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Home Special Reports Lunch Show Newburn Bakehouse by Warburtons brings ‘free-from’ to lunch times
Newburn Bakehouse by Warburtons brings ‘free-from’ to lunch times
Oct 24, 2013 Lunch Show
Newburn Bakehouse by Warburtons offers an award winning gluten and wheat-free range of bakery products. Its dedicated free-from bakery in Newburn, Newcastle, hosts a team of expert gluten and wheat-free bakers, combining generations of Warburtons passion and know-how to produce a range that has won awards for superior quality and taste.
Currently estimated to be worth £367 million, ‘free-from’ is one of the fastest growing markets in the UK, forecast to grow by over 47% by 2018*. Since Warburtons rebranded its free-from range in 2013 to Newburn Bakehouse, sales have increased significantly up 91.9% on the same period last year.
Newburn Bakehouse is investing heavily in a strong innovation pipeline with a true commitment to quality. This year, £90,000 was spent on the latest technology and research to bring six new products into the market, including gluten and wheat-free wraps, bringing the total range up to 15.
Currently stocked in Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Asda and convenience stores; the Newburn Bakehouse range is now planning a series of new product launches for 2014. At present the range includes beautifully soft loaves, French-style baguettes, fruity tea cakes, mouth-watering muffins and the popular gluten and wheat-free Square White Wraps, the first of their kind in the UK, offering a versatile alternative to a conventional sandwich or roll.
For those with Coeliac disease, eating away from home remains a big challenge. Numerous eating establishments have a lack of knowledge and understanding about catering to this largely untapped market.
However, the increase in demand for gluten-free has not gone unnoticed by key players within the foodservice industry with Domino’s, Pizza Express, La Tasca and Starbucks all now offering ‘gluten-free’ options. Many are currently working with Coeliac UK, the UK’s leading charity for people affected by Coeliac disease, to gain accreditation and improve their in-house production and training methods to avoid contamination.
Coeliac UK, leading charity working for people with coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis,support over 60,000 people with the condition and around 14,000 people with a new diagnosis sign up each year. However, 30%** of the British population is now choosing to eat gluten and wheat-free on a regular basis, despite not suffering from any food intolerance, and over half of UK households buy into ‘free-from’ at some point during the year. ***
Coeliac UK have highlighted the continuing lack of away from home options for gluten-free and have spotlighted foodservice as a key area of focus for their annual awareness week for the last two years.
For Newburn Bakehouse, entering the foodservice channel is the next logical step. As more people are diagnosed with Coeliac disease and other related intolerances, the demand for quality foods and services is increasing across all channels. This development in consumer expectations was a driving force behind the brand’s presence at lunch! Show, ‘The contemporary food-to go-show’, in order to better understand the needs of both consumers and trade customers.
As a result of feedback gathered from their attendance, Newburn Bakehouse is looking into the best possible formats and products to fit the customer and food service need. A result of such thinking has been an exciting new partnership with La Tasca, where the brand’s Square White Wraps feature on the La Tasca menu across their entire UK portfolio. The restaurant chain, which won ‘Best Gluten-Free Menu’ in 2012, offer the wraps as its ‘Gluten-free Flatbreads and Oils’ dish within its enhanced gluten free menu, which is endorsed by Coeliac UK.
The collaboration with La Tasca demonstrates the versatility of the Newburn Bakehouse range and how it can be seamlessly incorporated into a food service offer where there is a clear and obvious demand.
Chris Hook, Director of Newburn Bakehouse by Warburtons said: “We’re thrilled to be moving into the food service arena as it represents a huge potential growth area for us.
“It’s a known fact that eating away from home is one of the biggest challenges people with Coeliac Disease face. Many eating establishments lack knowledge and understanding about catering to this market, yet it represents an estimated £100m worth of business.****
He continued: “We’d love to expand further into foodservice and are already in talks with several establishments. For us, it’s all about giving those with food intolerances or allergies, the same great tasting Warburtons products that families across the UK enjoy with our core range, home or away…”
To find out more about Newburn Bakehouse opportunities, complete our enquiry form and we can respond with an opportunity to cater to your needs. Just visit us at www.newburnbakehouse.com/trade
* Mintel, Meat-free and Free-from Foods -UK – September 2013
** YouGov, March 2013 – 52, 349 sample size
*** Kantar Worldpanel July 2013
**** www.coeliac.org.uk/food-industry/caterers-and-restaurateurs/how-your-business-can-access-the-gluten-free-pound
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2,000 fans to attend Tottenham, Arsenal derby
Tottenham have announced plans for 2,000 fans to attend the north London derby against Arsenal on December 6.
Spurs are one of 10 Premier League sides in tier two areas, where up to 2,000 people are allowed at outdoor sports venues after lockdown in England ends on December 2.
The other 10 teams are all in tier three, where no fans are allowed.
Spurs said they will allocate the tickets via a ballot for season-ticket holders and executive members only.
It will be the first match in front of spectators at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium since the FA Cup fifth-round game against Norwich on 4 March.
Liverpool have also set out their plans for 2,000 fans to watch their Premier League match against Wolves at Anfield on the same day.
Supporters will all be seated in the main stand, and the ballot will only be open to fans who live in the Liverpool City Region – an area that covers the boroughs of Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral.
Applicants must be season-ticket holders or members with at least 19 credits from the 2018-19 Premier League campaign.
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Q & A: Social Workers and The LGBTQ Community
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Social Workers and the LGBTQ Population
To prepare: Consider the following statement:
NASW encourages the adoption of laws that recognize inheritance, insurance, same-sex marriage, child custody, property, and other rights in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender relationships. The Association firmly believes that all federal protections and responsibilities available to legally married people in the United States should be available to people who enter same sex unions (including domestic partnerships, civil unions, and same sex marriages).
By Day 5 of Week 7, submit your reaction to this statement of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Describe what you think is the role of social workers in equal rights and access to LGBTQ populations.
Advocacy, Internationally To prepare: Read the United Nations Address on Global LGBT Rights by Hilary Clinton. By Day 7 of Week 7, submit a detailed explanation of your reaction to this essay. Then, explain why, in the context of practicing social work in North America, it is important for us to acknowledge and address sexual orientation and gender diversity of marginalized populations across the world. Explain the role of social workers on an international level in relation to the rights of the LGBTQ community. Identify specific skills and actions you would employ as advocate.
Describe what you think is the role of social workers in equal rights and access to LGBTQ populations
Despite the many campaigns and media sensitization, may people remain largely divided on their views of the LGBT community. Some of the population believe that they are just like every other individual and should have equal opportunities while others think otherwise.
The LGBT generally refers to the people in the community living as Lesbian, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender. This particular population of people still get to face a lot of discrimination, oppression and even marginalization that usually results to some poor physical, emotional and even social wellbeing (In O’Neill, In Swan & In Mulé, 2015).
The social workers are usually of great help in ensuring that the community is able to live just like every other member of the community. They usually assist in various ways from providing counselling to fighting for the equal laws for the members of the LGBT. In places such as the healthcare facilities where discrimination has been known to prevail among the LGBT’s, the social workers usually get to ensure that they receive the medical care equal to everyone else in the community.
Social workers could also be of great help in working towards some new laws that would give the LGBT the equal rights in things such as the parental custody, adoption or even marriage. The social workers should also get to ensure that the LGBT youth is living in safe home environments, and both them and their parents are provided with enough counselling on handling and accepting them as they are.
Explain the role of social workers on an international level in relation to the rights of the LGBTQ community. Identify specific skills and actions you would employ as advocate.
In her speech, Hillary Clinton tries to explain how the rights of the LGBT are just the same as the human rights. Her speech is quite a wonderful start in getting to sensitize the world on how to deal and respect everyone regardless of their sexual orientation. The speech is very heartening and allows the members of the LGBT community to live normal lives just like every other member of the community.
In context of getting to practice some social works in North America, it is essential to acknowledge the sexual orientation including the gender diversity of the marginalized community across the world because when the members of the community in North America get to accept and get in terms with everyone regardless of their sexual orientation, the rest of the will get to gradually follow the footsteps, therefore, allowing the rest of the world to come in terms with the marginalized communities.
Social workers have an important role internationally when it comes to the rights of the LGBT community as they are able to make the members of the community accept and come into terms with the LGBT communities, therefore, extending the territories where the LGBT can live comfortably without discrimination, which may also get to expand worldwide.
The particular skills and actions that would be essential in advocating for the rights of the LGBT as an advocate include such things as aggressiveness, where an advocate would be able to stand against everyone else in fighting for the rights of the LGBT. The advocate should also be quite conversant with the human rights in order to be able to include the law in his fight for the rights of the LGBT individuals (Zastrow, 2015).
In O’Neill, B., In Swan, T. A., & In Mulé, N. J. (2015). LGBTQ people and social work: Intersectional perspectives.
Zastrow, C. (2015). Social work with groups: A comprehensive worktext.
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Interesting facts about Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix is a famous American actor, producer, musician, as well as a music video director and producer. His role in the recent film “Joker” brought his first Academy Award for best acting. Joaquin Phoenix is a vegan and always showed his concern over animal rights and social equality in many international platforms.This amazing actor has many interesting facts.
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Full name: Joaquin Rafael Phoenix
Birth date: 28th October, 1974
Birth Place: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Profession: Actor, Producer, musician, music video director
Parents: John Bottom, Arlyn Phoenix
Partners: Liv Tyler(1995-1998), Topaz Page-Green(2001-2005), Aria Crescendo(2010), Allie Teilz(2013-2014), Rooney Mara(2016-)
Zodaic Sign Scorpio
Siblings: Rain Phoenix(sister), River Phoenix(brother), Liberty Phoenix(sister), Summer Phoenix(sister)
Net worth and source of revenue
Net worth: $ 50 million
Cars and Houses
Cars: Lexus RX350($95000), Ducati Desmosedici($72500)
Houses: Hollywood Hills villa,Los Angeles, now put on sell for $4 million,
Debut acting: TV show: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, episode “Christmas Song”(1982)Movie: Kids Don’t Tell a CBS television film(1985)
Height: 5 feet 8 inches
Eye and hair color: Green and Dark Brown
Body Measurement Chest(39 inches), Waist(34 inches)
Academy Award Gladiator(2001,nominated), Walk the Line(2006,nominated), The Master(2013,nominated), Joker(2020,won)
BAFTA Gladiator(2001,nominated), Walk the Line(2006,nominated), The Master(2013,nominated), Joker(2020,won)
Cannes Film Festival You Were never Really Here(2017, won)
Grammy Awards Walk the Line for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media(2007,won)
People’s Choice Awards We Own the Night(2008,won)
Venice Film Festival The Master(2012, won) tied with Philip Seymour Hoffman
Childhood and early life-
He was born to John Lee Bottom and Arlyn Sharon Phoenix. Being a member of a missionaries family he along with his parents traveled around many areas of South Africa.
His family left the group Children of God when he was three years old.
To support his family Joaquin participated in many singing and talent contests.
His mother was an NBC executive while his father worked as a landscape architect.
Debut in acting-
Hollywood’s famous agent Iris Burton discovered Joaquin and his siblings.
Though his first theoretical debut film was SpaceCamp(1986), but he made his debut as an actor in CBS television show Kids Don’t Tell in 1985.
His first prominent role was in a 1987 movie Russkies.
Net worth and salary:
Joaquin Phoenix is a highly paid actor in Hollywood. For films such as Quills and Buffalo, he received $375000 and $7000000 respectively. He earned $3.5 million for the 2005 film Walk the Line. For his 2002 film Signs, he got $1million and for M Night Shyamalan’s film The Village he was paid $5million.
For 2019 film “Joker”, he and his director Todd Philip has received low salaries in exchange for some backend points deal. Though the “Joker” has generated more than $1 billion so it is quite sure that both Todd and Joaquin might have made more than $100 million each from the film revenue.
Humanitarian works-
Phoenix is among board members of an NGO called The Lunchbox Fund, which provides daily meals for poor children of South African town Soweto.
He has been supporting some intentional charities and NGO’s for many years. His involvement in Amnesty International, HEART, the Peace Alliance, and raising voice against animal killings with famous documentary Earthlings(2005) made him one of the prominent social activist.
He tried to expose nexus between corrupt government officials and the health care industry, by his documentary What the Health. That documentary tried to prove how some of the health care industry bands always trying to keep us sick.
While receiving his Oscar during the 2020 Academy Award function he raised concern about social equity and animal rights and also paid his tribute to his late brother River Phoenix.
Relationships-
Joaquin Phoenix has been in a relationship with actress Rooney Mara from 2016. In may 2020 they announced that they are expecting their first child.
Controversies-
Phoenix is always known for his controversial remarks and raising voice for different issues like animal rights, human and environmental rights.
That was in October 2012 when he labeled Academy Award as a “bullshit”. Later in an interview, he apologized for his comments.
Some interesting facts –
Phoenix was among the few actors who were invited to join a prestigious organization Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Joaquin was born with a mark on his lip but denied calling it a cleft clip.
He has checked himself into rehab for his alcoholism habit.
Phoenix is a vegan since 3 years old and known to campaign for PETA and In Defence of Animals. For his long support for animal rights, he was named in 2019, PETA’s person of the Year list.
During his January 10, 2020 protest in front of United States Capitol, he along with Jane Fonda was arrested.
He had met with an accident in 2006 and rescued by a German filmmaker Werner Herzog.
Joaquin decided to get retirement from acting in 2008 to focus on his musical career.
Phoenix comeback film was The Master(2012). That film brought him Volpi Cup for Best Actor award at Venice Film Festival.
In 1993 his brother died of an overdose, just after 3 days of his 19th birthday. Following that incident, he kept himself out of acting for a few years.
At an early stage of his career, he named himself “Leaf” but later he changed back to his original name Joaquin when he was 15 years old.
Besides English, he is also fluent in the Spanish language.
In a television show called 4Real, he served as an executive producer.
He also directed some music videos such as Ringside, She wants Revenge, Silversun Pickups, People in Planes, Arckid, Albert Hammond Jr.
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20. Nephrosis syndrome: minimal change, membranous glomerulonephritis, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.
Last updated on April 19, 2020 at 23:09
Nephrotic syndrome is a clinical syndrome that includes:
Massive proteinuria – more than 3.5g per day
Hypoalbuminaemia
Generalized oedema – due to the hypoalbuminaemia
Hyperlipidaemia
Lipiduria
Hypoalbuminaemia and oedema are obvious symptoms of massive proteinuria. The latter two symptoms need more explanation. The simple explanation is that the liver can’t produce more albumin without producing more apolipoproteins; synthesis of these two are interconnected and can’t be separated. As the body loses proteins and albumin will the liver increase the albumin production, to which the apolipoprotein production follows. These apolipoproteins aren’t “wasted” but instead bind lipids to form lipoproteins and are then released into the blood.
Proteinuria may be either selective or non-selective which indicates whether very large proteins are lost as well.
Patients with nephrotic syndrome lose antibodies in the urine, which may increase the risk of infection. They also lose antithrombin III and other anticoagulant factors, which increases their risk for thrombosis.
Nephrotic syndrome can be caused by several glomerular diseases. The most important ones are:
Primary glomerular diseases
Minimal change disease
Membranous nephropathy
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
Chronic glomerulonephritis
Secondary glomerular diseases
Henoch-Schönlein purpura
The first four will be examined in more detail in this topic.
Minimal change disease is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in children. The name comes from the fact that the glomeruli appear normal under light microscope, however loss of podocytes’ feet can be seen under electron microscope.
Affected patients have no other symptoms of renal disease like hypertension or decreased renal function. More than 90% of affected children respond well to a short course of corticosteroid therapy, so the prognosis is good.
The proteinuria in minimal change disease is selective in that very large proteins like globulins aren’t lost.
It may occur in adults in association with Hodgkin lymphoma or NSAID therapy.
Membranous nephropathy is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in white populations. It’s a chronic, slowly progressive disease that mostly affect middle-aged adults.
In 85% of cases it’s primary due to autoantibodies against the phospholipase A2 receptor on podocytes. The remaining 15% of cases are secondary to:
Infections – like chronic hep B
Malignant tumors – especially lung and colon carcinoma, melanoma
SLE and other autoimmunity’s
Exposure to gold, mercury
Penicillamine
The pathomechanism involves in situ immune complex formation in the glomeruli against glomeruli antigens (the A2 receptor) or against planted antigens. The damage in membranous nephropathy doesn’t occur from inflammatory cells but rather from the complement system. The membrane attack complex (MAC) attacks mesangial cells and podocytes that causes the proteinuria.
Histologically, the main feature is diffuse thickening of the capillary wall, which is visible with PAS staining under light microscope.
Electron microscopy shows subepithelial deposits which leans against the glomerular basement membrane. They are separated from each other by spike like protrusions of the GBM, this characteristic pattern is called “spike and dome apperance”.
Immunofluoresence microscopy shows granular deposits along the glomerular basement membrane.
The disease progresses slowly and doesn’t show symptoms until the later stages. Treatment is with corticosteroids, but 60% of patients with the disease are not cured of the proteinuria. 40% of patients progress into chronic renal failure.
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) doesn’t affect all glomeruli (focal) and only affects segments of each affected glomerulus (segmental). It’s the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in black populations. It has the following causes:
Heroin use
Other forms of glomerulonephritis like IgA nephropathy
A consequence of nephron loss
The pathomechanism involves some circulating factors that increases the glomerular epithelial cell’s protein permeability, which causes them to take in more proteins. These proteins are eventually deposited as hyaline and cause sclerosis.
Like the name (focal segmental) suggests are only certain glomeruli affected, and only certain segment of them. Segmental sclerosis and hyalinization of glomeruli is visible on light microscopy. Loss of podocytes’ feet can be seen under electron microscope, like in minimal change disease.
Unlike minimal change disease is the proteinuria here non-selective. Other symptoms like haematuria, GFR reduction and hypertension may also occur. FSGS doesn’t respond well to corticosteroids and commonly progresses into chronic glomerulonephritis. 50% of sufferers develop end-stage renal failure within 10 years.
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) is characterised by a proliferation of glomerular cells. Two types of MPGN exist:
MPGN type I – immune complex-mediated type
MPGN type II or dense deposit disease – complement-mediated type
Type I is associated with SLE, hepatitis B and C, endocarditis, HIV and certain tumors. Type II is very rare and affects 2-3 per million people.
The pathogenesis of MPGN type I involves immune complex deposition in the glomeruli. The immune complexes can be circulating or formed in situ. The inciting antigen is not known. Type I accounts for 80% of cases.
The pathogenesis of MPGN type II involves a dysregulation of the complement system that causes overactivation of it.
The light microscopy is similar for both types. The glomeruli are large and hypercellular. The glomerular basement membrane is thickened. The GBM has a “tram track” apperance which is charactheristic for this disease.
The electron microscopy is different for the two types. In type I are there subendothelial deposits. In type II is the lamina densa and subendothelial space of the glomerular basement membrane transformed into an irregular, ribbon-like dense structure.
MPGN manifests mostly as nephrotic syndrome but may have components of nephritic syndrome as well. It usually presents in older children or young adults. The prognosis of both types is poor but type II is worse. MPGN recurs in kidney transplanted patients. Basically no patients enter complete remission, and 50% progress into end-stage renal failure within 10 years.
19. Glomerulonephritis. Classification according to clinical symptoms. Histologic alterations in glomerulonephritides.
21. Nephritic syndrome (acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis). Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. Diabetic nephropathy.
