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Church reform takes personal conversion, Pope Francis tells Roman Curia
Pope Francis gives his annual Christmas greeting to the Roman Curia Dec. 21, 2019. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/Vatican Pool.
Vatican City, Dec 21, 2019 / 05:02 am MT (CNA).- To carry out the continuing reform of the Church requires a willingness to change and a commitment to personal conversion, Pope Francis said Saturday, during his annual Christmas greeting to the bishops and cardinals of the Roman Curia.
Francis quoted St. John Henry Newman, who said, “here on earth to live is to change, and perfection is the result of many transformations.”
“For Newman, change was conversion, that is, an inner transformation,” the pope said Dec. 21. “Christian life is actually a journey, a pilgrimage.”
The history of God’s people, the history of the Church, he continued, “has always been marked by departures, shifts, changes. The path, of course, is not purely geographical, but above all symbolic: it is an invitation to discover the movement of the heart which, paradoxically, needs to depart in order to remain, to change in order to be faithful.”
Pope Francis spoke to the cardinals and supervisors of the departments in the Roman Curia inside the Vatican’s Clementine Hall. In the annual Christmas greeting the pope gives his perspective on the implementation of curial reform thus far and his vision for the coming year.
He said reform as personal transformation “has a particular value in our time, because that in which we are living is not simply an era of changes, but a change of era.”
He explained that change, for the Church, is based on fidelity to the deposit of faith and to Tradition.
Reform is not built on nothing, he continued, but builds on the good work which has already been done in the “complex history” of the curia.
Francis highlighted the Church’s mission to proclaim the Gospel.
Quoting from his apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium, he said the aim of the current curial reform is that “customs, styles, schedules, language and every ecclesial structure become an adequate channel for evangelization in the current world, rather than for self-preservation. The reform of the structures, which requires pastoral conversion, can only be understood in this sense: to make them all become more missionary.”
This is why, he explained, it was decided to name the forthcoming apostolic constitution Praedicate evangelium, which means “Preach the Gospel.”
Praedicate evangelium, which is expected to be published sometime next year, will replace Pastor bonus, the current apostolic constitution on the Roman Curia promulgated by Pope John Paul II on June 28, 1988, and subsequently modified by both popes Benedict and Francis.
In his address, Pope Francis emphasized the need for what St. John Paul II called a “new evangelization, or re-evangelization.”
The world is no longer Christian, he underlined. “Today we are no longer the only ones who produce culture, neither the first nor the most listened to.”
“We therefore need a change of pastoral mentality,” he said, adding that this does not mean “a relativistic pastoral action.”
“We are no longer in a regime of Christianity because faith – especially in Europe, but also in a large part of the West – no longer constitutes an obvious presupposition of common life, indeed it is often even denied, derided, marginalized and ridiculed,” he stated.
The pope warned against a rigid attitude stemming from a fear of change.
“There is always the temptation to fall back on the past (even using new formulations), because it is more reassuring, known and, certainly, less confrontational,” he said. “However, this too is part of the process and of the risk of initiating significant changes.”
He noted something said by the theologian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini in the last interview before his death, “words that must make us question.”
Martini said: “The Church has remained behind two hundred years. How come it does not shake? Are we afraid? Fear instead of courage? However faith is the foundation of the Church. Faith, trust, courage. [...] Only love conquers fatigue.”
Reflecting on Christmas and the mystery of the Incarnation, Francis urged the cardinals and bishops to “not forget that the Child lying in the crib has the face of our most needy brothers and sisters, of the poor.”
“Christmas is the feast of God’s love for us. The divine love that inspires, directs and corrects change and defeats the human fear of leaving the ‘safe’ to relaunch us in the ‘mystery,’” he said.
St. John Henry Newman said Christmas, the pope continued, should “find us more and more like Him who, in this time has become a child for our sake; that every new Christmas finds us simpler, more humble, holier, more charitable, more resigned, happier, fuller of God.”
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CBS News December 11, 2017, 7:37 AM
Current and former cadets speak out on sexual assault at Air Force Academy
Sexual assault at Air Force Academy
Sexual assault at Air Force Academy 07:06
Last Updated Dec 12, 2017 2:52 PM EST
In a six-month investigation you'll see only on "CBS This Morning," we traveled to the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs to investigate sexual assault in the service academies. The Air Force Academy's stated mission is to "educate, train, and inspire men and women to become officers of character motivated to lead the United States Air Force in service to our nation." But more than a dozen current and former cadets tell CBS News they reported their sexual assaults to the Air Force Academy only to experience retaliation by their peers and their commanders.
Emily Hazen, who said she dreamed of going to the Air Force Academy since she was 7 years old, was supposed to graduate in 2015 as a commissioned officer from the elite academy. Both she and Melissa Hildremyr, who also called the academy her "dream school," chose to abandon their military careers after they were sexually assaulted by fellow cadets.
Emily Hazen and Melissa Hildremyr CBS News
"I was sexually assaulted my freshmen year... and the sexual harassment I endured eventually made me leave," Hazen said.
"Describe that harassment," O'Donnell said.
"My perpetrator would follow me on runs. He would tell me he urinated on my car. He would write crude things on my car, like, in the fog. He would send me horrible text messages," Hazen said. "He would stalk me, he would ask me where I was going in my little brown dress."
"Was he ever reprimanded in any way?" O'Donnell asked.
"He was talked to by his commander about a very crude text message I received and told that that was unbecoming of an officer," Hazen said.
"What ever happened to that cadet?" O'Donnell asked.
"He graduated," Hazen said.
"And what happened to you?"
"I left," Hazen responded.
Hildremyr said she was sexually assaulted by two fellow cadets, and she intended to keep it a secret. She admits they were all drinking underage. She said they began to harass her, and she filed a report about the assault. But she told us agents based at the academy with the Air Force office of special investigations had already made up their minds.
"They would attack me. They would say things like, 'These guys have every reason to tell the truth and you have every reason to lie.' And they would just -- they made me feel like it was my fault this had happened to me. Like, yes, I was drinking underage and I shouldn't have been doing that," Hildremyr said.
"But so were they," O'Donnell said.
"They were. But it was my fault that I got sexually assaulted?" Hildremyr said.
Teresa Beasley was the Air Force Academy's top official on sexual assault prevention and response for 10 years.
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"How are cadets treated when they go public with the sexual assault?" O'Donnell asked her.
"It is typically negative," Beasley said. "There are usually negative things said on anonymous social media... They're ostracized frequently by their squad mates… and usually word spreads pretty fast. And word gets out who is the victim. … They'll have their name plates taken off the room and thrown on the ground. People won't sit with them at lunch."
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"How are they treated by their commanders?" O'Donnell asked.
"A lot of it is depending on the commander. Some commanders unfortunately will begin retaliating on the cadet as well," Beasley said.
That's why two current cadets are risking their careers by speaking to us about their sexual assaults. They requested that we protect their identities.
"He held me down while he-- he-- while he assaulted me," Cadet 1 told CBS News.
"I am at some house. I don't know where I am. And he is raping me. And then he-- I can't-- I can't fight him off. I can't do anything," Cadet 2 said. "And I was going to take it to my grave."
"There's no understanding in the commanders about sexual assault, the trauma, the effects. They don't know. They don't realize that when I'm depressed in my bed, it's not 'cause, 'Oh, I don't wanna go to class today,'" Cadet 1 said.
"I was terrified of reporting. Because I've heard of things that happen to people. And it did happen to me. So it's not horror stories," Cadet 2 said. "It's slut shaming. It's victim blaming. It's rumors. It's your career on the line. I've never wanted this. All I've ever wanted to do in my life was serve my country and be one of the best officers that I could be."
"It's the most unfortunate thing. You go there, 'cause you want to protect your country. And they-- they don't protect you," Cadet 1 said.
"Do you regret reporting the assault?" O'Donnell asked.
"I regret it every day. I regret it every day, because of everything that came after," Cadet 1 said, crying. "I just wish that I had never came forward. Because I never asked to be assaulted."
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"What would the Air Force lose, if they lost you?" O'Donnell asked.
"Someone who's passionate to be in the-- to be in the uniform, someone who wants to serve her country, someone who wants to lead America's young men and women and protect our nation. That's all I wanted to do," Cadet 1 said.
The Air Force Academy tells us that in the last five years, 11 cadet survivors of sexual assault left the school. Eight disenrolled "voluntarily." As for the other three, one was over an honor violation, another for poor academics, and a third due to fitness deficiency.
On Tuesday, we hear more from Teresa Beasley, who led the academy's sexual assault prevention and resources office. She raises concerns about the way sexual assault cases at the academy were handled and counted. The Air Force Academy also plans to respond to our reporting. We will hear from its new superintendent, Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, tomorrow on "CBS This Morning."
Though she felt no choice but to leave the Air Force Academy, Emily Hazen has since worked with Protect our Defenders, an organization led by the former chief prosecutor of the Air Force, which provides pro bono legal counsel and other services to sexual assault survivors in the military. She's now in law school so she can do the same.
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Upper Cape Teams Planning To Play
The first hurdle for a winter sports season at the high school level has been cleared for all Massachusetts high schools. The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association voted to move forward with winter sports, with modifications, during a meeting last Friday, November 20. Teams across the MIAA in all winter sports will be allowed to begin practicing on December 14, which is two weeks later than normal.
The start date was moved back to account for the Thanksgiving holiday and gatherings that could result in Covid-19 exposure that could be associated with them. With practices for ice hockey, basketball, indoor track and field, swimming and diving, and gymnastics pushed back to mid-December, games are likely to begin during the first week of January and run through the end of February. It was voted that wrestling will not be held at this time, and whether it is held this year remains to be seen. League tournaments could run into the beginning of the Fall II season, which begins the last week of February and runs through early April. Football and cheerleading are scheduled to be held then.
After two weeks of meetings, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and current Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary (DESE) guidelines were reviewed. These subcommittees created sport-specific modifications and presented them to the full committees for approval. The MIAA Sports Medicine Committee (SMC) and ultimately the MIAA Covid-19 Task force subsequently approved the modifications.
These modifications will continue to be reviewed as they relate to current regulations surrounding COVID-19 and may be modified if necessary. Additional modifications or the decision to participate in MIAA-recognized winter sports will be determined by local school districts and/or their local board of health.
Locally, most of the school districts on the Upper Cape are leaning toward going forward with sports. Falmouth, Sandwich, Mashpee and Bourne high schools will all be participating in winter athletics in basketball and ice hockey. Bourne opted out of the Fall 1 season, but posted online recently that students should register for winter athletics. Athletic Director Scott Ashworth confirmed on Tuesday, November 24, that BHS will be playing against the other teams from the South Coast Conference this winter.
Falmouth Academy has not yet made an official decision. Athletic Director Henry Stevens said this week that the school is “strongly considering” playing varsity basketball this winter.
Upper Cape Tech has not yet made a call on whether it will be playing. Several of the schools in its league, the Mayflower, have opted out, which will make scheduling a bit challenging. Athletic Director Ben Rabinovitch said that a decision is still pending for the Rams. “We are still discussing the matter,” he said.
Some cooperative teams have additional issues. The cooperative Falmouth-Mashpee gymnastics team’s season is still up in the air as logistics are worked out. FHS Athletic Director Kathleen Burke said that the concept of participating in virtual meets has been floated, and a decision is pending regarding that. As for the Mashpee-Monomoy boys’ ice hockey team, coach Chris Peterson said that all systems are go for the Monarchs’ program, but the team will be playing at a new home this winter. M-M has moved to play at the Tony Kent Arena in South Dennis this winter. The Hyannis Youth and Community Center has been undergoing repairs on one of its ice rinks, which has left ice time problematic overall there. St. John Paul II High School is also moving to play at Tony Kent, along with the D-Y Dolphins, who have called the rink home for years.
At Sandwich, the swimming and diving team will be doing virtual competitions, with each team swimming in its own pools and comparing scores to determine outcomes. Mashpee AD Matt Triveri said that gymnastics is considered a moderate risk sport and competing in-person is still doable.
Across the board the local schools are excited to be competing this winter, although some of the modifications will certainly take some getting used to.
“Right now we are all poring over what it will look like,” SHS AD Neil Murphy said. “We are all dedicated to making sure that everyone’s safety is the number-one priority.”
Kathleen Burke, Falmouth’s AD, said that all of the Clippers are happy to be moving forward and that now her coaching staff is figuring out exactly how to make things work the way that they’re supposed to.
“We are looking carefully at those (modifications) and seeing what we have to do,” she said. “The schedules all have to be adjusted and there are wrinkles to be ironed out, but we’re happy to be playing.”
The schedules will be determined by leagues in the coming weeks. Whether Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket return to interscholastic play for the winter has yet to be determined, and that will affect those schedules as well. Each school district will also have to decide whether it will entertain any out-of-league play. For example, Falmouth and Mashpee boys’ basketball teams have played one game annually and it is hoped that they will be able to continue that tradition. Boys’ hockey at Falmouth is hoping to be able to host some games against non-Cape teams as well, but no decisions have yet been made regarding that.
“We are going to look at what we can do to play some more games,” Burke said.
Track and field is going to be an issue that needs sorting out. For the Cape and Islands League teams, Falmouth and Sandwich, there is a chance that they could play their season during the traditional winter season. Wheaton College’s indoor facility is available to use, but only during the window for the season as it is now. If the Cape and Islands were to push the season into Fall II, then they would have the problem of finding a place to have meets. The Reggie Lewis Center, in Roxbury, where the majority of the eastern Massachusetts leagues have their meets is closed and does not have a scheduled re-opening date set as of yet. There is no guarantee that it would be available in the spring, should the Cape and Islands decided to push back track.
A vote on the future of track is pending.
Triveri said that at Mashpee, and at other schools as well, that a close eye will be kept on the state’s Covid-19 numbers as well as the general health of the individual schools. He noted that nothing is guaranteed.
“We’re excited that we’re planning on playing, but everything can change quickly,” he said. “Nothing is guaranteed, but right now we’re moving forward and planning on playing...I don’t think people realize how important this is, especially for all of the young kids, because there just is nothing else out there for them, recreation-wise, right now. Even if it means having to change how we do things, be it shorter practices, more cleaning, whatever it is, our kids and coaches are willing to put in the work because it means so much to get to play.”
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Founders of three Henrico-based businesses among finalists for EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Home / Latest News / Founders of three Henrico-based businesses among finalists for EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award
The founders of three Richmond-area companies are among the finalists for the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Entrepreneur of the Year Award given by the professional services firm EY.
Entrepreneurs who lead 32 businesses based in Virginia and Maryland are finalists for the regional award, which recognizes business leaders who are excelling in areas such as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
The Richmond-area finalists are:
• Louis Rogers, founder and chief executive officer of Capital Square 1031, a real estate investment and management company in Henrico County;
• Alicia Davis and Ryan Davis, co-founders of Dietitians On Demand, a Henrico-based staffing firm for temporary registered dietitians; and
• Duane Slyder, founder and CEO of Seasonal Roots, a Henrico-based online farmer’s market.
The finalists were selected by a panel of independent judges. The winner will be announced at a special gala on June 15 at The Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner.
Regional award winners are eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year national program.
Award winners in several national categories, as well as the overall Entrepreneur Of The Year, will be announced in Palm Springs, Calif. on Nov. 18.
To view the article, click here.
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Can Yahoo Give YouTube a Run for Its Money?
Brian Nichols
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Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) is reportedly fast approaching a summer launch for its YouTube video rival. Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube has essentially created and dominated the online video advertising market. However, Alibaba’s IPO will soon make Yahoo a very rich company, leaving open potential acquisitions like AOL (NYSE:AOL), which could make Yahoo very competitive in the long-term.
What’s the news?
According to AdAge, Yahoo is ramping up talks with video producers and plans to premiere a rival to Google’s video service later this summer. Yahoo is hoping that its attractive offers can persuade many of YouTube’s top video creators to make the switch.
Specifically, Yahoo will implement a more generous revenue sharing deal. YouTube currently takes 45 percent of advertising revenue, or offers an option for fixed advertising rates. Reportedly, however, developers will have channel pages to publish videos, and will be able to share the video with both Yahoo sites (i.e. Tumblr) and non-Yahoo sites, including YouTube.
Why go after this market?
Clearly, Yahoo’s strategy is to replicate YouTube, using what has worked while giving better incentives. The reasons are rather obvious, as Yahoo has no share of the $70 billion U.S. TV market, which is a large piece of the $200 billion U.S. advertising industry.
Also, Yahoo needs to replace what it’s losing with the Alibaba IPO. The company’s 24 percent stake could be worth as much as $48 billion, $31 billion after taxes, but it will lose its equity interest. Specifically, Yahoo generated nearly $600 million last year from the equity interest, or about half of its net income. Therefore, Yahoo likely sees a video streaming service similar to YouTube as a way to counter this loss.
Granted, Yahoo has a long way to go before catching Google in this market. Last year, YouTube’s revenue grew 51 percent to $5.6 billion, or 9.3 percent of Google’s total annual sales. Clearly, YouTube is still growing and shows no signs of slowing down. If Yahoo is to compete with Google, it needs a successful video business.
Acquisitions are key to success
Yahoo is developing its platform in-house, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t areas where it will need help. For example, the acquisition of Tumblr looks wise with regard to video streaming, as the site is home to diversified content. Also, the company is rumored to be near closing a deal to acquire video streaming startup RayV, which develops software to improve high-definition video. Also, there are the continuous rumors of Yahoo’s desire to buy AOL, which would could be a game-changer.
AOL owns AOLon, the company’s video streaming business, and one that has driven much of the company’s growth in the last year. While AOLon consists of YouTube-like videos, much of its content includes news and featured partners like ESPN, Martha Stewart, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and TIME. Plus, earlier this month, AOL announced 16 original shows to AOLon, featuring big name talent like James Franco and athlete Bode Miller.
In regard to Yahoo’s primary goals, the company has shown a key focus on news and original content, as seen with the Katie Couric deal, both of which can be boosted by acquiring AOL. Also, let’s not forget the Google connection, as both Yahoo and AOL CEOs Marissa Mayer and Tim Armstrong, respectively, were both at Google prior to their current roles. In fact, Armstrong and AOL are very familiar with what works on YouTube, as its third-party application platform, which grew 55 percent year-over-year in AOL’s last quarter, led YouTube in matching advertisements with videos, which is something Yahoo might find very appealing.
Currently, there are a lot of doubters regarding Yahoo’s entrance into video, but when you consider recent acquisitions, the cash position that Alibaba creates, and the speculation for new acquisitions, Yahoo has an opportunity to grow through this service. Granted, Mayer must get this right, but looking back at her tenure as CEO of Yahoo, there isn’t much that she’s done wrong, thus adding to the assumption that Yahoo will give YouTube a run for its money.
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Antimalarials should target female parasites
By Laura Howes2012-12-03T00:00:00+00:00
Study suggests that when it comes to malaria parasites, females are the weakest link
Disease causing organisms are notorious for their rapid evolution and their quick aquisition of resistance to the drugs used to fight them. However, in the case of the disease causing parasites Plasmodium, scientists have shown that it is the males of the species that really race ahead in the evolutionary race.
Sex is a key driver for evolution but this tends to be overlooked when looking at unicellular life forms, said Sarah Reece of Edinburgh University and her colleagues in their paper. The Plasmodium parasite, unlike humans, for example, does not have different genes coding for different sexes. Instead, sex is solely determined by which genes are expressed. Reece and colleagues placed the parasites under evolutionary pressure and observed that it was the male-biased genes that were the fast adaptors. The finding suggests that to help prevent resistance, new antimalarials should target the slower evolving female genes, or those that are expressed by both sexes.
S Reece et al, Evol. Med. Public Health, 2012, DOI: 10.1093/emph/eos003
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People Fearing China is a Big Problem for Beijing
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Late one night in early September, Chinese state security agents visited two Australian journalists– one in Beijing, one in Shanghai. The two were told that they were barred from leaving the People’s Republic of China and would be summoned for interrogation the next day. Rather than wait on events, both rushed to Australia’s embassy and consulate, respectively, after which diplomats negotiated their escape: the journalists were interviewed and then allowed to fly home.
The episode was extraordinary, worthy of an espionage novel. In fact, Bill Birtles of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Michael Smith of The Australian Financial Review are normal journalists covering normal news stories. Even so, the two journalists did not trust the Chinese government, its legal system, or its police, and were not willing to risk their freedom.
Unfortunately, who can blame them? Seven Chinese police showing up at one’s door at midnight would be a bad sign at any time, and especially when relations between Beijing and Canberra were already deteriorating. The reporters could not help but reflect on the plight of Cheng Lei, the Australian (though Chinese born) anchor for CGTN television detained last month on unspecified charges about whom they were questioned.
Even more ominous was the arrest nearly two years ago of two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, by all appearances as political retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on U.S. charges of violating sanctions on Iran. (Why Ottawa is effectively enforcing unilateral and widely criticized American economic penalties is another issue.) No one, in the West, anyway, credits the claim that Kovrig, a former diplomat now with the Crisis Group, and Spavor, a businessman, were spies. The charges are too implausible, the timing of detention too convenient, and hints about the connection to Meng’s case are too obvious.
Nor are Australians and journalists the only people worried about their safety and freedom in China. In July the U.S. State Department issued a formal warning: “Exercise increased caution in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) due to arbitrary enforcement of local laws for purposes other than maintaining law and order. This arbitrary enforcement may include detention and the use of exit bans.” Even before the COVID-19 pandemic halted international travel, some U.S. firms reportedly were rethinking their policies regarding executive travel to China.
These cases have personalized otherwise abstract criticism of the PRC’s political system—that is, dramatically demonstrated how Beijing’s restrictions on media freedom, judicial independence, and personal freedom impact normal people—and may prove to be the most powerful blow struck against China’s international reputation and relations with the West. Most human rights issues mostly concern Chinese citizens. It can be hard for Americans, Australians, Canadians, and others to identify with policies, ranging from internet censorship to religious restrictions, that seem far from them.
However, it is much easier to imagine being wrongly arrested and held as a hostage to force one’s government to make one concession or another. And that fear is likely to continue expanding as Beijing’s relations worsen with other nations.
The U.S. appears to be descending into a new Cold War with China; Australia may not be far behind. PRC relations with Canada are dominated by what the latter sees as the official kidnapping of Kovrig and Spavor. India and China had a deadly border clash. History still mars contacts between Tokyo and Beijing. South Korea’s ties with the PRC have not fully recovered from the THAAD controversy. Missteps involving COVID-19 have soured Beijing’s ties with several European nations.
The result is abundant, well-fertilized, international ground for suspicion, misunderstanding, and hostility to flourish. And that was before recent events in Hong Kong elevated this challenge to a much higher level.
The national security law has imposed similarly expansive mainland restrictions and procedures on Hong Kong. The impact on liberties and guarantees taken for granted by most Westerners has been severe, with many companies located there reconsidering their future plans.
Beyond that, however, the legislation criminalizes conduct—so ill-defined that simple criticism of Chinese government policy might be deemed illegal—that occurs in foreign countries. And by foreign citizens. Among the people charged under the law is Samuel Muk-man Chu, who runs the Washington-based Hong Kong Democracy Council. Although born in Hong Kong, he gained American citizenship 25 years ago, before the legal turnover to China. Yet the PRC seeks to jail him for his activity in America.
Even analysts doing less controversial work, such as simply writing articles critical of Chinese policy, might wonder if they could face prosecution if they visit China or Hong Kong. Of course, that seems unlikely—critics the PRC are many today, and simply listing them all would be quite a chore. Nevertheless, anyone obviously could be charged. A law already widely dismissed in the West as an offensive over-reach also has personalized human rights concerns, inflaming antagonism toward increasingly harsh Chinese policies.
Of course, Beijing is going to set the PRC’s course and make decisions based on its judgments, not the opinions of foreign nations and peoples. Nevertheless, the impact of foreign opinion should still matter to Chinese officials.
There is a virtual cascade of anti-Chinese sentiment in many Western nations, with complaints in different areas building on one another. The commercial relationship once was the bedrock for relations between many nations and the PRC. Controversy now increasingly dominates this area. As China’s role in sensitive industries has grown, so have security worries. Military confrontations and clashes have illustrated Beijing’s new international aggressiveness.
Now Chinese missteps have brought home human rights to Westerners who might not have thought that much about the issue in the past. Those who did care before have become more passionate.
If the PRC hopes to reverse the rapid decline in relations with Western states, it should address the negative impact of abusive laws and procedures on its international reputation. When the first inclination of visitors is to race home when contacted by the police, it is apparent that Beijing’s reputation has collapsed. And that China is losing much of the soft power that it once enjoyed.
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Martin Henderson Net Worth
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Martin Henderson net worth: Martin Henderson is a New Zealand actor who has a net worth of $6 million. Martin Henderson was born in Auckland, New Zealand in October 1974. In 1996 he starred as Tom Nash on the television series Sweat and he also starred as Geoff Thomas on the TV series Home and Away. Henderson starred as Scotty Gibbs on the series Big Sky from 1997 to 1999. In 2011 he starred as Dr. Ben Keeton on the television series Off the Map. Martin Henderson starred as Ben Gundelach on the TV series Secrets & Lies in 2014 and as Harold Jensen on the series The Red Road from 2014 to 2015. He had a recurring role as Stuart Neilson on the television series Shortland Street from 1992 to 2017 and starred as Dr. Nathan Riggs on the TV series Grey's Anatomy from 2015 to 2017. Henderson starred as Jack Sheridan on the series Virgin River in 2019. He has appeared in several films including Kick, Windtalkers, The Ring, Little Fish, Flyboys, Smokin' Aces, Cedar Boys, Everest, and more.
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Date of Birth: Oct 8, 1974 (46 years old)
Height: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Profession: Actor
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Greater participation in green workshops, amid calls for more climate change education in schools
Elias Park Primary School has four electric biodigester machines and three manual compost bins that produce fertiliser for the school gardens. (Photo: Elias Park Primary School)
By Ang Hwee Min
26 Oct 2019 06:02AM (Updated: 27 Oct 2019 06:50PM )
SINGAPORE: At Elias Park Primary School (EPPS), primary three students were rewarded for finishing their food this year.
Those who managed to finish everything they ordered received one sticker per day, and were rewarded with a certificate upon receiving 10 stickers.
While some parents might see this as a way to train fussy eaters, the real aim of the programme at EPPS, held in collaboration with Zero Waste SG, was to encourage students to only order food they can finish and educate them about consuming only what they need and reducing food waste.
The school, which has implemented a compost-making and food waste reduction project since 2012, also has four electric biodigester machines and three manual compost bins.
Canteen stall owners dispose of fruit peel and mainly plant-based waste into the biodigesters, which can convert the material into usable fertiliser within 24 hours. According to Mdm Chua Pei Pei, principal of EPPS, about 5kg of food scraps are converted to about 1kg of fertiliser each day.
The fertiliser is then used in the gardens on the school compound, and the machines are also used to teach students about composting and food waste.
Food waste is one of the three major trash streams targeted under the Ministry for Environment and Water Resources' Zero Waste Masterplan launched earlier this year.
Mdm Chua said: “From regular interactions and through surveys, students believe that their efforts can make an impact as they felt that everyone has a part to play in keeping Singapore Clean and Green. They would like Singapore to be a cleaner and greener city.
“For example, they would like to see more people using recyclable bags instead of plastic bags. With the increase in food deliveries, some would like to see less use of single-use disposable plastic wares and more people using containers to store take-way food.”
Following calls to strengthen climate change education in schools, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said in a statement in response to CNA queries that by embedding climate change issues in the school curriculum and activities, it hopes to equip students with “a fundamental scientific understanding of the issue”, enabling them to engage in constructive discussions and “make informed decisions about their actions”.
Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung said in a Facebook post on Wednesday (Oct 23) that he had received several postcards from participants of the Singapore Climate Rally last month, hoping that MOE schools could help combat climate change by raising awareness of environmental issues among students. One proposed to incorporate climate studies into the national curriculum, he wrote.
He noted that the national curriculum “ensures mass awareness of and participation in environment protection”.
“This is in fact one of the reasons we now have a generation of environmentally conscious young Singaporeans,” he wrote.
Mr Ong said he would “recommend against” having a specific subject for climate change, or to have exams in the subject.
“It is far more meaningful to embed these lessons into existing school subjects and activities, and inculcate in students good habits, such as reducing the use of air-con or devices, minimising wastage, saving water, to do our part for the environment,” he wrote.
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According to Ms Beatrice Chong, divisional director of curriculum planning & development 2 at MOE, students at the primary level acquire a basic understanding of global warming and environmental issues such as pollution and deforestation during Science lessons and learn the importance of using resources responsibly during Social Studies lessons.
At the secondary level, students learn about carbon cycles, greenhouse gases and their contribution to global warming during Science lessons, as well as the effects of climate change during Geography lessons, she said.
And at the JC level, students learn about how we influence climate change and the need for urgent action to mitigate its effects in Geography, Physics, Chemistry and Biology lessons, she explained.
They also engage in discussions about climate change and its impact on communities during General Paper lessons.
Environmental groups CNA spoke to all said they have seen more schools reaching out to express an interest in holding workshops for their students.
Ms Pek Hai Lin, manager of Zero Waste SG, said the organisation has conducted talks and workshops in at least 30 primary and secondary schools since late 2017.
“More schools seem to be taking more steps to engage students and actively removing single-use plastics in the canteen, for instance, or taking on food waste digesters, besides reducing carbon footprint in other ways,” she said.
Stressing that the young need to be taught about climate change, she added that while there are currently more than enough content engagement opportunities in school, translating knowledge to daily actions can be improved.
“Besides getting students to realise that Reduction is the most important of the 3Rs, there is also a need to explicitly teach students, as well as empower teachers with the knowledge of how to recycle, and to actively practice that in school every day,” she said.
Adding that sustainability should be part of daily school activities, and not just standalone projects and events, she added: “When teaching students to be considerate towards fellow human beings during moral education lessons, we need to also include the environmental aspect.
“When habits are formed, and societal infrastructure adequately supports that, it will transform the way we behave and treat resources. We do not need to do more, we just need to do it right.”
An Edible Garden City spokesman shared that the organisation has worked with 40 schools this year to educate about 2200 students about urban farming in Singapore, food resilience and basic farming skills. It worked with 30 schools, or about 1000 students, last year.
“All our education programmes are customised according to learning objectives, and we have found that more and more schools are requesting for our educators to incorporate food resilience and food sustainability messages, and environment-related lessons into our programmes,” said the spokesman.
“This is on top of common requests like encouraging innovation, or linking urban farming and biodiversity to subjects like science and geography.”
The spokesman pointed out that around the world, young people have been “the catalyst for change” on key issues like climate change and gun control.
“Education surrounding values like a love for nature and conscious consumption from a young age is important, as these young people will carry these good habits on to adulthood,” said the spokesman.
Founder of Plastic Lite SG Aarti Giri told CNA that the organisation has seen an increase in the number of invitations from schools to conduct workshops from mid-2018. They have worked with about 40 schools so far, including kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, and junior colleges.
While there seems to be an increased awareness about climate change among the young, Ms Giri said there are “multiple gaps that need to be filled”.
“Much of the advocacy reaching them seems to be theory based,” she said.
“They see their peers and family members leading a high consumption and consequently a high waste output life. Simply put, many do not see the advocates of climate change walking the talk.”
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Ms Giri stressed that climate change education should equip the young with the right mindset and in-depth education “so that they are driven to arrive at targeted solutions”.
Adding that zero waste schools are “achievable”, she said they would also allow students to explore creative and innovative ideas that may even pave the way for implementation on a national level.
Schools like National Junior College (NJC) are paving the way for their students to get involved in climate change research earlier.
According to vice-principal Harman Johll, there are 177 research projects in total across the secondary 3 and JC 1 levels, and about 20 to 25 per cent of all the projects are climate change-related. These include projects on battery and solar technology and agritech.
Research is a compulsory subject in the secondary two and three syllabus. Students are granted autonomy on what subjects they would like to study and can pursue further projects after secondary three with school teachers or other institutes of higher learning, said Mr Johll.
He added that the school has seen more climate change-related projects in recent years. In 2019, the college also established a new Agri-Tech Research Facility in partnership with the Singapore Food Agency and start-up, Life3 Biotech.
The facility promotes collaboration between schools and research institutes in urban agriculture and new technologies, and explores opportunities to boost Singapore’s food security and strengthen its resilience to the effects of climate change. Students from other schools can also join projects within the facility, said Mr Johll.
Mr Johll also noted that the environment club co-curricular activity group has positively influenced the student body, adding that they are “being the change they want to see”.
“You can see students and even teachers being more conscious of how they use water and make sure that we turn off the utilities when they’re not needed, and so on. They do send a very strong signal when it comes to recycling, e-waste and so on,” he said.
“One (of the members) scolded me the other day and told me to stop using plastic straws. They have quite a strong influence across the student population when it comes to taking care of the environment.”
Source: CNA/hw
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In January 1992, a consortium of nonprofits and universities presented the first St. Louis Film Festival in April 1992. The St. Louis Film Festival Inc. was then established as a Missouri not-for-profit corporation in July 1992 and received its 501(c)3 status from the IRS in April 1993. In 1998, the organization changed its name to the St. Louis International Film Festival to emphasize the event's international component. In 2002, the organization was renamed Cinema St. Louis (CSL) to reflect its commitment to year-round programming beyond the festival. Cinema St. Louis now presents five annual film festivals and co-presents additional film-related programming throughout the year.
The organization's premier event is the St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), held in November. Since 2003, CSL presents the Cinema for Students Program as part of SLIFF, offering free screenings to St. Louis-area elementary, middle, and high schools.
CSL has steadily increased its year-round presence with additional programming. Since 2002, CSL has annually presented the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, held in July, which highlights work made by filmmakers with St. Louis roots. In 2008, CSL added the LGBTQ-focused QFest, held annually each spring, to its lineup. In 2009, CSL launched an annual Classic French Film Festival, held in April. In 2013, CSL inaugurated free summer Filmmaking Camps for teens 12-18. For six years, from 2014 until 2019, CSL hosted another annual event when it became the St. Louis producer of the 48 Hour Film Project. In 2019, CSL introduced Golden Anniversaries, a fest that features films celebrating their 50th anniversaries.
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He said what I had written about the recipe — that it was said to have been created by a chef at the original Battery Park Hotel in the late 1800s — really set him on fire. If what I wrote is indeed true, he said, it would be the oldest named gelatin salad on record. What was challenging him, though, is that there is really no way to prove it.
I explained to him that I had gotten the recipe initially from John Parris' cookbook, "Mountain Cooking." In my intro to the salad published in the food editors' book, I said that the chef must have been generous in sharing the recipe because the recipe was passed down through families and was well-known to hostesses. The tomato-based aspic-like salad was perfect for a ladies' bridge luncheon.
What Harrison would love to know is the name of the chef who created the recipe, the year it was created, evidence of an exact date such as an old menu, and interesting stories about the recipe or early cookbooks, such as church cookbooks, that contained the recipe. Putting out a request for Asheville Salad information is a long shot, but I suggested to Harrison that I would mention it in this column to see if any of you can help.
Harrison, from Raleigh, has a degree in interior design and advises people on the design of their houses and landscapes. But mostly, he said, he writes about American historic architecture (Google his name for specifics) and is writing a book on American doors. This book on gelatin, he said, "is like going to the moon," or, in other words, way out of his routine.
Initially, his interest in creating a book on 20th century Jell-O and gelatin creations was inspired by finding a charming little booklet in an abandoned house in upstate New York in 1968. He began collecting cookbooks by the box loads and researching cookbooks in university libraries.
The book is divided into decades and will show how gelatin recipes changed from decade to decade as kitchen equipment became more sophisticated. In the early recipes, for instance, directions often called for the use of the Dover egg beater, a manual hand-cranked beater. The books were so popular that Jell-O created many of them with covers illustrated by luminaries such as Norman Rockwell and Maxwell Parrish.
Children's cookbooks began to appear with Jell-O recipes (there's even a Barbie cookbook with Jell-O recipes), holiday cookbooks featured gelatin and fancy dessert recipes for chiffon pies, and even ice creams depended on gelatin for smoothness and texture. Fannie Farmer was the first to put ginger ale in gelatin to flavor it.
Alas, during the 1980s and '90s, the emphasis was on heart health, and gourmet cooking and flavored gelatins began to be shunned by cookbook authors and chefs. Harrison laughed when he said, "I don't know what's the problem with this generation. They'll go out and eat raw fish but the idea of eating a delicious gelatin salad doesn't appeal to them. I think they are missing out greatly."
Harrison tests recipes by taking them to gatherings of groups at his church. Recently, he took a lemon cheesecake made with Jell-O, and he said no one turned it down.
This is the opinion of Carole Currie. Call her at 828-658-1914 or email carolecurrie@charter.net.
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Alfred Brendel is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia. He is widely regarded as one of the great classical pianists of the second half of the 20th century.
Brendel gave his first public recital in Graz at the age of seventeen. He called it 'The Fugue In Piano Literature', and as well as fugal works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt, it included some of Brendel's own compositions. However, he gave up composing shortly after this to concentrate on the piano. In 1949 he won 4th prize in the Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy and moved to Vienna the following year. At the age of 21, he made his first record, Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5. He went on to make a string of other records, including three complete sets of the Ludwig van Beethoven piano sonatas (one on Vox and two on Philips). He has also recorded works by Liszt, Brahms (including Brahms' Concertos), Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Unlike virtually all classical pianists, he has recorded very little Chopin other than the Polonaises (which, interestingly, have been highly praised).
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Cleveland police officer shot at after chase with armed robbery suspect
Updated Jan 11, 2019; Posted Mar 11, 2017
By Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com
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A Cleveland police officer was shot Friday after a chase with an armed carjacking suspect.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio-- An armed carjacking suspect fired at least one shot at a Cleveland police officer during a car chase Friday night, police said.
The incident began about 7:15 p.m., when a man carjacked someone at gunpoint in the 3800 block of West 135th Street in the city's Jefferson neighborhood, according to police.
Cleveland police officers spotted the car about 8:15 p.m. at East 92nd and Superior Avenue. The officers chased the car until it crashed into a parked car on East 115th Street and Carolina Avenue.
Two suspects ran from the car and one fired a shot at the officers. No officer was injured, police said.
Police said no arrests have been made.
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The famous wording originated with Thomas Jefferson and survived three full rounds of edits: one from Julian Boyd, a second from the Committee of Five and a third from Congress. The final version reads:
Let’s talk about the pursuit of happiness.
It ain’t scripture, folks, but enough people can relate to the concept that a nation built around it (and the other “truths”) has survived 240 years. And people continue to find the notion appealing today.
Ask the Wiki
So what is happiness anyway?
Wikipedia calls it “a mental or emotional state of being defined by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy”. That’s a definition most people could get behind, I think, but the words that follow it are interesting:
“Happiness is a fuzzy concept and can mean many different things to many people.”
See, that’s an important observation.
Recognizing these differences to be common, some suggest self-examination as a means of determining what sorts of “happiness” each individual should pursue. They say, “Listen to your body”: ask yourself if certain situations or circumstances make you tense up or if they convey a pleasant sensation. They say, “Pay attention to your energy”: ask yourself if people or activities make you feel drained or alive. They say, “Look at what you want”: ask yourself if you really need the things you are focusing on or merely want them. Finally, they speak of timelessness: does the object of your desire make you lose track of time and make everything else disappear from focus?
That’s interesting; and probably acceptable to most people since it makes each individual the arbiter of his or her own happiness as well as the person best suited to determine it.
Arbiters On the Job
And yet we all recognize that some people use the word happiness in a very loose and trivial way. They seek less than we think they should for themselves and others. Some define happiness in ways that those with a few years behind us know very well will lead to abject misery.
This may be because they are shallow thinkers or lack the requisite life experience to recognize what is truly important to the achievement of contentment or joy. It may be because they are disproportionately obsessed with some specific, personal pleasure or aspiration that seems at least for a time to fill the whole world and assume an importance far beyond that which others would ever ascribe to it. Or it may be because they do not understand the true nature of what they are seeking.
Many people get the thing they thought would make them happy only to find themselves bitterly disillusioned, wondering where to turn. It may be a particular partner, a house, a level of income or the fulfillment of some long-sought goal; but whatever it is, the having of it does not seem to measure up to their expectations.
That in turn leads some to speculate that it is the quest for, and not the achievement of, particular outcomes that leads to the greatest happiness. Schools of philosophy are founded on such notions, but these seem to me to beg the question rather than answer it.
We might wonder: Is anyone really fit to be arbiter of their own happiness?
A More Objective Definition
Turning to scripture in the hope of something a little more objective, we find that instead of giving us a neat one-sentence definition like Wikipedia, God has given testimony after testimony as to the sorts of behaviours that really make people happy. (If we are paying attention, we might also notice that in our Western culture these are among the methods least pursued.)
Moses told Israel (and by extension, believers today) that “a people saved by the Lord” is happy already. No pursuit required. That’s sound advice, for starters. Perhaps it is the ever-present consciousness of this indescribable blessing that we often lack.
The Queen of Sheba enthused to Solomon that his servants were happy because they “continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!” One greater than Solomon has come, and we who serve him have greater reason to enthuse than any who served in Solomon’s day. Again, no pursuit required for this sort of happiness, but perhaps the occasional reminder.
Job says the man God corrects is happy. I can confirm that.
Solomon says having many children leads to happiness. Moderns disagree, and think happiness is better pursued alone or in pairs than while saddled with messy responsibilities. They are wrong.
The psalmist says obedience makes you happy: the “fear of the Lord” and “walking in his ways”. Those who seek this particular sort of happiness are equally rare.
Another psalmist says the one “whose hope is in the Lord his God” is happy. Since nobody else can be guaranteed to deliver on hope, this is surely true.
Solomon also says the man who finds wisdom and won’t let go of it is happy, that the person who has mercy on the poor is happy, and that the person who keeps the law is happy.
The Lord Jesus told his disciples that those who serve each other the way he served them are happy.
Paul said the believer who avoids leading others astray is happy.
Peter says we are happy when we suffer for the sake of righteousness, and if we are insulted for the name of Christ.
Hmm. Interesting.
Not the Faintest Clue
That’s pretty much everything scripture has to say about happiness. There are plenty of things said about contentment and joy, but these are topics big enough to merit consideration on their own, and I suspect any serious study of the way those words are used in scripture would yield similar results.
And that is this: Every single thing the Bible says makes men and women happy involves sacrifice, service and relationship to God. Not a single item on this list has anything to do with wealth, health, personal development, self-actualization, travel, security, the attainment of position, status, power or worldly achievement. Not one of them is found in a mall.
Outside of God’s revelation, it seems human beings don’t have the faintest clue what makes us tick. What we think will make us happy does not. The things we think unlikely to lead to happiness frequently do.
So here’s the thought experiment: How likely is the world to succeed in the pursuit of happiness through self-analysis?
And a more relevant question for our audience: What are the chances of a Christian ever finding happiness by employing the failed methods of this world?
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Immanuel Can January 11, 2016 7:10 am
A footnote on the subject of “the pursuit of happiness”.
The idea actually originates with Aristotle. For Aristotle, “happiness” was not what we think of — jollies, amusement, self-satisfaction through riches, and so forth — but rather could be better translated “blessedness”. The concept goes back to Solon’s aphorism, “Call no man happy [i.e. blessed] until he’s dead”, which Aristotle quotes with approval just before launching into his exposition of ethics. To be “blessed” was to have lived a life characterized by moral goodness and right priorities. In a sense, it could be a rather ‘unhappy’ life, in that one might experience minimal jollies, amusement or self-satisfaction in it. But it was the sort of life of which others would say afterward, “He lived well”. That is, he was a good-spirited individual who established during his lifetime a habitual pattern of making admirable, courageous and virtuous choices, and hence left behind him a life worthy of admiration and emulation.
Thus judgment of the worth of the “happiness” and the life that led to it was inherent in the idea of Aristotelian well-being. He was affirming the importance of living a life that other good people would judge worthy of praise and replication; and to do that, they would have to pass judgment on what you had done, and the pattern of life you had led. If right-thinking people then found your life a worthy one, you could then be said to be truly “happy” — “blessed."
That’s a pretty far cry from what most people in the U.S. and elsewhere think today when they proclaim their right to “pursuit of happiness”. The concept has shifted massively in the intervening centuries. But the founding fathers of the Declaration would have been Aristotelians, not practitioners of modern, solipsistic hedonism. Their conception of what they were affirming would have been that of Aristotelian blessedness, or at least of Christian virtue. They would never have enshrined in an important document any right to live frivolously or to obtain the modern kind of happiness by any means one might choose.
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Teen Depression: New Guidelines Promote Universal Screening
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently published new guidelines to help pediatricians identify and treat adolescents with depression. We spoke with psychiatrist Rachel A. Zuckerbrot, MD, co-author of the updated guidelines, about the changes that have occurred since the AAP last published recommendations over 10 years ago—and the increasing role of pediatricians in helping adolescents manage depression.
Q: The new AAP guidelines suggest all adolescents should be screened for depression, instead of just high-risk teens. What prompted the change?
A: Although the timing of the new guidelines happened to coincide with several newsworthy national trends—a rise in teen suicides, gun violence, and substance abuse—the main reason for the update was because the old guidelines were outdated. For instance, in the last decade, several additional psychiatric medications have been approved for use in adolescents, including one specifically for adolescent depression.
Also, thinking has changed in recent years about who to screen for depression, for a variety of reasons. An estimated 20 percent of adolescents experience depression, which can be persistent in this age group. Also, studies have shown that adolescents with depression can have serious problems during adulthood. Screening all adolescents rather than focusing on high-risk adolescents—such as those with a personal or family history of mental illness, substance abuse, or trauma—might improve our ability to identify depression in this age group.
In addition, the new AAP guidelines now match recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, issued in 2009, which called for universal depression screening in adolescents.
Q: About half of all adolescents with depression are undiagnosed—why so many?
A: Depression tends to be an internalizing disorder. In some teens there may be no obvious outward signs of a problem. It’s different from, say, attention deficit-hyperactivity and learning disorders, which can cause behavioral problems that may be noticed by a parent or teacher. When adolescents with depression do act out, they may be labeled as ‘problem’ teens, and that label prevents them from getting the care they need. In addition, many teens simply don’t talk to their parents or teachers when they are feeling depressed.
Q: Do the guidelines tell physicians how to look for depression in teens?
A: The new guidelines call for annual depression screening in all adolescents, starting at age 12, with a paper or electronic self-report tool that can be filled out in private. Privacy is important, because teens may answer differently in front of their parents. In addition, pediatricians are encouraged to look for depression risk factors starting at age 10, and then screen for depression in those with risk factors.
The new guidelines also clearly outline the stages of depression, which have different treatments depending on severity. We wanted to emphasize the idea that primary care pediatricians can treat patients with mild and sometimes moderate depression, but may consider referring patients with moderate to severe depression to pediatric psychiatrists or other specialists.
Q: Do adolescents and families know that they can turn to their pediatrician for help with diagnosing and treating depression?
A: A lot of families may only think of their pediatrician as someone who gives vaccinations and addresses physical ailments like skinned knees or infectious diseases. The AAP has been trying to get the message out to families that pediatricians can also help with mental and behavioral health problems. As pediatricians prepare to do universal depression screening in adolescents, they may use it as an opportunity to communicate about it with families. For instance, some pediatric practices have sent out letters to their patients and families explaining that they plan to meet with teens in private during their annual checkup to talk about emotional heath. Though input from the family is essential in treating adolescent depression, teens must also be given the opportunity to speak privately with their physicians to confide things they may not feel comfortable discussing in front of their parents.
Q: Why is the age range mentioned in the guidelines (10 to 21 years) so broad?
A: There is a subset of younger kids who pediatricians regard as developmentally similar to teens. In such children, it’s entirely possible to detect depression risk factors as in any post-pubertal youth who is at risk.
Pediatricians usually continue to see patients until they are 21, so we extended depression screening to include these young adults. However, it’s up to the individual clinician to decide whether to diagnose and treat the older patient using adolescent or adult guidelines. For example, involvement of the family may be less appropriate for certain young adults, and a much larger armamentarium of medications has been shown to successfully treat depression in those age 18 and older.
Q: What kind of support can pediatricians get to help them identify and treat adolescents with depression?
A: Since the 1970s, social, emotional, and behavioral issues that affect health—known as ‘the new morbidity’—have become more prevalent than infectious and chronic diseases in pediatric practice. However, the training that pediatricians get in medical school and residency hasn’t kept pace with this trend.
The REACH Institute, which includes national leaders in child psychiatry, psychology, and pediatrics, offers a variety of resources to help pediatricians address emotional and behavioral issues, including psychiatric disorders. They’ve put together a mental health toolkit to help providers put the new depression guidelines into effect.
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Rachel A. Zuckerbrot, MD, is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is an active participant in a consortium of academic medical centers in New York state known as Project TEACH (Training and Education for the Advancement of Children’s Health).
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Home » Products » Tea » Green Teas
From the lush, mist-enshrouded hillsides of East Asia comes green tea: a drink whose distinctive flavour and versatility make it a popular choice around the world.
