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January 24, 2010 · 23:59
More about Why I Miss the Music of the 70’s and 80’s
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A few weeks back I posted an essay that looked back a the music of the 1970s and early 1980s that dealt with some of the historic context of the era as well as a bunch of videos and pictures of some of my favorite groups and their music. As I mentioned in that essay the time was somewhat tumultuous a lot of social unrest, economic crisis, terrorism, communist expansion, a lost war and political crisis culminating in the resignation of a President.
Padre Steve and the Abbess at Mission San Fernando Fall 1980
The time was also one where people were also attempting to return to some semblance of normalcy in the post Vietnam and Nixon era. The 1960s were a time of social revolution which impacted almost every area of life and a time where almost everything was reduced to some sort of “message.” By about 1973 the new younger generation which was entering high school and junior high school were less bent on activism and more on having fun as well as more inward discoveries. The 1970s were certainly not a return to “traditional values” although there was a recovery of nostalgia for the 1950s with the movies American Graffiti, Grease and the sitcom Happy Days. This desire to feel better was partly in reaction to the turbulence of the 60’s and the reality that things were not good in the 1970s and as a result my generation sought entertainment and diversions for the nearly endless litany of bad news. Much social change was still underway spurred on by the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement and reproductive rights, the end of the draft and change in law which allowed 18 year olds to vote. Like the 1960s there was experimentation with drugs as well sex.
Fashions morphed from bell bottoms and t-shirts and long hair to double knit polyester, silk shirts, leisure suits and tight fitting designer jeans. Tie-dye gave way to earth tones which were followed by bright colors and finally in the early 80s leather and pastels. Classic styles began to return by the early 80’s “Preppy” was in, Oxford shirts, khakis and natural fibers such as cotton replaced the polyester double knits.
Movies too began to change films like Star Wars and Star Trek launched people into undreamed of worlds even as NASA worked on the Space Shuttle. Gritty films like Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry and Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky featured everymen who battled either crime or took on superior adversaries in the ring. On television a team of young comics launched a comedy franchise, Saturday Night Live which is still with us today and which spun off a generation of comics who have made their own impact on American entertainment. The musical returned in movies such as Grease and Xanadu while Disco rode the wave of Saturday Night Fever and country music returned with Urban Cowboy.
Here are some more of my favorites as well as some songs that helped make the 70’s and 80’s what they were. Enjoy.
Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night, Joy to the World This was a fun song that came out in the early 1970s and when I hear it I can still find me singing along.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2x3af_three-dog-night-joy-to-the-world_people
Credence Clearwater Revival Credence was one of the great groups of the 60s and early 70’s, members such as John Foggarty would go on to successful solo careers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYnySGM9dQA
The Carpenters Possible the most precise and skilled musical group of the late 60’s and the 70’s the Carpenters were middle America’s sweet hearts. Karen would die tragically from a heart attack induced in part due to her struggles with depression and subsequent Anorexia Nervosa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n53E_J9a_Fo&feature=PlayList&p=F02D8CA7FF8AA675&index=12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmbT5XC-q0
Helen Reddy’s “I am Woman” become the anthem of the Women’s Rights movement
Helen Reddy: I am Woman My mom absolutely loved Helen Reddy while my dad hated “I am Woman.” She had quite a few other major hits through the 70’s and I saw her in concert in Stockton CA back in 78 or 79.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmExAiCcaPk
Paul McCartney and Wings: Band on the Run Paul McCartney was the most successful of the Beatles in his solo career. Wings was an outstanding group centered around McCartney and his beautiful wife Linda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qx2jEfBsqY
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John had one of the most successful careers of any solo artist, his flashy clothes and wild glasses coupled with a high energy live performance made him a crowd favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Ho_6C_fM4
I Guess that’s Why they Call it the Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc4ZRdPGGTI&feature=PlayList&p=7B1E53DD1B27118D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=39
Ringo Starr: The Non No Song Ringo did not have the same success as either Paul or John Lennon but this song was fun to listen to on the school bus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-PirP4LiFo
Abba: I do, I do I do Abba who broke into the international music scene in 1972 remained incredibly popular throughout the 70s and the 80s before disbanding in 1989. They survived and thrived through every major musical swing of the era.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjgxxeA83FQ&feature=PlayList&p=11B0CC8778FA9A05&index=15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeGtaSWzFRA&feature=PlayList&p=11B0CC8778FA9A05&index=4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctzIEjjOfd4
Eagles: Already Gone The Eagles have been and always will be one of my favorite groups. Known for their stellar guitars and five part harmonies they have endured and their music has not been duplicated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHk2em4ZNwA&feature=PlayList&p=8A2216020416503A&index=16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYQgPTsiZIU
Dr Hook: Walk Right In One of the lesser known but still successful groups of the 70’s and 80’s this group teamed with poet and children’s writer Shel Silverstein to come up with some of the most unusual, quirky and funny songs of the era. Having a country rock style they regularly sung about sex, drugs and alcohol they morphed into a less controversial stance in the 1980s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPj5O3AMGDA&feature=PlayList&p=54CD692E585AE055&index=13
Years from Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfsPeVVL8zE&feature=PlayList&p=AF906570E242A626&index=18
The Trammps: Disco Inferno Probably the group that had the signature Disco song, the Trammps were from Philadelphia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sY2rjxq6M
Bee Gee’s: Tragedy While the Trammps may have produced the anthem of the era but the Bee Gees were the group that best personified the era with their harmonies and passion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1_DdIxfpIU
The Village People: YMCA While the Bee Gees may have personified the music of hte era the Village People were iconic with thier signature costumes and appeal to the gay community and their crossover into the mainstream with hits such as Macho Man, YMCA and in the Navy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw
Donna Summer: She Works Hard for the Money The beautiful Donna Summer would be the queen of Disco and transition to a more pop and R&B sound in the 80s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKQcWEXSKU
The Cast of Grease
Travolta and Olivia in Grease: You’re the One that I Want The musical Grease starring Olivia Newton John and John Travolta had an appeal that spanned generations and was wildly popular.
Olivia Newton John and ELO: Xanadu The musical Xanadu was not a strong performer at the box office and was panned by most critics but birthed a host of top ten hits. It was notable for is choreography and costumes which place it solidly in the middle of the era.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m1UWSD-FaA
Charlie Daniels Band: The Devil Went Down to Georgia As country music found a new appeal among younger people artists like Charlie Daniels careers took off crossing over to the pop charts from the country charts.
Willie Nelson: You Were Always on My Mind Possibly the most prolific of the country artists to cross over into the pop world was Willie Nelson who along with Waylon Jennings produced hit after hit and also had a solid social conscience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsLL6bIUs6M
A Young Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow: Mandy Barry Manilow was a one man hit machine in the 70’s and 80’s and while rockers, disco fans and others would scoff at his music he had an enduring appeal that spanned generations. I can remember many girls in high school who had their Mailow t-shirts and his songs wee always on the radio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5R6dunFOc&feature=related
Weekend in New England
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpkOz-zJiq0&feature=PlayList&p=A0D84ADACA5F5E08&index=0
Boz Skaggs
Boz Skaggs: Lido Shuffle Boz Skaggs had a unique sound and was hard to pin down but again was an artist who was solid throughout the era.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIu0jQ5TaRQ&feature=PlayList&p=8201408B8B6E42C8&index=2
Stevie Wonder: I Just Called to Say I Love You: R&B singer Stevie Wonder was popular throughout the era and successfully crossed over to the pop charts with I Just Called to Say I Love You from the movie Woman in Red and his duet with Paul McCartney Ebony and Ivory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY45DkaP9Ls&feature=PlayList&p=3C966AE64CF668CB&index=10
Rod Stewart” Maggie May Rocker Rod Stewart lived on the wild side in the 70’s and 80’s but by the 90’s and 2000’s had transformed himself into a classic crooner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9dlG-iq3F8
Commodores: Brick House Lionel Ritchie and the Commodores from Motown we electric in the 70’s and Ritchie would cross over into a even more successful pop career in the late 70s beginning with the theme to the movie Endless Love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EmnQp3V48
Kermit the Frog with Blondie’s Debby Harry
Kermit the Frog and Debbie Harry: Rainbow Connection The Muppet Show led by Kermit the Frog featured a wide number of popular music artists who would ham it up often singing duets with Kermit of Miss Piggy. The Muppets had thier own top ten hit The Rainbow Connection from the Muppet Movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRvhRhWWE44
Debbie Harry of Blondie
Blondie: Heart of Glass Sexy former Playboy centerfold Debbie Harry and Blondie were a dominant influence on the rock and pop charts in the late 70s and 1980s.
Sunday Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obwanhb6kww&feature=PlayList&p=F2ED8F30DB2943CD&index=10
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes’ Betty Davis Eyes and Debbie Boone’s You Light up My Life would hold the Billboard Pop Single number one record of 9 weeks in the late 1970s. Carnes, a singer songwriter for Kenny Rogers launched a successful solo career of her own with the quirky Betty Davis Eyes while the wholesome Boone, the daughter of pop icon Pat Boone would gain fame with You Light up My Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOIS5taqA8
Debbie Boone
Debbie Boone: You Light up My Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC9sEAqEjxs
Air Supply: Lost in Love One of the bands from down under Air Supply would make its mark on the pop scene with a number of popular love songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpntNDAYltM
Boston: More than a Feeling The rock group Boston and their driving rhythm and guitar solos would compete with other classic rock groups of the era and help define the “death before disco” movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcsVPis1iNs
Supertramp: Breakfast in America One of the more overlooked groups of the era was Supertramp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh2TJ2DAy_o
Freddy Mercury and Queen
Queen: We are the Champions Freddy Mercury and Queen easily moved between the rock and pop charts with powerful ballads and rong songs with a quircky edge. Mercury’s vocals and stage presence were amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTivVclQQ0
Billy Idol: Dancing with Myself Billy Idol a rocker also helped symbolize some of the New Wave movement his ghoulish Dancing with Myself was an early hit on MTV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNx78SAq8M
Katrina and the Waves: Walking on Sunshine Another 80s group with lasting appeal was Katrina and the Waves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U
The Bangles: Manic Monday The Girl Group The Bangles had a number of hits in the 80s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAZgLcK5LzI
Madonna: Lucky Star Pop legend Madonna broke into the music scene in this era and really until recently has never left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThHz9wlBeLU
Kenny Loggins: Danger Zone Kenny Loggins solo career really took off with the movie Top Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1a_ikfUico
Billy Joel: Uptown Girl Billy Joel was another solo artist with hit after hit in the 70s and 80s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuMWrfXG4E
AC/DC: You Shook Me All Night Long AC/DC never failed to shock but produced some of the most enduring, if not occasionally controversial hits of the era and still have a large following today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5FWXSnCEZE&feature=PlayList&p=66074A5666DBAB87&index=2
Berlin: Take My Breath Away Berlin produced a large number of sultry hits but it was Take My Breath Away from Top Gun put them on most people’s radar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARX9nzNE3E
Well, they were interesting times and despite everything I still enjoy the music of these groups. Diverse and unpredictable as to what would find its way onto different charts the artists of the 70’s and 80s and their music is still popular today.
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James Blunt couldn’t take it anymore and had decided to make a radical decision. In the Table Manners with Jessie Wars podcast, the 46-year-old musician explained that when he was studying engineering and sociology at the University of Bristol, England, he had launched a ” challenge “which put his health at risk. Annoyed at being surrounded by vegetarians and vegans, he began to eat only meat. As an accompaniment, he sometimes allowed himself a little mayonnaise, however fruits and vegetables were completely banned from his diet, for a period of eight weeks. “After eight weeks, I was really, really sick and I went to see a doctor. He said: ‘oh I think you have symptoms related to scurvy,'” said James Blunt.
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Preventing Sexual Violence: Alternatives To Worrying About Recidivism
Marquette Law Review, Vol. 103, No. 3, 2020
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Eric S. Janus
Date Written: July 9, 2020
How can it be that in the era in which almost one million Americans are on sex offender registries — most of whom are publicly stigmatized on websites, banished from their homes, shunned from their jobs, prevented from uniting with their families and traveling internationally, forced into homelessness, all of which increases their risk for suicide, and shames their spouses and children, even if their offenses occurred long in the past — that the #MeToo movement would explode, revealing widespread sexual misconduct against women, by powerful men, protected by iconic institutions? How can we have had three decades of the most aggressive, “spare-no-expense” laws ostensibly designed to prevent sexual violence and, at the same time, observe the widespread failure of law enforcement agencies to take the simple step of analyzing sexual assault kits, as a first step in the investigation of allegations of sexual abuse? How can these phenomena co-exist?
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The flaws in the regulatory intervention policies are not an accidental characteristic, but arise from, and in turn support and protect, the very phenomena underlying #MeToo and the SAK revelations: the cultural attitudes, values and practices that allow sexual violence against women to flourish.
Indeed, the thesis is that our aggressive policies are, in a perverse way, designed precisely to protect this aspect of our society — what feminists might call “the patriarchy” — from taking full accountability and responsibility for its role in sexual violence. In this sense, we can say that #MeToo and SAK backlogs persist not in spite of, but in significant measure because of the nature of the aggressive regulatory policies addressed to sexual recidivism.
Keywords: Sexual violence prevention, Sex offenders, Recidivism, #MeToo Movement, Sexual Assault Kits
JEL Classification: K14
Janus, Eric S., Preventing Sexual Violence: Alternatives To Worrying About Recidivism (July 9, 2020). Marquette Law Review, Vol. 103, No. 3, 2020, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3647434
Eric S. Janus (Contact Author)
Mitchell Hamline School of Law ( email )
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After supporting Act for Kids since the very first Platinum Class Lottery Draw in 2006, Cathy from Victoria couldn’t believe it when she found out she had just won a brand new Mercedes-Benz GLA45 AMG and $10,000 in platinum bullion!
Act for Kids CEO Dr Neil Carrington said Cathy not only won a total prize pool of nearly $110,000, but more importantly, she made an incredible difference to the lives of children who have suffered abuse and neglect.
“Every single ticket helps Act for Kids provide life-changing therapy and treatment to children right across Australia who have experienced trauma.
“Because of Cathy, vulnerable children have a second chance at childhood,” Dr Carrington said.
After finding out she would receive her brand new car just in time for Christmas, the Draw 75 winner said she was absolutely delighted!
“The win has definitely made Christmas a lot more exciting. I never ever thought I would win something so amazing! Financially, a real bonus too,” she said.
Cathy said she has supported Act for Kids for 14 years, buying a $100 multi-buyer ticket in every single draw, because the thought of any harm coming to her five children or any child is too much to bare.
“Act for Kids is just such a worthy cause. Anything that helps children is a winner for me,” Cathy said.
On my last day of work, I won a brand new Mercedes Benz!
It is safe to say that Mark from South Australia is living proof that if you give the world your very best the best will come right back to you.
Despite their struggles, Mark and his family have consistently given back to the community. For many years, Mark has donated his time and money to countless not-for-profit organisations and has been an active member of the Mankind Project. Mark’s partner, after suffering abuse as a child and as an adult, now runs a women’s, youth and children’s group to help other women grow, heal and overcome their trauma.
After tirelessly giving to others in need, Mark sadly lost his job, and was worried about how he was going to provide for his family. On Mark’s very last day of work, not long after hearing he had been let go, Mark, a long-time supporter of Act for Kids, received a call from Act for Kids CEO Dr Neil Carrington to say he had just won a brand new Mercedes-Benz!
Mark couldn’t believe it! The Draw 74 winner said it seemed surreal that on his last day of work he won a brand new Mercedes Benz worth almost $100,000 along with $10,000 in platinum bullion.
“The win definitely came at the right time. My partner and I only had one vehicle between us and losing my job was scary financially. Now we have breathing space, can plan for our future and can try to make the best out of this win.”
After buying 3 ticket for just $100, Mark had an incredible 1 in 3000 chance of winning first prize!
Mark said when buying tickets in the Act for Kids Platinum Class Lottery draws he had never envisioned being the first prize winner, and certainly not during such a tough time in his life.
“With Act for Kids, it has always felt like donating to a good cause.
“My partner and I have both known adults damaged from the abuse they suffered as children, and it is a lifetime of suffering. It shouldn’t happen. Children need to feel safe and loved,” he said.
“I am driving a beautiful new car!”
Little did long-time supporter of Act for Kids Kylie know that when entering the Platinum Class Lottery as a donation to support Act for Kids, she would win a brand new luxury Mercedes-Benz worth almost $100,000, plus $10,000 in Platinum Bullion!
When Kylie from Queensland received the call from Act for Kids CEO Dr Neil Carrington to say she was the first prize winner of the Act for Kids Platinum Class Lottery, she was so excited that all she could do was laugh!
Kylie said she had never even dreamed of winning when entering into the Act for Kids Platinum Class Lottery. She had always considered her entries as donations to support the vital work of Act for Kids.
“In 2015, I attended a conference where Dr Neil Carrington was a guest speaker, and I was very impressed with the work being done by Act for Kids.
“I have purchased tickets in the Platinum Class Lottery ever since and looked at it as a donation to the charity,” Kylie said.
When Kylie purchased a multi-buyer ticket for just $100, she had an amazing 1 in 3,000 chance of winning first prize and choosing between a luxurious black GLE250D SUV and a shiny white SLC200 Roadster.
To show your support and for your chance to be our next lottery winner call 1800 968 946 or visit www.platinumclass.com.au.
A Very Merry Mercedes-Benz Christmas
Long-time supporter of Act for Kids, D.T, was relaxing at home, when she received the exciting call to say she had won a brand new Mercedes-Benz and a bonus $10,000 in platinum bullion, just in time for Christmas!
D.T, a Platinum Reserve Member, was very excited to find out she was in fact the first prize winner of the Act for Kids Platinum Class Lottery Draw 70, with the choice of two Mercedes-Benz models, after purchasing three tickets for just $100.
Act for Kids CEO, Dr Neil Carrington had the honour of unveiling the shiny white Mercedes-Benz GLC250 to D.T and her husband at Mercedes-Benz Brisbane. It was a Christmas dream come true for the lucky couple, with the handover of keys on the 27th of December 2017.
Dr Neil Carrington said Act for Kids appreciates the generosity and commitment of people like D.T and her husband who have supported Act for Kids since 2014.
“We provide therapy and treatment for as many vulnerable kids and families as possible. In the last year, we were able to provide free services to an incredible 34,324 kids and families in Australia. The proceeds from our Platinum Class Lottery are vital for us to continue to provide intensive treatment for abused and neglected kids,” Dr Carrington said.
D.T has shown her support for Act for Kids for many years, as a regular buyer of Platinum Class Lottery tickets and participating in the 2015 Trek for Kids in Vietnam.
“I support Act for Kids because it is based in Brisbane and is a cause that needs monetary support to help overcome the problem of child abuse in Australia. I think it is a well-run charity and I have great respect for the people that work there and the work they do,” D.T said.
“Oh wait! I did win a lottery!”
Little did Draw 69 winner Chris know that whilst at the Gold Coast 600 Supercar event he would receive a call to say he had won a brand new Mercedes-Benz.
Chris was in complete shock when he found out he was the winner of the Act for Kids Platinum Class Lottery Draw 69, with the choice of two Mercedes-Benz models, a C200 Cabriolet or a SLC200 Roadster.
“It was like finding out you’ve won the lottery… oh wait! I did win a lottery! I was delighted to choose… the Cabriolet.”
With only 9,000 tickets issued in the Platinum Class Lottery, Chris had a one in 9,000 chance of winning from a total prize pool of $144,266.53. Of course, the more tickets you buy, the more chances you have of winning additional bonus prizes, such as an extravagant holiday valued up to $25,000.
Chris was so excited that he told his mum, who had to sit down after hearing the big news. He was then off to collect his winnings.
“I flew to Brisbane to take delivery of the car and even when the keys were in my hand, it still didn’t feel real!”
Not only was Chris delighted about his brand new car, he was happy to have supported a good cause.
“I like to support charities that do good work and actually help people. I know it may sound clichéd, but children are our future, and the work and help that Act for Kids does goes a long way to ensuring that the future for abused and neglected children is a brighter one.”
For your chance to be our next lottery winner call 1800 968 946 or visit www.platinumclass.com.au.
Over $130,000 won!
It took three days before Mrs H from South Australia listened to the message on her phone from Dr Katrina Lines, acting CEO of Act for Kids. Dr Lines had left a message to say that Mrs H was the winner of the Act for Kids Platinum Class Lottery Draw 62, and was now the proud owner of a luxurious brand new Mercedes-Benz.
“I finally listened to the message that I received on Friday late Sunday night. I then debated whether it was too late to return the call. Finally after some pushing from my husband, he was very excited, I called her back. It was after 9pm.” Mrs H said.
“I was so happy to give Mrs H the great news. Not only did I get to tell her about the car but also that she had won $25,000 in platinum bullion. I don’t know who was more excited, Mrs H or her husband Mr P who I could hear in the background.” Dr Lines said.
Once the call had finished the first thing Mrs H and Mr P did was to jump online to look at the car.
“The car was amazing.” Mr P said. “A few days later we visited our local Mercedes-Benz dealership to see the car in the yard. That’s when we decided we would personally pick the car up from Brisbane and take our time to drive back to South Australia.”
Dr Neil Carrington, CEO for Act for Kids, had the honour of unveiling the metallic silver E200 Saloon at Mercedes-Benz Brisbane in Fortitude Valley, and handing the keys to the lucky winners on Friday 9 September.
The E200 valued at over $100,000 was brand new to the Australian market only arriving in Australia a month earlier. Mrs H and Mr P were also rewarded the largest multi buyer prize of $25,000, in platinum or a holiday, for buying seven tickets. Their total prize package won was over $130,000.
Mrs H and Mr P are long-time supporters of Act for Kids. Coincidently Lottery Draw 63 marked their tenth year of supporting abused and neglected kids.
Despite the recent win, Mrs H is continuing to support Act for Kids. “It is such a good cause, and this is my way of supporting kids who need help.”
PROCEEDS FROM OUR PLATINUM CLASS LOTTERY HELPS US TO CONTINUE PROVIDING SPECIALISED TREATMENT AND CARE FOR VULNERABLE KIDS AND FAMILIES WHO NEED IT MOST. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR OUR WORK,
What does it feel like to be a Platinum Class Lottery winner?
When S.W from South Australia received the call he had won the Platinum Reserve Members Draw in the Act for Kids Platinum Class Lottery Draw 62, he was so emotional he was brought to tears.
“I couldn’t believe it. I was only just looking at my tickets (that) morning praying I would win.”
The win of $10,000 in platinum couldn’t have come at a better time for S.W and his wife. They had been struggling financially for 14 weeks following an operation to his shoulder.
“Things were getting really hard for us. I hadn’t worked in the last 14 weeks and being self-employed I wasn’t receiving an income.”
The win for S.W and his wife has been a life changer. The worry of paying bills or putting food on the table has been eased by the $10,000 in platinum.
“We are so happy and thankful. Act for Kids is a wonderful charity doing so much wonderful work. I will definitely be continuing my support and buying more tickets.”
Act for Kids Acting CEO, Dr Katrina Lines, who made the call to S.W said, “I wished I was calling to give S.W the car. The distress he has been experiencing recently was so sad. But who knows what will happen in the future. He may win the car next time.”
S.W and his wife have been supporting abused and neglected kids by buying lottery tickets since December 2014, and are Platinum Reserve Members. Being a Platinum Reserve Member guarantees S.W a chance of winning a luxury Mercedes-Benz plus he is eligible for two bonus prizes – 10 draws of 20 Platinum Class tickets in each lottery and $10,000 worth of Platinum Bullion.
Twice lucky!
Mr & Mrs P from Western Australia were over the moon when they received the call to say they had won first prize in the Act for Kids Platinum Class Lottery, Draw 59. In particular as they had already won before!
“Winning the lottery once is amazing but winning it twice was a totally unexpected surprise. We started buying tickets five months ago. Our intention was not to win, but to support a fantastic charity that does wonderful work in the community, and gives vulnerable kids and families a better chance in life.” said Mr P.
As winners of Draw 57 and Draw 59, they have won two Mercedes-Benz valued at over $170,000 plus $30,000 in platinum bullion.
Lottery buyers have a great chance to win. Only 9,000 tickets are issued and the more you buy the more chances of winning additional bonus prizes.
“It’s great odds, said Act for Kids CEO, Dr Neil Carrington. “We’ve had a few winners, who have won more than once, but most importantly the people who do purchase tickets in our lottery are giving kids the safe and happy childhood, free from abuse and neglect, they deserve.
“When I saw the car, I loved it.”
Draw 54 winner Lynette was on holiday in Fiji when she received the good news call.
She said she had to sit down when she heard the news and her husband wondered what was going on. He wasn’t too worried when a huge smile erupted across her face! Lynette had won first prize in the Act for Kids Platinum Lottery Draw 54, with the choice of a Mercedes-Benz SLK200 or ML 250 and $10,000 in bullion.
Lynette spent her next week in Fiji thinking about the car. “We went straight to Mercedes-Benz Brisbane when we arrived home, and as soon as I saw the car I loved it. It feels like I am driving in a lounge chair. I love it!”
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52 Years Ago, a Pandemic Flu Killed 100,000 in the US and Nothing Shut Down—Not Even Woodstock
May 8, 2020 by Edward Morgan
By Matt Agorist,
Mainstream media across the planet continue to refer to the COVID-19 outbreak as the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918. We are told that the economy shut down during the Spanish flu and people were ordered into quarantine, but it couldn’t stop the death toll from reaching 650,000 Americans. Now, the government has made harsh and sweeping regulations, shut down entire sections of the US economy, largely based on a model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), which says roughly 72,000 Americans will die from COVID-19.
No one here is claiming that this virus is not serious and should not be taken serious. However, it is our duty as a free people to question the nature of the government’s reaction, especially when the economic ramifications could be far deadlier than the virus itself — with experts predicting a famine of biblical proportion that could kill millions.
When the virus passes and the suffering continues to persist, a lot of people will be asking the question, “was all of this worth it?”
Rest assured that governments across the world will be patting themselves on the back for their draconian reactions, police state, and mass surveillance programs that nearly all of them rolled out during this pandemic. But we may really never know if the lockdown helped to stop the spread or merely suppressed it.
As mentioned above, the mainstream media has referred to COVID-19 repeatedly as the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu. However, if the models are correct and the death rate stays in decline, this will not be the case. As of Monday, there are 248,000 confirmed deaths world wide, with 67,710 of those deaths in the United States. According to the current rate of new cases and hospitalizations as documented by IHME, experts are predicting a death toll of 72,000.
“In 1968,” says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest, “the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in the U.S. than the combined total number of American fatalities during both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.”
Just 52, years, ago, however, another flu, (H3N2), known as the Hong Kong flu, killed roughly 100,000 Americans and over 1,000,000 people world wide. What makes this flu particularly notable is the fact that most media outlets are not reporting on it and the fact that absolutely nothing was shut down. In fact, Woodstock — that was attended by an estimated 500,000 people — took place smack dab in the middle of the H3N2 flu pandemic.
As the American Institute for Economic Research points out:
Nothing closed. Schools stayed open. All businesses did too. You could go to the movies. You could go to bars and restaurants. John Fund has a friend who reports having attended a Grateful Dead concert. In fact, people have no memory or awareness that the famous Woodstock concert of August 1969 – planned in January during the worse period of death – actually occurred during a deadly American flu pandemic that only peaked globally six months later. There was no thought given to the virus which, like ours today, was dangerous mainly for a non-concert-going demographic.
Stock markets didn’t crash. Congress passed no legislation. The Federal Reserve did nothing. Not a single governor acted to enforce social distancing, curve flattening (even though hundreds of thousands of people were hospitalized), or banning of crowds. No mothers were arrested for taking their kids to other homes. No surfers were arrested. No daycares were shut even though there were more infant deaths with this virus than the one we are experiencing now. There were no suicides, no unemployment, no drug overdoses.
Media covered the pandemic but it never became a big issue.
This was not because the government was some bastion of liberty in the 60’s. These were the days of the draft, a senseless Vietnam war, rampant civil rights violations, and even college students were gunned down by National Guard troops for protesting the spread of war. The means to enforce such draconian measures were in place and ready to roll, yet nothing was implemented.
The only action taken by the government at the time was to collect data. The medical community, not the state, was credited with successfully mitigating the disease — as they were the ones qualified to do so — not blowhard politicians.
As AIER notes, this raises the question, why was this different? This is a question we will be trying to figure out for decades to come.
Was the difference that we have mass media invading our lives with endless notifications blowing up in our pockets? Was there some change in philosophy such that we now think politics is responsible for all existing aspects of life? Was there a political element here in that the media blew this wildly out of proportion as revenge against Trump and his deplorables? Or did our excessive adoration of predictive modelling get out of control to the point that we let a physicist with ridiculous models frighten the world’s governments into violating the human rights of billions of people?
Maybe all of these were factors. Or maybe there is something darker and nefarious at work, as the conspiracy theorists would have it.
Regardless, they all have some explaining to do.
As more countries across the world continue to look to Sweden’s approach — not shutting down the economy — to quash the spread of the virus, some governments are beginning to follow their lead. In America, however, the 30 million unemployed citizens currently out of work due to the shutdown present a massive hurdle to regaining anything close to normal.
Source: https://thefreethoughtproject.com
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Future review of national business rates to help salons
The National Hairdressers' Federation has welcomed the forthcoming reform to business rates, announced last week by Treasury chief secretary Danny Alexander, but reminds salons to take advantage of rate relief coming into play with the start of the new tax year on April 1.
The broad scale review of business rates, set to be ready before the 2016 Budget, will aid small businesses, such as hairdressing salons and barber shops.
National Hairdressers’ Federation chief executive, Hilary Hill said, “We still have a long time to wait until the archaic, unfair system of business rate which is currently calculated on the value of a physical shop or commercial property is changed. But we’re very pleased that the government has listened to our campaign calling for fundamental reform.”
Alexander launched the review during a speech to local businesses in Cambridge. He commented, “Our system of business rates was created nearly 30 years ago and since that time, the worlds of commerce and industry have changed beyond recognition”, Alexander said. “The government has taken measures to help businesses by capping rates and introducing reliefs for smaller businesses. But now the time has come for a radical review of this important tax. We want to ensure the business rates system is fair, efficient and effective”.
The NHF has also reminded salons about the rate relief available to them from next month, including a £1,500 discount on rates for premises with a rateable value of £50,000 or less, and the small business rate relief being doubled for a further year until March 2016.
NHF president Paul Curry said, "It's important that salons make the most of the increased reliefs available to them from April 1 2015."
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Research and Activities, Worth Mentioning This
CFP: De intellectu (Porto, Feb 2020)
11 Jul 2019 nicola.polloni Leave a comment
De intellectu: Greek, Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew Texts and Their Influence on Medieval Philosophy. A Tribute to Rafael Ramón Guerrero. University of Porto, 6th-7th February 2020
Philosophy changed radically during the Middle Ages as a result of the translation of a considerable number of texts by Aristotle and his followers from Greek into Arabic, Latin and Hebrew. As an example, epistemological and anthropological questions were rethought and substantively reshaped in the Latin world after the translations of Aristotle’s De anima by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke (from Greek), and by Michael Scot (from Arabic, together with Averroes’s long commentary on it), after it had been successively translated into Syriac and Arabic. This crucial and complex process followed an already long and parallel history of paraphrases and commentaries on this work in Greek, Syriac and Arabic.
The discussion of De anima III.4-5, on the intellect, was conditioned or driven by a large number of texts from different periods. Among those texts are the Greek commentaries or paraphrases on De anima by Alexander of Aphrodisias, Themistius, Simplicius, John Philoponus, and Averroes, alongside independent short treatises, such as Alexander of Aphrodisias’s De intellectu et intellecto, al-Kindī’s De intellectu, al-Fārābī’s De intellectu et intellecto, Averroes’ Epistula de connexione intellectus abstracti cum homine, and his son’s Epistula de intellectu. In several other works “intellect” plays a most pivotal role, such as in Plotinus’s Enneads paraphrased in the Arabic Theologia Aristotelis and in Proclus’s Elementatio Theologica epitomised in the Liber de causis. Other works added to the debate, such as Avicenna’s Liber de anima, al-Ghazālī’s Summa theoricae philosophiae, Averroes’s Long Commentary on De Anima, Maimonides’ Dux neutrorum, Isaac Israeli’s Liber de definicionibus, not to mention texts from the Christian tradition, such as Nemesius of Emesa’s De natura hominis and Sophonias’ commentary on De anima. A similarly radical change occurred in thirteenth-century Jewish philosophy through the translation into Hebrew of many of these same texts, at the same time that a very different change was taking place in Arabic philosophy.
“Nous” – rendered as ‘aql, sekhel, intellectus, and their vernacular derivatives – became a key philosophical concept in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, being intimately connected to a wide range of issues in psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. However, because of its centrality and the manifold conflicting interpretations and solutions accompanying it, “intellect” became a highly contentious problem, one that both authors and commentators tried to disentangle within the context of overlapping Platonic, Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Stoic traditions. The ways intellect was conceptualized in this long period influenced and shaped the discussions of fundamental philosophical problems, such as: the body-soul relationship, intuitive and abstract knowledge, mental content, intelligible forms, immortality of the soul, happiness and the highest end of man.
Celebrating the career and the scholarly contributions of Rafael Ramón Guerrero, we welcome a discussion of current research on texts and problems concerning the intellect within the four linguistic spaces in which Aristotelian theories played a central role. We also encourage the submission of contributions centred on the circulation and diffusion of these and other texts which the historical actors in the Greek, Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew spaces used to facilitate, shape, and turn specific debates on the intellect into predominant discourses in the history of philosophy.
Rafael Ramón Guerrero (Granada, 1948), Professor of History of Medieval and Arabic Philosophy in the Facultad de Filosofía of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, along his career he has produced an outstanding contribution to teaching and research in Medieval Philosophy. He obtained his PhD in Madrid in 1979 under the supervision of José Antonio García-Junceda with a thesis entitled Contribución al estudio de la filosofía árabe: Alma e Intelecto como problemas fundamentales de la misma, which served as the basis for his book La recepción árabe del De anima de Aristóteles: Al-Kindi y Al-Farabi (Madrid 1993). This problem remained the focus of his attention in several publications, translations of Arabic philosophers, teaching, conferences, supervision of doctoral theses, and direction of research projects. His work is internationally renowned, and his academic activity is particularly influential in Spain, Portugal, and Latin-America. With this Conference, his students, colleagues and friends wish to honour the Professor, the Academic, the Scholar.
Open until October 30th, 2019. Send a proposal with name, institution, title, and an abstract up to 300 words to gfm@letras.up.pt
Presentation: 20 minutes + discussion. Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, German.
José Meirinhos, Celia López, José Higuera (Porto), Nicola Polloni (Berlin), Pedro Mantas España (Córdoba).
Amos Bertolacci (Pisa; Lucca), Alexander Fidora (Barcelona), Catarina Belo (Cairo), Charles Burnett (London), Cristina D’Ancona Costa (Pisa), Gregorio Piaia (Padova), Jean-Baptiste Brenet (Paris), José Luis Villacañas (Madrid), José Meirinhos (Porto), Josep Puig Montada (Madrid), Jules Janssens (Leuven), José Luis Fuertes Herreros (Salamanca), Katja Krause (Berlin), Luis Alberto De Boni (Porto Alegre), Mário Santiago de Carvalho (Coimbra), Steven Harvey (Bar Ilan), Thérèse Cory (Notre Dame).
Scientific Support
Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval (Salamanca – Córdoba) — Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia.
Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy TL – Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto.
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia; Universidade do Porto
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Justia Patents US Patent Application for FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR Patent Application (Application #20200235234)
Sep 26, 2018 - TAMURA CORPORATION
A field-effect transistor includes an n-type semiconductor layer that includes a Ga2O3-based single crystal and a plurality of trenches opening on one surface, a gate electrode buried in each of the plurality of trenches, a source electrode connected to a mesa-shaped region between adjacent trenches in the n-type semiconductor layer, and a drain electrode directly or indirectly connected to the n-type semiconductor layer on an opposite side to the source electrode.
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The invention relates to a field-effect transistor.
BACKGROUND ART
A Ga2O3-based trench MOSFET having a gate electrode buried in a semiconductor layer is known (see, e.g., Patent Literature 1). In general, trench MOSFETs are characterized by having a lower on-resistance than planar MOSFETs.
According to Patent Literature 1, threshold voltage is increased by using a p-type β-Ga2O3 single crystal film as a semiconductor layer in which the gate electrode is buried, as compared to using an undoped β-Ga2O3 single crystal film. For this reason, in order to obtain sufficient off-state leakage characteristics in high current power devices, the gate electrode should be buried in the p-type β-Ga2O3 single crystal film.
CITATION LIST Patent Literature
Patent Literature 1: JP 2016/15503 A
SUMMARY OF INVENTION Technical Problem
However, it is very difficult to produce a p-type β-Ga2O3 single crystal. Therefore, the Ga2O3-based trench MOSFET disclosed in Patent Literature 1 in which the gate electrode is buried in the p-type β-Ga2O3 single crystal film is difficult to manufacture.
It is an object of the invention to provide a Ga2O3-based field-effect transistor which is excellent in off-state leakage characteristics and breakdown voltage without using the p-type β-Ga2O3 single crystal.
Solution to Problem
To achieve the above-mentioned object, an aspect of the invention provides a field-effect transistor defined by [1] to [7] below.
[1] A field-effect transistor, comprising: an n-type semiconductor layer that comprises a Ga2O3-based single crystal and a plurality of trenches opening on one surface; a gate electrode buried in each of the plurality of trenches; a source electrode connected to a mesa-shaped region between adjacent trenches in the n-type semiconductor layer; and a drain electrode directly or indirectly connected to the n-type semiconductor layer on an opposite side to the source electrode.
[2] The field-effect transistor according to [1], wherein the gate electrode comprises a p-type semiconductor, and the gate electrode and the n-type semiconductor layer are in contact with each other to form a p-n junction.
[3] The field-effect transistor according to [1], wherein the gate electrode comprises a conductor, and the gate electrode is electrically insulated from the n-type semiconductor layer by a gate insulator film.
[4] The field-effect transistor according to [3], further comprising: a p-type semiconductor member connected to at least a part of the mesa-shaped region and to the source electrode.
[5] The field-effect transistor according to any one of [1] to [4], wherein an edge portion of the source electrode is located lateral to outermost one of the gate electrodes.
[6] The field-effect transistor according to any one of [1] to [5], wherein the mesa-shaped region has a width of not less than 0.1 μm and not more than 2 μm.
[7] The field-effect transistor according to any one of [1] to [6], wherein a distance from a surface of the n-type semiconductor layer on a side of the drain electrode to a bottom of the trenches is not less than 1 μm and not more than 500 μm.
Advantageous Effects of Invention
According to the invention, a Ga2O3-based field-effect transistor can be provided which is excellent in off-state leakage characteristics and breakdown voltage without using the p-type β-Ga2O3 single crystal.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a trench MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) in the first embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a modification of the trench MOSFET in the first embodiment.
FIG. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing another modification of the trench MOSFET in the first embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a trench JFET (Junction Field Effect Transistor) in the second embodiment.
FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a modification of the trench JFET in the second embodiment.
FIG. 6 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a trench MOSFET in the third embodiment.
FIG. 7 is a SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) observation image showing a cross section of a trench MOSFET in Example 3.
FIG. 8A is a graph showing DC characteristics of the trench MOSFET pertaining to FIG. 7.
FIG. 8B is a graph showing transfer characteristics of the trench MOSFET pertaining to FIG. 7.
DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS First Embodiment (Configuration of Trench MOSFET)
FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a trench MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) 1 in the first embodiment. The trench MOSFET 1 is a vertical field-effect transistor having a trench-gate structure. The trench MOSFET 1 in the first embodiment also includes a configuration in which gate insulator films 13 (described later) are formed of a material other than oxide.
The trench MOSFET 1 is provided with an n-type semiconductor substrate 10, an n-type semiconductor layer 11 formed on the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 and having trenches 16 opening on the upper surface (a surface opposite to the n-type semiconductor substrate 10), gate electrodes 12 buried in the trenches 16 of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 in a state of being covered with gate insulator films 13, a source electrode 14 formed on the upper surface of the n-type semiconductor layer 11, and a drain electrode 15 formed on a surface of the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 on the opposite side to the n-type semiconductor layer 11.
The trench MOSFET 1 may be either normally-off or normally-on, but is usually manufactured to be normally-off in view of safety when used as a power device. It is to prevent conduction between the source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 in the event of power outage.
In the normally-off trench MOSFET 1, channels are formed in the mesa-shaped regions of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 between the adjacent trenches 16 when voltage of not less than threshold voltage is applied between the gate electrodes 12 and the source electrode 14, allowing a current to flow from the drain electrode 15 to the source electrode 14.
The n-type semiconductor substrate 10 is formed of an n-type Ga2O3-based single crystal containing a group IV element such as Si or Sn as a donor. The donor concentration in the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 is, e.g., not less than 1.0×1018 cm−3 and not more than 1.0×1020 cm−3. The thickness of the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 is, e.g., not less than 10 μm and not more than 600 μm.
The Ga2O3-based single crystal here means a Ga2O3 single crystal or is a Ga2O3 single crystal doped with an element such as Al or In, and may be, e.g., a (GaxAlyIn(1-x-y))2O3 (0<x≤1, 0≤y<1, 0<x+y≤1) single crystal which is a Ga2O3 single crystal doped with Al and In. The band gap is widened by adding Al and is narrowed by adding In. The Ga2O3 single crystal mentioned above has, e.g., a β-crystal structure.
The plane orientation of the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 is not specifically limited, but is preferably a (001) plane on which a Ga2O3-based single crystal constituting the n-type semiconductor layer 11 is formed at a high growth rate.
The n-type semiconductor layer 11 is formed of an n-type Ga2O3-based single crystal containing a group IV element such as Si or Sn as a donor.
The n-type semiconductor layer 11 has a channel layer 11b in which the gate electrodes 12 are buried and channels are formed when gate voltage is applied, a drift layer 11a provided under the channel layer 11b to maintain breakdown voltage, and a contact layer 11c formed in the vicinity of the upper surface of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 by ion implantation or epitaxial growth, etc., to provide an ohmic connection between the source electrode 14 and the n-type semiconductor layer 11.
A distance D from a surface of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 on the drain electrode 15 side (an interface between the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 and the n-type semiconductor layer 11) to the bottoms of the trenches 16 is one of parameters determining the breakdown characteristics of the trench MOSFET 1, and given that breakdown field strength of Ga2O3 stays constant at 8 MV/cm which is a value estimated from the band gap, the distance D needs to be, e.g., at least not less than about 1 to 2 μm to obtain performance of having breakdown voltage of 600V used for home appliances or in-vehicle devices, etc., not less than about 3 μm to obtain breakdown voltage of 1200V used for industrial equipment, etc., not less than about 8 to 9 μm to obtain breakdown voltage of 3300V used for large transportation equipment such as bullet train, etc., not less than about 16 to 17 μm to obtain breakdown voltage of 6600V in high power applications such as power generation and transmission, etc., not less than about 30 μm to obtain breakdown voltage of 12000V in medium-voltage circuit breakers, and not less than about 250 μm to obtain breakdown voltage of 100000V in high-voltage circuit breakers. The maximum breakdown field strength of Ga2O3 has not been able to be actually measured at the moment, and if it is about 4 MV/cm which is the largest of the actually measured values, the film thicknesses mentioned above need to be doubled. For example, about 500 μm is required to obtain breakdown voltage of 100000V. To obtain breakdown voltage of less than 600V for small home appliances, the distance D may be smaller than 1 μm but is preferably about 1 μm at minimum in view of production stability. Thus, the distance D is preferably not less than 1 μm and not more than 500 μm.
The donor concentration in the drift layer 11a is one of the parameters determining the breakdown characteristics of the trench MOSFET 1, and given that breakdown field strength of Ga2O3 stays constant at 8 MV/cm, it is preferably not more than about 3×1017 cm−3 to obtain breakdown voltage of 600V, not more than about 1.5×1017 cm−3 to obtain breakdown voltage of 1200V, not more than about 5.4×1016 cm−3 to obtain breakdown voltage of 3300V, not more than about 2.7×1016 cm−3 to obtain breakdown voltage of 6600V, not more than about 1.5×1016 cm−3 to obtain breakdown voltage of 12000V, and not more than about 2×1015 cm−3 to obtain breakdown voltage of 100000V. To obtain breakdown voltage of less than 600V or breakdown voltage of more than 6600V, the concentration is respectively set to appropriate values. In addition, when the maximum breakdown field strength of Ga2O3 is about 4 MV/cm, the concentrations are respectively not more than half of the above-mentioned values.
The donor concentration and mesa width Wm of the channel layer 11b are one of the parameters determining whether the trench MOSFET 1 is normally-off or normally-on, and the lower donor concentration and the narrower mesa width Wm are provided to form a normally-off device, and the higher donor concentration and the wider mesa width Wm are provided to form a normally-on device. The donor concentration in the channel layer 11b for forming the normally-off device is, e.g., about 2×1015 cm3 when having the mesa width Wm of 2.0 μm, about 3×1016 cm−3 when having the mesa width Wm of 0.5 μm, and about 1×1017 cm−3 when having the mesa width Wm of 0.2 μm. To form a normally-on device, the higher donor concentration and the narrower mesa width Wm than the above-mentioned values may be provided. The trench 16 has a depth Dt of, e.g., not less than 0.1 μm and not more than 5 μm.
When the width Wm of the mesa-shaped regions is smaller, the donor can be added at a higher concentration and on-resistance of the channel layer 11b can be thus more reduced. However, when the width Wm is smaller, there is a problem that it is more difficult to manufacture and this causes a decrease in production yield.
For this reason, when the trenches 16 are formed by, e.g., patterning using a general stepper, the width Wm of the mesa-shaped regions is preferably not less than 0.5 μm and not more than 2 μm, and when the trenches 16 are formed by patterning using EB (electron beam) lithography with higher resolution, the width Wm of the mesa-shaped regions is preferably not less than 0.1 μm and not more than 2 μm.
A width Wt of the trench 16 also depends on the resolution of an exposure system and is thus set within a numerical range similar to the width Wm of the mesa-shaped regions according to the type of the exposure system to be used.
The thickness of the contact layer 11c is, e.g., not less than 10 nm and not more than 5 μm. The donor concentration in the contact layer 11c is higher than the donor concentration in the channel layer 11b and is, e.g., not less than 1×1018 cm−3 and not more than 1×1021 cm−3.
The gate electrode 12 is formed of a conductor, i.e., a metal such as Ni or a semiconductor containing a high concentration of a donor. The gate insulator film 13 has, e.g., a portion 13a covering the side and bottom surfaces of the gate electrode 12 and electrically insulating the gate electrode 12 from the n-type semiconductor layer 11, and a portion 13b covering the upper surface of the gate electrode 12 and electrically insulating the gate electrode 12 from the source electrode 14. The portion 13a and the portion 13b of the gate insulator film 13 are respectively formed of, e.g., HfO2 and SiO2. The thicknesses of the portion 13a and the portion 13b of the gate insulator film 13 are respectively, e.g., not less than 10 nm and not more than 100 nm, and not less than 50 nm and not more than 2000 nm. The breakdown-voltage performance of the trench MOSFET 1 is more improved when the material used to form the portion 13a of the gate insulator film has a higher permittivity and a larger band gap.
The n-type semiconductor layer 11 is formed of, e.g., an epitaxially grown film formed by the HYPE method, etc. When the n-type semiconductor layer 11 is formed by the HYPE method, a chloride gas is used as a source material for Ga2O3-based single crystal or a dopant source material. Therefore, the n-type semiconductor layer 11 contains Cl derived from the source material for Ga2O3-based single crystal or the dopant source material.
When using the HYPE method, it is possible to reduce film formation time and the cost since the crystal growth rate is high. This feature is advantageous particularly when forming a thick n-type semiconductor layer 11. In addition, when using the HYPE method, it is possible to form the n-type semiconductor layer 11 with good crystal quality and thus possible to improve the production yield. Furthermore, since it is possible to form the n-type semiconductor layer 11 with high purity, it is possible to accurately control the donor concentration.
The contact layer 11c may be formed by implanting a donor, using an ion implantation process, into an upper portion of the channel layer 11b formed by epitaxial growth, but the manufacturing cost can be kept low when the Ga2O3-based single crystal is formed by crystal growth while introducing a donor.
The source electrode 14 is connected to the mesa-shaped regions of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 between the adjacent trenches 16. The drain electrode 15 is directly or indirectly connected to the n-type semiconductor layer 11 on the opposite side to the source electrode 15. The drain electrode 15 is connected to a surface of the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 on the opposite side to the n-type semiconductor layer 11 in the example shown in FIG. 1, but is connected to, e.g., a surface of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 on the opposite side to the source electrode 14 when the trench MOSFET 1 does not include the n-type semiconductor substrate 10.
The source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 are respectively ohmic-connected to the contact layer 11c of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 and to the n-type semiconductor substrate 10. The source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 have, e.g., a Ti/Au stacked structure.
(Modification 1)
FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a modification of the trench MOSFET 1 in the first embodiment. This trench MOSFET 1 is provided with a p-type semiconductor member 17 which is connected to at least some of the mesa-shaped regions of the channel layer 11b between the adjacent trenches 16 and to the source electrode 14 to provide protection against surges.
The p-type semiconductor member 17 is used to release the surge current caused by a lightning strike, etc. It is possible to release electrons to the outside through the drain electrode 15 and holes to the outside through the p-type semiconductor member 17 and the source electrode 14. When the p-type semiconductor member 17 is not present, it is difficult to release holes to the outside through the source electrode 14.
The p-type semiconductor member 17 is formed of a p-type semiconductor such as Ga2O3, NiO, Cu2O, SnO, GaN, SiC, Si and GaAs, etc. The p-type semiconductor member 17 is constantly in contact with the n-type semiconductor layer 11 formed of a Ga2O3-based single crystal which is an oxide, and thus may be gradually oxidized when formed of a non-oxide such as Si. For this reason, the p-type semiconductor member 17 is preferably formed of an oxide such as Ga2O3, NiO, Cu2O or SnO, etc., to ensure long-term stability. In addition, since it is difficult to obtain Ga2O3 exhibiting p-type conductivity, NiO, Cu2O and SnO, etc., are particularly preferable as the material of the p-type semiconductor member 17.
The size, number and arrangement of the p-type semiconductor members 17 are not specifically limited. When the contact area between the p-type semiconductor member 17 and the n-type semiconductor layer 11 is larger, the surge current can be released more efficiently but it is more difficult for the current to flow during normal operation. Therefore, the total contact area between the p-type semiconductor member 17 and the n-type semiconductor layer 11 is preferably not less than 10% and not more than 50% of the total contact area between the source electrode 14 and the n-type semiconductor layer 11.
FIG. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing another modification of the trench MOSFET 1 in the first embodiment. In this trench MOSFET 1, an outer peripheral portion of the channel layer 11b is removed and an outer peripheral portion of the source electrode 14 extends to the removed region. Thus, edge portions of the source electrode 14 are located lateral to the outermost gate electrodes 12 at a distance from the outermost gate electrodes 12.
By providing the source electrode 14 having such an edge structure, it is possible to reduce concentration of the electric field at the gate electrodes 12 closest to the edge portions of the source electrode 14 and thereby further improve breakdown voltage.
The second embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that a p-type electrode is used as the gate electrode. The explanation of the same features as the first embodiment will be omitted or simplified.
(Configuration of Trench JFET)
FIG. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a trench JFET (Junction Field Effect Transistor) 2 in the second embodiment. The trench JFET 2 is a vertical field-effect transistor having a trench-gate structure.
The trench JFET 2 is provided with the n-type semiconductor substrate 10, the n-type semiconductor layer 11 formed on the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 and having the trenches 16 opening on the upper surface (a surface opposite to the n-type semiconductor substrate 10), gate electrodes 22 buried in the trenches 16 of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 in a state of being prevented from contacting the source electrode 14 by dielectric films 23, the source electrode 14 formed on the upper surface of the n-type semiconductor layer 11, and the drain electrode 15 formed on a surface of the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 on the opposite side to the n-type semiconductor layer 11.
The trench JFET 2 may be either normally-off or normally-on, but is usually manufactured to be normally-off in view of safety when used as a power device. It is to prevent conduction between the source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 in the event of power outage.
In the normally-off trench JFET 2, channels are formed in the mesa-shaped regions of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 between adjacent the trenches 16 when voltage of not less than threshold voltage is applied between the gate electrodes 22 and the source electrode 14, allowing a current to flow from the drain electrode 15 to the source electrode 14.
The sizes and materials of the n-type semiconductor substrate 10, the source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 can be the same as those of the trench MOSFET 1 in the first embodiment. Also, the layer configuration, size, material and donor concentration of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 can be the same as those of the trench MOSFET 1 in the first embodiment.
The distance D from a surface of the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 on the drain electrode 15 side (an interface between the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 and the n-type semiconductor layer 11a) to the bottoms of the trenches 16, the depth Dt of the trench 16 and the width Wt of the trench 16 can be the same as those of the trench MOSFET 1 in the first embodiment.
The gate electrodes 22 are formed of a p-type semiconductor and form p-n junctions with the n-type semiconductor layer 11. The gate electrodes 22 when formed of, e.g., NiO, can exhibit p-type conductivity without being doped with any dopant, but may contain an acceptor impurity such as Li.
Among NiO, SnO and Cu2O, NiO is the most preferable material for the gate electrode 22 since NiO is thermodynamically stable and allows p-type electrodes to be stably obtained. It is difficult to form SnO due to the existence of Sn2O which is thermodynamically more stable than SnO. In this regard, the conductivity of Sn2O is unstable and it is difficult to control to be p-type. The conductivity of Cu2O is also unstable and it is difficult to control to be p-type.
The p-type semiconductor constituting the gate electrode 22 preferably includes an amorphous portion and is more preferably configured such that the volume of amorphous portion is higher than the volume of crystalline portion. A p-type semiconductor film containing an amorphous portion can be formed at a lower temperature than an entirely crystalline p-type semiconductor film, and thus can be manufactured easier at lower cost. In addition, by using the p-type semiconductor film containing an amorphous portion as the gate electrode 22, occurrence of leakage current can be suppressed as compared to when using the entirely crystalline p-type semiconductor film.
The diffusion potential at a junction between the gate electrode 22 formed of the p-type semiconductor and the n-type semiconductor layer 11 is often higher than the diffusion potential between the gate electrode 12 and the n-type semiconductor layer 11 in the trench MOSFET 1 in the first embodiment.
This allows the trench JFET 2 to have a wider mesa width Wm than the trench MOSFET 1, hence, it is possible to reduce the degree of difficulty in manufacturing without increasing conduction losses.
However, although depending on the p-type semiconductor material to be used, the trench JFET 2 has a disadvantage in that threshold voltage is low since the p-n junction is turned on when, e.g., a positive voltage of about 2 to 5V is applied to the gate electrode 22. On the other hand, the trench MOSFET 1 has an advantage in that threshold voltage can be increased to about several V to ten and several V since the gate insulator films are present.
The dielectric films 23 are formed of, e.g., SiO2. The dielectric films 23 have a thickness of, e.g., not less than 50 nm and not more than 2000 nm.
FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a modification of the trench JFET 2 in the second embodiment. In this trench JFET 2, the outer peripheral portion of the channel layer 11b is removed and the outer peripheral portion of the source electrode 14 extends to the removed region. Thus, the edge portions of the source electrode 14 are located lateral to the outermost gate electrodes 22 at a distance from the outermost gate electrodes 22.
The third embodiment is different from the first embodiment in the shapes of the gate electrodes and the source electrode. The explanation of the same features as the first embodiment will be omitted or simplified.
(Configuration of Trench MOSFET)
FIG. 6 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a trench MOSFET 3 in the third embodiment. The trench MOSFET 3 is a vertical field-effect transistor having a trench-gate structure. The trench MOSFET 3 in the third embodiment also includes a configuration in which gate insulator films 33 (described later) are formed of a material other than oxide.
The trench MOSFET 3 is provided with the n-type semiconductor substrate 10, an n-type semiconductor layer 31 formed on the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 and having trenches 36 opening on the upper surface (a surface opposite to the n-type semiconductor substrate 10), gate electrodes 32 buried in the trenches 36 of the n-type semiconductor layer 31 in a state of being covered with gate insulator films 33, a source electrode 34 formed on the upper surface of the n-type semiconductor layer 31, and the drain electrode 15 formed on a surface of the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 on the opposite side to the n-type semiconductor layer 31.
In the trench MOSFET 3, the source electrode 34 is partially located in the trenches 36, and the source electrode 34 in the trenches 36 is located on the gate electrodes 32 via the gate insulator films 33. In addition, the source electrode 34 is ohmic-connected to the mesa-shaped regions of the n-type semiconductor layer 31 between the adjacent trenches 36. The source electrode 34 has, e.g., a Ti/Au stacked structure.
The gate insulator film 33 has, e.g., a portion 33a electrically insulating the gate electrode 32 from the n-type semiconductor layer 31, and a portion 33b covering the upper surface of the gate electrode 32 and electrically insulating the gate electrode 32 from the source electrode 34. The portion 33a and the portion 33b of the gate insulator film 33 are respectively formed of, e.g., HfO2 and SiO2. The thicknesses of the portion 33a and the portion 33b of the gate insulator film 33 can be respectively equal to the thicknesses of the portion 13a and the portion 13b of the gate insulator film 13 in the first embodiment.
The gate electrode 32 is formed of, e.g., Cu, but may alternatively be formed of the same material as the gate electrode 12 in the first embodiment.
The n-type semiconductor layer 31 has a drift layer 31a to maintain breakdown voltage, and a contact layer 31b formed in the vicinity of the upper surface of the n-type semiconductor layer 31 by ion implantation or epitaxial growth, etc., to provide an ohmic connection between the source electrode 34 and the n-type semiconductor layer 31. The thicknesses and donor concentrations of the drift layer 31a and the contact layer 31b can be respectively equal to the thicknesses and donor concentrations of the drift layer 11a and the contact layer 11c in the first embodiment.
The distance D from a surface of the n-type semiconductor layer 31 on the drain electrode 15 side (an interface between the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 and the n-type semiconductor layer 31) to the bottoms of the trenches 36 can be equal to the distance D from a surface of the n-type semiconductor layer 11 on the drain electrode 15 side to the bottoms of the trenches 16 in the first embodiment.
In addition, the depth Dt of the trench 36 and the width Wt of the trench 36 can be respectively equal to the depth Dt of the trench 16 and the width Wt of the trench 16 in the first embodiment.
The sizes and materials of the n-type semiconductor substrate 10 and the drain electrode 15 can be the same as those of the trench MOSFET 1 in the first embodiment.
(Effects of the Embodiments)
According to the first to third embodiments, it is possible to provide a Ga2O3-based field-effect transistor which is formed without using a p-type β-Ga2O3 single crystal but is excellent in off-state leakage characteristics and breakdown voltage.
Example 1 shows an example configuration of the normally-off trench MOSFET 1 with a breakdown voltage of about 650V, where voltage when a leakage current of 1 μA flows is defined as breakdown voltage.
Firstly, an example configuration when forming the trenches 16 by patterning using a general stepper is described. When the trenches 16 are formed on the channel layer 11b formed of a 0.5 μm-thick Ga2O3 layer with a donor concentration of 2.0×1016 cm−3 so that the width Wm and the width Wt are 0.5 μm, on-resistance of the channel layer 11b is about 0.25 mΩcm2.
Meanwhile, the n-type semiconductor substrate 10, the drift layer 11a and the contact layer 11c, when respectively formed of a 10 μm-thick Ga2O3 substrate with a donor concentration of 1.0×1019 cm−3, a 2 μm-thick Ga2O3 layer with a donor concentration of 1.5×1017 cm−3, and a 100 nm-thick Ga2O3 layer with a donor concentration of not less than 1.0×1018 cm−3, respectively have on-resistance of not more than about 0.01 mΩcm2, 0.08 mΩcm2 and 0.001 mΩcm2.
When the trench MOSFET 1 has such a configuration, on-resistance of the entire device is about 0.34 mΩcm2 and breakdown voltage is about 650V.
Next, an example configuration when forming the trenches 16 by patterning using EB lithography with higher resolution than the general stepper is described. When the trenches 16 are formed on the channel layer 11b formed of a 0.5 μm-thick Ga2O3 layer with a donor concentration of 1.0×1017 cm−3 so that the width Wm and the width Wt are 0.2 μm, on-resistance of the channel layer 11b is about 0.06 mΩcm2.
When the trench MOSFET 1 has such a configuration, on-resistance of the entire device is about 0.2 mΩcm2 and breakdown voltage is about 650V.
Example 2 shows an example configuration of the normally-off trench JFET 2 with a breakdown voltage of about 650V.
Firstly, an example configuration when forming the trenches 16 by patterning using a general stepper is described. When the trenches 16 are formed on the channel layer 11b formed of a 0.5 μm-thick Ga2O3 layer with a donor concentration of 3.0×1016 cm−3 so that the width Wm and the width Wt are 0.5 μm, on-resistance of the channel layer 11b is about 0.2 mΩcm2.
When the trench JFET 2 has such a configuration, on-resistance of the entire device is about 0.3 mΩcm2 and breakdown voltage is about 650V.
When the trench JFET 2 has such a configuration, on-resistance of the entire device is about 0.12 mΩcm2 and breakdown voltage is about 650V.
FIG. 7 is a SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) observation image showing a cross section of the trench MOSFET 3 in Example 3.
