikes. Fans can also create sharable animated GIFs including being incinerated into ash by Danaerys’ iconic dragons and turned into a WhiteWalker. Additionally there will be photo opportunities with the iconic Iron Throne and the giant sword used by The Mountain. Select costume displays from Game of Thrones will be featured along with a gallery of select work from the Game of Thrones Compendium Book, featuring original creations from the talented fan-base ranging from art, fashion, food and fans can pick up a limited-edition T-Shirt designed by Beautiful Death artist Robert Ball.HBO NOW subscribers will have a chance to win early VIP access.
NBC’s World of Heroes Reborn and Blindspot
Where: Gaslamp Square, Fifth Ave. and Harbor Drive Cost: Free
Heroes Reborn takes over Gaslamp Square with a first of its kind 4-D interactive experience where fans will have the opportunity to access their own extraordinary pyro-kinetic ability. Fans will also be able to take an animated “heroic” photo and tour through a Heroes gallery featuring iconic props from the previous series. Attendees can also discover Blindspot at Tin Fish restaurant in Gaslamp Square. They will be able to receive both temporary tattoo sleeves and partake in a photo op where their head will be placed on a tattooed body, similar to the character of Jane Doe in the new NBC drama. Also, throughout the Gaslamp District, fans can go on a scavenger hunt to search for and find the Jane Doe look-alikes. Once found fans can text “Blindspot” to a number tattooed on her body and receive the next step to enter for a chance to win $1,000.
Dragon Ball Z Fight for Frieza Galactic Army Boot Camp [Thur. – Sun. 11:00 am – 5:00 pm]
Where: PETCO Park Cost: Free
FUNimation Entertainment invites you to gauge your power levels and train to join Frieza’s army at 2015 San Diego Comic Con with an interactive Dragon Ball Z experience at Petco Park in Nerdist Industries HQ Conival.Convention-goers and fans are welcome to join a guided series of tests that will determine their power level and if they are fit to join Frieza’s epic army in the battle to destroy Earth. Potential recruits will be able to test their skills of energy, agility and strength to see if they have what it takes to join Frieza’s intergalactic army. All new recruits will be issued Galactic Frieza Army dog tags and other fun prizes. Top ranked recruits from each day will be featured on leaderboards and entered to win additional gear and prizes.The fun doesn’t stop there – join us for a daily happy hour at Whiskey Girl in Downtown San Diego, just a short walk from the San Diego Convention Center, where you can kick back, sip on a colorful libation (courtesy of Goku), cool down and charge up!
Mashable House [Fri. and Sat. 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm]
Where: Luce Loft Cost: Free
Mashable is bringing the Mashable House to Comic-Con International: San Diego for the first time in 2015, with one goal in mind: Save. The. Internet. From Friday, July 10 to Saturday, July 11, Mashable will take over Luce Loft in San Diego, CA for the ultimate showdown of Internet good vs. evil. Who will prevail? Only you (and social media) can decide the answer
The Last Ship Oculus Rift Experience [Wed. 6:00 pm – 6:00 pm; Thur-Sun. 9:30 am – 7:00 pm]
Where: Booth #3629 Cost: Free
As part of this immersive activation, each participant will use an Oculus Rift headset to be transported into The Last Ship‘s fictional universe, where they must board a cargo ship taken over by the Immunes (immune survivors of the deadly plague that has nearly destroyed the entire population of the planet) and retrieve the last remnants of the primordial strain.
Gam3rCon [Wed-Sun. 12:00 pm –12:00 am]
Where: Ten’s Avenue Arts Center Cost: $20-60 [$10 for Kids]
Gam3rCon is the premier gaming convention in San Diego, bringing gamers and pop culture fans together to celebrate all things gaming. Taking place during San Diego Comic-Con International, Gam3rCon features four floors of gaming entertainment, including a Video Game Arena, Tabletop Gaming Lounge, gaming industry panels, live theatre, gaming-themed artwork, and rooftop parties.
Geek & Sundry [Thur. – Sat.]
Where: PETCO Park Cost: Free (No badge required)
Geek & Sundry has a veritable smorgasbord of good-time festivities and swiggity-swagtastic goodies you’re going to want and need in your life. They’re hosting The Joust, a gladiator-style bouncy ring wherein you and your friends can fight to the not-death. Also a TableTop gaming nook, where there’s a chance you could win a Geek Out promo pack. There’s a sweet opportunity to take a photo with a fire-breathing dragon! And there will be appearances by Felicia Day, Wil Wheaton, Matthew Mercer, and more.
FX Fearless Arena [Thur. 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm; Fri-Sat. 10:00 am – 6:00 pm; Sun. 11:00 am-6:00 pm]
Where: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Lawn Cost: Free (18+ event)
Building on the popularity of last year’s The Simpsons-based “Homer Dome,” FX Networks will build a theme park featuring massive activations for The Strain, American Horror Story: Hotel, Fargo, and The Bastard Executioner. Fans will be able to register for the activations early by going to fxsdcc.com beginning July 7. Prove your fearlessness by entering a live-action virtual reality experience inspired by The Strain. FX is building a two-story model hotel to give viewers a taste of the era from American Horror Story and the chance to earn prizes. Escape the Forest” is the ideal duel inspired by Kurt Sutter’s upcoming medieval drama The Bastard Executioner. Visitors don the mantle of “warriors” and square off against each other to prove their prowess with a high striker, a cross-bow, and a final puzzle challenge that will help them escape the “forest” and win a TBX-themed hooded t-shirt. The Bastard Executioner will debut on FX this fall. And finally, step inside a giant 20-foot inflatable snow globe featuring snow flurries and a façade of a Waffle Hut – a key location in the second installment of the award-winning limited series Fargo. The first 2,500 pre-registered fans who visit the Arena will receive a free, exclusive FX Fearless giant tote bag in the Welcome Area.
X-Box Lounge [Thu-Sat. 11:00 am – 8:00 pm; Sun. 10:00 am – 5:00 pm]
Where: Seaport Ballroom, Second Level, Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel Cost: Free
Visit the Xbox Lounge in the Seaport Ballroom on the second level of the Harbor Tower at the Manchester Located at Grand Manchester Hyatt in the Seaport Ballroom, the Xbox Lounge is full of entertainment. Play games. Jump into amazing experiences. Over 90+ gaming stations, including some of the hottest unreleased titles and more!
Entertainment Weekly’s Photo + Digital Studio [Thur. – Sun.]
Where: Hard Rock Hotel Cost: Free
Tumblr will be the exclusive social partner at The Photo + Digital Studio. The Tumblr GIF booth will be on site during Comic-Con where talent will be invited to stop by and commemorate their time at The Studio. Entertainment Weekly will be sharing these GIFs on their Tumblr so fans can experience some of the best moments from The Studio.
How it Should Have Ended Villains Pub [Thu-Fri. 4pm; Sat. 2pm]
Where: Henry’s Pub & Restaurant Cost: Free
HISHE is creating a real life version of The Villain Pub, a popular destination in their shorts where villains can swap war stories. The plan is to have The Villains Pub brought to life so fans can interact with the space in various ways and also participate in programs to include the creators. Thursday, HISHE Q&A w/creators and an exclusive San Diego Comic-Con debut of “How Jurassic World Should Have Ended.” Friday, HISHE Happy Hour and Hangout with a villains costume contest. Saturday, Creator Workshop – Learn character design, voice work and more
Nintendo Video Game Lounge [Thur. – Sat. 10:00 am – 7:00 pm; Sun. 10:00 am – 5 pm]
Where: San Diego Ballroom at the Marriott Marquis & Marina Cost: Free
Fans of all ages are invited to the Nintendo Gaming Lounge during San Diego Comic-Con, from July 9-12. This event will be packed with multiple tournaments, activities, and a chance to play upcoming games for both Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems.
Nerd HQ [Thu-Sun.]
Where: The New Children’s Museum Cost: Free to visit and play; $22 for Conversations for a Cause
Nerd HQ, presented by Zachary Levi and The Nerd Machine, will take up residence at the home of its new partner ‘The New Children’s Museum’ in downtown San Diego for their annual four-day event. Nerd HQ provides fans a free nerdy retreat during the annual pop culture convention while celebrating the city’s newest Cultural Family Hot Spot. This year is expected to be the biggest year yet with The New Children’s Museum’s creative venue offering NERD fans an amazing, inspiring space, with over 35,000 Sq. Ft spanning three floors. This year’s guests can expect an expanded “Conversations for a Cause” panel series on the lower level, a range of fan-focused interactions on the main floor, and in partnership with headline sponsor AMD, the entire top floor will showcase exclusive hands-on game play with a number of this year’s biggest titles.
Adult Swim On The Green [Thur-Sat. 9:30 am – 10:00 pm; Sun. 9:30 am – 5:pm]
Where: Behind convention center at Convention Way and 5th Ave Pier Cost: Free with RSVP
A brand new experience for fans, Adult Swim activities will include Carnival Midway, and The Meatwad Full Dome Experience is back for another year of intergalactic-mind-travel. They’ll be bringing you nightly screenings (with famous people) and daily live streaming events (with somewhat famous people). It’s free, it’s fun with an RSVP for those 18+.
BAMF [Fri. & Sat. 10:00 am – 10:30 pm; Sun. 10:00 am – 5:00 pm]
Where: Ruocco Park Cost: $5 – 1000
Feeling a little stuffy inside the convention halls?BAMF is where geek meets music at Ruocco Park in San Diego.Dance your booty off to your favorite artists spinning their tunes.Laugh to the inappropriate jokes from your BAMF comedians.Tune in to the best geek podcasts.(Okay, maybe only a few. This is a music festival, after all.)Need a drink? We’ve got a collection of local brews to quench your thirst.Curious about who you’re going to run into at BAMF? Check out our line-up.
Museum of Impractical History [Thur. 10am-12pm; Fri. 12-7pm; Sat. 10am-7pm; Sun. 10am-2pm]
Where: Michael J. Wolf Fine Arts Gallery Cost: Free
The stars of truTV’s hit hidden-camera series Impractical Jokers are headed to San Diego for the opening of The Impractical Jokers Museum of Impractical History, a specially curated exhibition that will be open to the public. Q, Murr, Joe and Sal will be present at various times throughout the exhibition, which will feature fan-generated artwork and show artifacts from some of the most legendary moments in Impractical Jokers history. It’ll be like Planet Hollywood, but funnier. Throughout the exhibition, fans will have an opportunity to experience themed activations each day that they will recognize from popular Impractical Jokers moments, including portraits from caricature artists, spray paint tattoos chosen randomly by a spin from the Wheel of Doom, and an interactive photo booth that will put fans alongside The Jokers. There’s a special signing on Friday from 3–5 pm.
Comic-Con’s Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive 2015 [Thu-Sat. 9:00 am – 6:00 pm; Sun. 10:30 am – 3:30 pm]
Where: Manchester Grand Hyatt, in the Grand C Ballroom Cost: Free
Comic-Con’s Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive returns for its 39th year, the San Diego Blood Bank’s longest-running event: last year 1,403 pints of blood were collected over the four-day convention. That first year, 148 pints of blood were collected, and as the convention has grown so has our blood drive. Over the past 38 years, 15,387 pints of blood have been donated by Comic-Con attendees. Blood Drive participants also get goodie bags, a Red Queen chapter sampler from our friends at HarperCollins Publishers, and are entered into daily drawings for some fantastic prizes. Winners are posted at the Blood Drive sign-up booth at 6:30 PM each day (4:00 PM on Sunday) in the Sails Pavilion.
Walker Stalker Fan Fest [Fri. and Sat. 11:00 am –-5:00 pm]
Where: PETCO Park Cost: $30-55 w/ VIP options from $160-800
Walker Stalker Fan Fest is the fruit of The Walker Stalkers Podcast Presented By Skybound’s The Walking Dead. Walker Stalker Fan Fest is not just a celebration of Robert Kirkman’s world of The Walking Dead and zombies, it’s a fan meet-up and an opportunity for each guest to come away feeling like they’ve had an amazing experience and became part of a greater community of zombie lovers! Walker Stalker Fan Fest is two days of events, interviews, and experiences that zombie fans won’t find anywhere else!
The Walking Dead Escape [Fri. and Sat. 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm]
Where: PETCO Park Cost: $40 [Survivor; $64 VIP]; $75 [Walker; 100 VIP]; $100 Combo VIP
This isn’t just an obstacle course, this is an immersive experience into the world of The Walking Dead. Sure, you’ll need to run for your lives, but you’ll also need to make decisions alone or as a group that will determine whether your captured or escape the menacing Negan and his group of Survivors.
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Posted in Conventions Tagged Adult Swim, Agents of SHIELD, American Horror Story: Hotel, Assassin's Creed, BuzzFeed, Comic-Con 2015, Conan O'Brien, Dan Harmon, Doctor Who, Fargo, FX, Gam3rCon, Game Of Thrones, Harmontown, Her Universe, Heroes Reborn, Kevin Smith, Mashable, MTV, NBC, Nerd HQ, Nerdist, Nintendo, Playboy, Pokémon, SDCC, Star Wars, Suicide Girls, Supernatural, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Walking Dead Escape, Walker Stalker Fan Fest, X-Men, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Xbox One
Comic-Con 2014: The Coolest Exhibitor Booths at SDCC
Posted on July 24, 2014 by Tyler Schirado
San Diego Comic-Con is here! All of the big studios, toy makers, comic distributors, and TV shows have brought some very innovative booths this year. From an animatronic Smaug to an Oculus Rift experience, exhibitors are getting more creative every year. Check out all of the best exhibitor booths that you can find inside Comic-Con after the break. Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Comics, Horror, Movie Tidbits, Neato, TV Bits, Video Game Bits Tagged Adult Swim, AMC, Bandai, Big Hero 6, Capcom, Cartoon Network, Comic-Con 2014, Funimation, Hasbro, Image Comics, Legendary Pictures, LEGO, Lionsgate, Marvel Studios, Microsoft, Namco Bandai, Nintendo, Peanuts, SDCC, Skybound, Star Wars, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The Legend of Korra, The Walking Dead, Viz Media, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Weta, Xbox One
Comic-Con 2014: Adult Swim Take-Over with Meatwad Dome and Fun House
Take a ride on the wild side with Adult Swim this year at San Diego Comic-Con. Once again, Adult Swim is bringing their unique fan experiences to the PETCO Park parking lot across from the convention center with free fun for everyone. From a giant Meatwad dome to the Fun House from last year to celebrity signings, Adult Swim is pulling out all the stops this year. More after the jump. Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, TV Bits Tagged Adult Swim, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Childrens Hospital, Comic-Con 2014, Jack McBrayer, Mike Tyson Mysteries, Rick and Morty, Robot Chicken, The Venture Bros., Tim and Eric, Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories, Triump the Insult Comic Dog
Comic-Con 2014: Complete Friday Panel Schedule
And you thought Comic-Con 2014 was heating up with Community, Paramount Pictures, and Sony Pictures on Thursday? Friday’s schedule of panels for SDCC come in hot and heavy with the likes of Game of Thrones, The Legend of Korra, The Walking Dead, Kevin Smith, Bones, Agents of SHIELD, Arrow, and much much more! Check out the full line-up after the break. Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Art and Design, Celebrities, Comics, Conventions, Horror, Movie News, TV News, Video Game News Tagged 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Adult Swim, Adventure Time, Agents of SHIELD, AMC, Archer, Archie, Arrow, Assassin's Creed: Unity, Babylon 5, Banshee, Bates Motel, Batman, Batman: Assault on Arkham, Battlefield, Bob's Burgers, Bones, Brickleberry, Capcom, Cartoon Network, Comic-Con 2014, DC Comics, DC Entertainment, Dominion, DreamWorks Animation, Evangeline Lilly, Everly, Falling Skies, Game Of Thrones, Halo, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Hasbro, Hitman: Agent 47, Horns, IDW Publishing, Intruders, iZombie, Jack McBrayer, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Let's Be Cops, Marvel Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Mattel, Mega64, Mike Mignola, Mike Tyson Mysteries, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Namco Bandai, Nerdist, Nickelodeon, Orphan Black, Outlander, Resurrection, Rick and Morty, Robot Chicken, Rocky and Bullwinkle, SDCC, Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show, Sleepy Hollow, Snowpiercer, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Street Fighter, Teen Wolf, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Aquabats, The Avengers, The Big Bang Theory, The Book of Life, The Hobbit, The Legend of Korra, The Lord of the Rings, The Maze Runner, The Originals, The Simpsons, The Squickerwonkers, The Venture Bros., The Walking Dead, Triump the Insult Comic Dog, Uncle Grandpa, Veronica Roth, Vikings, VIZ Animation, X-Men, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Comic-Con 2014: NBC and Universal Television Brings Hannibal, The Blacklist, Bates Motel, and More
NBC and Universal Television are coming into San Diego Comic-Con fully loaded this year. Fans can expect panels from their favorite series: Hannibal, The Blacklist, Grimm, and Bates Motel. Triumph Insult Comic Dog and Jack McBrayer (30 Rock) will discuss their new untitled series, while Warner Bros. Television will present multiple screenings and a panel for their new NBC series Constantine. See the full details after the break. Continue reading →
Posted in Horror, TV News Tagged Adult Swim, Bates Motel, Comic-Con 2014, Constantine, Grimm, Hannibal, Jack McBrayer, NBC, SDCC, The Blacklist, Triump the Insult Comic Dog, Universal Television, Warner Bros. Television
‘Black Dynamite’ Season One Available on Blu-Ray and DVD July 15
Posted on May 15, 2014 by Ian J
Dyno-mite! Dyno-mite! In a little over a month, Adult Swim will be releasing season one of Black Dynamite to DVD and Blu-Ray. The official date of release is set to be available this July 15. You can find out more details about the highly anticipated release after the break.
Posted in Animation, TV News Tagged Adult Swim, Ars Nova Entertainment, Arsenio Hall, Black Dynamite, Byron Minns, Charlie Murphy, J. B. Smoove, Kym Whitley, Michael Jai White, Scott Sanders, Titmouse Inc., Tommy Davidson, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
The Venture Bros. Season 5 Comes to Blu-Ray and DVD March 4
Posted on February 2, 2014 by Ian J
Adult Swim is proud to announce that the fifth season of The Venture Bros., one of the network’s most successful animated shows, will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on March 4. Season 5 follows the Venture family on another series of globe-trotting adventures after nearly three years since the end of Season 4. Hit the jump to check out what special features you can expect from this release and a quick recap of seasons 1-4.
Posted in Animation, TV News Tagged Adult Swim, Christopher McCulloch, Dana Snyder, Doc Hammer, Jackson Publick, James Urbaniak Patrick Warburton, Michael Sinterniklaas, NoodleSoup Productions, Steven Rattazzi, The Venture Bros., Titmouse Inc., Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Comic-Con 2013: Friday Recap and Photo Gallery
After a full day of panels behind me, I felt it best to explore the bounty of activities outside the San Diego convention center during Comic-Con 2013. This year, it seems as though there is twice as much to do than there was last year. It was a fun filled day full of video games, LEGOs, Comedy Central, and the SDCC Interactive Zone. Take a look at my Friday travels after the jump. Continue reading →
Posted in Comics, Movie Tidbits, TV Bits Tagged Adult Swim, Batman, Breaking Bad, Captain America, Comic-Con 2013, DC Comics, DC Entertainment, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Game Of Thrones, Gravity, Hello Kitty, LEGO, Microsoft, Nintendo, PlayStation 4, SDCC, Sony, Teen Titans Go!, The Hobbit, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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We are a month away from the Veterans’ Day weekend and this year’s Poppy Drive. Presently, we have 14 volunteers to cover 85 three-hour shifts across 6 stores (two Giants in Leesburg, two Giants in Sterling, one Giant in Purcellville and the Safeway in Middleburg).
The Poppy Drive brings in a significant portion of funds for our "veterans in need” assistance. The dates are 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 November 2019, and the hours run generally from 9 AM to 6 PM during those days.
Please volunteer your time for this worthwhile effort. To offer your services, contact Comrade Tom LoPresti as soon as possible at "TTL08@gmail.com” or call him at 703-310-9995.
VFW Post 1177 Is Looking Squared Away
Thank you Justin for your hard work in ensuring Post 1177 grounds are squared away.
Sweats for Vets Prepped
Post Members and the local community gather at the post to prepare sets of sweats for veterans to be delivered at Martinsburg VAMC.
Post Newsletter Places Nationally
The Post Newsletter earned the Silver Award for post publications at the National Level.
Loudoun Salute to Military, Veterans and Families
2020-2021 Post Youth Scholarship Winners
Congratulations to the winners of Loudoun County VFW Post 1177's 2020-2021 Voice of Democracy and Patriot's Pen competitions, along with the VFW Loudoun County, Teacher of the Year!!! This year we had entries from all over Loudoun County across all of these categories, and the judging was very, very difficult! These Winners and Honorable Mentions represent the BEST of Loudoun County!! They will all be honored at the 7 April 2021 VFW Post Meeting at 7:30pm! The Loudoun VFW Post Home is located at 401 Old Waterford Rd. in Leesburg Virginia.
VFW Post 1177 Donates Scooter to Veteran
Post Members Personally Make the Delivery
U.S. Senate Approves Blue Water Navy Bill
Senate Approves Blue Water Navy Bill
Mission BBQ will be celebrating National Korean War Armistice Day, Saturday, July 27, 2019
Mission BBQ will be celebrating National Korean War Armistice Day
The Honor Flight – Top of Virginia
The Honor Flight – Top of Virginia organization is leading an Honor Flight operation on 7 September 2019
Poppy Drive
Tom LoPresti
USO - Benefit the Troops
A Letter to my Dad
Sept. 18, 2019 — Pause, take a breath, and know that you are loved ... Don’t do it. Advice from Air Force 1st Lt. Brad Worley who lost his dad to suicide 26 years ago. “There was so much you missed out on, and there’s so much I want to tell you,” Worley writes in a letter to his dad. “Why did you leave us so soon? So many people that loved you, why didn’t you just call one of them?” In a recently released Defense Visual Information Distribution Service video, Worley reads the letter he wrote to his dad telling him about everything he has missed, highlighting that the effects of suicide can have a lasting effect on family, friends, and communities.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security is Hiring
The Department’s compelling mission to make a difference in the lives of our fellow citizens encourages our workforce and draws candidates seeking to join our team. The threats and challenges facing the Department and the nation are complex and constantly evolving. Now more than ever, DHS must recruit, develop, and retain a talented and diverse workforce.
Holiday Party at Post Brings Joy to All Ages
Many attended the annual post Holiday Party, bringing cheer and joy to the Post, their families and friends and the community.
Auxiliary Sponsors State Patriotic Art Winner
Chantilly High School graduate Abigail Brown, sponsored by the Post Auxiliary, wins the Department of Virginia Young American Patriotic Art Contest. Wins scholarship.
Forever GI Bill Update
Recent passage of the Harry W. Colmery Educational Assistance Act of 2017, also known as the “Forever GI Bill,” enacts several changes to the GI Bill that will positively impact Veterans and their families.
Home Depot Gives Post $20K
Post Given $20K by the Home Depot Foundation for Renovations
Patriots Pen, Voice of Democracy and Teacher of the Year Submissions Closed
As of October 31st, Loudoun County VFW Post 1177 has closed accepting Patriots Pen, Voice of Democracy and Teacher of the Year submissions for 2018. High quality submissions in all three categories were accepted from across all of Loudoun County Virginia. Good Luck to all, and Thank You for your Participation!
Post 1177 Announced as All-American Post
Post 1177 is among the top posts in the nation, earning All-American Post status for 2016-2017.
Post 1177 Awarded All-American
Post is honored for its hard work and commitment to Loudoun County Veterans by earning All-American Status.
Post 1177 Honors Veterans Day
With a list of activities, Post 1177 was active within the community honoring our fellow comrades.
Post 1177 Represented at National Convention
Representatives from VFW districts and posts from around the world gather in New Orleans. Post 1177 Quartermaster Les Flores represented Post 1177 as a delegate.
Post Celebrates 80 Years
October 7th marked the 80th Anniversary of Post 1177 and it was marked with celebration, food and music.
Vietnam War Commermoration Honors Post Veterans
Post 1177 presented the Vietnam War Commemoration flag and certificate in appreciation for supporting the organization as a commemorative partner. Pins given to Vietnam War era veterans in attendance to honor their service.
Virginia DVS Office Opens in Loudoun County
The new Ashburn DVS offices provides easy access to veterans within Loudoun County.
Alexandria National Cemetery - Please help VFW Post 609 remember, honor, and teach on December 19 at 12:00 PM by sponsoring a wreath, volunteering, or inviting friends to help.
Quantico National Cemetery - NOVA Veterans Association will be laying wreaths at Quantico National Cemetery from 16-19 December.
VFW - Our Service Never Stops
VFW Post 7916 and their auxiliary members were featured in the latest promotional video from VFW National.
2019-2020 District Awards Ceremony
District 10 held its annual awards ceremony on 1 March 2020 for the Teacher of the Year, Patriot’s Pen, and Voice of Democracy Programs.
District 10 Convention
The Virginia District 10 Convention will be held on 14 June 2020, 1300 at VFW Post 1503.
District 10 Election Results
District 10 held its annual elections and installation of officers on 6/14/2020 for the 2020-2021 year. Click More Info to see the results.
VFW Announces Kick-Off of Annual Scholarship Competitions
District Commander Robert Adamczyk of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. Virginia District 10 announced the kick-off of this year’s VFW’s Voice of Democracy and Patriot’s Pen Scholarship competition. Local high school and middle school students can compete for thousands of dollars in scholarships and a trip to Washington, D.C.
A Mission Like No Other: Bringing Our Missing Home
Virginia Veterans Foundation Announces Grants to VFW, Auxiliary
Nearly $6,000 for community service and Post home improvements all funded by Powerhouse Gaming.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is encouraging its more than 1.5 million VFW and Auxiliary members to show their support and appreciation for Sport Clips Haircuts and all their team members as part of its #SportClipsSalute appreciation event, Jan. 25-29, 2021.
VFW members, and their families and friends are encouraged to safely visit their local Sport Clips store, purchase a haircut service or product and say "thank you" to the franchise owners, managers and Sport Clips team members for their continued support of the veteran community.
The VFW is also encouraging VFW and VFW Auxiliary members to post about their visit to social media using #SportClipsSalute. As an added incentive, members who participate will be entered into a drawing to win a $1,000 Community Support Grant from the VFW Foundation for their Post. See the VFW's Post of the Month Launches to Showcase How Posts Are #StillServing
The VFW is proud to honor all veterans who are #StillServing, and it's especially meaningful to see the ways Posts have provided much needed assistance throughout this year. To highlight the incredible work being done, a new Post of the Month feature is launching to focus attention on VFW Posts answering the call of duty.
The first Post of the Month is VFW Post 2913 in Patchogue, New York. As the COVID-19 crisis hit New York City, the Post mobilized and distributed 3,000 masks to veterans across Long Island. They also partnered with local organizations to collect and distribute food to those in need, visited 15 schools virtually to connect veterans with students and live-streamed events to honor veterans to maintain both valued programs and safety.
One important way the Post continued to serve was by taking their daily Coffee with a Veteran from in-person meetings to Zoom. For two years, the event gave veterans a way to tell their stories and connect with citizens in the community. The Post knew it needed to keep the ...
VFW Announces Annual Publications Contest
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is now accepting submissions for its 2021 National Publications Contest. VFW publications published up to four times annually, or five or more times annually, will be judged in four categories.
Department-level publications:
Newspaper/Newsletter
Defined as being printed on newspaper stock.
Best Feature Story
All publications judged together in this category and submitted separately. The story must be a published article of at least 300 words. It can be originally written by your newspaper/magazine staff or by a freelance writer, or be reprinted from a newspaper within your state. Feature articles published in online/electronic newsletters, newspapers or magazines also are eligible, but must be printed in color and submitted via USPS, not email.
Defined by physical size and paper stock, or designe...
VFW Demands SECVA Wilkie Resign Immediately in Light of Damning VA OIG Report in Response to a Veteran's Sexual Assault Allegation
In light of reviewing yesterday's damning Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (OIG) report, the Veterans of Foreign Wars has lost all confidence in the performance of Secretary Robert Wilkie and demand his immediate resignation.
The accountability, professionalism and respect that our veterans have earned, and quite frankly deserve, is completely lost in this current VA leadership team.
Secretary Wilkie and several members of his executive staff violated the trust of a fellow veteran who came forth with serious allegations of sexual assault. Instead of taking this veteran's allegations seriously, the Secretary and his key staff sought to discredit and vilify the veteran. We will not tolerate this behavior at our VA.
Sexual assault is a criminal act. We expected the Secretary to properly investigate this serious matter, yet he and close members of his team focused on questioning the cre...
VFW Recouped More Than $9.7B in Benefits for Veterans Nationwide
WASHINGTON - Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) accredited service officers recovered more than $9.7 billion in Veterans Affairs disability compensation benefits for nearly 550,000 veterans this fiscal year exceeding last year's recovery of $9 billion.
VFW Service Officers were responsible for the recovery of a total of $9,712,328,079 for veterans, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"Our VFW Service Officers remain the backbone of our organization dedicating their time and effort to helping America's veterans," said VFW National Commander Harold "Hal" Roesch II. "These selfless and hardworking men and women believe that every veteran deserves top-notch customer service and attention-to-detail and prove it daily with their impeccable record of...
Pandemic Won't Stop BK� Support of Veteran Families
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is pleased to announce participating BURGER KING� franchise restaurants will again raise funds throughout the month of November in support of the VFW's Unmet Needs program. The annual campaign is in its 14th year, and BURGER KING� customers are encouraged to donate $1 or more to the program with their purchase.
"The pandemic's negative impact has been felt far and wide, and our service members, veterans and their families are struggling now more than ever," said VFW National...
Calling All Middle and High School Students
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - For students looking for scholarships to help lessen the financial burden college brings, it's not too late to participate in the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Voice of Democracy and Patriot's Pen essay competitions.
Open to eligible high school students, the Voice of Democracy program is one of the top patriotic audio essay competitions in the nation, with more than $2.1 million in educational scholarships and incentives up for grabs, and a first place prize of $30,000. More than 64,400 students participate in the competition each year. This year's theme challenges students to answer the question, "Is This the Country the Founders Envisioned?"
Open to eligible sixth through eighth grade students, more than 165,400 students compete in the Patriot's Pen essay competition each year to win their slice of more than $1.4 million in state and national awards. The top individual VFW Department (state...
Veterans Need Support Especially in a Pandemic
GEORGETOWN, Texas - Even in a pandemic, veterans are returning from active military duty to prepare for civilian careers that require them to return to school for additional education and training...often beyond what is covered financially by the GI Bill. To make educational expenses less of a burden on service members, anyone can "Help A Hero" by getting a haircut at participating Sport Clips Haircuts now through December 5.
New for this seventh year of the Help A Hero scholarship program is a "text to donate" option. By texting "HERO" to 71777, donors can donate directly to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Foundation that administers the VFW's "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship" program. Also new, t...
The VFW Podcast Debuts Today
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars began its next journey of communicating with veterans, service members and military families through The VFW Podcast, its newest communication platform today.
The VFW Podcast is the official podcast of the VFW, the oldest combat veterans service organization advocating for and serving our veterans, service members and military families worldwide.
You may download episode one of The VFW Podcast here.
"The VFW Podcast will feature one-of-a-kind perspectives and insightful conversations concerning veteran legislation, educational and financial assistance programs, national veterans' services, and critical initiatives from my lens," said VFW National Commander Harold "Hal" Roesch II.
The VFW Podcast will be...
VFW Sport Clips to Host Virtual Walk for Veterans
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Sport Clips Haircuts are teaming up to host the first-ever virtual VFW Sport Clips Help A Hero Walk, offering supporters a new way to engage with Sport Clips' annual Help A Hero campaign.
The annual Help A Hero campaign, which kicks off in-store on Oct. 12, helps raise awareness and bolster funds to the VFW's "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship" program. The program provides student veterans with post-secondary scholarships so they are able to complete their educational goals without incurring excessive student loan debt. To date, $8 million in scholarships have been awarded.
Participants in the virtual walk may register and fundraise individually or as a team, and the walk offers the flexibility to participate where and when it is convenient. All participants are invited to join the VFW and Sport Clips for the Celebration Finale on the VFW's Facebook page on Dec. 5, 2020, at 11:00 a.m. CST.
The pandemic has presented many challenges, a...
Celebrate VFW Day
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Every Sept. 29, Veterans of Foreign Wars Day is celebrated at Posts and in communities around the world.
VFW Day is a day devoted to recognizing our amazing organization and its selfless and committed members worldwide who continue to serve.
The VFW has been unwavering in its devotion to veterans, service members and their families for 121 years. Whether it's fighting for health care, education or disability compensation, "No One Does More For Veterans!"
Show your support by honoring all members, Auxiliary and veterans in your community. Everyone is invited to celebrate the tradition of continuous service and steadfast devotion that defines the VFW on social media using the hashtag #VFWDay.
VFW National Commander Honors Two Louisiana Sheriff's Deputies for Heroic Actions
NEW ORLEANS - Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander Harold "Hal" Roesch II presented the VFW Life Saving Award to two St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office deputies today at St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Department.
St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office deputies Alexis Agnelly and Paul Quick received the esteemed award for heroic life-saving actions in the line of duty.
During a routine dispatch to St. Rose, Agnelly and Quick encountered a man who had been acting erratically while walking on the levee. The deputies quickly accessed the situation noticing mental health concerns. The man tried to evade them entering the Mississippi River unclothed, however, Agnelly and Quick chased and restrained him in the shallow waters before he could have seriously injured or killed himself.
"Deputies Agnelly and Quick are living examples of who our nation's first responders truly must be in our communities today," said Roesch. "Their selflessness, heroism and valor displayed at a moment's notice to help sav...
2021 VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship Application Period Now Open
WASHINGTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars and Student Veterans of America are now accepting applications from student veterans who are interested in participating in the upcoming 2021 VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship Program.
The fellowship, now in its seventh year, will bring up to 10 student veterans - who must be VFW members - to Washington, D.C. early next March to meet face-to-face with their members of Congress and senior policy makers.
Student veterans interested in applying for the 2021 VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship must complete an application package that includes a 400- to 600-word essay that proposes legislative improvements to one of the following four specific veterans' issues:
Student veteran success on campus and beyond;
Improving veteran's health care and benefits;
Transition from military to civilian life; or
Challenges for service members and military families.
The essay proposal should include a discussion of why the issue i...
VFW, Sport Clips Award Nearly $700,000 in Scholarships to Veterans
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce 158 student veterans from around the country have been named recipients of the VFW's "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship" for the fall 2020 semester, totaling nearly $700,000 in assistance. See the full list of 2020 fall semester recipients.
"Transitioning veterans are often faced with stressful challenges when they return to civilian life, and attending school to finish a degree during a global pandemic has certainly amplified that stress ten-fold," said VFW National Commander Hal Roesch II. "With so much uncertainty surrounding the upcoming school year, the VFW, together with our great friends at Sport Clips Haircuts, is thrilled to be able to make fall semester a little less stressful for these military and veteran families."
"With the current envi...
Hal Roesch II Elected VFW's New National Commander
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Hal Roesch II, of Hampton, Virginia, was installed as the Veterans of Foreign Wars' 112th national commander today during a change of command ceremony at the VFW National Headquarters.
Roesch assumes command of the oldest combat veterans service organization boasting approximately 1.5 million members, including its Auxiliary.
"I stand before you, humbled, elated and ready to selflessly serve the 1.5 million members and its Auxiliary as we continue the tradition of serving America's veterans, service members and families worldwide," said Roesch.
Roesch is a 20-year U.S. Air Force retiree serving from 1982 to 2002. He earned his VFW eligibility during his combat service in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and overseas service as part of Southern Watch. Roesch is a recipient of three Meritorious Service Medals, two Air Force Commendation Medals, two Air Force Achievement Medals, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with valor, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the S...
More Than 1 Million Meals Raised for Food Pantries in Need
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars is proud to announce its 2020 "Uniting to Combat Hunger" campaign has raised more than 1 million meals for veterans and military families in need, transcending its original goal of 500,000.
VFW Quartermaster General Debra Anderson and Ed Sandrick, director of Humana's Strategic Alliances and Veteran Channel, made the special announcement live Monday during the VFW's #StillServing Celebration, a virtual, weeklong event to bring awareness, respect and gratitude to veterans who remain committed to a life of service after their time in the military ends.
Originally established in March of 2018, "Uniting to Combat Hunger" is a collaborative campaign from the VFW and Humana designed to help to raise awareness and fight food insecurity in the veteran and military communities. Defined as the lack of access to enough nutritionally adequate foods to live an active, healthy life, food insecurity contributes to poor health, lower productivity and higher medical cost...
VFW to Host #StillServing Celebration July 20-24
KANSAS CITY, Mo.- The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) will present its first-ever #StillServing Celebration the week July 20-24. The virtual event, which culminates in the installation of incoming VFW National Commander Hal Roesch, will shine a spotlight on personal veteran stories that emerged as result of the #StillServing campaign which began in February of this year.
"When we launched the #StillServing campaign it was to bring attention to the unexpected ways veterans continue to serve their country after they leave active military," said William "Doc" Schmitz, VFW national commander. "The onset of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 multiplied the inspiring stories of veterans' continued dedication to giving of themselves, now to their local communities. It represents the heart of VFW."
The #StillServing Celebration will kick off Monday, July 20, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. and will include
Virginia VFW Post Receives National Community Service Award
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars is proud to announce SSG Jonathan Dozier Memorial Post 2894 in Chesapeake, Virginia, was selected to receive the prestigious VFW Fred C. Hall Memorial Outstanding Post Special Project Award, which recognizes VFW Posts for unique and outstanding community service projects.
VFW Post 2894 was selected for its home renovation project for Brandi Jones, a U.S. Navy veteran and single mother of two. After a traumatic home invasion forced her to move in 2011, Jones relocated only to discover her home would need more work than initially expected, but she didn't have the funds to address the growing list of concerns.
After a chance encounter during a VFW "Buddy"� Poppy drive, members of Post 2894 immediately set to work planning the renovation project. With support from several local businesses and associations, more than 150 volunteers rallied together to help ensure Jones and her sons had a safe place to call home. Valued at nearly $25,000, the renova...
2020 VFW Scout of the Year Winners Named
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce the selection of the top three winners of its 2019 - 2020 Scout of the Year scholarship competition.
This year's first place winner, Jacqueline Abnos, was sponsored by VFW Post 1829 in Kansas City, Missouri. As a Venturing Summit Award and Gold Award recipient currently working toward her Eagle Scout, Abnos was selected for her leadership, dedication to scouting and her activism. As the first place 2020 Scout of the Year, Abnos will receive a $5,000 college scholarship.
Marius Schnell, sponsored by VFW Post 10557 in Hohenfels, Germany, was named second place winner for his notable work protecting endangered wildlife, his leadership skills and his patriotism toward our nation's veterans. Schnell will receive a $3,000 college scholarship.
Sponsored by VFW Post 4146 in Victoria, Texas, Justin Swize was selected as the third place winner for his personal drive, environmentally focused projects, and his positive leadership sk...
VFW Stands for Equality, Condemns Vandalism of WWII Memorial
WASHINGTON - In the wake of the nationwide protests centered around the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) stands in solidarity for equality, however, condemns the vandalism of the World War II Memorial and other memorials near the National Mall.
"Equality is the cornerstone of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and must be in our great nation," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz. "Bigotry and unequal treatment has zero place in this world."
Unfortunately, the "sacred" World War II Memorial was vandalized May 31 during protests in Washington.
"The VFW believes in peaceful, organized demonstrations. That is the right of every American," said Schmitz. "However, we are extremely saddened and angered to find that our sacred World War II Memorial was defaced. The veterans who fought for the very freedom to demonstrate deserve better and we condemn those who determined the memorial was worth vandalizing."
VFW Pays Its Respects to the Fallen During Memorial Day
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - In recognition of Memorial Day, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) honors the legacy of the men and women who served in our nation's military and made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom.
While many Americans signal Memorial Day as the start of the summer, the less than one percent who have donned the uniform and military families worldwide understand the true meaning and significance of this sacred day.
"Comrades, many of you have walked the hallowed grounds of our national veterans' cemeteries solemnly laying eyes on the headstones of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who honorably served and placed the freedom of their nation before their very own safety," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz. "We have lost hundreds of thousands of men and women since the founding of our nation in 1775, and unfortunately, as the global fight on terror continues today, we will lose more protectors of freedom."
This Memorial Day will be differe...
2020 National Publications Contest Winners Named
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (May 20, 2020) - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) has announced the winners of the 2020 National Publications Contest.
Covering the 2019 calendar year, this year's publications contest garnered 39 entries, which fell 36 short of the 2019 contest
Entries for the contest derived from 24 Posts/Districts and six Departments. There were two submissions for the "Best Magazine" category and 12 submissions for "Best Feature Article." Of the 39 entries, 16 placed.
Two non-VFW-affiliated journalism professionals served as judges for the competition. This is designed to guarantee impartiality and objectivity in the judging.
The VFW congratulates all entrants for their hard work and service to their respective members. The pool of entries this year proved to be very competitive. Awards will be mailed in June to each Department for distribution.
If you have suggestions for how we can improve the National Publications Contest for 2021, write to us at...
Ace Hardware, VFW Honor Fallen Heroes with 1 Million American Flags
OAK BROOK, Ill. - In the true spirit of Memorial Day, Ace Hardware is again collaborating with the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Ace Hardware is pledging to give out 1 million American flags nationwide on Saturday, May 23.
As an essential business, Ace Hardware stores remain open to safely serve their neighbors and local communities. Consumers who visit a participating Ace store on May 23 will receive a free 8" x 12" American flag* while a second flag will be donated to a local VFW Post to be used for marking and honoring veteran graves this Memorial Day.
"Ace is grateful for the opportunity to once again support VFW Posts across the country to honor our fallen heroes," said John Surane, Executive Vice President and Chief Merchandising Officer for Ace Hardware. "This Memorial Day, Ace is proud to work with the VFW and our loyal customers to remember and pay tribute to the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for their co...
VFW Thanks White House Defense Department and VA for Weekly Briefs
"These are unprecedented times in our nation's history and I want to thank the White House and the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs for continually keeping the Veterans of Foreign Wars informed of the measures they are taking to ensure the health, safety and well-being of our veterans, service members and military families during the coronavirus pandemic.
"Secretaries Esper and Wilkie have been very instrumental in helping to lower the curve of this challenging virus while maintaining normal operations and assisting fellow Americans in mobile hospitals and VA facilities nationwide who are suffering from COVID-19.
"We truly applaud the all-hands on deck philosophy that our leadership, from top to bottom, has adopted and hope we can continue to work together to get our nation back healthy and stronger than before." - VFW Washington Officer Executive Director B.J. Lawrence
VFW Kicks Off Annual Youth Scholarship Competitions
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is now accepting entries for its 2020-21 Voice of Democracy and Patriot's Pen youth scholarship competitions. The announcement comes just weeks after the VFW's 2020 Legislative Conference concluded in Washington, D.C., where the top national winners of both contests were recognized.
Dedicated to encouraging a better understanding and appreciation of America, the VFW's Voice of Democracy and Patriot's Pen essay competitions help foster patriotism among today's youth. The programs also promote friendly competition and reward success with more than $3 million in scholarships.
The Voice of Democracy audio-essay competition, with the theme "Is This the Country the Founders Envisioned?" is open to all students in grades 9-12. Each state...
VFW Cancels Reno National Convention
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars announced today its 121st VFW National Convention scheduled to be held in Reno, Nevada, this July has been officially cancelled.
Thousands of VFW and Auxiliary delegates were expected to gather to represent the organization's total membership of more than 1.6 million at the weeklong event.
The decision comes as public-health concerns and social-distancing mandates are expected to span into the summer months ahead. This year will mark the first in the organization's storied 121-year history where a national convention will not be held. The VFW Auxiliary has also cancelled its convention.
"We explored every effort to move forward with the convention in its current form, and the decision was not made lightly," explained William "Doc" Schmitz, national commander of the VFW. "But, the fact is the health and well-being of our members, partners and supporters remains our priority, and we will not put them at risk."
Pur...
VSOs Call on President to Uphold 48-Hour Review
Dear Mr. President:
On behalf of the millions of veterans, service members, families and survivors that our organizations represent, we call on you to instruct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to maintain the policy of permitting accredited service officers from Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) to review claims decisions for accuracy during the 48-hour period preceding final promulgation. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has recently informed our organizations of its intent to rescind the 48-hour review policy. This decision will unjustly prejudice veterans by causing avoidable delay in the ...
VFW Urges Congress to Pass the Major Richard Star Act to Ease the Financial Burden of Medically-Retired Veterans During COVID-19 Pandemic
WASHINGTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars is urging Congress to pass the Major Richard Star Act during this challenging COVID-19 pandemic to help put money back in the pockets of veterans who were forced to retire early from military service because of battlefield injury or illness.
"Retirement pay and VA disability compensation are fundamentally different benefits, granted for different reasons," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz. "To deny earned retirement pay from veterans who were unfortunately medically retired early because of wounds or illnesses sustained on the battlefield is an absolute injustice that must end now."
The Major Richard Star Act would provide total offset relief to veterans who suffered combat injuries or illnesses who were medically retired with less than 20 years of service. The passage of the Major Richard Star Act would reduce the number of people still awaiting total concurrent receipt of their earned military retirement pay and VA disability compensation.
VFW Announces Top Teachers in National Contest
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce it has selected the national top three teachers in its annual Smart/Maher VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher Award contest.
Established in 1999 and named after former VFW National Commander John Smart and retired VFW Quartermaster General Larry Maher, the award recognizes our nation's top teachers for their exceptional commitment to teaching Americanism and patriotism to their students by promoting civic responsibility, flag etiquette and patriotism in the classroom.
Awarded annually, the VFW selects one teacher from the elementary (K-5), middle (6-8) and high school (9-12) levels to receive a $1,000 award for professional development, and $1,000 for their school.
Megan Joy Rodgers, a fourth-grade teacher at Brookfield Elementary School in Brookfield, Ohio, was named the elementary school winner for her creative qualities, character and frequent efforts to organize field trips, activities and services to help her...
#StillServing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of every citizen in the world.
In America, we know our veterans are #StillServing and rising to meet the challenges of this uncertain time.
If you - or a veteran you know - has stepped up to help others and your community in this unfolding situation, please take a moment to let us know what you're doing.
We want to share your stories and maybe even inspire others across the country to do the same.
Thank you for your service - and thank you for #StillServing!
Call Out for Post and Department Stories
COVID-19 is affecting the lives of every citizen in the world. In America, we know our veterans are #StillServing ... rising to meet the challenges of this uncertain time.
How is your Post, District or Department stepping up to help others and your community in this unfolding situation? Are you hosting a blood drive, doing buddy checks, acting as a drop-off location for food donations or something else to meet the needs of your membership and community?
We want to share your stories and inspire others across the country to take action.
Email VFW Communications (communications@vfw.org) with what your Post, District or Department is doing to help. Please attach any photos you have of your efforts.
VFW Opposes VA Decision to Eliminate Accredited Veterans Service Officers 48-Hour Review Period for Claims; Demands Answers from Leadership
WASHINGTON - Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz called it "despicable" and "inconceivable" that Department of Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Benefits Dr. Paul Lawrence intends to eliminate the accredited veterans service officer (VSO) 48-hour review period for claims effective April 30.
"The VFW strongly opposes the repeal of the 48-hour review period in reviewing VA decisions for accuracy, as this is a final quality control check that we perform on behalf of our veterans to ensure that their rating decisions are correct the first time," said Schmitz.
VSOs have the opportunity and the responsibility to review proposed VA rating decisions to ensure that all claimed conditions have been addressed and properly adjudicated prior to VA finalizing its rating decision and sending notification to the veteran.
For decades, VA has allotted VSOs 48 hours to review the applicable laws and regulations that were applied to the claim. During this time, VSO ...
VFW Pays Tribute to the Service of Our Vietnam War Veterans
March 29 was officially designated National Vietnam War Veterans Day in 2017 as a way for Americans to honor and celebrate our Vietnam War veterans.
More than 58,000 U.S. service members died during the Vietnam War and approximately 1,587 remain missing, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
"As a Vietnam War veteran, I understand the impact and human toll this conflict had on my fellow comrades," said Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz. "We can, and will never forget those who died in defense of freedom and remain missing today."
VFW senior leaders have traveled back to Vietnam every year since 1991 to help U.S. government efforts to account for missing and unaccounted-for servicemen and civilians.
"As long as the VFW exists, we will continue our efforts to help account for every American missing from the Vietnam War," said Schmitz.
National Vietnam War Veterans Day was made official through the "Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017," and encou...