We have choosen some of the finest teas from China and Japan each characterised by their own distinct qualities and flavours but all extraordinarily fresh, fragrant and sweet.
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Green tea originated in China many thousands of years ago. It is believed that the Camelia Sinensis leaves were originally used for chewing, perhaps as a mouth freshener. The leaves were then used in cooking and were boiled in water and the people realised that the cooking water had a distinct and pleasant taste and would therefore drink the water. Green tea was born!
Green tea is distinctly different to black tea because it goes through a different process. Rather than being withered, rolled, fermented and dried, it is steamed or fired meaning the colour is much fairer and lighter.
Green tea gained its popularity as the Chinese tea ceremonies increased in the 8th century. The steaming method was practised and improved enabling the hosts to offer a far superior green tea at the ceremonies. As popularity grew over the coming centuries, green tea was not only offered at the tea ceremonies but became ingrained as part of everyday culture.
The finest of the tea leaves were offered to the emperors. These were known as tribute teas and it is the variety of tribute teas created during the early centuries that has offered us the luxury of such choices today.
Tribute teas initially began as a gift offered to emperors and royalty. As this gained kudos, only the best leaves were picked for such important aristocracy and the preparation and brewing methods were perfected. It was very competitive as it was the best way to win favour with important members of society. This practice soon started to be regulated by the Chinese government and laws were introduced to ensure high standards were met. Enormous imperial tea farms employing thousands of tea pickers were created in the best growing regions and there would be a flurry of activity during the early spring when the leaves were at their finest.
It was during this time that so much was learned about green tea. With every success story came another. As each imperial tea farm wanted to compete and out do the others, harvesting, steaming and brewing methods were adapted leading to a great variety of results. Loose tea followed tea bricks, tea was mixed with various other herbs and spices, scented tea became more popular and some teas would even be wrapped in the finest of silks to impress the emperors. It was in the 12th century that firing as a method of keeping the leaves green was introduced. Both firing and steaming methods continued to be used throughout history up until this day.
Green tea soon spread across Asia and is now produced and enjoyed all over the world. In fact, green tea has made somewhat of a comeback in the 20th/21st century as western countries have become more aware of its significant health benefits. Long live green tea!
Before deciding on your green tea it is important to know the difference between the varieties we offer. We have green teas from Japan, China and other growing areas like Taiwan. All come with their own distinct qualities and characters.
Green tea is created by preventing the freshly picked tea leaves from turning brown (oxidisation). In tea language we call this fermentation. To prevent fermentation the green leaves are rapidly heated soon after picking.
The main difference between Chinese and Japanese green tea comes from that heating process. Most Chinese teas are pan fired nowadays wheras Japanese leaves are immediately steamed. The main difference is that the firing method preferred in China leaves the tea with a softer and less grassy flavour and yellowy cup colour. Japanese teas tend to have a grassy taste and the cup colour can be bright green. One is not better than the other. It’s a matter of personal preference.
Immediately after being picked, green tea leaves are treated to stop the natural process of oxidisation. Japanese Green tea is steamed, while Chinese Green tea is traditionally pan roasted.The result is an unfermented tea that retains many of its naturally-occurring vitamins and minerals.
Matcha green tea is a Japanese tea and unlike other teas it is made from whole leaves which have been ground into a very fine powder. The powder is made from the same Camellia Sinensis plant as both Chinese and Japanese green teas. However, the leaves are immediately covered with cloths before being harvested. This ensures the growth of the best leaves. Some researchers suggest that Matcha may have more health benefits because the whole leaf itself is consumed rather than just the infused water. Matcha is a very versatile staple ingredient to have in your kitchen cupboard. It can be made into a traditional tea but it can also be mixed with fruit juice, milk, yoghurt and cooked in various recipes. What’s stopping you? Give it a go!
Ronnefeldt Matcha Hikari Organic - This is a mild and fruity matcha, gentle, delicately tart, sweet and very digestible. Definitely a delightful experience for every matcha lover.
Ronnefeldt Matcha Horai Organic - This is a mild and sweet matcha, soft and pleasant in taste. Definitely a delightful experience for every matcha lover.
Ronnefeldt Matcha Premix - Matcha Premix - a sweet creamy mixture of Matcha with sugar for quick and easy delightfully delicious Matcha Cocktails.
With all teas you must remember that it is always best to use fresh spring or filtered water. Tap water can be too hard and can affect the subtle taste and aroma. Green teas taste best if brewed with water at around 80degC. It may be difficult to measure the temperature of the water but as a rule of thumb, boil some fresh water and leave the kettle to stand for 20 – 30 seconds before pouring the water over the tea leaves. Unlike brewing black teas, do not pre-warm the teapot and don’t use water that has been boiled many times either as this reduces the oxygen levels and flattens the water.
Brew the tea for 2 – 3 minutes for ideal results. Green teas can become very bitter if you over brew them or if you use too much tea.
Whether you are using a teapot or brewing in a cup or mug, always use a loose leaf infuser with plenty of room for the leaves to unfurl, move and release all of their flavour. If your infuser is too small the leaves will not be able to effectively release their flavours.
Chinese tea can often be infused more than one time which is wonderful if you like to top up your tea throughout the day. Brewing Chinese tea can be a very simple process and incredibly convenient. You don’t need any complicated equipment or specific knowledge. You can simply add the tea leaves to a cup or glass with a strainer and leave it for two to three minutes before drinking it. If you use a tall glass you can watch the tea leaves swirl around in the glass as the infusion takes place.
Tea has been celebrated in Japan for many centuries and this is a tradition that is very much alive today. The ceremony of tea drinking in Japan is one that must be understood to be appreciated. It is about humility, respect, appreciation and simplicity.
Each ceremony is a celebration of life and the moment that passes and the ceremony can vary depending on the time of year.
The most famous and most celebrated Japanese tea is Matcha tea (see below) but we also offer loose leaf green tea which must be tried to be appreciated.
Matcha Tea (Japanese Tea)
Matcha Green tea is the most unique of all of the teas because it comes in powder form and is the most traditional Japanese tea. Because it is a powdered leaf the whole leaf is consumed with every cup rather than the leaf being infused. Many people nowadays prefer this because of its associated health benefits and also because of the unique flavour created.
It is well worth investing in a good cup of Matcha by having the correct equipment and learning the preparation method well. Once you have the correct utensils and the know-how, you will enjoy every cup of Matcha tea and the ritual becomes part of the pleasure.
You will need a Matcha Bowl 0.4L, Bamboo Matcha Whisk, a bamboo Matcha scoop, a linen tea cloth, a seive, measuring cup and thermometer.
You need to start by preheating the bowl and the tip of the whisk. You then need to boil some water for the tea itself allowing this water to cool to approximately 70 degrees. Once the bowl is dried again, you can start to sift the tea into the bowl measuring it with the bamboo scoop, firstly with a small amount of water to make a paste and then add all of the water whisking the tea quite vigorously until you create a smooth frothy tea with tiny even air bubbles. There is no need to transfer the tea into a cup. Traditionally, all of the guests would drink from the same bowl.
Matcha has an intense grassy taste and is high in caffeine. It can be used in cooking and baking, and makes a delicious Matcha Latte with warm foamed milk.
Formosa (Taiwan) Green Tea
Formosa tea takes its name after the original name of Taiwan. In the world of tea, the island is better known for its Oolong teas but some very good traditional green teas are also produced there. It wasn’t until the 1600s that the Dutch introduced tea harvesting to Taiwan because of it being so well positioned between China and Europe. It had a slow start as a trade product because Taiwan relied more heavily on its sugar cane and rice however in the 1860s John Dodd started to promote worldwide awareness and appreciation of Formosa tea in order to compete with China and India. Tea is celebrated in Taiwan even to this day with tea being used to promote an awareness of harmony, the term being Cha Doa (the way of tea).
The general rule for brewing Formosa tea is the same as for other green teas. Add one heaped teaspoon per cup or mug to an infuser and allow the tea to infuse in 80C water for two to three minutes depending on personal preference. Ideally use a loose tea strainer but it is always best to ensure it is large enough to give the tea room to allow the water to come into contact with all of the leaves.
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Hermosa Beach cancer activist Barbara Robinson…
Hermosa Beach cancer activist Barbara Robinson dies
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PUBLISHED: August 17, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 11:45 a.m.
Friends and family gathered Monday to say goodbye to Barbara K. Robinson, a Hermosa Beach philanthropist and breast cancer activist who died last week.
A well-attended service at Rolling Hills Covenant Church in Rolling Hills Estates honored Robinson, who died Thursday at age 53 after battling cancer on and off for about 12 years, according to her family.
Born Oct. 7, 1955, in Los Angeles, Robinson grew up in Lennox and the Palos Verdes Peninsula, graduating in 1973 from Rolling Hills High School, now Palos Verdes Peninsula High School.
In 1983 she married Frank Robinson, the founder of Torrance-based Robinson Helicopters, where she worked for many years.
Court documents show the couple filed for divorce in 2003.
First diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997, Robinson beat the disease only to relapse several years later, and then again in 2004, she told the Daily Breeze in 2005.
She established the Robinson Breast Cancer Research Fund with a $3 million contribution in early 2005.
Later that year, she opened p.i.n.k., a Hermosa Beach boutique whose profits benefited the research fund.
Robinson told the Breeze that she opened the store, its name an acronym for “People inspiring new knowledge,” with the hope of mining positivity from her cancer battle.
The store ultimately closed in 2008, but preserving the 1920s Craftsman-style home at 238 Pier Ave. earned Robinson commendations from the city as well as the Hermosa Beach Historical Society.
A few years later, Robinson went on to become the historical society’s biggest donor, contributing $50,000 toward the 2007 opening of the society’s museum, said Rick Koenig, president of the group.
“She was a person who exuded kindness and generosity,” he said. “She was the kind of woman who, the moment you meet her, the light in her eyes tells you that this is a good person who cares about her fellow human being.”
Robinson is survived by a daughter, Cindy Robinson; a son, Mark Robinson; and two sisters, Mary Ann Krauss and Christine Krauss Scheele.
andrea.woodhouse@dailybreeze.com
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Cash boost designed to help create new businesses in Renfrewshire
ALMOST a quarter of a million pounds is to be invested in starting new businesses in Renfrewshire – bringing a welcome jobs boost to the area into the bargain.
Alison Rennie
The Scottish Government has announced that more than £6.6million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is being given to various projects across the country which provide advice and support to small businesses and entrepreneurs.
It is hoped that the money will help to create more than 7,000 jobs nationally.
In the Paisley area, a total of £248,614 is being spent on Renfrewshire Council’s Business Improvement Fund – a three-year project which aims to boost business start-ups.
It is hoped that around 600 businesses will be created with the cash, while another 200 will be given support to make energy savings and become more efficient.
Enterprise Minister Jim Mather told the Paisley Daily Express: “Scotland’s businesses are the beating heart of our economy and are pivotal to a strong and sustained economic recovery.
“In recent months, we have seen improved economic performance, with rising employment and encouraging GDP figures, but it is crucial that we build on this.
“Directing European funding towards these kind of enterprising projects has been a key element of the Scottish Government’s Economic Recovery Plan.
“The money supports projects with the potential to enhance local economies, build strong and sustainable economic growth and support the creation of thousands of new jobs.
“These are all worthy initiatives that can make a vital contribution to economic growth across Scotland.”
A bumper boost of more than £740,000 will go to the Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust, which will help young people across Scotland – including the Renfrewshire area – who want to run their own business.
Mark Strudwick, chief executive officer of the Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust, said: “Providing the best possible support to young people to enable them to create and grow their own business is critical, particularly in the current economic climate.
“This contribution will help PSYBT, working alongside Business Gateway, to provide a tailored package of coaching and mentoring assistance to some 1,700 young people over the next three years.
“The younger generation do have entrepreneurial spirit, however, the opportunities to start up in business are fraught with very real challenges.
“PSYBT offers a package of support to any young person who is considering starting their own business and cannot secure funding elsewhere.”
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First day orders of new Apple iPhone 4S top 1m in United States
FIRST-DAY pre-orders of Apple's iPhone 4S in America have topped one million, breaking the record set by last year's model.
FIRST day pre-orders of Apple's iPhone 4S in America have topped one million, breaking the record set by last year's model.
Apple and phone companies started taking orders for the phone last Friday. It hits stores this Friday.
First-day orders for the iPhone 4 were 600,000 when it launched last year. It was then sold in the US only by AT&T. The iPhone 4S is also sold by Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp.
The base model of the iPhone 4S costs £128 with a two-year contract. It has a faster processor and an improved camera compared to last year's model.
Social mediaScot warns 'Covid is making haggis braver' after spotting 'beast' near GlasgowKat Berrie from Stirling had been walking her dog near Mugdock Country Park in East Dumbartonshire when she spotted the 'beast'.
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Priest reveals he's father to four-year-old boy to mass - via sign language
A CATHOLIC priest stunned his flock by quitting the church at Sunday Mass, telling them: "I've got a four-year-old son".
Father Peter McDonough made his confession at a sign-language service for the deaf.
The 54-year-old, who is himself profoundly deaf, asked the congregation to sit down as he had something he "needed to tell" them.
He spent two hours explaining his situation to parishioners at St Patrick's Church, in Collyhurst, Manchester.
Monsignor Mark Davies, vicar general for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford, said: "The reaction was obviously shock but most of all sadness. There were many tears as well. The context of what was said was his struggle, to see how best to fulfil his responsibilities to the child.
"He's spent 27 years dedicated to looking after the deaf community."
The mother and the child's identities were not disclosed.
Fr McDonough was ordained in Manchester by Pope John Paul II on his historic visit to the UK in 1982. His son will soon be going to school.
Msgr Davies added: "He's looking towards fulfiling his responsibilities as a father. One of the first things he will do will be to look for paid employment."
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Fit again Eggert Jonsson stakes claim for Hearts starting berth
HEARTS jack-of-all-trades Eggert Jonsson admits he's ready to play anywhere for a game as he prepares for his first appearance in almost two months.
The Iceland international, who is now fully fit following hernia surgery, spent his entire Tynecastle career being moved from pillar to post before appearing to have carved out a niche at right-back.
But his period on the sidelines has co-incided with the emergence of Craig Thomson, who appears to have made that position his own with a series of dynamic displays.
Jonsson, 21, knows his 18-year-old team-mate will be difficult to dislodge and is prepared to play anywhere in Csaba Laszlo's side if it means returning to first-team duty.
Ahead of tomorrow's trip to Aberdeen he said: "You can put me in almost any position! Centre-back, left-back, right-mid, centre-mid, striker.
"I've tried quite a few but I'm happy to play anywhere, and if there's a position available, I'll take it.
"I just want to get back in the team; I want to play football again."
Jonsson admits he's been impressed by Thomson, who won the Clydesdale Bank Young Player of the Month award for September.
"I've been really impressed, like everyone else," he said.
"He's been playing really well and he's been standing out in every game he's played.
"If he keeps playing well, it's going to be hard for me but I need to work hard and make sure if I get a chance I take it."
If Thomson continues to improve, Jonsson could find himself returning to right-back sooner than he thinks, with bigger clubs likely to pounce for his young team-mate.
Hearts travel to Aberdeen tomorrow looking for their first away win of the season.
They have taken just one point on their travels, throwing away a one-goal lead at St Mirren last time out.
"Obviously, there are games where we've lost points," said Jonsson, who believes the club only need to cut out the stoppage-time errors that have dogged them this term.
"You're talking about last-second stuff and if we can stop doing that, hopefully we can start collecting more points and get ourselves up the table."
He added: "Last game as well, we got beaten away and we need to make sure that doesn't happen again.
"We need to pick ourselves up and make sure we get all three points.
"Obviously, it's going to be a big game. Aberdeen are always a tough team, especially away.
"We need to make sure we're up for it."
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Dallas Wrestler Ember Moon Has Been Fighting Her Whole Life. She’s Not Scared of SummerSlam Match.
Brad LaCour
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Brad LaCour | August 12, 2019 | 4:00am
WWE superstar and Dallas native Ember Moon has fought her way to the top of the game — literally.
WWE’s marquee summer event SummerSlam may be happening in Toronto this year, but Dallas will be represented by WWE superstar and Garland native Ember Moon, as she fights fellow WWE superstar Bayley for the Smackdown Women’s Championship match.
Moon’s rise to the position of competing for one of wrestling’s biggest titles is a testament to years of hard work. After literally fighting her way up in the independent wrestling circuit before signing to WWE’s developmental territory, NXT, Moon won the coveted NXT women’s championship title. Since joining WWE's main roster in April 2018, her seamless mixture of strength and high-flying acrobatic prowess has made her one of wrestling fans' favorite acts to watch. But Moon still feels overwhelmed about her upcoming fight.
“I’m still in disbelief this is actually happening,” Moon says of SummerSlam. “It’s crazy because I feel like at one point in time when we had the NXT championship match, I’m like, 'I’m going to wake up, I’m still going to be at home in Dallas with my parents. And I’m just going to wake up in bed.' And it’s very much that same feeling, even though I’ve been with WWE for — oh my gosh, I think it’s been almost four years or coming up on four years.”
Moon, whose real name is Adrienne Reese, was born and raised in Garland. Once she decided to pursue wrestling as a career she didn’t have to travel farther than one town over to take the first step into the business. Her career began in Mesquite, training under wrestlers General Skandar Ackbar and Action Jackson, among others. After the school in Mesquite closed, she went on to train at Professional Championship Wrestling in Arlington with New Japan Superstar Lance Hoyt. Moon says that, to this day, North Texas holds boundless opportunities for those wishing to participate in professional wrestling.
"I feel like even then, when I was younger, I was a lone wolf, so to speak. I just lived my own little life in my own little world.” — Ember Moon
As a child, Moon struggled with reading, and she found comic books and video games assisted her in learning. Professional wrestling provided an outlet for Moon to express and support herself, she says; ultimately offering a victorious outcome to her preceding teenage years, when the same passions — wrestling, video games and comic books — brought relentless attention from school bullies.
“A really cool part of what I do is being able to be a part of our Be a Star program in WWE,” Moon says. “Which is a huge advocate for anti-bullying, so anytime I can get my hands on that, I’m just all about that. It was just like … being different, and not talking like everyone else. I feel like even then, when I was younger, I was a lone wolf so to speak. I just lived my own little life in my own little world.”
Moon’s little world has expanded, and her championship match will be viewed in front of what will most likely be a sold-out crowd at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. SummerSlam is widely recognized as the sports entertainment company’s second-largest pay-per-view of the year, coming in behind only WrestleMania.
A featured spot on such a high-profile show would add a feeling of pressure for any young performer, but the presence of a Canadian crowd, often known for being aggressively vocal about their sports-related feelings, weighs heavily on Moon’s thoughts.
“I definitely think there’s a lot of added pressure because we’re in Canada, which, they will let you know if they don’t like you,” Moon says. “They are not afraid of that, but they are some of the best fans in the world, because they are so vocal and they are so passionate.”
Moon’s optimism in the face of performing for a raucous crowd is indicative of her character. She's overcome her learning difficulties in addition to her cruel classmate's harassment, driving long nights for little pay at independent wrestling shows, and has carved a spot for herself in a male-dominated business. Moon doesn’t have time to mind the pressure — she’s too focused on writing her own legacy.
“It’s very nerve-wracking knowing that I’m in the same category as one of my favorite matches in this entire world, which was Rey Mysterio versus Kurt Angle," Moon says. “To this day I still go and watch that match to get motivated. But that was at SummerSlam and they set the tone for the entire SummerSlam that year, but it’s one of my favorite matches, and I look and aspire to have something like that — to have that match that people want to go back and watch over and over and over again.”
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Family employed by province perpetrated $11M COVID benefit fraud: civil claim
The Ontario legislature is pictured at Queen's Park in downtown Toronto in this file photo. (Joshua Freeman /CP24)
Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press
TORONTO - Four family members who worked for the Ontario government in information technology defrauded the province of at least $11 million destined as COVID-19 relief money, a statement of claim alleges.
The unproven civil claim on behalf of the province, which also seeks $2 million in punitive damages, accuses them and others of illegally issuing and banking cheques under the Support for Families Program that aimed to defray the cost of children learning at home.
Named as a defendant in the Superior Court claim is Sanjay Madan, who had a senior IT role and helped develop the computer application for applying and approving the benefit.
“The Madan family exploited their positions of employment with Ontario and unique access to the (program) and payment processing system,” the government says. “The plaintiff was uniquely vulnerable to Sanjay, particularly with respect to the integrity of the...application.”
Also named is Madan's wife Shalini Madan, a senior level IT manager with the ministry responsible for electronically processing program payments.
According to the lawsuit, Sanjay Madan and his family opened more than 400 accounts at the Bank of Montreal between April and May. They then deposited around 10,000 cheques made out to fictitious applicants with thousands of non-existent children under the support program.
Most deposits were made over a four-week period starting on May 25, coinciding with a rule change that allowed more than five payments to be made to an applicant. The government alleges Sanjay Madan either sparked the rule change or knew about it and took advantage.
“He would have been very familiar with the (program) computer application and with any vulnerabilities it may have had to fraud and other misuse,” the government asserts.
The claim also says that Sanjay and Chinmaya Madan wiped their government-issued phones to hide their misdoing.
Christopher Du Vernet, the family's lawyer, said he could not discuss the claim.
“As I am sure you can appreciate, this is a very difficult time for the entire Madan family,” Du Vernet said on Wednesday. “Moreover, the matter is currently before the courts. Given these circumstances, I am instructed to advise that any comments our client makes will be in material filed with the courts and only there.”
However, in other court filings, Sanjay Madan is said to have told the government that he could explain “all of this” and that he has “helped many families.”
Other defendants include their son Chinmaya Madan, a technical product manager who resigned in July, and his brother, Ujjawal Madan, a programmer analyst, who worked indirectly under his father. He resigned in August.
No criminal charges have been announced.
The government also served notice it intends to seize any money the family obtained fraudulently. It obtained a court order to have their bank accounts turned over to the court pending the outcome of the lawsuit.
To prevent the respondents from hiding any money, the government obtained a court order freezing the family's assets, which include a list of properties in Toronto.
The government says in one document that Sanjay Madan maintains the program payments were directed to him by tenants for rent.
“It is reasonable to believe that Sanjay's alleged tenants are not the parents to over 10,000 children,” the government says.
“The attorney general submits that the cash in the bank accounts and safety deposit boxes is likely proceeds of unlawful activity.”
The freeze order was subsequently varied to allow some payout of money from an earlier Madan property sale but the family will have to return to court to have other funds for living expenses and legal bills released.
Other defendants in the suit filed in the court's commercial lists division are several companies: Intellisources, Newgen and Wang and Associates.
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Woman dies after being pulled from fire at Etobicoke apartment for seniors
Chris Herhalt, Web Content Writer, CP24
@_Herhalt
Published Monday, November 30, 2020 12:01PM EST
Last Updated Monday, November 30, 2020 3:49PM EST
A woman is dead and a police officer is injured after a fire broke out at an Etobicoke apartment for seniors on Monday morning.
Fire crews responded to the building, at 100 Cavell Avenue, east of Royal York Road and south of Mimico GO station, just before 11:30 a.m. for reports of flames near the top of the seven-storey building.
Police said they had reports that a female occupant of the building was trapped due to flames. She was later pulled from the unit after firefighters or police breached the door to get her.
Fire Chief Matthew Pegg later offered his condolences on the woman’s death.
"I extend sincere condolences to family, friends and all those impacted by this morning’s fatal fire on Cavell Avenue. Our teams are working alongside Toronto Police and the Ontario Fire Marshal to determine the origin, cause and circumstances of this tragic fire."
Police said an officer injured themselves trying to get to her. They also said the woman who was rescued succumbed to her injuries at the scene.
Fire crews said earlier that the blaze was emanating from one unit of the building, which is a Toronto Community Housing property dedicated to seniors.
Speaking with CP24 at the scene, OFM Supervisor Manny Garcia said the Ontario Fire Marshal will be investigating reports that the woman had trouble getting out of the building.
“I understand that the individual may not have been able to find their way out. That's obviously going to be a focus of our investigation, why that was the case, if that is in fact the case,” Garcia said. “And we're also gonna be taking a look at the fire safety devices, smoke alarms, smoke detection devices to see if they played a role as we always do.”
All residents of the building were carefully evacuated.
The injured officer suffered from smoke inhalation and is expected to recover.
Garcia said fire investigators will likely remain at the scene into the evening.
Flames are seen shooting from an apartment unit on the seventh floor of a building at 100 Cavell Avenue in Etobicoke on Nov. 30, 2020.
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Competency Evaluation Ordered For Accused Mass Killer Dylann Roof
Dylann Roof, the man who allegedly killed nine African-American parishioners in Charleston, S.C., last year, has been ordered to undergo another competency evaluation by a federal judge hearing his case.
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Gergel issued the order, writing that he expects a report based on that evaluation to be delivered to him on Nov. 14. He will hold a hearing two days later and rule on Roof’s competency on or before Nov. 18. Jury selection has been suspended until Nov. 21.
“The Court is mindful that this delay in jury selection may be disappointing to some, but it is the Court’s duty to conduct a fair trial and follow procedures which protect the legal rights of the Defendant,” wrote Gergel. “Under the present circumstances, the Court finds this brief delay in jury selection to serve the ends of justice.”
Roof faces 33 counts of hate crimes and other charges related to the killings at a Bible study meeting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015. He allegedly attacked after sitting in the gathering for almost an hour. Authorities say he left three people unharmed so that they could report on what happened.
Gergel issued his order a day after holding a closed-door hearing with Roof and his defense attorneys to consider a motion made by those lawyers. The text of the motion is under seal. Gergel said in a memo that he held the secret hearing “to protect the attorney-client privilege and the constitutional rights of Defendant.”
Roof’s lawyers offered their client’s guilty plea in exchange for a life sentence, but it was rejected by federal prosecutors seeking the death penalty.
South Carolina prosecutors also are preparing to try Roof on nine murder counts after his federal trial.
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Brother George Synan Scholarship
Brother George was a positive, guiding light at De La Salle for more than 40 years before he passed away in 2002. He holds an important place in the hearts of many alumni, and truly preached the word of St. John Baptist de La Salle when he said that no boy would be turned away because of a lack of funds. A donation to the Brother George Synan Scholarship keeps his memory alive while helping a student attend De La Salle Collegiate.
Brother Patrick McNally Scholarship Brother Patrick McNally, a St. Joseph’s High School alumnus from the Class of 1955, became a Christian Brother in 1956, and came to De La Salle in 2002. He became the Director of Alumni Relations for St. Joe’s alumni, and ran De La Salle's Wig and Mask Society, along with being an advisor for the Christian Brothers Auxiliary and acting as vocations coordinator for the Christian Brothers. This scholarship was established in Brother Pat’s name in 2005 to honor his boundless energy and support of the school. Brother Robert Deary Scholarship Started in 2012 by the late Gary Hahn (past parent of late Paul Hahn ’94) in honor of Brother Robert Deary's 50th Jubilee as a Christian Brother. Brother Tom Lackey Scholarship Former President of De La Salle Collegiate, Brother Tom Lackey graduated from De La Salle in 1965. Since then, he has established a meaningful legacy at his alma mater. He taught at De La Salle (1975-85), was principal (1985-94), and returned to become the school’s President (2011-15). This fund helps to fulfill the cause closest to Brother Tom’s heart: the idea that a young man can receive a Lasallian education regardless of his financial means.
Brother Gabe Fagan Scholarship Brother Gabriel Fagan, FSC, taught at De La Salle from 1961-70, and 2011-13. He died in Dec. 2019. He was 81. During his years as a Christian Brother, from 1957 until his death, Brother Gabe was a teacher of religion, Latin, and English, as well as a college professor, vocation director, and school administrator. Originally from New York City, Brother Gabe considered Detroit his home, and remained in contact with numerous alumni. He lived in Detroit until 2015, when he moved to De La Salle Hall in Lincroft, New Jersey.
Christian Brothers Auxiliary Angels Scholarship The CBA created an annual scholarship in 2017 with the intent of empowering the financial assistance process with resources to address special situations that fall beyond the normally budgeted amount. Co-Pilot Sponsorship Opportunities exist to sponsor a student with a full or half year tuition – called the Co-Pilot Sponsorship. A sponsor is matched with the student and will be in contact with the student throughout the school year. Contact De La Salle's Advancement Office to become a Co-Pilot at 586-778-3356.
Ed Martel Scholarship Ed Martel, who graduated from De La Salle in 1987, died Sept. 29, 2018 following an 18-year battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 49. The 2019 Christian Brothers Classic golf outing was held in his honor. To make a tribute in Ed Martel's memory, donate to the Ed Martel Memorial Scholarship and help a student attend De La Salle Collegiate.
Gary Buslepp Scholarship Gary Buslepp was a lifelong educator, enjoying three tours spanning 22 years at De La Salle before retiring in 2018. He first came to De La Salle in 1977, at the invitation of then-athletic director John Maronto. Between 1977 and 1988, Buslepp coached various levels of football, basketball, and baseball, before becoming varsity basketball coach in 1981. Buslepp was then associated with the University of Detroit for three years, working in the athletic department. He returned to De La Salle as the vice principal in 1991, a position he held until 2000. Gary worked as an administrator and principal in the Grosse Pointe Public Schools from 2000 until 2015. He returned to De La Salle in 2016, and spent two years with the academic support program.
Gary DiGiuseppe Scholarship Gary DiGiuseppe, a 1973 alumnus, was a reporter for Little Rock radio station, KARN when his life was cut short. He was well-known in the area for his reporting, particularly of agricultural news. His sister Carol DiGiuseppe-Zuniga and his parents Leonard and Virginia, are establishing a scholarship in his name to benefit the De La Salle Collegiate tuition assistance fund. The family hopes to aid at least three students.
Memorial Scholarship A memorial gift serves as a remembrance of a loved one, and a tribute to someone whose life has had an impact on others. Memorial Gifts may be made at any time.
Pilot Pride Scholarship Your donation to the Pilot Pride Scholarship Fund helps offset the cost of attending De La Salle Collegiate for those families who need financial assistance. Showing your Pilot Pride is about passing on life’s rewards to someone else, and allowing them to experience what makes De La Salle so special. For more information, contact the Advancement Department at 586-778-3356.
St. Joseph Blue Jays Scholarship St. Joseph’s Commercial College opened in 1889, and was De La Salle’s biggest rival from 1926 until 1964, when St. Joseph’s closed its doors. De La Salle then took in many students from that great school, and the St. Joe’s alumni still attend De La Salle senior alumni luncheons, the Christian Brothers Dinner and other events. This fund receives regular donations from the St. Joe’s Alumni Association and those who honor the Blue Jays' memory.
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Whoa! What is going on?
Look above the front entrance of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Is that Gumby facing Broad Street?
Then go inside and climb the grand staircase. Why are large sculptures of partially flayed mice blocking the Benjamin West mural? Something rather subversive seems to be happening.
Through Jan. 5, the academy is hosting an exhibition of 76 paintings and sculptures by KAWS, the Brooklyn-based visual artist who has realized a devoted international following.
This show, "KAWS @ PAFA," is an invigorating "intervention," "a violent juxtaposition" of new and old, high brow and low brow, serious and whimsical. One might initially wonder what this work is doing here.
Yet it is a win-win for the artist as well as America's oldest art school and public museum.
KAWS brings a healthy dose of hipness to a tradition-based institution, and the academy gives added credibility to the artist. This exciting and unconventional exhibition hopes to reach a younger audience, while giving more seasoned viewers a new perspective on the permanent collection.
KAWS is a Jersey boy who "grew up as Brian Donnelly." When asked about KAWS as a professional name, the artist admitted that "it removes a lot of baggage. Someone doesn't automatically think an Irish guy."
He started as a graffiti artist, tagging billboards and bus shelters in his hometown of Jersey City and in nearby Manhattan. He soon became a formidable presence on the street scene. His Neo-Pop work is strongly influenced by popular cartoon characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Mickey Mouse, Michelin Man and the Simpsons.
As a savvy artist-entrepreneur, he has blended fine art and consumer products for his designs of limited-edition toys, sneakers, and even a Kanye West album cover.
"Companion," one of KAWS' signature characters, was featured as a balloon in last year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade; he also did a complete makeover of the Moonman trophy for the MTV award ceremonies held in late August.
The collaboration between the academy and KAWS began as a commission to create a sculpture for the empty plinth (base for a sculpture) on its main façade.
As plans evolved, the project quickly expanded beyond this single site-specific piece to a show representing work from 2004 to the present that is on view in the galleries.
Harry Philbrick, director of the museum, enthusiastically noted that his art "stands up to and talks to the building."
For the Gumby-like sculputure on the facade, KAWS said he was thinking about the statue of Ceres that once stood there, but was removed because of fears it could crumble and hit pedestrians.
"I wanted to pay homage to the characters in this world that are known to be flexible," he says.
Inside the museum with its celebrated collection of monuments from American art history, KAWS' work may seem even more jarring.
He acknowledges an honest appreciation of pop culture: "I realize its presence and try to put it into paintings and sculptures to help better understand its effect."
His work certainly holds its own against the flamboyant architecture of the historic building.
In particular, a pair of 10-foot-tall "Accomplices" — one in pink and the other in black — stand on either side of William Wetmore Story's neoclassic marble sculpture of the Assyrian queen, Semiramis.
Their bunny ears relate directly to the curved arches of the Neo-Gothic building.
Fred B. Adelson is a professor of art history at Rowan University. Contact him at fbadelson@gmail.com.
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Last rites of Mohammad Shahid to be performed today
Posted on: July 21, 2016 by: Deshvidesh
Rich Tributes paid to the magical dribbler of Hockey, Mohammad Shahid who passed away on Wednesday, Last rites to be performed today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expresses grief, describes him as an extremely talented player.
Indian hockey legend Mohammad Shahid, who was being treated in a private hospital in Gurugram, passed away on Wednesday due to multiple organ failure.
The 56-year-old legend was admitted to a private hospital in Gurugram earlier this month after a bout of jaundice and dengue made his condition worse.
He was airlifted from Varanasi.
Known for his dribbling skills, Shahid was considered one of India’s greatest hockey players.
He was a member of the V Baskaran-led Indian team that won a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
He was also a part of the national team that won a silver medal at the Delhi Asian Games in 1982 and bronze in the Seoul Asiad in 1986.
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Kansas Pretrial Task Force Report Makes Recommendations
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By Lauren Smith
KANSAS – Nationally, about two thirds of local incarcerated population have yet to be convicted of a crime, meaning that the jail population is predominantly people awaiting trial or who cannot post bond. Kansas sits slightly lower at 53 percent.
Pretrial release issues have been brought to national attention due to concerns over increasing jail populations, discrimination in pretrial practices and other high-profile incidents.
In November 2018, the Kansas Supreme Court created the Ad Hoc Pretrial Justice Task Force (Task Force) charged to “review current pretrial detention practices in Kansas and elsewhere; review alternatives to detentions; and determine what lessons can be learned from other jurisdictions that have already tackled these issues.”
Members of the Task Force consisted of judges, prosecutors, members of the court administrative staff and criminal defense attorneys.
After six months, the Task Force created a list of recommendations of “best practices” for judges to use.
According to the summary of recommendations, the best approach to remind judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys of “the core constitutional principles at the heart” of the criminal justice system is thorough education.
The Task Force also recommended collecting criminal case data related to different types of pretrial release and design reports to help understand the impact changes to the pretrial system have made and where more change can be made.
About five percent of arrests made nationwide are for violent offenses; by diverting defendants charged with nonviolent crimes from jail, courts and law enforcement can focus more time and energy on defendants charged with violent offenses, the study noted.
The Task Force stated that while its role was not to make recommendations on what crimes should be prosecuted, it believes that amending statues concerned with nonviolent crimes such as marijuana possession and driving without a license “would facilitate discretionary use of notices to appear in situations in which they are not currently allowed.”
When it comes to mental health identification, the Task Force encouraged law enforcement to work with mental health organizations to “refer offenders” to the appropriate mental health or substance abuse resources.
In order to help support better treatment of those with mental health issues and substance abuse problems, the Kansas Legislature adopted the Crisis Intervention Act in 2017 that allowed officers to take offenders to a crisis intervention center instead of a jail. Unfortunately, there has yet to be draft regulations so there are no licensed crisis intervention centers to date.
The Task Force strongly recommended to issue regulations so that crisis centers are licensed and can “assist in diverting those with mental illness or substance abuse issues from detention to treatment.”
Additionally, the Task Force stated that there needs to be increased funding of the Larned State Hospital (LSH). LSH is a hospital that determines the competency of a defendant to see if they are fit to stand trial.
This process has a “very long wait time” resulting in the “unnecessary detention of defendants who require mental health treatment.” With more funding, the Task Force stated there would be more timely admission for competency decisions.
The Task Force also included recommendations specifically to pretrial release including a launch of a pilot program to assess pretrial risk. The program would consist of “a representative cross-section of jurisdictions across the state, with some jurisdictions utilizing a scored and validated pretrial risk assessment tool, and others using a form with the same information but no algorithm-based score.”
As for missed court appearances, the Task Force recommended that the courts implement a text message reminder system to help combat failures to appear. They also said courts should give defendants a chance to voluntarily report after missing a court date before judges issue a bench warrant.
Lastly, The Task Force suggested an amendment to the Kansas Constitution. The Kansas Legislature should consider amending the Kansas Bill of Rights by exploring whether or not judges should be allowed to detain people who are not accused of capital offenses with bond until trial.
The Full Task Force report can be found here.
Lauren Smith is a fourth year student at UC Davis, double majoring in Political Science and Psychology. She is from San Diego, California.
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David Greenwald is the founder, editor, and executive director of the Davis Vanguard. He founded the Vanguard in 2006. David Greenwald moved to Davis in 1996 to attend Graduate School at UC Davis in Political Science. He lives in South Davis with his wife Cecilia Escamilla Greenwald and three children.
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A host of programs and organizations on campus have worked to bring students together to engage difficult social and political issues. As two examples among many, eighty Bonner Scholars and fifty Chidsey Leadership Fellows comprise a vibrant cadre of students who serve as leaders on campus and in community settings where diverse and divergent perspective are regularly addressed. Davidson is also home to active and diverse student-led political organizations, including the Center for Political Engagement, College Libertarians, College Democrats, College Republicans, Davidson Animal Welfare Group, Young Americans for Freedom, and the Davidson Young Democratic Socialists of America. In a variety of different ways, these organizations have all been working to facilitate more conversations about important political issues.
Furthermore, Davidson students, faculty, and staff have spearheaded a host of grassroots efforts addressing matters of collective well-being, social justice, individual liberties, and purposive dialogue. While this list is certainly not exhaustive, some examples include “Common Ground,” a student organization focused on facilitating dialogue between the different affinity groups on campus; the “Do the Work Series,” a student-centered project designed to establish innovative techniques for practicing social action; the “Challenge the Policy” conversations, which allow community members to discuss openly pressing public issues; “Better Together,” a group of students from diverse faiths who seek to better understand one another’s traditions; “Soup with Substance,” where students address contemporary issues over a simple meal; and the “Public Art, Reclamation, and Social Change Mural Project,” which seeks to foster conversations about social inequality on campus.
A wide range of college programs and offices also have worked to foster more dialogue and deliberation on campus, including the Center for Civic Engagement, Chaplain’s Office, Center for Diversity and Inclusion, and Communication Studies Program. And there are many more
The DCI is excited to partner with these and other efforts and organizations. If your initiative would like to collaborate with us on hosting deliberation opportunities, please contact dci@davidson.edu.
If you would like to learn more about deliberation-related efforts being organized in the Davidson and Charlotte region, click here.
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AI Solutions for Healthcare
AI for COVID-19
AI for Chronic Disease
Decode Health Launches Eight-Person Strategic Advisory Board Chaired by Dr. Alan Spiro
Board members advise on applications of the company’s AI solution and strategic partnerships
Nashville, Tenn. – July 20, 2020 – Decode Health, a predictive analytics company focused on early identification of healthcare risk from both chronic diseases and COVID-19, today announced the launch of its strategic advisory board, a group of eight professionals with extensive technical, clinical and business experience in healthcare and related industries. Chaired by Dr. Alan Spiro, the board also includes Lauren Bell, Amy Gleason, Don Hardison, Anika Heavener, Jeff Pate, Jean Rush and John Singer.
“Our new strategic advisory board is a phenomenal group of experts whose knowledge and experience will be invaluable to the growth and success of our company,” said Dr. Chase Spurlock, CEO of Decode Health.
Decode Health applies data science to the science of health by combining the expertise of immunologists and data scientists with multiple data sources, including public health information, healthcare claims databases and social determinants of health data.
Decode Health’s predictive machine learning solution provides actionable insights for care teams, and in chronic disease, identifies patients trending toward a diagnosis, those who are about to experience a costly adverse event and those who are potentially misdiagnosed that may be receiving incorrect care. The company is now applying its technology to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 by identifying and predicting evolving risk patterns to better target education, intervention and testing.
“We’ve spent many years combining our clinical and machine learning experience with various types of data to predict healthcare risk, and now we’re able to adapt our technologies and methodologies to address the challenges of COVID-19. We’re glad to have these eight accomplished professionals to help us negotiate the challenges and opportunities that are arising during this unique, transformational period,” Spurlock said.
The company selected advisory board members because of their significant experience across many aspects of healthcare delivery and technology. The board will provide guidance on positioning the company within the evolving healthcare industry. Decode Health believes it can deliver innovative solutions that enable value-based outcomes and support the growth of consumer-driven, retail healthcare.
“These individuals have varied backgrounds that cover virtually every aspect of healthcare, spanning analytics, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, government-provided healthcare and care delivery,” said Julia Polk, Decode Health’s chief strategy officer. “Creating a strategic advisory board adds to our already-strong team and is the next step in our evolution,” Polk added. “We’re fortunate to have a diverse, experienced and esteemed group advising and working with us.”
The advisory board members are:
Alan Spiro, MD, MBA – whose company, Alan Spiro Solutions, helps healthcare companies become more effective, efficient and caring organizations – is a leader in health strategy, analytics, data science, health care delivery, managed care and medical policy and practice. Among his many professional accomplishments, Spiro was chief medical officer and co-founder of Accolade, Inc. He also served as senior vice president of strategy and growth and chief medical officer at Blue Health Intelligence (BHI), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
Lauren Bell is the founder and managing director of LaCire, which provides operations consulting and strategy development for companies experiencing growth. She has worked in the public and private sectors both within the U.S. and internationally, providing subject matter expertise in public health planning and capabilities analyses and has created meta-analyses for cross-border pandemic preparedness studies. She has served as a subject matter expert to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Navy Bureau of Medicine on issues such as exercise planning, pandemic preparedness and disaster relief.
Amy Gleason is a digital services expert with the United States Digital Service at the White House. She is currently working inside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services supporting critical decision-makers during the COVID-19 crisis, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where she is supporting projects that provide valuable claims data to patients and providers. She is also the founder and principal of Gleason Strategies, which helps healthcare technology organizations maximize their market offerings. Previously, she was a co-founder and chief strategy officer at CareSync, a care coordination company focused on helping patients with chronic disease.
Don Hardison has more than 40 years of executive leadership experience in both emerging and Fortune 500 companies and has expertise in diagnostic laboratory management, sales, marketing, strategy, operations and broad reimbursement expertise. Currently, he serves as president, CEO and director of Biotheranostics, Inc. in San Diego. He was previously the president, CEO and director of Good Start Genetics, Inc. and served in a similar capacity at EXACT Sciences Corp., where he was actively involved in taking the company public. Hardison has held multiple senior leadership positions at companies such as LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics and SmithKline Beecham Corp.
Anika Heavener is the executive director of the Enterprise Data & Digital Health Program at Mass General Brigham (MGB), formerly Partners HealthCare, the nation’s largest academic research enterprise. Heavener developed the strategy and funding plans for the program, which aims to improve the patient experience, boost digital innovation and transform clinical care across the MGB hospitals. Previously, she worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers’s (PwC) Healthcare Advisory division and spent several years in the United Kingdom working in the U.K. Department of Health, where she co-led the development and launch of the Dementia Discovery Fund, a $350 million public-private venture capital fund.
Jeff Pate is an equity principal and chief development officer of PYA, a national advisory services firm for the healthcare community. With an extensive background in starting, growing and managing businesses, he led the startup of a company that became a leading provider of patient engagement solutions and also served as president of a third-party provider of ancillary healthcare services for long-term care residents. Pate’s strength is in building organizations and driving new business growth through creating and expanding relationships.
Jean Rush is a former CEO with extensive experience in dramatically increasing business, profit and market-share growth for several companies within multi-billion dollar corporations. She was recently the executive vice president of government markets at Highmark and previously served as senior vice president of complex care and senior vice president of health plan operations for Centene Corporation. She also served as the CEO and plan president of Kentucky Spirit, a start-up health plan, and as the president of CIGNA Government Services.
John Singer brings more than 30 years of experience in business strategy, innovation consulting, policy and communications across the healthcare spectrum, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology and payer and provider clients. He leads Blue Spoon Consulting, the pioneer of “big design” as a methodology to drive large-scale system change. He previously served as chief strategy officer, healthcare for Cognizant Technology Solutions and global head of health market strategy, innovation and technology for Wipro. He led the U.S. Healthcare Practice at RAPP, where he drove the digital strategy and consumer experience design for the launch of Solvadi, Gilead Sciences’ cure for Hepatitis C and one of the biggest-selling drugs in pharmaceutical history.
About Decode Health
Decode Health is a Nashville-based AI solution provider. Using multiple data sources including public health information, claims databases and proprietary social determinants of health data, Decode Health deploys unique data modeling techniques and machine learning to impact care on two critical healthcare fronts: COVID-19 mitigation and chronic disease management. Decode Health’s technology provides actionable insights early, enabling proactive care, better outcomes and significant cost savings. For more information, visit https://www.decodehealth.ai.
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Frank, Linnea, and I heard the Tallis Scholars in *A Renaissance Christmas* on 12/1/18. The concert was presented by the Miller Theater at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square, known as Smoky Mary's to the in crowd. We got tickets back in July, the very moment they went on sale, so we had the extra delight of sitting in row H, very close to the singers.
The Tallis Scholars is a group of ten singers, six women and four men, conducted by Peter Phillips. I'd heard them on recordings but never heard them in person. I am now committed to hear them every time they come to town! Oh what an incredible concert. Their sound is ripe and vibrant but clean, the absolutely perfect sound for the early music that is their specialty. I'd heard Chanticleer the night before, and as good as those male sopranos are, it was remarkable to hear how different a biological female sounds up there. So much more ease and bloom. Frank described their overall sound as "comfortable" - - they have such marvelous ease with the music, it's effortlessly ravishing for them.
They opened with two pieces by Palestrina, the "Hodie Christus natus est" and the Kyrie and Gloria from the *Missa Hodie Christus natus est.* The high point was a melisma from one of their altos, it just poured out of her, but in that reticent English manner, where she didn't draw attention to herself, it was like a private moment that I happened to notice.
The next piece was a world premiere by Nico Muhly, co-commissioned by the Tallis Scholars (which is celebrating its 45th anniversary) and the Miller Theater (celebrating its 30th anniversary). I heard Muhly's new opera *Marnie* this fall at the Met, and the choral writing in that was the high point, as it was in his previous two operas. So I was especially curious to hear what he would write for Tallis Scholars. The piece he wrote was called *Rough Notes.* Here's how he wrote about it in the program notes: "*Rough Notes,* written for the Tallis Scholars, sets two fragments from Robert Falcon Scott's diaries, made towards the end of his doomed journey to Antarctica." It was a prose text, but very poetic in his imagery.
It blew me away. Very concrete music, with an absolutely sure sense of what it was doing and what it was trying to accomplish. Not afraid to illustrate the text, not afraid to be beautiful, totally grounded in the English choral tradition, written for the virtuosity of these singers and their pinpoint-clear voices. This piece had all of the innate drama that was missing in the three operas.
The first half ended with a "Magnificat" by John Nesbett, a 15th century composer I'd never heard of. It was rather odd in spots, but fascinating. There was one moment where the soprano lines seemed to literally dance.
Either Frank or Linnea said something about the conductor at the intermission, and I realized that I never once noticed him conducting, though he was standing there waving his arms the whole time! Conductors out there, do you agree that this is a very high compliment?
The second half opened with the Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus dei from Palestrina's *Missa Hodie Christus natus est.* It was lovely, graceful. The Sanctus was particularly satisfying - - I had the rare pleasure of hearing the music performed in a way where you felt the composer (if revived after 400+ years of being buried) would say, "Yep, that couldn't be done any better, thank you!"
The next piece was a lullaby by William Byrd. With a title like "Lullaby" I expected it to be a darling little jewel, a morsel, a sorbet. But no, it was a full-on complete piece of music. Gorgeous, of course. Here's a recording of them doing it:
They ended with a Magnificat by Praetorius - - austere, transcendent beauty. I didn't write very many notes in the second half because I wanted to just sit there and let it wash over me.