6 thoughts on “20. Nephrosis syndrome: minimal change, membranous glomerulonephritis, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.”
Should the IgA nephropathy belong here? Under nephrotic, I thought it was nephritic syndrom
It can cause both, but most commonly causes nephritic syndrome, as was described in the topic about IgA nephropathy.
Navid says:
Hey dear friend
for FSGS : HIV , sickle cell disease ,heroin use is not secondary?
Yes, it should be. fixed now.
Shouldn’t Granulomatosis with polyangitis be under nephritic syndrome?
Yes it should. Fixed
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The Glen Bard
The student news site of Glenbard West High School
The Importance of Voting
Emily Asselmeier, Staff Writer
The United States of America is largely characterized by its government and the opportunities that it awards its citizens. Although it’s far from perfect, it’s capable and can be efficient at considering the people’s needs and wants when decisions are being made.
As Americans, we are subject to both the federal and the state bodies of government, both of which largely consist of elected officials. Some might say that this fact is our country’s pride and joy; the men and women who make our decisions have that responsibility because for the most part, we gave it to them.
The act of voting is a practice that many Americans take very seriously, but it’s also something that many choose not to participate in. They may have their own personal reasons, or they may simply not have the time. But the fact is, non-voters have recently made up about sixty percent of the United States’ population. And that can make us wonder whether or not the collection of people running our government is actually representative of its people.
With the presidential primary elections for 2016 right around the corner, this issue has come to light more than it has in the past. How important is it that we vote as often as we can?
Mrs. McNally, a U.S. government and politics teacher at Glenbard West, comments, “It’s important for people to vote both in the federal elections and the local elections, because they’re impacted by policies on both levels.”
This seems to be a running theme throughout the topic of elections in our country. Our local government mostly consists of elected officials, meaning that it’s highly possible that these men and women will be making decisions in line with what the majority of the community wanted in the first place. It may not seem apparent, but many of the state and district policies–whether they’re small (local road conditions) or large (school budget allocation)–can be largely influenced by community voters.
Young voters, including some students of Glenbard West, make up a significant part of this community. It can be difficult to carry out the voter’s duties, however, as a young person. The media, peers, and even family are large influences on opinion and political beliefs.
In regards to these younger voters Mrs. McNally says, “They have to think about where they are getting their information from, you know, it’s useful to get information from the internet, but you always want to think about what your source is to make sure that you are getting information from credible sources, or thinking about the bias in the source that you’re getting your information from.”
It’s crucial that any voter, regardless of age, is aware of the ramifications of their vote. A fully informed opinion is what will secure the voter’s representation. False information is everywhere, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be avoided. The first step towards voting is to register, which can actually be done through some of our teachers at Glenbard West.
It may be for a local committee member, or for a presidential candidate, but one person’s vote can make a difference. Our lives as citizens of the United States are affected by our government and the people running it, and the best way to take part in that relationship is to have a say in it.
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Jojo confirms details for new single “Lonely Hearts”
Jojo has confirmed the details for her new single.
The American singer/songwriter – born Joanna Levesque – dubbed “Lonely Hearts” as her next promotional cut and will release it on 24 April 2020 via Apple Music and all other digital streaming outlets.
“Lonely Hearts” was written by Jojo and fellow recording artists Merna Bishouty and Elizabeth “Lowell” Boland alongside producers Dylan “Sir Dylan” Wiggins and Martin “Doc” McKinney.
As mentioned earlier posts, Jojo’s upcoming fourth studio album “Good To Know” – featuring previous single “Man” – is scheduled to arrive on 1 May 2020 via Warner Music Group / Warner Records.
Watch the music video for “Man” below.
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Sinead Harnett reveals details for debut album “Lessons in Love”
Sinead Harnett has revealed the details for her upcoming debut album.
The British singer/songwriter christened her first studio collection “Lessons in Love” and will release it on September 20 via Bad Music.
Current single “Pulling Away” (featuring Gallant) – which was co-written by Hayley Gene Penner and produced by Stint – is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The highly-anticipated project also features previous singles “Lessons” (produced by JD. Reid), “Leo Bear” (produced by Maths Time Joy), “By Myself” (produced by Stint) and “If You Let Me” (produced by Grades).
Other musicians expected to appear on “Lessons in Love” are Cass Lowe, Katy B, Loxe, Future Cut, Illangelo, Doc McKinney, Alan Sampson, Michael Angelo, Autumn Rowe, Rodney Jerkins, Marlon Roudette, P2J, Ari PenSmith.
See the tracklisting for “Lessons in Love” below.
(1) Lessons / (2) Leo Bear / (3) Pulling Away / (4) If You Let Me / (5) No Pressure / (6) All That You Are / (7) Be the One (Interlude) / (8) By Myself / (9) Too Good for a Bad Thing / (10) Him Too / (11) Living / (12) Walking Away
Tags: Ajay "Stint" Bhattacharyya, Ajay Bhattacharyya, Alan Sampson, Ari PenSmith, Ariowa "Ari PenSmith" Irosogie, Ariowa Irosogie, Autumn Rowe, Bad Music, Carlo "Illangelo" Montagnese, Carlo Montagnese, Cass Lowe, Daniel "Grades" Traynor, Daniel Traynor, Darren Lewis, Doc McKinney, Future Cut, Gallant, Grades, Hayley Gene Penner, Illangelo, JD Reid, Kathleen "Katy B" Brien, Kathleen Brien, Katy B, Loxe, Marlon Roudette, Martin “Doc” McKinney, Martin McKinney, Maths Time Joy, Michael Angelo, P2J, Richard "P2J" Isong, Richard Isong, Rodney Jerkins, Rowan "Loxe" Perkins, Rowan Perkins, Sinead Harnett, Stint, Timothy "Maths Time Joy" Worthington, Timothy Worthington, Tunde Babalola
Categories Albums, Artworks, Collaborations, Release Dates, Tracklistings
Khalid liberates sophomore album “Free Spirit”
American singer/songwriter Khalid Robinson, known mononymously as Khalid, has liberated his sophomore studio collection online.
“Free Spirit” – featuring singles “My Bad,” “Better,” “Tallk” and “Don’t Pretend” – is now available via iTunes and all other digital streaming outlets.
The highly-anticipated project boasts productions and songwriting contributions from Digi, Scribz Riley, Kurtis “K9” McKenzie, Stargate, John Hill, Emily Warren, Al Shux, D’Mile, Sarah Aarons, Hit-Boy, Disclosure, Murda Beatz, Doc McKinney, Charlie Handsome, DJ Dahi, and Sam Romans.
See the tracklisting for “Free Spirit” below.
(1) Intro / (2) Bad Luck / (3) My Bad / (4) Better / (5) Talk / (6) Right Back / (7) Don’t Pretend (featuring Safe) / (8) Paradise / (9) Hundred / (10) Outta My Head (with John Mayer) / (11) Free Spirit / (12) Twenty One / (13) Bluffin / (14) Self / (15) Alive / (16) Heaven / (17) Saturday Nights
Tags: Al Shux, Alexander “Al Shux” Shuckburgh, Alexander Shuckburgh, Charlie Handsome, Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis, Chauncey Hollis, D’Mile, Dernst “D’Mile” Emile, Dernst Emile, Digi, Disclosure, DJ Dahi, Doc McKinney, Emily Warren, Hit-Boy, Jamil "Digi" Chammas, Jamil Chammas, John Hill, Khalid Robinson, Kurtis "K9" McKenzie, Kurtis McKenzie, Martin “Doc” McKinney, Martin McKinney, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Murda Beatz, Paul "DJ Dahi" Jefferies, Paul Jefferies, RCA Records, Ryan "Charlie Handsome" Vojtesak, Ryan Vojtesak, Sam Romans, Sarah Aarons, Scribz Riley, Shane "Murda Beatz" Lindstrom, Shane Lindstrom, SME, Sony Music Entertainment, Stargate, Tor Erik Hermansen
Noah Cyrus delivers debut mini-album “Good Cry”
Noah Cyrus has liberated her debut mini-album online.
“Good Cry” – featuring six new songs including “Mad at You,” “Punches,” “Sadness” and “Where Have You Been?” – is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The new project delivers contributions from Jenna Andrews, Illangelo, Doc McKinney, Sarah Aarons, Kid Harpoon, Tushar Apte, Melisa “E^ST” Bester, Joe Janiak, Ilsey Juber, Trey Campbell, and Rob Grimaldi.
Stream “Good Cry” below.
Tags: Carlo “Illangelo” Montagnese, Carlo Montagnese, Columbia Records, Doc McKinney, E^ST, Illangelo, Ilsey Juber, Jenna Andrews, Joe Janiak, Kid Harpoon, Martin “Doc” McKinney, Martin McKinney, Melisa "E^ST" Bester, Melisa Bester, Noah Cyrus, Rob Grimaldi, Sarah Aarons, SME, Sony Music Entertainment, Thomas “Kid Harpoon” Hull, Thomas Hull, Trey Campbell, Tushar Apte
Categories EPs
The Weeknd releases new album “Starboy”
The Weeknd has released his third studio collection online.
“Starboy” – featuring singles “False Alarm,” “Party Monster” and “I Feel it Coming” – is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The follow-up to 2014’s “Beauty Behind the Madness” reunites The Weeknd – real name Abel Tesfaye – with Doc McKinney, Cirkut, Ben Billions, Belly, DaHeala, Lana Del Rey, Savan Kotecha, Ali Payami, Peter Svensson, Max Martin, Labrinth, Cashmere Cat, Benny Blanco, and Diplo.
Other album contributors include Billy Walsh, Dan Wilson, Frank Dukes, Jake One, Emmanuel Nickerson, Dylan Wiggins, Metro Boomin, Prince 85, Sir Dylan, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Kendrick Lamar, Future, and Daft Punk.
Listen to “Starboy” in its entirety below.
Tags: Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad “Belly” Balshe, Ahmad Balshe, Ali Payami, Belly, Ben Billions, Benjamin “Ben Billions” Diehl, Benjamin “Benny Blanco” Levin, Benjamin Diehl, Benjamin Levin, Benny Blanco, Billy Walsh, Cashmere Cat, Cirkut, Daft Punk, DaHeala, Dan Wilson, Diplo, Doc McKinney, Dylan Wiggins, Emmanuel Nickerson, Frank Dukes, Henry “Cirkut” Walter, Henry Walter, Jacob “Jake One” Dutton, Jacob Dutton, Jake One, Jason “Daheala” Quenneville, Jason Quenneville, Labrinth, Lana Del Rey, Leland “Metro Boomin” Wayne, Leland Wayne, Magnus “Cashmere Cat” Høiberg, Magnus Hoiberg, Martin “Doc” McKinney, Martin “Max Martin” Sandberg, Martin McKinney, Martin Sandberg, Max Martin, Metro Boomin, Peter Svensson, Prince 85, Republic Records, Savan Kotecha, Sir Dylan, The Weeknd, Thomas “Diplo” Pentz, Thomas Wesley Pentz, Timothy “Labrinth” McKenzie, Timothy McKenzie, UMG, Universal Music Group
The Weeknd reunites with Cashmere Cat for new album “Starboy”
The Weeknd has reunited with Cashmere Cat for his upcoming third album.
“The Weeknd’s new album out on November 25, with 4 songs produced by me,” the Norwegian electronic musician posted on Twitter.
The pair previously teamed up on Cashmere Cat’s single “Wild Love,” which is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
Cashmere Cat’s production resume boasts further works with Tinashe (“All Hands on Deck”), Miguel (“Going to Hell”), Charli XCX (“Red Balloon”), Ariana Grande (“Be My Baby”) and Britney Spears (“Just Luv Me”).
Meanwhile, The Weeknd will release his next studio collection “Starboy” – featuring singles “I Felt It Coming,” “False Alarm” and “Party Monster” – on November 25 via XO / Republic Records.
The follow-up to 2015’s “Beauty Behind the Madness” delivers additional alliances with Belly, Doc McKinney, Ben Billions, Cirkut, Benny Blanco, Savan Kotecha, Billy Walsh, and Stephan Moccio.
Listen to the audio clip for “Wild Love” below.
Tags: Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad “Belly” Balshe, Ahmad Balshe, Belly, Ben Billion$, Benjamin "Ben Billion$" Diehl, Benjamin “Benny Blanco” Levin, Benjamin Diehl, Benjamin Levin, Benny Blanco, Billy Walsh, Cirkut, Doc McKinney, Henry “Cirkut” Walter, Henry Walter, Martin McKinney, Republic Records, Savan Kotecha, Stephan Moccio, The Weeknd, UMG, Universal Music Group
Categories Albums, Collaborations
The Weeknd unwraps new album “Starboy” tracklisting
The Weeknd has unwrapped the tracklisting for his upcoming third album.
The Canadian singer-songwriter – real name Abel Tesfaye – will release “Starboy” on November 25 via XO / Republic Records.
Current single “False Alarm” was co-written by Ahmad “Belly” Balshe (Ariana Grande), Martin “Doc” McKinney (Drake), Henry “Cirkut” Walter (Katy Perry) and Benjamin “Ben Billion$” Diehl (BANKS).
Other musicians backing The Weeknd on the follow-up to 2015’s “Beauty Behind the Madness” are Benny Blanco (Ed Sheeran), Savan Kotecha (Tori Kelly), Billy Walsh (Alicia Keys) and Stephan Moccio (John Legend).
The keenly-awaited collection also delivers guest appearances from Lana Del Rey (“Party Monster”), Kendrick Lamar (“Sidewalks”), Future (“All I Know”) and Daft Punk (“I Felt it Coming”).
Peep the tracklisting for “Starboy” below.
(1) Starboy / (2) Party Monster / (3) False Alarm / (4) Reminder / (5) Rockin’ / (6) Secrets / (7) True Colors / (8) Starboy (Interlude) / (9) Sidewalks / (10) Six Feet Under / (11) Love to Lay / (12) A Lonely Night / (13) Attention / (14) Ordinary Life / (15) Nothing Without You / (16) All I know / (17) Die for You / (18) I Felt it Coming
Categories Albums, Tracklistings
The Weeknd premieres “False Alarm” music video
The Weeknd has premiered the music video for his new single online.
The Canadian singer-songwriter – real name Abel Tesfaye – posted the visual clip for “False Alarm” to his Vevo channel on Thursday (October 13, 2016).
“False Alarm” is now available for download via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The track was also co-written by The Weeknd alongside Ahmad “Belly” Balshe, Doc McKinney, Emanuel Nickerson, Henry “Cirkut” Walter and Benjamin “Ben Billion$” Diehl.
As mentioned in earlier posts, The Weeknd’s third studio collection “Starboy” is scheduled to arrive on November 25 via XO / Republic Records.
The keenly-awaited project follows 2015’s “Beauty Behind the Madness,” which debuted topped the US Billboard 200 Albums Chart and spawned singles including “Can’t Feel My Face,” “In the Night” and “The Hills.”
Watch the music video for “False Alarm” below.
Tags: Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad “Belly” Balshe, Ahmad Balshe, Belly, Ben Billion$, Benjamin "Ben Billion$" Diehl, Benjamin Diehl, Cirkut, Doc McKinney, Emanuel Nickerson, Henry “Cirkut” Walter, Henry Walter, Martin McKinney, Republic Records, The Weeknd, UMG, Universal Music Group
The Weeknd drops new single “False Alarm”
The Weeknd has dropped his new single online.
“False Alarm” – which serves as the follow-up to previous single “Starboy” – is now available for download via iTunes and all other digital outlets.
The track was co-written by The Weeknd – real name Abel Tesfaye – alongside Ahmad “Belly” Balshe, Doc McKinney, Emanuel Nickerson, Henry “Cirkut” Walter and Benjamin “Ben Billion$” Diehl.
As mentioned in earlier posts, The Weeknd’s upcoming third studio collection “Starboy” is scheduled to hit stores and online outlets on November 25 via XO / Republic Records.
Listen to the audio clip for “False Alarm” below.
The Weeknd announces details for new single “False Alarm”
The Weeknd has announced the details for his new single online.
The Canadian singer-songwriter christened “False Alarm” as the second promotional cut from his upcoming third album “Starboy” and will release it on September 30 via iTunes and all other digital outlets.
As mentioned in earlier posts, “Starboy” – featuring productions from Daft Punk, Doc McKinney and Cirkut – is scheduled to arrive on November 25 via XO in partnership with Republic Records.
On the songwriting front, The Weeknd – real name Abel Tesfaye – co-penned tracks for fellow recording artists including Drake (“Crew Love”), Ariana Grande (“Love Me Harder”), Disclosure (“Nocturnal”), Rihanna (“Woo”), Wiz Khalifa (“Remember You”) and Beyonce (“6 Inch”).
Watch the music video for “Starboy” below.
Tags: Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Abel Tesfaye, Cirkut, Daft Punk, Doc McKinney, Grant Singer, Henry “Cirkut” Walter, Henry Walter, Martin McKinney, Republic Records, The Weeknd, UMG, Universal Music Group
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World More Than 150 IS Terrorists Handed Over to Iraq From Syria
More Than 150 IS Terrorists Handed Over to Iraq From Syria
Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 10:08 am | ט"ז אדר א' תשע"ט
OUTSIDE BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) -
Fighters from Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) walk near a convoy of trucks near the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor Province, Syria, Wednesday. (Reuters/Rodi Said)
U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State terror group in Syria handed over more than 150 Iraqi members of the group to Iraq, the first batch of several to come, an Iraqi security official said Thursday.
The official said the IS terrorists were handed over to the Iraqi side late Wednesday, and that they were now in a “safe place” and being investigated.
The transfer marks the biggest repatriation from Syria of captured terrorists so far — an issue that poses a major conundrum for Europeans and other countries whose nationals have been imprisoned as foreign fighters in Syria. The SDF is holding more than 1,000 foreign fighters in prisons it runs in the country’s north, many of them Iraqis and Europeans.
The Kurdish-led Syrian force — and more recently President Donald Trump — have called on these countries to take back their nationals. SDF says it cannot afford to keep the captured foreigners in Syria, but few of their countries want them back.
Earlier this month, Iraqi Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi said Iraq will take back all Iraqi IS terrorists in Syria, as well as thousands of their family members.
The Iraqi security official, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the SDF are holding more than 20,000 Iraqis suspected of IS membership as well as their families in prisons and camps in northern Syria.
An Iraqi intelligence official said that among those were around 500 Iraqi IS fighters, adding that these will be transferred back home in batches. The intelligence official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said the first group of 150 was transferred to Iraqi authorities aboard 16 pickup trucks Wednesday night and that they have been moved to the capital Baghdad for interrogation.
The handover came as the U.S.-backed Syrian force is involved in a standoff over the final sliver of land held by the Islamic State group in southeastern Syria, close to the Iraqi border.
A few hundred people — many of them women and terrified-looking children — were evacuated Wednesday from the group’s tiny tent camp on the banks of the Euphrates River, signaling an imminent end to the territorial rule of the terrorists self-declared “caliphate” that once stretched across a third of both Syria and Iraq.
Some 300 IS terrorists, along with hundreds of civilians believed to be mostly their families, have been under siege for more than a week in the tent camp in the village of Baghouz in eastern Syria. It is not clear how many civilians remain holed up inside, along with the terrorists.