Scam Reminder
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - As a new wave of scams surface in an attempt to exploit coronavirus fears, the VFW would like to remind all of its members to exercise extreme caution in providing personal information during any unsolicited call. Most recently, a VFW member reported receiving a call from an individual identifying himself as a VFW representative and was asked to provide credit card information in exchange for a $100 gift card. This is a scam.
If you do receive a call from an individual claiming to be a VFW representative who is requesting personally identifiable information, ask that they confirm your VFW membership number. If they're unable to do so, hang up.
If you have worked with the VFW on a VA benefits claim, and you receive a suspicious call regarding your claim, ask the caller to verify your VA claim number before sharing any critical information.
VFW Mobilizing, Combating Effects of Invisible Enemy
KANSAS CITY, Mo.- The Veterans of Foreign Wars, America's largest organization of combat veterans, knows all too well the experience of fighting a sometimes invisible enemy. This unique understanding, and the situational readiness and dedication to country forged through military service is perpetuating the VFW and its members' commitment to service through the COVID-19 pandemic that is sweeping the country. The VFW remains an organization of veterans #StillServing.
VFW members across the nation have mobilized to provide much-needed support to coronavirus-stricken communities. Among them:
VFW Remains Committed to Service and Country Amidst COVID-19
Kansas City, Mo.- As America's largest organization of combat veterans, the health and well-being of our members, partners, associates and communities is our top priority. For this reason and as our civic responsibility, we have implemented a number of measures to help combat the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
We have drastically expanded our flexibility of telework to employees of the VFW National Headquarters and Washington D.C. Office. Through this time, we will remain committed to providing our members and all those we assist with top-quality service as the current situation evolves.
VFW members can manage their Online Membership System (OMS) account any time by logging in at VFW Demands Congress Hold VA Accountable for Failure to Grant Benefits to Vietnam, Post 9/11 Veterans Suffering from Toxic Exposures
WASHINGTON - Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz called for "accountability for failure to grant benefits to Vietnam and Post-9/11 veterans suffering from toxic exposures" during a special joint hearing of the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees today.
The VFW expressed its frustration with the Department of Veterans Affairs' lack of urgency in providing benefits to individuals who suffer from conditions associated with toxic exposures, especially when there is science to back up veterans' claims.
"The VFW proposes a permanent, comprehensive, and evidence-based framework of granting presumptive benefits for toxic exposure," said Schmitz. "Veterans who were exposed to burn pits and now suffer from pulmonary conditions and rare cancers should not have to wait decades for benefits - like Vietnam veterans did."
The VFW proposed process of granting benefits would require VA to acknowledge the existing research linking these conditions...
VFW Awards National Youth Scholarship Winners
WASHINGTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) tonight proudly presented more than $200,000 in scholarships and awards as it named the national winners of its 2020 Voice of Democracy and Patriot's Pen youth scholarship competitions. The awards were presented during the Parade of Winners ceremony, sponsored by Twisted X, at the VFW's annual Legislative Conference held in Washington, D.C.
(Top) VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz and VFW Auxiliary
President Peggy Haake present Voice of Democracy first place winner Shruthi Kumar (center)
with her $30,000 award; (right) VFW National Commander William "D...
VFW to Deliver 2020 Priority Goals to Congress
WASHINGTON - More than 500 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its Auxiliary will descend on the nation's capital March 1-4 to meet with their respective members of Congress to discuss ways to best serve our veterans, service members and military families.
VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz will testify March 4 at 10 a.m. (EST) before a special joint hearing of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs.
"It's vital that the VFW is provided this platform to discuss our key priorities and explain how we can best achieve them with Congress' full support," Schmitz said. "My hope is that Congress hears me, but most-importantly, hears our members who will circle the halls of the Capitol this week fighting for critical veterans' issues in their states and communities."
Schmitz is prepared to discuss the VFW's top priorities for 2020. These key legislative priorities include:
Toxic Exposures and Other Environmental Hazards
VA Appeals Modernizat...
VFW Launches Campaign to Showcase Veterans #StillServing
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to launch #StillServing, a campaign to bring attention to and honor the continued commitment and sacrifice of America's veterans.
The men and women who bravely defend our nation often continue to selflessly serve their communities and country in ways beyond their military service. This awareness campaign showcases how veterans continue a life of service and how their ongoing contributions are positively impacting our society.
"Veterans truly exemplify the best of America," said William "Doc" Schmitz, VFW national commander. "They are dedicated to giving of themselves, and the skills and values they develop in the military only deepen their desire to better themselves, their communities and their country through service. We are grateful for the millions of members who have made service a hallmark of the VFW and we're excited for the veterans who are joining now to carry this forward in new ways."
Building on a legacy of service that ...
Twisted X Signs on as Title Sponsor of VFW Youth Programs
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce Twisted X has signed on to become the title sponsor of its annual Voice of Democracy and Patriot's Pen winners' trip. Twisted X, a longtime supporter of the VFW, initially announced its $130,000 multi-year commitment while presenting a $100,000 donation at the VFW's 120th National Convention in July 2019.
"Every year, the VFW Voice of Democracy and Patriot's Pen winners' trip honors the top tier of our nation's civically minded youth, and we're excited to bring Twisted X on board to help ensure this treasured tradition continues," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz.
Together, the VFW's Voice of Democracy and Patriot's Pen scholarship competitions have helped foster patriotism by challenging students to examine the role our military and veterans play, our nation's history, its democratic processes, and their own role in Americ...
CDW Presents 10000 Donation to the VFW
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Representatives from CDW presented a $10,000 donation on behalf of its CDW Gives program to VFW Quartermaster Debra Anderson today in support of the vital programs and services the VFW offers to our nation's service members, veterans and their families, free of charge.
"The VFW was thrilled to receive this donation, which will help us continue to serve countless military and veteran families during their times of need," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz. "It's encouraging to work with great companies like CDW, whose dedication to honoring and giving back to our nation's military and veteran families aligns so well with our own."
CDW is a leading multi-brand technology solutions provider to business, government, education and health care customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW was founded in 1984 and employs more than 9,800 workers. Its broad array of offerings range from hardware and so...
VFW Expects Apology From POTUS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - "In light of today's announcement from the defense department that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injuries as a result of Iran's retaliatory strike and President Trump's remarks which minimized these troops' injuries, the Veterans of Foreign Wars cannot stand idle on this matter.
TBI is a serious injury and one that cannot be taken lightly. TBI is known to cause depression, memory loss, severe headaches, dizziness and fatigue - all injuries that come with both short- and long-term effects.
The VFW expects an apology from the president to our service men and women for his misguided remarks. And, we ask that he and the White House join with us in our efforts to educate Americans of the dangers TBI has on these heroes as they protect our great nation in these trying times. Our warriors require our full support more than ever in this challenging environment." - William "Doc" Schmitz, VFW National Commander
Lawrence, Gallucci, Eshenbaugh Named to HillVets 100 Class of 2019
WASHINGTON - Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Washington Office Executive Director B.J. Lawrence, National Veterans Service Director Ryan Gallucci and VFW Department of Texas Service Officer Terry Eshenbaugh were named to the HillVets 100 Class of 2019.
"I wouldn't expect anything less from B.J. Ryan and Terry, three dedicated and committed leaders who fight and advocate for our nation's veterans," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz. "These gentlemen are the epitome of what the VFW represents."
Lawrence and Gallucci were named to the HillVets 100 list in the Traditional Non-Profits category due to their dedication and commitment efforts to bring veterans and service members' interests to the forefront of the national dialogue.
"This is a great honor, not only for me but for the VFW and the exceptional work our employees and members do on a daily basis on Capitol Hill and in our local communities on behalf of our veterans, service members and military families," said Lawrence.
VFW Awards 154 Student Veterans with Scholarships
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars is proud to announce more than 150 student veterans from around the country have been selected as 2020 spring semester recipients of the VFW's "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship."
"Too often I meet veterans whose GI Bill education benefits have been depleted. For more than five years, we've worked together with our long-time friends at Sport Clips Haircuts to ensure our veterans are set up for success," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz. "The VFW is proud to offer a scholarship program that keeps them from facing crippling student loan debt as their post-military life begins to take off."
Since the program's inception, the VFW and Sport Clips have awarded more than $7 million in scholarships to more than 1,600 student vete...
VFW, Stars and Stripes Work to Bring More News to More Veterans
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce it has teamed up with the renowned source for military and veteran news, Stars and Stripes, to offer VFW members a 50% discount on unlimited digital access to news and information on web and mobile.
"Stars and Stripes is certainly a trusted news source that VFW members know well," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz. "Our members are extremely busy. So we're pleased to be able to offer them quick and affordable access to news while on the go."
Stars and Stripes is the number one source of independent news and information for the U.S. military community, serving active-duty service members, veterans, DOD civilians, contractors and their families.
"From news coverage of veteran issues to informative online tools and publications, Stars and Stripes has always made our nation's veterans a top priority," said Max Lederer, Stars and Stripes publisher. "We recognize and respect the many contributions the VFW has ...
VFW, SVA Announce 2020 Student Veteran Fellowship Class
WASHINGTON - Ten Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) members and Student Veterans of America (SVA) leaders were selected for the 2020 VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship Program Sunday at the SVA National Conference in Los Angeles, California.
The 10 fellows will now join more than 500 VFW members on Capitol Hill in early March to advocate on behalf of all veterans, service members and their families.
"The VFW prides itself on working with our student veterans nationwide to help build tomorrow's leaders," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz.
The VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship is a semester-long academic experience that involves researching, coordinating, reporting and advocating on behalf of one of four veterans' policy areas: student veteran success on campus and beyond, improving veteran's health care and benefits, transitioning from military to civilian life, and challenges for service members and military families.
Each selected fellow submitted a policy proposal to address one o...
VFW Bids Congressman Roe Well Wishes on His Retirement
WASHINGTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) bids Rep. Phil Roe, M.D. (R-Tenn.) well wishes on his retirement at the conclusion of the 116th Congress.
"Congressman Roe has been a staunch supporter of our veterans, service members, military families, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars throughout his career as both a veteran and public servant," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz. "Today, we thank Congressman Roe and his wife, Clarinda, for their outstanding service to the state of Tennessee and our great nation. Without him, the MISSION Act, Forever GI Bill and other significant legislation may not have been achieved for our nation's heroes."...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars is now accepting submissions for its 2020 National Publications Contest. VFW publications published up to four times annually, or five or more times annually, will be judged in four categories.
VFW, Senate Leaders Key in Axing Widow's Tax in New NDAA
WASHINGTON - After a nearly half-century long fight, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its veterans service and survivor organization partners claimed victory with the termination of the contentious and embattled Military Widow's Tax as part of the presidential signing of the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act today.
"This is a momentous victory for the more than 65,000 military spouses who endured the tragic loss of their husband or wife who paid the ultimate sacrifice," said VFW National Commander William "Doc" Schmitz. "Without these extraordinary spouses fighting in the trenches with us, the termination of the Widow's Tax may not have been possible."
Prior to today's presidential signing of the NDAA that included the Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2019, recipients of both the Department of Defense Survivors Benefits Plan (SBP) and the Department of Veterans Affairs Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) faced a reduction of $1,319 - the current payout for DIC benefits. F...
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At gunpoint: COVID-19 and the indigenous struggle
Post author By Monica Espiritu, Iona Gibbs, Glenielle Geraldo Nanglihan
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For indigenous peoples across all borders, the struggle for autonomy is an undeniably familiar narrative that spans generations. Subjected to violence, pillaging, and erasure since the Spaniards first stepped on our shores, these communities are consistently relegated to the fringes of history—constantly left behind by the state-constructed Filipino identity characterized by settler colonial symbols.
But their marginalization is not a thing of the past; even now, indigenous communities throughout the country are being displaced. With projects such as the Kaliwa Dam proposed in 2012 and the controversial passing of the Anti-Terrorism Act earlier this year, new chapters of this story are still being written. Now, as society comes to grips with a global pandemic, these communities are forced to the front lines of these injustices and to the sidelines of the collective consciousness.
Under threat
For communities that have long been deprived of essentials such as food and supplies, the lockdown has not only restricted them but also cut off much-needed access to healthcare services and protective equipment. “Indigenous peoples need food supply from the government, non-governmental organizations, and other ally institutions. But when food reliefs [were] stopped, they were forced to intensify their farming activities,” says Maria Easterluna Canoy, the executive director of the Kitanglad Integrated NGOs, Inc. (KIN), which advocates for indigenous people’s rights in protected areas in Northern Mindanao.
Similarly, Lumad communities in Surigao Del Sur doubled their sustainable food production through their community farms. Chad Booc, advocacy officer and a volunteer teacher for Lumad school Alcadev Incorporated, shares that the members worked together to come up with a community response to the pandemic. “They implemented their own lockdown or safety protocols, and they [set up] medical checkpoints,” he shares.
However, things took a turn for the worse in June, when soldiers came to their community. Aside from being put at risk of infection, the abuse and intimidation the Lumad people have long suffered under the hands of state and paramilitary groups only intensified amid the lockdown. The soldiers instituted a curfew, barring the Lumads from going to their own community farms or buying food in the lowlands. Only a month later, 37 Lumad families in Lianga, Surigao Del Sur fled after they were bombed eight times. Soon after, community leaders were threatened with arrests.
Mine eyes have seen
To live with soldiers so close to their homes is to live every second with fear. “You do not know what comes next; you do not know what might happen in the evening or in the next morning,” says Booc. He shares that just this November, soldiers fired at a house where Lumad people were seeking refuge.
Other indigenous groups in the country also face the same attacks. The National Chairperson for Katribu Youth National, Gabriel Torrecampo, states that aside from the forced occupation of Lumad communities, Aeta ancestral lands in Central Luzon were also bombed. “The President himself threatened to bomb the Lumad schools and communities; this is already enough for us to say that as long as he is in power, the attacks will continue and will eventually worsen even more,” he asserts.
On August 31, four Aeta farmers from Lumibao, Zambales were accused of being National People’s Army members and were arrested by soldiers from the 7th Infantry Division. In detainment, they were reportedly forced to eat human feces. Two of these farmers are now charged with violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.
Location: stolen land
The lockdown has also magnified the fight against land grabbing, as the consequences of COVID-19 put pressure on the economy. “[There is] a sense of urgency from Duterte to give out these lands to foreign mining companies since [there is] a lot of foreign debt,” explains Booc. Canoy highlights this dilemma, reiterating how much of the ancestral domains of these communities “[are] used for gaining economic benefits.”
The environmental consequences of these pursuits only add more to the growing list of struggles faced by indigenous communities. As corporations continue to destroy natural land, the more vulnerable the country becomes to the effects of climate change. “One of the strongest defenses that we have are the mountains and the forests that these indigenous peoples have been protecting for centuries,” Booc says. As these natural defenses dwindle, indigenous communities are left vulnerable to the devastating impacts of frequent typhoons.
Booc underscores that these activities debilitate the country. “It’s a matter of life and death—not just for them, who are being killed just for defending their lands, but also for us, living in the same country where our kababayans get killed because of these strong typhoons.”
From then until now, indigenous people have been at the forefront of resistance movements, waging their battles in the mountains and marching on the streets. They have never ceased to speak up about their struggles for freedom in spite of violence and intimidation.
“We have to go out from our comfort zones,” Booc exerts. “We have to go out from social media, and go out into the streets and organize and rally more people to stand with the poor, stand with the marginalized, stand with the indigenous people.” It is this unified solidarity that may set the stage for a brighter future, for the communities themselves, and for the nation they have so nobly protected throughout history.
Their fight for survival has not been an easy one, nor is it anything new, as many of these systemic injustices have spanned generations. As Torrecampo puts it, ”the struggle of the Igorots, Dumagats, Aetas, Mangyans, Tumanduks, Lumads, and Moros of the country is a shared history, a shared struggle for their rights to their ancestral lands and their right to self-determination.”
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Review, Television, True Detective
True Detective – “Locked Room” Review
Date: January 28, 2014Author: Anthony Del Vecchio 0 Comments
Season 1, Episode 3: “The Locked Room”
True Detective is a hard show to water cooler talk about it at this point, and we’re only three episodes in. The slow burn aspect of the show has undoubtedly claimed some casualties in viewership at this point, and those that are still intrigued with the series are left talking about character development and maybe the meaning of existence.
I’m one of those people that are enjoying this slow burn. As I mentioned in last week’s review, I didn’t want it to be a mile-a-minute sort of show; that couldn’t have sustained itself while maintaining it’s quality. Instead, we’re treated to a character study each and every week, but the scope is so intimate, it’s more enjoyable as a personal pleasure rather than a group discussion experience. Right now, the only discussion I’m having with people is whether or not they’re watching.
Arguably, the most captivating thing about the show is Matthew McConaughey’s performance. On the surface, it’s the most tangible thing you can call excellent on the show right now. To see him go from Point A (1995) to Point B (2012) is going to be fascinating, but his character arc doesn’t seem to be all that steep. Woody Harrelson’s Martin Hart, however, looks to be on the quick descent into self-destruction and looks to be another facet of the show that becomes brilliant.
In “Locked Room” McConaughey is essentially the narrator; his character Rustin Cohle has some of the juiciest lines to date in this episode and most of it has to do with religion or his opinion of Hart’s behavior and extracurricular activities. He’s one part conscience and one part condemning force, damning Hart’s belief that his faith in religion and God makes his actions just. He’s a mirror that talks back to Hart, making him full aware of the things that he hates most about himself. It’s no more evident than in the scene when Hart comes home to find his wife and Cohle talking over some iced tea after Cohle mowed the lawn. The subtext of “You don’t mow another man’s lawn” is hardly subtext.
Early on in the show, it’s obvious that Hart thinks of himself as a completely different animal than Cohle. Cohle’s a freak: he’s got no family, no furniture, no interest in women. Is Hart, though, the philanderer, the drunk, the absentee dad, any better off than Cohle is. For the two of them, it is a difference of the facades they build in order to sleep at night. Cohle, the nihilist, doesn’t pretend to be anything that he isn’t; at least not anymore. It’s possible that he was a different person back before his daughter died, but what you see with him is what you get.
Hart, on the other hand, never seems to fully expose himself to anyone. He has a moment with his wife where he confesses how the idea of turning forty weighs on him; and it feels so fake. Is it true? Probably, some aspects of it, but his admission is merely to distract his wife from the fact that he’s been having an affair with a much younger woman.
As for the case, the burned out church leads the two detectives to a traveling evangelical preacher, played by Shea Whigham, the actor whom plays Steve Buscemi’s brother Eli in Boardwalk Empire. It’s a fascinating performance, as each line is delivered with such charisma that I was almost ready to fork over my hard-earned money as I was watching. Luckily, television doesn’t work that way and I was able to put my wad of bills back in my pocket. Eventually, a new wrinkle emerges, as Cohle discovers that an earlier case bears a striking resemblance to the modus operandi of the killer they’re currently hunting for.
True Detective is fast becoming one of my favorite shows on television and, while a bit of a slow burn, it seems like it’s on the precipice of some major happenings. Personally, a week off is going to hurt, but I foresee great things on the horizon.
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Georgia U.S. Senate Candidate Buckley says U.S. Needs to Unleash Market Forces in Health Care to Reduce Costs, and President Trump’s Recent Executive Order Deficient
Jul 7, 2020 | Politics
ATLANTA, GA, July 07, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ — Allen Buckley, a fiscal conservative independent candidate in the special election race for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Kelly Loeffler, says the U.S. needs to significantly change its health care system by causing market forces to induce price reductions. He also says President Trump’s recent executive order regarding transparency is deficient.
For many years, the costs of health care have been increasing at a greater rate than the ordinary inflation rate. Health insurers’ profits are significant. The federal government faces significant financial challenges, and Medicare and Medicaid are two of its largest annual costs.
The two major political parties have done little to reduce the costs of health care. Many Democrats have recently been pushing for Medicare for all, etc. Republicans have responded by recommending nothing except for continuing the status quo.
On December 17, 2019, Pew Research Center reported: “When asked to consider the major problems facing the country, the affordability of health care and drug addiction top the American public’s list.”
On June 24th, President Trump signed an executive order that, among other things, attempts to make public the actual costs paid by insurers, etc. to hospitals. The theory is that if people know the actual costs of care, it will impact their decision-making. However, Section 1 of the executive order notes the “predominant role that third-party payers and Government programs play in the American healthcare system.” The executive order does nothing to reduce this predominant role. Significant law changes would be necessary to reduce the role.
Buckley proposes the following significant law changes to the health care system outside Medicare and Medicaid to help bring down costs: (a) cutting patent rights in half for drug manufacturers that charge more in the U.S. than they charge abroad; (b) making “pay to delay” practices with respect to generic drugs unlawful; (c) disallowing tax deductions and subsidies for health insurance unless it is high deductible insurance, while permitting deductions for contributions to related health savings accounts (HSAs); (d) permitting HSAs to change so the deductible can be as low as $0 if co-insurance of 50 percent or more exits until the maximum-out-of-pocket amount is hit; (e) requiring HSAs to always require at least 25 percent co-insurance until the maximum out-of-pocket amount is hit; (f) requiring the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to disclose on its website common means of treating health care problems; and (g) significantly reducing Medicaid funding to states that have certificate of need (CON) laws.
Regarding Medicare, Buckley proposes: (a) gradually moving the retirement age back to 70 and adjusting it every decade after 2039 for changes in life expectancy; (b) eliminating the Medicare Part A deductible but adding 15 percent co-insurance; (c) cutting Part B premiums in half, while increasing the cost share of office visits, etc. from 20 to 40 percent; and (d) keeping only the catastrophic coverage aspects of Part D, that picks up 95 percent of costs for the year in excess of $6,350 of costs paid by the consumer. Regarding gradually moving the retirement age back to 70, Buckley would keep Obamacare, with some reasoned changes, so that older people who wished to retire before 70 could take advantage of Obamacare.
Buckley said: “Our nation has significant health costs problems and financial problems. The third party in the health care purchase equation makes it different than virtually all other transactions, except college education. Medicare for all would be a huge mistake. Creating real competition, while not breaking anyone in the process, is what needs to be done. As noted on my campaign website, it has worked in Singapore. Some reasonable sacrifice will be necessary in the early years. But, that’s absolutely required to make overall positive changes, that should last indefinitely. Democrats and Republicans, who’ve sold out to health insurers, won’t get the job done. President Trump’s recent executive order merely beats around the bush. It’s time to act in a significant way.”
Mr. Buckley’s “Save Tomorrow” campaign is about living for today and tomorrow, instead of living for today to the detriment of tomorrow. The focus is on doing things to make tomorrow as good as or even better than today, by acting now to address the nation’s financial challenges and confronting global warming in a practical way. Buckley ran against Johnny Isakson in 2016 as the Libertarian Party’s candidate. In an October 20, 2016 poll by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he drew 11 percent of the vote.
Mr. Buckley is an attorney/CPA. He can be reached for comment at (404) 610-1936. Mr. Buckley’s campaign website is www.buckleyforsenate.org.
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The untold truth of Brittany Renner
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Brittany Renner is a social media star who is best known for posting sexy photos on Instagram. Renner made a name for herself on Instagram by posting workout videos and promoting fitness products. Her beauty soon caught the attention of various brands, and they helped kick-start her modeling career.
Renner has maintained relevance in the industry because of her social media fame and numerous controversies. Brittany is rarely out of the headlines, but she doesn’t seem to mind. This piece will look at Brittany’s career, her relationship with her first boyfriend, her relationships with celebrities, and a startling revelation she made about her online personality.
She started her online career to elevate the status of her family
Brittany Renner was born on 26th February 1992 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. She is half Caucasian and half African-American, and she grew up alongside her sister Lexie and her brother Steven. Renner played soccer during her days at Jackson State University, and in 2010, she helped the school team win the SWAC championship.
Renner worked as a salesgirl, a caregiver, and a Zumba instructor before starting her online career. Initially, she didn’t take social media seriously, but she changed her perspective as her following continued to grow. Brittany hired a manager, and together with her then-boyfriend, they set about marketing Renner to the world.
Brittany’s primary motivation to work hard and achieve success was her family. She explained in a November 2015 interview with Hot 107.9:
“I definitely did not come from a super-educated family… I went to college for two and half years and I just really wasn’t passionate about anything that I was doing there. A lot of my business money came from just really wanting better… Even when I was in college and I was out of school and kind of working job to job, I always kind of knew I wanted to be something greater and just really want better for my family.”
Brittany currently has 5.1 million followers on Instagram. She models for various brands on her page, including Fashion Nova.
She ended a five-year relationship because of social media pressure
When Brittany started posting on Instagram, she didn’t hide the fact that she had a boyfriend. Casey Therriault played a crucial role in marketing Brittany early on in her career. Renner went against her manager’s advice and chose to make her relationship with Casey public.
The relationship between Brittany and her beau started to suffer after she became famous. According to Brittany, Casey started to compete with her for attention. She told VLAD TV that social media caused a strain on the relationship. She said:
“And then you find almost like your partner is competing with you for attention, and they start to seek attention from their own page because they are trying to kind of… They are trying to keep up with you… I just felt like we started to lose focus on each other and our relationship became more about the business… It just fell apart.”
She detailed sexual encounters with seven celebrities in a book titled Judge This Cover
After ending her relationship with Carey, tabloids started linking Brittany with celebrities, including athletes and musicians. Most of these rumors were unconfirmed, but in August 2018, Brittany stated in an Instagram live video that she’d slept with eleven athletes, five entertainers, and eight ‘regular’ men.
A month later, she released a tell-all book title Judge This Cover in which detailed sexual encounters with several celebrities. Brittany didn’t address the men by name, but it is believed that the men were: Casey Therriault, Colin Kaepernick, Trey Songz, Drake, Tyga, Chris Brown, and Lil Uzi Vert. The book confirmed that Renner and Colin had been in a relationship, but Colin didn’t want to make it public.
It also confirmed that leaked rant made by Renner concerning Lil Uzi’s cheating was real. In the rant, Brittany said:
“You didn’t really care to spend time with me. You actually didn’t respond to my text the day I had text you… I’ve given you so many chances after embarrassing me publicly time after time again when I know you still fuck that other bitch – on top of the other one and God knows how many more.”
Renner later confirmed on the No Jumper podcast that she had love for Uzi, but she was not in love with him. She said:
“Of course I love him! He’s cute, he’s fun, he’s nice, like what’s not to love about Uzi? … I haven’t been in love in years so… I haven’t met that guy.”
Currently, rumors are circulating stating that there’s something going on between Brittany and Hornets rookie PJ Washington.
She recently revealed that her Instagram persona was fake
On 11th February 2020, Brittany released an emotional video on her YouTube page in which she appeared without makeup and with her hair in a messy bun. In the video titled Time to Expose The Truth, Brittany talked about the mistakes she made in her life and the things she did to mask her insecurities. She revealed that she became controlling because of the power that came with fortune.
Brittany explained that her controlling nature came from the abusive nature of her first relationship. Instead of confronting the demons from her abusive relationship, she pursued men in committed relationships and adopted a fake online persona to make her feel powerful and in control. Brittany revealed:
“I have been involved with men in committed relationships. I saw power in knowing that the relationship wasn’t real… I wanted what they had. I was not possessed by an evil spirit or demons or bound to a soul tie, I was doing exactly what I wanted to do… I feel like my own brand has been built on a façade. Like any person who has ever met me in real life, would say that I am different in real life. Nothing like what I portray on Instagram.”
Renner also talked about her desire to start a family and how her fear of failure had prevented her from trying to start one. As the video wound down, Brittany stated that she is stepping out of the facade she has created. She concluded:
“What I am learning is to be gentle with myself as I am embarking on unfamiliar new territory. How am I supposed to know how to maneuver if I have never been here? I have never experienced this before. I was living an illusion, lies. It’s comfortable there, but the thing about not living your truth is you don’t get anywhere.”
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Tech deals give hope to shaky office market
Amazon, Facebook make long-term commitments, but immediate future brings challenges
Aug.August 19, 2020 02:36 PM
By Rich Bockmann
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Getty, iStock)
Amazon and Facebook both made major commitments in the past two weeks to a New York City office market with an uncertain future. But that shot in the arm belies the fact that many companies are still in wait-and-see mode.
“A lot of tenants are punting on the whole topic and saying they’re going to continue working remotely,” said Grant Greenspan, a principal and head of office leasing for the Kaufman Organization.
Greenspan added that the jobs associated with the recent deals will take a few years to be filled.
“There’s going to be a three-to-five-year recovery where tech tenants are going to be the driver of the city’s economy,” he said.
But there’s an ominous opposing force: a flood of sublet space that will hit the market and drag down the office recovery.
“In the near term,” he said, “there’s a lot of negativity about where the market’s going to go.”
Seattle-based Amazon this week said it plans to add 3,500 corporate jobs at hubs in six U.S. cities. That includes 2,000 positions at its New York City office in the former Lord & Taylor building. The rest will be in Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, Detroit and Dallas.
The news came just two weeks after Facebook signed its long-anticipated lease for 700,000 square feet at Vornado Realty Trust’s Farley Post Office redevelopment and follows TikTok’s lease of more than 230,000 square feet at the Durst Organization’s One Five One office tower in Times Square.
The string of high-profile deals arrives as future demand for office space in cities like New York is very much in question as companies move further toward work-from-home models.
But the Amazon and Facebook deals had been set in motion before the pandemic. Amazon made plans to expand when it hammered out a deal to buy the Lord & Taylor building sometime around February for $1 billion. Facebook’s lease had been in the works since at least November.
“Amazon always said they were planning to increase jobs, particularly Amazon Web Service jobs in New York,” said Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City. “So I don’t think it’s a surprise, but it’s consistent. And the good news is there’s a continuity of this desire to be in New York.”
Wylde pointed out that Amazon is part of a group of companies including JPMorgan and Google pledging to help 100,000 disadvantaged New Yorkers find jobs by offering training, apprenticeships and entry-level positions.
Her view on Amazon’s jobs expansion, though, was somewhat bittersweet, given the opposition that led the e-commerce giant to scuttle plans for a second headquarters in Long Island City early last year. Wylde said she hopes the announcement of new jobs will get a warmer welcome this time around.
“We’re seeing the private sector step up and kind of bridge the gap for New Yorkers left on the other side of the digital divide,” she said. “It’s extremely important to not allow the naysayers to say that doesn’t matter.”
Julie Samuels, executive director of Tech:NYC, a nonprofit that has come to speak for the city’s tech industry, said Big Tech office decisions are still driven by intense competition to recruit the best engineers. When the likes of Amazon, Facebook and TikTok make monster deals, she said, lots of companies take notice.
“These companies signing big leases is in many ways a bellwether for tech,” she said. “I think that’s true even beyond tech.”
Greenspan added that the ecosystem around all those Amazon and Facebook jobs will help new businesses form. And he said even in a space as challenged as restaurants, he is seeing new businesses starting up.
“There are plenty of entrepreneurs out there who know they’re going to be back in business,” he said. “It gives me encouragement to know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.”
Contact Rich Bockmann at [email protected] or 908-415-5229.
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Malaria Drug Helps Virus Patients Improve, in Small Study
Among health officials who declined to endorse the drugs, and who called for clinical trials, were some members of the president’s coronavirus task force — including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
The new study, of 62 patients with an average age of about 45, did have a control group. It was conducted at the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, in Wuhan, China. The patients were carefully chosen to exclude people with medical problems that could be made worse by hydroxychloroquine, like abnormal heart rhythms, certain eye diseases, and liver or kidney problems.
Half the subjects — the controls — received just the usual care given to coronavirus patients, and half had usual care plus hydroxychloroquine. The usual care included oxygen, antiviral drugs, antibiotics and other treatments.
Their disease was considered mild, even though all had pneumonia that showed up on CT scans. After giving informed consent, they were assigned at random to either the hydroxychloroquine or the control group. They were treated for five days, and their fevers and coughing were monitored. They also had chest CT scans the day before the study treatment began, and the day after it ended.
Coughing and fever eased a day or so earlier in the patients who received hydroxychloroquine, and pneumonia improved in 25 of 31, as opposed to 17 of 31 in the controls.
The illness turned severe in four patients — all in the control group.
Two patients had minor side effects from hydroxychloroquine: One had a rash and another had a headache.
Dr. Schaffner cautioned that the results applied only to patients with relatively mild illness, like the ones in the study, and could not be generalized to advanced cases.
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Pakistani Court Overturns Conviction in 2002 Killing of Daniel Pearl
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court on Thursday overturned the murder conviction and death sentence of Ahmed Omar Sheikh, a British-born militant who had been convicted of masterminding the 2002 abduction and killing of the American journalist Daniel Pearl, lawyers said.
The court also overturned the convictions of three other men who had been serving life sentences in the case. All four men were expected to be freed soon, lawyers said.
Mr. Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted in January 2002 in the city of Karachi, while working on an article about Pakistani militant groups with links to Al Qaeda. He was later beheaded.
A two-member bench of the Sindh High Court in Karachi, headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha, found that there had been sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Sheikh of kidnapping, but not of murder, said Mr. Sheikh’s lawyer, Khawaja Naveed Ahmed. “The court ruled that the charge of abduction was proven,” he said.
The court reduced Mr. Sheikh’s sentence to seven years. Because he has been imprisoned for 18 years, he was expected to go free along with Fahad Saleem, Syed Salman Saqib and Sheikh Muhammad Adil, the three other men whose convictions were overturned, Mr. Ahmed said.
Lawyers said the court had not yet issued a detailed ruling, only a brief order.
Soon after Mr. Pearl’s killing, Pakistan’s government, then led by President Pervez Musharraf, moved quickly to arrest Mr. Sheikh and the other men, amid a global outcry and pressure from the United States.
But a 2011 report, based on investigative work by students and faculty at the journalism program of Georgetown University and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, cast doubt on the four men’s convictions. It found that Mr. Sheikh and the three other men had been involved in the plot to abduct Mr. Pearl but were not responsible for his murder.
American officials have said that they believed Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had personally carried out Mr. Pearl’s murder.
Mr. Sheikh, a British national who was trained in camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan, belonged to the militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad at the time of his 2002 arrest. Pakistani investigators said Mr. Sheikh lured Mr. Pearl by offering him an interview with an Islamic cleric who had ties to Richard C. Reid, the so-called shoe bomber, who was accused of trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight in December 2001 with explosives in his sneakers.
Mr. Sheikh has made headlines from his cell over the years. In 2008, soon after Pakistani militants carried out terror attacks in Mumbai, Mr. Sheikh managed to place a call to then-President Asif Ali Zardari, pretending to be the Indian foreign minister and warning of an attack by India. In 2016, the Pakistani military announced that it had foiled a plan to free Mr. Sheikh from prison.
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MGC lands first Aussie Gov grant
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Camera IconMGC Pharmaceuticals will carry out a clinical trial comparing the effectiveness of its medical cannabis products for the treatment of dementia and Alzheimer's. Credit: Supplied
MGC Pharmaceuticals has received a Government grant to support its research and development work relating to phyto-cannabinoid derived medicines to treat the symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer's.
The ASX listed biotech company has received its first $25,000 payment in the form of an Australian Government “Innovation Connection Grant” to support its research and development efforts.
This money will support a clinical trial for the company's CogniCann® product that is being run in conjunction with the University of Notre Dame in Western Australia.
The trial will assess human patients’ symptoms associated with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in a controlled “double-blind” placebo trial.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australians and during 2018, it was estimated to cost the country more than $15 billion. By 2056, the total cost of dementia is predicted to increase to more than $36.8 billion, according to Dementia Australia.
Worldwide, every three seconds, someone is diagnosed with dementia, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International, which means that MGC will have a serious addressable market if it’s cannabis-based medicinal products can have an impact on this debilitating disease.
Australian Government’s appear to be taking notice of the potential medicinal benefits of cannabis-based products now with W.A Health Minister, Roger Cook, revealing that the McGowan Government, effective immediately, will allow GP’s to prescribe medicinal cannabis to a wide range of patients.
If MGC’s CogniCann® trial is successful and it reduces or eliminates the debilitating symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s and dementia, such as confusion, reduced concentration and depression, the company could possibly make a big impact on the quality of life for a lot of Australians and potentially make some serious money along the way.
Roby Zomer, co-founder and Managing Director of MGC Pharma, said: “This is an important display of support from the Australian Government and recognition for the high-level research and development capabilities of MGC Pharma in partnership with the University of Notre Dame.
CogniCann® has the potential to significantly alleviate the symptoms of those suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and I look forward to updating shareholders on the progress of the Phase IIb clinical trial in due course.”
Meanwhile, MGC is progressing its potential listing on the London Stock Exchange that has been advancing as planned during November.
NB: This article is for general financial markets news purposes only and is not to be taken as an endorsement of, or advertisement for any individual product, medicine or drug.
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A tragic scenario of life and death
Gary AdsheadThe West Australian
Tue, 21 August 2012 4:55AM
A tragedy which unfolded in the historic Goldfields town of Boulder on Thursday is now being played out in two hospitals across Perth.
Doctors at Princess Margaret Hospital continue to monitor a 20-month-old baby on life support while elsewhere the child's foster mother is due to give birth.
Given the extraordinary life and death scenarios, it was hardly surprising that Department of Child Protection chief Terry Murphy paused during a rapid-fire press conference in Perth yesterday to acknowledge the range of emotions the family must be enduring.
"Our heart goes out to them," he said. Back in Boulder, blue and white police tape and an unmarked police car were the only indications something terrible had happened at the State-owned house.
But with the major crime squad investigating, it means the "something" might lead to charges.
The DCP said the child's placement with relatives, who acted as her foster carers, had been closely monitored. On the day she was taken to hospital, the DCP had seen the baby and she seemed healthy and safe. At some point in the next two hours all that changed.
Mr Murphy said there was nothing which triggered red flags in the baby's case management.
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What are the consequences of the 'spatial turn' for how we understand politics today? A proposed research agenda
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Home » How Halloween II Was Shaped by the Early Slashers
How Halloween II Was Shaped by the Early Slashers
Nat Brehmer May 23, 2017 1 Comment 378 views 0 likes
While Halloween II is consistent with the first and is overall a very similar film, it was made in a completely different climate and that surely has an effect on the movie itself. This was made the same year as Friday the 13th Part 2, which effectively kicked off the slasher sequel.
Halloween was somewhat unique at the time it was made, but three years later, it wasn’t. Immediately after the first came out, other filmmakers started trying to emulate the style. 1981 saw the release of dozens of similarly-themed features such as The Prowler, My Bloody Valentine, Happy Birthday to Me, Hell Night, The Burning, and many more. With this in mind Halloween II had to be very aware of the climate just in order to keep up.
Unlike Friday the 13th Part 2, which continues the story years later and contains a completely different group of characters (which would also be the direction taken by A Nightmare on Elm Street 2) Halloween II picks up the exact moment after the first ended. It does not jump ahead in time after its opening, it simply keeps the story going through the same Halloween night. The entire surviving cast also returns, which was and still remains uncommon in slasher films.
Because of the mentality of staying in pace with slasher films, Halloween II has a much higher body count and is much gorier than the first. Michael no longer only uses a knife but in the tradition of Friday the 13th implores many other weapons and devices for murders this time around. It even adheres to more slasher staples that were becoming common, particularly in that it is set in an isolated location. While the first Halloween was free-roaming between two separate houses for the bulk of the movie, Halloween II is confined to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital for the majority of its running time.
But while different, Halloween II maintains strong aspects of the first as well. These would be the things that other slashers could not emulate. It has the same strong visual style and atmosphere, largely due to the return of cinematographer Dean Cundey. It has a similar, effective score because Carpenter returned to do the music with associate Alan Howarth.
The only real weak spot in Halloween II when compared with the first is in the characterization of Laurie Strode. Laurie, who proved to be a smart and capable protagonist in the original is now portrayed as much more helpless. This isn’t a case of bad writing however: Laurie has been taken to the hospital, has been drugged, and is out of commission for most of the feature. Even still, the protagonist is out of commission and isn’t given much to do in a film that she is supposed to be the emotional center of.
But Laurie does feed into a staple of slasher sequels: the newly introduced backstory. Many horror sequels reveal something about the original that we did not know. Friday the 13th Part 2 does this by revealing that Jason Voorhees did not actually drown in Camp Crystal Lake as a boy, but survived by roaming the nearby wilderness and living off the land only to watch his mother be beheaded as she returned to avenge his supposed death.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (the first direct sequel in the Nightmare franchise) does this by giving us an entire backstory on Freddy Krueger that we had no inkling of in the first. We know he was a child murderer from the backstory given in the original, but we don’t know who he is or where he comes from.
In Halloween II, the added backstory is of course that Laurie Strode is Michael Myers’ long lost sister. It both adds depth and takes away some of the impact of the film at the same time. While it was something invented by the original creators, they don’t necessarily stand behind the decision.
In fact, Carpenter admits he was drunk when he wrote that. Whether or not this twist should have been introduced to the franchise is something that fans have discussed for decades. Some argue it cheapens the original and some argue it strengthens certain aspects.
I think both are right to a degree. The context of the original film is scarier if there is no connection. It is just a faceless murderer targeting a young girl, possibly driven to repeat his first crime by selecting someone who looks like the sister he killed fifteen years earlier. But in the overall context of a franchise, the sister angle is important. It provides a character arc between the features and a connection that is harkened back to even in sequels which Laurie does not appear.
Halloween even goes further than most franchises in its attempt to embrace its backstory. The TV edit of Halloween was being broadcast around the same time that Halloween II was being released in theaters. New scenes had to be filmed for Halloween’s television edit given the time restrictions of the network.
Carpenter used these admittedly filler scenes to not only help establish things like Michael’s time in the institution but also used the opportunity to hint at the connection between Michael and Laurie to more easily tie the first film to the second. For example, when Loomis looks through Michael’s room after the patient had broken out, he finds the word “SISTER” etched into the wall.
Halloween II’s retroactive backstory is not a bad thing and proved to be a wise move for the franchise moving forward. With the connection between the two firmly established, it proved especially useful when the siblings were again at the forefront in Halloween H20. Even more than that, after Halloween II every film, with the obvious exception of Season of the Witch, focuses on some sort of family connection. In Halloween 4 and 5, Michael’s target is his niece, Jamie Lloyd. In Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers it was her son. Halloween H20 and Halloween: Resurrection then reintroduced Laurie Strode as Michael’s sister.
Even though it may have been made only to keep up with the climate of horror in 1981, Halloween II proves to be nonetheless effective. It is a haunting movie and even though it is more of a by-the-book slasher than the first, it is (perhaps because of this) the thing that cemented Halloween as a franchise and defined what it would look like moving forward.
Tags: 1980s Horror Films, 1980s Slashers, halloween, halloween II, horror films, horror movies, john carpenter, michael myers, Slasher Films, slasher movies
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Report on Popocatepetl (Mexico) — 6 June-12 June 2001
Smithsonian / US Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 6 June-12 June 2001
Managing Editor: Gari Mayberry
Global Volcanism Program, 2001. Report on Popocatepetl (Mexico). In: Mayberry, G (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 6 June-12 June 2001. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
Volcano Profile | Weekly Report (6 June-12 June 2001)
Popocatepetl
19.023°N, 98.622°W; summit elev. 5393 m
Activity during 6-7 June remained at normal low levels, with minor gas-and-steam emissions, tremor, and a few small volcano-tectonic earthquakes at around 6 km depth below the crater. Increased emissions on 8 June sometimes included small amounts of ash. An explosion on 9 June at 0424 sent ash to an unknown height. Moderate activity continued through the next morning and decreased slightly. The Mexico City MWO reported an ash emission on 11 June at 1100 that rose 7.6 km a.s.l., but it was not seen on satellite imagery. The MWO warned of another ash emission on 12 June at 1648, but cloudy conditions prevented a height estimate. Typical low-to-moderate activity continued through 13 June, with the Yellow alert level unchanged.
Geologic Background. Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, rises 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America's 2nd-highest volcano. The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 400 x 600 m wide crater. The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas to the south. The modern volcano was constructed south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone. Three major Plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 CE, have occurred since the mid-Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano. Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since Pre-Columbian time.
Sources: Centro Nacional de Prevencion de Desastres (CENAPRED), Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC)
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After defeating Arsenal, Pep spoke out against racism
After successfully winning over Arsenal in the Premier League continued earlier this morning, Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola spoke about the issue of Racism which later became a conversation.
As is known, Manchester City plays the 29th week of the Premier League on Thursday morning WIB (18/06). In the match, Citizen faced off with one of his rivals, Arsenal.
Playing at home, Pep Guardiola’s troops managed to win with a landslide score of 3-0. Raheem Sterling opened up before the first half was over, followed by goals from Kevin De Bruyne and Phil Foden in the second round.
Although left behind, Arsenal are still trying to catch up, only David Luiz’s red card at the beginning of the second half only complicate the effort. As a result, the Gunners must accept the defeat.
Indeed, this victory did not affect the standings at all. Liverpool still lead the standings, even Jurgen Klopp’s troops are just one step away from winning the Premier League.
However, despite the results of the match coach Pep Guardiola was reluctant to talk about his team’s victory. He actually talked about the case of racism that was being discussed by the world.
According to Pep, white people should apologize for their treatment of black people so far.
“White people should apologize for the way we have treated black people for 400 years,”
“We should send thousands of messages to black people. I am ashamed of what white people have done to black people, “Guardiola told a news conference after the match, quoted by Goal International.
The same thing was said by one of Manchester City player, Raheem Sterling. According to him, anti-racist in the Premier League has developed quite well so far.
“Little by little, we are seeing changes. Walk naturally, organically. “We saw the team that did that at the start of the kick-off and thought that that was what we had to do too,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, before the match between Arsenal and Manchester City took place, both teams seemed to show respect and support for the Black Lives Matter world movement.
Not only that, both teams also appeared to be wearing Jersey with the BLM logo attached.
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Confinement of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin in novel poly(vinylpyrrolidone)s modified with aromatic amines
Myriam Gómez-Tardajos, Juan Pablo Pino-Pinto, Claudia Díaz-Soto, Mario E. Flores, Alberto Gallardo, Carlos Elvira, Helmut Reinecke, Hiroyuki Nishide, Ignacio Moreno-Villoslada
Polymeric derivatives of the biocompatible poly(vinylpyrrolidone) bearing discrete amounts of aromatic amines have been synthesized. The interaction of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin with a series of these copolymers (P10, P25, P50, P75, and P100, the numbers referring the molar percentage of incorporation of aromatic amines in the copolymers) has been analyzed regarding shifts of the absorption bands and shift of the transition pH between the di-anionic and the tetra-anionic forms of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4- sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin. The interaction between the dye and poly(vinylpyrrolidone) has also been studied as a control. The incorporated aromatic amines increase the hydrophobic properties of the resulting polymers and provide specific interactions with the tetra-anionic form of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin. Thus, P10 was soluble in water, P25 was dispersible in the form of polydisperse nanoparticles, and P50, P75, and P100 are insoluble in water. However, low polydisperse nanoparticles of mean size of 175 nm were formed by pouring 1 volume of a solution of P25 in DMSO into 9 volumes of water. These nanoparticles are permeable to 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin. Both P10 and P25 nanoparticles produce strong binding to 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)- porphyrin, stabilize the tetra-anionic form of the dye in a wide range of pH, and prevent the undesirable self-aggregation both in the form of H- and J-aggregates. It was shown that the affinity of the 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4- sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin for P10 is stronger than for chitosan, which gives insights concerning the possible stability of the complex in biological systems.
Dyes and Pigments
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Gómez-Tardajos, M., Pino-Pinto, J. P., Díaz-Soto, C., Flores, M. E., Gallardo, A., Elvira, C., Reinecke, H., Nishide, H., & Moreno-Villoslada, I. (2013). Confinement of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin in novel poly(vinylpyrrolidone)s modified with aromatic amines. Dyes and Pigments, 99(3), 759-770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2013.06.028
Confinement of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin in novel poly(vinylpyrrolidone)s modified with aromatic amines. / Gómez-Tardajos, Myriam; Pino-Pinto, Juan Pablo; Díaz-Soto, Claudia; Flores, Mario E.; Gallardo, Alberto; Elvira, Carlos; Reinecke, Helmut; Nishide, Hiroyuki; Moreno-Villoslada, Ignacio.
In: Dyes and Pigments, Vol. 99, No. 3, 2013, p. 759-770.