The trench MOSFET 3 pertaining to FIG. 7 is normally-on, and is configured that the n-type semiconductor substrate 10, the drift layer 31a, the contact layer 31b, the gate electrode 32, the gate insulator film 33a, the gate insulator film 33b, the source electrode 34 and the drain electrode 15 are respectively formed of a 450 μm-thick Ga2O3 substrate with a donor concentration of 6.0×1018 cm−3, a 5 μm-thick Ga2O3 layer with a donor concentration of 3×1016 cm−3, a 2 μm-thick Ga2O3 layer with a donor concentration of 3×1018 cm−3, a Cu electrode with a thickness of 1 μm (in the vertical direction), a 50 nm-thick HfO2 film, a 300 nm-thick SiO2 film, a 3 μm-thick Ti/Au source electrode, and a 0.3 μm-thick Ti/Au drain electrode. In addition, the trenches 36 are formed so that the depth Dt, the width Wm and the width Wt are respectively 4 μm, 2 μm and 4 μm.
FIGS. 8A and 8B are graphs respectively showing DC characteristics and transfer characteristics of the trench MOSFET 3 pertaining to FIG. 7.
FIG. 8A is a graph showing a relation between voltage Vds and current density Jds both obtained between the drain electrode 15 and the source electrode 34, and shows curved lines obtained when voltage Vgs between the gate electrode 32 and the source electrode 34 is 0V, 4V, 8V, 12V, 16V, 20V, 24V and 28V. The curved lines at the voltage Vgs of 24V and 28V substantially overlap with the horizontal axis. In addition, Jds is normalized by the area of the mesa top portion.
Based on FIG. 8A, it is understood that on-resistance between the drain electrode 15 and the source electrode 34 at the voltage Vgs of 0V is about 0.8 mΩcm2.
Although the embodiments and Examples of the invention have been described, the invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments and Examples, and the various kinds of modifications can be implemented without departing from the gist of the invention.
In addition, the invention according to claims is not to be limited to the embodiments and Examples described above. Further, it should be noted that all combinations of the features described in the embodiments and Examples are not necessary to solve the problem of the invention.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY
Provided is a Ga2O3-based field-effect transistor which is formed without using a p-type β-Ga2O3 single crystal but is excellent in off-state leakage characteristics and breakdown voltage.
REFERENCE SIGNS LIST
1 TRENCH MOSFET
2 TRENCH JFET
10 n-TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE
11 n-TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER
11a DRIFT LAYER
11b CHANNEL LAYER
11c CONTACT LAYER
12, 22 GATE ELECTRODE
13 GATE INSULATOR FILM
14 SOURCE ELECTRODE
15 DRAIN ELECTRODE
16 TRENCH
17 p-TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMBER
1. A field-effect transistor, comprising:
an n-type semiconductor layer that comprises a Ga2O3-based single crystal and a plurality of trenches opening on one surface;
a gate electrode buried in each of the plurality of trenches;
a source electrode connected to a mesa-shaped region between adjacent trenches in the n-type semiconductor layer; and
a drain electrode directly or indirectly connected to the n-type semiconductor layer on an opposite side to the source electrode.
2. The field-effect transistor according to claim 1, wherein the gate electrode comprises a p-type semiconductor, and the gate electrode and the n-type semiconductor layer are in contact with each other to form a p-n junction.
3. The field-effect transistor according to claim 1, wherein the gate electrode comprises a conductor, and the gate electrode is electrically insulated from the n-type semiconductor layer by a gate insulator film.
4. The field-effect transistor according to claim 3, further comprising:
a p-type semiconductor member connected to at least a part of the mesa-shaped region and to the source electrode.
5. The field-effect transistor according to claim 1, wherein an edge portion of the source electrode is located lateral to outermost one of the gate electrodes.
6. The field-effect transistor according to claim 1, wherein the mesa-shaped region has a width of not less than 0.1 μm and not more than 2 μm.
7. The field-effect transistor according to claim 1, wherein a distance from a surface of the n-type semiconductor layer on a side of the drain electrode to a bottom of the trenches is not less than 1 μm and not more than 500 μm.
Publication number: 20200235234
Type: Application
Filed: Sep 26, 2018
Applicants: TAMURA CORPORATION (Tokyo), Novel Crystal Technology, Inc. (Saitama)
Inventor: Kohei SASAKI (Saitama)
International Classification: H01L 29/78 (20060101); H01L 29/24 (20060101); H01L 29/10 (20060101); H01L 29/417 (20060101); H01L 29/808 (20060101);
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The Great Debate Blogathon: THE CONSTANT NYMPH (1943)
The practice of “hate-watching” is not one I really understand. I don’t judge or begrudge anyone who does it, but my standard reaction to coming across a movie, TV show, or song on the radio that I don’t like is to change the channel. My knowledge of filmmaking is nothing like encyclopedic, but I know enough about it to understand that a movie of any quality is a synthesis of many different individuals’ ideas and expertise into a collective whole, and that getting any movie made is nothing short of a small miracle. My respect for anyone who has actually made a movie generally keeps me from saying a lot of negative things about the result or the people involved.
However, all of my equanimity goes out the window when the movie concerned is The Constant Nymph. For those who haven’t seen it:
Fourteen-year-old Tessa (Joan Fontaine) is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd (Charles Boyer), a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa, but has never shown any romantic feelings toward her. When Tessa’s father dies, Lewis contacts her late mother’s wealthy family so they’ll take care of Tessa and her sisters. Lewis becomes taken with Tessa’s haughty cousin Florence (Alexis Smith) and the two soon marry and head off for Florence’s estate in England. Meanwhile, Florence sends Tessa and her sister Paula (Joyce Reynolds) off to finishing school. The girls run away from school and Tessa moves in with Florence and Lewis. Florence soon becomes consumed with jealousy over the bond between her husband and Tessa. (via IMDB)
This is the film I named as my pet peeve in a recent TCM Party podcast, and after a re-watch, I can tell you, that opinion stands. I know the majority is against me here, including lead actress Joan Fontaine herself; per several sources, this was her favorite of her films. But I just don’t like it.
The odd part about it is, The Constant Nymph has all the ingredients to be a favorite of mine too. I adore both Fontaine and Alexis Smith, and the supporting cast includes three of the best character actors ever, Charles Coburn, Peter Lorre, and Dame May Whitty, though she isn’t given a whole lot to do.
Behind the camera were some of the pre-eminent pros of the studio era. Cinematographer Tony Gaudio shot so many of my most-liked pictures that he could easily hijack this post — including, but not limited to, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dawn Patrol, and The Letter (1940). Orry-Kelly designed the gowns. Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote the score. And the director, Edmund Goulding, also helmed Grand Hotel (1932), Dark Victory, and Dawn Patrol, with uncredited stints on Queen Kelly and Hell’s Angels. (Yes, I have a thing for Dawn Patrol. So sue me. Have you seen Errol Flynn in it?)
So what happened? Why do I feel that the befuddled doctor’s statement “It is my opinion that you are much more than slightly mad” applies to anyone who would sit through Constant Nymph a second time?
To begin with, teenaged Tessa is, to me, a very rare misfire for Fontaine. She is beautiful in a fresh, unspoiled way, lively and mischievous. She just doesn’t seem like a teenager. I know times are different now and maybe that’s why. But I find her character grating and excessively artificial, and she’s in almost every scene. Her sister Paula’s assertion, “The way you moon over [Dodd], it’s enough to turn one’s stomach” is unfortunately true for this viewer.
(As played by Joyce Reynolds, this Paula acquits herself fairly well compared with other characters that share my name. It’s a known fact that vast majority of them are awful. I confess it’s nice hearing Fontaine bawl out my name, though I much prefer Ronald Colman in Random Harvest.)
In addition, though as I said, times have changed, Tessa’s extreme youth makes the romance a little cringe-y to me. I’m not sure how old Dodd is supposed to be, which could be a oversight on my part, but Tessa is only 14 at the beginning of the film, and only months later becomes a real rival to her cousin.
Ironically enough, I somewhat agree with Charles Boyer’s assessment of Constant Nymph. To paraphrase his biographer, his objections to the script were that the positive qualities other characters attributed to Lewis Dodd simply were not present in the role as written, and that Florence was such an unsympathetic character that it made the whole love triangle questionable. Yes. And maybe.
I will admit that Boyer has never been a favorite of mine. Though Gaslight was released in 1944, the year after CN, I saw that film several times before I’d ever heard of CN, and perhaps I’ve never been able to forgive him. His character is ostensibly presented as a composer, Lewis Dodd. By that I mean, a grandiose, parasitic freeloader with adulterous tendencies. The whole film hinges on Dodd getting his creative mojo back…but he’s so narcissistic and pretentious that I can’t bring myself to care.
Tessa herself is also problematic. It’s all about her, so much so that once she knows she’s come between them, her reaction is to confess her love and her concern for her effect on the marriage comes off as false. And Dodd, as an ostensible adult, is even worse, saying he has no idea why he married Florence.
In short, Dodd and Tessa deserve each other. I have some sympathy for Florence, who is supposed to be a cold-hearted shrew, which is greatly to Alexis Smith’s credit…I just can’t figure out why she cares about a louse like Dodd. Another sympathetic character is Peter Lorre’s Fritz Bercovy, a basically decent, sane guy, who marries into this mess, courtesy of a union with another of Tessa’s sisters, Toni (Brenda Marshall).
Interestingly, both Flynn and Leslie Howard were considered for Dodd role, and though I love them both, I can’t imagine that either could have saved this for me. I might like it a little more, but I still wouldn’t seek it out.
Given the love evident on Twitter every time TCM schedules The Constant Nymph, I can only conclude that my opinion of it places me in the tiniest of minorities, although at the time, it was popular flop and a critical success. But if we all agreed on everything, the world would be a very boring place indeed. So enjoy it in all its glory…I’ll be catching up on my DVR queue.
This post is part of the The Great Debate Blogathon hosted by Citizen Screenings and The Cinematic Packrat. Be sure and check out the other posts here.
Posted on 14 September 2014 20 December 2017 by PaulaPosted in FeaturesTagged 1940s, alexis smith, blog events, blogathon, charles boyer, edmund golding, erich wolfgang korngold, joan fontaine, peter lorre, the great debate blogathon, tony gaudio, warner brothers. 33 Comments
TCM Week – June 4-10
Not that anyone noticed that I stopped doing my weekly TCM picks, but there’s a very simple reason. My subscription to Now Playing, the TCM monthly magazine, ran out and I forgot to renew. Evidently I’m quite reliant on it because I missed two months of it and it’s too difficult to do picks without it. Everything is back to normal this month. Just so you know 🙂
Apparently Bette Davis (as Queen Elizabeth I) slapped Errol Flynn (as the Earl of Essex) so hard during the filming of Elizabeth and Essex that he saw stars.
8:00 p.m. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
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Possibly in honor of Elizabeth II’s real-life Diamond Jubilee, TCM has two Elizabeth I-related films tonight, the #TCMParty Private Lives at 8:00 and The Virgin Queen (1955) following at 10:00, both with Bette Davis as Britain’s best-loved monarch. (I just conducted a scientific poll via Google search and she is the one royal about whom people have the least bad things to say.) Watching her run a country while trying to keep the Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn) and Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) in line is quite a treat. Apparently Davis and Flynn were no more well-matched than their characters and feuded during filming to the point of physically injuring each other. Despite this, or because of it, this is a great period drama, with beautiful costumes, sets and lighting. Watch for Herbert Marshall and Joan Collins in Virgin Queen. Watch and tweet along with #TCMParty.
There’s a couple other people in the picture but whatever.
12:45 a.m. (Weds) Union Depot (1932)
A rather racy-sounding pre-code picture chosen for the presence of Joan Blondell and the fact that it takes place in real time, 20+ years before High Noon.
Looks like Orson Welles borrowed heavily from Peter Lorre’s look in Mad Love for the older Charles Foster Kane.
TCM has scheduled a bunch of 1930s horror films for daytime, several of which —Island of Lost Souls, Mark of the Vampire, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) — have the gorgeous Expressionistic cinematography I love so. I’ve chosen two I’ve not yet seen. Doctor X (1932) at 7:45 a.m. was directed by the versatile Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) and is sung about in “Science Fiction/Double Feature,” the first number in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Mad Love (1935) at 3:30 p.m. shares a cinematographer, Gregg Toland, and some details with Citizen Kane. This film is one of several based on the novel Les Mains d’Orlac and it will be interesting to compare to The Hands of Orlac (1924), which starred Conrad Veidt as the recipient of the titular evil hands.
8:00 p.m. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
This is one of the best Elvis Presley movies, along with Loving You and Viva Las Vegas. Unfortunately, it’s also his only his third movie, and he made quite a few more. However, nobody delivers a classic line such as “That ain’t cheap tactics, honey. That’s just the beast in me” better than Elvis. With special #TCMParty guest host @CitizenScreen.Watch and tweet along
Friday, June 8
TCM has scheduled an unofficial block to honor Alexis Smith on her birthday. Born in 1921, this Canadian actress, though not as well-known today as some of her contemporaries, had a career in movies, stage and TV for more than 50 years.
7:45 a.m. Dive Bomber (1941)
Smith had uncredited roles in 12 films before landing this, her first credited role, opposite Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray as the girl who comes between them in a WWII drama made just before the U.S. entered the war. (Her last film role was in Age of Innocence (1993)).
9:30 a.m. The Constant Nymph (1943)
I won’t even front like I like this movie. I find it very odd and at times ridiculous. Joan Fontaine is supposed to be a teenager who separates her composer cousin (Charles Boyer) from his wife (Smith). (Seriously, am I the only one who thinks this is weird?) By the end of the film, I felt they deserved each other. But I’m going to watch it again just for Smith, as I’ve read this was her breakthrough role which led to her parts in Night and Day (1946) and The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947).
There’s a great summary of today’s TCM Gothic offerings here, courtesy of Classic Movies Examiner Jennifer Garlen.
5:30 p.m. The Train (1965)
In the waning days of World War II, a French railway inspector who is also a member of the Resistance (Burt Lancaster…just go with it) is ordered by the Nazi-in-charge (Paul Scofield) to get a train through to Germany no matter what. Which wouldn’t be a big deal, except that nearly every important piece of art left in France is on that train. Directed by John Frankenheimer, this excellent film is an unpredictable chess match that’s as near to an anti-war statement as you’ll get in a WWII picture. Look for us on Twitter with #TCMParty.
Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, and someone in a sombrero
midnight The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
The Lady Eve co-stars Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda made this lesser-known comedy three years before Eve. Let’s see…great chemistry in a comedy/mystery with Hattie McDaniel…i’m so there.
JUDY GARLAND’S 90th BIRTHDAY
You can’t really go wrong with anything today.
Posted on 3 June 2012 by PaulaPosted in 2012 Picks, TCM PicksTagged 1930s, 1930s horror, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, alexis smith, barbara stanwyck, bette davis, classic horror, errol flynn, henry fonda, joan blondell, judy garland. 11 Comments
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India campus prepares for new security wall around expanded playground, athletic space; story of orphan girl’s path to new hope out of grave circumstances
Photo: Boys from our boys home are enjoying the new playground and look forward to the added security of a new perimeter wall that will enclose the newly acquired land.
We are happy to report that thanks to the generous support of our donors, we now have everything we need to begin construction on a new security wall around newly acquired land adjacent to our main campus. Once we receive permission from the Survey Department of the local government we can begin work on the wall immediately. The new wall will surround the new playground and athletic field at our “Peace City” orphan home campus, home to our girls home, boys home, and elementary school. We anticipate that the permission will be given next week. This security improvement is much-needed due to many concerning security issues we have witnessed in the area over the years. The perimeter wall will also help to keep dangerous snakes out of the space. We always seek to provide the highest level of security possible for our children. We look forward to the completion of the new security wall which should be in about 4 months; it’s a big project.
In other good news, all of our children are progressing very well in school, and they started their midterm exams in September and will complete the examination process on October 8th. To prepare for their midterm exams, our 89 on-campus primary school students (ages 5-13) diligently studied and received tutoring in their native Telugu and Hindi languages, English, math, science, and social studies. Our 35 older children (ages 13-16), who are attending higher classes off-campus, also studied hard and received tutoring in their native Telugu and Hindi languages, English, math, physical science, natural science, and social studies. When the children are not studying or taking their midterm exams, they enjoy playing fun, stress-relieving games together such as Kabaddi (a popular, local contact team sport) and cricket.
Today we want to share the transformative story of one of our orphans*, Lalitha, who is in the 4th grade:
Her parents and brother were daily laborers who worked in various villages, always trying to find work. Her father found a job as a bricklayer in one village, but he fell off a ladder and broke his leg, hand, and his spine, thus he was unable to work any longer. Lalitha’s family depended on her father’s daily wages, so it became extremely difficult for her mother to take care of 2 children and her injured husband. Sometimes her mother would clean hotels or people’s homes, but she was not able to earn enough income to feed her family or pay for her husband’s medical expenses. She wanted to send Lalitha to school, and thankfully she heard about Peace City and asked us if she could enroll her daughter in our orphan home and on-campus primary school. We were moved with compassion and eagerly admitted Lalitha to Peace City 4 years ago. Now Lalitha is happy and thankful to eat three healthy, delicious meals every day, play with all of her new friends, and sleep in a comfortable bed every night — all of these are comforts which she did not have at home. Lalitha is very thankful for her new life at Peace City, and she prays for her father, mother, and her brother every day.
We recently planted okra, eggplant, tomatoes, green chilies, and curry leaves in our rooftop box gardens, and we look forward to a bountiful harvest of these crops in November. We were not able to plant for the rice harvest this year due to low-rain monsoons during the past 2 rainy seasons. In addition, local wells have dried up in the area of our farmland, and the government discontinued plans to build a canal to help the local farmers, both due to a lack of rain. The government water authorities were supposed to release water for the farmers’ fields, but they are unable to do so because there is no water in the dam. Thus, our native team has improvised and is planning to plant lentils on our rice farm since lentil crops do not require as much rainfall to flourish. We will plant the lentils in November, and look forward to a good harvest in February.
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APIs and clients
Computer Science: Algorithms, Theory, and Machines
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This course introduces the broader discipline of computer science to people having basic familiarity with Java programming. It covers the second half of our book Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach (the first half is covered in our Coursera course Computer Science: Programming with a Purpose, to be released in the fall of 2018). Our intent is to demystify computation and to build awareness about the substantial intellectual underpinnings and rich history of the field of computer science. First, we introduce classic algorithms along with scientific techniques for evaluating performance, in the context of modern applications. Next, we introduce classic theoretical models that allow us to address fundamental questions about computation, such as computability, universality, and intractability. We conclude with machine architecture (including machine-language programming and its relationship to coding in Java) and logic design (including a full CPU design built from the ground up). The course emphasizes the relationships between applications programming, the theory of computation, real computers, and the field's history and evolution, including the nature of the contributions of Boole, Shannon, Turing, von Neumann, and others. All the features of this course are available for free. No certificate will be offered upon completion.
The professor is the best I have ever had! The way he presented the materials was precise and concise. I also loved the historical contexts he often provided.
Loved this course! Such a great introduction to Computer Science. The course is really well broken down and the videos are very well done!
SYMBOL TABLES
The symbol table abstraction is one of the most important and useful programmer's tools, s we illustrate with several examples in this lecture. Extending the scientific approach of the previous two lectures, we introduce and study binary search trees, a classic data structure that supports efficient implementations of this abstraction.
APIs and clients23:41
A design challenge6:36
Binary search trees13:24
Implementation4:33
Analysis8:31
Robert Sedgewick
William O. Baker *39 Professor of Computer Science
Kevin Wayne
Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Senior Lecturer
Today we're going to talk about symbol tables. A classic data type with numerous applications, where classic data structure and various data structure allow us to achieve performance gains that are extremely important in the performance of our computational infrastructure. We're going to follow the same basic structure as the last lecture where we give the APIs and present a challenge of how to get performance, implementing those APIs and then look at a classic data structures that help us address the problem. Let's go back to Bob and Alice and the idea of using a whitelist filter with mergesort and binary search, to say maintain customer accounts or client accounts. And Alice says, "Well, it's kind of a pain sometimes really those companies doing really well". Bob maybe not so well, he hasn't noticed but then when Alice says, "Well we have to resort the whole list whenever we add new customers," and the other thing is, we want to process transactions and associate all sorts of information with our customers." The bottom line is that, that API we just merged certain binary search is not quite enough. We need a much more flexible API. And that's what symbol tables are all about. Think about it. So why are telephone books obsolete now? Well, they don't support some operations, so they don't support is change the number associated with the given name. It's already printed. But another one even more important is, what if you need to add a new name associated with a given number? You have to wait for next year's telephone book. Or what if you want to remove a name and associated number? Again with modern systems, we just do that in our digital devices and it's all fine. But the solution we presented with Mergesort and binary search in the sorting and search and lecture, has that same problem. We don't support the operation of adding a name or removing a name. And so with symbol tables, we get that flexibility. In symbol tables by the way, are the basis of the systems used in your digital devices to maintain phone numbers. The idea is called an associative array abstraction. It's really a very old idea. So, what you want to do is imagine using arrays but rather than forcing the indices to be between zero or any size minus one. Let's imagine that we can use string values. So, then a phone book would be something like this. We'd have an array called, phone numbers and then within the brackets we have a string instead of an end that's restricted to a certain range and then we can assign other strings to the array kind of in that way. Actually or so analysis case maybe there's transactions. There is a string that includes a date and then an amount and vendor and so forth. It's actually the case in some programming languages, not Java that you can write code like this, and underlying this code is the kind of implementation that we're going to talk about today, Symbol table. Here's another example that is common in the Web today. You want to associate a string with a URL and vice versa. So, it's a very fundamental abstraction. We talk about is using keys to access associated values and the keys and values could be any type of data but we have the simplest client code that you could imagine. Just put the key inside brackets and then assign values. That's the associative array abstraction. There's the vice versa where we associate IP addresses with string keys, very flexible abstraction. So the question is, how do we actually implement that as a data type in Java? And that's what we're going to consider today. So, let's lay out the abstract data type in the same way that we did for stacks and queues in the last lecture. So, a symbol table is an abstract data type whose values are sets of key-value pairs and we're going to assume that the keys are all different. That's not really a restrictive assumption as we'll see in a minute. So, the basic operations are, we want to associate a given key with a given value and that might involve two different things. If the key is not in the table, if there's no value associated that key anywhere in the table, then we'll add the key to the table. The key-value pair to the table. If the key is in the table, will just change its value. Just like you would do with with an array. Now, the other thing that we want to do is return the value associated with the given key that's using associative rate and expression or the right hand side of an assignment statement. We might want to test if a given key is in the table and then we might want to iterate through the keys in the table and get the key value pairs out. Those are the basic operations where we want to be able to perform. Now, sometimes it's useful to make additional assumptions. So, one thing that we'll use in this lecture and it's very common and useful in applications is that the keys are comparable. So that is, they are in a total order if we can compare one to the other we can get a result of less, equal or greater. And that's true of many common keys like the strings that we used in all examples are integers or doubles and so forth. And then in that case, when you iterate through the keys, you get sorting for free. The iteration comes in order and that's very useful. As with stacks and queues, we don't want to have within client code any limit on the number of key-value pairs. That's a fundamental restriction or assumption that it's going to make the click code much more useful just as with stacks and queues. And just to simplify the code and several implementations, we're going to assume that if a key is not in the table it by default associates with special value null. And again, this is just a statement in modern terms of a really old idea. So, used to have not just telephone books but dictionaries where the keys are word and the values are definition. And again in telephone book key might be the name and the value the phone number used to be and people still do buy paper documents where the keys is the time in the channel and the values are the TV show, and then encyclopedias where the key is a term, and the value is an article. Nowadays, you think of the key as what you put in a search and the value is what you get. So, that's a symbol table abstract data type. And one more point, before slide rules even or at the time of slide rules, it used to be that people evaluated functions by looking up a number in a book and getting the function value like the sine function or cosine function. Now, all of these have been made obsolete by symbol tables. Okay, so let's have a benchmark example that we're going to test our implementations against. And here's the one that we're going to use. So we have a sequence of strings on standard input. It could be a very long sequence of billions or longer. And what we want to do is count the frequency of occurrence of the strings in standard input, and there's lots of reasons to want to do that. So our keys are strings and our values are integers. So for each string we're going to keep an integer which is the number of times that we've seen that string. So here's just a simple example of where we'll take some keys. And so if we get it we saw it once and so we associate the value one with the key it and same with words and now we've got four things, and now we've got six things there. Now we get it and that's the second time we've seen it. So now we change the value associated with it to be two instead of one, and so forth. Now we just go through the strings that we get in standard input. I look up in the symbol table whether we've seen that before. If we have, we increment the frequency of occurrence we just saw it another time, if we haven't we put it in with a value of one. That's going to be our benchmark example when we look at client code that does that and then we'll see if we can support that client code in real applications. So either we change the value or we add no key with value one. Now, before doing the code, we have to again look at the parameterized API. We're going to use generics the same way as for stacks and queues. It's a little more complicated because we have two things that we want to use placeholder type names both keys and values. And again we'll use those within angle brackets and then substitute real types in client code. So, now inside the angle brackets we use the generic terms key and value, and there's an additional complication that we want for the implementations we're going to consider. We're going to assume that the keys are comparable. That means the data type that whatever type key is, implements the compared two methods. So that means that we can sort the symbol table by keys and we can do other things that depend on the keys being in order. And that allows us to support a much broader class of implementations and also guarantee a good performance as we'll see. Okay. So, our constructor creates a symbol table. Again, no reference to the size or the maximum number of the capacity or anything like that. The simple table should be able to hold any number of values and the client code shouldn't be restricted. So what operations do we do? Well the first is called put, where we associate key in value. And if there's no value associated with that key in the symbol table, we make a new entry with that key value pair. Otherwise, we change the value associated with that key to the new value. And then there's get which takes a key and returns a value, and that's the value associated with the key. If the key is not there we just return null. Contains. Is there a value associated with the key with our convention, that's very easy, we get it and check if it's null. And then there is the idea of iterating through the keys and the table and we'll talk about that in a minute. So that's the API. Let's talk about iteration just for a second. This is true for any collection, even a stack and a queue. And we can do it lots of ways but Java has language support for going through collections called the for each construct. So if you have a stack, you can just say for string s:stack, that's a special syntax for the for loop that goes through every item on the stack and prints it. The way that it goes through the stack is code in the implementation. But we're interested in it now because of how it simplifies client code. So it's useful for any kind of collection of data to be able to iterate through each item in the collection. The implementation determines which order... We like it because it has a substantially simpler client code and so that's what the implements iterable thing is about in the API. So actually, our implementation of push down stacks in the booking on the book side implements iterable. And what that means is that the client code can use for each construct for that data type. And we want to have a performance spec where it takes constant time per item like all the other operations for stacks. So the question is, what code do you need within the stack implementation to implement this iterable idea? Well, this is about on the border of the kind of code that would expect you to write, but for now the answer is we did it for stack and queue, so you don't have to do it. You can read in the text about how to implement an iterator that's associated with a collection type. And our implementation meets that performance spec of constant time per entry. And for now what we can do is make use of that one. But really what I want to emphasize now is in client code, if you're using collections like stack, queue or symbol tables, use iteration. It makes the client code much easier to understand. Let's take a moment to consider the question of why we use ordered keys. It seems to add complication. Well, one reason is it's very natural for many applications. The keys that client programs tend to use are things like numbers or strings or date and time. Even when you have color and length, there's a natural order in the keys. And given that natural order, that enables extensions to the API, we can provide operations that clients might expect. Like give me the keys in sorted order or even more important something like find the kth smallest key. There's plenty of applications. We're having operations like that in the API are important. So it makes sense to consider implementations that take advantage of order in the keys. In the present context, what we're interested in order for is that it enables us to develop implementations with guaranteed efficiency. Mergesort and Binary search are examples of that. And in this lecture, we're going to look at a data structure that takes advantage of ordering in the keys to guarantee efficient performance. All right. So let's look at a client example now. So what we want to do is take the lines on standard input the strings and put them out in sorted order with any duplicates removed. So the key type is going to be a string. We'll just use a line on standard input as the strings. In this case, we're going to ignore the values. We don't need the values. We're just sorting the keys. And this is a really simple symbol table client. We call the symbol table BST, in homage to the data structure that we're going to use as you'll see. So we build a new symbol table. It's keys are strings and its values are integers, and we're not going to use the value. While there's another line on standard input, all we do is put that line into the symbol table and give it a value of zero because we have to give it some value. Now we use, for each construct to go through, the keys and the symbol table and just print each one out. And that's a very simple client code to get this job done. So if we have A Tale of Two Cities text, first 10 lines or so, if we pipe that, take that as input to this program, we get those lines sorted. And sorting doesn't happen until the fourth word, where we have age and best and IPAC and so forth. So very simple client that gets sorting done. Don't need a specialized sort. And that's a warm up. Here's a more interesting example, which is going to be our benchmark, that's the Frequency Counter example. So now, we want to compute the frequencies of occurrence of the words on standard input. So our key type is a string again, and now, our value type is the integer which is the number of times we've seen that work. This is the client that I gave an example of at the beginning. So now, we build again a symbol table with string keys and integer values. Now, while standard in is not empty, we just read a string. We check if that one is in the symbol table with st.contains. If it is, then we put into the symbol table with key, with a new value, which is the old value plus one. So what that does is change the value associated with the key by incrementing it by one. That's if there was a value associated with that key in the symbol table. We've seen that string before. Otherwise, we put a new entry in the symbol table associating that key with one saying, "We've seen that the first time." And then, at the end, we can print out the keys in sorted order with the frequency of occurrence associated with them. Again, that's a very simple client code that's useful in lots of applications, and we'll look at some later on. So in this example, again, we use this code and as standard input, we provide that small test file. And you see a lot of words just to appear once, but "it", "of", "the" and "was" appeared 10 times in that example. So in this case then, we pipe it through the other program in order to get things in order of frequency of occurrence, which is maybe what we want in an application. That's frequency counter; that's the second example. Here's the third example that's more complicated but also not much more complicated but useful. So one thing that you want to have is maybe an index to the words on standard input. So what's that mean? Well our key is a string. It's a word that appears on standard input. But maybe for the value, we want to know all the places where that word occurs. So maybe in a book, you want to know what pages it appears on or in a string. In a string from a web page, you want to know the places where the word occurs. That's an indexing example. And this is not much more complicated than the frequency counter given the data structures that we've developed. It's a fine example of a utility of defining appropriate abstractions. So now, our symbol table is going to associate a string with a queue of integers. So we'll make a new symbol table that associate string keys with queues of integers. Again, we're going to go through every string in standard input, but now, we'll keep an index I, which is a place that we are in the string that when we're reading Ith key, then we have the value I. So we'll read a string. Again, if the symbol table doesn't contain the key, then we'll put it there with a new queue. Just make a new queue. And then, after we've done that, and if the key was already there, what we do is we're going to get the queue that's associated with the key. Now, if it wasn't there, we made a queue. If it was there, there is a queue. So we're going to get that queue and then we're going to call the enqueue method and put I at the end of that queue. That's it. In this case, we change the entry in the symbol table by getting the queue out and calling the enqueue method. Now, when we go through, we can print out each key and then we print out the queue that's associated with that key in the symbol table. And that's a queue and so there's a two string method that prints out the whole thing. So now, for our sample test file tail.tech, we get an index which says, "For every word, the place is where that word occurs." And you can see the utility of that in all kinds of applications. And again, our emphasis is that we have, with this API, a very flexible data type that gives a simple client code for doing complex tasks. You might have imagined that it would take quite a bit of code to do something like solve this indexing problem. So the bottom line is that symbol tables are everywhere in the computers and devices that you use, from credit card account numbers, to web search, to cloud storage. In all kinds of situations, you have a key that indicates what you want. And you have a value which is the thing that you want. And these things have to perform well. They're the basis of everything that goes on. The router and the Internet, when it has to route something somewhere, it has to know where and has to look up that value in a table. In many, many other situations in the computational infrastructure involve simple tables. It's a very fundamental data type. So Bob and Alice or anybody else that wants to make effective use of computers, you're going to need a good symbol table implementation. And that's what we're going to consider next.
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3 Jan 2012 11 Aug 2013 by Volubrjotr
States Check & Balance Obamacare: 10th. Amendment ~ States May Null & Void Supreme Court Decision On Obamacare!
ONLY THING MISSING IS A NICE FROSTY COLD BUDWEISER LIGHT BEER
This photograph released by the Obama Transition Team shows US president-elect Barack Obama (L) and vice president-elect Joe Biden (R) with Justices during a visit to the US Supreme Court January 14, 2009 in Washington, DC. From left are: Obama, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas, David Souter and Biden. AFP PHOTO / Obama Transition Team / Pete SOUZA == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / GETTY OUT == (Photo credit should read Pete SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)
“sovereignty over certain powers pursuant to the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, to notify Congress to limit and end certain mandates, and to insist that federal legislation contravening the Tenth Amendment be prohibited or repealed.”
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal government may not usurp; and
WHEREAS, Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States, states in part, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,” and the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States states that “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”; and
WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court ruled in New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992), that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states by compelling them to enact and enforce regulatory programs.
FLIP FLOPPER ROBERTS
(NEWSER) – The Supreme Court’s chief justice yesterday defended the right of his fellow justices to rule on Obamacare, the New York Times reports. John G. Roberts didn’t mention justices Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan by name, but both are facing calls to withdraw from the ruling because of their past interest in the health care program. The issue, as Roberts sees it, is that Supreme Court justices are too far up the legal totem pole to be judged or replaced.
WITHOUT THE HOLY BIBLE OF COURSE! ~ WASHINGTON - JANUARY 21: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administers the oath of office to President Barack Obama a second time in the Map Room of the White House January 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. Today was the president's first full day in office. (Photo by Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Barack Obama;John G. Roberts Jr.
“There is no higher court to review a justice’s decision not to recuse in a particular case,” Roberts wrote in his annual report. When a lower court judge steps aside, “there is another federal judge who can serve in that recused judge’s place,” but not so in the Supreme Court—which would be left “without its full membership.” In sum, a justice can’t pull out “simply to avoid controversy.” The Supreme Court is scheduled torule on the constitutionality of Obamacare by the end of June. (See why Democrats are seeking a probe of Clarence Thomas.)
Michael Boldin
The Tenth Amendment Center
By a vote of 19-12 today, the Ohio State Senate passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 13 (SCR13). (h/tOhioFreeState.com)
The resolution claims “sovereignty over certain powers pursuant to the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, to notify Congress to limit and end certain mandates, and to insist that federal legislation contravening the Tenth Amendment be prohibited or repealed.”
If passed by the House of Representatives, Ohio will become the 8th state to have passed such a resolution. Other states that have reaffirmed their sovereignty are Alaska, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
While sovereignty resolutions do not carry the force of law behind them, supporters say that they are a long-overdue first step in moving the country towards constitutional government.
Charles Key, state representative from Oklahoma and author of that state’s sovereignty resolution, compared these resolutions to a cease and desist notice a landlord gives a non-paying tenant.
“If you’ve got a tenant that’s not paying rent, you don’t just show up one day with an empty truck,” said Key in a recent interview with the Tenth Amendment Center. “First, you serve notice. That’s how we see these resolutions, as a notice to the federal government. And there defintely will be follow up.”
The follow up that Rep. Key is referring to has been popping up all over the country. Legislation that calls upon the Jeffersonian principle of “nullification” has already been advancing a number of causes, and some success has been gained, too.
A state-level rebellion to the Bush-era Real ID act has rendered the law virtually null and void. Thirteen states have passed various marijuana laws in direct contravention to federal laws. Two states have passed laws nullifying some federal gun regulations.
Groups in multiple states are pushing their governments to withdraw their state’s guard troops from Iraq and elsewhere. And people in up to 10 states may have the opportunity to vote on state constitutional amendments effectively banning national health care.
The long-term success of all these efforts remain to be seen, especially with a Federal Judiciary which has not often been too friendly to the Constitutional intent of the Founders and Ratifiers.
But, many supporters point to the growing success on issues like Real ID and Medical Marijuana as examples which prove that with enough state-level resistance, the federal government has no option but to back off, with or without judicial approval.
Convicted Felon George Soros
Read the full text of SCR-13 below:
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”; and
WHEREAS, Many federal laws directly contravene the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS, We believe in the importance of all levels of government working together to serve the citizens of our country, by respecting the constitutional provisions that properly delineate the authority of federal, state, and local governments; and
WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court ruled in New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992), that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states by compelling them to enact and enforce regulatory programs; and
WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court, in Printz v. United States/Mack v. United States, 521 U.S. 898 (1997), reaffirmed that the Constitution of the United States established a system of “dual sovereignty” that retains “a residuary and inviolable sovereignty” by the states. The majority of the United States Supreme Court noted in that case (521 U.S. 898, 921-922):
“As [President] Madison expressed it: ‘[T]he local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the supremacy, no more subject, within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere.’ The Federalist No. 39, at 245.
Virulent Nazi Muffin Harry Reid
This separation of the two spheres is one of the Constitution’s structural protections of liberty. ‘Just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the Federal Government serve to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance of power between the States and the Federal Government will reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse from either front.’ . . . To quote [President] Madison once again:
‘In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.’ The Federalist No. 51, at 323″; and
WHEREAS, A number of proposals by previous administrations, some now pending proposals by the present administration, and some proposals by Congress may further violate the Tenth Amendment restriction on the scope of federal power; now therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the State of Ohio hereby acknowledges and reaffirms its residuary and inviolable sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States; and be it further
RESOLVED, That this resolution serves as notice to the federal government as agent of the states, to end federal mandates that are beyond the scope of the constitutionally delegated powers; and be it further
RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation that directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalty or sanction or that requires states to enact legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the Senate transmit authenticated copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, the President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate of each state’s legislature, and each member of the Ohio Congressional delegation.
Weekend Reflections: Republic States Tell feds To Back Down On Obamacare ~ With 5 Years Jail Time, For Anyone Attempting To Enforce. (politicalvelcraft.org)
City Police Do Not OWE A Duty To Protect American Citizens: Only The Constitutionally Elected County Sheriff Does! (politicalvelcraft.org)
State AGs Miss Target with Health Care Lawsuit Says the Tenth Amendment Center (prweb.com)
Lawmakers In 20 More States Move To Reclaim Sovereignty! (politicalvelcraft.org)
America’s Forgotten Holiday: Constitution Day is September 17th (prweb.com)
“The States” Have De Facto Control Over The General Government: States May Nullify U.S. Supreme Court Ruling On Obamacare! (politicalvelcraft.org)
Weekend Reflections: Hank Williams Jr ~ “We Know What We Need. We Know Who To Blame.” ~ Peter Fonda ~ Obama is a ‘F – king Traitor’. (politicalvelcraft.org)
Knowledge Is Power: Plenary Power Is False (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
Ohio Voters Amend Their Constitution To Outlaw Obamacare Mandates (forbes.com)
US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts: high court not exempt from ethics rules (lesliebrodie.wordpress.com)
Chief Justice Roberts Nurses The Supreme Court’s Self-Inflicted Ethical Wounds (thinkprogress.org)
Roberts: Back off the recusal demands (hotair.com)
The Supreme Court Chief Justice Cops Out (theatlantic.com)
Chief Justice Roberts Nurses The Supreme Court’s Self-Inflicted Ethical Wounds (alternet.org)
U.S. Chief Justice Offers Confidence in Recusals – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
Chief Justice Roberts Insists His Court Can Be Impartial (crooksandliars.com)
Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas Recusal Decision Gets Chief Justice Support (ibtimes.com)
Montana Supreme Court Defies Citizens United Decision (blogs.wsj.com)
Chief Justice Roberts Defends Kagan, Thomas Recusal Decisions On Health Care Lawsuit (outsidethebeltway.com)
Montana Supreme Court: Suck It, Citizens United (bilerico.com)
Chief Justice Defends Peers on Health Law (nytimes.com)
In Annual Report, Roberts Defends Supreme Court Ethics Procedures (legaltimes.typepad.com)
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George Mason’s Objections (Virginia)
OBJECTIONS OF THE HON. GEORGE MASON,
ONE OF THE DELEGATES FROM VIRGINIA IN THE LATE CONTINENTAL CONVENTION,
TO THE PROPOSED FEDERAL CONSTITUTION;
ASSIGNED AS HIS REASONS FOR NOT SIGNING THE SAME.
There is no declaration of rights; and, the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitutions of the several states, the declarations of rights in the separate states are no security. Nor are the people secured even in the enjoyment of the benefit of the common law, which stands here upon no other foundation than its having been adopted by the respective acts forming the constitutions of the several states.
In the House of Representatives there is not the substance, but the shadow only, of representation, which can never produce proper information in the legislature, or inspire confidence in the people. The laws will, therefore, be generally made by men little concerned in, and unacquainted with, their effects and consequences.
The Senate have the power of altering all money bills, and of originating appropriations of money, and the salaries of the officers of their own appointment, in conjunction with the President of the United States, although they are not the representatives of the people, or amenable to them. These, with their other great powers, (viz., their powers in the appointment of ambassadors, and all public officers, in making treaties, and in trying all impeachments;) their influence upon, and connection with, the supreme executive from these causes; their duration of office; and their being a constant existing body, almost continually sitting, joined with their being one complete branch of the legislature, — will destroy any balance in the government, and enable them to accomplish what usurpations they please upon the rights and liberties of the people.
The judiciary of the United States is so constructed and extended as to absorb and destroy the judiciaries of the several states; thereby rendering laws as tedious, intricate, and expensive, and justice as unattainable, by a great part of the community, as in England; and enabling the rich to oppress and ruin the poor.
The President of the United States has no constitutional council, (a thing unknown in any safe and regular government.) He will therefore be unsupported by proper information and advice, and will generally be directed by minions and favorites; or he will become a tool to the Senate; or a council of state will grow out of the principal officers of the great departments — the worst and most dangerous of all ingredients for such a council, in a free country; for they may be induced to join in any dangerous or oppressive measures, to shelter themselves, and prevent an inquiry into their own misconduct in office. Whereas, had a constitutional council been formed (as was proposed) of six members, viz., two from the Eastern, two from the Middle, and two from the Southern States, to be appointed by vote of the states in the House of Representatives, with the same duration and rotation of office as the Senate, the executive would always have had safe and proper information and advice: the president of such a council might have acted as Vice-President of the United States, pro tempore, upon any vacancy or disability of the chief magistrate; and long-continued sessions of the Senate would in a great measure have been prevented. From this fatal defect of a constitutional council has arisen the improper power of the Senate in the appointment of the public officers, and the alarming dependence and connection between that branch of the legislature and the supreme executive. Hence, also, sprang that unnecessary officer, the Vice-President, who, for want of other employment, is made president of the Senate; thereby dangerously blending the executive and legislative powers, besides always giving to some one of the states an unnecessary and unjust preminence over the others.
The President of the United States has the unrestrained power of granting pardon for treason; which may be sometimes exercised to screen from punishment those whom he had secretly instigated to commit the crime, and thereby prevent a discovery of his own guilt. By declaring all treaties supreme laws of the land, the executive and the Senate have, in many cases, an exclusive power of legislation, which might have been avoided, by proper distinctions with respect to treaties, and requiring the assent of the House of Representatives, where it could be done with safety.
By requiring only a majority to make all commercial and navigation laws, the five Southern States (whose produce and circumstances are totally different from those of the eight Northern and Eastern States) will be ruined; for such rigid and premature regulations may be made, as will enable the merchants of the Northern and Eastern States not only to demand an exorbitant freight, but to monopolize the purchase of the commodities, at their own price, for many years, to the great injury of the landed interest, and the impoverishment of the people; and the danger is the greater, as the gain on one side will be in proportion to the loss on the other. Whereas, requiring two thirds of the members present in both houses, would have produced mutual moderation, promoted the general interest, and removed an insuperable objection to the adoption of the government.
Under their own construction of the general clause at the end of the enumerated powers, the Congress may grant monopolies in trade and commerce, constitute new crimes, inflict unusual and severe punishments, and extend their power as far as they shall think proper; so that the state legislatures have no security for the powers now presumed to remain to them, or the people for their rights. There is no declaration of any kind for preserving the liberty of the press, the trial by jury in civil cases, nor against the danger of standing armies in time of peace.
The state legislatures are restrained from laying export duties on their own produce; the general legislature is restrained from prohibiting the further importation of slaves for twenty-odd years, though such importations render the United States weaker, more vulnerable, and less capable of defence. Both the general legislature and the state legislatures are expressly prohibited making ex post facto laws, though there never was, nor can be, a legislature but must and will make such laws, when necessity and the public safety require them, which will hereafter be a breach of all the constitutions in the Union, and afford precedents for other innovations.
This government will commence in a moderate aristocracy: it is at present impossible to foresee whether it will, in its operation, produce a monarchy or a corrupt oppressive aristocracy; it will most probably vibrate some years between the two, and then terminate in the one or the other.
GEO. MASON.
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Jeremy Massengale ♦ December 16, 2018 ♦ Leave a comment
THE President of the United States is to be “commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States when called into the actual service of the United States.” The propriety of this provision is so evident in itself and it is at the same time so consonant to the precedents of the State constitutions in general, that little need be said to explain or enforce it. Even those of them which have in other respects coupled the Chief Magistrate with a council have for the most part concentrated the military authority in him alone. Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.
“The President may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective officers.” This I consider as a mere redundancy in the plan, as the right for which it provides would result of itself from the office.
He is also to be authorized to grant “reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.” Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed. The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel. As the sense of responsibility is always strongest in proportion as it is undivided, it may be inferred that a single man would be most ready to attend to the force of those motives which might plead for a mitigation of the rigor of the law, and least apt to yield to considerations which were calculated to shelter a fit object of its vengeance. The reflection that the fate of a fellow-creature depended on his sole fiat would naturally inspire scrupulousness and caution; the dread of being accused of weakness or connivance would beget equal circumspection, though of a different kind. On the other hand, as men generally derive confidence from their numbers, they might often encourage each other in an act of obduracy, and might be less sensible to the apprehension of suspicion or censure for an injudicious or affected clemency. On these accounts, one man appears to be a more eligible dispenser of the mercy of government than a body of men.
The expediency of vesting the power of pardoning in the President has, if I mistake not, been only contested in relation to the crime of treason. This, it has been urged, ought to have depended upon the assent of one, or both, of the branches of the legislative body. I shall not deny that there are strong reasons to be assigned for requiring in this particular the concurrence of that body or of a part of it. As treason is a crime leveled at the immediate being of the society when the laws have once ascertained the guilt of the offender, there seems a fitness in referring the expediency of an act of mercy towards him to the judgment of the legislature. And this ought the rather to be the case, as the supposition of the connivance of the Chief Magistrate ought not to be entirely excluded. But there are also strong objections to such a plan. It is not to be doubted that a single man of prudence and good sense is better fitted, in delicate conjunctures, to balance the motives which may plead for and against the remission of the punishment than any numerous body whatever. It deserves particular attention that treason will often be connected with seditions which embrace a large proportion of the community, as lately happened in Massachusetts. In every such case we might expect to see the representation of the people tainted with the same spirit which had given birth to the offense. And when parties were pretty equally matched, the secret sympathy of the friends and favorers of the condemned, availing itself of the good nature and weakness of others, might frequently bestow impunity where the terror of an example was necessary. On the other hand, when the sedition had proceeded from causes which had inflamed the resentments of the major party, they might often be found obstinate and inexorable, when policy demanded a conduct of forbearance and clemency. But the principal argument for reposing the power of pardoning in this case to the Chief Magistrate is this: in seasons of insurrection or rebellion, there are often critical moments when a well-timed offer of pardon to the insurgents or rebels may restore the tranquillity of the commonwealth; and which, if suffered to pass unimproved, it may never be possible afterwards to recall. The dilatory process of convening the legislature, or one of its branches, for the purpose of obtaining its sanction to the measure, would frequently be the occasion of letting slip the golden opportunity. The loss of a week, a day, an hour, may sometimes be fatal. If it should be observed that a discretionary power with a view to such contingencies might be occasionally conferred upon the President, it may be answered in the first place that it is questionable, whether, in a limited Constitution, that power could be delegated by law; and in the second place, that it would generally be impolitic beforehand to take any step which might hold out the prospect of impunity. A proceeding of this kind, out of the usual course, would be likely to be construed into an argument of timidity or of weakness, and would have a tendency to embolden guilt.
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Steel factor is required for maintenance, but not differentiation, of melanocyte precursors in the neural crest
Dev Biol. 1992 Oct;153(2):396-401. doi: 10.1016/0012-1606(92)90124-y.
M Murphy 1 , K Reid, D E Williams, S D Lyman, P F Bartlett
1 Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(92)90124-y
Skin melanocytes are derived from neural crest cells that migrate into the dermis during embryogenesis. Two mouse mutants, Steel and White dominant-spotting, which have defects in melanocyte production, have recently been shown to have deletions in the genes that code for a new growth factor, steel factor (SLF), and its receptor, respectively. Here, we have investigated the role that SLF plays in melanogenesis using cultures of mouse neural crest and found that its primary action is the maintenance of melanocyte precursors. It has no effect on the final stage of melanocyte differentiation, the production of melanin, which appears to require an additional factor whose action is mimicked by the phorbol ester TPA (12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate).
Cell Count
Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors / pharmacology*
Melanocytes / drug effects*
Neural Crest / embryology*
Phorbol Esters
Stem Cell Factor
Stem Cells / drug effects*
Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors
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French Company Goes Organic for U.S. Acquisition; U.S. Airlines Gear Up for Cuba; U.S. Banks Bond Over Brexit
Posted on July 7, 2016 by Ronit Fried
Let them eat organic cake!
Dannon Yogurt’s parent company, Danone (said with a French accent) is looking to pick up a major U.S company that will effectively double its size. That’s assuming all goes according to plan. Danone wants to offer organic food provider, WhiteWave, purveyor of favorites like Silk Almond and Soy Milk, Horizon Milk and Earthbound Farms, $10.4 billion in cash for the fiscal pleasure of its company. That’s a 24% premium over WhiteWave’s thirty day average closing price and comes out to about to $56.25 per share. But for Danone, whose looking to make itself a bigger presence in the United States, it’s well worth it, since WhiteWave’s offerings tend to attract wealthier consumers. WhiteWave generates annual sales of about $4 billion and with this acquisition, Danone expects to see a $300 million boost in operating profit. Danone has also been struggling in other parts of the world and this acquisition would ease the burden of some of those lesser-performing markets. FYI, when companies offer to buy other companies, their offers tend be at least at a 30% premium. Because this offer was not, it theoretically means that the bidding door is still open to other offers from companies like Coca Cola, PepsiCo and Kellogg Co, to name but a few. In a regulatory filing, though, WhiteWave did graciously say that it wouldn’t solicit other offers. However, there are exceptions. Should WhiteWave go with another offer, Danone still wins because it will get a $310 million break-up fee.
Image courtesy of Tuomas_Lehtinen/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Believe it or not, Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only topic of conversation today coming out of Washington DC. President Obama announced a proposal to allow eight U.S. airlines to provide nonstop service between Cuba and ten U.S. cities, beginning this fall. This will mark the first time in 50 years that travel of this kind will be available. And all this just one year after diplomatic relations were re-established. The city and airline selections were made by the Department of Transportation and the lucky airline winners are: Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines and United Airlines. American Airlines is actually no stranger to the island nation, as it has been offering charter services there since 1991. Just last year the airline made over one thousand chartered flights to Cuba, while JetBlue made over 200 chartered trips. That’s awfully welcome news for an industry that took a fiscal beating lately. The cities that can look forward to the new service had to have have substantial Cuban-American populations already in place. Hence, Florida finds itself the recipient of 14 out of the 20 daily nonstop flights, since it boasts the largest Cuban-American population. The cities include: Atlanta, Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New York City, Orlando and Tampa. According to Cuban officials, the number of American travelers to Cuba is up 84%, compared to last year, in just the first half of the year. But there is still a trade embargo in place, which does include a travel ban. However, there are twelve convenient categories of reasons to fly to Cuba that you can check off should you decide to make your way to Havana any time soon.
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It’s a fiscal kumbaya as four U.S. banks offered up their sincerest support for London following the Brexit vote. The gracious supporters include, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. The banks agreed to help British Finance Minister George Osborne find ways to ensure that the U.K. remains the prominent financial player that it always was, pre-Brexit. And of course they all will try and find new and exciting ways to lure and retain big banking to London so that the consequences of the Brexit don’t do the country in completely. While that sentiment no doubt warmed the hearts of investors all over the world, the investment banks could not offer up as much optimism as far as the jobs situation is concerned. After all, “no one in their right mind would currently invest in Britain.” Keeping those jobs there might might be the biggest challenge of all and no one wants to make any promises on that. Especially Jamie Dimon, who had previously mentioned that around 4,000 jobs could make their way out of London. In the meantime, the French wasted no time – I mean NONE! – in announcing to the world that it would make its tax regime as enticing as possible, in a not at all subtle attempt to grab some pricey banking business from London.
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American Apparel Just Can’t Seem to Get it Together; Lululemon’s Un-zen-like Projections; Population Popularity
Posted on March 26, 2015 by Ronit Fried
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Looks like American Apparel has some legal troubles, yet again. Only this time it’s not because of ex-CEO and founder, Dov Charney (sort of), who is apparently still trying to get his job back. The SEC launched an internal investigation into the apparel company over a very pricey review of the ousting of Mr. Charney and all the unpleasant accusations against him, including several sexual misconduct allegations. However, to be fair, Mr. Charney’s lawyer called the allegations…don’t laugh now…”baseless.” So just how pricey was this review? Like $10.4 million pricey. Which seems expensive considering the company’s stock was precipitously tanking, is hard up for $27.6 million with unpaid long-term loans, and has just about $8 million in cash. The price tag certainly got the SEC wondering if this major expense helped send the company into debt. The SEC wants to determine if any laws were broken during the review. But don’t hold your breath for any juicy details as the investigation is “non-public.”
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Things are looking sort of zen at Lululemon Athletica as it announced its earnings with some decent numbers reported. The fitness apparel company took in profits of $111 million at 78 cents per share when analysts only predicted 73 cents a share. Last year the yoga apparel maker took in $109.7 million and 75 cents a share. But here’s where things aren’t so zen: Lululemon’s profit projections for the year are $1.85 – $1.90 – much less impressive than what analysts would prefer to see: $2.07 per share. It is kind of odd that Lululemon’s projections would be so much lower than analysts’ predictions considering the retailer has all these big revamping and expansion plans. So, it kind of got Wall Street wondering how much growth can they really expect to see from Lululemon following its successful holiday season. Hence, shares went down over 3%.
Booms and bummers…
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Florida is where it’s at. At least according to the latest stats from the U.S. Census Bureau. Florida becomes the third most populous state, knocking New York off that perch. But a lot of that growth is coming from a place called The Village, Florida, ranked as the fastest growing city with a 5.4% population increase last year to 114,000 people. And with a name like that, of course tons of people are setting up house over there. Wish I was. But that was just one of the many cities experiencing major growth in the Sunshine State. Interestingly enough, and even a bit macabre, is the fact that these new residents helped offset the number of deaths of the many retirees who migrate to the state for their golden years, propelling Florida to a population of of 19.9 million people. New York only has 19.7 million. But California is the number one most populous state with 38.8 million folks. Some of the other big winners, or rather gainers, were Williams County and Stark County, both in North Dakota, which earned the top spots for fastest growing counties. Of course, the booming oil industry and surplus of jobs can be thanked for that. A big loser? Wayne County, Michigan which took a population loss of about 11,000 people.
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This is one of those records I thought about listening to a decade and a half ago and I’m just getting to it now. That’s often a recipe for disappointment as my tastes in my mid 30s are definitely not what they were in my early 20s.
But to my surprise this is a pretty good record.
The songs are stronger than I would have imagined; though they’re hardly classics, many have compelling melodies and the originals are interesting enough as songs to not sound too much like the numerous other bands who came before them who did something similar.
The band is capable and pulls off a couple of different styles within the record. There is a bit of a soul influence here which was unexpected for a British band. In some ways, a few of the songs are like a less soulful, way less funky, British version of psychedelic soul, which was just being created around this time. (I mean, just a bit. I don’t want you to think they were doing anything really innovative.)
One of the lead singers sounds too much like Steve Marriott, which is a bit weird, and makes me think of Humble Pie a bit too much, but this band is different enough from Humble Pie, to my ears, to not sound derivative. (Also, I have that backwards. Humble Pie sounds like Spooky Tooth, as these guys were first.)
Pretty good stuff.
“Society’s Child” 4:30 (Janis Ian)
“Love Really Changed Me” 3:33 (Grosvenor, Miller, Wright)
“Here I Lived So Well” 5:06 (Wright, Grosvenor, Harrison, Miller)
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“Sunshine Help Me” 3:02 (Wright)
“It’s All About a Roundabout” 2:43 (Miller, Wright)
“Tobacco Road” 5:33 (J.D. Loudermilk)
“It Hurts You So” 3:03 (Miller, Wright)
“Forget It, I Got It” 3:26 (Miller, Wright)
“Bubbles” 2:49 (Grosvenor, Wright)
Mike Harrison – vocals, keyboards, harpsichord
Luther Grosvenor – guitar
Gary Wright – vocals, keyboards, organ
Greg Ridley – bass
Mike Kellie – drums, percussion
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Someone to Love – Darling, VT #2
Someone to Love - Darling, VT #2
Author Donna Alward
Release Date March 7, 2017
Publisher St. Martin's Press
SOMEONE TO LOVE is the second book in the DARLING, VT SERIES and it didn’t disappoint. It was a quick read with lots of stories that all lead back to the Gallaghers and reunites us with characters we’ve met before. I already feel at home there and can’t wait to return to read SOMEBODY’S BABY, the third book in this contemporary romance series. I for one hope there will be many more books set in Darling!
There was darkness and light throughout the book. Ethan, a firefighter with two young boys, is a single dad after his wife’s death. He’s still reeling from her death and what it means for his family, and he’s bitter about it too. His large family doesn’t want to upset him and are careful around him. He’s always tired and grumpy but luckily has his family to step in and help with the boys and childcare when needed.
Enter Willow, who is the owner of the Purple Pig Cafe. She’s best friends with his sister, Hannah, and sister-in-law, Lauren. She’s truly a free spirit. They butt heads from the minute they meet, and it doesn’t get any better…or does it? He slings barbs then apologizes. They cross paths over and over again, and sparks start to fly. Trying to figure out what’s going on between them is tough enough, but add in Ethan’s children who adore her and his sister who’s being protective of both Willow and Ethan and things do tend to get interesting.
The story is filled with family, friends, romance and laughter. The community spirit of the town is almost a character in itself. There were some burn-up-the-sheet moments, and also times when Willow and Ethan both thought things were moving too fast, so one or the other would take a step back, which added confusion to their relationship. Willow was stronger than she thought, given her past. And Ethan had to reconcile who he was after the death of his wife. Watching them take one or two steps forward and just as many back was heartbreaking but made the story real. There was a happily-ever-after and nice closure but enough loose ends to bring us to the next story. Darling is a place I wouldn’t mind calling home!
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Improving lay understanding of exposure to electromagnetic fields; the effect of information on perception of and responses to risk
Liesbeth Claassen*, Diana van Dongen, Danielle R.M. Timmermans
Public and occupational health
APH - Quality of Care
Studies show that, although many people are concerned about the potential health risks of being exposed to electromagnetic fields (EMF), lay understanding of exposure, an important determinant of risk perceptions and responses, is limited. In an online consumer panel (n = 245), we tested the effects of providing people with information about EMF on lay understanding of exposure, and on perceptions and responses to risks, using an experimental 2 × 2 × 2 design. Providing people with specific information explaining the distance–exposure relationship, clarifying EMF policy, or specifying personal exposure management options actions resulted in a better understanding of exposure. We demonstrated that information provision as such had no effects on concerns about EMF nor on perceived risk of personal sources, i.e. mobile phones, but lowered perception of risk of public sources, i.e. mobile phone base stations and high-voltage power lines. In addition, information explaining the distance–exposure relationship in combination with policy information resulted in reduced self-reported risk-aversive responses. Moreover, participants who understood more about exposure in relation to the distance to the source showed lower perceptions of risk, were less likely to restrict their own exposure, and more likely to accept new installations of public sources of EMF in their neighborhood. In contrast, awareness that exposure was mainly determined by personal use of EMF sources corresponded with higher perceptions of risk from personal sources and a higher likelihood to restrict one’s own exposure. Our findings provide focal points for improving communication on EMF. In particular, we suggest to include information clarifying the distance–exposure relationship to improve understanding of exposure.
Journal of Risk Research
Claassen, L., van Dongen, D., & Timmermans, D. R. M. (2017). Improving lay understanding of exposure to electromagnetic fields; the effect of information on perception of and responses to risk. Journal of Risk Research, 20(9), 1115-1131. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2015.1031268
Claassen, Liesbeth ; van Dongen, Diana ; Timmermans, Danielle R.M. / Improving lay understanding of exposure to electromagnetic fields; the effect of information on perception of and responses to risk. In: Journal of Risk Research. 2017 ; Vol. 20, No. 9. pp. 1115-1131.
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Turkey launches offensive against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria
The Washington Post- Turkey’s government launched a long-expected offensive into northeastern Syria on Wednesday, with airstrikes and shelling targeting Syrian Kurdish fighters who have played a central role in aiding the U.S.-led battle against the Islamic State militant group.
The operation — with some ground forces crossing the border later — came just days after President Trump’s startling announcement that the United States would not stand in Turkey’s way, bringing sharp rebukes from even the president’s Republican allies.
The Turkish foray threatened to further fracture a war-shattered Syria as Ankara moved to create a “safe zone” after failing to agree on its size and nature during negotiations with the United States.
Turkey’s goal is to push back the Syrian Kurds — considered enemies by Turkey — from the border region. Turkey also claims the buffer region would be fit for the resettlement of millions of Syrian refugees residing in Turkey.
But aid agencies warned the offensive could create a new humanitarian crisis, as well as a fresh wave of displaced people and refugees.
An even greater worry was the thousands of Islamic State prisoners and their families held by the Syrian Kurdish forces after the fall of the militant group’s self-declared “caliphate.” A security breakdown at the detention camps could open the way for the fighters and others to slip away.