More trucks were sent in Thursday to the tip of a corridor leading to the camp to evacuate more people, but Associated Press journalists on the ground outside Baghouz said no civilians emerged.
“We thought more civilians will come out today and we sent 50 trucks over,” said an SDF commander who goes by his nom de guerre, Aram. “We don’t know why they are not coming out.”
It was not immediately clear whether the 150 Iraqis repatriated late Wednesday were among those recently evacuated from Baghouz or terrorists who had been captured earlier.
An Alabama woman who joined IS in Syria also made headlines after the U.S. said Wednesday she won’t be allowed to return with her toddler son because she is not an American citizen. Her lawyer is challenging that claim.
The 24-year-old Hoda Muthana, has said she made a mistake and regrets aligning herself with IS. She is now in a refugee camp in Syria along with others who fled the terrorists.
The Baghouz enclave’s recapture by U.S.-backed Syrian fighters would spell the territorial defeat of IS and allow Trump to begin withdrawing American troops from northern Syria, as he has pledged to do, opening a new chapter in Syria’s eight-year civil war.
Few believe, however, that ending the group’s territorial rule will end the threat posed by an organization that still stages and inspires attacks through sleeper cells in both Syria and Iraq.
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Pandemic! At the Disco
On 15th March I met my friend for lunch. That was just over two weeks ago, but it feels like ten years. In the intervening fortnight, life as we know it slowly ground to a halt.
While most of the world was celebrating New Year’s Eve, the WHO China Office was made aware of a new type of Coronavirus.
Nobody else noticed for a few weeks. Even as reports came out of China about mounting numbers of deaths, most people in this part of the world (myself included, I must admit) seemed complacent. When those first coachloads of unfortunate tourists arrived at Arrowe Park Hospital, I didn’t really think much of it. In early March, European countries started announcing restrictions on movement and border closures, but at the same time, I was cheerfully planning a trans-continental train trip for June, confident that it would all be over by then.
Three months after that first report to the WHO, there can be few people on Earth who are not aware of COVID-19.
Boris Johnson – who, for the record, I think is an arsehole – was criticised for being slow to react to the pandemic. He even boasted about going into a hospital and shaking hands with patients on the Coronavirus ward. At one point, journalists were reporting that the strategy was for to allow the virus to pass through the population in a “controlled” manner, to acquire herd immunity. Days later, the Health Secretary said that wasn’t the plan after all. Just as well, because one study said it could cause 260,000 deaths.
Perhaps because of the mixed messages from the government, various events which should have been cancelled went ahead. The Cheltenham festival went ahead, packing thousands of people in to a confined space to watch the horse racing. The Champions League game between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid took place at Anfield, with thousands of fans travelling from Madrid, which had been declared a “hotspot” days earlier. Jürgen Klopp has reportedly called this decision a “criminal act” and it’s hard to disagree.
As the crisis deepened, Johnson started giving daily briefings to the public (good idea) but seemed incapable of giving clear statements and guidance, waffling on like he is still presenting Have I Got News For You. He told people not to go to pubs and restaurants, but didn’t order them to actually close until days later, an instruction akin to putting a five-year-old in a room full of toys and telling them not to play with them.
(Get well soon, Boris)
In the UK, scenes played out like the prologue of a post-apocalyptic movie. First there was the the pointless panic buying in supermarkets. Toilet paper was the must-have item – it seemed that the UK was collectively shitting itself. News channels showed alarming graphs with red lines rising ever more steeply.
Then, like toppling dominoes, the stores in Liverpool ONE were gradually shuttered. First the Apple Store, then Urban Outfitters, then the final lynchpin of civilisation: Greggs.
Finally, on 23rd March, Johnson did what he should have done at least a week earlier – he ordered draconian restrictions on everyone’s lives. No leaving home, except to go to work, or to exercise, or to go to the supermarket. Don’t visit friends or family. Stay at least 2 metres away from other people. It’s not quite the total lockdown that some other countries have experienced, but it’s pretty close.
I was designated a “key worker” by my company (the joys of working in IT support) which meant I continued travelling to the office for a few days after everyone else was ordered to stay home.
My final trip into town, two days after the “lockdown”, was an eerie experience. I disembarked from a near-empty train at Liverpool Central, where there were more Merseyrail staff than passengers. I walked through a silent city centre, past closed stores and theatres advertising shows which would never take place. I couldn’t help but notice billboards carrying an unfortunately timed ad campaign for Avanti West Coast trains – slogan “Let’s get together”.
Cities are supposed to be bustling, happy places; to see one so quiet was unsettling, and I’m glad to be working from home for the foreseeable future so I don’t have to see it.
Meanwhile, the vague wording of the new restrictions has led some police forces to overstep their authority. In one case police reportedly tried to stop a shop from selling Easter Eggs because they are “non-essential”, although personally I can’t think of anything more essential in a crisis than chocolate. Urgent guidelines have now been issued to ensure forces know what they’re doing.
It’s going to take some time to adjust to the new reality. A world without planes, Tunnock’s tea cakes and perhaps – if the shutdown goes on long enough – a world without Coronation Street.
How long will we all be Netflix and chilling for? The initial lockdown will be reviewed after three weeks, but given the incubation period of the virus, it’s unlikely we will know for sure by then that the lockdown is having an effect. The lockdown conditions will be extended further, possibly for many months.
I’m well aware that I am relatively fortunate here. I’m not an extrovert who goes out partying every night; I’m perfectly happy curling up on the couch with an iPad. I live in a nice house with a garden and a park five minutes walk away to get my daily exercise. I still have a job, one which I can do from home. Many people will find lockdown tougher than I will.
The UK’s deputy chief medical officer says it could be as long as six months before things go back to normal. But what is “normal” now?
This pandemic will have a lasting effect on the nation’s collective psyche. Things may go back to “normal”, but I suspect that they will never entirely go back to the way they were before.
Author RobertPosted on 30th March 2020 Categories NewsTags coronavirus
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Using our data-driven grantmaking approach, we fund and also partner with the most effective, best-in-class organizations in the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Newark and Camden, as well as communities throughout Israel. Here are examples of our grantees and partners.
After-School All-Stars
The Bridgespan Group
Devils Care Foundation
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Palace For Life Foundation
Sixers Youth Foundation
The 48ers is an after-school basketball and youth leadership program serving underprivileged participants throughout Israel. The program aims to promote the successful integration of Ethiopian-Israeli youths within the general Israeli society by providing them with opportunities to immerse themselves into an organized program after school. Harris Philanthropies is the founding partner of the 48ers program and is the organization’s largest supporter. The parent organization of the 48ers is the Israel Sport and Education Initiative (ISEI) which also oversees The Equalizer, an after-school soccer program.
After-School All-Stars (ASAS) is a renowned national program that provides free, comprehensive after-school programs that keep children safe and help them succeed in school and in life. Our deep support of the organization since 2016, is targeted to the program chapters in Newark, Camden, and Philadelphia. Due to the support of Harris Philanthropies, ASAS has opened seven schools and has expanded activities in existing schools in the Newark, Camden and Philadelphia chapters, serving approximately 500 participants annually.
As the Co-Founder of Apollo Global Management, Josh and Harris Philanthropies are committed to utilizing Apollo’s broad platform to extend their philanthropic reach. Apollo Citizenship is committed to investing in its communities and engaging its employees and other stakeholders in meaningful and impactful Citizenship Programs. The program empowers employees to contribute their time, talent and funds to organizations they are passionate about. Most recently, Harris Philanthropies and Apollo joined forces to donate 100,000 masks to New York City hospitals, including the hard-hit Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, NY.
The Bridgespan Group is a global nonprofit that collaborates with social change organizations, philanthropists and impact investors to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need. Harris Philanthropies along with the Pew Charitable Trusts is bringing Bridgespan’s Leading for Impact (LFI) program to the greater Philadelphia/Camden area. Harris Philanthropies has committed $2 million to support the LFI program, a two-year consulting program, which helps executive teams of 50 local nonprofits pursue strategic opportunities and build capacity to improve their performance. LFI has launched in nine cities to date with over 300 non-profit leadership teams.
As Managing Partner of the New Jersey Devils, Josh and Harris Philanthropies are closely aligned with the activity and mission of the Devils Care Foundation. Highlighting the full HBSE platform in New Jersey, the Foundation utilizes the New Jersey Devils team, Prudential Center and the Grammy Museum Experience to inspire youth in the Newark community through the power of sports and entertainment. As part of COVID-19 relief efforts the Foundation, along with Harris Philanthropies, contributed $600,000 to aid the supply of PPE to RWJ Barnabas and Cooper Hospital Systems and provided 100,000 meals to those in need.
For over a century, Harvard Business School has conducted rigorous, groundbreaking research that has shaped the practice of business as well as the education of generations of leaders worldwide. Harris Philanthropies supports Harvard Business School’s vision for students to follow their passions to a career where they will have the most impact regardless of the financial constraints. In line with this vision, Harris Philanthropies created the Joshua J. Harris Fund for Sports Management. The Fund supports research on sports management and has provided 15 fellowships to MBA students pursuing an internship or career in sports management. Josh and Marjorie also sit on the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors.
Founded in 1852, The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation’s largest and most respected hospitals, acclaimed internationally for excellence in clinical care. Harris Philanthropies established the Harris Center for Precision Wellness to develop innovative approaches to health monitoring and wellness management by integrating emerging technologies in digital health, data science and genomics to enable the ability to target individualized health in a precise, highly individualized way.
Harris Philanthropies has been funding the Police Athletic League (PAL) of Philadelphia since 2015. PAL is one of the premier youth-serving organizations in the country, with a significant presence in the Philadelphia area. Through its centers and various programs, PAL’s goal is to promote character development and improve educational outcomes. Due to the support of Harris Philanthropies, PAL has opened five new centers and enhanced programming to over 7,000 youth annually within the city’s highest need neighborhoods. Harris Philanthropies also provided PAL with the resources of The Bridgespan Group to create a five-year strategic plan.
As a General Partner of the Crystal Palace Football Club in the Premier League, Josh and Harris Philanthropies work closely with the Palace for Life Foundation, the official charity of Crystal Palace FC. The Foundation, which has been working with the South London community for over 25 years uses the team’s reach and the power of football to change the lives of young people in the community, particularly the most disadvantaged. The Foundation employs over 50 staff who work with approximately 14,000 people each year, inspiring them to find a better path and to lead a healthier life. Most recently, Harris Philanthropies contributed to the Foundation’s COVID-19 relief efforts, including the donation of 20,000 meals to those in need.
Established in 2015, the Sixers Youth Foundation is the nonprofit extension of the Philadelphia 76ers and a regional Foundation focused on youth development across the Greater Delaware Valley. The Foundation believes in utilizing the power of basketball and the influence of its brand to inspire future generations in the communities where our fans live, work and play. The Sixers Youth Foundation seeks to support resources for youth that strengthen their social and emotional knowledge through equitable learning experiences. As Chair of the Foundation, Marjorie guides the grantmaking strategy of the organization and related initiatives.
Harris Philanthropies has been funding Tavor since 2014. Tavor’s mission is to foster a young leadership for the State of Israel that is driven by a sense of mission and belonging to the Jewish people, its heritage and the Land of Israel. Harris Philanthropies supports Tavor’s three flagship programs – the Keshet Young Leadership program for high school students; the Mechina, Tavor’s pre-military academy for high school graduates; and the Tavor Insititute for IDF commanders. Specifically, the Tavor Mechina is one of the most prominent pre-military gap-year programs from among Israel’s 40 registered programs; 65% of Mechina graduates serve in command positions in the IDF and over 35% of graduates serve as officers.
The Joshua J. Harris Alternative Investments Program at the Wharton School
Harris Philanthropies named the Joshua J. Harris Alternative Investments Program at Wharton, which focuses on advancing innovation in private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and investment management. The Harris Program is a global hub for the development of cutting-edge research in alternative investments, which integrates into the broader Wharton School’s curriculum and is enhanced in public forums.
As one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, Penn Medicine is dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research and excellence in patient care. Harris Philanthropies, in connection with David Blitzer and Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers, coordinated a $1.7 million donation to provide support for serology tests that detect antibodies in frontline health care workers. The pledge provides a much-needed boost for efforts to quickly identify health care workers who may have immunity to the coronavirus. Penn Medicine hopes to increase testing to include more health care workers, and others, such as police officers and EMS workers, on the front lines of the pandemic.
Penn Wrestling
First established in 1900 and entering its 115th season as a varsity program, the University of Pennsylvania has long supported the sport of collegiate wrestling. Harris Philanthropies supports Penn Wrestling’s plan and vision to become one of the NCAA’s premier programs through the Joshua J. Harris Wrestling Assistant Coach Endowment and also support which assists the program with recruiting, equipment and facility renovations.
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ANTONIO PIO SARACINO
HERO FOR FLORENCE
HERO NYC
HERO FOR FLORENCE ANTONIO PIO SARACINO
ACCADEMIA GALLERY FLORENCE, MAY 5 - SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
“Hero”, a public sculpture at Three Bryant Park, New York by acclaimed Italian architect and designer Antonio Pio Saracino, was commissioned in 2013 as a gift by the Italian government and Eni to symbolize friendship between Italy and the United States. “Hero”, inspired by Michelangelo’s “David” is one of two works Saracino designed as a pairing (the other work is entitled “Superhero”) known as “The Guardians: Hero and Superhero.” The project, on view indefinitely was organized by New York/Milan based curator Helen Varola. A new edition of Saracino’s “Hero,” will be on display at the Accademia Gallery, Florence during Expo Milano 2015, the global exhibition that Italy hosts from May 1 to October 31, 2015. “Hero,” addressing Michelangelo’s “David,” which has been selected to represent the Italian Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015 as an historic symbol of Italian excellence, is being promoted by the Accademia Gallery in Florence, the Italian Embassy in Washington DC and PMG Italia. The new Italian edition of “Hero,” specially commissioned by New York-based Global Emerging Markets Group (GEM) and to be exhibited at the Accademia Gallery, Florence, will be larger than the Bryant Park ‘Hero’ – standing as tall as the original “David” 17ft / 5,2m. The 11,000 lb marble “Hero” will be created in Carrara, Italy with the same stone Michelangelo used to create “David.”
Antonio Pio Saracino is a New York-based Designer and Italian Architect. Saracino has designed buildings, monuments and products. His work is in museum collections internationally including the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Art and Design in New York City and the PowerHouse Museum in Sydney. He participated in the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale and has won numerous awards among which two American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Museum of Architecture and two Best of the Year Award by Interior Design Magazine. He was namedone of the world's 25 most interesting trendsetters by ARTnews magazine and recognized as one of the Top Ten Italian Architects under 36 by the New Italian Blood award. Saracino has exhibited his design work with Industry gallery in Washington D.C., Los Angeles and Dubai, as well as other galleries and museums internationally. His work has been reviewed internationally in publications such as The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Interior Design, Wallpaper. Vogue named Saracino 'among the most prolific Italian designers abroad.' Among Saracino’s past public projects are GATE 150 on the occasion of the150th anniversary of the unification of Italy for the Caraffa Museum in Cordoba Argentina and the MuBE Museum in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the 2010-12 Formula 1 World Championship trophy for ENI and as winner of Brussel’s Agorafolly competition, a public installation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the European Union. In 2003, Saracino graduated cum laude with a Master's Degree in Architecture at 'La Sapienza' University of Architecture in Rome, where he worked as assistant professor of architectural design.
Angelo Tartuferi - Director of the Accademia Gallery, Florence
“I never would have expected, two years later, to receive the great honor to see a new edition of “Hero” in the Accademia of Florence, in the same place as Michelangelo’s “David.” With the New York “Hero,” I wanted to create a symbolic protector of New York City, as “David” was intended as protector of Florence. The statue celebrates the superhuman and the inspiration that it channels. The anthropomorphic layered architectural constructions display the universal ability of mankind to cement its own presence in the world with its perennial construction skills.”
Renato Miracco - Cultural Attachè, Embassy of Italy Washington DC
“The iconographic value of Michelangelo’s “David” in all various interpretations throughout history becomes a symbol of multiple meanings. Antonio Pio Saracino’s “Hero” draws inspiration from the “David” and becomes symbol of friendship between two countries. The Embassy of Italy in DC has been promoting from long times those values.”
Helen Varola - Curator, “The Guardians: Hero and Superhero”, New York states
“Saracino’s new edition of “Hero” nods to Michelangelo’s “David,” defender of the city of Florence as a contemporary civic champion who offers protection and surveillance, also suggests a long history of vulnerability spanning centuries, politics, and cultures.”
Matteo Innocenti - Curator and PMG's scientific manager
"If we were to define Antonio Pio Saracino's interpretation of Michelangelo's David in Florence, “Philological” would be the right adjective. To confront with such an important model, and in the very city where the David was created and where its fame has thrived through all these years, represents for the artist both a challenge and an act of generosity. "
Anna Santucci - Management and Communication PMG
HERO FOR FLORENCE, HOMAGE TO DAVID: SARACINO INTERPRETS MICHELANGELO
Antonio Pio Saracino's interpretation of Michelangelo's David in Florence from May 5 to 20 September, in collaboration with PMG, specially commissioned by New York-based Global Emerging Markets Group (GEM) is a“Philological” homage to the masterpiece. Antonio Pio Saracino has revived the matter of “David,” the white Carrara marble, for a modern reinterpretation of the sculpture, designed not for a museum or an art gallery, but for a public space in Manhattan, thus placing itself even in this respect on the trail of the original intention by Michelangelo. The best hope is that the “Hero” can represent, in the eyes of the men of our day, the same values of freedom, justice and civic pride realized by Florentines at the height of the Renaissance by Michelangelo's “David.” The Accademia Gallery in Florence, along the Italian Embassy in Washington, is pleased to present the work of Antonio Pio Saracino, which qualifies as one of the most intelligent, modern and qualitatively most significant interpretations in terms of the execution of one of the highest signs of Western culture.
PREVIEW EXHIBITION: MONDAY MAY 4, 2015, h. 4.00-6.30 PM, GALLERIA DELL'ACCADEMIA, VIA RICASOLI 58 FIRENZE
Interviews with protagonists: Angelo Tartuferi
In collaboration with MICC (Media Integration and Communication Center)
In early 2013, Saracino was presented with two new opportunities: to produce a symbol of Italy in New York during the Year of Italian Culture in the U.S., and to create a permanent public art project for the plaza at Three Bryant Park. His idea, “The Guardians: Hero and Superhero,” is the answer to both. Hero is a gift from Italy to the United States, donated by the Italian Government with the support of the worldwide energy company Eni. Superhero, at 1095 Avenue of the Americas, was commissioned by the Equity Office. “The Guardians: Hero and Superhero,” consists of two public sculptures on view indefinitely at Three Bryant Park in the middle of Midtown Manhattan. The pair of 13-foot high statues, one in marble and the other in mirror-polished stainless steel, are positioned at the north and south ends of the public plaza at Three Bryant Park between 41st and 42nd Streets. “The Guardians” represent two civic heroes, symbolizing the past and the present, and are consistent with Saracino’s overarching aim to combine digitally generated architectural compositions with a powerful, timeless message of resiliency and innovation.
The Guardians: Hero & Superhero
Press release and Images
PMG Italia
“Hero for Florence” project starts from an idea shared by Antonio PioSaracino and Anna Santucci ( Pmg Italia Organization and Communication Manager ). Pmg Italia, born in Florence, is a multimedia company working all over the country for Association, Public Bodies, Professional Associations. Pmg Italia's very professional team sets up congresses and events, taking care of organization, communication and press office.