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Screen Sector Safety Protocols & Production documents
6th May 2020 In News By DFAEditor
The South African Government has permitted filming under level 4 regulations from 4 May 2020, however, there are certain restrictions that have been put in place. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it the requirement for a new work protocol to mitigate the impact of the virus on the country and its people. The following protocols have been developed, in line with safety considerations provided by the South African government, by SASFED on behalf of and in consultation with all its member organizations, namely:
§ Sisters Working In Film and Television (SWIFT);
§ Writers’ Guild of South Africa (WGSA);
§ South African Guild of Editors (SAGE);
§ South African Guild of Actors (SAGA);
§ The Personal Managers’ Association (PMA);
§ Animation South Africa (A.S.A);
§ The Documentary Filmmakers Association SA (DFA); and
§ The Independent Producers Organisation (IPO).
The following set out protocol guidelines to the film and television production sector in respect of providing a safe workplace and to minimize the risk of COVID-19 while working in the screen sector.
Sector Safety Protocols
Participant Notice
Given that on-screen talent and crew are required to sign the indemnity documents, we have to ensure that they are equally reassured that the Protocols will be implemented as agreed. We therefore request that no modifications to these documents should be made.
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Blowing Up Bridges with the Marines of the OSS (with an Army Air Corps Guy, Too)
A while ago I was watching Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw blow up a bridge to thwart the Nazis in "Force 10 from Navarone" and wondering whether there was any background truth to the story. Some of my interest was that the filming of the picture took place in Montenegro, using Đurđevića Tara Bridge.* The original book was written by Alistair MacLean author of The Guns of Navarone, which was one of my favorite movies when it came out in 1961.
Đurđevića Tara Bridge
More on the Force 10 movie here.
At any rate, the premise of the movie was the need for the heroes of the Guns movie to perform another mission - which somewhere along the way shifted to them needing to destroy a huge dam to wash the bridge away. The plot seems to be unnecessarily complex, but really it's all about blowing things up, so it has that going for it.
My interest being piqued, I did some research on whether the U.S. and its allies sent people into the Balkans to blow up bridges in a clandestine way. The answer is "yes," as it seems a certain group of U.S. Marines were given the task in Greece, which they accomplished under the auspices of the OSS (sort of the daddy of the CIA). The source for what follows is a work titled "Herringbone Cloak--GI Dagger: Marines of the OSS" by Major Robert E. Mattingly, USMC Marine Corps Command and Staff College from 1979 which can be found here. While you might enjoy the whole thing, here's the part I enjoyed:
All the different kinds of leaders were grouping and re-grouping, forming alliances and breaking them up with threats of assassination: the klephts, the primates, the bishops, the islanders, Greeks from abroad, and the British."1 Those words, were written to describe the situation in Greece during the winter of 1821 but could serve equally well--with the inclusion of the Americans--as a synopsis of the same season in 1943.
Greece was then occupied not by the Turks, but rather by Germans, Bulgars, and a few Italians. To make the scene complete, there were competing guerilla forces which owed allegiance to either the non-resident monarch, King George, or the Greek Communist party. British SOE was having great difficulty sorting out exactly who was loyal to whom, under what circumstances, and four what price. When OSS opened its Cairo station in 1943, it stepped squarely into the political dung heap.
Exiled Prime Minister George Papandreou summed up the atmosphere accurately: "The country is an inferno. The Germans are killing. The Bulgarians are killing. The Security Battalions are killing. The guerillas too are killing. Everyone is killing and burning. What is going to be left of our unhappy country.?"2
Several Marines would soon find out.
Captain Gerald F. Else, USMCR, was born in Redfield, South Dakota in July 1908. Else entered the University of Nebraska in 1924, but transferred to Harvard, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1929. A scholar of classical Greek and Latin, Else remained in Cambridge, completing his M.A. in 1932, and receiving his PhD. in 1934. He then took a teaching job in the Department of Greek and Latin, until he was recruited into COI as a civilian.3
By January 143, it was apparent that Greece was a target of increasingly high intelligence priority. Similarly, it was clear that those OSS personnel not in uniform as officers would soon find themselves draftees. Else therefore applied for a direct commission in the Marine Corps Reserve, and OSS endorsed his request with a plea for retention within the intelligence agency.
Although he was over-age and color blind, Else was finally commissioned in August 1943, under Special Program 28-42 and assigned straight back to OSS as a Captain.4
Captain Else continued to work in the Greek Section of SI's Washington headquarters until late summer 1943. Then he shipped out for Egypt via Brazil and Nigeria.
"I was delayed enroute by problems unspecified (I realized later that the reason with the Cairo and Tehran Conferences, which must have produced an acute shortage of air transport) . . . It amuses me to recall that I was originally recruited for OSS because of my known Greek--ancient Greek--and that Knowledge was one of the chief obstacles to learning the modern language which I tried to do after reaching Cairo."5
Else arrived in Cairo during November 1943, and set to work developing a network of agents who could be infiltrated into predetermined target areas.
The biggest problem faced by OSS in the Middle East was not recruitment or training, but rather transportation. Parachute training (usually conducted in British Palestine) was inevitably followed by excruciating delays in aircraft availability. The British, who controlled all air assets for operations in Greece and the Balkans, carefully placed American requests for support at the bottom of the list. "The question of a small air unit under OSS control was unsuccessfully raised. Motor Torpedo boats were requested repeatedly but never arrived. Of all means available, Greek caiques, which usually transported agents in about one and a half months, proved to be the fastest."6
Caiques were small vessels used for fishing or limited cargo hauling. Varying in size from two to eighty tons, these were manned by crews ranging up to six or seven men. Few could make more than 4 knots. Of course, all were virtually defenseless.
Eventually, OSS put together a fleet of 36 such rafts,most of which were leased by British SIS.* The port of Alexandria was the normal "jumping off" spot. From there, the boats usually proceeded to one of several small harbors in Cyprus. Here agents went aboard still smaller caiques which ran into a clandestine base at Kusadasi, Turkey; transferred to even more flimsy (and usually wind-powered) versions; and in these made the final stage of their trip to occupied Greece.7
Merely sailing the Aegean Sea was a tricky business. Although men had been doing it for thousands of years, they had done so by
*SIS was only too glad to help anyone having problems with SOE.
choosing their season and waiting for the weather. The Aegean has no tide, and the winds blow north only during the summer. In the winter, storms come up from any direction, and the shallow bottom makes for dangerous waves. Of course there are hundreds of rocks to run upon as well.8 But the OSS "navy" proved equal to the task, and Else's section put more than 80 agents--primarily Greeks--ashore during 1944.*
Else remained in Cairo until the Fall of that year, serving as assistant to Rodney Young, a former archeologist who had spent years in Greece and soke the language fluently. As the Germans began slowly to retreat northward, OSS set about organizing the usual "capital liberation team." Young was to command with Else as his Executive Officer. On 12 October, they and two other members of the cairo staff flew directly into Athens, arriving there days before the transport rich British could get in. Soon afterward, Young resigned and Captain Else became Commander of the Athens mission.9
Civil war broke out in Greece on 3 December 1944, with the British backing the EDES guerilla army (royalist) against the ELAS (communist) irregulars. OSS personnel termed this "the unpleasantness," and attempted to carry on as neutrals. This was not easy since fighting raged in Athens proper. As one agent put it:
* The Germans mercilessly hounded any team which was unlucky enough to be compromised. The taking of hostages, summary executions, and torture were routine.
"During the first week the combination office-billet was situated a half-block from the front lines. With a British machine gun firing day and night from next door, a Greek military barracks down the street, and ELAS mortar shells falling all about, there were few periods quiet enough to concentrate on long reports."10
In January, Else left Athens for Caserta to head the Greek SI desk for the entire European Theater. Within a month of his arrival, the situation became so befuddled by conflicting State Department directives that he was recalled to Washington. After a short mission to Liberia, he was demobilized in December 1945.
While Captain Else was providing some of the "brains" behind OSS operations in Greece, Gunnery Sergeant (later Warrant Officer) Thomas L. Curtis, USMC, was supplying the brawn.
Curtis, unlike many Marines in OSS, was a career man. Born in Massachusetts, he enlisted in 1935, served in Hawaii until 1939, and was discharged. The next year, Curtis joined up again. Soon, he was hard at work in the Reconnaissance Section of Amphibious Corps, Atlantic, teaching rubber boat handling to members of what became the 1st Raider Battalion.11 When OSS began to become involved in paramilitary training, Curtis was one of the first Marines to be transferred to the new organization. It was not much of a transfer. Headquarters of the Amphibious Corps in those days was at Quantico. So was the OSS training camp.
Sergeant Curtis taught new recruits the fundamentals of clandestine entry, patrolling,submarine exiting procedures, and hand-to-hand combat. He was a big, tough, beefy man, and he knew his trade. In October 1943, now a Gunnery Sergeant, Curtis was tapped for an operational mission.12
Curtis arrived in Cairo after a stop at Oran, Algeria. Immediately, he was made a member of the team being put together for an important sabotage job in German-occupied Greece.
The commander of Curtis' mission was Army Air Corps Major Jim Kellis, an unusual recruit in an unusual outfit. Most men joined OSS based on vague promises of "dangerous work behind enemy lines." Kellis actually proposed his own project to Army G-2 as part of a comprehensive plan for clandestine warfare to be conducted in his ancestral homeland and site of his own college education. This, in brief, is how a Marine Gunnery Sergeant found himself aboard the caique St.John several hundred yards off a swampy area of northeastern Thrace in early May 1944.13
Kellis and two Navy enlisted men were already in Greece, having infiltrated by foot across the Turkish border in December. It was their radio message to the secret base at Kusadasi which initiated the second phase of the EVROS mission. When the St. John cautiously worked her way toward the landing area it was nearly midnight. Everything was quiet, and the beach seemed deserted. But Kellis was waiting.
"One of my guerillas who had contacts in the vicinity had lined up some fishing boats which we needed to get through the swamp, and also to unload the caique, which couldn't come in very close because of the shoal water. The rest of us lay low in the cane . . In gathering the boats, my men were observed by some fishermen. So our presence would not be leaked to the Germans, we took into custody everyone who saw us. By nightfall we had sixty boats and 120 fishermen under guard. That night I rowed out to meet the St. John. The plan was for me to flash an "O" when I saw her, and they would reply with an "M". We had to be pretty careful, for German "E boats" patrolled the areas; moreover there were coastal batteries and searchlights on the hills; and a division and a half of German and Bulgarian troops were stationed at Alexandroupolis, a few miles from our pinpoint. At eleven-thirty I spotted the schooner. She kept moving around slowly, and I was not sure of her identity, having never seen her before. Finally after half an hour, I decided to chance it and flashed by recognition signal. It was returned immediately."14
Quickly, Kellis gave the go-ahead for unloading, and his armada of requisitioned lighters sallied from the swamp. In less than an hour, the entire EVROS team was ashore with Thompsons, grenades, and enough explosives to do the job for which they had been sent. At that moment, several important Greek bridges were doomed.
The EVROS team had been launched into action in accordance not only with Kellis' ideas, but upon formal request of the JCS. German steel production was a concern to the strategic planners and a key ingredient in the process was chrome ore. Much of this came from neutral Turkey. OSS was directed to cut that supply.15 The Research and Analysis branch in Washington had information that most of the ore was carried into Nazi controlled territory by two rail lines. Both of these wound through the eastern mountains of Bulgaria and Greece, crossing several major gorges atop modern bridges. Dropping these would at least partially solve the problem.
Kellis had hoped to blow the huge "International Bridge" which connected Greece and Turkey at the Evros River border. "This was a huge structure and although a difficult operation its destruction would have stopped literally all rail traffic into Greece. The State Department vetoed this plan for fear of Turkish reaction . . .16 Instead, the two spans picked by R&A were targeted.
The first of these was the Alexandroupolis Bridge in Greece, the second Svilengrad Bridge in Bulgaria. Kellis took Svilengrad, along (210 foot) low affair which would require over a thousand pounds of plastic explosive. Curtis drew Alexandroupolis, tottering on fifty foot piers in the center of a deep ravine. This one would need only about 550 pounds of demolitions,since its height would magnify any damage and make repair much more complicated.
There were more than 300 Greek guerillas involved in training for the mission. Of these, 30 were specially selected members of the elite "Black Squad." Only they were told of the exact targets.
Their supplies supplemented by clandestine parachute drops, the team practiced for several weeks before Kellis decided the time was right. On 27 May 1944, both sabotage units moved into positions near their respective targets. Meanwhile, a third unit was sent in the opposite direction and directed to launch diversionary attacks to mask the true purpose of the burgeoning resistance battalion.17
Curtis' group of 50 men (including 15 Black Squad experts) soon determined that their bridge was guarded by a screen of German patrols with thirty Greek policemen actually stationed on both ends of the span. After a hair-=raising near ambush by one German reconnaissance party, all of the raiders managed to slip inside the roving cordon. Below them was the target, codenamed JOLIET. Curtis started down.
Packing a Thompson, two .45s, and an assortment of charges and detonators, Curtis walked straight up to the nearest policeman, shoved his submachine gun into the man's stomach and calmly announced in fractured Greek, "I'm going to blow this bridge and I'll do the same to you if necessary." The Greek and some of his contingent decided instead of resisting to help. The less willing were tied to trees and work proceeded.18
Suddenly, rifle shot began ricocheting off the steel girders. A German patrol had arrived. While the Greek guerilla security element fought a short but savage engagement with the intruders, Curtis hurried witt the charges. When everything was set, he cut the time delay from nine minutes to three and pushed the plunger. Then the greatest middle distance sprint in Greek history got underway.
"The Gunny had done his work well. An explosion shook the wooded hills, and the huge bridge went skyward as one unit, lifting and twisting high in the air. The flame of the exploding charges was visible 20 miles away, and a shower of debris rained down for several minutes after it was over. Hemingway would have gnawed his beard with envy."19
After several brushes with Germans and Bulgarian rushing to the respective scenes of carnage, both attack groups made it safely back to their operating base. Word of the mission's complete success was flashed to Cairo and the goat-skin wine bladders were passed around. It took several months before either bridge could be put back into even a shadow of its former capacity.20
Six weeks later, the EVROS mission was withdrawn from Greece by caique, returning to Egypt through Turkey. Kellis received the Legion of Merit and Curtis the Bronze Star. Both men would later serve with OSS-trained guerillas in China, and both would win the Silver Star there. For his performance in Greece, Gunnery Sergeant Curtis was meritoriously promoted to Warrant Officer.21
Captain Else and Gunny Curtis provide an interesting duet in the libretto of Marines with OSS. One a scholarly organizer, observer, and analyst; the other a burly operator. Curtis retired as a Captain in the early 1960s. Else returned to academia and became Director of theCenter for Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies at the University of Michigan. He never did fully master modern Greek.
*About the Đurđevića Tara Bridge:
Much of Montenegro, including the Tara Canyon, came under Italian occupation following the German-led invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. As the mountainous terrain made it suitable for guerrilla warfare, a partisan uprising occurred in the area. Italian forces took control of the Tara Bridge during an Italian offensive in 1942.
A Yugoslav Partisan raiding party blew up the central arch with the aid of one of the bridge engineers, Lazar Jauković. The attack cut the only feasible crossing over the Tara Canyon halting the Italian advance. When Jauković was eventually captured, however, the Italians executed the engineer.
It was rebuilt in 1946.
This adventure is also featured in Sabotage and Subversion: The SOE and OSS at War
by Ian Dear:
The OSS was unusual. But they blew things up!
Posted by Mark Tempest at 6/20/2019 07:30:00 AM
Labels: Military History, OSS, USMC, WWII
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Bank of Khyber transforms to Temenos Core and Digital Banking Platform
African Press Organization
Bank of Khyber (“BoK”) (http://BoK.com.pk) which is a leading bank in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, with 175 branches, successfully went live with Temenos Transact (www.Temenos.com) the next generation core banking, Temenos Infinity digital banking platform, Financial Crime Mitigation and Analytics. The implementation was carried out by Temenos’ Middle East implementation partner based in Pakistan, National Data Consultant (“NdcTech”) (https://www.NdcTech.net).
Temenos’ technology will support the bank in offering differentiated retail, SME and corporate banking products, including accounts, time deposits and loans for both Islamic and conventional banking. Temenos’ agile and fully integrated architecture enables Bank of Khyber to quickly roll out new functionality and services. NdcTech’s expertise in the Pakistan market helped to comply with local requirements and best practices. Temenos’ digital banking platform supports Bank of Khyber’s strategic objectives to increase its market share and drive sustainable growth by optimizing its banking operations and reducing operational costs. Temenos open API technology will help Bank of Khyber to provide digital experiences to its customers.
Bank of Khyber selected Temenos and NdcTech as its partners for its strategic initiatives to accelerate its digital transformation process. Temenos’ and NdcTech expertise in Pakistan Model Bank approach delivers pre-configured, localized functionality and best practices, reducing the need for customization and decreasing timescales for delivery.
Temenos partner NdcTech worked closely with Bank of Khyber to deliver a hybrid onsite/remote implementation, providing expert support and consultation to ensure a smooth implementation and successful go live for the bank despite the Covid-19 emergency. The implementation of Temenos core and digital platforms involved the integration of Bank of Khyber’s legacy systems and was concluded timely after a complex migration and thousands of functional tests had been carried out on the new system. The bank opted for a co-existence approach and migrated first 20 branches as part of the go live and will complete the migration for rest of the branches by the first half of the upcoming year.
Mr. Ihsan Ullah Ihsan, Managing Director, The Bank of Khyber remarked on the occasion, “We are delighted to have joined hands with Temenos / NDCTech for Digitalization of bank of Khyber. Temenos has a global reputation for providing robust, innovative financial software solutions and has an extensive presence in all over the world. This implementation will provide the leap forward we need to enhance our market share and deliver better services and products for our customers in the 21st century. Our partner NDCTech who also helped us to tailor the product to the specific requirements of our bank. The roll-out had been so well prepared beforehand that we were able to execute it entirely without any major incidents. I would also thank and appreciate my colleagues, staff and especially IT team for their dedication for working around the clock to complete the implementation with professionalism and excellence".
Mr. Azfar Latif CIO of Bank of Khyber added “We are proud that in less than 15 months with Global pandemic restrictions, Bank went live. We have demonstrated that commitment with reliable technology partner like NDCTech can overcome any challenge that comes along the way be it like COVID-19. We could not have achieved a go-live without the commitment and professionalism of Bank Management team and Technical Resources. Everyone knows that a core banking upgrade is always challenge especially in distributed environment, but we were confident of ourselves and NDCTech who carried it out seamlessly.”
While highlighting the business objectives of the deployment, Ammara Masood, President and CEO, National Data Consultant (NdcTech) said, “We are proud to work together with bank of Khyber. BOK is a very successful public/private partnership and through innovation will now be able to deliver hyper-personalized experiences to its customers. The team and management of the bank understands the power of technology, and the importance of leveraging the best practices and latest technological advances. We are delighted to be there partner in this strategic digital transformation and will continue to help the bank achieves greater strides.”
Jean-Paul Mergeai, Managing Director – Middle-East & Africa, Temenos, commented: “Congratulations to Bank of Khyber for its Temenos go live with NdcTech. Temenos has a strong presence in the Middle East and a track record of success in delivering digital banking transformation for banks in the region. We are delighted BOK has selected our platform and proud to support them as the bank seeks to leverage Temenos’ open and API-first technology to deliver world-class digital experiences for its customers and achieve market-leading cost-income ratio to drive sustainable growth and market-share.”
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Temenos.
About NdcTech: NdcTech (https://www.NdcTech.net/) is an award-winning partner of Temenos (the worlds #1 Banking Software) providing unmatched services and innovations to financial institutes and banks. The company delivers transformational services including Consulting on best practices, Implementation, Upgrade, Support and Training of Temenos and other Partner solutions. NdcTech collaborates with customers in Pakistan & MEA to enhance their digital capabilities and solves their toughest challenges by driving innovations to create new products and business models. Their expertise and experience is in the areas of Conventional Banking, Islamic Banking, Central Banking, Microfinance Banking, Investment Banking and Non-Banking Financial Institutes. For more information please visit www.NdcTech.net
About Temenos: Temenos AG (SIX: TEMN) (www.Temenos.com) is the world’s leader in banking software. Over 3,000 banks across the globe, including 41 of the top 50 banks, rely on Temenos to process both the daily transactions and client interactions of more than 1.2 billion banking customers. Temenos offers cloud-native, cloud-agnostic and AI-driven front office, core banking, payments and fund administration software enabling banks to deliver frictionless, omnichannel customer experiences and gain operational excellence.
Temenos software is proven to enable its top-performing clients to achieve cost-income ratios of 26.8% half the industry average and returns on equity of 29%, three times the industry average. These clients also invest 51% of their IT budget on growth and innovation versus maintenance, which is double the industry average, proving the banks’ IT investment is adding tangible value to their business.
About Bank of Khyber: The Bank of Khyber (http://BoK.com.pk) was established in 1991 through an Act passed by the Provincial Legislative Assembly. It was awarded status of a scheduled bank in September 1994. The Bank enjoys a unique position and stands out amidst other banks operating within Pakistan and has the privilege of being bracketed amongst the only four government banks in the country. The bank has long been associated with business and commercial circles and has been actively engaged in catering to the financial needs of all sectors. It has successfully been involved in extending funded and non-funded facilities to its customers for various business needs.
Today, BOK is operating across the country with a network of 169 branches and still expanding. The provincial government is the major stakeholder and during its 25 years history, the Bank has always played a vital role in the development of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and participated in the economic development of Pakistan in general http://BoK.com.pk.
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2021-01-13 12:33:20.547 $1 Million Mega Millions Ticket Sold in Alexandria
A Mega Millions ticket sold at Ayerco, 36430 Highway 61 in Alexandria, matched all five white-ball numbers drawn last night to win a $1 million prize. The winning number combination was 12, 14, 26, 28 and 33. The Mega Ball number last night was 9.
In addition to the $1 million win, three other Missouri Lottery players matched four of the five white-ball numbers, plus the Mega Ball number drawn, to win $10,000. Those tickets were sold at: 7-Eleven, 13515 Big Bend Road in St. Louis; Go Zone Station, 5725 Highway 43 in Joplin; and Circle K, 1525 Caulks Hills Road in St. Charles.
“It’s been fun watching our jackpots grow, and we’re happy that players in Missouri are among the big winners so far,” said May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery. Tuesday’s $1 million win marks the 17th time a Missouri Lottery player has won a Mega Millions “Match 5” prize since sales began in the state in 2010.
Draw Games winners have 180 days from the date of the drawing to claim their prize. In this case, they have until July 11. Prizes can be claimed – by appointment only – at any of the Lottery’s four offices, which are located in St. Louis, Jefferson City, Kansas City or Springfield.
The estimated jackpot for Friday night’s Mega Millions drawing is $750 million – the second-highest ever offered in the game. The cash value is estimated at $550.6 million.
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Selena Gomez's Kidney Transplant Was "Needed" For Her Health
By Kelli Boyle
In a moving Instagram post this morning, Sept. 14, Selena Gomez revealed she had a kidney transplant as part of her treatment for lupus. Gomez first announced she had lupus in October 2015. The announcement came with the news that she had undergone chemotherapy in order to treat the illness. She also had to cancel some tour dates back in 2013 in order to deal with symptoms. The post says,
I'm very aware some of my fans had noticed I was laying low for part of the summer and questioning why I wasn't promoting my new music, which I was extremely proud of. So I found out I needed to get a kidney transplant due to my Lupus and was recovering. It was what I needed to do for my overall health. I honestly look forward to sharing with you, soon my journey through these past several months as I have always wanted to do with you. Until then I want to publicly thank my family and incredible team of doctors for everything they have done for me prior to and post-surgery. And finally, there aren't words to describe how I can possibly thank my beautiful friend Francia Raisa. She gave me the ultimate gift and sacrifice by donating her kidney to me. I am incredibly blessed. I love you so much sis. Lupus continues to be very misunderstood but progress is being made. For more information regarding Lupus please go to the Lupus Research Alliance website: www.lupusresearch.org/ -by grace through faith
Ever since she made her struggle with lupus public, Gomez has been an advocate of spreading awareness about the disease. According to LupusReasearch.org, lupus is,
One of many disorders of the immune system known as autoimmune diseases. In autoimmune diseases, the immune system turns against parts of the body it is designed to protect. This leads to inflammation and damage to various body tissues. Lupus can affect many parts of the body, including the joints, skin, kidneys, heart, lungs, blood vessels, and brain. Although people with the disease may have many different symptoms, some of the most common ones include extreme fatigue, painful or swollen joints (arthritis), unexplained fever, skin rashes, and kidney problems.
Gomez spent some time in rehab in 2014 following her diagnosis, as her mental health was severely affected by the illness. Her mother also suffered a miscarriage around the same time, so she said she needed some time "to be OK." Gomez also took a break from work in 2016 to focus on her health. She said in a statement to CNN, "I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges. I want to be proactive and focus on maintaining my health and happiness and have decided that the best way forward is to take some time off."
If the woman in Gomez's post about the transplant looks familiar, that's because you've probably seen her on TV before. Francia Raisa is one of Gomez's closest friends who is most well known for her role of Adrian on The Secret Life of the American Teenager. The 29-year-old has appeared in other movies/shows since Secret Life ended and was just cast as a series regular for the black-ish spinoff, grown-ish, set to air on Freeform. Gomez showed her a lot of love and gratitude in her post from this morning, saying she gave her "the ultimate gift and sacrifice."
Gomez's post also includes a personal photo of the scar from her surgery and another photo of her during her recovery process. She says she's excited to share her journey this past summer with her fans and encourages people to learn more about lupus by visiting LupusResearch.org. According to the National Resource Center on Lupus, 1.5 million Americans are currently living with lupus and as many as 5 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with the illness, so it's a brave thing Gomez is doing by allowing herself to be vulnerable with the world about her disease in order to raise awareness.
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New device 'thousands of times' more powerful than a tree in capturing CO2
2 November 2011, source edie newsroom
A pioneering new device which has the ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the air more effectively than a tree has been unveiled.
As part of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' Air Capture Week, which took place last week (October 26) at its headquarters in London, the CO2 absorbing device was showcased in the UK for the first time during a live demonstration.
The technology, which could be rolled-out as early as 2018, works by absorbing CO2 from the air - and has been proven to be thousands of times more powerful than a tree. Once captured, it is anticipated that the CO2 could then be used in industrial processes, or be safely stored underground. It is hoped that the device could be used as a key tool to help combat climate change.
According to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers head of environment, Dr Tim Fox, large amounts of funding isn't necessary to bring the device to market, rather he says a "strategic direction" of where the technology could fit in with the Government's strategy for dealing with climate change is need.
During the event, industry representatives, government and academics met to discuss the market potential for the technology, which the Institution says that unlike other climate change mitigating technologies, such as carbon capture and storage can be rolled out relatively cheaply and at a small-scale.
Dr Fox said: "Apart from being a vital technology for dealing with difficult to manage emissions like those from aviation and shipping, this technology could also be a vital tool for setting a definitive price for CO2.
"Air capture technology can handle any type of CO2 emission from all sources, so would set an upper limit for a CO2 price. This could help provide more investor certainty for companies wanting to invest in big projects like building new power stations, wind farms or factories."
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McShane, Ian 1942-
Born September 29, 1942, in Blackburn, Lancashire, England; son of Harry (a professional soccer player) and Irene (maiden name, Cowley) McShane; married Suzan Farmer (an actress), 1965 (divorced, 1968); married Ruth Post (marriage ended, 1976); married Gwendolyn Marie Humble (an actress), August 30, 1980; children: (second marriage) Kate, Morgan. Education: Trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Agent—Lisa Gallant, International Creative Management, 10250 Constellation Way, 9th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067.
Actor, producer, and director. McShane Productions, founder, 1980s; performed voice work for commercials.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Screen Actors Guild, Directors Guild.
Gotham Award nomination (with others), best ensemble cast, Independent Features Project, 2005, for Nine Lives; Television Critics Association award, individual achievement in drama, 2004, Golden Globe Award, best actor in a television drama series, Golden Satellite Award nomination, outstanding actor in a series—drama, International Press Academy, Emmy Award nomination, best lead actor in a drama series, and Television Critics Association Award nomination, individual achievement in drama, all 2005, Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, outstanding actor in a drama series, 2006, and outstanding ensemble in a drama series (with others), 2007, all for Deadwood.
Television Appearances; Series:
Joe Lunn, You Can't Win, BBC, 1966.
Niko Theophilus, Bare Essence, 1983.
Title role, Lovejoy (also known as Lovejoy Mysteries), BBC, 1986-94, then Arts and Entertainment, beginning 1991.
John Madson, Madson, 1996.
Al Swearengen, Deadwood, HBO, 2004-2006.
Television Appearances; Miniseries:
Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights, BBC, 1967.
Sir Eric Russell, Roots, 1977.
Judas Iscariot, Jesus of Nazareth (also known as Gesu di Nazareth), 1977.
Christopher Marlowe, Life of Shakespeare (also known as William Shakespeare: His Life & Times and Will Shakespeare), 1978.
Rashid, The Pirate (also known as Harold Robbins' "The Pirate"), 1978.
Benjamin Disraeli, "Disraeli" (also known as "Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic"), Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1979.
Ali Ben Yussouf, Marco Polo, 1982.
Sejanus, A.D. (also known as A.D.—Anno Domini), 1985.
Paul Lerner, Evergreen, 1985.
Roger Bushell, The Great Escape II: The Untold Story, NBC, 1988.
Philip Rule, War and Remembrance, ABC, 1989.
Television Appearances; Movies:
"Thank You and Goodnight," Armchair Theatre, BBC, 1962.
Geoffrey, "The Signal Box of Grandpa Hudson," Armchair Theatre, BBC, 1966.
Saunders, The Lives of Jenny Dolan, 1975.
Sean Donavan, Father Horton, and Colonel Butler, Code Name: Diamond Head, 1977.
Peter Curtis, "High Tide," Armchair Thriller, BBC, 1980.
Geoff Hammond, The Letter, 1982.
Prince Rainier of Monaco, Grace Kelly (also known as The Grace Kelly Story), 1983.
Alan Roswell, Braker, 1985.
Prefect of police, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1986.
Flanagan, Grand Larceny, syndicated, 1987.
David Cleveland, Dick Francis: Twice Shy (also known as Twice Shy), syndicated, 1989.
David Cleveland, Dick Francis: In the Frame (also known as In the Frame), syndicated, 1989.
David Cleveland, Dick Francis: Blood Sport (also known as Blood Sport), CBS, 1989.
Andre Marchand, Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception, NBC, 1990.
Leland St. John, Columbo: Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo (also known as Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo), ABC, 1990.
Dr. Robert Bryson, Babylon 5: The River of Souls (also known as The River of Souls and River of Souls: A Babylon 5 Adventure), TNT, 1998.
Marty Mann, Man and Boy, 2002.
Television Appearances; Specials:
Mick, "The Caretaker," ITV Play of the Week (also known as Play of the Week), ITV, 1966.
Frank, "The Private Tutor," The Wednesday Play, BBC, 1966.
Caulfield, "Funeral Games," ITV Playhouse, ITV, 1968.
Tom, "A Sound from the Sea," ITV Playhouse, ITV, 1970.
Willy Wax, Rocket to the Moon, 1986.
Marbury, "Barrington," CBS Summer Playhouse, CBS, 1987.
Charles Chaplin, Sr., "Young Charlie Chaplin" (also known as "Charlie Chaplin"), Wonderworks, PBS, 1989.
Messenger, Chain Letter, ABC, 1989.
Backstage at Masterpiece Theatre: A 20th Anniversary Special, PBS, 1991.
Narrator, Monty Roberts: A Real Horse Whisperer, PBS, 1998.
Narrator, Jack and Bill, ITV, 2001.
Narrator, Terror in Moscow, Channel 4, 2003.
Making "Deadwood:" The Show Behind the Show, HBO, 2004.
Making "Deadwood:" Season Two, HBO, 2005.
Himself, Forty Years of Fuck, 2005.
Cast presenter, AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Sean Connery, USA Network, 2006.
Television Appearances; Episodic:
Sapper Russell, "Epitaph for a Sweet," Redcap, BBC, 1964.
David Garrick, "The Wicked Stage," Rogues' Gallery, 1969.
Dan Markson, "The Chasers," Police Woman, 1975.
Anton Zoref, "Force of Life," Space: 1999, 1975.
Paul, "Now I Lay Me Down to Die," Matt Helm, 1975.
"The Slaver," Most Wanted, 1976.
Sir James Camden, "Vortex," The Fantastic Journey, 1977.
David Norman, "Skin Deep," Magnum, P.I., 1981.
Edwin Clutterbuck, "Black on White," Magnum, P.I., 1982.
Esteban Montoya, "Knock, Knock, Who's There?," Miami Vice, 1987.
General Manuel Borbon, "Freefall," Miami Vice, 1989.
Don Lockwood, "Wedding Bell Blues," Dallas, 1989.
Don Lockwood, "The Serpent's Tooth," Dallas, 1989.
Don Lockwood, "Three Hundred," Dallas, 1989.
Don Lockwood, "And Away We Go!," Dallas, 1989.
Jack Last, "The Last Video Show," Minder, ITV, 1989.
Himself, Pebble Mill at One (also known as Pebble Mill), BBC1, 1995.
Leland Banks, "Things Change, The Naked Truth (also known as Wilde Again), NBC, 1997.
Leland Banks, "Bridesface Revisited," The Naked Truth (also known as Wilde Again), NBC, 1997.
Narrator, "Bette Davis," The Hollywood Greats, BBC1, 1999.
Narrator, Wild and Dangerous, Animal Planet, 2000.
Jack, "Jack's Back," Thieves, ABC, 2001.
Jamie Lamb, "Untouched: Parts 1 & 2," In Deep, BBC, 2001.
Nikolai Ivanovich, "Enemies Foreign and Domestic," The West Wing, NBC, 2002.
Alan Cooper-Fozzard, Trust, BBC, three episodes, 2003.
Chandler, "Cold Fusion," The Twilight Zone, UPN, 2003.
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Bravo, 2006.
Television Guest Appearances; Episodic:
Aspel & Company, ITV, 1993.
Richard & Judy, Channel 4, 2004.
GMTV, ITV, 2004.
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC, 2005.
Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO, 2005.
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, BBC, 2005.
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS, 2006.
Television Appearances; Awards Presentations:
The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, NBC, 2005.
The WIN Awards, PAX, 2005.
Presenter, The 63rd Annual Golden Globe awards, NBC, 2005.
Presenter, The 2005 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, E! Entertainment Television, 2006.
Television Appearances; Other:
First Night: Funny Noises with Their Mouths, 1963.
Ken Harrison, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, BBC, 1972.
Ian Deegan, White Goods, 1994.
Otis Cooke, Soul Survivors, 1995.
Dream Team (pilot; also known as D.R.E.A.M. Team), syndicated, 1999.
Television Work; Series:
Executive producer, Madson, 1996.
Television Director; Episodic:
"Eric of Arabia," Lovejoy (also known as Lovejoy Mysteries), BBC, 1992.
"The Colour of Mary," Lovejoy (also known as Lovejoy Mysteries), BBC, 1993.
"A Going Concern," Lovejoy (also known as Lovejoy Mysteries), BBC, 1993.
"The Last of the Uzkoks," Lovejoy (also known as Lovejoy Mysteries), BBC, 1994.
Film Appearances:
Harry, The Wild and the Willing (also known as Young and Willing), Universal, 1962.
Keith Dexter, The Pleasure Girls (also known as Die goldpuppen), 1965.
"Gypsie" Roibin, Gypsy Girl (also known as Sky West and Crooked), 1966.
Charlie Cartwright, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, United Artists, 1969.
Sergeant Pilot Andy, Battle of Britain, United Artists, 1969.
Fred C. Dobbs, Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You, 1970.
Wolfe Lissner, Villain, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1971.
Mitch, Freelance, 1971.
Left Hand of Gemini, 1972.
Birdy Williams, Sitting Target, 1972.
Tom Lynn, Tam Lin (also known as The Ballad of Tam-Lin, The Devil's Widow, and The Devil's Woman), 1972.
Anthony, The Last of Sheila, Warner Bros., 1973.
Ray Petrie, The Terrorists (also known as Ransom), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975.
Banat, Journey into Fear (also known as Burn Out), 1975.
Rod Turner, Yesterday's Hero, 1979.
The brain, The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (also known as Dirty Money and Sewers of Gold), 1979.
Fouquet, The Fifth Musketeer (also known as Behind the Iron Mask and Das geheimnis der eisernen maske), Sony Pictures Releasing, 1979.
Dr. Alfred Sunshine, Cheaper to Keep Her, American Cinema Releasing, 1980.
Greg Miller, Exposed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983.
Sidney, Torchlight, 1984.
Philip Durant, Ordeal by Innocence, 1984.
Vincent Hardwick, Too Scared to Scream (also known as The Doorman), The Movie Store, 1985.
Beliayev, A Month in the Country, 1985.
Con Man, 1992.
Teddy Bass, Sexy Beast, Fox Searchlight, 2000.
Frank, Bollywood Queen, Redbus Film Distribution, 2002.
Brinkman, Agent Cody Banks (also known as L'Agent Cody Banks), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2003.
Jeff Novak, Nemesis Game, Lions Gate Films, 2003.
Larry, Nine Lives, Magnolia Pictures, 2005.
Joe Strombel, Scoop, Focus Features, 2006.
Paul Griffen, We Are Marshall, Warner Bros., 2006.
Voice of Captain Hook, Shrek the Third (animated; also known as Shrek 3 and The Third), Paramount, 2007.
Frank Powell, Hot Rod, Paramount, 2007.
Detective Mike Barron, Case 39, Paramount, 2007.
Ragnar Sturlusson, His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (also known as His Dark Materials: Northern Lights), New Line Cinema, 2007.
Stage Appearances:
(Stage debut) Charley, Infanticide in the House of Fred August, Arts Theatre, London, 1962.
Johnnie Leigh, How Are You, Johnnie?, Vaudeville Theatre, London, 1963.
Ralph, The Easter Man, Globe Theatre, London, 1964.
Tom, The Glass Menagerie, Haymarket Theatre, London, 1965.
Marat, The Promise, Playhouse, Oxford, England, then Fortune Theatre, London, later (New York debut) Henry Miller's Theatre, all 1967.
John Sutcliffe, Ellen, Hampstead Theatre, London, 1971.
Jacques, As You Like It, Long Beach Theatre Festival, Long Beach, CA, 1979.
Charlie Castle, The Big Knife, Watford Palace Theatre, Watford, England, 1982.
Robert, Betrayal, Actors for Themselves Theatre, CA, 1983.
Bill Maitland, Inadmissible Evidence, Actors for Themselves Theatre, 1984, then Matrix Theatre, Los Angeles, 1985.
The Admirable Crichton, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester, England, 1997.
Paul, Yield of the Long Bond, Matrix Theatre, 1998.
Daryl Van Horne, The Witches of Eastwick (musical), Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, 2000-2001.
Major Tours:
Hal, Loot, British cities, 1965.
Sir John Mills' "Moving Memories," 2000.
War & Remembrance: Behind the Scenes, MPI Home Video, 2004.
Contributor to the original cast recording of The Witches of Eastwick.
Periodicals:
Radio Times, September 25, 2004, pp. 26-28.
Times (London), July 21, 2000, p. S8.
TV Guide, March 27, 2005, pp. 42-43.
Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
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Anubhuti Sharma
Vidula Sonagra
Dhrupad Sansthan
Ramakant Gundecha
Akhilesh Gundecha
Sexual harassment Music community
Guru–shishya parampara
Reflections on the Guru–Shishya Parampara
Beyond a Culture of Debt
At the root of sexual harassment in the arts is an unquestioning culture of subservience.
On 2 September 2020, a student of Dhrupad Sansthan, Bhopal, accused Dhrupad musicians (late) Ramakant Gundecha and Akhilesh Gundecha of sexual harassment in a Facebook post. The post received an array of responses from the music community comprising classical musicians, patrons, listeners and students of music. While some expressed shock at these testimonies, others jumped to reprimand the woman (who had put up the post on behalf of her friends) for maligning the pristine image of their revered gurus. Many resorted to victim blaming by questioning the timing of the testimony. Some doting shishyas even tried to adjudicate the case in favour of their gurus through a social media trial in the comments section! What was consistent among these varied responses was the conspicuous lack of any semblance of unconditional solidarity with the survivors and of a clear condemnation of the Gundecha Brothers. Over the past month, as more testimonies have come out against all three brothers, including Umakant Gundecha, the music community has been pushed to think through what is being called a “crisis” in the world of Indian classical music.
One hears laments about the guru–shishya parampara losing its sacred essence, and that the “sanctity” of this relationship has been tarnished by the emergence of these testimonies and that students will “lose confidence in the guru” and stop respecting their “master.” Even the few who have extended solidarity and support for the survivors stress the importance of this tradition and the need to preserve it. However, we believe that this lament feeds into the conservative attitude of the responses mentioned above and serves to defend the acts of the Gundecha Brothers in the name of conserving the parampara. It is then essential for us, as students of music, to critically probe this relationship between “master” and the disciple through a close reading of the Indian music practice.
Read more about Beyond a Culture of Debt
Updated On : 10th Nov, 2020
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Instagram Tests New Content Carousel to Stories
Zia Muhammad
apps, Instagram, news, Social-Media, Technology
Stories format is without a shadow of a doubt the most important feature that Instagram has right now and a big part of the reason why that is the case has to do with the fact that Instagram is trying to hold onto its younger demographics many of whom are turning to TikTok or going back to Snapchat. With all of that having been said and out of the way, it is important to note that Instagram has added several new features to Stories over the years all of which have come together to vastly improve the kind of experience the average user has with this feature.
The latest update that has come in will change the way you scroll through content. Stories is quickly becoming a vehicle by which content creators and news publishers are able to get information and content across in a manner that would make it so that users can more easily digest them and get regular updates. Now you will have a sort of carousel of content creators or news agencies and you can scroll through this carousel sideways to pick whose Instagram Stories you want to see.
This is important for a number of reasons. Firstly, it indicates a shift in Instagram’s approach since this is essentially a recommendation system that a lot of content creators can use to make it so that their stories are seen by a larger number of people. It can also help change the practices of various news agencies so that they can make it so that they can end up informing people of what is going on in a much better way. The users are the ones that are going to benefit from this the most of course, as they will now have easier access to a much wider range of content than might have been the case otherwise.
#Instagram is working on a new way to choose which stories to watch 👀 pic.twitter.com/DvCIbwRsn9
— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) July 27, 2020
Featured Photo: Esra Hacioglu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Read next: New Data Reveals Users Spend More Time on TikTok Than on Instagram
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Romania ‘gave illegal permits’ to own energy firm
25. October 2018. /
The Oltenia Energy Complex took over people’s land, mined lignite and increased coal production despite state climate action pledges.
Bankwatch has proven in court that Romanian government permits issued to Oltenia Energy Complex – a state-owned company – are illegal.
The OEC has often found itself in situations where its actions were inconsistent with environment legislation – going back to its establishment in 2012 through the merger of decade-old power plants and coal mines.
Romania joined the global effort to limit global warming below two degrees Celsius by committing to a transition to a low emission economy. But OEC still decided to expand its lignite mines and increase coal production.
The mines neighbour villages, agricultural lands and forests. When the company’s expansion plans stalled as owners refused to sell land, or complex permits were required to develop further, state institutions removed the obstacles that had blocked these processes.
In the village of Runcurel, where the government decreed the Jilț Nord mine expansion a project of ‘public utility,’ direct negotiations with land owners were eliminated, and the state became the owner of the land overnight.
More than one hundred households will be expropriated for the expansion of Jilț Nord mine, and similar decisions were issued for the nearby Jilț Sud and Roșia mines.
The Government Decisions against property rights were just the beginning. The expansion required the removal of hundreds of hectares of forest, some neighbouring Natura 2000 sites, a network of protected areas created for the long-term protection of wild plant and wildlife species and the habitats in which they are located.
According to the Forestry Law, deforestation of areas measuring less than a hectare require just a decision of the Territorial Inspectorate of Forest and Hunting, but for areas of more than ten hectares, a Government Decision is needed.
OEC interpreted the provisions of the law in their favour, slicing the land needed for the expansion of the lignite mines into plots of less than one hectare to avoid environmental and social impact studies and the issuance of a Government Decision.
Continuing the fight
The slow evolution of the lawsuits allowed some areas to be deforested before the trials were finished, as the decisions were not suspended. This was the case for the Roșia mine.
OEC issued a statement to explain that “those areas were deforested in compliance with the TIFH decisions” and that the final sentence of the court “has no effect on the continuation of OEC’s activity”.
To avoid repeating such situations in the future, Bankwatch requested that the Ministry for Environment send the Control Unit to verify the Forest Guard’s activity.
After almost two years of delays, the Control Unit performed a thorough analysis at Râmnicu Vâlcea’s Forest Guard in spring this year. The control revealed irregularities in the definitive removal of land from the Romanian Forestry Fund in order to extend OEC’s mining exploitations. For this reason, the inspection report was sent to the competent criminal investigation bodies.
Finally, there is hope that someone will be held accountable for the illegal permits that led to the destruction of hundreds of hectares of forest. Six years after the local authorities that are meant to protect the environment did the opposite, a criminal investigation began.
This law was changed in the meantime, however, enabling large-scale deforestation for projects of ‘public interest’ by removing the mandatory Government Decisions. The fight goes on.
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Not When, but Where
For most of human history, emergencies have taken us by surprise, whether acts of God or human-caused events, and emergency response has generally been reactive. You maintain your equipment, you stay alert and train, and you spring into action when something happens.
But what if emergency response can be not about playing catch-up but about building intelligent immune systems—regional, national, and local—that interconnect our society? What if we can worry less about "when" because we're able to pinpoint "where"?
As a matter of fact, a profound change is taking place in how local municipalities, state and federal agencies, and other organizations prepare for and respond to emergencies. Thanks to web-based location intelligence and a rising geospatial consciousness integrated into intelligent digital maps, we can analyze the complex interconnections among the natural and human-made systems within a particular location.
We can respond with both the speed and precision required to know exactly where to start the backfires to contain a wildfire, exactly which blocks to evacuate before a hurricane, exactly which areas to quarantine in a pandemic. We can not only intervene early to reduce cascading challenges, but we can also use maps that tap people's inherent geographic thinking to mobilize them as active participants in preparedness initiatives when action is critical or to aid in recovery within the community.
Today, we are seeing the power of "where," of a new understanding of place.
Wildfires: The United States Forest Service's model provides information about the distribution and types of trees, bushes, and other ground cover; data on rainfall, snowfall, sunshine, and temperature; how much moisture the vegetation holds; and construction materials used in an area. It even includes the diameters of tree trunks and the sites of clogged culverts (which alter patterns of water flow). Users can predict when and where a wildfire is likely to produce terrifying phenomena such as "fire whirls," which can snap and hurl trees; pairs of counterrotating "horizontal roll" fire vortices that form in midair but can make ground fall; and "flame fingers" that have reached firefighters even 100 meters from a fire's edge.
Hurricanes: When Hurricane Florence approached the Carolinas in mid-September 2018, city officials in New Bern, North Carolina, used data from Esri's ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World along with information on street closures and shelters to create online public maps that showed these critical features, as well as the local stream gauges, wind velocity, and even power outages in real time. This proved indispensable when the nature of the storm changed several times. "It turned out to be a flood event," said Charlie Kaufman of the South Carolina Emergency Management Division. Regional authorities could tell from their location intelligence-infused maps not only that they would need to evacuate 170,000 residents but that 22,000 households did not have a vehicle and would need to be provided with transportation.
Tornadoes: Given the volatility of tornadoes, the focus is on immediate lifesaving response, like search and rescue, and on speeding up recovery. Delivery of recovery funding has become dramatically faster due to location intelligence systems and a national building footprint and parcel dataset, which allow for quicker calculations of damage to homes and structures. What used to take the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) five or six days, it now does in less than 24 hours.
These same technologies, skills, and systems have been applied to transform emergency response ranging from refugee crises to combat zones to the clearing of landmines to 911 calls to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) monitoring food and drug safety. Recent events related to the novel coronavirus pandemic have highlighted the value of location intelligence at the intersection of disaster response and public health—a new field termed Public Health Emergency Management. From mapping cases through modeling the spread of the disease and allocating resources, the element of place is critical throughout.
Perhaps nothing so clearly illustrates the profound transformation made possible by geospatial awareness and a new sense of place as its impact on what is arguably the world's best-known disaster responder. The Red Cross's digital system, RC View, provides situational awareness, a common operational picture, and real-time data, enabling it to project the course of a specific event into the near future and optimize the decisions and actions of its 80,000 staff and volunteers, as well as an extended network of government agencies and community partners. "It's no exaggeration to say that RC View has transformed the Red Cross," says Harvey Johnson, senior vice president for Disaster Cycle Services. "It has enabled us to map the geography of disaster."
By Ryan Lanclos, director of Public Safety and Disaster Response for Esri.