Already frightened people were on the move in Syria. Cars, trucks and motorcycles — with no empty seats — streamed away from the border. Black smoke rose from some buildings. Random fires broke out.
Some Turkish ground forces moved into Syria after nightfall. A statement from the Turkish military said a “land operation” began in an area east of the Euphrates River, but gave no further details on the scope of the incursion.
President Trump called Turkish offensive was “a bad idea,” but also stood by his decision to pull back U.S. forces to effectively clear the way for Turkey.
“Turkey has committed to protecting civilians, protecting religious minorities, including Christians, and ensuring no humanitarian crisis takes place,” he added. “We will hold them to this commitment.”
The past weeks have seen a buildup of Turkish forces on the border, belligerent speeches by Turkish officials, and dire warnings from Turkey’s NATO allies and others.
In the first hours of the operation, Turkish warplanes and artillery shelled towns along a 250-mile swath, stretching from Ain Issa, about 30 miles from the Euphrates River to Malikiyah, near Syria’s border with Iraq.
Turkish shelling killed at least five civilians, according to the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as the Syrian Kurdish-led militias are known. Mortar fire from Syria landed in at least two Turkish towns, but caused no injuries, Turkish media reported.
The offensive has presented the Trump administration with a dilemma as it has sought to balance Washington’s partnership with Turkey and its links to the Syrian Kurdish forces that helped beat back the Islamic State.
Ankara views the Syrian Kurdish fighters as terrorists because of their links to Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a decade-long battle in southeastern Turkey for greater autonomy. Turkey has launched cross-border attacks on PKK bases in northern Iraq since the 1990s.
A spokesman for Erdogan, Fahrettin Altun, writing in The Washington Post on Wednesday, called for international support for Turkey’s offensive.
“Turkey has no ambition in northeastern Syria except to neutralize a long-standing threat against Turkish citizens and to liberate the local population from the yoke of armed thugs,” Altun wrote.
The coming days would make clear whether Turkey intended to conduct a symbolic push across the frontier, or follow through with plans to move deeper into Syrian territory, analysts said.
As the battle approached, residents of Syria’s border towns braced for the worst.
Mikael Mohammed, a Kurdish father of three who owns a clothing store in Tal Abyad, a quarter-mile from the Turkish frontier, said he had not had any customers for an entire day. U.S. troops based in the town withdrew early Monday after the White House announcement.
“People who are out there in the streets look as if they are going to someone’s funeral … People are scared,” he said.
The town used to feel safe “when we used to see U.S. troops in the streets of Tal Abyad.”
“Yesterday, we saw U.S. troops, but this time they were on their way out of the area, and that terrified people,” he said.
By Wednesday afternoon, worry had turned to dread.
“Turkish warplanes have started to carry out airstrikes on civilian areas. There is a huge panic among people of the region,” Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the SDF, wrote on Twitter. Turkey had conducted airstrikes about 25 miles into Syrian territory, according to another SDF statement.
In the town of Qamishli, the SDF traded fire with Turkish forces across the border, according to a farm owner who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid possible reprisals. Residents hoarded food and lined up at gas stations. People had started leaving the town, headed further away from the Turkish border, he said.
Apart from scattered skirmishes, the SDF did not appear to be mounting a full-fledge counter attack, according to Dareen Khalifa, senior Syria analyst for International Crisis Group.
“My understanding is that they are still hoping that this would be a strictly limited operation that would not spread to any Kurdish towns, and that they would be able to continue to keep U.S. protection,” she said.
“This is a battle the would surely lose,” she added, referring to the SDF. “The flat typography favors conventional warfare.”
Erdogan’s government has watched nervously for years as Syria’s Kurds have built an autonomous enclave along Turkey’s border. It railed against the United States for relying on the Kurds as a military partner and bristled as their enemies accumulated weapons and territory.
For years, the United States and Turkey have been engaged in tortured negotiations aimed at soothing Ankara’s security concerns.
There was also the risk that American troops still positioned in Syria could get caught in the crossfire.
A U.S. official said the Trump administration had provided Turkey with a list of no-strike locations where U.S. personnel were stationed.
The International Rescue Committee warned that two million civilians who lived in the military zone were at risk — “many of whom have already survived ISIS brutality and multiple displacements,” the group said in a statement, using an acronym for the Islamic State.
The offensive threatened to displace as many as 300,000 people, the group said.
Already, there were reports of people fleeing the fighting “with only the clothes on their backs.”
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Develop your skills and abilities in USA without being financially burdened. The Portland State University is pleased to announce its International Student Retention Scholarships for academic session of 2020-21. All the international candidates can apply for this program. The International Student Retention Scholarships supports outstanding students who want to accomplish a undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs. It helps excellent students who exhibit amazing abilities and potential to achieve their career goals.
University of East Anglia Offers International & EU Scholarships Scheme in UK, 2020
Would you like to enhance your knowledge at University of East Anglia? If yes, then you can apply for University of East Anglia’s International & EU Scholarships Scheme. As we all know, education gives us knowledge of the world around us. Without education, one will not explore new ideas. The main purpose of the grant is to support deserving applicants to achieve their career goals. This program is available for all international students for the academic year 2021-2022.
Pennsylvania State University Offers Ardeth & Norman Frisbey International Student Awards in USA, 2020
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Pennsylvania State University is eagerly awaiting applications from outstanding foreign students for its undergraduate Ardeth & Norman Frisbey international student awards in USA. The education award assists highly motivated students who want to commence a undergraduate degree at Pennsylvania State University. The grant is open for the academic year 2021-22.
University of Alberta Offers International Entrance Awards for Foreign Students in Canada, 2021
Students should not miss the golden opportunity to participate in the International Entrance Awards program in Canada. The funding is offered by University of Alberta. The purpose of the program is to support high-achieving student’s to gain education at undergraduate level. The program is available for the academic session of 2021-22.
Deakin University Offers Deakin International Merit Bursary in Australia, 2021
Get financial support to start your academic journey in Australia. The Deakin University is providing the Deakin International Merit Bursary for outstanding international students. The purpose of this study program is to provide financial support candidates who are going to take part in an undergraduate or postgraduate degree programs at the Deakin University.
University of New Haven Offers Charger Award for International Students in USA, 2021
Apply for admission at University of New Haven and get a chance to fund your study with the Charger Award in USA. The program is open for international students commencing in the undergraduate degree program at the university.
Elmhurst University Offers International Graduate Funding Opportunities in USA, 2021
Elmhurst University is happy to announce its international graduate funding opportunities which is based on the merit of students. All the interested candidates can apply for this wonderful opportunity to enhance their knowledge. The purpose of the award helps you to make your path easy for taking part in an masters degree program for the session 2021-2022. The value of scholarships is $5,000.
University of East Anglia Offers British Council Great Scholarships in UK, 2021
Scholarship Description: With the motive of funding student’s education in Poland, University of East Anglia is providing the British Council Great Scholarships program for the academic...
Eastern Oregon University Offers International Student Success Award in USA, 2021
With the goal of fostering student’s education in the USA, Eastern Oregon University is granting an excellent opportunity through its Eastern Oregon University. The funding opportunity is open for international candidates who wish to pursue an undergraduate degree program for the academic year 2020/2021.
St. Thomas University Offers Chancellor’s International Scholarship in Canada, 2021
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Don’t miss the opportunity to take part in the Chancellor’s International Scholarship program for higher studies at the St. Thomas University for the academic session 2021/2022. The funding program encourages talented students who want to undertake a undergraduate degree in any subject offered by the university.
University of New South Wales Offers UNSW Global Academic Awards in Australia, 2020
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Accelerate your career with this UNSW Global Academic Awards offered by the University of New South Wales. The program is open to worldwide students for the academic session 2020-21. The purpose of this undergraduate studentship is to support students who want to start their undergraduate degree plan and It allows outstanding students who have immense talents and ability to accomplish their professional goals.
University of Toronto Offers International Awards for Overseas Students in Canada, 2021
In an effort to reinforce students’ academic and career objectives, the University of Toronto is providing international awards at the Institute of Medical Sciences for the academic session 2021/2022. These awards are awarded to the brightest aspirants from individual countries to study the masters and PhD degree programs at the university.
Queen’s University Belfast Offers Queen’s Loyalty Postgraduate placements for International Students in UK, 2021
Awards help to minimize the cost of education. Therefore, the Queen’s University Belfast is offering the Queen’s Loyalty Postgraduate placements for the academic year 2021-2022. The program is open for students who want to undertake the postgraduate degree program at the university.
Concordia University Offers Concordia Presidential Scholarships for International Students in Canada, 2021
The Concordia University is seeking high-potential applicants to take part in the Concordia Presidential Scholarships in Canada. The motive of the bursary is to support international students who are going to take part in the undergraduate degree program at the university.
Furman University Offers James B. Duke Scholarships for International Students in USA, 2020
Apply for admission at Furman University and get a chance to fund your study with the James B. Duke Scholarships in USA. The program is open for international students commencing in the undergraduate degree program at the university.
University of Brighton Offers Vice-Chancellor’s Postgraduate International Excellence Scholarships in UK, 2020
The University of Brighton is inviting candidates to become a part of the Vice-Chancellor’s postgraduate international excellence scholarships for the academic year 2020-2021. The educational program is open for outstanding students who are enrolling in the post graduate degree course work at University of Brighton.
Singapore Management University Offers SMU Undergraduate Financial Aid for ASEAN Students in Singapore, 2020
Scholarships help strengthen your academic and career goals by removing financial barriers. In order to cover study expenses, Singapore Management University is offering the SMU Undergraduate Financial Aid for Asean Students in the Singapore. The funding program supports new, transfer students and continuing students who want to pursue undergraduate degree coursework for the academic session 2021.
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22 Apr 2020 | Network Updates | Update from Karolinska Institutet
KI study shows diagnostic test for COVID-19 may deliver results within half an hour
By Communication from Karolinska Institutet
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have together with researchers in China developed a new diagnostic test for COVID-19. The test can be performed without advanced laboratory equipment and deliver the result in about half an hour, according to a study published in the journal Clinical Chemistry. The researchers are now working on verifying the test results on confirmed COVID-19 patients at the Karolinska University Hospital.
Currently, so-called PCR-analyses are routinely used to test if a patient has been infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus that has spread like a wildfire across the globe. The PCR-method makes it possible to find very small quantities of a pathogen. However, the analyses require trained personnel and sophisticated laboratory equipment that can alternate between different temperatures, and it takes at least two hours to get a result. Therefore, there is a significant need for rapid and accurate testing methods for COVID-19 that can be carried out onsite also during basic conditions.
Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have, together with researchers at Shenyang University of Chemical Technology and Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, developed an experimental COVID-19 test with promising results.
The researchers have adapted a technique called loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) specifically for the new coronavirus. The technique makes it possible to amplify the virus’ RNA at a constant temperature of 65 degrees Celsius and to see a reaction in only 20 to 40 minutes.
Can be performed under simple conditions
“One big advantage with our test is that it is fast, and you can perform it under basic conditions,” says Vicent Pelechano, researcher at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology and SciLifeLab at Karolinska Institutet and one of the study’s authors. “All you need is a test tube containing the primers, a hotplate, a thermometer and a pot of water. This makes it especially suitable for regions that lack advanced analytical equipment, such as war-torn areas or refugee camps.”
By combining primers optimized specifically for SARS-CoV-2 with a specific gene of the virus, the researchers were able to detect as little as 10 copies of the virus gene, which is in line with detection limits of the PCR-method. The technique can be combined with a pH-indicator, which changes the color of the reaction mix from pink (alkaline) to yellow (acidic) if the sample is positive for SARS-CoV-2.
“The color-indicator makes it extremely easy to see if a sample is positive or negative,” Vicent Pelechano says. “That could be a decisive factor if you lack specialized equipment to check the reaction.”
Most of the study was done using optimized gene sequences of the virus. In addition, a total of 248 samples from confirmed COVID-19 patients in China were tested, of which 89.9 percent came back positive using the LAMP-test. The remaining 10.1 percent were deemed to have such low viral loads that they came back negative.
Verification studies underway
Additional research is currently underway at Karolinska University Hospital to verify that the test works on real patients whose samples have not been purified by extracting a specific gene of the virus.
“We have showed that this technique works under optimal conditions in the lab, and we have seen promising results from the first studies on patients in China,” Vicent Pelechano says. “Now, we need to make sure that the test also works under other conditions, such as on real COVID-19 patients in Sweden.”
The study has been financed by the LiaoNing Provence Key Research Project, Ganzhou COVID-19 Emergency Research Project, the Swedish Research Council, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg’s Foundation, the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, Karolinska Institutet and STINT.
“Rapid detection of COVID-19 coronavirus using a reverse transcriptional loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) diagnostic platform,” Lin Yu, Shanshan Wu, Xiaowen Hao, Xue Dong, Lingling Mao, Vicent Pelechano, Wei-Hua Chen, Xiushan Yin, Clinical Chemistry, online April 21, 2020, doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvaa102
This article was first published 22 April by Karolinska Institutet.
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Tag Archives: Lee Fiero
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
4-Word Review: Shark holds a grudge.
It’s been 9 years since the last shark attack in Amity. Since that time Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) has died from a heart-attack, but the rest of his family continue to live in the area and carry on his legacy. His son Sean (Mitchell Anderson) like his father, works in the police department and one chilly night gets assigned to repair a disabled buoy out in the harbor. It’s there that he’s attacked and killed by a great white shark, making his mother Ellen (Lorraine Gary) believe that the shark is intentionally hunting down the members of her family, she even has nightmares about it. She warns her other son Mike (Lance Guest) to stay out of the water, but since he’s an underwater research scientist this is not possible, which starts to create friction between the two.
Just when the public thought it was safe to go back to the theaters again another formuliac shark movie got propped-up. This one was the brainchild of Universal CEO Sidney Sheinberg, (who was also the husband of the film’s star Lorraine Gary) who wanted to promote the new Jaws ride at Universal Studios theme park. In order to keep the story ‘fresh’ they decided to add-in a mystical element to it, but it’s not thought out enough to make any sense. I would think a shark would view people the same way people view sharks in that they would all look alike. How would a shark know when a Brody family member was in the water? Better yet how would the shark know when the Brodys move from New York all the way down to the Caribbean?
In the early versions of the screenplay, as well as the novel version of the film, the mystical factor gets explained as having been caused by a witch doctor named Papa Jacques who has an ongoing feud with the Brody’s and uses voodoo to compel the shark to kill them, but this idea got nixed in the final draft as it veered too much away from the actual shark. In some ways this was probably a good thing because in the novel there are several chapters done from the shark’s point-of-view where he becomes confused about why he’s killing the Brodys, which would’ve been too ludicrous had that been put into the movie.
The film sorely misses Roy Scheider, who’s only seen in brief flashbacks, and Richard Dreyfuss, who both refused to do the sequel. Had they been the elements of the shark’s revenge and having the nightmares only to decide to go out together on a boat ride to conquer those fears, this might’ve been worth catching.
Lorraie Gary’s presence is not interesting as she had been only a minor supporting player in the first two. She’s not the only one to reprise her role as Lee Fiero, who played Mrs. Kinter the mother of the young boy who gets killed by the shark in the first film, can be seen very briefly. Fritzi Jane Courtney, who played Mrs. Taft in the first two movies, is also on hand reprising the same character, but by this time her hair had turned all white and I didn’t immediately recognize her.
The presence of Michael Caine has to be the biggest head-scratchier. Granted he was notorious for doing what became known as ‘paycheck movies’ where no matter what the quality of the script he’d take the offer if the money was good, but his part here is quite minor and there’s long stretches where he isn’t seen at all. He later admitted that he has never seen the film and is well aware that it’s a flop, but the house it helped build with the money he made is ‘really nice’.
In fact the only performance that I was really impressed with was that of Judith Barsi, who plays the daughter of the Mike character. She’s perky and precocious when it’s required, but also believably frightened when it’s necessary making her untimely death, at the hands of her own father just a year after this film was released, all the more tragic.
The film’s most controversial moment has to do with the ending in which too variations were filmed. One has Gary ramming the shark with her boat and killing it while the other one has the beast exploding. Both versions show the cast jumping into the water as the boat they’re on breaks apart, but no explanation for how they ended up finding their way back to land, which is a big cop-out.
End of Spoiler Alert!
Probably the most amusing thing about this mess is the interview director Joseph Sargent gives on American Archives in which he mockingly laughs at his own film. He goes on to muse about Caine taking the part and shocked that he would think it was a ‘good script’. He then ponders about how ‘grown, intelligent men’ could ever work on a project that is so stupid and admits that it was the money and power, as he acted as the film’s producer, that lead him to make the fatal mistake of doing it, which he knew was a really bad idea from the very beginning.
Released: July 17, 1987
Director: Joseph Sargent
Studio: Universal
Available: DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Video, YouTube
Posted in 80's Movies, Cold Climate/Wintertime Movies, Drama on the High Seas, Sequels, Thrillers/Suspense
Tagged Entertainment, Fritzi Jane Courtney, Joseph Sargent, Judith Barsi, Lee Fiero, Lorraine Gary, Michael Caine, Movies, Review, Sidney Sheinberg
Road House (1989)
The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972)
Girl with a Suitcase (1961)
The Bell Jar (1979)
The Subject Was Roses (1968)
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Home Sculptor Business Required Reading
While utopia often denotes otherworldly fantasy, unrestricted escapism, or sublime positivity, the late theorist José Esteban Muñoz, in his 2009 book, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, offered the idea of a queer utopia, one constructed with verisimilitude and operating against a history of lack and discrimination. Queerness belongs to the future, Muñoz claims in his study of performance, writing, and contemporary art, noting that it “allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present.” Utopia is the search for safe space in counternarratives where queer acts, longings, and urges fulfill personal and communal yearning—and where desire flourishes beyond the confines of mainstream white, gay culture. Such acts offer care and delight, a way out of the margins. As Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong’o, and Ann Pellegrini write in their foreword to the 2019 edition of Cruising Utopia, “For utopia, though it bears many positive qualities, also bears negation, as originating from the Greek for ‘no place’ or ‘not place.’” They add, “Queer utopia is the impossible performance of the negation of the negation.”
Seema Rao writes about this horrible year from the perspective of a museum worker with 20 years of experience. It’s a sensitive and personal piece we can all learn from:
My smoldering lack of creativity and productivity went into full flame of emotional trash fire when I let some criticism get to me. Listen, it’s not that I haven’t been criticized. (And, I’d assert criticism and critique are wholly different.) In the year since I took on the awesome task of writing this blog, I’ve often been told I’m not measuring up to Nina. And, hey, she is taller. Mostly, I took that as it was — the truth. We’re different. And, that’s okay. But this year, criticism hurt in ways I hadn’t imagined.
It’s not surprising. Everything felt amplified, personalized. You might also feel that way. It’s because in the world before the epidemic, you had work and your personal life. You might have been the person who said yes to hobbies and a social life also. Your full life was a combination of personal conditions and personal choices. This year, that fairly full life got a surprise addition–doom. I’m going to mix metaphors, as I so often do. We were like servers, balancing a tray of expensive champagne. We were doing well enough. Then the owner, a person we rarely thought of, decided to add a dozen glass Christmas ornaments, unwieldy and unpredictable, on our tray. Hard, eh? That’s a bit like the way we’ve had to take on the extra mental load of the pandemic. But, then this owner decided, it really is better for everyone if you did this serving thing on skates. (I mean, IG is full of hot chicks on skates.) That is the level up we’ve all had to do with the cultural and economic changes that resulted from the pandemic. Basically, we’re loaded up, then the load gets harder to keep in the air, and then the method of keeping it up hits a snag. We’re doing more, with less, and under harder circumstances.
If search began by systematically reducing texts to answers, then Google is now further reducing those answers to a single definitive one. But it cannot do this with its own products alone. As SEO expert Pete Meyers points out, the human-curated Knowledge Graph “can never keep up with the nearly infinite questions that we can ask.” That is why, he conjectures, Google launched “featured snippets” in 2014. Featured snippets appear in a box, usually at the top of the page, that makes them look just as authoritative as their more vetted cousins. This gives the impression that Google, rather than pulling the answer out of its ether, has found you an expert. This text is sourced, however, from wherever Google’s algorithms find it.
The first featured snippet I encountered in the course of writing this essay was an answer to the query “how large is the search engine optimization industry.” A large, bold “$80 billion,” with a few lines in lighter and smaller font underneath, appeared in a box at the top of my screen. Under most circumstances, I would have been satisfied. Many people would be: In June 2019, for the first time, third-party data showed that a majority of Google searches conducted in web browsers did not result in any clicks. Mine did. I found that the snippet came from a consulting agency’s blog post, which contained this sentence: “SEO statistics by Forbes cite Borrell Associates to emphasize that by 2020, businesses in the U.S. will be spending as much as $80 billion on SEO services.” This heavily hedged statement seems factual, if you don’t really read it.
How many times have I taken for granted a “fact” that may not be one at all, or mistaken my knowledge of a fact for understanding?
I had no idea the classic steam-heated radiator, which is found in most old New York apartments and many places in the US and elsewhere, were popularized during the 1918 pandemic to allow people to keep their windows open. You learn something new every day:
The Spanish Influenza, which caused just over 20,000 deaths in New York City alone, “changed heating once and for all.” That’s according to Dan Holohan, a retired writer, consultant, and researcher with extensive knowledge of heating systems and steam heating. (Among his many tomes on the topic: The Lost Art of Steam Heating, from 1992.) Most radiator systems appeared in major American cities like New York City in the first third of the 20th century. This golden age of steam heat didn’t merely coincide with that pandemic: Beliefs about how to fight airborne illness influenced the design of heating systems, and created a persistent pain point for those who’ve cohabitated with a cranky old radiator.
The 2020 installation inverts that logic. Instead of installing “Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner) in a unique location and letting its constituent elements filter into local communities, Rosen multiplied the piece and filtered those facsimiles into a network, not of art viewers, but of art professionals. Here, the privileged and well-connected (among them artist Jack Pierson, collector Rosa de la Cruz, and museum director Franklin Sirmans) were invited to stage a questionable version of the original artwork, and to also perform their own experiences with it in front of global audiences via social media. Some people ate their cookies. Some tried sharing them with neighbors. Light Industry cofounder and curator Ed Halter’s family dog, Snoopy, ate some of his. Collector Tiffany Zabludowicz strewed hers on a cliff’s edge. But most viewers, industry outsiders, experienced the piece at a remove, by virtue of its ultimate platform: Instagram. In this way, with the experience explicitly offset for its intended audience by social media, the work was dishonored.
Pornhub, which attracts more visitors than Netflix, Yahoo, or Amazon, is under fire for its scary laissez-faire attitude towards underage sex and rape, which has led to many awful situations for those forced to endure revenge porn and other forces of online violence. Now Nicholas Kristof is calling them out. This story gutted me:
At 14, Serena K. Fleites was an A student in Bakersfield, Calif., who had never made out with a boy. But in the eighth grade she developed a crush on a boy a year older, and he asked her to take a naked video of herself. She sent it to him, and this changed her life. He asked for another, then another; she was nervous but flattered. “That’s when I started getting strange looks in school,” she remembered. He had shared the videos with other boys, and someone posted them on Pornhub. Fleites’s world imploded. It’s tough enough to be 14 without having your classmates entertain themselves by looking at you naked, and then mocking you as a slut. “People were texting me, if I didn’t send them a video, they were going to send them to my mom,” she said.
This year put the consequences of Ivy Plus-led publications in stark relief. Needless deaths of hardware store cashiers and bus drivers were framed in stories as the sacrifice of “heroes” rather than an outrage and injustice. Or workers were written out of news stories entirely. Early on, when there were shelter-in-place orders and people wiped down every item they bought from the grocery store, the media’s advice for surviving the pandemic tended to be tailored to the work-from-home upper-middle class — order books off the internet! get your groceries from Instacart! — ignoring the people who work at every point in the supply chain. These workers are trying to survive too! There’s been some excellent labor reporting this year, but there’s also been abysmal work — coverage of workers written gingerly with sanctimony and a pandering tone. This is what happens when media professionals live sheltered lives and have limited contact with those who haven’t attended elite schools.
“Judges ruled decisively that Trump’s side has not proved the election was fraudulent,” The Washington Post reported, “with some offering painstaking analyses of why such claims lack merit and pointed opinions about the risks the legal claims pose to American democracy.”
Yet the rubbish claims of fraud continue. Trumpism demands the profession of beliefs that are neither strictly literal nor exactly figurative, but instead statements of ideological values that don’t fit neatly in either category. These statements are not amenable to journalistic fact-checking, because they are not factual claims; they are assertions of identity and political legitimacy that are incontestable on their own terms. To announce loudly that you accept the proclamations of the Church of Trump, no matter how false, contradictory, or exaggerated, is to identify yourself as a member of that faith community; to deny them is to risk excommunication. As long as devotion to the Trumpian creed remains a central tenet of membership in the Republican Party, precious few elected officials will risk the brand of the heretic.
The Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, Kim Ward, told The New York Times that if she had not signed a letter urging the state’s congressional delegation to toss out Pennsylvania’s electoral votes, “I’d get my house bombed tonight.” Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state for Georgia, and his wife have both faced violent threats since the state certified Biden’s victory and Raffensperger reiterated that there was no evidence of fraud. Among the Trump faithful, acknowledging the actual outcome of the presidential election is apostasy.
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Hypercompetition, Preferential Hiring, and other Hurdles in Academia
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On Wednesday February 12, 2020 DORA hosted a community interview with Chris Pickett, the Director of Rescuing Biomedical Research (RBR), a non-profit initiative dedicated to addressing systematic flaws in the United States (US) biomedical research system. In the interview, Pickett discussed hypercompetition, training grants, and why faculty search committees should look beyond funding records when selecting candidates for a job.
The Problem with Hypercompetition
Many of the systematic flaws embedded in today’s biomedical research system stem from hypercompetition. Competition, Pickett points out, was incorporated into the modern research system as a way to elicit the best science and to promote the best scientists. As scientists compete for grant money, jobs, and publishing opportunities, the system can—in principle—select and promote the best research and researchers.
Over the last 15 years, however, a culture of hypercompetition has developed due to several simultaneous and opposing trends. The number of people earning a PhD in the natural sciences each year increased by 66% worldwide (by 44% in the US) from 2005 to 2017; meanwhile, the availability of research funding has failed to keep up with demand. For example, from 2002 to 2014, success rates for research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), both major US funders, dropped 39% and 24% respectively. In addition, the majority of postdocs still would like a tenure-track faculty position, even though the number of these positions is declining.
These trends have led to a climate of hypercompetition, harming both the progress of research and the scientists conducting it, Pickett emphasizes. Instead of improving the system, hypercompetition creates additional burdens. For example, hypercompetition for grants forces researchers to dedicate large amounts of time and effort to securing funding, restricting the time available for conducting research. This ultimately undermines the progress of biomedical research and the clinical innovations that research enables.
Preferential Hiring
In addition, hypercompetition influences the diversity of the biomedical workforce as it creates an environment that permits biased decision-making. When hiring committees are overwhelmed by high numbers of applicants, they have less time to conduct a careful evaluation of each candidate. Cognitive biases can influence decision-making; these include halo effects (assuming that one accolade is indicative of others), availability heuristics (giving more weight to information that is easily recalled —such as an applicant having earned a specific grant), and ingroup favoritism (preferring people similar to ourselves).
The Success Triangle
One can look at the three elements needed for career success in science—employment, funding and publications—as three corners of a triangle, according to Pickett. Once a researcher has achieved success in one corner, success in another corner often follows as a result. For example, grant money enables scientists to undertake new research projects, and projects lead to publications. From the flipside, it’s hard to conduct research and produce publications without grant funding. Employers and funders require publications as an indication of scientific talent, however, and without enough of them to evidence one’s talent and potential, it’s very difficult to make progress in one’s career.
Unfair advantage?
Pickett discovered that it’s becoming increasingly important for researchers to secure funding before getting faculty positions. Specifically, the ‘K99’ grant from the NIH is viewed by many US-based postdocs as being a critical step for attaining faculty positions. Holding a ‘K99’ grant affords a researcher the advantage of being able to self-fund their transition from a postdoc position to an independent role as a principle investigator, wherein the grant converts to a ‘R00’. Essentially, the researcher is then able to self-fund their work as they establish their lab—an advantage to the hosting institution. While this allows for career stability and mobility, it also creates a divide in the financial attractiveness of applicants. Those without a grant then have a less compelling profile to a potential employer. The long-term implications of such a dynamic can be explained in part by the ‘Matthew Effect’ wherein researchers who have once received recognition for excellent work continue to receive increasing numbers of accolades than accomplished peers. There are other problems with using training awards as a proxy measure of researcher quality, because it gives room for unintended biases like halo effects and availability heuristics.
To understand how the influence of training awards on career progression may have changed over time, Pickett looked to the NIH Grant Reporter, a large public database. Specifically, he wanted to understand the how receiving an early-career training award from NIH might impact a researcher’s chance of receiving funding at the point of establishing independence. He examined data between 2000 and 2017 on the allocation trends of grants at the training and newly independent investigator stages, and found an increasing association between the receipt of a training award and later receipt of an early-independence award. Simultaneously, when looking at funding allocation to independent investigators, he observed a greater decline in the success among applicants who had never received an NIH training award in the past as compared to those who had.
The Problem with Preferring Grantees
One possible explanation for the observed trends in hiring of K99/00 grantees, according to Pickett, is that some universities may preferentially hire researchers who have a grant in hand. This could be problematic if a hiring decision would be made partly on the basis of a grant allocation. Because doing so leaves out the importance of other skills, including teaching, mentorship, and service. According to Pickett, when hiring, we have the chance to choose our future colleagues, and therein bring valuable talents to a department. But to do that, we need to understand all aspects of applicant’s portfolios, including their soft skills.
Good practices are the way forward
As we often say at DORA, it comes down to the need for a holistic assessment process when making hiring decisions. We know there’s no silver bullet to cure the ills of the biomedical research system, nor those of the wider research system at that. But to start chipping away at these systematic issues, the best tools we have at hand are examples of changes organizations around the world have taken. We’ve documented many such examples in our collection of good practices. While these new practices may not be one-size-fits-all solutions, they can shine light on different approaches that the research community can take in improving research assessment.
While top-down approaches can be useful, Pickett points out, the problem is that hiring decisions occur at the department level, not at the institutional level. Institutional rules are necessarily ‘one size fits all,’ but the approaches in how these rules will be implemented must vary based on the needs of each department. Pickett emphasizes that “at the level of departments, that is where the work is going to be done.” He encourages people at all levels to raise their voices and change their departments from within. For example, by asking senior department members how decisions are made, post-docs can raise awareness of intrinsic biases and influence the attitudes of others. But, the onus for changing the status quo shouldn’t only be on younger people—anyone with an open eye to what’s going on should ask questions, raise discussions, and encourage others to see things through a different lens.
Helen Sitar is a Science Policy Programme Officer at EMBO and DORA’s Community Coordinator
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Imam Shaker Elsayed
Statement Regarding the May 19 lecture.
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.
Dear Community of Dar Al-Hijrah,
I write to you in the hope of clarifying the statements I made on May 19, 2017 during a weeknight class for women at Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center. During the session, I made comments which were captured on video and subsequently edited heavily by MEMRI, an Islamophobic group, after which they were broadcast via their distribution channels. While Dar Al-Hijrah published brief statements by the board and myself in the immediate aftermath of the MEMRI dissemination, I have yet to be able to directly address the issue with the clarity and detail that it deserves.
First and foremost, I would like to reiterate my unequivocal position – which has never changed – that female genital mutilation (FGM), including clitoridectomy, excision, infibulation, and all other forms of harmful procedures involving the clitoris, is Islamically forbidden. FGM in all its forms is categorically un-Islamic because it is extremely harmful, dangerous, and has a very serious, detrimental, and life-long impact on its victims. As such, it has no basis in Islamic jurisprudence. My statements were never intended to endorse or condone the practice of FGM.
Second, in my attempt to describe the Islamically approved procedure, which, according to my research, is called Hoodectomy, I mistakenly and wrongly described circumcision of the “tip” (of the clitoris) when I intended to refer to the Prepuce (the excess skin on the covering of the clitoris), a limited procedure which is medically referred to as “hoodectomy.” This procedure only involves the removal of the uppermost excess skin covering the clitoral node. Medical practitioners describe the removal of this skin, also known as the clitoral prepuce, as analogous to the removal of the prepuce (foreskin) of the penile glans during male circumcision. This procedure is medically referred to as a clitoral hoodectomy, female circumcision, or clitoridotomy (as distinct from a clitoridectomy, which removes the clitoris itself and is Islamically prohibited).
Mainstream Islamic jurisprudence has long acknowledged this limited procedure as part of the Islamic tradition, according to the four Sunni schools of Islamic law, although they disagree as to whether it is merely recommended or obligatory. To be clear, this is a very limited procedure, and it is this procedure to which I was referring in my lecture. I fully acknowledge that I should have been much more careful about my articulation and description of this procedure. For those who deny the Islamic basis of this procedure (hoodectomy) on the basis that there is no reference to it in the Qu’ran, I never stated that the Qu’ran addresses this topic. But this procedure is supported by authentic hadiths and the views of the major Islamic schools of thought. I should also emphasize that I never recommended, suggested, or endorsed the idea that parents should perform or seek this procedure. Federal law prohibits female circumcision of minors, and I never suggested that anyone should violate that clear prohibition. In fact, my direction to the audience to consult with a Muslim gynecologist was meant to guide the audience to the fact that it is illegal to perform this procedure on children in the United States. My lecture was focused only on Islamic jurisprudence and nothing else.
Third, in the course of my statements on May 19, I made a remark about the impact of not performing this limited form of circumcision (clitoral hood reduction) causing “hyper-sexuality.” I have since withdrawn that statement and apologized for that comment publicly in a written statement, and contrary to allegations subsequently made, I have never recanted, nor do I intend to recant my sincere apology.
Fourth, as an imam of a mosque and a spiritual leader, I have an obligation to my congregation to freely address every aspect of Islam, no matter how controversial. My views on the very limited form of female circumcision (hoodectomy) are fully consistent with all the major schools of Islamic thought and are supported by multiple authentic hadith narrations. This procedure is performed in the U.S. as a cosmetic surgery, albeit for adult women only. As a religious leader, I have the right – and the obligation – to explain Islamic jurisprudence truthfully and accurately to my congregants, whether or not it comports with the views of others. Others are free to disagree with my views and correct me if I err. I have a right to speak freely on religious matters, and occasionally to make mistakes. To censor every controversial view expressed by a religious leader, whether by threats or otherwise, is dangerous, un-Islamic, un-American, and antithetical to the principles of religious integrity, religious freedom, and freedom of expression.
Finally, I wish to convey my disappointment over the degree of vitriol and hate that have been expressed and which have risen to the point of personal attacks and even death threats. Some have unfortunately used this as an opportunity to launch a campaign of character assassination. Others have capitalized on it to further attack Islam. Many of those who have rushed to issue public condemnations and demands for my termination did not even offer the courtesy of a phone call to express their concerns privately or to seek clarification. I understand and appreciate that this topic is very sensitive and emotionally charged. I also understand why someone who believes that I endorse the harmful practice of FGM would be deeply offended and hurt. But nothing justifies the sheer vindictiveness and animus that have tainted an otherwise teachable, even if difficult, moment for all involved. I hope and pray that cooler heads will prevail and that we can negotiate our differences without resorting to personal attacks, character assassination, and threats.
I have been a proud member of the Dar Al-Hijrah community for over two decades and its imam for over twelve years. During that time, I have regularly preached the importance of community outreach, civic engagement, women’s rights in Islam, and how to raise peaceful and happy families. I am honored by the trust that this community places in me, and I take that responsibility very seriously. I have no doubt that our community can and, God willing, will come out of this trying and difficult time stronger and more united. The bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood between us must outlast any disagreement we may have. I pray that our community remains united in its pursuit of all that is good, both for the Muslim community and for the larger community that Dar Al-Hijrah proudly and tirelessly serves.
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Manual scavengers lose life in Bengaluru manhole
Seetha Gopalakrishnan
Monday, March 13, 2017 - 14:50
Three manual scavengers die of asphyxiation trying to decongest manhole
In an incident of blatant violation of rules and misconduct on the part of contractors, three persons lost their lives trying to decongest a manhole in Bengaluru’s CV Raman Nagar. The men had entered the manhole without face masks or any kind of protective gear and died of asphyxiation as toxic fumes engulfed the chamber. A case has been registered under section 304 of the IPC, pinning the deaths on Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board for negligence resulting in culpable homicide. Employing manual scavengers has been prohibited by the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013. At least 60 scavengers have lost their lives in similar incidents since 2008 in Karnataka.
Only three out of Karnataka's 28 major cities declared ODF so far
But for the efforts of city corporations in Mysuru, Mangaluru and Udupi, the performance of urban centres in Karnataka has been rather poor at ensuring open defecation free (ODF) environments. Only three out of 28 major cities have been declared ODF in the state so far with Bengaluru continuing to struggle with the menace of open defecation. Close to 500 towns and cities have been declared open defecation free across India. While neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have ensured that 110 and 40 urban areas are ODF respectively, the state of Kerala is slowly working towards making all parts of the state open defecation free soon.
NGO Swarga Foundation to make toilets in Coimbatore railway station more disabled-friendly
Coimbatore-based NGO Swarga Foundation has joined hands with the Southern Railways to make toilets in railway platforms in the city more disabled-friendly. The foundation had assessed the situation and has proposed the renovation of toilets across three platforms at the Coimbatore Junction Railway station. Some of the existing accessible disabled-friendly toilets were found to be in bad condition with rusted support handle bars and slippery floors while a few remained locked. Renovation works are expected to commence in two months’ time after obtaining written approval from the rail authorities.
Collector vows to construct 10,000 toilets within 100 hours in Vizianagaram district
In a novel attempt to put an end to open defecation, the district collector of Vizianagaram has vowed to construct 10,000 toilets within 100 hours with active public involvement. No other district has embarked on such an initiative so far. Many villages across the state have already secured the open defecation free (ODF) tag and the administration is keen on ensuring that all 71 panchayats are declared ODF after the marathon construction drive. The district and block level officials had earlier directed masons to not engage in any other work from March 10 -14 to ensure the programme’s success.
Tirunelveli municipality achieves 100 percent source segregation of solid waste
The city of Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu has become the first in the country to achieve 100 percent segregation of garbage at source. With a population of 4.8 lakh, the city embarked on the mission just a year ago, soon after the revision of the Solid Waste Management Rules in 2016. An intensive campaign involving the mainstream and social media helped create awareness about the needs and benefits of segregating waste at the source before disposal. Two dustbins were distributed to all 1.6 lakh households in the city along with a personal note from the municipal commissioner urging residents to segregate waste. While biodegradable waste is collected every day from all households across the city, non-biodegradables are collected once a week.
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The celebration of Heritage Month each September creates a conducive environment for all South Africans to embrace and celebrate what has been inherited or bequeathed to us. One such inheritance is the gifting of property to family or a charity.
Leaving a legacy is gifting an asset, and its related future wealth, to someone of your choice; and property is oftentimes the asset being bestowed. It is important to remember that bequeathing a fixed property in a will can be a lengthy and complicated process and legal advice should be sought in this regard. However, being the beneficiary of fixed property brings with it several pros and cons to consider.
When inheriting a property there are financial considerations to take into account. There might be outstanding debts on the property and beneficiaries need to consider the estate taxes and other financial implications associated with the inheritance. Once the property is officially transferred to the beneficiary, other expenses related to maintenance, possible renovations and monthly rates and taxes need to be taken into account.
However, on the positive side, being bequeathed a property is a huge boost to an individual or family’s private wealth. In terms of wealth creation, it is an opportunity to establish a financial future that has long-term benefits and offers a degree of security and financial protection.
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Property in South Africa has a long history of appreciating in value, so keeping the asset for the medium to long-term will act as a wealth creator. In addition, renting out the inherited house or apartment will provide more passive income and the increase in the value of the property adds monetary value to grow the owner’s asset portfolio. Additional tax deductions can also be applied if the property is used for the generation of income.
The intricacies of bequeathing or inheriting fixed property are complicated and there are many factors to take into account. I would always suggest discussing the matter of bequeathing a property with the potential beneficiary prior to them finding out about it at the will reading so that the various expenses and legalities can be carefully considered.
Nonetheless, inheriting a legacy property is an opportunity for wealth creation and a way in which to solidify wealth across generations, whilst retaining and celebrating history, culture and family ties.
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Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai
A long time ago, there was a valiant swordsman who came to be known simply as "the hero." There was a demon who has caused people suffering. The hero and his companions arrived to challenge the demon to a battle and by combining their powers, the battle was brought swift conclusion. With no one around to cause trouble, the island became a quiet place where everyone could live together in peace. Several years later, the demon is revived. Our present-day protagonist, Dai, lives on a remote island in the southern seas and dreams of becoming a great hero. When he hears about the demon's revival, Dai and his friends take it upon themselves to stop him and the evil force that revived him. Along the way, Dai discovers the identity of "the hero," the truth behind the evil force who revived the demon, and Dai's own hidden powers that surface in times of peril.
Genre: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Stars: Atsumi Tanezaki, Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Mikako Komatsu, Saori Hayami, Takahiro Sakurai, Yūki Kaji
Crew: Ayaka Fujii, Ayako Mori, Emiko Miyamoto, Katsuhiko Chiba, Kazuya Karasawa, Yuki Hayashi
Studio: TV Tokyo, Crunchyroll
First air date: Oct 02, 2020
Last air date: Jan 16, 2021
Keywords:monster, magic, remake, dragon, based on manga, fantasy world, shounen, anime, warriors
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Top 11 books on leadership worthy of your attention in 2018
By Alexia Walker
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Because of the today's unstable political situation, it will not be superfluous to deepen our knowledge in the field of leadership, career and career guidance.
To this end, thanks to the advice of business thinkers, 11 books worthy of your attention in 2018 were selected.
1. "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" By Dan Pink
The book discusses the success of people in a career and the impact of a temporary factor on the success of a person in many aspects of life. The author claims that the outcome of a particular situation depends on the time of the day. Therefore, it is very important to be able to organize time properly.
2. "Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility" - Patty McCord
The presentation, titled "Netflix Culture: Freedom and Responsibility," developed by Patty McCord, director of talent development at Netflix, gained popularity a few years ago. The slides reflect the concept of the internal culture of Netflix, the policy regarding vacations, hiring and firing of personnel.
3. "Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More" - Morten Hansen
Morten Hansen's book, co-authored by a well-known business consultant, Jim Collins, is the result of five years of work, during which they observed the work of 5,000 workers. As a result of the research, they found 7 basic practices that make it possible to succeed.
4. "The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups" - Daniel Coyle
Daniel Coyle, the author of many bestsellers, exemplifies various successful organizations such as the United States Navy SEAL, the San Antonio Spurs basketball team, in his book lift the veil of an important component of success as a "cultural code" and answers the question of how to create optimal conditions for work cohesive team.
5. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Do not Have All the Facts "- Annie Duke
Annie Duke is a professional poker player, winner of the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions,author of several booksabout poker, a scholarship student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology, and now she is a business consultant. Not surprisingly, it was she who wrote the book, how to make decisions correctly.
6. Radical Inclusion: What the post-9/11 World Should Have Taught us About Leadership "- Martin Dempsey and Ori Brafman
Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States and Ory Brafman, business consultant, author of the bestseller "The Starfish and the Spider. The unstoppable Power of leaderless organizations", -friends for 10 years. And this friendship has borne fruit, together, they wrote a book about leadership. The authors argue that leaders should be more inclusive, give up control and involve as many people as possible for decision-making.
7. "Dying for a Paycheck" - Jeffrey Pfeffer
The title of the С book quotes for itself. Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, in his book raises the question of how, and to what health problems lead long hours at work.
8. "Dear Madam President: An open letter to the women who will run the world" - Jennifer Palmieri
This book will be useful to future women leaders. First, the author gives an advice on how a woman president can adapt to a society that is not ready for a women's presidency. And secondly, the book provides insider information about the campaign of Hilary Clinton.
Jennifer Palmieri was one of the main employees of the Clinton campaign in 2016.
9. "On Grand Strategy" - John Lewis Gaddis
American historian, a specialist in the Cold War, a personal professor at Yale University, John Lewis Gaddis, is the author of one of the bestsellers of this year. The author has devoted many chapters of Western history from ancient times to the times of the Second World War in order to assess the extent to which different personalities.
10. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership "- James Comey
James Comey, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who was fired by US President Donald Trump, released a scandalous book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, was published on April 17, 2018, which reveals "an unprecedented entrance to the corridors of power."
11. "A Good Time to Be a Girl" - Helena Morrissey
Helena Morrissey, CEO of Newton Investment, the founder of the successful 30% club campaign, mom of nine kids, in her book touches on the topic of the female career, gender inequality and, based on her considerable experience, gives advice on how to remain a woman in the men's business world . Very inspiring.
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AC/DC Deny Retirement Rumors Despite Malcolm Young’s Illness
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Rumors circulating earlier this week that AC/DC were about to retire have proved to be false. Although guitarist Malcolm Young is stepping away from the band, singer Brian Johnson ays the remaining members will get together this May to work on new material.
To put an end to the rumors of AC/DC’s demise, the band release a statement saying, “After forty years of life dedicated to AC/DC, guitarist and founding member Malcolm Young is taking a break from the band due to ill health. Malcolm would like to thank the group’s diehard legions of fans worldwide for their never-ending love and support. In light of this news, AC/DC asks that Malcolm and his family’s privacy be respected during this time. The band will continue to make music.”
“We are definitely getting together in May in Vancouver,” Johnson told the Telegraph. “We’re going to pick up some guitars, have a plonk, and see if anybody has got any tunes or ideas. If anything happens, we’ll record it.”
“I wouldn’t like to say anything either way about the future,” Johnson continued. “I’m not ruling anything out. One of the boys has a debilitating illness, but I don’t want to say too much about it. He is very proud and private, a wonderful chap. We’ve been pals for 35 years and I look up to him very much.”
It has been reported that AC/DC are planning a tour to mark their 40th anniversary, which would involve 40 concerts in 40 different venues. “That would be a wonderful way to say bye bye,” said Johnson. “We would love to do it. But it’s all up in the air at the moment. AC/DC is such a tight family. We’ve stuck to our guns through the ’80s and ’90s when people were saying we should change our clothes and our style. But we didn’t and people got it that we are the real deal.”
According to The Orstrahyun, more than a month ago Malcolm Young suffered a stroke which left a blood clot on his brain. When AC/DC reunited at the start of April to begin a month of rehearsals, in the lead-up to new album recording sessions, Malcolm discovered he couldn’t play. At least, he couldn’t play like he used to play.
Malcolm previously left the band for a short peroid in 1988 to deal with alcholism. He was replaced on select dates of the ‘Blow Up Your Video’ tour by nephew Stevie Young of the Starfighters.
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The Dictatorship of No Alternative
Mark Andreson
Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland has become increasingly recognized as a leader in the field of social innovation for its pioneering work in embedding international social innovation networks in universities. The Southeast Asian Social Innovation Network (SEASIN) (http://www.seasin-eu.org/) has been established between eight higher education institutions (HEIs) in Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Cambodia along with four non-HEI social innovation organizations and three European universities. The approach argues that universities should support social innovation in a systematic way beyond ad hoc initiatives and sporadic activism. All these projects seek to demonstrate the potential of universities to use their knowledge by developing new paradigms and tools for targeted exchange between actors from all societal sectors. At the same time, they have demonstrated how universities can learn from other organizations with more experience in supporting social innovation.
A primary challenge for higher education is to prepare our students for a world that is very different from our own. Throughout history there have been seismic societal shifts that force the new generation to recalibrate accepted truths and structures. The difference is that today, the changes that await young people are both global and existential -- for the first time since civilizations established themselves across the planet there is a real and imminent threat to the continued survival of humanity itself. In part because of this, a fundamental skill for the new generation is that it must be proactive rather than reactive. We are conditioned to resolving problems as they manifest themselves and become tangible but in order to prepare for the world of tomorrow, we need to pre-empt problems that are intangible with solutions whose impact may not be immediately apparent.
One of the key aspects of the younger generation is their greater awareness of the world around them. Because technology has armed them with the means to access information from anywhere at any time, they have a more empathetic understanding of challenges even though they may not be facing these challenges themselves, while also feeling more acutely the need to make change happen. In this context, it is increasingly essential that universities not only offer environments in which new knowledge is created but also help to instill an ability in students to harness that knowledge in order to effect real change in our societies. With the recent crises in democracy, the seemingly inexorable increase in inequalities, and the rise of populism, the need to understand the processes involved in transforming society at a systemic level is more urgent than ever. This transformative movement, usually referred to as social innovation, though often misunderstood and misrepresented, is in a sense the only viable response to what Roberto Ungar described as a “dictatorship of no alternative.” It is precisely the failure of economies, bureaucracies, and ideologies to offer a viable solution to our myriad problems that has led to the emergence of a movement that is defined by its search for alternative solutions.
If universities are to serve their societies and their students as they should, it is essential that they create environments which encourage and nurture this drive for change, supporting social innovation just as it supports technological and scientific innovation.
Meeting Social Innovation Needs
Back in 2010, the study on social innovation prepared by SIX and the Young Foundation for the Bureau of European Policy Advisors underlined the problem, “Civil society and the grant economy have long been rich sources of social innovation, but they are not well-placed to develop rigorous methods for innovation, lack R&D capacity, and find it hard to spread risk.” The report categorized four key barriers to social innovation: Access to finance; Scaling models; Skills and formation; and Networks and intermediaries. Clearly, universities represent ideal partners to help break down or at least mitigate against many of these barriers.
As the global mapping of the SI-DRIVE project (https://www.si-drive.eu/) has shown, knowledge gaps represent one of the biggest barriers for successful development of social innovations, especially leading to a limited transfer and diffusion. Often, social innovators are lacking capabilities and skills (especially, business and managerial skills, staff training and personnel development skills, and networking and communication skills) as well as professional knowledge (e.g., information technology and recruiting staff). In addition, they have difficulties accessing required information and therefore external expert knowledge is needed in some areas.
Against this background, social innovators who participated in the survey expressed the need for building up skills and capabilities (upskilling and training, workshops, learning etc.) as well as providing managerial training (e.g., administration procedures, business plan design etc.). They also stressed the need for more and better knowledge exchange, connections with other organizations, collaborative learning opportunities, bought-in knowledge, and external expertise for specific purposes. Universities can provide appropriate R&D for robust, empirical evaluations of the effectiveness of social innovation, offering an understanding of what can accelerate and scale-up, beyond the anecdotal.
Currently, while social innovation is becoming increasingly recognized and rewarded as a relevant discipline within social sciences (just as other forms of innovation research became more prevalent in the 80’s and 90’s), it remains siloed within that narrow discipline. Social innovation needs to be supported across thematic areas, in health, engineering, sciences, and humanities; the whole portfolio of knowledge produced by universities needs to be put at the disposal of social innovators for them to grow and flourish to their true potential.
Another area that is already demonstrating its effectiveness in providing instruments to help effect change is design, and, in particular, the emergence of techniques of ideation, design thinking, and service design as a way of approaching so-called “wicked problems” -- apparently unsolvable and intrinsic to the “dictatorship of no alternatives.”
As policymakers become more convinced of the effectiveness of social innovation, universities will be given more opportunities to establish effective support in other areas. Just as technical expertise in specialized areas can support commercial businesses and give them the means to help grow and expand, the same technical expertise can be offered to social innovators. But in addition to this, universities are providers of a range of logistical support to their community that can provide real added value to social innovation: through the exploitation of their tacit and codified knowledge; through capacity building, mentoring and training; the use of specialized equipment; the provision of real and virtual spaces for networking, hot-desking or more formal incubation facilities; selection and evaluation expertise; and lobbying.
While social innovation has existed as an ill-defined, undervalued phenomenon for decades, universities have likewise always supported civil society through a variety of activities without necessarily being able to categorize them under a unified terminology. However, there are two interrelated, fundamental characteristics of university support for social innovation that need to change: i) social innovation support activities tend to be ad hoc and largely altruistic, universities have not recognized or systemized a process to measure the social return on investment; ii) as a result, while commercial innovation is recognized and institutionally supported by well-established knowledge exchange offices, there is no professional support function or physical space within universities for supporting social innovation. This function needs to understand the dynamics of the process and the challenges that social innovators and communities face in order to drive social change. And social innovators need to recognize the potential of universities as partners and facilitators for social innovation.
University Social Innovation Networks
Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland has become increasingly recognized as a leader in this field for its pioneering work in embedding international social innovation networks in universities. Its’ core mission is to be internationally recognized as a “socially innovative university” reflecting its institutional motto “For the Common Good.” The focus of the University’s Strategy 2020 is upon transforming lives, enriching cities and communities, and creating societal benefit by engaging globally. Its approach involves working closely with civic society, not only within Scotland but also beyond, engaging with partners across the world to support and develop local solutions to the challenges they are facing, and utilizing its capacity as a university to bring specialized knowledge and attract investment.
A particular strength of the University is its experience in international projects, particularly under the Erasmus+ CBHE Programme, as the leading UK beneficiary with 20 projects (eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/). At the core of this international activity, the University has established regional networks for building support for social enterprise and innovation. Intrinsic to all the projects is the establishment of incubation and knowledge exchange facilities that explicitly support social innovation amongst students, academics, and external stakeholders. Complementary to this, the projects have also developed curricular academic programs as well as non-curricular training programs:
The Latin American Social Innovation Network http://www.lasin-eu.org/ has established eight fully equipped Social Innovation Support Units (SISUs) in universities in Chile, Colombia, Panama, and Brazil. As well as the incubation/co-working spaces, the project has developed a post graduate program in social innovation.
In the Common Good First project (https://www.commongoodfirst.com/), similar units have been established through which academics and practitioners are developing digital storytelling techniques and an online directory to showcase social innovation projects in South Africa.
Social Innovation through Knowledge Exchange (https://sike-eu.org/) is a network of HEI and non-HEI partners in Scotland, the Basque Country, Croatia, Germany, and Portugal. In each region a “Social Innovation through Knowledge Exchange (SIKE) Unit” has been established which combines incubation, training, and knowledge in an exchange specifically aimed at supporting the social innovation ecosystem.
Strategy for Change (http://strategy4change.eu/institutional) has created a European network of universities and student associations which aim to embed social innovation within university curricular and extracurricular programs.
Social Innovation Support in Southeast Asia
In the same way, the Southeast Asian Social Innovation Network (SEASIN) (http://www.seasin-eu.org/) has been established between eight HEIs in Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Cambodia along with four non-HEI social innovation organizations and three European universities.
The four Southeast Asian partner countries present very different socioeconomic realities: Malaysia and Thailand have undergone major industrial and social transformation amid rapid economic growth and development over several decades; Cambodia, on the other hand, still has a large proportion of the population living below the poverty-line despite emerging as one of the highest growing economies in the world (7.7 percent between 1995 and 2018); the new Myanmar Government is committed to equitable development and has enjoyed recent growth of about 6.5 percent, but most of its institutions and public administration are still weak and the pace of the reform process is slowing down. In this context, the precise role of social innovation within each country also varies, from an intrinsic element in the equitable development of an emerging economy to a counterbalance to the inevitable consequences of rapid growth -- increasing wealth inequalities and political challenges to fragile democracies. As such, universities play a particularly important role as the intermediaries between the often subversive nature of social innovation initiatives and an honest broker for governments -- often fledgling democracies -- trying to tackle increasing societal challenges in an effective but equitable way.
Despite the different national challenges, the SEASIN project has identified common ground in terms of the kinds of support social innovators might seek from partner universities. The Network conducted a survey among those involved in the Southeast Asian ecosystem, identifying 115 organizations across nine countries and selecting 60 social innovation projects in the partner countries, monitoring 10 of them as case studies on the effectiveness of HEI support. 11.1 percent of respondents to the SEASIN survey felt that mentoring from industry experts would help build their capacities while 10.7 percent identified workshops, 9.7 percent identified funding and investment, and 9.5 percent of them zeroed in on experiential training programs as the support initiatives that could help improve the social innovation ecosystem in their region. In addition to this, the respondents also identified social innovation support units and networking events as relevant resources to help them implement their projects. 81 percent of the intermediaries on the other hand, have identified promotion of social innovation across universities and knowledge sharing as the most effective initiative for building capacities followed by, policies that promote social innovation (78 percent), skill-building programs (63 percent), and providing fiscal incentives such as tax incentives (56 percent).
The SEASIN State of the Art survey concluded with four recommendations to create a thriving social innovation eco-system:
Government as both the facilitator and enabler: streamlining policymaking to support social innovation;
Institutionalize social innovation by transforming education: capacity-building to support social innovation;
Social impact/benefit bonds: financial innovation to support social innovation; and
Catalyse civic participation and democratise information: create an environment that facilitates collaborations.
In response to these recommendations, the Network has established eight incubation Units (Social Innovation Support Units) each of which include fully equipped makers’ spacers, co-working, and incubation spaces as well as training programs for students.
While the universities in Myanmar (Cooperative University Thanlyin and Yangon University of Economics) were clearly committed to embedding social innovation within their institutions, and enjoyed the support of regional stakeholders thanks largely to the awareness raising initiatives carried out by organizations such as the British Council, the challenges of their unique socioeconomics meant that much of the support offered by their units were different from other partners. For instance, the 3D printers that had been installed within other universities were not practical since they had neither the expertise nor the resources to ensure their long-term usage by staff and students.
Students from the SISU in Myanmar
Source: SEASIN
The two Cambodian universities, National University of Management (NUM) and the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), take very different approaches, largely due to the priorities of the faculties involved. NUM is extremely entrepreneurial and created a very dynamic and extremely well-equipped space for students, staff, and external stakeholders. Much of this is thanks to private matching funds which allowed them to offer state-of-the-art facilities. RUPP, through the Faculty of Development Studies, used the space for more curricular activities and centered it around creating a bank of virtual and physical learning resources to raise awareness. The participation of the Cambodian branch of the French organization, Friends International, has ensured that the Universities’ activities are well integrated within the Cambodian social innovation ecosystem, introducing a local network of stakeholders.
In Thailand, Thammasat University already had a degree of social innovation experience through its School of Global Studies and had even developed a makerspace. Kasetsart University, on the other hand, enjoyed more limited experience within the field and much of their activities are focused around awareness raising. Their SISU has been established as part of the Faculty of Social Sciences but is located as a part of the Center for International Affairs and International Studies Management. Both Universities have been directly supported by Ashoka Thailand which has wide experience of working in the Higher Education social innovation space, especially through its Changemakers program.
In Malaysia, the two partner universities are also very different: Sunway University is a young, private university, emerging from the Bandar Sunway district while University Teknologi Mara (UiTM) is Malaysia’s largest public university in terms of size and student population. Sunway’s mission is very much based around the SDGs and already had a recently established i-Lab to encourage entrepreneurship among students. In UiTM, the project is based within the Education faculty but involves students and staff from across the University. The two HEIs are supported in their activities by Mission & Co (previously the Scope Group) whose mission is to magnify social good by mobilizing capital.
Malaysian Human Library. One of the projects being supported by SEASIN
Each partner has developed a series of social entrepreneurship training workshops -- Impact Connect -- in collaboration with Mission & Co and the UK-based global platform, Social Innovation Exchange. These workshops have been replicated by local partners during the course of the project. The project is currently also developing a doctoral program in collaboration with the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Asian partners. In October 2018, the first SEASIN Conference, SI-LIVE ASIA, was held in Malaysia, with more than 150 participants and a second conference will be held on October 8-9 in Bangkok.
All these projects seek to demonstrate the potential of universities to use their knowledge by developing new paradigms and tools for targeted exchange between actors from all societal sectors. At the same time, they have demonstrated how universities can learn from other organizations with more experience in supporting social innovation. The projects are forging alliances between universities and stakeholders across the social innovation ecosystem including business, local government, civil society organizations, and community groups in order to develop a new concept for knowledge exchange, informed by a needs analysis and monitoring of local social innovations. By combining the different experiences from universities and non-HEI practitioners, a blueprint for a social innovation support unit has been developed that can be adapted by other institutions wishing to join the Network and emulate the experience of SEASIN partners, creating a physical space to bring together different stakeholders in order to support social innovation processes.
The Units offer training, policy-briefings, and online tools as part of a suite of incubation and knowledge exchange services applying specialist research, equipment, outreach programs, and existing business support tailor-made to meet the needs of social innovators, whether they be students, academics, or external stakeholders. A series of strategic recommendations and case studies, as well as online tools and teaching materials, are being produced to help other HEIs wishing to create similar units for driving social innovation through knowledge exchange.
The rationale behind all the projects is that to successfully support social innovation, it is not enough to rely on traditional methods and processes for knowledge exchange. A university needs to establish a specialized unit that is specifically geared towards the needs of social innovators. The approach argues that universities should support social innovation in a systematic way beyond ad hoc initiatives and sporadic activism. A Unit is the next step towards institutionalisation of social innovation through universities. Moreover, the explicit notion of this form of knowledge exchange clearly places universities as conscious actors within the social innovation ecosystem: they proactively assume the task of facilitating the exchange, flow, and co-creation of knowledge.
The ultimate goal of all these projects is to create a global network for supporting social innovation within universities, to embed a culture of changemaking as a fundamental part of higher education, to be able to tackle the pervasive challenges of our age, and combat the “Dictatorship of no alternative.”