Hero for Florence - PMG 2015 - all rights reserved - info@herofirenze.com
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(PHG.com)/Tom Stewart 9-Niblick Mashie
36.1/4″-620mm
9-Niblick Mashie
Tom Stewart R.T.J.
This club is part of a set and cannot be purchased individually.
SKU: 460J Categories: All Types Of Golf Clubs, Hickory Mashie Golf Clubs, All Makers, Tom Stewart
This club has a Scored Line face pattern with the mark of Tom Stewart, stamped 9-Niblick/Mashie, R.T.J. and in the oval PLAYER’S SPECIAL EDITION. We have the last set of these clubs.
Please note this club is a Replica.
Research tells us that Tom Stewart made this club for Bobby Jones, Jones asked Stewart to cease production of the clubs since Jones was an amateur and the use of his initials might jeopardize his amateur status. Bobby Jones was born On March 17, 1902, Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia. Jones, the first great American golfer, was a hero of the so-called “Golden Age of Sports” in America along with baseball player Babe Ruth, boxer Jack Dempsey, tennis player Bill Tilden and football player Red Grange.
Bobby Jones had the picture-perfect swing of every golfer’s dreams, despite never having taken a lesson. He modeled his swing after that of Stewart Maiden, a Scottish golfer who was the golf professional at the Atlanta Club. Jones would watch Maiden play, then run home and copy his swing to the best of his ability. It worked: Jones was said to have shot a 70 for 18 holes by the age of 12. At 14, he won his first of five U.S. Amateur Championships at the Merion Cricket Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, where, 14 years later, he would win the Grand Slam, his greatest triumph.
Jones’ 1930 Grand Slam–winning the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur and British Amateur in the same year–was the first in golf history. The four events took place over a five-month period, with the U.S. Amateur coming last. In the U.S. Amateur final, Jones defeated Gene Homans in head-to-head matchplay format. On the final hole, Jones landed a long putt at the edge of the cup with his famous rusty putter, Calamity Jane. Homans rushed his final putt and walked toward Jones to shake his hand, acknowledging defeat. Understanding the significance of the historic moment, the crowd of 18,000 that was surrounding the green and standing in the fairway rushed toward Jones–it took a squadron of Marines to lead Jones and Homas to safety.
Jones retired from golf at the age of 29, shortly after winning the Grand Slam. In 1934, he founded the Augusta National Golf Club, and that same year was among the founders of a new tournament called The Masters. As amateur play became less common, the Masters replaced the U.S. Amateur in the Grand Slam. Today, a Grand Slam consists of winning the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open and the PGA Championship. Unlike the wealthy golf superstars of today, Jones never turned professional. In fact, he did not earn any money from golf until he began making golf films after his retirement.
Over the course of his career, Bobby Jones won four U.S. Opens, five U.S. Amateurs, three British Opens and one British Amateur. His total of 15 major tournaments wasn’t surpassed until Jack Nicklaus won his 16th major in 1980. This club is brand new never used it/they will arrive with a Tarnish Guard to protect it from the damp air which will allow it to rust, and should be replaced after cleaning, and will also be transported with proper Golf Club packaging.
We can always make up a set of clubs of your choice.
If you would like some more clubs after your first purchase please contact us through sales@hickorygolfsupplies.com
Tom Morris Putter
Anderson of Anstruther Lofter
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Football / October 8, 2020
TRANSCRIPT: Ferentz Media Day News Conference
Thursday Media Day Photo Gallery Fight With Us Fan Cutouts
IOWA CITY, Iowa — KIRK FERENTZ: We’re one step closer to getting on to football, which has been great. It’s been great to get started with practice and what have you.
And just try to share some thoughts with you today, let you know a little bit what’s going on, in terms of our team, just not only for you, but our fans certainly. And it’s obviously been a very interesting and challenging couple months for all of us and we’re just all very thankful that the Big Ten has moved forward so we have an opportunity to play and continue this season, get it started.
As I said earlier, we’re excited to get started, we’re certainly not ready to go, but we’re excited to go and whether it be the 23rd or 24th, we don’t know that yet, but really looking forward to having a chance to compete, I think our players have been extremely impressive, the last couple weeks, but also throughout this entire period. I think they have been united, I think they have been focused and they have worked extremely hard and we have really seen a change in our team since they announced the season was back on. So it’s been really good that way.
Like any pre-season camp, and this isn’t like any pre-season camp, the psychology of it is very strange. To be out there and really not face any heat challenges, it’s a little bit weird to see the leaves changing colors and wearing sweat shirts and long pants at times that’s been a little different.
But where it is like camp there’s some good things that we’re seeing on a daily basis, some things that aren’t so good and that tends to change day-by-day and sometimes even period-to-period. So it is like the pre-season in that regard, and our challenge is to try to pull everything together.
The bottom line is our time is really short right now, we’ll have another week of “camp type” preparation and then get into our game prep for the first game against Purdue.
Two weeks from tomorrow we’ll be traveling or maybe sooner than that if it’s a Friday night game. So that’s kind of where we’re at in terms of camp.
One thing I do want to do is just a special salute, a special thanks to several people. I think our strength and conditioning staff have just done a great job, going back to June. It’s been a very challenging job for them, everything that all of us have done has been very unusual, uncharted, that’s for sure. But for them to try to keep track of what’s going on with this player, that player, all that kind of stuff, it’s really been a big challenge.
And then nobody’s worked any harder than the medical staff, be it the physicians and especially the trainers. Kammy I know spoke earlier, Rai before that or Rai also, but Kammy and her staff have really just gone above and beyond in a lot of regards. They’re doing things such as the nasal PCR exams, all those kind of things that I’m sure none of them ever envisioned in their job description.
So they have been tremendous, just absolutely tremendous and really appreciate their efforts going above and beyond for the players. Not surprised. And one thing our players I know are in great hands, they just continue to be in the best of hands when it comes to that.
Also, as you know, we have had two players opt out due to COVID reasons, COVID concerns. Like every player on our roster we want what’s best for them and we certainly support their decisions in this regard. So we have had two players opt out.
Also, I know that in the last couple days you’ve had a chance to visit with a group of players on both sides of the football and special teams and then also the majority of our staff today. So I think you’ve gotten a lot of the details and I’ll be happy to fill anything in that you may have a question about as we go.
One thing of note came to my attention that Cole Banwart’s name was not on the two deep that we issued you. And that’s probably a reflection of my real kind of lack of concern for a two deep at this time of the year, especially when we put this out. So Cole’s definitely in the two deep, he’s working, doing very well, want to make sure you guys know he’s healthy, doing fine and right in the thick of things. So I just want to go with that.
And just wrap it up with a final comment here. So, you know, obviously this has been a really unusual and highly challenging time I think for all of us right now. We, and I mean everybody in the room here, everybody pretty much in our country, have faced a lot of challenges that none of us ever anticipated by any stretch. So I can just tell you we’re thankful as a program, we’re thankful for the opportunity to be back on the field, really happy about that, it’s coming quickly and also I want to let you know that we feel like we have a stronger program today than yesterday and our players and coaches are really united, they’re doing a great job and really happy to report that.
And finally, while Kinnick may not be full this year and we may not have any fans in there, we know and appreciate the support and the interest that all of the Hawkeye fans, wherever they may be, have shown for our football team and will show.
So our goal is to get ready for an 8/9 game season and we’ll continue working on that end. And I’ll open it up for questions at that point.
Q. Coaches are creatures of habit. You’re that way too. What’s this been like from a personal standpoint, these last nine months, whether you talk about race issues in your program or just not having football, having football, no spring practice. Everything’s so different. What’s it been like for you?
KIRK FERENTZ: It’s just, it’s been strange. And we told our guys right at the onset that everybody’s going to have to, everybody’s world’s gotten rocked, obviously. I think first and foremost there are a lot bigger issues than football that have been more prominent in our country’s existence.
And the work that people have been doing in the medical fields, just absolutely amazing, non-stop. So that kind of puts it all in perspective.
And football is really important to all of us certainly, but I think we all realize it’s not life and death, it’s not the most important thing, but it’s what we all like and we’re all committed to it.
"We're excited to go, and whether it be (October) 23rd or 24th, we don't know that yet, but looking forward to having a chance to compete. Our players have been extremely impressive, the last couple weeks, but also throughout this entire period. They have been united and focused."
Kirk Ferentz, University of Iowa football head coach
So there hasn’t been any normal in terms of routine or structure that way. And really for the last couple weeks we just kind have been taking it a couple days at a time, three-day, four-day block, trying to measure out where we’re at and then what are intelligent steps to take moving forward.
But it’s been very, very different than anything I’ve ever experienced and I’m sure it’s that way for all of us right now. Our lives have been different, I feel fortunate that we’re actually able to go back to what we do and like to do. It’s still not the same and it won’t be the same this year, we know that, we have accepted that.
The other thing for sure is that we’re going to face challenges all season long. I shared with our team the other day, the New England Patriots they did their test, six, seven in the morning, Monday, got on a plane, flew to Kansas City, spent a couple hours in a hotel, played the game against the defending world champions and went back.
So that’s not hardly a day in the life for a normal day, but that’s a good illustration of what could happen to us any week and we just all have to stay flexible and try to make the best of it and do what we think is the smartest on a short-term basis.
Q. Is it fair to say that you’ll never take the fall for granted again?
KIRK FERENTZ: Yeah.
Q. There’s a routine involved when you’ve been in it, especially as long as you have.
KIRK FERENTZ: There’s a lot of things that make you really appreciate being able to do what you love doing. And this has been maybe as big of an illustration.
And quite frankly, whenever it was, August 11th, it didn’t look like we were going to have an opportunity to play this fall. Then you put your sights on what’s the next best alternative. And at that point it looked like January. Late December or January.
So you reset your sites on that a little bit, but this was welcome news certainly and it’s just good to be back kind of in a flow, even though it’s a different flow. But we’re back with our players, that’s the most important thing, we’re back working together and that’s what we all love doing.
Q. You’ve been bullish on Spencer for a long time. Last year he won the backup job against somebody who is a little more veteran than him. And then he became the starter basically right after the season ended. What is it that you have seen in him that’s elevated him to that role and why do you think he’s built to be successful in it?
KIRK FERENTZ: Like all the guys on our roster we certainly liked him in the recruiting phase of things. And recruiting’s, a big percentage of that is projection, based on what you learn about a prospect and then what you see and then what you think maybe they can grow into. Until you get them on campus you’re never quite sure and I think it was really last November where, at least me personally, I felt like we saw Spencer starting to hit his stride a little bit and gain the confidence and showed some things that maybe would give you thought that he could become a really good player in our program.
So I think we saw that, we saw that continue in December and the fact that Nate’s gone now, certainly opens the door for him. But, yeah, we’re really pleased with what we know about him, what we have seen of him on the field, off the field, the way he works with his teammates. And I’ll echo that, Alex Padilla too, I’ve seen him in the last two weeks I guess just kind of gain some confidence too and do some really good things as well.
So it’s just part of a player’s progression and we feel really good about him, but the facts are that he hasn’t played yet, really hasn’t played any significant snaps. But we can say that about a lot of our players. At some point you get out there on the field, nobody comes here as a veteran college football player.
So I just think he’ll be quick to handle it, everything that’s going to come at him, knowing that there’s going to be up-and-downs just like every position, but obviously his position’s a little bit more prominent and everybody’s got a few more opinions about what quarterbacks do than maybe some other positions.
Q. You said you guys are closer than ever, obviously that’s impossible to measure. What makes you think that?
KIRK FERENTZ: We have all been through a lot and I said it before on record that we had some really honest and raw conversation back in June, I think a lot of good honest discourse, and it just forced us to move forward and really re-examine some things that our program held to be very important. And it’s kind of a rehash of the last time we visited, or two times ago, I guess, but I think we made adjustments, we haven’t altered our core principles, but we made adjustments that I think are probably a little bit more palatable to a lot of our players.
Social media’s the easiest example to give you. I probably just stuck with that one too long. I think my heart was in the right place on that one, it was just trying to protect, be an over protective father or grandfather I guess. But that became apparent to me that it was time to adjust that policy.
But I think we had good conversation and more importantly I think we have had good followthrough and the key thing now is to continue to move forward.
Q. What is the most challenging in preparing for a season like this, just because of all the uncertainties? When you guys started practicing again, all you had to adjust, are you able to not really do some things that you normally would any other season or are you able to speed up several other things just because these guys didn’t have a spring?
KIRK FERENTZ: I would be less than honest if I said that I was totally comfortable with starting practice this year. It’s the hardest camp we have ever had, only because we weren’t sure where our guys were physically. And the other component is we had a lot of guys at different levels.
We clearly, when the season got pushed or punted, that clearly affected our football team. It was reflected in COVID numbers everywhere in our state, particularly two counties, with kids coming to campus, but I think our guys, their attitude changed. There was really nothing to focus on.
So to that point you have guys coming out of quarantine all those kind of things and really hard to quantify where we were at. So we really went slow at the start. We really tried to be as cautious as we possibly could, as smart as we possibly could, trying to avoid any injuries that would be avoidable in a normal season. But I do feel like we’re starting to catch up right now, I think our work capacity is a little closer to what you would hope for a college football team. And I think our guys’ attitudes have been good all the way through it. But all that being said we still have a lot of really important work to do between now and next Friday, next Saturday, to even think about being ready for a schedule.
It’s been a really unique challenge that way and I think anybody that would try to minimize the importance of a summer conditioning program and the work that athletes do in the summer, and really it’s year round, to get ready to play this game, they’re not paying attention.
Q. Phil said you guys had like a mini-scrimmage of some sort yesterday or something. How much, how important is that to start to have those, because at the end of the day football’s blocking, tackling and you have to do some of that?
KIRK FERENTZ: No question. That’s what football’s all about. You can’t — you heard me say it before, you can only do so much in a meeting room. And meetings are important, they’re great. Walkthroughs are great. Jogging around in shorts and all that stuff’s really neat too and it’s fun and all that.
But at some point you have to play football, but you have to be in shape to do that and you got to know where the limits are to those types of things.
So, yeah, at least we’re getting some semblance of it and we’ll do more this weekend. We’ll be in Kinnick for the first time and do some live work, but ultimately that’s how the game gets played. If you can’t tackle it’s going to be hard to be a good defensive football team and if you can’t protect the football and those things offensively it’s hard to think you’re going to win many games.
So it starts right there. If you’re not doing those two things it’s going to be hard to win ball games. I think I read a quote Monday morning from an NFL coach of a team that’s struggling, and he cited right off the bat, and this is Game 4 for them, turnovers and basically nonexistent defense. And a lot of times that means you’re giving up big plays.
So we got to do that work, I don’t know that we’re going to get enough before we start playing. But that’s the way it is, that’s the cards that got dealt to us and we’ll just try to do our best to get ready.
Q. What have you seen from Coy Cronk, how does he fit in your offensive line and you seem to have a lot of competition there and at the guard spot.
KIRK FERENTZ: Yeah, Coy’s done a really nice job and he’s been great since he joined the program in January. It’s really strange in some ways, we haven’t had a lot of grad transfers come in, so you’re getting a guy who is mature, right, he’s a college graduate, older guy, and in Coy’s case has played a lot of Big Ten football.
But then the other sidebar with Coy, when he came in, he’s coming off that ankle injury that he had, which was significant. So he really wasn’t in very good shape at that point because he had been in a long rehab physically. Really would have been beneficial to see him in spring football and at least let him start working, I don’t know if he could have been a hundred percent at that point.
So I’m going on, on this whole thing, when we got on the field and I think we put pads on a week ago, a week and a day for the first time. He hasn’t played football in over a year. So he’s got work to do that way.
But he’s a really quality young guy, he’s a good football player and he’s going to help our football team, there’s no question about that. Just these next two weeks are going to be really important for him just to get back into his rhythm and groove, because I don’t care if you’re a 37-year-old veteran in the NFL or in his case probably 21, 22, 23, you have to practice, you have to get your skill set back and that’s what he’s working on. But he works hard he’s got a great attitude he’ll be a really good football player for us.
Q. What impressed you about Jack Heflin and what kind of impact do you anticipate him making for you?
KIRK FERENTZ: Kind of the is same story. You talk to Jack, you feel like you’re talking to a guy who is 45 or 35. I wish he lived next door, I think he would be a great guy to have as a neighbor. He’s got a great personality. Like Coy he’s more mature, he’s been — he’s an older guy. So it’s a real contrast to incoming freshmen I guess is the best way to put it. Like Bret Bielema, farm kid from across the border there, and he’s fit right in. He’s been extremely comfortable in the program. Unlike Coy he came in and was perfectly healthy so when he jumped in the strength and conditioning program in June just had a great attitude and I think a guy like him, coming from Northern Illinois really appreciates his opportunity, he’s excited about it and it shows out on the field too. And for both these guys they’re having to learn our system and just we have a little different way of doing things maybe than what they were used to where they were at. So he’s been going through that process, but he’s done a great job and we’re really thrilled he’s on our football team.
Q. A normal year, 15, 16 days from the start of the season, do you feel like you’ve still got a lot of ground to make up to get to where you would be normally without the spring practice or have you caught up pretty well, do you think?
"This has been an unusual and highly challenging time for all of us. We, and I mean everybody in the room here, everybody pretty much in our country, have faced a lot of challenges that none of us anticipated by any stretch."
KIRK FERENTZ: We all kind of just dismissed the spring practicing, we told our players to do the same thing, it’s not going to, we didn’t have it and we’re not going to have it, so don’t worry about it.
Just to put in perspective, like normally this would be our second scrimmage coming up this weekend in a normal camp. It won’t be, it will be our first time to really scrimmage and be in the stadium. So not as big a deal for our older guys, but for the younger guys this will be a big deal to be in Kinnick and trying to figure that out, even though there won’t be fans — this is one time it will actually be simulating like a game, because nobody’s going to be here, so that’s a plus, I guess.
But, yeah, we’re playing catch up. And the other part of the equation is everybody else is too everybody’s playing by the same rules. So that part, it is what it is and we tried to encourage our prayers and coaches to, let’s not worry about what we didn’t have or didn’t do, let’s just try to focus on what our opportunities are, what can we do and how do we best maximize the time that we do have, the time that we have had so far and then moving forward.
But that being said we’re not looking too far down the road, because it almost changes day-to-day.
Q. Your wide receiver corp has developed, do you feel like this could be one of the most diverse offenses you’ve coached here?
KIRK FERENTZ: Somebody asked is this going to be the best receiving corp in the history of Iowa football or in the country or something like that. I would be happy if we just play good, first of all, and if we were like in the Top five in the Big Ten.
But in all seriousness we have a good group of players at that position, certainly with Ihmir and Brandon, who got thrown in probably, not probably, but before they were ready to play and played successfully. But I think that experience has ended up paying off for them because they have made it pay off for them. They work hard, they’re both doing a good job out there and so it gives us two seniors that are really well established. Nico certainly played well last year. Tyrone Tracy’s a young up and coming player.
So I think we’re on the right track certainly and to your point, I think our skill positions are, outside of the quarterback where we’re inexperienced, but our skill positions are experienced and we feel good about the guys playing there and hopefully we’ll have a balanced attack and I think that’s really important because you just never know how people are going to attack you defensively week-to-week. So if you don’t have answers you’re going to be in a problem and it’s good to have receivers.