Learn more about emergency management
Learn how to use location intelligence to monitor event impacts in real time and make informed decisions when they matter most.
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Jennifer Hudson Explains The Difference Between 'Jennifer Hudson' And 'JHud'
By Sydney Scott · November 2, 2017 December 6, 2020
Jennifer Hudson is one of the hardest working singers and actresses in the business, which has earned her tons of recognition in the industry. However, the Oscar winner doesn’t let the attention go to her head.
Appearing on this week’s episode of ESSENCE’s Yes, Girl! podcast, Hudson discussed being true to herself and encouraging others to do so as well. She also broke down the difference between “Jennifer Hudson” and “J Hud.”
“It’s all me at the end of the day, I am who I am ,” she said. “I refer to Jennifer Hudson as, like, everyone from jump has always known me as Jennifer Hudson. The celebrity Jennifer Hudson. And, from that everyone comes up with their own persona or perception or whatever they think that is. That’s not the person. And, that’s not who the person is. A lot of the time people get that twisted.
“I want people to know that I’m human. J Hud is the girl, Jennifer Hudson is the celebrity.”
Hudson brings that same realness to The Voice, where she mentors aspiring singers seeking a shot at stardom. She added, “I love to see people be who they are to the fullest, that’s one of my favorite things.”
“Be your best self and don’t let anybody tell you who you are not. No one knows your potential the way you do. And, if I could leave anybody with something, that’s what I would say.”
TOPICS: Podcast
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News Briefs: First Trailer for Jason Statham's 'Wild Card'; Will Ferrell to Star in Shakespearean Comedy
December 1st 2014, 11:18 pm
Wild Card Trailer: Jason Statham stars as a Las Vegas bodyguard who likes to gamble in the first trailer for Wild Card, a remake of 1987's Heat starring Burt Reynolds using the original screenplay by William Goldman (All the President's Men). He seeks revenge for a friend, but quickly finds himself tangled up with the criminal underworld. Sofia Vergara and Stanley Tucci also star; the movie is due out on January 30. [SlashFilm]
Shakespearean Laughs: If all goes well, Will Ferrell will star in a comedy that "centers around the intense, competitive world inside a Shakespearean theater company." That's the pitch for the movie; little else is known except that the screenplay for the untitled project wll be written by David Guion and Michael Handelman (Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb). [Variety]
Kickboxer Remake: Jean-Claude Van Damme, who became one of Hollywood's go-to action stars thanks to his role as the title character in 1989's Kickboxer (above), is in final negotiations to appear in the remake. Alain Mouissi (X-Men: Days of Future Past) stars in the new version as a martial artist who travels to Thailand to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of a bad guy (Dave Bautista, Guardians of the Galaxy). Replacing Tony Jaa, Van Damme would play Master Chow, a martial arts master and teacher. [Heat Vision]
By the Gun Clip: In a new clip from By the Gun, Harvel Keitel conducts a solemn Mafia ceremony involving an ambitious criminal (Ben Barnes). That's the beginning of a exciting and extremely dangerous time for the young man, as he struggles to balance his criminal lifestyle and the needs of his family. Leighton Meester and Toby Jones also star; the movie opens this Friday, December 5. [Movies Coming Soon]
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Smitten by Green and Yellow 'Passion'
After earning marketing and economics degrees at Oklahoma State Univ., Charlie Gause wanted nothing to do with agriculture even though his father was a John Deere dealer for a time. “I grew up in the 50s when it was extremely dry. I never wanted to be involved in anything that depended on the weather,” he says.
But he became smitten with Deere’s iconic green and yellow colors and ended up working his entire career with the company, first as a territory manager until his retirement in 2002 as vice president of marketing.
After his father sold out of the Frederick, Okla., dealership, he became involved in farming, ranching and equipment auctions. “I spent my youth either around a dealership or farming,” says Gause. “I used to say, ‘If you really like dirt, grass and grease, this is the right business.’”
Gause had good reason to avoid a career weather-dependent agriculture. His father was a territory manager for Deere starting in 1926 and in 1932 became part owner of what was a John Deere company store. Then the Dust Bowl of the 1930s took much of the farmland in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska with it. “Most dealers and farmers in those areas went broke,” Gause says.
Despite his desire to put some distance between himself and farming, as he neared graduation, Deere offered him a job.
“I had several other offers with other companies, but my dad had worked for John Deere and I guess I had it in my blood. I started looking at that farm equipment business and the romance, the history, the tradition. It was kind of like walking out in a fresh-plowed field and smelling the aroma of fresh dirt. I don’t know what it is, but there’s something about green and yellow,” Gause says.
“I think our dealers felt the same way and that’s the difference in our dealers and others. It’s the passion we feel. People who have the passion attract others with that same passion. I believe that’s what made the difference, I really do. It might sound kind of goofy, but…”
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England to enter new lockdown; UK virus cases pass 1 million
by: JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press
Posted: Oct 31, 2020 / 07:02 AM CDT / Updated: Oct 31, 2020 / 03:50 PM CDT
A woman compares two pumpkins at a Pumkin market in Covent Garden in London, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. Pumpkin season has started with Halloween approaching on Saturday as trick or treating has been strongly discouraged due to the Coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a new month-long lockdown for England after being warned that without tough action a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks.
On the day the U.K. passed 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, Johnson made a sudden about-face and confirmed that stringent restrictions on business and daily life would begin Thursday and last until Dec. 2.
He said at a televised news conference that “no responsible prime minister” could ignore the grim figures.
“Unless we act, we could see deaths in this country running at several thousand a day,” said Johnson, who was hospitalized earlier this year for a serious case of COVID-19.
Under the new restrictions, bars and restaurants can only offer take-out, non-essential shops must close and people will only be able to leave home for a short list of reasons including exercise. Activities ranging from haircuts to foreign holidays must once again be put on hold.
Unlike during the U.K.’s first three-month lockdown earlier this year, schools, universities, construction sites and manufacturing businesses will stay open.
As in other European countries, virus cases in the U.K. began to climb after lockdown measures were eased in the summer and people began to return to workplaces, schools, universities and social life. The Office for National Statistics estimated Friday that 1 in 100 people in England, well over half a million, had the virus in the week to Oct. 23.
Johnson had hoped a set of regional restrictions introduced earlier in October would be enough to push numbers down. But government scientific advisers predict that on the outbreak’s current trajectory, demand for hospital beds will exceed capacity by the first week of December, even if temporary hospitals set up during the first peak of the virus are reopened.
The scientists warned COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths could soon surpass the levels seen at the outbreak’s spring peak, when daily deaths topped 1,000. The government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, said the mortality rate had “potential to be twice as bad, if not more” than it was during the pandemic’s first European wave, if nothing was done.
As European countries such as France, Germany and Belgium in imposing a second lockdown amid surging caseloads, it looked inevitable that Johnson would have to follow.
Official figures announced Saturday recorded 21,915 new cases confirmed in the last 24 hours, bringing Britain’s total since the start of the pandemic to 1,011,660. Britain’s death toll from the coronavirus is 46,555, the highest in Europe, with 326 new deaths announced Saturday.
The United States, India, Brazil, Russia, France, Spain, Argentina and Colombia have also recorded more than 1 million cases, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Scientists say the true number of cases is much higher because not everyone with the virus is tested.
Any new lockdown will need Parliament’s approval, and a vote is scheduled for Wednesday. The new restrictions would apply to England. Other parts of the U.K. set their own public health measures, with Wales and Northern Ireland already effectively in lockdown and Scotland under a set of tough regional restrictions.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Saturday that for now people in Scotland should not travel to or from England, “except for essential purposes.”
Throughout the pandemic, many British scientists and public health experts have accused Johnson of being too slow to act. London School of Hygiene epidemiologist John Edmunds, a member of the government’s scientific advisory group, said that even with the new lockdown, Britain was facing “deaths in tens of thousands from this wave.”
Keir Starmer, leader of the main opposition Labour Party, said in response to the lockdown announcement, “There’s no denying these measures are necessary and I’m glad that the government has finally taken the decision that it should have taken weeks ago.”
But Johnson is under pressure from some members of his Conservative Party, who oppose tighter restrictions because of the economic damage they cause.
Owners of businesses that have struggled to get back on their feet since the first lockdown was eased said the impact of new closures would be devastating.
“People have borrowed up to the hilt and spent money in order to get COVID-secure,” said Kate Nicholls of pub and restaurant industry group Hospitality U.K. “There is no spare capacity in the tank to be able to fund a lockdown, even for three to four weeks.”
A government program that has paid the wages of millions of furloughed employees during the pandemic was due to end Saturday, but will be extended during the new lockdown.
Johnson had planned to announce the lockdown in Parliament on Monday, but was forced into early action after the Times of London reported the news. The government said there would be an investigation into the leak.
Johnson said the government had to make “incredibly difficult” judgments during the pandemic. He said it was “a constant struggle and a balance that any government has to make between lives and livelihoods — and obviously lives must come first.”
England’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, said at the news conference that “there is basically no perfect time (to act), and there are no good solutions.”
“We’re trying to have the least bad set of solutions,” he said.
Follow AP’s coronavirus pandemic coverage at http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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Sex Offenses: False Allegations of Child Molestation Results in 187 Years. What Can We Do
False Allegations of Child Molestation Results in 187 Years. What Can We Do
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My question involves criminal law for the state of: Indiana
This is going to be a long post. I will omit actual names but all information is 100% accurate. Just trying to find someone to help us before time is out.
I wish that I would have found this forum before my brothers trial. I had contacted so many places back then and did so much research to help my brothers attorney that I truly felt he could not be found guilty. But we were all shocked that his attorney waited until the Prosecution rested before stating he was not going to call a single witness for my brother. We were not allowed in the courtroom during that time as we were all planned to be called as witnesses. There were over 20 of us waiting to testify.
Now I am finding it very difficult to locate anyone willing to help. It seems like no one wants to be connected with this type of case regardless of whether he is innocent or not. But I do understand this as I had always been one to jump to the conclusion that if someone was charged with this crime then they must be guilty. I always felt that anyone convicted of this crime should be put to death. I have 3 young children and the thought of anyone ever touching them sends a chill down my spine. I truly despise anyone who would do this type of thing to a child.
I did not speak to my brother for the first 3 months after his arrest because I had no idea why the child would say these things. Even though I knew she had made up stories before and was an attention seeker I still had to make sure it was not true. I spent 3 months going over the evidence and researching the subject. But nothing really convinced me either way until I saw the videotaped allegation and the medical exam. These 2 pieces of evidence alone proved beyond a reasonable doubt to me that my brother was innocent.
This was my brothers Step Daughter for over 5 years. My brother worked for me the entire time and we worked together every single day. His step daughter was best friends with my daughter and they spent a lot of time together over the years so I know this girl very well. This is not a case of me simply believing my brother because he is my brother.
We actually had a falling out about 6 months prior to his arrest because of work related issues. I am the guy who told the girls mother that he had hacked her Myspace account and told my wife and I about her meeting the guy that lived 7 hours away with her daughter and then she asked the guy to have sex without a condom, then she came back and would not reply to the guys messages.
She became furious over this and asked how she could get even with my brother. I told her to login to his personal websites and delete content, but she never did a thing, Never even mentioned it to him. I thought she had just got over it. This happened 1 to 2 months before her daughter made these allegations.
After the allegations were made and my brother was arrested my wife met with the girl and her mother. They were Best Friends for the last 5 years. My wife asked how the girl was doing and she said fine. She then asked what exactly happened and the mother went and got the girl to tell my wife. My wife said she told her everything and although there was a lot of details (my wife did cry) the girl did not cry or show any emotion. It was like she was just telling a story.
I'm not sure whether the girl was coached by her mother because of what I had told her. Whether she was coached because my brother had met a new girl and had just moved in with her. Or if the mother had anything at all to do with this. But I do know for a fact that my brother is innocent now. I feel terrible thinking this may have somehow been my fault.
If it were not for the economy then I could simply hire an attorney, no problem but I am about to lose my home to foreclosure and have had to sell almost everything I owned to keep food on the table for my family. My business was online with 90% of sales coming from Ebay.
But in January of 2010 Paypal decided to Limit my account permanently for life because my credit score had spiraled horribly due to not making enough money because of the economy to pay my $3000 house payment. Once they did this it basically shut down my entire business because you cannot sell on Ebay without a Paypal account and that was 90% of my business. I then signed up for a merchant account through an actual bank but the website sales had declined so much I could not make enough to pay my suppliers and they shut off my accounts. So around May of 2010 I have been living off the little cash I had saved until last month and we just now applied and were approved for food stamps.
Our mom is a very religious woman and works at a small group home for older mentally disabled adults and only makes $8 per hour. She paid for my brother's first attorney by refinancing her house for $10,000 and giving the attorney the deed to the house so that if she misses the monthly payment of $200 to him, he will take her house.
I have tried everything I can think of to come up with money to help but I can’t. I don’t have a clue what to do. Indiana State Prison is rated as 1 of the Most Dangerous prisons in the US due to 3 out of 4 prisoners serving long sentences for Murder. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16113803/
Do you know of anyone that does Pro Bono work on these types of cases? Do you have any suggestions on what I could do to help my brother? I know you guys do not know either of us and as far as you know he could be guilty but I assure you that he is not. It is so difficult to get anyone to even listen to his case because of the charge.
But tonight as we are all reading this forum he is sitting in prison alone and thinking this is all he has to look forward to for the next 90 years. He has already had issues with people at this new prison after just a few days in gen pop and this is happening before they even know what he is in for.
No one in my family has ever been charged with any crime like this. No one has ever had allegations against them in our family. But the girl’s mother told us all about her brother molesting her when she was younger and that she suspected her own father of doing this to her younger sister. They have Bi-Polar disorder that runs in their family. Please See Below
If you know of anyone or any organization that can help please let me know. We are running out of options and to think my brother may be killed or spend the rest of his life in prison just because we do not have money for a good attorney is mind boggling.
http://www.bpkids.org/learn/library/...tions-of-abuse
Poor judgment and delusional thinking can cause a child to feel out of control. In some cases, the child may even call 911 to report a parent who has not in fact been abusive. Altered thought patterns are not unusual in children with bipolar disorder, and the child may not understand the dire consequences of a false report. The family's local child protective services agency may become involved and threaten to remove, or actually remove, the child and perhaps other children from the home.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publi...ad/index.shtml
What causes bipolar disorder?
Several factors may contribute to bipolar disorder, including:
Genes, because the illness runs in families. Children with a parent or sibling with bipolar disorder are more likely to get the illness than other children.
Abnormal brain structure and brain function.
Anxiety disorders. Children with anxiety disorders are more likely to develop bipolar disorder.
The causes of bipolar disorder aren't always clear. Scientists are studying it to find out more about possible causes and risk factors. This research may help doctors predict whether a person will get bipolar disorder. One day, it may also help doctors prevent the illness in some people.
I will be posting a reply with the general evidence used in the case. Again I will leave out the specifics of the case.
Below is a list of the evidence in the case. Dave’s attorney chose not to call a single witness in his case and therefore the Jury did not hear most of this.
Prosecutions evidence.
1. The child’s testimony that Dave had molested her. Which she revealed only after viewing a Bad Touch video in school.
2. An expert witness that stated that it was normal for a child between the ages of 5 to 8 that had been molested almost daily for 2 years including sexual and anal intercourse to not show any damage to her vagina or hymen at all. That within 72 hours all damage would heal and appear normal during an exam.
Dave’s Evidence.
1. Child was sent to a Sexual Assault Treatment Center for an exam. The exam came back stating that there was NO Damage to any part of the child’s body. They did not find any tears, scarring or any other indication that anything had happened to the child. Hymen was smooth with no damage.
2. The child’s mother had Bi-Polar Disorder which she had been treated for and taken medication for. She heard voices and talked with people who were not there as early as a year prior to Dave’s arrest.
3. The child’s Grandfather had also been diagnosed with Bi-Polar disorder which shows a history of the disorder within her family.
4. Child had exhibited symptoms that were consistent with Bi-Polar Disorder.
5. Children that have Bi-Polar disorder are more likely to fabricate stories about child abuse and neglect.
6. Child had previously told school officials that a classmate had touched her. The school investigated and decided that this was not accurate and no discipline was handed out.
7. Child was told by a classmate that her own father had touched her sexually and that she liked it. Classmate also asked the alleged victim if she ever had sex with Dave and she said no. This occurred about a year or so before Dave was charged.
8. Dave had NO previous convictions. His record was spotless.
9. Dave had custody of his 6 year old son. Custody was appointed by the courts.
10. Child had a history of fabricating very detailed stories.
11. Child’s mother was institutionalized for her Bi-Polar Disorder and had disclosed that her own brother had molested her when she was younger.
12. Child’s mother would tell her friends about her molestation when the child was in the same room. This would get the mother everyone’s undivided attention.
13. A month prior to the child’s allegations she had stated that her mother did not pay any attention to her and that her mother was always chatting online. Child had stated that she liked staying with Dave more because of this.
14. Child’s mother had been meeting guys online at Myspace and other websites, chatting and then meeting up with these guys. She had at least on 1 occasion taken the child to meet a guy
15. Only months prior to the allegations, the child’s mother had learned that Dave had logged into her Myspace account and read her messages including one about her meeting a guy and having sex, this guy stated the child’s mother requested he not wear a condom, she was very embarrassed about this.
16. Once the child’s mother learned that Dave had told a few people about this message she asked “How can I get even with Dave?” I want him to pay for this. She was very furious about this. 1 month later the child made the abuse allegations in school.
17. The investigating officer in Dave’s case was reprimanded prior to Dave’s Trial for viewing Pornographic material at work. The only reason this was made public is because a local newspaper had heard the story and threatened a suit under the Freedom of Information Act.
18. Police made no attempt to collect DNA evidence from the house that the crime had occurred in. Even though the house had been vacant since Dave had lived there previously and no one had even cleaned the house. All they did was go in and take photos of the area.
19. Dave’s attorney requested that the child’s mother computer be seized to see if she had used the computer to look up child molestation and used this info to lead the child into the allegation. But the judge denied this request.
20. Child did not cry during her taped interview where she went into details on the allegation. The child was seeking approval from the interviewer on what body parts were called.
21. Dave was a High School Graduate (the only sibling in our family to graduate out of 6). He also attended college.
This list is not complete and we do have even more info. This was a case of Dave not having a good attorney. After his attorney was hired and the down payment was made we learned that his attorney had been Reprimanded 2 times by the State Supreme Court for violations. One of these included providing inaccurate information to a client.
The child that accused Dave was his Step Daughter of 5 years. The allegations surfaced AFTER her mother and Dave separated and Dave began seeing another woman.
I met with the prosecuting attorney prior to his court date. At this meeting the prosecutor stated that it was possible that Dave was innocent and the child was making the entire story up. Her only reason for going forward was that she could not believe an 8 year old would be able to have this much knowledge about sex. She also has girls herself.
Based on the child’s testimony alone, Dave was convicted on all 4 Class A Felony charges as well as 1 Class C Felony Charge and received a total sentence of 187 years. This sentence was then modified on appeal in July 2010 to 90 years.
Although Dave is white, the White Supremacists gangs target those in for child molestation to stab, beat up or kill as part of gang initiations.
Dave’s life is in danger and he is running out of time. Every second that he is in Prison increases his chance of being stabbed, beaten or killed for a crime he did not commit. We do not have the money to pay for another attorney at this time nor even the ability to get a loan.
Dave is INNOCENT. He needs someone to help SAVE his LIFE.
Please Help Us!!!
LawResearcherMissy
Re: False Allegations of Child Molestation Results in 187 Years. What Can We Do
I'm sorry, but your brother needs another attorney, and a complaint about the previous one needs to be filed with the state bar association.
This is WAY too complex for strangers on an internet message board to be sorting out for you. No one here can refer you to an attorney, you'll need to get a referral from the Indiana State Bar Association's Pro Bono Commission.
Understand completely but no one is offering to help out. We cannot afford an attorney that specializes in this type of case and the results we had with the normal attorney were horrible.
Contacted the State Bar and waqs told we could file a complaint but that does nothing for my brother immediately. It also appears that there are NO Pro Bono attorneys in Indiana unless you are involved in a civil case or tax type case.
I am trying to find someone who may have already did this search themselves and then found help. If anyone has ever went through a similar situation and was able to get help please let me know who and where.
Quoting LawResearcherMissy
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RX2 TO RACE AT SPEEDMACHINE IN 2018
The inaugural SpeedMachine festival that will take place at Silverstone Circuit in the UK next May will host a round of the 2018 RX2 International Series, the official support category to the FIA World Rallycross Championship.
The 2018 RX2 calendar was revealed at the series’ awards in Cape Town this week. Speed Machine will join six existing RX2 events in the World RX schedule. The RX2 season will once again begin at Mettet in Belgium, before visiting Silverstone in the UK for the first time and then heading North to Hell (Norway) and Holjes (Sweden). Trois-Rivieres (Canada) will host the first flyaway event of the season, before competitors in the single-make class return to Europe for the French round at Loheac. For the second year in succession, the season finale will be held in Cape Town, South Africa at the end of Novembner.
“We’re pleased to be able to reveal our 2018 calendar, and to be visiting the same seven countries as we did this year is excellent news,” said RX2 CEO, Andreas Eriksson. “It gives us the opportunity to really build upon what was an extremely positive first season for RX2, and will allow returning drivers to focus on honing their skill and racecraft. That in turn will be good for their career development, as they will be able to directly compare their performance level from one season to the next at the same tracks and gauge their progression. Of course, the opportunity to compete at the ‘Home of British Motorsport’ at Silverstone is very special indeed. We have been delighted with the exposure achieved by RX2 in 2017, and the selection of circuits played a large part in that success story. Now the goal is to grow the series even further next year, so this consistency is perfect. At the end of the day, you don’t change a winning formula.”
2018 RX2 Calendar*
Belgium – Mettet – 12/13 May
Great Britain – Silverstone – 26/27 May
Norway – Hell – 9/10 June
Sweden – Holjes – 30 June/1 July
Canada – Trois-Rivieres – 4/5 August
France – Loheac – 1/2 September
South Africa – Cape Town – 24/25 November
*Subject to confirmation by the FIA World Motor Sport Council in December
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Michael Fassbender: I like fun women
Michael Fassbender thinks confident women are “sexy and attractive”, even if they’re “slightly overweight”.
The Irish-German actor has a legion of female fans the world over but remains single. Although happy with his status, Michael has revealed what qualities he looks for in a partner.
“Intelligence, self-confidence in one’s own skin. If a girl is slightly overweight, or, you know, if she’s comfortable in herself, living life the way she wants to live it, I find that sexy and attractive,” he told the February issue of GQ.
“If somebody is the perfect mould, but she’s not enjoying herself, then I find it sad, and unsexy.”
Michael sees himself settling down one day and having children with someone he loves. However, the 34-year-old star is concentrating on his film career for now.
“I’m quite a romantic person and I love the idea of having a family. But I’d have to take a step back out of this. It’s not fair on somebody to be waiting for you. You spend long periods of time apart and then when I am here, I’m working,” he explained.
“I find it difficult to do both and to give that other person the right amount of attention and time that they deserve.”
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Why Tumblr's year-end lists are totally worth checking out
The retrospective starts Tuesday at yearinReview.tumblr.com with an exploration of 20 categories ranging from the most popular musical groups to the most interesting architecture of 2013.
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San Francisco: Tumblr is where the Internet's cool kids hang out. That's why Yahoo paid $1.1 billion to buy the blogging site in one of this year's most buzzed-about deals.
Now, Tumblr is flaunting its hipster credentials with a first-ever breakdown of the year's hottest trends, topics and celebrities.
The retrospective starts Tuesday at yearinReview.tumblr.com with an exploration of 20 categories ranging from the most popular musical groups to the most interesting architecture of 2013. Boasting a plethora of images, the review will continue through December with daily posts that will culminate on New Year's Eve with the best fireworks displays featured on Tumblr during the year.
Similar end-of-the-year lists are annual rites at Yahoo, Google and other websites equipped with search engines that sort through billions of requests for information to determine which topics piqued people's interests.
Tumblr's musings figure to stand out because they are drawn from a younger audience that differs from the more conventional crowds that flock to general-purpose search engines.
More than half of Tumblr's 170 million users are under 35 years old, a demographic that has helped turn the service into a free-wheeling forum filled with provocative imagery, snarky humor and occasionally ribald commentary.
"The people on Tumblr never cease to amaze me with their creativity and their wit and the amount of fun they are having online," said Danielle Strle, Tumblr's director of product for content and community. "There are certain things they are crazy about that I am sure that a more general Internet audience is not super nuts about."
Tumblr's Year in Review. Screenshot
Tumblr's eclectic tastes are evident in some of the categories featured in the service's year-end roundup. Entire sections will be devoted to photo bombing, fingernail art, unicorns, bacon, pretty colors, student loans and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
In contrast, the annual lists released by the mainstream search engines tend to be more prosaic and predictable recitations that pore through the most popular celebrities, movies, singers, TV shows, and news stories.
Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine also reviewed the most popular social media services in its year-end list released Monday. (Tumblr ranked sixth behind Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.)
Tumblr's look back delves into some of that well-worn territory, too, though its selections may send some people scurrying to a search engine to find out more. For instance, the most blogged-about actor on Tumblr during this year was Benedict Cumberbatch, an English performer who has primarily had supporting roles in U.S. films (he most recently played the villain Khan in "Star Trek Into Darkness.")
Cumberbatch doesn't appear in a separate year-end roundup to be released Tuesday by Yahoo, but "Star Trek Into Darkness" tops Yahoo's rankings of the most-searched movies on its site.
Other Tumblr items unlikely to show up in other year-end roundups include shots of brides throwing cats into the air instead of wedding bouquets and school notices explaining the reasons for students' detention.
In a tip to Tumblr, Yahoo is highlighting three of the blogging site's categories in its own breakdown.
Now Yahoo Inc wants 6-year-old Tumblr to start selling more ads. One of the categories in Tumblr's retrospective highlights the best ads that appeared on the service this year.
Moni Mohsin on how her new book explores Pakistan's volatile politics through social media's lenses
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Trump Administration Announces Plan to Expand Oil Development in Alaska
by faster | Nov 22, 2019 | Blog |
SOURCE: Yale E360
SNIP: The Trump administration announced a new plan that could open up an additional 6.6 million acres within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to fossil fuel development, several news outlets reported. One of the plan’s proposals would allow drilling on 80 percent of the reserve, considered the largest undisturbed tract of public land in the United States.
Created in 1923 by President Warren G. Harding, the National Petroleum Reserve was originally set aside as an emergency oil supply for the U.S. Navy. Management of the land was transferred to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in 1976. The reserve is estimated to contain as much as 8.7 billion barrels of undiscovered oil, The Washington Post reported. Located on Alaska’s North Slope, the reserve is also an ecologically important area, providing critical habitat for thousands of migrating birds, caribou, polar bears, grizzly bears, wolves, and wolverines.
The Obama administration enacted a plan in 2013 that limited drilling to about 50 percent, or 11.8 million acres, of the reserve, with the other half protected for wildlife and cultural values, Reuters reported. But the Trump administration argued that new oil discoveries and the spread of oil development elsewhere on the North Slope justify the new, expanded plan.
“With advancements in technology and increased knowledge of the area, it was prudent to develop a new plan that provides greater economic development of our resources while still providing protections for important resources and subsistence access,” Chad Padgett, BLM’s Alaska state director, said in a statement. The plan is now subject to a 60-day public review.
The National Petroleum Reserve proposal is the latest step in the Trump administration’s effort to open up additional areas in the Arctic to fossil fuel production. The BLM is currently planning a lease sale for part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which lost its protected status in 2017 as part of Congress’ tax overhaul bill.
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ARYZTA to Dispose of Businesses in North America and Latin America
Having rejected a €734 million takeover offer from Elliott Management, a US hedge fund, the board of ARYZTA, the global speciality bakery group based in Switzerland, has decided to focus on the European and APAC markets and to dispose of the businesses in both North America and Latin America. The proceeds will be used to significantly reduce debt levels over the next six to nine months.
The board also plans to improve the operational performance of the remaining Europe and APAC businesses, and the preparations for implementation are well-advanced. By the end of 2021, it expects to secure at least a 25% reduction in central overhead costs as the group moves to a multi-local, lean, and more agile business model. The process to remove central costs has already started as ARYZTA simplifies operations and makes local and country management responsible for all their costs and profit delivery targets. This change is expected to result in improvements in customer engagement experience through faster decision-making, shorter new product innovation lead times, improved customer service, and enhanced quality control responses.
ARYZTA’s 2019 EBITDA margin of 9% was the lowest among its European peer group – with the best performance some 60% higher at 16.5%. ARYZTA has scale and capability advantages that support its minimum target to improve the EBITDA margin run rate to the peer median level (c.12.5%) by simplifying its business and moving to a multi-local model. The board expects that this will be achieved within the next two years.
ARYZTA operates in growing markets and many of its European competitors are mid-sized privately owned businesses with succession issues. Once ARYZTA has improved its performance and reduced its debt levels, the bakery group will have the potential to actively participate in this likely market consolidation process. The board also envisages a return to sustainable organic growth over the next two to three years as the locally empowered business model improves its innovation power and new contract win rate.
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Universal Beverages Fined £36,000 For Polluting River
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Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. After graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year. In 2007, she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award and won the BBC Sound of 2008 poll. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and three times platinum in the US. The album contains her first song, "Hometown Glory", written when she was 16, which is based on her home suburb of West Norwood in London. An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2008 boosted her career in the US. At the 51st Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Adele released her second studio album, 21, in 2011. The album was critically well received and surpassed the success of her debut, earning numerous awards in 2012, among them a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year; and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK, and is overall the fourth best-selling album in the nation. In the US, it has held the top position longer than any album since 1985, and is certified diamond. The best-selling album worldwide of 2011 and 2012, 21 has sold over 31 million copies. The success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness Book of World Records. She was the first female artist to simultaneously have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 as well as the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three simultaneous top 10 singles as a lead artist with "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone Like You", and "Set Fire to the Rain", all of which also topped the chart. 21 is the longest-running number one album by a female solo artist in the history of the UK and US Album Charts.
In 2012, Adele released "Skyfall", which she co-wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name. The song won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, as well as the Brit Award for British Single of the Year. After taking a three-year break, Adele released her third studio album, 25, in 2015. It became the year's best-selling album and broke first-week sales records in the UK and US. 25 was her second album to be certified diamond in the US and earned her five Grammy Awards, including her second Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards. The lead single, "Hello", became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release. Her third concert tour, Adele Live 2016, visited Europe, North America and Oceania, and concluded with finale concerts at Wembley Stadium in late June 2017.
In 2011, 2012, and 2016, Adele was named Artist of the Year by Billboard. At the 2012 and 2016 Ivor Novello Awards, Adele was named Songwriter of the Year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. In 2012, she was listed at number five on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2016. Her 2016–17 tour saw her break attendance records in a number of countries, including the UK, Australia and the US. With sales of more than 100 million records, Adele is one of the world's best-selling music artists.
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Born in Decatur, Georgia, on May 5,1942 to Herman & Hazel Cooper and reared in the Edgewood/Kirkwood area of Atlanta, Judge Clarence Cooper is a product of David T. Howard High School and a 1964 honors graduate of Clark College, where he majored in Political Science and History. In
1967, Judge Cooper was awarded a Doctor of Law Degree from Emory University School of Law, and has since been an active, innovative member of the Bar.
In 1976, Judge Cooper, who had already begun his legal career as a jurist, took a sabbatical from the City Bench to accept a fellowship to study at both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While attending both of these eastern institutions of higher learning, Judge Cooper was awarded a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Diploma from M.I.T. for a research paper and project on the "Judiciary and Its Budget."
Judge Cooper has held numerous jobs within the legal profession. Shortly after his graduation from law school, he was hired by the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. He achieved a significant milestone in his legal career when, in 1968, he was hired by the Fulton County District Attorney's Office as an Assistant District Attorney. In 1975, he was appointed to the City of Atlanta's Municipal court bench by the Mayor of the City. In 1980, Judge Cooper displayed his political knowledge and skill by successfully winning a seat on the Fulton County Superior Court Bench.
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SPACE ENGINEERS REACHES ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.]
Prague, Czech Republic (October 20, 2014) – Independent developer Keen Software House is proud to announce that their highly acclaimed space-based sandbox game, Space Engineers, has sold over 1,000,000 copies. The game was released in October 2013 on Steam Early Access and is celebrating this important milestone alongside its first year anniversary.
“We feel twice as happy with this achievement since it came on our first year anniversary since Space Engineers was launched to the public. This gives us double reasons to celebrate” said Marek Rosa, CEO and Founder of Keen Software House. “We want to devote this accomplishment to our fans, whose encouragement and active participation made this possible. They have been beside us all along, giving inspiration for new ideas and supporting us with their valuable feedback. It is a great thing to have such an amazing community like ours!”
Space Engineers, one year after it was released on Steam Early Access, has captured the attention of PC gamers around the world. Voted by the players as one of the best Indie games of 2013 (IndieDB Game of The Year Awards) and featuring an incredibly passionate fan base, Space Engineers has become one of the most popular Early Access games on Steam.
Looking to the future, Space Engineers will remain in development for a while longer, focusing on adding new features and bug fixing and also continue taking feedback and suggestions from the community who is helping to further improve and expand the game. Space Engineers is already counting over 50 new updates which are added on a weekly basis, including the recent implementation of the Modding API and the Dedicated Servers.
Space Engineers is available for purchase at the price of $19.99/€18.99 on the developer’s web site: www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/buy.html, on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/244850 and at several other online distribution services.
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About Space Engineers
Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build and pilot space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), and perform asteroid mining to create the outer space world of their dreams. Featuring both single- and multi-player modes, as well as both Creative and Survival modes, there is nearly no end to what can be built, what can be played, and what can be explored.
About Keen Software House
Established in 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic, Keen Software House is an independent game development studio aiming to create games that are based on real science, real facts, real physics and real emotions. The company’s first title Miner Wars 2081 was released in 2012. Keen Software House develops its own in-house game engine VRAGE, currently in the second version and its core feature is volumetricity of the environment. Space Engineers is the first title fully utilizing VRAGE 2.0.
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Bloodstained and Former Castlevania Producer Says Single-Player Games Are Not in Any Danger
Alleef Ashaari Monday, September 10, 2018
Many game developers and publishers have voiced out their views and perspectives on the notion that single-player games are supposedly dying in this age dominated by multiplayer games. Recently at PAX West, another games industry veteran spoke about the issue and it was Koji Igarashi, the current producer of Bloodstained Ritual of the Night and former producer of several past Castlevania games.
In an interview with GamesIndsutry.biz, Igarashi explained his stance on single-player games, and that they won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. The underlying reason for this, he feels, is because different gamers play different games. That means single-player games will not die as long as there remain gamers who prefer them over multiplayer games.
“I think things won’t change because there is a difference between people who play single-player games and people who play multiplayer games, as much as there are differences between people who are introverts and extroverts.” he said. “There isn’t anything we need to do [to ensure single-player games can sustain themselves]. There will always be people who enjoy playing single-player games more than multiplayer games.”
Despite all that, Igarashi won’t dismiss the fact that multiplayer games are actually more profitable than single-player games. According to the producer, contrary to what most people think, a game doesn’t have to be profitable to be regarded as a success. “With the rise of multiplayer games, I don’t think single-player is in danger. A game doesn’t have to be profitable, it just has to break even.” he added.
This sentiment has been previously echoed by many other veterans in the games industry. The list includes former Uncharted franchise developer Amy Hennig, Ubisoft North America head Laurent Detoc and Eidos Montreal Head of Studio David Anfossi. The massive success of recent single-player games like God of War also proves otherwise, indicating that single-player games can thrive in a world filled with multiplayer games.
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A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Through Thick and Thin: Will Danish Military Engagements with the U.S. Endure in the Middle East?
Through Thick and Thin: Will Danish Military Engagements with the U.S. Endure in the Middle East?
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What many initially treated as a joke may cause a rift in U.S.-Denmark relations. President Donald Trump’s peculiar offer to buy Greenland from Denmark has caused an unexpected controversy. Trump showed that the news report was no joke when he cancelled a long-planned state visit and called Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments “nasty.” Trump’s actions prompted uproar and surprise in the small Kingdom of Denmark. After all, Denmark considers itself a devoted ally and has followed U.S. foreign policy through thick and thin over the last three decades. This applies in no small measure to the broader Middle East region, where Danish military forces have contributed to all major U.S.-led wars and interventions since 1991. Recently, the U.S. has asked Denmark to contribute to the U.S.-led forces in Syria’s Northeast and to a naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz. Will Denmark now change course, and decline U.S. requests for the first time in 30 years?
A newly independent inquiry into Denmark’s military engagements, commissioned by the Danish Parliament, concludes that Denmark’s military engagements in the Middle East have had little to do with any direct threats to Danish national security. Rather, they are results of shifting governments’ eagerness to respond to U.S. demands and proving Denmark’s usefulness. Denmark is a “super Atlanticist,”[1] meaning that it unequivocally supports U.S. policies and its role in the world, and is willing to pursue even costly and risky policies to maintain its special relationship with the U.S. In contrast, “Atlanticist” countries, such as Holland, Belgium, Norway, and Greece, are also closely allied with the U.S., but have at times refrained from supporting or outright condemned U.S. foreign policies and wars.
To grasp just how influential the U.S. is on Danish foreign and security policy, it may be useful to compare it with the Cold War period. Denmark was not always a stalwart supporter of U.S. actions and interventions. A nation of five million in northern Europe that bordered Warsaw Pact countries, Denmark was not very preoccupied with the Middle East region, but mainly worried about Russia and Eastern Europe.[2] As a small state, Denmark thought it best to soften international anarchy and superpower rivalry through multilateral institutions and peaceful conflict resolution mechanisms. Rather than military might, shifting Danish governments emphasized peace and development, allocating up to 1% of its gross national product to development aid in the global south—the highest percentage in the world. This was a foreign policy niche where Denmark perceived it could make a real difference. Denmark was also a somewhat reluctant NATO member, and Danish foreign policy at times collided openly with that of the U.S., e.g. on the Vietnam War, on U.S. interventionist policies in the Third World, or NATO nuclear policies, which Danish parliaments repeatedly footnoted in the 1980s. Compared to the post-Cold War period, Denmark’s foreign policy orientation has therefore gone through a tectonic shift.
The first small baby steps were taken right after the Cold War when Denmark sent a warship to participate in the U.S.-led naval blockade against Iraq. Military interventions in the Balkans, and multiple wars in the broader Middle East, all at the behest of the U.S. followed. Many were without a clear UN anchoring, thereby breaking with a historical principle in Danish foreign policy. To the Danish public, the wars were often framed in idealistic terms as humanitarian efforts to prevent state atrocities, enhance international rule of law, or promote democracy and freedom. Behind closed doors, however, the recent War Inquiry has shown that Danish politicians’ deliberations were mainly about pleasing the U.S. Danish policymakers were eager to live up to U.S. expectations and solidify the transatlantic bond.[3] At times, Denmark did not even respond to a prior U.S. request, but anticipated that a U.S. call for a Danish military contribution would be coming, as when Denmark decided to send fighter jets and special forces to participate in the U.S.-led Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2001.
As a result, Denmark’s presence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is above all militaristic and security-oriented. Denmark has few diplomatic missions in the region and commits far fewer resources to aid, conflict-mediation, or development than to military operations. The “civilian flagship” is the so-called Danish-Arab Partnership Programme (DAPP) from 2002—initially modelled on the U.S. State Department’s program to promote political and economic reforms in the Arab World from the same year. Relatively large aid packages have also been transferred to Syria and neighboring countries in order to alleviate the humanitarian crisis and essentially stopping the influx of refugees to Europe. Though Denmark supports the EU line on the major policy issues in the MENA, e.g. Iran, the nuclear agreement, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is clear that Denmark puts less time and energy in EU initiatives for promoting political and economic development in MENA compared to the EU’s Southern European members.
Not only have Danish governments followed the U.S., but they have also participated in riskier military operations. In Afghanistan, Danish forces were located in the most dangerous province of Helmand, where they endured casualties that compare with the U.S. in relative terms. In the Libyan intervention against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, Denmark was one of the first countries to send ground personnel and hit 17% all targets from the air. In the divisive Iraq war in 2003, Denmark sided with the U.S. when other countries in Europe did not. Still today, Denmark has soldiers stationed with U.S. troops on the al Asad base in the unruly Anbar province in Iraq helping to train Iraqi soldiers. Although the Danish public has grown increasingly weary of the seemingly endless interventions, Danish governments continue to make military contributions to U.S. missions in the Middle East almost by default.
With Denmark suddenly a target of Trump’s fire and fury, some Danish politicians are questioning what the Danes got out of being so supportive of U.S. policies and interventions. Did we not earn any “points” in Washington? This may soon have very real policy implications. Right now, Denmark is mulling over two separate U.S. requests for Danish forces in Syria’s Northeast and a naval force in the Strait of Hormuz. Will Denmark decline a new military operation in the Middle East for the first time in 30 years?
There is certainly eye-rolling over Trump in Danish foreign policy circles, but the new Social Democratic government is eager to confirm the “special relationship,” and the importance of the U.S. to Denmark, as a recent phone call over the weekend between Trump and Frederiksen confirms. According to Frederiksen, “The U.S. remains the most important ally to Denmark.” Yet, the U.S. request for naval support in the Strait of Hormuz is politically difficult for Denmark. Like other European countries and politicians, who already have declined the U.S. invitation, Danish politicians in the center and center-left are concerned that the U.S.-led mission will escalate tensions with Iran and give indirect support to Trump’s maximalist pressure strategy. Political parties on the right are more positive, but they are also supportive of the European approach to Iran and eager to keep the nuclear agreement with Iran alive. In short, Denmark is hesitating and may for the first time in 30 years decline a U.S. request.
There are other indications that Denmark in the longer run may change from a super Atlanticist to an Atlanticist. Already, today, the U.S. is no longer viewed as a guarantor of a liberal world order. U.S. positions on international trade, extraterritorial sanctions, and climate change also clash with Danish normative understandings of what the U.S. role in world politics should be. Politicians, especially in the center and center left, are increasingly calling for a stronger Danish orientation towards Europe and closer military cooperation with France and Germany.
Had Trump handled the Greenland issue better, Denmark would probably have said yes to both requests. Now, it is no longer a certainty and may be a first step away from Denmark’s super Atlanticism.
[1] Wivel & Crandall “Punching above their level, but why?: Explaining Denmark and Estonia in the Transatlantic Relationship,” Journal of Transatlantic Studies, May 2019.
[2] See, also, Malmvig, Helle, “Between Clumsy Hans and Thumbelina Danish Middle East Policy from WWII to the Arab Uprisings” (2013) in Timo (eds)
[3] See, also, Wivel and Mariager (2019) Denmark at War, Great Power Politics and Domestic action space in the cases of Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook, DIIS. Copenhagen.
Dr. Helle Malmvig is Senior Researcher at The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). Malmvig has been a visiting scholar at Centre d’Études et de Recherces Internationales (CERI) Science Po in Paris, and at Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.
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Shopkeeper Revolt Has Sicilian Mafia on the Run
The cooperation with police is unprecedented, Italian authorities say.
Aarian Marshall
Image via Flickr user Harvey Barrison
In the Italian town of Bagheria, just a few miles outside Palermo, nearly everything was subject to the Mafia “tax.” Local businesses were forced—for their “protection”—to pay monthly rates between 1,000 and 5,000 euros (about $2,000 to $5,500), while those in construction paid 3 percent of their income on commissioned jobs.
Then the shopkeepers revolted. From Reuters:
Police said that after years of silence, businessmen in the Bagheria neighborhood … "had found the courage" to provide details about Mafia activities that had delved into everything from construction to fish sales.
"We have never seen such a large number of victims cooperate," police colonel Salvatore Altavilla was quoted as saying on the website of newspaper la Repubblica.
Italian authorities issued 22 arrest warrants on Monday. Though a number of the warrants name individuals who are already serving time in prison, Time reports, others include important Mafia heads who ran the organization between 2003 and 2013.
La Repubblica reports that three shopkeepers initially went to the authorities; 33 other victims cooperated during the ensuing two-year investigation. All the shopkeepers and businessmen are now under police protection.
As Time reports, however, not all the shopkeepers lived to see the end of the investigation:
Domenico Toia had a lighting business and a restaurant in Bagheria but tired of paying extortion money to the Mafia.
“My father had the courage to rebel,” says Tommaso Toia, 40, the son of Domenico. “Unfortunately, he was unable to relish this victory for long. He suffered a fatal stroke last June. He had been poorly for some time. Since being overwhelmed by debt, harassed by the Mafia who wanted that money each and every month, he fell into depression. He lost 50 kilos in weight. Now even after his death we have continued his battle. All of my father’s companies went bankrupt. Today, however, we want to stand tall and persevere. We hope that others may follow our father’s example, and I’m sure he’s smiling down on us.”
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"360˚ patient profile" - a pilot programme to integrate home monitoring data with patient's electronic health record
Oxford University’s George Institute for Global Health is today collaborating with Patients Know Best (PKB), the world’s only fully patient controlled medical records system, on a research trial studying how home monitoring tools can support heart failure patients.
The Oxford University’s Healthcare Innovation and Evaluation unit of the George Institute for Global Health is lead by Prof. Kazem Rahimi and is one of the leading research centres in the area of integrated digital health worldwide.
The SUPPORT-HF research programme aims to develop and evaluate an integrated third generation home monitoring system for management of patients with heart failure in the UK. The first phase of the programme has successfully completed the development of a home monitoring system that is easy to use and well accepted by patients independently of their digital literacy.
In the second phase, the home-monitoring (HM) system is continuously being improved and assessed in an initial randomized controlled trial of about 200 to 350 patients. In that context, the team of researchers at Oxford University have started a pilot collaboration with Patients Know Best to test their ability to extract patients’ medical history from hospital electronic health records. Combined with the daily measurements (such as blood pressure, weight and symptoms) collected through the SUPPORT-HF HM system, this comprehensive patient profile will help the study’s specialist cardiology team to tailor and improve patient’s medical management. Ultimately the SUPPORT-HF programme aims to assess whether the developed home monitoring system improves the quality of life of patients living with heart failure and reduces unscheduled hospital admissions and avoidable death.
Prof. Kazem Rahimi, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, said:
“The wider aims of the project are all about understanding patients wellbeing to deliver better care – reducing mortality and improving quality of life. The first stage showed that home management tools can be of real benefit to heart failure patients. For the second phase, we want to leverage Patients Know Best’s technology to fully understand the value of an integrated electronic health record approach to remote healthcare management.“
Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, founder and CEO of Patients Know Best said:
"Prof. Rahimi’s research brings together amazing remote monitoring devices and central decision support. We are proud that for this next phase of the research, PKB is a data integration platform for patients’ hospital electronic health records and makes that data available via the PKB API. This will allow building better algorithms and better interventions for patients."
News published: 03/09/2015
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Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982)
Karen Towers Klacsmann, Morris Museum of Art,
The Formative Years
A creative and resourceful self-taught artist, Nellie Mae Rowe gained national recognition for her work during the last decade of her life. Long before her wider success, Rowe was well known locally in Vinings by visitors who came to her exuberantly embellished home, which contained her drawings, stuffed dolls, and recycled objects. After the death of her second husband, Rowe turned their home into her personal playhouse, decorating all available space, inside and out, with her fanciful creations. A devout Christian, she attributed her talent to God. Rowe's multifaceted work illustrates her personal mythology, her response to current events and popular culture, and an assimilation of African American spiritual and narrative traditions.
Nellie Mae Rowe
on July 4, 1900, in a Fayette County farming community twenty miles south of Atlanta, she was the ninth of ten children born to Luella Swanson and Sam Williams. Her father was born into slavery, and her mother was born after emancipation in 1864. Her father rented a farm and augmented the family income by working as a blacksmith and a basket weaver. Both parents were respected members of the community, Rowe's father for his business sense and handicraft skills and Rowe's mother for her expertise as a seamstress and quilter.
Rowe showed an early talent for drawing and doll making, endeavors she preferred to her work as a farmhand. The family attended Flat Rock African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest active congregation in the area. The fellowship hall, adjacent to the church, also housed the elementary school that the young artist attended for several years. In 1916 she married Ben Wheat. Fourteen years later, the couple moved to Vinings, a rural community northwest of Atlanta, in pursuit of better opportunities. Her husband died in 1936, and later that year she married Henry "Buddy" Rowe, a much older widower with three grown children. In 1937 the couple built their home on the main street in Vinings, just a few miles from the Georgia governor's mansion, which is part of the Buckhead community. The Rowes would spend the rest of their lives in that house.
Woman in Bonnet
her second husband died in 1948, Rowe worked as a domestic and increased her artistic output. Free-spirited, independent, and childless, she was able to explore her creativity unencumbered by family obligations. Her home attracted attention, although not always positive, with its display of colorful drawings, stuffed dolls wearing wigs and glasses, hardened chewing-gum sculptures, garden topiary, plastic flowers, Christmas ornaments, and recycled objects. Visitors attracted to the highly decorated swept yard were welcome to tour the home and document their visit by signing a guest book. Rowe sang gospel songs to her guests, accompanying herself on electric organ, and basked in their attention. Among her visitors were artists and collectors who recognized her talent and succeeded in bringing her work to a wider audience.