1. NESTA Social Frontiers conference: “Roberto Magabeira Unger in conversation with Geoff Mulgan on 'The task of the social movement'” November 14th 2013, accessed 15th June 2019. https://www.nesta.org.uk/event/social-frontiers/
2. Jürgen Howaldt, Antonius Schröder, Christoph Kaletka, Dieter Rehfeld, Judith Terstriep “Mapping the World of Social Innovation: A Global Comparative Analysis across Sectors and World Regions” SI-Drive deliverable, July 2016, accessed 15th June 2015. www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/
3. SEASIN Project: “The State of the Art of Social Innovation in Southeast Asia, April 2016, accessed 15th June 2019. www.seasin-eu.org/product/
Mark Majewsky Anderson is the Director of Research and Innovation at Glasgow Caledonian University and has helped to embed social innovation as a core part of the University’s mission. As well as overseeing the University’s research and innovation portfolio, he leads several international cooperation projects around the world, in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central Asia. One of his main focal areas is setting up community-facing “Social Innovation Support Units,” specifically dedicated to helping universities engage with their local stakeholders in order to confront societal challenges. He has established 16 of these units in Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Panama, Myanmar, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Thailand. He also coordinates SIKE, Social Innovation through Knowledge Exchange, establishing similar units in UK, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, and Germany. Other projects have focused on areas such as research, innovation, internationalization, disability support, female entrepreneurship, etc., in a range of countries including Indonesia, Iran, India, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, among others.
Asia: A Unique Ecosystem for Social Innovation
Light Be: Redefining Urban Poverty Alleviation with Innovations in Social Housing
Samatoa: Weaving a Lasting Connection and Empowering the Search for Excellence
Sense Innovations: We Listen to Eyes
When Psychology Meets Technology: An Innovative Approach
Zunosaki: Improving the Quality of Life of Disabled People
Peek.Me Natural: Three-part Solution for Health Care
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Another Story on How Those Lost Mines Stories Got Started
Our man Rolf, once, again. (internal link)
Glad you thought those stories were useful and no problem letting others know how and where a lot of those come from.
Mary just reminded me of one more and I know you will like this one.
A fellow from the area belonged to the local mineral club and they told him I was a good source to help identify things. We became friends over a number of visits. He loved getting out and looking for mines in the area. He lived over by Pearce, an old mining town still in the area.
One time he asked if I would go with him to look for a mine in the Cochise Stronghold of the Dragoon Mountains.
He had been told of a mine up in one canyon and had gone up looking for it but didn’t find it and wanted to see if I would go with him and use my better mine eye to find it.
We drove up to Cochise Stronghold and parked and then took the one trail he said the mine was supposed to be up. From what he had been told, the mine was high up toward the ridge near the top and there was a nice hole with ore on the dumps. We hiked and it was a pretty day and a very steep area. The trail finally played out and went off to a different area and he said he had been told the mine was up the canyon toward the top of where we were standing. The area was very steep and none of the rock I had gone past looked like it could have a mine, let alone a gold mine like he had been told.
We finally came to a steep waterfall area that had no easy way past it without equipment. We sat down on the rocks and just looked at the nice view. We had seen nice wildlife and plenty of great views but no mine.
This was when my friend told me where he had heard about this. As soon as he said it was an old Apache Woman that lived down in the canyon I let my eyes roll back in my head and knew right away what had taken place. My wife is part Apache and she had told me often of the stories the Apaches had told the white man, as they used to call us import peoples. The old woman had told my friend a story and for some odd reason, he had bought into it. The woman said that the story of the Lost Dutchman’s mine was all a hoax by the Indians to get a lot of white men out looking for it and then die in the rough and unforgiving terrain.
She told my friend that the Lost Dutchman mine was actually a mine toward the top of the Dragoon Mountains and the Indians had told the story of it being in the Superstition Mountains to fool people into not looking where it “really” was, here in Cochise Stronghold. I was ticked at him for having dragged me on a total wild goose chase and remarked that the old lady had gotten back a bit at a stupid white man to go looking for a total story that she had made up.
All I could tell him was that at least it was a pretty day and a good day for a hike but I also informed him that I would never join him on any of his wild goose chases again. I told Mary of the whole tale and she agreed, the woman had found another sucker to go on chasing for gold.
There are a ton of these stories and you are welcome to use this any way you like.
In retrospect it was kind of a funny situation and he did say that he didn’t want to tell me before we went up on the mountain because he knew how I would react, he was right, I never would have gone if I had known where the story came from.
Bob Ward spent 30 years in the Superstition looking for the Old Dutchman Mine and his theories (or mad guesses) are still in print.
Geological Provinces of the Southwest
This draft is from my now dead book project. The images were not intended to violate copyright but to guide my publisher in making new ones. My ex-publisher.
The term geological province isn’t favored anymore, instead, scientists like physiographic or something similarly stilted. I don’t.
Scientists disagree on the borders, names, and numbers of provinces within a state or region. I won’t settle their arguments here.
Macrostrat.org’s interactive map tells you what province your area of interest is in. Their free smartphone app gives you a province name for any ground you are standing on in the field. Provided you have cell phone coverage.
I Geological Provinces of The Southwest — The Lay of the Land
The American Geological Institute defines a geologic province as a large region characterized by similar geologic history and development. [Robert Bates and Julia Jackson. Dictionary of Geological Terms (New York: The American Geological Institute, 1984), 207] These characteristics include landforms, natural features of the earth’s surface, rock types, or a shared evolutionary history. Every part of the Southwest belongs to a distinct province with particular landforms and geology.
Geologic provinces show well on maps but are often hard to tell in person. No colors or lines on the ground mark one region from the other. Earth scientists may disagree where boundaries lie. Plants are sometimes better indicators than rocks. Saguaro cactus herald arrival in the Sonoran Desert. A lessening of creosote bush and an increase in sagebrush marks the beginning of the Great Basin Desert. Maps, guidebooks and a little study make these provinces stand out.
II Arizona
Arizona is the sixth largest state in America. It covers 113,909 square miles. New York, Indiana, and Maryland could easily fit inside Arizona’s borders. The state is landlocked, although the Colorado River flows through Arizona to the Pacific Ocean. The state has three distinct topographical areas.
-The Colorado Plateau
The Colorado Plateau in Arizona runs diagonally northwest southeast through the upper half of the state. Sometimes referred to as the Colorado Plateau Province, this lifted topographical feature extends into Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. The Plateau may be pictured as centered over the Four Corners of the United States. Its elevation is between 5,000 and 7,000 feet and it covers some 240,000 square miles. [“Colorado Plateau Province” https://www.nps.gov/articles/coloradoplateaus.htm Accessed 08/08/2018]
Any map depicting gold, silver, or copper deposits in the Western United States shows a lack of these minerals in the plateau. That’s because, as Jim Straight puts it, “Both the Columbia and Colorado Plateau are capped with non-metalliferous basaltic flows.” [Straight, Jim. Advanced Prospecting for Hardrock Gold 4th edition (Rialto, California: Jim Straight, 1998) plate No. 1] In other words, ancient lava flows not enriched with precious-metal bearing minerals. This can include non-metal bearing minerals as well, such as fluorite. This holds true for each portion of the four states in the Colorado Plateau.
(The Colorado Plateau across four states)
Arizona’s largest city in The Plateau is Flagstaff. The Hualapai, Navajo and Hopi are among tribes with reservations on this land. The Plateau features much of Monument Valley, the background for many famous John Ford films. The four thousand food wide Meteor Crater lies a short distance from Winslow. In addition, the Grand Canyon wends through the Plateau. Precipitation averages 10 inches annually. Native grasses and scrub cover much of the Plateau, leaving it suitable for grazing. Junipers and pinion trees occupy higher elevations.
-The Transition Zone
Arizona’s Transition Zone or Highlands also runs diagonally in a southeast to northwest fashion, occupying the middle of the state. It is a narrow, mountainous region with many peaks between 9,000 and 12,000 feet. Annual mountain precipitation averages between 20 and 25 inches. This belt separates the northern plateau from the southern deserts. The largest city here is Prescott at 5,368 feet. Numerous Wilderness Areas exist in the Transition Zone along with several National Forests, state park land and a National Monument.
The notable Mogollon Rim divides the Colorado Plateau and the Highlands as it strikes across the entire state of Arizona. This long cliff does not always present itself clearly, but at times it looms 2,000 feet above lower ground like the Tonto Basin. It also plays a part as a weather maker as explained in my weather chapter.
-Basin and Range
The Basin and Range geographic province reaches across vast areas of the Southwest, especially to Nevada. In Arizona, Basin and Range extends across the lower third of the state, dominated by the Sonoran Desert. Most motorists see Basin and Range as an unceasing crossing of low mountain Ranges and desert valleys. The National Park Service, however, is relentlessly positive. As they once put it, “The Basin and Range province has a characteristic topography that is familiar to anyone who is lucky enough to venture across it. Steep climbs up elongate mountain Ranges alternate with long treks across flat, dry deserts, over and over and over again!” [“Geoscience Concepts” NPS. Language now removed.
https://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/concepts/concepts_basinrange.cfm]
Besides the name Basin and Range, these alternating peaks and valleys are also called horst and graben. These two elements make up a particular rift landscape. Horst and graben occurs when the earth’s crust is stretched up to 100% of its original size. This stretching does not go smoothly. Instead of producing a flat plain when stretched, blocks of the earth’s crust are pulled up and down. Horst and graben creates blocks of the earth’s crust and upper mantle uplifted at angles. These uplifted angles represent fault lines which underlie the topography of Basin and Range.
Within Arizona’s Basin and Range Province lies the Sonoran Desert. It is a complex of low mountain ranges and desert valleys, with annual rainfall of three to four inches. This country is normally no higher than 500 to 2,000 feet in elevation. Basin and Range here is an extension of the Sonoran Desert of Mexico. Arizona’s other desert is the Chihuahuan. It, too, originates within Mexico, although Arizona’s portion wanders in from New Mexico, intruding only into the southeast corner of the copper state. It is in this arid and alternating geologic province of Basin and Range that Arizona’s major cities lie. Kingman, Phoenix, Yuma and Tucson are all denizens of the desert.
(Arizona’s geologic provinces)
III California
For this book, the Southwest reaches to the Pacific Ocean. California deserts feature great rockhounding areas and must be recognized. Extending the Southwest to the Pacific also allows San Diego County to be included, the center of tourmaline mining in the greater Southwest.
-The Mojave Desert
This is the land of the Joshua Tree, as much as the Sonoran Desert is the land of the Saguaro. The two rarely intergrade, each keeping itself to one side of the Colorado River. The Mojave is home to Death Valley, which at one point lies 276 feet below sea level. Death Valley and the Mojave Desert are the hottest and driest parts of California. Rainfall sometimes measures under two inches a year. Lower than the Great Basin, elevations average between 3,500 and 4,000 feet. Californians call this the High Desert.
-The Colorado Desert
The Colorado Desert is a smaller part of the much larger Sonoran Desert. The Colorado covers approximately 7 million acres. It is dominated by the off-limits Chocolate Mountains, over which the military has an aerial gunnery Range. The desert encompasses Imperial County and reaches into the counties of San Diego, Riverside, and part of San Bernardino. The Salton Sea lies on its west side, Bombay Beach its central hamlet. Most of the Colorado sits below 1,000 feet, with below sea level elevations at the Salton Sea.
-Basin and Range including The Great Basin Desert
High, dry, and often cold, the Great Basin Desert reaches from California’s eastern border to touch Oregon and Idaho, most of Nevada, and a significant part of Utah. Elevations range from 4,000 to over 14,000 feet in the White Mountains and the eastern Sierra Nevada. The long-lived Bristlecone pine hangs to life in its montane setting while common sagebrush populates the lowlands below. No water from the Great Basin Desert runs to the sea. At the limit of the Southwest, Bishop, California at 4,150 feet represents the largest California city within the Basin.
-The Peninsular Ranges
“The Peninsular Ranges geomorphic province consists of a series of mountain Ranges separated by long valleys, formed from faults branching from the San Andreas Fault.” So states the California State Park System. [Geological Gems of California State Parks – GeoGem Note 46 -Peninsular Ranges Geomorphic Province https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/734/files/GeoGem%20Note%2046%20Peninsular%20Ranges%20Geomorphic%20Province.pdf Accessed 08/04/2018] From a political boundary sense, the Peninsular Ranges originate at the Mexican border where both the United States and San Diego County begin. More accurately, though, the Peninsular Ranges extends south across the border to form the backbone of Baja California.
-The Transverse Ranges
The USGS states, “The Transverse Ranges Province of southern California is so-named because the mountains, valleys, and geologic structures within this province lie east-west or ‘transverse to’ the prevailingly northwest-trending grain characteristic of southern California.” [“Geologic Setting of the Transverse Ranges Province” https://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/archive/socal/geology/transverse_ranges/index.html Accessed 08/06/2018] They also say that two other provinces of southern and central California trend northwest. Basin and Range in Nevada and New Mexico also trends in the same direction.
IV Southern Colorado
This book treats the southernmost portion of Colorado, at the northern edge of the Southwest. Major cities are Creede at 8,838 feet and Durango, at 6,523 feet. These high elevations mean a true four-season climate, compared to the two-season climate most of the Southwest enjoys. Snow can fall in October in Creede, with 71 days of snow each year. Snow falls later in Durango.
-Colorado Plateau
Colorado’s western portion of the Plateau includes these National Monuments: Canyons of the Ancients, Yucca House, and Chimney Rock. Western Colorado is uranium country. Most occurrences, though, exist north of this book’s Southwest border. Southern Colorado rock collecting sites are many and for varied materials Richard Pearl describes Colorado as more mineralized than any other state except California.
-Great Plains
The High or Great Plains province covers eastern Colorado. Elevations reach 6,000 feet in this mesa-like area. The High Plains are a part of a larger plains system called the Great Plains. That ranges through southeastern Wyoming, southwestern South Dakota, western Nebraska, eastern Colorado, western Kansas, eastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, and south of the Texas Panhandle. Essentially, the eastern side of the Rockies.
-Southern Rocky Mountains
The Southern Rocky Mountains Province in Colorado continues to New Mexico. Wedged in the lower middle of this province is the Rio Grande Rift Province. It also continues to New Mexico, the Rio Grande River accompanying it. Alamosa is the chief city here at 7,543 feet, the prominent geologic feature the broad San Luis Valley. This valley approaches the size of Connecticut. It is 125 miles long and 65 miles wide, its mean elevation 7,000 feet. Though the country is a semi-arid plain, surface and subsurface water from the Rockies allows a thriving farming community as well as sourcing the Rio Grande.
(Geologic map of Colorado showing Rio Grande Rift)
(Geologic map of Colorado, not showing the Rio Grande Rift)
V Southern Nevada
Nevada is Basin and Range country, north-south trending mountain ranges fixed in parallel fashion across the state. This Basin and Range landform runs from Oregon to Mexico, capturing all of Nevada with it. The Great Basin, as it is known when referring to its entirety, consists of 160 mountain Ranges and 90 Basins.
Mountain ranges march unceasingly across Nevada, accompanied by many Basins or low-lying areas. This is not a violent landscape and the motorist driving east-west will little notice. To the rockhound, however, each new mountain Range presents new road cuts and interest heightens each time a Basin’s floor is left behind.
Nevada’s mean elevation is 5,500 feet. This produces a high, dry, mostly cold desert, reflecting the same condition this landform brings to parts of southern California. For Las Vegas, the chief city of southern Nevada, rain is a scant four inches a year, with summer temperatures often exceeding 105 degrees. Nevada is the driest state in America. It averages only nine and a half inches of rainfall a year.
(Southern Nevada, not showing Arizona’s Transition Zone)
(Nevada’s many basin and ranges.: http://crack.seismo.unr.edu/graphics/Maps/nv-topo.jpg)
VI New Mexico
New Mexico is the fifth largest state by area in the United States. It totals 121,412 square miles. The federal government owns 35% of that territory. 14,062 square miles is in National Forest and approximately 20,312 square miles in BLM lands. New Mexico’s twenty-three Indian tribes own or control 5,739 square miles.
The state’s topography is varied and dramatic. Scenic gorges, mesas, high plateaus, canyons, valleys, and dry washes or arroyos are all part of New Mexico. Average elevation is about 4,700 feet. The lowest point is just above the Red Bluff Reservoir at 2,817 feet where the Pecos River flows into Texas. The highest point is Wheeler Peak at 13,161 feet. 23 Indian tribes exist in New Mexico. That includes nineteen Pueblos, three Apache tribes (the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the Mescalero Apache Tribe), and the Navajo Nation.
(New Mexico geological provinces)
-The Southern Rocky Mountain Province
The Southern Rocky Mountain province is by definition mountainous ground considered part of the Southern Rocky Mountains. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Tusas Mountains, and the Sierra Nacimiento are included in this grouping. They lie on either side of the Rio Grande Rift Province.
The southern end of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains terminates near Santa Fe; this mountain Range marks the western edge of the Great Plains. The Range continues northward for some 200 miles until Salida, Colorado. Herbert Ungnade wrote that, “The Sangre de Cristo Mountains were hunting grounds for Apache and Comanche Indians and that the Spaniards ventured into them only in heavily armed groups.”
The Southern Rocky Mountain Province contains some of the highest peaks in New Mexico. Like the aforementioned 13,000-foot Wheeler Peak. Lower country exists as well. Like the Questa Caldera in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains northeast of Taos. Calderas are ancient basin shaped volcanic depressions, collapsed volcanoes, and this one sits at approximately 7,400 feet. Of special note is the ancient Valles Caldera National Preserve near Bandiler. Looking deceivingly like a flat grassy field, the caldera is actually a thirteen-mile wide depression supporting meadows, wildlife and wandering streams. Bandelier National Monument and Pecos National Historical Park nearly align on the same geographic parallel. They two points effectively serve as the southernmost reach of the Southern Rocky Mountains Province.
(The Southern Rocky Mountain Province, not showing the Rio Grande Rift Province which is in the middle, following the Rio Grande River.)
The Colorado Plateau in New Mexico lies in the upper northwest corner of the state. New Mexico’s two major cities, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, lie on the edge of its borders. Their elevations are 7,199 feet and 5,312 feet, respectively. As noted in the description of Arizona and Colorado, the Colorado Plateau Province’s 130,000 square miles is lodged squarely over parts of the Four Corners States. The Navajo Nation also owns much territory in the Colorado Plateau of New Mexico. They in fact own 27,000 square miles in the Four Corners region, an area larger than West Virginia. The rich topography of the plateau partly explains the nine National Parks and eighteen National Monuments located there.
(New Mexico’s density of parks)
-The Rio Grande Rift Province
The Rio Grande Rift Province splits New Mexico in two, with the Rio Grande River running down the middle. The rift begins high in the Colorado Rocky Mountains near Leadville, Colorado. It terminates in the Mexican State of Chihuahua close to Ciudad Juárez. Its stateside length is over 600 miles. The rift is not a valley or canyon caused by erosion from the Rio Grande River. Instead, the zone is a tearing down and building up of the earth’s crust. The Colorado Plateau pulls to the west, the High Plains to the east. This action is from two parallel fault zones that run north-south through New Mexico.
(New Mexico’s Rio Grande Rift Province)
-Basin and Range Province
Basin and Range topography in New Mexico occupies the lower southwest portion of the State. This same geologic occurrence extends from Mexico to Canada. [Christiansen, Eric and Kenneth Hamblin. Dynamic Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (Burlington, Massachusetts: Jones & Bartlett Learning. 2015) 592 ] Southern Arizona, eastern California, southern Idaho, western Utah, and most of Nevada. Again, Basin and Range is marked by mountain Ranges striking in a northerly to northwest fashion, alternating with wide Basins.
(New Mexico’s Basin and Range Province)
-The Mogollon-Datil Province
Experts think the Mogollon were an ancient Indian tribe inhabiting what is now eastern Arizona and western New Mexico. The area is geologically complex. Within the province is the Mogollon-Datil Volcanic Field. Numerous calderas populate the area, especially in the Gila Wilderness. The Mogollon Mountains rise to 11,000 feet. The Continental Divide is represented, between the Gila and the Rio Grande Rivers.
(New Mexico’s Mogollon-Datil Province)
-The Southern High Plains or The Great Plains
The High Plains province covers New Mexico’s eastern quarter. Elevations reach 4,000 feet in this mesa-like area. The High Plains are a part of a larger plains system called the Great Plains, its reach described in the Colorado section. The High Plains includes part of the Permian Basin, which is fueling an oil and natural gas boom in this mostly flat grazing country. The Permian is located in the south-east corner of the state near the Texas border. The High Plains Province also hosts part of what is called the late Miocene-Pliocene Ogallala Formation. It is a major aquifer in the United States. Larger cities include Hobbs, Lovington, and Carlsbad.
(New Mexico’s Southern High Plains or Great Plains)
VII Southern Utah
Three major geologic provinces make up Utah. Basin and Range and the Colorado Plateau exist in Utah as they do in other states. The third is the Middle Rocky Mountains province which lies outside the Southwest. Some geologists also place a Transition Zone in Utah, which will be included for completeness.
This Province is included as a Geologic Province of Utah by some and not by others. It is poorly defined, placed somewhere between Basin and Range to the West and the Colorado Plateau to the east. The largest city in the Zone and in Southern Utah is St. George, at an elevation of 2,860 and a population of 82,318. It is home to the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, a museum and locality that preserves a Jurassic era lake ecosystem. The next biggest town is Cedar City at 5,846 feet and a population of 31,223. This area is close to the Dixie National Forest. Within that forest, agate collecting goes on near Panguitch Lake.
Utah’s topography is mostly mountainous but varied. Almost 80 mountain ranges lie within or partially within it. The state’s highest point is 13,498-foot-high Kings Peak in the northern Uinta Mountains. Southern Utah mountain ranges climb to 8,600 feet or so.
Utah mountain ranges are typically 12 to 31 miles apart and 28 to 50 miles long. [“Physiographic Regions of Utah”
https://geology.utah.gov/popular/general-geology/utah-landforms/geologic-provinces/ Accessed 08/10/2018] Utah mean elevations reach 4,000 to 7,000 feet.
St. George and Cedar City both lie at the edge of Basin and Range, close to the poorly defined Transition Zone which separates Basin and Range from the Colorado Plateau. Viewed with Google Earth, Basin and Range levels off as it approaches the two cities. Proceeding east after that, the Colorado Plateau appears as a sparsely vegetated mesa.
Southern Utah’s notable geologic features include plateaus, buttes, mesas, and deeply scored canyons. Utah’s lower southeast is the Four Corners area, distinguished by the Colorado Plateau. Monument Valley extends here into Utah from Arizona. Tribal land also exists on which no collecting is permitted without permission.
-The Colorado Plateau’s Great Basin Section
The Great Basin Section’s central feature is the Colorado River which eventually flows into Lake Mead near the Nevada border. The Green River makes up the Colorado’s principal tributary. Its drainage or watershed begins in northern Utah, northern Colorado, and southern Wyoming. Many cities in the arid Southwest, especially Las Vegas, Nevada, depends on water originating high in the Rocky Mountains.
(Utah, emphasizing Southern Utah)
(Southern Utah’s geologic provinces)
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Day Three In Quartzsite, Arizona – 2020
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Friday at the QIA PowWow and Desert Gardens
Day Three of the QIA PowWow greeted everyone again with perfect weather. Cool mornings and then long sleeve shirt weather in the afternoon. Wind picking up later in the day but no more than a breeze.
Day Three at The QIA PowWow 2020 from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
Although I was trying to keep focused through the day, my mind kept returning to a location I discovered halfway between Parker and Quartzsite while investigating railroad ballast. (external link) My gold prospecting spidey sense kept tingling. Yes, I may be talking to you. But I’d rather leave to sample some black sand. Gold fever is a true sickness. (internal link)
I was at the PowWow only long enough to exchange a piece of eudialyte that I had bought the day before from Alexander BlagulaAll of the previous night my purchase had bothered me. I had settled for what I could afford, not the cab I truly wanted. Before heading to Quartzsite I stopped at Wells Fargo in Parker to get the extra money I needed. Alexander seemed happy to see me, as I think he knew what I wanted to do. With graciousness he took back my first stone and gave complete credit for the new cab. In the way he talked and acted, I got the feeling that he was glad I was buying his best material. This video is from the day before.
Alexander Balagula of Unique Russian Mineral from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
I took a few videos of the crowd at the PowWow and then moved across I-10 to Desert Gardens. To make it there, I used the frontage road as I had always done. Before you get to Desert Gardens, however, you have to pass through the Tyson Wells venue area. That venue sells a variety of things, not just rocks. It was complete madness, just looking at the teeming crowds put me nearly into a panic attack. I couldn’t imagine anyone voluntarily entering that swarm yet hundreds, if not thousands, seemed happy to do so.
Once at Desert Gardens things calmed down. The aisles are wider than the PowWow, making it seem more relaxed. The food, though, expect for the hot dogs, was limited and disappointing. I think the food is prepared by vendors who pay to be there, rather than cooked by happy volunteers. I’d bring your own food as you will probably be wandering for several hours. The big rocks are here, especially of rough of all kinds. Every vendor was from somewhere different, each had their own story and their own experiences. Each was an expert on at least several of the rocks or minerals they were selling. They all have their favorites, although they are often hesitant to name them. A number of fluorescent mineral dealers were at Desert Gardens. I didn’t see any radioactive minerals.
The first folks I met were at P.V. Rocks. Gary Peavy owns this business and he hails from Peoria, Illinois. He does some regional shows but once a year he gets out to Quartzsite. Wide variety of materials with much from the Midwest. E-mail is pvsrocks@aol.com and his website is https://pvsrocks.com.
PV’s Rocks at Desert Gardens, Quartzsite, 2020 from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
I was finally able to meet up with R.C. of Geological Specimen Supply (external link). He hand carried my latest order to me, rather than posting it as usual. Just what I needed, another box of rocks. He pointed out T-Cat in his van. R.C. always takes a cat collecting with him. He had been looking at PowWow for what I used to call peridot in vesicular basalt. I think he is saying it is actually peridotite xenolith in basalt. I think. I always have to read up on what R.C. says to me. It’s a great learning experience. He answered some of my pesky rock questions and seemed interested in the crazy looking railroad ballast I had seen near the La Paz County Fairground. Yes, rockhounds and geologists are interested in railroad ballast.
I also caught up with the Keadys of Rockchuck in Schurz, Nevada. (external link) I’ve written extensively on them before. Chelsea is continuing lapidary while awaiting the birth of her first child. I have their video on a previous page, but, what the heck, here it is again.
The Keadys of Rockchuck in Schurz, Nevada from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
After many tries, I also managed to find Laura Fitzpatrick, otherwise known as #geologistonboard. She is an Instagram influencer, who has thousands of followers. She writes extensively and in depth on geology and travels the world with her husband hunting and investigating everything rock related. She recently toured the Himalayas, reporting on each step of the way through Instagram. It’s all about the Gram. She agreed to an impromptu interview inside her well kitted Geo Mobile, a specially outfitted four wheel Mercedes van. She turned out to be a real gold bug and marvelled over my gold in quartz jewelry, insisting on taking pictures of the pieces. I tried not to bore her with my prospecting stories but she followed every detail of my accounts. Through the internet she is helping thousands learn about geology and to give people accounts and pictures of places most of us will never see.
#geologistonboard
Geologist on Board in The Geo Mobile AKA Flint from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
I also talked with David Bintliff of the Rock Broker. See the video below. My big regret was that I did not stay or ask that he light up these rocks. I tried to make it the next day but bridge traffic was terrible. If you meet David, he does have lamps on site and I am sure he will show you what is happening with these multi-mineral, multi-UV colored rocks.
David Bintliff of the Rock Broker. 605-593-6012.
David Bintliff of the Rock Broker at Desert Gardens in Quartzsite, Arizona from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
It was a treat, too, to meet the folks at Jim’s Rough Rocks who have a banner proclaiming Ocean Breeze Jasper. Their Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/JimsRoughRocks/Ocean
They are from Redmond, Oregon. Not the Redmond in Washington State, home to Microsoft, but Redmond, Oregon. I messed up on the video and misstated their business name. Apologies. Will try to fix.
Jim’s Rough Rocks at Desert Gardens in Quartzsite. 2020. from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
A few more hours in Quartzsite tomorrow and then I head off Saturday afternoon for Kingman, Arizona. Stay tuned.
Pow Wow Show Promoters
Mike & Carolyn Zinno
PowWow@QIAarizona.org
Quartzsite Improvement Association
235 E. Ironwood Avenue, Quartzsite, AZ 85346
http://qiaarizona.org
You can read more about Quartzsite at Rock&Gem’s website and Facebook page. (external link). I was covering the day to day at the PowWow for them this year and I have written extensively on all things Quartzsite in the past.
Day Two of The QIA PowWow in Quartzsite, Arizona 2020
Thursday at the QIA PowWow
Thursday brought another day of beautiful weather to Quartzsite. A few wisps of clouds appeared from time to time, somewhat relieving the sun’s powerful glare. Temperatures rose into the high 60’s in the afternoon, shirt sleeve-weather but best taken in with a long sleeve shirt to prevent sunburn.
The day got warm enough that an alert went over the public address system about a few dogs that had been left in cars. Their owners were told to get back quickly to their vehicles before the police started breaking windows. This brings up the matter of dogs at Quartzsite – they are all over.
On a leash, hand carried, or in a stroller, big dogs and little dogs are all about the aisles at the PowWow. I’ve never seen a dog fight but there are occasional lunges and a few sharp barks. Young dogs are around that may not be used to crowds and there are tiny dogs that are vulnerable. Every owner I saw seemed to have a dog that was socialized or mostly so. The dog community is fully present at the PowWow as you hear constant compliments from people on each other’s dogs. Big dogs seem to draw the most likes.
I could only visit a few vendors as I got wrapped up in long talks with each about their materials and collecting. I met quite a few people who knew people who I knew. One example was Kirk Brock at Rock Solid Jade at space 490. I showed him my jade key fob to see if he could identity its locality. He thought it most probably nephrite from Mendocino County in California. I said I carved it in Hesperia at the Mining Supplies and Rock Shop during a jade carving class taught by Mariana Shoupe. “Oh, yes,” Kirk said, I know her quite well. I think she is here now at the show. ”
This video looked great on my phone but it and a few others changed from landscape to portrait layout. I’ve attempted to rescue it with a frame.
Rock Solid Jade with Kirk Brock from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
Another example was when I fell into two people who kept mentioning Utah locations for agates. I then noticed that one had a Southern Utah Rock Club hat on. “I’m a member!”, I exclaimed. “I know Lynn. He showed me a great place for field agates that I would never have found otherwise.” They smiled and said they knew this place near Cedar City well. The couple lived in Mesquite, Nevada and when the weather got too hot they would drive to that higher elevation to collect during the summer. This conversation took place at the space for Johnson Brothers Lapidary.
https://www.johnsonbrotherslapidary.com
I’ve written that you’ll never know who you’ll meet in Quartzsite. Proof of that was when I stopped at Mike Martin’s space, number 239 and 240. Lots of fossils. I am not a fossil guy but I know they are popular and I haven’t covered fossils. So, I asked for permission to photograph and started asking questions. He looked at my business card and started repeating my last name. “Farley, Farley, Farley.” I thought perhaps he had read one of my articles for Rock&Gem. Instead, he asked if I had any relatives in Humboldt County, California. I started to cry but held back my tears. “Just my late brother.” “That was Tim! Biff Barker! He worked for me when I owned the radio station in Eureka. He was great. Everybody loved him. Great sense of humor.” Tim worked a long time in radio and Eureka was where he found a home. He did morning drive and was absolutely fun to listen to. Mike allowed Tim to be himself and it was a very emotional time for me as we both exchanged memories of my past brother. Mike, by the way, does an enormous amount of self collecting and coin and relict hunting in England. Well worth a stop.
Mike Martin’s e-mail is paleomike@aol.com
Mike Martin / Detector and Fossil Sales from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
Inside the main hall are displays and, as always, the Ottesens. I didn’t get a chance to ask them about how they are restarting the fee digs but they are. I’ve been out to the Royal Royston for my first Rock&Gem article and also to their Broken Arrow claim last year. Both terrific experiences.
https://ottesonbrothersturquoise
Inside the QIA Main Building from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
Alexander Balagula of Unique Russian Mineral at space 326 provided me a chance to try out my rusty Russian. Alexander didn’t correct me on my “Good morning and how are you greeting?” I felt good about that. He showed me some beautiful free form cabs of eudialyte on which he said he founded his business. He lists Fort Lee, New Jersey as his business address and the stone I eventually bought comes from the Kola Peninsula in Russia. To add to that that sense of going around the world, Alexander is a Russian Jew who lived for many years in Israel.
When someone asked him about his sign, Unique Russian Mineral and what it was, he smiled and said it mostly refers to himself. I liked his sense of humor. He will be in Tucson. His business card lists a website and an Etsy page but they don’t easily reflect his offerings. The Etsy store is gemstoneworld. Try his e-mail or these phone numbers. E-mail: abalagula@verizon.net. Cell phone: 201-647-4211. I had buyers’ remorse about the stone I bought and Alex gave me full credit for the returned cab. I wanted what you see in the photo below but settled for something more affordable on Thursday. Don’t settle or you’ll go through a painful night of reconsideration. Yes, I got that piece with the plume of yellow sphene or titanite on Friday. I understand your jealously.
At one point I heard Pink Floyd being played on an acoustic guitar being played by a young man who calls himself DanTheCabMan. That’s an Instagram handle for those who don’t know. He played “Wish you Were Here” and I wished every rockhound could be there in Quartzsite, too. In the video he says he won’t sing. I promised I wouldn’t, either.
#danthecabman from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
Here’s a photo on Thursday of what I used to call vesicular basalt with peridot. Not particularly wonderful specimens but a teaching moment. I am now told this is more properly termed vesicular porphyritic olivine basalt. Of, course.
Practical points. I found my fabric and rubber hiking boots worked very well for walking the aisles. After all, I hike in them all day so it made sense they would work here. Whatever you use, make sure they are comfortable and perhaps have a backup pair in your vehicle in case they don’t. Also, I found getting in touch with people is extremely difficult these days because everyone has their own preferences. Some use a mobile phone, others e-mail, some text, some message by Instagram or Facebook. I don’t have advice on overcoming this but you may want to make arrangements before hand if you are meeting someone in Quartzsite. While the vendors will all be in a certain location, your friends may be bouncing all over towns at different venues. Speaking of which, tomorrow I will be going back to the PowWow for a little bit and then hitting Desert Gardens across the highway later on. Different material, bigger stuff, lots of rough.
Bonus footage! Non-Pow-Wow. I almost forgot Miner’s Depot, a Quartzsite institution. I did a video on them on this second day and they are worth a lot more in print than I have time for here. They are less than a half mile north of city center. Great people. Gold spoken there.
Miners Depot in Quartzsite, Arizona from Thomas Farley on Vimeo.
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Aric Almirola Richmond Ready
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Richmond (Va.) Raceway hosts the second race of the opening round of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs where Aric Almirola, driver of the No. 10 Smithfield Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), will compete in Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts 400 looking to continue his quest to advance to the next round.
Almirola is optimistic heading to the three-quarter-mile oval as he sits 12th in the playoff standings with six points ahead of the cutoff line for the Round of 12.
“I’m excited to head to Richmond after a descent weekend at Vegas,” Almirola said after last weekend’s opening playoff race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where he finished 13th. “We put ourselves in a better position than some, and Richmond is a great place to head to next when we need to get an even better cushion. I’m confident that we’ll bring a fast Smithfield Ford Mustang this weekend. We just have to stay out of trouble and race smart like we did last year.”
At Las Vegas, Almirola qualified fourth to round out SHR’s third-ever 1-2-3-4 qualifying effort. In the first stage of Sunday’s late-afternoon race, he piloted his No. 10 Ford to third to earn eight bonus points. As the temperature changed, so did the handling of his Ford Mustang and he ultimately finished 13th when the checkered flag flew. A handful of other playoff drivers endured bad luck and experienced lower finishing positions, leaving Almirola content to come home with a top-15 finish.
“Every single point matters,” he said. “The difference between going to the second round or getting kicked out could be the result of me passing a car at the line every stage and every race. It happened to us last year at the roval (at Charlotte Motor Speedway). We were out of contention until that last-lap crash, so every second of the race this weekend will be focused on earning one more spot. It doesn’t matter if you’re in 20th or fifth – you still strive for one more pass.”
Almirola finished fifth in last year’s Richmond playoff race after leading the first lap of his career there. He raced in and around the top-five for the entirety of the 400-lap race.
In 15 starts at the Richmond oval, Almirola has captured two top-five finishes and four top-10s. He earned his best finish of fourth in September 2015. He has six Richmond starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with one top-10 finish, 10 laps led and an average finish of 16.2.
As the playoffs continue this weekend, fans can get VIP, behind-the-scenes access in following “Aric ‘Beyond the 10’” by subscribing to his YouTube channel. Episodes showcase never-before-seen footage of Almirola at the racetrack, on family trips, and “A Day in the Life” during the week, as well as all that goes into a NASCAR Cup Series driver’s season. Tune in this weekend for full access to Almirola’s playoff media day, NASCAR Burnout Boulevard and the Vegas race weekend. Click here to subscribe on YouTube and watch the latest episode.
Last week, Almirola and Smithfield announced the “Racin’ for Bacon” 1 million slice giveaway program. If Almirola pilots the No. 10 Ford to victory lane Oct. 13 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, 10 lucky fans will earn 100,000 slices of bacon. To sign up, visit www.racinforbacongiveaway.com.
Sunday’s 400-mile race at Richmond marks the 24th points-paying event during which the Smithfield livery has adorned Almirola’s No. 10 Ford Mustang this year. Smithfield, a brand of Smithfield Foods, based in Smithfield, Virginia, is in its eighth season with Almirola and its second with SHR. Founded in 1936, Smithfield is a leading provider of high-quality pork products, with a vast product portfolio including smoked meats, hams, bacon, sausage, ribs, and a wide variety of fresh pork cuts.
From his 12th position in the playoff standings, Almirola’s 2,033 points are six more than 13th-place Ryan Newman.
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PGA of America moves 2022 PGA Championship from Trump National after Capitol attacks
The PGA of America is cutting ties with President Donald Trump.
The organization voted to move the 2022 PGA championship away from Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Sunday night following the attacks on the U.S. Capitol last week, according to The Associated Press.
PGA of America president Jim Richerson said the board of directors voted to “terminate the agreement” with Trump’s course. The PGA of America — which runs separately from the PGA Tour — has now moved an event away from a Trump course twice in the past five years.
“We find ourselves in a political situation not of our making,” Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America, via The Associated Press. “We’re fiduciaries for our members, for the game, for our mission and for our brand. And how do we best protect that? Our feeling was given the tragic events of Wednesday that we could no longer hold it at Bedminster. The damage could have been irreparable. The only real course of action was to leave.”
Plenty of figures in the sports world have spoken out and condemned Trump in the days following the failed insurrection — which left five people dead — at the Capitol. The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on impeaching Trump a second time as early as Tuesday, too.
Though there has been mounting pressure surrounding Trump from seemingly all sides, Waugh said the decision to move the major championship away from Trump’s course wasn’t made out of haste.
“This is not because of any pressures we feel. We’re not being forced into a decision,” Waugh said, via The Associated Press. “We had to make a business decision. It’s a perpetual institution. My job is to hand it off better than when I found it. One hundred years from now, we still want to be vibrant.”
Where will the 2022 PGA Championship be held?
It’s unclear where the tournament will be held next year now that it’s been moved from Trump National.
The major, which was held at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco last year, is set for Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina in May. It will be held at Oak Hill Country Club in New York in 2023, and then at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville in 2024.
While a new course hasn’t been determined yet, Waugh said that they shouldn’t have an issue finding a new course.
“We’ve had a number of places reach out already,” he said, via The Associated Press. “We think we’ll have a bunch of options.”
Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, won't host the 2022 PGA Championship after all. (AP/Seth Wenig)
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Handel, Debussy, Grieg, Petrich and Haydn
by Gail Komives
Yes, Petrich. Roger was in illustrious company on the program of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra November 8 and 9. Paul Neebe who often accompanies Schola Cantorum at 11:15 Mass and special liturgies is the principal trumpet of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. The program notes said, “Neebe is known for commissioning and recording of contemporary American works for the trumpet.” After an intermission he performed the three movements of Roger’s Concerto for Trumpet and Strings, “Zatten”. Taking a bow, Paul and the conductor looked out into the audience applauding in Shaftman Performance Hall and beckoned Roger (wearing a signature tie) to stand and take a bow.
The venue was worthy of Handel, Debussy, Grieg, Petrich and Haydn. “In the late 1970‘s the once majestic Jefferson High School was a decaying skeleton…it was home only to pigeons. Consistent with the goals to be a first class performance facility, Jefferson Center boasts elegant finishes and decorations. Existing marble, wood-panel, and cast-plaster finishes were completely refurbished. The auditorium chairs, once unadorned and wooden, are now luxurious seats of cherry wood with plush velvet cushions. Loges and chandeliers recall the spirit of an old-world opera house.” Opened in 2001, it hosts “cultural attractions rarely found in a metropolitan area the size of Roanoke.”
One hour prior to the “Masterworks” concerts the conductor and guest artists present “lively and informal discussions” about their work. People attending said listening to Roger was enjoyable and it was obvious that he has a sense of humor.
In the program notes Roger wrote: “The 'DNA' of this composition tracks back to my great-grandfather and the tiny Plattdeutsch village where he was born. Zatten, [then] located in the eastern part of Berlin/Brandenburg is in an area of forest and small farms dating back to the 1600's. My grandfather R.T. Petrich, whose initials I bear, was six years old when he, along with his parents, sister, and older brother left Prussia to start a new life in the USA. My own childhood memories include many visits to the family homestead in Dakota Territory, where I used to play in the barn that hosted many summer dances. The Dakota sky was vast by day, and nights could become magical with the addition of the Northern Lights. Though not a professional musician, my father kept up his trumpet playing all his life. In a special way it was his “voice” – a sound that deeply imprinted all my growing up years. All of this is mixed together in my Zatten Concerto.”
Handel (b. 1685, Germany); Debussy (b. 1862, France); Grieg (b.1843, Norway); and Haydn (b. 1732, Austria) - and oh yes - Petrich (b.1938, North Dakota, USA)
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What is a Thai? A Thai is just a Siamese cat that looks like all Siamese cats did until about 30-40 years ago, when Siamese breeders began to breed for a new type that became popular at cat shows. Most breeders followed the newer style, which features long, pointed muzzles, extremely large ears, very short coats, and a small-boned body type (you can see them at http://tica.org/public/breeds/si/intro.php and http://www.cfainc.org/breeds/profiles/siamese.html ), but a minority of Siamese breeders kept breeding and registering the original style, although they didn’t usually show their cats because they were out of fashion. Siamese pet owners began to discover that it was increasingly hard to find old-style kittens when their 15- or-20-year-old cats died. Eventually, fanciers of old-style Siamese began to organize breed clubs, both in America and Europe, to try to preserve the remaining Siamese with the traditional appearance, and the name “Thai” began to be used to distinguish them from the more extreme-looking cats, which are often called “show-style” or “modern” Siamese (or sometimes “wedgeheads” or “wedgies”). Old-style Siamese breeders and fanciers began to work on writing a standard to specify exactly how the cats should look. In 2007, The International Cat Association (TICA) recognized the Thai as a preliminary new breed, and Thais have since appeared regularly at TICA shows. In 2009 they moved up to “advanced new breed” status, and as of May 1, 2010 the Thai will compete as a championship breed in TICA. (You can see TICA’s description of the breed and read the standard at http://tica.org/public/breeds/th/intro.php )
Thais are purebred cats, with Siamese pedigrees that go back tens of generations to the early years of the Siamese breed. A cat with a Siamese pedigree from one of the major cat registries can be registered and shown as a Thai in TICA if it has the old-style look. Pointed, blue-eyed cats imported directly from Thailand, where they are called “Wichienmaat,” can also be registered as Thais in TICA, providing a way to replenish the breed’s gene pool. Cats imported from Thailand today are genetically the same stock from which British, and later American, Siamese foundation cats came in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Siamese cat terminology has become somewhat muddled and confusing over the last couple of decades. You have just read about “modern” or “show-style” Siamese, and about “old-style” Siamese, now formally known as Thai. But lots of people refer to old-style Siamese as “appleheads,” a name originally used somewhat derogatorily by show-style Siamese breeders to refer to the less extremely wedged, slightly rounder head shape characteristic of the old-style cats. Other enthusiasts claim to distinguish between “classic” and “traditional” Siamese, supposed varieties of old-style Siamese. These names all mean different things to different people, and those of us breeding Thais usually just call them “old-style.” Cats that people call “appleheads,” “traditional,” or “classic,” may or may not be purebred cats—the terms are often used to refer to cats that “look” Siamese, but might have only one or a few Siamese ancestors and cannot be proved to descend exclusively from purebred, registered, pedigreed Siamese lines.
Thais have moderately wedge-shaped heads (not round), short, very soft coats, a light-colored body, darker points (legs, tail, ears, and masks), and blue eyes. They are significantly more sturdily built than show-style Siamese but they are not heavy-boned or chunky. They have the social nature, insistent voice, and marked intelligence for which Siamese cats have always been known. They should resemble the breed standard developed in 1914 by America’s Siamese Cat Society, but not the standards currently in use for Siamese cats in major cat registries. In short, an old-style Siamese, or Thai, has the same look that has existed for so long in Thailand, the look that the first imported British cats had over 100 years ago, and that persisted in America and Europe through the 1960s.
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U.S. Court Rules Banks Must Hand Over Trump Financial Records
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A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Deutsche Bank and Capital One must comply with a House subpoena, which has demanded U.S. President Donald Trump’s financial records.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, in a two-to-one ruling, was in favor of ordering “prompt compliance” with the subpoena from the House Financial Services and Intelligence committees. The subpoena is part of a congressional probe into the president’s dealings with Deutsche Bank, which is reportedly under investigation for its role in a money-laundering scheme.
The Second Circuit and the D.C. Circuit have both ruled that Trump’s accounting firm must comply with separate subpoenas from the Manhattan district attorney and House investigators.
The president has asked the Supreme Court to intervene in some of those cases.Jay Sekulow, Trump’s personal attorney, tweeted on Tuesday that “we believe the subpoena is invalid as issued.” “In light of the Second Circuit decision, we are evaluating our next options including seeking review at the Supreme Court of the United States,” Sekulow added.
Last month, the Supreme Court ordered a temporary stay, meaning Trump’s financial records could remain outside the hands of investigators. U.S. media earlier reported that Deutsche Bank has lent Trump’s businesses millions of dollars in the past years and Capital One is among the banks where Trump holds personal accounts.
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Exclusive – Gough defends timing of Swann retirement
Joe Moore
23rd December 2013, 7:42 pm
Former England bowler Darren Gough has defended the timing of Graeme Swann’s retirement in the middle of the winter Ashes series.
Swann has received criticism for ‘jumping ship’ mid-series with the Three Lions on the wrong side of a hammering Down Under, surrendering the urn following three consecutive landslides defeats.
Many believes the spinner’s departure will unsettle the side even more going into the final two Tests as they hope to regain some of their little remaining pride.
But Gough, who admitted the bowler is a shadow of the player he was a year ago, suggested Swann’s presence in Australia would more likely add to England’s problems, as he was unlikely to make an appearance in the remainder of the series.
“He’s a good personality, everybody says how good he is in the dressing room and in the last five or six years he’s had huge success. I think he’s going to be missed.” Gough said on Drivetime.
“Now, I want to see all the players who have let England down in this series to carry on and play until the end.
“But with Swann it’s slightly different, because he hasn’t just left the side, he’s decided to walk away from cricket full stop.
“What’s the point of him being there for the rest of the series? He hasn’t enjoyed it and he’s received a lot of abuse, especially when he’s batted.
“It looks like he was going to be left out in favour of Monty Panesar anyway and Australia have got the better of him this winter, Shane Watson in particular.
“At the moment, Watson facing Swanny is like a horror movie and he’s not looked the same player against them.
“He’s had a lot of injuries with his elbow and he’s not looked at his best, he’s looked half the bowler he was 12 months ago.
“He was in the ICC team of the year this year and I believe he could still play for another two years, but I think he feels he’s not enjoying it enough anymore and wants to walk away now.
“He’s probably had a conversation with [England coach Andy] Flower and [England captain Alastair] Cook, who admitted it hasn’t gone well for him and that they’d have to make a couple of changes. After that he probably thought it’s time for him to retire.
“When you’ve been the number one spinner for so long and you know you’re going to go at the end of the series no matter what, what good would it be to have him in the dressing room in the last two Tests, not playing and knowing he was finished?”
Graeme Swann
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 75 › Kempner v. Churchill
Kempner v. Churchill, 75 U.S. 362 (1869)
Kempner v. Churchill, 75 U.S. 8 Wall. 362 362 (1869)
Kempner v. Churchill
A sale of personal property, made much below its cost, by a man indebted to near or quite the extent of all he had, set aside as a fraud on creditors, it having been made within a month after the property was bought, and before it was yet paid for, made, moreover, on Saturday, while the account of stock was taken on Sunday (the parties being Jews), and the property carried off early on Monday.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Northern Illinois, in which court, Churchill and others, merchants of New York, and judgment creditors of one Levison, filed a bill against a certain Kempner (Levison being impleaded), to set aside a purchase of a whole stock of dry goods which the bill alleged that Kempner, confederating and colluding with Levison how to cheat the complainant, and to hinder, delay, and defraud the creditors of Levison, had proposed to purchase, and had purchased of Levison, for a greatly inadequate consideration, to-wit: for fifty-five cents on the dollar.
It appeared, from the testimony, that Levison, who kept a clothing store in Chicago, and had, at the time, a stock of clothes there, worth $6,000, went on, about the middle of March, 1866, to New York, where, according to the testimony, he enjoyed the reputation of "a responsible, paying, first-class customer," and there laid in an additional quantity, which he purchased on credit, and which cost him $11,622 more. The new goods were forwarded to Chicago; and the whole stock thus cost $17,622. The circumstances attending the sale were thus testified to by Levison:
"The sale was made on the 8th of April, 1866. I came back from New York about the 22d of March, 1866. I was in Chicago some few days; Mr. Kempner came in the store one day, shook hands, and said he had an idea of going to Omaha to open business and, if he could buy a cheap stock of goods, he would take
them up there; that was on Saturday, a week before the sale. I told him I had a pretty good stock of goods here that I would sell him, as I had a chance to go into something that would pay me better than this business just now. He said he would see, and come in tomorrow with his brother-in-law, and look over the goods, as he was a better judge of goods and prices than he was. On the following day, he came in with David Adams, and they did look over the stock, and he said would go home and think about it, and come in tomorrow and see me. The next day, he came in and offered me fifty-five cents on the dollar. I got pretty mad at that, and told him seventy cents would not buy them, and went off and left him. A day or two afterwards, he came in again, and we had a talk, and he said the goods were not worth more than that to him, and the had taken advice with some friends, who told him that goods were not worth as much then as they were at the time I bought them, and my credit was not very good in New York, so I had to pay ten or fifteen percent more than anyone else. He said he wanted to make something on them; he would have to sell them on credit, and wait for his money. I told him it was no such thing, that I did not pay more than anyone else; that he might go around town and inquire, and make himself familiar with the prices, and he could find out. I told him it did not make any difference, that that money would not buy them, and I expected to hear from another gentleman in the country, who wanted to go into business in Chicago, and I would, probably, sell out to him; that ended the conversation that day. The next day, I think it was, I met Mr. Kempner and asked him why he circulated the reports around that he had offered me fifty-five cents, and that I was going to sell out. He said he did not circulate any reports, but he would take me in and show me a good honest man, who would tell me where those reports came from. I went in with him to David Witowsky's fur store, on Lake Street; Witowsky said he had heard reports, but could not tell where they came from. We three stood and talked about the value of the goods. I went out after a while and went home to the store. In the afternoon, Mr. Kempner was passing by, and I called him in. We had some talk there about business. He said to me,"
"There is some pretty rough talk in town about you; you had better not delay this matter; you had better let me have the goods, and put the money in your pocket, and let the creditors
go to the devil,"
"or words to that effect. I told him I would not sell them for that price anyway. He said, 'That is my offer, and, if you can do any better, do it.' I told him I did not see what I had to fear from the creditors; that I did not owe anyone anything that was due, except Freidlander, Steitch & Co. He said, 'You had better look out for them, I know them better than you do.' On Saturday, we came together again in the store the 7th of April, 1866. I told him, I wanted to close the trade with him. I asked him to meet me half way in the offer. I had offered them to him before for sixty-five cents; either at this time or before he had offered me fifty-five cents. He said, 'No; he would not give any more than fifty-five cents.' Previous to that, I told him I would sell him the fixtures in the store. He said he would not have them if he bought the stock; that he would move the goods out of the store before he paid for them, or that he would pay for them as soon as he had them out of the store, I think the last were his words; that he did not want to have any trouble with them, for fear the creditors might replevy them. We closed the trade on Saturday, and he said he would come in on Sunday and take stock. On Sunday morning, he came in with David Witowsky, Jr., and David Adams; I was there with Mr. Berk. Before we took stock, Mr. Kempner and I had some conversation; he asked me how much I owed Freidlander, Steitch & Co. and several other parties. I told him I owed Freidlander, Steitch & Co. a little over $3,000, and named over some other creditors, but I don't remember their names, or the amounts I gave. He said, 'Little Coleman' would have to suffer too. I told him I did not know that; I only owed him a little over $200, and I might pay that bill. We then went to work and took stock. When we got through taking stock, and we were starting for home, he said, 'You had better give me the key of the store, so as to show that the goods are in my possession.' I then gave him the key of the store, and told him I must have the money for the goods by twelve o'clock the next day. He said, you shall have it as soon as I get the goods moved. On Monday morning, I came down to the store about nine o'clock, or between nine and ten, and the goods were already removed."
The fifty-five percent agreed on between the parties, gave Levison $9,725. The bill of the goods sold was, however,
made out on the basis of the New York cost, $17,622, and receipted accordingly. The goods were removed to a basement-story, or cellar, at some distance from the store (for the purpose, as Kempner asserted, of saving storage); and the $9,725 paid in cash to Levison.
Levison in his answer given, as in his testimony, admitted the fraud. Kempner in his, denied all fraud on his part, and represented himself as having come from California with $12,000 in gold, his only fortune; that being in Chicago he met Levison, who had also been in California, and whom he had known there; that Levison urged him to buy him out; that after several interviews, Levison sent for him and accepted his offer of fifty-five cents for the dollar of cost, saying, "Well, you shall have them. I am sick of this business; I want to be in some business in which I shall be occupied all day long doing something." Kempner's answer further asserted that he knew of no judgments or liens on the property, and that the purchase was not made to forestall or delay Levison's creditors; and it denied the conversation stated by Levison in which he, Kempner, was represented as having urged Levison to make a sale and to disregard his creditors. It asserted that the goods were worth nothing like the cost price, and that the consideration paid was not fraudulently below value, and it charged that the complainant's bill was filed in collusion and conspiracy with Levison, to defraud Kempner, while he, Levison, was permitted to go free, with the money paid him.
There was a great amount of testimony (the record having had 260 pages) to show fraud. Much of it was not direct, and some of it was more or less contradictory. Numerous persons were examined to show that the cost price of the goods was too high; but they failed to show that it was so to the extent of forty-five percent or near it.
At the time of the sale Levison owed about $15,000. With the cash that Kempner paid him he could show in money and furniture about $13,000, owned by himself. His wife had property.
As to the conspiracy alleged by Kempner between the
complainants and Levison, it appeared that the sale having been made on the 9th, Levison was arrested on the 10th upon the affidavit of a brother-in-law to one of the complainants; that on the 11th, complainant came to Chicago; that he staid until the 14th; that while here he discharged the warrant of arrest of Levison, and employed Levison's previously retained counsel, to collect his debt out of the goods sold to Kempner; that on the 16th (Sunday intervening), Levison confessed judgment to the complainants; that on the 17th he confessed judgments to seven other of the creditors, now complainants, and on the same 17th April this bill was filed as a creditor's bill, on executions returned unsatisfied as against Levison; that none of these demands were due at the time under three months, except one, which rested in open account; that those judgments were confessed in the office of Levison's attorneys; and, that the bill waived an answer on oath.
THE DISTRICT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS
MR. JUSTICE GRIER delivered the opinion of the Court.
It has been frequently held that fraud ought not to be presumed, but must be proved. But the evidence of it is almost always circumstantial. Nevertheless, though circumstantial, it produces conviction in the mind often of more force than direct testimony.
It would be a troublesome, as well as an unprofitable task, to examine all the very astute arguments, founded on the large mass of testimony contained in the record, to show that the court below have come to a wrong conclusion. It suffices to say that it sufficiently appears that the evidence before the court fully justified their conclusion.
It is true that mere inadequacy of consideration, unless extremely gross, does not per se prove fraud. But the direct testimony here confirms the fact that Kempner urged the acceptance of his offer to purchase with arguments such as this:
"There is some pretty rough talk in town about you. You had better not delay this matter. You had better let me have the goods and put the money in your pocket, and let the creditors go to the devil."
The circumstantial evidence amply confirms this direct evidence of fraud.
1st. The false receipts given for full value on Saturday.
2d. The account of stock made out on Sunday.
3d. The removal of the goods into a cellar on Monday.
The defendant's endeavor to prove by experts, that the price
given was sufficient, tends only to confirm the correctness of the decree of the circuit court, which is
Affirmed with costs.
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Damned if I could stop negating ...
Ben Yagoda has a post at Lingua Franca responding to a reader who bristles at the phrase “one of the only.” He defends it as an idiom that we don't parse logically, like "can't help but think" and "could care less," but have no trouble understanding.
That's not good enough for truly devoted nitpickers, who continue to patiently explain that "I could care less" is a monstrous inversion of meaning. But the fact is, we accept flaws in logic much larger than this when we're engaged in reading or listening, rather than proofreading or peeving.
I was reminded of this by a story last month in the New York Times Magazine, in which Sarah Hepola described her struggles as an editor of confessional writing. Hepola wrote that she found herself "excising the grimmest parts of personal essays, torn between my desire to protect the human being and my knowledge that such unforgettable detail would boost a story’s click-through rate." Then came a paragraph with a couple of little speed bumps:
"This feels a little unprocessed," I told writers who shared their tales of date rape and eating disorders, but it was hard to deny that the internal chaos, that fog of confusion, could make for compelling reading, like dispatches from inside a siege. Yet "unprocessed" was exactly what [Cat] Marnell’s pieces were, and damned if I couldn’t stop devouring them.
That last clause is where I paused: "damned if I couldn’t stop devouring them.” The usual way to say what she means is "damned if I could stop,” which translates as “I couldn’t.” The idiom involves swearing to the truth of your report: In full, it's something like “I’ll be damned (as a liar) if I (say I) could stop.” That is: "I couldn’t stop."
And that's not the only misnegation. Both sentences in Hepola's paragraph say the same thing, in essence: Personal train wreck tales are both repellent and riveting. But for some reason the word that connects them is "Yet," as if the second sentence somehow qualified or contradicted the first, when it actually supports it; taking out the "yet" is a clear improvement. (Did an editor insert it, I wonder?)
But I'm not surprised that the wording passed unnoticed. By this point, a reader knows what Hepola's intending to say, and the "literal" reading would make no sense. As Mark Liberman and other Language Loggers have shown repeatedly, "our poor old monkey brains are not quite evolved enough" to handle such complexity; most of the time, we just take in the message we were meant to receive and ignore the logical glitches.
I’m not arguing that "getting the meaning across" is all that matters; if I thought that, I wouldn’t have become an editor. But monkey minds or not, we're smart enough to understand "one of the only people to have played in the NBA and for a major-league baseball team." Anyone interested in improving the language could easily find bigger fish to fry.
Seems to me that the "yet" is there because she's trying to say that despite her professional objections, she was riveted. However, it's all so oddly worded that it doesn't quite come off the way it's supposed to. The last sentence would be somewhat better as, "Yet, as "unprocessed" as Mernell's pieces were, I'd be damned if I could stop reading them." Even that doesn't quite work though, because she's already mentioned that the pieces were compelling in the preceding sentence.
Yeah, it's a bit of a mess to untangle, but as you said, at the end of the day we know what she means.
In full, it's something like “I’ll be damned (as a liar) if I (say I) could stop.”
I've always thought of it as more like “I’ll be damned (as a liar) if I could stop (because I hereby assert that I couldn't).” But of course it works out to the same thing.
if I thought that, I wouldn’t have become an editor
Why is it "thought", rather than "would have thought" or "had thought"? What do such choices have to do with logic?
@Gregory: I would assume that she said "thought" because her position on the matter is ongoing. "Had thought" makes it sound like the issue is just strictly what she was thinking at the time that she decided to become an editor.
Sidders said...
But what's wrong with "one of he few"?
"One of the few" isn't wrong - the phrase in question was "one of the only", since "only" implies "only one".
Kate (Derby, UK)
I'll wager it's an eggcorn
Don't "quote" me
It's gherkin vs. diphthong
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Wheel mishaps
The editor of N + 1, writing these lines, there is a school friend who is married to a native from West Africa. A few years ago, a caring mother-in-law sent a young family in a packet of Cinchona bark: useful in case of malaria. The reason to use the bark, of course, didn’t say, but in the spring of 2020 the couple realized that nothing used to make fun of the seemingly meaningless gift.
This spring, finding themselves unarmed before the new virus, doctors
took to sort already known from other diseases. We have
talked about how COVID-19 try to treatantiviral
means and to prevent with vaccines
polio and tuberculosis. Not passed this fate and hydroxychloroquine, which is already not the first hundred years of use in malaria. However, unlike most heroes of these searches, around attempts to adopt against COVID-19 hydroxychloroquine ambiguous noise.
Chloroquine or quinine?
The bark of the Cinchona tree as a cure for malaria has used as
at least in the XVII century, and in the middle of the XIX century, it was finally allocated the active substance
and called quinine. It was bitter and multifunctional — with the exception of
the fight against malaria, where it is only used as an antipyretic and analgesic, a sedative and a regulator of appetite. And is still considered as a possible
the cure for cancer and cramps in the extremities.