Gómez-Tardajos, M, Pino-Pinto, JP, Díaz-Soto, C, Flores, ME, Gallardo, A, Elvira, C, Reinecke, H, Nishide, H & Moreno-Villoslada, I 2013, 'Confinement of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin in novel poly(vinylpyrrolidone)s modified with aromatic amines', Dyes and Pigments, vol. 99, no. 3, pp. 759-770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2013.06.028
Gómez-Tardajos M, Pino-Pinto JP, Díaz-Soto C, Flores ME, Gallardo A, Elvira C et al. Confinement of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin in novel poly(vinylpyrrolidone)s modified with aromatic amines. Dyes and Pigments. 2013;99(3):759-770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2013.06.028
Gómez-Tardajos, Myriam ; Pino-Pinto, Juan Pablo ; Díaz-Soto, Claudia ; Flores, Mario E. ; Gallardo, Alberto ; Elvira, Carlos ; Reinecke, Helmut ; Nishide, Hiroyuki ; Moreno-Villoslada, Ignacio. / Confinement of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin in novel poly(vinylpyrrolidone)s modified with aromatic amines. In: Dyes and Pigments. 2013 ; Vol. 99, No. 3. pp. 759-770.
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N2 - Polymeric derivatives of the biocompatible poly(vinylpyrrolidone) bearing discrete amounts of aromatic amines have been synthesized. The interaction of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin with a series of these copolymers (P10, P25, P50, P75, and P100, the numbers referring the molar percentage of incorporation of aromatic amines in the copolymers) has been analyzed regarding shifts of the absorption bands and shift of the transition pH between the di-anionic and the tetra-anionic forms of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4- sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin. The interaction between the dye and poly(vinylpyrrolidone) has also been studied as a control. The incorporated aromatic amines increase the hydrophobic properties of the resulting polymers and provide specific interactions with the tetra-anionic form of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin. Thus, P10 was soluble in water, P25 was dispersible in the form of polydisperse nanoparticles, and P50, P75, and P100 are insoluble in water. However, low polydisperse nanoparticles of mean size of 175 nm were formed by pouring 1 volume of a solution of P25 in DMSO into 9 volumes of water. These nanoparticles are permeable to 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin. Both P10 and P25 nanoparticles produce strong binding to 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)- porphyrin, stabilize the tetra-anionic form of the dye in a wide range of pH, and prevent the undesirable self-aggregation both in the form of H- and J-aggregates. It was shown that the affinity of the 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4- sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin for P10 is stronger than for chitosan, which gives insights concerning the possible stability of the complex in biological systems.
AB - Polymeric derivatives of the biocompatible poly(vinylpyrrolidone) bearing discrete amounts of aromatic amines have been synthesized. The interaction of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin with a series of these copolymers (P10, P25, P50, P75, and P100, the numbers referring the molar percentage of incorporation of aromatic amines in the copolymers) has been analyzed regarding shifts of the absorption bands and shift of the transition pH between the di-anionic and the tetra-anionic forms of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4- sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin. The interaction between the dye and poly(vinylpyrrolidone) has also been studied as a control. The incorporated aromatic amines increase the hydrophobic properties of the resulting polymers and provide specific interactions with the tetra-anionic form of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin. Thus, P10 was soluble in water, P25 was dispersible in the form of polydisperse nanoparticles, and P50, P75, and P100 are insoluble in water. However, low polydisperse nanoparticles of mean size of 175 nm were formed by pouring 1 volume of a solution of P25 in DMSO into 9 volumes of water. These nanoparticles are permeable to 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin. Both P10 and P25 nanoparticles produce strong binding to 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-sulfonatophenyl)- porphyrin, stabilize the tetra-anionic form of the dye in a wide range of pH, and prevent the undesirable self-aggregation both in the form of H- and J-aggregates. It was shown that the affinity of the 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4- sulfonatophenyl)-porphyrin for P10 is stronger than for chitosan, which gives insights concerning the possible stability of the complex in biological systems.
KW - Amphiphilic properties
KW - Aromatic-aromatic interactions
KW - Confinement of dyes in nanoparticles
KW - Polymer-dye interactions
KW - Porphyrins
KW - Preferential salvation
U2 - 10.1016/j.dyepig.2013.06.028
DO - 10.1016/j.dyepig.2013.06.028
JO - Dyes and Pigments
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Home / Impacts / Making it Real: The Story of a Cultural Partnership with Brierley Church of England Primary
Making it Real: The Story of a Cultural Partnership with Brierley Church of England Primary
Brierley Church of England Primary became the first Artsmark school in Barnsley in 2015. As part of their journey they embarked upon an exciting project with The Civic that brought about new ideas and experiences for their young people and staff as well as helping them to use Artsmark as a catalyst for positive change at school. Written by Steph Brocken.
This case study tells the story of a partnership project between Brierley Church of England Primary School and The Civic, Barnsley which proved pivotal in the schools’ Artsmark journey. Beginning with a theatre visit and concluding with a visit from illustrator Nick Sharratt, the project demonstrates the following:
The impact of Artsmark on wider school improvement and development.
The value of building partnerships organically.
The value of cultural partnerships to a school undertaking their Artsmark journey.
In their Artsmark case study, Brierley School highlighted the significance of their work with The Civic as a catalyst for their successful achievement of the award. Both Brierley and The Civic have particularly expressed the success of this project in terms of its ‘organic’ nature, developing through conversation and in a stage-by-stage process through different elements of engagement. They have also stressed the importance of the sense of equality between the partners in achieving their own aims and objectives.
There were two key partners involved in this project. Brierley Church of England Primary School is situated seven miles to the north of Barnsley town centre and was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2014. They elected to start working towards Artsmark as a tool to improve provision in school, specifically focusing on improving the range and depth of provision as well as engaging other providers.
The cultural partners were The Civic which, after a large regeneration programme in the early 2000s, sits at the heart of Barnsley offering a wide-ranging combined arts programme including theatre, dance, music and visual arts as well as a thriving programme for children and young people.
The First Visit
In March 2015, Brierley School brought their whole school to see a show at the Civic called ‘Nicobobinous’. The children enjoyed the show and the chance to visit a theatre space and the staff at the Civic were impressed with the behaviour and enthusiasm of the children that they were invited to come back and take part in a ‘secret’ backstage tour.
“Just wanted to send a MASSIVE thank you to all at The Civic for our visit yesterday. All the children thoroughly enjoyed the performance – they were amazing, and the staff enjoyed it too. My class are now looking forward to coming on the theatre tour in April.“
Elaine Fella, Brierley Primary School
Nicobobinus Mar 2015
“Last Tuesday, I brought Class EF from Brierley C of E Primary school to visit The Civic in Barnsley. WE were looking forward to having a secret tour of the theatre and going behind the scenes. We looked round the dressing rooms and the rehearsal rooms. We listened to funny stories about the theatre’s superstitions. In the auditorium we learnt some warm-up acting skills and played some silly games. Then we made some creative models using different materials by using our imagination. The staff at the Civic were so helpful and friendly which made it into an amazing learning experience for us. Thank you again….we really enjoyed it.”
Building tour & Gallery workshop Apr 2015
After the initial visit went down so well with the children, The Civic invited Brierley to bring a group of children along to a backstage tour of the venue. This day was attended by Year 3 pupils from the school and enabled them to see the workings of the venue and to take part in interactive and practical activities that were led by specialist staff to help show them the breadth of work that takes place within the building including drama, music and arts and crafts activities. Staff from Brierley praised the staff at the Civic for being so welcoming and inclusive in their work with the children, several of whom had a range of Special Educational Needs and challenging behaviour.
After the success of this day, the school were invited by the Civic to create their own pieces of artwork connected to the upcoming ‘Pirates, Pants and Wellyphants’ exhibition, a retrospective of the artwork of illustrator Nick Sharratt. The children were given a brief to help guide their artwork and the final pieces were exhibited in frames provided by the Civic on the Staircase Gallery. They were then given the exciting news that the exhibition was going to be opened by Nick Sharratt himself and that he would be choosing a winning piece of artwork.
The exhibition of young people’s work opened on the same day at the main exhibition with an opening event where the children and their families were invited to come along, meet Nick, have books signed and see the main exhibition of Nick’s work for themselves. Nick was asked to select a winner from the artwork but the quality was so great that he couldn’t make a choice so decided to award the whole class as winners, for which they were rewarded with a chance to come back to the Civic for another Theatre production. After the event, Chief Executive Helen Ball visited Brierley and the children were presented with an individual goodie bag.
“Class CH went on a tour of The Civic and enjoyed exploring the Nick Sharratt exhibition, Pirates, Pants and Wellyphants. We had an amazing time! Also you can draw like him, dress like the characters in his books and just in case you get sleepy you can always take a nap on the bean bags!
Only at The Civic in Barnsley. Hurry and get a one way ticket to a brand new way of craziness! A big thank you to all the staff on our visit – school staff and members of The Civic staff – everyone made our visit a very memorable one.”
Claire Hawkridge, Brierley C of E Primary (Theatre tour & Nick Sharratt exhibition workshop July 2015)
Brierley School specifically speak of this partnership project in their Artsmark case study and how it acted as a catalyst for the developments that Artsmark helped to bring about in school. The key areas that have been identified were:
Brierley praised The Civic for the quality of their participatory work in being inclusive and accessible for all their children, especially those with Special Educational Needs or behavioural difficulties. The inclusivity factor is a major consideration of the process of selecting arts and cultural activities and providers and The Civic set an excellent standard for this. The significance of this element of Artsmark is expressed in the Quality Principle of “Ensuring a Positive and Inclusive Experience.”
Greater Networks. Not only have Brierley built a relationship with The Civic which will be ongoing, this experience of partnership working has enabled them to go on to develop further partnerships with other organisations, providers and schools in the local area. The focus on creating new links has inspired energy and enthusiasm amongst staff, children and parents that “there will always be new things for Brierley School to implement and experience.” After this particular project, Brierley decided to focus more on bringing new experiences into school itself, including theatre groups that deliver topical workshops and dance tutors coming into school to assist and supplement teaching and learning. This development particularly supported Brierley in working towards the Quality Principle of “Being Exciting, Inspiring and Engaging.”
Brierley are also using their networks to pass on the expertise that they have gained through their Artsmark process. They are part of a local collaboration network and a Diocesan group of schools with whom they have been able to share knowledge and best practice. This is a great example of how the Artsmark journey of one school can positively benefit other schools working in partnership.
The Home/ School Relationship. At the conclusion of the Civic project, parents and children were invited to come to the venue on a Saturday to take part in the official opening of the exhibitions. Twenty children and families attended this event which, for Brierley School, demonstrated a major impact with children and families who may not have engaged with culture before, travelling into the centre of town to visit the venue. This went on to further influence engagement with parents at school through the hosting of more events that bring parents and the community into school. More opportunities have also been offered for parents to come and support the children in their learning and even to pass on some of their own skills and expertise. This highlights that the celebratory element of this project helped to break down the barriers between parents and school. The Artsmark journey has helped to open up the school walls to become a more open environment for parents to share achievements and get involved in their children’s learning on a deeper level. This heightened engagement of those outside the boundaries of the school helped to support the achievement of the Quality Principle of “Being Authentic” through creating links with their real lives.
“Have you got a frowning face? Then turn that frown upside down with the Pirates, Pants and Wellyphants exhibition. See the history of the famous drawer Nick Sharratt and his amazing skills!” Cassie, Y5 Pupil of Brierley C of E Primary (Theatre tour & Nick Sharratt exhibition workshop July 2015)
The Next Stories
Brierley achieved their Artsmark status and have continued to look for ways to develop their cultural offer through partnerships. Their arts provision in school currently involves a thriving after-school programme including drama, dance and a film club as well as a wide and thoroughly embedded arts curriculum that is well communicated to parents. They are committed to the notion of ‘Learning through first-hand experience’ and place a great deal of value on visits out of school and bringing professionals into school to share their knowledge and expertise. They are currently on the look-out for more new cultural providers to come into school to help combat the, often prohibitive, expense of transporting the children to outside venues.
The Civic has a thriving and diverse programme of children’s theatre and a wide variety of schools activity including workshops, exhibition and theatre tours and performances. They have also joined up with the Artsmark partnership programme to advertise the support that they can offer to schools embarking upon this journey and try and support more schools like Brierley on their journey.
For more information on how Artsmark can improve the quality of arts provision in your school please visit our Artsmark page.
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a / s / l ??? was a social website where users could post their age, sex, and location, and view the age, sex, and location of other people. It was conceived and designed by me, and built by my friend, Sheldon Lessard.
Output.
The website had two main pages: input and output. On the input page, a user could select her age and sex from selectors, and then enter her location in a text field. The age selector ranged from 1 to 122 (which, if I recall correctly, I settled on because it was what a cursory web search told me was the oldest anyone had lived to be). The sex selector initially included F(emale), M(ale), and I(ntersex) options, but was later adjusted to only included F and M, after I learned more about intersex biology. Though we changed the options, we retained the input history, so any entries featuring the 'I' sex option remained intact. The location field had a 500-character limit and accepted the entire unicode character library (including emoji). I designed the field with such a large allowance in hopes that it would encourage people to use it in experimental or interpretive ways, allowing a user's "location" to as easily be her state of mind as her state of residence. After selecting options from both dropdowns and entering at least one character in the location field, the user could submit her entry.
The smiley face label on the submit button would turn rightside up to show when it was ready for action.
Upon submission of her entry, the user was taken to the output page, where she would see the website's entire entry history in one long reverse-chronological stack, with hers at the top. Users were not able to see the output page until they had submitted their own entry. Every entry was stamped with its submission date and time.
While many of the users simply entered their city names in English, or dragged their fingers across their keyboards to make some gibberish, many others took a different approach. #309 might be my favorite entry on the site :].
One user played a fun game of hangman by treating other users' entries as guesses.
It didn't happen often, but sometimes users would reply to each other by noting others' entry timestamps, similar to what you might see on other anonymous social sites like 4chan.org.
I was excited to see users make entries from all over the world. I've always believed that the internet is at its best when it brings us closer to distant and unfamiliar people, rather than mediating our extant relationships.
In a / s / l ???'s three years of life, it received 746 entries. A handful of early entries were double-logged, but that issue seemed to taper off with time. I don't think we ever figured out why that was happening, but we also didn't really care. A little jank is endearing in software. In anything, really.
At the very bottom was a fixed timestamp marking the second the website launched. (In taking screenshots for this writeup, however, I noticed that this date had changed--I don't know why, but I think it might have had something to do with a server or database snafu.)
I wanted to be able to review the activity on the site without making submissions myself, but I didn't want to employ any tracking technology, so I asked Sheldon to create a "God mode" that could be accessed by entering a special a/s/l combination of "77/F/God". Upon submission, the user would be taken to a differently styled output page, and her entry would not be logged. I might have told a friend or two about this to show it off, but I have no idea if anyone inadvertently discovered it, because, again, no tracking system. I think I posted a screenshot of the God mode output page on Dribbble one time, but I don't remember sharing the code to access it. One time Sheldon entered "77/F/God " (note the space) by accident and we thought, for a fleeting moment, that perhaps God was dead.
The God mode enabled a user to access the output page without logging an entry.
I started thinking about making a site like a / s / l ??? while living in London in 2014. I didn't know anyone in the city--other than my roommates, who had their own busy lives and little time for a third-wheel Yank on sabbatical--and had trouble keeping in touch with my friends in America due to the time difference. It seemed stupid to me to be feeling so socially isolated by distance ten years deeper into the internet than when I'd managed to make and maintain meaningful friendships all over the world via MySpace, LiveJournal, and, before those, personal website guestbooks. I hadn't been on Instagram in almost three years, hadn't been on Facebook in almost five, and though I tried to be pretty active on Twitter, I had few followers and even less engagement. I also hated virtually everything about the direction online social networking had taken. (To this day I harbor daydreamy ambitions of creating a new, cool social network to do things right, but that's obviously an enormous undertaking and well beyond my capabilities. I also have this half-baked idea that it's better to be a compelling contributor to a platform than to be the creator (or, god forbid, the administrator) of a compelling platform. Would you rather write the great American novel or publish it?)
For those of us who have been active netizens for at least a couple decades, the eponymous question of the website is an obvious, familiar, and nostalgic throwback to the heyday of chatrooms and instant messaging with strangers. After (or often in lieu of) a quick hello, the standard first exchange of a conversation with your potential new best friend, worst enemy, or sultry cybersex partner (or, if you were really lucky, all three in one) was to ask for each other's age, sex, and location, abbreviated as "a/s/l?" or later "asl?", and answered in the same format ("32/M/NYC" or "32 sure (lol) nyc"). It was direct, simple, informative, potentially suggestive or implicative, and respectful of the looser, more anonymized notions of identity and self-determination which characterized the earlier social web and internet as a whole. My impression of a/s/l when I was younger and still to this day is that it was never particularly demanding nor expectant of truth, fact, or objectivity, but rather embraced--or perhaps succinctly embodied--the minefield cocktail conceit of trust, distrust, curiosity, excitement, boredom, indifference, and horniness that watered the sapling of a better internet which we eventually chopped down to clear the view to a billboard. My optimism waxes and wanes, but it's the memory of and hope of finding new symbolic devices like a/s/l that keeps me surfing. I conceived a / s / l ??? in tribute to all this.
For a couple years, I'd whip up a quick rough draft of an input or output page to assuage my occasional pangs of motivation.
After a couple unproductive years of mounting social network angst, I finally pushed through a complete design and talked Sheldon into building it. I had no illusions about it becoming some hot thing, but knew the itch wouldn't go away until I scratched it. We launched the site on November 10th, 2017, and I made the first entry.
I used the first entry to set the stage for the looser interpretation of "location" I had in mind.
I've asked Sheldon to write a bit about the build and function of a / s / l ???, as I was almost entirely uninvolved in its coding:
(Sheldon hasn't provided me with a writeup yet.)
On both the input and output pages, the user could access a little description of the site and its creators through a ℅ link (a symbol which I have somehow never seen appropriated this way anywhere else online).
Over the next three years, the site saw modest periods of heightened activity--usually when I would submit it to curated website galleries I thought might have a likeminded audience, like brutalistwebsites.com--followed by prolonged periods of relative inactivity, receiving only one or two posts per month. I've always been shit at promoting myself and my work, and have few friends and no social media presence to speak of, so getting the link out was difficult, when I even tried. During these years, I was working as a freelance designer, and so was constantly sending my portfolio around to prospective clients or colleagues and sharing it on various professional networking sites. I suspect most visitors of the site came in through these channels and submitted the majority of relatively uninteresting entries out of confusion rather than interest or genuine curiosity. But perhaps that's ungenerous.
We originally published a / s / l ??? as a subdirectory of my personal site at desaturate.net/asl. But in its final year, I restructured my personal website and professional portfolio and decided to detach it from my domain in the process, moving it to the fun new URL of asl.fyi. This felt like nice and easy way to revive and legitimize the site without much work while granting it the potential for better discovery and memorability. In retrospect, I think this was probably what led to its demise.
We kept a / s / l ??? as simple and rudimentary as possible because that's how I wanted it and it was the easiest and fastest way to get it up and done. With the exceptions of the aforementioned removal of the intersex option and the address change, the code went virtually untouched for three years. This means we put no effort into safeguarding against exploitation of the input system. No tracky CAPTCHA bullshit, no email signup, no cookies, no validation of any sort. And until around the time I set the site up at asl.fyi, that was just fine. We had no problems. But when it got its own domain, for reasons I am too emotionally volatile to undertake understanding, the site got swarmed by all varieties of unsavory, from copy-and-paste alt-right conspiracy theories to herbal supplement link bots to, hah, SEO marketing spam. The same things countless web administrators grapple with all day every day with which I've never had much direct contact because I'd never before created a void for that trash to fill. And I'll be honest: at first it was a little bit exciting. I texted Sheldon and made a joke about how our baby had finally grown up and become a real social website, legitimized by the corruption of its technology and degradation of its intent. But as the posting continued and eventually completely drowned out our infrequent human users, what was funny just became depressing, and what was my silly little special experiment became the landfill for some fuckass SEO bot named Eric.
Links by Pepe.
The first time I saw a post from Eric, I considered contacting him and asking what his strategy was for taking my deliberately unoptimized site to the next level.
There are, of course, many ways to deal with this kind of abuse, and maybe, just maybe, some of them don't completely suck, and would heal these pussing wounds with minimal technological overhead and maintenance. But any such modification to the site would compromise its fawn-eyed innocence from the inside and would represent an acceptance of the current web's ugly terms of engagement by returning fire. There's an (easy) argument to be made that putting up a pitiful fight against an evil aggressor and getting absolutely obliterated on the battlefield is the noble thing to do, but I'm a lover, not a fighter, baby, and these days more closely align with the conscientious objector than the Zapatista. It better suits my poetic and dramatic sensibilities, which admittedly tend depressing, to watch something pure and beautiful and innocent be killed without ever lifting a combative finger than to accept even a modicum of the taint beyond the glade that would inspire an indignant, vainglorious, and futile attempt at survival. Plus it's costing me like eight bucks a month to host this shit and even at today's ludicrous prices I could buy a week's worth of ramen with that. So it is with a not light but not terribly heavy heart that I eulogize and hereby sunset a / s / l ???.
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N-Viro International Corporation Completes Equity Funding and Development Agreements
Agreements for the establishment of the first full-scale N-Viro Fuel(TM) facilities.
TOLEDO, Ohio, PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — N-Viro International Corporation (OTC:NVIC) (BULLETIN BOARD: NVIC) (“N-Viro”), an environmental technology company that markets an alternative fuel manufacturing technology and agricultural products, announced today it has secured equity funding and has entered into development agreements for the establishment of the first full-scale N-Viro Fuel(TM) facilities.
Under the terms of a purchase agreement, VC Energy I, LLC (“VC Energy”) and N-Viro International Corporation have completed an initial 200,000 share placement of N-Viro common stock at the purchase price of $2.50 per share. Simultaneously with the share purchase, VC Energy also received warrants to purchase N-Viro common stock. On or before September 15, 2010, VC Energy has the option to purchase an additional 400,000 shares under the same terms as the initial closing.
Contemporaneous with the initial placement, N-Viro and VC Energy have also entered into a development agreement that provides the mechanism for the two companies to work together to rapidly develop the first N-Viro Fuel facility. Additionally, this agreement provides VC Energy, in conjunction with N-Viro, the exclusive ability to mutually develop the N-Viro Fuel technology in specific territories, both domestically and internationally.
The proceeds from VC Energy to N-Viro International Corporation for the initial closing are allocated for N-Viro’s full scale N-Viro Fuel mobile test facility. N-Viro believes this project will be in operation by the end of the third quarter of 2010. This facility will produce significant quantities of N-Viro Fuel specifically to perform trial test burns and provide further analytical data regarding the N-Viro Fuel process.
N-Viro President and Chief Executive Officer Timothy R. Kasmoch commented, “We are very excited to be able to work closely with VC Energy. Their experience in the development of facilities coupled with the exciting prospects of N-Viro Fuel will solidify our ability to move forward and rapidly develop multiple projects. We anticipate this new relationship will succeed through vigorous development and future growth.”
“We have spent the past few years searching for a partner who can fulfill our capital needs and take an active role in the development and growth of N-Viro. Today, we believe we have found such a partner and look forward to a long and beneficial relationship,” Mr. Kasmoch concluded.
About N-Viro International (www.nviro.com)
N-Viro International is an environmental and materials operating company that owns patented technologies to convert various types of waste into beneficial alternative fuel products, including the renewable biofuel N-Viro Fuel(TM) and N-Viro Soil(TM). Its renewable biofuel technology, N-Viro Fuel(TM), has received alternative energy status from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which qualifies the technology for renewable energy incentives. N-Viro International operates processing facilities independently as well as in partnership with municipalities.
N-Viro maintains a web site at www.nviro.com, where interested parties can follow the progress of the Company. N-Viro will continue to routinely post press releases on the site and encourages stockholders and interested parties to monitor the site on a regular basis.
Special Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
The Company cautions that words used in this document such as “expects,” “hopes”, “anticipates,” “believes” and “may,” as well as similar words and expressions used herein, identify and refer to statements describing events that may or may not occur in the future. These forward-looking statements and the matters to which they refer are subject to considerable uncertainty that may cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein. For example, while the Company expects business expansion projects to begin in an estimated time frame, such expectations are subject to adverse economic conditions and other factors outside of the Company’s control. Further, the Company’s ability to increase capabilities and expand capacity is subject to the ability of the Company or its partners to access sufficient capital to pay for this expansion, which will further depend on, among other factors, market acceptance. The Company’s ability to achieve profitability of these projects could be negatively impacted if there is a lack of an adequate supply of waste or expenses increase above the Company’s expectations – including fuel and transportation costs, labor costs and costs relating to the treatment and processing of the biosolids and creation of the N-Viro Soil or N-Viro Fuel. In addition, while the Company believes that trends in “greener” energy solutions are moving in favor of the Company’s technology, such trends may not continue or may never result in increased sales or profits to the Company because of the availability of competing products and other alternative energy source. All of these factors, and other factors, will affect the profitability of the Company. Additional information about these and other factors that may adversely affect these forward-looking statements are contained in the Company’s reports, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting forward-looking information except to the extent required by applicable securities laws.
Timothy Kasmoch, CEO
info@nviro.com (419) 535-6374
Source: N-Viro International Corporation
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WOW Africa
East Africa Needs Our Prayers
Post author:Nicholeen
Post category:Life & Health / Uncategorized
The WOW organization has been staying close to women in East Africa and is concerned to find that the struggles in that part of the world might be going from bad to worse soon. Between the first locust attack on farmlands in many provinces, excessive rains and flooding that recently destroyed villages, and now quarantine for COVID-19 they have lost their crops and can’t work to get money for food that they need.
Quarantine in Africa means starvation for millions. Many buy food each day after they get paid for their day’s work. But, if the virus spreads the hospitals are in no way equipped to handle the pandemic. They are in a very bad situation. Prayer is the best option they’ve got.
COVID-19 Situation in East Africa
There are six countries making up the East Africa Community namely: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China in December 2019. wikipedia.org.
With the known mode of transmission, many countries made decisions to confine their citizens for protection against COVID-19. The East African countries were equally affected. As it is now, Kenya is having the highest number of people infected with COVID-19 among the East African Countries. Kenya recorded its first case of the coronavirus outbreak on March 13, 2020. COVID-19 has changed the way Kenyans live, love and express that love; COVID-19 has shaped social behavior across the country. Today April 9, 2020, all the major newspapers had a similar heading “We are standing together with Kenyans”, media houses united on COVID-19 issue. By March 20th, all schools in Kenya had closed, shortly after that, there was curfew between 7:00pm to 5:00am. While the curfew was on, the President announced a lockdown of Nairobi Metropolitan Area on April 6th. We are all hopeful that these measures will help Kenyans avert contracting of COVID-19 in large number. A short while ago, the Minister for health has also announced that anybody walking out of their houses, must wear face masks. The Kenyan Government has allowed major tailoring institutions to produce large numbers of face masks made from cloth material. The masks can be washed and re used, the large numbers of masks will serve many Kenyans, some of the needy Kenyans will be given masks for free. So far, there are 184 people infected with COVID-19 in Kenya. (107 males and 77 females) 3 are below 15 years, 49 are between ages 15-29; 119 are between ages 30-59 and 13 are above 60 years.
Tanzania reported their first COVID-19 on March 16th, 2020 and currently they have 25 people infected. Tanzania, however, have their citizens go to work as normal without any restrictions, lockdowns or curfews. Burundi announced their first two COVID-19 cases on March 26th, currently they have 25 cases. Rwanda announced their first COVID-19 case on March 14th, 2020, currently there are 104 people infected by COVID-19 cases. The government of Rwanda has taken several measures to curb the spread of this pandemic including total lockdown for 21 days. South Sudan announced the first COVID-19 case today April 9, 2020. Uganda confirmed their first case of COVID-19 on March 21st and immediately implemented the measures to protect the citizens. Total lockdown is what Ugandans are going through. No work, no school and no business as usual.
What is common with all the cases in East Africa is that the majority of COVID-19 cases travelled from outside their countries. What is also common is that there are community infections going on within the mentioned countries after the first few cases were identified. Culturally, there are Africans who seal the business deal by shaking hands. This is common among the groups who sell livestock in the open local markets for a living. Due to COVID-19, some communities have innovatively started hitting the walking sticks as a sign of shaking hands in the process of agreeing on the price of the cattle to be sold. Many open markets have been closed, making it difficult for the small businesspeople to survive and creating a lot of outcry. Schools have also been closed. Families are spending a lot of time in the house which is a very unusual experience. It is emerging now that in some cases, there is increased gender violence in the homes.
More Trials Might Be Coming!
Jessica Corbett, who writes for Common Dreams reported on April 10, 2020. “While much of the world focuses on the coronavirus pandemic that has infected over 1.6 million people across the globe, East Africa is battling the worst invasion of desert locusts in decades—a monthslong “scourge of biblical proportions” that experts warn could get worse with a larger second wave already arriving in parts of the region.”
So many crops have already been lost to the first invasion of these locusts. Growers have reported to WOW that they are waiting for the second planting season of the year, which starts in about 6 weeks. Another invasion of locusts will make planting impossible again. It seems that food shortages will be imminent if crops fail. Additionally, vital sources of income will disappear with this next crisis.
WOW urges the world to pray each day, morning and night, for East Africa and for all those being sorely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a time when the world must band together in faith. We must share everything we can, but especially our faith.
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Story The Sounds of War – Music and the Music Business during the War Years
Composers’ Fates: War, Death and the Longing for Peace and Overcoming Memories
The composer Rudi Stephan, portrait photo
Copyright: Stadtarchiv Worms
Even if they were only a tiny minority: the fact that many artistic talents did not live to see the end of the war, because they died on the battlefield, is one that is mostly suppressed. This is particularly true of music. There were others who overcame their wartime experiences in their compositions.
Who has heard of Rudi Stephan (1887–1915), one of the greatest musical hopes in pre-war Germany? He was killed at the age of twenty-eight, a few days after he had arrived at the eastern front in Galicia. The musical material he left was destroyed in 1945 as an effect of the war.
Albéric Magnard (1865–1914), whom many people call the ‘French Bruckner’, died on 3 September 1914, when German soldiers forced their way into his chateau in Baron in Picardy in northern France and, after he had shot at them, set fire to it. He was burned to death and with him the autograph manuscripts of two operas and a song cycle were destroyed.
The Spanish composer Enrique Granados (1867–1916), well-known for his piano suite Goyescas, died in 1916 when the cross-Channel ferry Sussex was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the English Channel. He drowned trying to save his wife from the sea.
Cecil Cole, a Scottish composer born in 1888, was killed by a German soldier in 1918 while attempting to rescue wounded men. He had also continued to compose during the war and had sent the manuscripts to his friend Gustav Holst. Holst, also a composer, survived the war, having been turned down for military service.
Like Holst and Cole, George Butterworth was also a highly talented composer (of the song cycle A Shropshire Lad (1911-12)) and a collector of English folk songs. He fell near Pozières during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, aged 31. His body has never been found. Few of his works have been preserved; he destroyed many of them before he went to the front. Other musicians were luckier: in Austria-Hungary Bela Bartók, Zoltán Kodaly and Bernhard Paumgartner worked far from the front for the Imperial and Royal War Ministry. Walter Braunfels, who composed the opera Die Vögel (The Birds), survived the war as a soldier at the front. His experience of the war turned him into a religious person. The Czech composer Viktor Ullmann, who in the next great war – before being murdered in Auschwitz – wrote the opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis (The Emperor of Atlantis) in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and set to music Georg Trakl’s poem Herbst (Autumn), survived the First World War as an artillery observer on the Isonzo front.
After the war Ralph Vaughan Williams, a close friend of Butterworth, wrote a wonderfully lyrical symphony, his third, which he called A Pastoral Symphony and in which he tried to ‘restore’ – in musical form, as it were – the soil of the western front which had been wrenched open and abused by the senseless slaughter. ‘It is really a war symphony,’ he later wrote to his wife. The plan to compose the work dates back to the year 1916, when Vaughan Williams himself experienced the battles as a soldier in the British army in the north of France.
Translation: Leigh Bailey
Derek Weber
The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams, in: Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. Unter: http://www.rvwsociety.com (20.06.2014)
Perret, Simon-Pierre/Halbreich, Harry: Albérìc Magnard, Paris 2001
Willaschek, Wolfgang: Leben und Werk Rudi Stephans. Unter: http://www.funkstunde.com/de/musik/rudi-stephan/biographie.html (20.06.2014)
Tonaufnahme "3. Symphonie, 3. Satz (Pastoral Symphony)" Ralph Vaughan Williams. Unter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl9Jc4ni1yA (20.06.2014)
‘Long jackets instead of Tailcoats’ – The Music Business in Times of Austerity
Arousing Patriotic Sentiments in the Concert of Nations
‘In War the Muses Learn How to Serve’
Serious Times – Serious Art
‘I’d like to dance, I’d like to shout for joy’ – Popular Music in the First World War
‘German Musical Life and How to Delouse It’ – Music for Use in the War
‘What the soldier in battle dress is singing now will be sung by the entire German people in rare unity.’ – Soldiers’ Songs as Collectors’ Items
‘It’s Hugo’s damned duty not to die for the fatherland before I’ve got my Act III.’ – Richard Strauss and the First World War
Militarism and Terror Set to Music
‘La Victoire en chantant’ – The French chanson in the First World War
Musical Innovations in the First World War
Star Composers and the Great War
Violence in war
Violence was a universal social phenomenon during the First World War. Soldiers, civilians, men, women, children and old persons were all confronted by it in one form or another. The way it was experienced differed. It was practised and suffered, it had mental and physical manifestations, it took place at a structural and an individual level, and it was felt directly and indirectly.
War and art
Many artists, intellectuals and writers welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. They saw it not as an apocalypse but as the opportunity for a change for the better. As such they joined in the patriotic fervour of the first weeks and months of the war. What motivated them not only to devote their artistic energies to the fatherland but also to take an active part in the fighting? How were anti-war sentiments articulated by artists? What other forms of relationship were there between art and warfare during and after the First World War?
The role of the intellectual in the war
The year 1914 brought about an incisive change in their private and professional lives of many intellectuals. Formerly international intellectual and artist circles collapsed, many intellectuals entered the war, voluntarily or not, and many of them failed to return.
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Arizona town allowing employees to bring babies to work
It can be a struggle for new parents to find a balance between life and work but Gilbert is helping employees make the transition.
By: KNXV Staff
GILBERT, Ariz. -- It can be a struggle for new parents to find a balance between life and work, but the town of Gilbert, Arizona, is helping its employees make the transition.
Their Infant at Work program allows any town employee to work alongside their newborn, from police officers to city planners, like busy mother of three Ashlee MacDonald.
MacDonald says her schedule is hectic but bringing her 5-month-old, Daniel, to work helps.
"I wasn't totally sold on doing it before I had him but I'm really thankful I did. I was nervous the impact it would have on my coworkers but they've all been really receptive", says MacDonald.
The program started in December of 2018. It's modeled after the Arizona Department of Health Service's program that began as a breastfeeding policy in 2000.
"It's a win for mom and dad because they get to have additional bonding time. It's a win for us because we get our employee back and they can focus sooner," said Kristen Drew from Gilbert's human resources.
Over the past year, six parents have participated, including one father, Dan Martin, and his little boy, Nate.
"My wife had him for the first three months with maternity leave so I saw the opportunity to have that one-on-one father-son time with him", said Martin.
The babies might be a bit of a distraction but MacDonald says they're welcomed.
"I have one coworker that calls him the office therapy baby," MacDonald said.
The babies retire when they turn 6 months old. The town is expecting four more tiny new hires over the next six months.
This story was originally published by Chloe Mar at KNXV.
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Trade Regulation Rulemaking Under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty-Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act
Recommendation number: 80-1
Adopted on: June 6, 1980
For the project report click here: https://www.acus.gov/report/project-report-recommendation-80-1
The Magnuson-Moss Warranty—Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act of 1975, Pub. L. 93-637, established special procedures for the adoption of trade regulation rules by the Federal Trade Commission. The Act also created a program for the reimbursement of the expenses of participants in trade regulation rulemaking who qualify for funding under criteria set forth in that statute.
Recommendations 79-1 and 79-5, adopted by the Administrative Conference in June and December of 1979, respectively, dealt with the Federal Trade Commission’s implementation of the statute through the hearing stage of the rulemaking proceeding, and with the Commission’s administration of the expense-reimbursement program. This recommendation supplements the two previous recommendations and completes the Administrative Conference’s report to the Congress required by section 202(d) of the Magnuson-Moss Act (as amended by Pub. L. 95-558).
This recommendation, and the reports on which it is based, address the following topics: (1) the procedures used by the Federal Trade Commission in the post-hearing stage of Magnuson-Moss rulemaking; (2) the value of Magnuson-Moss Act procedures generally, and (3) the effects of the expense-reimbursement program.
A. Post-hearing Procedures in Trade Regulation Rulemaking by the Federal Trade Commission
The post-hearing stage of Magnuson-Moss rulemaking is complex and involves the following steps: preparation of the presiding officer’s report; preparation of the rulemaking staff’s report, with recommendations for a rule; opportunity for public comment on those reports; Bureau of Consumer Protection review, including the revision of staff’s recommendations for a rule and the preparation of a summary of the “post-record” comments; oral presentations to the Commission by rulemaking participants; consideration of a final rule by the Commission; preparation of the statement of basis and purpose to accompany the final rule; and, finally, publication of the final rule and statement of basis and purpose in the Federal Register.
Under even the best of circumstances, this would be a lengthy process. However, in most proceedings studied, the FTC and interested persons had to contend, in addition, with massive, poorly organized records generated during earlier, unfocused prehearing and hearing stages. See the preamble to Recommendation 79-1 for a description of the conduct of those stages. Consequently, the post-hearing stage of Magnuson-Moss rulemaking has been protracted. In the eight proceedings to reach the Commission for final action by April of 1980, the average time from the end of the oral hearing to the first Commission meeting to consider the rule was more than 27 months. In the three proceedings ending with promulgation of a final rule, the average time from the first Commission meeting to consider the rule to publication in the Federal Register was an additional 8.5 months.
The massive, poorly organized records in most of the early Magnuson-Moss rulemakings are symptomatic of a basic problem observed in the FTC’s trade regulation rulemaking proceedings: that is, the failure of the FTC to recognize that effective implementation of the Magnuson-Moss Act requires even more emphasis on procedural and substantive structuring than agencies have traditionally used for informal rulemaking under 5 U.S.C. 553. Instead, the appropriate substantive structuring—the focusing and narrowing of the issues—often did not take place until late in the post-hearing stage of the proceedings, and, in many instances, not until the very end of the administrative process. The FTC commissioners’ general lack of involvement in the process until the very end, and the absence of any “feedback” from them to staff and interested persons during most of the process, further contributed to the problem of lack of structure. As a result, public input—by means of rebuttal, “post-record” comments and oral presentations—was not focused narrowly on issues or information of significance to the commissioners.
In addition to greater intermediate structuring or narrowing of the issues by the commissioners, there should also be more emphasis on structure at the end of the proceeding because the issues in most trade regulation rulemaking proceedings are likely to remain highly complex, and the records will probably continue to be large. Specifically, the commissioners should have procedures which assure that they systematically consider and respond to all significant comments submitted by interested persons during a rulemaking proceeding. It should be recognized that the commissioners will necessarily have to consult with the rulemaking staff, as well as other staff (e.g., economists in the Bureau of Economics), in analyzing and evaluating the record of a proceeding.
B. General Recommendations with Respect to the Procedures Required by the Magnuson-Moss Act
The Administrative Conference’s study of the implementation of the Magnuson-Moss Act by the Federal Trade Commission provides compelling evidence that a statutory requirement for the mandatory use of the procedures contained in that act is not an effective means of controlling an agency’s discretion in its exercise of a broad delegation of legislative power which has not acquired, in law, specific meaning. The Magnuson-Moss Act procedures can only be effective when the substantive decision-making process is structured, as in adjudication, by fairly detailed legal or technical standards which establish the boundaries on the inquiry and inform the participants what kinds of information are relevant and probative. This type of structure was lacking in trade regulation rulemaking by the FTC, and consequently, the combination of additional procedural requirements with informal notice-and-comment procedures caused delay and uncertainty in the rulemaking proceedings, and appears to have contributed to judicial reversal of final rulemaking actions. Although the Conference concludes that procedures in addition to section 553 procedures should not, as a general matter, be statutorily required, agencies may decide to use such procedures—or other procedures—in the light of the circumstances of particular proceedings. Such action by agencies would be consistent with past Conference recommendations. See ACUS Recommendations 72-5 and 76-3.
The Conference’s study of Magnuson-Moss rulemaking also shows that imposition of novel procedural requirements, such as those in the Magnuson-Moss Act, is likely to have high transition costs if applied to pending proceedings. Even if applied only to new proceedings, however, sufficient lead time is required for the agency to develop the procedures and internal structure needed to implement the new procedures. Thus, for example, reasonable time must be provided for an agency to adopt specific rules of practice and procedure to govern the conduct of the proceedings; to develop the staff and structure needed to index, organize, and make available a useful rulemaking record; to make available and train presiding officers to conduct the proceedings; and to inform and instruct its staff with respect to the new procedural requirements.
C. Evaluation of the Magnuson-Moss Act’s Expense‑Reimbursement Program
In Recommendation 79-5, the Conference concluded that the expense-reimbursement program was being implemented faithfully and efficiently in accordance with the statute, and adopted a number of recommendations concerning the administration of the program. The Conference reserved action on larger questions relating to the value of the program.
Although the overall value of reimbursed participation is impossible to quantify, reimbursed participants in the Commission’s proceedings have provided a variety of viewpoints and information on relevant issues that would not otherwise have been presented. Through briefs and oral argument, they helped to focus the Commission’s attention on matters which had not been highlighted by other participants. In addition, they developed empirical data which was useful to the Commission; effectively cross-examined witnesses presented by other parties and by staff; and presented expert testimony. These contributions to the Commission’s proceedings attest to the value of the program.
The proceedings under the Magnuson-Moss Act have frequently raised complex technical and legal issues which required expert legal representation and a capacity to deal with sophisticated scientific and analytic concepts. In this circumstance, the fact that a relatively small number of participants received substantial compensation in several proceedings does not demonstrate a defect in the design or implementation of the program.
Although reimbursed participants often agreed with staff to the extent of believing that a rule should issue, many significant differences between the positions of the reimbursed participants and the Commission staff emerged. General agreement as to the need for a rule did not prevent reimbursed participants from presenting vigorously critical analyses of staff positions in proceedings or from presenting independent data and viewpoints which enriched the record. Moreover, staff positions were altered during the course of several proceedings, so that agreement between staff and reimbursed participants at the outset disappeared during the proceeding.
A. Administration of the Magnuson-Moss Act by the Federal Trade Commission
In trade regulation rulemaking under the Magnuson-Moss Act:
1. It is essential that the Federal Trade Commission structure the rulemaking proceedings to narrow and focus the issues early in the proceeding and prior to the holding of the hearing required by section 18(c) of the Federal Trade Commission Act. It is highly desirable that the commissioners themselves participate in and approve the narrowing and focusing of the issues to be explored at that hearing.
2. In taking final action, the commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission should systematically consider and determine the agency response to all significant information and argument presented by interested persons during the rulemaking. Such presentations and the agency’s response to them should be summarized in the statement of basis and purpose accompanying a final rule. The commissioners should have the assistance of the Bureau of Consumer Protection’s rulemaking staff, as well as other Commission staff, during their analysis and evaluation of the record in the proceeding.
B. Procedures Required by the Magnuson-Moss Act
1. The procedures in the Magnuson-Moss Act have not proved to be effective in controlling the agency’s discretion in its exercise of a broad delegation of legislative power, and it is recommended that Congress not rely on such procedures for such a purpose.
2. Moreover, because of the inherent difficulty of managing a proceeding and developing a coherent record where portions of the proceeding are to be conducted pursuant to the Section 553 model, and other portions according to additional procedures mandated by statute, often without a clear line of demarcation between the two portions, there is a high likelihood of delay and uncertainty and an increased risk of judicial reversal on procedural grounds. For this reason, Congress should not ordinarily require, for agency rulemaking, procedures in addition to those specified by §553 of the Administrative Procedure Act, although the agencies should have the discretion to utilize them.
3. Statutes which impose novel procedural requirements, like those contained in the Magnuson-Moss Act, on particular agency functions involve high transition costs if they are applied to pending agency proceedings. Consequently, the statutes should, by means of delayed effective dates or otherwise, provide significant lead time to enable the agency to develop the necessary procedural and administrative practices and structures before commencing proceedings under the new procedural requirements.
C. The Magnuson-Moss Act’s Expense-Reimbursement Program
1. If the Magnuson-Moss Act’s procedures remain in effect, the participant reimbursement program under the Magnuson-Moss Act should be continued without substantial modification.
2. If a group appears to have the capacity to make a significant contribution to a proceeding and it meets the statutory criteria, it should be eligible for reimbursement. No limit should be placed on the number of proceedings for which a group can be reimbursed, and no arbitrary ceiling on the amount of reimbursement to any group in a particular proceeding or year should be imposed.
3. Mandatory cost-sharing requirements should not be imposed, since they might prevent presentation of valuable viewpoints and evidence. Fee schedules and overhead allocation formulas should be periodically reviewed to assure that participants are adequately reimbursed for expenses incurred.
4. Public participant reimbursement programs should not preclude reimbursement of participants who support or favor the position of the agency staff. In deciding how reimbursement funds should be disbursed among agencies and proceedings, decision-makers should take into account the fact that reimbursement programs are likely to be most valuable in agencies or proceedings where there is a substantial difference between the positions of the agency staff and groups seeking reimbursement. They should also consider the amount likely to be spent by other participants who are not relying on the reimbursement program.
45 FR 46772 (July 11, 1980)
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Separate Statement of Kenneth Culp Davis
The main idea in Recommendation 80-1 is that Magnuson-Moss rulemaking procedures do not effectively limit the Commission’s discretionary power. I fully agree.
But that idea is negative, and because it is negative it seems to me inadequate. Congress has directed the Administrative Conference to study Magnuson-Moss procedures and to report. My belief is that Congress seeks affirmative understanding that will help it determine what rulemaking procedures it should require. I am disappointed that the Conference, after spending more than $600,000 on the study of the Commission’s experience, fails to provide Congress with constructive suggestions of the kind that are much needed.
The Magnuson-Moss Act prescribes eleven items of procedure, ten of which have proved to be generally satisfactory—a notice stating with particularity the reasons for the proposed rule, public availability of all written submissions, a requirement that the rule be based on the rulemaking record, opportunity to submit rebuttal submissions in writing, findings and reasons that go beyond a statement of basis and purpose, oral argument, time limits, taking a transcript, public availability of the transcript, and a requirement of “substantial evidence in the rulemaking record.” Congress may properly consider whether all or most of those ten requirements should be added to §553 of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Excessive cross-examination has been the central cause of the Commission’s procedural failures, even though the statute is well designed to protect against it. The statute even authorizes the Commission to forbid all cross-examination by private parties, it limits cross-examination to “disputed issues of material fact it is necessary to resolve,” and the Commission’s rule properly requires designation of such issues before hearing. But the Commission moved away from both the statutory limitation and its rule.
The Conference should now face the vital problem of what should be the role, if any, of cross-examination in making rules of general applicability. I believe, as the Conference said in Recommendation 72-5, that “trial-type procedures should never be required for rulemaking except to resolve issues of specific fact,” and I believe the Conference should now go further and should recommend to Congress that it should forbid cross-examination except on disputed issues of specific fact it is necessary to resolve, defining “disputed issues” as those on which procedures short of trial-type procedure have been sufficiently used without resolving issues, defining “specific fact” so narrowly that cross-examination by private parties when an agency is making rules of general applicability will be very rare and will not be allowed at all in most proceedings, and defining “issues … it is necessary to resolve” as issues susceptible of proof with evidence and whose resolution is essential to the formulation of the rule.
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Forced to Retire Early Due to a Medical Condition, This Federal Retiree Didn't Plunge into Poverty, Thanks to Social Security
Categories: SSA, The Insider, Retirees
Joanna Shapanus has been either working or volunteering all her life. She spent 18 years at the Social Security Administration in Washington state and 12 years at other jobs prior to that. Bilingual – she's fluent in Spanish – she worked as a service representative where she helped people determine eligibility to file for Social Security benefits, assisted claims representatives with overpayment issues, and worked with congressional offices on issues related to Social Security and identity theft, among other things.
Every day was different, and she loved it despite all the stress that came with it. She was also one of the most experienced service representatives in her field office whose expertise was recognized by her managers and contributed greatly to the agency and her community.
But in 2008, a severe heart condition forced her to retire. She’s now a volunteer at a local radio station, KBBF 89 FM, in Santa Rosa, California, to keep busy. You can’t blame her for wanting to be productive. After all, she volunteered with the Peace Corps in 1973 in Ecuador and helped found along with her Peace Corps co-workers the first kindergarten in the country in Yaruqui. That experience changed her life forever, and she’s been dedicating her life to making a difference ever since.
It’s been nine years since she last clocked in at her Social Security office, and her doctors still have to remind her to take it easy. She has recently recuperated from open-heart surgery after over a year and a half of rehab, and stress would wreak havoc on her health.