Nellie Mae Rowe with Little Nellie
exhibition to include Rowe's work was Missing Pieces: Georgia Folk Art 1770–1976 at the Atlanta History Center in 1976. Shortly thereafter Judith Alexander, an Atlanta gallery owner, became her friend and art dealer, making sure Rowe had adequate art supplies and a stable income. Rowe's first one-person exhibition was held in November 1978 at the Alexander Gallery in Atlanta. The following year Rowe took her first journey outside of Georgia to view her solo exhibition at the Parsons/Dreyfuss Gallery in New York City. National recognition was swift, and her work was subsequently included in numerous exhibitions as she entered her most prolific period of artistic creation.
In 1981 Rowe was diagnosed with cancer. She died on October 18, 1982, and is buried in the cemetery at Flat Rock African Methodist Episcopal Church in Fayetteville.
Rowe's distinctive style shows an intuitive sense of color and form. She preferred simple materials—crayons, markers, pencils, pens, paper, cardboard, egg cartons, and Styrofoam food trays—and enjoyed creating works of art from recycled objects by fashioning figures from chewing gum or dolls from fabric scraps. Trinkets, marbles, and plastic toys often embellish her work. Rowe also drew on or added collage elements to cast-off items to create new pieces of art. Unconcerned with perspective or scale, she carefully composed her vibrant and intricately patterned drawings through the use of color, giving her work a sense of depth and rhythm.
Although Rowe
The Hiker
stressed that she was a devout Christian, such African and Afro-Caribbean symbolism as haints, charms, and protective signs are often found in her work. Texts, tracings of her hands and feet, African American cultural figures, images of personal friends, self-portraits, and fanciful creatures also populate her lush landscapes.
Rowe's unorthodox view of life has left an indelible mark on the study of self-taught southern artists. Her work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress American Folklife Center in Washington, D.C., and the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Rowe's crayon work The Hiker (1980) is part of Georgia's State Art Collection.
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Microsoft details .NET Framework 3.5 End of Support
by Martin Brinkmann on October 21, 2018 in Windows - Last Update: November 01, 2018 - 10 comments
Microsoft published a .NET Framework lifecycle FAQ update on October 20, 2018 to highlight changes in regards to the end of support for the company's .NET Framework 3.5 software product.
The main change is that Microsoft considers the .NET Framework 3.5 a standalone product as opposed to a component of the operating system. The change begins with Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019.
Microsoft plans to support the .NET Framework 3.5 with 5 years of mainstream support and 5 years of extended support. In other words: the company will support the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 until October 2028 with security updates.
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1, beginning with Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019, is a standalone product and receives 5 years of mainstream support followed by 5 years of extended support. For operating systems released prior to Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019, .NET 3.5 SP1 remains a component of the Windows version on which it is installed.
Future operating system releases won't affect the support lifecycle of the .NET Framework 3.5.
Nothing changes for operating system versions prior to Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019. The .Net Framework 3.5 is considered a component of the operating system and follows the same support cycle as the operating system itself (means support ends when the operating system reaches the end of the extended support phase).
Some programs do require the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 and not a newer version of the framework; this is for instance the case for programs that have not been updated for a while.
Windows 10 detects the missing framework automatically when a program is run on the system that requires a framework version that is not installed on the device and prompts for installation of the missing components.
Net Framework 3.5 End of Support
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 -- January 14, 2020
Windows 8.1 -- January 10, 2023
Windows 10 version 1607 -- April 9, 2019
Windows 10 version 1703 -- October 8, 2019
Windows 10 version 1709 -- April 14, 2020
Windows 10 version 1803 -- November 10, 2020
Windows 10 version 1809 -- October 2028
Windows Server 2019 -- October 2028
Microsoft ended the support for the .NET Framework versions 4.0, 4.5, and 4.5.1 in 2015.
No changes were announced for the lifecycle policies for the .NET Framework 4.x which continue to be defined as a component of the operating system as opposed to a standalone component. The .NET Framework 4.x follows the support lifecycle of the Windows operating system version that is used.
The .NET Framework 3.5 will be supported for another ten years until October 2028 or, in the case of pre-Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019 versions, until the operating system itself reaches end of support. (via Deskmodder)
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gris ma said on October 21, 2018 at 9:46 pm
An end of technical support for a Microsoft product to its users should coincide with an end of legal protection to Microsoft respecting its product in question. Maybe, this notion could be successfully litigated in a U.S. court of law.
John Fenderson said on October 23, 2018 at 5:39 pm
@gris ma:
What legal protection are you talking about? Copyright? Whether or not a copyrighted work is in use, let alone “supported”, is not a factor in copyright law. There would be no basis for litigation. To accomplish what you suggest requires new legislation.
carl said on October 22, 2018 at 1:54 am
Do I need the massive .Net updates I’m offered via MS’s Auto updates? I use win 7 w/ firefox on a lenovo lap, v570 [ ab 7 yrs old, ] core i5. I have not been accepting them for years.
TelV said on October 22, 2018 at 5:22 pm
@Carl,
Disable auto-updates and join the rest of us who update manually. Martin publishes a list of OS updates every month together with links to the Microsoft Catalog site where you can download them from.
I only have 3.5 and 4.5.2 installed and have yet to come across an app which requires a later version. Also, I only install security updates both for the OS and avoid any for .NET Framework which don’t include security issues. This month’s batch of .NET Framework updates didn’t include any security updates so I didn’t bother updating the above two at all. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/10/09/net-framework-october-2018-security-and-quality-rollup/
stefann said on October 22, 2018 at 8:02 pm
http://download.wsusoffline.net
(Note: Tick USE ONLY SECURITY UPDATES when they are downloaded by WSUS OFFLINE INSTALLER)
TelV said on October 22, 2018 at 10:25 pm
@stefann,
Don’t like the idea of downloading files from a non-SSL site. Thanks anyway for the thought.
Dot Net Programming said on October 26, 2018 at 9:26 am
Good article and right to the point. Thanks for sharing info Microsoft details .NET Framework 3.5 End of Support. Keep sharing such informative articles.
Sri said on November 1, 2018 at 9:58 am
Windows 18 version 1803 — November 10, 2020
Are you sure its Windows 18 ????
Martin Brinkmann said on November 1, 2018 at 10:08 am
Thanks, corrected.
Ramakrishna Kolla said on October 17, 2019 at 1:50 pm
When was the end of support for dotnet framework version 3.5 service pack 1 for windows server 2012???
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U.S. Treasury Eyes More Sanctions On Iran, Reviews Aircraft Sales
RFE/RL May 25, 2017
The U.S. Treasury chief told Congress on May 24 that he is looking for ways to increase sanctions on Iran, including by reviewing licenses the Treasury previously granted to Boeing and Airbus to sell aircraft to Iran.
"We will use everything within our power to put additional sanctions on Iran, Syria, and North Korea to protect American lives," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said in testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee.
"I can assure you that's a big focus of mine and I discuss it with the president," he said, adding that the Trump administration is convinced that sanctions "really work."
Mnuchin did not elaborate on the department's review of the aircraft sale licenses, which were issued by the Treasury last year under a 2015 agreement between Tehran and world powers to lift economic sanctions in return for curbs on Iran's nuclear activities.
His statements followed President Donald Trump's call on Iran to stop funding "terrorists and militias" during a trip this week to the Middle East.
The Boeing aircraft sale was the biggest deal for a U.S. business contemplated in the landmark nuclear accord, while the Airbus sales were also among the largest business deals to come out of the agreement.
IranAir has agreed to buy 200 U.S. and European passenger aircraft worth up to $37 billion at list prices, though such deals typically include big discounts.
They include 80 jets from Boeing and 100 from Airbus. All the aircraft need U.S. licenses because of their reliance on U.S. parts.
Most of Iran's aging fleet of 250 commercial planes were purchased before 1979, and only 162 were operational last year, with the rest grounded because of a lack of spare parts.
Iran has said that halting the aircraft sales would breach the nuclear agreement, though some legal experts say the Treasury has the authority to withdraw the licenses.
For Boeing, losing the IranAir deal could force it to cut back production of its 777 passenger jetliners.
"Boeing continues to follow the lead of the U.S. government with regards to working with Iran's airlines, and any and all contracts with Iran's airlines are contingent upon U.S. government approval," a spokeswoman told Reuters by e-mail.
With reporting by Reuters, Times of Israel, and Press TV
Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/us-treasury-eyes-more- sanctions-iran-reviews-boeing-airbus-sales-mnuchin/28507907.html
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U.K.'s AWE Selects Cray Shasta to Support Security and Defence Research
Cray’s Shasta Supercomputer for the Exascale Era to Enable High-performance Computing Solutions to Boost Next-generation Scientific Modeling for U.K. Defence Organization
November 05, 2019 09:00 ET | Source: Cray Inc
SEATTLE, Nov. 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global supercomputer leader Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, today announced that the United Kingdom’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) has selected the Cray Shasta™ supercomputer to support security and defence of the U.K. The Shasta system, purpose-built for the exascale era, was chosen due to its ability to run mixed workloads and applications at the best total cost of ownership (TCO) for a system across five years.
AWE’s supercomputer, named Vulcan, will feature a single Shasta supercomputer with expected performance of more than 7 petaflops. Shasta will play an integral role in maintaining the U.K.’s nuclear deterrent. “High-performance computing is a critical aspect of AWE,” said Andy Herdman, head of HPC at AWE. “It underpins the vast majority of our science-based programs, and we’re continually looking for ways to enhance and support this important work. This is why we chose Shasta, for its unique and powerful features, as well as its ability to provide optimal TCO.”
The U.K. Ministry of Defence is responsible for the program and stewardship of AWE, which is operated under contract by AWE Management Limited. The Establishment has been at the forefront of U.K. nuclear deterrence for more than 60 years. Predicated on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty which prohibits emission of nuclear yield, AWE must continually verify the safety and reliability of nuclear warheads through science-based and computational programming. Shasta will further extend AWE’s sophisticated scientific and technological capabilities.
“We are incredibly proud to be chosen by AWE to support their important mission,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO at Cray. “Shasta will bring Exascale Era technologies to bear on AWE’s challenging modeling and simulation data-intensive workload and enable the convergence of AI and analytics into this same workload, on a single system.”
Vulcan’s Shasta architecture will include the Cray Slingshot™ interconnect, AMD EPYC™ 7542 processors and Cray ClusterStor® Lustre storage. The high performance storage system will offer nearly 100 gigabytes per second of I/O performance.
“We are pleased to once again partner with Cray to deliver a powerful new supercomputer that will support critical research efforts in the U.K.,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Datacenter and Embedded Systems Group. “Our 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors provide unprecedented performance while helping to reduce TCO, key elements for driving success for AWE in the coming years.”
About AWE
AWE plays a crucial role in national defence by providing and maintaining warheads for Trident, the UK’s nuclear deterrent
AWE is contracted to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) through a Government-owned Contractor Operated (GOCO) arrangement. Whilst our sites and facilities remain in government ownership, their management, day to day operations, and the maintenance of the nuclear stockpile is contracted to a private company AWE Management Limited (AWE ML). AWE ML is a consortium comprising three equal partners: Serco Group plc, the Lockheed Martin Corporation and Jacobs Engineering Group. For further information, visit: http://www.awe.co.uk
CRAY and ClusterStor are registered trademarks of Cray Inc. in the United States and other countries, and Shasta and Slingshot are trademarks of Cray Inc. Other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Francis Galton in Print posted by DavidB @ 6/21/2006 04:40:00 AM
Francis Galton in Print
Darth Quixote recently pointed out (below, June 15) that Francis Galton's celebrated book Hereditary Genius has recently been reprinted in a cheap paperback edition. This welcome news prompted me to check, on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, what other books by Galton are currently in print. I was pleased to find that most of them are, though some are very expensive.
The following are all available from Amazon.uk. Some but not all are also available from Amazon (US).
Apart from Hereditary Genius, Galton's fascinating book The Art of Travel is in print in several editions. The book gives practical advice to travellers and explorers in 'wild countries', on matters such as selecting a camp site, finding water, and disciplining native servants. One to be enjoyed from the armchair!
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, which contains most of Galton's researches in psychology, is available as a print-on-demand paperback, either separately or combined with Hereditary Genius. It might be expected that print-on-demand would be a lengthy and expensive process, but I have used it for a few other books, and it is not bad at all. Human Faculty is also quite easy to find second-hand, as it was published for many years in the Everyman's Library series.
Natural Inheritance, Galton's most substantial theoretical work on heredity and statistics, is in print but only as an expensive hardback. Likewise, English Men of Science, their Nature and Nurture, is in print but expensive.
Essays on Eugenics, a late book containing most of Galton's specific writings on eugenics, is available in paperback.
But my biggest and nicest surprise was to find that Galton's 1892 book Finger Prints has recently been published as a Dover paperback, the first book by Galton to appear in this major imprint. This classic work is the foundation of the forensic use of fingerprints, but also has interesting remarks on heredity, evolution, and other matters. Go and buy it, if only to reward Dover for reprinting it!
These leaves only a few of Galton's books not available in print at all: notably his early book of exploration in South Africa, and his delightful late autobiography Memories of my Life.
But don't forget that all of these, and hundreds of articles, pamphlets, and other short works, are available as on-line downloads, from Gavan Tredoux's remarkable Galton.org website here. There is also a permanent link under the section 'Other Sites of Interest' on the sidebar at the right.
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High tech, rapid rail driving foreign trade in Chengdu
Chengdu, a hub city in southwestern China, saw rapid growth in its foreign trade facing with global economic slowdown, thanks to the flourish of its high-tech industries.
The city’s import and export in the first half of this year totaled $ 26. 8 billion, a 12.7 percent increase year-on-year and 12 percent higher than the national rate, according to Chengdu Customs.
IT industry has become an engine for foreign trade growth in Chengdu. The city exported computers, integrated circuits and microelectronic chips worth $ 8.1 billion in the first six months, accounting for about half of its total export volume.
PC giant Dell’s export from Chengdu surged by 95 percent year-on-year to $ 2.4 billion in the first half of this year, as its new global operation base in Chengdu began production since June last year.
Located in Chengdu High-Tech Comprehensive Bonded Zone, the base covers an area of 30,000 square meters and is expected to reach a desktop production capacity of 7 million units a year. The products are sold not only in China but also to overseas markets in Europe and the United States.
Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest PC maker, predicted that its Chengdu base would reach an output of 7 million units in 2014, said the company’s senior vice-president Qiao Song on Aug 11.
“The number is expected to reach 10 million in 2015, making up nearly half of Lenovo’s total output in China and one fourth in the world, ” Qiao said.
Lenovo’s Chengdu base went into production in 2011. It is designed to produce desktop PCs and laptop PCs as well as other products, including mobile Internet equipment. Lenovo has increased investment in the base, where a research and development center and a regional settlement center have been built.
Since semiconductor maker Intel Corp set up a chip package and test factory in the city in 2003, Chengdu has made great achievements in its IT industry and has become a magnet to international IT companies.
The Chengdu High-tech Comprehensive Bonded Zone, second of its kind in western China, is home to a number of leading IT companies, including Intel, Dell, Lenovo, Texas Instrument, Foxconn and Molex.
Chengdu is already China’s fourth largest IT center. 50 percent of the world’s laptop chips are packaged and tested here, and two thirds of iPads globally are made in Chengdu.
Other hi-tech industries, including bio-pharmaceutical, new materials, new energy and aerospace, also grow fast and are becoming new driving force to Chengdu’s foreign trade.
Sagent China Pharmaceuticals Co Ltd, a pharmaceutical company set up in Chengdu High-Tech Comprehensive Bonded Zone in 2006, saw a burst of 200 percent growth year-on-year in its import and export volume in the first half of this year.
Last October, a sterile injectable anticancer drug started mass production in the company and was sold to the United States, making the company the first Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturer to obtain American FDA certification and export pharmaceutical finished formulations to the international market.
“Sagent is applying for certification for nine products, and new products are expected to start mass production by the end of this year. We are also planning new production lines that will invest hundreds of millions dollars,” said Tian xinxin, the company’s research and development director.
“Chengdu has solid foundation for bio-pharmaceutical industry with so many good universities, research institutes and hospitals. We look forward to further exploring the international market together with other pharmaceutical companies in Chengdu,” Tian said.
The highly developed logistics system is strong support for Chengdu’s foreign trade.
Chengdu is the fourth major air hub in China after Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai, with 157 domestic and 74 international routes, connecting it to 108 domestic and 65 overseas destinations from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport.
The inland city has also expanded its overland connections with Europe and other parts of the world including an express freight railway that ends in Lodz, Poland.
The Chengdu-Europe express rail, opened in April 2013, carries laptops, auto parts, home appliances and other daily necessities worth millions of dollars from Chengdu to Europe once a week. Since June, the iPads produced by Foxconn’s Chengdu plant have been exported to Europe through the express rail.
Local government and operator of the rail are planning to shorten the running time from 14 days to 12 days and increase the frequency of trains to twice a week at peak season.
The express rail is also expected to operate a return route service in the second half of the year, bringing European products into China.
In April, the National port administration office agreed to set Chengdu railway port, the starting station of the Chengdu-Europe express rail, as a temporary national port, which allows Chengdu to apply for the permission to import meat and cars through the rail, according to Chengdu Customs.
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Colin Kaepernick speaks: On his new memoir and why he still wants to play in the NFL
Jarrett BellUSA TODAY
Colin Kaepernick’s voice is getting stronger.
That much is clear as the former NFL quarterback plans to announce Thursday he is writing a memoir to be released this year through his newly formed company, Kaepernick Publishing, in a partnership with Audible.
"I learned early on that in fighting against systematic oppression, dehumanization and colonization, who controls the narrative shapes the reality of how the world views society,” Kaepernick said Tuesday in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY Sports. “It controls who’s loved, who’s hated, who’s degraded and who’s celebrated.”
Kaepernick, 32, has been unsigned by NFL teams since 2017 after he protested police brutality against African Americans and other social injustices by kneeling during the national anthem the previous season as a member of the San Francisco 49ers.
His yet-to-be-named memoir should fill in the gaps of the past few years, as well as provide more insight on the motivation and methods behind his activism. Though Kaepernick has been engaged in self-empowerment efforts for black and brown people through his Know Your Rights Camps, he has rarely conducted news media interviews or been available in other public forums.
Undoubtedly, many will want to hear from Kaepernick, who despite being shunned by NFL teams has become a prominent cultural figure – especially among African Americans.
“I’ve had a lot of questions surrounding what got me to the point of protesting," he said. "Why did I do it? Why did I do it at that moment? Why wasn’t it earlier in my career? A lot of questions surrounding what led me to that point. Which led me to wanting to share that story and give insight. So I think there’s a lot of interest around it, but time will tell when the book comes out.”
To that point, Kaepernick demonstrated some humility. He chuckled when it was suggested his book could be a bestseller.
“I hope so,” he said.
If only the demand from NFL teams was so robust. After the fiasco of a hastily arranged NFL workout in Atlanta in November, Kaepernick is no closer to getting an NFL job – which is still a shame for a quarterback-needy league that often touts the virtues of meritocracy as lesser-talented prospects get opportunities.
The book and publishing company – he'll also release an audio version and content from other authors through Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon – don’t signal that Kaepernick is ready to give up hope of landing another opportunity with an NFL team. He said he sees the ventures as a parallel track to football.
After all, New England Patriots star Tom Brady has an enterprise with his TB12 book and training methods, and Seattle Seahawks phenom Russell Wilson has a production company (Why Not You Productions) with his wife, Ciara.
“My desire to play football is still there,” Kaepernick said. “I still train five days a week. I’m ready to go, I’m ready for a phone call, tryout, workout at any point in time. I’m still waiting on the owners and their partners to stop running from this situation. So I hope I get a call this offseason. I’ll be looking forward to it.”
In the meantime, he’s an impact player in a different form.
Part of his motivation for creating the publishing company, Kaepernick explained, is to create opportunities for black and brown writers, authors and creators to control their narratives and retain ownership.
“It’s not just my control over stories,” Kaepernick said. “We wanted to be able to put the power back into the hands of the people that are telling the stories and the people that are writing the stories and creating them. We didn’t want to monopolize that and hold that to ourselves. It’s something that should be distributed to the people who are putting in the work to be able to tell their stories and tell them in a genuine and authentic way."
Kaepernick may have commanded a seven-figure advance had he shopped his memoir on the market. That route would not have fulfilled Kaepernick's vision.
“I’ve always had an interest in books,” he said. “I’ve had an interest in black literature. 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' was a book that changed my life, so much that every Know Your Rights camp that we have, we give the book to all of the youth that attend. And black literature was something that was key to developing my own thoughts and ideas of how to navigate the spaces that I enter. So I not only wanted to give insight into what led me to protest through my memoir, I wanted to make sure I was able to retain the ownership over my story in the process.”
“I realized being able to control your narrative and tell your story the way you want to is very important,” Kaepernick said. “The manipulation, the colonization, the distortion of stories, narrative, history, has been done forever. This is a way for me to be able to counteract that and begin to decolonize that and centralize the narrative of not only myself but other black and brown writers and authors.
“One of the quotes that comes to mind is Malcolm X’s quote, ‘If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people that are being oppressed and loving the people that are doing the oppressing.’ He’s speaking to the control of the narrative. So for me recognizing the importance of our community being able to control our own narratives and tell our own stories, this is something I thought had to be the next steppingstone for us to properly address and identify not only how we view ourselves, view our communities and how we tell our stories but also giving the world to view us in the way that we want them to as well.”
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"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
Born Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripol on Feb. 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia
Shakira's first breakthrough was her English-language crossover album, 2001's Laundry Service, which yielded her first Top 10 hit with "Whenever, Wherever" (No. 6).
Shakira won her first career GRAMMY for 2000 for Best Latin Pop Album for MTV Unplugged. She performed her No. 1 hit "Hips Don't Lie" with Wyclef Jean at the 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2007.
Did you know? In 2014 Shakira was named the 58th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine.
Shakira was named Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year in 2011. A major portion of the net proceeds from the gala benefited Shakira's Pies Descalzos Foundation, which aims to help poor and impoverished children in Colombia.
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Now, 355 days and counting till Richmond cycling event
PONFERRADA, Spain — The UCI Road World Championships, one of the most important cycling events in the world, ended in Spain on Sunday, and the 2015 championships in Richmond are set to begin in 355 days.
For race organizers, this means that after four years of planning and preparation, now begins the real work of readying the city for the greatest road cyclists in the world, the international cycling community and the hundreds of thousands of spectators who will begin arriving in less than a year.
“All of us feel the pressure now of getting this thing done and getting it done right, because we know that our reputation is going to be on the line,” Mayor Dwight C. Jones said in Ponferrada last week.
“But more important than our reputation, it’s an opportunity for the city of Richmond to be on the world stage, and we don’t want to miss that opportunity.”
On the final day of the world championships Sunday, the men’s Elite Road Race brought out a far-larger crowd than Saturday, when an estimated 150,000 people packed into Ponferrada for the women’s race.
In what became a pattern of daily life here the past two weeks, cafes, bars and restaurants were filled with cycling fans eager to take in the racing and the sights. Afternoon rains did not seem to diminish that spirit.
But now that the world championships in Ponferrada are done, the attention of the international cycling community turns to Richmond.
Between now and Sept. 19, 2015, organizers here will have to focus on the thousands of details that must be addressed to put on an event of the size and scope of the world championships.
The event is a massive undertaking that takes thousands of people and years of preparation. It is expected to draw a crowd of nearly 500,000 and be broadcast to a worldwide audience of 300 million.
Lee Kallman, vice president of marketing for Richmond 2015, the organizing committee, said meetings with UCI officials in Ponferrada have helped set the stage for the final planning.
The organization plans to announce the schedule for the world championships in the fall, which will allow it to start finalizing plans for transportation, traffic impact, the television broadcast and sponsorships for next year.
“When we release the schedule this fall, I see that as the first step in the conversation with the public. It begins framing what the days will look like,” Kallman said. “It begins getting into what the local impact looks like, what the alternative transportation pieces are of the whole thing.”
Organizers will begin reaching out to community groups and residents in late spring to talk about the traffic impact and how to navigate through the city during the event.
And, in the next six months, it will begin announcing events planned around the world championships, including concerts and fan activities.
Brian Cookson, UCI’s president, said in Ponferrada that one year out, he is satisfied with the progress he has seen in Richmond.
“It’s looking very good. I understand details of the organization are going very well. My technical officers are working with the organizing committee very closely to make sure everything is as it should be, from the technical and safety point of view,” he said.
“We’re hearing great things and we know that we’ve got great partners in Richmond, and I’m looking for a very successful partnership.”
Organizers are not the only ones whose attention turns to Richmond now that the Ponferrada world championships are over.
International federations will begin working on their travel plans, with many making site visits to the city in coming months as they work on how to get their cyclists, equipment and officials to Richmond next year.
Six federations are already planning to visit between October and mid-November.
Marcel Berger, executive director of Mummu Sport and head of the Richmond 2015 Travel Office, said 45 of the 75 teams will have their travel arrangements confirmed by Christmas.
One team paying extra attention to the world championships in Richmond is U.S.A. Cycling.
Next year will be the first time in nearly 30 years and only the second time in the event’s history that the Worlds, as the championships are known, will be in the United States.
To help riders get ready, U.S.A. Cycling will hold a training camp in Richmond next month that will allow its cyclists to try out the courses and begin to get a feel for what’s coming next year.
Several U.S. riders in Ponferrada said racing on home soil is an honor, particularly since most of their racing is done in Europe.
“It will be something spectacular. Something amazing,” said Shelley Olds, who placed sixth in the women’s Elite Road Race on Saturday. Olds, a native of Groton, Mass., is a graduate of Roanoke College, where she played soccer.
She said having a home crowd will make a difference for a lot of riders who are used to seeing only pockets of Americans among the large European crowds.
“You know, you’ll have all your fans and family in Richmond. Especially me. I know many people will come from Roanoke who’ve supported me since college. … I have a good relationship with them, and I know they will be supportive. I know Richmond will be supportive.”
One person who has little doubt that next year’s world championships will work well in Richmond is Mike Plant.
Plant is vice president of business operations for the Atlanta Braves and founder and former president of Medalist Sports.
He is also a UCI board member and a prime mover in helping Richmond land the world championships in 2011.
In his role with Medalist Sports, he helped operate the Tour de Pont. He said Richmond was always one of the best stops on the tour, drawing huge crowds each time the event was in town.
Medalist is the race operator for the Richmond world championships. Plant is no longer part of the company.
Plant said last week that when he was approached about the possibility of Richmond bidding for the world championships, he told Tim Miller, now chief operating officer of Richmond 2015, that he would get behind the effort if the bid was solid.
He told Miller that “if you put the right people together, and we can put a bid together that I really have some confidence that we can deliver, I’ll support it and I’ll do what I have to do to get the votes.”
“There’s no doubt the city will support it, the region and the state will support it. The geography is good as far as being close to Europe on that side of the U.S.,” Plant said last week.
While the world championships in Richmond are still a year away, looking back at the past nine days here in Ponferrada, one can see why expectations for Richmond are so high.
Across the city these past few days, hotels, restaurants and shops were filled most of the time. Residents were out at the rails for every race, with children on break from school joining young families, professionals and seniors.
Tourists poured in and took over huge stretches of this economically strapped city.
Shots of Ponferrada and its countryside were beamed to hundreds of millions of people across the globe who had never heard of this tiny city in northwest Spain.
For residents of this city looking to make a name for itself in the world, that was a much-needed shot in the arm economically and spiritually.
The Richmond region is a far larger place, and not nearly as many Europeans are expected in the U.S. as are in Spain.
But cycling officials, riders and observers agree that there is enough of an interest in – and hunger for – cycling in America that the Richmond event will draw similar – or larger – crowds and help take cycling to a whole new level in the U.S.
“We are at the point now where it’s no longer an idea or a concept,” said Mayor Jones. “The race is coming. We’re next up. We’ve got to make sure everything is in its place. To make sure we put the plan into place.”
Thousands crowd Ponferrada for women's cycling title
In a preview of what's coming to Richmond next year, tens of thousands of spectators took to the streets. With women's competition finished, the men compete Sunday.
Richmond mayor briefed by Ponferrada officials
PONFERRADA, Spain — Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones met with Ponferrada officials for two hours Friday for a briefing on how the Spanish city prepared for the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
Richmonders pitch 2015 cycling races in a medieval castle
The top American road cyclists in the world brought rush hour in a section of Ponferrada to a near standstill this morning and they were nowhere near their bikes.
Photo op herds U.S. cyclists
PONFERRADA, Spain — The top American road cyclists in the world brought rush hour in Ponferrada to a near standstill Thursday morning, and they were nowhere near their bikes.
Will European cycling fans come to Richmond in 2015?
Event organizers expect Richmond to draw a crowd that matches those in Europe, but the cost of getting to RVA is far higher.
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By Richard Bienstock 14 January 2021
“Buy it or don't, I don't really care,” Scott says
(Image credit: JHS Pedals)
The Klon Centaur, originally developed by Bill Finnegan, is among the most mythical and coveted overdrive pedals in the gear world, not to mention one of the most expensive – originals can go for thousands on the resale market.
On occasion, they can even sell for much more. JHS Pedals owner Josh Scott is currently selling Klon Centaur #2 on Reverb.com for the whopping price of $500,000. And while it’s worth noting that his pedal is identified as #2, it’s actually the first ever to be built and sold, as Finnegan set aside #1 for himself and constructed it at a later date.
“You know what it is. If you want the best Klon, it's this Klon,” Scott writes in the listing. He goes on to defend the asking price, explaining, “Because of the prices lately here on the Reverb, I think this is a fair price for what it is.”
He continues, “I only took one picture because that's good enough. What you see is what you get, no box, nothing, just the pedal. The pedal will be hand-delivered by me, in-person to anywhere on earth for free. Allow 30 days for me to clear my schedule and get it to you from the date of purchase.”
Indicating that he may not be entirely serious about that asking price, Scott concludes, “Buy it or don't, I don't really care.”
To purchase Scott’s Klon Centaur – or not – head over to Reverb.
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Tim Bogert, bassist for Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and Beck, Bogert & Appice, dies aged 76
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In Turkey, Twitter Is the Enemy of the People
Turkish parliament passed a law that would force social media giants to hand over user history, delete posts and more. But unlike previous laws, this one has a connection to Erdogan's foe Fethullah Gulen
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoganCredit:
The countdown on continued operation of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube in Turkey began on Thursday evening, after the Turkish parliament passed a law to supervise social media. According to the law, all foreign social media platforms with over a million daily users will have to appoint a representative in Turkey as a liaison between the government and the platform.
The goal is to shorten the process for removing content so that within 48 hours from the moment the Turkish Communications Ministry approaches a platform to take down content, it must do so. The government can ask for and receive, among other things, the history of specific users of social media platforms and also delete histories without explanation. A platform that does not fulfill these conditions will be fined up to $4.3 million, will not be able to post advertising and its bandwidth will be reduced gradually up to 90 percent.
The law, based on a similar law passed in Germany intended to fight hate content, murder threats and rape, gives the platforms until October 1 to comply with its demands. It sets five stages for implementation, with non-compliance of each stage linked to increasingly high fines and far-reaching sanctions up to the maximum.
Thus Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan completes his takeover of Turkish media in the wake of a 2018 law passed to oversee social media, through the appointment of 2,700 “supervisors” who follow more than 45 million users of social media platforms. According to a new report published by the International Free Expression Project, by 2019, some 450,000 websites were shut down, 130,000 URL addresses were deleted and 7,000 Twitter accounts were removed, as were tens of thousands of tweets, YouTube clips and posts.
But in contrast to the previous law, the government will no longer need to submit a demand to block users, it can simply do so by administrative order. The new demand to delete browsers’ histories stems from the desire to protect mainly leaders and senior government officials from embarrassing or incriminating information, such as photos where such senior officials are seen in the company of the exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, who was once Erdogan’s ally but is now his bitter rival, defined as a terrorist and an enemy of the state, or reports of corruption in which Erdogan’s associates and even his family are allegedly involved.
The law also bans government officials from using WhatsApp or Telegram to send official documents or official information, and government ministries must open a new application for this purpose. Social media users can console themselves that the new law is more “moderate” than the previously proposed version which would have required all users to have a special identity number from the government to enter any platform.
This clause might well show up again in one of the next laws, which seems inevitable. That’s because Turkish users of social media are looking for ways to get around the restrictions, mainly by using VPN, although the existing laws prohibit internet providers from using a long list of private alternative social media platforms.
Turkish Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen sits at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, United States, March 15, 2014.Credit: AP
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The new law presents a serious dilemma to social media giants like Facebook and Twitter, which will have to decide whether to obey the law, thus joining Erdogan’s campaign against freedom of expression, or pull their business from Turkey, a step that could cause them huge losses.
At the same time, Turkey continues to benefit from the indifference of European countries to his persecution of freedom of expression and human rights activists. At the beginning of July a court in Istanbul convicted the honorary president of Amnesty International in Turkey, Taner Kilic, and the director of the Turkish branch of the organization, Idil Eser, of membership in and abetting a terror organization. Messages were found from members of the group that were sent by the application Bylock, which the authorities claim is used mainly by supporters of Fethullah Gulen, whose organization, as noted, is defined as a terror group.
The trial, which human rights groups called “shameful,” did earn censure by the European Union. But in 2016, following the failed rebellion in Turkey, the EU took no steps as thousands of human rights activists were arrested and jailed, hundreds of judges were dismissed and about 150,000 public servants were fired. So it seems that this time as well, the EU is not exactly the address for complaints about suffocating the web and social media.
This is where the paradox lies in Turkey’s application to join the EU. The EU requires Turkey to meet European standards as a basic condition of membership in that prestigious club. But as long as it acts like a Middle Eastern Arab country in terms of human rights, it will continue to wait outside the door. Actually, though, if the EU does decide to make Turkey a member, it will apparently have powerful leverage to demand that Turkey follow its rules.
The result is that damage to human rights, freedom of expression and damage to the justice system in Turkey will serve the EU as a convenient pretext to keep an Islamic state from penetrating the organization. This is at a time when an “enlightened” member state like Viktor Orban’s Hungary – where the definition of democracy is taken from an entirely different lexicon than that of Europe – dismisses the basic principles of the EU as “leftist liberalism” and uses methods of fighting the media and political opponents that resemble those of Erdogan.
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Feds see 50 million tests per month by September
Katie LannanState House News Service
BOSTON -- Federal health officials expect to ramp up COVID-19 testing capabilities to the point that 40 million to 50 million tests can be conducted per month by September, but Dr. Anthony Fauci classified it as "a bridge too far" to imagine a vaccine or treatment playing a role in bringing students back to college and K-12 campuses this fall.
Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and other top doctors testified before a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday, where he warned of "really serious" consequences and "little spikes that would turn into outbreaks" if states and cities try to reopen economic activity before they've experienced sustained declines in COVID-19.
Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday broadly outlined a four-phased approach to reopening the Massachusetts economy, and an advisory board he convened is slated to produce a full plan by May 18.
Fauci said that even if states pursue reopening at an "appropriate pace" that matches the local dynamics of the contagious disease, their ability to respond to future cases will be what determines "whether you can continue to go forward as you try to reopen America."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Robert Redfield said testing, early identification and isolation of new cases, contact tracing and social distancing are all important parts of slowing the spread of COVID-19.
"Rapid, extensive and widely available, timely testing is essential for reopening America," Redfield said.
Increasing state, local and tribal contact tracing capacity is also "critical," he said.
Redfield said the CDC is working on a disease surveillance program that will look at asymptomatic infections and vulnerable populations, like people in long-term care facilities or those who are homeless.
Long-term care centers, including nursing homes, have been a major hotspot for COVID-19 cases in deaths both in Massachusetts and nationally. More than 3,000 people in Massachusetts long-term care facilities have died of COVID-19, representing 60 percent of the 5,108 fatalities that had been reported as of Monday.
Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire asked Fauci what steps should be taken to protect nursing home residents, asking if the mask requirements and daily testing in place at the White House should be implemented in long-term care settings.
"I think there should be a system in place for the optimal protection of people in nursing homes, and that would not necessarily be testing every person every day," Fauci replied. "That's one approach that might not be practical when you think of all the nursing homes in the country, but very strict regulations and guidelines about who is allowed to go into the nursing home, and the staff, I believe, needs to be monitored very carefully with intermittent testing to be sure that we don't have introduction into the nursing home of infected individuals."
Since March 12, more than 9 million COVID-19 tests have been performed in America, said Admiral Brett Giroir, a pediatrician who serves as assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Giroir said states and territories established a collective goal of conducting 12.9 million tests over the next few weeks, and, to support that effort, the federal government plans to ship out 12.9 million testing swabs in May.
He projected that by September, there will be national capacity to conduct "at least 40 to 50 million tests per month if needed at that time," and said that number could be higher depending on new technologies.
As of Monday afternoon, a total of 394,728 tests had been performed in Massachusetts, and Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday that the state has been "on a global hunt for swabs" to make sure community health centers, hospitals and other providers have the tools they need as testing ramps up.
Redfield, Fauci, and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, all members of the White House coronavirus task force, each appeared via video before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The three men are in versions of self-quarantine after possible exposure to COVID-19.
Fauci said that as an essential worker, his quarantine is different from the strict model most people have become familiar with. He said he was at the White House on Monday and "will likely perhaps even be there today."
Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, who chairs the committee and also participated by video from his home, asked Fauci and Giroir what they'd say to college administrators and school principals "about how to persuade parents and students to return to school in August."
Fauci said that while vaccine development is happening at a "top speed," he doesn't see it playing into efforts to return to campuses and classrooms in the fall.
"The idea of having treatments or a vaccine to facilitate the reentry of students into the fall term would be something that would be a bit of a bridge too far," he said.
Giroir said testing strategies on college campuses will depend on what community spread of COVID-19 is like at the time, but that a campus would "technically" have the ability to test all its students. Surveillance strategies that involve testing groups of students at different times are more likely, he said.
Giroir also said there are other strategies and experimental approaches that need validation, like pooling samples so that one test can be used on multiple samples, or testing the wastewater from a dorm to see if the sewage contains the coronavirus.
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Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized
"Buddhist doctrines about meditation, compassion, and well-being have begun to greatly enrich the scientific study of the human mind--but we have long needed a careful analysis of the philosophical merits of these ideas. In The Bodhisattva's Brain, Flanagan has delivered it in fine style. This is an unusually wise and useful book." -- Sam Harris, author of the New York Times best sellers, The Moral Landscape, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The End of Faith -- Sam Harris "What has Buddhism to teach us about human flourishing? What has neuroscience to teach us both about human flourishing and about the claims of Buddhism? Owen Flanagan's adventurous and intriguing pursuit of answers to these questions is matched by the impressive ingenuity of his attempts to accommodate those answers to the commitments of scientific naturalism." -- Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After Virtue and Whose Justice? Which Rationality? -- Alasdair MacIntyre "In this masterpiece of insight and clarity, Flanagan takes us on a profound but still personal journey, as he contrasts philosophies of life held by Westerners and those held by Buddhists. Ever true to the path that logic carves, shrewdly sensitive to the human search for happiness, and with a unique accumulation of knowledge, Flanagan has given us something very new: comparative neurophilosophy." -- Patricia S. Churchland, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego -- Patricia Churchland
"...if you are interested in current debates at the interface between religion, science and moral philosophy, there is much in this book that will engage you." -- Rupert Gethin, Times Higher Education "Brilliant...Flanagan brings much needed clarity, insight and sophistication to the debate." -- Julian Baggini, The Observer "I can't recommend this book enough. It's thoughtful in the best sense of the word. It you're a Buddhist (or someone leaning towards Buddhism) who likes to wrestle with philosophical issues, it will help you to think things through more clearly. If you are a Buddhist who is inclined toward Naturalism, it's always nice to find another ally. Best of all, it's fun to read." -- Seth Segall, The Existential Buddhist "It is true that science has yet to produce good explanations of consciousness, value and free will. The suggestion brought to the fore by Flanagan -- that Buddhism may be a source of insight in these areas -- is a welcome and tantalizing one." -- Nature "[T]he most important question may be whether the cultivation of Buddhist virtues will lead to the sort of happiness that comes with the sense that...life has meaning and value...Flanagan has many insightful things to say about this claim." -- The Philosopher's Magazine "Owen Flanagan writes with warmth, wisdom and wit. The Bodhisattva's Brain is a milestone of cosmopolitan thought and should be read widely by philosophers, cognitive scientists, theologians and anyone concerned with human flourishing and the meaning of life."-- Times Literary Supplement "a trailblazing work which opens up new horizons for exciting comparative work in philosophy and psychology." -- Mind "Scholars and cognoscenti of Buddhism may find this a somewhat frustrating book; but all interested in Buddhism may read it and find discussions of interest and value...Above all, Flanagan has put on the table the issue of what a naturalized Buddhism is. If Buddhism is to move into the West significantly, I think it will have to go this way. The book, then, opens the way for many important future debates." -- Philosophical Quarterly
Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of Consciousness Reconsidered and The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World, both published by the MIT Press, and other books.
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History Faculty Collaborate on Online Modules
Students Learn Essential Skills from Coordinated Department Resources
Sarah Mulhall Adelman, Joseph M. Adelman, Lori Gemeiner Bihler, Maria Alessandra Bollettino, and Stefan Papaioannou | Dec 16, 2019
Introductory college history courses must address a critical, if sometimes conflicting, set of priorities. We want to introduce majors to the work of the discipline and prepare them for upper-level work. At the same time, we hope to instill specific lessons and skills in a mostly general education audience of nonmajors, most of whom are taking their first and (despite our best efforts) last college-level history course. And, of course, we also have historical content to cover. That’s a lot for a single semester, and all the more so because students arrive in our classrooms with varying skill levels. Some have worked extensively with primary sources in high school, but others can’t define the term. Some have been introduced to historiography and the concept of history as a conversation and debate, and others think they’re going to spend fifteen weeks memorizing names, dates, and places. How can we get all of these students on the same page, ready for the work they will do, and still have time to explore conversations about the past?
Online modules do not replace our work in the classroom but rather serve as a springboard for and supplement to it. Joseph M. Adelman.
In the Framingham State University history department, we have become converts to the use of online modules to introduce and reinforce historical thinking and writing skills. With funding and support from the university’s Center for Academic Success and Achievement, we worked in collaboration with one another and our university’s Education Technology Office to create a set of online modules that reside on the university’s learning management system (such as Blackboard or Canvas). Each module comprises a 20- to 30-minute presentation, narrated by one of us, with an accompanying slideshow. A brief multiple-choice quiz accompanies each module, which faculty can choose to use to assess student engagement with the modules and to further discussion of history skills. These modules have helped us make great strides in bringing students up to speed on how to do work in history courses and have also helped us create a unified message as a department. They do not replace our work in the classroom but rather serve as a springboard for and supplement to it.
The six modules cover a variety of vital historical thinking and writing skills:
Introduction to History: What Is It, Why Study It, and How to Succeed in Class
How to Read a Primary Source
Understanding Secondary Sources
Writing an Effective History Paper
Writing about History . . . in Your Own Words: or, “What Is Plagiarism and How to Avoid It”
Citing Sources Using the Chicago Manual of Style
In developing these new online modules, a single faculty member took the lead to draft a script and slideshow for each module, and then we (the authors, plus our colleague Bridgette Sheridan) worked together to revise and refine them all. This stage provided one of the unexpected benefits of the project. We learned a considerable amount about our colleagues’ pedagogy and terminology, and our discussions have helped us align and improve our collective presentation of these concepts, both in the modules and in our classrooms.
The modules have helped us make great strides in bringing students up to speed on how to do work in history courses and have helped us create a unified message as a department.
For several years, our department tried teaching similar lessons during in-person sessions, but both students and faculty struggled to fit these workshops into their busy schedules. Additionally, scheduling sessions for the start of the “spring” semester in New England often led to snow-related headaches. Placing these workshops online offered numerous advantages over the in-person iterations. First and foremost, it’s now much easier for students to complete the workshops, especially at a campus with a large number of students who commute, work, or have other commitments off campus. The completion rate increased significantly compared to an earlier in-person version of the workshops (from 65–75% to 80–90%). Even better, students have found the online modules more helpful than their predecessors did the live workshops. In end-of-semester surveys, they report much higher satisfaction with the modules and report that the modules clearly connect to course materials. The modules also provide much better service to our online students, a significant number of whom rarely, if ever, come to campus and for whom an in-person workshop was simply a nonstarter.
The flexibility offered by online modules also makes them more useful and relevant for students. Faculty members can choose which modules to include in each course and introduce skills at a point appropriate to their course syllabus. Some of us, for example, begin our introductory courses with more primary sources and introduce secondary sources at mid-semester. Some emphasize writing assignments to a greater degree. We have variable policies about which citation style students should employ. Now we can place a module at the point where it makes the most sense, rather than introducing everything to students all at once regardless of how an individual course operates. And we can use only those modules relevant to the course—most of us, in fact, do not assign all six in any one course. Because the modules are always available, students can also return to relevant presentations when they need to. For example, students seem to do repeat work with the modules on writing papers and on citation (each averages over two views per student), and we as faculty are able to refer students to modules that might help them individually.
We expected or hoped for those results, but the modules have also worked in unanticipated ways. Though we designed them for an audience of students taking their first-ever history course, many of us make the modules available as an option in upper-level courses for majors, and those students also report using modules at a high rate for skills reinforcement (again, the Chicago Manual presentation is very popular). We can also reinforce very specific points during upper-level classes by queueing short clips during class sessions for discussion or elaboration, without requiring that they watch the whole thing again. In this way, we reinforce that we expect students to build upon and revisit these concepts across their college careers—and that all history faculty are in agreement. To our delight, the modules have also proven helpful in enabling transfer students, those returning from a leave of absence, and others who have been away from history coursework for some time to reengage with the discipline and its practices.
Collaboration has been an especially helpful part of the process because it prompted us to have focused conversations about pedagogy and skills.
Based on our experience, we’d encourage other departments to explore the creation of online modules to address common skills. Collaboration has been an especially helpful part of the process because it prompted us to have focused conversations about pedagogy and skills. It also helped us standardize our language and the language in the modules to prepare our majors and other students for additional coursework. For departments that choose to pursue similar modules, we have found that they are most effective with specific direct tie-ins and follow-ups in class sessions. Among our faculty, typical tie-ins include reviewing the results of assessment quizzes with students during class, rewatching clips for skills that have proven difficult for a group of students to master, and referencing one or more modules in an assignment prompt.
We’ve also learned about several limitations of this model. In the first version of the modules, the software application did not permit as much interactive learning as we would like. Recent changes to the software now permit us to embed questions within the videos. We are now exploring this option in the hope that it will encourage students to be more attentive to the tutorials themselves. Through the fall 2018 semester, only about half of students watched the modules all the way through (though that includes the upper-level students who were more likely to drop in for refreshers). An interactive module would be considerably more useful by engaging students in what they are learning and assessing their progress as they go along. And of course, doing these modules does not eliminate the need for in-class work to review and reinforce these lessons.
That said, we encourage faculty in other departments to consider using brief, skills-based online workshops for introductory courses and as a supplemental resource for upper-division courses. The workshops serve as a way to bring students up to a basic level of proficiency, regardless of their high school history experience. For larger departments, and especially those with significant turnover in instructors, these modules offer the opportunity to provide a consistent language among faculty, as well as creating meaningful collaboration and a recalibration of department objectives. Having that common set of terms and thinking can help an onboarding faculty member catch up quickly with the norms and expectations of the department. And the collaborative process has value on its own. This work has greatly enriched the conversations in our department about teaching introductory courses in a variety of ways beyond these modules.
Sarah Mulhall Adelman, Joseph M. Adelman, Lori Gemeiner Bihler, Maria Alessandra Bollettino, and Stefan Papaioannou are associate professors of history at Framingham State University, whose areas of research are family and childhood in the United States, early American politics and communication, Jewish immigration, war and slavery in the Atlantic world, and the early twentieth-century Balkans, respectively.
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TV review: Stellar cast jazzes up Netlfix’s ‘The Eddy’
Al Alexander More Content Now
Add Damien Chazelle to the list of Oscar-winning directors dipping their toes into the TV stream, as the 35-year-old Rhode Islander enters the swirling, jazzy waves of “The Eddy.” It’s merely a splash, though; helming just the first two of eight episodes in the Netflix series about a nightclub owner under assault by thugs, police and - worst of all - a brooding teenage daughter whose dire efforts to connect with him are too often met by indifference.
The show, which begins streaming May 8, is much akin to Chazelle’s breakthrough film, “Whiplash,” in which the conflicts are not just set to a seductive jazz score, they ARE jazz: dreamy, fluid and capable of changing directions at the drop of a note. It keeps you on edge, running the scales and riffing on everything from domestic squabbles to murder and intrigue. And what a fine group Chazelle has assembled to play along, most notably Joanna Kulig, the golden-voiced chanteuse from 2018’s Oscar-nominated “Cold War,” and Andre Holland, the smoldering hunk from the film that must still give Chazelle nightmares, “Moonlight.”