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Justin Hodge is a trial lawyer who represents Texas landowners in condemnation, eminent-domain, and real-estate lawsuits. He represents landowners in condemnation proceedings, not the governmental authorities or private companies taking property. Mr. Hodge has won cases for landowners at every level: administrative hearings, jury trials, and appeals in state and federal courts. Mr. Hodge’s cases have involved takings of vacant land and ranches as well as highly improved properties with office buildings, shopping centers, restaurants, motels, banks, churches, c-stores, mines, quarries, and residential subdivisions. He has shown his skill both as a negotiator and as a courtroom advocate.
Mr. Hodge has handled complex condemnation and eminent-domain cases throughout the State of Texas including the communities of Austin, Baytown, Bastrop, Bellmead, Bruceville-Eddy, Cleburne, Conroe, Corpus Christi, Denton, Decatur, Belton, Georgetown, Dallas, Elm Mott, Fort Worth, Hillsboro, Hewitt, Houston, Lampasas, Leander, Mansfield, McKinney, Killeen, Round Rock, Robinson, Rogers, Salado, San Antonio, Seguin, Shenandoah, Troy, Tomball, Waco, The Woodlands, and Wichita Falls, Texas. Mr. Hodge has appeared in condemnation and eminent-domain lawsuits in Bastrop County, Bell County, Bexar County, Brazoria County, Chambers County, Collin County, Comanche County, Dallas County, Erath County, Fort Bend County, Grimes County, Guadalupe County, Harris County, Hill County, Lampasas County, Leon County, Montague County, Montgomery County, McLennan County, Travis County, and Williamson County.
Both Mr. Hodge’s father and grandfather were Texas cattlemen and ranchers. His family has lived in Texas for nearly two centuries and is listed amongst members of the Sons of the Republic of Texas, direct descendants of those that settled the Republic of Texas. Understandably, he is passionate about Texas property rights. He has testified on Texas condemnation and eminent-domain reform on behalf of Texas landowners in front of both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate. He also writes a weekly blog at TexasCondemnation.com. His blog educates landowners about current Texas condemnation and eminent-domain issues.
In 1999, Mr. Hodge received his Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture and Applied Economics from Texas Tech University. At Texas Tech, Mr. Hodge taught as a teaching assistant in Farm and Ranch Management. In 2002, he graduated from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was a member of the Texas Review of Law and Politics. During law school, he served as a law clerk in the General Counsel’s Office of then-Governor George W. Bush. From 2008 to 2010 and in 2013, Super Lawyers Magazine: Thomas Rueters and the publishers of Texas Monthly Magazine recognized Mr. Hodge as a “Rising Star” in eminent domain.
Mr. Hodge is involved in several professional organizations, including the Christian Legal Society (where he served as vice president of the Houston chapter in 2008 to 2009), Young Lawyer’s Steering Committee (chairing the U.S. Supreme Court Subcommittee from 2007 to 2008), the Defense Research Institute, the American Bar Association, Texas Young Lawyers Association, the Houston Bar Association, the Houston Young Lawyers Association, the Texas Farm Bureau, and the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. Mr. Hodge has been a licensed salesman and real estate broker since 1999.
Mr. Hodge and his family live in Houston and are actively involved in their church. He and his wife Courtney are celebrating ten years of marriage this year and they have been blessed with four beautiful children.
B.S., Agriculture and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University, 1999.
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 2002.
“Texas’s Yellow-Brick Road to Acquiring Common-Carrier Status,” (coauthor), Real Estate, Condemnation, and Trust Litigation: American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Summer 2015, Vo. 13, No. 2.
“Enjoyment and Preservation of Property: The Great and Chief End of Government,” ALI-CLE; The American Law Institute, San Francisco, California, February 2015.
“Property Damages: Valuing Property Rights in Condemnation, Groundwater, and Oil-and-Gas Disputes,” (coauthor), State Bar of Texas, Damages in Civil Litigation, 2014.
“Landownership as a Keystone Right: Five Issues in Condemnation for Pipeline Easements,” Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institute and Fundamentals Conference, University of Texas Law CLE, 2013.
“Texas Eminent Domain: Practices and Procedures for Energy Infrastructure,” Austin Bar Association, Oil Gas Mineral Law Section, 2012.
“Expert Challenges in an Eminent Domain Case: Robinson/Daubert Analyses; Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice; Project Influence” (coauthor), CLE International, 2010
“The Fundamentals of Eminent Domain,” Ector County Bar Association, January 2010.
“Conservation or Preservation Easements: Answering Highest and Best Use and Valuation Issues When Dealing With Encumbered Property” (coauthor), ALI-ABA, January 2008.
“Can Communications Between an Accountant and Client Be Privileged? How to Make Use of This Narrow Evidentiary Rule,” Defense Research Institute, Young Lawyers Compendium, 2008.
“The Law of Eminent Domain—State of Texas” (coauthor), ABA Section of Litigation—Condemnation Zoning and Land Use Litigation, 2007.
“Recent Developments in Products, General Liability, and Consumer Law” (coauthor), Tort Trial & Ins. Prac. L.J., Winter 2007.
In a jury trial in Johnson County, Texas, represented a property owner against a taking by Peregrine Pipeline Company. The taking was an approximately 2.9445 easement out of an approximate 400.836 acre tract of land with previous multiple pipeline easements and an oil and gas lease. The pipeline company offered $79,979 as just compensation, but the jury awarded over $1.6 million as just compensation, including damages.
In a jury trial in Bell County, Texas, represented a property owner against a taking by the State of Texas. The taking was to widen IH-35 and build a large rest stop, which impacted not only the surface but also the landowner’s water wells. The jury awarded $5.8 million as total just compensation, with a net to the client of over $3 million after fees and expenses.
Represented a landowner in a jury trial in Conroe, Texas against a taking by a local governmental authority. The taking involved issues related to the impact of a high-pressure gas pipeline on property and detention requirements by condemning authority, and Mr. Hodge’s responsibilities included giving the opening statement and cross-examining a key fact witness.
[expand title=”MORE” swaptitle=”LESS”]In a jury trial in Houston, represented a hedge fund against a taking of a country club in Clear Lake, Texas by a local governmental authority, resulting in a finding that the condemning authority’s action in deciding to take the property was arbitrary, capricious, and fraudulent. The case is currently on appeal.
Represented scores of landowners as lead counsel against the State of Texas’s widening of IH-35.
Represented numerous landowners as lead counsel against Seaway Pipeline’s taking of its Seaway pipeline in Leon, Grimes, and Chambers Counties.
Represented property owner as lead counsel on State of Texas’s widening of US-290 in Harris County, Texas.
Represented property owner in Tarrant County, Texas against the City of Fort Worth’s, the State of Texas’s, and North Texas Toll Authority’s Southwest Parkway project.
Served on several trial teams representing property owners against the State of Texas’s widening of IH-10 in Harris County, Texas.
Represented landowners against the State of Texas’s widening of 635 in Dallas County, Texas.
Represented property owners against the Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority’s expansion of METRO rail lines.
Worked on trial teams in the Harris County Courts at Law to represent landowners against the State of Texas’s widening of IH-10.
Served as first chair in a variety of special commissioners’ hearings and took dozens of fact-witness and expert-witness depositions.[/expand]
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Home Interviews Feature: Emma Frank – My 5 Biggest Influences
We’re back with another ‘My 5 Biggest Influences’ feature this week!
This time, we spoke to New York based singer/songwriter Emma Frank, who is set to release her new album, Come Back, on September 6th
‘My 5 Biggest Influences’ is when we talk to some of our favourite upcoming and established artists, delving into their greatest influences and inspirations, to see how bands, records, tracks, friends & family, hobbies and even environments have impacted on their work and music
More about the new record below, plus a beautiful new acoustic track, but first, here are Emma’s 5 Biggest Influences…
My mom is a somewhat classically trained singer. Her mom taught classical piano, and all of her siblings have studied classical music for at least a little while. My mom taught me to sing – in her bedroom, before I could read, she would teach me whole songs by singing each phrase to me. Then she would take the harmony or I would learn the harmony. When I was eleven or twelve and started trying to belt Broadway numbers (like ‘Tomorrow’ from Annie), my mom promptly found a voice teacher to help me learn my instrument and avoid hurting myself. She introduced me to Motown, to Aretha, to Nina Simone, to Roberta Flack, to Joni Mitchell. My mom taught me how to sing, but I also developed partially in reaction to how she sang. I remember getting so mad when she would sing Aretha Franklin songs – like that’s not how that’s supposed to sound. And Opera drove me crazy because my mom would blast it and sing along while vacuuming. So I got into what I’m into, and I started pulling away from her and her often very strong opinions. Just last night she told me she was worried about my voice, and I just have to take that with a grain of salt – I appreciate that she cares about me and has this specific interest and investment in what I do, but also that ultimately my voice and my art are mine to do with what I will.
I went to school for literature and I got really into short stories. I love how the form condenses all of these powerful truths into such a short narrative. I spent a lot of time thinking about songs and how they behave similarly to short stories. An early writing challenge that I gave myself, while in college, was to choose some of my favorite short stories and try and craft songs out of them. It was really hard, and I’m not sure how effective some of the songs were, but it helped me organize my thoughts about what song, as an artform, can do.
Cafe Resonance
Cafe Resonance is a music venue and vegan cafe in Montreal that my friends opened. It’s a gathering place and intersection for so many creative music scenes in Montreal. I was lucky to work there for three years. Apart from playing there, and it feeling like my living room in many ways, I also saw a show there almost every night. There was a real focus on improvised music, and just on creative new music in general. It was such a supportive and inspiring environment to be in and opened my eyes and ears a lot. Some of my closest friendships and collaborations were born around Cafe Resonance, and I still love to play there so much.
I moved to Montreal straight out of high school to do my bachelors degree at McGill University. It’s only a five hour drive from Boston, but it was a complete culture shock for me. Growing up outside of Boston, I just hadn’t realized that it was possible to live as an artist, unless you were wildly successful and like a rockstar. Not to say that there aren’t many people making it work as artists in the U.S., but in an expensive city like Boston, it just wasn’t that visible to me. In Montreal, the rents were so cheap, and there was so much support for the arts both provincially and nationally. It supported an artistic community that was often working outside of the pressures of commercial success. It was just really cool to see that level of dedication in people, without the same level of anxiety about how they’re going to get by. Even the very basic fact that everyone had guaranteed health insurance just created a greater sense of security and well being that I think makes people feel more free to explore artistically. I learned how to songwrite in Montreal and I learned how to dedicate myself to the work, even when there’s no money coming in. I was able to work very few hours at the cafe, and then spend the rest of my time writing, workshopping and teaching. I learned that in order to write songs, I need quite a bit of quiet time and solitude. I learned how to value my artistic practice regardless of my lack of commercial success, and I learned that being part of a rich artistic community is incredibly fulfilling.
I started practicing yoga in college and it was a life saver. I was generally feeling pretty awful at the time and didn’t have the tools to process those feelings. I began practicing hatha yoga in Montreal and it did a few things – it helped me discover joy in my body, it helped me to process grief physically, and it provided a sacred healing space that became the basis for the kind of musical space I wanted to build. Not to say that my shows feel like yoga classes, because they don’t. But I do think that the quiet of the studio and this environment where people are showing up with the intention of fostering their well-being and gentle strength – there’s something so beautiful about that. It made me feel more empowered to write about my own development, and to think of music as a healing tool, something that can make any space feel sacred and healing.
Born and raised outside of Boston, Emma moved to Montreal in 2006 to study literature at McGill University. Whilst there she began performing regularly, releasing two critically acclaimed albums under her own name on the Montreal-based label, The 270 Sessions and performing vocals and brass with art-pop ensembles She’s Got a Habit and Malcolm Sailor’s Songs. After coming to New York in August of 2015 to perform in Franky Rousseau and Dominic Mekky’s chamber opera April, Emma decided to move to Brooklyn. It’s there that she penned the songs on Ocean Av and Come Back.
Depending on when you walk in on a song, Emma’s music might sound like folk, jazz, even R&B. It’s music that never stays put, full of moving parts, shifting tempos, and winding melodies. Her songs are journeys of self-discovery, framed by insightful lyrics and her warm, gossamer voice that songwriter Leif Vollebekk described as “like leather on silk.”
Her fourth album, Come Back, features Aaron Parks, Franky Rousseau, Tommy Crane and Zack Lober, and is due for release on September 6th.
This week, Emma unveiled a fantastic video, featuring an acoustic cover of Wilco’s ‘Either Way’ – take a listen below…
Forthcoming shows as follows…
SEP 6 – Brooklyn, NY – The Knitting Factory
SEP 14 – Paris, France – Ducs des Lombards
SEP 15 – London, United Kingdom – Kansas Smitty’s
OCT 6 – Cambridge, MA – Club Passim
OCT 8 – Burlington, VT – The Lamp Shop
OCT 9 – Montreal, QC – Cafe Resonance
OCT 11 – Wakefield, QC – Black Sheep Inn
OCT 12 – Toronto, ON – Burdock Music Hall
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Senate blocks bill repealing $2B in oil tax breaks
The Senate blocked a bill Tuesday that would repeal about $2 billion a year in tax breaks for the five biggest oil companies, a Democratic response to $4-a-gallon gasoline that might fare better...
WASHINGTON – The Senate blocked a bill Tuesday that would repeal about $2 billion a year in tax breaks for the five biggest oil companies, a Democratic response to $4-a-gallon gasoline that might fare better when Congress and the White House negotiate a deal later this year to increase the government's ability to borrow.
The bill was defeated on a procedural vote. But Democrats hope to build their case to include the measure in a deficit-reduction package being negotiated by key lawmakers and the Obama administration. Lawmakers from both parties are demanding deficit reduction as part of deal to increase the government's ability to borrow and avoid an unprecedented default on U.S. Treasury bonds.
"This bill says that even the most rich and powerful among us must do their fair share to help us reduce the deficit," said Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., the bill's sponsor. "Their high-priced lobbyists cannot stop us from doing what is fair and what is right."
Republicans and some Democrats opposed the tax increase, saying it would hurt domestic drilling while doing nothing to reduce gas prices. The vote was 52-48 in favor of the measure, short of the 60 votes needed to advance it. Three Democrats — Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mark Begich of Alaska — joined with nearly all Republicans in opposing the measure. Two Republicans, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, voted for it.
White House spokesman Jay Carney blamed Senate Republican leaders, saying they were more interested in protecting tax breaks for profitable oil companies than finding more responsible ways to spend that money. Nonetheless, he said the vote was an important step toward repealing "these unwarranted subsidies" and said the administration would continue to pursue the matter.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called the tax increases "misguided, unwarranted and ultimately counterproductive."
The measure would have affected Shell Oil Co., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP America and Chevron Corp.
"This is not an energy strategy, this is a public relations strategy, this is a 'how do I get re-elected' strategy," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. "It does not solve the problem or the pain that Americans are feeling at the pump."
Some GOP lawmakers argued that the bill would increase gas prices further. However, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service concluded that eliminating the tax breaks would be unlikely to result in higher gasoline prices, which are influenced by a host of factors. The report said the bill would raise about $1.2 billion in 2012. By comparison, the five oil companies had combined revenues of $1.5 trillion last year.
A GOP measure designed to increase offshore drilling is scheduled for a Senate vote on Wednesday, though it is not expected to pass, either. The Republican bill would force the Interior secretary to conduct offshore lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, Virginia and Alaska that were delayed by the Obama administration after the Gulf oil spill.
Republicans argue that their bill, which is backed by the Chamber of Commerce, would increase domestic oil production, sending a signal to the market that could eventually lead to lower gas prices. Similar measures easily passed the Republican-controlled House.
"Americans aren't interested in scapegoats," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. "They just want to pay less to fill up their cars."
The White House opposed the Republican bills. Instead, President Barack Obama directed his administration this past weekend to ramp up U.S. oil production by adopting some of the GOP's strategies.
Gasoline is more than $4 a gallon in many parts of the country. The national average is $3.94 a gallon for regular unleaded, up from $2.87 a gallon a year ago, according to AAA.
Five Democratic senators, led by Missouri's Sen. Claire McCaskill, asked the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to investigate "potential price fixing of gasoline by U.S. refiners." The senators said U.S refineries have cut back production even as gas prices rose, increasing their profit margins.
The heads of the five oil companies defended the tax breaks at a Senate hearing last week, saying they just want the same tax advantages enjoyed by other industries. Together, they logged profits totaling $36 billion during the first quarter. The Democrats say that with profits that high, the big oil companies wouldn't miss tax breaks that average $2 billion a year.
"Why should Americans pay at the gas pump once and then give these subsidies to the oil companies a second time?" said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D- Nev. "We believe we need to cut government spending," he said, adding, "The place to start is with these subsidies."
Obama has called for eliminating tax breaks for all oil and gas companies every year since he took office in 2009, a proposal that would raise an estimated $44 billion over the next decade. Lawmakers, including Democrats from oil-producing states, complained that Obama's proposal would raise taxes on many small and medium-sized businesses involved in oil production.
The Menendez bill would target only the five largest oil companies, raising about $21 billion over the same period. The White House issued a statement supporting the tax bill Tuesday, calling the tax breaks "wasteful subsidies."
Associated Press writer Dina Cappiello contributed to this report.
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New Trailer for Royal Shakespeare's RICHARD II Premieres Today
New trailer for
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’s
“Live From Stratford-upon Avon”
Debuts Today
A new trailer for The Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) production of RICHARD II, which will be played in cinemas around the world, debuts today. The voiceover is by Michael Pennington, playing John of Gaunt. Watch it here: RICHARD II trailer.
Published in London
Royal Shakespeare Company Premieres "Live from Stratford-upon-Avon" with David Tennant in RICHARD II to US Cinemas This Fall
The ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
Premieres “Live From Stratford-upon Avon”
David Tennant in
William Shakespeare’s RICHARD II
Directed by Gregory Doran
Exclusive Dates in U.S. Cinemas
December 3, 2013 – January 2, 2014
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in collaboration with Picturehouse Entertainment is pleased to announce that Gregory Doran’s production of William Shakespeare’s RICHARD II with David Tennant will be the first broadcast of “Live from Stratford-upon-Avon,” a program that will screen the RSC’s productions from Shakespeare’s home town around the world. Limited screenings will take place between December 3 2013 and January 2, 2014 in cities across the United States. Canadian dates and cities will be announced next week. For a current list of participating venues go to http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/.
Published in 2013-14 Season Press Releases
Gregory Doran Announces 2013 Winter Productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company
GREGORY DORAN ANNOUNCES 2013 WINTER PRODUCTIONS AT THE
Public Theater Partners with RSC and GableStage on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
THE PUBLIC THEATER,
MIAMI’S GABLESTAGE,
TO PRESENT A RADICAL NEW EDIT OF
SHAKESPEARE’S
Directed and Edited by Tarell Alvin McCraney,
This International Collaboration Will Premiere at
Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2013
Before Engagements in Miami and New York in January 2014
November 12, 2012 – The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) announced an international collaboration today between Miami’s GableStage and the Royal Shakespeare Company to present Tarell Alvin McCraney’s radical new staging of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Directed and edited by McCraney, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA will premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford-upon-Avon home in November 2013 before coming to the United States to play at Miami’s GableStage at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in January 2014 followed by The Public Theater in late January 2014.
Royal Shakespeare Company and Dodgers to Produce Roald Dahl's MATILDA THE MUSICAL on Broadway Spring 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Dodgers to produce
Roald Dahl’s MATILDA THE MUSICAL on Broadway, Spring 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that the Dodgers will be its producing partner for Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical on Broadway. Currently playing to sold-out houses in London’s West End, the new musical is planning a New York opening in the Spring of 2013.
Published in 2011-12 Theatre Season Press Releases
Royal Shakespeare Company Production of Roald Dahl's MATILDA THE MUSICAL Planning Broadway Arrival Early 2013
THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’S PRODUCTION OF ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICALIS PLANNING NEW YORK OPENING EARLY 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company is currently planning for its production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, to open in New York early 2013.
Preliminary auditions for adult casting will begin in March of this year in New York City.
Further production information will be announced in the near future.
Matilda The Musical premiered at The Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, home of the RSC, playing to sold-out audiences for twelve weeks from November 2010 to January 2011.
LONDON: Royal Shakespeare Company Announces Winter 2012/13 Season and More
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ANNOUNCES
WINTER 2012/13 SEASON IN STRATFORD AND
NEW THREE-YEAR TOURING AND EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP WITH FIVE LEADING REGIONAL THEATRES
LONDON: Casting Announced for RSC Production of Roald Dahl's MATILDA THE MUSICAL
Casting announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s world premiere production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
Get MATILDA THE MUSICAL Tickets
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s world premiere production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical will transfer to London’s Cambridge Theatre, previewing from Tuesday 18 October.
Bertie Carvel (Miss Trunchbull), Paul Kaye (Mr Wormwood) Josie Walker (Mrs Wormwood) and Lauren Ward (Miss Honey) will reprise their roles alongside Marc Antolin, Verity Bentham, Peter Howe, Michael Kent, Melanie La Barrie, Matthew Malthouse, Alastair Parker, Nick Searle and Emily Shaw who also appeared in the original production in Stratford.
Further adult casting includes: Matthew Clark, Leanne Pinder, Rachel Moran, Lucy Thatcher, Tim Walton and Gary Watson.
The four young actresses playing the role of Matilda will be announced on Dahl Day on Tuesday 13 September.
The three teams of eight young performers who will recreate the roles of Bruce, Lavender, Amanda, Nigel, Eric and the other pupils at Crunchem Hall Primary School are:
Thomas Atkinson, Jake Bailey, James Beesley, Ruby Bridle, Oonagh Cox, Jemima Eaton, Alicia Gould, Zachary Harris, Callum Henderson, Fleur Houdijk, Jamie Kaye, William Keeler, Lily Laight, Katie Lee, Isobelle Molloy, Jemima Morgan, Toby Murray, Alfie Manser, Lucy May Pollard, Annabel Parsons, Ellie Simons, Louis Suc, Jaydon Vijn and Ted Wilson.
Matilda The Musical played to sold-out audiences at the RSC’s The Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon for twelve weeks from November 2010 to January 2011. Roald Dahl’s magical story about a girl with extraordinary powers has been a favourite novel for millions of people across the world since it was published in 1988.
The new stage musical, which captured the imagination of young and old alike during its short run, is written by the highly acclaimed playwright Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by the anarchic Australian comedian, musician and composer Tim Minchin, and direction by Matthew Warchus.
The production is designed by Rob Howell, with choreography by Peter Darling, orchestrations, additional music and musical supervision by Christopher Nightingale, lighting by Hugh Vanstone, sound by Simon Baker and special effects and illusions are by Paul Kieve.
The entire creative team will reassemble to create the London production.
Matilda The Musical is produced in the West End by the Royal Shakespeare Company with André Ptaszynski as Executive Producer.
This production was developed with the support of Company Dramaturg Jeanie O'Hare and the RSC Literary Department.
For the initial booking period tickets are available for performances up to and including Sunday 12 February 2012.
Box Office: See Tickets 0844 412 4652 / RSC Ticket Hotline 0844 800 1110
· LISTINGS INFORMATION:
Cambridge Theatre, Earlham Street, WC2H 9HU
18 October 2011 – 12 February 2012
Opening Night: 22 November 2011
Box Office: 0844 412 4652 / 0844 800 1110
Performance Times:
18 October – 5 November 2011
Tuesday 7pm
Wednesday – Saturday 7.30pm
Saturday 29 October & Saturday 5 November 2.30pm
7 November – 26 November 2011
Monday, Wednesday – Saturday 7.30pm
Wednesday 9, Saturday 12, Wednesday 16, Saturday 19, Thursday 24, Saturday 26 November 2.30pm
28 November – 18 December 2011
Wednesday & Saturday 2.30pm
Sunday 3pm
19 December – 2 January 2012
Wednesday 21, Friday 23, Saturday 24, Wednesday 28, Friday 30 December 2.30pm
Saturday 31 December 2pm & 6.30pm
Sunday 1 January 3pm
No perfs on Sunday 25 & Monday 26 December
No eve perf on Saturday 24 December
3 January – 12 February 2012
Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm
Wednesday & Saturday 2:30pm
Stalls £59.50, £49.50
Dress Circle £59.50
Upper Circle £39.50, £29.50, £25, £20
Reduced price preview tickets available from £15.
10+ Group Rate £45
Group Bookings: 0844 412 4650
Education Rates:
10+ School Group Rate £25
Discounts available Tuesday – Thursday evenings and Wednesday matinees
Education Bookings: 0844 800 1113
Under 18s £10 off up to two tickets per full-price paying adult
16-25yrs £5 tickets available (1 ticket per person)
If the choice of seat is limited by a disability then the ticket is £29.75 (50% off top price). A companion ticket is also £29.75.
Discounts (excluding disability rates) are not available between Monday 24 October – Saturday 29 October 2011 and Monday 19 December 2011 - Sunday 1 January 2012 inclusive.
· Dennis Kelly is primarily a theatre writer. His new play for the RSC, The Gods Weep, recently opened at the Hampstead Theatre. Orphans was staged in 2009 at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before transferring to the Birmingham Rep Theatre and Soho Theatre, London. His other plays include Debris (Theatre 503 2003 andBattersea Arts Centre 2004), Osama the Hero (Hampstead Theatre 2005), After the End (Bush 2005 and UK and international tour 2006), Love and Money (Royal Exchange, Manchester and Young Vic 2006) and Taking Care of Baby (Hampstead Theatre, 2007). In 2007 he also wrote for the National Theatre Connections Festival.
· Tim Minchin is an award-winning Australian musician, actor, comedian and writer. He has recently completed a sell-out world tour. He has composed and written songs for theatre and documentary, most recently This Blasted Earth (Tamarama Rock Surfers), Somewhere (Q Theatre) and the soundtrack for The Kindness of Strangers (Prospero) – an award-winning documentary by Rhian Skirving.
· Matthew Warchus is a celebrated Tony award-winning director and dramatist. His RSC production of Hamlet at the Barbican in 1997 also played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, USA. He directedYasmina Reza's Art and God of Carnage in the West End and on Broadway, True West starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly, Speed-the-Plow starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum, the musicals Our House and The Lord of the Rings, which played at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2007. He is directing Ghost The Musical which is currently playing at Manchester Opera House and transfers to London’s Piccadilly Theatre in June.
· Rob Howell, the designer, has picked up four Olivier Awards for Best Set Design for the RSC’s Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Vasa and Hedda Gabler. Further credits for the RSC include The Shakespeare Review, The Painter of Dishonour, Little Eyolf, The Family Reunion. Theatre includes: The Observer; Her Naked Skin, The Reporter, Buried Child, Chips With Everything, Troilus and Cressida (Olivier Award for Best Set Design), Money, Battle Royal, Howard Katz (National Theatre);Simpatico, Hard Fruit, Real Classy Affair (Royal Court); Tartuffe, The Government Inspector, Vassa (Olivier Award for Best Set Design), Conversations after a Burial, Lulu (also at the Kennedy Center, Washington), Faith Healer, The Lady from the Sea(Almeida); Hedda Gabler (Olivier Award for Best Set Design. Duke of York’s Theatre/Almeida); Habeas Corpus, The Fix, How I Learned to Drive, True West, The Glass Menagerie (also at the Comedy Theatre), Proof (Donmar); The Caretaker, Our House(Olivier Award for Best Musical. West End); The Graduate (West End/Australia/Broadway); Sunset Boulevard (UK tour); True West(Circle in the Square, New York); The Lord of the Rings (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane/Toronto); Inherit the Wind, The Norman Conquests (also on Broadway), Speed-the-Plow, Complicit (Old Vic); The Last Cigarette (Chichester Festival/Trafalgar Studios);Private Lives, Prisoner of Second Avenue(Vaudeville), Deathtrap (Noel Coward). Opera includes: Turn of the Screw (Welsh National Opera); Sophie’s Choice (Royal Opera House); Carmen (Metropolitan Opera in New York)
· Peter Darling is an award-winning choreographer. Having picked up the Olivier and Tony award for Best Choreographer forBilly Elliot, Peter has choreographed The Tempest for the RSC as well as The Lord of the Rings (London/Toronto); Our House(Olivier award for Best Musical. Cambridge); Merrily We Roll Along (Olivier award for Best Musical. Donmar); Candide (Olivier award for Best Musical Production. National Theatre); Oh!What a Lovely War, Power (National Theatre); Closer to Heaven(Theatregoer’s Choice award for Best Choreographer); The Lord of the Rings (Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic); Sunset Boulevard (Really Useful Group). Peter’s film credits include: The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot (MTV Best Dance Sequence), Plots with a View, Trauma.
· Christopher Nightingale, the musical supervisor and orchestrator, is responsible for making sure all the musical puzzle pieces fit together, smoothing over any rough edges and creating a synthesis. He is one of theatre's most experienced and highly regarded masters of his craft, with past credits that include some of the West End’s best plays and musicals, including The Lord of the Rings and Bombay Dreams.
· Hugh Vanstone, lighting designer. RSC: Arabian Nights, The Winter’s Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, Bad Weather, The Unexpected Man, Hamlet, Cymbeline, Three Hours After Marriage, Slaughter City, Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet. Hugh has designed the lighting for more than 150 productions and worked for most of the UK’s national companies and extensively on Broadway. Most recent work includes: Deathtrap (Noel Coward); La Bête (Comedy Theatre, Broadway); The Late Middle Classes, A Doll’s House (Donmar); The Real Thing (Old Vic); A Steady Rain (Broadway); Tanz Der Vampire (Vienna); God Of Carnage (West End/UK tour/Broadway). Hugh has received three Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Design.
· Simon Baker, sound. RSC: Don John (Kneehigh/RSC/tour). Trained: Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre includes:The Witches of Eastwick, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mary Poppins, Cats, Spamalot (London); Boeing Boeing (London/ Broadway);The Lord of the Rings (Toronto/London); I am Shakespeare (UK tour/Chichester); God of Carnage (London/Broadway); Our House (UK tour); Brief Encounter (Cinema Haymarket/UK/US tour & Broadway); The Norman Conquests (Old Vic/Broadway);Complicit (Old Vic); The Real Thing (Old Vic); Arcadia (London); The Birds (Gate, Dublin); As You Like It, The Tempest (BAM/Old Vic/Bridge Project 2010); Asylum Year One (Kneehigh); Deathtrap (London); La Bête (London/Broadway).
· Paul Kieve, illusionist. RSC: The Winter’s Tale, The Cherry Orchard, The Tempest, Alice in Wonderland, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Mysteries, Spring Awakening, Arabian Nights. this season: Matilda.Theatre includes: The Invisible Man (Menier Chocolate Factory/West End/Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Zorro (West End/Paris/Moscow/Tokyo); India (Frankfurt); Mrs. Affleck, Her Naked Skin, The Seagull, Theatre of Blood, The Night Season, La Grande Magia, The Cherry Orchard, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (National Theatre); Derren Brown – Enigma, The Lord of the Rings, Our House, The Witches of Eastwick, Scrooge, The Witches, The Woman In White (West End); The Nativity, Grimm Tales (Young Vic). Opera includes: Das Reingold(Strasbourg); L’Heure Espagnole (Royal Opera House); Macbeth (Hamburg); And Parsifal (Paris Bastille). Other work includes:Alice In Wonderland (English National Ballet); Aladdin (Scottish Ballet), Holiday on Ice (tour). Television includes: Cranford 2, I’d Do Anything, History Of Magic, Derren Brown series, Heroes of Magic, Children In Need, The Proms. Film: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Invention of the Hugo Cabret (forthcoming). Publications include: Hocus Pocus (Bloomsbury); Guinness Book of Records Magic Category. Paul was the recipient of the British Magical Society Award for outstanding contribution to magic, is a Gold Star member of The Inner Magic Circle. His one man show has been performed internationally and at many UK festivals.
· The work of the RSC Literary Department is generously supported by THE DRUE HEINZ TRUST
· The original cast soundtrack will be released in September 2011 and is initially available exclusively from the RSC shop. Pre-order now at www.rsc.org.uk/shop
· Holiday Inn is the RSC’s preferred hotel partner for Matilda The Musical
Royal Shakespeare Company Begins NY Residency Tonight Jul 6
PERFORMANCES BEGIN TONIGHT!
THE ACCLAIMED ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
BEGINS AN UNPRECEDENTED SIX-WEEK, FIVE-PLAY RESIDENCY IN NEW YORK CITY.
The Royal Shakespeare Company, Lincoln Center Festival and Park Avenue Armory present this engagement in association with Ohio State University.
RSC’s 41-member ensemble will perform in repertory in a full scale replica of its transformed Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, specially created in the Armory’s soaring
Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
To read more and view the thrilling construction of the theater, click the links below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/theater/royal-shakespeare-company-brings-a-stage-to-new-york.html?_r=1
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iwrYnSA8bVdlg4M41NmdDHnrGJlw?docId=84de39f9ea904599a55928d9e6e15d5c
WNYC
http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2011/jul/05/once-more-unto-bard-royal-shakespeare-company-takes-new-york/
PLAYBILL MAGAZINE
http://www.playbill.com/features/article/152423-The-RSC-in-NYC-Stratford-upon-Avon-upon-Park-Avenue
For more information, tickets and performance schedules: www.lincolncenterfestival.org
RSC Production of Roald Dahl's MATILDA THE MUSICAL to Transfer to London's Cambridge Theatre
Roald Dahl’s
to Transfer to London's Cambridge Theatre
· The Royal Shakespeare Company’s world premiere production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical will preview at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End from Tuesday 18 October 2011
· Tickets go on sale to RSC Members on Friday 20 May at 9am
· Tickets go on sale to the public on Saturday 21 May at 9am
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s world premiere production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical will transfer to London’s Cambridge Theatre on Tuesday 18 October.
Priority booking for RSC Members opens at 9am on Friday 20 May. General booking opens on the following day, Saturday 21 May, at 9am. For the initial booking period tickets are available for performances up to and including Sunday 12 February 2012.
The production is designed by Rob Howell, with choreography by Peter Darling, musical supervision and orchestration by Christopher Nightingale, lighting by Hugh Vanstone, sound by Simon Baker and special effects and illusions are by PaulKieve.
Many adult cast members from the original production will reprise their roles at the Cambridge Theatre: Marc Antolin, Verity Bentham, Bertie Carvel (Miss Trunchbull), Paul Kaye (Mr Wormwood) Michael Kent, Melanie La Barrie, Matthew Malthouse, Alastair Parker, Nick Searle, Emily Shaw, Josie Walker (Mrs Wormwood) and Lauren Ward (Miss Honey). Further casting will be announced soon.
The casting process is currently under way to find the four young actresses who will play the role of Matilda and three teams of nine young performers who will re-create the roles of Bruce, Lavender, Amanda, Nigel, Eric and the other pupils at Crunchem Hall Primary School.
www.matildathemusical.com
To book online visit: www.matildathemusical.com
No perf on Sunday 25 & Monday 26 December
· Dennis Kelly is primarily a theatre writer. His new play for the RSC, The Gods Weep, recently opened at the Hampstead Theatre. Orphans was staged in 2009 at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before transferring to the Birmingham Rep Theatre and Soho Theatre, London. His other plays include Debris (Theatre 503 2003 and Battersea Arts Centre 2004), Osama the Hero (Hampstead Theatre 2005), After the End (Bush 2005 and UK and international tour 2006), Love and Money (Royal Exchange, Manchester and Young Vic 2006) and Taking Care of Baby (Hampstead Theatre, 2007). In 2007 he also wrote for the National Theatre Connections Festival.
· Tim Minchin is an award-winning Australian musician, actor, comedian and writer. He has recently completed a sell-out world tour. He has composed and written songs for theatre and documentary, most recently This Blasted Earth(Tamarama Rock Surfers), Somewhere (Q Theatre) and the soundtrack for The Kindness of Strangers (Prospero) – an award-winning documentary by Rhian Skirving.
· Matthew Warchus is a celebrated Tony award-winning director and dramatist. His RSC production of Hamlet at the Barbican in 1997 also played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, USA. He directed Yasmina Reza's Art and God of Carnage in the West End and on Broadway, True West starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly, Speed-the-Plow, starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum, the musicals Our House and The Lord of the Rings, which played at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2007. He is directing Ghost The Musical which is currently playing at Manchester Opera House and transfers to London’s Piccadilly Theatre in June.
· Rob Howell, the designer, has picked up four Olivier Awards for Best Set Design for the RSC’s Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Vasa and Hedda Gabler. Further credits for the RSC include The Shakespeare Review, The Painter of Dishonour, Little Eyolf, The Family Reunion. Theatre includes: The Observer; Her Naked Skin, The Reporter, Buried Child, Chips With Everything, Troilus and Cressida (Olivier Award for Best Set Design), Money, Battle Royal, Howard Katz (National Theatre); Simpatico, Hard Fruit, Real Classy Affair (Royal Court); Tartuffe, The Government Inspector, Vassa (Olivier Award for Best Set Design), Conversations after a Burial, Lulu (also at the Kennedy Center, Washington), Faith Healer, The Lady from the Sea (Almeida); Hedda Gabler (Olivier Award for Best Set Design. Duke of York’s Theatre/Almeida); Habeas Corpus, The Fix, How I Learned to Drive, True West, The Glass Menagerie(also at the Comedy Theatre), Proof (Donmar); The Caretaker, Our House (Olivier Award for Best Musical. West End); The Graduate (West End/Australia/Broadway); Sunset Boulevard (UK tour); True West (Circle in the Square, New York); The Lord of the Rings (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane/Toronto); Inherit the Wind, The Norman Conquests (also on Broadway), Speed the Plow, Complicit (Old Vic); The Last Cigarette (Chichester Festival/Trafalgar Studios); Private Lives, Prisoner of Second Avenue(Vaudeville), Deathtrap (Noel Coward). Opera includes: Turn of the Screw (Welsh National Opera); Sophie’s Choice (Royal Opera House); Carmen (Metropolitan Opera in New York)
· Peter Darling is an award-winning choreographer. Having picked up the Olivier and Tony award for Best Choreographer for Billy Elliot, Peter has choreographed The Tempest for the RSC as well as The Lord of the Rings(London/Toronto); Our House (Olivier award for Best Musical. Cambridge); Merrily We Roll Along (Olivier award for Best Musical. Donmar); Candide (Olivier award for Best Musical Production. National Theatre); Oh!What a Lovely War,Power (National Theatre); Closer to Heaven (Theatregoer’s Choice award for Best Choreographer); The Lord of the Rings (Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic); Sunset Boulevard (Really Useful Group). Peter’s film credits include: The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot (MTV Best Dance Sequence), Plots with a View, Trauma.
· Hugh Vanstone, lighting designer. RSC: Arabian Nights, The Winter’s Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, Bad Weather, The Unexpected Man, Hamlet, Cymbeline, Three Hours After Marriage, Slaughter City, Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet. Hugh has designed the lighting for more than 150 productions and worked for most of the UK’s national companies and extensively on Broadway. Most recent work includes: Deathtrap (Noel Coward); La Bête(Comedy Theatre, Broadway); The Late Middle Classes, A Doll’s House (Donmar); The Real Thing (Old Vic); A Steady Rain (Broadway); Tanz Der Vampire (Vienna); God Of Carnage (West End/UK tour/Broadway). Hugh has received three Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Design.
· Simon Baker, sound. RSC: Don John (Kneehigh/RSC/tour). Trained: Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre includes: The Witches of Eastwick, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mary Poppins, Cats, Spamalot (London); Boeing Boeing(London/ Broadway); The Lord of the Rings (Toronto/London); I am Shakespeare (UK tour/Chichester); God of Carnage (London/Broadway); Our House (UK tour); Brief Encounter (Cinema Haymarket/UK/US tour & Broadway); The Norman Conquests (Old Vic/Broadway); Complicit (Old Vic); The Real Thing (Old Vic); Arcadia (London); The Birds (Gate, Dublin); As You Like It, The Tempest (BAM/Old Vic/Bridge Project 2010); Asylum Year One (Kneehigh); Deathtrap (London);La Bête (London/Broadway).
· Paul Kieve, illusionist. RSC: The Winter’s Tale, The Cherry Orchard, The Tempest, Alice in Wonderland, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Mysteries, Spring Awakening, Arabian Nights. this season: Matilda.Theatre includes: The Invisible Man (Menier Chocolate Factory/West End/Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Zorro (West End/Paris/Moscow/Tokyo); India (Frankfurt); Mrs. Affleck, Her Naked Skin, The Seagull, Theatre of Blood, The Night Season, La Grande Magia, The Cherry Orchard, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (National Theatre); Derren Brown – Enigma, The Lord of the Rings, Our House, The Witches of Eastwick, Scrooge, The Witches, The Woman In White (West End); The Nativity, Grimm Tales(Young Vic). Opera includes: Das Reingold (Strasbourg); L’Heure Espagnole (Royal Opera House); Macbeth (Hamburg); And Parsifal (Paris Bastille). Other work includes: Alice In Wonderland (English National Ballet); Aladdin (Scottish Ballet), Holiday on Ice (tour). Television includes: Cranford 2, I’d Do Anything, History Of Magic, Derren Brown series, Heroes of Magic, Children In Need, The Proms. Film: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Invention of the Hugo Cabret (forthcoming). Publications include: Hocus Pocus (Bloomsbury); Guinness Book of Records Magic Category. Paul was the recipient of the British Magical Society Award for outstanding contribution to magic, is a Gold Star member of The Inner Magic Circle. His one man show has been performed internationally and at many UK festivals.
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HISTORY OF BERLIN
Posted on November 7, 2020 November 7, 2020 by Marlene Hill
Berlin is the capital and also the largest town of Germany and among those 16 countries of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is famous for its historical associations as the Italian capital, internationalism and endurance, lively nightlife, and its numerous cafés, clubs, bars, street art, and many museums, temples, and other sites of interest. Berlin is one of the most urban and most populated cities in the world. But how did he get there? Here is a brief history of this amazing town.
The name Berlin appears for the first time in recorded history in 1244, seven years later that of its sister town, Kölln, by which it later merged. Both were based close to the start of the 13th century. The two cities were established for geographic and mercantile motives, since they controlled a natural east-west trade course across the Spree River.
The way for their founding was opened with a Germanic resurgence in the area, which had been abandoned to the Slavs by the first Germanic tribes as they had migrated westward. The Slavs were subdued by Albert I the Bear, a Saxon who crossed the Elbe River in the west. His successors took the name margrave of the mark (border territory) of Brandenburg. Berlin nevertheless retains as its symbol a defiant black keep standing on its hind legs.
BERLIN IN 1250.
In 1411 the mark of Brandenburg came under the governorship of the Nürnberg feudal baron Frederick VI.
The Thirty Years War of 1618-1648 laid a heavy financial burden on the city, and the population was reduced from 12,000 to 7,500. When Frederick William the Great Elector assumed power in 1640, he embarked on a building program, which included fortifications that enabled him to reestablish Swedish invaders. His rule also marked the onset of the evolution of canals, which by 1669 provided a direct connection between Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) from the east and Hamburg and the open sea from the west.
His successor, Frederick III, crowned Prussian king in 1701 at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), made Berlin the royal residence city.
Frederick II the Great adorned the city with new buildings and promoted its economic and infrastructural development. The Napoleonic occupation of 1806-1808 caused a significant setback to its own development. Section of this administrative, economic, and cultural reconstruction was the foundation, in 1810, of the Frederick William University by the scholar and ministry of education Wilhelm von Humboldt.
But colleges and academies had already existed in Berlin since the mid-17th century. Berlin early attracted outstanding thinkers, including the philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Marx. The city also had its first popular uprising in 1830 when tailors’ apprentices took to the streets over working conditions.
The Revolution of 1848 led to a bloody clash between soldiers and citizenry. By this period the city’s population had climbed to 415,000, from about 100,000 a century before. Together with the opening of the Berlin-Potsdam lineup in 1838, Berlin became the centre of an expanding railroad network.
REVOLUTION 1848.
The period of the Industrial Revolution was also that of Otto von Bismarck, who as prime minister of Prussia combined Germany in 1871.
Twice in the 20th century, the date of November 9 has declared dramatic events from the history of Germany and Berlin. Five decades after Hitler’s putsch was set down in Munich. Back in 1938 Nazi storm troopers vandalized Jewish synagogues, stores, and other possessions in the nighttime of violence called Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). On November 9, 1989, East German police opened the wall which had divided the town for 28 decades. Due to the institutions connected to the date, October 3, instead of November 9, became the newest national holiday (Unity Day).
The interval 1918-1933 was among runaway inflation, mass unemployment, and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler. Hitler loved to bet. It is said that he won everytime. He was constantly Serie A betting. He really loved it- On January 31, 1933, Hitler became chancellor and, depending on the notorious Enabling Act, embraced by a Reichstag bulk, he took complete power that very year.
In 1933 the Nazis began to persecute communists, social democrats, and labor unionists and also to invade the German Jews of the rights as taxpayers. The scene of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin only superficially veiled the fact of Nazi Germany, which was shortly revealed by Kristallnacht. Five million Jews lived the Holocaust in town of Berlin. Back in 1990 the World Jewish Congress fulfilled for the very first time in Germany, in Berlin.
Allied aerial bombing throughout World War II price Berlin an estimated 52,000 people. Still another 100,000 civilians died in the battle for Berlin that started from the Soviet army on April 16, 1945. The majority of Berlin’s residential districts, factories, military facilities, roads, and cultural structures were ruined. On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker under the Chancellery.
Greater Berlin was created in 1920 by fusing 7 districts, 59 nation communities, and 27 landed homes to one institution.
In June 1953 some 50,000 employees, reacting to prohibitive policies, rebelled in East Berlin. To stop the exodus of its inhabitants, the East German government, with the full approval of the Soviets, erected the Berlin Wall, isolating West from East Berlin. Generous cultural and financial subsidies along with the exemption of its citizens in West German conscription made West Berlin a center of artistic experimentation and political dissent.
Mass escapes in the summer of 1989 through Hungary and mass demonstrations in Leipzig, Berlin, and elsewhere inside the GDR from the autumn of 1989 brought about the collapse of communist rule when the representatives of the GDR and their foreign allies had celebrated the 40th anniversary of East Germany. The opening of this wall brought the 28-year division of Berlin to an end, since the unification of Germany ended the 45-year occupation of town. With a few segments maintained as a monument, the wall has been completely removed by the summer of 1991.
THE FALL OF BERLIN WALL
The reunited town, because 1991 Germany’s official funding, is faced with a range of issues, such as a 30-year fracture in joint and thorough city, highway, and public transport planning; high unemployment, especially among former East German government employees; duplication of many public institutions ; a mental barrier which arose between easterners and westerners (“the wall in the head”); an acute housing shortage and a sharp growth in real estate prices and rents, and a flood of immigrants, particularly eastern Europeans, for whom Berlin is the easternmost “Western” metropolitan area.
Large-scale infrastructural projects reunited the city’s long-divided transit methods. Perhaps most importantly, the branches within the city started to break down as westerners lived or worked in prior eastern neighbourhoods, and easterners lived or worked at the former west. The democratization of eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 moved the centre of European gravity eastward. This shift, expressed also by the transport of the German national government from the Rhine into the Spree, holds strong promise for reviving Berlin as an economic center and as the political and cultural hub of central Europe.
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Home » Opinion » Russell Shaw » The future of the news business
The future of the news business
On: 6/6/2014, By Russell Shaw , In: Opinion
It was a week that began with the management of The New York Times forcing out the paper's executive editor after just three years. A few days later, exhibiting what can only be called eccentric news judgment, page one of The Washington Post featured one story on trendy restaurants for upscale Washingtonians and another on teenage rodeos in Maryland. Dull items like Ukraine and Syria and kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls were nowhere in sight.
Think that things have gotten kind of weird in the news business lately? You're absolutely right. In the old media especially--newspapers and magazines, that is--signs abound of continuing decline, growing angst, and a nervous scramble to reach out to new audiences or at least hang on to the dwindling audiences they've still got.
Browsing in the Columbia Journalism Review, you find a writer referring casually, as if speaking of a fait accompli, to "the collapse of the newspaper industry." To which, of course, one familiar response is: "So what? Take a look at the Internet--there are as many news sites out there as any sane person could want. And many of them are generated by old news media making their move into the digital era."
That's all very well, but it ignores a crucial point. Covering the news is a labor-intensive enterprise, and the number of media actually attempting to do it--especially in the national and international sectors--has always been comparatively small and is getting smaller all the time. Newsrooms have shrunk. Foreign and domestic bureaus have closed right and left as an economy measure. In the news business now, fewer and fewer are trying to do more and more with less and less.
As for news on the Internet, it's largely the province of aggregators--sites featuring links to coverage provided by those who still hang in there doing original work--along with a wilderness of bloggers who opinionate on the news but don't cover it.
The situation in secular media is mirrored in religious media. Many diocesan weeklies have shut down, switched to biweekly or monthly, or else transitioned to the Internet. Many magazines similarly have disappeared or also moved onto the web. Blogs and bloggers have multiplied. By no means is this all for the worse, but who'd care to say it's all for the best?
Speaking at meeting in Rome, Helen Osman, the top communication official of the U.S. bishops' conference, says that "to understand the culture of the United States and how the Church can present the faith within that culture, it is important to realize that the adoption of digital communications is fundamentally changing the culture." Quite so. In the end, moreover, it doesn't matter greatly whether people get their news on a printed page or a screen. But it does matter that they get it--and that it be timely, accurate, honest, and fair. Religious leaders, just like other leaders in society, need to worry about that.
It's often said that the proliferation of news-related sites on the Internet means people have plenty of news sources at their disposal and can fend for themselves. But the ugly reality is that many, instead of digging for the truth of things, settle cheerfully for the version of events--and the site--that tickles their particular bias. The old news media had lots of faults, but at their best they made an honorable effort to get the facts and tell the story straight. However you look at it, their decline is very bad news.
Russell Shaw is the author of more than twenty books, including three novels and volumes on ethics and moral theology. He is a consultor of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
- Russell Shaw is the author of more than twenty books. He is a consultor of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and served as communications director for the U.S. Bishops.
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Cannabis Retailer Fire & Flower Continues to Leverage Couche-Tard Partnership as It Considers the U.S. Market
Exclusive Interview with Fire & Flower CEO Trevor Fencott
Cannabis retailer Fire & Flower (TSX: FAF) (OTCQX: FFLWF) continues to strengthen its retail network across Canada, and in 2021, it is exploring what expansion into the U.S. could look like. CEO Trevor Fencott last spoke with New Cannabis Ventures in May 2020 and checked in at the beginning of 2021 to discuss how the company’s digital platform is driving growth, the recent acquisition of Friendly Stranger and his outlook on the rest of the year. The audio of the entire conversation is available at the end of this written summary.
The Friendly Stranger Acquisition
At the end of last year, Fire & Flower completed the acquisition of Friendly Stranger. The acquisition gives the company access to a different consumer base, an accessories brand with a long history and a stronger retail position in Ontario. Fire & Flower now has 25 stores in the province. With a cap of 30 stores, Fire & Flower is close to reaching the curent maximum allowable retail footprint in Ontario, according to Fencott.
The Friendly Stranger Acquisition Strengthens Fire & Flower’s Ontario Footprint.
Retail Presence
Fire & Flower is opening stores at a brisk pace; it currently has 74 retail locations, according to Fencott. The company’s largest presence is in Alberta, and it also has a significant footprint in Saskatchewan. Following the Friendly Stranger acquisition, Fire & Flower has a big presence in Ontario as well. The company has one store in Manitoba and plans to add more. In British Columbia, the company has completed store build-outs and is waiting on licensing.
The Company Continues to Open Retail Locations in Canada.
In the early days of the cannabis industry, there was a rush to build and open stores. As time passed, it became clear that retail requires a disciplined approach. Brick and mortar expansion slowed, a trend further driven by the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, construction has begun to pick up again, but Fire & Flower is taking a more precise approach, according to Fencott.
The company will consider M&A opportunities that are immediately accretive going forward according to Fencott, but he believes organic growth is more cost-effective from a capital allocation perspective.
The Hifyre Platform
Fire & Flower’s investment in technology has helped it to navigate the pandemic, facilitating delivery and curbside pickup. The company’s Hifyre digital platform also drives customer acquisition and communication. More than 190,000 consumers use the platform, according to Fencott, and that number continues to grow.
Creating an omnichannel connection with consumers was always the company’s intent as it developed a retail 2.0 strategy. And the Fire & Flower team is seeing the value of that approach. The company’s digitally engaged consumers driver further revenue with a bigger basket size, according to Fencott.
The Hifyre platform gives Fire & Flower access to powerful analytics. By examining consumer behavior, the company was able to identify a market opportunity. Over the summer, it launched product private label brand Revity CBD. Fencott expects the CBD product category to continue to grow in markets like the U.S.
Fire & Flower Recently Launched Revity CBD.
Cannabis 2.0 Products
In Canada, the rollout of cannabis 2.0 products has progressed in fits and starts, affected by supply constraints and regulations. Fencott offered the example of beverages. This product category is crowded with many different brands, but purchase limits remain, and penetration in this category is relatively low thus far. He expects that some of the barriers for 2.0 products will begin to lower over time.
Couche-Tard Partnership Update
Fire & Flower continues to find new ways to leverage the strategic partnership it has with Alimentation Couche-Tard. Recently, the company announced a pilot project focused on opening cannabis retail locations near Circle K stores. The pilot program is a reflection of the company’s focus on consumer convenience. Fire & Flower plans to have smaller store locations conveniently located and stocked with the products consumers want, as determined by the company’s analytics. Fencott expects that the pilot program will progress to other phases this year.
The company is also looking at other ways to work with Couche-Tard. For example, it is currently involved in a pilot program for gift cards, and it is exploring merchandising opportunities between the two companies.
Additionally, Fire & Flower has a shared services agreement that allows it to make use of Couche-Tard’s depth of real estate experience. Couche-Tard has 16,000 stores, which means it has an advanced store selection process, according to Fencott.
Looking to the U.S.
Fire & Flower was built from the ground up to be a best-in-breed, tech-enabled cannabis retailer. Canada was always meant to be the testing grounds for the company, according to Fencott. The partnership with Couche-Tard, which has thousands of stores in 25 countries, means Fire & Flower ultimately wants to be in each of those countries where cannabis is legal.
As it considers opportunities in the U.S., the Fire & Flower team wants to find markets that are similar to Saskatchewan: a market where the company can do distribution, delivery, ecommerce and bricks and mortar retail. As a retailer, the company is less interested in states that require vertical integration. A state like California, according to Fencott, would make be appealing.
Funding Outlook
In December, Fire & Flower exercised warrants, receiving more funding through the partnership with Couche-Tard. The company also announced an at-the-market equity program at the end of 2020. The ATM was about a low cost of capital for the company, according to Fencott. The company has a strong balance sheet, and he wants to make it even stronger. Cash in the bank is important, particularly during the ongoing pandemic.
The company achieved its goal of positive operating EBITDA last quarter, and positive cash flow opens the door to more funding options, according to Fencott. Going forward, he expects the company to focus more on non-dilutive financing like debt raises.
Growth in 2021
Now that the company has reached the point of positive operating EBITDA, it wants to continue that momentum and demonstrate sustainable positive EBITDA to its shareholders. This year, the company plans to continue opening stores in Canada and pursuing aggressive financial growth. While Canada is a relatively small market, Fire & Flower has honed its approach to hub and spoke distribution and its technology infrastructure, which could give it a competitive advantage as it breaks into other markets, according to Fencott.
As the company grows, the Fire & Flower team will be closely watching the weighted average cost of capital. Capital efficiency is particularly important now, according to Fencott. The company also tracks traditional retail metrics like revenue per square foot, same-store growth and year-over-year sales growth.
While the company is bullish on its growth prospects, Fencott is still cognizant of competition from the illegal market. Regulatory issues and the illegal market are two closely related challenges. He is also excited about the opportunity to enter the U.S. market. He anticipates that Fire & Flower’s efficient business model and digital infrastructure will give it a competitive advantage.
While the Democratic sweep in the U.S. has sparked even more interest in the cannabis industry, Fencott still believes the retail sector is undervalued by investors. He expects retailers are the group most likely to be profitable the fastest in this business.
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Traffic congestion
It’s 2021, and the Netherlands still invests millions to support cycling
Cities Today
This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News.
The Hague will invest €65 million (US$79 million) into its cycling infrastructure over the next five years as part of a plan to increase cycling numbers 50% by 2040.
Through its Plenty of Space for Cycling Program 2020-2025, the Dutch city will improve safe cycling infrastructure and facilities while encouraging more groups to use bicycles for daily commutes and tourism.
Robert van Asten, Deputy Mayor for Mobility, said: “Cycling is only becoming more popular thanks to electric bikes, cargo bikes, and bike-sharing.
“[It] is healthy and cyclists do not cause any dangerous gas emissions or take up much space. By providing good cycle routes and by making cycling more accessible, we can ensure that even more residents choose to get around by bike.”
While cycling is already one of the most popular modes of transport in The Hague, the city wants cycling to become its primary mode, and measures under the plan include: improving the flow of traffic at intersections; replacing 13 kilometers of brick cycle paths with paved paths; and creating 40 new parking facilities in neighborhoods and shopping streets and near tram and bus stops.
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The city will also provide bicycle lessons and service points, and ensure every child has access to a bike through the ANWB Children’s Bicycle Plan.
The Hague has some of the highest levels of congestion in the Netherlands, according to TomTom’s 2019 Traffic Index.
In addition to promoting active travel, other Dutch cities such as Amsterdam have focused on increasing car-sharing options in a bid to reduce the overall number of private cars on the roads.
The city has more shared cars than anywhere else in the country, and recently won the 2020 Autodeel Award – hosted by environmental group Natuur & Milieu and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management – for its efforts.
In 2020, Amsterdam installed 600 public charging points for shared electric carsand announced 700 new car-sharing parking permits that allow drivers to park and leave their shared cars for pick-up in certain designated areas.
It also incorporates shared vehicles in its municipal fleet and works closely with car-sharing services to coordinate activities across the city.
Nationally, the number of car-share users has grown to around 730,000, with the Dutch government’s target of 700,000 car-share users by 2021 through the Green Deal – Car Sharing II already achieved earlier this year.
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Bertrand Cavalier explores the interactions between people and their environment. Exploiting photography’s ability to penetrate the tissue that binds individuals together and embeds them into their surroundings, he creates poetic renditions of singular moments, rather than objective documents of social phenomena. Cavalier’s images reveal how the socio-political order informs everyday life through architecture and the urban landscape. At the same time, however, his interest goes out to the process through which people restructure the space they navigate and make it their own. As such, his photography attests to those aspects of everyday life that creatively appropriate dominant ideology and...
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After studying Philosophy in Italy, Marina worked in the world of images in various countries: editing in Rome and Barcelona, working at press agencies and as a photography assistant in Paris.
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Mael Lagadec
Born in 1984 in France, Maël G. Lagadec is a photographer and videographer based in Brussels. Since his young age, he studied and practiced Black & White traditional photography, while also studying science and math. At 19 he entered the Video Broadcast Media school in Bayonne, France, where he learned how to operates the deep mechanisms of analog and digital video equipment.
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Jon has been taking photographs for over forty years and after a career in law became a full time photographer in 2015. He has photographed weddings, parties, families, portraits, pets, all night raves, military events, commercial events, buildings and schools.
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American photographer born in New York State, Michael received a Masters in Photography from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He has taught photography in universities for nearly twenty years: professor in the United States, as well as in Italy and Greece. For the past four years he has taught in Paris, notably at Parsons Paris School of Art & Design. He has exhibited his work in diverse galleries and museums in the United States, France, Italy and Greece.
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Kevin McGarry is a much sought after Professional Photographer based in Glasgow, Scotland and working throughout the UK, Europe each new endeavour drawing upon 30 years expertise... translating ideas into stunning marketable photography for all types of businesses... capturing the essence of the renowned professionals who are putting his ‘wow’ factor images to work in todays highly visual market place. I have taught at various universities and art colleges in the UK and Canada. I am privileged and exuberant about the range unbridled client assignments and the self-assigned exploration dominates my future creative projects...covering weddings, film sets, projections, sports...
Pauric McGroder
Married & living in Dublin
Two children and three grand-children
Spent 43 years working in the corporate IT sector and retired in 2013.
Started Pauric McGroder Photography in 1999
Have been networking in BNI and South Dublin Chamber B2B since 1999
Joined IPPA (Irish Professional Photographers Association) in 2011.
Attained the following Photographic distinctions:
LIPF Licentiate with Irish Photographic Federation Jun 2007
AIPF Associate with Irish Photographic Federation Apr 2011
ARPS Associate with Royal Photographic Society Jun 2013
AIPPA Associate with Irish Professional Photographers Association Nov 2013
FIPF Fellowship with Irish Professional Photographers Association Sept 2018
Currently working towards...
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François Nadeau
A professional photographer living in Montreal, François Nadeau got his first camera at a very early age. As he grew into a creative hyperactive artist, he rapidly got involved in Montreal's multimedia community.
Selected and invited three times to the “World photographers focusing on Beijing”, François had the chance to work with renowned photographers from around the world such as Joe McNally and Trey Ratcliff.
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In late 2010, Ben moved to Vancouver to work as a stringer for Reuters News Agency. He also continues to freelance for other clients.
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For the 1978 book, see Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case.
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Perjury is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.[A] In some jurisdictions, contrary to popular misconception, no crime has occurred when a false statement is (intentionally or unintentionally) made while under oath or subject to penalty. Instead, criminal culpability attaches only at the instant the declarant falsely asserts the truth of statements (made or to be made) that are material to the outcome of the proceeding. For example, it is not perjury to lie about one's age except if age is a fact material to influencing the legal result, such as eligibility for old age retirement benefits or whether a person was of an age to have legal capacity.
Perjury is considered a serious offense, as it can be used to usurp the power of the courts, resulting in miscarriages of justice. In the United States, for example, the general perjury statute under federal law classifies perjury as a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to five years.[1] The California Penal Code allows for perjury to be a capital offense in cases causing wrongful execution. Perjury which caused the wrongful execution of another or in the pursuit of causing the wrongful execution of another is respectively construed as murder or attempted murder, and is normally itself punishable by execution in countries that retain the death penalty. Perjury is considered a felony in most U.S. states as well as most Australian states. In Queensland, under Section 124 of the Queensland Criminal Code Act 1899, perjury is punishable by up to life in prison if it is committed to procure an innocent person for a crime that is punishable by life in prison. However, prosecutions for perjury are rare.[2] In some countries such as France and Italy, suspects cannot be heard under oath or affirmation and so cannot commit perjury, regardless of what they say during their trial.