Having to retire early put a dent in her finances. But thanks to Social Security Disability Insurance benefits she had paid into for 30 years, she’s able to take care of herself. Combined with her federal medical retirement, she receives about $1,700 a month after taxes. It’s not a whole lot, but it allows her to live and continue to be a productive member of society.
Protect Social Security and Protect Federal Retirement
Not many people are aware that Social Security is part of the retirement package for most federal employees – those covered under the Federal Employees Retirement System. FERS has three components: Social Security, Basic Benefit Plan, and Thrift Savings Plan.
Federal employees under FERS contribute to Social Security just like other Americans who work, and they receive their monthly payments after they retire.
“If I hadn't paid into it, I wouldn’t have got Social Security disability payments,” said Joanna, who's now 69.
Federal employees also pay into their Basic Benefit Plan every month. All federal employees contributed 0.8% of their paycheck into the plan up until 2012. Starting in 2013, new hires contribute 3.1%, and new hires starting since 2014 pay in 4.4%. But there are bills pending in Congress that would eliminate pensions for all newly hired federal employees and cut current employees' pensions.
The Thrift Savings Plan is similar to a 401(K) any American worker can have through an employer. Employees like Joanna pay in while they are working and most are eligible for an employer match.
Retired but Very Much Engaged
Even though Joanna has retired, she’s still an active AFGE member who watches closely all the bills introduced so she can call her members of Congress to urge them to oppose legislation that would take away her and other people’s retirement or privatize Social Security.
“I have made numerous calls,” she said. “They know me really well.”
Joanna is part of AFGE Retirees, a group of AFGE members who have retired but stay connected to advocate for good jobs and secure retirement.
"Being a part of AFGE as a retiree keeps me in touch with the major issues facing most of our federal agencies and the public we serve," she added. "Most importantly, I care about what happens to my friends who are still working in various agencies and the impact that current pending legislation will have not only on them but on retirees like myself. Issues like privatizing Social Security or any other agency, we would lose funding and erode the core mission of what our agencies provide and threatens their very survival in enormous ways."
Joanna's also one of the 22 million federal employees who are victims of the Office of Personnel Management data breach. The breach impacted her life tremendously, and it has been overwhelming to deal with as she had to reach out to the banks, DMV, and others to let them know about the breach. Employees were given a 10-year data breach protection plan, but now she's afraid it would be taken away, which is all the more reason for her to stay engaged.
You too can be a part of the movement that stands up for the issues that matter to us all. Join AFGE Retirees today and help protect Social Security, good jobs, and secure retirement.
Recent AFGE News:
California Transportation Security Officer Erich Schmidt, an Army veteran, has been honored with AFGE’s Veteran of the Year award.
AFGE members will fight to get our rights back and bend the moral arc back to justice.
AFGE members held a protest in front of Senator Josh Hawley’s district office in St. Louis, calling for the senator’s resignation.
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The only sector where you can't have a union is the only one with no health and safety rules? Explain, please…
Literally everybody – and that includes Alberta Premier Alison Redford – knows that permitting an industry to "voluntarily" self-regulate the health and safety of its own workers amounts to a load of a very common agricultural product frequently spread on the ground as fertilizer.
This includes, by the way, every one of those well-greased lobbyists and earnest spokespeople for Alberta's agricultural industry who presumably subjected Ms. Redford to the full court press to forget about her impetuous promise to cover farm workers under Alberta's health and safety legislation during last fall's Conservative leadership campaign.
As was no doubt quickly brought to Ms. Redford's attention upon taking the oath of office, Conservative premiers just don't do that sort of thing in Alberta – even when the countryside is seriously contemplating voting for the loony-right Wildrose Party. Maybe especially when the countryside is seriously contemplating voting for the loony-right Wildrose Party!
So, am I calling these people liars? You bet I am!
They know as you know and I know and Ms. Redford knows that not including agricultural workers under the province's health and safety laws costs lives now and will cost more lives in the future. They also know the principal reason they don't want to have to comply with this reasonable kind of regulation is because now and then it might shave a few dollars off their bottom line.
Don't ever let someone talk snottily about how life's cheap in some other part of the world. It can be pretty cheap in Alberta too. (And it's cheaper, take note, here than in any other part of Canada, because everywhere else in Canada, farm workers do come under health and safety legislation.)
Notwithstanding her broken promise, by the way, I'm not accusing Ms. Redford of lying. She's merely scrambling to avoid having to lie about the topic. Earlier this week, according to the Calgary Herald, the premier's media spokesthingies were referring reporters' questions to members of her cabinet. Her agriculture minister and her minister responsible for health and safety law, meanwhile, refused to be interviewed about it.
This topic is in the news because a report of something called the Farm Safety Advisory Council, which was set up by Ms. Redford's predecessor, Farmer Ed Stelmach, recommends that unlike every other civilized jurisdiction, Alberta farm workers continue to be excluded from the protection of health and safety law.
This being Alberta, they're also excluded from laws governing hours of work, overtime pay, statutory holidays, vacation pay, the right to refuse unsafe work, compensation if they're injured on the job or even the right to be told if they work they're being instructed to do is dangerous!
Ms. Redford's ministers have been studying this and studying it and studying it – presumably while they try to come up with a way to pass off what they plan to do as concern for farm worker safety. Then some anonymous and inconsiderate person leaked the scheme to the media, whereupon reporters lobbed a few questions for the premier and her ministers to evade answering.
Now, the recommendation of the Farm Safety Advisory Council comes as no surprise, as Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan pointed out in a letter to the premier, because the advisory council is packed with representatives of agricultural corporations.
The advisory council, by the way, thinks the workers should be "educated" about safety. That's a good one, considering the advantage bosses have anywhere – even if you happen to speak English and know a good lawyer or two. Temporary foreign workers, frightened, far from home and unable to speak the local lingo? Good luck to them!
One advantage of this approach from the employer's perspective, of course, is that if something does go terribly wrong, God forbid, they can blame the dead or injured worker.
It's also important to remember, while we're talking about "farm workers," that Alberta doesn't just use that term to describe the hired hand on a run-down family farm – which I'm sure is the image they'd like you to think of when you hear the expression – but also for employees of giant industrial operations run by multinational corporations, including hog farms, massive feedlots and hay processing factories that ship stuff overseas.
In other words, in many cases here in Alberta, it's a significant class of industrial workers that has been excluded from the right to a safe and healthy workplace by this lamentable situation.
Meanwhile, according to the director of the Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research, a government funded operation at the University of Alberta, the Advisory Council had no interest in his group's advice, which was to include the farm workers under the health and safety umbrella.
"Our input was based on the science but it wasn't listened to," epidemiologist Don Voaklander, the U of A Centre's director, told the Herald. He added: "These corporate farms, large feedlots and custom haying operations are no different than businesses that are drilling for oil or fixing your car. The agrarian myth of the rugged family farm just doesn't apply."
Think about this sort of thing when you hear those kindly souls from the anti-union Merit Contractors, the extreme-right Tax Exempt Fraser Institute for Market Fundamentalist Propaganda (TEFIMFP) and the further reaches of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's backbenches explaining that we don't need unions any more because we have all this great health and safety legislation, labour laws and the like.
Well, you may wonder, why don't Alberta's farm workers just join a union and start the long march to better labour conditions?
That would be the ticket, eh? Just one thing about that plan, though: it's also illegal in Alberta for "farm workers" to be represented by a union!
Sure, the law's unconstitutional, but someone who had suffered because of it would have to take it all the way to the Supreme Court.
So think about this the next time you're serenaded about the need for "worker choice" and the "right to work" – meaning laws to make unions ineffective or outright illegal – by one of these "friends of the working person."
If not having unions is so great because we already have such wonderful safety laws, labor laws and rules against children working in industrial plants, how come the only sector without this protection just happens to be the only sector where you're not allowed to join a union? Just wondering.
In the meantime, let's call a spade an agricultural implement. The fact Alberta farm workers are still not covered by basic health and safety law, and the fact Premier Redford has broken her promise to make sure they are protected, is a disgrace.
Rabble.ca Wednesday Sept 19 2012
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Maison Autrique
Maison Autrique in Brüsel
The Maison Autrique, Victor Horta’s first building of note, is a milestone in Brussels architectural heritage. Firstly, this house (built in 1893) represents an essential step in the evolution of the greatest of Belgian architects, and secondly, this building has recently undergone a groundbreaking renovation particularly relevant to a better understanding of the birth of Art Nouveau (the renovation has been executed by the architectural firm MA2, with the help of a specially appointed scientific committee).
The building today resurrected goes to our heart: it is the first significant realisation of a young architect who gave it his all, on the strength of his client’s good will and his wish to make his mark. Stylistically Maison Autrique gives into eclectism, but the use of industrial materials and the premise of an ornamental language based on the curve augur of Art Nouveau. The building is still constrained in forms borrowed from the past, but a breath of fresh air runs through it, the harbinger of much architectural innovation.The mere range of colouring of the house, the richness of which has been reconstructed thanks to many test drills, suffices to cast a totally new light on the work of the young Horta.
In 1893 Horta was 32 years old. Following his internship with Balat, the design of several houses in Ghent and several other projects, his friend Eugene Autrique, an engineer at Solvay, asks him to design a house for him. Autrique's demands were simple: “not a single luxury, not a single extravagance: an inhabitable basement-floor, a dignified vestibule and staircase hall, the living and dining room nicely connecting, a first floor with bath and toilet (which wasn't common in those days) and a second floor for children and servants.” (V. Horta, Memoirs, p. 31) The chosen lot was situated on the Chaussée d'Haecht (Schaerbeek), at number 236 (today it's n° 266), which was purchased on a public sale by Horta himself.
Maison Autrique early 1970's
It would be the first manor-house designed by Victor Horta. We can already see elements that form a part of the continual explorations of the architect: the start of an integration with the street, wall-decorations of varying thickness, co-existing symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes, and then there's his revolutionary usage of metal.
At around the same time Horta designs the Tassel Hotel; in the following years he receives a big amount of assignments and the style that will soon become known as Art Nouveau comes into full blossoming. In his memoirs Horta expresses his satisfaction with the house: “he has pleased a friend (…) and delivered an honest achievement” with no input from anybody else. (Memoirs, p.33)
Maison Autrique is an essential place of pilgrimage for everybody who loves architecture and especially for aficionado's of Horta's oeuvre.
According to the letter of Elsa Autrique the house was first in Brüsel and then disappeared 1).
The house was closed for the public from 2015 until Spring 2017. It reopened with an exhibition about Victor Horta in the United States: Horta en Amérique.
Some images of Maison Autrique.
Gallery Pages: 1 2 3 4
Some videos about La Maison Autrique.
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Review by Le Vif Extra (French)
Maison Autrique, métamorphoses of an Art Nouveau house
Official website of Maison Autrique
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"FINAL DESTINATION 5"
It's weird that Final Destination 5 even exists. The previous installment in the popular horror franchise was called The Final Destination, indicating that it would be the last one. That movie's unexpected success in 3D is directly responsible for this one's existence. Either that or the people who produce this series are a bunch of liars. I'm kidding. Sort of.
The drill is the same. Only the specifics have changed. Young people narrowly escape dying in a catastrophe – in this case, a bridge collapse – after one of them, Sam (Nicholas D'Agosto), has a premonition. Death does not like to be cheated, so it hunts down the survivors, killing them one at a time. If you've ever seen a Final Destination flick, you know that Death doesn't simply off its victims. No, that would be too simple. Instead, it sets in motion a Rube Goldberg-style chain of events that leads to an “accidental,” yet highly conspicuous passing.
It's generally true that the longer a horror series goes on, the more it devolves into something approaching comedy. Freddie Kruger went from a murderous child molester to a wise-cracking bogeyman. Jason Voorhees went into outer space. Chucky the doll got married and artificially inseminated a woman. The Final Destination series is yet another example. I thought the 2000 original was a clever and creepy movie that effectively played on common fears about the inevitability of death. The subsequent sequels have focused more on the gore scenes, creating increasingly absurd ways for characters to die. The death scenes in FD5 are among the dumbest and most laughable yet. One character dies through acupuncture, while another meets her end via Lasik eye surgery. The desire to make “creative” carnage has overtaken the thing that was legitimately scary about the original: the idea that death was coming for you, and there was nothing you could do to stop it.
The picture tries to put a spin on things by having a ton of visual references to the previous installments, and there's a twist ending that only comes off as a cheap gimmick. Some decent special effects can be seen during Sam's premonition about the bridge collapse, but that was the only thing I really cared for about Final Destination 5. The performances are amateur (at best), the formula is predictable, and there's nothing scary going on here.
( 1/2 out of four)
Blu-Ray Features:
Final Destination 5 will be released on 3D Blu-Ray, in a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack, and on DVD December 27. A digital UltraViolet copy comes included in the pack. I watched the 2D Blu-Ray. Suffice it to say, it's quite obvious where the movie was making use of 3D.
The bonus material is...actually not bad. “Circle of Death” is a 5-minute segment in which the actors and filmmakers talk about trying to tie this fifth chapter into all the others. They point out some references that you may have missed while watching. There are also two “Visual Effects of Death” segments: one for the bridge collapse and the other for a plane crash sequence. The raw, on-set footage is shown in split screen alongside the finished film. I found both of these segments fascinating because they show how the special effects were accomplished. It's particularly interesting to see how they did the bridge scene.
The only duds in the supplementary material are the “Alternate Death Scenes,” which are just minor variations on what happens in the movie itself. Instead of only showing what's different, the scenes start several minutes before the altered material, thereby requiring you to watch large chunks of what you've already seen.
Visually and aurally, the Blu-Ray is excellent. The opening credit sequence, even in viewed in 2D, is striking.
Final Destination 5 is rated R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, and some language. The running time is 1 hour and 32 minutes.
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Ram Venkataramani: ‘With plenty of change on the technology and regulatory fronts, we are working very closely with our customers.'
by Sumantra B Barooah 06 Sep 2018
Ram Venkataramani, ACMA’s new president and managing director of India Piston Rings, on the plan to steer the component industry through disruptive times, expected growth this year, the Saksham Centre of Excellence, and lots more. He spoke to Sumantra B Barooah on the sidelines of the ACMA Annual Convention in New Delhi on September 5.
Congratulations on your new role. What are the key objectives that are at the top of your mind?
Our objectives this year are going through a significant amount of change on the technology front. Simultaneously, if you look at it also from the regulatory front, there are some changes that are taking place. Currently, trade policies the world over are being discussed and renegotiated.
Therefore, our key objective will be to work very closely with our customers so that we could understand the change in requirements. It would be very necessary for us to work closely with the government to understand their thought process as far as trade policies and regulatory policies are concerned. The idea is that we would be able to get this information and then act as a bridge between them and our members. This way, our members are well prepared to face the type of challenges that come up.
Talking about trade policies, there is a kind of a protectionism coming up from various governments. Do you see that as a challenge, especially when you talk about the export potential of the Indian automotive industry?
Trade policies all over the world are being re-discussed and renegotiated and there is definitely a tendency towards protectionism that seems to be gaining momentum globally. Minister Suresh Prabhu has said that automotive components is a key sector and it is at the top of his mind when he is discussing free trade agreements.
He will be looking to protect the interest of the Indian auto component industry so that Make in India is a reality and continues to be so. While discussing these free trade policies, he also mentioned that he would look at ways and means by which auto components would gain access into those markets. So, given the very positive statements that he has made at the ACMA Convention, we continue to be very positive about the outcomes.
The Indian component industry recorded overall growth of 18 percent in FY2018.
Yes and we had a sales turnover of US$ 51 billion. Exports have exceeded that with 24 percent growth with a turnover of US$ 13 billion; so we continue to be positive for the rest of the year.
How does this year look like? Are those numbers sustainable?
This year looks fairly positive. I think all the sectors that the auto component suppliers cater to, be it two-wheelers, three-wheelers, passenger cars, commercial vehicles and tractors, all are seeing robust growth between 7-11 percent. We should be able to see that sustaining throughout this year.
So you expect to see those growth numbers to remain the same, if not more?
Yes, it should remain at those levels. They are the current estimates of this year.
Dr Pawan Goenka said component manufacturers would ignore the electrification megatrend at their own risk or if they see that it is not worthwhile to invest in advanced IC technologies. For him to say that, there must be some substance on which that comment is based. Is there a tendency like that in the component industry?
Dr Goenka’s statement was very clear and his message very positive and heartening towards ACMA members. He has told us that we would really like to continue to work on IC engines because by no means is the IC engine dead. It has future potential. But obviously, the technology involved in IC engines will change and we will have to work on lightweighting, making it more efficient.
As far as EVs are concerned, it is an emerging market and we need to look at ways and means in which we can participate in that space.
Fifty percent of the turnover of the Indian component industry comes from the engine-related components, doesn’t it?
Yes, around 50-60 percent comes from the powertrain, both in the domestic and the export business.
ACMA has also revealed the new Saksham initiative. What is the objective?
All the speakers at the ACMA Convention touched upon the necessity for people skills. It is not only required to maintain the basic hygiene factors of quality that every OEM is expecting today but also to be able to adapt to new technologies.
With smart manufacturing, you will have the opportunity of automation, more usage of statistical controls and so on. When electrification does come in, these people would have to be trained in automotive electronics and the usage of the same. So skill development has become a very key initiative.
Saksham is an example of what the auto component industry is trying to do in order to support its membership. This is a centre that has been created along with IIT Delhi in Sonepat. AOTS of Japan have been involved as well. The idea is to provide a very high quality of not only soft skill training, but also training on the hard skills that will be required in the days to come.
Is the funding done by ACMA?
Yes, the funding is done by ACMA and our membership.
What is the current level of membership at ACMA?
Current membership is at about 815 and we represent over 70 percent of the auto component industry’s turnover. We see a lot of growth happening in the west because Gujarat is turning out to be a growing hub. We also see a lot of members coming in from the north and south, which continues to be a good area for growth as well.
The East would remain, because of lack of OEMs, laggard, right?
Not really. Minister Nitin Gadkari spoke about the usage of waterways and how the east could be used as a hub to transport or to transfer materials into Bangladesh. And many other countries in the Far East. So increasingly, you will find that people do set up facilities in the east and that would in turn help our membership.
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Hayley Day Journal of the San Juan Islands
Aviation Class Takes Students to New Heights
Fly like a wolverine, not an eagle.
That’s the idea behind the aviation class taught at Friday Harbor High School, before school, where kids can learn the ropes before they earn their wings.
“I feel strongly about providing these kids with the tools they need to pursue aviation careers if that’s what they want to do,” said Mari Peterson, who gives lectures to the hour-long course, offered twice a week.
The class covers topics like aircraft systems and airspace, preparing the seven enrolled students to take a written exam that can take up to five hours to complete. Taking the written exam is the first step needed to earn a pilot’s license. Logging flight hours with a certified flight instructor and taking the flight exam is the next step.
“I hadn’t thought about flying before, but I thought it was a good skill to have,” said senior Megan O’Brian.
She plans to study nursing at Bellingham Technical College next winter and her aviation skills might propel her toward a career as a flight nurse.
That’s Peterson’s goal – to show students the sky’s the limit. Peterson took a similar class before she graduated from Friday Harbor High School in 2010, though she felt discouraged from an instructor who didn’t think the cheerleader was serious about aviation.
“I want to use the class to encourage excitement about flying, not pressure students,” she said.
Today, Peterson is the assistant chief pilot at Westwind Aviation and a San Juan Pilots Association board member. The association sponsors the program, open to any grade, as well as adults not in school. Conflicting students’ schedules prevented the class from being held during school or after, but they can earn credits.
The class, which started in February, has visited Friday Harbor Airport and even King County International Airport with a donated flight by Kenmore Air. In Seattle, students examined jets with an airport maintenance crew, as well as toured the runway, air traffic control and the Museum of Flight.
“Going up in the tower was pretty cool,” said freshman Gavin Flaum. “It’s something you knew existed but never got to see.”
The class, which hasn’t been offered on island in about four years, is co-taught by Derek Smith, who oversees the San Juan Island School District STEM program. At a recent conference Smith attended, a Boeing human resources representative said the airplane manufacturer would lose 60 percent of its workforce in five years.
“Pilots are a dying breed on the island,” he added. “Aviation jobs make great money, have great benefits. And it’s one of two ways to get on island.”
Since 2008, the Community Foundation of San Juan Island has offered an aviation scholarship in honor of the late local pilot John Volk, who was a founding member of the San Juan Eagles, a volunteer group who flies cancer patients to the mainland for treatment. Graduating island high school seniors are awarded annually, totaling $28,200 since the fund’s inception.
Opportunities to help others and the freedom of mobility are reasons Smith encourages the program.
“Even though you might grow up on a small island, you still have the opportunity to see the world,” he said.
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Indiana's Religious Freedom Bill
The Sheer Nonsense Of Indiana's So-Called 'Religious Freedom' Bill
David Alm
Mike Pence just sealed his own death warrant — figuratively speaking, that is.
When the Indiana governor and presidential hopeful signed the so-called “religious freedom” bill into law in a private meeting yesterday, he pleased a handful of conservative voters that support the bill’s unspoken intention of allowing business owners in the state to skirt anti-discrimination laws by refusing to hire or serve gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people on religious grounds. But he angered a great many more — including, ironically, the 200-year-old Disciples of Christ church group, which earlier this week issued a statement threatening to pull its conventions from Indianapolis if the bill were signed into law.
The Disciples of Christ aren’t alone: The gaming organization GenCon, which draws 60,000 to Indianapolis each year for its annual convention, issued a similar statement; the San Francisco-based technology firm Salesforce announced that it would cancel all travel to Indiana, effective immediately; and even the NCAA, which is based in Indianapolis, has expressed serious concern about what this new bill means for next week’s Final Four. “We are especially concerned about how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees,” said NCAA president Mark Emmert in a statement on Thursday.
But perhaps the sharpest rebukes came from the performer and Broadway star Audra McDonald, who leveled a series of criticisms at Governor Pence via Twitter yesterday afternoon. “Some in my band are gay & we have 2 gigs in your state next month. Should we call ahead to make sure the hotel accepts us all?” she asked, before turning up the heat in her next tweet: “Might the law apply to me? (I’m black).” It wasn’t a stupid question, but we’ll come back to that.
The “religious freedom” bill does not explicitly exist to allow business owners to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation — that would be far too direct. Instead, its language is just vague enough for the bill’s supporters to argue that it merely prevents the government from forcing business owners to act against their religious beliefs — whatever those beliefs might be. “The Constitution of the United States and the Indiana Constitution both provide strong recognition of the freedom of religion, but today, many people of faith feel that their religious liberty is under attack by government action,” said Pence in a statement.
So, if two gay men in Indiana want to get married, which is perfectly legal in that state, a caterer cannot only say, openly, “Sorry, but my faith says gay marriage is wrong, so cater your own disgraceful wedding,” but that caterer can also refuse to hire a gay employee for the exact same reason.
Talk about sliding backwards. Gay marriage is now legal in 37 states, companies across the board are adopting and enforcing policies to ensure equal rights for LGBT employees, and even mainstream movies and TV shows are starting to feature same-sex couples as a matter of course. It’s been 18 years since Ellen DeGeneres shocked the world by kissing Laura Dern on her hit show, Ellen, and all these years later the only shocking thing about that kiss is that it was shocking.
Now, back to McDonald’s comment about being discriminated against because she’s black. There is nothing in the bill to suggest that it is intended only for Christians. And, although the press has focused entirely on what this means for the LGBT community, who’s to say the bill can’t also be invoked by anyone who, for whatever reason, does not want to serve or hire someone on “religious grounds”?
Mormons, for example, believe that brown skin is punishment for disobeying God. Conservative Muslims believe that women should never be seen in public without a male escort. And adherents of Nuwabianism, an obscure Islamic “movement” founded in 1967, believe that men were genetically engineered from women after several generations and that white people were created as a race of killers who were meant to serve blacks as an army of slaves.
Imagine going to a grocery store in Indiana and being told you have to leave because you’re brown, female, or white. It could happen. In theory, the “religious freedom” bill could be used to discriminate against virtually anyone on earth.
So what was Pence thinking? While the Tea Party may be growing both in numbers and in strength, and plenty of people out there still think that gays and lesbians are worthy of death by stoning, the vast majority of Americans are slowly coming around to the idea that being gay is no big deal. Legislating any form of discrimination against the LGBT community in 2015, even indirectly, is like legislating discrimination against women and black people.
Oh, wait. The “religious freedom” bill does that too.
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Assouline & Berlowe represents debtors and creditors in state, federal, and bankruptcy courts in liquidation, reorganization, and adversary proceedings. The Firm's attorneys handle, among other things, commercial collections, enforcement of rights in secured transactions, and adversary proceedings and appeals. The Firm also represents parties in: asset recovery; assignments for benefit of creditors (also known as ABCs); contested garnishment proceedings; judgment enforcement proceedings, including the execution and sale of seized assets; preferential and fraudulent transfers litigation in bankruptcy court; proceedings supplementary, under Fla. Stat. § 56.29; receivership related actions; contested Uniform Commercial Code issues; voluntary and involuntary business bankruptcy; and out of court workouts of troubled or non-performing loans.
Our Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights Practice is headed by Eric N. Assouline, the firm co-founder and partner in the Miami and Ft. Lauderdale offices. Mr. Assouline also heads our Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice.
At the helm, Mr. Assouline has defended claims against court appointed receivers of financial and insurance companies in various state and federal court cases. As lead litigation counsel, he has prosecuted fraudulent transfer actions on behalf of a federal court appointed receiver to recover transferred funds from third parties.
We assist clients in the full range of labor and employment litigation in state and federal courts. We also represent clients before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Department of Labor, the Florida Commission on Human Relations, the Public Employees Relations Commission, and the Agency for Workforce Innovation. We have handled litigation in connection with misappropriation of trade secrets, employment discrimination and retaliation, defamation, wage and hour laws, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, and sexual harassment.
Employment litigation is not inevitable. We can counsel you on preventative measures to minimize the risk of litigation, including developing workplace discrimination and harassment policies and practices, training employees and managers, and preparing employment agreements and handbooks. Federal, state, and local laws need to be considered in developing company policies.
Trust & Estates, Probate, and Guardianships
When someone passes away, their estate may need to proceed through a lengthy, expensive process known as probate. Probate is a court-supervised process whereby a decedent’s assets are identified and gathered, and their debts and funeral expenses are paid by using those assets. The remainder is distributed to beneficiaries according to a valid will or Florida’s intestacy rules. Through this process, title is transferred from the decedent to beneficiaries. The probate court will appoint a qualified fiduciary as a personal representative. In some cases, a person who has been disinherited or another interested party may contest a will based on undue influence, lack of testamentary capacity, or breach of fiduciary duty.
Careful estate planning can allow you to maximize your wealth and protect your assets. For example, you potentially can avoid probate by creating a living trust. It also can allow you to arrange for financial management and health care decision-making in case you become incapacitated.
We maintain an extensive business litigation and dispute resolution practice. Often, business litigation involves high stakes. An entire company’s future may rest on the outcome of a single lawsuit. Thus, it is imperative to select an attorney whom you can trust to represent you in business litigation. We represent a broad spectrum of clients, including private and public companies, family-owned businesses, start-ups and growth firms, individual entrepreneurs, and financial institutions. Our Florida business attorneys litigate claims related to antitrust, unfair competition, trade secrets, asset recovery, civil fraud, RICO, foreign judgment enforcement, fraudulent conveyances, commercial collections, contract disputes, complex commercial disputes, labor and employment, intellectual property, sports league agreements, real estate, construction, creditors’ rights, and property. We also represent clients in investor and broker-dealer FINRA arbitration.
Our dispute resolution team includes attorneys who are familiar with common and civil law systems, and who are skillful at resolving disputes under U.S. and foreign laws.
Our firm is regularly asked to handle business and corporate transactions of every kind. We are well-positioned to advise on almost any corporate or finance matter, and we represent entrepreneurs and businesses throughout the entire business life cycle from formation to dissolution. Our corporate practice relies on the hundreds of years of combined business and legal experience that our partners have accumulated.
The structure of a business can have an impact on its ability to meet its objectives and your exposure to liability. For example, if you choose to incorporate in Florida, you will need to meet certain formalities to obtain protection against personal liability. You will need to choose between a C corporation and an S corporation. C corporations can issue more than one class of stock and are subject to taxation when profits are first earned and when shareholder dividends are distributed. Usually, they have more potential for growth. S corporations have a pass-through tax structure and allow for only one class of stock; they are capped at 100 shareholders.
Our Florida business lawyers can prepare all types of transactional documents, including purchase and sale agreements, merger and acquisition agreements, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, and partnership and joint venture agreements. Our attorneys plan, structure, negotiate, and execute complex, high-value business transactions. Our partners have experience helping clients secure debt or equity. We often serve as outside counsel, advising business managers on every aspect of corporate governance, management, and compliance with governmental regulations. Many of our attorneys are licensed in multiple jurisdictions.
A business’ most important assets may be intangible intellectual property rights. It may be crucial to pursue or defend against litigation related to these rights. For example, if you discover that a competitor within the U.S. is infringing your patent by making and selling an item that contains each element of your patented claim while the patent is in effect, you will have a claim of patent infringement. Patent holders need to bring infringement actions within six years from the infringement date. The business attorneys at our Florida firm handle intellectual property litigation, along with the registration of copyrights, trademarks, and patents.
We perform a wide range of legal services in connection with intellectual property, including filing and prosecuting non-provisional utility patents and design patents, filing provisional patent applications, evaluating new technologies for patentability, formulating and conducting right to use or freedom to operate searches, identifying and policing our clients’ intellectual property rights, providing portfolio counseling, and representing clients at Markman hearings, as well as Trademark Trial and Appeal Board inter partes disputes. We also can structure and negotiate IP business transactions.
Cultural nuances and different business practices can create additional challenges and costs in any transaction. Our attorneys are familiar with international law and arbitration, and we have experience handling cross-border transactions in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Many of our partners have lived and practiced in foreign jurisdictions, and we can represent clients in international mediation, arbitration, and litigation. We have represented major banking, food, construction, metals, manufacturing, oil, and technology companies.
Sometimes cross-border relationships break down, and it becomes necessary to consider the best method by which to resolve a dispute. Often, that will be commercial arbitration, which is a private form of binding dispute resolution that may be specified in the contract between the parties. Commercial arbitration is usually conducted before an impartial tribunal. The tribunal is usually composed of one or three arbitrators, who are typically selected by the parties. The tribunal’s powers may be fixed by the terms of the contract. The business lawyers at our Florida firm represent U.S. and foreign individuals and entities in matters involving international law and arbitration.
Our real estate practice team has represented a range of clients, including real estate developers, entrepreneurs, syndicates, corporations, construction companies, and banks and other financial institutions. We have served as strategic legal and transactional counsel on high-value real estate projects, including hotels, resorts, office buildings, multi-family housing, shopping centers, restaurants, petrochemical plants, and infrastructure projects. We have working relationships with numerous appraisers, accountants, and construction and engineering experts, whom we can retain when a multi-disciplinary project team is needed. Some of our attorneys have practical experience in building construction, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering, and we can bring our insights from this real-world experience to bear on any legal issues that arise during development and construction.
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Assouline & Berlowe is more than just another boutique firm. We remain true to our initial mission –– providing partner-level representation and client-specific and cost-effective legal services. The business attorneys at our Florida firm take great pride in the legal work that we do for our clients. We represent clients throughout Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Osceola, and Orange Counties. Call us in Miami at (305) 567-5576, in Fort Lauderdale at (954) 929-1899, or in Boca Raton at (561) 361-6566. You also can contact us via our online form.
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Therapeutic Intervention Programs for Young Adults Newnan, GA
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Therapeutic Intervention Programs Work With the Following Issues Drug and Alcohol Abuse Unhealthy Sexual Conduct Adoption Issues, Divorce Issues, Family Issues Anger Management Problems Poor Peer Relationships / Negative Peer Group Defiance and Rebellion...
Therapeutic Intervention Programs for Young Adults in Newnan, GA
Therapeutic intervention programs for struggling young adults in Newnan, GA offer residential and day treatment programs that treat emotional and behavioral issues, including dual diagnosis or co-occurring issues, which is the treatment for a combination of different mental health and/or substance abuse issues.
Therapeutic Programs for Young Adults
A residential treatment center is a live-in health care facility that specifically aims to support struggling young adults. These specialized facilities generally provide a range of therapies and treatment programs for young adults that will help them to overcome a wide range of issues.
Furthermore, a residential treatment center is run by professionals who have vast experience in working with troubled young men and women who are clinically able to use a range of therapies and techniques within a residential treatment center setting.
The professionals will use these to help the young man or woman to overcome their individual issues and move forward in life with the best opportunities available to them. The therapies and treatments used differ significantly as they are each aimed at tackling different issues. Just some of the treatments and therapies used at a young adult treatment center may include one-on-one counseling, cognitive behavior therapy, group sessions, and detoxification.
While at the residential treatment center, the type of treatment programs for struggling young adults in which they will participate will depend on their individual needs. These needs are assessed by experts when they first arrive at the center so the team can decide on the best program for that individual. They can then provide the most appropriate care and treatment for the young person to ensure they make the best recovery possible thus providing the opportunity for the young man or woman the best life chances in the future.
Independent Living programs
Clean and Sober Living Programs for Young Adults is a term that is used to describe specialized live-in facilities that are adept in treating young adults. Often times, these facilities cater to college students, who, in addition to requiring rehabilitative treatment for their addiction issues, also want to continue working toward a college degree.
It should be noted that the support they receive from other clients is paramount for the overall success of achieving their sobriety and academic pursuits. Furthermore, as At The Crossroads staff, through decades of combined experience in treating addiction in young adults can attest: Sobriety is often achieved through building new healthy relationships and friendships that act as a support system for any young adult.
What's more, sober living homes are programs that are considered “stepping stones” by which a young adult can use to achieve full sobriety as they transition back into school, work, and familial environments upon returning home. It should also be said that the journey to achieve such goals does not always end with the treatment itself, and that recovering young men and women often require additional professional support, as well as group support (such as AA or NA meetings), long after completing their treatment at a clean and sober living program.
Therapeutic Intervention Programs Work With the Following Issues
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Unhealthy Sexual Conduct
Adoption Issues, Divorce Issues, Family Issues
Anger Management Problems
Poor Peer Relationships / Negative Peer Group
Defiance and Rebellion (ODD)
ADD and ADHD Issues
Self Harm and Self Defeating Behaviors
Each student attending At The Crossroads receives a thorough diagnostic assessment. These evaluations help the student, family, and treatment team develop an individualized treatment plan to meet the young adult's personal needs. Diagnostic evaluation and assessment is a dynamic process, and we regularly meet to update it and adjust the treatment plan. The plan has to work for the student, and the student must work the plan. Therefore, as we proceed new understanding leads to slight adjustment in treatment approach. This process includes input, of course, from the student, family and professional team members.
Resources for Parents and Troubled Young Adults
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bolsters the health security of our nation. As the nation's health protection agency, CDC saves lives, protects, and educates adolescents and young people from Newnan, GA with serious health threats. Such threats include obesity, smoking and tobacco use, bipolar disorder, and sexually transmitted diseases. To accomplish this, CDC conducts salient science practices and offers health education to the teenagers and young people in Newnan, GA, and all over the nation. The CDC fights against expensive and dangerous health threats, and responds when these threats arise.
At The Crossroads - Assisting Young Men/Women Transition Into Life
At The Crossroads (ATC) is the trusted choice for parents from Newnan, GA; who may be searching for the optimal Education and Vocational Training Facility and Individualized, Client-Centered Transitional Program to give direction for their struggling child who may be battling anger issues, bipolar disorder, or even alcohol abuse. Here at At The Crossroads, parents and families from Newnan, GA can expect only the best results from our compassionate and professional counselors. Our research-validated approach to therapeutic intervention (Individual, group, & experiential therapy) and adventure therapy (recreation & outdoor activities) reparation has shown to offer lasting success!
At The Crossroads counselors and field staff discourage judgments and labels, and never allow a diagnosis to interfere with what struggling young persons have in common with each other - their humanity. We have offered support to numerous families from all over the nation, including those from Newnan, GA; Through adventure therapy (recreation & outdoor activities) therapy and community service activities, our professional therapists give quality reparation for young people battling drug use (prescription/otc), bipolar disorder, or peer conflict.
In short, At The Crossroads knows how to direct struggling young people with lasting rehabilitation; and how to forge a new path for proper direction and purpose in life. We are considered a superior education and vocational training facility, where we teach therapeutic intervention (Individual, group, & experiential therapy) and adventure therapy (recreation & outdoor activities) that leads to a healthy, balanced life. If you are ready to take advantage of the superior individualized, client-centered transitional program that At The Crossroads can offer, we encourage you to contact our family advocates; to begin the lasting change in your child’s life. We give support to at-risk young people from Newnan, GA. Call us at (866) 439-0354 to speak with one of our knowledgeable family advocates today!
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Code of Conduct on Access and Benefit-Sharing | BGCI
Code of Conduct on Access and Benefit-Sharing
Clauses from the Mexican Association of Botanic Gardens
Exerpted from: Asociación Mexicana de Jardines Botánicos, 2016, “Código de conducta para el acceso y uso de la biodiversidad vegetal en los que participen los jardines botánicos de México y Compendio de Buenas prácticas de acceso y uso de la biodiversidad vegetal”. You can find the full document (in Spanish) here.
(Informal translation – Kate Davis and Beatriz Maruri)
Declaratory clauses
The AMJB is a civil association that brings together the Mexican botanic gardens, establishes academic relations and promotes real and effective communication between them, to achieve the conservation of Mexican plant diversity and its associated traditional knowledge.
The AMJB also promotes environmental education and the dissemination of information about the flora, all within the legal environmental framework in force in Mexico.The AMJB recognises that the participation of landowners is necessary, whether owners and/or title holders of the property where the species are found, to protect them throughout the national territory, to strengthen the system of ex situ and in situ conservation set out in Goal 2 of the Mexican Strategy for Plant Conservation 2012-2030.
The Botanic Gardens of Mexico promote the study, conservation and utilisation of plant diversity of the country, both ex situ and in situ, including all species of plants at risk, always in cooperation with the people and communities where their habitats are found.
The AMJB honours and complies with the international principles that derive from the Declaration of Human Rights, as well as those established by the Convention on Biological Diversity regarding the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from biodiversity, as basic elements of ethics.
The Botanic Gardens create and maintain documented botanical collections under a curatorial framework, which serve as reservoirs of regional germplasm and as the basis for the creation of in situ conservation instruments, which maintain functioning ecosystems and are essential for the stability and evolutionary conservation of species.
The AMJB and all of its members will promote their activities as a source of local development in accordance with the use, customs, traditions and systems of the communities that possess plant resources
Any academic research conducted in the vicinity of indigenous peoples and local communities will respect the right to protect cultural heritage and traditional knowledge associated with the biological resources of the community, via a framework of respect for the local context.
The Botanic Gardens will respect the Mexican legislation in place and the local norms related to activities of scientific collection, propagation, access to genetic resources as well as to traditional knowledge related to the flora, complying with the principle of Prior Informed Consent (CFPI) according to the applicable law on the part of the holders and owners of the resource.
The precautionary principle will be used in order to prevent and anticipate negative biological or cultural effects that derive from collections or misappropriation of biological resources that could endanger any plant population.
Prior to the development of the project, those who have authority over the possession of plant resources and access to the area will be identified and offered a clear explanation of the execution of collection activities or access to associated traditional knowledge. Such activities will be supported by the project leaders (the garden and the institution to which it is assigned) and will have the necessary legal permits, in order to obtain Prior Informed Consent (CFPI) for access to their biological resources and associated traditional knowledge. The same procedure will be applied for the development of activities in the interior of Natural Protected Areas (ANP). Sufficient information on the project will be provided to all those with competence to grant Prior Informed Consent.
The information provided by the community will be safeguarded, taking into account aspects of equity and justice and considering their tangible and intangible cultural values. However, the community will also be informed regarding the need for cooperation, in order to maintain the balance of ecosystems and for sustainable development.
When necessary, agreements will be developed in an explicit manner, setting out the Mutually Agreed Terms (CMA) in order to protect biological resources and associated traditional knowledge, promoting transparency and compliance with fair and equitable benefit sharing.
The benefits derived from an academic investigation will be established based on previous agreements established by the parties.
The Botanic Gardens of Mexico will consider the communities in which they conduct their research within their educational programmes, in a manner that shares the results generated and promotes awareness of the value and conservation of plant diversity, all within a framework of respect for inhabitants and their knowledge.
The exchange of material in ex situ conditions for its reintroduction into the natural environment will be conducted in accordance with the legislation in force.
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African American Cultural Society celebrates Biden and Harris win
Erica Van Buren
| The Daytona Beach News-Journal
PALM COAST — The African American Cultural Society invites the community to a victory celebration and rally in honor of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris with the hope of reenergizing the community.
“A lot of people were getting in the doldrums,” said Blanche Valentine, administrator, African American Cultural Society. “There was a high after the election, then with all these recounts and everything, people were starting to lose focus.”
She said she wants to continue the momentum brought on by the election.
“Every presidential election, various groups come out to register people to vote,” said Valentine. “They drag people to the polls. After the election, they pack up all their gear and leave. And we aren’t having it this time.”
A number of community groups are participating, including Black Lives Matter; SURJ, which stands for Showing Up For Racial Justice; and the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, to name a few.
“We’re really not expecting a big crowd,” said Valentine. “A lot of this is to get the organizers of the different groups, the precinct captains and the various voting districts in the city. We just want to keep folks on their toes and let them know we have a mission to do.”
Valentine said the focus should not be on the rhetoric and the counting of the ballots. It needs to be on getting more citizens out to vote.
“Our groups now are focusing on making sure that we always have numbers in attendance at various city council meetings and in the county commission meetings,” said Valentine. “We will start posting a report card. This is the year to become informed.”
Valentine said community members enjoyed the motorized parade in honor of the Voters Rights Amendment on Aug. 6. A second motorized march, to commemorate the historic March on Washington, was widely attended on Aug. 28.
“We were gonna do some things in September, but we got so caught up with making sure that people registered to vote we didn’t,” said Valentine. “So now we want to pull everybody together to do a pep talk and remind everybody we want Flagler County to keep hope alive.”
Masks and social distancing will be required; masks will be provided to those without. The event will feature music, guest speakers and networking.
Valentine said she’s very excited about President-Elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris taking over in January.
“I want people to focus on the transition and on who the new players are,” said Valentine. “We know we’re coming in with a fairly clean slate. A lot of the members have focused on the exit of Betsy DeVos and who her replacement is. We really just want to focus on the nation moving forward. We want to see it move in a positive direction.”
The rally will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 N. U.S. 1, Palm Coast. Valentine said attendees can sit in their cars and roll their windows down. Speakers will speak over a PA system.
Categories: societyTags: African, American, Biden, Celebrates, Cultural, Harris, society, Win
Society is losing the art of embracing and respecting different political views
Biden tries to cast government veterans as ‘re-imagining’ foreign policy for ‘next generation’
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The Brave One Starring Jodie Foster And Terrence Howard
By Ben Nadel on September 17, 2007
Tags: Movies
Last night, I took a friend out to see The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard. My desire to see this was not based on the preview; the preview was interesting, but didn't really pull me in. I went to see this movie because I think Jodie Foster is just awesome. Ever since I watched her in Silence of The Lambs over 15 years ago, I've just been mesmerized. She's so unlike other women and I find her strong acting style, distinct voice, and angular, enticing shape very pleasing to the senses. (Note to self: obsess over her a little more - she's definitely under appreciated).
I love a good revenge story and I love a girl kicking ass. This movie has both of these elements and it brings them together quite well. I am sure some might find the movie a bit slow, but I enjoyed watching the transformation of Erica Bain (played by Jodie Foster) as she morphed from this quiet and introverted woman into this cold and driven vigilante. A transformation of this nature cannot be sudden and abrupt - it is a journey of self-exploration and I think the pace of the film really caters to this nicely.
Terrence Howard, the co-lead, does an excellent job playing Detective Mercer, a cop who wants nothing more than to just be good and to do the right thing. He very effectively gets across the conflict that he wages every day between upholding the law and delivering justice. His convictions are, of course, tested when he befriends Bane, who slowly becomes the likely suspect in a string of homicides. The whole dynamic really sucks you in hard, because after all, who can't relate to that? Obviously not the murder part, but who hasn't been in a situation where you are torn between your relationships and your desire to do good? Or who hasn't been in a situation where "right" is not so clear cut?
In a way, the movie is so engaging because it asks you to look inside yourself; to see how far YOU would go. The situations are so empathizable and relatable, that you can't help but put yourself into the character's shoes. This creates a constant and underlying tension that puts you slightly on edge the entire film. It makes you feel what the characters feel, and I think that's why the film comes off as being so successful after the fact.
To keep this brief, the movie is very satisfying. Like a hot shower, there aren't necessarily any high points (climax excluded), but you walk out of it feeling good and refreshed; you walk out feeling better than when you went in. To me, it was worth seeing it in the theatres and I think it's necessary to experience it this way. It's not an action film and there are no explosions, but being in a huge, dark theatre does do a lot to fully immerse you in the story and the movie experience.
Tweet This Great article by @BenNadel - The Brave One Starring Jodie Foster And Terrence Howard Woot woot — you rock the party that rocks the body!
Boyan Kostadinov Sep 17, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Good review. I was thinking of seeing it anyway and now I'll have to. If you like the vigilante justice stuff, you got to check out "The Boondock Saints" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/. It is freaking awesome!
Ben Nadel Sep 18, 2007 at 7:26 AM
@Boyan,
I own the Saints on DVD :) Yeah, it is an awesome movie. I love the way it is told - with the aftermath given before the actual events. Very cool style. And Willam Dafoe is really good in it; he's such a strange character in the film, but it works. Plus, you gotta love a movie where they have a cool passage before they shoot people (ala Pulp Fiction).
jim collins Sep 19, 2007 at 9:59 AM
"I find her strong acting style, distinct voice, and angular, enticing shape very pleasing to the senses. "
As her girlfriend does too, no doubt. Not that there is anything wrong with that....
Ben Nadel Sep 19, 2007 at 10:09 AM
... and I like that her girlfriend likes it ;)
tinas Oct 9, 2007 at 12:06 PM
yeah, i watch the movie. it was great, everyone should see it. the passion was so so real, the action was bloody hot..damn revenge!!!!
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Historic Bridgnorth house and former home of Bishop Percy goes on the market for £275,000
8th November 2012 November 8, 2012
A three-storey Shropshire building which has history stemming back to medieval times and still retains many original features is on the market for £275,000. Bishop Percy’s House in Cartway, Bridgnorth, was one of the few properties to survive the town’s great fire in April 1646 and was the birthplace of Bishop of Dromore Thomas Percy, author and Royal Chaplain to King George III.
It is believed the building, built in 1580 by wealthy shipping merchant Richard Forster, was possibly created around a defensive tower. It was built as a home and commercial premises due to its location near the River Severn.
Being home to Bridgnorth Boys Club from the 1940s to 2003 it is now on the market with estate agents Berriman Eaton.
Partner Caroline Eaton said: “We deal with a lot of interesting and historic properties but Bishop Percy’s House is one of the oldest in Bridgnorth and was built from oak posts and beams believed to have been salvaged from old ships.
“It is on the lower end of Cartway, an area of Bridgnorth known in medieval times as Cowgate. It remains full of history with the original external walls in wonderful condition and even the original front door is still in use.
“I have met with English Heritage who describe it as a ‘show-stopper’ of a house and it would be wonderful to see it brought back to its former glory. It is such a large property that it could be used in so many different ways.
“It would be wonderful to see the ground floor as a museum or tourism focal point so that people can see the wonderful woodwork and historic fireplace and the second and third floor could be residential. But it would also make a lovely family home, a public house, a business premises and much more.
“The building was previously valued at £1million with planning permission and the sale includes an attached cottage that can be sold separately.”
The building has been owned by various people and organisations since its creation. In 1672 it was documented in the Hearth Tax Assessment that the property had seven fireplaces and was occupied by Anthony Nott, who had succeeded Richard Forster as its owner.
By the 18th century the properties recorded residents were Thomas Nott in 1712 and Mrs Nott in 1725. Then in 1727 the house became the property of Arthur Lowe Percy, a wholesale grocer and tobacconist from Worcester when he married Jane Nott. Percy went on to become the bridesman of Bridgnorth in 1733, an alderman in 1737 and served as a town bailiff in 1742 and 1751, he passed away in 1764. Arthur Percy was best known as the father of Thomas Percy, who was born in 1729 and went on to become the Bishop of Dromore. It was from here on the house became known as Bishop Percy’s House.