They play estranged lovers flailing to keep their failed romance and work separate; he the co-owner of the middling Paris jazz club, The Eddy, and she the temperamental lead singer for the joint’s not-ready-for-prime-time house band. Theirs is very much one of those Sam-and-Diane things where the only two people unaware they belong together is them. But both are stubborn, especially Holland’s Elliot, a celebrated master of the jazz piano - think Chick Corea or Keith Jarrett - who dropped out of the New York scene and sought exile in France. In essence, he’s an (African) American in Paris, a place where he can maintain a low profile, yet remains susceptible to the occasional die-hard fan asking if he’ll ever make a comeback.
Even his savvy business partner, Farid (Tahar Rahim, star of the classic film, “A Prophet”) tugs at his sleeve to acquiesce and join the house band in hopes of attracting more customers. But Elliot isn’t having it, especially now that he’s been tasked with guardianship of his recovering-addict daughter, Julie (“The Hate U Give’s” Amandla Stenberg), who has long since worn out her welcome with her mother back in New York.
Holland is terrific at communicating the weight-of-the-world exhaustion heaped upon his character, yet never sacrifices the aura of hip/cool grandeur enveloping him. Just the way he violently sucks on the stub of a cigarette tells you how strong and confident Elliot is. The opening episode introduces him along with his many foibles. You shouldn’t like him - he’s surly, egotistical and often unpleasant - but you do, and that’s all Holland, best known for playing the adult Kevin in “Moonlight,” the film you’ll remember that first lost to Chazelle’s “La La Land” for Best Picture in 2017, then won after it became clear Faye Dunaway botched the presentation.
By the end of that first hour, capped by a shocking crime committed just outside The Eddy, you’re as hooked on the show as you are the song, also titled “The Eddy,” Elliot and Kulig’s Maja hammer out piece by little piece over the course of the episode. Like much of the music in “The Eddy,” it’s actually penned by Randy Kerber and Glen Ballard, the producer of Alanis Morissette’s Grammy-winning “Jagged Little Pill.” Their compositions are caviar for the ears, most of it played live on film to enhance the you-are-there feeling Chazelle aims to provoke.
It’s almost as dizzying as the jittery hand-held, 16mm photography, which like a sugared-up 5-year-old can’t stay still, swirling and jerking to and fro, often performing a head-spinning 360 to give you a full sweep of whatever room you’re in. There’s even a chaotic chase in which the camera stays just behind Holland as he runs after a mysterious figure he’s certain wants to harm him or his daughter. It just might be the first TV segment requiring Dramamine to negotiate.
It’s also neat how the multi-lingual series seeks to play with the idea of all the main characters being Paris transplants: Elliot and Julie from the U.S.; Maja from Poland and Farid from Algeria. Just like jazz, an art form born in the U.S. but long since appropriated by Parisians, the core four are afloat in alienation and a struggle to fit in. It’s quite compelling, as is the decision to locate the club in one of Paris’ dodgier, non-white neighborhoods instead of the more tourist-friendly enclaves.
Alas, in episode 2 all that rarefied air escapes when the focus shifts from Elliot toward spoiled-brat Julie. Nothing against Stenberg, it’s more the fault of series scribe Jack Thorne (the smash film “Wonder”) getting needlessly bogged down in the psychodramas typical of a rebellious teenage girl. It’s all rather cliché and even a filmmaker as talented as Chazelle can’t find a path around it.
It worries me that Netflix is only making these first two Chazelle-directed episodes available to the press. Might this initially promising series be headed toward a flop? And, will it stupidly fall prey to the rote father-daughter conflict in lieu of the vastly more interesting dynamic between Elliot and Maja? Only time will tell, but I fear “The Eddy” will be revealed as less a masterpiece and more of just the same old jazz.
Al Alexander may be reached at alexandercritica@aol.com.
Cast includes Andre Holland, Joanna Kulig, Amandla Stenberg and Tahar Rahim. Premiering on Netflix on Friday, May 1.
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'What's My Name | Muhammad Ali': Film Review | Tribeca 2019
6:00 AM PDT 4/29/2019 by Caryn James
An idealized but vivid and fascinating portrait of a career. TWITTER
Antoine Fuqua's archival film documents Muhammad Ali’s public life as boxing champ and cultural hero.
Watching Antoine Fuqua's archival documentary about the career of Muhammad Ali is like entering a time capsule. What’s My Name is a chronological account that uses Ali’s own voice and image from talk shows, press conferences and interviews, in clips that range from famous moments, used sparingly, to the unfamiliar. How many of us have seen Ali riding a horse at his training camp?
This two-part HBO film sharply defines why Ali was such an important figure in American life, a great heavyweight boxing champion whose presence came to include celebrity culture, race and politics. You couldn’t call the film a biography, though. It only covers his public life, without even a benign mention of his four wives, nine children or various romantic escapades. Produced with the cooperation of the Ali estate, the film makes no attempt to go beyond hagiography. What it lacks in depth and rigor, though, it makes up for with the wealth of fascinating photographs and videos, compiled without narration and with a graceful flow. Ali was well-documented in his lifetime, and the film carries us into his career as he so knowingly created it, with purpose inside the ring and with gleeful and wildly successful image-making and cultivation of fame outside it.
Many scenes from his early career are in black-and-white. As Cassius Clay, he suddenly became famous when he won an Olympic gold medal in 1960. Then he returned home and, as he tells a television interviewer, was refused service at a segregated restaurant. The film smoothly sets up those two strands of his career — sports and social awareness — which are never really separate after.
Of Fuqua’s many tension and action-filled movies, from Training Day to the Equalizer films, the most relevant is Southpaw, with Jake Gyllenhaal as a boxer who won’t quit. What’s My Name is much less bloody, but Fuqua’s affection for boxing is obvious, and he includes extended sequences from Ali’s fights. At times the punches and rope-a-dope beatings speak for themselves, but Fuqua always cleverly layers those scenes with blow-by-blow commentary from the match, or music or even Ali himself reciting poetry as he sometimes did. That audio layering makes the scenes accessible for non-boxing fans. And the period music sets the tone of Ali’s time, with a soundtrack that includes "I'm a Man" and "Stand by Me."
The film fills in some valuable social context, particularly about the backdrop to Ali’s well-known defiance of the military draft for religious reasons, in 1967, at the height of his career. He had joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. The Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad was his mentor and Malcolm X cheered him on at ringside. As a glimpse of government documents shows, the FBI kept tabs on the Nation of Islam as a dangerous group. Considering how this resonates with racism and anti-Muslim hostility today, the film could have gone further into that area, but Fuqua’s sleek approach is to keep moving forward.
Charged with draft evasion, Ali was stripped of his title, and lost three years of his career. By the time the Supreme Court granted him conscientious objector status, he had to make a comeback, which became the story. At that point the film begins to reveal how deliberately the narrative of Muhammad Ali took shape, with the media a willing cohort. Howard Cosell, of ABC Sports, blares that Ali is "a faded hero of yesteryear," to which Ali responds, "Howard, every time you open your mouth you should be arrested for air pollution." They are as smooth as any comedy duo hitting their lines.
Clips like those, including Ali’s appearances with talk show hosts ranging from Steve Allen to Arsenio Hall, capture why his bravado was so entertaining. Even his fiercest political statements took on a playful tone, no matter how angry the sentiment underneath. "White men" from the USSR and the U.S. were equally "bad," he said, so let’s keep them from fighting each other, because if they go to war black men will suffer the consequences.
Norman Mailer, who covered the "Rumble in the Jungle," Ali’s world championship fight against Joe Frazier in Zaire in 1974, had once said Ali was the second most important American after Richard Nixon. Asked by a reporter if he’d want to be president, Ali answered, "America is in too much trouble! I don’t want that job now."
It is harrowing to watch the sad end of his career, as he retired, came back and retired again. Fuqua lets us see the brutal pummeling he took from Leon Spinks during that period, the rope-a-dope no longer something he could withstand. "I think time got me," Ali said after.
When Ali begins to show signs of Parkinson’s, the film rushes along. There is much less footage from the period to draw on, although we see famous scenes of him at the 1996 Olympics, one hand holding the torch and the other shaking, 20 years before he died. There is a bit of a 60 Minutes interview in which Ali’s wife (not even identified as his wife here and the only hint of family in the film) helps him prank Ed Bradley into thinking Ali has a form of narcolepsy.
With montages of Ali meeting the Pope and Nelson Mandela, and newspaper headlines about donations to help fight poverty in Africa, What's My Name is undeniably an exercise in image-burnishing (not that Ali’s already heroic image needs it). But this smartly crafted film holds you all the way.
Production companies: Sutter Road Picture Company, Fuqua Films, SpringHill Entertainment
Distributor: HBO
Screenwriter: Steven Leckart
Producer: Sean Stuart
Director of photography: Maz Makhani
Editor: Jake Pushinsky
Composer: Marcelo Zarvos
Venue: Tribeca Film Festival (Spotlight Documentary)
Caryn James
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Norma Monty '42
Norma Monty '42 was inducted into the Fine & Performing Arts Hall of Fame in 2010. During her years at AHA, Norma rounded out her education with a wide variety of activities. She was a member of the drama club, the Gay Pretenders, all four years and served as president in her senior year. She began her acting career in sophomore year with a role in The Rise of Silas Lapham and by junior year had the role of Rip himself in the drama Rip Van Winkle. Norma acted in two dramas her senior year with roles in Quality Street and The Taming of the Shrew. She also produced and directed a series of skits that were performed for the student body. She was a member of the Glee Club for four years. Her involvement on campus however was not restricted to the arts. She was on the staff of Echoes 1942. She was the secretary of Le Cercle Francais (French Club). She joined the Athletic Association, Sodality, Camera Club, Chemistry Club and was on the Executive Board of the School Spirit Organization (SSO).
Norma pursued her Bachelor’s degree at the College of St. Elizabeth and received a Master’s with honors from Columbia University. She completed 75 Doctoral credits at New York University in TV and Film Drama. Norma also attained Doctoral credits for Curriculum Development & Supervision at both Columbia University and Rutgers University. Norma’s path to success began in New York City when she became a copy editor at Denhard, Pfeiffer and Wells. She then became a teacher of English on the high school level and taught in the following New Jersey high schools: Matawan, Fallsburg and Middletown Twp. At Middletown, Norma was the English Department chairperson for 19 years and during her tenure, the school opened its first tv studio,implemented a film production course, an integrated Humanities with English, Creative Writing and Journalism. She published her curriculum initiatives in the English Journal. Norma then moved on to Edison Twp School district where she wrote and guided curriculum development for grades 7-12 and was responsible for the supervision of 150 teachers in six secondary schools.
After resigning from a very successful career in education, Norma joined her sister Gloria in California on the set of General Hospital as a writer. She would eventually become the Head Writer for the hit daytime series where she remained for ten years. Norma also served as Assistant Producer as well as Associate Producer. The writing team was recognized with three Emmy nominations for writing. Norma and Gloria together created the characters Luke & Laura and Anna & Duke that kept viewers captivated and coming back for more every afternoon. Norma especially remembers the day that John Stamos came in for a casting call. She saw real potential and convinced them to cast him as Blackie. Norma is so proud of that moment and how that one decision catapulted him to success.
Norma reflects over her career “Life is a series of choices and experiences. Education was fascinating, I enjoyed being a writer and I worked very hard.”
Norma passed away on July 3, 2012.
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We wish Happy New Year to our many subscribers. This issue comes to you from Scottsdale, where I am completing the last days of a much-needed vacation. This is usually one of the quieter times of the year. This year, I am not so sure.
We officially welcome John Ewell to our coverage team. John was admitted to the Bar this week but has been working with us for some months as he awaited formal admission. We are delighted to have him with us.
In this issue, the first of the 2017 year, we already have our first “Thousands Flee” case. For our newest subscribers, we use that phrase in the headlines when we feel a decision is so wrong that it would cause reasonable lawyers and claims professionals to run and hide. This one involves an assault, a shooting, where the civil complaint alleged only assault. The Third Department found a duty to defend, even though none of the allegations and nothing from outside the pleading, suggested that this was anything but an intentional assault. That’s the Guzy case.
We were also troubled by the First Department’s decision in 76-01 37th Ave. Realty Corp. v. Dongbu Ins. Co. which found that an insurer was obligated to both defend and indemnify a purported additional insured based on the allegations in the complaint against it. Indemnity should be based on the facts found, not the allegations. The allegations govern the duty to defend and not the duty to indemnify. However, we did not know enough about the facts in this case to add the “Thousands Flee” distinction. We have seen some other courts say the same thing but frankly, we take issue with deciding indemnity based on allegations.
Coverage Lawyers Wanted:
Hurwitz & Fine is looking to add experienced coverage lawyers to its growing team in Buffalo, Albany and Metro New York. Interested? Send me a note ([email protected]) or call, confidentially (716-849-8942). What constitutes a coverage lawyer? If you’re asking, it may not be you!
Jen’s Gems:
Greetings! Today I write from warm and foggy Buffalo. When I got up this morning, my husband informed me that overnight it was warmer in Buffalo than Laguna Beach, California. It does seem as if global warming may really benefit Buffalo.
In terms of my column, this week I report on an interesting case out of the trial court in Tompkins County. For those not overly familiar with New York geography, Ithaca (where Cornell University is located) is in Tompkins County. The issue was an exclusion which removed coverage for “bodily injury or property damage arising out of structural alterations which involve changing the size of or moving buildings or other structures, new construction or demolition operations performed by or on behalf of the named insured.” In the underlying matter, an employee of the roofing company retained by the insured to remove and replace the roof was injured. The question considered by the trial court was whether the phrase “demolition operations” applied to any gutting/removal type work at the site or whether it meant, as argued by the insured, the complete razing or tearing down of a structure. In considering this question, the court found that the exclusion was not clear and that the carrier had failed to establish that its interpretation was the only reasonable one.
The decision is interesting because it illustrates the burden placed on a carrier when trying to enforce a policy exclusion. Under New York law, an exclusion from coverage must be specific and clear in order to be enforced, and an ambiguity in an exclusionary clause must be construed most strongly against the insurer. Thus, to meet its burden, the insurer must establish that its construction of the exclusionary clause is the only one that could fairly be placed upon it.
Well, hope everyone is having a pleasant new year. Until next week…
Hope They Aren’t Still Looking or She’d Be Missing for 100 Years:
The Kansas City Sun
CHILD RAN AWAY
Mary Ellen Ridley ran away from her home Tuesday morning, December 26. I think she went to the Mayor’s Christmas tree Tuesday afternoon and was last seen on 12th street, going east. She is 11 years old and looks like an Italian. She wore a red stocking cap, tan shoes and a short coat. If anyone knows her whereabouts please notify a relative at 1110 Michigan Ave.
Editor’s Note: Actually they did find her and she eventually married and settled down in KC. I wonder what an Italian might look like?
Tessa’s Tutelage:
In accordance with my New Year’s Resolution to be more organized, I tried to get ahead of schedule and drafted my letter to you all early. Unfortunately, I wrote my whole letter about the continuing search for the new Buffalo Bills head coach. As soon as I finished my letter I looked at my phone and realized a coach had just been selected. So, I am re-writing this letter to you under the gun. That being said, I am pretty excited for the new head coach. Welcome to Buffalo, Sean McDermott, show us what you can do. (Please refrain from getting a Bills tattoo until we make the playoffs)
In the world of no-fault the First Department has given us some pretty consistent and logical decisions. The first involves a defendant who failed to provide its Answer to a Complaint, and the second involves the standard for overturning an Arbitrator’s decision.
I hope your New Year’s Resolutions are treating you well,
My best,
Tessa R. Scott
Unions Say Mandatory Insurance is Undemocratic – 100 Years Ago:
The Labor Advocate
FORCED INSURANCE
IS NOT DEMOCRATIC
Washington.—“Social insurance by force is not democratic, even though it might be disguised as compulsory benevolence,” writes President Gompers in the current issue of the American Federationist.
“Compulsory social insurance cannot be administered,” he says, “without exercising some control over wage earners. This is the meat of the whole matter. Industrial freedom exists only when wage earners have complete control over their labor power. To delegate control over their labor power to an outside agency takes say from the economic power of those wage earners and creates another agency for power. Whoever has control of this new agency acquires some degree of control over the workers. There is nothing to guarantee control over that agency to the employed. It may also be controlled by employers. In other words, giving the government control over industrial relations creates a fulcrum which means great power for an unknown user.”
“Compulsory social insurance is in its essence undemocratic. The first step in establishing social insurance is to divide people into two groups—those eligible for benefits and those considered capable to care for themselves. The division is based upon wage earning capacity. This governmental regulation tends to fix the citizens of the country into classes, and a long-established insurance system would tend to make these classes rigid.”
Editor’s Note: How times have changed.
Phillips Federal Philosophies:
Hello, All:
I don’t know about you, but I always find myself reluctant to let go of the holiday season in January. Which is usually my excuse for the fact that I as of yet haven’t gotten around to taking down the lights and decorations. I have noticed, however, that my cat has made excellent progress in removing all the ornaments from the bottom third of the tree. I’ve therefore decided that if I wait long enough, he may just get everything put away. It’s a decision I might need to reconsider in February.
Speaking of reconsidering (see how far I’ll go for the flimsiest of segues?), the Eastern District was recently asked by an insurer to reconsider its prior finding of a duty to defend. In Scottsdale Insurance Co. v. United Indus. & Const. Corp., the court determined that the second time around wasn’t the charm.
Jennifer J. Phillips
You Wonder Why it Cost So Much to Go the Movies?
Democrat and Chronicle
Senator Carson, of Rushville, to
Investigate Movies
Penn Yan, Jan. 12.—William A. Carson, of Rushville, Senator from the district comprising Ontario, Wayne and Yates counties, has received unusually good committee assignments for a new senator. He has been placed on the committees of Education, Insurance, Labor and Industry, Agriculture and Affairs of Villages.
He also has been appointed a member of the special committee to investigate the moving picture business with the idea of finding out what amount of revenue for the state can be obtained by taxing the movies.
This committee will bring much additional labor to Senator Carson.
Hewitt’s Highlights:
Dear Subscribers:
Since last edition, we have entered a new year! In my house, we had an early New Year’s countdown at 10 pm, at which time the boys were sent to bed. In spite of the early celebration, we had a good time with noisemakers, appetizers, and to my wife’s chagrin, confetti poppers. I hope you too enjoyed the new year. A new year is exciting! A time to shed the old year and anything not accomplished. A New Year brings reflections on the past year as well as new goals, opportunities, and possibilities. And of course, a new year brings new serious injury threshold cases. Those never stop.
We have a number of cases for you this edition, suggesting the First and Second Departments spent their New Year’s evening writing decisions. Or not. In one case, a defendant’s motion for summary judgment was denied because the defendant’s expert recited plaintiff’s range of motion results without letting the court know what is normal and comparing them. That is sloppy. In another, the plaintiff’s injury degeneration history allowed the motion to be granted, where plaintiff’s expert provided no objective medical basis for determining that those conditions were in any way caused by the accident. In a third case, the court found that it was reasonable to find the accident caused the injuries given plaintiff’s youth and lack of symptoms before the accident, coupled with the sudden onset of symptoms after the accident. In another case, gaps in the treatment were adequately explained by plaintiff because his old insurance company stopped paying for treatment and his new insurance company refused to pay.
Robert Hewitt
Situation Wanted:
Argus-Leader
AN ELDERLY RESPECTABLE Scandinavian-American gentleman with means wishes to correspond with a respectable Christian lady of means, object matrimony. Address letter, 333 care Argus-Leader.
Editor’s Note: Why not a woman of means? It cost the same to marry someone of means as someone without. Just sayin’.
Barnas on Bad Faith:
Hello again:
This edition of Barnas on Bad Faith is brought to you from Terminal 5 at JFK, as I am returning from a deposition in Midtown East. One thing I don’t understand about JFK Terminal 5: why are the moving walkways on the skywalk always broken? Previously, the walkways would just sit idle, which was annoying but not too bad. However, for the last month or so, at least, a gigantic wall has been constructed that completely encloses the walkways for the length of the skywalk. Not only does this mean one cannot use the walkways, something I always enjoy doing at the airport, but it means that the walking area on the skywalk has been cut down to less than 1/3 of the total area. This is especially dangerous when someone with one of those big luggage carts, which now take up almost the entire available walking area, is strolling along not watching where they are going. In the past two days I have had near misses with two of those things. Someone please fix this.
Now that I’m done ranting, I want to congratulate all of the new lawyers who were admitted in the Appellate Division, Fourth Department this Wednesday, January 11, 2017, including our own John Ewell. I hope you all enjoyed the day as much as I did and took some time to reflect on your accomplishments, those who helped you get there, and what you have ahead. Welcome to the profession.
On a completely different note, I was disappointed to see the news today that the San Diego Chargers are moving to Los Angeles. It’s never fun to see a team relocate. Most Bills fans understand the anxiety of the potential relocation of your favorite team all too well. It’s a shame that after more than 50 years the Chargers are leaving San Diego for a city that already has a football team. This is especially true when you read some of the columns from Los Angeles area newspapers stating that many residents don’t even want the Chargers to move there. Hopefully the NFL can find a way to return to San Diego someday.
I have two cases in my column. Bauman is a bad faith case arising out of a SUM claim. The insurer valued the plaintiff’s claim at zero even though she was eventually awarded approximately $180,000.00 during arbitration. The insurer also never responded to her settlement offer. Accordingly, the Western District of Washington concluded that the issue of the insurer’s bad faith should go to a jury.
In National Manufacturing, the District of New Jersey concluded that the insurer did not engage in bad faith. Two events were at issue: (1) the insurer misquoted limiting language from the policy that was not applicable to the cited exclusions; and (2) an adjuster had stated that there was likely coverage for the claim during an email sent before the investigation was completed. The court concluded that these events, together or individually, did not constitute bad faith. It reasoned that, while the insurer admittedly misquoted the policy language, it did not pursue the cited limitations. Second, while the adjuster did indicate there may be coverage for the insured under one provision of the policy, he also cited other exclusions that would preclude coverage in his email, which was drafted before the investigation was complete. As such, it could not support a finding of bad faith.
Brian D. Barnas
Situations Wanted – a Century Ago:
The Tacoma Times
GENTLEMAN, 27, would like to make acquaintance of working girl. Object matrimony. James Snowden, Genl. Delivery, Tacoma, Wash.
Editor’s Note: We could not find a marriage certificate for Mr. Snowden in ancestry.com so he may still be looking.
Peiper’s Panache:
Over the years, we try to catch any sports related cases involving appellate review. Indeed, I think it was an assumption of risk case on a golf course that may have provided the inspiration for the Potpourri section of Peiper on Property. In proving that we are not infallible, it appears we missed the most interesting story of Pink v. Rome Hockey Association. In it, the Court addresses the duties of landowners and/or lessees of property to protect against foreseeable dangers and/or criminal behavior. Yes, you guessed it; it involves a fight among parents at a youth hockey game. It’s an interesting read, and a noteworthy decision.
The Pink decision is of particular importance to me. The New Year always brings with it new challenges, and yours truly is no exception to that rule. I started 2017 the same way I ended 2016, in my backyard, building an ice rink for my hockey crazed 7 year old. He guaranteed he’d help with the project, and he did…for all of 35 minutes. Several hours in to the project, the water did not run out between the boards, and several days later it froze to a glass-like sheen. Time “on ice” has surpassed, in one weekend, the time it took to erect the fixture so the very least my labors are not going unused.
At least I’ll know what my responsibilities are for any upcoming shinny games that get out of control.
Finally, we welcome John Ewell, officially, to the practice of law. He was admitted to the NY State Bar yesterday afternoon. He is an excellent addition to our team, and we look forward to you working with him in the future.
Altman’s Administrative (and Legislative) Agenda
Greetings and Happy New(ish) Year! How are your New Years’ resolutions going, dear reader? Me, I resolved to eat more dessert and exercise less. I figured I may as well make a resolution I could keep.
Today, I bring you New York’s new guidelines regulating the sales of annuities. Exciting stuff!
Howard B. Altman
Different Level of Damages:
New York Herald
$10,000 FOR BOY’S LOST LEG.
Father Also Awarded $1,000 for
Loss of Son’s Services.
For the loss of his right leg Francis Kelly, Jr., 14 years old, of 158th Street and Park Avenue, The Bronx, got a $10,000 verdict yesterday from a jury in the Bronx Supreme Court sitting before Justice Mitchell. The boy’s father got $1,000 for the loss of his services.
The boy was roller skating in front of his home on October 20, 2014, when an auto truck owned by James Butler, Inc., against which corporation the suits were, ran over him.
Editor’s Note: $10,000 in 1917 had the same buying power as $203,900.86 today.
Wilewicz’s Wide-World of Coverage:
We hope that all is well and that everyone has recovered from the holidays and gotten back into the swing of things. My holidays were exhausting and draining, but fun-filled and eventful. Christmas was lovely and white, while I frankly cannot recall New Year’s Eve but presume it was a blast. Now back to the grind then shine.
This week, we have a decision that’s closer to home for once. Out of our own Second Circuit, we bring you Certified Multi-Media v. Preferred Contractors. There, the court analyzed whether a policy limit cap applied when its very terms seemed to differentiate the Named Insured versus an insured. The difference meant either having a cool $1 million in coverage, or a mere $10,000. Ultimately, since the language of the provision did appear to use the terms in different ways, different limits applied. Further, since the greater limit applied to the Named Insured under certain circumstances (such as arose here), they were entitled to the greater pool of money. Interesting stuff, as always, and worth a quick read.
Be sure to tune in next time for more Circuit Court decisions from around the country!
Agnes A. Wilewicz
Gambling was Costly in 1917, If Caught:
The Evening World
FRIENDLY POKER GAMBLING
IF HOSTESS GET “KITTY’
Magistrate So Decides When He
Holds Bronx Woman for Trial
in $1,000 Bail
The question of whether a friendly game of poker among women still continues to be a friendly game when the hostess take a “cut” of 5 cents on every pot was put up to Magistrate Simms in the West Farms Court this morning. He answered it by holding the hostess, Mrs. Esther Jacobs of No. 540 Claremont Parkway, the Bronx, in $1,000 bail for trial on a charge of maintaining a gambling house.
“There was nothing friendly about it, Your Honor,” Mrs. Dora Cornelia of No. 229 East Eleventh Street said. “I lost ten dollars in the game. My mother was always playing there, and I was sent with my sister to stop her, but they asked us to join the game, and we did. Everybody who won a pot had to give Mrs. Jacobs 5 per cent.”
“Not 5 per cent.—only 5 cents,” Mrs. Jacobs interrupted. “And that was only taken to buy refreshments.”
“Such refreshments?” cried Mrs. Beatrice Kaplan of No. 1462 Anthony Avenue. “Why, it was only a piece of stale bread we were given. And I lost four dollars and my sister lost ten.”
Editor’s Note: The $1000 bail is about $20,390 in 2017 dollars for a penny ante game.
Highlights in This Week’s Issue, Attached:
KOHANE’S COVERAGE CORNER
Dan D. Kohane
Court Imagines Facts to Determine Duty to Defend. Thousands Flee.
How Do We Count the Days?
Exclusion for “Structural Alterations” in Additional Insured Endorsement Does Not Apply to Structural “Defects” Where Repairs had Not Yet Been Made
First Department Continues to Stretch Additional Insured Provisions; Obligation to Defend AND Indemnify Based on Allegations in Underlying Action
Reading Entire Trade Contract Compels Finding that Additional Insured Coverage Required
Statutory Damages Under Fair Credit Reporting Act are Compensatory and Insurable and Not an Excluded “Penalty”
Insurance Companies Investigation Prior to Lawsuit May be Privileged but the Privilege Must be Established by Evidentiary Proof.
What is the Standard for Determining the Applicability of an Additional Insured Endorsement?
HEWITT’s HIGHLIGHTS ON SERIOUS INJURY UNDER NO-FAULT LAW
Robert E.B. Hewitt III
Defendant’s Expert Must Compare Its Finding of Plaintiff’s Range of Motion to What Is Normal
Defendants Failed to Address the 90/180-Day Category
A Plaintiff Raising Triable Issue of Fact Will Result in Denial of Motion
Plaintiff’s Expert Provided No Objective Medical Evidence that Plaintiff’s Chronic Injuries Were Exasperated by the Accident
Plaintiff Adequately Explained Gaps in Treatment When her Former Insurance Company Stopped Coverage and Her New Insurance Would Not Pay for It
Plaintiff’s Experts Were Able to Get Around Plaintiff’s History of Dislocations by Showing that the Plaintiff Suffered an Additional Dislocation in the Accident and Further Damaged Other Areas Which Caused Significant Range of Motion Limitations Unaddressed by Defendant’s Expert
Plaintiff’s Expert Raised an Issue of Fact Although He Acknowledged Plaintiff’s Knee Had Arthritis by Pointing to Specific Medical Signs of Trauma Which Caused the Meniscus Tear
TESSA’S TUTELAGE
A Compulsory Arbitration Award Will Not be Overturned Unless it Does Not Comport with CPLR 7511 and Is Arbitrary and Capricious
PEIPER ON PROPERTY (and POTPOURRI)
Notice of Premium Lapse Irrelevant Where Policy Also is allowed to Lapse
Plaintiff who Sells Damaged Building to Tortfeasor Forfeits Insurance Coverage Due to Compromised Subrogation Rights
Question over whether Ownership of Truck was “Owned” by Employer or Predecessor Corporation Precludes Defendant’s Section 11 Motion
High Court Punches Out Plaintiff’s Duty Argument for a Punch Up at a Hockey Game
WILEWICZ’S WIDE WORLD OF COVERAGE
Second Circuit Holds that Lower Policy Limit in “Action Over” Provision Did Not Apply, as per Policy Terms (New York law)
JEN’S GEMS
Demolition Exclusion Found to Be Ambiguous
Court Finds, Among Other Things, that § 3420 does not apply to a Risk Retention Groups Domicile Out of State
BARNAS ON BAD FAITH
Insurer’s Failure to Respond to Insured’s Settlement Offer presented Issue of Fact precluding Summary Judgment on Bad Faith Claim
Adjuster Email and Inclusion of Improper Coverage Limitation in Disclaimer were Insufficient for a Finding of Bad Faith
PHILLIPS’ FEDERAL PHILOSOPHIES
Do-over Don’t
ALTMAN’S ADMINSTRATIVE (AND LEGISLATIVE) AGENDA
Annuity Sales Regulations
EARL’S PEARLS
Earl K. Cantwell
Don’t Forget About Standing to Sue
Peace be with you and our nation in these interesting times.
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NEWSLETTER EDITOR
INSURANCE COVERAGE/EXTRA CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY TEAM
Dan D. Kohane, Chair
Steven E. Peiper, Co-Chair
Michael F. Perley
Patricia A. Fay
Agnieszka A. Wilewicz
John R. Ewell
Diane F. Bosse
Joel R. Appelbaum
FIRE, FIRST-PARTY AND SUBROGATION TEAM
Steven E. Peiper, Team Leader
Robert E. Hewitt, III
NO-FAULT/UM/SUM TEAM
Jennifer A. Ehman, Team Leader
APPELLATE TEAM
Jody E. Briandi, Team Leader
Hewitt’s Highlights on Serious Injury
Peiper on Property and Potpourri
01/12/17 Guzy v. New York Central Mutual
Appellate Division, Third Department
Yet another shooting case, where coverage is sought.
In February 2015, Prindle sued Guzy for personal injuries and Guzy tendered the defense of the lawsuit to NY Central. The insurer had issued Guzy homeowners and umbrella insurance policies. NY Central disclaimed and this action ensued.
Under the terms of the homeowners insurance policy, New York Central was obligated to provide its insured with a defense in a legal action involving bodily injury caused by an occurrence, which was defined as an accident. The umbrella policy also contained an exclusion that barred coverage for "expected or intended" conduct. Defendant contends that plaintiff's act of shooting Prindle was intentional, thereby bringing it outside the ambit of the homeowners insurance policy or within the umbrella policy's exclusion. We disagree.
Here, Prindle's complaint alleged that Gozy "assault[ed] [Prindle] . . . by shooting [Prindle] in the abdomen" and that "as a result of the assault," Prindle sustained personal injuries. While Prindle's complaint also alleged that plaintiff was arrested and criminally charged with assault, there was no further specification as to this criminal charge raised against plaintiff. Inasmuch as an assault may derive from an individual's recklessness or criminal negligence a reasonable possibility exists that plaintiff's actions were not.
Furthermore, while the allegation in Prindle's complaint describing plaintiff's actions as "intentional and criminal" is relevant in determining whether defendant's duty to defend exists, such conclusory allegation drafted by a third party is not the focal. Because the shooting can be reasonably interpreted as having stemmed from plaintiff's unintentional conduct, the court concluded that defendant's duty to defend was triggered under the insurance policy.
Editor’s note: Wrong. Just wrong. The underlying complaint did not allege negligence, it only alleged intentional assault. We understand the case law that calls for an carrier to defend if the allegations, however groundless, false or fraudulent, alleges something that can be covered. We understand that in another shooting case Automobile Insurance Co. et al v. Cook, a defense was required by the Court of Appeals when there were allegations of unintentional results.
We understand the Fitzpatrick case that suggests that a carrier can look at the true facts – even if not alleged – to broaden the duty to defend.
Those cases are not this case..
If this becomes the norm, the complaint becomes a meaningless document because if a court uses its imagination in EVERY case, it can imagine facts that may give rise to a duty to defend.
01/11/17 Matter of Global Liberty Insurance v. Cedillo
This was an application to permanently stay an uninsured motorists (“UM”) arbitration.
Global Liberty made the application to stay after Decillo, its insured, sought to recover UM benefits. The accident occurred on November 24, 2008 and it involved an vehicle owned by Sidibe. At a framed-issue hearing, the evidence showed that the respondent National Continental Insurance Co. (“National”) had issued a policy to Sidibe effective October 23, 2008, through October 23, 2009, but that on November 5, 2008, at "6:00," it mailed to Sidibe a notice of cancellation for nonpayment of the premium, which advised that the subject policy would be cancelled effective November 20, 2008, at 12:01 a.m.
The Supreme Court found that the cancellation of the policy was valid based upon the 15-day notice and, therefore, denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding.
Under the terms of the subject policy, and pursuant to Vehicle and Traffic Law § 313(1)(a), National was required to give a minimum of 15 days' notice for cancellation of coverage for nonpayment. "[I]n the absence of an express agreement to do so, the law does not recognize fractions of a day". Thus, the 15 days specified in the Vehicle and Traffic Law " means 15 times 24 hours'" Here, because National failed to give the full 15 days' notice, its notice of cancellation was invalid. The contentions raised in National's brief are without merit.
Editor’s note: I don’t think the Court was right on this one. The General Construction Law tells us how to count days:
§ 20. Day, computation. A number of days specified as a period from a certain day within which or after or before which an act is authorized or required to be done means such number of calendar days exclusive of the calendar day from which the reckoning is made. If such period is a period of two days, Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday must be excluded from the reckoning if it is an intervening day between the day from which the reckoning is made and the last day of the period. In computing any specified period of time from a specified event, the day on which the event happens is deemed the day from which the reckoning is made. The day from which any specified period of time is reckoned shall be excluded in making the reckoning.
01/10/17 Donato Realty, LLC v. Utica First Insurance Company
The lease agreement between the landord’s managing agent and the tenant required the tenant to maintain insurance for itself and the landlord against "any liability arising out of the ownership, use, occupancy or maintenance of the demised premises and all areas appurtenant thereto," which includes the sidewalk.
Utica argues that the landlord was not covered for the underlying personal injury action as the additional insured endorsement excludes coverage for "any structural alteration" made on the landlord’s behalf. However, the evidence indicates an unrepaired structural defect, rather than a structural alteration. Moreover, the underlying complaint does not allege that the trip and fall was the result of repairs that had been made on landlord’s behalf.
01/05/17 76-01 37th Ave. Realty Corp. v. Dongbu Ins. Co.
Since there is no dispute that all the allegations in the underlying action fall within the scope of the insurance policy issued by defendant, defendant is obligated to indemnify plaintiff 76-01 37TH Ave. Realty Corp. for any liability it is found to bear in that action, and the declaration need not await the final judgment therein.
Editor’s Note: We continue to disagree with holdings broadly requiring indemnity based on allegations. Allegations should govern defense and not indemnity. Allegations require defense, even if groundless, false or fraudulent. Indemnity should be based on determined facts, not based on allegations.
01/03/17 Nova Casualty v. Harleysville Worchester Insurance Company,
Appellate Division First Department
Dart Mechanical sought a defense under a Harleysville policy. Harleysville’s named insured was Coastal Sheet Metal Corp. and the trade contract between Cdid not require Coastal to obtain insurance naming Dart as an additional insured. Harleysville based this argument on the fact that paragraph 20.1(C) of the subcontract leaves the coverage limits blank. It contends that the entire provision was rendered inoperative and therefore that Coastal was required only to obtain coverage in accordance with the requirements imposed on Dart in the prime contract with the City, which did not contain language requiring Dart to be added as an additional insured. The court rejected the argument finding that other contract provisions made it clear that AI coverage was required.
Harleysville's interpretation would render meaningless the phrase "whichever limits are greater" in the introductory section of paragraph 20.1 requiring Coastal to procure either insurance for Dart that was comparable to the insurance Dart was required to procure under the prime contract or the insurance set forth thereinafter; it would also render meaningless the final sentence in subparagraph C, "DART MUST BE INCLUDED AS AN ADDITIONAL INSURED ON A PRIMARY BASIS."
Reading contextually, it is evident that since the prime contract's limits of $5 million per occurrence and $5 million in the aggregate were greater than the $1 million per occurrence and $2 million in the aggregate set forth in paragraph 20.9.1 of the subcontract, Coastal was required to obtain coverage with $5 million liability limits, naming Dart as an additional insured on its insurance policy.
The complaint in the underlying action alleges that the injured plaintiff was working at the construction site "when an unsecured and/or inadequately secured duct fell causing [him] to be injured." Although the complaint alleges that the defendants, which included Coastal, were negligent, negligence is not required to trigger coverage for Dart as an additional insured. Harleysville is obligated to provide a defense and indemnity for Dart, even if Coastal is ultimately found to have no liability in the underlying action.
Editor’s Note: Last sentence of summary is consistent with previous First Department rulings.
12/29/16 Navigators Ins. Co. v. Sterling Infosystems, Inc.
Under an Errors and Omissions policy, the carrier was obligated to pay all damages arising in connection with defendants' performance of their professional services. The policy defines damages as "any compensatory sum," including a settlement, and excludes coverage for, inter alia, penalties.
Insureds, with the permission of the insurer, entered into a settlement with the plaintiffs in the putative class action which alleged that defendants' business practices violated provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), causing the class members injury, including, in certain instances, termination from employment.
Are statutory damages a penalty or compensatory damages?
To make out a claim under the FCRA, the complaint must allege, inter alia, injury in fact, a "concrete and particularized" and "actual or imminent" "invasion of a legally protected interest," i.e., the statutory right to the fair handling of the plaintiff consumer's credit information. The remedy for "willful" failure to comply with a requirement of the statute is "any actual damages sustained by the consumer by the failure or damages of not less than $100 and not more than $1,000," and "such amount of punitive damages as the court may allow," as well as costs and reasonable attorneys'
Since the consumer must elect the option of either actual or statutory damages, and may also recover punitive damages, it is reasonable to infer, as the motion court did, that the actual and the statutory damages serve the same purpose. Moreover, the statute provides separately for a civil penalty. Plaintiff argues that the limitation of damages to a "willful" violation of the statute evinces a legislative intent to penalize intentional misconduct, rather than compensate for actual damages sustained, but this is not so, since willfulness as a statutory condition of civil liability "cover[s] not only knowing violations of a standard, but reckless ones as well. Thus, it is clear that Congress intended the statutory damages provided for by the FCRA to be compensatory and not a penalty.
12/29/16 Hewitt v. Palmer Veterinary Clinic
On April 16, 2014, Hewitt took her cat to be examined at a facility operated by defendant Palmer. She was allegedly attacked and injured by a dog, owned by Hemingway. On April 25, 2014, counsel for plaintiff wrote to the clinic to notify it that he had been retained and urge it to notify its liability insurance carrier of plaintiff's "claim" as soon as possible. It did. There were some discussions between the plaintiff’s counsel and the carrier but the suit was commenced in August 2014.
Plaintiff demanded that the clinic produce certain items in the course of discovery, including documents from the file of the insurance adjuster in the clinic's possession, custody or control that were prepared before service of the complaint. The clinic refused to turn over those items upon the ground that they were "prepared directly in anticipation of litigation," and plaintiff moved to compel a response.
Inasmuch as "[t]he purpose of liability insurance is the defense and settlement of claims [*2]. . . once an accident has arisen," documents contained in the insurance adjuster's file are generally protected by "a conditional immunity . . . as material prepared for litigation. Accident reports that are prepared with "a mixed purpose and result at least in part from the internal operations of the defendant's business" are not, however, exempt from disclosure. It is therefore incumbent upon "the party resisting disclosure to[, in the first instance,] show that the materials sought were prepared solely for litigation and this burden cannot be satisfied with wholly conclusory allegations"
The clinic here neither disclosed what documents were encompassed by the discovery demand nor identified the specific documents that it claimed were prepared solely for litigation purposes. The clinic also made inadequate efforts to show that these unidentified documents were conditionally immune from disclosure, submitting the conclusory affidavits of two individuals who baldly asserted that the undisclosed portions of the carrier's file beyond the April 25, 2014 communication from plaintiff's counsel had been created for litigation purposes.
However, compelling the disclosure of all demanded documents at this point is inappropriate. It is unclear what documents are encompassed by the discovery demand, many of which may well have been solely prepared for litigation purposes since they were created after the carrier became aware of plaintiff's claim and began communicating with her counsel. Moreover, the parties were in agreement that Supreme Court should review the documents in camera if any question existed as to the applicability of conditional immunity. The most prudent course under these circumstances is to remit so that Supreme Court may review the documents in camera to determine whether they were exclusively prepared for litigation purposes and, if so, whether they should nevertheless be disclosed.
Editor’s Note: The defense was fortunate that there was an agreement with plaintiff’s counsel for an in camera review. Insurers and defense counsel are reminded of the importance of establishing the privilege with an affidavit of someone with knowledge of the nature of the documents and the privilege, someone other than defense counsel!
12/29/16 The City of New York v. Wausau Underwriters Ins. Co.
Does Wausau have an obligation to defend the City, listed as an additional insured (“AI”) under a policy issued by Wausau to one of the City's contractors, Hellman with respect to five underlying personal injury actions?
The City has entered into four trade contracts with defendant Hellman which are relevant to this appeal. There were four street electrical contracts with the city, the first was for Bronx street lighting, the second was for Bronx traffic signals, the third was for Manhattan traffic signals, and the fourth involved Queens decorative lighting. Under the terms of each of these four contracts, Hellman was required to obtain a commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policy naming the City as an additional insured.
Wausau issued two policies to Hellman, each which listed the City as an AI. Each held that:
"The coverage afforded to the additional insured is limited to liability caused, in whole or in part, by the negligent acts or omissions of you [Hellman], your employees, your agents, or your subcontractors, in the performance of your ongoing operations.
"This insurance does not apply to bodily injury' . . . arising out of your [Hellman's] work' included in the products-completed operations hazard' unless you are required to provide such coverage for the additional insured by the written agreement, and then only for the period of time required by the written agreement . . . ." (Emphasis added)
Both policies further provide, in identical language, that a products-completed operations hazard:
"[i]ncludes all bodily injury' . . . occurring away from premises you [Hellman] own or rent and arising out of . . . your [Hellman's] work' except . . . [w]ork that has not yet been completed or abandoned" and that " your [Hellman's] work' will be deemed completed . . . [w]hen all the work to be done at the job site has been completed[.]"
In this case, in order to determine whether Wausau had a duty to defend the City as an additional insured in any or all of five underlying actions, the court is to examine the allegations in each of the five underlying complaints, construing them liberally, for the suggestion of a reasonable possibility of coverage under the policy for the claims asserted. In addition, it must examine the record with respect to each case to determine whether Wausau had actual knowledge of facts establishing such a reasonable possibility.
The applicable standard holds that the duty to defend arises when at least one of two alternate criteria are met. "A duty to defend exists whenever the allegations in the complaint in the underlying action, construed liberally, suggest a reasonable possibility of coverage, or where the insurer has actual knowledge of facts establishing such a reasonable possibility" (DMP Contr. Corp. v Essex Ins. Co., 76 AD3d 844, 845 [1st Dept 2010]
In the first underlying action, the complaint alleges that she stepped off a curb and into a deep depression and her injuries were attributable, in part, to defective street lighting at that intersection. There was no mention of Hillman so the allegations itself do not give rise to a defense obligation. However, the record reveals that the City Law Department advised Hellman that a street pole was inoperative and not repaired until after the accident, so a defense obligation exists.
In the second action, again, there was an allegation about a defective street pole which, by itself, was not enough to trigger AI coverage. But Wausau was advised about the defective pole a day before the accident so had enough information to implicate a defense obligation.
The third action alleged that plaintiff's injury was attributable in part to a defective traffic control device at the intersection. Both the City and Hellman are named as defendants. Thus, the facial allegations of the complaint, construed liberally,
In the fourth action, again, both the City and Hellman were named as defendants in a claim alleging that the plaintiff was injured when a traffic control box fell and struck her. Thus, there was a defense obligation.
In the fifth claim the complaint he was injured when he tripped on uneven, broken pavement at a crosswalk at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard in Queens County. Both the City and Hellman are named in the complaint. However, Hellman’s work had been completed and there was no products/completed operations coverage required. Accordingly, the policy did not require a defense.
01/11/17 Paul v. Weatherwax
Defendants moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102(d) as a result of the subject accident. The defendants failed to make a prima facie showing that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury. In support of their motion, the defendants relied upon, inter alia, the affirmed medical report of Kenneth Austin, the defendants' examining orthopedist. Based upon his examination of the plaintiff on August 5, 2014, Dr. Austin set forth the range-of-motion findings with respect to the cervical and lumbar regions of the plaintiff's spine, but failed to compare those findings to what is normal. Therefore, the motion was denied.
01/11/17 Goehringer v. Turrisi
In support of their motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102(d) as a result of the subject accident, the defendants failed to establish their prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law. The papers submitted by the defendants failed to adequately address the plaintiff's claim, set forth in the bill of particulars, that she sustained a serious injury under the 90/180-day category of Insurance Law § 5102(d). Since the defendants failed to meet their prima facie burden, it was unnecessary to determine whether the papers submitted by the plaintiff in opposition were sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact.
01/11/17 Burk v. I Om Atif Hacking Corp.
The defendants met their prima facie burden of showing that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102(d) as a result of the subject accident. The defendants submitted competent medical evidence establishing, prima facie, that the alleged injury to the cervical region of the plaintiff's spine did not constitute a serious injury under either the permanent consequential limitation of use or significant limitation of use categories of Insurance Law § 5102(d). In opposition, however, the plaintiff raised a triable issue of fact as to whether he sustained a serious injury to the cervical region of his spine. No facts were given.
01/10/17 Westerband v. Buitraso
Defendants established prima facie that plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury by submitting the affirmed report of a radiologist who reviewed a CT scan of plaintiff's lumbar spine taken after the accident and concluded that it revealed preexisting and degenerative conditions not causally related to the accident. Defendants also relied on plaintiff's testimony admitting his long-term history of degenerative lumbar spine conditions for which he had previously had surgery, and submitted the report of an orthopedic surgeon who, after examining plaintiff and reviewing his extensive medical records, opined that plaintiff's lumbar conditions were degenerative and unrelated to the accident. Contrary to the motion court's reasoning, the radiologist was not required to personally examine plaintiff in order to render an opinion concerning the CT scans and defendants were able to meet their prima facie burden by showing a lack of causal connection between the injuries and the accident without addressing the issue of limitations in use of the lumbar spine.
In opposition, plaintiff failed to raise an issue of fact. He submitted the operative reports prepared by the surgeons who performed disc replacement surgery after the accident, which identified his diagnosis as chronic degenerative disc disease. His neurologist's conclusory opinion that his preexisting lumbar conditions were aggravated by the subject motor vehicle accident is insufficient to raise an issue of fact, since the neurologist failed to rule out the preexisting conditions demonstrated in plaintiff's own medical records as the cause of the lumbar conditions, and provided no objective medical basis for determining that those conditions were in any way caused by the accident.
01/05/17 Fathi v. Sodhi
Plaintiff’s Young Age and Lack of Symptoms before the Accident Gave Credence to Plaintiff’s Physician’s Report that the Accident Caused the Injuries
Defendants made a prima facie showing that plaintiff did not suffer a permanent consequential or significant limitation of use of his cervical or lumbar spine as a result of the subject motor vehicle accident. Their neurologist found no objective evidence of impairment in plaintiff's cervical or lumbar. Their radiologist found cervical disc bulges and lumbar disc herniations, but opined that these conditions were degenerative in nature and not causally related to the accident.