Q. Last few years you lost two really good rushers to the NFL, Anthony Nelson and then AJ. How do you compensate for that and I’m sure it’s going to be by committee, but who kind of fills some of those roles especially for the pass rush?
KIRK FERENTZ: It’s next man in. First of all. The other illustration is — and AJ came in as a guy who is, AJ was a pretty dominant player as a young player. Just a really unusual skill set. But most of our guys grow into roles. It’s usually how it works. Our best players, I just talked about two receivers that were okay as freshmen, but they’re pretty good players now. So most of our guys grow into the role. And that’s — you talk about Chauncey Golston, a guy who was 210 pound or 215 pounds, when we recruited him, but the way he’s worked, the way he’s matured, he’s not only a really good football player, but one of our team leaders, in his own quiet way. We’re counting on him to really have a good year.
But it’s got to come from everyone, everybody’s got to do their part and hopefully we’re working hard out there and playing hard and we’ll see some guys emerge. But you just never know where those good stories are going to come from.
And I can say this, we have a bunch of guys in that group who are working really hard and I think have a chance to be really good football players for us.
Q. How impressed have you been with your coaching staff so far through camp?
KIRK FERENTZ: They have been great. I think when things really got tough there in June, when everything was hitting the fan, I think that even became more apparent to me just how quality they are. So that’s something I feel really good about. I’ve been really fortunate, 30, this is my 31st year coming up I guess here. My entire time at Iowa I worked with quality coaches. That’s been a common denominator.
And I would also say the same thing with the players. When I talk to people about my experience here in the ’80s, I talk about the coaching staff I worked with, and then also the quality of the players that we had. Whether it’s Andre Tippett and Brad Webb, two guys that were the outside backers in ’81, my first year here. Knocked on my door, and I was here a week and they’re knocking on my door looking for film from Pittsburgh. They didn’t want to meet me, they just wanted the film from Pittsburgh.
But we have had good guys in this program and I can’t say enough about the staff, I think they have done a great job. Just feel really good about the group.
Q. Brian mentioned something in his comments and I can’t quote it exactly, but some kind of epiphany where getting the run game around the edge with the receivers, etcetera. Did you have that same, I guess, realization in the Holiday Bowl, that the run game could be a little bit more, I guess dynamic, versatile?
KIRK FERENTZ: We’ll see. In that game in particular we had seen some things on film that led to us believe we might have a chance to have some success out there. But like everybody in the out of season, we were looking at things and looking at other people to do some things. So I think we made a couple tweaks and adjustments, hopefully it will be beneficial. But part of it too is, to have a good scheme and have it be productive and pay off for you, you have to have the right people executing it.
To the point earlier about the receivers, I think we have some guys now that are capable of taking the ball, not only catching the ball, but we hand it to them and they can do something with it and make some yards. And even that pass in the bowl game was a beautiful pass, right? That should have been a touchdown, but anyway. That gives us a little bit maybe versatility and a chance to open some things up.
Q. What was it like for you in August when you heard that there was going to be no football? I mean, what was that like for you?
KIRK FERENTZ: It’s just, it was strange. Again, like everybody, I’m hardly the only person in America I know that’s went through strange things. Not everybody coaches football, but, yeah, it’s what we do, so there’s a really rhythm to being a coach that — and that’s, I think one of the good things about the job is there’s peaks, whether it’s week by week, season by season.
After awhile you get into a rhythm, a certain rhythm. Like this time of year this is what we’re supposed to be doing. So it’s really hard any time you’re knocked out of that. And I think for all of us in the country, back in March, I think we all experienced that.
And then the other thing is the unknown, which is really difficult. I think when the season got cancelled on the 11th, that put everybody in a tail spin, if you will. It’s really difficult. So the best thing was to have something to focus on, to know where we were going and I think that just kind of really gets everybody going again.
It’s just how life is. You have to have something to shoot for and aim for, to work for, and then when you’re used to doing certain things in a certain way, it’s different. That is just how it works, I don’t know, it’s strange, it was really strange. Kind of surreal I guess is probably the best word. I use that word with the pandemic, that the experience was surreal, just like those pictures of New York City without anybody on the streets, that was surreal. This whole thing’s been like a science fiction movie in some ways and I’m not a big fan of science fiction, so I’ll end it right there on that one.
Q. We haven’t talked about it as much because of all the circumstances of this season and I know you’ll probably say the same thing you say every year, but what are your expectations for your team as far as how they perform and where you guys are going to be in the Big Ten?
KIRK FERENTZ: Our expectations are always to have a good team. That’s our goal, that’s our expectation. This year’s a challenging year, but again it’s a challenging year for everybody. I did come to that conclusion months ago that genetics and having an experienced quarterback would be two really good things this year.
But all that being said, just watching our guys work, watching them practice, I don’t know if we can get there by the 23rd, 24th, whenever it is we tee it up, I don’t know if we’re going to be ready to go. But I feel that way every year, you’re never quite sure you’re going to be ready.
But then the good news is that, like you watch our guys work and they’re working hard and they’re trying and they’re together and they want to be good. So can we get there fast enough, can we be ready to go.
But that’s the fun of it is the challenge. I think everybody’s realistic that we’re hardly there right now, we have a lot of work to do, so we’ll see what we can do about getting there. And if it doesn’t work out in that first one then we’ll get back on our feet on Sunday and flush it by Monday and get ready for the next one and just keep going down that street.
But I would like to think we have a chance to have a good football team, but we have to get it done and that’s the fun part is the doing.
Q. I’m sure you feel this way every year, but do you feel that because everybody’s in the same situation and I’m talking Big Ten, that it is almost really you could say wide open, it was the same thing like we said with Major League Baseball that anybody could almost win it with a short season. I mean, have you thought about it in that way, because you’re all in the same boat and just the preparation that you all have, that it really is wide open in a way there is really no honestly favorite or maybe we could think of one or two, but what’s your thought on that?
KIRK FERENTZ: The teams I know the most about are on our side. And then Penn State, it seems like we played them the last 16 years — I know that is not true — but the teams on our side, I think that’s, in a normal year right now, if this was a normal year, I would think we would all be saying that. We would all be in Chicago, it would probably be July 30th and we would be saying anybody probably on our side probably could win this thing. And then that picture starts becoming a little bit more clear as you go.
But then you factor in, in a pandemic year and we have already seen in pro football, like this guy’s outs; oh, by the way your quarterback’s not playing tomorrow. That type of thing. It’s one of those years where you just you don’t know what to expect and we have tried to share that with our players, I know every coach has, like everybody out there probably said it yesterday, everybody on the field right now, any one of you guys might be Sam Brownlee this year, so you need to be doing all you can to get ready. That’s all — because nobody knows.
Q. There was an expected drop off at tight end last year when you sent two guys in the first round in the NFL draft. But late in the year Sam LaPorta especially really emerged and Shaun Beyer seemed to progress as the year went on too. What’s your expectations there? Do you see those two kind of emerging as more impactful in the passing game especially?
KIRK FERENTZ: Certainly Sam in the second part of the season made a lot of big plays for us. He’s just, he just loves football, he loves being out there, he has got a great personality and great enthusiasm for the game and seems to have a knack of making tough plays, hard play. Probably his best play of “camp” this year was a play he didn’t quite come up with, but it was an unbelievable play, and it’s like, how do you do that, almost do that. So he’s got a chance to be a really good player for us.
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And we talked about Chauncey Golston, Shaun’s a program guy, did a lot of things in high school and we even had him at the split end position his first year. But he’s done a lot of good things too. He’s growing and progressing, this should be his best year of football. So hopefully we got a good 1-2 punch and then we got young guys working hard behind them.
So we feel like — the whole thing is going — it’s like every year for us, keeping guys healthy, we don’t have a lot of depth anywhere, but if we can keep guys healthy — we do have depth at placekicker, I’ll re-qualify that. But, yeah, I think that’s going to be a real key for us is keeping our guys out there that are capable.
Q. With the eligibility stuff this year, or every year basically, and it’s different now with the four games anyway, but do you kind of have any more free rein to play everybody or take some chances, put some freshmen out there and see what they can do?
KIRK FERENTZ: Yeah, we do, Matt Lorbeck comes to mind. Matt came in late here and we could have done a four-year redshirt with him and then let him be a senior next year. Well now if he can play more than four, great. Time will tell on that. So, yeah, it gives you a little bit more flexibility. But I’m really more focused on our seniors right now and regarding that, that rule or clause or whatever you want to call it and we’ll just see how it goes.
But I’ve learned in time, too, that everybody’s got a clock, an internal clock and at some point guys want to move on. So I’m pretty confident a bunch of our guys that are seniors, they’re going to be moving on this season when it’s over and so be it. So that stuff will all work itself out, but there certainly is a little bit of a different strategy involved or a little bit different opening.
Q. You mentioned a couple times now the idea of having a good talented quarterback surrounded by everything you could hope for, that has to be advantageous for you?
KIRK FERENTZ: It is. And that’s probably one of the key coaching points for Spencer. You don’t have to win the game. But that’s really true of a quarterback in any year, it’s always nice when you got a guy who can win the game and maybe put the team on his shoulders every now and then and do something really special, but I think especially at the starting point of this season right now it’s really important for Spencer to realize, just go out and play your position. We’re not counting on you to save our team or make everything happen for us.
Typically in football if you do what you’re supposed to do at your position and do it with a little bit of extra energy, then good things have a chance to happen. That’s really how good things happen on a football field.
So we’re going to encourage all of our guys to do that, even the guys that are more experienced and, you know, hey, I got to do this, make this wild play. No, you don’t, they just happen. Just play your position and let it go.
Q. How concerned are you, I mean, with the secondary for instance where you lost two guys to the NFL, one’s starting already, and then your first opponent, I mean you kind of notice who is on the field for them. What’s kind of your thoughts about the secondary? You got some challenges there.
KIRK FERENTZ: Talking about developmental players, right? OJ. Who, you know, graduated in engineering, end up being, played his best football at the end of his career and you look up and he’s starting in the first game for the Broncos. It’s just nobody would have predicted that two years ago, I promise you that.
But it’s a really a credit to him working hard and just getting better and better and while taking a really challenging imagine on top of it. We have been fortunate, we have had some guys that have gone on and played beyond college at that position.
But we feel like we have some good young guys on our team right now playing. Matt comes to mind right over the bat, Riley Moss is practicing well, Julius Prince, Dane obviously playing that money position, our safeties are doing a good job.
So anybody that plays Purdue is going to have a challenge. It’s all about — talk about great receivers, they have two guys that are marquee guys, not just one. So we fully respect that. They’re going to test you the way they play offensively, they’re going to test you on defense in any year. It’s like Minnesota with those two receivers last year they had, it’s just really, every play you’re kind of on the edge of your seat if you will.
Q. The Hayden Fry tribute this year on your guys’ jerseys, how did that come about, what was the decision-making process with that?
KIRK FERENTZ: It’s one more unfortunate thing about the pandemic. We were planning on honoring him for the public back in the spring. And then obviously we had to pull the plug on that. That would have been in April.
What I feel worse there is the family was looking forward to coming up here and interfacing with Iowa fans, Hawkeye fans because, I mean, Coach meant so much to this program, this state, what he did, when he did it.
So to have that opportunity, that was hard. And we still would have honored him on our jerseys, that was the plan. I talked to Robin and the family about that when we were down in Dallas. So we’re not able to do that, but this is the next best thing and it’s just, I think, a fitting tribute to somebody that really impacted this program just in immeasurable ways. So we’re honored to have that on our shirt all season long.
Q. Brian talked about being committed to being more empathetic and understanding. Have you seen him change as a person a little bit over the last several months and how proud are you just as a father of a son that you’ve raised that is committed to always growing as a person?
KIRK FERENTZ: Yeah, I think our whole staff’s committed to doing the right things. And one thing about life, we all learn and we all grow, hopefully. And if you’re not, then you’re really not living, in my mind, and you’re not going to survive or do well in life, in my personal opinion.
So I’m 65, and one thing you learn about life is humbling, the sport’s humbling, what we do can be very humbling. You have to pay attention, you have to listen and then you have to find what works for you.
So going back to Brian, I think he’s done that, I think a lot of our guys on our staff, we have all given things a lot of thought and what can we do better, how can we do it better and still hold on to the things that we deem to be really important. And that’s what life’s all about, but I think he’s taking advantage of this opportunity, I think several of us have and hopefully we’re all going to be better coaches as a result of that and push forward. So, yeah, I’m really proud of him, I’m proud of our entire staff.
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At HDS, Nones Are Greater Than One
Angela Thurston, MDiv '16, is president of the HDS Religious Nones. / Photo: Michael Naughton
When MDiv candidate and HDS Humanists group leader Casper ter Kuile sent out a call last academic year for "humanists, agnostics, atheists, and people who identify as spiritual but not religious," a handful of students showed up eager to share their worldviews, but unsure if they fit under the humanist label.
The current president of the group, Angela Thurston, MDiv '16, enjoyed the community she found with the small humanist group, but she didn't feel like her religious identity as a Urantia Book reader fit into the humanist theology that the group's name suggested.
"We ended up having a conversation, because if it was only the four of us, and if we couldn't maintain the group using that label, then it probably wasn't the right label to be using," says Thurston.
Soon after, ter Kuile and the group came up with a new, more inclusive name: The HDS Religious Nones.
The term "religious none" is used to describe people who check the "none" box on surveys or polls asking for their religious affiliation.
Last spring there were four members of the HDS Religious Nones who met weekly. Today, there are 34 student members and the average weekly group attendance is about 12 people. While this is partially due to outreach during the 2014 new student orientation, the increase in numbers also reflects trends of religious identity across the United States.
According to a 2012 Pew Forum study, religious nones are on the rise. One-fifth of the U.S. public and one-third of adults under the age of 30 identify as religiously unaffiliated.
Yet, as in the case with Thurston, being unaffiliated with a religion does not mean a life without religion.
"It was important for us that it be called the Religious Nones in order to represent that, in many cases, being unaffiliated does not negate being religious," Thurston explains.
While the founding members of the group felt the name was a better fit for their student group than HDS Humanists, they also recognize that calling themselves "nones" is only a temporary solution to the larger goal of creating community for people who are not affiliated with any major religious traditions.
"We talked about how defining yourself as a negative is problematic," says founding member and MTS candidate Nicki Reinhardt. "But, I think the idea of being the group of the nones left more room for everything. It's not that we aren't anything; it’s that we are lots of different things and anyone can come and be an individual and not necessarily have to have some shared or common belief or practice."
The current membership of the HDS Religious Nones includes not only students who identify as atheist, agnostic, and humanist, but also students who are affiliated with religious traditions and are active members of other religious student groups on campus.
Cora McCold, MDiv '17, is one of the many students who joined the Religious Nones this fall.
"I identify as a None and as a Unitarian Universalist," explains McCold, who is also a member of the Harvard Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Students group. "I still find value in the UU identity I was raised with, but I joined the Nones because I was interested in having a community of fellow seekers and a welcoming space to explore new ideas and practices."
Because of the surge in membership to the HDS Religious Nones, the founding members have sought to bring more structure into their weekly meetings.
"We were intentional about deciding to create some consistency in order to see how the group responded to having our meetings be an anchor in our week, as well as to facilitate both the safety and the bravery of that space," says Thurston.
The HDS Religious Nones meet every Wednesday during the semester. The meetings begin with each of the members sharing personal celebrations and challenges from their week. Each story then receives the unison affirmation, "We welcome your story."
The rest of the structured meeting time is open for members to share grounding practices and discuss relevant topics. A recent group conversation touched on the role of creativity in their spiritual lives.
In addition to moments of discussion and reflection, the meetings almost always include a time for the group to sing together.
"There is an appreciation for the experience of singing together," says Thurston. "For some people that has religious meaning, and for some it does not."
The group concludes their meetings with each member naming an intention for their day or week.
On December 2, the Religious Nones joined other student groups at the annual multifaith HDS Seasons of Light service. They will also host a Noon Service in Andover Chapel on February 15, 2015.
Moving forward, Thurston hopes that the group will continue to develop as an intentional community.
"This has been a space where I feel like I am really getting to know people in a way that goes deeper than the academic, vocational, or even religious reasons why they are here at HDS."
—by Erica Long
See also: Features, Student Interviews and Activities, Humanist, Religious Nones, Yes
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The coronavirus has upended life all over the world, and currently there over 90 vaccines that are being developed against it by researchers at universities and companies worldwide. Different technologies are being tested out, some of which have not been tested in a licensed vaccine before this.
There are six groups worldwide which are managing clinical trials with volunteers, while others have begun testing animals. As there are many vaccines currently underway, some in trial phases while others have been approved, some of them have been chosen for administration in countries like Australia, the United States (US), and the United Kingdom (UK). Below are a few of these COVID-19 vaccines.
The Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine, Australia’s ‘frontrunner” vaccine
In July of 2020, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and BioNTech began a late-stage trial on the coronavirus vaccine. Half the people got vaccine shots, while the other half got a placebo of saltwater. The companies then observed and waited to see if participants became sick, to assess if the vaccine offered protection.
Out of 44,000 participants, only 94 became ill with the coronavirus. An independent board of professionals detected how many people got the placebo and how many got the vaccine. This analysis showed that the vaccine’s success rate was 90%.
As is routine for clinical trials, the data was ‘blinded.’ It means that no one other than the independent board of experts knows who of the participants out of the 94 people that tested positive for COVID-19 got the placebo or the vaccine.
How many people will get the Pfizer jab?
According to Pfizer, they will have around 30 million to 40 million doses of the vaccine ready by the end of January 2021. This would be enough for about 15 to 20 million people to get an initial shot and a booster three weeks later.
However, who will be prioritised for the initial dose is yet to be decided. Social segments with a higher risk of infection or who are more susceptible to the virus will be the top priority across the world. It includes older adults who have diabetes or obesity, and health care workers fighting on the front line. Both BioNTech and Pfizer have stated that they could increase the number of vaccines to 1.3 billion doses per year.
The doses of this vaccine bought by the Australian government will be produced in Germany, Belgium, and the US.
Pfizer/BioNTech and the Moderna vaccine use messenger RNA (mRNA). COVID-19 has a structure like a ‘spike’ on its surface, which is called an ‘S protein.’ COVID-19 mRNA vaccines give the cell instructions to make a piece of this S protein that is harmless. After vaccination, cells start producing the protein pieces and display them on the surfaces of the cell. Your immune system will build an immune response and make antibodies in response to this protein.
How will the vaccine be distributed in Australia? Who will get it first?
Australia’s government is in touch with territories and states and the medical experts on distributing the COVID-19 vaccine safely. It includes giving roles and responsibilities to the Commonwealth, and state and territory governments to implement a COVID-19 vaccine program in Australia in early 2021 (expected February-March).
The government plans to have 30-50 ongoing Hospital Hubs in urban and rural Australia, which will be finalised with the individual states and territories. At this point in time, the government is committed to managing cold chain storage and Pfizer vaccine only. The social segments that will be prioritised are:
The Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
Scientists working together at the University of Oxford were among the teams in a joint effort to find a vaccine for the virus. In ten months, they produced and designed a vaccine and proved its success rate and safety through initial clinical trials.