The rules for perjury also apply when a person has made a statement under penalty of perjury even if the person has not been sworn or affirmed as a witness before an appropriate official. An example is the US income tax return, which, by law, must be signed as true and correct under penalty of perjury (see 26 U.S.C. § 6065). Federal tax law provides criminal penalties of up to three years in prison for violation of the tax return perjury statute. See: 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1)
Statements that entail an interpretation of fact are not perjury because people often draw inaccurate conclusions unwittingly or make honest mistakes without the intent to deceive. Individuals may have honest but mistaken beliefs about certain facts or their recollection may be inaccurate, or may have a different perception of what is the accurate way to state the truth. Like most other crimes in the common law system, to be convicted of perjury one must have had the intention (mens rea) to commit the act and to have actually committed the act (actus reus). Further, statements that are facts cannot be considered perjury, even if they might arguably constitute an omission, and it is not perjury to lie about matters that are immaterial to the legal proceeding.
In the United States, Kenya, Scotland and several other English-speaking Commonwealth nations, subornation of perjury, which is attempting to induce another person to commit perjury, is itself a crime.
Perjury law by country
See also: b:Canadian Criminal Sentencing/Offences/Perjury
The offence of perjury is codified by section 132 of the Criminal Code. It is defined by section 131, which provides:
(1) Subject to subsection (3), every one commits perjury who, with intent to mislead, makes before a person who is authorized by law to permit it to be made before him a false statement under oath or solemn affirmation, by affidavit, solemn declaration or deposition or orally, knowing that the statement is false.
(1.1) Subject to subsection (3), every person who gives evidence under subsection 46(2) of the Canada Evidence Act, or gives evidence or a statement pursuant to an order made under section 22.2 of the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, commits perjury who, with intent to mislead, makes a false statement knowing that it is false, whether or not the false statement was made under oath or solemn affirmation in accordance with subsection (1), so long as the false statement was made in accordance with any formalities required by the law of the place outside Canada in which the person is virtually present or heard.
(2) Subsection (1) applies, whether or not a statement referred to in that subsection is made in a judicial proceeding.
(3) Subsections (1) and (1.1) do not apply to a statement referred to in either of those subsections that is made by a person who is not specially permitted, authorized or required by law to make that statement.[3]
As to corroboration, see section 133.
Mode of trial and sentence
Every one who commits perjury is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.[4]
A person who, before the Court of Justice of the European Union, swears anything which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true is, whatever his nationality, guilty of perjury.[5] Proceedings for this offence may be taken in any place in the State and the offence may for all incidental purposes be treated as having been committed in that place.[6]
Main article: Perjury in India
"The offence of perjury finds its place in law by virtue of Section 191 to Section 203 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 ('IPC'). Unlike many other countries, the offence of perjury is muted on account of Section 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ("Cr.P.C").
Section 195(1)(b)(i) of the Cr.P.C. restricts any court to take cognisance of an offence of perjury unless the same is by way of a complaint in writing by the court before which the offence is committed or by a superior court."[7]
Main article: Perjury in Nigeria
Perjury is a statutory offence in England and Wales. It is created by section 1(1) of the Perjury Act 1911. Section 1 of that Act reads:
(1) If any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding wilfully makes a statement material in that proceeding, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, he shall be guilty of perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof on indictment, be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven years, or to imprisonment ... for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine or to both such penal servitude or imprisonment and fine.
(2) The expression "judicial proceeding" includes a proceeding before any court, tribunal, or person having by law power to hear, receive, and examine evidence on oath.
(3) Where a statement made for the purposes of a judicial proceeding is not made before the tribunal itself, but is made on oath before a person authorised by law to administer an oath to the person who makes the statement, and to record or authenticate the statement, it shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as having been made in a judicial proceeding.
(4) A statement made by a person lawfully sworn in England for the purposes of a judicial proceeding—
(a) in another part of His Majesty’s dominions; or
(b) in a British tribunal lawfully constituted in any place by sea or land outside His Majesty’s dominions; or
(c) in a tribunal of any foreign state,
shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as a statement made in a judicial proceeding in England.
(5) Where, for the purposes of a judicial proceeding in England, a person is lawfully sworn under the authority of an Act of Parliament—
(a) in any other part of His Majesty’s dominions; or
(b) before a British tribunal or a British officer in a foreign country, or within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England;
a statement made by such person so sworn as aforesaid (unless the Act of Parliament under which it was made otherwise specifically provides) shall be treated for the purposes of this section as having been made in the judicial proceeding in England for the purposes whereof it was made.
(6) The question whether a statement on which perjury is assigned was material is a question of law to be determined by the court of trial.[8]
The words omitted from section 1(1) were repealed by section 1(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1948.
A person guilty of an offence under section 11(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 (i.e. perjury before the Court of Justice of the European Union) may be proceeded against and punished in England and Wales as for an offence under section 1(1).[9]
Section 1(4) has effect in relation to proceedings in the Court of Justice of the European Union as it has effect in relation to a judicial proceeding in a tribunal of a foreign state.[10]
Section 1(4) applies in relation to proceedings before a relevant convention court under the European Patent Convention as it applies to a judicial proceeding in a tribunal of a foreign state.[11]
A statement made on oath by a witness outside the United Kingdom and given in evidence through a live television link by virtue of section 32 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 must be treated for the purposes of section 1 as having been made in the proceedings in which it is given in evidence.[12]
Section 1 applies in relation to a person acting as an intermediary as it applies in relation to a person lawfully sworn as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding; and for this purpose, where a person acts as an intermediary in any proceeding which is not a judicial proceeding for the purposes of section 1, that proceeding must be taken to be part of the judicial proceeding in which the witness's evidence is given.[13]
Where any statement made by a person on oath in any proceeding which is not a judicial proceeding for the purposes of section 1 is received in evidence in pursuance of a special measures direction, that proceeding must be taken for the purposes of section 1 to be part of the judicial proceeding in which the statement is so received in evidence.[14]
The definition in section 1(2) is not "comprehensive".[15]
The book "Archbold" says that it appears to be immaterial whether the court before which the statement is made has jurisdiction in the particular cause in which the statement is made, because there is no express requirement in the Act that the court be one of "competent jurisdiction" and because the definition in section 1(2) does not appear to require this by implication either.[15]
The actus reus of perjury might be considered to be the making of a statement, whether true or false, on oath in a judicial proceeding, where the person knows the statement to be false or believes it to be false.[16][17]
Perjury is a conduct crime.[18]
Perjury is triable only on indictment.[19]
A person convicted of perjury is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, or to a fine, or to both.[20]
The following cases are relevant:
R v Hall (1982) 4 Cr App R (S) 153
R v Knight, 6 Cr App R (S) 31, [1984] Crim LR 304, CA
R v Healey (1990) 12 Cr App R (S) 297
R v Dunlop [2001] 2 Cr App R (S) 27
R v Archer [2002] EWCA Crim 1996, [2003] 1 Cr App R (S) 86
R v Adams [2004] 2 Cr App R (S) 15
R v Cunningham [2007] 2 Cr App R (S) 61
See also the Crown Prosecution Service sentencing manual.[21]
In Anglo-Saxon legal procedure, the offence of perjury could only be committed by both jurors and by compurgators.[22] With time witnesses began to appear in court they were not so treated despite the fact that their functions were akin to that of modern witnesses. This was due to the fact that their role were not yet differentiated from those of the juror and so evidence or perjury by witnesses was not made a crime. Even in the 14th century, when witnesses started appearing before the jury to testify, perjury by them was not made a punishable offence. The maxim then was that every witness's evidence on oath was true.[22] Perjury by witnesses began to be punished before the end of the 15th century by the Star Chamber.
The immunity enjoyed by witnesses began also to be whittled down or interfered with by the Parliament in England in 1540 with subornation of perjury[22] and, in 1562, with perjury proper. The punishment for the offence then was in the nature of monetary penalty, recoverable in a civil action and not by penal sanction. In 1613, the Star Chamber declared perjury by a witness to be a punishable offence at common law.
Prior to the 1911 Act, perjury was governed by section 3 of the Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540 5 Eliz 1 c. 9 (An Act for the Punyshement of suche persones as shall procure or comit any wyllful Perjurye; repealed 1967) and the Perjury Act 1728.
The requirement that the statement be material can be traced back to[23] and has been credited to[24] Edward Coke, who said:
For if it be not material, then though it be false, yet it is no perjury, because it concerneth not the point in suit, and therefore in effect it is extra-judicial. Also this act giveth remedy to the party grieved, and if the deposition be not material, he cannot be grieved thereby.[25]
Perjury is a statutory offence in Northern Ireland. It is created by article 3(1) of the Perjury (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/1714 (N.I. 19)). This replaces the Perjury Act (Northern Ireland) 1946 (c. 13) (N.I.).
NSA director Alexander (left) and DNI Clapper (right) both lied under oath to Congress. [26]
Perjury operates in American law as an inherited principle of the common law of England, which defined the act as the "willful and corrupt giving, upon a lawful oath, or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, in a judicial proceeding or course of justice, of a false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry".[27]
William Blackstone touched on the subject in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, establishing perjury as "a crime committed when a lawful oath is administered, in some judicial proceeding, to a person who swears willfully, absolutely, and falsely, in a matter material to the issue or point in question".[28] The punishment for perjury under the common law has varied from death to banishment and has included such grotesque penalties as severing the tongue of the perjurer.[29] The definitional structure of perjury provides an important framework for legal proceedings, as the component parts of this definition have permeated jurisdictional lines, finding a home in American legal constructs. As such, the main tenets of perjury, including mens rea, a lawful oath, occurring during a judicial proceeding, a false testimony have remained necessary pieces of perjury's definition in the United States.[30]
Perjury's current position in the American legal system takes the form of state and federal statutes. Most notably, the United States Code prohibits perjury, which is defined in two senses for federal purposes as someone who:
(1) Having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true; or (2) in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury as permitted under section 1746 of title 28, United States Code, willfully subscribes as true any material matter which he does not believe to be true[31]
The above statute provides for a fine and/or up to five years in prison as punishment. Within federal jurisdiction, statements made in two broad categories of judicial proceedings may qualify as perjurious: 1) Federal official proceedings, and 2) Federal Court or Grand Jury proceedings. A third type of perjury entails the procurement of perjurious statements from another person.[29] More generally, the statement must occur in the "course of justice," but this definition leaves room open for interpretation.[32]
One particularly precarious aspect of the phrasing is that it entails knowledge of the accused person's perception of the truthful nature of events and not necessarily the actual truth of those events. It is important to note the distinction here, between giving a false statement under oath and merely misstating a fact accidentally, but the distinction can be especially difficult to discern in court of law.[33][34]
The development of perjury law in the United States centers on United States v. Dunnigan, a seminal case that set out the parameters of perjury within United States law. The court uses the Dunnigan-based legal standard to determine if an accused person: "testifying under oath or affirmation violates this section if she gives false testimony concerning a material matter with the willful intent to provide false testimony, rather than as a result of confusion, mistake, or faulty memory."[35] However, a defendant shown to be willfully ignorant may in fact be eligible for perjury prosecution.[36]
Dunnigan distinction manifests its importance with regard to the relation between two component parts of perjury's definition: in willfully giving a false statement, a person must understand that she is giving a false statement to be considered a perjurer under the Dunnigan framework. Deliberation on the part of the defendant is required for a statement to constitute perjury.[37] Jurisprudential developments in the American law of perjury have revolved around the facilitation of "perjury prosecutions and thereby enhance the reliability of testimony before federal courts and grand juries".[38]
With that goal in mind, Congress has sometimes expanded the grounds on which an individual may be prosecuted for perjury, with section 1623 of the United States Code recognizing the utterance of two mutually incompatible statements as grounds for perjury indictment even if neither can unequivocally be proven false.[39] However, the two statements must be so mutually incompatible that at least one must necessarily be false; it is irrelevant whether the false statement can be specifically identified from among the two.[40] It thus falls on the government to show that a defendant (a) knowingly made a (b) false (c) material statement (d) under oath (e) in a legal proceeding.[41] The proceedings can be ancillary to normal court proceedings, and thus, even such menial interactions as bail hearings can qualify as protected proceedings under this statute.[42]
Wilfulness is an element of the offense. The mere existence of two mutually-exclusive factual statements is not sufficient to prove perjury; the prosecutor nonetheless has the duty to plead and prove that the statement was willfully made. Mere contradiction will not sustain the charge; there must be strong corroborative evidence of the contradiction.[43]
One significant legal distinction lies in the specific realm of knowledge necessarily possessed by a defendant for her statements to be properly called perjury. Though the defendant must knowingly render a false statement in a legal proceeding or under federal jurisdiction, the defendant need not know that they are speaking under such conditions for the statement to constitute perjury.[44] All tenets of perjury qualification persist: the "knowingly" aspect of telling the false statement simply does not apply to the defendant's knowledge about the person whose deception is intended.
The evolution of United States perjury law has experienced the most debate with regards to the materiality requirement. Fundamentally, statements that are literally true cannot provide the basis for a perjury charge[45] (as they do not meet the falsehood requirement) just as answers to truly ambiguous statements cannot constitute perjury.[46] However, such fundamental truths of perjury law become muddled when discerning the materiality of a given statement and the way in which it was material to the given case. In United States v. Brown, the court defined material statements as those with "a natural tendency to influence, or is capable of influencing, the decision of the decision-making body to be addressed," such as a jury or grand jury.[47]
While courts have specifically made clear certain instances that have succeeded or failed to meet the nebulous threshold for materiality, the topic remains unresolved in large part, except in certain legal areas where intent manifests itself in an abundantly clear fashion, such as with the so-called perjury trap, a specific situation in which a prosecutor calls a person to testify before a grand jury with the intent of drawing a perjurious statement from the person being questioned.[48]
Despite a tendency of US perjury law toward broad prosecutory power under perjury statutes, American perjury law has afforded potential defendants a new form of defense not found in the British Common Law. This defense requires that an individual admit to making a perjurious statement during that same proceeding and recanting the statement.[49] Though this defensive loophole slightly narrows the types of cases which may be prosecuted for perjury, the effect of this statutory defense is to promote a truthful retelling of facts by witnesses, thus helping to ensure the reliability of American court proceedings just as broadened perjury statutes aimed to do.
Subornation of perjury stands as a subset of US perjury laws and prohibits an individual from inducing another to commit perjury.[50] Subornation of perjury entails equivalent possible punishments as perjury on the federal level. The crime requires an extra level of satisfactory proof, as prosecutors must show not only that perjury occurred but also that the defendant positively induced said perjury. Furthermore, the inducing defendant must know that the suborned statement is a false, perjurious statement.[51]
Notable convicted perjurers
Jonathan Aitken, British politician, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment in 1999 for perjury.[52]
Jeffrey Archer, British novelist and politician, was sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment for perjury in 2001.[53]
Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit mayor was convicted of perjury in 2008.[54][55]
Marion Jones, American track and field athlete, was sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment after being found guilty of two counts of perjury in 2008.[56]
Mark Fuhrman, Los Angeles Police Department detective, entered a no contest plea to a perjury charge relating to his testimony in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.[57] This was one of the seminal occurrences of perjury by a police officer.[58]
Alger Hiss, American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
Lil' Kim, American rapper was convicted of perjury in 2005 after lying to a grand jury in 2003 about a February 2001 shooting. She was sentenced to one year and one day of imprisonment.[59]
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted in 2007 of two counts of perjury in connection with the Plame affair.[60]
Bernie Madoff, the former Chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange, in 2009 was found guilty of perjury in relation to investment fraud arising from his operating a Ponzi scheme.[61]
Michele Sindona, convicted of perjury related to a bogus kidnapping in August 1979.[62]
Tommy Sheridan, Scottish politician, found guilty of lying on affirmation in a trial in 2010.[63]
John Waller, British highwayman, known for his death while being pilloried for perjury in 1732
Allegations of perjury
Excerpt of James Clapper's testimony to Congress on NSA surveillance programs
Notable people who have been accused of perjury include:
Barry Bonds was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly perjuring himself in testimony denying the use of performance-enhancing drugs.[64] The perjury charges were later dropped after a deadlock by the trial jury.[65]
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was accused of perjury and as a result was impeached by the House of Representatives on 19 December 1998.[66] No criminal charges were ever brought and upon leaving office he accepted immunity.[67]
Andy Coulson, British journalist and political aide, was cleared of perjury charges in the News International phone hacking scandal, because his questioned testimony was ruled immaterial.[68]
Michael Hayden, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been accused of lying to Congress during his 2007 testimony about the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation techniques.[69][70]
Keith B. Alexander, the former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), had told Congress in 2012 that "we don't hold data on US citizens".[26][71]
James R. Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, was accused of perjury for telling a congressional committee in March 2013, that the National Security Agency does not collect any type of data at all on millions of Americans.[72][73][74]
Justice Brett Kavanaugh was accused of misleading the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court nomination hearings.[75][76]
Brady material
False confession
Forced confession
Making false statements
Performativity
Pitchess motion
Statutory declaration
Testilying
^ "Perjury The act or an instance of a person’s deliberately making material false or misleading statements while under oath. – Also termed false swearing; false oath; (archaically forswearing." Garner, Bryan A. (1999). Black's Law Dictionary (7th ed.). St. Paul MN: West Group. p. 1160.
^ See: 18 U.S.C. § 1621; 28 U.S.C. § 1746.
^ "Perjury". Criminal Law Lawyer Source. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
^ Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C-46, s 131, as amended by RSC 1985, c 27 (1st Supp.), s 17, and SC 1999, c 18, s. 92.
^ Criminal Code, s 132, as amended by RSC 1985, c 27 (1st Supp), s 17 and SC 1998, c 35, s 119.
^ The Court of Justice of the European Communities (Perjury) Act 1975, section 1
^ "Case law showing how seriously perjury is taken in India".
^ "Perjury Act 1911". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ The European Communities Act 1972, section 11(1)(a)
^ The Evidence (European Court) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/428), article 3, as read with article 2
^ The Patents Act 1977, section 92(5)
^ The Criminal Justice Act 1988, section 32(3)
^ The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, section 29(7)
^ a b Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice. 1999. Paragraph 28-159 at page 2303.
^ Ormerod, David. Smith and Hogan's Criminal Law. Thirteenth Edition. Oxford University Press. 2011. Section 4.1.4 at page 49.
^ Smith, J. C. and Hogan, Brian. Criminal Law. Second Edition. Sweet & Maxwell. 1965. p. 509 footnote 12.
^ Ormerod, David. Smith and Hogan's Criminal Law. Thirteenth Edition. Oxford University Press. 2011. Section 4.1.5.2 at page 50.
^ The Perjury Act 1911, section 1(1); the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, section 17(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 14(a)
^ The Perjury Act 1911, section 1(1); the Criminal Justice Act 1948, sections 1(1) and (2)
^ "Perjury". cps.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
^ a b c Turner, J. W. C. Kenny Outlines on Criminal Law (London: Cambridge University Press, 1964) (18th edition), p.421.
^ Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice. 1999. Paragraph 28-160 at page 2303. They cite 3 Inst 167.
^ Smith, J. C, and Hogan, Brian. Criminal Law. Sweet & Maxwell. 1965. Second Edition. Page 506.
^ 3 Inst 167. This passage is quoted by Smith, J. C, and Hogan, Brian, Criminal Law (Sweet & Maxwell, 1965) (2nd Edition), p. 506.
^ a b "To reform the NSA, fire officials who lie". The Guardian. 25 September 2013.
^ Clark, William (1894). Hand-Book of Criminal Law. West Publishing Company.
^ Blackstone, William (1765). Commentaries on the Law of England.
^ a b Doyle, Charles (2010). "Perjury Under Federal Law: A Brief Overview". Congressional Research Service.
^ Livingston, Edward (1828). A System of Penal Law for the United States of America.
^ United States Code, Title 18, Part 1, Section 1621.
^ Clark, William (1894). Hand-Book of Criminal Law. West Publishing Co.
^ Shuy, Roger (2011). The Language of Perjury Cases. Oxford University Press.
^ Doyle, Charles (11 May 2018). False Statements and Perjury: An Overview of Federal Criminal Law (PDF). Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
^ United States v. Dunnigan 507 U.S. 87 (1993).
^ United States v. Fawley (1998).
^ Dunn v. United States 480 U.S. 294 (1987).
^ United States Code, Title 18, Part 1, Section 1623 (c).
^ United States v. McAfee 971 F.2d 755 (1992).
^ United States v. Gorman.
^ United States v. Greene 355 U.S. 184 (1957).
^ People v Cash, 388 Michigan Reports 153 (1972). See People v McIntire, 232 Mich App 71 (1998), rev’d on other grounds 461 Mich 147 (1999).
^ United States v. Yermian 468 U.S. 63 (1984).
^ Bronston v. United States, 409 U.S. 352 (1973).
^ United States v. Richardson, 418 U.S. 166 (1974).
^ United States v. Brown, 381 U.S. 437 (1965).
^ Gershman, Bennett (1981). "The "Perjury Trap"". Pace Law Faculty Publications.
^ United States Code, Title 18, Part 1, Section 1623 (d).
^ Rosen v. N.L.R.B. 735 F.2d 564 (1984).
^ "UK Politics: Aitken's downfall complete". BBC News Online. BBC. 8 June 1999. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
^ "Archer jailed for perjury". BBC News Online. BBC. 19 July 2001. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
^ Chris Lawrence (24 March 2008). "Detroit mayor faces felony charges". CNN. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
^ "Mayor: 'I lied under oath'". Retrieved 4 September 2008.
^ Lynn Zinser (12 January 2008). "Judge Sentences Jones to 6 Months in Prison". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
^ "Mark Fuhrman's perjury probation ends". CNN.
^ Slobogin, Christopher (Fall 1996). "Reform The Police: TESTILYING: POLICE PERJURY AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT". University of Colorado Law Review. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Law School. 67: 1037. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
^ "Lil' Kim Sentenced To Jail". NME. 8 July 2005. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
^ Dowd, Maureen. "Lewis "Scooter" Libby conviction". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
^ Brockman, Joshua (17 December 2008). "Q&A: Madoff Case Puts Spotlight on SEC". National Public Radio. Retrieved 26 May 2009.
^ "Nation: Account Settled". Time. Time. 7 April 1980. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
^ "Tommy Sheridan found guilty of perjury". BBC. 23 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
^ "Barry Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction charges". ESPN. 19 November 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
^ Mintz, Howard (18 September 2014). "Barry Bonds case: Court to rehear home-run king's appeal". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
^ Alison Mitchell (20 December 1998). "Impeachment: the overview -- Clinton impeached; he faces a senate trial, 2d in history; vows to do job till term's 'last hour'". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
^ Neil A Lewis (20 January 2000). "Exiting Job, Clinton Accepts Immunity Deal". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
^ "Andy Coulson cleared of perjury as trial collapses". BBC News. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
^ "What Happens When You Lie To Congress?" Time. 10 December 2014.
^ "Michael Hayden: The Nation's Biggest Liar, or Unassailable Patriot?". Bloomberg. 10 December 2014.
^ "Put the NSA on trial". Salon. 11 June 2013.
^ "Has James Clapper been indicted for perjury yet?". Retrieved 18 July 2017.
^ "Lawmakers to Obama: Fire your intelligence chief for lying". MSNBC. 27 February 2014.
^ "Lock Him Up? Lawmakers Renew Calls for James Clapper Perjury Charges". U.S. News. 17 November 2016.
^ "Brett Kavanaugh's Role in the Starr Investigation And How It Shaped Him". NPR.org. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
^ https://www.facebook.com/FactChecker. "Analysis | Brett Kavanaugh's testimony: What was misleading, what was not". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
Bryan Druzin, and Jessica Li, The Criminalization of Lying: Under what Circumstances, if any, should Lies be made Criminal?, 101 JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY (Northwestern University) (forthcoming 2011).
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December 4, 2020 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment
Since 1989, the Red Hot Organization (RHO) has been combatting the scourge of HIV/AIDS. Red Hot has primarily raised money through the creation of music compilations beginning with the 1990 release Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter. Now, that star-studded release and numerous others have come to digital and streaming services to continue raising money for the charity. RHO co-founder John Carlin, an entertainment lawyer spurred into action by the devastating losses suffered by the New
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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, The Ultimate Merry Christmas (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are joining Motown Records to unwrap a celebration of The Supremes' 1965 perennial Merry Christmas. The Ultimate Merry Christmas features the album in three distinctive versions: the original 1965 mono and stereo mixes, as well as a brand new, never-before-heard 2017 mix premiering
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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Carol Burnett, Carol Burnett Sings: Expanded Edition (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Carol Burnett Show with the comedy legend's third solo album and first for RCA Victor. A tie-in to the groundbreaking variety show, Carol Burnett Sings features four songs performed on early episodes: "Georgy Girl," "Enter Laughing," "I Believed It All" and "There's No Business Like Show
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Rhino is heading back to the '90s this fall with a pair of deluxe, expanded reissues from the Brazilian hard rock/metal band Sepultura. Both 1993's Chaos A.D. and 1996's Roots will be available in remastered and expanded form on double CD and vinyl LP, with Chaos arriving on October 6 and Roots on November 3. Sepultura was founded in 1983 by brothers Max and Iggor Cavalera with Wagner Lamounier and Jairo Guedes. Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. joined just a few short months later. Four years later,
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Who left I’m a Celebrity in tonight’s double eviction?
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The surprise double eviction took place on Monday’s (30 November) episode, in the final week of the competition.
“It’s been absolutely amazing,” Derbyshire said. “It was incredible.”
“We had a scream, we laughed, we cried… I did not miss those luxuries,” she added.
“We’re sad to go, but we’re happy to go as well,” Coronation Street star Callard said, when Ant and Dec asked her about her experience.
“I don’t know [how I coped],” she said. “I still feel I’ve got no survival skills. You sort of just… do it, don’t you?”
Earlier, Ruthie Henshall became the second campmate to be evicted on Sunday night’s (29 November) episode.
The West End star seemed relatively happy to leave, as she kissed her fellow campmates goodbye and said: “I get to see my girls.”
She told Ant and Dec: “I can already taste my hamburger.”
Henshall’s eviction followed that of Paralympic champion Hollie Arnold, who received the least votes on 27 November.
"I tried my best and loved every second of it," Arnold said. “But my bra and knickers have to go in the bin.”
I’m a Celebrity continues on Tuesday 1 December on ITV.
Source https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/im-a-celebrity-2020/who-left-im-a-celebrity-tonight-b1764228.html
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A growth strategy based on mergers and acquisitions to increase its size and eliminate competition has turned SBS Holdings into one of Japan’s leading logistics companies just 30 years after its foundation. The company now has annual sales of 150 billion yen (USD13.25 billion) and employs more than 13,000 people.
“Nowadays, our company is often called the leading company but fundamentally, it is an entrepreneurial company. We move instantly with a sense of speed,” says Masahiko Kamata, who established SBS in 1987 and still steers its success today.
Kamata started working after leaving high school to bring and became a truck driver for a large transportation company. Once he understood the world of logistics, he went on to build his own business: SBS Holdings. Throughout its development, Katama gained a reputation as a president who worked his way up by taking a gemba-oriented approach – a way of working that UD Trucks shares dearly. Today, he still is very hands on and can sometimes be seen giving instructions to workers on how to load cargo.
Visionary transformation
Kamata has seen and survived dramatic change in the logistics industry by anticipating trends and having the vision to define them. A shortage of truck drivers and an aging workforce are increasingly common challenges, and Kamata sees the automation of operations through AI, automatic warehouses and drones as the solution. He recently announced a new dynamic state management system, inspired by the Uber model.
Given the relentless growth of online shopping, Kamata believes successful logistics businesses in the future will be based on automation and efficiency created by internet technologies. A system called iGOQ is his strategy to improve the efficiency of truck deliveries. This instantaneously provides information about a vehicle’s location and cargo load, and the information can be used to develop a logistics system for the whole industry by automatically matching cargos to available and suitable trucks, no matter who owns them. The system is already operational and Kamata aims to have 50,000 vehicles registered by 2020.
Kamata is determined to turn the threats of new constraints and changing consumption demands into opportunities, by overhauling the Japanese logistics sector through the use of smart logistics.
Trucks will always form the basis of the logistics business, of course, and SBS has many UD Trucks in its fleets across the country. Masaru Misawa, a driver and also an operation control at the Keiyo Branch of SBS Logicom, has been with the company since 1990 and has also witnessed many changes over the years. He has driven UD Trucks’ Big Thumb and Resona fifty-fifty, and loves the camaraderie that is part of the attraction of being a truck driver.
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QUONSET HUTS
Today, we build an instant house. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
As WW-II war clouds gathered in 1941, the Navy knew it would soon face vast problems of moving and housing people and materiel. War is about logistics, and people need shelter. Someone had a bright idea. Why not create a cheap, lightweight, portable structure that could be put up by untrained people?
So they went to the George A. Fuller construction company in New York. The Navy wanted buildings within two months. The British had developed a light prefab structure called a Nissen hut during WW-I. Now the Navy wanted an improved version.
And they got it: Peter Dejongh and Otto Brandenberger went to work. Within a month they'd set up a production facility near Quonset, Rhode Island. They moved so quickly that they were producing units while the design was still being tinkered.
That's how the famous Quonset hut came into being. Some people thought the old Nissen hut had been modeled on Iroquois council lodges. Now the Quonset hut version had the same shape and an Iroquois-sounding name. The Indian connection was probably fortuitous. Still, the resemblance was strong. The Quonset hut skeleton was a row of semi-circular steel ribs covered with corrugated sheet metal. The ribs sat on a low steel-frame foundation with a plywood floor. The basic model was 20 feet wide and 48 feet long with 720 square feet of usable floor space. The larger model was 40 by 100 feet.
So we entered the war armed with this cheap housing meant for airstrips, MASH units, barracks -- you name it. Historian Michael Lamm tells how Quonsets were strung together in Guam to form a 54,000-square-foot warehouse.
Around 170,000 Quonset huts were produced during the war -- enough to house the combined populations of Portland and Seattle. Then the war ended, and they were too good a resource to throw away. So the military sold them to civilians for about a thousand dollars each. They made serviceable single-family homes.
Returning veterans now occupied Quonset huts by choice. Universities made them into student housing. Architects took an interest and gussied them up in odd ways. Churches and small businesses took up residence in them. In 1948 the Sacramento Peak observatory was housed in Quonset huts. Playwright Robert Finton has written a play about them. He titled it Tents of Tin .
Drive your streets today and you'll see them here and there. Much more than relics of war, they're icons of a day in our history -- icons that spread all the way from North Africa to the Aleutian Islands. And now, a new memorial museum for war correspondent Ernie Pyle has just been built of Quonset huts. Once in a while, a really good design surfaces -- robust, simple, and enduring. The DC-3, the Jeep, and the Quonset hut all tell of the clear thinking that got us out of serious trouble, back in the 1940s.
Lamm, M., The Instant Building. Invention & And Technology , Winter, 1998, pp. 68-72.
See also the following websites which reflect some of the continuation of the Quonset hut in our lives today:
http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/PR/quonset.html
http://www3.electriciti.com/aviator/restore2.html
While we see few orginal Quonset huts around today, we do find the form being utilized in modern versions of it. See, for example,
http://www.archtechnology.com/
Here is a U.S. Government photo of Quonset huts as seen in front of Laguna Peak, Point Mugu, in 1946:
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SPECIAL RECIPE
by Andy Boyd
Click here for audio of Episode 3104
Today, a special recipe. The University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
Simple recipes are the best. Here’s one you can try at home, though you should probably put it together in your garage.
Start with fifteen gallons of water. To that, add nine cups of frozen nitrogen. Together, they’ll give you a nice fog rolling over the side of your mixing pot. Finally, add one-and-a-half gallons of graphite, the type of carbon you find in pencils. Mix well. Congratulations. You’re 96 percent of the way to making a 150 pound human.
Stirring together a human. Photo Credit: Andy Boyd
Broken down to its basic ingredients, the human body is strikingly simple. To finish our body-building exercise, we’d need to add about a cup each of calcium, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, and salt. Pinches of just a few additional ingredients and we’d be done.
The simple recipe for a human. Photo Credit: Andy Boyd
Of course, how we mix things together is vitally important. It’s not just what goes into the mix, but how the various components are linked into complex molecules. But any way you look at it, it’s amazing that a small collection of basic ingredients can give rise to anything as remarkable as life. And not just human life. All life on earth – animal and plant – arises from these same ingredients put together in essentially the same way. There are variations, of course. Animals with bones, for example, have proportionately more calcium. But the similarities among living things far outweigh the differences. And we’re led to ask. Must this be the case, or is it possible for life to form in some radically different way?
Chemical structure of DNA. Photo Credit: Wikimedia
It’s an interesting question in general, but especially to planetary scientists. Some have speculated that life could arise in lakes of liquid ethane found on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. If so, the life found there would almost certainly have a very different biochemistry than life on earth.
This colorized mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission shows the most complete view yet of Titan's northern land of lakes and seas. Photo Credit: Wikimedia
The phosphorus found in our bodies is chemically quite similar to arsenic, and it’s been speculated that life could arise by exchanging one for the other. If so, how different would the resulting life be from life as we now know it?
And what about intelligent life? Somehow, when put together in just the right way, the makings of the human body give rise to the complex mental activities we’re all so intimately familiar with. Could other biochemistries lead not just to life, but to intelligent life? Or here’s a thought: could they lead to life more intelligent than our own?
It’s fun to speculate, but as far as we know, water, carbon, nitrogen and the like form the foundation for all living things. From the flowers in our gardens to the dogs who anxiously await our return home, all life springs from the same elemental origins. We may someday discover some altogether different form of life, but I’m not holding my breath. What we have here and now is a rich enough recipe for many lifetimes.
A tricolor pansy. Photo Credit: Wikimedia
The happiest Golden Retriever in the world. Photo Credit: Wikimedia
I'm Andy Boyd at the University of Houston, where we’re interested in the way inventive minds work.
The ingredients mentioned here are elements except for water (comprised of the elements hydrogen and oxygen) and salt (comprised of the elements sodium and chlorine).
For a related episode, see INSIDE THE MACHINE.
Building Blocks of Life. From the Arizona State University School of Life Sciences website: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/content/atoms-life. Accessed January 24, 2017
Hypothetical Types of Biochemistry. From the Wikipedia website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry. Accessed January 24, 2017.
This episode was first aired on January 26, 2017
1988-2016 Copyright © The Engines of Our Ingenuity.
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Top 5 Mick Jagger Videos
Spencer Kaufman
With Mick Jagger turning 68 today (July 26) and MTV turning 30 next week (Aug. 1), we take a look at five of the best music videos featuring the legendary singer. Whether he's fronting the Rolling Stones, performing solo or duetting with fellow music superstars, Jagger has appeared in some memorable clips. As Jagger works with his new group, SuperHeavy, we celebrate his birthday by taking a look back at five music videos that are highlighted by the veteran rocker's presence:
5. 'Love Is Strong'
Maybe not one of the Rolling Stones' better songs, but the video is epic. Jagger and his bandmates appear Godzilla-like as they stomp their way across New York City as larger-than-life figures.
4. 'Dancing in the Street'
Jagger teams up with fellow rock legend David Bowie in the video for 'Dancing in the Street,' the pair's version of a tune originally recorded by Martha and the Vandellas and later covered by the Mamas & the Papas and Van Halen.
3. 'Waiting on a Friend'
Here's a really cool video that features Jagger and Keith Richards hanging out on a stoop before meeting up with the rest of their Stones bandmates at a bar in the New York's Greenwich Village.
2. 'Just Another Night'
One of Jagger's biggest solo hits, 'Just Another Night' features '80s actress Rae Dawn Chong in its video. See Jagger flirt with the starlet before taking the stage to perform the tune off his 1985 album, 'She's the Boss.'
1. 'It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)'
This pre-MTV video features Jagger and the Stones performing the song dressed up in sailor uniforms before they are eventually consumed by soap bubbles. A classic clip for a classic tune.
Filed Under: Classic Hits, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones
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Netflix accused of sexualizing children with movie about kids who embrace ‘sensual dance’
Netflix is currently promoting an award-winning film, “Cuties,” that’s being marketed as “a coming-of-age tale” from the streaming giant.
But people across the world are expressing outrage with concerns that the movie sexualizes young girls, and a petition has been launched in an effort to have it removed from Netflix.
On Tuesday, Netflix announced that “Cuties” would be coming soon to its platform, sharing the French language film’s trailer on Twitter. The promotional plug reads: “Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts to explore her femininity, defying her family’s traditions.”
Netflix has a movie called “Cuties” about 11 year olds in a twerking dance group. Some of the reviews claim it’s a “commentary” on the sexualization of children but this is the poster. And keep in mind that the lead actress is actually 11 years old. In the film and real life. pic.twitter.com/4p2exeSvXw
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 20, 2020
The Hollywood News published the full synopsis of the film, which reads: Eleven-year-old Amy lives with her mom, Mariam, and younger brother, awaiting her father to rejoin the family from Senegal. Amy is fascinated by disobedient neighbor Angelica’s free-spirited dance clique, a group that stands in sharp contrast to stoic Mariam’s deeply held traditional values. Undeterred by the girls’ initial brutal dismissal and eager to escape her family’s simmering dysfunction, Amy, through an ignited awareness of her burgeoning femininity, propels the group to enthusiastically embrace an increasingly sensual dance routine, sparking the girls’ hope to twerk their way to stardom at a local dance contest. – READ MORE
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This Day in UMS History: Philadelphia Orchestra with Isaac Stern (May 11, 1963)
By Paula Muldoon
This Day In UMS – May 11, 1963
Hill Auditorium
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Isaac Stern, violinist
Trumpet Voluntary – Purcell
Concerto in e minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 64 – Mendelssohn
Concerto No. 1 in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 19 – Prokofiev
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 – Brahms
While virtually everyone recognizes the Mendelssohn violin concerto, Prokofiev’s beautiful first concerto is still somewhat of an unknown piece, eclipsed by his more famous second concerto. As it happens, I became familiar with the piece through Stern’s own recording; I have never heard the entire concerto performed live.
It’s interesting to note the difference which chronological perspective makes on one’s criticism of a piece. For me, first approaching it with late 20th century ears, it sounded modern – stark (a bit reminiscent of the opening of the Sibelius violin concerto with the quiet string background, and possibly of Debussy as well in its tone colors) and perhaps a bit harsh. However, I discovered that when it was first composed, it was rejected as being too Romantic; one critic even damned it as being “Mendelssohnian.” I wonder what such critics made of the hopelessly romantic (and lovely) second movement of the second violin concerto. I also wonder whether Stern viewed the concerto as harking back to Mendelssohn, and whether any similarity (or perhaps difference) was behind his programming the two concerti on the same concert.
Stern, of course, had a long history with UMS, with his first performance in Hill Auditorium in 1947, four years after his Carnegie Hall debut at age 23. He subsequently appeared 11 additional times (five recitals and six orchestral performances), with his last performance in 1992. In 2000, he was presented with the UMS Distinguished Artist Award at the Ford Honors Program.
While a video recording of Isaac Stern performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.1 isn’t currently available, you can hear Vadim Repin here:
“This Day in UMS History” is an occasional series of vignettes drawn from UMS’s historical archive. If you have a personal story or particular memory from attending the performance featured here — or any memories of Isaac Stern’s many appearances in Ann Arbor — we’d love to hear from you in the comments.
Paula Muldoon is a UMS Marketing Intern. She recently graduated from the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance with a degree in violin performance.
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NASA: Launch of Landsat Earth Observation Satellite
NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 2013 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mission, LDCM will add to the longest continuous data record of Earth's surface as viewed from space.
LDCM is the eighth satellite in the Landsat series, which began in 1972. The mission will extend more than 40 years of global land observations that are critical in many areas, such as energy and water management, forest monitoring, human and environmental health, urban planning, disaster recovery and agriculture. NASA and the USGS jointly manage the Landsat Program.
"For decades, Landsat has played an important part in NASA's mission to advance Earth system science. LDCM promises to extend and expand that capability," said Michael Freilich, director of the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "USGS's policy of offering free and open access to the phenomenal 40-year Landsat data record will continue to give the United States and global research community a better understanding of the changes occurring on our planet."
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Langham Place, New York, Fifth Avenue
400 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018, USA New York New York State United States - 10018
**Property Location**.With a stay at The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue in New York (Midtown), you'll be steps from 5th Avenue and 5 minutes by foot from Empire State Building. This 5-star hotel is 0.3 mi (0.5 km) from Macy's and 0.5 mi (0.8 km) from Grand Central Terminal. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer. .5th Avenue - 0.1 km / 0.1 mi Empire State Building - 0.4 km / 0.2 mi Macy's - 0.5 km / 0.3 mi Grand Central Terminal - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi Bryant Park - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi Times Square - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi Chrysler Building - 0.9 km / 0.6 mi New Amsterdam Theater - 1 km / 0.6 mi Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi New York Times Building - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi St. Patrick's Cathedral - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi Broadway - 1.2 km / 0.7 mi Flatiron Building - 1.2 km / 0.7 mi Madison Square Garden - 1.2 km / 0.7 mi Minskoff Theater - 1.2 km / 0.7 mi .The nearest airports are: John F. Kennedy Intl. Airport (JFK) - 27 km / 16.8 mi Liberty Intl. Airport (EWR) - 27.6 km / 17.1 mi LaGuardia Airport (LGA) - 13.8 km / 8.6 mi New York, NY (NYS- Skyports Seaplane Base) - 2.4 km / 1.5 mi Teterboro, NJ (TEB) - 19.5 km / 12.1 mi .The preferred airport for The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue is John F. Kennedy Intl. Airport (JFK). **Rooms**.Make yourself at home in one of the 234 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and LED televisions. Your pillowtop bed comes with down comforters and Egyptian cotton sheets. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while iPod docking stations and satellite programming provide entertainment. Private bathrooms have designer toiletries and hair dryers.**Dining**.At The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. Continental breakfasts are available daily from 9:00 AM to noon for a fee.**Business, Other Amenities**.Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a business center, and express check-out. Planning an event in New York? This hotel has facilities measuring 7500 square feet (697 square meters), including conference space.
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Joshua Fenty, Web Editor-in-Chief
The varsity football team played against Paramount High School on Friday Sept. 29. The game ended in a loss for Venice with a score of 50-27.
“We didn’t do as well as we should have on defense, and on offense we couldn’t really get anything going,” said Junior Moorice Apprey.
The team also played against St. Paul on Aug. 25 with a losing score of 34-10, El Camino Real on Aug. 31 with a winning score of 18-15, and Arleta on Sept. 8 with a wining score of 41-8.
Their first league game will be against Westchester on Friday Oct. 6.
The varsity football team played against Newbury Park on Friday Sept. 22. The game ended in a loss for Venice with a score of 52-42.
Though they had a rough start in the first half of the game with a score of 31-6, the team turned it around and made a remarkable comeback in the second half.
“The first half, we always play with a lower energy level until the second half when we turn it up and I feel like that needs to change,” said Captain Justin Cauley. “If we played in the first half with the same energy level we had in the second half, we would’ve won that game for sure.”
Through sheer persistence and a great deal of tenacity, they fought to the finish almost closing a major point gap and pushing through three injuries. Though they were not able to claim victory, their performance was promising and they did not disappoint their fans that night.
“Every game, you play better than the game before, and I think so far that might be true of our team regardless of the record,” said Coach Angelo Gasca. “Every game, every day, every year [we] practice and try to be better.”
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Baseball Seniors Drive-by Ceremony
A Deeper Look into the College Recruits of Venice High
The Softball Recruits of Venice High
Boys Volleyball Loses Season Due to Covid-19
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Victims’ Commissioner expresses concerns over ‘Honour-Based’ Abuse prosecutions
Government responds to issues raised by Dame Vera
Earlier this year the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales Dame Vera Baird QC wrote to the Home Secretary expressing concern about the fall in prosecutions in relation to so called Honour-Based Abuse (HBA) and the support available to those who have experienced it.
This was highlighted at a meeting with the CEO of the charity Karma Nirvana, which supports victims of HBA and campaigns to raise awareness of it.
In her letter Dame Vera said: “I am keen to do whatever I can to ensure that victims of HBA are receiving proper support and access to justice.
“Therefore, I would welcome the opportunity to meet with your officials to discuss… concerns and what further action your Department might take.
“In particular, I am keen to explore whether Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services might undertake a follow up inspection given the lack of improvement since the 2015 report.”
The full letter can be read here.
A response has now been received from Victoria Atkins MP – the minister for safeguarding. This can be read here. She refers to some welcome initiatives and a plan to meet with Home Office officials to see what more can be done to protect victims and potential victims from any form of HBA.
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Utilities in 01057 (Monson, MA)
See the chart below to see a comparison of Monson natural gas prices against U.S. average prices. Compare 01057 (Monson, MA) natural gas costs to overall U.S. average costs. [2]
On a year-over-year basis, residential natural gas prices in Monson (Massachusetts) decreased approximately 7%, from 16.20 $/Mcf (September 2019) to 15.04 $/Mcf (September 2020). [2]
The ZIP code of 01057 (Monson, MA) has an average annual solar radiation value of 4.32 kilowatt hours per square meter per day (kWh/m2/day). Compare Monson values to both low and high values in the U.S. overall: [3]
See the chart below for a comparison of Monson solar radiation levels against other areas in the U.S. Compare Monson levels against both 1) low average solar radition levels (WA) and also 2) high average solar radiation levels (NV). [3]
More information about 01057Monson, MA)
The ZIP code 01057 is associated with the city of Monson, MA in Hampden County. [4]
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Criteria & Judges
SEE THE WINNERS
Meet the 2020 Awards Gala MCs
The Vancouver UX Awards are excited to announce that the 2020 Virtual Gala will be hosted by Robert MacKie, Engagement Manager (People and Culture) of TELUS Digital, and Alejandra Porta, a freelance product designer and the co-creator of Shine Bootcamp.
Robert is a graduate of SIAT at Simon Fraser University and has ten years of design experience working with Blast Radius, Samsung and Mogo. He was the Program Manager and Instructor of UX Design at RED Academy, and also has a wealth of experience in the visual and performing arts. Immensely social and outgoing, he has an equal love of working with people - be it enabling, facilitating or developing them. But what puts him over the moon? Seeing the positive impact that comes from bringing those worlds together!
Alejandra is a Latin American-born designer and co-founder of Shine Bootcamp, a speaker accelerator for women & non-binary people, who believes design thinking can be applied to any discipline. Ale specializes in brand and communication design for startups and is currently living her dream by being her own boss and freelancing. When she’s not creating customer-first experiences through research and validation, Ale is championing positivity and health at any size. Ale was recently named one of 80 women and non-binary people to follow in tech by betakit.
Alejandra is excited to be hosting this year’s show because “representation matters! My mission is to empower minority designers that they can be leaders. To achieve that you first need to believe in yourself.”
“I have never seen a Latin American woman host or MC this event before; as Upasna Gautman says: ‘Inclusion drives innovation we can’t be what we can’t see.’ Women hold only 5% of leadership positions in the technology industry and I’m working every day to change that!”
Robert says “I am excited to be part of this year’s awards as a way to give back to the community I’ve spent so many years in, while facilitating their engagement of the event alongside my co-host, Ale.”
“It’s going to be a great night, and a lot of fun! This is the one night a year we get to shine a spotlight on the amazing technology and design projects coming out of Vancouver,” he says. “And after the year we’ve all had, I think we need a good party!”
Tickets for the November 26 virtual Gala are $10 each ($5 for students) and are for sale at Hopin.
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The Viewer's Commentary
AMATEUR FILM COMMENTARY. PROFESSIONAL FILM FAN.
The Ultimate Evolving Superhero Movie List
Posts Tagged ‘Chris Hemsworth’
REVIEW – Avengers: Endgame
May 8, 2019 CJ Stewart 2 comments
Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Produced by: Kevin Feige
Screenplay by: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Edited by: Jeffrey Ford, Matthew Schmidt
Cinematography by: Trent Opaloch
Music by: Alan Silvestri
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Bradley Cooper, Benedict Wong, Josh Brolin
It’s been about 11 years since Marvel began this grand experiment that would change the way that people looked at superhero movies forever – yes, arguably even more so than Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy and probably more so than even Richard Donner’s Superman. Twenty-two films and counting, all standing alone and yet tying into one another (with a few fringe TV shows on the side that are themselves ostensibly part of the same universe) and culminating into two films: last year’s Avengers: Infinity War, which saw Marvel doing the unthinkable and delivering on the promise that Thanos – the big bad teased at the end of the first Avengers film six years prior – would live up to the hype and even see the studio doing the unthinkable by letting the villain actually win, and now this film, Avengers: Endgame, the film that would feature the surviving heroes – conveniently including the ones who started it all – returned to the spotlight and going on a journey to correct what went wrong in what is arguably the most deserved victory lap film any studio has ever deserved. Does this one, with Infinity War setting the bar so high, live up to the standards set by its predecessor?… Well, if it doesn’t, it pretty damn well comes close! Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: action, Alan Silvestri, amazing, Ant-Man, Anthony Russo, apocalyptic, Avengers, Awesome, Benedict Wong, Black Order, Black Panther, Black Widow, Bradley Cooper, Brie Larson, Captain America, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Christopher Markus, Danai Gurira, Doctor Strange, Don Cheadle, Drax, epic, finale, Gamora, genocide, Groot, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hawkeye, Hulk, incredible, Infinity Gauntlet, Infinity Stones, Iron Man, Jeffrey Ford, Jeremy Renner, Joe Russo, Josh Brolin, Karen Gillan, Kevin Feige, Mantis, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Comics, Matthew Schmidt, Nebula, Okoye, Paul Rudd, Pepper Potts, Robert Downey Jr., Rocket Raccoon, Scarlet Witch, Scarlett Johansson, sci-fi, Shuri, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, Stephen McFeely, superhero, superheroes, supervillain, team up, Thanos, Thor, time travel, Trent Opaloch, Valkyrie, War Machine, Wasp, Winter Soldier
REVIEW – Avengers: Infinity War
Written by: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper, Sean Gunn, Vin Diesel, Pom Klementieff, Karen Gillan, Peter Dinklage, Benedict Wong, Tom Hiddleston, Idris Elba, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terry Notary, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Carrie Coon, Michael James Shaw, Josh Brolin
Based on characters from Marvel Comics
I’ve seen this movie twice now, and I’m still kinda shocked at how well they pulled this off. Infinity War is pretty much everything that fans could’ve wanted ever since Iron Man first teased The Avengers ten years ago in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first post-credits scene. Thanos, the Mad Titan, has finally arrived in theatres, and I can tell you that, even more than a week since I saw this (twice in the same weekend…), I’m still kind of in shock at just how fantastic Infinity War was. I think it may just be another film I see three times before it releases to Blu-Ray, in fact! Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: action, Alan Silvestri, Anthony Mackie, Anthony Russo, apocalypse, Avengers, Awesome, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong, Black Order, Black Panther, Black Widow, Bradley Cooper, Bucky Barnes, Captain America, Carrie Coon, Chadwick Boseman, Children of Thanos, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Christopher Markus, cosmic, Danai Gurira, Dave Bautista, Disney, Doctor Strange, Don Cheadle, Dora Milaje, Drax, Elizabeth Olsen, excellent, exciting, Falcon, fantastic, Gamora, genocide, Groot, Gwyneth Paltrow, Heimdall, Hulk, Hulkbuster, I am Groot, Idris Elba, impossible, incredible, Infinity Gauntlet, Infinity Stones, Iron Man, Joe Russo, Josh Brolin, Karen Gillan, Kevin Feige, Letitia Wright, Loki, Mad Titan, Mantis, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, massive, Michael James Shaw, Nebula, Okoye, Paul Bettany, Pepper Potts, Peter Dinklage, Pom Klementieff, Robert Downey Jr., Rocket Raccoon, Russo Brothers, Scarlet Witch, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Gunn, Sebastian Stan, Shuri, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Star-Lord, Stephen McFeely, superhero, superheroes, supervillain, supervillains, Terry Notary, Thanos, The Avengers, Thor, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Holland, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Trent Opaloch, Vin Diesel, Vision, war, War Machine, Winter Soldier, Zoe Saldaña
THEATRICAL REVIEW: Ghostbusters (2016)
July 19, 2016 CJ Stewart 2 comments
Directed by: Paul Feig
Produced by: Ivan Reitman, Amy Pascal
Written by: Katie Dippold, Paul Feig
Edited by: Melissa Bretherton, Brent White
Cinematography by: Robert Yeoman
Music by: Theodore Shapiro
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth, Charles Dance, Michael Kenneth Williams, Matt Walsh, Neil Casey, Andy Garcia, Cecily Strong
I really don’t know how to start off this review. With the whole ridiculous “controversy” surrounding this movie for its leads being “gender swaps” of the original actors, not to mention the subsequent fears of sounding like a misogynist for not liking the trailers (and misogynists fearing being called out for being one while still giving their misogynist opinions on it), I’m fairly certain that Ghostbusters surpassed even Batman v Superman and the whole Ben Affleck casting in terms of the absurd levels of stigmatization surrounding it. For a reviewer, it’s pretty hard to even begin reviewing this film without addressing it, and if you happen to not like it, I can only imagine it’s even harder to articulate your thoughts without them being twisted, misconstrued, or misworded into something that someone somewhere would take offense at. I know – I’m a man, and I’m reviewing this movie. In fact, every time I thought about how I was going to review this movie, I hated the fact that I felt that I had to work the review around this controversy, even as someone who personally could not have given any damns about the casting because I had absolutely no problems with it nor the particular women that were cast. “God help me,” I thought, “if I don’t end up liking this movie.” Lucky me, I did.
For the most part. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: 3D, Amy Pascal, Andy Garcia, Annie Potts, apocalypse, Bill Murray, Brent White, cash in, Cecily Strong, Charles Dance, Chris Hemsworth, comedy, controversy, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, fantasy, gender swap, ghost, Ghostbusters, goofy, IMAX, Ivan Reitman, Kate McKinnon, Katie Dippold, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Matt Walsh, Melissa Bretherton, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Kenneth Williams, Neil Casey, nostalgia, paranormal, Paul Feig, reboot, reimagining, Robert Yeoman, sci-fi, science, Sigourney Weaver, silly, Slimer, special effects, Stay Puft, supernatural, Theodore Shapiro
THEATRICAL REVIEW: Avengers: Age of Ultron
May 7, 2015 CJ Stewart 1 comment
Directed by: Joss Whedon
Written by: Joss Whedon
Edited by: Jeffrey Ford, Lisa Lassek
Cinematography by: Ben Davis
Music by: Brian Tyler, Danny Elfman
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johasson, Jeremy Renner, James Spader, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Linda Cardellini, Claudia Kim, Don Cheadle, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård, Andy Serkis, Julie Delpy, Kerry Condon
Based on the Marvel Comics
I don’t think anything will compare to the anticipation that led up to the release of Marvel’s first Avengers movie. When Samuel L. Jackson showed up at the end of the first Iron Man back in 2008 and basically announced Marvel’s intentions to create a cinematic universe in which pretty much all of their characters would coexist in one massive multimedia project, each subsequent addition to this universe has basically been made with the goal of getting people excited for the next while being fairly to immensely entertaining in its own right. This is something that could have easily imploded on itself, particularly if Marvel screwed it up by either playing it too safe and mucking their characters up in order to cater to audiences who might not be willing to accept them or by getting caught up in their own hype and letting the films coast on brand recognition and not paying attention to quality control. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: 3D, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, action, adventure, Andy Serkis, Anthony Mackie, artificial intelligence, artificial life, Avengers, Ben Davis, Black Widow, Brian Tyler, Captain America, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Claudia Kim, Cobie Smulders, Danny Elfman, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen, extinction, Hawkeye, Hayley Atwell, Hulk, Hulkbuster, Idris Elba, IMAX, Iron Man, J.A.R.V.I.S., James Spader, Jarvis, Jeffrey Ford, Jeremy Renner, Joss Whedon, Julie Delpy, Kerry Condon, Kevin Feige, Linda Cardellini, Lisa Lassek, machine, Maria Hill, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, Nick Fury, Paul Bettany, Quicksilver, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlet Witch, Scarlett Johasson, sci-fi, security, Stan Lee, Stellan Skarsgård, superhero, superheroes, supervillain, supervillains, team, team up, teamwork, technology, The Avengers, The Vision, Thor, Ultron, uprising, War Machine
2013 IN REVIEW: My Top Films of the Year
February 16, 2014 CJ Stewart 1 comment
FINALLY! The moment I’ve been building up to for far too long! It’s been a busy month… and a half… for me, but I’m finally done, and this is my last of my 2013 in Review articles! (Consequently, while none of these are exactly final reviews, many of them may as well be and portions of what is stated here may show up in a future review. For the sake of my sanity and my time, however, I’ve decided to present what I felt the need to write without very many edits!)
The format I’ve chosen for my annual Year in Review articles is a bit insane, I know, but while it’s time consuming, its also quite fun, and it’s just as much about sharing all the films released in the last year (or at least most, as I probably missed some in the sections where I went over films I didn’t get around to seeing) as it is about me locating films that you and I have both overlooked, which is also why a lot of the films I didn’t see this year made repeat appearances, as I couldn’t resist the urge to watch them, and it’s not like I’d be able to do another year in review for them, too, you know? This year, one of those movies I didn’t see at first but did during my writing these articles even made it onto this list, My Top Films of the Year!
So why don’t I call it “The Best Films of the Year”? It’s simple, really – it’s subjective, yes, but it’s also because even I switch around the order at times. I guarantee you that at some point in the past and future, I might have ordered these films differently. It took some time and thought, and this is ultimately what I felt comfortable enough with to publish, but I’ll tell you that this was a hard process, particularly in the top 10.
All of this year’s Best Picture Academy Award nominees are on this list. Seriously – I’ve even decided to mark the Oscar nominations this year. They were all very good and justifiably nominated, and while I might have my preferences as to who should win, they’re all remarkable, worthwhile films if you should ever consider watching them. Some of the other movies on this list, however, are also quite awesome, some of which I like better than the films that were nominated, and one of which I’m still very annoyed didn’t at least get the tenth vacant slot in their nominees list, just out of principle for how awesome it was. (I’m just going to tell you now, that movie is Inside Llewyn Davis.) How annoying!
So what of the rankings? Lists like these tend to demand them, so I include them, and I do think they are helpful in making priorities in our very busy lives as to what to see first and give preference to. Since the rankings are so subjective and sometimes even arbitrary, my main rule is to go with my gut on these things. Seriously. That’s what it boils down to. It’s a mixture of favoritism, enjoyment, entertainment, and, yes, the actual skill behind the scenes and within them. As such, films that were without a doubt brilliant masterpieces that will go on to receive tons of accolades and be remembered forever may be outranked by flash-in-the-pan popcorn films that have very little to say except, “Hey, look at this awesome thing we did!” but were also very skilled at doing so and are films that I will revisit time and time again whenever I want to be entertained. It’s hard to rank films of these sorts against one another, and if I felt that I could be that much more objective about these things and take out the entertainment factor, I would probably top load this list with all the heavyweight dramas and such. But I don’t think I can, so I don’t put up any airs of being able to do so.
But, you know, I think that’s alright. Variety is the spice of life, you know, and to say that dramas should be exalted at all times above the comedies and action films is, I think, false doctrine when it comes to film criticism and lessens the true value of joy and wonderment that isn’t always found in those serious dramas – so long as that joy and wonderment is done very well, of course.