In opposition, plaintiff raised an issue of fact as to his cervical spine injury by submitting an affirmation by his treating physician, who found limitations in range of motion and opined that the cervical disc conditions were caused by the accident. Given plaintiff's relatively young age and the sudden onset of symptoms after being hit by defendants' vehicle, his physician's opinion provided a different, yet altogether equally plausible, cause. Contrary to defendants' argument, plaintiff submitted sufficient evidence that he received treatment for his cervical spine injury contemporaneous with the accident to permit a finding of a causal connection
However, plaintiff failed to raise an issue of fact as to his lumbar spine claim. The MRI report contained in his own medical records reflected findings of degenerative disc disease in the lumber spine, and his medical expert failed to address those findings and explain why they were not the cause of the injuries complained of.
Defendants demonstrated prima facie that plaintiff did not sustain an injury within the 90/180-day category through plaintiff's bill of particulars and his testimony, which established that he was confined to bed and home for, at most, two weeks, as well as their expert's opinion that the claimed physical injuries were causally unrelated to the accident. In opposition, plaintiff presented no evidence of a medically determined injury that prevented him from performing his customary daily activities within the relevant time period.
The Court noted that because plaintiff failed to raise an issue whether his lumbar spine condition was caused by the accident, he cannot recover for such injury but can recover for any other injury causally related to the accident if he prevails on his cervical spine claim.
01/05/17 Gomez v. Davis
Defendant established prima facie that plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury involving limitation of use of the cervical spine or lumbar spine. Defendant submitted, inter alia, the affirmed report of an orthopedist finding full range of motion, normal test results, and resolved strains in both parts of the spine
Plaintiff's opposition raised triable issues of fact. The affirmed report of her radiologist provided objective medical evidence of the existence of a disc herniation in the cervical spine and disc bulges in the lumbar spine. Plaintiff's neurologist found significant limitations in range of motion, spasms, and positive clinical test results found upon recent examination, and, based on such findings and his review of plaintiff's medical records, opined that the symptoms were permanent and causally related to the accident. Plaintiff adequately explained her gaps in treatment when she testified that her insurance company stopped coverage, and that her new insurance company would not cover further treatment. While defendant contends that plaintiff did not provide admissible evidence of post-accident treatment, he did not make any prima facie showing of a lack of causal connection between the claimed injuries and the accident, and his expert listed the records of plaintiff's post-accident treatment. Under the circumstances, plaintiff's testimony concerning her post-accident treatment was sufficiently supported by the uncertified medical records, which may be considered for that limited purpose since they are not the only admissible evidence submitted in opposition.
01/05/17 Shapiro v. Spain Taxi, Inc.
Defendants established prima facie that plaintiff Shapiro did not sustain a serious injury to his left shoulder by submitting the affirmed report of an orthopedist who found normal range of motion, negative test results, and a resolved acute and chronic dislocation. Defendants also submitted portions of Shapiro's medical records showing that he had a history of shoulder dislocations, the last occurring 10 years before the accident, and their expert opined that his shoulder surgery was related to this history, not to the accident.
In opposition, plaintiffs submitted an affirmed expert report, as well as an unaffirmed MRI report and unaffirmed reports of. Shapiro's orthopedic surgeon, which plaintiffs were entitled to rely on because defendants' expert specifically referenced and relied on them in reaching his opinion These records, together with the affirmed report, demonstrated that Shapiro sustained a re-dislocation of his shoulder, as well as a separation of the acromioclavicular (AC) joint with complete rupture of the coracoclavicular ligaments. Plaintiffs' expert provided evidence of continuing, significant limitations in range of motion, and opined that the injuries were causally related to the accident. He adequately addressed Shapiro's acknowledged history of shoulder dislocation, and opined that the accident had caused the re-dislocation of the shoulder, as well as the additional AC joint separation and ruptured ligaments, which required surgical repair. Thus, plaintiffs raised an issue of fact as to causation. As plaintiffs note, defendants' expert described the dislocation as acute and did not address the medical evidence that Mr. Shapiro also suffered a separated AC joint and ruptured ligaments following the subject accident.
12/29/16 Brownie v. Redman
Defendants made a prima facie showing that plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury to her left knee by submitting the report of an orthopedist, who found no objective evidence of disability and full range of motion. In opposition, plaintiff raised a triable issue of fact as to her left knee injury by submitting the report of her treating orthopedic surgeon, who found persisting limitations in range of motion, and opined, based on his review of the MRI films and observations during surgery, that plaintiff's injuries were caused by the accident. The surgeon acknowledged the presence of arthritis in plaintiff's left knee, but pointed to specific medical evidence of trauma to support his opinion that the torn menisci were caused by the accident.
Although defendants' expert did not examine plaintiff until more than two years after the accident, defendants established that plaintiff did not suffer a 90/180-day claim by relying on her admission in her verified bill of particulars that she was confined to home and bed for just one week after the accident. In opposition, plaintiff failed to provide medical evidence sufficient to raise an issue of fact as to this claim.
12/29/16 Matter of DTG Operations, Inc. v Travelers Indem. Co.
Petitioner's insured was involved in a motor vehicle accident with another vehicle driven Respondent’s insured. Respondent paid personal injury protection (PIP/no-fault) benefits to its insured, and then sought "loss transfer" reimbursement from petitioner pursuant to Insurance Law § 5105, under the mandatory arbitration procedure. Notably, where, as here, the matter involves compulsory arbitration, the award must be upheld so long as it comports with CPLR 7511 and is not arbitrary and capricious.
The First Department held that there was no basis for vacating the award under CPLR 7511(b). An evidentiary basis exists in the record to support a finding that respondent had demonstrated a causal relationship between the accident and the medical treatments for which it paid. Respondent "responded in writing to the causation argument" stating that the applicant passenger, who was injured while riding in an Access-A-Ride vehicle insured by respondent, was disabled prior to this loss, that the loss worsened any prior condition, that it takes a disabled person much longer to recover from said injuries, and that a disabled person therefore requires more treatment. If petitioner still had reservations regarding the amount paid, it could have requested further proof.
01/03/17 American Tr. Ins. Co. v Baucage & Innovative Medical
Plaintiff Never Accepted Defendant/Appellant’s Untimely Answer
The First Department affirmed the holding of the Supreme Court which granted plaintiff's motion for a default judgment. The record demonstrated that plaintiff submitted proof that it served Innovative Medical with the summons and complaint, which Innovative Medical does not deny, and Innovative Medical failed to set forth a reasonable excuse as to why it failed to timely answer the complaint. Innovative Medical's claim that plaintiff accepted its untimely answer by failing to reject it fails, because plaintiff moved for the default judgment within 13 days of its receipt.
Thus, Innovative Medical's cross motion was properly denied. Since Innovative Medical never properly filed an answer, it may not ask the court to reach the merits of the action because CPLR 3212(a) expressly provides that a motion for summary judgment may only be made after joinder of issue.
01/11/17 Weiss v Sec. Mut. Ins. Co.
Security Mutual issued a whole life policy to Aaron Silberstein which covered the life of Agi Weiss. Mr. Silverstein, apparently, assigned his interest in the policy to Benjamin Weiss in June of 2001. In October of 2008, Security Mutual notified Mr. Weiss that his premium payment was due on November 5, 2008. When no payment was made, Security Mutual then notified Mr. Weiss that he had a thirty day grace period to ensure that premiums where kept current. When that failed, Security Mutual advised via letter dated January 13, 2009 that it had terminated coverage. However, the carrier agreed to provide an “extended term” through June 25, 2009.
On June 10, 2011, plaintiff contested Security Mutual’s notice of premium lapse from two and half years earlier. Essentially, plaintiff argued that the notice did not comply with Insurance Law § 3211, and therefore should be void.
Security Mutual moved for summary judgment arguing that the action was time barred pursuant to Section 3211(d)’s two year statute of limitations. While the Court disagreed that the statute of limitations was applicable, the Court noted that the policy “lapsed” on its own after the premiums went unpaid for a year. Because the plaintiff sat on his rights for more than year, his claim was waived.
01/03/17 915 2nd Pub, Inc v QBE Ins. Corp.
Plaintiff’s building was damaged by construction at a neighboring premises. Fortunately for plaintiff, and apparently while its insurance claim was pending, it sold the premises to the adjacent tortfeasor. Upon learning that the building was sold, QBE denied coverage on the basis that plaintiff compromised QBE’s potential subrogation rights. Moreover, as the building was razed, the policy’s condition that plaintiff cooperate with any investigation was also breached.
On summary judgment, the Appellate Division agreed with both of QBE’s arguments and dismissed plaintiff’s action accordingly.
12/29/16 Pringle v AC Bodyworks & Sons, LLC.
Plaintiff’s decedent was tragically struck by a vehicle in the course of his employment. A claim for death benefits under workers’ compensation law was made, and payment was secured under a policy maintained by decedent’s employer AC Bodyworks & Sons, Inc. (“AC, Inc.”)
Plaintiff commenced the instant wrongful death action against AC Bodyworks & Sons, LLC (“AC, LLC”). AC, LLC was the predecessor of AC, Inc. It is alleged that while AC, Inc. was the employer of plaintiff, the truck was still licensed and registered in AC, LLC’s name. Accordingly, there is no bar to plaintiff’s action against AC, LLC.
On hearing summary judgment, the Court noted that questions of fact existed about the corporate structure of AC, Inc. and AC, LLC. Where, as here, questions related to whether AC, LLC was an alter ego of AC, Inc. at the time of accident remain unanswered, it follows that summary judgment was premature.
10/25/16 Pink v Rome Youth Hockey Ass’n.
The incident arises out of a travel hockey game between Rome and Whitestown that was played in a rink owned by the City of Rome. Apparently, after an extremely “chippy” (hockey term for those uninitiated) which saw multiple players and the Whitestown coach ejected, a melee broke out in the stands. Included in this was a fist fight between two women. When Mr. Pink (no, you cannot make this stuff up) attempted to intervene, he was struck by one of the female combatant’s brothers. Mr. Pink sustained significant facial trauma as a result of being struck.
Pink brought this action seeking to recover damages against the Rome and Whitestown Hockey Associations, respectively, the City of Rome, the assailant, as well as other involved “participants.” As relevant to the appeal, defendant Rome Hockey moved for summary judgment arguing that it had no duty to protect plaintiff from assault. Plaintiff, on the other hand, posited that the USA Hockey policy required Rome Hockey to, in effect, police the games and stands and eject any unruly spectators.
In a split appellate decision, the Fourth Department found issues of fact and denied Rome Hockey’s application. Interestingly, as Whitestown was the visiting team, the Appellate Division found no duty running to it. In reversing, the Court of Appeals acknowledged the settled principle of law that a landowner/leaseholder has a duty to control the conduct of third parties. This duty includes the obligation to “minimize foreseeable dangers…including foreseeable criminal behavior.”
While “foreseeability” determines the scope of the duty, the Court instructed that the duty is driven by “past experience and the likelihood of conduct on the part of the third persons…which is likely to endanger the safety of the visitor.” Here, because Rome Hockey took measures to protect spectators, and because there had been no similar conduct at the arena in the past, the Court found that no duty had been triggered. In so holding, the Court also refused to endorse a finding that Rome Hockey was de facto negligent because they may not have fully complied with USA Hockey’s code of conduct. The Court noted that where an internal policy exceeds the standard of ordinary care, it cannot provide a basis for liability.
01/03/17 Certified Multi-Media Solutions v. Preferred Contractors Ins.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
In 2008, Getronics USA hired Certified Multi-Media Solutions to provide electrical services in a shopping mall in the Bronx. Getronics was insured under a policy issued by Travelers and Certified had a policy issued to it by Preferred Contractors Insurance. When an employee of Certified was injured while performing the electrical work, both liability and coverage litigation ensued.
One issue in the coverage litigation, which eventually made its way here to the Second Circuit, was whether Preferred’s policy was limited by its terms. Those terms included an “Action Over” provision which read:
Notwithstanding the limit of coverage shown in the Declarations and/or Section III ..., $10,000 only is the most we will pay as damages for any and all claims, including any claim for contractual indemnification, arising from or related to any “bodily injury”, “property damage” or “personal injury” sustained by an employee of an insured while injured, harmed or damaged in the scope of such employment.
In any action brought by such employee, if you are impleaded into such action, or if any third party action over is commenced against you, irrespective of the claims or theories set forth therein, the $10,000 limit of coverage as provided in this endorsement shall apply when:
The injury sustained by the employee is a “grave injury” as defined by Section 11 of the New York State Workers; Compensation Law, as follows: [list of qualifying injuries]; and
< > are required by contract, regulation or law to be insured under a workers’ compensation policy providing liability coverage for claims arising from injuries to employees.JEN’S GEMS
01/04/17 Herbert v. Dryden Mut. Ins.
Supreme Court, Tompkins County
Hon. Phillip R. Rumsey
Defendant issued a policy of liability insurance to plaintiffs. In October 2008, plaintiffs purchased a three-story, six-unit building in Ithaca. When purchased, the property was vacant and in a state of disrepair. Plaintiffs, acting as their own general contractor, commenced substantial repairs and renovations. In the fall of 2009, plaintiffs hired a company to tear off and dispose of the existing roof on the entire building and install a new roof. During the work, an employee of the roofing company was struck by a sheet of plywood that fell during the installation of the new roof.
Defendant disclaimed coverage based on an exclusion for loss arising out of “bodily injury or property damage arising out of structural alterations which involve changing the size of or moving buildings or other structures, new construction or demolition operations performed by or on behalf of the named insured.”
Defendant conceded that renovations conducted at the property including replacement of the roof did not consist of structural alterations changing the size of, or moving, the building, and they did not constitute new construction. Thus, the question was whether coverage was precluded on the basis that replacement of the roof involved “demolition activities.” Relying on the First Department decision in Corcoran v. Dairyland Ins. Co., 170 AD2d 243 (1991), the court held that the plain meaning of “demolition” is the “complete tearing down, razing or destruction of [an] entire building.” In the court’s view, this decision was also consistent with the dictionary definition of demolition. Thus, the court found that defendant failed to meet the high burden of establishing that its definition of “demolition operations” (i.e., any destruction type work) was the only reasonable interpretation of the exclusion. It reiterated that the undisputed evidence established that the work removing the roof did not impact the building’s structure. Accordingly, summary judgment was awarded to plaintiffs.
12/20/16 Southwest Mar. & Gen. Ins. Co. v Preferred Contrs. Ins. Co.
Supreme Court, New York County
Hon. Robert R. Reed
This matter arises out of a personal injury action wherein the injured plaintiff fell from a scaffold while working for Gilmar Design Corp. at premises located at 28-38 Varick Street in Brooklyn, New York. ExxonMobil was the owner of the premises where the accident allegedly occurred. Nonparty I'll Go, Inc. was hired by ExxonMobil to act as the general contractor at the site. Roux and SoilSolution were hired as subcontractors by I'll Go, Inc. to perform work and services at the site. SoilSolution allegedly subcontracted with Gilmar to perform certain masonry work
Following the accident, the injured plaintiff sued ExxonMobil, Roux and SoilSolution. Third-party actions were brought against Gilmar. Gilmar failed to appear and a default was eventually entered against it.
At the time of the accident, Gilmar was insured under a commercial general liability policy issued by Preferred Contractors Insurance Company (PCIC), a risk retention group. ExxonMobil, Roux and SoilSolution eventually brought this action claiming entitlement to coverage under the PCIC policy as additional insureds.
Two years after first filing this lawsuit, plaintiffs filed an amended complaint adding new claims. Specifically, the new fourth cause of action entitled “Breach of Contract — Contractual Liability,” purported to sue PCIC directly to recover compensatory and consequential damages due to the insurer’s refusal to provide Gilmar with contractual liability coverage in accordance with the PCIC policy and the Gilmar subcontract. The new fifth cause of action was entitled “NY Insurance Law § 3420.” ExxonMobil, Roux and SoilSolution alleged that they were entitled to recover as against PCIC under the default judgments they obtained against Gilmar in the underlying action. Plaintiffs’ sixth cause of action, entitled “Waiver and Estoppel,” replead the original fourth cause of action, but now alleged that, not only did ExxonMobil, Roux and SoilSolution timely and effectively tender to PCIC their claim for defense and indemnity as additional insureds under the PCIC policy, but that Gilmar also timely and effectively tendered its claim for contractual liability coverage in favor of ExxonMobil, Roux and SoilSolution under the PCIC policy. And, as a result of PCIC's alleged unreasonable delay in accepting and/or responding to these tenders, plaintiffs' new sixth cause of action contended, PCIC waived and/or is estopped from asserting any coverage defenses that may have otherwise applied and plaintiffs are entitled to a judgment requiring PCIC to provide primary insurance coverage to, and in favor of, ExxonMobil, Roux and SoilSolution for the claims in the underlying action.
The court found no basis for dismissal of the fourth cause of action since plaintiffs’ status as an additional insured was still open and the claim was sufficiently pled. Not sure I agree. Based on the history provided by the court, it seems as if the fourth claim would need to be asserted by Gilmar.
The fifth cause of action, however, was based on Insurance Law § 3420. In considering this cause of action, the court agreed with PCIC that in order bring a direct action under subsection (a)(2), plaintiffs needed an unsatisfied money judgment against PCIC’s insured. Here, while they obtained a judgment of default on liability, there was no money judgment. Moreover, the court agreed that this section of the insurance law is inapplicable to risk retention groups chartered in another state. As PCIC was a non-domiciliary risk retention group, the statute does not apply to it.
Lastly, the court likewise dismissed the sixth cause of action which alleged that PCIC waived and/or was estopped from asserting any coverage defense as PCIC’s coverage position as clearly set forth on multiple occasions.
01/04/17 Bauman v. American Commerce Insurance Company
United States District Court, Western District of Washington
American Commerce issued a policy that provided underinsured motorist (“UM”) coverage to Plaintiff LouAnn Bauman for up to $250,000 per insured. On April 4, 2006, Ms. Bauman was injured in an auto accident, for which she received full medical PIP benefits of $10,000 and full wage loss benefits of $10,000 from Defendant.
In August, 2011, the tortfeasor's insurer settled with Ms. Bauman for the $50,000 limit of his policy. Shortly thereafter, Plaintiffs sent Defendant a letter requesting that American Commerce (1) buy out their claim against the tortfeasor's $50,000 policy and (2) make them an offer under their UIM coverage. Defendant declined to buy out the underlying tort claim and requested more information about Plaintiff's damages.
In May, 2013, Plaintiffs sent Defendant a settlement demand letter, outlining over $1 million in damages and requesting the full $250,000 of the UIM policy. Defendant accepted coverage and requested an independent medical examination (“IME”). Plaintiffs responded by invoking the arbitration clause under the policy. underwent the IME, and Plaintiffs still received no response to their settlement demand.
In February, 2015, a two-day arbitration hearing was held before a three-person panel. Ms. Bauman received an award of $180,290 which resulted, after offsets, in a net award of $118,946.07. Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit, asserting that Defendant acted in bad faith, and violated IFCA and the Washington Consumer Protection Act (“CPA”). It is undisputed that at no time following receipt of Plaintiffs' settlement demand did Defendant extend a settlement offer to its insureds.
In support of its motion for summary judgment on its bad faith claim, Defendant offered Plaintiffs’ deposition testimony that if Defendant had offered them no money they would not have accepted. Defendant also had an expert testify that it was reasonable to value the case at zero and make no offer. Thus, Defendant argued that Plaintiffs could not establish bad faith because they would rejected Defendant’s non-offer anyways and proceeded to arbitration as they did.
The court rejected Defendant’s argument. The issue of whether Defendant’s failure to respond to Plaintiffs’ settlement proposal was reasonable was a question to be decided by a jury.
12/30/16 National Manufacturing Co., Inc. v. Citizens Ins. Co. of America
United States District Court, District of New Jersey
Plaintiff National is a company engaged in the business of producing precision deep drawn and shallow drawn metal components, including stainless steel battery casings used in pacemakers in the medical field. This suit arose out of pitting to the metal cases. In or about April 2011, National; customers began reporting that there were microscopic pits on the surface of the pacemaker battery cases, which resulted in the customers rejecting the cases as unusable.
After National's customers started rejecting its parts in spring of 2011, National began investigating the cause of the chemical pitting. The investigation confirmed that the pitting was caused by a chemical used in the manufacturing process called MetalMedic, which was supplied by Third-Party Defendant Janed. However, Citizen’s, National’s insurer, questioned the conclusion of National’s investigation.
National submitted a property claim to Citizens under the insurance policy. The policy issued to National was an all risk policy. The policy contained anti-concurrent causation language (“loss or damage is excluded regardless of any other cause or event that contributes concurrently”), as well as an anti-sequential loss clause (“loss or damages is excluded regardless of any other cause or event that contributes ... in any sequence to the loss”). The policy also contained a number of other potentially relevant exclusions, including exclusions for other corrosion, marring or scratching, faulty, inadequate, or defective workmanship, and damage to any product caused by or resulting from error or omission by any person or entity, including outsourced products, that occurs in any stage of development or production. The policy also contained a Broadening Endorsement which provides coverage under the policy for damage caused directly by sudden and accidental marring and scratching of stock.
In evaluating the relevant exclusions, the court first concluded that the corrosion exclusion did not apply. The corrosion was the loss suffered; it was not the cause of the loss. Accordingly it did not apply. Turning to the exclusions for damage to products and faulty workmanship, the court concluded that the exclusion applied because Janed’s error in supplying faulty MetalMedic caused the loss. However, the court concluded that an exception to these exclusions requiring Citizens to pay for the loss or damage caused by a Covered Cause of Loss when an error or omission and faulty workmanship causes a Covered Cause of Loss applied. Citizens’ motion for summary judgment based on National’s claims for business income loss and extra expense were also denied.
Turning to the bad faith claim, the court granted summary judgment in favor of Citizens. National’s claim of bad faith was based on two events. The first was an internal email by a Citizen’s adjuster that concluded National’s damage met the definition for marring under the policy’s coverage broadening endorsement. The letter, however, was sent before the adjuster had all of the facts surrounding the claim and also referred to other applicable policy exclusions. Thus, the court concluded that the email did not reflect that Citizens believed that National had coverage when it denied the claim.
Second, Citizen’s denial letter wrongly cited the anti-sequential and anti-consequential modifiers to the applicable exclusions. This was clearly an error, as Citizens admitted. However, the court concluded this error did not constitute bad faith because: (1) Citizens never pressed forward with either limitation; and (2) the limitations did not change Citizens’ decision to deny coverage.
Thus, Citizens’ reasons for denying coverage were fairly debatable and the bad faith claim was dismissed.
01/04/17 Scottsdale Insurance Co. v. United Indus. & Const. Corp.
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
This coverage dispute was previously before the district court in September 2015. At that time, Scottsdale Insurance sought a declaration that it was not required to defend its insured United Industries in two underlying lawsuits, each of which alleged that United’s negligent performance of excavation, demolition, and construction work damaged the plaintiffs’ premises. Following the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment, the district court held that Scottsdale had a duty to defend United, but denied both motions on the issue of indemnification as premature.
In the current decision, the district court considered Scottsdale’s motion for reconsideration of certain portions of this prior ruling. Initially, Scottsdale argued the court erred in finding a duty to defend because the underlying allegations fell within the scope of an Earth and Land Movement Exclusion , which as set out in the prior decision precluded coverage for property damage or other damages “caused directly or indirectly or in whole or in part, by the movement, in any direction of earth or land, regardless of,” among other things, “[t]he cause or source of such earth or land movement” or the order in which the movement occurred in association “with any other natural or man-made forces, causes, events or operations.” Because the underlying complaints alleged damage resulting from both excavation as well as demolition and/or construction, the court distinguished this case “from those [cited by Scottsdale] in which all of the alleged damage in the underlying complaint could only have been attributed, in whole or in part, to earth or land movement.” Because it was possible for United to be found liable in the underlying actions for damage “caused by non-earth-and-land-movement-acts” which would be covered by the policy, the district court denied Scottsdale’s motion for reconsideration on this point.
Scottsdale next challenged the district court’s holding that Scottsdale was equitably estopped from denying coverage based on its disclaimer of coverage after undertaking United’s defense because prejudice to United “could be presumed because of United’s loss of its right to control its own defense.” The court acknowledged Scottsdale’s referenced case law “stating that ‘[p]rejudice is established only where the insurer’s control of the defense is such that the character and strategy of the lawsuit can no longer be altered.” The court found this to be true where an insurer did not have knowledge of its defense at the time it agreed to defend, “however, it is irrelevant here where Scottsdale, with full knowledge of the facts constituting a defense to coverage, undertook coverage of United without reserving its right to disclaim coverage.” Because Scottsdale had knowledge, the presumption was proper.
Finally, the court denied Scottsdale’s motion for reconsideration of its dismissal of certain causes of action associated with the indemnification claims. In addition to finding that Scottsdale failed to provide any legal or factual argument in support of its request, the district court noted that dismissal of an indemnification claim as premature was appropriate where, as here, the dismissal was without prejudice.
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) recently advisory guidance to ensure compliance with requirements concerning annuity sales and replacements. The DFS’s December 8, 2016 Circular letter (Insurance Circular No. 7 (2016)) can be found at: http://www.dfs.ny.gov/insurance/circltr/2016/cl2016_07.htm . We summarize DFS’s recommendations below.
The new guidance is aimed at curbing misrepresentations made in the sale and replacement of annuities, and implicates Insurance Law §§ 2123, 4223, and 4226; 11 NYCRR 51 (Insurance Regulation 60) and 11 NYCRR 224 (Insurance Regulation 187).
Insurance Law §§ 2123(a)(3) and 4226(a)(6) require that producers and insurers conform to standards in connection with the replacement of an individual life insurance policy or individual annuity contract. The applicable regulations are 11 NYCRR 224 (Insurance Regulation 187), which requires a producer or insurer to perform a suitability review to determine the appropriateness of the sale or replacement of any annuity contract, and 11 NYCRR 51 (Insurance Regulation 60), which requires specific disclosures when a consumer is advised to lapse, surrender, replace or make any other change to an existing life insurance policy or annuity contract in conjunction with the purchase of a new life insurance policy or annuity contract.
A. Insurance Regulation 187, 11 NYCRR 224 - Suitability in Annuity Transactions
In recommending the purchase or replacement of an annuity contract, 11 NYCRR 224.4(a) requires a producer or the insurer (where a producer is not involved) to have reasonable grounds for believing that the recommended annuity contract is suitable for the consumer on the basis of the facts disclosed by the consumer as to the consumer’s investments, other insurance policies or contracts, and other “suitability information.” This “suitability information” includes the consumer’s age, annual income, financial situation and needs (including the financial resources used for the funding of the annuity), financial experience, financial objectives, intended use of the annuity, financial time horizon, existing assets, including investment and life insurance holdings, liquidity needs, liquid net worth, risk tolerance, and tax status. 11 NYCRR 224.3(e).
A producer or insurer (where a producer is not involved) may only recommend the purchase or replacement of an annuity contract where there is a reasonable basis to believe that the following four standards are satisfied:
the consumer has been reasonably informed of various features of the annuity contract,;
the consumer would benefit from certain features of the annuity contract, such as tax-deferred growth, annuitization or death or living benefit;
the particular annuity contract as a whole, is suitable for the particular consumer based on the consumer's suitability information (as defined in 11 NYCRR 224.3(e)); and
in the case of a replacement of an annuity contract, the replacement is suitable including taking into consideration whether the consumer will incur a surrender charge, be subject to the commencement of a new surrender period, lose existing benefits (such as death, living or other contractual benefits), or be subject to tax implications if the consumer surrenders or borrows from the annuity contract,
11 NYCRR 224.4(a) further provides that an insurer may not issue an annuity contract recommended to a consumer unless there is a reasonable basis to believe the annuity contract is suitable based on the consumer’s suitability information, and 11 NYCRR 224.4(g) requires an insurer to ensure that every producer recommending the insurer’s annuity contracts is adequately trained to make the recommendation.
To ensure compliance with these rules, DFS recommends that producers and insurers must contemporaneously document: (1) any recommendation subject to 11 NYCRR 224.4(a); (2) the consumer’s refusal to provide suitability information, if any; and (3) that an annuity purchase or replacement is not recommended if a consumer decides to enter into an annuity purchase or replacement that is not based on the producer’s or insurer’s recommendation. 11 NYCRR 224.4(e). Pursuant to 11 NYCRR 224.6, this documentation must be maintained by producers and insurers in accordance with the record retention requirements under 11 NYCRR 243.
Finally, 11 NYCRR 224.4(f) requires an insurer to establish and maintain a supervision system that is reasonably designed to achieve the producer’s and insurer’s compliance with these rules, including a system to ensure that a producer or insurer properly documents any recommendations made under the regulation. An insurer may contract with a third party to establish and maintain this system of supervision for producers pursuant to 11 NYCRR 224.4(f), but the insurer remains responsible for compliance with the regulation.
B. Insurance Regulation 60, 11 NYCRR 51 – Replacement of Life Insurance Policies and Annuity Contracts
In addition to satisfying the suitability requirements of 11 NYCRR 224, producers and insurers must also comply with Insurance Regulation 60 in connection with any internal or external replacement of a life insurance policy or annuity contract. The purpose of Insurance Regulation 60 is to “protect the interest of the public by establishing minimum standards of conduct to be observed in the replacement or proposed replacement of life insurance policies and annuity contracts….” 11 NYCRR 51.1(b).
Insurance Regulation 60 first requires producers to determine whether the issuance of an annuity contract constitutes a replacement of an existing annuity. In making this determination, producers are required to use the Definition of Replacement form prescribed in Appendix 11 to Insurance Regulation 60. This form must be completed and signed by the consumer. 11 NYCRR 51.1(b).
If the replacement of an existing annuity contract has occurred or is likely to occur, Insurance Regulation 60 requires that a producer explain the primary reason or reasons for recommending the new annuity contract, why the existing annuity contract cannot meet the applicant’s objectives, and the advantages of continuing the existing annuity contract without changes. 11 NYCRR 51.5(c)(7). These explanations must be provided to the consumer in a written “Disclosure Statement” on the form prescribed in Appendix 10B to Insurance Regulation 60 or other substantially equivalent form deemed acceptable by the Superintendent. 11 NYCRR 51.5(c)(7).
Insurance Regulation 60 also imposes requirements on insurers. In connection with the issuance of a replacement life insurance policy or an annuity, the insurer issuing the policy or annuity must (among other requirements):
(3) prior to the delivery of the life insurance policy or annuity contract, require an accurate and complete “Disclosure Statement” signed by the insurance agent or broker … including the primary reason or reasons for recommending the new life insurance policy or annuity contract and why the existing life insurance policy or annuity contract cannot meet the applicant's objectives;
(4) examine the sales material, including any proposal, used in the sale of the life insurance policy or annuity contract, and the “Disclosure Statement” and ascertain that they are accurate and meet the requirements of the Insurance Law and regulations promulgated thereunder;
(5) deliver the completed “Disclosure Statement” to the policy or contract holder no later than the time of delivery of the policy or contract. The insurer may, at its discretion, require the “Disclosure Statement” to be signed by the applicant, a copy of which shall be provided to the applicant at the time the applicant signs the “Disclosure Statement.”
11 NYCRR 51.6(b).
With respect to insurers that issued an annuity contract that is to be replaced, Insurance Regulation 60 requires that the insurer provide the information necessary to complete the Disclosure Statement within 20 days of receiving a request for the information from the insurer issuing the new annuity contract. 11 NYCRR 51.6(c)(2).
The DFS found that “many producers and insurers are routinely proposing to consumers replacements of existing deferred annuities with immediate income annuities without also providing the amount of guaranteed income available under the existing annuity contract. Given the significantly more favorable minimum interest rates and annuity mortality rates on many previously issued contracts, consumers are receiving thousands of dollars less in lifetime retirement income by replacing such contracts.” Thus, the aim of the new guidance is to ensure that consumers are apprised of their options.
When determining whether the replacement of annuity contract is suitable, 224.4(a)(4) and 224.4(b) of Insurance Regulation 187 require a producer or an insurer (where no producer is involved) to consider whether a consumer will lose existing benefits, such as death, living, or other contractual benefits, and the producer or insurer must have a reasonable basis to believe that the annuity contract is suitable based upon the consumer’s suitability information.
As a result, a producer or insurer should not replace an existing deferred annuity contract with an immediate annuity or deferred income annuity unless the producer or insurer considers the following comparisons: (1) the income options available under the existing deferred annuity contract and the proposed income annuity contract; and (2) the monthly (or other frequency) income available under the selected income option for both the existing deferred annuity contract and the proposed income annuity contract. In instances where the exact income option selected by the consumer is not available under the existing deferred annuity contract, or where there are additional income or withdrawal options that have been purchased (i.e., for variable annuities), the producer or insurer should make a good faith effort to highlight the closest available income options.
When a producer or insurer (where a producer is not involved) proposes a replacement of an existing annuity contract with a new annuity contract, the producer or insurer should explain to the consumer in the disclosure materials, and specifically in the Agent’s or Broker’s Statement or Remarks sections of the Disclosure Statement: (1) why the proposed immediate annuity contract is more suitable for the consumer than the existing annuity contract; and (2) why the existing annuity contract offers advantages over the proposed annuity contract. In providing an explanation of the advantages of replacing the existing annuity contract, the producer should document and illustrate the way or ways in which the new or replacement contract is superior to the option of annuitization or other income payout options that may exist under the current annuity contract. This documentation should include the same comparison that is used to assess the suitability of the replacement: (1) the income options available under the existing deferred annuity contract and the proposed income annuity contract; and (2) the monthly (or other frequency) income available under the selected income option for both the existing deferred annuity contract and the proposed income annuity contract.
An insurer should not deliver an annuity contract as a result of a replacement unless the appropriate income comparison information has been provided and the insurer has ascertained that it is accurate in accordance with 11 NYCRR 51.6(b) of Insurance Regulation 60. An insurer that issued the contract that is being replaced that refuses or otherwise fails to provide the information would be undermining Regulation 60’s intended purpose, the protection of policyholders and contract holders, and violating 11 NYCRR 51.7(b) of Insurance Regulation 60. In those instances where the insurer replacing the annuity contract requests and does not receive the information to provide the consumer with the necessary income comparisons, that insurer should document the request and process the replacement, if otherwise suitable, and report the replaced insurer’s refusal to provide the income comparison information to DFS.
A. Betterment of Rate Calculations
To comply with Insurance Law § 4223(a)(1)(E), DFS recommends that insurers which deliver or issue for delivery annuity contracts in New York, establish a procedure to ensure that consumers receive the highest amount of income available when requesting annuitization of an in-force deferred annuity contract. Insurers should perform a comparison of the: (1) income benefit derived from the guaranteed annuitization factors included in the existing annuity contract; and (2) income benefit derived from the insurer’s annuitization factors available for new sales. The insurer should use the factors that provide the consumer with the larger income benefit.
03/30/16 D. Cummins Corp. v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co.
In this case, an insured and its parent company sued liability insurers seeking a declaratory judgment with respect to coverage and duties of the insurance companies concerning numerous asbestos lawsuits against the insured. The Trial Court granted a motion to dismiss which was upheld on appeal, on the essential grounds that the parent company lacked standing to sue to seek a declaratory judgment against the liability insurers.
The Appellate Court first noted that in declaratory judgment actions, generally, a party must have standing to sue, there must be an actual case or controversy in existence between the parties, and the matter must be ripe in terms of timing for a determination. The Trial Court was entitled to review the factual allegations to determine whether there was in fact an actual controversy between the parties, and if so, what parties. Also, to some extent, a decision by a Trial Court whether or not to issue a declaratory judgment may be discretionary if the court feels it is not necessary or proper, and this may be subject to limited review only for abuse of discretion.
The parent company argued that it was an interested person under the policies and in the coverage because it was the sole entity responsible for managing the affairs of the insured, including making decisions with respect to litigation strategy, resolution, and settlement of various claims. However, the Appellate Court found this argument not persuasive, and viewed this interest at most as an indirect interest. The insured subsidiary corporation itself had the direct interest in coverage and the interpretation of the policies in question.
The Appellate Court noted that, in many other contexts, ignoring a corporation’s separate existence is infrequently done, and here the named insured company was a separate corporate entity which could pursue its own rights and interests.
Therefore, the Trial Court decision was affirmed, although the case would continue with the named insured corporation involved as the direct party in interest with standing to seek and argue for the declaration of coverage and insurance rights.
The lesson of this case is to pay close attention to the actual parties to the policy, and whether there is identity with the parties to the litigation. A named insured to the policy may for some reason be omitted from the litigation and have to made a necessary party to any declaratory relief. This may certainly occur if there are a number of different policies extending back over several years where a corporation may have undergone several internal corporate reorganizations and name changes.
Generally, a named insured or additional insured will have standing to file a declaratory judgment action, and in certain circumstances and under state statutes third party claimants may also have standing to initiate or participate in such a declaratory judgment action seeking to determine the nature, presence, and amount of coverage.
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Brielle and the Horror: Volume 1
By: James Ferguson
In: Comics
"Brielle and the Horror: Volume 1" Graphic Novel Review
Written by James Ferguson
Published by Loaded Barrel Studios
Written by Jared Barel and Jordan Barel
Illustrated by Jared Barel
2013, 203 Pages
Graphic novel released on April 16th, 2014
High school is hard enough, but young Brielle also has to deal with a demon that's been living inside her since she was born. Up until now she's been able to keep it in check, but the creature is starting to bust out and things are going to get bloody. Brielle and the Horror, the second (and also sort of first, more on that later) graphic novel from Loaded Barrel Studios deals with this poor girl and what could be the coming of the Antichrist.
Brielle and the Horror has actually been in the making for some time. It began with the first chapter, released as a single issue at New York Comic Con in 2007. Another issue and a one-shot would follow before brothers Jared and Jordan Barel would finish the first story arc in a full-fledged graphic novel. Given the gap between the issues, you can see the creative team grow and improve over time.
The first thing you'll notice about this comic is the artwork. It's unlike any other funny book as the brothers looked at the creative process as they would a film. Each of the panels are actually photographed using actors and real props before they're digitally altered and illustrated by Jared. This sounds like it would be really lame. Just think of taking a screenshot from a movie and slapping a speech bubble on there. Fortunately, Jared has come up with a great way of making this work. Granted, there are a few rocky sections in the first chapter, but by the second and third, he's found his stride and the artwork looks much more natural. This was also the case with Grey, the team's previous graphic novel.
The easiest way to describe the story is imagine the infant from Rosemary's Baby as a teenager. The main difference is that Brielle has been growing up under the watchful eye of the church in an effort to prevent the apocalypse. Meanwhile, there's an evil organization that is ready to unleash the power lurking within her against the world. All this and she has to deal with boy trouble.
Brielle and the Horror manages to really tap into the fears and insecurities of being a weird kid in high school. It's also surprising that the main character feels so natural, as the book is written by two guys. In many ways, she just wants to be normal or at least left alone, but she might as well be living in the same town as Carrie judging by the actions of some of her classmates.
The Barel brothers keep several of the important story pieces under wraps for most of the book. They do a great job pulling you in early on with shots like Brielle's stepfather looking at a dead body in his trunk or Brielle having visions of a mauled dog. These happen within the first chapter and it's near impossible not to want to learn more.
Also included in this graphic novel is a one-shot called A Thousand Words. It's a very meta comic featuring the Barel brothers and other members of their team going out into the woods to shoot for the graphic novel. In a very Blair Witch Project setup, they wander into a strange part of the forest and turn on each other.
Brielle and the Horror is a cinematic comic. I'd love to see what Jared and Jordan Barel could do if they were to turn this into a feature film or at least a web series. Jared's art style is unique and as mentioned before, improves as the book progresses. There's some great art direction and a plot that's filled with religious conspiracy. Brielle's story doesn't end here though, as it's left open for a continuation, but her next steps are currently unknown.
Author: James Ferguson
Lord of the Funny Books
James has a 2nd grade reading level and, as a result, only reads books with pictures. Horror is his 5th favorite genre right after romantic comedy and just before silent films. No one knows why he's here, but he won't leave.
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Badynoch History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Badynoch is a name whose ancestors lived among the Picts, a tribe in ancient Scotland. The Badynoch family lived in the lands of Badenoch, in Inverness.
Early Origins of the Badynoch family
The surname Badynoch was first found in Inverness-shire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Nis) divided between the present day Scottish Council Areas of Highland and Western Isles, and consisting of a large northern mainland area and various island areas off the west coast, the shire was anciently both a Pictish and Norwegian stronghold. The Lord of Badenoch was a magnate who ruled the lordship of Badenoch in the 13th century and early 14th century. It is generally believed that lordship was created out of the territory of the Meic Uilleim, after William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan, Justiciar of Scotia and Warden of Moray who defeated Gille Escoib MacUilleim. After the death of John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch (d. 1306), the lordship was taken into royal hands.
Early History of the Badynoch family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Badynoch research. Another 84 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1454, 1460 and 1521 are included under the topic Early Badynoch History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Badynoch Spelling Variations
The appearance of the printing press and the first dictionaries in the last few hundred years did much to standardize spelling. Prior to that time scribes spelled according to sound, a practice that resulted in many spelling variations. Badynoch has been spelled Badenach, Badenack, Badenoch, Badenock, Badinoch, Badynoch, Badyenoch, Baidenach and many more.
Early Notables of the Badynoch family (pre 1700)
More information is included under the topic Early Badynoch Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Badynoch family
The expense of the crossing to the North American colonies seemed small beside the difficulties of remaining in Scotland. It was a long and hard trip, but at its end lay the reward of freedom. Some Scots remained faithful to England and called themselves United Empire Loyalists, while others fought in the American War of Independence. Much of this lost Scottish heritage has been recovered in the last century through Clan societies and other patriotic Scottish organizations. A search of immigration and passenger lists revealed many important, early immigrants to North America bearing the name of Badynoch: John Badenack who settled in Virginia in 1690.
Badynoch (Scottish)
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Copestakes History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The name Copestakes is of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from when the family lived at the copstake or the post on top of the round hill or mound.
Early Origins of the Copestakes family
The surname Copestakes was first found in Yorkshire, where they held a family seat from ancient times.
Early History of the Copestakes family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Copestakes research. Another 225 words (16 lines of text) covering the years 1295, 1301, 1379, 1474, 1500, 1729, 1749, 1791, 1800 and 1790 are included under the topic Early Copestakes History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Copestakes Spelling Variations
It is only in the last few hundred years that the English language has been standardized. For that reason, early Anglo-Saxon surnames like Copestakes are characterized by many spelling variations. As the English language changed and incorporated elements of other European languages, even literate people changed the spelling of their names. Scribes and monks in the Middle Ages spelled names they sounded, so it is common to find several variations that refer to a single person. The variations of the name Copestakes include: Capstick, Copestake, Copestick, Copstick, Capstack, Coupstak, Coupestack, Copstake, Cowpstake and many more.
Early Notables of the Copestakes family (pre 1700)
More information is included under the topic Early Copestakes Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Copestakes migration to the United States +
Many English families tired of political and religious strife left Britain for the new colonies in North America. Although the trip itself offered no relief - conditions on the ships were extremely cramped, and many travelers arrived diseased, starving, and destitute - these immigrants believed the opportunities that awaited them were worth the risks. Once in the colonies, many of the families did indeed prosper and, in turn, made significant contributions to the culture and economies of the growing colonies. An inquiry into the early roots of North American families has revealed a number of immigrants bearing the name Copestakes or a variant listed above:
Copestakes Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
Hannah Copestakes, who arrived in America in 1743
Copestakes migration to Australia +
Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:
Copestakes Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
John Copestakes, English convict from Sussex, who was transported aboard the "Asia" on April 1st, 1822, settling in New South Wales, Australia [1]
Van Diemen's
First Fleets
^ State Library of Queensland. (Retrieved 2016, October 27) Asia 1 voyage to Van Diemen's Land, Australia in 1822 with 190 passengers. Retrieved from http://www.convictrecords.com.au/ships/asia/1822
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Dinnyn History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The origins of the Dinnyn name lie with England's ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. It comes from when the family lived in Dinham, a hamlet in the county Monmouthshire. [1]
Early Origins of the Dinnyn family
The surname Dinnyn was first found in Monmouthshire. However, another source points to Devon and Cornwall as the origin of the family. In this case, Barons Dinham, and De Dinant, claim descent from the Viscounts Dinant of Bretagne, France. [2]
The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 has two listings in Devon: Oliver de Dynham; and Robert de Dyncham as both holding lands there at that time. [1]
The manor of Bodarle or Bodardle, in the parish of Lanlivery, Cornwall belonged in the reign of Richard I. In 1259, it was conveyed by Isolda de Cardinham to Oliver de Dinan, in whose posterity it continued for several generations. [3]
Early History of the Dinnyn family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Dinnyn research. Another 78 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1295, 1320, 1433, 1501, 1460 and 1486 are included under the topic Early Dinnyn History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Dinnyn Spelling Variations
Before the last few hundred years, the English language had no fast system of spelling rules. For that reason, spelling variations are commonly found in early Anglo-Saxon surnames. Over the years, many variations of the name Dinnyn were recorded, including Dynham, Dinan, Dinham, Dinat, Dyneham and others.
Early Notables of the Dinnyn family (pre 1700)
Another 50 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Dinnyn Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Dinnyn family
To escape oppression and starvation at that time, many English families left for the "open frontiers" of the New World with all its perceived opportunities. In droves people migrated to the many British colonies, those in North America in particular, paying high rates for passages in cramped, unsafe ships. Although many of the settlers did not make the long passage alive, those who did see the shores of North America perceived great opportunities before them. Many of the families that came from England went on to make essential contributions to the emerging nations of Canada and the United States. Research into various historical records revealed some of first members of the Dinnyn family emigrate to North America: Thomas Dinham, who came to Virginia in 1731; George Dinham, who arrived in New England in 1763; as well as Daniel, James, Michael, and Thomas Dinan, who all settled in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860..
Hundredorum Rolls
^ Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
^ Hutchins, Fortescue, The History of Cornwall, from the Earliest Records and Traditions to the Present Time. London: William Penaluna, 1824. Print
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Harwedind History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 added many new elements to an already vibrant culture. Among these were thousands of new names. The Harwedind family lived in Flintshire, Wales at Hawarden. [1]
Early Origins of the Harwedind family
The surname Harwedind was first found in Flintshire, Wales at Hawarden, a small village near the border of Cheshire and Wales. Legend has it that in the Church a statue of the Virgin Mary fell in 946, killing the wife of the Governor of the Castle. The statue was put on trial and condemned to death by drowning. The statue floated up the River Dee and washed up at Chester.
Hawarden Castle, built much later, after the Hawardens had left, was occupied during the 19th century by William Gladstone, Prime Minister of England.
Early History of the Harwedind family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Harwedind research. Another 99 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1206, 1574, 1662, 1735, 1662 and 1686 are included under the topic Early Harwedind History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Harwedind Spelling Variations
Norman surnames are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. The frequent changes in surnames are largely due to the fact that the Old and Middle English languages lacked definite spelling rules. The introduction of Norman French to England, as well as the official court languages of Latin and French, also had pronounced influences on the spelling of surnames. Since medieval scribes and church officials recorded names as they sounded, rather than adhering to any specific spelling rules, it was common to find the same individual referred to with different spellings. The name has been spelled Hawarden, Hawardens, Hawerden, Harweden, Harveden, Harvedon and many more.
Early Notables of the Harwedind family (pre 1700)
Outstanding amongst the family at this time was Edward Hawarden (1662-1735), an English Roman Catholic theologian and controversialist from Lancashire. He was the son of Thomas Hawarden...
Another 26 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Harwedind Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Harwedind family
Many English families emigrated to North American colonies in order to escape the political chaos in Britain at this time. Unfortunately, many English families made the trip to the New World under extremely harsh conditions. Overcrowding on the ships caused the majority of the immigrants to arrive diseased, famished, and destitute from the long journey across the stormy Atlantic. Despite these hardships, many of the families prospered and went on to make invaluable contributions to the development of the cultures of the United States and Canada. Early North American immigration records have revealed a number of people bearing the name Harwedind or a variant listed above: Robert Harveden who landed in North America in 1705.
^ Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
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Calories & Carbs
L to ml Conversions
0.05 L to mL – 0.05 Liters to Milliliters
In this post, we will demonstrate how to convert 0.05 L to ml and we will provide you multiple ways to accomplish this. One is using our online converter, which works for any given number of liters. Another is using the L to ml conversion chart provided for the exact value of 0.05 liters. A third one is calculating this manually using conversion liters to milliliters factors. All three methods will give the same answer of 50 milliliters.
0.05 L to ml Converter
Enter the number of liters (ex. 0.05) that you want to convert to milliliters in the box below. This converter is not limited to only converting what 0.05 liters is in milliliters, but it works for any number of liters that is input. The amount will automatically be converted to milliliters without you needing to click anything else. To clear the values, you may click the ‘reset’ button. Note that this converter only works for changing liters to milliliters, and not the other way around.