From the phase 3 trials in Brazil and Britain, the vaccine is shown to be 70.4% effective. Over 200,000 volunteers took part in the trials, and half of those were in the United Kingdom. There were recorded cases of 30 patients, which tested positive for COVID-19 in the people who had two vaccine shots and 101 in those who had gotten a control jab.
As for those who received two doses, the vaccine was 62% effective in them. It worked more effectively when given a half-dose initially, which was then followed by a full dose. In this case, the protection rate increased to 90%.
The Oxford vaccine is cheaper than the other vaccines. AstraZeneca’s aim is to supply the vaccine at $3 to $4 per shot. In contrast, Pfizer/BioNTech shot is priced at $20, with the Moderna’s vaccine costing $25.
Who will qualify for the AstraZeneca vaccine? When will Australians get it?
AstraZeneca has signed agreements to produce 2 billion doses of its vaccine by the summer of 2021. Thanks to Europe’s vaccines alliance, around 400 million doses of the Oxford vaccine will be supplied to European nations, starting from 2020. The UK has 4 million doses of the Oxford vaccine and is looking forward to 96 million more. Other orders from the UK include 40 million doses of the vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine and 5 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine.
In Australia, a provisional determination was settled by the TGA with AstraZeneca in October of 2020 regarding its vaccine candidate. Australia has secured 53.8 million doses of the vaccine, out of which 3.8 million doses will be delivered at the beginning of 2021. The government currently plans to initiate the vaccine drive by March 2021. Fifty million amounts will be produced in Australia by Melbourne-based company CSL, on behalf of AstraZeneca.
Moderna’s Vaccine for COVID-19
Moderna is an American biotechnology company, based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. They gathered 30,000 volunteers across the US to take part in the vaccine trial. A quarter of these were aged 65 years or older. The company’s vaccine showed positive results at the end of November 2020, leading them to request the US Food and Drug Administration to allow the vaccine to be used in case of an emergency.
Modern has reported efficacy rate of 94.5% of the vaccine in clinical trials. On the 18th of December, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration issued an EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) for this vaccine.
The vaccine is also a part of the US government’s Operation Warp Speed, an initiative to increase the time it takes the to produce and distribute the vaccine for COVID-19. The US government provided $1 billion to aid in the design and testing of the Moderna vaccine. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health supervised the research, including the clinical trials. Moderna was also given an additional $1.5 billion in exchange for 100 million doses of the safe and effective vaccine.
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Published on November 4th, 2020 | by Lydia Brooks
9 hottest hip hop songs of Korean music industry (Part 2)
4. “Loneliness in the Palm of My Hand” – Mad Clown
The song depicts an indescribable sadness, telling the story of a so lonely man that the entire world and his existence have become bleak and meaningless. The character in the song is extremely lonely, and he begins to feel confused in his insecurity, anger, and the need to prove something to the world.
5. “It’s Cold” – Epik High
“It’s Cold” is the voice of a person who always feels empty deep in his heart. It is portrayed as a deep sadness that can make everything as cold and gloomy as winter, even if it’s springtime and surrounded by things that often make the mood. each becomes more active.
6. “Father” – Dynamic Duo
Dynamic Duo’s “Father” is a song about a father who has passed away. What makes this song even more melancholy is the way it expresses a child’s hateful feelings towards his father when he was a child. Even the son did not appreciate what his father did for him, until he saw his father gradually weakening and losing control over his old age. At this point, the child began to regret it, and it was too late for him to show his love for his father.
7. “Wall” – Pinodyne (ft. Ven)
“The Wall” is the voice of a person who always feels he is not loved and appreciated by his parents. The song expresses the mood of a person who feels insecure because he does not live up to family expectations, cannot do great things like his brother. He always felt that all the care and love he received were just fragments. In his mind, he felt his maturity was thwarted by continuity, as he was always seen as a shadow of his brother, never seen with his own successes.
8. “Bad Guy” – MC Sniper
The lyrics of the song “Bad Guy” are about someone who falls in love with someone she can’t be with. In frustration, she called the person a villain, to continue hurting herself without her even knowing it.
9. “Sailboat of Time” – Hwana
The song is like a diary, consisting of complete sentences about the singer’s / rapper’s lonely and old mood. Especially after meeting an old acquaintance again, he realized that both himself and the world had changed so much.
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72. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mann) to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Harriman)1
Washington, February 6, 1964.
Honduras—Possible Coup
Agenda for Special Group (CI) for Friday, February 72
Pressure in Honduras for removal of Ricardo Zùñiga A., Secretary General to Chief of Government Col. Lopez, has grown so rapidly in the past month, that unless he leaves the scene peacefully, there could be a counter-coup within the next two weeks.
Lopez depends completely on Zúñiga who runs the government. Zúñiga, as Lopez’ personal adviser since 1956, has engineered Lopez’ career to the present point in which Lopez hopes to become constitutional president. Lopez will not let Zúñiga go unless forced to by a united demand from the Army.
Today only the last Infantry Battalion and the newly formed Special Tactical Force (each numbering about 600 men and located just outside Tegucigalpa) stand between Lopez and a counter-coup. Lopez personally commands the Special Tactical Force through an executive officer whose support for Zùñiga is increasingly questionable. The commander of the 1st Battalion, Maj. Juan Melgar, is supposedly fanatically loyal to Lopez and has supported Zùñiga. However, Zùñiga secretly came to the United States in the last week of January, and in the last four days there have been reports that Melgar may be weakening in his resistance to pleas from his military colleagues to join them in evicting Zùñiga.
If Zùñiga leaves the government, Lopez would almost certainly be replaced by a civilian-military junta, though if the change were accomplished through a palace coup rather than an open revolt, Lopez might remain as head of the junta.
Without Zùñiga, Lopez probably would lose some of his presidential ambition, and those persons who oppose a military candidacy would have more influence. Opponents of a Lopez candidacy include a number of military officers as well as the Liberal Party (deposed in last October’s coup) and major elements of the Nationalist Party (principal civilian allies of the present military government). The armed forces will almost certainly take a preconstitutional non-partisan attitude once Lopez is no longer a serious presidential contender.
Although much of the Army’s antagonism toward Zùñiga is a spontaneous response to Zùñiga’s high-handed operations, the Liberal Party, especially Jorge Bueso Arias, has contributed substantially to the plotting. Bueso is very competent, anti-communist, and was Finance Minister under deposed President Villeda Morales.
The leader of the military plotters is Defense Minister, Chief of Air Force, Lt. Col. Armando Escalon. Escalon is very competent and anticommunist, but his was one of the bitterest anti-U.S. voices during the period of non-recognition last fall (October 3 to December 14, 1963).3
The communists would welcome any change away from the present military government, though they are not involved in the present Liberal-Army scheming. The communists have begun to seize control of the MIL, an uncoordinated group of lower-level Liberal terrorists not countenanced by the Liberal leaders. The MIL began to function in December, 1963.
A junta government probably would have much more Liberal participation than does the present government, and thus would receive broader labor and Liberal backing. This would reduce the strength of the MIL. Thus, chances of a peaceful transition to generally accepted civilian representative government in 1965 are much better under a junta, especially if military partisanship declines. The increased civilian participation would improve the efficiency of the transition government as well.
The anti-Zùñiga forces now believe they have gone too far to quit. As long as Zùñiga stays out of Honduras, there is a good chance that there will be only a palace coup. This would avoid bloodshed or extremism, and would add to the possibility that Lopez and the junta would resolve the conflict by exiling both Escalon and Zùñiga as ambassadors. Many of the military officers who are working against Zùñiga do not like the prospect of having Escalon as the new head of the junta.
If Zùñiga returns to Honduras soon, the plotters probably will resort to open revolt. Whether they win or lose, there will be some bloodshed and new openings for communist subversion. If they win, the United States will be faced with a not-too-friendly Escalon. If they lose, there probably will be a series of jailings and other repressive measures which will force large numbers of Liberal Party members and organized laborers into open alliance with the communists in the MIL.
United States interests are best served by the earliest possible removal of Ricardo Zùñiga from his present influential position in Honduras.
A palace coup is much more to our interest than an open revolt in Honduras.
Therefore, the Honduran situation is most favorable to the United States the longer Zùñiga stays out of Honduras.4
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, ARA/CEN/H Files, 1964: Lot 67 D 46, POL 1, General Policy. Secret; Noforn. Drafted by Rowell.↩
Not found.↩
Villeda Morales on October 3, 1963. The Kennedy administration initially refused to recognize the new government, choosing instead to recall Ambassador Burrows on October 6 for “consultation,” thereby suspending normal diplomatic relations. For documentation on the coup in Honduras and the initial U.S. response, see Foreign Relations, 1961–1963, American Republics, Microfiche Supplement, Honduras. The Johnson administration agreed to recognize the new government on December 14, 1963, but only after receiving “public assurances of respect for civil liberties, freedom of action for political parties, and that international obligations will be fulfilled.” By that time, the Lòpez administration had also announced that elections for a constituent assembly would be held in February 1965. (Department of State Bulletin, December 30, 1963, p. 624) For a detailed account of these events, see Edward M. Martin, Kennedy and Latin America, pp. 125–141.↩
In a memorandum to Mann, February 4, Collins suggested that the Special Group (CI) consider detaining Zùñiga in the United States “to improve the chances for a peaceful alteration of government in Honduras.” (National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, ARA/CEN/H Files, 1964: Lot 67 D 46, General Policy) The minutes of the Special Group meeting have not been found. The Latin American Policy Committee also met to discuss the situation in Honduras, in particular, ways in which to “effect a non-violent transition to representative civilian government.” On February 6 the LAPC approved a plan of action for the remainder of 1964, including the following proposal: “Seek ways to reduce the influence of Ricardo Zùñiga A.” (Airgram CA–7933 to Tegucigalpa, February 10; ibid., Central Files 1964–66, POL 1 LA–US) In a telephone conversation with President Johnson, February 19, Mann mentioned the possibility of a another coup in Honduras; see Document 2.↩
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Brandy Inks New Record Deal
By Nikki Leigh On Aug 22, 2011
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Brandy. Oh wait. She was on Dancing With The Stars where she absolutely drove me nuts. Now when it comes to her day job (music) I am all for it. In a true comeback, the R&B singer has just signed with RCA/Chameleon Records.
When the announcement came out, Brady was elated saying,
“This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge, and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I’m doing. Breyon and the team at RCA/Chameleon are creative and forward-thinking and I am thrilled to be working with them.”
So what do you think? Are you a Brandy fan? Are you ready for some new music from her new label? The fresh tracks will be released in early 2012 so standby for some single releases in the near future….. Brady is hard at work in the studio now.
Nikki created Hollywood Hiccups in September 2010 and she is a native Canadian. Originally from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia she now lives in Colorado. Nikki is a former University Professor and part-time writer. In September 2010 she decided to write full-time and bring Soap Opera news to her fellow Canadians and Americans. You can contact Nikki at hollywoodhiccups [at] gmail.com
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A smarter successor to Trump is even scarier, but it's coming
Submitted by brad on Sun, 2016-07-31 14:59
Social media are jam packed with analysis of the rise of Donald Trump these days. Most of us in what we would view as the intellectual and educated community are asking not just why Trump is a success, but as Trevor Noah asked, "Why is this even a contest?" Clinton may not be, as the Democrats claim, the most qualified person ever to run, but she's certainly decently qualified, and Trump is almost the only candidate with no public service experience ever to run. Even his supporters readily agree he's a bit of a buffoon, that he says tons of crazy things, and probably doesn't believe most of the things he says. (The fact that he doesn't actually mean many of the crazy things has become the primary justification of those who support him.)
But it is a contest, and while it looks like Clinton will probably win it is also disturbing to me to note that in polls broken down by race and sex, Trump is actually ahead of Clinton by a decent margin among my two groups -- whites and males. (Polls have been varying a lot in the weeks of the conventions.) Whites and males have their biases and privileges, of course, but they are very large and diverse groups, and again, to the coastal intellectual view, this shouldn't even be a contest. (It's also my view as a foreigner of libertarian leanings and no association with either party.)
The things stacked in favour of the Republican nominee
There have been lots of essays examining the reason for Trump's success. Credible essays have described a swing to nationalism and/or authoritarianism which Trump has exploited. Trump's skill at marketing and memes is real. His appeal to paternalism and strength works well (Lakeoff's "strong father" narrative.) The RNC also identified Hillary Clinton as a likely nominee 2 decades ago, and since then has put major effort into discrediting her, much more time than it's ever had to work on other opponents. And Clinton herself certainly has her flaws and low approval ratings, even within her own party.
It is also important to note that the chosen successor of a Democratic incumbent has never in history defeated the Republican. (In 1856 Buchanan defeated the 1st ever Republican nominee, Fremont, but was Franklin Pierce's opponent at the convention.) This stacks the deck in favour of this year's Republican. Of course, Wilson, Cleveland, Roosevelt the 2nd, Carter and Clinton the 1st all defeated incumbent Republicans, so Democrats are far from impotent.
The specific analysis of this election is interesting, but my concern is about the broader trend I see, a much bigger geopolitical trend arising from technology, globalization, income inequality and redistribution among nations as well as the decline of religion and the classic lifetime middle class career. This big topic will get more analysis in time here. I was particularly interested in this recent article linking globalization and the comparative reduced share for the U.S. middle class. The ascendancy of the secular, western, technological, intellectual capitalist liberal elite is facing an increasing backlash.
Where Trump's support comes from
Trump of course begins, as Clinton does, with a large "base." There is an element of the Republican base that will never tolerate voting for Clinton almost no matter how bad Trump is. There is a similar Democratic contingent. This base has been boosted by that 2 decade anti-Clinton campaign. Trump has gotten where he is by combining that base with a new movement of voters he stumbled upon, almost by accident. It is this cadre of disaffected conservatives who crave a candidate who says "screw you" to the establishment, both Democratic and Republican. The establishment has left them behind and they want no part of it. These voters also know Trump is an unqualified buffoon, but that doesn't matter -- he gives them a chance to say "screw you" and they need it. The global trends are leaving them behind, and we intellectuals don't see that very well. Alone, neither group is large enough for victory, but together they might be. The outsider group was enough to get Trump the nomination, and now they have combined their voting power with a large fraction of the base. This has overcome the unease and defection of some establishment Republicans upset over Trump's buffoonery.
Even so, Trump is too much of a buffoon and will probably, though not certainly, lose. (His poor choice of slogan, which the Democrats turned into him repudiating American exceptionalism isn't helping.) He appears to be on a self-destructive path at present, though we still have 100 days to go. The Democrats crafted their convention superbly and stole classic Republican memes for themselves, combined with their own classic memes and a progressive platform to bring in the Sanders supporters -- another "screw the establishment" group.
What if Trump weren't an idiot?
The disturbing question I am asking is, "What if Trump were better at this?" I believe Trump stumbled into this movement mostly by accident. He has limited self-control, and he felt he could say whatever he wanted on the campaign trail. He said many things which in the past would have been viewed as sure campaign suicide. That Mexicans were rapists and a wall is needed. That Muslims should be banned. The list is very long. He discovered that many of these things ended up getting him more support rather than less, thanks to the movement he discovered. He remarked on how surprising this was, observing how he felt that he could "shoot somebody on 5th avenue" and get away with it. But he is not a genius, he was discovering these things to some degree by luck, and over time he's said things that cost him support, particularly recently. He may be feeling that any far-out thing he says will find some segment that likes it, and has been waiting to hear it, and that they will join him. He's wrong.
But what if he were smarter? What if a more calculating candidate, now that this new body of voters has been discovered, knew better what to say and what not to say? What if there were a candidate who applied advanced political techniques, testing and polling new positions, rather than just throwing pasta at the wall to see what sticks and depending on an imagined invulnerability to get away with it?
If Clinton continues her lead and wins, then this candidate is coming in 2024 or even 2020. If the trend described above that works against the incumbent party continues, that candidate will have a head start against Clinton or her Democratic successor and a strong chance at victory.
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Yes, that is a factor
This will counter it, somewhat. But the public's desire to switch parties (which is strong -- as noted the Democrats have not stopped switches to Republican and the Republicans did it with GHWB but it's rare for them too) goes the other way, as does the increase in strength of this movement.
Sadly, I am positing a successor who is smarter than Trump at exploiting this movement.
Citizen K
As I see it, this is where the Republicans need to step to the plate and get their shit together. Not all Republicans are fundamentalist buffoons. They need to find a solid candidate and shore up theit platform to counteract this fascist crowd they've spawned.
joemack
So generous
So not all Republicans are fundamentalist buffoons? Are you sure? Do you know many. Maybe most are. Trump will win and the buffoons will laugh at your shock and anger, as you have discounted their suffering for years.
Trump, at the least, appears to care more for his countrymen than foreigners. How many of the important Democrats and Republicans can that be said?
Some of them
Some of them, I believe, are good people. :-)
Yes, we do get too polarized on these things, and lines like the one above certainly did not set the campaign on a good footing.
Phillip Helbig
A bit unclear, the real problem
"the Democrats have stopped switches to Republican and the Republicans"
This might be a bit unclear. I think what is meant is that no democratic President has ever followed another democratic President. It's rare in the other camp as well, with George Bush following Ronald Reagan. (Two terms for the same President is the rule rather than the exception, but one term or two, the next President is usually from the other party.)
This is highly disturbing. It means that there is a significant number of people who want something else, and perhaps because there is no other realistic choice, opt for the other party.
Sadly, with lack of proportional representation, the USA will see the gulf between the established parties and the electorate continue to increase. The established parties won't change the status quo, and third-party candidates (e.g. Nader) who get a significant fraction of the vote in the end help the worst candidate of the major parties to win.
Correct. Generally incumbents have an advantage, but when they retire (or are term limited out) there is usually a party switch. Always from Democrat to Republican. Less often the other way -- several Republicans, not just GHWB, have followed a retiring Republican. Though a lot of that is from the days when the Republicans were the party of Lincoln and the Democrats the party of segregation.
Christine Forber
Comparison to Canada
I wonder how much of this is a product of either the first-past-the-post voting system or just human nature. The Canadian political system has some significant differences (and similarities) to the US system and we see a similar effect. Typically, one party holds power for ~10 years (rarely more than 2 majority governments) before there is a change. It is often said that Canadians tend to vote against a given party rather than for one, and personally, I can agree with that statement. I frequently vote so that party A does not win because I strongly dislike their policies vs because I like party B's policies so much I really want them to win. Brad, you've experienced both systems, your comments?
Yes, there is a strange mix here. Actually, US incumbent presidents of late have usually won second terms, unless things were going particularly badly. Carter, who had unseated a never-elected incumbent (perhaps the lowest bar) was himself unseated by a very strong Republican. A decent incumbent seems to have a very good chance of a 2nd term. But when they retire, and the odds are even, it clearly shifts to interest in a change. I suspect that is true around the world. A century ago, though, the Republicans put several Presidents in office in a row.
The USA moves on small shifts but they are magnified. US elections are all close to 50-50 except in very unusual events like first Black nominee. In Canada, shifts are much bigger. The idea that the Tories could go from a majority in the house to just 2 seats because a tax was unpopular, as happened in Canada in the 90s is completely bizarre in the USA.
Do you think there are fewer
Do you think there are fewer swing voters in the US, thus causing the shifts to be smaller? Maybe having so many parties here, and those parties themselves shifting (PC vs Reform to CPC) makes a difference, less strict party loyalty.