By the middle of the 1800’s there was a brass and iron foundry at the rear of the property run by Charles Rushton and later by the Barker family.
In 1865 the house featured in a sale catalogue of the estate of Lord Sudeley, described as an Ancient Tenement known as the Old House, a fine specimen of Domestic Architecture of the 16th century, famed as the birthplace of Bishop Percy. It contained three rooms, a brewhouse, a warehouse and underground cellarage, and was occupied by Mrs H Barker.
In 1909 the house was brought by W H Foster of Apley Estates and records showed in the 1920’s the former foundry building was used by the Bridgnorth Boy Scouts. In the years prior to World War II it was used as a soup kitchen.
In 2003 the Boys Club was was put up for sale and bought by a local developer but planning permission to convert it into new homes has now lapsed.
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What Employees Need To Know About Phishing Attacks
Phishing is just one of many tools in a hacker’s repertoire and happens to be one of their most effective. Through phishing, hackers dangle their bait in front of preoccupied employees who would never dream that their PC could provide an open door for a hacker. That’s why it is…
Phishing is just one of many tools in a hacker’s repertoire and happens to be one of their most effective. Through phishing, hackers dangle their bait in front of preoccupied employees who would never dream that their PC could provide an open door for a hacker. That’s why it is so important that employees understand how phishing works, how costly it can be, and what they can do to avoid letting themselves become an unwitting accomplice to a hacker’s attack on their company.
The Nature of Phishing
Phishing involves a malicious entity that sends out emails that look like they are from reputable, well-known companies (maybe even the employee’s own employer) – but these emails are not what they seem.
Sometimes the purpose of a phishing email is to trick the recipient into revealing information such as logins, passwords, or personal information. Other times, phishing emails are used to install malware on the recipient’s computer. Once the hacker behind the phishing attack has succeeded in infiltrating the target system via login information or malware, the damage they cause quickly escalates.
Phishing Can Be Very Costly
So how expensive can phishing be? Well, consider what happened to a bank in Virginia that fell victim to two phishing attacks in just eight months. Their disaster began when an employee received and opened a phishing email which succeeded in installing malware on company computers. The malware was able to use the victim’s computer to access the STAR Network, a site used to handle debit card transactions. Through the STAR Network, the hackers behind the malware were able to steal $569,000 in that one incident alone.
But that wasn’t the end of the matter. Eight months later, even after hiring a cybersecurity forensics firm and following their advice to better secure their system, the same bank was victimized again through another phishing email. This time, the hackers again gained access to the STAR Network, but then used the bank’s Navigator system. Through those systems combined, the hackers were able to credit money to various bank accounts and then withdraw the money using hundreds of different ATMs. Losses from this incident amounted to almost $2 million.
To make matters even worse, the bank’s cyber insurance provider denied coverage and the bank is now forced to pursue a lawsuit to recover their losses.
The Very Real Dangers Of Phishing Attacks
Phishing wouldn’t be so effective if it wasn’t so easy for busy employees to fall victim to seemingly legitimate emails or innocent-looking attachments. The malware that was used to initiate the first attack on the bank discussed in this article was embedded in a Microsoft Word document. Most of us have worked with thousands of Word documents during our careers and have never been victimized by one – but it only takes one time to cost a business millions of dollars.
In this case, once that document was opened, the malware was installed and the group behind it had access to what they needed. The bank in question hired Verizon to investigate both incidents. It was finally determined that the same group of Russian hackers were likely responsible for both attacks.
Common Sense Required
Even the most powerful of cyber security systems is still susceptible to attacks that take the form of phishing or social engineering. As long as people continue to subscribe to the view that firewalls, anti-virus, and anti-malware systems provide all the protection against cyberattacks that a company needs, then successful phishing attacks will continue. Education is one of the forgotten keys to foiling phishing attacks.
Employees need to be taught how to recognize a suspicious email and be given real-world examples of how convincing phishing emails can appear. They need to be encouraged to view both emails and attachments with a critical eye. Employees must also understand that, under no circumstances, is there a legitimate reason for someone to ask for their password.
Another aspect of this type of education is making sure that people realize that the targets of phishing are not C-suite executives or IT technicians, but employees from all levels. Through a connection to the company’s network, any employee’s computer could serve as a launching pad for an industrious hacker’s plan of attack.
Phishing attacks are a reality that must be addressed if a company wants to avoid becoming a victim. These attacks often result in very expensive losses that may not be covered by insurance. While the importance of a rigorous cyber security system is never to be overestimated, neither is the importance of employee education. Too many employees have unwittingly become accomplices in costly cyberattacks because they didn’t recognize a phishing email and never thought they could be the target of one. The first line of defense against phishing isn’t a network firewall, but a trained employee who knows how to recognize a suspicious email or a questionable attachment.
By Dave Brewer
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Fatal DUI Crash And Lawsuit Shine Light On Restaurant Managers And Staff Drinking Alcohol After Hours
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Earlier this week a settlement was announced in the Husk Restaurant drunk driving case. In the lawsuit, the survivors of a 32-year-old man who died in a horrific car accident fire alleged that the accident was caused by an assistant manager at the Husk Restaurant who was allowed to get drunk on its premises and then drive home at 4 AM. While driving home in an intoxicated state - his blood-alcohol levels was reportedly three times the legal limit - he crashed into the back of the decedent’s car, which then smashed into a concrete barrier, exploded, and trapped the driver inside while it burned.
Sadly, the lawsuit was notable not because these types of horrific drunk driving accidents are uncommon - our law firm just filed one last week - because of the prominence of the defendant, which was named one of the best restaurants in America by Bon Appetit magazine. According to the court documents filed, the cases is settling for $1.1 million. That is an unusually low amount given the terrible nature of the damages, which would include not only the decedent’s lost wages and benefits he would have provided his family if he had been alive, but also extraordinary pain-and-suffering damages as a result of the blunt force trauma and burn injuries he suffered, and so we believe the settlement reflects the limits of the restaurant’s insurance policy.
Unfortunately, most businesses in America simply don’t have the cash on hand to fund settlements for catastrophic injuries or wrongful death, as we discussed on this blog recently in a terrible case involving an oil rig truck accident. As successful as the restaurant likely is, there’s a good chance that profits every year are taken out by the partners, and so the business itself doesn’t really have to much to fund a settlement.
If the plaintiff kept going forward, they would have to prevail at trial, then prevail all the way through the appeal, and then continue the claim through bankruptcy court, where the bulk of the claim’s value would likely be dismissed. That sort of long journey simply isn’t worth it to most plaintiffs who are trying to move on with their lives, and so we certainly don’t fault the plaintiff here, or any plaintiff who accepted the insurance policy limits in lieu of years of difficult litigation that was unlikely to actually provide more benefit to the family.
Our hope, however, is that the settlement and the news will spur more restaurants and their insurers to look into policies regarding drinking by staff and management after hours. This isn’t the first case we’ve heard of in which a manager or bartender continues to drink after the patrons are sent home at 2 PM, and then, in the wee hours of the morning, drives home while seriously intoxicated. Even restaurants and bars that are good about following the law and not serving visibly intoxicated patrons sometimes let their guard down when the “patron” is another member of the restaurant staff. This case is a tragic reminder of the dangers in letting that happen, and the dangers of easy access to alcohol in general.
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Although it’s a little later than planned, everyone can watch the world’s biggest annual sporting event again this year: the Tour de France. The 107th edition of the race will commence on 29 August in Nice on the Côte d’Azur and end on 20 September after a gruelling 3,470 km, finishing on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, as has been the tradition since 1975. Starting the race and vying for the most prestigious title in cycling will be 22 teams from 14 countries with a total of 176 riders.
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The Tour de France was first staged in 1903 as a promotional campaign for the newspaper “L’Auto”, the precursor publication to today’s paper “L’Equipe”. Riders in this first race had to conquer six stages, spanning a total of 2,428 km, in 19 days. In 1919 Henri Desgranges, who was race director at the time, decided that the race leader should wear a yellow jersey so that spectators could easily keep track of the race, and race leaders have worn a yellow jersey ever since. The mountains classification was created in 1933, and the best climbers were awarded the polka dot jersey from 1975. The green jersey for the leader in the points classification was introduced in 1953. The fact that our three-times world champion Peter Sagan donned the green jersey last year for an astounding seventh time (more times than anyone before), and the fact that German rider Emanuel Buchmann just missed out on the podium in Paris by a few seconds, gives us and the cycling world reasonable cause to hope that this year’s French Grand Tour will be a colourful success for the BORA team.
Here’s what’s in store this year: a stage profile that is well suited to Buchmann as he likes it mountainous – ideally long and steep at the same time. Eight mountain stages with spectacular mountain finishes in the Massif Central and the Alps await him and his domestiques Gregor Mühlberger, Felix Großschartner and Lennard Kämna. Three medium mountain stages and nine flat stages give Peter Sagan another perfect opportunity to rack up the sprint points and enter the history books in Paris. We’ve certainly got our green fingers crossed!
Spectators should keep an eye on the 20th and penultimate stage this year. It’s the only time trial in this year’s Tour de France, starting in Lure and ending in La Planche des Belles Filles. This is where the race could well and truly be decided. It’s bound to be thrilling whatever happens! Whoever tops the overall standings at this point will wear the yellow jersey into Paris and thus take home the most prestigious victory in the world of cycling.
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Twenty-seven professional cyclists from nine different countries in one team. Teamwork makes the dream work in cycling, after all. Even if only one of them is the first over the finish line, winning is a success for the whole team because you can’t win in cycling without domestiques who provide slipstreams, go grab water bottles, keep the competition at bay and lead out the sprinter for the sprint.
Teamwork is top priority in the BORA – hansgrohe team, that’s how they constantly develop, improve and become more successful. The team started in the third division in 2010, still under the NetApp team name, and was evolving and getting better all the time until it was promoted to the first division in 2017. Just two years later and with a total of 47 victories under its belt, the team advanced to the second-best team in the WorldTour division. Although 2020 has turned out to be an unusual season, the team is more motivated than ever and has set its sights high. The year’s nowhere near over though.
Twenty-two teams with eight riders each are competing in the major three-week-long Grand Tours. There are riders specialised in sprint stages, great climbers and good all-rounders who support the two team captains – Emanuel Buchmann, to lead the general classification (GC), and Peter Sagan, to collect as many points as possible.
Emanuel Buchmann
The BORA – hansgrohe team is particularly proud of Emanuel Buchmann. “Emu” turned pro with the team and established himself as one of the world’s best GC contenders. He usually doesn’t say much; he prefers to let his actions do the talking and show just what he’s capable of on the bike. And what he could do at last year’s Tour de France was an awful lot, performing with incredible consistency over 21 stages. The Ravensburg native was just a few seconds short of getting on the podium in Paris, so the 27-year-old’s mission for Tour de France 2020 is obvious: to get a place on the podium on the Champs-Elysées. He has a domestique team of world-class climbers to support him.
As a three-time world championship winner, seven-time winner of the green jersey at the Tour de France and winner of the Queen of the Classics Paris-Roubaix with a total of 113 wins in his career, Peter Sagan is one of the most successful professional cyclists ever. But there is one thing that the 30-year-old Slovakian cyclist is and that’s different. If we’ve learned one thing about this rock star of the cycling world, then it’s that he has unbelievable mental strength and that is he is a force to be reckoned with. He goes all in when he wins and equally so when he’s entertaining the fans. During the race you can see him signing autographs on the Tourmalet pass or delighting the crowds by performing a wheelie because Peter Sagan not only considers it his duty to put on an impressive performance athletically, he also wants to put on a good show for the spectators.
Felix Großschartner
Felix is third member of the “Austria Gang” riding at the Tour de France. The 26-year-old joined the team in 2018. He is the designated mountain specialist and will help Team Captain Emanuel Buchmann to get a podium in the final stage in Paris. Felix chalked up his first big win in 2019 when he won one stage and topped the overall standings at the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey. It wasn’t just his victory, it was also the first overall win at an international stage race for the BORA – hansgrohe team.
Lennard Kämna
The 23-year-old from the far north of Germany started to make a name for himself early in his career. In particular it was his skills as a time trial rider battling against the clock that were remarkable, making him junior time trial world champion and under-23s European time trial champion. At just 20 years old, he won the world team time trial championships alongside his teammates and cycling stars Tom Dumoulin and Michael Matthews, to name a couple. But it was the Tour de France 2019 that made the cycling world sit up and pay attention as he – still in Team Sunweb at this point – performed extraordinarily well, especially in the race’s third week, always riding at the front of the pack. He’s a great racing talent that BORA – hansgrohe team manager Ralph Denk was quickly able to get for his team. Now he’s starting as a domestique for Emanuel Buchmann.
Gregor Mühlberger
Joining the team as a stagiaire (a kind of professional cycling trainee) in 2015, Gregor Mühlberger, affectionately called “Mübsi” by his teammates, made the journey from ProConti to WorldTour level. He played a big part in helping Emanuel Buchmann achieve success in last year’s race, so of course this key domestique will be there this year too. The Austrian cyclist also rode to his first victories this year so it will come as no surprise if he happens to clinch a stage win at the Tour de France.
Daniel Oss
The Italian, hailing from Lake Garda, is not just a friend of Peter Sagan, he has also been his domestique for many years. Understanding each other perfectly makes working together so much easier – and it means you’ll sometimes see Daniel do his best Peter Sagan impression in interviews. The 33-year-old brings much experience and a calming influence to the team, both of which are vital during Grand Tours. But back on the team bus, he also makes sure that everyone’s enjoying themselves with tunes to get them pumped up. Keep on rockin’, Daniel!
Lukas Pöstlberger
Like Gregor Mühlberger, Lukas Pöstlberger joined the team as a stagiaire (professional cycling trainee) in 2015. The two-time Austrian national champion is deployed as an all-rounder and gives valuable support in whatever role he is given. There’s a good reason why his signature hashtag is #poestipower. During the first stage of Giro d’Italia 2017 (his first Grand Tour ever), he seized the moment and bagged the stage win in style and donned the pink leader jersey for a day. With this win he immediately made history as the first Austrian to ever win a stage at the Giro d’Italia. Perhaps that puts Pösti in with a good chance at the Tour de France?
Maximilian Schachmann
Max has been on the starting line with team BORA – hansgrohe since 2019. The 26-year-old cyclist from Berlin had no trouble settling in, claiming six victories in his first year and bagging the title of German national champion. His second year started even more successfully: he achieved a stage and an overall win at the prestigious Paris–Nice “Race to the Sun”, boosting his confidence and bringing him to the attention of cycling elites. He’s both the key domestique and the wild card at the Tour de France, and he has already clearly shown that he doesn’t shy away from big names. Allez allez allez!
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Woman leader in Batangas survives slay try
Ronalyn V. Olea October 16, 2012 2 Comments Daisy Ayo, frustrated murder, Zobel-Ayala
Two years ago, Daisy Ayo, 37, said she was visited several times by men in uniform. “They told me they would like to investigate my involvement in our campaign for the land.”
MANILA – A local leader of progressive women’s group Gabriela was lucky to have escaped death.
On October 14, Daisy Ayo, 37, was selling fish at a local public market in Luksuhin village in Calatagan town in Batangas. At around 2 p.m., she noticed two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle. The men stopped in front of her; she thought they would buy some fish. Suddenly, the man at the back seat wearing a red cap and black jacket pulled out a 45 caliber gun.
Three gunshots were heard. Ayo said she did not know how she managed to come out alive. She sustained a gunshot wound on her left leg. She was brought to the Madonna General Hospital in Balayan town for treatment.
“Because I have been fighting for our right to our land, I had been threatened that I would be abducted or killed,” Ayo, a mother of four children, told Bulatlat.com in a phone interview.
Ayo’s family lives in Sambungan village, which is part of the 2,000 hectares of land in ten coastal villages that was claimed by the rich Ayala-Zobel clan and then sold to third parties.
Jobert Pahilga, legal counsel for the Calatagan farmers and fisherfolk and executive director of Sentro para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo (Sentra), said Ayo and other fisherfolk families in Calatagan are legal owners of the land.
In its March 1998 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the disputed land taken by the Zobel-Ayala is classified as public land. Thus, under the Public Land Act, Pahilga said the families living there for more than 30 years are considered legal owners of the land.
Pahilga said the fisherfolk families have, for more than a decade, been asking the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to complete the process of entitling the land in favor of the fisherfolk families. Under the Public Land Act, the DENR is tasked to “perfect the title.” However, Pahilga said the agency has been sitting on the petition of Calatagan farmers and fisherfolk families and the land has not been distributed to the farmers and fisherfolk up to now.
Ayo has been active in the dialogues and other activities in defense of their land. She deemed that the attack on her has everything to do with their campaign.
Before the incident, Ayo said, she knew she was being monitored. “For several times, I noticed men tailing me; they wore bonnets,” Ayo said.
One time, she said, a man who refused to identify himself asked one of her children about her whereabouts.
She said soldiers from the Philippine Air force are stationed in their villages. The soldiers, Ayo said, “protect portions of the land being claimed by wealthy families.”
Two years ago, Ayo said, she was visited several times by men in uniform. “They told me they would like to investigate my involvement in our campaign for the land.”
Asked about the particular unit of the military, Ayo said she was not able to identify them. “I was afraid to ask them. They were armed,” Ayo said. Some of the soldiers held long rifles; others had handguns.
Ayo also related that leaflets maligning Gabriela as a front organization of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and New People’s Army (NPA) were distributed in public places. She said she knew that the military was behind it.
“That’s a lie,” Ayo said. “Gabriela is a legitimate party list group elected in Congress,” she said.
Vilification of people’s organizations has continued under the Aquino administration. Many of the victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights abuses belonged to organizations tagged by the military as CPP fronts.
Ayo was not the first Calatagan leader to be subjected to harassment.
On February 8, 2009, Wilfredo Gonzales, former president of Haligi ng mga Batangueñong Anak Dagat (Habagat), was driving an ELF-truck along Bukal Village in Calatagan, when he and his passenger Noli De Castro were shot at, according to a fact sheet from Karapatan. The two died on the spot due to multiple gunshot wounds.
The assailants were two men on board a motorcycle and whose faces were covered with ski masks. Gonzales was also active in protest actions related to the land dispute.
In a statement, Rjei Manalo, secretary general of Gabriela-Southern Tagalog, condemned the attack on Ayo. “Only the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Zobel clan have the motive to kill Ayo,” Manalo said in Filipino.
Manalo said that under the Aquino administration, 18 have been victims of extrajudicial killings from Southern Tagalog region. “Even women and children are not spared from state violence,” she said.
Ayo has come home yesterday and is recovering from the gunshot wound. “If this is what I get for defending our land and for helping others, so be it,” she said.
She called on the Aquino administration to pull out the military from their villages.
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A New Analysis Says These Kinds Of Facebook Posts Can Be A Sign Of Depression
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By Sanam Yar
Scroll through your Facebook feed, and you’re likely to encounter a barrage of minutes-long recipe videos, memes, and the occasional status update from your grandma. But what if there was a way to reach out to Facebook’s 2.2 billion active monthly users for good, beyond sharing funny cat videos? A new study found that content shared by (consenting) Facebook users could help predict future occurrence of depression in their medical records.
Major depression is one of the most common mental illnesses in America — an estimated 16.2 million U.S. adults, or 6.7 percent of the adult population, have experienced at least one major depressive episode, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Yet roughly 37 percent of adults who have had major depressive episodes do not undergo treatment. This new study is part of a growing body of research looking into novel screening methods for mental illness via social media.
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study assessed the language from a sample of 683 consenting patients’ Facebook status histories. Language predictive of depression included references to sadness, loneliness, hostility, and rumination, as well as a preoccupation with the self in statuses. What’s unique about this study is that it is the first to compare the language people use on Facebook to actual clinical diagnoses in the study participants' electronic medical records. In some cases, the researchers were able to predict future depression diagnoses as much as three months before its appearance in individuals' medical records as a diagnosed condition.
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The study builds on a developing body of research into the links between social media and early screening of mental illness. A 2017 study developed computational models to help predict depression and PTSD in Twitter users based on their tweets, going as far as to suggest that onset of depression may be detectable from Twitter data “several months” prior to actual diagnosis. Another study, published in May 2018, looked at negative emotions expressed in Facebook and Twitter status updates, suggesting that each social media platform may have different online cultures that manifest different insights into mental health.
Countless articles have lamented on how the rise of social media has impacted people’s mental health.
"It would be irresponsible to take this tool and use it to say: You’re depressed, you're not depressed," Johannes Eichstaedt, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of the study, told Wired. He emphasized that the research could eventually become useful for identifying individuals who should follow up with more formal screening processes, like a visit to a clinician.
Even though more research is needed in the field before a mechanism to suggest follow-up screenings could be implemented, social media as a mental health screening tool seems like a promising avenue worth exploring. Countless articles have lamented on how the rise of social media has impacted people’s mental health. But the reality is that, despite these studies, social media use is still ubiquitous. Assuming the technology is only applied to consenting users, if social media itself could become a tool to help screen for mental illness, it could one day help mitigate a problem it may itself contribute to.
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Excess Verdict From UM Trial Is Binding In Subsequent Bad-Faith Trial
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Geico General Insurance Co. v. Paton, No. 4D12—4606, 2014 WL 4626860 (Fla. 4th DCA Sept. 17, 2014)
Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal held that a jury’s determination of the insured’s damages in an underlying trial to recover UM benefits was binding on an insurer in a subsequent bad-faith trial. In reaching its decision, the court examined the bad-faith statute, its history, and Florida case law.
On January 1, 2008, Kelly Paton, a passenger, was injured in a car accident caused by the negligence of an underinsured driver. The driver’s insurance company, Geico General Insurance Company (“Geico”), paid Paton the $10,000 bodily injury liability limit. Paton’s mother maintained uninsured/underinsured motorist (“UM”) coverage with Geico, with $100,000 in coverage. Paton’s attorney demanded the $100,000 policy limit from Geico. Geico made settlement offers of $1,000 and later $5,000 in an attempt to settle the case. The UM case went to trial. The jury returned a verdict in Paton’s favor and against Geico, awarding $10,000 for past pain and suffering, and $350,000 for future pain and suffering. The verdict set Paton’s total damages at $469,247. Geico did not file a motion for a new trial. Judgment was entered in favor of Paton but was limited to the $100,000 UM policy limit. Geico paid the judgment.
Paton then amended her complaint to add a claim for bad faith, pursuant to Fla. Stat. § 624.155. Before trial, Paton moved in limine to exclude evidence of damages. Paton argued that the excess verdict returned in the UM trial established the damages she could recover under her bad-faith claim. In opposition, Geico filed motions in limine seeking to exclude from evidence the verdict returned in the UM trial, and to require Paton to prove her damages anew in the bad-faith trial. The circuit court granted Paton’s motions and denied Geico’s motions.
At the bad-faith trial, consistent with its rulings on the motions in limine, the trial court removed the damages issue from the jury’s consideration with an instruction that the court would award damages in an amount allowable under Florida law if its verdict was for the plaintiff. The jury found for the plaintiff, and the circuit court entered a final judgment in the amount of the excess verdict from the UM trial ($369,247), plus prejudgment interest.
In its appeal, Geico argued that the circuit court erred by treating the excess verdict from a UM trial as conclusive evidence of Paton’s damages in the bad-faith trial, thereby denying Geico procedural due process and violating its right to appeal and access to the courts.
The court addressed the issue of whether, in the bad-faith trial, the insured is required to prove once again her damages, instead of relying on the jury’s damage determination made in the underlying action to recover UM benefits.
The court held that the jury’s determination of damages in the underlying action to recover UM benefits was binding on the insurance company in the subsequent bad-faith trial.
In reaching its decision, the court considered the language of the bad-faith statute, the Florida Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on first-party bad-faith actions, and noted Geico’s failure to challenge the damage award after the first trial or in the appeal of the bad-faith action.
The court explained that the Legislature created a first-party bad-faith cause of action by its 1982 enactment of Fla. Stat. § 624.155. In 1992, the Legislature passed § 627.727(10), which provides:
The damages are recoverable from an uninsured motorist carrier in an action brought under s. 624.155 shall include the total amount of the claimant’s damages, including the amount in excess of the policy limits, any interest on unpaid benefits, reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, and any damages caused by a violation of a law of this state. The total amount of the claimant’s damages is recoverable whether caused by an insurer or by a third-party tortfeasor.
The court stated that case law construing the bad-faith statute provides further support for the court’s conclusion that the initial action between the insurer and the insured fixes the amount of damages in a first-party bad-faith action. The court noted that in State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Laforet, 658 So. 2d 55, 59 (Fla. 1995), the Florida Supreme Court applied section 627.727(10) and reiterated that the initial action for first-party benefits, which sets the insured’s damages arising from an accident, determines the extent of the insured’s damages in a first-party bad-faith case. Laforet, 658 So. 2d at 56-57 ( “Section 627.727(10) provides that the damages recoverable from an uninsured motorist insurance carrier in a bad faith action brought under section 624.155 and the 1990 amendment thereto shall include the total amount of a claimant’s damages, including any amount in excess of the claimant’s policy limits awarded by a judge or jury in the underlying claim.”).
The court further explained that “[f]orcing retrial of a plaintiff’s damages at a first-party bad faith trial, as Geico urges, is such bad policy that we do not glean even a hint of its existence in any case the Supreme Court has decided in this area.” The court noted that Geico participated fully in the first trial with an opportunity to challenge the plaintiff’s evidence and a powerful motive to suppress the amount of damages.
The court rejected Geico’s argument that the procedure used in this case frustrated its appellate rights because it was unable to challenge the full amount of the jury’s verdict in the underlying UM action. The court explained that Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.530(a) provides that a “new trial may be granted to all or any of the parties and on all or a part of the issues.” The court stated that because Geico never filed a Rule 1.530(a) motion, the court was “left to guess at what errors might have infected the first trial.” The court noted that many types of legal errors might have applied equally to damages above and below the $100,000 policy limit, such that the entire amount of damages was interrelated for the purpose of being appealable. The court explained, “Because the damages in the first trial fixed the amount of bad faith damages and an order denying a motion for new trial could have addressed damages in excess of $100,000, an appeal after the final judgment in the first trial directed at the total amount of damages thus would have fallen within the constitutional parameters of the jurisdiction of this Court as an appeal from a ‘final judgment[ ] or order[ ]’ of the trial court. Art. V, § 4(b)(1), Fla. Const.”
The court also addressed Judge Altenbernd’s concurring opinion in Geico General Insurance Co. v. Bottini, 93 So. 3d 476 (Fla. 2d DCA 2012), where Judge Altenbernd expressed concern that a district court of appeal would not have jurisdiction to consider the propriety of damages in excess of the amount included in the judgment on appeal. The court stated that where a jury’s damage award far exceeds the amount of a final judgment, the “final judgment or order” language of Art. V, § 4(b)(1) should be expansively read to include an appeal from an order denying a new trial in the first-party suit for uninsured motorist benefits. The court stated, “The final judgment subsumes the earlier order’s resolution of the jury’s damage determination so that the total amount is an immediately appealable issue.”
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MOVE (1972- )
Posted on June 6, 2020 January 20, 2021 by contributed by: Euell A. Nielsen
African American History: African American History: Groups & Organizations
MOVE members outside Philadelphia home, 1978
Courtesy Leif Skoogfors/Corbis via Getty Images, Fair use image
MOVE is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based black liberation group, whose foundation was built on philosophies of black nationalism and anarcho-primitivism, as well as animal rights. The group was founded in 1972 by Vincent Leaphart, a native of West Philadelphia, who could not read or write. He was drafted into the US Army in 1951, during the Korean War, and served one year in an infantry unit. He returned home after the war and soon began courting a neighborhood woman, Dorothy Clark. On March 11, 1961, the two were married, but Leaphart moved to New Jersey to study and practice interior decorating. By 1968, the couple separated.
In 1972, Leaphart began a series of racial teachings that grew a following of people who believed in his ideology. He changed his surname to Africa in 1972 to represent the continent where his ancestors originated. Africa, along with his followers, moved into a home on Pearl Street in Philadelphia, and founded The Christian Movement for Life, the foundation of the organization eventually known as MOVE. Assisted by social worker Donald Glassey, Africa compiled his thoughts into an 800-page book called The Guidelines, which became the primary source of his teachings and principles for the organization.
MOVE members wore their hair in dreadlocks, advocated a radical form of environmental politics, and opposed science, medicine, and technology. They regularly held demonstrations against animal cruelty in front of zoos, puppy mills, and any institutional form of enslavement of animals, using bullhorns to propel their ideals. The members were often jailed for their actions.
In the summer of 1978, MOVE members reached a deal with the city of Philadelphia where if several of their members were released from jail, they would turn over their weapons and leave the building they occupied in the Powelton Village section of West Philadelphia. The city honored their terms, but MOVE did not.
On August 8, 1978, the Philadelphia Police attempted to forcibly evict the MOVE members from their home at 311 North 33rd Street, generating a stand-off. After a single shot was heard, a shootout occurred between the police and MOVE members. Officer James J. Ramp, was shot in the back of the neck while facing the home and was killed. Sixteen other officers were injured.
MOVE members surrendered, but were beaten by multiple officers upon exiting the home. Nine members of the MOVE organization (Chuck Africa, Phil Africa, Eddie Africa, Delbert Africa, Janet Africa, Janine Africa, Michael Africa, Merle Africa, and Debbie Africa) were arrested, convicted of murder, and sentenced to life in prison. The group became known as the MOVE 9. All other MOVE members were evicted, and the property was demolished.
During the pending investigations, Glassey implicated Vincent Africa and other MOVE members in unsolved crimes to avoid prosecution, but on July 23, 1981, during the federal trial, Africa and co-defendant Alfonso Africa were acquitted of all charges. Of the MOVE 9, Merle died in prison in 1998 and Phil in 2015. Debbie was released on parole in June 2018, and Michael in October. Janet and Janine came out in May 2019, Eddie in June, and Delbert in December of 2019. Chuck was released in February 2020. Remaining MOVE members continue to advocate for the release of previously jailed members.
Subjects: African American History, Groups & OrganizationsTerms: 20th Century (1900-1999), United States - Pennsylvania, Military service - Army, United States - New Jersey, Military Conflict - Korean War, Civil Rights - Black Liberation Organizations, Occupation-Journalist-Editor
Nielsen, E. (2020, June 06) MOVE (1972- ). Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/move-1972/
Craig R. McCoy, “Who is John Africa”, Inquirer.com, May 8, 2010, https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/Who_was_John_Africa.html; Samantha Melamed, “Michael Africa of MOVE 9 paroled to wife he hasn’t seen in 40 years”, Inquirer.com, October 24, 2018, https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/michael-africa-of-move-9-paroled-debbie-africa-bombing-wilson-goode-rizzo-20181024.html; Linn Washington Jr., “Pam Africa: An extraordinary activist,” Phillytrib.com, March 27, 2012, https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/local-commentary/pam-africa-an-extraordinary-activist/article_e0489c0f-622d-5157-b1d0-5a60f1e8f573.html.
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So What If There Was an Attempt to Widen the Gap
I'd like think Corporate instructed Trump ignite biggest firestorm since last till next, stomp out that America populist lefty brush fire before it bursts, but no.
Centrist stompers, not to worry, motherfucking Democrats are on it, This. Is. Cash. Money.
I do think the dumbasses at Corporate genuinely understand the Camaro's brakes are shot (if not his breaks), if it doesn't BOOM then take the keys when it coasts to a stop.
Nah, I kid, I mean they will, eventually, when the rents run dry, but it's only Tuesday.
Psst. Already over, the fuss over latest episode of Today's AIEE!
(except for professional Democrats, still giddy, thankful for Trump's gift to wield against leftists).
I've no doubt the dumbasses at Corporate don't fret sessions of King Pence, who will hailed as Heroic Reestablisher of Kayfabe once he's called from the bullpen.
Fleabus in Leg Valley.
Raising a child in a doomed world.
The Shadow knows.
Head Villager Jester calls America a stupid country.
Everyday firestorm biggest since last till next, I am telling you three times we are being reprogrammed.
The freakout explained.
There is a light that never goes out. I have an orange animal in the same place.
Helsinki Goon Show and the real rot.
Counterpoint.
Why do the filthy rich think the apocalypse is coming? Um, because they're collecting rents on it?
Ocasio-Cortez, Palestine, the Left.
Elizabeth Warner, your progressive savior.
Stop eating animals.
Colin Newman's favorite 13 albums.
Posted by BDR at 8:26 AM
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Mongo, At The Moment July 17, 2018 at 10:35 AM
>> I can't wait for the Rule Of Mikey. He will be godly and good. Everything will take on an illusory simulacrum, a mock- crypto- quasi-approximation of a past which wasn't, ever. He will lead us all away from tempy and sluts, and deliver us to the nearest Megachurch, for his stiff suits and tight hair are the kinkdom and gory. A men, and not women, eh.
>> The Endless Outrage: At the end of it, we shall be burned out and all be Changed, so that when That Thing That Will Happen happens = Meh. Not even Chomsky will care overly much. Our virtuous Wealthy will pay their private security in chicken nuggets. Oh, ayuh.
>> Corporations are multinational, right? Nation-states are so 20th century. Who cares when a billionaire who acquired America sucks up to an Oligark who acquired Russia? We're still going to have to get up every day, work work work, and buy things made by subsidiaries of the ten Corporations left in the world, all of which are collectively owned by People You Will Never See, with Names We've Never Heard Of. Fer Sure.
>> And in spite of All and Everything, there is The Dog. Or Cat. Amazing that no matter what the fuck happens, suddenly there's a Dog, looking up at you with that goofy smile, hey, yeah; time for a walk, right? Right? Or a Cat, simply lying there, reminding us that all we need to do is stop, and think, differently.
Can't read your links to the Washington Post Hole, they want me to pay them a dollar. I refuse to pay a dollar for someone to tell me a pack of lies. I want to hug Fleabus, but you're over there and I'm over here.
I'm sick of liberals and their bullshit hypocrisy. A close friend (a liberal) keeps bothering me with his liberal bullshit even though I told him how I felt about his views in as nice a way as I could. I'm about ready to tell him to fuck off. I don't want to do this to an old friend, any suggestions? Supposedly we become more patient as we age but for me that isn't true. If anything my tolerance for bullshit is reaching an all time low.
Yes, I know that my fabulous fur ball, Teddy is going to die some day, he's a senior cat but for me that's not an issue. The issue is that I want to take care of him and make his life as good as possible and enjoy the time we spend together. I'm 66 so I'm not long for this world either. Just about everyone in my family is dead. I miss them, I also miss Bebe the Cat. According to science our whole solar system will die as well. I don't think I want to be there when that happens. I don't see any point in talking about this.
As far as Cortez is concerned I don't think she's all that important. Probably the system will eat her alive. Anyone who believes the system will fix itself from within is delusional. What's that definition of insanity? Repeating the same action and expecting something different to happen because of that, or some such thing. I mean, how long has it been? And how many times? Cheeses fucking Christ almighty.
mistah charley, ph.d. July 19, 2018 at 10:42 AM
nice cat photo
things will be different when pence is king - who knows if it's good or bad
comments from me may be somewhat scarcer in next few weeks (who knows if it's good or bad - ha!) as the general topic of buddha's five contemplations moves into the central sphere of practical action for self and spouse
as i have put in this comment area, more than once:
the nytimes has a news story that "groundhog day" is being made into a broadway musical - the comment i submitted to them about this -
"Groundhog Day" is a powerful story of redemption through love, as the central character moves from self-concern, to despair and destruction, to a final realization of our purpose on earth - to be good to each other. I've seen the movie many times, including on tv - and I wonder if the stage show will include a plot element often omitted when broadcast - Phil's interaction with the elderly beggar. This adds an important aspect that balances the "immortality" and "boy gets girl" and comic elements that make the movie so appealing. The old man's fate reminds us of the background against which this dramedy is playing - that we are all subject to aging, illness, death, loss of those persons and things dear to us, and the inevitability of experiencing the good and evil consequences of our actions (Buddha's Five Contemplations).
http://www.blckdgrd.com/2015/04/sixty-six-today.html
and also see
http://tinyurl.com/j92q2ed
may any who read these words be well, happy, and at peace
mistah charley, ph.d. July 20, 2018 at 6:28 AM
i need wonder no more - re the specific question stated - our wikipedia friends describe the groundhog day musical, and assure me
The next morning, Phil wakes on 2 February alone again and decides to engage with the townspeople and better himself by learning piano ("Philosopher"). Phil learns that Ned's wife has died and later that evening Phil finds a homeless man dead in the park, which he spends several days trying to prevent before accepting that some things are inevitable ("Night Will Come").
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Home Life Style Test: 130-Euro-Smartphone cuts as good as the iPhone XS – behind
Test: 130-Euro-Smartphone cuts as good as the iPhone XS – behind
What makes a good Smartphone? This question is probably the answer any different. Many people are likely to value a good camera, other the battery life, the Design or the operating speed is most important. You added the different priorities. The Stiftung Warentest has now led to the recent Smartphone Test to a bizarre result.
21 the current Smartphones were there for each other. Among other top models such as the Galaxy Note 9 or the new iPhone models XS, XS, Max and XR. However, to get hold of, instead of, as in most other Compare the top court, ended up Apple’s top-end models significantly later than expected – and, in part, on the level of cheap devices.
TV-equipment in the Test: the test checks the giant-screen TVs: a Good 65-incher for 800 euros Fullscreen
The winner of the test: LG C8
The clear test winner goes to LG. This starts with the most Important: the image. The C8 65-inch is the only device in the Test, the Display will be evaluated as “very good”. Also, in sound, and the versatility of the OLED TV best notes can be used to dusting and achieved a “very good” (1,5) total comprehensive income. The drawback is the price. The C8 is not under 2100 Euro.
manufacturer iPhone XS on level with Galaxy J6
especially the iPhone XS mies cut off literally. In spite of its high price of at least 980 euros and it ended up only on the 10. Place – on a par with the Samsung Galaxy J6, there are currently available from 130 Euro. The Moto G6 Plus Motorola performs even better than the iPhone – even though it will cost with a price of 200 euros, only one-fifth.
The simple reason for this: The iPhone could not convince in the case of test, several devices received in the Test to break. “Adequate” as assessed by the Stiftung Warentest, the stability of the iPhones, and have depreciated the overall grade to a 2.5. Thus, it is significantly behind the cheaper iPhone XR, achieved in part, weaker technology, and according to the worse of the marks, nevertheless, an overall grade of 2.0 and the second place.
What are the stars there would have been without the devaluation, does not reveal Stiftung Warentest. For your orientation: The iPhone XS could produce in the categories “Internet and PC”, “handling” and “camera” for the best performance in the Test. Technically, the same iPhone XS Max is achieved with largely identical sub-scores, but slightly lower depreciation with a rating of 2.3 after all, the fourth place.
iPhone XR in the Test: 300 Euro cheaper – is it worth the colorful iPhone?
By Christoph Fröhlich Everyone has their own priorities
The Test shows a fundamental Problem: The result of such a test will change if one shifts the weighting of the categories. In the case of Stiftung Warentest is the call quality during phone calls is about as important as the cameras. Both contribute 15 percent of the overall grade. The image quality of the display, however, a point can points the especially the Premium devices, is only part of the note in the section “handling”. The computing power of the device in between the Galaxy J9 and the iPhone XS are worlds apart – a flows as well as in the present Test, such as the processing and higher quality materials.
with these test results to find out so, which Smartphone is the best for your needs, you would have to consider actually the results in Detail and according to the own preference weights. Those who prefer stability and phone calls as the most important Features of a smartphone, could share the assessment by the Stiftung Warentest. The Display and the camera are a but much more important, you can find more of these headings.
display damage or other Defect
don’t let it fall! So expensive a repair of the new iPhones
is a test were familiar with the Problem
The Stiftung Warentest is this Dilemma to be well aware of. “The entry-level model obviously can not keep up with the technology of the iPhone”; it says about the Galaxy J6. However, it receives due to the prioritization of the rubrics at the end of the same Note.
Interestingly, this result is also because the Galaxy Note 9 with the grade of 1.8 test winner and best rated Smartphone yet – was just able to convince in his case, test. In various other Tests from other websites, just this device away but came to be particularly fragile. Foundation goods test checks the stability by leaving the devices in a drum crash. The evaluation will also take into account whether the units are supplied with a case and, therefore, more enduring. Exactly, this is not the case of the iPhones. If you have the power equivalent to the Galaxy J6, you must then decide for yourself.
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The parallels between the coronavirus and the climate crisis
You could just as easily replace the words ‘climate change’ with ‘COVID-19’; it is truly the tale of two pandemics deferred, denied, and distorted.
By John F. KerryUpdated April 21, 2020, 2:20 p.m.
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On the first Earth Day 50 years ago, I was one of 20 million Americans who took to the streets to demand that leaders protect our environment. We were activists — many reluctant, others accidental, and some dyed-in-the-wool purists — united as unlikely allies. We had different agendas, but one common purpose: to make powerful people listen. And we did. Before that first Earth Day, there was no Environmental Protection Agency, no Clean Water Act, no Clean Air Act. Citizens acted — and politicians followed. That day saved lives.
A half-century later, on Earth Day 2020, we can’t march, rally, or fill the streets because of stay-at-home orders to fight the coronavirus pandemic. But COVID-19 has given us greater reason than ever to organize and fight to connect the fragility of our planet to the fragility of life itself.
Make no mistake, there are people dying from COVID-19 who were more vulnerable to this pandemic because of climate change and carbon pollution. The preexisting conditions that make us more likely to die from the disease are “the same diseases that are affected by long-term exposure to air pollution.”
But the long-term parallels between this pandemic and tomorrow’s gathering storm of climate crisis are more clear.
The climate crisis is already expected to rob us of a quarter-million lives a year from everything from malnutrition to malaria. Direct annual costs of health impacts alone could easily approach $4 billion a year by the next decade. The financial devastation of climate-change-related disasters has increased 150 percent, costing the world $2.25 trillion. It’s projected to grow exponentially if the world stays on today’s unsustainable trajectory.
Yes, climate change is a threat multiplier for pandemic diseases, and zoonotic diseases — 70 percent of all human infections — are impacted by climate change and its effect on animal migration and habitats.
This moment in life — social distancing in full effect — is inseparable from this moment on Earth. Spending Earth Day inside, separated from one another, has made many of us think harder about what we do with the time we have. It’s made us value science, and understand the real meaning of decisions made or deferred.
Flattening the curve of one pandemic has given proof of concept to the fact that when lives are on the line, people everywhere will mobilize. But what anyone today wouldn’t give to turn back the clocks to December and January and mobilize earlier, before tens of thousands of lives were shattered by COVID-19. We had the facts. We had the warnings. We even had the playbook to respond. How costly were a few weeks of inaction?
Indeed, how costly the years of inaction that have been lost battling on the climate crisis? Just as in today’s pandemic, progress has been halted by finger-pointing, denial, replacing real science with junk science, misinformation, and flat-out lies, elevating political hacks instead of scientists and experts, refusal to work with allies and even adversaries, and leaving states and cities to fend for themselves. Sound familiar? It’s no coincidence that the same president who called COVID-19 a “Democratic hoax” referred to climate change as a “hoax invented by the Chinese.”
You could just as easily replace the words climate change with COVID-19; it is truly the tale of two pandemics deferred, denied, and distorted, one with catastrophic consequences, the other with even greater risk if we don’t reverse course.
Here’s a wake-up call. Until the coronavirus crisis, every major nation was on track to increase emissions this year. We have been moving backward. We will be at the “nine years left” mark to take the long-term significant steps recommended in a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change three years ago. Time is running out: less than nine years to avoid climate catastrophe.
But there’s time to act — and opportunity if we do. If the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic is costly today, the cost of climate inaction will match — if not exceed — our current expenditures, which is why the next administration must act with urgency on day one. It’s not a choice between economic recovery and climate action; solving the climate crisis is the engine of our economic future.
The solar sector could account for 22 million jobs by 2050, energy storage could support 4.5 million workers, and wind energy could constitute 1.5 million jobs if the world reaches 100 percent renewable by 2050. That means more jobs in energy not less: a jump from 21 million in 2015 to 35 million in 2050. What are we afraid of other than avoiding a health and economic catastrophe and creating the economic transformation opportunity of a lifetime?
Today, I miss seeing my children, my grandchildren, and my friends face to face. I have friends who have tested positive, and others who have died from this disease. But I can’t roll back the clock on the pandemic and make stubborn leaders listen. We still have that power on the climate crisis — the same way we did 50 years ago. It requires nothing less than a World War II-style mobilization to wage and win the effort to achieve a net-zero carbon economy. During this time of social distancing, I’ve thought of the elderly COVID-19 survivors who remembered they’d been through worse. During World War II Americans would conserve vital war resources from rubber to nylon, saying to each other, “Don’t you know there’s a war on?”
That’s the mindset needed today, with one caveat: If we act now, the solutions aren’t sacrifice. The solutions make us healthier and more prosperous.
This Earth Day, we are staying at home to save lives from a crisis. But every one of us can take action to prevent the next one. Enlist in this fight so that this is our last Earth Day spent inside. Enlist so that next year, in the battle against the climate crisis, it finally feels like the world is winning.
John F. Kerry, cofounder of World War Zero, was US secretary of state from 2013 to 2017.
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Posted on December 18, 2019 in Posts in 2019 by BrodartBrodart
In the words of my favorite (fictional) president, Jed Bartlet of "The West Wing," "What’s next?" Librarians are always looking ahead, wondering what will enchant and entice their patrons in the coming year.
So, what’s in store for us in 2020?
First of all, there will be very popular books written by the kind of very popular authors who write new books almost every year. People like James Patterson, Danielle Steel, Clive Cussler, Nora Roberts… Well, you know who they are. There will also be new biographies about people that we feel we already know, such as Diane Keaton, Lindsey Vonn, Alicia Keys, and Talib Kweli. Newt Gingrich will tell us more about politics, Rachel Maddow will school us on Spiro Agnew, and Bill Gates will explain the climate change issue. George R.R. Martin may or may not finish the next installment of "Game of Thrones."
2020 will bring some highly anticipated book releases. Many of our favorite authors have new novels coming out, including Isabel Allende, Ann Tyler, Terry McMillan, Sue Monk Kidd, Lisa Gardner, and Emma Straub. There are also lots of books written by our new soon-to-be favorite authors, including those on these lists:
Real Simple's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
Read it Forward's Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2020
Library patrons love to get ahead of the curve by reading books that are about to become movies or television series. Some of the titles expected on big and small screens next year include "Artemis Fowl," "Dune," "The Invisible Man," "The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle," and "Death on the Nile." There are many more on the way. Here are some highlights:
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There are also several events and anniversaries that will affect book selection in 2020.
NASA will begin a new mission to Mars in July, when the earth and the Red Planet will be in optimal positions for the long journey. We can expect a lot of interest in this trip, which has a planned landing date in early 2021.
Speaking of Mars, now would be a good time to check your supply of books by Ray Bradbury, author of "The Martian Chronicles," since 2020 is the 100-year anniversary of his birth. Also born in that year was fellow science fiction-ist Isaac Asimov. Two other major book anniversaries will take place next year: both "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton and "This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald were published in 1920.
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo in August. There are lots of books about Olympic history and trivia, biographies of notable Olympians, and of course, updated travel guides.
And oy vey, the 2020 Presidential elections will probably take a toll on all of us. No matter which side you’re on, it will probably be exhausting, and there will be at least 400 tell-alls published in the coming months. FYI, 2020 will be a leap year so we can all enjoy an extra day of heated discourse.
A lot of things were happening 100 years ago in 1920, and the publishing world will remind us about them all.
We can expect to see titles about the 100-year anniversaries of the enactment of Prohibition, the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, the first days of Negro National League Baseball, and the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union. In the same year, the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, guaranteeing women’s suffrage. The formation of the League of Women Voters was the next logical step—also in 1920.
Earth Day 2020 will be a big one—this year marks the 50th Anniversary of the event. The topic was important then, and it is one of the most important issues today. There are books representing every possible take on the subject for every level of reader.
Here’s something else that will be happening soon: The 2020 U.S. Census kicks off in April. Libraries will play a big part in assisting participation in this important activity, as well as insuring a fair and accurate count. Library space, staff, and technology will be used to promote participation and help patrons complete this mostly online endeavor.
If you’re the kind of librarian who’s really into The Big Picture, American Library Association will host a symposium on the future of libraries. Attendees will learn about long-term trends that will affect the public’s needs for library services in the future.
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Eric Dixon Releases "This One’s For You"
Eric Dixon is a self-taught Nigerian-American singer, songwriter, and producer born in Baltimore, Maryland. Since he was 12, Eric had found peace and passion in music that helped him surpass the hard times and celebrate the good ones. Eric is a true artist who is sentimental and passionate. Eric feels and appreciates life on a deep level that make his music engaging, relatable, and emotional. Eric uses music to bring emotions to life and to create his own story. After 7 years of extreme focus to detail and learning curves, Eric released his first ever album titled "Live from Apartment 22”, named after the place that he lived. “Live from Apartment 22" is a product of Eric creating music based solely off how he felt in the moment because he wanted to keep it real as possible. On his album, Eric ensured to create music that he genuinely enjoyed, along with sounds that got him through the hardest of times, with the ideology that others could potentially enjoy them as well.