0.05 L to ml – Unit Definition
What is a Liter ?
A liter (abbreviated as L) is a unit of volume based on the metric system and accepted under the SI system. It is equal to 1 cubic decimeter or 1,000 milliliters. It is also equivalent to 1/1000 of a cubic meter.
A liter was previously defined based on the volume of a fixed mass of water held at certain conditions. This is because 1 liter of water has a mass of almost exactly 1 kilogram at the temperature of maximum density. The liter (sometimes spelled as litre) is most commonly used to measure volumes of liquids such as water or household chemicals.
What is a Milliliter ?
A milliliter is a unit of volume based on the metric system and accepted under the SI system. It is abbreviated as ml. It is equivalent to 1 cubic centimeter, or to 1/1000 of a cubic decimeter, or 1/1000 of a liter. Its previous definition was based on the volume of 1 gram of water at the temperature of maximum density. The milliliter is often used to measure small volumes of liquids, such as for small bottles of beverages or household chemicals, or for liquids stored in small beakers, flasks, and graduated cylinders in laboratories. This is also sometimes spelled as millilitre.
0.05 L to ml Conversion Chart
In case you do not have the time to use the converter and input the number yourself, you can use this handy 0.05 liters to ml conversion chart to see the final result immediately. This result has been calculated ahead using the converter, so the result will be the same.
Liters (L)
Milliliters (mL)
0.05 L to mL 0.05 L = 50 mL
0.05 Liters to ml
In the previous sections, we have presented two options for converting 0.05 liters to milliliters (ml). The first option was to use our online l to ml converter. However, there may be times when one does not have access to the internet, or specifically to this webpage. The second option was to use a 0.05 liters to ml conversion chart, which saves any effort because it has the final value already. But like any conversion chart, its use is limited to that single value, and furthermore, one may not always carry conversion charts around with them.
Therefore, it is beneficial to know how to do this conversion manually, using a hand calculator.
The following sections describe the manual procedure to convert liters to milliliters. Like the converter, this is a general procedure and can be used to convert any number of liters to milliliters. For this case, where we wish to convert 0.05 liters to milliliters, we will use this manual procedure and show that the result is the same as those obtained using the online converter and the conversion chart.
This process can then be extended for any other mass in liters, to convert the given mass to milliliters. We will use the definitions given earlier to carry out this conversion.
To remind You:
0.05 L to ml = 50 milliliters
0.05 L in ml = 50 milliliters
0.05 liters to milliliters = 50 ml.
Convert 0.05 L to ml
In the above section containing the definitions, a liter has been defined as being equivalent to 1,000 milliliters. This means that there is a constant proportion between the two, so just as 1,000 milliliters is equivalent to 1 L, multiplying both values by the same number will still give a true statement. For example, if we were to multiply both numbers by 2, then:
1 liter multiplied by 2 would become 2 liters, and
1000 milliliters multiplied by 2 would become 2000 milliliters.
The new numbers are still equivalent, that is, 2 liters is equal to 2000 milliliters.
Similarly, dividing both by the same number will also give a valid statement. For example, dividing both by 2 gives:
1 liter divided by 2 would become 0.5 liters, and
1000 milliliters divided by 2 would be 500 milliliters.
Therefore, 0.5 liters would be equal to 500 milliliters.
Based on these statements, since we want to convert 0.05 liters to milliliters, we can multiply the original values by 0.05 to get our desired result. That is:
This means that 0.05 liters is equal to 50 milliliters.
0.05 L is equal to how many ml?
The above calculations show that when we convert 0.05 liters to milliliters, we get the result of 50 milliliters. This final answer is obtainable by all three methods we have presented. From our first method, entering in 0.05 liters in the online converter will give this answer of 50 milliliters. Our second method, the 0.05 l to ml conversion table, shows the same result of 50 milliliters.
Our third method is much more detailed as it shows the step-by-step manual calculation of how to convert 0.05 liters to milliliters. It begins by using the definition of the liter in terms of milliliters, and using the conversion factor 1,000 milliliters to 1 liter, creates a new proportion using the given of 0.05 liters. This method also arrives at the same answer of 50 milliliters.
All three methods used agree on the same answer, and so it is up to the reader’s discretion which of the three methods is preferable. The online converter is simple to use, provided one has access to this webpage.
A 0.05 l to ml conversion chart can be printed out and carried around for convenience, but only specific values can be recorded on it (it would be difficult to record every possible value, especially those involving decimals). Finally, the manual calculation method may be difficult to understand at first, but once it has been learned, it can be used anytime and anywhere to convert any number of liters to milliliters.
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Lumber Liquidators settles with the SEC and DOJ over Chinese flooring supplier
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Flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators announced settlements with the Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice, paying a total of $33 million.
The company admitted to filing false statements regarding its use of Chinese-supplied laminate containing formaldehyde.
Watch Lumber Liquidators trade live.
Lumber Liquidators, one of the largest American retailers of hardwood flooring, announced the resolution of Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice investigations regarding securities violations related to disclosures around the company's sourcing of Chinese laminate flooring. The Virginia-based company agreed to pay a total penalty of $33 million for filing materially false and misleading statements to investors.
In a "60 Minutes" episode that aired in March 2015, the hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson alleged the company was selling toxic Chinese-made laminate containing formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing chemical, to unsuspecting American families. Tilson also disclosed he shorted the company's stock.
Lumber Liquidators broadly denied the allegations, and said that it was in compliance with California Air Resources Board regulations, which limit the amount of formaldehyde used in wood products.
"Lumber Liquidators lied to investors and to the public about its compliance with formaldehyde regulations for the flooring it sold – all to protect its stock price," said Brian Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
Lumber Liquidators was up 17% this year.
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This week in TV Guide: June 26, 1965
Back when I first started my TV Guide collection, it wasn't to provide sociological analysis of '60s television and how it reflected American culture and vice versa. Northing that deep or pretentious. It was simply because I liked paging through them, finding shows I remembered, shows I was sorry I didn't remember, and shows that I thought never should have made it to the air. It was a miniature time capsule for me, a chance to relive some days and experience others for the first time, and it remains a simple pleasure to do so.
Since we're in the midst of the summer rerun season and there isn't a lot of depth in these issues, I thought I'd go back to those former days and just see what jumps off the page of this issue. Maybe there's some good stuff in here, maybe not. Let's see.
Here's something you wouldn't see on network TV nowadays. At 8:45 am CT on ABC, it's the Irish Sweeps Derby horse race, live via Early Bird satellite from Dublin, with Jim McKay and Irish sports announcer Michael O'Hehir providing the call. It wasn't that unusual for ABC, in particular, to provide Saturday morning sports coverage from overseas, as they did during Ford Motor's campaign to win the 24 Hours of LeMans. The Early Bird, which was quite famous at the time, had only been up since April and live television coverage from Europe and Asia was a novelty at the time, leading me to suspect ABC covered the Derby not just because it was a big race, but simply because they could. Lending credence to this theory is a mention in "For the Record" that Comsat is set to start collecting fees for the use of the Early Bird, ending the free run that had existed prior to then.
Here are highlights of the race, by the way, which was won by Meadow Court, partly owned by Bing Crosby. I'm surprised a tape of the race wasn't found in his basement.
No Sullivan vs. The Palace this week, as Palace is preempted by the Coaches All-America college football game, live from Buffalo, New York. This was one of the more unusual post-season all-star games, coming as it did more than five months after the end of the college football season. For a football fan like me it was a real treat, a much-needed antidote to the endless stream of baseball throughout the summer*, and a signal that football season was just around the corner. It was sort of a companion to July's College All-Star game, which pitted the NFL champions against an all-star team of seniors. And besides, Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson usually announced it, which meant it had to be a big game, right?
*This was long before I'd come to appreciate the subtleties and nuances of baseball, which in turn was long before the drug scandals and increasingly slow pace of the game drove me away again.
It's no surprise that all-star games like these don't exist anymore. For one thing, the NFL would never permit their expensive new rookies to endanger themselves playing in meaningless college exhibition games when they could be playing in meaningless pro exhibition games. And the whole all-star experience has waned across all leagues, given that the proliferation of televised sports has made household names out of almost everyone - it used to be, for example, that people who lived in American League cities only got to see National League players at the All Star Game, or on the occasional Game of the Week telecast.
Games like this may not be missed, but they're still missed, if you know what I mean.
I mentioned the single-season series The Rogues a couple of weeks ago. It's on KCMT, Channel 7, at 10:30 Sunday night, rather than it's normal 9:00 Sunday timeslot. Channel 7, an NBC affiliate that also carried various ABC shows, broadcast the previous day's Lawrence Welk at 9:00 instead. Some people thought the failure of The Rogues, a clever and humorous show that starred Gig Young, David Niven and Charles Boyer, was because the show was too sophisticated for viewers. In Channel 7's case, I can believe it.
Anyway, this week's episode is entitled "The Boston Money Party," and features Young's character (the three stars rotated turns as leads) "posing as the owner of a New England textile plant, to trap Paul Mannix, the 'wolf' of Wall Street." An unscrupulous one, no doubt, as the rogues seldom scammed someone who didn't deserve it. An attraction of this episode: it was written by William Link and Richard Levenson, the creators of Columbo and countless other clever shows. Since I've talked about this show twice now, it's only fair I give you a glimpse of it to demonstrate why it's worth your while. So here's the very episode we're talking about, "The Boston Money Party."
By the way, you'll (hopefully) remember that last week I brought up the practice in TV Guide of often crediting the writer of a particular episode, and you can see that in spades Sunday night. Besides the mention of Levenson and Link, we also find out that this week's episode of Bonanza, "The Flapjack Contest," was written by Frank Cleaver, and that host Rod Serling penned this week's Twilight Zone, "The Bard." Later in the week, we'll see that The Alfred Hitchcock Hour's "The Return of Verge Likens" (which was actually on MeTV a few weeks ago) was written by James Bridges, and the Kraft Suspense Theatre presentation of "Connery's Hands" was written by William Wood. I still think it's a nice idea.
My mother watched soap operas when I was a kid, as I suspect did many mothers of many sons and daughters. I'm fairly well-acquainted with many of them, but here's one that doesn't ring a bell - it's ABC's A Time For Us, a spin-off of the soap Flame in the Wind (which I hadn't heard of either), which has its debut this Monday. It was only on for two years, if you count the two shows as one (as does the always-reliable Wikipedia), so I guess I'm not all that surprised.
Still, it's interesting - soap operas engendered such a passionate following among their loyal viewers, it's always interesting to run across the ones that didn't really catch on. Still, if you're curious, here's an extended clip from an episode, sponsored by Dristan nasal mist, and Sleep-Eze, for a good night's sleep.
Speaking of soaps, here's the listing for Thursday's episode of General Hospital: "Steve hires a new staff member." How could they stand the suspense?
Wait just a minute, you say! You just said there wasn't any Sullivan vs. The Palace this week! Well, that's what you get for believing everything I write.
Actually, we're cheating a little here, since the Hollywood Palace episode we've got is last week's, as it appears on WKBT, Channel 8 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, a CBS affiliate who also dabbles in that wacky cross-affiliate programming. They air Palace on Tuesday night at 10:30, right after your late edition of the local news, but we don't care, do we?
Sullivan: TVG doesn't call this a rerun, but it doesn't say it's live either. At any rate, Ed's guests this week are Tony Bennett; puppet Topo Gigio; rock 'n' rollers Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas; comic Jackie Vernon; the singing Kim Sisters; magician Johnny Hart; the two Carmenas, acrobats*; and Africa's Djolimba song and drum ensemble.
*My wife, upon hearing this lineup, suggested that the two Carmenas would be followed by the two Buranas. If you don't get it, look it up.
Palace: Host David Janssen introduces vocalists Edie Adams and Vic Damone; comedians Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks; Les Surfs, a singing group from Madagascar; the Harlem Globetrotters; Tim Conway; the knife-throwing Zeros*; and the Princess Tajana trapeze act.
*Let's hope that refers to the number of errant throws they make.
I'd say that one Edie Adams and one Vic Damone equal one Tony Bennett, and Jackie Vernon and Tim Conway probably offset themselves, as to the the acrobats and the knife throwers. But the reason the Palace wins this week is the supporting cast: Reiner and Brooks, who may not do their "2000 Year Old Man" routine but do have a very funny bit on filing income taxes, the 'Trotters, who were very funny in those days, and Janssen, who's probably not that at ease in a hosting role, especially when his team of "Hollywood Dribblers" take on the Globetrotters. But why speculate on it? Here, watch the show for yourself:
Fred Astaire had essentially retired from Hollywood a few years ago, limiting his appearances to rare (and critically acclaimed) variety specials, but he and his current partner Barrie Chase are back this week in a comedy on NBC's Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre called "Think Pretty." "Record company owners Fred Addams* [played by you-know-who] wants to win over female talent manager Tony Franklin - he's trying to sign one of her clients to a recording contract." Fred and Barrie do a few dances, and Fred sings the title song.
*I wonder - since this was up directly against ABC's The Addams Family, did they perhaps spell Fred's character's last name that way on purpose?
And yes, here's a clip of one of their dances. You knew that was coming, didn't you?
Saturday night at 8pm, CBS carries Secret Agent, which in England (and on DVD) is known by its original name Danger Man*. I've written in the past about this show, the precursor to Patrick McGoohan's magnificent The Prisoner, which had a pretty successful run of its own. I wouldn't have noticed this series back in 1965 - particularly this week, I would have been watching the football game - but you can bet I notice it now.
*Admit it though, Johnny Rivers singing Secret Agent is way cooler than the theme that was used under the title Danger Man.
This week's episode, "Whatever Happened to George Foster?", doesn't play into the Prisoner theme in the way that some other episodes do, but it's a strong one in its own right. And speaking of familiar faces in unfamiliar roles, isn't that Bernard Lee playing the heavy? You know, "M" - as in the James Bond movies? Glad he finally turned away from his life of crime.
Hawaii Five-0 isn't on yet, but we still have a double-dose of Jack Lord this week. First, on a Dr. Kildare rerun (written by Harold Gast), Lord plays a doctor who fears rheumatoid arthritis may end his surgical career, just as it once ended his professional football career. I'll bet we get Jack in full-on bitter mode here. Question for any of you doctors out there, though: if his character had rheumatoid arthritis as a young man, bad enough that it stopped him from playing football, how was he ever able to become a surgeon in the first place? I'm no doctor, I'm just wondering.
Later that week, Jack's back in an episode of his very good modern-day cowboy series Stoney Burke, which runs as a syndicated rerun at 10:15pm on Duluth's KDAL. In this episode, a rodeo colleague of Stoney's is killed while riding a Brahma bull. How does Stoney figure into it? Let's find out:
And that note on The Doctors and the Nurses Well, in a TV Guide article earlier in June, the humorist Art Buchwald wrote about how the show could have survived being on opposite ABC's new hit series The Fugitive. His suggestion, as you can see here, was that a man would be brought to the Doctors/Nurses emergency room, "and as one of the doctors took the sheet off him, the audience would discover he had one arm. Just before he dies on the operating table he would gasp, "I am the one-armed man the Fugitive is looking for. Richard Kimble is innocent and I killed his wife."
As it turns out, a very funny letter to the editor from Arthur Joel Katz, former producer of The Doctors and the Nurses, suggests (likely tongue-in-cheek) that he proposed just such an idea. "A one-armed man comes into the hospital, confesses to Zina [Bethune, one of the nurses] that he killed David Janssen's wife, and dies. The policy broadcast the news, but Janssen suspects a trap and doesn't believe it. Thereafter, Zina sets out in search of David, but at every town she gets off the back of the bus just as David gets on the front. The only trouble with this story is that I couldn't sell it to the writers. Thus The Fugitive continues his adventures in oblivion, while we just fade into it."
The Doctors and the Nurses was originally just called The Nurses when it debuted in 1962, before doctors were brought into the mix to increase the dramatic possibilities, and the show's name was changed accordingly. Here's a look at the original version:
Well, how did we do this week? I confess that when I started out, I had no intention of providing videos of almost every show I mentioned, but it just turned out this way. Twenty years ago, or even ten, something like this - offering such a substantial amount of programming from a single TV Guide that was nearly fifty years old - would have been unthinkable. And I suspect this only scratches the surface; how many other episodes that didn't catch my eye - like Wednesday's episode of CBS' Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, "Lucy Makes Room For Danny" - reside somewhere on YouTube or another streaming service?
As I say, this is just a wonder. Who could possibly have imagined it was possible? Certainly, when I picked up this issue to work on, I had no idea. We'll have to try it again sometime, don't you think? TV
Labels: 1960s, Burke's Law, Jack Lord, Patrick McGoohan, Sports, Sullivan vs. Palace, This Week in TV Guide
It's possible that Ed Sullivan taped his show in advance to give himself and his show's production team some time off.
In late August, a couple of episodes (including one with the Beatles) were taped in advance to air in September, then the show relocated to Television City in Hollywood for a few weeks in order so that the Ed Sullivan Theatre could be converted to color (the studio in Hollywood where Ed temporarily originated from in September and early October of 1965 had already been converted to color).
By mid-October, Ed was back in New York with a theatre filled with brand-new color gear.
Mitchell Hadley July 2, 2014 at 8:09 AM
Excellent detail - I love that kind of thing!
The brief theme (the few harpsichord notes) at the very beginning of the "Danger Man" episode was also used in the U.S. broadcasts of "Secret Agent" right after the opening credits and Johnny Rivers' theme music.
The harpsichord notes were background as the CBS voice-over announced said "'Secret Agent'...Brought to you by (name of product)".
As much as I prefer the title "Danger Man," I have to admit that that Rivers singing "Secret Agent Man" was just perfect for that show - especially the line "They've given you a number and taken away your name," which leads in so perfectly to "The Prisoner."
Realism vs. Plausibility
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The do-it-yourself network
On censorship
This week in TV Guide: June 3, 1967
Getting an education about educational television
Peter Gunn - the smoothest P.I. on TV
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Cotonou - a city slowly swallowed by waves
Cotonou - Gilbert Adikpeto remembers the night he lost much of his shorefront home, literally washed away by the sea.
"We were asleep with the children when there was a deafening noise from the living room. I got up in a panic and the whole room had disappeared under the waves," said the 62-year-old retired railway worker, still in shock two months later.
Adikpeto's story could become all too common, experts warn.
Huge breakers constantly battering Benin's coast - and the rest of the shoreline on the Gulf of Guinea - are starting to take their toll. Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria are also fighting to stop the sea from gulping up chunks of land.
In tiny Benin, the erosion on its narrow stretch of coastline was first recorded a century ago.
The phenomenon has been exacerbated by the rise in seawater levels, attributed to global warming, and by massive construction projects such as the Nangbeto dam in Benin and the Akossombo dam in Ghana, as well as the development of deep-water ports at Cotonou and Lome, according to experts.
"The coastline to the east of Cotonou has moved back 400 metres in 40 years, that is an average of 10 metres a year," said Paul Houssou who heads up an anti-erosion project for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Worldwide, seawater levels are estimated to have risen between 10 and 20 centimetres in the past 100 years and that trend is speeding up.
A study by Columbia University showed that sea water levels on the West African coast could rise by more than 50 centimetres between now and the end of the century.
For its part, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore - noted that rising sea levels along the Gulf of Guinea could cost its rim countries almost 14 percent of their gross domestic product.
By contrast, preventive measures adopted by the same countries would only cost between five and 10 percent of their GDP, the IPCC said.
A number of other studies have underscored just how quickly most of Cotonou, Benin's commercial capital, could disappear under the waves.
One by the French firm SOGREAH-Laboratoire DEFT said: "If nothing is done before 2025, the coastline will lie 950 metres farther inland than it did in 1963."
Hardest hit would be the section of Cotonou known as Les Ambassadeurs, which the French study said would be swallowed up completely, as would the road that links the administrative capital Porto Novo to Lagos in Nigeria. Other districts of Cotonou could follow pretty quickly, it warned.
But it was only in September that the government banned local construction companies from pumping sand from the seacoast and told them to use sand from rivers instead.
Benin's next big plan is to build dikes to protect its 125-kilometre coastline. The €50-million project financed partially by the World Bank is set to start in first half 2008.
"Our first goal, stopping the extraction of sea sand, has been achieved. We are now going to build dikes in two directions starting from Cotonou channel: towards the Togolese border and towards the Nigerian border," Urban Planning Minister Francois Noudegbessi told AFP.
UNEP experts, however, said that only a full regional dike would be beneficial, stretching at least along the five countries from Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
Dikes constructed piecemeal country-by-country would run the risk of exacerbating the problem of erosion, UNEP environmentalist Jacques Houngbonou told AFP.
"Contrary to what our leaders think, any dike construction has to be done on a regional level so that no chunk of the coastline gets left out," he warned. "Otherwise, later we're going to see parts of the coastline reinforced and more marked erosion in the other parts."
The dike project is seen as too little too late for Cotonou families like the Adikpetos who have already been forced to move.
"When I finished building my house in 1987, the sea was 250 metres away and there were four rows of houses in front of mine. Now they're all under water," Adikpeto said.
And it is not only private homes at risk. Cotonou's Palm Beach hotel, once the "in" place to gather for drinks, is now three-quarters swallowed by the sea.
Despite the danger, some seafront residents do not want to move.
In the Cotonou district of Donaten, fishing boats come back each sunset weighed down with their catch but with increasing trouble getting past the tidal bore.
"The sea is chasing us away, but it's also our source of food so we try to stay close to it, despite everything," said a fisherman named Barnabe as he pulled his boat up on the sand.
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trafficked girls
Many women trafficked into prostitution in the UK come from poor areas in Lithuania.
Statistics on trafficking are unreliable. Unless women have come to the attention of the authorities, it is impossible to say exactly how many are trafficked to the UK each year. Estimates range from several hundred to many thousands. What is clear however, is that the UK is the prime destination for girls and young women from Lithuania.
The UK Government has signed up to the European Convention on Trafficking which is an important step towards protecting the victims of trafficking. However, under the terms of the convention,many victims will still be returned to their home countries where they could be retrafficked.
Daina's story, 20. I had been with Petras for over two months when he suggested we move to England together. I trusted him completely.
I flew alone to London and was met there by Petras’ friend Justina, who drove us to her house. That’s when the bad things began. A man slapped me in the face and I fell to the floor. He gave money to Justina and she drove away.
The man made me put on some ‘special clothes’ and make-up. He drove me to a flat where I started work straight away. I don’t know how many men had sex with me that day but it was the longest day of my life. I could not believe that this was happening to me.
I lived like this for seven months, working six days a week from 1pm until 5am. I had sex with six or seven men a day. Unsafe sex was more expensive. I became pregnant and was forced to have an abortion.
I was lucky in the end. One of the men who visited me offered to help. I hadn’t tried to escape before. I did not know where I was or where to go, or who to trust.
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2016 Being a Film Producer
Why be a producer?
Think back to when you were watching the Academy Awards. There is an award for best director, best actor, best actress, but wait, there is no award for best producer, right? Wrong! The biggest award of the night is the best picture category and who receives that award? That’s right, you guessed it! The producer! The producer is really the most important person in a film production because without a producer, there would be no film. If you are the producer of a film, you have final responsibility for all logistics and creative aspects of the film.
What is the role of a film producer?
The producer of a film in most cases is the first person to get involved with the project. A producer handles all the logistics of a film production, making sure that every aspect of the film runs together as efficiently as possible. Producers also put their creative input towards the film to make sure that the final product is of the highest standard. The finished product and its success are accountable to the film’s producer. Producers are fully involved in all four stages of a film; pre-production, production, post-production and distribution.
The biggest part of a producer’s workload is during the pre-production stage of filmmaking, as during this time, the producer must organise and approve locations, studio hire, permits, insurance, legal documents, budget, the final draft of the script, as well as assembling the best cast and crew possible for the production. It is important for the producer to pick a team that is highly skilled, passionate and determined, that work well together while pushing their creative strengths to the best of their ability. The more time that a producer spends in pre-production can truly save a lot of wasted time and money when shooting the film. All loose ends must be tied before the film goes into production.
During the production stage, it is the producer’s responsibility to make sure that each day runs smoothly and accordingly to schedule. Producers will constantly need to approve any financial and script changes along with all other main creatives of the production. The producer’s hard work should have already been done in pre-production so a producer just needs to supervise this stage of making a film.
When in comes to post-production, the producers should start nailing down anyone that will be associated with the distribution of the film. Producers will approve the final cut of the film with the director and post-production crew.
Once the film is complete, the producer must finalise test screenings as well as marketing and distributing the film.
Handling the film’s budget is a major responsibility for the film producer. The producer must organise and give the final estimated budget for the film. Producers will find executive producers and help raise the money for the film. Once they have been granted with the full budget, they must work out how much money can go to each department on the film production, making sure that the production has a 15% contingency as it is extremely important to have money aside in case of any emergencies. Producers need to be smart on how they are handling the money. If the producer has done their job right, there really shouldn’t be any budget issues, but if problems do occur, it is up to the producer to find a solution. Going over budget is extremely risky and puts most independent filmmakers in debt.
Skills of a good producer
Respect – Getting the respect from your cast and even more importantly your crew, will benefit the entire production. Directors often forgot who really runs the show on a film set. It is quite often that the director and producer will run into a few disagreements but it is important to stand your ground as a producer and listen to what everyone has to say. If you give your crewmembers the respect they deserve then they will give you respect in return.
Self-confidence – Being a new producer can be quite daunting as there is lots of pressure and responsibilities to handle. Keep a clear head and tackle one problem at a time. Remember to stand your ground and don’t let other crewmembers push you into doing something you are not fully confident with. Remember at the end of the day you are in charge of every aspect of the film and the final product lies with you.
Organisation – It is important to not only keep your work organised but also making sure that all other cast and crew are sticking to their schedules. Running over time is never a good thing. Slowing down a production on a professional film set costs thousands of dollars, sometimes even millions and this all comes down to how well the producer was able to organise the production properly.
Working under pressure – The film industry is all about deadlines and being able to work under pressure efficiently and calmly is one of the greatest skills to posses as a producer.
Communication – Communication is key! Keep all cast and crew in the loop! Always keep on top of phone calls, emails and letters.
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Welcome to Number 16, the fun website that focuses on words, language and literature. It also contains quizzes and opinion pieces. Number 16 is named after my favourite number. I am Joanne Madden and I'm from Toronto, Canada. To find out what I have written on any topic, use the search box directly below. For TV trivia, please check my other website, TV Banter (www.tvbanter.net).
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Songs of Christmas Quiz
So, you think you know your Christmas music. Well then, why not test your knowledge and try Number 16's Songs of Christmas Quiz.
1. Complete this lyric from "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
"On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me . . ."
A. three calling birds
B. three French hens
C. three golden rings
D. three geese a-laying
E. three ladies dancing
2. What Christmas song did Judy Garland sing in the film Meet Me in St. Louis?
A. "The Christmas Song"
B. "Silver Bells"
C. "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
D. "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
E. "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays"
3. What is the name of the Beach Boys' Christmas song?
A. "California Christmas"
B. ""Sufin' Santa Claus"
C. "Under the Mistletoe"
D. " Little Saint Nick"
E. "Christmas USA"
4. Which well-known Christmas hymn has the following line?
"Radiant beams from they holy face / With the dawn of redeeming grace."
A. "Silent Night"
B. "The First Noel"
C. "Hark! The Harold, Angels Sing"
D. "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"
E. "O Holy Night"
5. What was the first film in which Bing Crosby sang "White Christmas?"
A. White Christmas
B. The Bells of Saint Mary
C. Holiday Inn
D. Going My Way
E. Blue Skies
6. Which Christmas song has the following lyric?
"Christmas Eve will find me where the love light gleams."
A. "White Christmas"
B. "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
C. "Walking in a Winter Wonderland"
D. "The Christmas Song"
E. "l'll Be Home for Christmas"
7. In which country did the song "O Christmas Tree" originate?
A. England
C. Wales
D. Austria
E. France
8. In what year did Brenda Lee record "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree?"
E. 1961
9. The song "A Holly Jolly Christmas" is from which classic television Christmas special?
A. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
B. Frosty the Snowman
C. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
D. A Charlie Brown Christmas
E. None of the above
10. Name the Christmas song which contains the following words:
"In the air there's a feeling of Christmas / Children laughing people passing / Meeting smile after smile"
A. "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
B. "The Christmas Song"
C. "Silver Bells"
D. "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
E. "Christmas in Kilarney"
11. What year was the calypso Christmas song "Mary's Boy Child" recorded?
12. Who first released "Jingle Bell Rock??"
A. Elvis Presley
B. Buddy Holly
C. Billy Haley and His Comets
D. Chuck Berry
E. Bobby Helms
1. B.
The correct lyric for "The Twelve Days of Christmas." is "three French hens."
Judy singing "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" was originally sung by Judy Garland in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis.
The Beach Boys "Little Saint Nick." is a Christmas-themed hot rod song about Santa and his sleigh. It It was composed by Brian Wilson and Mike Love and was released as a single on December 9, 1963. In 1964, it was the opening track on The Beach Boys' Christmas Album.
4. A.
Those lines come from the Christmas hymn "Silent Night." The words to "Silent Night" were originally written in German by an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, Father Joseph Mohr. On Christmas Eve 1818, , Father Mohr needed a carol for Midnight Masst. He took his poem, "Stille Nacht," to his friend Franz Xaver Gruber. Within hours, Gruber composed the melody to "Stille Nacht."
Below is a photo of Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds singing "White Christmas" in the 1942 film Holiday Inn.
Bing Crosby first recorded "White Christmas" in October of 1942. It was played often during the 1942 wartime Christmas season, on the Armed Forces Network and on commercial radio. Crosby introduced the song to the public on The Kraft Music Hall radio show on December 25, 1941. The first movie in which Bing sang "White Christmas" was the 1942 musical Holiday Inn. The film also starred Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale. Composer Irving Berlin wrote 12 songs specifically for Holiday Inn.
Bing Crosby's other Christmas-themed movies were released after Holiday Inn. Going My Way, starring Bing and Barry Fitzgerald was released in 1944. The Bell's of St. Mary, starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman was released in 1945. The film White Christmas, starring Bing, Danny Kaye Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen was released in 1954. White Christmas was not a sequel to Holiday Inn, but it too featured songs by Irving Berlin. Bing also sang "White Christmas" as part of a medley in the 1946 comedy Blue Skies, another Irving Berlin musical in which he co-starred with Fred Astaire and Joan Caulfield.
According to Guinness World Records, "White Christmas," as performed by Bing Crosby, is the best-selling single worldwide.
6. E
The lyric "Christmas Eve will find me where the love light gleams." comes from the song "l'll Be Home for Christmas." "I'll Be Home for Christmas" was originally released in 1943 by Bing Crosby with John Scott Trapper and His Orchestra on Decca Records. The song was written by lyricist Kim Gannon to honour World War II overseas soldiers who yearned to be home for Christmas.
"O Christmas Tree" is a Christmas carol based on a traditional German folk song called "O Tannenbaum." A "tannenbaum" is a fir tree.
Brenda Lee recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" in 1958, when she was only 13 years old. (She was born December 11, 1944). The song was written by Johnny Marks. the man who also wrote Rudoph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "A Holly Jolly Christmas." "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" did not catch on until it was re-leased after Brenda's 1960 hit "I'm Sorry." After that, it became a Christmas standard. It was featured in the 1990 film Home Alone.
Burl Ives provided the voice for the song "A Holly Jolly Christmas" in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the 1964 Christmas special.
10. C
"Silver Bells" is the song that contains those words
"Silver Bells" was composed by the songwriting duo of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. It was written for the 1951 film The Lemon Drop Kid, starring Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell.
"Mary's Boy Child," is a 1956 Christmas song written by American composer songwriter Jester Hairston. It is often performed as a Christmas carol. Hairston composed "Mary's Boy Child" after a friend asked him to write a song for a birthday party. He wrote it with a calypso rhythm because the people at the party would be mainly West Indians. Singer Harry Belafonte heard the song performed by Schumann's Hollywood Choir and recorded it in 1956.
12. E
Bobby Helms first released "Jingle Bell Rock" in 1957. Helm's version is the best known. The song's title, of course, comes from the old Christmas standard "Jingle Bells." "Jingle Bell Rock" also includes 1950s references to "Rock Around the Clock" and "Jingle hop."
- Joanne
Posted by Joanne at 12:50 PM
NUMBER 16: FEATURED PHOTOS AND ART
TODAY IS FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2021.
My novel CHILDREN OF DIEPPE
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CLIMATE CRISIS: TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
Climate change is real. It is not a hoax. It has been scientifically proven. The world must come together and deal with it decisively before it is too late. The hurricanes, floods and wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. The clock is ticking. California is burning. (Click on image above).
THE SENATE SHOULD CONVICT DONALD TRUMP
Donald Trump has been impeached for a historic second time. He has been charged with inciting insurrection. The Senate should convict him for this crime. He openly encouraged a mob of right-wing zealots to storm the Capitol in Washington, D.C. He refuses to accept the democratic wishes of the people of the United States.
JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS
Congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Let the healing begin!
I am a native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For many years, I worked as a researcher and archivist at the Toronto Star, the largest newspaper in Canada. I like to share my interest in trivia, television, current events, politics, movies, quotes etc.
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Crime and Punishment (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Chosen (by Chaim Potok)
A Separate Peace (by John Knowles)
The Catcher in the Rye (by J.D. Salinger)
The Portrait of A Lady (by Henry James)
Pride and Prejudice (by Jane Austen)
The Great Gatsby (by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
To Kill A Mockingbird (by Harper Lee)
Life of Pi (by Yann Martel)
Wuthering Heights (by Emily Bronte)
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For Valentine's Day - great quotes about love
Robert Frost and the road he took: His meeting with Khrushchev in 1962
Nicolaus Copernicus: The search for his remains
The Riots in Vancouver: A disagrace, but should the rioters lose their jobs?
Alvin Toffler and Future Shock; High Park Photos
Photos of 50th Elmira Maple Syrup Festival
Richard Carpenter: 33 years after Karen's death
The nurse who survived Richard Speck's 1966 murder rampage
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Whitney Houston tribute to grace Parr Hall after West End run
By David Morgan DMorganguardian Reporter
Elesha Paul Moses as Whitney
A MOVING tribute to one of the best-selling and most awarded music artists of all time returns to Warrington next year.
Following a run of West End performances, Elesha Paul Moses will reprise her role as Whitney Houston in Whitney – Queen of the Night at Parr Hall on September 18, 2020.
Elesha Paul Moses, also known for The Voice, X Factor and What’s Love Got To Do With It?, will be joined by a live band to relive all of the classic hits from the I Will Always Love You singer.
The concert production has toured extensively across the UK and Europe for the past three years, and in March made its West End debut in front of a sold-out audience at London’s Savoy Theatre, with further sell-out shows in June and July.
Elesha said: “Whitney Houston is one of the greatest singers of all time, and for me to lead this cast, singing these songs as part of this phenomenal show is a dream come true.”
Ben Hatton, director of theatre touring for promoters Cuffe and Taylor, added: “We are delighted to be bringing Whitney – Queen Of The Night to Warrington, direct from its sell-out West End shows.
“Audiences love this stunning show, so if you Wanna Dance With Somebody, we can’t wait to see you there.”
Before her death in 2012, Whitney had been hailed as the most awarded artist of all time, by Guinness World Records – with six Grammy Awards and 30 Billboard Music Awards among her 415 titles. Visit pyramidparrhall.com
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(561) 373-0287 Mark@mbkoslow.com
June 2020 Market Review and Outlook
-Darren Leavitt, CFA
The financial markets continued to be volatile throughout June but were ultimately able to build upon May’s gains. Optimism surrounding the reopening of the global economy fueled investor’s risk appetite for cyclical issues such as financials and airlines, while momentum in mega-cap technology issues remained. Infection rates of Covid-19 in the US increased in some geographies and headlines regarding the rollback and delay of reopening in some states tempered investor enthusiasm at times.
At the same time, positive news on the development of a vaccine encouraged investor sentiment. During the month, global central banks increased their efforts to maintain liquidity in the financial system and continued to call on governments to do their part with fiscal spending. Economic data was generally pretty good and was highlighted by the progress made on job creation and the reduction of the unemployment rate. For the month, the S&P 500 gained 1.46%, the Dow added 1.33%, the tech-heavy NASDAQ led gains with a 5.30% return, and the Russell 2000 increased by 2.56%.
Technically speaking, the S&P 500 was able to breach resistance at the 200 day moving average of 3100 and able to find support there on two separate retests. The break above that level is a positive indicator for further gains in the market and caused a painful short-covering trade and also produced a sense of fear in missing out on the next move higher for those with cash on the sidelines. 2-year and 10-year US treasuries were unchanged for the month and closed with yields of 0.15% and 0.65%, respectively. Gold gained 2.7% or $48 and closed at $1799 an Oz. Oil traded 11% higher on the month and closed just shy of $40 a barrel as OPEC extended their production cuts for another month. Emerging markets gained 3.60% for the month while developed international markets lagged a bit with EFA losing 0.16%.
Investors seemed to toggle their interests between cyclical issues and the stalwart mega-cap technology companies during the month. Financials rallied on news that the Federal Reserve would relax some of the Volcker rules that restricted investments in private equity and hedge funds. The banks also went through their annual stress tests that were changed to incorporate some of the variables created by the Covid-19 pandemic. The more sensitive tests showed that most banks continue to be well-capitalized. Still, in an “abundance of caution,” the Federal Reserve suggested that banks suspend their share buyback programs and their 3rd quarter dividends.
Interestingly, most banks decided to maintain their dividend and suspend their buybacks. Airlines were quite volatile in June but were able to hold on to a good part of their sizeable gains. American Airlines kicked off the rally with the announcement that it would be materially increasing its capacity in July. The news induced other airlines to follow suit and increase their capacity. Furthermore, TSA passenger traffic data seemed to confirm Americans are returning to air travel. Mega-cap technology also was well bid throughout the month despite some companies cutting their advertising budgets with some social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, NVidia, and Tesla inked nice gains as investors sought growth companies that have solid balance sheets.
The ebb and flow of coronavirus news continued to be prominent in headlines and in moving markets. Infection rates of the virus in many parts of Europe and Asia appear to be subsiding, while rates appear to be increasing in some US states, Latin America, and India. In Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California, local officials halted opening up further and, in some cases, actually rolled back some of their prior phase initiatives, which may inhibit some economic growth going forward. Numerous vaccine candidates have emerged with a handful already in phase 3 human trials. Data on the efficacy of these vaccines have also materially influenced the markets and sent many biotech companies shares soaring in June.
Global central banks were busy during June, adding more liquidity to the financial system. The US Federal Reserve continued to be all in keeping the Fed Funds rate unchanged at 0-.25%. The Fed’s dot plot, which lays out each Fed Governor’s rate expectations for the next few years, showed no rate hikes until 2023. The Fed also announced that it would start to buy individual company bonds. In Europe, the ECB added 600 million more euros to its quantitative easing program, which now sits at 1.35 trillion. Similarly, the Bank of England added 100 billion pound sterling to their quantitative easing programs that now stands at 745 billion. Additionally, central bankers have called on governments to do more on the fiscal side. In the US, the Trump administration introduced a trillion-dollar infrastructure spending bill, and it is also widely expected that the US congress will propose more stimulus in the coming weeks. The continued support by global central banks is one of the cornerstones of this market rally, and it appears this support will be in place for some time.
One of the catalysts for the markets early in the month was the May Employment situation report. It showed that 2.509 million non-farm payrolls were created during the month, which blew away the estimate of a loss of 8.5 million. The report also showed a drop in the unemployment rate from 14.7% to 13.3%. The same report at the end of June produced similar results with a better than expected print on non-farm payrolls, 4.8 million, and a continued decline in the unemployment rate to 11.1%. Retail sales for May were also announced in June and crushed the consensus estimate coming it at 17.7%. High-frequency data such as initial claims continued to paint the difficult situation many Americans face. Unemployment claims continued to be high throughout the month while continuing claims were still reported north of 19 million, a real concern for economists.
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Bush gets pizza for Secret Service, calls for end to shutdown
Updated: 6:18 PM PST Jan 18, 2019
Former President George W. Bush called for federal lawmakers to "put politics aside" and end the government shutdown in an Instagram post Friday that showed him giving pizza to his Secret Service detail."@LauraWBush and I are grateful to our Secret Service personnel and the thousands of Federal employees who are working hard for our country without a paycheck," he wrote in the post, with a photo of himself bringing his detail boxes of pizza."And we thank our fellow citizens who are supporting them," Bush added. "It's time for leaders on both sides to put politics aside, come together, and end this shutdown."Bush's post comes as the shutdown is in day 28 with no sign of a consensus in sight, as talks between President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders stall amid partisan snipes.Secret Service agents, charged with protecting current and former presidents and their families, have remained on duty throughout the shutdown, but the stress of working without pay has hit many of them hard.The Secret Service employs 7,222 people, nearly 6,000 of whom are working without pay, while more than 1,200 are furloughed since they were not deemed essential, according to the Department of Homeland Security's shutdown plans.If lawmakers do not come to an agreement by Tuesday night, in time for the government to make payroll, federal employees are slated to miss their second paychecks of the shutdown.
Former President George W. Bush called for federal lawmakers to "put politics aside" and end the government shutdown in an Instagram post Friday that showed him giving pizza to his Secret Service detail.
"@LauraWBush and I are grateful to our Secret Service personnel and the thousands of Federal employees who are working hard for our country without a paycheck," he wrote in the post, with a photo of himself bringing his detail boxes of pizza.
"And we thank our fellow citizens who are supporting them," Bush added. "It's time for leaders on both sides to put politics aside, come together, and end this shutdown."
A post shared by George W. Bush (@georgewbush)
Bush's post comes as the shutdown is in day 28 with no sign of a consensus in sight, as talks between President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders stall amid partisan snipes.
Secret Service agents, charged with protecting current and former presidents and their families, have remained on duty throughout the shutdown, but the stress of working without pay has hit many of them hard.
The Secret Service employs 7,222 people, nearly 6,000 of whom are working without pay, while more than 1,200 are furloughed since they were not deemed essential, according to the Department of Homeland Security's shutdown plans.
If lawmakers do not come to an agreement by Tuesday night, in time for the government to make payroll, federal employees are slated to miss their second paychecks of the shutdown.
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Palmyra police search for stolen Chevy pickup
Merriell Moyer John Latimer
Palmyra police are searching for a recently stolen pickup.
A resident of the 200 block of North College Street reported his navy blue Chevrolet Silverado was stolen between Aug. 10 and Saturday, police said. The vehicle is fitted with chrome wheels, tinted windows and a chrome tool box. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 717-838-8188.
Dwelling Fire: Crews from Palmyra, Campbelltown and Annville-Cleona fire companies, fire police and Life Lion EMS were dispatched at 7:20 to 403 W. Main St.
Disorderly Conduct: Miranda Grumbine, 26, of 61 W. Granada Ave., Hershey was charged after getting into a fight at Hershey Laundry, 210 N. Franklin St., on Aug. 8 at 7:31 a.m., police said.
Scattering Rubbish: Steven McDowell, 60, of 138 E. Spruce St., was charged for an incident in the 100 block of West Main Street at Aug. 7 at 2:10 a.m.
Crash: City fire crews and the First Aid & Safety Patrol were dispatched at 5:34 p.m. Sunday to Lehman and North 12th Street for a one-vehicle crash with injuries involving a motorcyclist. The rider was hurt, according to police, but the extent of his injuries are unknown. An official police report was not available.
Crash: City fire crews and First Aid & Safety Patrol were dispatched at 7:18 p.m. Sunday to Walnut and South Second streets when a bicyclist failed to stop and struck a vehicle. The bicyclist was hurt, according to police, but the extent of his injuries are unknown. An official police report was not available.
Crash: City fire crews and First Aid & Safety Patrol were dispatched at 11:57 a.m. Monday to East Lehman and Second Avenue after a bicyclist swerved into traffic and was struck by a vehicle, according to county EMA dispatch reports. The driver was treated but the extent of his injuries is unknown. A police report was not available.
South Londonderry
Crash: Crews from Campbelltown and Lawn fire companies, fire police, Lawn EMS and Life Lion EMS were dispatched 1:31 a.m. Monday to 282 School House Road for a rollover crash with injuries. A police report was not available.
Odor Investigation: Annville-Cleona Fire District and fire police were dispatched at 3:20 a.m. Monday to 207 W. Main St for an odor of gasoline.
Fire Alarm: Annville-Cleona Fire District and fire police were dispatched at 2:12 p.m. Monday to Cleona Elementary School, 50 E. Walnut St.
North Annville
Crash: Crews from Bellegrove, Annville-Cleona, Fort Indiantown Gap, fire police and First Aid & Safety patrol were dispatched at 7:15 a.m. Monday to Route 934 and Blacks Bridge Road for a crash with injuries. A police report was not available.
Crash: A vehicle driven by John Rose, 80, Fredericksburg, struck the rear of a vehicle operated by Cody Jackman, 27, Lebanon that was stopped for traffic in the 500 block of East Penn Avenue at 4:10 p.m. Sunday. No injuries were reported.
Warrant: Julio A. Mendez Jr., 52, Lebanon, was taken into custody while hitchhiking in the 1800 block of Quentin Road at 1 a.m. Monday after it was discovered he was wanted by the Lebanon County Sheriff's Office for failure to appear, police said.
Dog Law: Kathleen Wike, 60, Lebanon was charged for allowing her dog to run loose in the 1700 block of Chestnut Street at 5:43 p.m. Thursday, police said.
Disorderly Conduct: Dianna Feliciano, 42, Lebanon, was charged for repeatedly punching a woman during a fight in the 3000 block of Chestnut Street at 10:21 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
Retail Theft: Brian Stalnecker, 48, Lebanon, was charged for stealing merchandise valued at $49.99 from Kohl's department store, 1261 Quentin Road on July 15, police said.
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Hershey's Teddy Bear Toss nets over 20,000 bears
Julie Beidler
The annual Northwest Savings Bank and WGAL Teddy Bear Toss Night happened Sunday evening at Giant Center, where the Hershey Bears hosted the Syracuse Crunch.
The crowd of 9,042 waited through most of the first period, including a five-on-three Hershey power play, until their captain, Garrett Mitchell, scored an unassisted goal with 4:58 left in the period. At that point, the fans littered the ice with stuffed teddy bears.
This year’s event once again benefited various local charities and organizations. According to WGAL’s Janellle Stelson, who addressed the Giant Center crowd, some of this year’s groups include the Ronald McDonald House, the Boys and Girls Club of Harrisburg, the PA Army National Guard, and the Children’s Miracle Network.
Kate Severs of the Children’s Miracle Network was on hand for her second event and praised the Bears for their community service involvement, particularly in regard to this event.
“We have about 300 families who are signed up to be involved with CMN,” Severs said. “Last year I can tell you there were over 18,000 bears, which was a record.”
While all of the fans await Hershey’s first goal from their seats, the volunteers organize off the ice and wait for the horn to jump into action. Bears are piled on the ice and placed into large bags or hauled off the ice if they are too large to fit into bags. Volunteers then skate the bags to the zamboni entrance where several large bins await.
“When they score, the bins go down to the ice,” Severs said. “The bears get thrown into the bins and are then sorted by small, medium, large and extra large. We have two recorders keeping track of how many bears there are and they get bagged and tagged and put into trucks.”
Severs loaded some of the bears into a truck Sunday evening.
“We collect a certain amount of bears to give to our kids at our annual party,” she explained.
One of the Children’s Miracle Network families was in attendance at the game and spoke to the crowd between the first and second periods.
ChloeAnn McCoy, her two sisters and brother were on the ice as their mother, Lisa, explained how the Children’s Miracle Network has been important in their lives.
“She went down to the OR at three days old,” Lisa said, explaining that ChloeAnn had to have open-heart surgery. “She was fine there and came back upstairs and within probably 45 minutes to an hour they had to reopen her and have another heart surgery and they lost her for over an hour.”
Now a high school freshman at Northern Lebanon, ChloeAnn has not let that stop her.
“She’s very active as much as she can be,” Lisa said. “She’s second in the state for gymnastics for Special Olympics.”
Even though she is doing well, Lisa said that her daughter will be on the radar for a heart-and-lung transplant in her 20s. But on this night, the teenager, who is a huge Bears fan, was very excited to be on the ice and close to her favorite Bear, Liam O’Brien.
Severs praised the family for their involvement with the Children’s Miracle Network, saying, “They have been excellent ambassadors for us. We have groups who request CMN to send a family, so they can share their story and that family has been wonderful. We’re so glad they can join us tonight at the Bears game because I know they are hockey fans.”
The Children’s Miracle Network serves South Central Pennsylvania at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center.
This year’s final count was 20,662 bears, which is a record for the Hershey Bears.
After the game, Mitchell, who said it was the first time in his career that he scored the Teddy Bear Toss goal, said, “We had fun with it. It’s obviously for a great cause, 20,000-plus I think I heard, so that’s obviously pretty special.”
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