Fewer swings
Yes, because broadly only a few states are in play at all for the Presidential election, just a handful to perhaps a dozen, and then only the swing voters in those states) and the unlikely voters who can be talked into voting.
Effect of Primaries?
I wonder if the primary system in the US and the way you have to sign up for party membership to be able to vote in a primary also entrenches party loyalty in a way that doesn't happen in Canada.
Factoring favorability
Clinton's unfavorable scores are as bad as Trump's, both near 60%. That more than anything holds answer to "why Trump". When that much of the population does not like you, for whatever reason, those voters have to go somewhere, and Trump seems to be doing a good job of channeling that dissatisfaction. Given how thin the actual qualifications to be president are, we are stuck weighing what are essentially emotional questions. I have found myself thinking lately, that with Trump as the nominee, this election should be a cake-walk for the Democrats, except with Clinton as the nominee, this election should be a cake-walk for the Republicans.
Peter Rowley
Trump is part of the Bush/Cheney pattern of anti-intellectualism
Really nice article Brad. I think you're right to look forward and, looking back, it goes without saying that Trump didn't spring out of thin air. The anti-intellectual spirit of George W Bush appears aligned with the growth of the Tea Party and then Trump. Part of Trump's unique appeal is his instant tweeting -- giving voice to the negative sentiments of his base within seconds of something happening.
Sadly, another part of his appeal seems to be crypto-racism (and sometimes not so crypto), one example being his comments about Ghazala Khan not "being allowed to talk" -- he carefully said he wasn't saying that, but "others" were. That is something that Bush didn't even have the beginnings of as far as I remember.
Looking forward, the increasing replacement of people by technology, which is just as important as globalization (both bringing much cheaper labour to compete with workers), simply has to be addressed. In even 50 years, it will be a much bigger issue than today and it will take a long time to adjust so we need to start soon. Ideas such as a guaranteed minimum income (as just rejected by Switzerland -- http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/swiss-referendum-guaranteed-income-1.3617059) could be part of the solution but clearly that's got a long way to go and I expect you wouldn't think that worth considering. What happens to all the people replaced by technology? In the Star Trek world, they appear to pursue creative activities. In Soylent Green, they're recycled into food. In Spielberg's "A.I.", they celebrate the destruction of robots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMbAmqD_tn0)
James D
Stochastic Process
I notice in my politically inclined friends a tendency to view the process of politics as well controlled. Outcomes are ascribed to planning, charisma, villainy, stupidity and so forth, but never to chance. I think it's more accurate to see politics as having highly chaotic components, with poor information and poor modeling contributing greatly to unpredictable outcomes. To the extent this is true, a 'smart Trump' is less of a concern than a 'lucky Trump'.
The actuality is that when you have mainstream vs. mainstream you have political machine vs. political machine. There, both machines are good at what they do, and roughly matched. They do careful polling, and they adjust their public position to get 51% of the vote (but not much more as that's too much adjustment.) Thus you get calculated near-tie results.
That changes for black swan events, like Obama, Trump and even Clinton II. That has made the results harder to figure. Trump is not using the usual machine, and while it will offer him its services, he will not obey it.
Yes that theory can explain the variability, and there are plenty of others that can as well. Each such theory makes a kind of sense and appeals to a group that prefers to believe a particular story about political struggles. But like economic theory, theories of political strategy are essentially all post-hoc constructions that apply an accessible narrative to a pre-existing set of observations. They have essentially no predictive power so, objectively, there's no reason to believe any of them. Why shouldn't we instead prefer the simplest explanation that fits the facts?
Agree, chance is important
Gore vs Bush is a perfect example: the election was so close that it went to the Supreme Court. If Gore had won, so many things in 2000-2008 could have gone differently.
John Tillinghast
I started worrying about this after the first primaries. I think the best thing we can do is to really understand his supporters and what they would need to see in order to lose interest in this kind of politics. Will some be done if the economy improves? If immigration is slowed? What if a modern version of "It can't happen here" came out and was popular?
States where Trump is popular are probably screwed.
Unfortunately we have to admit that a huge number of Americans don't react that negatively to an obvious authoritarian, tribalist, bullying con man who isn't even that bright. And I don't know how long it takes to fix that.
Meanwhile, if I were an American ally, I would already be hedging my bets and I wouldn't stop just because Clinton wins this year.
It is beyond the US
This is happening in other countries. Trump made it more obvious because as much as I called him a buffoon, that is only in contrast with other prominent people. When he stumbled on the ability to take radical fringe ideas and get mainstream support for them, he embraced it. He tapped, but did not create the vein.
The key is that they don't love Trump. I think they realize he is a bit of a dick. They like somebody who comes from outside the system, is famous, presents a case that he's a strong leader and successful businessman, and offers them nationalism, authority, strength and most of all an alternative to "the system" which has failed them.
Baby M
Trump's not the only authoritarian tribalist bullying con man...
What strikes me is just how much Trump is Obama 2.0--or maybe Obama was Trump 0.95 beta. You have someone who's on a massive personal ego trip (selfies at Nelson Mandela's funeral), convinced that he knows everything ("I'm a better political advisor than my political advisors."), surrounded by syncophantic yes-men, contemptuous and vicious toward fellow citizens who disagree with him ("bitterly clinging to guns and religion"), shamelessly exploiting racial and cultural tribalism for personal gain (exploiting Ferguson and Trayvon Martin, blaming the rise of ISIS and the Orlando shooting on Christianity), uninterested in observing constitutional limits on political power (all he needs is a phone and a pen!), supported by a fawning press and hordes of deluded fanboys ("...a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet . . . .") who expect he'll fix the world by pure awesomeness ("I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage!").
Honestly, given all the similarities, I can't figure out why the Obama fans aren't flocking to Trump's banner.
Individual_Dude
One would think that the
One would think that the rise of Trump would give the Left pause at the wisdom of their consistent advocacy of government control. It's not too fun when someone you disagree with wields the hammer you brought to the party, huh?
Individual rights and liberty are the answer. Everything else is suicide.
"One would think that the rise of Trump would give the Left pause at the wisdom of their consistent advocacy of government control."
Whatever one's positions on the issues, your statement implies that if one is losing, the tactic should be to ape the opposition. In other words, getting elected for its own sake, not because one stands for certain positions. If the left is suffering because more Duck-Dynasty style libertarians want less government control, then the logical conclusion is that they have failed to get their message across, that the electorate is stupid, or both.
The most cynical thing in politics seems to be what you are advocating: do whatever will get you elected, regardless of what you believe in.
Pettifogger
Certainly by 2024 and probably by 2020, we'll no longer have meaningful elections. If all else fails, enough illegal aliens will have been granted the right to vote that no Republican will ever have a chance. We're one Supreme Court appointment away from a ruling that it's unconstitutional to deny aliens the right to vote.
We are one Supreme Court appointment from learning that the entire Democratic platform is mandated by the constitution.
You may not be...
I am not sure this commenter really wants this question, but yes, seriously, why should legal, tax-paying, hard-working aliens not have the right to vote? Was this country founded on opposing taxation without representation or wasn't it?
I know the practical arguments against it -- that this would be granting power to these legal aliens, and why would those who have the power want to give some of it away, as that will only bend things away from their interests.
But what's the moral argument? Why do some human beings have different fundamental rights form others, just because of the accident of their birth?
The point is that there are rights and responsibilities. People who want the right to vote can become naturalized if they want it. When the draft comes back, they have to serve. Since the USA allows dual citizenship, there is not even the disadvantage of having to give up the original citizenship. So, anyone who is taxed and wants to be represented can be.
Are you a US citizen? If not why not?
Even in countries where one has to give up the original citizenship to become naturalized, I think it is fair to say that only citizens can vote. Turning your argument around, why should some people be able to have dual citizenship just as an accident of birth?
Also, how long do you have to live in a country in order to vote? Why this specific period and not another?
Why not go all the way?
"why should legal, tax-paying, hard-working aliens not have the right to vote?
But what’s the moral argument? Why do some human beings have different fundamental rights form others, just because of the accident of their birth?"
By the same token, those who are legal are legal because of an accident of birth. By your logic, every nation should admit anyone who wants to come in (with the possible exception of those known personally to be security risks), since not doing so would discriminate based on accidents of birth.
Think of it this way: in an ideal world, yes, there would be no police. But getting rid of the police will not move us closer to that ideal world. Quite the opposite. Similarly, in an ideal world, everyone would have equal opportunity. But we won't get closer to that ideal world if we give legal aliens the right to vote with the justification that lack of opportunity is the reason they don't have it.
Yes, actually
There are many countries for whom immigration is easy. In fact, a century ago, passports and immigration barriers barely existed in a lot of the world. Yes, today, the world is more mobile.
But if a foreigner is willing to move to a country, get a residence, pay taxes and take up the other duties of citizens (including draft as you say) then what's the moral opposition?
One proposal is that any foreigner wishing to move to the country may do so if they will pay an annual minimum tax above some level, such as above the national average, or even in the upper 10%. This assures they are a boon, not a drain, to the country.
It is sometimes proposed even in the USA that non-citizens be allowed to vote in school board elections (where their children are being educated or where they pay school taxes) or local elections. Why not? Why should I not have a say in who is the mayor of the town I immigrate to?
There is one big difference in the USA compared to the rest of the world. It is almost unique in taxing its citizens on their worldwide income even if they leave the USA. Almost no other major country does that. This makes it less compatible with a world of free movement.
Why not citizenship?
"But if a foreigner is willing to move to a country, get a residence, pay taxes and take up the other duties of citizens (including draft as you say) then what’s the moral opposition?"
In that case, what is wrong in requiring such a person to obtain citizenship? Especially in a country which doesn't require a previous citizenship to be given up? Someone doing as you say (though in most countries (except if there is a Foreign Legion) draft is only for citizens) has no objective reason at all not to apply for citizenship, so it rightly creates the impression that they want the benefits without the duties.
"One proposal is that any foreigner wishing to move to the country may do so if they will pay an annual minimum tax above some level, such as above the national average, or even in the upper 10%. This assures they are a boon, not a drain, to the country"
Maybe a boon to the adopted country, but such policies encourage brain drain from other countries, leaving the poor, badly educated, and so on behind, exacerbating the division between the first and third worlds.
"It is sometimes proposed even in the USA that non-citizens be allowed to vote in school board elections (where their children are being educated or where they pay school taxes) or local elections. Why not? Why should I not have a say in who is the mayor of the town I immigrate to?"
Same argument as above: apply for citizenship.
"There is one big difference in the USA compared to the rest of the world. It is almost unique in taxing its citizens on their worldwide income even if they leave the USA. Almost no other major country does that. This makes it less compatible with a world of free movement."
If one pays tax elsewhere, though, then one can deduct it. I think that this is an excellent idea. Otherwise, people could benefit from US citizenship and take up residence in a tax haven.
Get citizenship
Getting citizenship first requires crossing whatever bar is put in front of the green-card equivalent, and then waiting several years of taxation without representation.
You can call it a brain drain, I would call it jurisdictional competition...
The USA is special in taxing worldwide income. You get credit if there is a tax treaty for foreign taxes, and that means you pay the maximum of the taxes of your citizenships in this case (which means the nation discourages the world's brightest nomads.) As noted, the rest of the world taxes you on the income you make while in their country.
Of course, one other solution to this are some alternate tax forms, such as land value tax.
OK, what are the criteria? Working in the country? For how long? Who documents it? As an employee, or is self-employed OK as well? How many countries should one be allowed to vote in?
Taxation without representation
I think if you are a tax resident in a country in this or the prior year, voting should be allowed. Generally tax presence laws require spending at least 4 months, sometimes more, in a country. (The USA considers citizens taxable no matter how much time they are in the USA.)
OK, but what criteria determines whether one is a tax resident? Can one be a tax resident in several countries at once?
Yes, but usually not 3
The rules for who is a tax resident are usually well defined in each country. There are rules in particular for who must be a tax resident -- usually anybody with income in a country can file a return, sometimes even with no income, but the important rule is the one that demands it. Typically countries demand it of all resident citizens and immigrants, and also of non-immigrants who are present for more than a certain amount of time, which ranges from 3 to 6 months.
One can be a tax resident of more than one country, but usually not more than 2 or at most 3, I would guess. Nobody actually ever does that because it means paying more taxes, though with treaty, usually the highest of the taxes of the different countries.
The principle is this, though. If you must pay taxes in a country, then you deserve a say in how it is governed. That is the principle that created the American Revolution, in large part.
somewhat different
"The principle is this, though. If you must pay taxes in a country, then you deserve a say in how it is governed. That is the principle that created the American Revolution, in large part."
In the case of the 13 original colonies, many of the people, or their parents, had come to America for various reasons, some voluntary, some not, but it was essentially a part (a colony) of Great Britain. It was Great Britain who taxed them, though, not the colonies. This is really not people where people move to a sovereign country and are taxed by that sovereign country, since in the latter case there is the option to become a citizen, which brings with it more rights and more responsibilities. The colonists were, unless I am mistaken, British citizens. They were certainly subjects of the Crown.
My view is that the right to vote, since it potentially affects everyone in the country, should only go to those who have some sort of commitment to the country, above and beyond just working there. There are people who work somewhere because they earn more money there, but a) don't spend it locally and hence don't really contribute to the economy and b) despise (somewhat hypocritically) their workplace. Especially in a country which, like the USA, allows dual citizenship, I don't see any problem in requiring people to become naturalized in order to vote. If they don't like it, they can go elsewhere.
I understand this position and it's a reasonable one. The original thread began simple to illustrate there are other ways you could do it, and the real core issue is the morality of having some fundamental rights -- the right to reside, to work, to vote and sometimes many others -- depend on the accident of where you were born. After all, many countries won't even let you make the commitment to them required to get those rights, and most make it pretty hard. In some cases they make it hard for somebody who moved to the country as a a baby and can recall no other country to get those rights, because they came out of the womb on the other side of a line on a map.
basic agreement
In general, I agree. I would argue, though, that the goal should be to implement reasonable naturalization laws, rather than giving some rights usually reserved to citizens to people on the basis of their paying taxes.
Of course, while society should work for equal opportunity (one can almost define progress as the increase in equal opportunity, i.e. eliminating accidents of birth), one can't short-circuit this by making immigration and naturalization too easy. An ideal society would have no police, but eradicating the police will not move us closer to such a society (probably the opposite).
Taxation and citizenship
One component of my approach, which I did not describe, relates to this. I think a very simple immigration process would be to allow (almost) anybody to immigrate to a country (and eventually become a citizen) if they commit to a minimum tax while resident there. That minimum tax would perhaps be something above the median tax paid by existing residents. For the first few years, you would pay that minimum tax, even if your actual tax burden was less. This allows two types of immigrants: Those who are highly productive, and those who are wealthy enough (or hungry enough) to pay high taxes on low income. You can be assured neither will be a burden on the society's social programs etc. You could exclude those with certain criminal records. Nations with national health care would probably (and perhaps cruelly) exclude the old and the sick who would become such a burden even with the minimum tax, or you could raise the minimum tax to include the cost of health insurance for somebody of that age and condition.
With this done, the reasons to oppose immigration of these people vanishes. Let them all come and contribute. You can of course also let in others who don't meet the minimum tax requirement using whatever metric you like. For example, the USA bizarrely lets people come to US universities and do very well and then forcibly kicks them out.
Here I am talking about residency for those who promise a minimum tax, not citizenship, but citizenship can result.
This removes some objections, as you indicate. Something similar exists in Cyprus and Spain and some other countries, where one can get citizenship easily by investing a certain amount, buying a house, etc. This has resulted in Russian oligarchs getting EU passports, which might help financially the countries in question but brings with it its own set of problems.
Citizenship for sale or trade
Robin Hanson proposed an interesting concept the other day -- granting the right to people to sell their citizenship, or perhaps exchange it. This is related to the countries that, as noted, are willing to "sell" citizenship or visa status. Of course most people recoil at this idea and consider citizenship to be unalienable, but it's not always viewed that way. (And even today many countries refuse dual citizenship and will strip you of a citizenship or deny you one if you attempt it.)
If you did allow sale of citizenship, you would probably not want to have it result in statelessness, as the world is not set up to handle that very well. That would mean you would only allow sales by dual citizens, or those doing trades. Of course, people would match it to slavery -- rich people getting the poor to sell their very birthright. It is still an interesting exercise to think what bringing markets to citizenship would mean.
A pretty likely scenario would be people trading away "valuable" citizenships at retirement, in exchange for cash and/or citizenship in less valuable lower income countries. They would then retire to those countries and live very well on resources that would only offer them a modest existence in their home country. I mean, people already retire like this, without the citizenship trade, and if they could pick up an extra $400k to use to retire in Mexico or Indonesia, I think many would. In exchange, their former country would get a new, resourceful immigrant and avoid the need to support the retired expatriates.
Probably more a topic for another thread...
An Any Mouse
The tone of this post is its own answer
Why is Trump doing so well among the segment of the population that's treated with utter contempt? Gee, I don't know. How could that possibly be?
The buzz-words being used here are self-explanatory. Calling someone who built a multi-billion dollar business a "buffoon" is a start. Not agreeing with someone and not liking his tone doesn't mean he's an idiot. It just means you don't agree with him.
"Anti-intellectual" in this post means "someone who I don't agree with."
And "authoritarian" involves using the executive power to override congress. That's already standard practice. Good Lord, that started with Woodrow Wilson and has been taken to the next level by the current occupant of the White House.
Both parties have been dismissive of a large swath of the American people and have treated them with contempt and you're surprised that the people are returning the sentiment?
Besides, the memes being employed against Trump are nothing more than "fill in the blank" memes. They would have been employed versus whoever wound up with the Republican nomination. That's why they've lost their power. You can only scream, "Look, HITLER!" so many times before folks figure out it's garbage.
Eric J.
Weaknes or Strength?
I think his spontaneity is a large part of his appeal, and a candidate taking his same positions from a position of calculation, polling and testing won't attract the voters who see themselves as disenfranchised. Any position taken from calculation will be abandoned once the calculations change, and we all know how good the wealthy, powerful and elite are at changing those calculations.
It's not the specific things he says that are appealing, it's the fact that he believes them (at least in the moment) and they're not being fed to him by the party or his advisers. That's his appeal.
(Note that I'm not a Trump supporter, and won't be voting for him, but I have thought about why one would and what is different about him.)
Brett Bellmore
Spare us this nonsense
"The RNC also identified Hillary Clinton as a likely nominee 2 decades ago, and since then has put major effort into discrediting her, much more time than it’s ever had to work on other opponents."
This is just a bogus Clinton talking point, and facially absurd.
Look, suppose that the GOP really did have the prescience to identify a Democratic nominee 20-25 years in advance, and the resources and drive to conduct an unrelenting smear campaign against that future nominee for decades.
Why would they just do this to the Clintons? Why not conduct similar operations against other possible nominees? And yet, who else has this kind of long term reputation for corruption? Nobody. You get your occasional "Freezer cash Jefferson", or Rangle and his Irish cottage, but it's minor stuff compared to the Clintons' trail of dirt.
Occam's razor: The reason the Clintons have this decades long string of scandals, that nobody else in the Democratic party comes near duplicating, is not that they're the target of a vast conspiracy.
It's because they're corrupt.
Far in advance
I have to say if they are as corrupt as I have heard alleged, they must be particularly brilliant in their ability to evade being convicted of it.