“While I don't live at Apt 22 anymore, give it a listen, enjoy and make yourself at home.”
My favorite song from Apartment 22 is titled “This One’s For You”. This track is laid-back, cheerful, sets a chill vibe, all while being eye opening at the same time. Eric brilliantly incorporates a meaningful message within his catchy song.
“A lot of pretty girls came to party tonight, go ahead have your fun, live your life, we only get one, we don’t get this twice.”
This verse demonstrates the importance to live life to the fullest and to live in the moment, which is something that Eric greatly values. This makes his song more appealing to me because of his honest and personal flair being added to the lyrics. Eric’s talent is raw and rare, which makes him a great artist to keep your eyes on for his future come up!
Listen to “This One’s For You” here and get to know more about Eric Dixon below!
Love the new single! What were your emotions while writing “This One’s For You”?
Traveling inspires me. For work I take the local public transportation and I travel back and fourth from Baltimore to NYC to see family. Riding a subway or bus and listening to music makes the mind wonder, and I see people from all walks of life going to the proverbial "A to B". "This One's For You" was inspired by just that....People...humans all dealing with different things but all living and migrating amongst each other. When I'm on a train and see a professional person in business attire, I wonder what they do,whats their goal or passion, how did their boss treat them that day etc....Seeing a bunch of high school kids and it reminding me of what it was like to be that young and full of life and ambition (I feel I still have that). Seeing a mother or father on the train with their child, making me think of the joy of taking care and raising my 7yr old son. Its beautiful when a trip inspires a whole song or just an idea. I love that "This One's For You" speaks to different groups of people, if not only for a moment.
Is there a deeper meaning behind your track “This One’s For You”?
I just want people to know they matter, their stress matters, their idea's and passion's matter. I think especially in this day and age, there is alot going on in the real world and "online" , but what matters to me is knowing that their is still people who care about peoples general well being. Sometimes that gets lost in our day to day, I want people to know "This One's For You".
What makes you different than other artists?
Well I think all artists and humans have their own unique story to tell. I'm no different in that regard. But when it comes to creating and in life, I dont like to sound or be like the norm. If there is a sound in music that is the new "style" , I can appreciate it and enjoy it in some respects, but I wouldn't want to replicate it. That's why music is so cool. We all use similar instruments and tools to create, but the end result is hopefully something unique and true to oneself. I'm a person with Albinism so I have always stood out, as a grown man now, I look back and think that has inspired me to stand on my own musically and create unlike the "norm". I'm thankful to be in that place.
How challenging was it to teach yourself to record and produce?
EXTREMELY! HAHA. Let me put this in perspective. Ive written songs since I was 11 but I never produced or composed the music. My brother bought Ableton for me as a gift as my first DAW, six years ago, it was like learning a completely new language as far as I was concerned. My son was almost a year old at the time and was saying his first words........7years later the album is out and my Son is old enough to listen and enjoy the music haha. Needless to say it took me a while in between normal life duties to record and produce my self in my apartment.
What's next for you through 2019?
SHOWS! SHOWS! SHOWS! I want to perform anywhere and everywhere who will have me. I have a couple idea's planned in the near future, but nothing set in stone. Anyone who hears my album and enjoys it, that would want to book me for a show or to open for them, I'm available. I love to perform for live audiences. Promoting my new album "Live From Apartment 22" is my main objective for 2019, it was a journey and experience to make, I want others to enjoy it also. I'm always creating new music as well. I hope to also release a few more songs before 2019 ends. To all those who see this interview, I hope you enjoy the music, share it with your friends and if you have a moment, tell me what you enjoyed most via social media.
Connect with Eric Dixon on social media
www.livefromapartment22.com
www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ulEiOrttFVTcZ8yBw185g/playlists
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Chinese Investment in Israeli Tech Is Growing, Report Says
More Chinese money is flowing into Israeli tech initiatives each year, according to a new report by Tel Aviv-based research firm IVC Research Center
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IVC Research Center
Chinese investment activity in Israeli tech startups has increased steadily over the past two years, from an average of 15 investments per quarter to an average of 20 investments, according to a report released last week by Tel Aviv-based research firm IVC Research Center. The lion’s share of Chinese investment in Israel is going into software and life science companies.
More Chinese money is flowing into Israeli tech initiatives each year, according to the report, with $325 million already invested in 2018, compared with $308 million in 2017, and $274 million in 2016.
So far this year, Chinese investors have participated in six out of the 17 largest funding deals in the Israeli venture market. According to IVC, the most active Chinese investors in Israel are Hong Kong-headquartered Horizons Ventures, having participated in 32 investment rounds in the past five years. They are followed by CE Ventures (CEIIF), Go Capital & EOC Assets (GEOC), Radiant Venture Capital (RVC) and Alibaba Capital Partners.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with President Xi Jinping Photo: Haim Zach/GPO
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Vetting Sarah Palin
The mainstream media has been telling us that Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) was not vetted properly by Senator John McCain's (R-AZ) campaign. There's a term in psychology for this. It's called projection.
the attribution of one's own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people or to objects; especially : the externalization of blame, guilt, or responsibility as a defense against anxiety
Make no mistake, the mainstream media (I prefer "old media" actually) was snookered by John McCain and even though Palin's name has been mentioned several times during the VP search, they didn't do their homework on her. Now they see that this pick may turn the election around and they're feeling guilty about it and in a state of panic.
As I write this, it's been about 10 days since we first learned that Palin was McCain's choice. And in those 10 days every lefty in America with an internet connection or a phone has been trying to get the dirt on Palin. Let's see how they've done.
She lied about the “bridge to nowhere”. FALSE. And FALSE. And FALSE. And FALSE. And FALSE.
The worst you can say is that she was for it before she was against it.
She changed her mind, he said, when "she saw that Alaska was being perceived as taking from the country and not giving, and that impression bothered her and she wants to change it. … I think that Sarah Palin is someone who has the courage to reevaluate situations as they developed."
I added more links to this one because it refuses to die.
She lied about Trig. He isn’t really her baby! FALSE.
She was a member of a secessionist party. FALSE.
And unsourced. Good job here, old media. And now retracted.
Troopergate. DEAD END.
To be fair here, this is only news to mainstream America. Most bloggers and the media, left and right, knew about this "mini-scandal".
She hired a lawyer to help her with Troopergate. FALSE.
This is a legal proceeding, and typically the Governor would be represented by the Attorney General. He felt he had a conflict of interest, so directed the state to hire a lawyer for her. All perfectly reasonable and above board.
The state has hired a private lawyer to represent Gov. Sarah Palin's office in the Legislature's investigation into the firing of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. The lawyer already has challenged whether lawmakers even have authority to oversee the inquiry.
The state Department of Law hired Thomas Van Flein, an Anchorage attorney with expertise in employment law and professional liability, because Attorney General Talis Colberg has a potential conflict of interest and shouldn't represent the governor, Van Flein said Monday.
She has refused to testify in Troopergate and is blocking the investigation. FALSE.
The only investigation she has refused to cooperate with is the one that has no legal jurisdiction. She has made it quite plain that she is more than willing to follow AK's laws in this matter. So, the left is criticizing her for obeying the law. This whole "investigation" is a witch hunt and is based upon a crime without a victim. The supposed victim is required by law to file a formal complaint if he feels he has been the victim of of an ethics violation. He has not done so. In fact, he has repeatedly stated that no one pressured him to fire the trooper. This really should be the end of the story. The fact that it isn't shows that this is all about politics and not about reality.
Archives of her newspaper aren’t available online and haven’t been accessed by anyone locally. FALSE.
She is a supporter of "Nazi Sympathizer" Buchanan and anti-Israel. FALSE. And FALSE. And FALSE.
It's worth pointing out that this smear comes directly from the organization of Mr. FightTheSmears himself. Classy.
She is tight with corrupt and indicted Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK). FALSE. And FALSE.
Yes, I know she directed a 527 for him in 2003. But that was before she got fed up with corruption and ran for Governor against Stevens' pal former Governor Frank Murkowski (R-AK). Stevens has never forgiven her for that. He endorsed her a mere 3 weeks before the general election, long after Murkowski had been defeated in the primaries, and frankly, when it was obvious she was going to win.
She's in the pocket of "Big Oil". FALSE.
She cut funding for teen mothers. FALSE.
She pushed to have creationism taught in schools. FALSE.
Peggy Noonan said that the campaign is over and that McCain has lost. FALSE.
But, I argued, that's over, those assumptions are yesterday, the party can no longer assume that its base is utterly in line with the thinking of the American people. And when I said, "It's over!" — and I said it more than once — that is what I was referring to.
Now, it's true that Noonan thinks that Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) would be a better choice, and she's entitled to her opinion. But, as she has said already about Palin:
[H]er candidacy will be either dramatically successful or a dramatically not; it won't be something in between.
As far as I know, the only "right-wing" pundits that has come down hard against the Palin selection are Charles Krauthammer and Mort Kondracke. Mort often takes the "liberal" side on Fox (I get the impression his heart isn't really in that), so his criticisms should be taken with a grain of salt. Krauthammer has been consistently negative on her selection. I'd link, but he's written about it numerous times, and continues to do so, so the links would quickly become out-of-date. Use your favorite search engine on "Krauthammer Palin" if you're curious.
She claimed that the Iraq war is 'a task that is from God'. FALSE.
She cut the budget for Alaska's special needs children by 62%. FALSE.
As Mayor of Wasilla, she tried to get this list of books banned, and then attempted to fire the librarian for not doing so. FALSE.
It's TRUE that she did ask the librarian about censoring some books, and I admit that's not one of Palin's better moments, but it's not the list shown, as some of those weren't even published at the time. I'm unable to find a real list. Some time later A few days before that, and again later she did ask the librarian to resign, along with other holdovers from the previous administration, so it's hard to claim the "censorship question" as the cause here. She later withdrew the request for resignation and no books were ever banned. As I said, this is not one of Palin's better moments, but it's not nearly as bad as the left makes it out to be. FactCheck.Org has more on this. My speculation was originally that the question may have been hypothetical. The FactCheck.Org article makes that seem even more likely as they have some more details that I had not read before. And here's still more from the city of Wasilla. It appears that during Palin's entire tenure as Mayor, the library received only one book banning request, from an unlisted person. I think we can officially put this smear to rest now.
Sarah Palin is being hidden from the media. FALSE.
She lied about putting the plane for sale on e-Bay. FALSE.
We shouldn't even have to deal with this one, and it's obviously a smear rather than an attempt to get at the truth. This event made all the national news at the time. I remember hearing about it long before I ever had any clue who Sarah Palin was. The people claiming this know their claims are FALSE. It's TRUE that it didn't sell. It was sold later offline though.
She didn't do anything as Commander-in-Chief of the AK National Guard. FALSE.
Look, I admit that Republicans really ought not to trot this out. It's weak compared to the C-in-C role as President. Of course, her experience there, no matter how weak, is still stronger than Obama's, who has none. As I said, her subordinate was impressed with her work there.
Willow and Piper are named after witches! FALSE.
Apparently the timeline is wrong for Piper, and it is possible that she was named after a character in Charmed.
She believes in abstinence only education. FALSE.
She was nearly recalled as Mayor of Wasilla. FALSE.
She raised AK sales tax by 40%. FALSE.
AK has no sales tax.
She raised the state motor fuel tax. FALSE.
She's an extremist on global warming. FALSE.
As Mayor of Wasilla, she made rape victims pay for their medical exams. FALSE, and ludicrous. The "smoking gun" article that started this smear doesn't even mention Sarah Palin.
She would ban all abortions. FALSE.
I am pro-life. With the exception of a doctor's determination that the mother's life would end if the pregnancy continued. I believe that no matter what mistakes we make as a society, we cannot condone ending an innocent's life.
She caused Trig to have Down's Syndrome by jetting to Texas in the 8th month of her pregnancy. FALSE.
Down's Syndrome is a chromosome disorder. The disability occurs at the moment of conception (or very near thereafter).
Her son, Track, is being forced to join the military to escape prosecution from various juvenile charges. FALSE.
She cut funding for AK's Special Olympics by $275,000. FALSE. In fact, she increased funding by $25,000.
She was the Queen of Federal Funding Requests as Governor of AK. FALSE. Analysis here, and too complex to put succinctly. The short version. Quite a difference between earmark requests and normal legislative appropriations.
On a similar note, AK is the largest "welfare state" under her administration. FALSE. Yes, AK receives quite a bit of federal funds, but it's also owns 60% of the land, and has 20,000 troops stationed there. In addition, there's a significant indigenous population. Calling it a "welfare state" is more than a tiny bit disingenuous.
She made a "huge gaffe" on the campaign trail by saying Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." Mostly FALSE.
She did say it, but it's a TRUE statement, so therefore not a gaffe. In fact, Congress approved a "blank check" for the two mortgage giants back in July. McCain came out with a warning about it then. If anything, Palin's words appear to reinforce what McCain has been saying for months.
She had an amniocentesis to test for Down's so she could decide whether or not to abort. This shows she's not as "pro-life" as she'd like to pretend. SPECULATION and likely FALSE.
I know several parents who have had the amniocentesis done who never had any consideration of getting an abortion. They just wanted to be the most prepared. There's little reason other than blatant partisanship to suspect anything different of Governor Palin.
She believes that we're in a "holy war" in Iraq. FALSE. AP did some really sleazy reporting here.
She's a member of the John Birch society. FALSE. Although, in this day and age, that might be a compliment rather than a smear.
She wasn’t vetted. PROJECTION, and FALSE.
Old media has an ego problem. They honestly believe that if they didn't report on it, it didn't happen.
She's Pentecostal! MAYBE.
But, so what? Is there something wrong with that, particularly when compared to the Trinity United Church? The New York Times says she's definitely NOT a religious extremist. (Pentecostals aren't, anyway, just in case you were wondering).
She "Hired Friends and Lashed Foes" once elected. MAYBE.
However, this is hardly a scandal, even if true. Think about it a moment. She campaigned on reform and as a corruption-buster. So, once elected, she fired people from the previous corrupt administration and hired people she knew she could trust. Shocking.
Another point worth making here is that Sarah Palin has about an 85% approval rating in her home state. Now, I know that AK is over 50% Republican, but even if every single one of them likes Palin, that stil means that she's polling better than 50% approval among Democrats and Indepents. Keep that in mind when you read an article in the New York Times or Washington Post telling you how bad things are in AK or full of criticisms of her. It's obvious that they're only presenting the views of the 1 in 7 that dislike her rather than the 6 in 7 that like her.
She went to five different colleges before graduating. ELITIST.
Is it TRUE? Apparently. Is it relevant? I don't see how, except in a "my candidate went to Harvard" sort of way. I'm really not interested in people's college careers. I'm not even interested in Obama's grades. I'm just curious as to why they haven't been released, and why the press hasn't pushed for them.
She should stay home with her family in this time of need. SEXIST.
Her daughter getting pregnant reflects poorly on her. Oh God…if this is what you have to settle for, then you’re in deep trouble. There’s not a family in America that hasn’t had similar issues. Somehow I don’t remember Gore’s son being treated this way when it was discovered he had some drug issues. What the H***, I’ll go with SEXIST.
The mayor of a town with only 9,000 people doesn't have the experience for the Presidency. Somehow forgetting that she is currently the Governor of AK. Even Community Organizer Barack Obama (D-IL) has gotten into the act:
Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin’s town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we’ve got 2500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years.
If that’s your tactic, I’m going to call Obama a “community organizer” from now on and forget all about his Senate job that he doesn’t do anyway. It's worth mentioning here that there was a lot of talk about Governor Tim Kaine (D-VA) as Obama's running-mate. He has no more experience than Palin, and yet I don't recall hearing these kinds of complaints about him. I'm going to have to go with SEXIST again.
BTW, someone please remind Obama that he's not running against Palin. He's running against McCain. And while you're at it, let him know that when he compares her experience to his all that does is remind us that he doesn't have any.
Her husband got a DUI 20 years ago. TRUE.
SO? If we're going to start eliminating politicians because of substance abuse problems with them and their families, the halls of Congress would be empty. I checked for similar things in the past of some prominent Democrats, but Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.
She got federal money for her city as a mayor. TRUE.
But isn’t that what mayors are supposed to do?
She implemented a plan to have wolves killed from the air. TRUE.
But, the left is attempting to make a smear out of this, when in fact, it is a good thing. They claim that the wolves are needed to cull the populations of moose and caribou and keep their population from getting out of hand. But, in fact, the wolves are the ones who have gotten out of hand, and threaten the existence of the caribou and moose. This position is pro-environment, NOT anti-environment. This has only been implemented in very limited areas where the wolf population is out of control. Yes, it's controversial, and if you have a better idea for how to handle the wolf population, I'm sure Governor Palin would love to hear from you.
She laughed on a radio show when another woman, a cancer survivor, was called a bitch. TRUE.
But there's much more to the story than just that, and in fact, she does appear to be a bitch.
A radio interview with Palin surfaced in which she discussed a petty, last-minute attempt by Lyda Green — the Republican state Senate leader and Palin’s political enemy — to change the time of this year’s state of the state address. The schedule had been set well in advance, but Green cited a transparently bogus scheduling conflict in an attempt to force the speech to a time that would have prevented Palin from attending her son’s graduation. In that context, Palin let loose a small giggle when the radio host called Green a “bitch.”
Her daughter is pregnant. TRUE.
Oh, but the media didn't find that one, the Palins released that information in response to the trash I've noted above. It's worth noting that Palin apparently feels that the child is a "blessed event" and doesn't feel that her daughter is being "punished with a baby".
She billed the state for nights spent at home. TRUE.
People that are upset about this don't understand AK's politics or grasp the size of the state. They've been working for years on being the first state to institute "virtual government" allowing the state legislators to form a quorum and vote on issues from their legislative offices back in their home district. Just about every state official, including the Governor spends quite a bit on travel expenses. It's more than legitimate for the Governor to expense travel to and from home. In fact, the Governor could apparently expense far more than she has, and has expensed far less than her predecessors.
She should drop out, or McCain should kick her out. This one has been really picking up steam the last couple of days. My question: WHY? The implicit answer is "because we're going to keep making up stuff about her for as long as it takes." Certainly there's no other reason. Nothing that's TRUE that's been brought up so far even rises to the level of a gnat bite. I'm not sure if this is SEXIST or just SLEAZY, but it's certainly BIASED.
The National Enquirer is reporting that she had an affair with a businessman in AK. UNKNOWN.
I don't discount it automatically because it came from the Enquirer. Sometimes they get things right. John Edwards is a recent example. On the other hand, how many times have they reported that Dr. Phil's marriage is on the rocks? The Bush's marriage is on the rocks? Here's what the story says:
Another incredible allegation emerging from the family war is that Palin, a mother of five, had an affair with a former business associate of her fisherman husband, Todd.
“Todd discovered the affair and quickly dissolved his friendship and his business associations with the guy,” charges an enemy. “Many people in Alaska are talking about the rumor and say Todd swept it under the rug.”
Seems pretty thin, even by Enquirer standards. But, it is possible that this is the only TRUE and relevant story out there. We'll see. The Smoking Gun has more info on this, and at least the main reason behind this speculation is FALSE. The status of the entire story is still UNKNOWN. This blog has more. My FALSE meter's starting to get twitchy.
She called Obama "Sambo" and Hillary "Bitch". UNKNOWN and likely to remain so.
This comes from the LA Progressive, apparently a "news" site. They have one source, a waitress named "Lucille". Unless other sources are found and can confirm it, then it will likely stay UNKNOWN, as it will be nearly impossible to disprove. I'm going go to with "innocent until proven guilty" here, especially given that there's only one source. I suppose Governor Palin could be a big jazz fan, but she's only two years older than me, and that's not a reference I'd make. I had to think on it a minute when I heard it to realize what the article was talking about. In the same vein, I could call up RedState and tell them that I heard Obama threatening to bomb the Pentagon if defeated. It would carry the same weight. Of course, one difference is that RedState probably wouldn't believe me and therefore wouldn't publish it.
Ok, so after probably tens of thousands of man-hours of research what have our best and brightest on the left come up with that's relevant and TRUE?
Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zippo. Also, this seems to belie the statement that she wasn't vetted properly.
Now, if only the press was so interested in vetting Obama. But I’ve given up on that.
This post will continue to be updated as long as more "vetting" occurs.
UPDATE: Many updates have occurred in-line. I'm not going to post that an update has occurred every time I do one. Too much trouble. However, I wanted to point out that Charles Martin at Explorations has another list. He's done some impressive work and it's worthwhile checking out. I have some things that he doesn't have, and he has some things that I don't have. I'm working to bring mine up to compatible with his.
UPDATE: People who have contributed to this list, either knowingly or unknowingly are too numerous to mention. But I thank you all, and most of you are linked.
UPDATE: I'm having a hard time keeping up. Let me know if you know of any others.
UPDATE: It was getting hard to read, so I added in more whitespace. Unfortunately, this has the effect of making this post even longer (by the scrollwheel count anyway).
UPDATE: More on SEXIST attacks against Governor Palin can be found here.
Labels: #FakeNews, Election 2008, Media Bias, Sarah Palin
Kat 6:47 PM, September 03, 2008
Nicely done. :-)
Chris Of Rights 7:22 PM, September 03, 2008
Thanks. Now if I could only count. It's only been 132 hours. :)
PunditJoe 4:35 PM, September 05, 2008
Thank you Chris! Great job of tracking all this stuff down.
Thanks, Joe. Glad you liked it.
hombre 12:00 PM, September 06, 2008
The National Enquirer consistently characterizes the affair story as "incredible." Check it out. I assume this is their way of publishing sleaze and avoiding a lawsuit.
Hollis French, the guy ramrodding the "ethics investigation" is a Democrat and an Obama spokesman.
See, e.g: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/emilybokar/gGxsmH
Sorry, the web address got cut off:
See, e.g: http://my.barackobama.com/page/
community/post/emilybokar/gGxsmH
Thanks for the info, elHombre.
Anonymous 9:01 PM, September 06, 2008
Well put together except for the last sentence at the end. Obama has been on the trail now for about 19 months, being closely scrutinized along the way. In fact, The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, found that Obama had about 72% negative coverage amongst the media. I say all is fair in love, war, and politics.
I'll look it up, but I believe that 72% negative coverage was for a period of about two weeks. If you really believe that he's had 72% negative coverage throughout the campaign, then you're fooling yourself.
And he's been vetted by the media? They only talked about Rev. Wright when forced to. They've never looked into Ayres. They've never really talked about the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. They haven't talked about his heavy-handed responses to the people that have asked. They haven't asked about his grades, his medical records, his Illinois State Senate records, his "present votes", or about his association with Tony Rezko. They haven't dug into his record of accomplishments at all. They haven't asked him why so many of his idols are Marxists.
Now, admittedly, the answers to some of these questions could be used as smears, and it's hypocritical of me to request smears in such an anti-smear post. But I want the answers from him. The truth. You can't smear the truth. It's either going to sink or swim on its own.
The truth of the matter is that the press has done more digging into Sarah Palin's history in the last 9 days than they have in the entire 19 months of the Obama campaign.
That's not just bias, it's insulting.
Anonymous 11:09 PM, September 06, 2008
I find it ridiculous that any reporter would print this without also reporting Barack Obama's admitted cocaine and pot use - see below. After all, Barack Obama is running for President. Todd Palin is not running for anything.
"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it" - Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama (2003)
Anonymous 2:04 AM, September 07, 2008
Awesome post, Chris. I was so dreading doing something like this myself because of the time involved. Now I'm just gonna perma-link you on my blog.
And your comment on all the research done by the media in the last 9 days vs Obama's 19 months - right on. Some people say we're in the 'end of days'. If so, I think the locusts just hit Wasilla.
Chris Of Rights 5:43 AM, September 07, 2008
Good point, Michael.
Thanks, Trish.
There's another blogger that's also done a lot of work here. I'm going to add a link to his stuff when I update the post today.
Explorations.
Thanks for posting this. As the MSM seems to run with the wildest Sarah Palin rumor it would be nice if they got the truth.
Unknown 1:25 AM, September 10, 2008
Chris, this is great! Excellent reference and resource material. Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time and doing the work for all of us Palin supporters. This blog and "Explorations" are now permanent fixtures in my Palin file and sure to be daily must reads for me.
Thanks, Red. More updates to this post coming today, if I have time.
Answers to these allegations????
1) Sarah Palin sought welfare for her town by campaigning in Washington for earmarks when she was mayor. Now she is governor of the biggest welfare state in the nation. A true fiscal conservative would figure out how to have the town and state pay their own way rather than relying on federal charity to cover their expenses.
2) Wow what a reformer! *runs for nonpartisan office of mayor on social conservative issues mayors don't have control over, runs city into crippling debt, graduates Reto governor of pork-laden welfare state*
I'm sorry, but I just can't get exercised about a Mayor or Governor trying to get earmarks for her city or state. I'd say that's what Mayors and Governors are supposed to do.
As for biggest welfare state, that seems like a crazy accusation to just toss out there with no proof whatsoever.
Unless you're referring to the oil rebate checks she had sent out to all her constituents? Not my first choice, but a perfectly understandable item. The politicians in her state (both Democrat and Republican) have a reputation for being in the pockets of "Big Oil". She's attempting to show that she's not going to play that game.
And the first round of checks were entirely funded by a budget surplus, I believe. I can supply links if you like. It's possible that's the case with the second round too, but I can't say without doing more research.
Thank you, Chris. Very Informative, helpful and straightforward.
You're welcome, Jude. Let me know if you find anything that I've missed.
Mark K. Sprengel 12:36 AM, September 17, 2008
Thanks for the hard work Chris, it's been quite helpful.
Thanks, Mark. I'm on vacation right now so haven't added much, but I might be able to do some more stuff with it today.
Anonymous 7:52 AM, November 01, 2008
http://www.palinrumors.com
is another good site.
Emi 11:18 AM, March 28, 2009
Pregnant with Track when she married? I've heard yes and no...personally I don't care but I'd like to know what you fins source-wise...
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The joy of things and the trap of excess
An ethicist and an anthropologist ask: How much is too much?
by Lee Hull Moses December 28, 2016
The Vice of Luxury
Economic Excess in a Consumer Age
By David Cloutier
Georgetown University Press
My Life with Things
The Consumer Diaries
By Elizabeth Chin
A few years ago, my mother-in-law gave us an electric heated mattress pad. I didn’t know such things existed, hadn’t asked for it. What an incredibly ridiculous extravagance, I thought. Then I got into bed on a cold night with the heater turned on and wondered how on earth I had lived without it for so long.
I thought of that extravagant mattress pad as I read David Cloutier’s argument for seeing luxury as a moral problem. We must, he argues compellingly, recognize luxury as a vice and confront our propensity toward excess if we are to overcome the inequalities that plague our society and move closer to the kingdom of God.
Lee Hull Moses
@leehullmoses
Lee Hull Moses is pastor of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is author of More than Enough: Living Abundantly in a Culture of Excess (Westminster John Knox Press).
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A Catholic scholar at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, Cloutier turns often to the teachings of the pope as a source of wisdom. But he also engages a wide range of ancient and contemporary voices. Given its primarily scholarly tone, this book is more likely to find an audience in the academic classroom than the congregational discussion group. Yet it offers important contributions to the conversation about how to live faithfully and responsibly with what we have.
Cloutier is at his most readable and most convincing when he uses real-life examples, pointing out the complexities of moral choices and economic decisions. He considers, for example, the high-priced coffee drinks that many of us have incorporated into our daily lives:
Some think a cartful of goods at Walmart is consumerism run rampant but their mocha lattes not so much. . . . This is not to say that the $5 coffee by itself is a significant moral problem, although whether one should consider it as an occasional treat rather than a daily item is a question. But many people who pay $5 a day for it also resist paying the $6 price attached to a gallon of organic, sustainably farmed milk instead of the bargain-basement-priced milk.
This is not simply a critique of luxury coffee: it illustrates a larger claim about human nature. “The important issues of food justice and faithfulness in sustainable food production fail here . . . but not because people are seeking injustice. Rather, they are disposed to luxury and end up tolerating injustice.”
In a compelling section on social and economic justice, he argues convincingly that working toward systemic change will only be effective in ending inequality if we first turn our gaze self-ward and acknowledge our propensity toward wanting more and better things. “Justice-based solutions that do not attend to our dispositions toward luxury pretend that problems can be solved too easily.”
After making the case for characterizing luxury as a vice—that is, a human problem that must be confronted—he turns toward the somewhat daunting task of defining what luxury is. In a world where many people sleep with no bed at all, my heated mattress pad will always be a luxury, but what about the shoes I’m wearing? Or the several pairs of similar shoes I have at home? What about food? How much is too much? The line between basic needs and luxury desires is not always clear.
Cloutier digs into this problem with detailed enthusiasm, and he goes so far as to suggest amount income brackets to define the basic needs of a household. He acknowledges that “fixed, absolute standards” aren’t the point, qualifying his income brackets as “guidelines for discernment that we might fruitfully compare with our own spending.”
Particularly helpful to me was Clouiter’s discussion on what we are to do with the surplus, should we be lucky enough to have more than necessary to meet our basic needs. He suggests four categories toward which we might “direct our excess wealth,” each of which leads us toward a more relational and faithful life. First, we can share what we have, providing for the common good of our communities. Second, we can use what we have for celebrations and special occasions; “festival goods” is Clouiter’s term for this, which I like. Third, our goods can be put to use in the service of the work we are called to do. A well-equipped faculty office, Clouiter suggests as an example, might go beyond basic needs, but it provides a space where learning happens and relationships are nurtured. Finally, we can use our goods for enrichment, to enhance our lives and bring us joy. (I dare not include my heated mattress pad in this category, but a family vacation might qualify.)
Elizabeth Chin, an anthropologist who teaches media design practices at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, also wrestles with the question of how much is too much when it comes to material possessions. She describes how she lives in the tension between the trap of excess and the joy that such material goods offer.
Of all the struggles I face in my life, the one I feel most acutely and most often (these days at least) is the war of my contradictory desires. On the one hand, I want everything: a well-trained dog; really lovely clothes and private school for my child; a big-screen TV with premium cable; not having to worry about money. Yet on the other hand, what I want is less, much less—in fact, nothing at all: to throw the TV away; grow my own vegetables . . .
Many readers will recognize this tension in their own lives; the complexities of everyday life do not always lend themselves to a clear moral choice.
If The Vice of Luxury sits squarely on the academic shelf, Chin’s book is not easily categorized. Part academic study and part personal essay, My Life with Things offers both casual and scholarly readers an entryway into conversation about the place of material possessions in our lives.
Chin draws from the fields of anthropology and social science, which are clearly her expertise and her passion, but her strength is in reflecting on her own relationship with her things. She is witty and observant. Her reflections are often spot on, and at times she takes on a delightful conversational tone, as if she were telling you a story over a glass of wine. I related to her angst over buying gifts for preschool birthday parties and resonated with her longing for the feel of the morning paper when all the news is now online.
This book is a clear critique of capitalism. Karl Marx appears as a conversation partner throughout, in interludes that occasionally ramble and interrupt the flow of Chin’s storytelling. But it’s also a nuanced reflection on both the fact that we are inescapably tied to our possessions and the ways they connect us to our loved ones and neighbors around the world.
In contrast to Cloutier’s precise and well-developed argument, Chin’s reflections don’t lead to a clear resolution or a call to action. Both books, however, challenge readers to examine their own lives.
Both Cloutier and Chin understand material goods and consumption as not inherently evil. Our things can be a source of joy and even, Cloutier reminds us, a means of encountering the divine, “the intimate, ongoing connection between the material and the spiritual, between creation and God.” These books are ultimately about paying attention, to our lives, to our things, and to the choices we make about how we use what we’ve been given.
A version of this article appears in the January 4 print edition under the title “The ethics of excess.”
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ANGLICAN CENTRE IN ROME
“Witness to migrants’ suffering”: the wooden cross on the altar of the Anglican Centre in Rome
A WOODEN cross made from the remnants of a boat that took refugees across the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa is to decorate the altar of the Anglican Centre in Rome “as witness to their suffering and the Easter hope which is now being offered to them”.
The cross was presented to the director of the centre, Archbishop David Moxon, by the artist Franco Tuccio, to draw attention to the plight of the thousands of refugees who enter Europe through the island. It is crafted to resemble a pastoral staff given to Pope Francis during his visit to Lampedusa two years ago.
Archbishop Moxon and the associate director of the centre, Fr Marcus Walker, were on a visit to the island, last week, to witness the work of the Sant’Egidio community in Rome, which is supporting refugees arriving on the island.
“From the moment we got off the plane until leaving the island again, Fr Marcus and I were constantly moved, challenged, and surprised by what we heard and saw,” Archbishop Moxon wrote on his blog.
The pair were welcomed by the island’s Roman Catholic parish priest, Fr Don Mimmo, and held talks with the president of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy, Luca Maria Negro. The Federation has partnered with the Sant’Egidio community to create “Mediterranean Hope”, a support project for refugees arriving in Italy, and also to lobby for the creation of “humanitarian corridors” to give refugees safe passage across the Mediterranean “rather than risking their lives on the open sea”.
Archbishop Moxon and Fr Marcus went on to visit the Lampedusa cemetery where hundreds of nameless victims of modern slavery and human trafficking, and migrants who have disappeared at sea, are buried or remembered.
“The people of the island of Lampedusa try to honour their memory in a portion of the cemetery dedicated to the unknown,” he said. “The people of the island have shown enormous compassion to both the living and the dead — as stories of their welcome to every new batch of migrants rescued from the sea tell.”
Archbishop Moxon later drew attention to the work of the Anglican Church in Greece, which he said had been “the catalyst and bridge-builder” in enabling six Christian aid agencies and churches, including Caritas and the Salvation Army, to provide clothing, tents, a kitchen, and medicine to arriving refugees.
He concluded: “Lampedusa is the site of so much desperation — but also so much redemption. Only an Easter faith makes any sense.”
Mr Tuccio has made several crosses from the boat, and one will be used to lead a pilgrimage service at Notre Dame de France, Leicester Square, in London, on 25 June. The service, which begins at 2.30 p.m., will be hosted by Westminster Justice and Peace as part of Refugee Week, which has “Welcome” as this year’s theme.
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Tis What It Is
By Mick Conneely, David Munnelly, Cló Iar-Chonnacht
Reference: CICD190
'The title for this album is indeed very well chosen and self-explanatory. Let me say that there are no airs and graces here. The music springs out of the deep recesses of the pure and natural tradition, bouncing along over rocks and boulders like a mountain stream in full spate, a reminder of the open-hearth fires, flagged-floored kitchens, half-doors and thatched roofs of the Ireland of my youth, where the music found its home and where it flourished in its natural surroundings.'
- Ben Lennon
Mick Conneely: Mick is one of the most respected fiddle players of his generation. He has played and toured with many artists, including De Danann, Mary Bergin, Frankie Gavin, and Máirtín O'Connor among others. In 2001 his debut solo album, Selkie, was released to critical acclaim on the Cló Iar-Chonnacht label.
David Munnelly: David Munnelly was born into a musical family and was surrounded by music from a very early age. He set up the David Munnelly Band in 1999, and in that same year he recorded his debut CD, entitled Swing. He recorded three other CDs with the band and has toured extensively
Album review by David Leger, Hearth Music Blog, www.hearthmusic.com
I’m not sure how Irish accordionist David Munnelly and Irish fiddler Mick Conneely first met, but bless whatever strange muse brought together these two Irish trad musicians at the top of their game. Their new album “’Tis What It Is” is a revalation, a truly incendiary set of duets that crash their way through a brace of Irish jigs, reels, hornpipes, slides, barn dances, and even three waltzes!
Whereas pretty much any other duet album of Irish music features an almost psychic symmetry between the instrumentalists, as they mesh together improvised and wickedly complicated ornamentations on the spot, Conneely and Munnelly seem to delight in clashing against each other. It’s an aesthetic almost totally foreign to modern Irish trad, but undeniably exciting. Their ornaments fit in just the wrong places, repelling each other at a moment when they should be pulling closer in the rhythm of the tune. This brashness harkens back to a punk attitude that I haven’t heard before in Irish trad. Well, that’s not true, I’ve actually heard about a million Irish punk bands playing terribly Irish trad with a lot of aggression. BUT I’ve never heard two master musicians go at it like a backyard cock fight.
And it’s not a question of clashing egos here, it’s just a question of two great musicians giving themselves permission to let loose. They’re drawing rhythms and arrangements out of tunes I’ve heard many times before and totally transforming them. The opening tune, “The High Caul Cap” is so transformed that it sounds almost alien to the tradition, but undeniably marked by the DNA of Irish music. For someone who’s heard a lot of this before, it’s exhilarating to hear new rhythms in this old music. And don’t think that they’re only cutting loose on hellfire fast reels, they kick into a set of waltzes with such goofy abandon that you’ll be hard pressed to sit still. There aren’t many Irish trad musicians today willing to tackle a single waltz on their album, let alone three in a row, let alone make them sound like a underground prohibition-era dancehall party. What’s surprising is that the result doesn’t crash and burn. Usually when two musicians duet with such unrestrained power, everything collapses sooner rather than later, but here the album just gets better and better.
Mick Conneely & David Munnelly. 'Tis What It Is.
2012. Cló Iar-Chonnacht.
Mick Conneely is an acclaimed fiddler and a member of the more traditional version of De Dannan. Working with Irish bouzouki king Alec Finn, he had the difficult task of bringing the kind of fire to De Dannan for which Frankie Gavin was justifiably a legend, and he nailed it. Reviewing De Dannan’s last album I said, “He races through the tunes with hard-as-nails ornaments and plays at dizzying speed. His fiddling is just hardcore enough to keep De Dannan from sounding too polished…” I think of Conneely now as the Art Tatum of Irish trad. Like Tatum, his exuberance keeps bursting forth from the music. He overloads his playings with whirlwinds of ornaments, cascades of notes, and his melodic lines explode unexpectedly in strange directions. And he does this without losing sight of the melody and without missing a beat. I’d heard David Munnellybefore through his work in his own self-titled band, but hadn’t quite realized how much power he had as an accordionist. He rides the fine line between the heavily ornamented Irish accordion style based around a specific kind of chromatic two-row and the chunkier rhythms of the old one-row melodeons. It’s a somewhat archaic style that belongs more in the old dancehalls than in today’s concert halls, but more’s the better. Separately they’re both musicians known for their powerful and uncompromising approaches to the tradition, but together they’re a damn force of nature.
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Mick Connelly and David Munnelly Review by Siobhán Long, The Irish Times, 3 August, 2012‘Tis What It Is’
Bottling the chutzpah of a session is an elusive goal that few musicians achieve in the recording studio. This aptly named CD is a welcome exception. David Munnelly orchestrates what could be called a full frontal assault on a heady mix of tunes, except that would hardly do justice to his salty accordion and melodeon style. He stretches and folds tunes such as The Pride of Rockchapel reel set with a Houdiniesque sleight of hand. Mick Conneely’s fiddle is an able match: throaty and dynamic, it swoops and soars across Munnelly’s accordion in vertiginous arcs.
The pace is checked by the inclusion of Munnelly’s own slow air. For Michael: a thing of fragile beauty. Contributions on bouzouki, bodhrán and banjo are suitably animated, and Ryan Molloy’s piano wrangles with a welcome muscularity without ever succumbing to the tired clichés that can dog this instrument. Around the house and never mind the dresser. cic.ie
Album review - Mick Conneely & David Munnelly / 'Tis What It Is Tony Lawless, TradConnect.com
'Tis what it is indeed. The coming together of Mick Conneely and David Munnelly brings with it a joyous and feverish selection of tunes that bristle with energy and pace. It is definitely more in the style of early De Dannan than east Clare, springing as it does from the backgrounds of the musicians involved. Mick is one of the most respected musicians around and we have long admired his musical style. He has played with a who's who of artists from De Danann to Noel Hill, Kevin Crawford and others. David has been surrounded by music from an early age and has likewise worked the circuit with Niamh Parsons, De Dannan, The Chieftains and others.
This is late at night virtuoso music with both musicians in full flight attacking the tunes with laughter in their cheekbones and sweat on their brows. Raw energy with the bow flying across the strings in staccato style, with triplets and stops reigning down being very much the order of the day. It is most definitely the album you put on after the dinner party and not before, when you want to inject some life into proceedings. You can nearly hear the whoops from the corner as onlookers pray the dawn will never come and these musicians do not tire. Just one more for the road. Musicians of this calibre can do it either way and the approach to the album has clear intent and purpose representing as it does something of the spirit within the musicians and within all of us.
There are 14 tracks in total with some well known tunes. Mostly comprising jigs and reels, they add one slow air on accordion to slow things down and let you catch your breath. From the opening barn dances The High Caul Cap/Napolean Crossing the Alps to the fantastic closing set of reelsThe New-Mown Meadow/Big John McNeil/The Silver Spire you have what is described in the sleeve notes as "a raucous encounter between chaos and melody" It steps outside the boundaries in approach and delivers one of the most energetic albums you will hear this year.
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Interview, Irish Music Magazine, Seán Laffey
Seán Laffey has a Ronseal moment with Dave Munnelly and Mick Conneely.
There are albums, not many to be sure, but there are albums that are almost timeless, of course, given a careful listen the true fan could put a date on them, tie them down as it were.
Timelessnes isn’t judged solely by whether you have a bouzouki playing along or a vamping piano in the background, it’s more to do with the feel of the work. Mick Conneely and Dave Munnelly’s new album Tis What It Is, already has a timeless feel to it, as if it could have been made any time the past thirty or forty years. In one sens it is rough edged, visceral, honest or as Ben Lennon writes in the album liner notes; old-fashioned hearty music.
I caught Mick on his mobile, he was in a hospital basement somewhere in Galway fixing something, probably electrical. “I’ll step out into the light and talk a bit about the album. It’s the best work I’ve ever done.” I asked for a preview copy, but it wasn’t ready, would I like an MP3 via Dropbox?” “OK, go on, spoil me” ...and he did.
If CDs were novels you’d want them to start with a pageturner, a killer line from the first word, and the pair oblige here with a deceptively simple High Caul Cap, a tune that crops up all over the English speaking world, you might know it as Donkey riding or Heighland Laddie. Suffice to say the boys grab it and put Irish manners on it. It’s a rare enough tune on albums, the only version I can recall is from the Breton band Gwendal back in the 1970s. I have detected a rawness and freshness in a lot of album releases in 2012. Tis What It Is contains old style music played in the old style, music that is both ageless and very much of now. And so far, halfway into the year there’s nothing better than Tis What It Is... for that raw bar approach.
Mick lives in Galway, Dave lives in Holland, there’s a time difference, so I got to chat to the lads via the magic of Skype. So I asked them tell me the story of making the album. The two had met up around 2000 in Westport where they’d play most Wednesday nights. Just for fun and back then they knew as they traded tunes there was something magical happening. Mick tells me that the pair played regularly in Tigh Chóilí in Galway and it was from those sessions that the bones of this album emerged. After a meeting at a Folk Festival in Finland they decided to make the album.
Mick Conneely was born in Bedford in the UK and learnt his music there. He cites a key moment in he thinks 1983, his first visit to the Willie Clancy Summer School... “I walked along the street and all my heroes were there, Frankie Gavin, Noel Hill, Jackie Daly, I couldn’t believe it, and I was blown away by how accessible they all were, how they went into Quealy’s for a few tunes, how natural it all seemed and how good they were.
Dave adds that the music coming out in the mid eighties was influential in his own journey into the tradition and he says that the pair are chidren of The Star Spangled Molly the classic De Danann album of Irish American tunes. “It brought us the sound of that golden age of Irish music in 1920s America, and it was a springboard to the music of Kimmel, Dan Sullivan and The Flanagan Brothers, as an accordion player there’s so much in those early recordings to work on, to learn and to think they made it on instruments we wouldn’t have much time for today,” he says.
We talk a little about making the album. they had the set list worked out and the running order of the record nailed before they ever went into Eugene Killeen’s Sound Room studio in 2010. “We knew exactly what we wanted to do, how the album would sound, we weren’t in the studio to use it as a rehearsaing space or a place to noodle out new ideas: says Mick. Dave takes up the story, “we did the album in two takes, it took about four hours, we did the first two hours had a tea break and then finished it.”
That approach has produced a remarkably live sounding album, so how did they technically manage it. “Dave and I were in separate parts of the studio, one of us would be in a booth the other by the recording desk and we put on the headphones and we just played. We had to do it that way because we knew we would be ading in more musicians to some of the tracks and the physical separation kept our recorded tracks clean, it prevented over spill of the sounds. Then in 2011, Philip Masure in Belgium put it together and mastered it for us. We had soem great people working with us and Jackei Small did a tremendous amount of work on the liner notes together with the online resource The Fiddlers’ Companion.”
I asked Mick if his choice of The High Caul Cap as the opening track was particularly brave, its apparent simplicity perhaps might be considered an easy introduction to the album (although you should hear what they do with it). “I know what you mean, but we didn’t make this album to show off, to prove we are some sort of musical acrobats, we had these tunes we loved and we really enjoyed playing togheter, tunes we had lived with an worked on since playing them in Matt Molloys in 200 and we said “we’ll do them live in this order and we’ll record them in the same order:. When Cló Iar-Chonnacht heard them they were happy with the programming, it works.”
Mick tells me that the tunes all come from the heart, “I know it might sound a bit hippy but the fiddle for me is a way of releasing the music that is in me, that music is in my soul and even those apparently beginner tunes like Kigh Caul Cap and Shoe the Donkey are gorgeous pieces of music, and they give so much pleasure to play.”
The studio was a converted garage in Salthill, so I joked a bit like Casey in the Cowhouse? That is my all time favourite album,” says Mick. “I loved Bobby Casey’s music, what he did with tunes, his techniques and his phrasing, the honesty of it, to think this album might be even considered in the same league as Casey in the Cowhouse is an honour.”
I posed the possibility that this might become one of those landmark Rawbar albums and wondered how they might be happy with that type of legacy. Dave takes me back to his early days of learning the box in Belmullet. “When I was a young lad starting out, people thought I was a bit odd, I was the only accordion player in the village, I suppose I was obsessed with it, and would be seen walking the roads to lessons with the box on my back, I’m only in my mid-thirties now, but even 25 years ago it wasn’t cool to be a young traditional musician in rural Ireland. Thankfully that has changed now and there are so many more talented youngsters around. As I said, myself and Mick are Star Spangled Molly babies, that got us into the music. Every generation needs a record they can fall in love with, and if they choose Tis What It Is we’d be very happy with that.”
Dave and Mick are master musicians, no doubt abou it, they have the credentials: the track record, the bands, albums and collaborations, but here you get more than just great musicianship, you get a dialogue, a conversation happening now, not parroted lines from some slickly rehearsed ensemble, that is the real excitement here. Clearly they have practiced long and hard, there are gaps and stops and changes of rhythm, which the boys hit spot on, but you’d be forgiven if you thought they just walked into the pub and played straigh off the cuff, which in a sense they did.
Of course, they have a few guests, Johnny McDonagh on bodhrán, Ryan Molloy on Piano and Jonas Fromseier on banjo, he plays trichorda Greek bouzouki in Arcady and Morga, but here Mick Connelly picks up the zook duties, so you expect and wouldn’t be disappointed with a sound that sometimes gets close to, but never really apes early De Danann. With no guitars present, their music is lighter, less bound by a bass line, freer to live on the high notes.
That De Danann reference is just a dusting of spice on the dinner, the meat of the work is a stunningly fresh and honest take on studio playing. There are albums that become obligatory, legendary performances, benchmarks of taste, the right stuff bottled in less than an hour of music. And this is one of them.
The Real Deal, The Galway Independent, 12 June, 2013
Dave Munnelly and Mick Connelly are master musicians with the credentials to prove it.
Mick is one of the most respected fiddle players of his generation and has played, toured and recorded with many artists, most notably De Danann. In 2001, his debut solo album ‘Selkie’ was released to critical acclaim on the prestigious boutique trad label Cló Iar-Chonnacht and he has recorded on numerous albums to date.
After going to college in Dublin for a few years, Dave was asked to join a band with Niamh Parsons, whom he toured with for six years. After a few years playing and touring with such notaries as Gerry O’Connor, Garry O Briain, De Danann and the Chieftains, he set up the David Munnelly band in 1991 with the recording of his debut CD titled ‘Swing’.