So, with that all in mind, I feel I’ve prepared you for this eclectic list of my picks for not just the best films of the year, but also the ones that are my favorites, the ones I find most enjoyable, and the ones that blew me away with their spectacle. Read more…
Categories: Favorite Movies, Lists, Year in Review Tags: 2013, 3D, action, adaptation, AIDS, Alan Taylor, Alan Tudyk, Alexander Payne, Alexandra Maria Lara, Alexis Denisof, Alfonso Cuarón, aliens, Amanda Plummer, Amy Acker, Amy Adams, animation, Anthony Hopkins, artist, Awesome, Barkhad Abdi, based on a true story, beautiful, Ben Kingsley, Benedict Cumberbatch, best, Blood & Ice Cream, Bob Odenkirk, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, Brie Larson, Bruce Dern, Burn Gorman, Captain Kirk, Carey Mulligan, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Christian Bale, Christopher Eccleston, Christopher Nolan, Ciarán Hinds, Clark Gregg, Clifton Collins Jr., Coen Brothers, comedy, comic book, coming of age, Dame Judi Dench, Daniel Brühl, David O. Russell, DC Comics, Destin Daniel Cretton, Disney, Disney Princess, Don Cheadle, Donald Sutherland, Drama, Ed Harris, Edgar Wright, Elizabeth Banks, Ethan Coen, fatherhood, Favorite, folk music, Formula 1, Fran Kranz, George Clooney, greed, Guillermo del Toro, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hans Christian Andersen, Henry Cavill, HIV, Hunger Games, Idina Menzel, Idris Elba, indie, indie film, Iron Man, J.J. Abrams, Jacob Lofland, Jaimie Alexander, James Hunt, Jared Leto, Jean Dujardin, Jean-Marc Vallée, Jeff Nichols, Jeffrey Wright, Jena Malone, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Jillian Morgese, Joaquin Phoenix, Joel Coen, John Gallagher Jr., John Goodman, John Ridley, Jon Favreau, Jonah Hill, Jonathan Groff, Jonás Cuarón, Jordan Belfort, Josh Gad, Josh Hutcherson, Joss Whedon, Judi Dench, June Squibb, Justin Timberlake, kaiju, Kaitlyn Dever, Kat Dennings, Keith Stanfield, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Kristen Bell, Kyle Chandler, Leonardo DiCaprio, Liam Hemsworth, Lois Lane, Loki, Margot Robbie, Martin Scorsese, Marvel Comics, Matthew McConaughey, Max Martini, mech, mecha, medicine, melodrama, Melonie Diaz, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Fassbender, Michael Shannon, money, monster, motherhood, moving, musical, Natalie Dormer, Natalie Portman, Nathan Fillion, Nebraska, Nick Frost, Niki Lauda, Octavia Spencer, Olivia Wilde, Oscar bait, Oscar Grant, Oscar Isaac, parenthood, passion, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Paul Greengrass, Philip Seymour Hoffman, pirate, prejudice, racing, racism, Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall, Reed Diamond, Reese Witherspoon, Rene Russo, Riki Lindhome, Rinko Kikuchi, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Kazinsky, Robert Lopez, robots, Ron Howard, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, Ryan Coogler, Sam Claflin, Sandra Bullock, Santino Fontana, Scarlett Johansson, sci-fi, science, Sean Maher, Shakespeare, Shane Black, Simon Pegg, slavery, Solomon Northup, space, Spencer Treat Clark, Spike Jonze, Spock, Stacy Keach, Star Trek, Stark Sands, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Frears, Steve Coogan, Steve McQueen, superhero, Superman, supervillain, Suzanne Collins, T-Bone Burnett, technology, terrorism, Thor, Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, Tom Hanks, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Lenk, transgender, transvestite, troubled youth, Tye Sheridan, voice acting, voiceover, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Will Forte, Woody Harrelson, year in review, Zachary Quinto, Zack Snyder, Zod, Zoe Saldaña
Review: “Star Trek”
April 30, 2013 CJ Stewart 4 comments
Directed by: J.J. Abrams
Produced by: J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof
Written by: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Edited by: Mary Jo Markey, Maryann Brandon
Cinematography by: Dan Mindel
Music by: Michael Giacchino, Alexander Courage (themes)
Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldaña, Karl Urban, Eric Bana, John Cho, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Greenwood, Leonard Nimoy, Ben Cross, Clifton Collins, Jr., Winona Ryder, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Morrison
It’s one of my favorite films now, but at the time this was first announced, I absolutely hated the idea of revisiting the original series characters. It wasn’t out of any sort of loyalty to the original cast, really, nor out of any sort of deep respect for their final film together, The Undiscovered Country (which contends with The Wrath of Khan for the best film), but more because I was sick of the franchise staying in the past. Other fans were seemingly of the same mind, with viewership so low for the prequel series Star Trek Enterprise that it resulted in the first Star Trek cancellation since the original series, and the abhorrently tacky Next Generation send-off Star Trek Nemesis earning the lowest box office in the series. So why was the studio and director J.J. Abrams, a self-admitted non-fan of the franchise, so keen on moving backward with the new film when stagnation was the series’ biggest problem in the first place? Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: action, adaptation, adventure, Alex Kurtzman, Alexander Courage, alternate reality, alternate timeline, alternate universe, Anton Yelchin, Ben Cross, blackhole, Bruce Greenwood, Captain Kirk, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pine, Clifton Collins Jr., Damon Lindelof, Dan Mindel, destiny, Enterprise, Eric Bana, fate, fun, Gene Roddenberry, J.J. Abrams, Jennifer Morrison, John Cho, Karl Urban, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett, Mary Jo Markey, Maryann Brandon, Michael Giacchino, reboot, Roberto Orci, Romulan, sci-fi, Simon Pegg, space, Spock, Star Trek, Starfleet, time travel, Uhura, USS Enterprise, Vulcan, Winona Ryder, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldaña
2012 IN REVIEW: The Best Films of the Year
February 16, 2013 CJ Stewart Leave a comment
At last, we come to the climax of my review of the films of 2012. To those of you who continue to keep up with me, I one again apologize for the slow updates — I saw so many movies this past year and have been doing so much this past month that it’s been hard to keep up with a regular update schedule!
This is how I felt ALL WEEK!
I’m currently in the process of moving, with my best friend / roommate moving back to his hometown to be closer to family, so it’s been tough keeping up with the blog, hanging out with him a few more times after seven awesome years of being roommates, while also just figuring stuff out for the next period of my life living as a single person for the first time. It’s tough, but thankfully he lives where my family lives, and it’s only 100 miles away. Lucky for any fans I may have (Hello!…?), it’ll likely result in me doing more reviews, though the higher amount of rent I’ll be paying will undoubtedly impact my ability to go to the theatre as often as I have been.
On that note, before I get to the meat of this final entry, I want to thank everyone who has been reading this blog, regularly or even sporadically. I may not know you, but I appreciate you! This may be a hobby of mine, but it’s meaningful to me and keeps me sharp. I started The Viewer’s Commentary in September of 2011, after lots of personal setbacks and a good long while of feeling stupid and even being made to feel stupid for wanting to start a blog about movies, and by the time I finally decided to just go for it and not listen to the negativity, I still didn’t really know whether I was going to still be writing in even a few months’ time. So to already be in the middle of my second year and still be having a blast getting my thoughts and opinions out there about one of my favorite subjects has truly been a great experience. To those of you who have read, continue to read, and even to those of you I know personally who encouraged me and maybe don’t even share my passion and probably aren’t even reading this now but you supported me all the same, thank you again for being there! I’m definitely looking forward to what 2013 promises to bring! (STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS! FINALLY!)
The film’s villain amongst a bunch of red shirts. This isn’t going to end well…
Anyway, enough self-reflection! You’re here for the rundown of the best films of 2012, aren’t you? I assume so, since you are continuing to read this. I’ll let you get to that, but first, let me explain how this list is working, as I’ve changed it up a bit from last year and from most other “Best Of” lists.
First off, last year I did it in multiple parts (here, here, and, finally, here – in order). None of that this time. You’re getting this all in one big wave!
Secondly, and this is related to the third alteration, there are no longer just 10 films on this list, but rather a whopping 17. Why?
Well, that’s because the third alteration I made is that I’ve decided that a lot of the best films of the year weren’t necessarily my favorites, but I wanted to recognize their greatness by putting them on this list anyway, rather than lump them in with the films that were just average. (I did something similar with the “Films I Liked” this year after realizing I didn’t necessary love nor despise a lot of films enough to put them on the worst or best of lists.)
This did not make the list. This shouldn’t make any lists… BECAUSE IT SHOULDN’T EXIST!
So, while the films below are all fantastic films and deserve to be considered among the best of the year, their order has everything to do with favoritism over quality. After all, lists like these are highly subjective, and while it’s certainly possible to objectively call a film “one of the best,” ultimately by ranking such diverse works against one another, you just have to acknowledge the fact that you’re playing favorites.
So, yeah, anyway to review and summarize: These are, in my opinion, THE BEST FILMS OF 2012, but they are ORDERED ACCORDING TO FAVORITISM. Make sense? I hope so! If not, then just keep reading on, ’cause I think you’ll get it, anyway! Read more…
Categories: Favorite Movies, Reviews, Year in Review Tags: 007, 13th Amendment, 2000 AD, 2012, 9/11, Aardman, Abraham Lincoln, Academy Awards, action, adaptation, adventure, Alan Arkin, Alan Tudyk, alternate history, America, Amour, Amy Poehler, animation, anime, Anne Hathaway, Argo, Arrietty, assassins, Avengers, Bane, Batman, Ben Affleck, best, best of, Black Widow, blaxploitation, Bradley Cooper, Bridget Mendler, Bruce Willis, Canadian Caper, Captain America, Carol Burnett, Catwoman, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Christoph Waltz, Christopher Nolan, claymation, comedy, comic book, Daniel Craig, Dark Knight, David Henrie, David O. Russell, disease, Disney, Drew Goddard, dystopia, Emily Blunt, Emmanuelle Riva, espionage, Ewan McGregor, family, fantasy, Favorite, favorites, Film, foreign film, France, French, future, Gary Ross, Hawkeye, Hayao Miyazaki, Hirosama Yonebayashi, history, Hollywood, horror, Hugh Grant, Hulk, Iran, Iranian hostage crisis, Iron Man, Jack McBrayer, James Bond, James Spader, Jane Lynch, Javier Bardem, Jean-Louise Trintignant, Jeff Newitt, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Jessica Chastain, John C. Reilly, John Chambers, John Goodman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Hutcherson, Joss Whedon, Juan Antonio Bayona, Judge Dredd, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Kathryn Bigelow, Kerry Washington, Lee Pace, Lena Headey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Loki, love, Mark Ruffalo, Martin Freeman, Marvel, Mary Norton, Matthew Quick, mental illness, Michael Haneke, Middle East, mortality, Movies, Naomi Watts, Oaklee Pendergast, obsession, Olivia Thirlby, Osama bin Laden, Oscars, patriotism, Pete Travis, Peter Lord, pirate, Quentin Tarantino, racism, reunion, Rian Johnson, Rich Moore, Robert Downey Jr., sacrifice, Sally Field, Sam Mendes, Samuel Joslin, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Silverman, Scarlett Johansson, sci-fi, sickness, slave, slavery, Spain, special effects, spoof, spouse, spy, Steven Spielberg, stop motion, Studio Ghibli, superhero, team, telekinesis, telepath, terrorism, The Borrowers, The Hunger Games, Thor, time travel, Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Holland, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Mendez, torture, tsunami, United States, video games, violence, waterboarding, wife, Will Arnett, year in review, Zero Dark Thirty
2012 IN REVIEW: Neither the Best, Nor the Worst Films I Saw
February 2, 2013 CJ Stewart 3 comments
This same section of my 2011 in Review had 17 films listed on what I, at the time, called “The Films I Liked.” 2012 being the first full year that I was blogging, I made a concerted effort to see as many films released in the year as I could afford. And, wouldn’t you know it? This list has 31 films on it — films that I realized I didn’t always entirely like, too, but were not necessarily worthy of being put on any kind of definitive “Worst of…” list that I could come up with. I could have been a pessimist and just put all the bad movies on the naughty list or something, but I’m feeling especially upbeat right now, and so I’ve decided to rename this list as a list of the films that were “Neither the Best, Nor the Worst Films I Saw.”
As the name would imply, these are a mix of films that range from bad to good, but never awful nor excellent. Some of these films are possibly even films that I may not even feel much of anything towards, so I just put them here because I saw them and they met the criteria for making this year in review — that is, they were released (at least widely) in 2012, and I saw them at some point before writing this, either theatrically or on DVD.
There is one exception I made for this list, and I will be making it again for another film in a future list, and that is for the film that is marked with an asterisk (that’s the little star symbol that looks like this: *). It featured previously on my 2012 IN REVIEW: Films I Didn’t See list, and yet I finally saw it now that it’s on video, and I felt that it was good enough to comment on here. I won’t be making that exception for every film I’ve since seen from 2012 since starting this year in review, but I’m making some exceptions and marking them as such.
Anyway, without further delay, here are the films that were neither great nor awful, the good films on down to the bland ones that I saw from 2012: Read more…
Categories: Lists, Year in Review Tags: 2012, 3D, action, Alien, Andrew Garfield, Anne Hathaway, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Aubrey Plaza, Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, comedy, crash, Denzel Washington, Disney, drugs, dwarf, dwarves, Dwight Henry, fairy tale, Finding Nemo, fish, horror, Hugh Jackman, India, Jack Frost, Jason Bourne, Jason Clarke, Jeremy Renner, Jessica Chastain, Jonah Hill, Josh Brolin, Julia Roberts, Keira Knightley, Kristen Stewart, Liam Neeson, Lily Collins, Mark Duplass, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Fassbender, monster, musical, Noomi Rapace, Pixar, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rachel Weisz, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis, romantic comedy, Russell Crowe, Santa Claus, sci-fi, Seth MacFarlane, Shia LaBeouf, Snow White, Spider-Man, Steve Carell, superhero, Sylvester Stallone, tiger, Tim Burton, Tom Hardy, Tom Hooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Wes Anderson, Will Ferrell, Will Smith, year in review, Zach Galifianakis
2012 IN REVIEW – The Films I Didn’t See: September – December
January 28, 2013 CJ Stewart 1 comment
My apologies for the slightly longer delay in getting this part out. I kinda got stricken with the flu for a few days, and didn’t exactly feel like writing. But, here it is, the final third of the films I didn’t see in the year 2012. This is the period of time where the summer movies begin to trickle out before coming to a complete stop and where film studios begin their flood of Oscar-baiting dramas and such.
That’s not to say that there are never any good action films released during this time. That also isn’t to say that none of these Oscar-baiting films are any good, too. Far from it. 2012 saw the release of Oscar-worthy greats as Argo, Lincoln, and Zero Dark Thirty releasing in the same time period as cash-grabbing features like the final Twilight film, The Hobbit, and Wreck-it Ralph, all with varying degrees of success. It’s actually a fairly ripe time to watch all sorts of movies, come to think of it. Possibly better than even summer!
Still, it’s not like I’m going to see every film released during this time. If anything, I ran out of time and risked going out of budget for all the films that I did want to see, but didn’t always have time to. Then there were also films that, quite frankly, I could just do without seeing. But, for the purposes of this article, I’ve gone through and examined all these, both enticing and repugnant, some being granted my attention possibly for the last time ever, and have collected my thoughts and impressions below. As mentioned previously in parts 1 and 2, this isn’t my final say on these films, and some of the commentary below is based pretty much on plot synopses, other reviews, skimmings, and a heavy use of Wikipedia and Rotten Tomatoes. I watched the trailers where I could and didn’t for those films that I just basically didn’t care. Which ones are those? Read, and you may just find out! Read more…
Categories: Lists, Year in Review Tags: 3D, Adam Sandler, addiction, age, Alex Cross, Alfred Hitchcock, Amy Adams, animation, Anna Karenina, Anthony Hopkins, Barbara Streisand, Bette Midler, Bill Murray, Billy Crystal, biopic, Bollywood, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, Bruce Willis, Catherine Keener, Chris Hemsworth, Christmas, Christopher Walken, Cirque du Soleil, Clint Eastwood, Colin Farrell, Communism, David Chase, death, demon, Detroit, Diana Vreeland, Dinosaur, documentary, Drama, drilling, drugs, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, fashion, fracking, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Genndy Tartakovsky, Gerard Butler, global warming, Graham Chapman, Gus Van Sant, Halle Berry, haunting, health care, heist, Helen Mirren, Henry Cavill, horror, Hugh Laurie, Indiana Jones, invasion, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jennifer Lawrence, Joe Wright, John Goodman, John Krasinski, Josh Hutcherson, Josh Peck, Keira Knightley, Kristen Stewart, Liam Neeson, Logan Lerman, Lucy Liu, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maggie Smith, marital arts, Matt Damon, Michael Peña, Milla Jovovich, Monty Python, musical, Nicolas Cage, Oscar, Oscar bait, Paranormal Activity, Paul Thomas Anderson, Paul W.S. Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, President, Psycho, quartet, Resident Evil, Richard Gere, Robert Pattinson, Russell Crowe, Sam Rockwell, sci-fi, Scientology, Selena Gomez, Seth Rogen, sex, Sigourney Weaver, Silent Hill, soccer, surfing, Taken, Taylor Lautner, The Beatles, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Twilight, Tyler Perry, Universal Soldier, vampire, video games, Viola Davis, Wachowskis, werewolf, Woody Harrelson, Wu-Tang Clan, Zoe Saldaña
Review: “The Cabin in the Woods”
October 1, 2012 CJ Stewart 6 comments
Directed by: Drew Goddard
Produced by: Joss Whedon,
Written by: Drew Goddard, Joss Whedon
Cinematography by: Peter Deming
Music by: David Julyan
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Brian White, Amy Acker
I don’t claim to be an expert on horror films. Last year, when I did my first Scary Movie Month, I ended up getting schooled by a group of Nightmare on Elm Street fans, who took me to task for not getting the point of the first film. Throughout that month, I struggled to gain a greater appreciation for the horror genre, particularly through the classic slasher films — Halloween, Friday the 13th, The Last House on the Left and its remake… Aside from just providing me with an opportunity to list all those films and link to my reviews, my point is that I’m not particularly fond of these types of films, aside from Halloween, which surprised me with its elegance, and the two Nightmare sequels I reviewed, Dream Warriors and New Nightmare, which ended up being more fun than I anticipated.
I do, however, like Scream and even its three sequels, which were fun, self-aware tributes to the slasher sub-genre while also being fairly well constructed horror thrillers in their own right, to varying degrees. But after this? It’s kind of hard to really think of that many subversive horror films that manage to capture that same sense of fun, creativity, and terror without reiterating everything that’s been said before. Lucky for me, then, that Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard knew exactly how take that formula and turn it on its head, yet again, and with The Cabin in the Woods, they not only send up the horror genre in a loving manner, but also lament the lack of creativity that has pervaded the genre in the past few years and all the factors that led to the genre’s stagnation. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: Amy Acker, Amy AckerKristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison, apocalypse, bong mug, Bradley Whitford, Brian White, cabin, Chris Hemsworth, David Julyan, Drew Goddard, drugs, filmmaking, Fran Kranz, genre, gods, horror, Jesse Williams, Joss Whedon, Kristen Connolly, merman, meta, monster, parody, Peter Deming, Richard Jenkins, satire, scary, Scary Movie Month, slasher, subversive, woods, zombies
2019 IN REVIEW – My Favorites
2019 IN REVIEW – The Worst of the Year (…and also the ones in between)
REVIEW – Rubber
REVIEW – Selena
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Pushing For A Stronger Voice In Europe
23 June 2010, at 1:00am
SCOTLAND, UK - Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment Richard Lochhead will meet with the new Defra Ministerial team today. For the first time the Cabinet Secretary will meet with all Defra Ministers responsible for farming and fisheries in unprecedented talks.
Around the table will be Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for Rural Affairs, Jim Paice, Minister for Agriculture and Food, and Richard Benyon, Minister for Fisheries, who will discuss how the UK and Scottish Governments can work together on rural, agricultural and fisheries issues.
Talks will focus on a number of issues including the recent agreement that Scottish Ministers and those from other devolved administrations will have a stronger role during European Council meetings to better reflect the interests of our farming and fishery industries.
Richard Lochhead said: "This is an important first meeting with the UK Defra team, covering crucial areas of Scottish interest and establishing the ground rules for the respect agenda with the UK Government.
"The Scottish Government welcome the progress that has been made in giving Scotland and the other devolved administrations a greater role at European Councils. This is a welcome development that reflects the importance of the European decision making process to Scottish communities.
"We have real expertise and valuable contributions to make to the European decision making process not least in the field of rural and maritime policy. That is why it is important for the Scottish Government to contribute to the development of policy in the lead up to council as well as at council itself.
"European Councils make important decisions on issues such as fishing farming and food production, issues that represent a greater share of the Scottish economy than they do in other parts of the UK. Today's discussions with Defra Ministers and with the Secretary of State for Scotland will consider how this will work in practice in a way that further strengthens the voice of Rural Scotland in Europe."
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Album Review: Jenny Tolman – ‘There Goes The Neighborhood’
The short version: ‘There Goes The Neighborhood’ suffers from some inconsistencies, but overall it’s a unique debut album that carves out a distinctive lane for Jenny Tolman.
Favorite tracks: “So Pretty,” “There Goes The Neighborhood,” “Used To My Cooking,” “Love You Too”
Least favorite track: “My Welcome Mat”
The long version: What is a debut album supposed to be, exactly?
In some cases it’s a classic, and at other times it’s a showcase for potential. But is there a specific box for what it should be? For country music, it’s especially crucial to understand that. After all, one flop single these days usually signals the end of the line for certain artists, and trying to just get off the ground to begin with is important (and difficult) as well.
Of course, that’s discussing the commercially oriented side of that question. Artistically, debut albums typically need to introduce who the artist is, if only because, at the end of the day, we’re always going to circle back to the aforementioned commercial side of that question.
Obviously, though, it isn’t always easy to know how to introduce yourself, especially in country music where the genre’s web presence is severely lacking compared to other genres. As much as we, the country music fans, don’t want to acknowledge this, the promotion and marketing behind the artist will sometimes be just as, if not more, important than the actual music.
But that doesn’t mean the creative side of the artist has to be stifled in that process, which brings us to Nashville native Jenny Tolman. Her debut album, There Goes The Neighborhood, came about after Tolman exited an abusive relationship and regained her creative spark. However, that wasn’t the inspiration for the album’s concept, but instead just Tolman’s way of tapping back into her childlike imagination to regain a part of her she’d lost. Some positive attributes leading up this were her citing Dolly Parton and Roger Miller (among others) as influences, and considering she was working with Dave Brainard on production duties (the same producer behind Brandy Clark’s 12 Stories, Sunny Sweeney’s Trophy and others), there was certainly enough reason to check this out.
Ironically, after droning on for several paragraphs before actually discussing the album in question, There Goes The Neighborhood is the kind of album that speaks for itself, at least in terms of introducing who Tolman is to the world. Centered around a fictional town called “Jennyville,” while I won’t say the album quite nails its concept as well as it could, this is still an album that carves out a very distinct lane for Tolman and introduces plenty of reasons to give her a chance.
Of course, figuring out where to start when discussing the album in detail is the hardest part. The album is interesting, sonically, playing to the same theatrical elements reminiscent of, say, Karen Jonas’s Butter from last year, only with a looser atmosphere. There’s plenty of dusty harmonica, saloon piano, fiddles, bright acoustics and ragtime trumpets to keep the album’s energy up and feeling cheerful without going overboard. Part of this extends toward the lyrics and themes, which we’ll be addressing later, but Jennyville isn’t meant to explore the perils of a small town or be a southern Gothic narrative in the same way that, say, Ian Noe’s Between The Country was earlier this year. Instead, you get the feeling that the town is supposed to reflect something of a Dr. Suess work, or if you watched Goosebumps as a child, Karlsville.
But the album’s best assets often lie in its presentation. Songs like “Work It” and “High Class White Trash” bounce off their lazy acoustic grooves to play off their playful infectiousness, and songs like “So Pretty” and “Used To My Cooking” opt for more serious messages by exercising restraint and are all the better for it.
With the electric bass driving the groove of “Work It,” it even has all of the sass of a ‘90s Shania Twain cut, and “Tulips” probably leans into its theatrical elements the most to deliver something bouncy and upbeat. And, on the note of the bass on “Work It,” it helps that this album even has enough support in its low end to drive these songs along without feeling overproduced. The interweaving of the fiddles with the pianos or handclap percussion work for tracks like “Tulips” and “High Class White Trash,” for example, respectively.
But discussing the album without diving into what Jennyville actually is would just be dancing around the main point. To get my main nitpick with the album out of the way, I’d say the album doesn’t explore the fictional town far enough in concept or explore other characters as well as it could. Part of this is intentional, as Tolman didn’t want to sketch a set town, but rather let listeners fill in the blanks with their own details. I understand the broad appeal, but it makes certain tracks feel like they’re retreading the same ground at some points or make other moments not feel as interesting as others.
If there’s an overarching theme to this album, however, it’s exploring the town through Tolman’s eyes herself and her experiences. She’s more of an average townsperson figuring out life as she goes along more than the narrator telling these stories as if she were some higher authority in town. For all of the childlike imagination that went into the creation of Jennyville, the album often, ironically, finds Tolman growing up and learning tougher lessons. But again, There Goes The Neighborhood isn’t meant to be some dark, despairing epic about a failing small town. The biggest bout of drama this album goes for is in the title track when all the women find themselves at odds in a hilarious fashion to win over a handyman, and while the album could have entered some dicey territory with that certain twist toward the end, it evades it by not making it the main punchline of the song.
Yet I found myself wishing there were more moments like the title track that went in a zanier direction or sketched out the town and its characters a little more. The commercials scattered throughout this album are fine, but they don’t really add much to the narrative, instead breaking up the cohesion, if anything.
Still, the album’s lighter feel means that it’s often trying to go for humorous, zany situations, and Tolman is certainly the kind of charismatic performer who can pull it off well. I wouldn’t say the album tests her technical range as a singer all that much, but she’s got a great voice, and the album certainly often finds her in a likable mold. Sometimes she’s calling out the small town hypocrisy of having of having to put on face and keep up appearances in “High Class White Trash,” if only because that will matter once the title track rolls along. On a technical level, though, “Postcard From Jennyville” goes in an unexpected direction, acting as more of a dreamier vocal showcase for Tolman and supported by classic, almost elegant instrumentation.
What surprised me most, however, was that, when Tolman does opt for something more subdued or serious, she’s convincing enough to never make the moment feel jarring. The best example is “So Pretty,” which plays toward ‘90s country balladry and shows a woman wishing she could hate the other woman stealing away the man of her dreams, and yet realizes that her anger shouldn’t be directed at her. For an album that leans into its silliness quite well, this moment of maturity is likely its best moment, especially when Tolman finds herself sympathizing with the other woman once the two lovers divorce by the end.
And it’s not like those darker moments don’t fluctuate on the album, but the impression one gets from There Goes The Neighborhood is that there’s always a silver lining at the end for these characters. No one is beyond saving, in other words. That’s what makes “Love You Too” a shockingly pertinent part of the album’s puzzle – an honest conversation where Tolman addresses herself to quit trying to be perfect and love herself instead, as that’s the only way she’ll ever be able to love others. I’m making it sound more corny than it really is, but it’s a very well done, revealing track on the album.
On that note, however, when the focus is on Tolman herself, there are moments that feel repetitive or are going for the same theme better elsewhere. The sentiment of acceptance on “My Welcome Mat” is nice and all, but it’s told in the most cloying way possible, and the sleepier, more serious mix does it no favors. It’s like the track is still trying to match the sillier lyrics with a more serious arrangement, and it’s just not as effective as when Tolman does add some bite to her performances like on “So Pretty” and “Love You Too.”
There’s also the two love songs, “’Til My Tank Is Empty” and “Used To My Cooking,” and they both work, sonically. They’re both driven off of warm acoustics with some fiddles, organ and steel guitar thrown into their respective mixes, but whereas the hook of the former track really goes nowhere in its meaning, the latter track is framed in a more honest light with a better hook, acknowledging that neither partner is perfect, but they’re going to try and make it work anyway.
And that’s what’s most likable about There Goes The Neighborhood – it’s fun, yet still carries a deeper, respectable subtext to it all. And going back to the question I posed at the start of this review, in terms of what this album accomplishes, it establishes Tolman as a distinctive artist in country music right now. Again, the main issues are simply with consistency, but as it stands, considering she counts Roger Miller as in influence, she’s certainly helping to bring back the zanier, fun side of country music in a unique way. With Tolman, you’ll know her songs when you hear them, and that’s not something every artist can say when starting out.
(Decent 7/10)
Buy or stream the album.
August 1, 2019 December 27, 2020 Zackary KephartAlbum Reviews7/10, Country, Jenny Tolman
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“With Tolman, you’ll know her songs when you hear them, and that’s not something every artist can say when starting out.” Yes, she comes across as a likable, should-be-marketable artist, who balances a young,modern appeal with country instrumentation to stand out above the hordes of generic, pop-click upstarts. Hopefully, she’ll land some nice touring opportunities.
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Precipitation is any form of water, liquid or solid aqueous deposit, that fall from the clouds in the sky. It forms in the Earth's atmosphere and then drops onto Earth’s surface. Precipitation is an essential part of Earth’s water cycle because it connects the ocean, land, and atmosphere. <ref name=natgeo>Society, N. G., & Society, N. G. (2011, February 15). precipitation. Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://education.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/precipitation/</ref> <ref name=nasa>Precipitation Measurement Missions | An international partnership to understand precipitation and its impact on humankind. Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://pmm.nasa.gov/precipitation-measurement-missions</ref> <ref name=Pidwirny>Pidwirny, M. (2011, September 10). Precipitation and fog. Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/51cbeea97896bb431f69970e/</ref> <ref name=ncar>Precipitation. Retrieved March 22, 2016, from https://eo.ucar.edu/basics/wx_2_b.html</ref>
== How it works ==
Droplets of water suspended in the air, also known as water vapor, buildup in the Earth's atmosphere. From Earth, we see water vapor in the atmosphere as clouds and/or fog. Precipitation forms around the cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), or tiny pieces of material such as dust, that collects in clouds. Eventually, the clouds can’t hold the water vapor any longer and this creates precipitation in the form of a liquid or a solid.<ref name=natgeo /> Precipitation “can only fall to the Earth's surface if they grow to a size that can overcome updrafts." <ref name=Pidwirny />
Droplets of water suspended in the air, also known as water vapor, buildup in the Earth's atmosphere. From Earth, we see water vapor in the atmosphere as clouds and/or fog. Precipitation forms around the cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), or tiny pieces of material, such as dust, that collect in clouds. Eventually, the clouds can’t hold the water vapor any longer and this creates precipitation in the form of a liquid or a solid.<ref name=natgeo /> Forms of precipitation “can only fall to the Earth's surface if they grow to a size that can overcome updrafts." <ref name=Pidwirny />
[[File:Precipitation.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Precipitation in the water cycle]]
=== Where it comes from ===
“…most clouds do not produce precipitation. In many clouds, water droplets and ice crystals are just too small to overcome the natural updrafts found in the lower atmosphere. As a result, the tiny water droplets and ice crystals remain suspended in the atmosphere until they are converted back into vapor.” <ref name=Pidwirny />
Not all clouds produce precipitation... In fact, most clouds do not. In those clouds, the water droplets and ice crystals are too small to overcome the natural updrafts in the atmosphere. This allows the small water droplets and ice crystals remain in the atmosphere until they are converted back into vapor. <ref name=Pidwirny />
== How it's measured ==
Certain kinds of precipitation, like rain and snow, has been measured for centuries using instruments as basic as containers with markings on them to very advanced, complex tools. Today, these specialized devices provide information about the size of raindrops to how wind impacts the measurements taken. Weather radar systems on the ground send out a pulse of energy into the clouds and that provides us with the information of where and how much precipitation there will be. Tools we use that aren’t stationed on the ground are the satellites orbiting above the Earth. These satellites give display a bigger picture of precipitation across the entire globe. <ref name=nasa />
Certain kinds of precipitation, like rain and snow, have been measured for centuries using instruments as basic as containers with markings on them. Over time, very advanced, complex tools have been created to measure the precipitation fall. Today, these specialized devices provide information about the size of raindrops to how wind impacts the measurements taken. Weather radar systems on the ground send out a pulse of energy into the clouds and that provides the information of where and how much precipitation there will be. Other tools that aren’t stationed on the ground are the satellites orbiting above the Earth. These satellites give display a bigger picture of precipitation across the entire globe. <ref name=nasa />
=== Why it's measured ===
It is important to measure precipitation because each for affects every part of life on Earth in a different way. When we measure rain for example, we measure where it occurs and how much it occurs, so that scientists can get a better understanding of the impact of precipitation on streams, rivers, surface runoff and groundwater. “Frequent and detailed measurements help scientists make models of and determine changes in Earth’s water cycle” (NASA).
It is important to measure precipitation because each form affects life on Earth in different ways. When rain is measured for example, it is measured for where it occurs and how much it occurs. This is so that scientists can better understand the impact of precipitation on streams, rivers, surface runoff and groundwater. It has been noted that “frequent and detailed measurements help scientists make models of and determine changes in Earth’s water cycle.” <ref name=nasa />
== Kinds of Precipitation ==
== Types of Precipitation ==
The most common forms of precipitation are rain, snow, hail, and sleet.
[[File:Rain.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Here's a picture of rain]]
[[File:Rain1.jpg|200px|thumb|right|This a photo of raindrops]]
=== Rain ===
Rain is the most commonly know form of precipitation that falls to Earth’s surface. Rain is known as small droplets of water that fall from the clouds when they get too big for the cloud to hold. As these drops fall, they grow larger in size as they collect more water on their way down. Most people picture raindrops the way cartoon pictures portray rain to look like tears, but real raindrops are spherical. “Raindrops must have a diameter greater than 0.5 millimeters and smaller than 5 millimeters. Raindrops that are any bigger in size are too heavy to be held together as a single drop.
Rain is the most commonly known form of precipitation that falls to Earth’s surface. Rain is small droplets of water that fall from the clouds when they get too heavy for the clouds to hold. As these drops fall, they grow larger in size as they collect more water on their way down.<ref name=nasa /> Most people think of raindrops the way cartoon pictures portray it... looking like teardrops. However, real raindrops are spherical.<ref name=natgeo /> Records state that “raindrops must have a diameter greater than 0.5 millimeters and smaller than 5 millimeters.” Raindrops that are too small aren't heavy enough to descend to Earth, and raindrops that are too heavy to be held together as a single drop separate. <ref name=Pidwirny />
[[File:Snow.png|200px|thumb|left|This is a close up photo of snowflakes]]
=== Snow ===
Snow requires temperatures on the ground to be 32-degrees Fahrenheit or colder, and any snow that falls on a ground warmer than 32 degrees, melts on contact. Snow is precipitation that falls in the mid and high latitudes in the form of ice crystals. These ice crystals have a delicate, complex structure because they are formed individually in clouds. Snowflakes are so uniquely formed because ice crystals’ growth is the most rapid process. As the different patterned snowflakes fall to Earth’s surface, they cluster together depending on the temperature and humidity of the air. A “graupel” is when snow falls in the form of a ball instead of soft flakes, and this mostly happens “when snow is melted and precipitation forms around the snow crystal.”<ref name=natgeo /> Snowfall tends to occur in the fall, winter, and spring months of the year because this is when atmospheric temperatures commonly drop below freezing. <ref name=Pidwirny />
Snow requires temperatures on the ground to be 32-degrees Fahrenheit or colder, and any snow that falls on a ground warmer than 32 degrees melts on contact. Snow is precipitation that falls in the mid and high latitudes in the form of ice crystals. These ice crystals have a delicate, complex structure because they are formed individually in clouds. Snowflakes are so uniquely formed because ice crystals’ growth is the most rapid process. As the different patterned snowflakes fall to Earth’s surface, they cluster together depending on the temperature and humidity of the air. A “graupel” is when snow falls in the form of a ball instead of soft flakes, and this mostly happens “when snow is melted and precipitation forms around the snow crystal.”<ref name=natgeo /> Snowfall tends to occur in the fall, winter, and spring months of the year because this is when atmospheric temperatures commonly drop below freezing. <ref name=Pidwirny />
[[File:Hail.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Here is a hailstone being compared in size to a golf ball.]]
=== Hail ===
Hail descends to earth from the clouds as small rock-like forms of hard, solid ice. Even though these pieces are typically small, they’ve been recorded as being as large as 6 inches wide. They’ve also been measured at weighing more than a pound, but this depends on the storm. The creation of hailstones starts in the highest part of each cloud during cold thunderstorms. The stones form through the upward movement of air through the clouds which freezes the water droplets and stops them from falling as water. Before the pieces fall to earth, the frozen droplets collect more cold water which makes the forms larger. Snowfall is usually calm, but hail storms are quite the opposite. <ref name=natgeo /> Eventually the hailstones become too heavy for the clouds and fall. Because of the stones’ heaviness, scientists have estimated that the stones have reached speeds of more than 80 mph on their descend. <ref name=ncar />
[[File:Sleet.jpg|200px|thumb|right|This is what sleet looks after freezing and landing on Earth's surface.]]
=== Sleet ===
Sleet starts as a relatively warm liquid when it first forms in above freezing temperate atmosphere. It later freezes on it’s descend to Earth. <ref name=natgeo /> Sleet is translucent slush that is typically smaller and wetter than hailstones. <ref name=ncar /> This form of precipitation typically has a diameter smaller than 5 millimeters. <ref name=Pidwirny />
* The home page of [http://www.bw.psu.edu/ Penn State Brandywine], the home of the EARTH 100 wiki article writers!
* [http://pmm.nasa.gov/precipitation-measurement-missions/ NASA Precipitation Measurement Mission] has current information on what's happening in the world of precipitation.
* [http://pmm.nasa.gov/education// NASA Precipitation Education] is a helpful page for all ages.
* [http://pmm.nasa.gov/education// NASA Precipitation Education] is a very helpful page for learners of all ages!
* A great video from NY Times on [http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000003468811/the-smell-of-rain.html / The Smell of Rain]
* A great video from NY Times on [http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000003468811/the-smell-of-rain.html/ The Smell of Rain]
* The [http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/rainforest-profile// National Geographic Rainforest] site is insightful to rain as it is a type of precipitation mentioned above.
[[Category: Basics]]
Precipitation is any form of water, liquid or solid aqueous deposit, that fall from the clouds in the sky. It forms in the Earth's atmosphere and then drops onto Earth’s surface. Precipitation is an essential part of Earth’s water cycle because it connects the ocean, land, and atmosphere. [1] [2] [3] [4]
1 How it works
1.1 Where it comes from
2 How it's measured
2.1 Why it's measured
3 Types of Precipitation
3.1 Rain
3.3 Hail
3.4 Sleet
Droplets of water suspended in the air, also known as water vapor, buildup in the Earth's atmosphere. From Earth, we see water vapor in the atmosphere as clouds and/or fog. Precipitation forms around the cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), or tiny pieces of material, such as dust, that collect in clouds. Eventually, the clouds can’t hold the water vapor any longer and this creates precipitation in the form of a liquid or a solid.[1] Forms of precipitation “can only fall to the Earth's surface if they grow to a size that can overcome updrafts." [3]
Precipitation in the water cycle
Where it comes from
Not all clouds produce precipitation... In fact, most clouds do not. In those clouds, the water droplets and ice crystals are too small to overcome the natural updrafts in the atmosphere. This allows the small water droplets and ice crystals remain in the atmosphere until they are converted back into vapor. [3]
How it's measured
Certain kinds of precipitation, like rain and snow, have been measured for centuries using instruments as basic as containers with markings on them. Over time, very advanced, complex tools have been created to measure the precipitation fall. Today, these specialized devices provide information about the size of raindrops to how wind impacts the measurements taken. Weather radar systems on the ground send out a pulse of energy into the clouds and that provides the information of where and how much precipitation there will be. Other tools that aren’t stationed on the ground are the satellites orbiting above the Earth. These satellites give display a bigger picture of precipitation across the entire globe. [2]
Why it's measured
It is important to measure precipitation because each form affects life on Earth in different ways. When rain is measured for example, it is measured for where it occurs and how much it occurs. This is so that scientists can better understand the impact of precipitation on streams, rivers, surface runoff and groundwater. It has been noted that “frequent and detailed measurements help scientists make models of and determine changes in Earth’s water cycle.” [2]
Types of Precipitation
This a photo of raindrops
Rain is the most commonly known form of precipitation that falls to Earth’s surface. Rain is small droplets of water that fall from the clouds when they get too heavy for the clouds to hold. As these drops fall, they grow larger in size as they collect more water on their way down.[2] Most people think of raindrops the way cartoon pictures portray it... looking like teardrops. However, real raindrops are spherical.[1] Records state that “raindrops must have a diameter greater than 0.5 millimeters and smaller than 5 millimeters.” Raindrops that are too small aren't heavy enough to descend to Earth, and raindrops that are too heavy to be held together as a single drop separate. [3]
This is a close up photo of snowflakes
Snow requires temperatures on the ground to be 32-degrees Fahrenheit or colder, and any snow that falls on a ground warmer than 32 degrees melts on contact. Snow is precipitation that falls in the mid and high latitudes in the form of ice crystals. These ice crystals have a delicate, complex structure because they are formed individually in clouds. Snowflakes are so uniquely formed because ice crystals’ growth is the most rapid process. As the different patterned snowflakes fall to Earth’s surface, they cluster together depending on the temperature and humidity of the air. A “graupel” is when snow falls in the form of a ball instead of soft flakes, and this mostly happens “when snow is melted and precipitation forms around the snow crystal.”[1] Snowfall tends to occur in the fall, winter, and spring months of the year because this is when atmospheric temperatures commonly drop below freezing. [3]
Here is a hailstone being compared in size to a golf ball.
Hail descends to earth from the clouds as small rock-like forms of hard, solid ice. Even though these pieces are typically small, they’ve been recorded as being as large as 6 inches wide. They’ve also been measured at weighing more than a pound, but this depends on the storm. The creation of hailstones starts in the highest part of each cloud during cold thunderstorms. The stones form through the upward movement of air through the clouds which freezes the water droplets and stops them from falling as water. Before the pieces fall to earth, the frozen droplets collect more cold water which makes the forms larger. Snowfall is usually calm, but hail storms are quite the opposite. [1] Eventually the hailstones become too heavy for the clouds and fall. Because of the stones’ heaviness, scientists have estimated that the stones have reached speeds of more than 80 mph on their descend. [4]
This is what sleet looks after freezing and landing on Earth's surface.
Sleet starts as a relatively warm liquid when it first forms in above freezing temperate atmosphere. It later freezes on it’s descend to Earth. [1] Sleet is translucent slush that is typically smaller and wetter than hailstones. [4] This form of precipitation typically has a diameter smaller than 5 millimeters. [3]
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↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Society, N. G., & Society, N. G. (2011, February 15). precipitation. Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://education.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/precipitation/
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Precipitation Measurement Missions | An international partnership to understand precipitation and its impact on humankind. Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://pmm.nasa.gov/precipitation-measurement-missions
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Pidwirny, M. (2011, September 10). Precipitation and fog. Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/51cbeea97896bb431f69970e/
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Precipitation. Retrieved March 22, 2016, from https://eo.ucar.edu/basics/wx_2_b.html
Relevant online sources to this wiki article include:
The home page of Penn State Brandywine, the home of the EARTH 100 wiki article writers!
NASA Precipitation Measurement Mission has current information on what's happening in the world of precipitation.
NASA Precipitation Education is a very helpful page for learners of all ages!
A great video from NY Times on The Smell of Rain
The National Geographic Rainforest site is insightful to rain as it is a type of precipitation mentioned above.
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He is a multi-talented superstar, a great performer, multiple award winner and a prominent figure in the American entertainment industry. He is none other than Spike Lee, the son of the famous jazz musician William James Edward Lee III. Spike Lee is famous for his blockbuster movies like Malcolm X, Inside Man, The Original Kings of Comedy, Do the Right Thing, and others. Read below to learn more interesting facts about the black American movie star.
Who is Spike Lee? – Bio & Age
Spike Lee is a well-known American actor, author, film producer, and director. He has done outstanding work both in front of and behind the camera and has recorded several awards on his behalf. His awards include two Emmy Awards, two Academy Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a Grand Prix Award. Others include the BAFTA Award, the Gish Prize, and the Honorary Cesar.
He was born on March 20, 1957, as Shelton Jackson Lee in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the eldest of four children of Jacqueline Carroll, who worked as a teacher of black literature in the arts, and Williams James Edward Lee III, who is a jazz musician. As a child, Lee developed a keen interest in acting and theater production. During his high school years, he performed in several theater performances.
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He released his first film, She’s Gotta Have It, in 1986, and the film became a box-office hit, earning over seven million dollars in the United States alone. His next project “Do the Right Thing” was released in 1989. After its outstanding screening, the film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that same year. The following year he released a music drama entitled Mo’ Better Blues, in which he himself starred alongside Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes.
In 1991 Lee released a romantic drama called Jungle Fever, starring Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, and Anthony Quinn. This was followed in 1992 by the biographical drama film Malcolm X, which he released in 1992. His other films include Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), The Originals Kings of Comedy (2000), 25th Hour (2002), She Hate Me (2004), Inside Man (2006), Red Hook Summer (2012), Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014), Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2012) and the 2018 film BlacKkKlansman.
In addition to films, Spike Lee has also directed several television commercials for well-known companies, including Air Jordan, Nike, Jaguar, Ben & Jerry’s, Taco Bell, and Converse, to name a few. He is also associated with famous directors like Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg.
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The multi-talented American film wonder child has been successful since the beginning of his career. He has amassed a lot of wealth through his acting, production, and writing career. Spike Lee has an astonishing net worth of $40 million. He is one of the richest and most established African American filmmakers. Lee is also successful in his real estate ventures, his residence in Manhattan’s Upper East Side is a 9000 square foot city with a value of over $19 million. Lee owns a 40 acre and a Mule film production company, which is currently worth $2 – $4 million. He also owns a two-acre property on Martha’s Vineyard in New York City. His other sources of wealth include television advertising and other business endeavors.
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Lee came from a family with an entertainment background. Just like Lee, his three younger siblings followed the same career path and made a name for themselves in the American entertainment industry. Joie Susannah Lee is an actress, producer, and screenwriter. She has starred in several films directed by Spike Lee, including School Daze, She’s Gotta Have It, while David Lee is still a photographer with American Unit; and Cinque Lee is an actor and filmmaker. The three siblings have worked with Lee on various projects and have held various positions in his institution.
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Radio still moves the dial for home improvement advertisers
Does radio still move the dial?
With so many new forms of media available to reach consumers nowadays, advertisers often ask “does radio still move the dial?” Despite what you may have heard from skeptics, research has consistently proven that radio is still one of the most powerful media channels out there – especially for the home improvement industry. And media savvy home improvement advertisers know it.
In fact, according to Media Monitors, ALL of the nation’s top 10 radio advertisers in 2019 (by number of spots) come from the home improvement industry. The Radio Advertising Bureau’s (RAB) Finding Consumer Trends Report found that radio ads are a key influencer in the decision making process for consumers who are planning their next home improvement project. These are just a couple examples from the research we’ve collected on the value of radio advertising for home improvement companies.
Still not quite convinced? No problem. If you sell home improvement products or services and you’re considering radio advertising, we’ve rounded up the latest research and boiled it down. Here are seven reasons home improvement companies should invest in radio advertising. Let’s count them down.
1. Every dollar spent on radio advertising generates $9 of revenue.
In a study commissioned by Nielsen, researchers examined radio’s return on ad spend (ROAS) for the home improvement category. According to the study, investing in radio ads yielded a 9:1 return ratio for home improvement companies. The study looked at the ROAS for $38 million spent on radio during a single quarter. It found that nearly $370 million of incremental revenue was earned from customers exposed to radio campaigns. That means for every dollar spent in radio advertising, $9 of revenue was earned from listeners exposed to ads. The results make a compelling case for why radio should continue to play a significant role in the home improvement media mix.
2. Radio offers unsurpassed reach.
Radio remains the leading reach platform in 2019 with an impressive 92 percent of people tuning into AM/FM radio over the airwaves weekly. This outpaces all other media channels, including television, smart phones, and connected TV (CTV). But it’s not just how may are tuning in, but also when.
Big city commuters know all too well that “rush hour” can easily span the hours between 6am and 10am weekday mornings and between 3pm and 7pm in the afternoon/evening. While this may be bad news for commuters, it’s great news for advertisers for whom this prime window of opportunity arrives every Monday through Friday in the form of captive listeners.
Want to hear more good news? Consumers don’t just tune out once the morning commute ends. Research shows that audiences continue to tune in throughout the workday.
Overall, 244.5 million Americans 18+ listen to the radio with the majority consuming more than 12 hours during the typical week.
3. Radio stations are largely personalized.
While people may have favorite television shows, they’re not necessarily committed to one TV network over another. Why not? Because it’s about the content, not the network. Radio, however, tells a different story where loyalty to the station is the driving factor. Because the content played by radio stations reflects personal preferences, they become unique outlets for self-expression. In short, radio listeners aren’t just listening to music; they’re telling you who they are. Advertisers looking to deliver targeted messages should be paying close attention to a radio station’s audience composition. Today’s over-the-air (OTA) advertisers are no longer limited by radio’s traditional demo-based targeting options. New technologies are delivering innovative capabilities for OTA advertisers to target custom audience segments — something that, up until very recently, has been available exclusively for digital. Tod
4. Radio lets advertisers play to their strengths.
Because radio comes in many formats, advertisers gain unique leverage when it comes to optimizing their reach. Have a narrow geographic focus in mind for your services? Local radio fits the bill. Looking to cast a wider net? National radio opens the door to millions of new listeners. On a tight budget? Remnant advertising is your new best friend. Have only a limited creative budget, but want your message to leave a lasting impression with your audience? Radio gives you the chance to get very creative on a small budget as you are relying on the customer’s imagination to create the visuals. Want to take your message to a mobile-first audience? Going digital opens radio advertisers up to a whole new world of targeting across devices. With seemingly endless possibilities, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to make radio work for you. And with the right media planning and buying strategy, the sky’s the limit.
5. Radio is a powerful out-of-home media channel.
Radio advertising not only reaches more consumers, but qualifies them in the process. What do people stuck in their cars listening to the radio have in common? They’re on their way to jobs. More importantly, jobs that pay them money. Research reveals that employed people make up the vast majority of radio listeners. The takeaway? If you’re looking to catch the attention of consumers with dollars to spend, you’re likely to find them listening to the radio. Radio continues to dominate in the car with 82% of audiences age 18+ tuning into radio in the car.
Here’s another reason radio is a powerful out-of-home media channel. It offers the final chance to engage purchase-ready consumers when they’re on their way to shop. Radio ads fit the bill perfectly by delivering the right message, to the right audience, at the right time — just before the point of purchase.
Using radio to target on-the-go, ready-to-buy consumers isn’t limited to terrestrial airwaves. Digital audio platforms have become an everyday form of radio. According to Edison Research, podcasts alone comprise around 22% of all audio content listened to in cars.
Digital audio offers plenty of scale for marketers. The Infinite Dial 2019 by Edison Research reports that the percentage of Americans who listen to online audio has doubled since 2012, growing from one-third of the population to two-thirds.
As of this year, there are around 169 million weekly listeners streaming online. The time spent listening online has also reached a record high this year, with online listeners reporting an average of nearly 17 hours in the past week!
And don’t forget satellite radio subscribers. If you’re looking for a qualified audience for home improvement advertising, look no further than SiriusXM. A whopping 82 percent of SiriusXM listeners are homeowners with an average income of just over $110,000! With the pump so well-primed, it’s hardly surprising that so many savvy advertisers are opting for spots on SiriusXM. In 2018 the company’s net income totaled $251 million in the fourth quarter, compared to $37 million in the prior year period. Overall, SiriusXM’s 2018 net income grew 81% to a record $1.2 billion.
6. Radio drives online search
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) reports that one third of home improvement purchases are made through digital platforms. Because radio is now accessible from the same devices consumers use to browse and shop online, advertisers have a new opportunity to reach audiences while they’re researching home improvement websites for their next considered purchase.
Nielsen’s 2017 report “State of Media: Audio Today” found that consumers who heard radio ads were much more likely to make online purchase decisions compared to consumers not exposed to radio ads.
And several studies published by the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) provide clear evidence that radio is a powerful driver of online brand interactions. Studies across all industries show a positive correlation between radio advertising and increased online traffic. A 2017 study commissioned by RAB and Media Monitors analyzed the impact of radio ads on Google search found that, radio generates an average 29% incremental lift in online search activity. And RAB’s 2018 research on Real Estate radio advertisers found that Real Estate companies generate 353 more website visits per day while their radio ads are on air.
RAB’s 2017 report “Radio Drives Search” found that the quality of radio creative has a direct impact on increased search behavior. Among all brands within the study, the creative of those with the greatest lift in online search shared the following characteristics:
Deals on Pricing
Product or Product Feature News
Localization/Calling out specific locations
Non-Price offer
7. Radio helps build trust in your brand.
Today’s consumers aren’t exactly pro-advertising. In fact, according to a survey from YouGov, the majority of Americans put conventional advertising somewhere between used car salesmen and politicians on their list of least trusted things. Even worse news for advertisers? The more educated consumers are, the more likely they are to believe that advertisements are dishonest. We’re not suggesting that you throw your hands up and walk away, but we are suggesting that a different approach might be in order.
Research shows that consumers trust people they know — a statistic which far outpaces trust rates for conventional forms of advertising. Bridging this gap? Endorsements from trustworthy sources. We’ve taken this knowledge and our years of experience creating DR radio campaigns to develop a more powerful approach.
We don’t just leverage DJ endorsements, but DJ endorsed interviews. These mighty spots are personable, informative, and inherently valuable without triggering alarm bells with listeners. In other words, they allow advertisers to deliver a compelling message while building consumer trust. We have seen these creative strategies, backed by our years of response data, consistently increase response upwards of 400%.
While listeners may not technically know the voices on the other end of their radios, they feel like they do. In fact, one study from the University of California reveals that not only do endorsements from radio DJs make ads more personal, but that 60 percent of listeners consider the radio host to be the equivalent of a trusted friend. Katz Media’s recent study found that radio listeners have been loyal to their favorite personality for over eight years. RAB’s Finding Consumer Trends report found that radio station personalities increase consumer trust in home improvement commercials.
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Preparing for the evening concert at the Church Saint-Merri, Paris
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The church stands in the crossing of the old Roman running north and south, the present day rue Saint Martin and the east-west axes, traced today by la the rue de la Verrerie and the rue Saint-Honoré.
It derives its name from the fact that in the 8h century the abbot Medericus, from the great abbey of Autun, came to Paris on pilgrimage, stayed here and later died here. During the last Norman siege of Paris in 884, Medericus, also known as Merry, was acclaimed patron Saint of the right bank.
The chruch of Saint Merri today
Today the church is the home of the the parish and the Halles-Beaubourg Pastoral Center (CPHB).
Responsibility for the extensive activities of the center is shared by a team of priests and lay men and women. They try to make Saint Merri a meeting place that offers information, helpful advice and counsel where needed.
Exhibitions found attention on Man' hopes and anxieties and seek to express what God has to say to man. They are prepared by groups of laypeople and displayed in the church throughout the year.
A team of volunteers ensures that a member of the Saint Merry community is in the church every afternoon to meet and welcome passers by.
Another team organises free concerts of all kinds of music in the church. There are held on Saturdays at 9 pm and Sundays at the 4 pm.
Find more about the Church here - http://www.saintmerri.org
Copyright: Vil Muhametshin
Tags: patrick hamel; french singer; churches; music; eglise st. merri; paris; france
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Overview and HistoryWelcome to Paris, the City Of Lights, La Ville-Lumiere! We're going to depart from the standard timeline here and just start looking at pictures. You can put the history together in your mind along the way, or live contentedly with an abstract expression of images, whichever you prefer.For lessons in light from the expressionist masters, blur yourself directly to the Orsay Museum and find Monet, Renoir and Cezanne waiting. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.The River Seine divides the city into two halves, called the Left Bank and Right Bank. The right bank is on the north side, left to the south. In general the right bank claims the sophistication and modern development in Paris, while the left bank has the universities, parks and historic areas.There are two islands on the river in the middle of the city, Ile de la Cite and Ile de St. Louis. Here's a beautiful Flower Market on Ile de la City, which is the oldest section of the city. It's also home to Notre Dame cathedralThe Right Bank has a big hill called Montmartre, literally translating to "Mount Mars" or "Mountain of the Martyr", depending on which time period you take the story from. Its name dates back to at least 250A.D and it's home to the Sacre Coeur Basilica among many other things of note, such as the studios of Salvadore Dali, Picasso and Van Gogh.And what else? The Champs-Elysees, of course! The Champs-Elysees is the most prestigious avenue in Paris. L'Arc de Triomph stands at the western end of the Champs-Elysees, at the star shaped intersection of twelve major avenues which is called Place d'Etoil. The Arch is a monument to all who fought for France, especially during the Napoleonic wars.By the way, the sprint finish of the Tour de France -- the most prestigious bicycle race in the world -- comes down the Champs-Elysees. Catch it in the early summer.You may have heard of a museum called Le Louvre. Before you attempt to visit it, go through some tour de france training to build up your stamina. This is a museum big enough to take your whole summer to walk through, and that's without even stopping to look at any of the art.Situated right along the river is the Place de la Concord, the largest open square in the city. It's where Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and 2,798 of their closest friends met the guillotine during the French Revolution. The smell of blood was so strong, according to the tale, that a herd of cattle refused to cross the square.Let's see what we have on the Left Bank. How about Les Invalides, a stately group of museums and monuments dedicated to military history, which also houses a hospital and residences for veterans.The Left Bank has for decades been the center of academic life in Paris, which can be summed up in a word: La Sorbonne. La Sorbonne is the nickname for the University of Paris, founded in 1257. It sits in a historic scholarly sector called the Latin Quarter, which connects La Sorbonne to the Left Bank (Place Maubert). If Paris was a tropical island, this would be the coral reef.Near La Sorbonne can be found Le Jardin de Luxembourg, where Marie d'Medici's chateau stands. It's a pleasant little country house in Florentine style. They used it for a prison during the French Revolution and for Luftwaffe headquarters during WWII. It now houses the French Senate. Shakespeare and Co Library sits in the heart of the Latin Quarter and has earned an international reputation for being more than just a bookshop.Getting ThereTake a look at the Gare du Nord Paris North Station. One of six large train stations in Paris, it's the busiest one in Europe. If you're already on the continent, you very well may arrive here.As for airports, there are two: Charles De Gualle and Orly. De Gaulle airport is about 25 minutes by train from Gare du Nord station, Orly is a bit closer. Here's the train information for connections to the city.TransportationHere's one of the 380 metro stations in Paris, the Palais-Royale at the Louvre. Looking good! This is Europe's second-largest metro system and it's connected with the buses the commuter rail network to get you around the city.People and CultureBeside the fact that Paris contains all walks of life, "people and culture" in Paris is synonymous with food and wine. Here we are smack in the middle of it, La Contrescarpe at Mouffetard Street.Remember, champagne was perfected here during the Belle Epoque, and you need the proper setting in which to drink it.And check out this fish shop!! This is what the zoom tool was made for!In case you're wondering, there's a gritty side to Paris, too. Here's a little mobile graffiti.In the same vein, by which I mean "cheap" or "free", stroll around Left Bank to the flea market at Place Maubert.Street musicians are another great thing about Paris. Here are some drummers, some visual artists on the Quai de Conti, and there should be an organ grinder on the corner when you get there. Let me know if you see him.Things to do & RecommendationsStreet food -- get a croque monsieur or croque madam, it's a toasted cheese sandwich with or without ham. They're so good, it's the pizza slice of Paris! I can't for the life of me understand why nobody has shot a panorama of one.Street food part 2, and I quote:"the motherfucking best falafel in the world is there in the Marais. it's called La Du's and it's on the Rue de Rosiers. it's the 5th I think, right bank. If you flirt with the take out boys they'll give you more falafel too, I'm not kidding it's a fucking transcendant experience." "there's also this bar in the 11th, called the baron rouge, where on sunday a friend of the owner drives in from normandy with a truck full of oysters and just parks it in front of the bar and sells oysters out the back and you just eat them on the street and drink Muscadet off the top of parked cars." (Thank you Allison O'Leary)Spend a little time outdoors in the beautiful Botanical Garden, see if you can find the recycled dragon.No trip to Paris would ever be complete without... well actually the reason Paris is Paris because you never finish seeing it all.Move there, spend a lifetime there, walk everyplace you go and you still won't see it all. It's like New York, London or Tokyo; anyplace in such a state of constant change will remain eternally elusive.I almost said, "no trip to Paris would be complete without going up the Eiffel Tower and seeing the view from the top."Text by Steve Smith.
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Limassol the main avenue 3
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Goddess of love, blow us kisses! Cyprus is home to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of Love, who arose from the sea as a full-grown (and lovely) woman and sailed to shore in a seashell. It's also the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea with its geological origins in the fiery heat of volcanic eruption. The history of Cyprus begins as far back as the Neolithic Age of 7000 BC. Relics exist showing settlements to the north and south coastlines. The first Greeks came to the island around 1400 BC, Mycenaean merchants who brought Hellenistic influences with them. Between the time of the Greeks and the arrival of the Romans, Cyprus was conquered by Assyria, Egypt and Persia. Alexander the Great claimed Cyprus for his empire as of 333 BC, and it became part of the Roman Empire in 58 BC. It became the first country to be governed by a Christian when St. Paul experienced conversion there. After the fall of Rome Cyprus was annexed into the Byzantine Empire, with Constantinople for its capital. This situation lasted until Richard the Lion-Hearted arrived in 1191 on a Holy Crusade, conquered the island and sold it to the Templars. Since they were basically wiped out at the start of the 14th century, Cyprus turned to Catholic feudal control and stayed that way until 1571, when the Ottoman Empire invaded and took reign. With this came the expulsion of Catholicism, introduction of Islam and the return of Greek Orthodoxy. The Ottomans kept power until the end of WWI, when Britain assumed administrative duties over the island. As of 1925 it was declared a Crown colony, and in 1955 there began an armed rebellion against British rule. The Republic of Cyprus was granted independence by the British in 1960. It joined the European Union in 2004 although dispute remains over who controls it. Right now there are four sectors. The biggest one belongs to the Republic of Cyprus; Turkish Cypriots occupies one third of the island (to the North), the United Nations has control of the border between these two, and Britain hold two sovereign naval base areas. I'm not sure Aphrodite would approve of all these squabbles. Then again, she did have that brawl with Persephone over who got to live with Adonis the heartbreaker... Text by Steve Smith
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Google to invest additional $600M into site for Henderson data center
by: Nikki Bowers
Posted: Sep 16, 2020 / 07:55 PM PDT / Updated: Sep 16, 2020 / 07:55 PM PDT
The Google logo is seen Jan. 8, 2020, at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
HENDERSON, Nev. – The Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development announced Wednesday that Google would invest an additional $600 million to expand its existing $600 million data center in the City of Henderson.
“We’re thrilled to announce the expansion of our data center investment in the city of Henderson,” said Andrew Silvestri, Head of Data Center Public Policy and Community Development at Google. “We’ve loved calling Henderson home since July 2019, and we’re grateful to Mayor March, and the rest of the City Council for their continued partnership, which is enabling the growth of our presence there.”
Google broke ground on a new $600 million data center in Henderson in July 2019. Once the facility is fully operational, the company will employ at least 50 full-time workers at an average annual salary of about $65,000.
Henderson Mayor Debra March also weighed in on the announcement.
“With this latest announcement, Google will bring their total investment in the city of Henderson to $1.2 billion,” said Mayor Debra March. “We are excited to see them grow both as a community partner and as an employer of high-quality technology jobs in Henderson.”
The data center will support Google services such as YouTube, Google Calendar, Gmail, and Google Cloud computing services.
by David Charns / Jan 21, 2021
LAUGHLIN, Nev. (KLAS) -- A 20-year-old man accused of stealing property from hotel guests took pairs of women's underwear and left a note with his phone number, police documents said.
Police responded to a burglary at the Riverside Hotel Casino that had occurred Saturday, Jan. 16. Officers learned a housekeeper, later identified as Trevor Savok of Fort Mohave, Arizona, stole property and clothing items from guests, police said.
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Video Surveillance in Schools
The purpose of this procedure is to provide guidelines with respect to video surveillance in district facilities and school buses. In certain situations, controlled video surveillance can contributed to the safety of students, employees and others on district premises.
1. Video surveillance camera locations must be authorized by the Superintendent (or designate) of the School District. Any change in camera location must be authorized in the same manner.
1.1 Video surveillance, like other forms of student supervision, must be carried out in a way that respects student right to privacy. Recordings are recognized to be subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
1.2 Before video surveillance is introduced or expanded, a report must be provided to the Superintendent of Schools describing the circumstances that indicate the necessity of having surveillance at each location, including consideration of less invasive alternatives.
1.3 The School Planning Council must be consulted prior to the installation and operation of video surveillance cameras in schools. The Superintendent, or designate, shall be consulted prior to installation and operation of video surveillance cameras on school buses.
1.4 The periods of surveillance of public areas should be minimized.
1.5 Public notification signs, clearly written and prominently displayed, must be in place in areas that are subject to video surveillance. Notice must include generic contact information of the building administrator or designated staff person who is responsible for answering questions about the surveillance system. Any exception to this, such as for a time-limited specific investigation into criminal conduct, must be authorized by the Superintendent on the grounds that covert surveillance is essential to the success of the investigation and the need outweighs the privacy interest of the person likely to be observed. Covert surveillance may not be authorized on an ongoing basis.
1.6 Video surveillance is not to be ordinarily used in locations where appropriate confidential or private activities/ functions are routinely carried out. (e.g., bathrooms, change rooms, private conference/meeting rooms). The Superintendent will authorize any exception to this on the grounds that no other supervision option is feasible and that the need is pressing and outweighs the privacy interest of the student or other person likely to be observed. Surveillance of such locations may not be authorized on an ongoing basis.
2. Security/Privacy
2.1 Only a designated employee or agent of the School District will install video cameras.
2.2 Videotapes/digital images and recordings shall be stored in a locked filing cabinet in an area to which students and the public do not normally have access or shall be locked and secured in a bus.
2.3 Recordings may never be sold, publicly viewed or distributed in any other fashion except as provided for by this policy and appropriate legislation.
2.4 All video recordings that are in use must be numbered and dated for identification. When recordings are erased and reused, they must be re-numbered and re-dated.
3. Recordings will be viewed by the superintendent or designate.
3.1 In accordance with provisions outlined in the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, parents or guardians may request to review a segment of a recording that includes their child/children. Students may view segments of a recording relating to them if they are capable of exercising their own access to information rights under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Viewings will only take place if an appointment with an appropriate official has been made.
4. Retention of Recordings
4.1 Recordings shall be erased within one month unless they are being retained at the request of the building administrator, Board Office, employee, parent or student for documentation related to a specific incident, or are being transferred to the Board’s insurers. Videotapes/digital images shall not be edited or selectively erased. Videotapes/digital images are to be kept intact until totally erased or destroyed.
4.2 Where an incident raises a prospect of a legal action, the recording, or a copy of it, shall be sent to the Secretary-Treasurer’s office.
4.3 Videotapes/digital images on school buses shall be erased or taped over once taping duration has completed its cycle unless they are being retained at the request of the Transportation Supervisor, driver or parent/student for documentation related to a specific incident.
4.4 Recordings retained under 4.3 above shall be erased as soon as the incident in question has been resolved, except that if the recording has been used in the making of a decision about an individual, the recording must be kept for a minimum of one year, as required by the Freedom on Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
5.1 Each building principal or manager is responsible for ensuring that video monitoring is to be carried out in accordance with this policy and these procedures.
5.2 The Transportation Supervisor is responsible for the proper implementation and control of the video surveillance system.
AP 332 – Search and Seizure
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Communities and Disability Services Minister Coralee O'Rourke won't contest her seat in the Queensland state election
By Mel Arnost
Posted FriFriday 4 SepSeptember 2020 at 10:56pmFriFriday 4 SepSeptember 2020 at 10:56pm , updated SatSaturday 5 SepSeptember 2020 at 12:24amSatSaturday 5 SepSeptember 2020 at 12:24am
The Queensland Premier says she wishes Ms O'Rourke all the best for the future. (AAP: Dave Hunt)
The state member for Mundingburra, Coralee O'Rourke, has announced she will not be contesting the seat at the upcoming Queensland state election.
She was elected in 2015.
In a statement on Facebook, the north Queensland-based Labor MP wrote she had been honest with her community about her battle with breast cancer.
"I have been open about the treatment I have received, the status of my recovery and my longstanding desire to always return and resume my service to the Mundingburra community," she said.
"Following additional surgery in recent weeks, I have come to the realisation that I need to focus all my attention on my health — for my wellbeing, for my family, and for our community — and that is why I've had to make this difficult decision."
Ms O'Rourke cited the north Queensland stadium, more police for Townsville and "standing up for workers when Queensland Nickel closed its doors" as some of her proudest achievements.
"It has been my greatest privilege to serve the community of Mundingburra for the past five years as their elected member, and it has been the biggest honour of my life to serve Queenslanders as the Minister for Communities and Minister for Disability Services and Seniors," she said.
The Premier sent out a short statement soon after her announcement that said Ms O'Rourke had been a valued minister in her Government.
"I am sad that she will not recontest her seat but family and health come first," Annastacia Palaszczuk said.
"I wish Coralee all the best for the future."
Mundingburra is one of Labor's most marginal seats.
It is held by 1.1 per cent.
Labor has less that two months to get traction with a new, potentially unknown candidate in the seat.
State Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington told ABC Radio Brisbane she wished Ms O'Rourke well.
"This is someone who has been battling with health issues over the last couple of years and I just really wish her all the best for the future," she said.
Posted 4 SepSeptember 2020FriFriday 4 SepSeptember 2020 at 10:56pm , updated 5 SepSeptember 2020SatSaturday 5 SepSeptember 2020 at 12:24am
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Puerto Rico Oversight Board Gears Up for Latest Challenge to Debt Restructuring
The federally-appointed board overseeing Puerto Rico's $70 billion debt restructuring will appear in court next week to once again defend the validity of the process, which is now three and a half years old, Reuters reported.
New Governor Sworn in as a Wary Puerto Rico Demands Change
Pedro Pierluisi vowed to achieve statehood for Puerto Rico and fight against poverty, corruption and COVID-19 after he was sworn in Saturday as the U.S. territory’s new governor, the Associated Press reported.
Puerto Rico Water Authority, an Essential Utility, Returns to Capital Markets 8 Years Later
One of Puerto Rico’s most essential utilities company has returned to the capital markets for the first time in eight years, the Associated Press reported. The comeback took place on Thursday after government officials in the U.S. territory announced the issuance of $1.4 billion worth of bonds.
U.S. Found Not Liable for Puerto Rico Bond Losses
The U.S. government isn’t liable for losses on $3 billion in Puerto Rico pension bonds, a federal judge said yesterday, rejecting efforts to put U.S. taxpayers on the hook for compensating investors, the Wall Street Journal reported. Judge Richard A. Hertling of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims said bondholders can’t hold the U.S.
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SIX NORTHERN TABLELANDS STUDENTS AWARDED FACS SCHOLARSHIPS
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall today welcomed a cash boost that will help six vulnerable young people in the region pursue their educational goals, and hundreds more across the State, with the NSW Government announcing the successful recipients of the 2018 FACS Scholarship Program.
The program allows students to receive financial assistance from Year 10 up until they complete their tertiary education, providing $1,000 that can be spent on items to support a student’s education including text books, computers and private tutoring.
Mr Marshall said six students in the Northern Tablelands would benefit greatly from the funding.
“This money will help students in our area in many practical ways; it may be as simple as paying for the internet or buying new textbooks but it all counts in enabling a vulnerable young person reach their potential,” Mr Marshall said.
“We want the best for young people and we know a good education is one of the keys to a successful start in life.”
Minister for Social Housing Pru Goward congratulated the 400 new and continuing recipients of the program for 2018 and thanked all those who had applied.
“With 250 scholarships awarded in 2017, I am delighted that this year we have been able to help even more students across the state with financial assistance,” Ms Goward said.
To be eligible to apply for the grants, students must be either living in social housing (public, community or Aboriginal housing); on the NSW Housing Register; receiving private rental assistance; living in crisis or supported accommodation or living in out of home care.
Further information on the FACS Scholarship Program can be found here:
https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/support-programs/all-families/facs-scholarships
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Australian Actuaries Climate Index shows a summer of extremes
From Actuaries Institute
Parts of central NSW experiencing ongoing drought conditions.
The Australian Actuaries Climate Index shows Summer of 2018-19 was a season of record extremes; the number of hot days reached record levels, there were all time high levels of extreme rainfall in tropical regions and parts of central NSW were caught in ongoing drought.
The index was released yesterday, and is the second quarterly update of extreme weather conditions and sea levels across Australia, and how these vary over time.
“The Australian Actuaries Climate Index is a great example of how actuaries can analyse data to ensure important and complex public policy issues are worked through objectively,” said Actuaries Institute President Nicolette Rubinsztein.
The index level for the summer corresponds to a 200% increase in the frequency of extreme high temperatures relative to the reference period (1980-2010). (See figure 1).
“The most recent Summer has been the hottest on record, both in terms of average temperatures as reported by the Bureau of Meteorology and in terms of the frequency of extreme temperatures as measured by the Australian Actuaries Climate Index,” said actuary Tim Andrews, who led the development of the index.
“The Bureau of Meteorology predicted this summer’s hot weather and reported it would be driven by a combination of the long-term increasing trend in global air and ocean temperatures, and the El Niño weather conditions,” he said.
The index also shows clear evidence of the sustained rainfall that caused flooding in North Queensland, and continuing drought experienced in central NSW (see figure 2).
Estimates consider the Queensland floods to be much rarer than a 1-in-100 year event. In Townsville 1260 mm of rainfall was recorded, smashing previous records, as a slow-moving low pressure system dumped rain for an extended period in late January and early February.
“The attribution of individual events to climate change is challenging to assess due to high levels of natural variability, but the Townsville event is consistent with expectations for rainfall intensity to increase,” Mr Andrews said.
He added that despite heavy rainfall in Australia’s north, there were significant parts of NSW and Southern Queensland experiencing extremely dry conditions during the Summer months.
The Index shows changes in the frequency (rate of occurrence) of extreme high and low temperatures, heavy precipitation, dry days, strong winds and changes in sea levels. These components have a strong correlation to risk, an area of expertise for actuaries.
The Index is collated at the end of each season following the release of data by the Bureau of Meteorology. The data is collected nationally and grouped into 12 climatologically consistent regions. Each season is compared to the same season in previous years, back to 1980, which shows how the extremes are trending over the long term. Extremes present the greatest risk to people, communities, the environment and economy.
Actuaries Institute chief executive Elayne Grace said: “This index highlights the importance for companies of managing climate risk. Australia’s regulators are already calling for greater risk disclosure from businesses and this index can be one step along that road.”
Ms Grace said over time, the Index will help business better assess how weather extremes translate into financial risk.
The Australian index was built following the establishment of a similar tool for Canada and the United States, supported by a number of actuarial groups including the American Academy of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries.
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No. 13 Georgia takes ‘opt-in’ mentality into Mississippi State game
Georgia linebacker Monty Rice (32) runs for a TD as Tennessee wide receiver Brandon Johnson (7) after Rice recovered a fumble which he caused during the second half of a football game on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, at Sanford Stadium in Athens. Georgia won 44-21. JOHN AMIS FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL- CONSTITUTION
Credit: John Amis
Georgia Bulldogs | Updated Nov 20, 2020
By Chip Towers, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ATHENS – There is a definite dichotomy between Georgia and Mississippi State, which plan to play a football game at Sanford Stadium on Saturday night. And it goes beyond their inverted records of 4-2 and 2-4, respectively.
By all accounts, the Bulldogs of Athens enter the SEC contest (7:30 p.m., SEC Network) completely bought in to what’s going on this fall. It has been the strangest of seasons, for sure, with sparsely attended games getting called off and rescheduled with regularity and nobody knowing for certain who might be available from week-to-week. But even with most of their year’s goals already dashed, Georgia’s players still seem committed to the cause of playing -- and winning – every game possible.
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In contrast, the Bulldogs of Starkville seem to be fighting to keep their car on the track. Never mind the unrelenting effects of the coronavirus pandemic, which have on occasion penetrated their bubble. The bigger issue for first-year coach Mike Leach has been players voluntarily stepping away from competition.
And so, Saturday night’s contest will match the Opt-Ins versus the Opt-Outs. Not surprisingly, the Athens-based Opt-Ins are 25-point favorites.
“Our kids care about each other,” coach Kirby Smart said this week of his fourth Georgia team. “They want to win. They want to have a productive season and, at the end of the day, they want to improve their draft stock. How does that really look upon you that you opt out to go train and not play?”
Mississippi State deserves some praise, too. Indications are that the Bulldogs actually have fallen below the SEC’s recommended roster requirement, which is 53 scholarship players in total with minimums thresholds on the offensive and defensive lines and at quarterback. But they have chosen to play anyway, a prerogative the league left up to its membership.
“As opposed to nobody being allowed to play football -- because there’s been a lot of madness that goes along with all this stuff -- we’d much rather play than not play,” said Leach, who is reported to have lost 17 players.
Some of Mississippi State’s losses were to be expected. There is always attrition in a transition year such as it has had going from Joe Moorhead to Leach, who run very different systems requiring different skillsets. But, make no mistake about it, the Maroon Dogs’ talent level has been severely compromised with the continued loss of personnel. Standouts such as All-SEC running back Kylin Hill and defensive tackle Nathan Pickering are among those who have chosen to bag up their stuff for the season.
Smart contends it’s a bad idea, especially is the idea of training for the NFL draft. He thinks a lot of these players – especially those that aren’t sure-fire first-rounders -- are going to be negatively judged by NFL talent evaluators for effectively quitting on their teams.
“I think it’ll be measured when they get to the next level,” Smart said. “Some pundit or some critic would say, ‘Well, that’s easy for you to say; they need to be worried about their NFL careers.’ Well, I’ve learned those NFL careers are not for long. … If you’ve got a bona-fide first-rounder, that’s a completely different subject, but that’s not the case (for) a lot of these opt-outs.”
Georgia, by contrast, has had nothing of the sort. Well, other than the rather notable disappearance of graduate transfer quarterback Jamie Newman 3½ weeks before the season opener. The Bulldogs are still reeling from that one. But otherwise it does not appear any draft-eligible players are looking to bolt.
And Georgia has more of such players than most teams. At the moment, there are at least 23 players on the Bulldogs’ roster who reasonably could consider professional football after this season. Some of them are seniors, but many are also third-year sophomores and fourth-year juniors. Any player three years removed from high school graduation is eligible to enter the draft.
Further complicating the whole matter is the NCAA’s ruling that all players have been effectively granted another season of eligibility after this pandemic interrupted season. That’s as long as they and the school for which they play chooses to exercise it. To date at least, the scholarship cap of 85 remains in effect.
No player better epitomizes Georgia’s opt-in mentality than senior linebacker Monty Rice. The Bulldogs’ defensive captain is a certified NFL prospect. He actually explored the possibility of turning pro extensively last year after his junior season.
Not only did he choose to stick with the Georgia, he’s doing so on an injured foot, and has been all season. That has limited his practice time and requires daily treatment, before and after workouts.
“He’s hurting,” Smart said. “But he’s able to go on game days. That’s probably the most important thing, that he’s been able to function. If he didn’t think that he could play on game days, he wouldn’t be out there. … But (Rice) is improving his opportunity to go in the NFL because they have guys every week who are 90 percent or 85 percent. A guy goes out there and gives them what he can. He goes because they’ve got a 53-man roster and he might be the best player. For those guys, they’re going to think extremely highly of, at least according to the guys I’ve talked to in the NFL.”
Rice is expected to start Saturday for the sixth time in seven games this season. He is second on the team in tackles with 35, third in tackles for loss (3) and has a interception return for a touchdown to his credit.
“Oh, Monty is just Monty,” said senior defensive end Malik Herring, himself a prospect. “He’s always battling through injuries, just trying to get out there and give it all he’s got and be available to his teammates. I appreciate him for it.”
Senior safety Richard LeCounte remains sidelined because of an Oct. 31 motorcycle accident that left him in intensive care. But he reiterated this week his intention to return to play for the Bulldogs this season.
That’s even more amazing when placed into the team context. The 2020 Georgia football team opened the season ranked No. 4 with the notion of playing in the SEC Championship game for a fourth consecutive year and returning to the College Football Playoff. That goal was effectively obliterated with the second loss of the year two weeks ago against Florida. But the Bulldogs appear determined not to have any more.
“I mean, everybody on this team is doing it for each other,” said sophomore linebacker Nakobe Dean, who hails from Horn Lake, Miss. “A lot of guys here got a lot more to prove than just opting out. This team loves playing football, loves the game.”
Said Smart: “We don’t know if there’s going to be a combine; we don’t know if there will be a Pro Day. What we know is we play Mississippi State at 7:30 on Saturday night, and that’s an opportunity to go showcase what you can do against really good competition.”
Well, maybe not as good as it once was. But point taken.
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April 3, 2016 - Crowds attending The Olivier Awards 2016 at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, UK.
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Ellie Morris attends the Olivier Awards 2016 nominations announcement at the Rosewood London.
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British actor Rob Brydon poses for photographers as he arrives at the Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House in London, Britain April 3, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall
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The Olivier Awards 2016 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Featuring: Jessie Buckley Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Apr 2016
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British actor Eddie Izzard poses for photographers as he arrives at the Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House in London, Britain April 3, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall
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Robert Icke with the award for Best Director for Oresteia, at the Olivier Awards 2016 held at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
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Actress Jessie Buckley poses for photographers as she arrives at the Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House in London, Britain April 3, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall
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The Lorax attending the Olivier Awards 2016 held at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Sunday April 3, 2016. See PA story SHOWBIZ Olivier. Photo credit should read: Ian West/PA Wire
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British actor Luke Treadaway poses for photographers as he arrives at the Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House in London, Britain April 3, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall
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The Olivier Awards 2016 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Featuring: Arlene Phillips Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Apr 2016
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April 3, 2016 - Leigh Zimmerman attending The Olivier Awards 2016 at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, UK.
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Covent Garden, London 3 April 2016 - Kerry Ellis performs on ITV stage in front of a large crowd in Covent Garden before this evening's Olivier Awards. Credit: Dinendra Haria/Alamy Live News
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British actor Mark Rylance poses for photographers as he arrives at the Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House in London, Britain April 3, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall
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April 3, 2016 - Cyndi Lauper attending The Olivier Awards 2016 at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, UK.
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April 3, 2016 - Jessie Buckley attending The Olivier Awards 2016 at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, UK.
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Jemima Rooper attending the Olivier Awards 2016 held at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Sunday April 3, 2016. See PA story SHOWBIZ Olivier. Photo credit should read: Ian West/PA Wire
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Features|The World Wars
Killing John F Kennedy and the prospect of peace
35th American president was gunned down 53 years ago on Tuesday, ending what some say were plans to finish the Cold War.
JFK sits beside Allen Dulles, centre, after announcing that the CIA director had been relieved of his duties in 1961 following the Bay of Pigs debacle [Getty Images]
Did US president John F Kennedy intend to end the Cold War with the Soviet Union and get out of Vietnam before he was assassinated 53 years ago?
It is intriguing to contemplate the global implications of these questions – the millions of lives saved, slashed defence budgets, and what an alternative world could be like today.
The idea that Kennedy was moving towards a global peace before he was shot dead in Dallas has been widely disputed.
Renowned American scholar and social activist Noam Chomsky denounces the notion that JFK was serious about ending the Cold War during its height before his murder.
“That’s mostly myth. He had no such plans. I’ve reviewed the evidence repeatedly, including in my book Rethinking Camelot. What’s appeared since simply confirms these conclusions,” Chomsky told Al Jazeera in an email.
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But others argue that Kennedy did intend to end the Cold War with all its nuclear dangers, as well as colonial adventures, starting with the order of all American forces out of Vietnam by 1965.
There’s no doubt Kennedy, a World War II naval commander, was a Cold Warrior as a young senator during the 1950s. He believed communism needed to be put down by whatever means necessary.
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But then he became US president and looked global nuclear annihilation squarely in face during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union. Evidence suggests those 13 days deciding the fate of humanity changed the young American president as he faced the apocalypse.
The Cuban crisis wasn’t the first time Kennedy stared nuclear war down the barrel of a gun.
Months into his presidency his generals and admirals in the Joint Chiefs of Staff let him know that all-out nuclear war was on the table over the Berlin crisis as the Soviets built the wall.
The hardline Joint Chiefs weren’t messing around. Their Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan included the dropping of 170 atomic and hydrogen bombs on Moscow alone.
Every other main Soviet city – along with those in China and Eastern Europe – was to be incinerated. The estimated death toll was in the hundreds of millions.
Appalled by their willingness to destroy much of the world, Kennedy sought to wrest more presidential control over any nuclear attack and promoted a second plan with limited use of atomic weapons.
The military chiefs became increasingly fed up with Kennedy as he sought paths away from “mutually assured destruction”, or MAD as it was ironically called. They were unable to understand his reluctance to use any means necessary to defeat communism.
“At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win,” Air Force General Thomas Power said at the time.
Kennedy angered his national security advisers by repeatedly ignoring their nuclear first-strike plans in Europe and rejecting the military invasion of Cuba.
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Vietnam was the final contentious issue between JFK and the militarists before his murder.
As reported by James Douglass in his book JFK and the Unspeakable, Kennedy had recognised France’s colonial failure in Vietnam and wished to avoid the trap.
JFK rides through the streets of Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 [Corbis via Getty Images]
Edmund Gullion was an official in the US consulate when JFK and his 22-year-old brother Robert visited Vietnam in 1951.
“In 20 years there will be no more colonies. We’re going nowhere out here,” Gullion told Kennedy at the time. “The French have lost. If we come in here and do the same thing, we will lose, too, for the same reason.”
The US generals had other plans, however, not wanting the Southeast Asian dominos to fall to the reds.
On communist gains in Laos and Vietnam, General Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, promised: “If we are given the right to use nuclear weapons, we can guarantee victory.”
At a meeting, Lemnitzer and Air Force General Curtis LeMay again pushed Kennedy for nuclear strikes. JFK walked out in disgust.
“He threw his hands in the air, glanced back at the generals and admirals left in the Cabinet Room, saying, ‘These people are crazy,’” according to Douglass’ book.
Nuclear lessons unlearned
While publicly proclaiming that he wouldn’t remove US forces from Vietnam – fearing it would hurt his re-election chances – Kennedy told his defense secretary, Robert McNamara, to order the chiefs to draw up plans to withdraw all American military “advisers” in the country by 1965. The generals stalled.
Three months after JFK’s killing, new president Lyndon Johnson confirmed plans by Kennedy to pull out all 16,000 American forces in Vietnam.
“I always thought it was foolish for you to make any statements about withdrawing,” Johnson told McNamara. “But you and the president thought otherwise, and I just sat silent.”
JFK meets with his defence chiefs, left to right: General George Decker, General Lyman Lemnitzer, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and Robert McNamara [Bettmann/Getty Images]
After Kennedy’s assassination, instead of an end to American involvement in Vietnam, the US deployed 100,000 troops in 1965 – with more than 530,000 in country by 1968 – and a decade of carnage was under way.
Before his death, Kennedy had come to realise that his military hardliners were a greater threat than his arch-enemy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
JFK initiated secret back-channel contact with Khrushchev in the form of personal letters. Khrushchev, too, had awakened to the reality of nuclear holocaust during the Cuban crisis. For more than a year the two rivals discussed how to stymie their generals and achieve a lasting peace.
Kennedy’s “peace speech” at Washington DC’s American University in June 1963 was a plea to his people to understand the communist enemy, despite their differences.
JFK said he didn’t want “a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war; not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave”.
We’ll never know if Kennedy really would have ended the Cold War with Khrushchev and exited Vietnam. He was shot dead in Dallas before he could do so.
Five decades later – with wars and foreign intervention still prominent – it is hard not to imagine what it would be like if JFK had lived – and lived up to his word.
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Drawing parallels between Kennedy and Obama, it is evident that the US needs a very different way of thinking of ‘war’.
Paul Rosenberg
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Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James, left, shoots over Houston Rockets’ Austin Rivers during the second half of an NBA game on Saturday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP)
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Los Angeles advanced to their first NBA final four since the Kobe Bryant-led Lakers beat Phoenix for the conference title
MIAMI: LeBron James had 29 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists as the Los Angeles Lakers advanced to their first NBA Western Conference final in a decade with a 119-96 blowout win over the Houston Rockets on Saturday.
Anthony Davis tallied 13 points and 11 rebounds, Kyle Kuzma had 17 and Markieff Morris finished with 16 for the Lakers, who eliminated the Rockets in five games in the quarantine bubble in Orlando, Florida.
Los Angeles advanced to their first NBA final four since the Kobe Bryant-led Lakers beat Phoenix for the conference title and then defeated Boston for the 2010 NBA championship, the last time they won.
“It’s the reason I wanted to be a part of this franchise is to take them back to a place they were accustomed to being. And that’s competing for a championship,” said James.
“It’s an honor for me to wear the purple and gold and for us to just try to continue the legacy and just play great basketball for our fans.”
This will be James’s 11th career conference finals but when asked by reporters how it feels, he changed the subject to talk about the group as a whole.
“Every game is a learning experience for us. Every game is another opportunity for us to get better. We want to continue to build,” said James.
They will face either the Los Angeles Clippers or the Denver Nuggets in the next playoff round. The Clippers lead that series 3-2.
The Lakers got off to their best start of the series, dominating the opening plays to take a 35-20 lead at the end of the first quarter.
Their only lull of the game came in the start of the second quarter when Houston briefly woke from their slumber and cut the lead to seven, 38-31.
But the Lakers outscored the Rockets 33-18 in the third to take full command.
They drained 19 three-pointers and shot 52 percent from the floor.
With the game in hand, the Lakers sat three-time NBA champion James and Davis for much of the fourth quarter.
“Everything is falling into place. When I got here the goal was to win a championship and now we are eight wins away,” said Davis.
Once again the James Harden-led Rockets put up little resistance as Houston, after surprising the Lakers in game one of the series, lost their fourth straight and their third in a row by more than 10 points.
Harden led the Rockets with 30 points and Russell Westbrook scored just 10 in the loss.
Harden had a disappointing series, delivering another series of fourth quarter playoff disappearing acts that have pockmarked his career.
“Tough season for us. Obviously it didn’t end the way we wanted it to. So, we just got to figure it out,” he said.
In the past five years, Harden has shot less than 25 percent from beyond the arc in post-season fourth quarters and overtime. He finished two-of-eight from three-point range on Saturday.
Harden said Saturday all they need to become great is to add one more piece to the puzzle.
“It’s very, very frustrating. Especially the amount of work individually I put in,” he said. “But I’ve got to keep chipping away. I’ve got to keep going and keep going until I can’t go anymore.
“I feel like we’re a piece away and we’ve just got keep trying to figure it out. Keep trying to put the pieces around me and Russ to get us where we want to go,” said Harden.
Tempers flared in the fourth quarter both on and off the floor. The brother of Lakers Rajon Rondo now has the dubious honor of being the first fan thrown out of a bubble game after he exchanged words with Houston’s Westbrook.
The public is not allowed in the arena because of the coronavirus pandemic but players are allowed to invite a limited number of family and friends to watch the games in person.
The Rockets were missing Danuel House who was booted from the NBA quarantine bubble after a league investigation revealed he violated “campus health and safety” protocols.
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LONDON: Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is focusing on potential signings in the January transfer window after trimming his squad but refused to be drawn on a loan move for Real Madrid’s Martin Odegaard
Sokratis Papastathopoulos was released from his contract this week, while Mesut Ozil is on the brink of a transfer to Turkish club Fenerbahce.
Sead Kolasinac and William Saliba have already left on loan deals as Arteta seeks to re-balance his squad.
The Arsenal boss, speaking ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup fourth-round match at Southampton, would not be drawn on reports linking the club with a loan move for Real’s attacking midfielder Odegaard.
But he said the focus would now turn to the entrance door rather than the exit at the Emirates.
“We are in that process now,” Arteta said on Thursday when asked if it was now time to start bringing players in.
“We have done the first part more or less and we are focusing now on the second phase.
“Obviously this market and the context makes it difficult, but we are looking at options and we will see what we can do.”
Arteta, whose team are FA Cup holders, said the departures had left his squad short in certain areas.
He said a left-back could be on the radar, with the decision to allow Kolasinac to join Schalke until the end of the season leaving him with only Kieran Tierney as a natural option.
“With the departure of Kola we are a little bit short with left-footed fullbacks at the moment,” he added.
Both Ozil and Sokratis were omitted from Arsenal’s Premier League and Europa League squads for the first half of the season.
Arteta had stressed several times he was unhappy with the bloated nature of the squad and feels the departures will help him achieve a better balance.
“We could not carry on with 31 players in the squad,” he said. “It is unmanageable. And when you have to leave some of the foreign players out, it makes it even more difficult.
“To do it for a few weeks is OK, to do it for months and maintain the health, the ambition and the chemistry is really complicated.
“So one of the main objectives was to make some decisions about how we are going to offset that. We have done it.”
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New York Ratification of the Bill of Rights March 27, 1790, General Records of the U.S. Government Document as seen in the Annals of Congress, 1st Congress (Library of Congress)
Throughout the summer of 1789, the first U.S. Congress engaged in intense debate about amending the Constitution of the United States. On September 25, by joint resolution, Congress passed 12 proposed articles protecting citizens' individual rights, enlarging the House of Representatives, and limiting the ability of members of Congress to alter their salaries. On October 2, at the request of Congress, President George Washington forwarded parchment copies to all of the state executives, including the states of Rhode Island and North Carolina even though they had not yet ratified the Constitution and therefore could not act on this resolution.
The states began the process of ratifying these 12 articles. Ratification of any article by at least three quarters of the states meant acceptance of that article as an amendment to the Constitution.
On January 11, 1790, the New York legislature convened in New York City. Two days later, Governor George Clinton sent the proposed amendments to them. The legislature ratified 11 of the 12 articles on February 24. Three days later, the state Council of Revision approved the act, making it law. The legislature then requested that Governor Clinton have an exemplification of the act (official copy of the ratification) made to send to the Federal Government. The document was prepared, and on March 27 Governor Clinton signed it and had the Great Seal of State affixed to it. Clinton sent the document to President Washington in New York City on April 2. Three days later, Washington forwarded New York's ratification to Congress.
On December 15, 1791, when the final votes from all the states were counted, the last 10 of the 12 articles were ratified. They became the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. The first two articles were not ratified by the required three-quarters majority of states. Article I, which New York did ratify, would have enlarged the House of Representatives in increments from the original body of 65 to 100 and then to 200, after which Congress would regulate the size of the House with no more than one representative for each 50,000 people in a state. The second article, which New York did not ratify at the time, regulated the ability of Congress to alter its members' salaries. This article was eventually ratified on May 7, 1992, as the 27th Amendment to the Constitution.
The New York Ratification of the Bill of Rights is part of the chain of evidence in the stewardship of the National Archives that documents our rights as citizens.
The original New York Ratification of the U.S. Bill of Rights was on display for the exhibit New York: An American Capital from December 14-17, 2006 (and replaced thereafter with a facsimile copy). The display marks the first time the document has been exhibited in New York City since it was signed in 1790, according to the records of the National Archives.
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Thousands of people infected with HIV are at risk of premature death
July 10, 2020 by archyde
Dhe corona pandemic, which has meanwhile more than 3.1 million officially identified infected people, has not only almost displaced other epidemics from the focus of the public and politics. Corona with all its consequences also leads to dramatic consequences in the fight against a disease that is still far too often fatal: Aids.
In addition, for the first time in its history this year, a world AIDS conference could not take place as planned. The 23rd international meeting, which takes place only every two years, would probably have brought the 20,000 conference participants together again this week, and of all in that of Corona worst affected country in the world, the United States. However, “Aids 2020” did not take place in San Francisco and nearby Oakland in California, but in a much smaller and virtual form on the Internet. Also because, as the organizers announced, there have been no studies so far as to whether people with HIV who would have traveled to California in large numbers are more affected by Sars CoV-2 infection and the associated symptoms than people who are not infected with the HI virus.
One of the focal points of the approximately 600 contributions that were mostly broadcast live on the Internet in the past five days was about Covid-19. The consequences of corona-related restrictions are devastating: Thousands of people infected with HIV are at risk of premature death because they are currently unable to receive their life-sustaining medication. The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that a six-month interruption of therapy this year and next year in sub-Saharan Africa could result in an additional 500,000 deaths. In 2018, around 470,000 people died of AIDS and the associated diseases such as tuberculosis in the region.
If, as feared, the lockdowns continue for six months, one would fall back on the year 2008 when around 950,000 people died of AIDS south of the Sahara. At the same time, the WHO points out that the aftermath of the six-month period would be felt for a further five years – with up to 40 percent more AIDS deaths per year than would be expected without a corona. Around 25.7 million of the approximately 38 million people infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, two thirds of whom had access to AIDS drugs in 2018.
Difficulties in 104 countries
But not only Africa’s HIV-infected people suffer massively from corona-related restrictions: According to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, almost 85 percent of all HIV programs supported by the organization have difficulties in caring for their patients – and that in 104 Countries. Above all, the shortage has a catastrophic effect on the number of infections among children: Pregnant women infected with HIV can now give birth to healthy children with appropriate therapy.
The United Nations AIDS organization (UN AIDS) had set itself the goal of reducing the number of infections among newborns to 40,000 in 2018, and the target in 2020 was 20,000. But even without corona, the global community clearly missed these guidelines: According to UN AIDS data, 150,000 children were born with HIV in 2019, also because only 85 percent of pregnant women around the world had access to antiretroviral drugs. The numbers will deteriorate further due to the corona pandemic. Therefore, one of the main demands of “Aids 2020” was that Covid-19 should not redistribute funds urgently needed to fight AIDS.
Jan Brachmann
Two sensational scientific studies were also presented during the course of the week: An international research team led by Ricardo Diaz from the University of São Paulo has “cured” a 34-year-old man infected with HIV. The patient had been infected with the virus since 2012, and in addition to his standard treatment, he received other antiretroviral drugs during the study period from 2016 to the end of March 2019, including maraviroc and dolutegravir, as well as vitamin B nicotinamide. Thereafter, the therapy was stopped. Although the man has not been given any medication for 57 weeks, there are no viruses or antibodies in his body. He would be the third “healed”, and that without a transplant as in the other cases (“Berlin patient”, “London patient”). The two had cancer and received stem cells from donors who are protected against most HI viruses thanks to a genetic mutation.
The second international study, led by a team of researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles led by scientist Raphael J. Landovitz, looked at HIV protection, which does not have to be taken daily and in tablet form. The active ingredient cabotegravir is rather injected with a syringe every two months. This opens up new possibilities for so-called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or prep for short, in which antiretroviral drugs are taken as a precautionary measure to protect against HIV infection.
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Mark H. Whitney
Since 2007, Mark Whitney has been the Vice President of Strategy, Community Relations and Fundraising at Exeter Health Resources, an integrated healthcare delivery system primarily located in Exeter, New Hampshire. Mark serves as both the chief strategy and chief community relations officer for all of Exeter Health Resources, Inc.'s operating affiliates including Exeter Hospital, Core Physicians, and Rockingham Visiting Nurse and Hospice. His role also includes responsibility for system-wide fundraising and community benefit activities. Mark is responsible for the development and oversight of the organization's Community Needs Assessment and manages Exeter Health Resources' Community Grants Program which provides funding to local area health care related not-for-profits including a broad based five year initiative to reduce the underlying drivers of youth suicide in the region.
Prior to coming to Exeter Health Resources, Mark worked at Winchester Hospital in Winchester, Massachusetts and University Hospital in Boston (now part of Boston Medical Center) .
Mark earned his bachelor's degree at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and a Masters of Business Administration at Boston University.
Until recently, Mark served as a Board Member of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley and was a member and chair of the Regional Council of the United Way of the Greater Seacoast. He has served on a variety of other community and professional Boards.
Mark and his wife Tara live in Newfields, NH with two children at Exeter High School and one who is in his sophomore year at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Karen Monaco
Board Treasurer and Secretary
Karen, Key Collective Treasurer and Secretary, is excited and proud to be a part of this wonderful concept of helping underserved youth in the Exeter area. As the Treasurer of Squamscott Womenade since 2005, she understands the need for financial assistance in the seacoast area.
Karen, a Boston College graduate, and husband Bob raised 3 daughters in Stratham. When not visiting their granddaughter, they love to hike, bike, snowshoe, and water ski.
Kari Lazerowich
Kari is a resident of Rye Beach and works as a graphic designer. As such, she plans to contribute to Key Collective's efforts (as she has for numerous other local non-profits over the years). Kari was one of the founding board members of Womenade of Greater Squamscott and served actively on that board for a decade.
As the mother of two boys (now successful young men) Kari understands the value of after school activity. By working with Key Collective on their areuin card program she hopes to see deserving families able to take advantage of opportunities for their children in both the arts and athletics.
Jeanne Pierce
Director of School Nutrition
for the Exeter Region Cooperative School District
Jeanne is the Director of School Nutrition for the Exeter Region Cooperative School District and a few of the surrounding elementary schools within SAU 16. Jeanne has served on the School Nutrition Association of New Hampshire Board as a two time Past-President, and recently was the Public Policy Legislative Chair for the state. She was part of the USDA-FNS National Task Force to write the Professional Standards for all School Nutrition Professional. She served on the National School Nutrition Association Professional Development Committee and most recently was part of the NH Hunger Solution Board in our state. Over the last few years she has worked on a Task Force to health increase breakfast in our schools across the state of New Hampshire. Jeanne lives in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire with her husband.
Jamie Sawler
Director of School Counseling
Exeter Region Cooperative School District
Jamie lives in Stratham with my wife (Melissa) and three children, George (6), Louisa (4) and Teddy (1). He has worked in education for my entire career, first as a mathematics teacher, then a school counselor, an assistant principal and now as the Director of School Counseling at the Cooperative Middle School and Exeter High School. Jamie has coached football and track and field in the past and now have turned his passion for coaching to tee-ball. He enjoys spending time with his family, particularly, skiing, biking and playing in the back yard. Helping families in need is a passion of his and the #areuin? card is a great way for families to have equal access to resources that contribute to an active, healthy lifestyle.
Tanisha Johnson
Tanisha brings more than a decade of experience in nonprofit administration and management to Key Collective. During this time, she discovered her passion for empowering others to utilize their talent and skills to meet organizational goals.
Originally from Pennsylvania Tanisha is currently a resident of Exeter, NH. Tanisha earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Business Administration degree with a specialization in Leadership. Tanisha has held several volunteer positions where she began several community programs and partnerships at which youth learned to channel their inner confidence to be innovators and leaders.
Tanisha’s current focus is to continue the Black Lives Matter mission here in the Exeter community and continue to build relationships and partnerships. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”
Molly Zirillo
Executive Director, SVDP
Molly has been the Executive Director of Society of St Vincent de Paul Exeter Food Pantry and Cleo Castonguay Community Assistance Center for eight years. Molly has a passion for assisting our neighbors in need.
Molly and her family have resided in Exeter for the past 20 years. She is a mother of two teenaged sons who attend Exeter High School. Being a Mother, she is keenly aware of how critical the opportunities The Key Collective can provide to contribute to a student's successful development.
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1021 N Sacramento Avenue Chicago, IL
AreaCHI - West Town
NeighborhoodHumboldt Park
StyleGreystone
Natural Gas, Forced Air, 2+ Sep Heating Systems
Full, Walkout
Brick, Limestone
Dining Room Not Applicable Hardwood
Family Room 26X46 Basement Ceramic Tile
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No First Use
by Michael Krepon | October 15, 2018 | 6 Comments
Quotes of the week:
“We are come to make a choice between the quick and the dead.” — Bernard Baruch before the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946.
“To be quick in pulling the nuclear trigger is to be dead.” — MK
Archival research by Michael Beschloss has revealed that in 1968, General William Westmoreland, the beleaguered commander of U.S. troops in South Vietnam, requested that plans be drawn up for the use of tactical nuclear weapons to relieve his besieged troops at Khe Sanh. In other words, Dien Bien Phu all over again — with the same result.
“Westy’s” request was quickly quashed by presidential advisor Walt Rostow, who alerted his boss. LBJ said, in effect, “Hell, no.” In just eight years since the end of the Eisenhower administration, the view that tactical nuclear weapons should be considered as just another ordnance to make up for shortfalls in manpower and to curtail military budgets for conventional warfare went from normative to no way.
Ike helped the norm of non battlefield use when faced with a similar request to relieve French troops at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. When push came to shove, Ike decided against bailing France out of a doomed colonial war by using tactical nuclear weapons because he didn’t want the United States to get bogged down in brushfire wars in out of the way places without allies. Ike also chose restraint because he didn’t want to spark World War III against Russia and China. Dien Bien Phu was overrun by the Viet Minh later that year. French forces left after a fig leaf of a diplomatic settlement, to be replaced by U.S. forces, which left under the fig leaf of another diplomatic settlement two decades later.
Dien Bien Phu and Khe Sanh are less important in the annals of warfare than in their significance for the calculus of first use and no first use of nuclear weapons. Both were important markers in the long, endless debate over the military utility of nuclear weapons. This debate is never settled, but postponement of first use, replicated over time, has been consequential. Day by day, month by month, and year by year, the norm of non battlefield use has taken hold. Nonetheless, it is still contested, at least indirectly, by those who seek new low-yield options. And it will be contested in deliberations over the next Khe Sanh and Dien Bien Phu. The norm of non-battlefield use could still be broken at any time in regions like the Korean Peninsula and the subcontinent where warfare could occur, whether by design or miscalculation.
Campaigns to support the adoption of No First Use doctrines help reinforce the norm of non-battlefield use, supplementing the succession of decisions like those by Ike and LBJ over a prolonged passage of time. Formal adoption of No First Use declarations will continue to face long odds in countries like the United States, Russia and Pakistan where nuclear strategists believe that deterrence depends on the threat of crossing this threshold first.
Talking or arguing anyone out of a belief system is very hard. Overriding this belief system from the top down is another option, but national leaders are usually hesitant to buck doctrinal beliefs. Changes in belief tend to be experiential, and we can’t afford the experience of taking stock after the consequences of first and subsequent use. For the time being, extending the norm of No First Use depends on prudential decision making during nuclear-tinged crises. This, in turn, rests on the hope that national leaders will be able to recognize the difference between ephemeral advantage and far more damaging, longer term consequences.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Dien Bien Phu, Dwight Eidenhower, Gen. William Westmoreland, Khe Sanh, Lyndon Bailes Johnson, no first use, Walt Rostow
Bill (History)
Good points on no first use. What Beschloss found has been in the declassified record at the LBJ Library for years. The only new thing is the code word. Nina Tannenwald wrote up the major elements of the story, including LBJ’s rejection of nuclear options for Khe Sanh, in her book, The Nuclear Taboo, published over ten years ago. I hope Beschloss gives her proper credit in his book.
Krepon (History)
Many thanks for the fine print.
Jonah Speaks (History)
In addition to first use of tactical nuclear weapons in a conventional war, there is also the issue of first strike using nuclear weapons against an opponent’s nuclear weapons. The purpose of a first strike is to blunt or eliminate an opponent’s ability to launch a nuclear strike. In a severe crisis or major war, there can be concerns about strategic stability, if either side can gain a significant advantage from a nuclear first strike, and fears that the other side may strike first.
Even in peace time, both Russia and the United States appear poised to launch a nuclear counterstrike, simply upon early warning (perhaps erroneous warning) that the other side has already launched a first strike. I have yet to see a convincing study that this risk of erroneous nuclear exchange is either zero, or so close to zero, that we need not worry about it.
John (History)
MK seems to give too much credit to Ike: “Ike also chose restraint because he didn’t want to spark World War III against Russia and China.”
In fact, Ike approved a NSC decision in sprig of 1953 that planned use of tactical Nukes in Korea if the China and N. Korea did not agree to a military Armistice agreement soon.
robgoldston (History)
I am thinking that NFU has a steep hill to climb, especially with our allies & patners under the U.S. nuclear umbrella. Also how about France or England… or Russia? Could we get international consensus around “NFU unless a state or its allies are under existential threat.”
It is to be noted that China has been supporting NFU for a long time. As for the US, we can no longer afford to tie our policy on the interest of our allies when our leaders already considered the FU against NK. It is an immediate security issue for the American people.
Instead praying for a wise decision by our leaders, a better solution would be for the Congress to adopt the NFU policy, as already proposed in H.R.4837 – No Unconstitutional Strike against North Korea Act. There are 73 cosponsors already. Check whether your Rep. is on the list.
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TROUBLE AT THE TOP
August 31, 2020 September 21, 2020 Rahimullah Yusufzai 0 Comments Pakistan
With the government battling graft and challenges to its authority, and a divided opposition facing wide scale corruption charges, Pakistan’s political classes are having a hard time of it. Rahimullah Yusufzai reports
Imran Khan’s government has stepped up efforts to bring his predecessor, Mian Nawaz Sharif,back from Britain to complete a prison sentence for corruption. But it will be no easy task.
Sharif, a three-time former premier, was allowed to go to the UK last November to receive medical treatment for a complicated coronary artery disease, though only under certain conditions. Mirza Shahzad Akbar, a lawyer working as an accountability adviser to Prime Minister Khan, maintained that Sharif was granted permission to leave Pakistan for treatment, provided he returned within a stipulated timeframe and submitted periodical medical reports to the court, and to the Punjab government, to update them about his health.
But the government claims that he has failed to meet any of these conditions. Now, its very public intent to force Nawaz Sharif’s return to complete his remaining jail term has triggered an intense war of words between the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Some of Imran Khan’s close aides, including the loud-mouthed Railways Minister Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad, said the prime minister was unhappy that Sharif had been allowed to leave the country at all; for while he ostensibly went purely for medical reasons, he has been pictured out and about in London, eating at restaurants and taking walks. Another federal minister, Fawad Chaudhry, demanded action against all those who issued ‘fake medical reports’ to enable Sharif’s trip to Britain, as his departure was a setback for the PTI government’s accountability process and had damaged its narrative of bringing to justice all those involved in cases of graft.
The PTI government believes Nawaz Sharif has yet to undergo the required medical treatment and is instead delaying his stay abroad to avoid being jailed again in Pakistan. It is holding his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif –currently president of the PML-N and a former chief minister of Pakistan’s biggest province, Punjab – responsible for ensuring that the former premier returns to Pakistan, since Shahbaz furnished guarantees that he would fulfil the conditions under which his brother was allowed to go abroad.
Britain has long been a favourite destination for out-of-power Pakistani politicians
Initially, the Lahore High Court granted Nawaz Sharif leave to travel abroad for treatment on the recommendation of doctors, as he was very ill at the time. He even had to be flown in an air ambulance from Lahore to London. His spell in prison was blamed for his deteriorating health, with his family complaining that he was not receiving proper medical treatment. Though he was eventually shifted from the jail to a hospital in Lahore, his party and his family pursued the case for him getting specialist treatment in the UK. In March this year, his London-based sons, Hassan and Hussain, said he may even be flown to the US for advanced treatment, but that has not happened yet.
NOT GUILTY? Pakistan’s former PM Nawaz Sharif has denied the corruption charges levelled against him
The UK has long been a favourite destination for out-of-power Pakistani politicians. They go there for medical treatment, to escape court trials, and to plan their return by making alliances against the ruling party with like-minded political parties. The term ‘London Plan’ is commonly used in Pakistan whenever opposition politicians gather in the city to plot their return to power.
In December 2018, Nawaz Sharif was jailed for seven years on corruption charges by an accountability court, after it ruled that he had been unable to prove the source of income that enabled him to own a steel mill in Saudi Arabia. The same court had, in July the same year,sentenced him to ten years for purchasing expensive apartments in London without providing the money trail.
It was corruption charges which, in July 2017, saw him ousted from power by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, disqualified from holding public office and given a ten-year prison term. Although he had been sentenced in absentia, he took the bold step of returning to Pakistan from the UK, despite knowing that he would certainly land in jail.
At that time, the move enhanced his political image. But today he is risking his already damaged career by not returning to Pakistan after guaranteeing that he would, post-treatment.
Nawaz Sharif has always denied the charges against him, calling them politically motivated. He has blamed the powerful military and the judiciary for trying to end his political career by using the anti-graft National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to frame him on trumped up charges. For its part, the army has denied exerting influence on the judiciary and NAB to punish Sharif.
The NAB, headed by a former Supreme Court judge, Justice Javed Iqbal, has never been so active in its anti-accountability drive. The campaign is part of the tough anti-graft policy of Imran Khan, who built his political career on claims of a spotless past and pledging to fight corruption. Although some ruling PTI leaders are also facing corruption cases and have spent time in prison before getting bail, and even returning to the cabinet after being ousted, it is opposition politicians who bear the brunt. The PML-N and the PPP, currently led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, only son of the late Benazir Bhutto and former President Asif Ali Zardari, are a particular target of the NAB, primarily due to the fact that these two parties have been in power in recent years and faced charges of misusing power and indulging in corruption.
CALLING TO ACCOUNT: NAB head, former Supreme Court judge Justice Javed Iqbal
Almost all leading members of the Sharif and Zardari families are today facing corruption charges and waging legal battles to clear their names. Several politicians from other parties, as well as businessmen, retired government officers and others, are also in hot water. Judges are working overtime to decide these cases and lawyers are earning high fees representing their rich clients. In fact, political battles are now mostly being fought in the courts, with judges playing an unusually significant role in deciding petitions that deeply impact politics.
A term used often nowadays in Pakistan is National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), which was coined by military ruler General Pervez Musharraf in 2007 when he made an agreement with the PPP to end all cases, including those that were politically motivated, and let Benazir Bhutto return to Pakistan to rejoin politics. The NRO, which is used in the country to describe a ‘deal’, was criticised by Musharraf’s critics as a means to stay in power and reduce the space for his opponents to do politics. Prime Minister Imran Khan and his aides claim that the opposition parties are seeking an NRO so that corruption cases against them are dropped in return for offering support to the government in parliament, where it has a fragile majority. The opposition, meanwhile, maintains it neither needs nor seeks an NRO and is ready to face the cases in court.
From the look of things, it is unlikely that an NRO will be negotiated to make a grand deal to improve relations between the opposition and the government. The opposition is a divided house, even though Maulana Fazlur Rahman, the main Islamic leader heading the JUI-F, has spent the past two years trying to bring together all the anti-PTI parties on one platform to launch a protest movement to oust the government. Fed up with the non-cooperative attitude of the mainstream PML-N and PPP, he is now trying to form an alliance of the smaller Islamic, regional and nationalist parties to challenge the PTI government.
However, the government cannot be ousted unless the PML-N and the PPP are on board, as the remaining parties lack the political muscle and the street power to accomplish this difficult mission.
Rahimullah Yusufzai is a Pakistani journalist and Afghanistan expert. He was the first and last reporter to interview Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, and twice interviewed Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1998. His achievements have been acknowledged by several prestigious awards, including Tamgha-e-Imtiaz and Sitara-e-Imtiaz
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Audio Bible - ESV
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Summary of the Book of Habakkuk
This summary of the book of Habakkuk provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Book of Habakkuk.
Little is known about Habakkuk except that he was a contemporary of Jeremiah and a man of vigorous faith rooted deeply in the religious traditions of Israel. The account of his ministering to the needs of Daniel in the lions' den in the Apocryphal book Bel and the Dragon is legendary rather than historical.
The prediction of the coming Babylonian invasion (1:6) indicates that Habakkuk lived in Judah toward the end of Josiah's reign (640-609 b.c.) or at the beginning of Jehoiakim's (609-598). The prophecy is generally dated a little before or after the battle of Carchemish (605), when Egyptian forces, which had earlier gone to the aid of the last Assyrian king, were routed by the Babylonians under Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar and were pursued as far as the Egyptian border (Jer 46). Habakkuk, like Jeremiah, probably lived to see the initial fulfillment of his prophecy when Jerusalem was attacked by the Babylonians in 597.
Theological Message
Among the prophetic writings, Habakkuk is somewhat unique in that it includes no oracle addressed to Israel. It contains, rather, a dialogue between the prophet and God (see Outline). (The book of Jonah, while narrative, presents an account of conflict between the Lord and one of his prophets.) In the first two chapters, Habakkuk argues with God over his ways that appear to him unfathomable, if not unjust. Having received replies, he responds with a beautiful confession of faith (ch. 3).
This account of wrestling with God is, however, not just a fragment from a private journal that has somehow entered the public domain. It was composed for Israel. No doubt it represented the voice of the godly in Judah, struggling to comprehend the ways of God. God's answers therefore spoke to all who shared Habakkuk's troubled doubts. And Habakkuk's confession became a public expression -- as indicated by its liturgical notations (see note on 3:1).
Habakkuk was perplexed that wickedness, strife and oppression were rampant in Judah but God seemingly did nothing. When told that the Lord was preparing to do something about it through the "ruthless" Babylonians (1:6), his perplexity only intensified: How could God, who is "too pure to look on evil" (1:13), appoint such a nation "to execute judgment" (1:12) on a people "more righteous than themselves" (1:13)?
God makes it clear, however, that eventually the corrupt destroyer will itself be destroyed. In the end, Habakkuk learns to rest in God's sovereign appointments and await his working in a spirit of worship. He learns to wait patiently in faith (2:3-4) for God's kingdom to be expressed universally (2:14). See note on 3:18-19.
Literary Features
The author wrote clearly and with great feeling, and he penned many memorable phrases (2:2,4,14,20; 3:2,17-19). The book was popular during the intertestamental period; a complete commentary on its first two chapters has been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (see essay, p. 1939).
Title (1:1)
Habakkuk's First Complaint: Why does the evil in Judah go unpunished? (1:2-4)
God's Answer: The Babylonians will punish Judah (1:5-11)
Habakkuk's Second Complaint: How can a just God use wicked Babylonia to punish a people more righteous than themselves? (1:12;2:1)
God's Answer: Babylonia will be punished, and faith will be rewarded (2:2-20)
Habakkuk's Prayer: After asking for manifestations of God's wrath and mercy (as he has seen in the past), he closes with a confession of trust and joy in God (ch. 3)
From the NIV Study Bible, Introductions to the Books of the Bible, Habakkuk
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The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers. (English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)
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DC AG Irv Nathan Looks Ahead
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December 19, 2014 Bisnow
As former DC Attorney General Irv Nathan prepares to rejoin Arnold & Porter on Jan. 1, we caught up with him about his plans and his suggestions for the office he leaves behind.
When Irv was appointed DC AG by Mayor Vince Gray in 2011, he "really believed that was going to be my last job in the law." But after leaving office on Nov. 17 at age 71, he tells us he has the energy, and certainly the experience, to be helpful in private practice. He's interested in areas such as internal investigations, white collar criminal defense and government relations, having served in the DC government, on the Hill (as GC to the House of Representatives '07-11), and in two stints at DOJ. Between each turn in public service, Irv has returned to Arnold & Porter, the firm he joined after his Fourth Circuit clerkship following Columbia Law, and where he's intermittently spent more than 30 years.
We snapped Irv in A&P's 555 12th St office with a gift he'd just received: a custom bobblehead of himself, with "Attorney General" written around the base. He says "the voters made a very good choice in Karl Racine," the District's first elected AG, but there are changes that should be made to the Office of the Attorney General itself. First, the Council should restore subpoena power during the investigative stage of suits, particularly in criminal cases. Second, Congress should reconsider the issue of the OAG's criminal jurisdiction because "it is anti-democratic to have local crimes being prosecuted by outsiders who are not responsive to the electorate." It could be concurrent jurisdiction with the US Attorney, he adds. Third, it would be helpful for the AG's office to be able to hire outside counsel to represent it in major cases, on a contingency fee.
As DC AG, Irv was especially proud of matters that saved taxpayers money, such as the suit against travel companies such as Expedia and Travelocity, which will net the city $60M to 90M in back taxes if won on appeal. There's also the suit against the Labor Department over its decision that CityCenterDC was a public work, for which the District should pay the difference between contractor wages and prevailing union wage (it would have cost $20M; the rationale applied to other projects would have billed the city more than $500M). The OAG won in federal district court, and Justice recently filed an appeal. Other cases targeted people enriching themselves at the public's expense--the civil suit against Harry Thomas Jr.--the first sitting councilman to be sued by the city, for stealing $400K intended for Little League baseball operations--and injunctions against charter schools where insiders took millions of taxpayer dollars. Here Irv points out A&P's old building, where he spent his first years with the firm in a first-floor office.
In a photo exhibit by an A&P partner's wife, we get a glimpse of Irv from years ago. A former aspiring journalist, he was the head editor for his high school and college newspapers and interned at the Baltimore Sun before realizing he could have "wider experiences as a lawyer." Now when he's not in the office, Irv tells us he enjoys reading about history (recent favorites include Doris Kearns Goodwin's Bully Pulpit and Noah Feldman's Scorpions), golfing and visiting his two grandchildren in upstate New York. He's had some free time for those since leaving the OAG, though he's also been writing the curriculum for a class on American Constitutional law that he's teaching in the spring at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He'll be living in Jerusalem in March and part of April.
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John C. Hughes is the chief oral historian for the Office of the Secretary of State in Washington State. He retired as editor and publisher of The Daily World in Aberdeen, Washington, in 2008 after a 42-year career that saw him win awards for investigative reporting, historical features, editorials and columns. An alumnus of the University of Puget Sound and the University of Maryland, he is a trustee of the Washington State Historical Society and has contributed to several Northwest history books, including “On the Harbor: From Black Friday to Nirvana.”
BlackPast, B. (2009, November 09) Hughes, John. Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/ind_historians/hughes-john/
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Hide & Seek 2016
The story of The Gunpowder Plot
Remember Remember the Fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot… Dynamic participatory performance exploring issues of extremism for up to 40 students.
Touring in Autumn 2016, Hide & Seek is a compelling participatory performance that explores the story of The Gunpowder Plot. Dramatically imagining events leading up to the 5th November 1605 and the foiled attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament and topple the King. Following in the footsteps of a group of conspirators, the audience witness and are directly implicated in this resonant historical event – experiencing religious persecution, watching as the plotters unfurl their devastating plan, seeing the King enforce increasingly oppressive policies in the name of state security and imagining the potential consequences of an historical act of terror.
Having successfully toured to schools previously, Hide & Seek is reworked for 2016 to make connections between historical and contemporary issues of extremism, providing a dramatic catalyst through which ethical questions such as ‘How far do you go in the name of what you believe?’ can be discussed.
“I think it was about making the right choices and not letting people get you into stuff you don’t want to.” – Young audience member
Hide and Seek is an exciting stimulus for schools to engage with the Prevent Duty (see our Prevent Duty Position Statement) and has strong links to Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Education. It is also a potent example of devised, applied theatre for those studying drama, theatre and the performing arts. Comprehensive online resources accompany the performance to enable teachers to explore with students the sensitive issue of extremism and to use drama to make meaningful connections to the world beyond the classroom.
“Thanks for coming to us. My Y11s were really positive about it this morning. They all enjoyed it and started trying to think about how they can use some of the conventions and principles in their own work. It has definitely inspired them.” – Stacey Burton, Teacher in Charge of Performing Arts, Heckmondwike Grammar
“The play was great… the interaction was the part that kept on bringing the students in deeper and more engaged with the story. Watching my students on the edge of their seat after an hour was a real pleasure and is a testament to the talent and investment the theatre company put into their rehearsals. If you spend any of your school/college budget on theatre this year you should buy a Blah’s show…or two.” – Denny Smith, Curriculum Leader Performing Arts, Rotherham College of Arts and Technology
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'Black Panther' sequel to be filmed starting next July
After the sudden death of star Chadwick Boseman in August, original plans to commence production next March were postponed.
Now according to The Hollywood Reporter, July 2021 has become the next proposed date to start shooting the sequel. Sources have said the shooting will start next summer in Atlanta, Georgia, and last for six months or more.
Narcos star Tenoch Huerta was also confirmed to be joining the as-yet-untitled Black Panther 2, while Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, and Angela Bassett were all expected to return from the original film to their roles.
One thing that we won't see in the second film, however, is the late Chadwick Boseman's body double. Marvel issued a statement last week paying tribute to Boseman, who played King T'Challa in the 2018 film, adding that there were no plans for the new film to use digital technology.
Victoria Alonso, executive vice president of Marvel Studios, told Clarin: "There is only one Chadwick, and he's not with us," said Alonso. "Unfortunately, our King died in real life, not only in fiction, and we're taking a little time to see how we're going back to history and what we're doing to honor this chapter of what happened to us that was so unexpected, so painful, so awful, so real."
She added: "Because not only was Chadwick a wonder... but it also seems to me that what he did raise us as a company, as a character, and left his moment in history." I know that sometimes two months go by or three months go by in manufacturing, and one says it's been a long time already.
"But it doesn't take long for us to think carefully about what we're going to do and how we're going to do it and to think about how we're going to honor the franchise."
NME called the film "the best Marvel movie yet," reviewing Black Panther upon its release in 2018, adding: "It's a joyful, chest-voice statement that there are other voices to be heard in blockbuster cinema and new worlds to be seen." This is a film that is critical and an utter, watch-it-again-immediate blast.
# Movie # Black Panther # Marvel # MCU # Chadwick Boseman # Letitia Wright
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