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Following their outstanding 2005 recording Notes from the Heart on the Cló Iar-Chonnachta label, Mick Mulcahy and his daughters Louise (26) and Michelle (24) are back with a new album, Reelin' in Tradition. If their first album was a revelation for the rhythmic and beautiful Mulcahy sound - as well...
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Which long-term care facilities around Cincinnati have COVID-19 cases? Here are 62 of them
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Deaths among people living in Southwest Ohio's nursing homes and assisted living facilities now account for nearly half of the COVID-19 related fatalities in the four-county region.
The 70 total deaths account for 45% of the fatalities in Southwest Ohio, an Enquirer analysis of state data shows. There have been 1,183 deaths in long-term care facilities statewide, which comprise 66% of Ohio’s 1,781 coronavirus deaths as of Wednesday.
The finding comes on the day that Gov. Mike DeWine may reveal the state’s plan to use the Ohio National Guard to scale up testing in nursing homes.
There were two bits of bad news in the updated local numbers released Wednesday by the Ohio Department of Health:
The number of local facilities with COVID-19 cases reported this week was 62, up from 54 last week and 25 two weeks ago.
The number of workers currently ill basically held steady at 71 for the second week.
The good news in the numbers: The ranks of currently ill residents fell 31% to 147 after holding steady last week, The Enquirer analysis shows.
Deaths among Hamilton County residents of long-term care facilities rose last week from 39 to 50.
Butler County had three long-term care deaths last week for a total of nine.
Warren County's toll rose from nine to 11. That's 73% of the 15 total COVID-19 related deaths in the county.
A total of 628 residents and 214 workers at nursing homes, assisted living facilities and intermediate care homes across Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren counties have had COVID-19 since the state started to release the data.
Statewide, a total of 878 people have died from COVID-19 in Ohio’s long-term care facilities since April 15, an Enquirer analysis of the new state data shows. Those deaths are up more than 20% from last week. The deaths occurred in 38 of Ohio's 88 counties. The state hasn't identified any nursing homes that have had fatalities.
Throughout the pathogen’s march this year in the United States, residents of nursing homes and other congregate living facilities have been vulnerable to the worst of the virus. Nearly every nursing home resident has some type of underlying health condition. Nursing homes struggle with infection control even under normal circumstances, much less the challenge that COVID-19 poses to older adults living in tight quarters.
DeWine has yet to commit to 100% testing in nursing homes and other congregate settings where the elderly live, citing a lack of tests. DeWine said while he’d like to test everyone in Ohio’s long-term care facilities, the state has to be strategic in deploying tests.
“We’re going to test nursing homes as much as we have the capability of doing,” he said Monday. “I’m not satisfied with where we are. We’ve come a long way, but we have a long way to go.”
The federal government has urged governors to conduct coronavirus testing on all residents in nursing homes and congregate care.
A Columbus Dispatch analysis of the state’s coronavirus data found that of the 2,136 coronavirus cases among those age 80 or older through Monday, a total of 865 of those infected – 40.5% – have died. Slightly more than half of all statewide deaths are from that age group.
Before April 15 – when the state health department began compiling data on cases and deaths in nursing homes, assisted-living facilities and other skilled nursing facilities – there were 369 confirmed or probable deaths attributed to those facilities.
Including the totals the health department reported Wednesday, there have been 1,247 deaths in long-term care facilities.
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2021 Most Popular Animal Science Schools in Ohio
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Graduated Scales
Colorado Mountain College’s humble vice president advances the school through giant steps.
By Devon O'Neil Photography by Bob Winsett 6/1/2011 at 12:00am Published in the Summer/Fall 2011 issue of Colorado Summit Magazine
Alton Scales should be the one talking. He’s the CEO, after all. This is his meeting. But instead of leading the discussion, he’s eating popcorn and pretzels and drinking lemonade next to an understudy, Nicole Fazande, while she runs the show.
It’s a sunny day in April on the Dillon grounds of Colorado Mountain College. Scales, who is both the CEO of the Summit campus and vice president of the CMC system, generally works out of Breckenridge but has driven around Lake Dillon for the monthly staff meeting. He asked Fazande to lead the meeting because he likes to “empower” his staff, he says, and prepare them to move forward in their careers.
Once a world-class 110-meter hurdler at the University of Texas, Scales looks dapper as always: bright blue shirt, red tie, black slacks, shoes like mirrors. At 53, he still cuts an imposing presence with his thick-chested, long-legged, 6-foot-3 frame—someone you can imagine blazing down a track. Plus, as usual in this snow-white community, he’s the only African American in the room.
When the topic turns to the budget, Scales steps in. “Though we’ve had a modicum of gain, it’s only starting to move us closer to where we should’ve been budgeted in the first place,” he says. “I’m just asking you to be conservative with what you spend. Is toilet paper essential?” He smiles for effect. “We’re not quite to the BYOTP point ....”
People laugh, and suddenly Scales’s phone rings. There is no way I expect him to answer it, not now, but he checks to see who it is. Then he jumps up from his chair and leaves the room. A few minutes later he returns, sits down, and gets right back into the flow. I later ask who called, and he says, “Ed, our IT guy. I have to catch him when he’s free.”
It does not occur to Scales that maybe the IT guy should work around the CEO’s schedule. That has been his modus operandi since he took the job in 2007, shepherding Summit’s community college through the biggest growth in its history with equal parts humility and tireless initiative. More than 3,000 people took classes at CMC Summit last year, highlighted by a 45 percent enrollment increase in Breckenridge, thanks in part to CMC’s sparkling new $14 million facility. And now, for the first time in its 44-year history, CMC is about to offer bachelor’s degrees in addition to associate’s degrees, a crucial step toward “educating rural Colorado,” as Scales puts it.
There’s a good chance Scales won’t be around to see the first class graduate, however. He has always wanted to be a college president, which he considers the last step in his unlikely rise through higher education, and his goal is to become one within two years. But that’s for later. Until then, he’ll continue to broaden worldviews and mop floors and improvise poetry at the college he’s fallen for, hard—and which has fallen for him right back.
On being African American in snow-white Summit County, Scales says: “I do think about it, just because when you look around and you’re the only one, it requires you to think about it. I will say this is a very affirming community. I feel very comfortable here.”
Scales has always preferred community colleges to big universities. “They’re designed to be agile,” he says. “You can see results really quickly.” Though he got his start at the University of North Texas, where he coordinated airport shuttles for conference-goers, he’s spent most of his career at small, maneuverable institutions like CMC. You could argue that his impact is greatest in such bubbles, where, as English professor Joyce Mosher says, “Alton creates the optimal environment for people to function.”
It helped that he had older siblings to teach him, and that he came from little. He shared a bedroom with three siblings as a kid in Amarillo, Texas, where his dad worked as a janitor and his mother was the personal cook for oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens. Neither of his parents graduated high school, which is why they stressed education so heavily to their kids.
Scales, who spent much of his youth reading encyclopedias and a thesaurus to educate himself, didn’t learn he was dyslexic until after he’d graduated college. By then, he was on his way to working at General Motors, he thought. He earned a master’s degree in manufacturing and engineering, but instead of entering the industrial world, he took a job at a college. That one led to another, and another, and soon enough he was dean of students at a school in Kansas, then assistant vice president in Pennsylvania, then the new Summit campus dean.
I want people in the community to have an opinion of us, even if they don’t have any experience with us firsthand.
He is known to arrive for work at 7 a.m. and often not leave until 9 p.m., after sitting in on a class and strolling the halls. (“I manage by walking,” he explains.) His tactics initially took professors by surprise. “Usually the instructional chairs will come in and observe, but to have the actual CEO come in, I can’t remember that ever happening before,” says Phil Huff, a computer science instructor. Adds Mosher: “He’ll just show up in the classroom and start improvising spoken-word poetry. It really turns on the students.”
Scales also brought a small-business development center to the Dillon campus to help locals write business plans and secure loans, and he founded a CMC lecture series that is now a strong draw for students and nonstudents alike. All of his moves are aimed at a broader goal. “I want people in the community to have an opinion of us, even if they don’t have any experience with us firsthand,” he says. “Are we of value? I want them to say ‘yes.’”
To raise the school’s profile within the community, Scales makes himself extra visible. He won the local version of Dancing with the Stars two years ago, and he plays the drums at weekly happy hours and at weddings during the summer. “He’s a great salesman for CMC, but that’s not his personality,” says Daniel Webster Johnson, a close friend of Scales. “He could go forever, I think, without talking to people and still be happy. But he says, ‘The more involved I am with the community, the more effective we can be as a college.’”
Scales, for his part, admits he’s an introvert. “People drain me,” he says. But you get the feeling, as Johnson hinted, that he views his job as more of a noble duty than work. He collects antiques and raises African fish in aquariums, but otherwise seems to have few indulgences. He’s never been drunk. Doesn’t eat red meat or pork. Prefers tea to coffee. His colleagues couldn’t remember him ever being angry. “One of the things I like most about me is you don’t see any great dips, and you don’t see any big spikes,” he confirms.
It’s a commitment subtle enough to be missed, but so effective that few do. “As a leader, he does something I’ve never seen anybody do,” Mosher says. “He elicits everybody’s best without trying.”
A self-proclaimed introvert, Alton Scales has surprisingly extroverted hobbies. He plays the drums at weekly happy hours, he improvises poetry, and he even took to the stage to stump for CMC at Summit County’s Dancing with the Stars.
Back at the monthly staff meeting in Dillon, Fazande wraps up the agenda, and everyone gets up to leave. Scales begins rearranging the tables and chairs at the front of the room as his colleagues slip past him into the hallway.
“Be blessed,” he tells them as they go.
The meeting was nothing special: two hours of planning and brainstorming, mainly. But since Scales believes the bulk of one’s success is made before an event takes place, every step has its significance, no matter how mundane. Even meetings that inch by like worms.
I follow him down to the office he keeps in Dillon, which on this day is virtually bare save for an aloe plant on the desk. (He will soon voluntarily cede the space to accommodate a newly hired professor.) I ask if he did any snowboarding this winter. Nope, he says; he doesn’t much care for snow. I ask if he runs anymore. Nope, he says, and the conversation slowly fizzles.
But then we get back on the subject of his school, and suddenly his velvet tenor voice is purring again. He talks about how much he enjoys steering CMC’s future and defers credit for many of the good ideas that have come to life during his tenure, maintaining that he simply recognized them. His brother Hurles (who played two years in the NFL) told me Alton is well aware of where he’s come from and how much he’s achieved, but you’d never catch a whiff of that from Scales himself. He’d rather spotlight those around him.
“We have pockets of excellence everywhere,” he says.
It took roughly 18 months of political wrangling, but in April CMC officially announced its first four-year degree programs: a bachelor of arts in sustainability studies and a bachelor of science in business administration. Classes for each program will commence this fall at CMC’s nine campuses around the state.
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While skiers and snowboarders are among the winners (imagine earning your degree at the base of world-class resorts like Breckenridge, Steamboat, or Aspen), the new programs fill a crucial void in Colorado’s higher education. Until now, there existed a geographical area the size of Maryland—more than 12,000 square miles spread over nine counties—with no options for earning a baccalaureate degree.
Thanks to the college’s already low tuition rates, and the fact that the additional offerings aren’t expected to raise costs much, students residing in CMC’s district can earn a bachelor’s degree for as little as $5,880, or $30,720 including four years of room and board. Says CMC president Dr. Stan Jensen: “We’re looking at this as a way to increase the number of college graduates in the state of Colorado.”
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Ron Maxey, USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee
Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite Thursday described a community that he says has recovered from the stain of the Greg Davis era. He did so during a State of the City address delivered a day after Mississippi legislators dealt a blow to the funding source for one of Musselwhite's primary areas of accomplishment.
Musselwhite, who is seeking re-election this spring, outlined successes and discussed priorities for a second term as part of a campaign fundraiser at Landers Center in Southaven. The Republican mayor faces Tommy A. Henley and James Weifenbach in the May 2 GOP primary election. The winner will have no Democratic opposition in the June 6 general election.
Musselwhite defeated Davis in 2013 after the former mayor became embroiled in scandals involving use of city funds. Davis ultimately was ordered to repay more than $170,000 to the city for improper expenses, and he faces a trial in Grenada in June on felony charges of fraud and embezzlement after an earlier conviction was thrown out.
"It's no secret that in 2012, the city had some problems," Musselwhite told a packed banquet hall for a luncheon at Landers. "Our number one goal was to restore trust and integrity back to the city of Southaven, and I'm proud to tell you today that we've brought our good reputation back. The trust is back, and the money is right."
Musselwhite said among actions taken to restore trust were establishing a new purchasing policy; eliminating bid manipulation and inflated contract prices, which Musselwhite called "rampant;" revising the city's promotional expense policy; reviewing city contracts for legality; and making sure audits were clean.
Musselwhite also touched on crime, referring repeatedly to the city's proximity to Memphis.
"It's no secret that we border one of the most dangerous cities in America," Musselwhite said, "so we've had public safety challenges and we've made it a priority."
The mayor noted that the city's violent crime rate is 1.48 per 1,000 residents compared to a Mississippi average of 2.78, national average of 3.66 and Memphis average of 18.99.
"Memphis had 228 homicides in 2016," Musselwhite said, "so I'm just here to tell you that it's a challenge but we've got it under control."
Regarding parks and recreation, Musselwhite, a former professional baseball player, said he'll continue to work for improvements to the city's park system. Critics say he's spent too much time on the issue, but Musselwhite said it improves quality of life and makes the city more economically appealing. His primary funding tool for such improvements has been a 1-cent tax on restaurant tabs under the "Penny For Your Parks" special tax approved by voters in 2011 before Musselwhite took office.
The tax has been in the news this week after House members in Jackson on Wednesday voted against giving it a four-year extension. Such tax extensions are normally approved if local legislators support it, but Southaven's tax and a similar special tax in neighboring Horn Lake fell victim to resentment from legislators who didn't get support for their own local taxes from DeSoto House members elected as part of a wave of ultra-conservative anti-tax legislators.
Musselwhite referred directly to the controversy in Jackson only once, saying: "We'll continue with parks and recreation expansion, regardless of what happens in Jackson with 'Penny For Your Parks.' That does not mean we're going to quit on our parks program. We're going to find a way to make it happen because it's important."
Musselwhite said before Thursday's luncheon that legislators are trying to find a way to keep the tax alive despite Wednesday's House defeat. He said the measure may come back before legislators in some form early next week.
Earlier Thursday, state Sen. David Parker, R-Olive Branch, said he was working "to keep it alive." Parker sponsored the original Senate bill re-authorizing the tax extension for four years, with a stipulation allowing opponents to petition for a referendum. The measure was amended in the House requiring a June 6 referendum in order to get the bill to a full House vote, where it was defeated anyway.
Parker said if the bill is revived, it would have to return to the Senate if House members approve something other than the bill originally sent to them from the Senate chamber.
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Corpus Christi (Bony of CHRIST), FEAST OF, is celebrated in the Latin Church on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday to solemnly commemorate the institution of the Holy Eucharist. Of Maundy Thursday, which commemorates this great event, mention is made as Natalis Calicis (Birth of the Chalice) in the Calendar of Polemius (448) for the 24th of March, the 25th of March being in some places considered as the day of the death of Christ. This day, however, was in Holy Week, a season of sadness, during which the minds of the faithful are expected to be occupied with thoughts of the Lord’s Passion. Moreover, so many other functions took place on this day that the principal event was almost lost sight of. This is mentioned as the chief reason for the introduction of the new feast, in the Bull “Transiturus”.
The instrument in the hand of Divine Providence was St. Juliana of Mont Cornillon, in Belgium. She was born in 1193 at Retinnes near Liege. Orphaned at an early age, she was educated by the Augustinian nuns of Mont Cornillon. Here she in time made her religious profession and later became superioress. Intrigues of various kinds several times drove her from her convent. She died April 5, 1258, at the House of the Cistercian nuns at Fosses, and was buried at Villiers.
Juliana, from her early youth, had a great veneration for the Blessed Sacrament, and always longed for a special feast in its honor. This desire is said to have been increased by a vision of the Church under the appearance of the full moon having one dark spot, which signified the absence of such a solemnity. She made known her ideas to Robert de Thorete, then Bishop of Liege, to the learned Dominican Hugh, later cardinal legate in the Netherlands, and to Jacques Pantaloon, at that time Archdeacon of Liege, afterwards Bishop of Verdun, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and finally Pope Urban IV. Bishop Robert was favorably impressed, and, since bishops as yet had the right of ordering feasts for their dioceses, he called a synod in 1246 and ordered the celebration to be held in the following year, also, that a monk named John should write the Office for the occasion. The decree is preserved in Binterim (Denkwurdigkeiten, V, 1, 276), together with parts of the Office.
Bishop Robert did not live to see the execution of his order, for he died October 16, 1246; but the feast was celebrated for the first time by the canons of St. Martin at Liege. Jacques Pantaloon became pope August 29, 1261. The recluse Eve, with whom Juliana had spent some time, and who was also a fervent adorer of the Holy Eucharist, now urged Henry of Guelders, Bishop of Liege, to request the pope to extend the celebration to the entire world. Urban IV, always an admirer of the feast, published the Bull “Transiturus” (September 8, 1264), in which, after having extolled the love of Our Savior as expressed in the Holy Eucharist, he ordered the annual celebration of Corpus Christi on the Thursday next after Trinity Sunday, at the same time granting many Indulgences to the faithful for the attendance at Mass and at the Office. This ‘Office, composed at the request of the pope by the Angelic Doctor St. Thomas Aquinas, is one of the most beautiful in the Roman Breviary and has been admired even by Protestants. The death of Pope Urban IV (October 2, 1264), shortly after the publication of the decree, somewhat impeded the spread of the festival. Clement V again took the matter in hand and, at the General Council of Vienne (1311), once more ordered the adoption of the feast. He published a new decree which em-bodied that of Urban IV. John XXII, successor of Clement V, urged its observance. Neither decree speaks of the theophoric procession as a feature of the celebration. This procession, already held in some places, was endowed with Indulgences by Popes Martin V and Eugene IV. The feast had been accepted in 1306 at Cologne; Worms adopted it in 1315; Strasburg in 1316. In England it was introduced from Belgium between 1320 and 1325. In the United States and some other countries the solemnity is held on the Sunday after Trinity.
In the Greek Church the feast of Corpus Christi is known in the calendars of the Syrians, Armenians, Copts, Melchites, and the Ruthenians of Galicia, Calabria, and Sicily.
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Melvin School at Smoky Hill a piece of history
Schoolhouse built in 1922 continues to function as library, museum for historical artifacts
The Melvin Schoolhouse — built in the early 1900s and later moved to the campus of Smoky Hill High and Laredo Middle schools — sits at that location in August. It’s just south of East Smoky Hill Road near where east Centennial meets Aurora.
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Sitting between Smoky Hill High and Laredo Middle schools is an old, small building that sticks out: the Melvin School, which has also been called the Melvin Schoolhouse Museum-Library, according to the National Register of Historic Places.
The schoolhouse was built in 1922 on the west side of the Cherry Creek waterway in what was then the small farming community of Melvin — it stood as the second of two schools serving that area, according to the national register.
At its current location next to Smoky Hill High, the schoolhouse has served as an overflow classroom with “old-style desks,” said Garry O’Hara, president of the Cherry Creek Valley Historical Society.
“The whole thing is laid out as a schoolroom would be laid out in the 1930s or ‘40s,” said O’Hara, whose organization has a history closely tied to that of the schoolhouse.
'You can have it if you move it'
Originally, the school stood in an open field near Belleview Avenue and also served as a community building. It remained at its original site until around 1950 when the land on which it was built was condemned for the construction of Cherry Creek Dam. When the dam was completed, nothing remained of Melvin, according to the national register.
A private individual bought the school at an auction in 1950 and moved it to the southwest corner of East Quincy Avenue and South Parker Road. At that time, the building was converted for use as a tavern.
“It was used as the original Emerald Isle Tavern,” O’Hara said. “It was right next to where the current Emerald Isle is” at that same intersection in south Aurora.
When that second site was zoned for commercial development in 1975 and the school was slated for destruction, a movement arose to save the building, according to the national register. The Cherry Creek Valley Historical Society formed, and negotiations ensued with the area’s school board to find a location for the structure.
The tavern’s owner wanted to build a new Emerald Isle Tavern where the current one is now, O’Hara said.
“People went there and said let’s save the school,” O’Hara said. “He said you can have it if you move it.”
The schoolhouse was moved in 1976 — on a flatbed truck, O’Hara said — and underwent restoration under the supervision of the historical society with members, students, Cherry Creek School District personnel and community volunteers, the historical society’s website says.
“A group of five was trying to save the school,” O’Hara said. “It was the assistant superintendent of Cherry Creek Schools (who) said, `Let me do some looking around,’ and he’s the one who found the current location of the Melvin Schoolhouse.”
Starting in 1976, Melvin School has sat on the Laredo and Smoky Hill campus, roughly three miles from its original site. Its current location is near the border between Aurora and east Centennial.
Teaching a lesson
Cherry Creek School District has used the facility as an overflow for special reading classes, but its primary purpose is to serve as a community meeting place and a museum for historical artifacts, according to a 1983 letter from Cherry Creek School District for the national register.
And the schoolhouse’s use has, at times, been more colorful than that.
“We used to have a schoolmarm who would teach lessons,” O’Hara said, using a term for a stereotypically strict teacher in a rural school. “It was a member of our (historical) society that did that. We’d like to do that (again). The kids really liked it. It was kind of a break from regular school for them.”
The students — young kids from local schools learning about Colorado history — got a taste of what school was like in the 1930s or ‘40s from the “schoolmarm’s” reenactments of what teaching used to be like back then, O’Hara said. “She was kind of strict — no chewing gum and that kind of thing.”
The historical society’s vice president is a teacher in the area, and he’s brought at least one history class to the schoolhouse, O’Hara said. And the building still has served as an overflow classroom from time to time in recent years, he added.
The historical society holds its meetings there at least once a year but hasn’t met there recently because of the pandemic.
A local branch of the Daughters of the American Revolution — the Piney Creek chapter — has used the space as well, O’Hara said. That organization, founded in 1890, is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving American history, according to its website.
The schoolhouse also features historical materials in glass display cases, including school artifacts such as teacher’s notes, schoolbooks, pens and pencils, O’Hara said.
The Clarice and Fred Crowle Memorial Library, located in the schoolhouse, is a collection and archive of the history of people and their communities along Cherry Creek, according to the historical society. One whole wall is dedicated to use as a library, O’Hara said.
The library was named in honor of Clarice Crowle, the founder of the historical society and a passionate historian, the historical society’s website says.
The historical society helped place Melvin Schoolhouse on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and it was honored in the late 1980s as Aurora Historic Landmark #1, the historical society’s website says.
The national register is the federal government’s official list of “the nation’s historic places worthy of preservation,” according to its website.
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Claim Back Alliance & Leicester PPI Before the Deadline
Posted on November 6, 2018 by Canary Claims
You could be owed money from Alliance & Leicester due to mis-sold PPI. Find out how to start your PPI claim now before it’s too late.
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Steller’s Sea Cow – Extinct in 1768
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An estimated one million black rhinoceroses from four different subspecies roamed the savannas of Africa in 1900. By 2001 that number had dropped to about 2,300 black rhinos and just three subspecies. This is the story of how we exterminated one of those subspecies, the western black rhinoceros. There have been some …
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By far the most fundamental division within humanity is between people who give a damn and people who do not. In Malta, for example, the few give a damn and the many do not. We are following the pied piper’s tune of unrestrained economic growth, wild consumerism, high-rise buildings, anything goes …
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The DCS PROMISE.
DCS Netlink, was a division of Deutsch's, Inc. and was established in the autumn of 2000, and is a result of a name change and re-positioning of the former PC To Go. PC To Go was established in 1990, and its business was two-fold. It started as a retailer of computer products (hardware / software), and a Network Solution Provider primarily for small companies.
As the technology industry grew, so did PC To Go. In the 10 years PC To Go had been in business, it has evolved into a Technology Solutions Provider, growing from the provider of PC's into the networking of those PC's, and finally into what is today called "DCS Netlink", a provider of a variety of Technology Services, E-Business, Application Services, Wireless Services, IT Training and Network Support Services. The name PC to Go no longer accurately reflected the business' primary thrust into the networking and internet working business areas, thus the name DCS Netlink was created. The name more accurately reflects our ability to network and link customers to themselves and anyone else via any type of network, anytime, and anywhere in the world.
In late January 2020, DCS Netlink was sold to Double S Enterprises, LLC., keeping the dba DCS Netlink. Scott Sirianni, and Marvin Schoonover new owners bring a combined 40+ years of I.T. services. Moving locations to 101 E. South Street (the old Rice Lake Animal Hospital building) making that the new face and home for DCS Netlink. Scott and Marvin pride themselves to bringing the I.T. service back to the ownership level and look forward to serving NW Wisconsin and businesses all around the country.
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Neil Shastri-Hurst: Like a phoenix from the ashes of the Covid crisis, now is the time for a new social contract to arise
By Neil Shastri-Hurst
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Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst is a barrister, surgeon, and former British Army Officer.
The year 2020 was the very definition of an annus horribilis. It was a year that will be etched upon our memories for all the wrong reasons. A year most would hope to forget. As we emerge from 2020 and into the dawn of a new year, the end may not be quite in sight; there are unquestionably significant challenges that lie ahead. However, there is real hope that 2021 will be a better year.
Crises, by their very nature, create opportunities. Whilst most would prefer not to go through the crisis in the first place, ignoring such opportunities would be a mistake. Coronavirus has been the mother of all crises. A global pandemic that has presented unimagined challenges to world governments. From the economic impact to the imposition on civil liberties, governments have had to make unprecedented decisions in the face of a rapidly evolving scientific picture.
It is with this backdrop in mind that the need to reimagine the social contract that underpins our nation has become even more pressing.
The conceptual basis of the social contract is an important commitment to societal commonality. It rewards hard work. In return for paying your fair share through the taxation system, there is a tacit expectation that living standards will rise, there will be a pension pot upon retirement, and if all else fails the state will provide a sufficient safety net to support you.
Those are laudable aims. In pressing for the contract to be reimagined I do not seek to undermine those guiding principles. However, that contract was written in a different time. It was written when the number of taxpayers well outstripped the number of retirees. Times have changed. With increased life expectancy, retirement is considerably longer. Combined with inequalities in the share of wealth and public spending, the current social contract is being pushed to capacity.
In addition to the generation divide there is also a skills divide. With increasing automation of certain jobs, obtaining stable employment is, for some, a genuine battle.
It was the millennial generation that was disproportionately hit by the financial crisis that hit the world economy in 2008. It led to high levels of youth unemployment and job insecurity for those fortunate enough to be in work. Growth in wages was muted and did little to assist in paying off increasingly mounting student debts. With a market flooded with graduates, many were ending up in non-graduate roles. Prior to this year there were signs of improvement. The sensible fiscal policy of the Conservative led administrations from 2010 onwards had been rewarded with the signs of growth. There was cause for optimism for sunnier times. And then Coronavirus struck. And, once again it will be the millennials that bear the brunt.
Home ownership is a Conservative dream yet, back in 2018, the Resolution Foundation report found that millennials were 50 per cent less likely to own their own home by the age of 30 compared with the baby boomers born between 1946-1964. Faced with the economic constraints post-Covid that is only likely to get worse. Coupled with the fact that, as of 2017, average pensioner income outstrips those of working families, the threat to the social contract cannot be underestimated.
The welfare system, which operates in the UK, is on a “pay as you go” basis. Workers pay in now to fund benefits for the current crop of retirees, as that generation did for those before them. With individuals living for longer retirees will, inevitably, take out more than they have put in. That is not their fault; it is merely a by-product of improved life expectancy. What results however, is a scenario in which there is a redistribution of wealth towards those that live longest; statistically, this group is not only the longest living, but also the wealthiest in any event. This compounds the issue.
Of course, none of this is to say that there are not those of retired age who are struggling to make ends meet. Nor is it to suggest that the baby boomers have it all easy, enjoying a carefree retirement – far from it. With people living longer and millennials less able to strike out entirely independently, there is a generation above and below that needs their support. Rather than a carefree retirement it is often defined by being a carer to elderly parents and relatives and an alternative bank to their children.
It is with all of these competing factors in mind that we cannot put off revising the social contract any longer. That is not to say it will be easy. Older voters are more naturally Conservative voters; upsetting them goes against the natural instinct of politicians. Likewise manifesto promises have been made and should, in normal circumstances, be honoured. But we are no longer living in normal circumstances.
As we emerge from this crisis, we must use it as an opportunity to think differently on how the social contract works so that it works more fairly for all. The guiding principle must be that no generation should be in a worse position than those that go before them.
So what does this mean in reality?
Well, firstly a re-evaluation of retirement age beyond 65. With increasing life expectancy and improved health in later life, the artificial bar of retirement at 65 no longer makes sense. We must not see older people as less able to contribute; in fact, to the contrary, they have a wealth of experience to impart. Flowing from this is the inconsistency whereby those over the age of 65 are not expected to pay national insurance. There is no good reason for such an exemption and it should be closed off.
The second element for reform is the triple lock. Where once it was the right course of action, that cannot be said any longer. With sluggish wage growth, to maintain the 2.5 per cent provision is no longer defendable. Instead, it should be pegged to life expectancy.
And finally, we must look at social care provision. This is a mighty topic, a full analysis of which will need to wait for another day and another article. But as a starter we should be positively exploring an insurance funded care system. We should also take much closer heed of enhancing the role families play in the provision of care; and this means providing financial recompense to reflect the gratuitous nature of what would otherwise be picked up by the state.
As with everything in life, with time things evolve. The fundamental tenets of the social contract have withstood the test of time but the contract is now creaking under the strain. As the nation emerges, like a phoenix from the ashes of the Covid crisis, now is the time to reshapreshape it for future generations.
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Topic: Lost in Translation (2003)
Author Topic: Lost in Translation (2003) (Read 4101 times)
Mobbd
I'm re-watching this film RIGHT NOW (well, I paused it to type this) and I'm genuinely surprised by how badly it's aged and how poor it probably always was.
The attitude to Japanese culture is reactionary. And the whole "we're the only clever people in the room and this makes us feel lonely" vibe comes close to the old "you're not like other girls because you can think" motif.
The characters lack the curiosity of real-world clever-cloggses. They don't want to know anything. They're afraid of new experiences and new knowledge. I could be wrong but I don't think this was intentional.
Worst of all, it's boring. And not even in the "so beautiful it hurts," slow-moving arty film way it obviously aspires to. It's a piece of hackneyed grot.
In 2003 it was hailed by critics as the film of the year.
Any thoughts? I appreciate that this is a bit out of nowhere.
Blumf
Not long now
Re: Lost in Translation (2003)
Saw it at the time, thought it was a load of old toot then, never revisited it.
Clear work of a spoilt brat being backed up by some production team talent.
Quote from: Blumf on June 25, 2019, 01:34:40 PM
I fear you might be right on the money there.
Puce Moment
I liked it a great deal when I first saw it, but I can quite believe it has aged like bad humous. It seemed to be quite progressive in its dealings with non-sexual relationships, and bridging of the age gap. But it does also seem like it is the problems of the white and rich.
Also, when I found out that it was based on Coppola's experience of being in Japan for the premiere of hubby Jonze's Being John Malcovich I kind of went off the entire thing.
St_Eddie
LIKES: Deviled eggs DISLIKES: The Devil & bad eggs
I watched it on DVD around a friend's flat several years ago and thought that it was boring shite but was too afraid to say anything because everyone else was raving about how amazing it was. So I just sat there, silently.
Shit Good Nose
Several bags of balls
I got the American DVD (on the strength of Bill Murray alone) before it even came out over here in the cinema (that was about the tail-end of when that sort of thing still happened), so pre-hype, and I absolutely HATED it.
I've only seen it once since then - when it premiered on Film4 - and hated it still.
It still bewilders me how it ever ended up being thought of so highly.
But then I do wonder if the fact I'm so down on Coppola as an actress has anything to do with it, cos I've had similar reactions to most of her other films as director (not yet seen her version of The Beguiled). I remember liking The Virgin Suicides, but haven't seen that since it first came out. The Bling Ring actually made me angry. Not the subject matter, but the film itself. Similar to how I reacted to Oliver Stone's abysmal Savages.
Quote from: Shit Good Nose on June 25, 2019, 03:17:35 PM
I think a lot of its popularity was due to people wanting to be seen as 'smart' and 'artsy'. "Ooohhhh, look at me. I like this quaint little film, which is set in Japan. I'm so deep and intellectual". It's the same thing that happened with Slumdog Millionaire. They think that because it's set in a foreign country, it counts as foreign cinema. I don't think that many people actually liked it, they just wanted to be seen to like it because they're vapid, hollow husks.
bgmnts
Depressed to the point of poisonous toxicity.
Never ever even wanted to see it. I always confused it with that Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet film for some reason, neither I want to see. They both just look like pretentious wank.
Quote from: St_Eddie on June 25, 2019, 03:22:25 PM
I think a lot of its popularity was due to people wanting to be seen as 'smart' and 'artsy'. "Ooohhhh, look at me. I like this quaint little film, which is set in Japan. I'm so deep and intellectual". It's the same thing that happened with Slumdog Millionaire. I don't think that many people actually liked it, they just wanted to be seen to like what they think is foreign cinema because they're vapid, hollow husks.
I'd take Slumdog Millionaire over Lost In Translation any day of the week, though.
Quote from: bgmnts on June 25, 2019, 03:23:26 PM
Nah, Eternal Sunshine is pretty good. It certainly shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as Translation.
Johnboy
"I'M Mosely!!!"
It annoyed me when it came out and I've had it in for Bill Murray ever since.
The stench of sad alcoholic doesn't interest me in an actor.
Fair enough. I think that both are steaming piles of crap but I don't doubt that some people do genuinely enjoy them, which is absolutely fine. I still think that an awful lot of people were being very disingenuous in professing how much they enjoyed those two films though.
Saw it in cinema as a teenager and it absolutely transported me. I just loved the mood of it all, the way it looked and sounded. Dreamlike and hazy in the best way.
Now I live in Tokyo and I've rewatched bits of it here and there. It's hard to know what to make of it. I live centrally and I've been to the hotel it's set in several times so it's odd viewing. Speaking a bit of Japanese now (eg enough to follow what the Japanese director is saying) certainly creates a different sense, too. The Tokyo I saw in Lost in Translation in 2000-whatever I can never return to.
The one bit I found truly objectionable is when Bill Murray speaks English at the sushi chef and says all sorts of horrible things to him about "are you eating human toes" or whatever. And there's still one scene I find truly baffling: why was a prostitute sent to Bill Murray's room? Surely that's not standard practice for commercial companies.
I'm still hesitant to condemn it as problematic but then I'm hesitant to condemn anything as problematic which is probably going to put me on the wrong side of history sooner or later. But it is frustrating how they don't even attempt so much as a konnichiwa.
It's fun showing it to Japanese people and seeing what they make of it.
Also: Bill Murray should have played himself. I don't get why he didn't.
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phantom_power
I am a sucker for that dreamy atmosphere that Coppola can create in her films. I haven't seen it since it came out but at the time I thought it was pretty great
And Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a near masterpiece
Quote from: Puce Moment on June 25, 2019, 03:10:44 PM
Watched it for the first time in a few years a couple of months ago and yeah it did come across rather more as this which perhaps limits its depth a bit plus Japan is really just a somewhat generic "strange foreign place" for that story. Still I think if you accept that its a well made and well acted film that doesn't really have anything that objectionable in it.
As mentioned in the non new films thread though I would strongly recommend Edward Yang's Yi Yi from 3 years earlier, pretty clear that Coppola lifted a lot of the visual style from that film I'd say but to a rather different end as Yang's film is a lot more down to earth and actually involved with showing the location/culture its set in rather than just having it as an exotic backdrop.
Actually on Youtube in not bad quality....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U089cG2BqR8
Quote from: greenman on June 25, 2019, 03:35:47 PM
That's probably another reason I was so down on it, that I was by then already very au fait with East Asian art-house cinema, so Translation seemed like a bit of a lame cover version.
Quote from: popcorn on June 25, 2019, 03:27:03 PM
The one bit I found truly objectionable is when Bill Murray speaks English at the sushi chef and says all sorts of horrible things to him about "are you eating human toes" or whatever.
Thank you for your honesty about that first viewing. I think that's really cool and, actually, a defence of the film in a way. If it is/was capable of transcendence, then that's great. Thanks also for your insight as someone who actually moved to Tokyo. The "are you eating human toes" thing is, to me, emblematic of the whole film's attitude to Japan and otherness in general. It just isn't curious about otherness at all. It doesn't look at what makes another culture interesting: it just rolls its eyes. This would be bad enough on its own but it's the fact that it asks to be rewarded for it.
I have a high tolerance for pretentious wank. I really am one of those pretentious wankers. I think artists should try to do better. I love Being John Malkovich and I don't mind Eternal Sunshine (though tbh, it feels like an unnecessary expansion of what BJM managed in one sequence).
It's just the self-righteousness of this one. It has a Stewart Lee-like "we are smarter than the audience" attitude except it's not for laughs, really isn't smarter than the audience, doesn't know it's not smarter than the audience, and got lapped up for some reason by the critics.
Fuck it!
Arse!
Bollocks!
Grandma!
Sweet! Thank you. Will give it a go.
I don't find the film offensively closed minded about Japanese culture, its really more the product of its nature having two characters as unwilling tourists who are more concerned with their own lives that could have been set in many different places. Really though I remember even at the time(as with the Adam and Joe Tokyo series the same year)you were already at a stage were it was becoming harder to look on modern Japan as the kind of mysterious other it was in the 80's and early 90's.
Given all the underwhelming cinema that gets significant Oscar hype I don't think its a bad case at all, definitely a bit Wes Anderson upper middle class comfort blanket territory but nicely atmospheric and again I think well acted. Johansson really wasn't as good as she was here and in Girl with the Pearl Earring for quite awhile afterwards trying to be shoehorned into more standard sexy girl roles.
Dr Sanchez
I loved it when it first came out. I saw it as two lonely people in a strange place who randomly meet and grow a quiet admiration and care for each other. The scene where they sing More Than This at the karaoke place was truly beautiful.
I was 17 at the time and naive about love and all that shite so I'm not sure what I'd make of it now but I hold a place for it deep inside my hollow husk of a heart.
Sebastian Cobb
bad opinion haver
It was on Mubi a while back and I watched it while a bit mashed. Quite liked the not really knowing what's going on in a strange place, but still found it a bit hollow and dull.
Other films have done the 'lost in Japan' thing better (Until the End of the World springs to mind).
Twed
What, prick? That's my child. My Johnson's child
That's how I felt, and I just know that so much has changed with me and society in general now that rewatching it would ruin that.
kngen
Fighting sleep's deathlike grip
Found it reasonably watchable at the time, but the shitty cultural attitudes and the sneaking suspicion that this was really just Sofia Coppola's love letter to herself lingered long after watching. Watched it again a couple of years later, and couldn't get through the first half hour. Load of old pony.
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Rubbing linseed oil into the school cormorant.
Golden Member
Gargoyles have milk bags.
Correct. Congratulations for having the same opinion as me!
But I think we can all agree that Johansson has got even better looking as she’s gotten older.
I dunno. Opening shot...
I actually went out with ScarJo and shagged her and she is fit but she thinks she is MUCH fitter than she actually is but she's only really like a 7.5/10 fit. I am so glad I dumped
kidsick5000
Gotta be groovy for the moovy
I still like it.
After my first visit, it became clear it was a fairly touristy version of the city. But then that can be the case of any film that makes a feature of the city it's set in.
I still don't see it as snobby or 'we're smarter than the audience'. It's still an effective capture of loneliness.
The first time I went to Tokyo – very easy city to fall in love with – I don't think I spoke to anyone for days. Well, outside of basic p and qs. No conversations.
So if you aren't prepared for that, I'm sure it can be daunting.
But I've never experienced a city so busy yet so quiet. The sounds are beautiful, the train announcements are preceded by ambient melodies.
Going back again in a couple of months. No plans, outside of raiding stationery stores and seeing the Gorillas at Ueno.
Popcorn, I am immensely jealous of your location.
Find me a Scandinavian under 9/10 and i'll buy you a pint.
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Carl Gauss was born in Braunschweig (commonly known as Brunswick) Germany. The date was April 30, 1777 and he came from a nominally poor family. His parents were hard-working people that would have differing ideas on the path that young Carl should take.
His father was a man that believed in the hard work that came from working with your hands. As a bricklayer and a gardener, he did not put much stock in book-learning and hoped to have his son learn a trade. He purposely tried to dissuade Carl from following a formal education and would seek one of the trades he was involved in. However, his mother was more of a gentile quality and felt that her son had greater potential than mere trade work. She believed her only child deserved to benefit from a proper education. Carl’s uncle Friedrich also saw the potential in his gifted nephew.
Apparently, the main reason the birthdate of Carl Friedrich Gauss is even known is due to the work of Gauss himself.
At the time of his birth, no one had recorded the date; even his mother had not written it down. Young Carl gathered certain bits of information from his mother and figured out the probable date of his arrival.
Carl Gauss apparently was displaying his genius with numbers at a young age. What his mother and uncle saw in him came out in a couple of instances.
There is a story that while looking some of his father’s pay records, at the young age of three years old, young Gauss found an error in the math and corrected the mistake. His father was not one to take lightly this situation and had his son handling the family books within a couple years.
Another time, when Gauss was about 9 years old, he displayed his prowess as a mathematical genius once again.
During a time in class, the teacher instructed the class “write” out all whole numbers that were between 1 and 100; then add everything up to get the final sum. When finished they were to bring their completed work up to his desk for marks.
While it took the majority of the class a normal length of time to bring up their completed answers; Carl Gauss placed his answer on the desk in short order before anyone else was done.
The teacher was surprised to see that young Gauss had only placed one number on his slate, “5,050”.
He asked Carl how he came to that conclusion, the young boy simply said he could get two whole numbers, representing for example 1+100, 2+99, etc. would add up to 101. He deduced that 101 times 50 would equal 5,050. The teacher was spellbound by this display of quickness and accuracy.
Because he came from a poor family, the idea of a high caliber education seemed out of the question. But luck would have it that the Duke of Brunswick, Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand appreciated what he saw in young Gauss with his keen intellect and fervent desire to learn.
He made Carl his personal mission to make sure the boy received a higher education and provided the finances for such a purpose.
It is believed that one other major reason that the Duke was so interested in the young boy’s education was the fact young Gauss had a keen photographic memory. He believed this advantage for the lad would be a great benefit to the Carl’s future. As timewould tell, the Duke would be proven correct.
Beginning in 1792 at the age of 15, Carl Gauss began attending Collegium Carolinum, where he would spend the next three years.
After those intro years of college, he transferred to University of Gottingen and spent another three years in those Ivy walls. Gauss became more fascinated by the world of mathematics and algebra.
While at Gottingen, Gauss postulated the idea that there is a root to every algebraic equation. This concept had been bane in the world of algebra for many famous mathematicians and is the modern basis for fundamental algebra. Out This would be the first out of the box discovery or postulation to come from young Gauss.
Another idea that came to the mind of young Gauss in regards to the concept of prime numbers. For centuries., mathematicians had been struggling with the idea of how often a prime number occurred or in any type of known pattern.
Gauss deliberated the idea that if prime numbers could be looked at by graphing their occurrences, a more complete pattern could be reached.
His concept was that the probability of primes coming up would be reduced by a factor of 2 as the numbers grew at a rate for every 10. However, he did not immediately disclose his findings until many years later. His reason was that his idea was sound, but it lacked evidence.
In 1796 Carl Gauss astounded many in the field of mathematics when he proved that by simply using a compass and ruler, a 17-sided regular polygon could be created.
It is considered that this construction of a 17-sided polygon by this method was a major find in that particular field and one of the biggest since early times of the Greeks.
Other discoveries made by Gauss while at Gottingen consisted of:
Law of Quadratic reciprocity
These were just a few of the algebraic formulas that young Gauss put into public discussion. His discovery of the compass and ruler construct of a 17-sided polygon is found in his famous book,Disquisitiones Arithmeticae.
Although Gauss made the polygon construct discovery at Gottingen, he left the university without receiving a diploma. One thing that stands out about Gauss at university is his disdain for those that taught but did not have his mental equivalency or better.
His was a precocious nature and he tended to make note of his own intellect as compared to those were supposed to be his teachers.
The Duke of Brunswick continued to provide financially for young Gauss. Once Carl did go back to receive his delayed diploma from Gottingen, he made his way to the University of Helmstedt.
Here he would seek his doctorate, at age 23. His dissertation for the doctorate was on “The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra”.
Once he received his doctorate, Carl Gauss set about using his time to the research of mathematics since his financial needs were being met by the Duke. It was during this time of life that Gauss set about writing his book mentioned earlier, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae.
Gauss surprised again many during the summer of 1801. An astronomer that Gauss had met before published a work that detailed the orbit positions of an asteroid, named Ceres, that had been discovered by an Italian astronomer.
The Italian had been tracking the orbit of this “small planet” it before it went behind the sun. Gauss managed to use a method known as “least squares approximation” to detail where the planet would reappear.
His conclusion matched pretty close to accurate versus the predictions of his acquaintance astronomer Zach. His Theory of motion of the celestial bodies moving in conic sections around the Sun came from this prediction about Ceres.
This fascination for astronomy continued for Carl Gauss. The next summer of 1802 visited another astronomer friend named Olbers.
Olbers had made a discovery of a body called Pallas and asked Gauss to deliberate on its orbit. During this time a new observatory was being opened in Gottingen and Gauss was requested to be its new curator.
By October of 1805, Carl Gauss met and married a young lady named Johanna Ostoff. But his marriage was short-lived as she would soon die after having given birth to their second child.
(This child would succumb to illness soon after as well.) It was during this period of his happiness and tragedy that Gauss had taken up position as Director of the Gottingen Observatory.
The tragic loss of his wife and child would soon be compounded by the deaths of others dear to the mathematician. The Duke of Brunswick, which had taken an interest in Carl’s education years before was killed in fighting for the Prussians.
This was a particularly heavy burden upon Carl as he grown close to his benefactor and friend. A year later in 1808, Carl’s father passed away.
The heaviness in his heart for all these deaths caused Gauss to seek the asylum of himself for a periodof time with his friend Olbers.
He believed that by being in close connection with a good friend, he could pass through the grief and still be a good father for is remaining child. It was important to Gauss that he be a good father.
Gauss would marry again to a young lady that had been a close friend of Johanna. This marriage was not as much as of love as it seemed to meet a need for each of them. From this marriage three children would be born to Carl Gauss.
In 1809, Carl Gauss had his second work published that came from his earlier experience with the Cere’s prediction. Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis Solem ambientiumwas its title.
The first part of the work detailed conics and orbits, the more geometry of the of orbits. The second half focused on the estimations involved in figuring the possibilities and refinement of the orbit of a celestial body. For another ten years Gauss would continue to be involved in the math of astronomy.,
Other aspects of Gauss’s life at this time centered around the area of probability and statistics. He developed a way to show or display probability by means of geometric shapes. By using a bell-shaped curve, data could be displayed statistically. This creation came to be known as the Gaussian Function or Gaussian Distribution.
Through these years, Gauss spent a considerable amount of time with the observatory which was finally being opened. His passion for the facility was only muted by his continued research into other arenas.
He was completing other works which included a thesis on hypergeometric function. Other works corresponded with a work that is practical in modern equations of fluid flow and electricity known as potential theory.
Gauss was the Avant garde of his day in dealing with a myriad of studies that involved different aspects of physics, geometry and algebra.
In 181m Gauss participated in a geodesic survey that was to coordinate with the Danish grid. This look at the state of Hanover was a 24-hour obsession for Gauss.
He would make measurements and then use his knowledge of calculus to continue the work in the evening. Fellow astronomers were constantly communicated with to deliberate his findings.
From his work with the survey, Gauss created the heliotrope. Although he spent considerable time on the project and the heliotrope aided him significantly, Carl Gauss felt his findings might have been less than accurate due to certain details in his conclusions. But his work also developed a number of publications that were rooted in the geodesic accomplishment.
Another area that was significant to Carl Gauss was his work with maps. His work on the theory of map projections using angles brought him considerable attention again.
This discovery and work was honored with the Copenhagen University Prize in 1823. This work had some connections to his earlier look at the mapping orbit of Ceres.
Carl Friedrich Gauss continued to make discoveries that would aid in various disciplines of study.
Many in the remaining years of his life felt that Gauss was a genius but his writings were simplistic in content. Some even referred to them as “gruel”. However, Gauss was not one to be hindered or ashamed in what he accomplished.
By the time Carl Gauss passed away in 1855, much of his unpublished works began to become public. The same “experts” that denigrated his work, started to fully appreciate the brilliance of the man. Today, Carl Gauss is put on the same playing field as great mathematicians as Archimedes and Pascal.
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Trump says he'll leave if Electoral College seats Biden
Jill Colvin
Published Thursday, November 26, 2020 8:14PM EST Last Updated Thursday, November 26, 2020 11:21PM EST
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden's victory -- even as he insisted such a decision would be a "mistake" -- as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that "massive fraud" and crooked officials in battleground states caused his election defeat.
"Certainly I will. But you know that," Trump said Thursday when asked whether he would vacate the building, allowing a peaceful transition of power in January. But Trump -- taking questions for the first time since Election Day -- insisted that "a lot of things" would happen between now and then that might alter the results.
"This has a long way to go," Trump said, even though he lost.
The fact that a sitting American president even had to address whether or not he would leave office after losing reelection underscores the extent to which Trump has smashed one convention after another over the last three weeks. While there is no evidence of the kind of widespread fraud Trump has been alleging, he and his legal team have nonetheless been working to cast doubt on the integrity of the election and trying to overturn voters' will in an unprecedented breach of democratic norms.
Trump spoke to reporters in the White House's ornate Diplomatic Reception Room after holding a teleconference with U.S. military leaders stationed across the globe. He thanked them for their service and jokingly warned them not to eat too much turkey, then turned to the election after ending the call. He repeated grievances and angrily denounced officials in Georgia and Pennsylvania, two key swing states that helped give Biden the win.
Trump claimed, despite the results, that this may not be his last Thanksgiving at the White House. And he insisted there had been "massive fraud," even though state officials and international observers have said no evidence of that exists and Trump's campaign has repeatedly failed in court.
Trump's administration has already given the green light for a formal transition to get underway. But Trump took issue with Biden moving forward.
"I think it's not right that he's trying to pick a Cabinet," Trump said, even though officials from both teams are already working together to get Biden's team up to speed.
And as he refused to concede, Trump announced that he will be travelling to Georgia to rally supporters ahead of two Senate runoff elections that will determine which party controls the Senate. Trump said the rally for Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler would likely be held Saturday. The White House later clarified he had meant Dec. 5.
One of the reasons Republicans have stood by Trump and his baseless claims of fraud has been to keep his loyal base energized ahead of those runoffs on Jan. 5. But Trump, in his remarks, openly questioned whether that election would be fair in a move that could dampen Republican turnout.
"I think you're dealing with a very fraudulent system. I'm very worried about that," he said. "People are very disappointed that we were robbed."
As for the Electoral College, Trump made clear that he will likely never formally concede, even if he said he would leave the White House.
"It's gonna be a very hard thing to concede. Because we know there was massive fraud," he said, noting that, "time isn't on our side."
"If they do," vote against him, Trump added, "they've made a mistake."
Asked whether he would attend Biden's inauguration, Trump said he knew the answer but didn't want to share it yet.
But there were some signs that Trump was coming to terms with his loss.
At one point he urged reporters not to allow Biden the credit for pending coronavirus vaccines. "Don't let him take credit for the vaccines because the vaccines were me and I pushed people harder than they've ever been pushed before," he said.
As for whether or not he plans to formally declare his candidacy to run again in 2024 -- as he has discussed with aides -- Trump said he didn't "want to talk about 2024 yet."
All states must certify their results before the Electoral College meets on Dec. 14, and any challenge to the results must be resolved by Dec. 8. States have already begun that process, including Michigan, where Trump and his allies tried and failed to delay the process, and Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Vote certification at the local and state level is typically a ministerial task that gets little notice, but that changed this year with Trump's refusal to concede and his unprecedented attempts to overturn the results of the election through a fusillade of legal challenges and attempts to manipulate the certification process in battleground states he lost.
Biden won by wide margins in both the Electoral College and popular vote, where he received nearly 80 million votes, a record.
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South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA)
South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) is a statutory organisation established under the National Heritage Resources Act, No 25 of 1999, as the national administrative body responsible for the protection of South Africa’s cultural heritage.
SAHRA’s vision is to be the leading organisation in innovative management and promotion of our diverse heritage resources.
Our mission is to deliver on our mandate to coordinate the management and identification o the national estate by:
Identifying, protecting and promoting heritage resources in South Africa
Developing norms, standards and charters for the management of heritage resources in South Africa in accordance with the Heritage Resources Act (No 25, 1999) and codes of international practices;
Contributing to skills and knowledge production in the heritage sector; and
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Four Wheaton College scholars earn prestigious awards
By Ann Piccininni
Daily Herald Correspondent
Posted5/9/2018 2:04 PM
News of three major scholarship awards -- two Fulbrights and a Goldwater -- landed on Wheaton College's doorstep within a few days in early April.
Soon after, a Wheaton College faculty member was awarded a five-year research fellowship.
As a result, this fall an associate professor at Wheaton College will travel to Hungary to work with his Hungarian peers to develop curriculum and conduct research into family therapy.
Around the same time, a Wheaton College alumna will journey to Turkey to teach English.
Both are Fulbright Scholars, a prestigious scholarship award program administered by the U.S. State Department that gives faculty and students opportunities to teach, study and conduct research abroad.
Meanwhile, a junior geology major at Wheaton College, regarded by his professors as a junior colleague, was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship in recognition of his research efforts.
The Goldwater Scholarship was established by Congress in 1986 in honor of Sen. Barry Goldwater. The award is given to college sophomores and juniors who show promise as research leaders in natural sciences, math and engineering.
And this month, a public health expert and associate professor at Wheaton College will begin a five-year National Institutes of Health nutrition research project in Africa.
Dr. David Van Dyke
Dr. David Van Dyke, associate professor of marriage and family therapy, said he was pleasantly surprised when he received notice that he had won a Fulbright Award that will enable him to work alongside his contemporaries at Esterhazy Karoli University, a state university in Eger, Hungary, for four months beginning in September.
The application process was rigorous.
"It was a long process," he said, beginning with screenings conducted through the U.S. State Department and the Hungarian government, and culminating with an interview before a 12-person panel appointed by the president.
The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 and named for the late Arkansas Sen. William Fulbright, who introduced legislation to launch it. The program awards about 6,000 grants each year to people from all over the world.
Van Dyke is a Wheaton College alumnus, having graduated in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. He went on to earn a master's degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in California and a Ph.D. in child and family development from the University of Georgia.
"I was hired in 2012 to build the marriage and family therapy master's program at Wheaton College," he said. "I was fortunate to get hired to build the program from scratch."
In 2014, he and Dr. Terri Watson, associate dean of psychology at Wheaton College, began taking annual trips to Prague during spring break to conduct training conferences for eastern and central European clinicians.
That's when Van Dyke said he became aware of the acute need in the region.
"The needs are so great in Central and Eastern Europe for marriage and family therapy," he said.
In 2010, the Hungarian divorce rate was about 67 percent, he said.
"The marriage rate is on the decline," he said, adding that the current rate is only 3.6 people per 1,000. "It's the lowest rate in the European Union."
Van Dyke said Hungary's cultural and political history, including periods of totalitarian rule, have damaged people's ability to trust and take risks and have taken a toll on family life.
"It creates a relational community where it's not safe to be open and vulnerable," he said.
Van Dyke said he hopes to encourage curriculum in Hungary's university psychology programs that address family therapy. He said he will be working with supervisors and clinicians but not directly with clients.
"It's exciting. My hope is that it will have an impact on the students there," he said. "We're also there for cultural exchange. The Fulbright is kind of an academic ambassadorship."
He will be traveling abroad with his wife, Tara, and the two youngest of their four children, who currently attend Wheaton North High School.
Van Dyke said he and a colleague at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, where he previously worked, started a study abroad program some years ago. He has taught in Amsterdam, Greece, Hong Kong and Brazil.
He said between 30 percent and 40 percent of the students enrolled in the family therapy master's program at Wheaton College are international students.
In many cultures outside of the United States, relational therapy, as opposed to therapy that focuses on the individual, is more culturally acceptable, Van Dyke said.
"In family systems therapy, we think about problems that are more relationally based. It's a culturally good fit," he said.
Nadia Dervish
Last summer, Nadia Dervish studied the Turkish language through a U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship while living with a host family in Azerbaijan.
This fall, the 2017 Wheaton College graduate, who majored in English and minored in urban studies, will head to Ankara, Turkey, for a two-semester turn at teaching English through a Fulbright Scholarship.
"My dad is from northern Cyprus. He speaks Turkish. He immigrated to the United States in the mid-'50s," she said.
Her mother is a native of England. At home, the family spoke English. Dervish said she did pick up some minimal Turkish phrases when she visited her father's homeland during several summer vacations.
She's looking forward to going back. And she hopes to see her extended family.
"Everyone's still there. My dad was the only one to leave the island," she said.
Dervish is currently working as a substitute teacher at the Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago and waitressing part time.
"This is a great time for me to go. I didn't transition into permanent career plans," she said. "I'm really not quite sure what I want to do for the rest of my life."
She has not yet been given a specific assignment in Turkey, but she said she expects to be placed at a university. She looks forward to working with young people and said she is considering a career as a school psychologist.
Dervish said she is grateful for her undergraduate education.
"Wheaton is a very unique school," she said. "It offers unique opportunities."
Benjamin Hess
Wheaton College junior Benjamin Hess is a geology major who has conducted several research projects with professors Dr. Jeffrey Greenberg and Dr. Stephen Moshier. Hess and one of his professors also are conducting research in a laboratory on the University of Chicago campus.
Wheaton College officials said he is one of 211 Goldwater recipients this year, selected from a pool of 1,280 nominees, recognized for his outstanding research achievements.
"Last summer, I did a National Science Foundation internship at the American Museum of Natural History in New York," he said.
His research there involved studying apatite, a phosphate mineral.
"We're trying to figure out how magma systems evolved," he said. "It's in almost every system. Any magma, any rock body, is going to have a little apatite in it. It's a durable mineral, so it doesn't break down. It's basically a little time capsule. It mostly tells us how the magma changed over time."
Hess also studies fulgurites, which are vitreous, glassy materials formed through the fusion of sand or rock by lightning strikes.
"They're most commonly found on beaches. There's not much in the scientific literature about it. There's so much stuff in soil, there's bound to be some interesting stuff inside of it," he said. "Lightning plays an important role in the early formation of the planets."
Hess said he's long been fascinated by rocks and geochemistry.
"I basically have always had a love for geology," he said. "I also really liked chemistry. And those two go together so well."
Hess said the award carries with it a $7,500 prize per year while the award-winner remains in college.
More importantly, he said, the Goldwater Scholarship opens doors for researchers to pursue their passions. While his postgraduate plans are uncertain, he said he does plan to attend graduate school.
"The Goldwater is regarded as the most prestigious science scholarship in the nation," he said. "It's basically a golden ticket."
Dr. Scott Ickes
Dr. Scott Ickes, an associate professor in the department of applied health sciences at Wheaton College, has won an International Research Scientist Development grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The grant will allow him to conduct research for six months annually for the next five years in Kenya.
"My first trip will be in May. We'll be identifying factors that are identified with suboptimal breast-feeding," he said.
The research will focus on mothers who work in commercial agriculture in Naivasha, a town north of Nairobi.
Two undergraduate students will accompany Ickes for the first three months of his trip while a third student will remain on campus to support data collection.
"We'll be doing in-depth interviews with stakeholders," he said. "This is a research fellowship."
A cross-section of factors that influence breast-feeding practices will be studied in an effort to identify ways to improve pumping and lactation support, he said.
Ickes joined the Wheaton College faculty in August 2017. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Public Health, where he continues to serve as an affiliate professor.
His wife and their three young children also will join him in Africa.
Ickes said he won't be on campus for the fall semester but will return in the spring.
"Wheaton has been highly supportive of this grant," he said.
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Human Synthesis
‘An Artist’s Focus’ (1982)
The 20th century has marked a major historical transition for mankind. No earlier time has ever witnessed such formidable growth in every area of human concern. Be it conceptual, creative, inventive or constructive, the cultural orientation of man has been entirely revamped from the ground up. Whole new political ideologies have reshaped the frontiers of society, the World Wars have reduced the immensity of the world to incredibly small time/ size proportions, science and technology have expanded human knowledge exponentially. The basic fabric of the human character is of a very different color.
The roots of this explosion may not be easy to pinpoint, but certainly, the liberation of the individual had a most powerful influence. The freedom from land, State and Church combined with the burgeoning growth of industry, urbanization and social organization prepared the bed for modernity.
Of all the great forces at work cradling these revolutionary changes in society at the beginning of this century, perhaps painting had the most substantial influence. Painters struck down with one fatal blow the stylized art of the past and seized the revolutionary spirit of self-expression. Indeed art itself at the turn of the century was the very embodiment of revolutionary transformation. The art movements of Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, to name but a few, were conceived in the hotbeds of the individual’s drive for liberation from convention and formality.
At this time, however, as we near the end of this century, there seems to be hesitation among artists as to direction, as if a cooling-off or burnt-out stage has arrived. I believe the culprit for this impasse in the artistic stamina is the sensational growth of science and technology. Society in general and artists, in particular, have been dwarfed by the intoxicating momentum and the constant parade of marvels that science and technology have been churning out over the last few decades. All eyes are turned to science to see what spectacular new insight is next. Artists have found themselves competing directly with scientists for the vanguard of discovery.
Although the breath of science has galvanized popular attention, I believe it can go only so far without strong participation from artists. It is my intention in this paper to make the argument that artists must not only embrace the challenge of science but must be instrumental in fanning its growth. The scientific formula is the business of the future. It will radically transform not only the material world on mankind but also his entire inscape of perceptions. When artists land back on their feet, they will in liaison lead the way into a modern new love affair with life.
This new love affair that I speak of will demand from us a radical transformation of sensibility of thought. The genius of human invention during the last few decades has far exceeded the genius of human adaptability. We have developed tools to peer into both microscopic cell life as well as the infinitude of space. The volume of knowledge and information is expanding four to seven times every few years. And yet mankind has still not been able to develop for himself any basic model of harmony. I believe that there are pressing needs for some underlying changes to the human consciousness. As earlier mentioned, artists at the turn of the century were vital in liberating man’s talents for self-expression. That artistic freedom inverted its vision in the shape of a deeply personal intimate search. There is presently, however, an overwhelming need to continue that search outside of the self to find a common expression of universality and unity of man.
As Meyer Schapiro spoke in 1957 of modern art being modern “not simply because it is of our century, but because it is the work of artists who take seriously the challenge of new possibilities and wish to introduce in their work perceptions, ideas, and experiences which have come about only in our time.” In our time the world has collapsed into a globalized information society. We are constantly being exposed to the realization of how undeveloped we are as a collective intellectual and emotional body. Artists must grasp the concept that information is our new wealth, that technology is the source of a new life for mankind. Perhaps technology and human potential are the two greatest challenges facing humankind today.
If we examine the differences between our lives today in modern society with those of yesteryear, we see that some remarkable unusual developments have occurred. Since our very origins, the survival of the human species has depended on being able to adapt to the external forces of nature. Homo sapiens not only excelled in surviving his foes and the exceedingly harsh elements but went on to control them in varying degrees. Developing a social order, a complex culture, language, and a literacy enabled man to build a world entirely his own, increasingly more sophisticated and complex in itself. People today, especially in modern urban centers, live inside a man-made cocoon. Virtually all aspects of modern life are synthesized, from the products of our manufacture to our thought processes and associations. This cultural creation is entirely encompassing, we dream, think, work and aspire within the broad spectrum of human artifact. I call this state of man’s development ‘human synthesis’. It is the conscious determination to actively influence and control all factors affecting human life. Perhaps it can be seen as a natural parallel to Mother Nature. It is, at any rate, a positive ingredient to human survival and growth. Without ongoing change, and much more importantly, the conscious will for that change, stagnation, and death would set in.
This artificial or man-made world is enthusiastically represented by the new breed of explorers in science and technology. It is time artists, in all their disciplines, aggressively rallied behind this crusade of modern evolution. Artists have historically been the trumpeters of men’s passions through their images. Sir Kenneth Clark has rightly said “it is an incontrovertible fact of history that the greatest art has always been about something, a means of communicating some truth which is assumed to be more important than the art itself. The truths which art has been able to communicate have been of a kind which could not be put in any other way.” The urgent truths begging for communion today are the universal aspirations to tap the enormous potential of human creativity, human invention, human construction. The soul must be given impetus to expand, otherwise, it will concentrate on itself. Science is the vehicle artists can use to aid our reach over the horizon. It is a catalyst of liberation, and creatively communicated it will fire humanity’s imagination.
Five hundred years ago Leonardo da Vinci’s brilliant imagination mused “I shall not refrain from including among these precepts a new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, it is none the less of great value in quickening the spirit of invention. It is this: that you should look at certain walls stained with damp or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some setting you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills, and valleys in great variety; and then again you will see their battles and strange figures in violent action, expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. Today’s stained walls are the shining painted surfaces of computers, satellites, radio telescopes, CT scanners or spaceships. The pictures you will see when you stare at them might launch you into an orbit sailing past a civilization only imagined existing in space yet so advanced that we would be to them what an earwig is to us. You may see a printout of extremely complex statistics and diagrams first stimulating and then pinpointing specific disease viruses, or indeed you might imagine someday in the future when men and women are no longer burdened with physical labor, instead, their minds are pure energy sources. These painted surfaces already exist – where are the artists to interpret them?
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Kimora Lee Simmons Sells Beverly Park…
Greenhouse guru Rich Reilly dumps $25 million on an A-list-style Beverly Hills estate
March 31, 2017 4:01 pm PT
Anyone who has followed Yolanda’s silly little blog for even a short period of time should know that there’s really nothing we crave more than an excuse to briefly dissect the history of a major celebrity-style estate located in a posh pocket of LA. And this next house, originally built in 1934 (though majorly renovated over the years) and sublimely located in an ultra-swank area of northern Beverly Hills is just the proverbial bee’s knees, if y’all will pardon the cliché. We love it.
Listed way back in March 2016 for a heavyset $34 million, the high maintenance compound lingered on the market for a full year before finally transferring last month (February 2017) for a still-impressive $25,000,000. And though the buyers’ identities are carefully screened behind a blind trust, Yolanda just happens to know that they are a low-profile Ohio-based businessman named Richard “Rich” Reilly and his wife, Christie Reilly. But forget about that for the moment while we strap into our rocketship and blast away, way back in time.
As we say, the Tudor-ish-style pile was originally constructed in 1934 for an unknown (to Yolanda) individual, but judging by the size and location it must’ve been someone pretty big and important. The house sits on high-nosed Tower Road on the northernmost edge of the city of Beverly Hills. Directly across the street is the city of LA (Beverly Hills Post Office).
Sometime in the 1940s the house became owned by the George Sidney family. Our Mr. Sidney was a bigshot film producer/director at MGM, and he had connections/friendships with most of the big stars from Hollywood’s Golden Age, so Yolanda can only imagine that this house was the site of some excellent — though long-forgotten — Tinseltown parties.
Mr. Sidney held onto the residence until sometime around 1978, when he married a rich Beverly Hills lady and moved to her (arguably less impressive) house in the flats.
To be honest, Yolanda is not quite sure who Mr. Sidney sold the house to, but we think it might’ve been Freddy DeMann, who served long and exceedingly lucrative stints as the music manager of both Madonna and Michael Jackson. In any case, it was definitely Mr. DeMann who — in 1993 — sold this house for $3,750,000 to well-respected film producer Gale Anne Hurd. It appears Ms. Hurd’s second husband Brian DePalma was also involved in the purchase, though the couple were already dunzo by this time.
After Ms. Hurd married her third (and current) hubby, fellow film producer Jonathan Hensleigh, and the couple sold the house in 1997 for $4,450,000 to billionaire heiress Janet Crown of Chicago’s Crown family.
Sadly for Ms. Crown, we doubt she misses the memories that were made in this house. Sometime in 2006, while her marriage to her celebrity personal trainer hubby Gunnar Peterson was swirling town the toilet of love, her young ex-boytoy (and alleged drug addict) Peter Marino broke into the Tower Road house and was non-fatally stabbed by Ms. Crown’s security guard.
My oh my, what a tangled web some folks weave. But we digress.
In March 2010, Ms. Crown unloaded the property for a rock-bottom $9,600,000 to Marcus Everard, formerly a Hong Kong-based financier who now resides full-time in Los Angeles, so we’ve been told.
Mr. Everard spent years and dumped untold millions into transforming what had been just another big Beverly Hills mansion into the opulent, nobility-worthy compound you see below. Seriously, kiddies, the landscaping costs alone on a property of this caliber probably exceed the amount that most folks earn in a single year. For starters, the entire house is surrounded by some of the tallest hedges we’ve ever laid eyes on, and they cover all the 1,000+ feet of frontage this property sports on tony Tower Road.
The house is situated on a sloped 1.38-acre lot, which by estate standards might not seem all that big, but the place is masterfully terraced and landscaped to create the illusion of a much larger property. Neighbors are essentially invisible from the viewpoint of the home and grounds.
Many large estates have two or occasionally even three driveways, but this one has no fewer than — wait for it — FIVE gated driveways surrounding the property, which variously access the main house, the guest house, the gardens, or a service entrance. After winding around the long main driveway (above left), the main house presents as a large and grey but not humongous two-story pile. Out back, however, the structure reveals its true enormity as it drops down mullet-style to three full floors.
According to listing information, the extensively renovated and expanded main residence clocks in at 11,311-square-feet, which isn’t exactly mega-mansion-magnanimous but is quite large.
The house’s public rooms are large without being overbearing and luxurious without seeming too pretentious. Overall, we like the decorating, even that unconventionally square and all-glass dining room table. The kitchen has a massive and somewhat rustic-looking center island topped with walnut or some other lustrous-looking wood. Naturally, high-end appliances abound. And nearly every public room has French doors that open to views of the gorgeously-landscaped backyard (more on that in a minute).
We’re not sure what it is about teal paint, y’all, but that drawing room (or whatever it is) pushes Yolanda’s buttons in all the right ways. We also like that balcony equipped with couches and a glass coffee table, although we wonder what the homeowners will do with that when the rains come? Guess that’s the hired help’s problem, eh?
The master suite has a vaulted ceiling with a lovely balcony off the bedroom. The master baths (two, actually) both verge on the enormous in size. Also upstairs are four additional family bedrooms.
The most impressive feature of the estate, however — at least from Yolanda’s point of view — are the exquisitely manicured grounds, with their raked pea-gravel, sculpted hedges, and hundreds of other assorted plants and flowers (most planted by Mr. Everard during his recent renovation of the property). Props!
There is a classy rectangular pool with some of those weird water fountains. Those seem kinda cool at first but always make Yolanda think of a rich people pissing on themselves for some reason. But whatever.
In addition to the main house, there’s also a two-story guest house (which at 3,980-square-feet is larger than the majority of Americans’ main residences!) In here there are three more bedrooms and baths for a total of 8 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms in 15,291-square-feet of living space.
Now, about the buyers who felt comfortable throwing down $25 million for the house. Rich and Christie Reilly may not be household names, even in the tonier parts of Los Angeles where they reside, but they most assuredly afford a $25 million compound and much more. You see, Mr. Reilly is the President (and was the owner) of a Cincinnati-based company called Rough Brothers, Inc., which manufactures and restores greenhouses across the United States, of all things.
The company had been owned by Mr. Reilly’s father, Al Reilly. After his death, as far as Yolanda can tell, the younger Mr. Reilly inherited most of the company and is the fellow responsible for orchestrating its July 2015 sale to Gibraltar Industries for $130 million in cash.
The Reilly fam
Mr. & Mrs. Reilly have two teenage daughters — Montana Reilly and Mia Reilly. And although the family hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, they’ve actually resided in Los Angeles for at least the past 5 years or so, where the girls attend school. As a matter of fact, the Reillys own a fancy pad over in the super-posh Holmby Hills neighborhood.
The Reillys’ current $5 million Holmby Hills house
The unique-looking modernist house is about as far — stylistically speaking — from their new Beverly Hills mega-compound as Yolanda can imagine, but it’s also got quite the interestesting pedigree. Behind that imposing red wall, kiddies, is one of the United States’ only pool/fountains designed by the world-famous Mexican architect Luis Barragán.
Luis Barragan pool/fountain at the Reillys’ Holmby Hills casa
For what it’s worth, y’all, Yolanda has mad respect for Mr. Barragán. He’s rightfully a legend in the world of architectural design. However, we don’t love the look of his pool/fountain combo here. At all. Perhaps because the 4,905-square-foot house is shoehorned onto a paltry .16-acre lot, there ain’t no outdoor space and therefore the pool is pushed up uncomfortably close to the home. Looks like it’s hungry. Might swallow up everyone inside. We’re just sayin’.
But if you like the look and have millions to burn, you’re in luck. With their massive upgrade in Beverly Hills, we doubt Mr. & Mrs. Reilly will want this house hogging space on their portfolio for much longer. Give ’em a call, we say.
Listing agent: Kurt Rappaport, Westside Estate Agency
Mr. & Mrs. Reilly’s agent: Steve Frankel, Coldwell Banker
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Not beaten yet
Another bomb in Jakarta
AsiaSep 11th 2004 edition
Australia takes another hit
THE casualty toll from a bomb on September 9th outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta—eight dead and about 100 injured—significantly understated the size of the blast. It was huge, much bigger than the explosion at the JW Marriott hotel in August 2003 that killed 12 people and injured 150. A ten-metre (33-foot) section of the embassy's security fence was blown away, the bomb left a crater several metres across, about five buildings in the immediate vicinity lost all their windows, many more suffered serious damage and the blast was felt up to 15km away.
As no one immediately claimed responsibility, the perpetrators' motives can only be guessed at. The fact that the bomb exploded at 10.30am suggests that the bombers were not seeking to kill many locals. The target was therefore probably Australia itself, and the Jakarta embassy merely a prominent Australian target.
There are two possibilities for wanting to strike at Australia. One is as a parallel to the Madrid bombing last March. Australia's prime minister, John Howard, is an outspoken member of the coalition fighting in Iraq and faces a tough general election on October 9th. The second is that the perpetrators wanted revenge for Australia's insistence on the prosecution of Abu Bakar Basyir, a militant Islamist cleric who was allegedly the head of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a regional terrorist group with links to al-Qaeda. He is widely believed to have ordered the Bali bombing in 2002. Mr Basyir's trial for as yet unspecified terrorist acts is expected to begin within a month.
Another possibility is that the bombers' primary goal was to disrupt preparations for the second round of Indonesia's presidential election which is due to be held on September 20th, and that the embassy was chosen because any terrorist act there would generate widespread publicity. In any event, it is likely to undermine the incumbent president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, at the expense of her rival, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono—a former general who is likely to be tough on terror. The bombers' motivation could, of course, have been a combination of all three.
Their identity, though, is another question. Two alleged members of the JI cell responsible for the Bali bombing are still at large and attention will at first focus on them. Separatists from Aceh are also suspects, but much less plausible ones. They probably do not have the means to carry out such a large bombing—and no obvious reason for wanting to strike Australia.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "Not beaten yet"
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Of God and men
A long letter from Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to President George Bush will do nothing to ease concerns about the Islamic country's nuclear ambitions
THE diplomatic effort to defuse the gathering crisis over Iran's nuclear ambitions is sufficiently stuck that anyone involved (bar China's godless Communists) might have been tempted to invoke the Almighty. Yet the litany of taunts and complaints in a letter from Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who chose to address President George Bush this week—the first such direct communication between the leaders of the two countries since Iran's 1979 revolution—as one believer to (he had heard) another, hardly seems likely to break the impasse.
Instead, after a tough meeting between the foreign ministers of America, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China at the United Nations, the European three prepared to huddle to find more material inducements to get Iran to suspend its enrichment of uranium (which it claims it needs for producing electricity and others suspect may be a cover for bomb-making). The idea is to present Iran with a clearer alternative: more promises of trade, help with nuclear power and access to fuel from other sources, or face the prospect of sanctions—which Russia and China have so far been reluctant to contemplate.
Mr Ahmadinejad gave no sign Iran will budge over enrichment. Why is it, he asked, “that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East” is “portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime?” It isn't: the Europeans and America have said they have no problem with Iran, like others in the region, using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
What they object to is the most dangerous technologies in the hands of a regime that lied for 20 years to nuclear inspectors and that threatens Israel. “Let us assume these events are true,” says Mr Ahmadinejad, doubting that the Holocaust ever took place; what right, he mused, does Israel have to exist in the region?
Along with criticisms of the war in Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq (though Saddam, he acknowledges, was a “murderous dictator”) and the pressure on the Hamas government in Palestine to recognise Israel, this seems designed to win support in the Arab world. To plenty of Iranians, though, his championing of the oppressed of Africa and Latin America may seem a bit rich from the president of a regime that treats its own opponents roughly. According to Human Rights Watch, an NGO, at least two of Mr Ahmadinejad's ministers have been involved in systematic abuses of human rights, including executions of dissidents.
What is Mr Ahmadinejad up to? Suggesting that American officials may have helped instigate the attacks of September 11th seems aimed to cause offence, at a time when America is being pressed to consider direct nuclear talks with Iran and some of Mr Ahmadinejad's rivals at home have shown interest. Might the invitation to “return to the teaching of prophets” have less to do with concern for Mr Bush's soul, and more with bolstering Mr Ahmadinejad's political power on earth?
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John Brockman is the author/editor of nineteen books, including the recently published "The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution". Founder of Brockman, Inc., a literary and software agency, Brockman is also the cofounder and chairman of Content.Com, Inc., a Web-based digital publishing company. He lives in New York City.
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"McLuhan had pointed out that by inventing electric technology, we had externalized our central nervous systems; that is, our minds. Cage went further to say that we now had to presume that 'there's only one mind, the one we all share.' Cage pointed out that we had to go beyond private and personal mind-sets and understand how radically things had changed. Mind had become socialized. 'We can't change our minds without changing the world,' he said. Mind as a man-made extension became our environment, which he characterized as 'the collective consciousness,' which we could tap into by creating 'a global utilities network.'"
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Fears over coronavirus spread in refugee camps with up to 250 sharing one tap
Oxfam has said refugee camps will be especially vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic
Alasdair ClarkJournalist
Douglas Barrie
08:49, 6 APR 2020
Updated 08:57, 6 APR 2020
Th aid charity Oxfam has expressed fears over the spread of coronavirus in refugee camps, as well as the "catastrophic effect it could have in places hit by conflict.
The charity say up to 250 refugees are forced to share a single tap in some camps which already suffer food shortages.
Coronavirus could also be 'catastrophic' for people in places hit by conflicts, such as Yemen, Syria and South Sudan, Oxfam warned.
Marta Valdes Garcia, Oxfam's coronavirus response operations lead, warned millions of people are already suffering chronic and severe food shortages.
Boris Johnson spends night in hospital as coronavirus symptoms persist
Edinburgh is doing lockdown better than Glasgow, and we’ve got the data to prove it
The rise of Covid-19 and any restrictions needed to help deal with it she said are also “likely to further compromise their food security as well as their jobs and livelihoods”.
Ms Garcia said: “The death toll around the world is rising rapidly but this will be just the tip of the iceberg if and when the virus spreads to the world’s most vulnerable communities.
“Camps for people who have been forced to flee their homes are simply not set up to cope with a pandemic like coronavirus.
“Aid agencies will need to work even harder to prepare for and deal with the arrival of this disease.
“While many nations are understandably focused on containing the spread of the pandemic amongst their own population, it’s crucial they don’t turn their back on millions of the most vulnerable people worldwide.
“The international community needs to mobilise huge resources behind developing countries to cope if we’re to honour the promise of ‘no-one is safe until we’re all safe’.”
In the case of the Rohingya refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, there are 40,000 people per square kilometre despite the standards stating there should be one tap for no more than 250 people and 3.5 square metres of living space per person.
Elsewhere, the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos was built for 3,000 people but now hosts nearly 20,000 people.
Up to 160 people use the same toilet and there are more than 500 people per shower.
In some parts of the camp, 325 people share one tap without soap, while 15 to 20 people can be living in a single shipping container.
While the standards for camps are agreed by agencies responding to humanitarian crises, Jamie Livingstone, head of the charity in Scotland, suggests they cannot cope with a global pandemic.
Mr Livingstone said: “Our lives and livelihoods have been severely affected by coronavirus as we all restrict our behaviour to help stop its spread.
“Coronavirus is an unprecedented threat to those living in poverty, and those who risk being dragged into it because of its impact on people’s incomes.
“It’s hard to look beyond our own walls when for many people it may feel like they’re closing in around us. But it’s clear that the virus doesn’t respect town, city, region or national borders.
“For many of the world’s most vulnerable, basic preventive measures like staying at home or washing hands more frequently are simply impossible.
“We also know that women are hit hardest by emergencies, and women carry the bulk of caring responsibilities, making them even more vulnerable to exposure to this virus.
“As we together come to terms with the terrible and devastating impact, we must also turn our attention to the action needed to protect the people facing heightened risk and those who are least able to cope in this global pandemic.”
A UK Government spokesman said: “The UK is providing £544 million to the global fight against coronavirus which includes the largest single contribution of any country to the international fund to develop a coronavirus vaccine.
“We are strengthening fragile healthcare systems in the world’s poorest countries to help them cope with the outbreak and are helping to prevent the spread of diseases in refugee camps around the world by providing access to clean water and sanitation.”
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Chris Sasser Wiki: Facts about Emily Ann Roberts’ Husband
By: Caroline John - Published: November 9, 2020 at 8:36 am
Chris Sasser with Emily Ann Roberts (Photo: Instagram)
The Voice alum Emily Ann Roberts tied the knot with her longtime sweetheart, Chris Sasser. The country singer’s husband has been with her since before she hit it big on The Voice. They got engaged in 2019, and now married on November 7, 2020. There’s been lot of curiosity about Emily Ann Roberts’ husband since they got engaged. So, we’ve got Chris Sasser’s wiki for all the details on Roberts’ supportive beau.
About Chris Sasser
Birth December 27, 1997 Knoxville, Tennessee
Spouse Emily Ann Roberts Nov 7th 2020 - now
Siblings Stacey, Tiffany
Parents Jeff Sasser, Lisa Sasser
Alumni Karns High School, University of Alabama
Chris Sasser’s Family
Chris Sasser was born December 27, 1997 to Jeff and Lisa Sasser. Chris and his sisters, Stacey, Tiffany, and McKenzie, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Stacey Blevins still resides in Tennessee with her husband and kids. Her children often feature in Chris’ Instagram.
Tiffany Graham lives in Knoxville, and gave a shoutout to her little brother and new sis-in-law on her Facebook.
McKenzie, meanwhile, appears to have recently graduated from high school.
Chris’ parents also live in Tennessee. In November 2020, a GoFundMe page was created to pay towards Lisa Sasser’s heart surgery.
Chris Sasser’s Career
A former student-athlete, Sasser played basketball at Karns High School before graduating in 2016. His social media also indicates that he played football.
Since studying at the University of Alabama, Sasser has worked as a sales rep in his hometown. He often promotes the furniture he builds and puts on sale on his Facebook page.
Chris Sasser and Emily Ann Roberts’ Relationship
Sasser and Roberts are high school sweethearts from the same hometown. Emily met her future husband in Spanish class when she was 16. They dated for five years, during which Roberts auditioned for The Voice in 2015.
Sasser proposed to Roberts in October 2019, on her 21st birthday. They got married on November 7, 2020 in Friendsville, Tennessee.
Their wedding was full of symbols that represent their relationship. Roberts’ wedding ring featured a guitar string, while Sasser had a ring made of wood to represent the furniture he makes.
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New director helms Visitors Bureau
COSHOCTON - Larene Hall starts the new year with a new job and a new focus.
On Jan. 4, Hall became director of the Coshocton Visitors Bureau. She replaced Jan Myers, who took a new job as director of marketing and operations for Junction Enterprises.That company includes Medbery Marketplace, Unusual Junction and Universe Prom and Bridal. Hall said Myers helped train her "to make the transition as smooth as possible."
The owner of a travel franchise "taking people out of Coshocton County," Hall now works to attract people to come here.
Hall runs her travel business out of her home in Keene Township.
"You tend to get disconnected from the community working out of your home," she said. "I missed people."
Originally from Rayland, near Steubenville, Hall has lived in Coshocton County for almost 20 years. She and her husband J, a bricklayer, have three sons and a daughter between them. Only their youngest son, Zanon, 13, still lives at home.
Hall now works in the CVB office in Roscoe Village, which also houses the Annin Flagmakers Showroom.
In her new role, Hall said she plans to create two- to five-day packages that offer unique experiences for visitors to Coshocton County.
"I feel that we have a lot to offer," she said. "It's just getting the word out to the right people. I feel we'll be very successful all 12 months of the year."
She admits weather can influence visits, but said "in the middle of July in the pouring rain, you don't want to come out either."
Hall said she plans to target small groups with specialty tours for all ages and backgrounds, including hunters, athletes, foodies, photographers, historians, families and gardeners. Tours of area wineries — there are 16 within 25 minutes of town — Amish country, antique shops and historic farms should attract visitors, too, she said.
The area also features festivals, camping, and farmers markets, as well as Triple Locks Theater, art in the Pomerene Center, and family recreation at Lake Park.
"And my list still grows," she said.
Visitors flock to Roscoe Village year-round, Hall said, but the county offers much more, as well.
"Roscoe Village is phenomenal," she said, "but I want to look at the whole big picture, so we're not selling ourselves short."
Hall said she hopes to build on her predecessor's successes. She plans to add more information to the CVB's Facebook page and make it more personal, and add to its website as well.
For more information, check out the Coshocton Visitors Bureau Facebook page at Visit Coshocton, Ohio! and its website at visitcoshcocton.com.
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CEMB → Forum → News and Events → International news and issues → NayaPakistan...New Pakistan... Imran Khan Pakistan..
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Reply #210 - March 15, 2020, 09:35 PM
Tasneem Aslam Spills the cooked bean curry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iM-ujKE1Ag
Tasneem Aslam (Urdu: تسنیم اسلم) was a Pakistani career diplomat who formerly served as the spokesperson of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After joining the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1984, she served in missions in New Delhi, The Hague and Paris before serving as ambassador to Italy between 2007-2010 and to the Kingdom of Morocco in 2012. She served as the Additional Foreign Secretary for European Affairs from August 2013 till December 2013.
Aslam's alma maters include the University of the Punjab, where she received a Master in Business Administration, and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she was awarded a master's degree in International Relations.
In an article examining the progress of female diplomats, Pakistan Today stated that Aslem is the only woman from Pakistan occupied Kashmir. She was the first woman appointed by the ministry as its spokesman (in 2005). She served as director of the Foreign Secretary’s Office; director Americas; director-general at the United Nations division and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
She retired form the service in 2017.
Lol... No..Noo., SHE WAS FORCED TO RESIGN in 2017... by..by...
now she wants to come back in to new Govt with new Job..
https://www.dawn.com/news/1541229/nawaz-barred-fo-from-speaking-against-india-says-diplomat
Problems with Accountability and problems with Corona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wwjs3Bxhbk
Reply #212 - March 17, 2020, 10:57 AM
PM urges world to think of 'debt-write offs' to help nations like Pakistan cope with virus says news
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said he feared the new coronavirus would devastate economies of developing nations and warned the developed world economies to "prepare to write off the debts" of the world's poorer countries.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Prime Minister Imran said: "My worry is poverty and hunger.”
"The world community has to think of some sort of a debt write-off for countries like us, which are very vulnerable, at least that will help us in coping with (the coronavirus)."
He also called for lifting sanctions against Iran, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East.
The premier sat down with AP at his office in Islamabad. He'd spent much of his day meeting experts about the effect of the coronavirus outbreak in Pakistan, which has confirmed 193 cases so far....
ad here is the news video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRaI0y1bLVg
well that is what he says ., see what he says by hitting the twitter link and read all that and more at that news link
Mir Shakeelur Rehman NAB Case...........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O14cPYsnqSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agli_6y9-O0
PM Imran Khan discussion with Senior journalists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EiDFoSXSQ
NAB files another reference against PML-N's Abbasi, accuses him of illegal appointment says news
Well that is NOT a good step., Primer Imran Khan if some one looks in to your own appointments of minsters and other officials of your government you will also be in the shoes former Prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLgBQQ-wk_c
well that is the news today,,,
Pakistan and Corona Virus
Hmm Punjab goes over Sindh..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDZlH4h5VpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNS9E_-xEgs
Aamir Liaquat Ab Doctor Nai Rahe
Aamir Liaquat with Imran Khan When he joined PTI party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQlZ1IR_8Ck
Aamir Liaquat Yester day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiGnQ8Tsx64
Lots of Snakes in PTI., Imran Khan need to sing many songs to keep these snakes Dancing . otherwise they are going to bite him ...
Aaj Rana Mubashir Kay Sath | 29 March 2020 | Aaj News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkROVpDpZc
Reply #219 - April 02, 2020, 12:33 PM
Ohoofffff .. We Need Money
This Indian guy says west stole 45 trillion dollars from Old India...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUtbsPOE944
So Old India became Now Pakistan ----India-----and Bangladesh. total population of subcontinent being ~ 1. 8 billion people
Pakistan being 400 million people It should get at least 10 trillion dollars ...
GIVE ME MY MONEY ........ GIVE ME MY DOLLARS
and here is Pakistan and Corona Virus
Hmm Aamir Liaquat Hussain ... the guy gets emotional on current situation | 30 March 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449iY37y1RU
Imran ....Primer Imran listen to her ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF3DUQPrw-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYVMeCwVWMQ
listen to her carefully
Hard Talk Pakistan With Dr Moeed Pirzada | 2 April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fxLS-IDAl0
Corona Crisis and Pakistan's Islam.... 2 million Mosques and 12000 Hospitals... 12000 ? I doubt it
Islam of Pakistan is different from Other Islam..
Indeed Pakistan Police force and even Army has to change ., Many of these scoundrels abuse citizens for no good reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSglcCNs2L8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ25qvGbJ3A
Reply #224 - April 07, 2020, 09:47 AM
With over 2,000 cases, Punjab accounts for more than half of Pakistan's Covid-19 tally says news
Jahangir Tareen Spills the beans ..........Exclusive Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGFFd4ntnzE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0psgKp43NI
Telethon Transmission with PM Imran Khan for Relief Fund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnUrnCJXVok
well that is a good one.........
Najam Sethi Show - 9 April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDn9_qOZyHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYW4x080UuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIGl7JSq3ic
PM KHAN .. some where sometimes you have to learn to answer questions..
Sheikh Rasheed Exlusive Interview | Rubaroo | 10 April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iAoQB32ZmU
damn I didn't know Sheikh Rasheed is goooood...
PM Imran Khan Address Media Talk On Lockdown Extension For Two Weeks_14 April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0PBbrMItPY
Mufti Taqi Usmani Sahib Latest Press conference today || Jamiat ullamah e Islam Pakistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6vLE5X461E
Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi Talking about Coronavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eL4Ed0peuM
well interesting days ahead in Pakistan.. WILL IT BE A PAKISTAN?? OR WILL IT BECOME LAND OF PURE??
Hard Talk Pakistan with Dr Moeed Pirzada - 14 April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHsyTPETig
Najam Sethi Show-14 April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGzwhzQLQug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhBa2Aq22KQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNy9FSnr1p0
NoooOOOOO.. no., what is the big deal.?? EVEN STONES CRY SOMETIMES I CRY., Imran is very emotional guy . Common let us support him in these tragic times..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDc6hXBJ4E8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeYr9PWYpfU
I STILL LIKE THAT GUY.... but... but time is running out .. I tell you Imran does not care about his prime minster job...... he cares about people of Pakistan...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b9LYYWMOUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94QB7xfOkqM
That was Imran Khan I knew......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIMJMop1M-E
interesting observation of TV anchor Imran Khan on Pakistan Politics
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Exclusive Interview | Tonight with Fereeha | 27 April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Hqf9AByww
Reham khan Latest Interview Apr 28, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdloMT1CUtY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb4ohQAEobU
Sheikh Rasheed sahab chill down., other wise you will become victim of your own mouth......
PM Imran Khan Addresses Ceremony 30 April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FjQucgCKgQ
Modi Itna Darpook Nikla keh MULK band Kar Dya
Imarn all that is OK .. BUT STOP TALKING ABOUT ISLAM , ISLAMIC HISTORY AND ISLAMIC FAITH...
you know very little about it .
Reply #237 - May 01, 2020, 07:38 AM
Interesting interview by Shahid Khaqan Abbasi The Former Prime mintier of Pakistan
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Exclusive Interview |Nadeem Malik _29 April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHbDjvYIWKc
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Exclusive continues on Pakistan Past Politics With Asma Sherazi 30 Apr 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy4VFt99m9U
That is extremely important and interesting interview on Pakistan Politics
By Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Fazaia Housing Scheme land scam and Pakistan Air Force
KARACHI: An accountability court on Thursday directed the National Accountability Bureau authorities to file a reference in the alleged Rs18 billion Fazaia Housing Scheme land scam by May 24.
Suspects Tanvir Ahmed and Bilal Tanvir of Maxim Properties have been arrested on charges of cheating the public in the name of the Fazaia Housing Scheme launched as a joint venture with the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in 2015,,....................
well that small news has big Impact on what Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is talking in those interviews.. Corruption accusations on Pakistani Politicians is VERY TIGHTLY COUPLED TO THOSE WHO ARE HEADING/HEADED PAKISTAN ARMED FORCES ., that is a fundamental problem in Pakistan since its birth., not sure how Imran Khan is going to deal with it
Reply #238 - May 02, 2020, 10:15 PM
My goodness gracious ., the lady who married the guy calls him as Gadha today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utqFh5_Bj3I
but 4 / 5 years ago it was different in these interviews..
Aaj with Reham Khan Exclusive Interview With Imran Khan – 15th May 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIfM9XvsApM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ngpJNphXc
well she has the right to say whatever she like after all they spent some time together
well ..... Numbers are going up rapidly and country is ready to open up from corona pandemic
And this youtube is on the death of Doctor in Karachi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-gFmZXmntM
Inquiry finds Dr Furqan's death result of Karachi Civil Hospital doctor's 'misjudgment' says news..
A special committee formed by the Sindh government to probe the death of Dr Furqanul Haq – who became the third member of the medical fraternity in Karachi to have died from the coronavirus – concluded in its report that "misjudgment" on part of the medical officer at Civil Hospital was the cause of his death.
After he passed away on Sunday, Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Secretary General Dr Qaiser Sajjad had alleged Dr Haq needed to be put on a ventilator but could not find the facility despite visiting several hospitals in the city.
Following these claims, on Monday night, Sindh Government Spokesperson Senator Murtaza Wahab announced a committee had been formed to investigate the matter and produce a report "within 24 hours".
According to the committee's report, issued on Wednesday morning, the on-duty doctor at Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) who examined the patient showed negligence when he failed to admit him to the hospital despite availability of at least nine ICU beds.
However, the report also states that the patient was reluctant to be admitted to any hospital.
Recounting the events that led to Dr Haq's death, the report says he was diagnosed with the virus on May 1, after which the Sindh Health Department through a rapid response team was in contact with the patient until May 2.
On May 3, the doctor's condition worsened and he was advised to go to Indus Hospital by his niece, Dr Nida. However, foregoing this advice, Dr Haq planned a visit to Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation (SIUT) instead, on the advice of his colleague Dr Amir.
However, when an Aman ambulance arrived, it took Dr Haq to CHK, rather than SIUT. At CHK, Dr Haq was transferred by the emergency staff to the coronavirus control room, where he was examined by Dr Jagdesh, the medical officer on duty.
"Instead of admitting him, he (Dr Jagdesh) advised Dr Haq to contact the concerned doctor who had arranged a bed for him," the report says.
"Patient left in the ambulance and went home instead of any other hospital. On reaching home, his condition worsened and he was then taken to Trimax Hospital — which is where he worked privately," the report adds.
The doctor who examined Dr Haq at Trimax was of the opinion that he required specialist care with possibility of ventilation. At this point, the report says, Dr Haq was once again taken home after being "fed up".
"The family of the patient was not available for comments but the patient eventually went to (DOW University's) Ojha campus where he was announced to be brought in dead," the report says.
"The committee is of the view that there was a serious lack of communication. The patient should have been admitted by Dr Jagdesh in CHK since he was in no state to travel to Ojha or any other hospital."
The report also recommends initiation of disciplinary proceedings against Dr Jagdesh for "his misjudgement" – "an act of omission rather than deliberate" due to which a patient lost his life...
https://www.dawn.com/news/1554995/inquiry-finds-dr-furqans-death-result-of-karachi-civil-hospital-doctors-misjudgment well that is the link where that news published .. They found that guy Dr Jagdesh as culprit of that tragedy... And it is hard to listen to that video to the mother of the Doctor who died because NO HOSPITAL ADMITTED IN KARACHI ..
Things are going to get worse in Pakistan and in rest of the world where they are opening up their cities for business
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