However, I think both parties work to discredit their likely opponents. But frankly, I think HRC is quite unusual in this regard -- I think everybody, in her party and outside, has known she has ambitions at the Presidency for a long time, and that she's had a lot of supporters and so would likely go somewhere with those ambitions. If not from the time she was FLOTUS, certainly by the time she entered the Senate.
I can't think of another candidate we've know about this strongly, this far in advance. While there are always people on the shortlists, nobody has so clearly led the shortlist the way she has. Indeed, without the arrival of the even more historic, and far more charismatic Obama in 2008, I think almost everybody would have said years before that the nomination was hers to lose, if not a lock.
I was not aware this was a democratic talking point, I came the conclusion on my own.
See you are still lost. Any
See you are still lost. Any intelligent person who says Clinton is even mildly qualified is lost, completely lost without a clue. If elected she will become the most corrupt individual to ever be elected to high office. And this is only the corruption we know about that is out in the clear. We know nothing about the hidden corruption at the Clinton Foundation.
You hit on a few themes here, but miss the other major theme is that a majority of the voters no longer believe one word that comes out of any major elected official's mouth. Period. Ryan a shill for inside DC interests. McConnell, same. And Democrat, only a mouth piece for Gov't, gov't, gov't.
Back to the drawing board for you.
A bit to snobby...
One reason "intellectuals" didn't see Trump coming is that they tend to get too caught up in ideas and ideologies. I didn't see him coming, because I overestimated the support for Ted Cruz's strong constitutionalism.
But, another reason he was missed is that intellectuals seem to miss (or, for too many, applaud) the extreme power of modern political correctness, and thus the strong backlash against it. Many progressives signal their virtue by following the latest PC trend, as if it were a new clothing style. They feel good about themselves because they are doing "good" - it substitutes for charitable giving, which is very low among progresives.
Modern PC has either gone off the rails, or its promoters are correctly confident that they have the power to smash half of the country.
The best example of this is the transgender bathroom mandate and the reaction of the bien pensant intellectuals to the slightest objection. This mandate goes strongly against reason - let's offend half the population so that .04% of the population is less offended. Let's crush what is left of our society's sexual discomfort at nakedness before strangers of the opposite sex (a discomfort I don't feel, but I do understand). Let's make sure that every school district in America knows that its masters, even in such a personal area, are in Washington, D.C., not the local, locally elected school board.
The transgender mandate wasn't a result of suddenly discovering a discomfort by a tiny minority. It is a result of cold calculation - that now is the time to enforce cultural dominance over "stupid," "fundamentalist," "anti-intellectual," "superstitious (religious)" people in fly-over country. It is a living example of 1984's forcing Winston to say that four fingers are really five, and even wanting to believe it.
When ordinary people see this sort of thing, they react viscerally. They know that their cherished country and culture is being destroyed, even if they don't know the ideology and tactics of those who are doing the destroying.
And when this sort of insanity happens more and more frequently, those people get more and more upset and angry.
I am one of them.
I will vote for Trump, not because he is good, but because he may be my last chance to vote for anyone with a prayer of doing anything about this.
Your perception of the motives of the left is as erroneous as their perception of the motives of the right. I am with neither side but I study both sides. And of course, those who know my history will know I used to be the most well known person on the internet for political correctness, so Trump's appeal for that did not surprise me.
Remember, Trump does not believe what he says, I have that from those who know him. And more to the point, we hear that many of his supporters also don't think Trump believes or plans what he says, and in fact that's the only way they can support him because there are very few who don't feel reviled at some particular thing or another he's proposed. (Many Clintonites also hold their noses in supporting her, but they don't rationalize it by declaring she doesn't really believe it.)
That this strategy would succeed, that is the surprise.
Hillary's unpopularity isn't due to some long lasting nefarious Republican plot. It is because she obviously has a criminal personality, and she obviously feels better than everyone else.
If she weren't the "first woman" nobody would pay her any attention. She got where she is through her husband, and a lot of people see that. They see that she isn't a symbol of true feminism, she is an affirmative action candidate aided by celebrity. She is a woman who put down other women sexually abused by her husband.
The is also the "champion of the poor" wearing a $14,000 jacket.
She also has no real accomplishments. She did nothing in the Senate. Her time as Secretary of State produced only negative results, as should be obvious by the poor state of the world and the way our adversaries no longer respect our power.
She is a phony as a three dollar bill.
And, she simply is unlikable.
Darnok
Democratic blindness
This post typifies the blindness that exists within Democratic circles. I'm not talking about the assessment of Donald Trump, which I largely agree with. The only quibble I have there is that Brad glosses over, almost to the extent that he seems unaware of it, the fact that all of the outrageous things Trump says relate to issues where many voters have legitimate concerns and which the leadership of both political parties have been doing their best to ignore for a long time now. But that's more an issue for the Republicans to address - they are the party that has sometimes pretended to be against the status quo on those issues without ever doing anything to actually change government policies. What I'm talking about here is the amazing blindness to how truly awful Clinton is as an alternative.
I cast my first presidential ballot for Ronald Reagan's first term, and have never yet voted for a Democrat, but I would love to be able to do so this year. If the only reason to vote against Clinton were her liberal statism she'd have my vote - I expect once in office Trump will govern mostly like a liberal statist himself, just a more nationalistic one. (And no, I don't consider that a plus.) If Bernie had been the Democratic nominee I very well might have voted for him, and he's an avowed socialist. If I only knew now what I knew about Clinton in 2008, I'd probably vote for her. Back then I thought of her as personally unappealing, far to the left of me, moderately corrupt and dishonest, but competent.
With more recent revelations about the activities of the Clinton foundation, I now view her as probably spectacularly corrupt. I know that there probably isn't enough evidence there to convict her. (Even if we could find a prosecutor with enough courage to bring an indictment.) But the circumstantial evidence is extensive and compelling. There was a time when that would have been enough to disqualify anyone running for any public office, let alone president of the U.S. In addition, she is either spectacularly dishonest or delusional. So many of the things she has said about the various scandals that have been dogging her have later been proven to be completely false that it's amazing that anyone takes anything she says seriously anymore. And yet, she continues to repeat many of the lies to this day, knowing that a sympathetic press will mostly fail to call her on it. Finally, she has proven to be spectacularly incompetent. When the most her campaign can point to in terms of accomplishments as secretary of state is the number of miles she traveled you can be sure that there isn't much positive substance there. It's possible that her role in the debacle that is Libya (and I'm not just talking about Benghazi here) was not as central as her opponents would have it. But it is clear that she was at least an active and supportive member of the team. As for the whole e-mail thing, anyone who has ever had a security clearance of any kind knows (or should know) that what she did is inexcusable. The law which FBI director Comey thoroughly demonstrated that she had violated does not exist just to deter people from committing intentional acts of espionage. Keeping secret information secret is difficult, and the procedures established to keep our secrets safe can be time consuming and burdensome. The law exists in part to deter people from taking shortcuts for convenience sake. By refusing to prosecute on the grounds that Clinton was just really careless and didn't really mean to give secrets to our enemies, director Comey has undercut that purpose of the law. And Clinton has to be held partly responsible for that, too. When the kindest possible interpretation of the available facts is to say that Hillary must be both really stupid and rather lackadaisical about national security, I'm not sure how anyone can consider her a viable candidate for president.
I assume that these are the things that Brad was waving away with the phrase "And Clinton herself certainly has her flaws." I'm sorry, but these things are not just the results of two decades of Republican opposition research, except in the sense that the press would have ignored all of it if they could have. The fact is, there are many, many lifelong Republican voters like me who would really like to have a viable alternative to Trump. Unfortunately, Clinton isn't a viable alternative. Since I live in a state (Massachusetts) which is unlikely to be seriously contested I will probably write in someone - I haven't decided who yet. If I lived in a swing state I'm not sure what I'd do. Maybe still write in someone. But I'd very likely vote for Trump on the basis that a probable disaster is better than a certain one. That plus the fact that I think it is more likely that Trump will be held accountable for his actions than that Clinton will.
Republicans do, indeed, need to understand how Trump was able to take over the party. They need to address the legitimate issues that left them vulnerable to such a takeover. But Democrats, like Brad, who are worrying about how close this election appears to be might do better to consider how, in a year in which the Republicans nominated a sure loser, they managed to nominate someone who is not clearly better. This despite a nominating process that is designed to be undemocratic so that party elites can thumb the scales away from bad but popular candidates. Clinton should have been gently steered away from running starting at least a year ago when all of this stuff started coming to light. If she refused to be deterred from running, the party establishment should have found and supported a viable alternative. That this didn't happen is evidence, if not proof, that the party establishment itself is corrupt. In the long run that is a far more serious problem than having a buffoon at the top of the ticket for one year.
Democrats like Brad?
Curious as to where this phrase comes from. What makes you think I am a Democrat? (Obviously I have of course never voted for or donated to any Democratic candidate.)
I do live in California these days, and so that means most of the people around me are Democrats, as is true for most coastal intellectuals. But Democrat myself? Classical liberal would be a better description. Democrats plan to increase the size and power of government far too much, and Republicans say they won't, but do it even more. A pox on both of them for that.
Democrat?
Okay, I'll admit I know nothing about you. I'm not a regular reader of your blog, I came to this post through a link from another blog. I'm not sure why you think it should be obvious that you have never voted for or donated to a Democratic candidate - I see nothing in this post that would imply either, or even that you haven't been proudly registered as a Democrat for your entire life - but if you say so I believe you. I admit to jumping to conclusions, and if you say you are classical liberal I will accept that too. I just had a hard time believing that anyone of your apparent intelligence who isn't either highly partisan or getting all of their information filtered through partisan Democratic news sources could imply, as you did, that Hillary Clinton is an acceptable choice for president who is the victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy. I know the major focus of the post was on Trump, but in the first part you certainly seemed to me to be endorsing Clinton as a conventional politician with conventional flaws who is thus the obviously better choice over Trump. Am I wrong to infer that, whatever you have done in the past, in this election you plan to vote for a Democratic candidate? And I don't condemn you for that - I honestly wish I believed that Clinton is a conventional politician with conventional flaws so I could vote for her. As bad as I think she is, I still think it's a tough choice.
To be fair, I might even agree to the description of her as a conventional politician with conventional flaws - I just think she manages to combine all of the worst conventional flaws in a single package and takes some of them to extreme levels. At some point you have to start wondering if unconventional flaws aren't less damaging. In addition, I think she has clearly done things which in a rational world would be considered by everybody to be sufficient reason to disqualify her from serious consideration for the presidency, and that's independent of the question of whether any of it is worthy of criminal prosecution. I also don't think that you have to be an uncritical consumer of partisan Republican media to reach these conclusion about her. Heck, you can get there from just the partisan Democratic news sources as long as you pay attention to the hard facts of the reports and have a good enough memory to notice when the commentary starts to contradict them or to minimize them without adequate reason.
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Home Legal Human Rights Judiciary Official Opposes EP Resolution on Iran Ties
Judiciary Official Opposes EP Resolution on Iran Ties
An Iranian Judiciary human rights official denounced the European Parliament’s recent resolution on the EU strategy toward Iran, stressing that the Judiciary will not permit the establishment of an EU delegation in Tehran, which he slammed as a “den of corruption”.
Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Wednesday, Chief of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani slammed the EP resolution as a document revealing the EU’s real intentions in dealing with Iran.
The European Parliament passed a resolution on October 25 on the EU strategy toward Iran after coming into force of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a nuclear agreement between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).
There are a lot of flaws in the resolution, though it has defined areas of cooperation with Iran in all fields, Larijani explained, saying the document has regarded Iran as a market for the sale of European goods.
He also slammed the resolution for talking about Iran’s nuclear program “in a rude manner”, saying it was impolite of the Europeans to raise the threat of re-imposing sanctions against Iran, while the country has already honored all its commitments under the JCPOA.
The EP resolution says “development of EU-Iran relations should advance hand in hand with the implementation of the nuclear agreement/JCPOA,” stipulating that “under the terms of the agreement a failure in its implementation by Iran can lead to the reintroduction of sanctions.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Larijani lashed out at the European Parliament for commenting on human rights in Iran, saying they “lack the competence” to tell Iran to correct its conduct, while there are numerous cases of violence and violation of human rights in Europe itself.
As regards the EU plans to establish an office in Tehran, he said it would not be a big deal as long as the office deals with trade and business, but “they have announced that they want to make close contact with human rights advocates and NGOs inside our country with the establishment of such an office to make sure about the process of implementation of human rights” in Iran.
“They (EU) should know that the (Iranian) Judiciary will definitely not allow the establishment of such a den of corruption in Iran,” Larijani emphasized.
The EU resolution has welcomed “the steps taken by the EEAS for the establishment of an EU Delegation in Tehran”, saying “EU-Iran relations should be developed through multi-layered dialogue involving political, diplomatic, economic, academic, technical, and people-to-people contacts that include civil society actors, NGOs and human rights defenders.”
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: American Giant CEO discusses evolving relationship between brands, consumers
By David Brandt
Web managing editor, IIE
In the Case Study section of its November 2013 issue, Industrial Engineer took a look at the focus on quality by sweatshirt-maker American Giant. The California-based company has grown dramatically inside of its 21-month history largely thanks to Internet-driven intrigue and word of mouth, all of which its founder and CEO mainly credits to decades of change in the relationship between name brands and consumers in the U.S.
In this Web exclusive, I asked Bayard Winthrop to elaborate about his thoughts on a renewed interest among consumers in “Made in the U.S.A.” manufacturing, and whether American companies are picking up on the value of sentiment.
Q: In our initial interview, we talked briefly about the relationship between brands, manufacturers and consumers. How have you seen that relationship get redefined in the past few years?
Winthrop: The interesting thing that’s happening in the market today is consumers are increasingly empowered to direct their dollars toward brands and products that mean something to them. I think you’re seeing that across many, many industries. What Airbnb is doing to the hotel industry, for example, is pretty fascinating – you’re stripping down what the value paradigm means to a certain set of consumers and changing what some subset group of the consumers is requesting.
In the case of apparel, if at the end of the day you believe that a quality product is going to drive customer loyalty, then looking at ways to look at eliminating all the ancillary costs around building great product, theoretically, should support driving and building a big brand. In our case, we stepped back and looked at what the problem was, as we saw it, in the apparel industry. We saw lots of investment in things we didn’t feel were directly related to customer value. And that was massive marketing budgets; it was incredibly onerous margin structures that were necessary to support very complex distribution mechanisms with massive markdowns and big distribution channels like suburban malls or big retailers like Kohl’s. All of those things are directly impacting brands’ ability to make great product. And we felt that consumers were saying, very rapidly, that they were caring less and less about that.
There was certainly a period of time when shopping a suburban mall was a valuable experience for consumers, but the consumers have long left that behind. And yet, most apparel brands were still stuck in a mechanism that required them to have a presence there and to investment money there.
Q: Also in the initial interview, we talked about cases such as the Ralph Lauren Olympic uniforms in 2012 and the public backlash that came with learning those uniforms were not made in the U.S. What do you think some American companies are neglecting to consider when they plan to move their manufacturing and/or supply chain overseas, if anything? Is there a reasoning beyond trying to cut costs?
Winthrop: Speaking on behalf of brands, I’m just hypothesizing here. If you rewound the clock to 30 or 40 years ago to when a lot of these great American brands decided to move production overseas – whether it was Champion, Levi’s, Red Wing, or any of these great, iconic brands – I think at that time there was a major movement toward suburban living, access to brands in places like malls and Main Street were growing, … when lower-cost alternatives were coming into the marketplace. And at the time, I’m sure it felt very rational and very thoughtful to try and drive down costs to get your product into the hands of consumers.
I think what was lost along the way is the conversation we just had – any number of those great brands I just listed really, when you get rid of all the nonsense, are built on building phenomenal products. The classic Levi, right? That brand was built on an idea that a pair of pants could last a generation. But I think when you lose sight of that, the impact may not be immediate, but over time I think the impact is pretty fundamental. I would guess that a lot of the brands that have moved overseas and allowed the quality to deteriorate maybe didn’t have a long-term view about the institutions there.
On the other hand, it’s a different world today. We live in a situation now where customers can shop online and care less about suburban malls, and I think it’s a lot easier to sit where I’m sitting and say, “Oh, you should have stood firm. You should have not tried to cut your cost dramatically.” The reality is that 30 or 40 years ago, that was probably a critical piece of the pie for them, so that’s only part of the answer.
The other answer is a more basic one. I think if you move your manufacturing thousands of miles away, the challenge to maintain quality gets greater. I think all those brands know that and thought that through. They’re all big boys and they know what they’re doing. It just gets hard, and I think some of the degrading quality you see across a lot of brands today is, in part, having manufacturing that is all over the world in many different factories very far away. But I think they all thought of that – I don’t think it was a surprise.
Q: Can a brand that’s backed by a large-scale operation like Levi’s or Gap overcome the negative connotations of utilizing an international supply chain or manufacturing base without nurturing homegrown operations in the U.S., similar to American Giant’s business model?
Winthrop: I think the question really becomes what the brand’s foundation is, so if it’s “American-made quality and value,” let’s say, and you’re making your stuff in Asia and the quality’s crap, then it’s pretty hard to overcome that. We’re living in a world where consumers have incredible visibility and knowledge and the ability to shift loyalty in a heartbeat. So if that’s the paradigm you exist in, then you’re in deep trouble.
If, on the other hand, the brand’s core value is something different – sex appeal or really cheap fast fashion – there are a lot of consumers that don’t really care about great quality or an “American-made” story. It really depends on your “premise.”
I think where it’s going to get tough is if you are in the business of trying to sell great quality and good value apparel, I think it is getting increasingly difficult to be investing big portions of your cost structure in distribution and massive marketing. I don’t think brands are getting built that way – I don’t think customers care about the distribution mechanisms as much. What ends up happening is that you’ve got a business that is selling direct, that can deploy much more of its overall cost structure into building great product and maintaining a great retail price, versus a brand that are stuck in an old model and they have continue investing in things that the customers care less and less about. So, it gets hard.
On the other hand, suburban mall fast fashion with a $9 dress or a $5 T-shirt at Wal-Mart, there will continue to be real markets and real customer bases that want that. There’s no question that there is still a market for really cheap, lower quality T-shirts, and that’s not going to go away anytime soon. Your question is rooted in what the core brand premise is about, so if the brand premise is around great quality and great value, it’s getting increasingly difficult to not really examine fundamentally your whole value chain to your customer and rethink the way you want it.
Q: We also talked some previously about American manufacturing as it was 40 years ago as well as today in terms of quality and efficiency. You said at the time that the industry business model has grown outdated to the point that companies which still subscribe to it can’t change with the times and their customers. What traits from 40 years ago could still be used today in an innovation or re-invention manner, and what traits of the old business model absolutely must go?
Winthrop: It’s easy to forget that 25 years ago, about 90 percent of the apparel worn by Americans was made in the U.S. There was then, and is now, a huge asset base of both human capital and equipment and physical plans that are wildly underutilized. One of the interesting things is taking advantage of a huge underutilized human asset base to go make great clothing. One simple component of this answer is you go throughout the United States and there is an incredible amount of very high caliber sewers that are there looking for work and factories that are underutilized. So a simple part of that answer is just unlocking the assets that are already there.
A slightly more nuanced, maybe more subjective, comment is I do think that there is a cultural orientation in the United States around quality. It’s kind of inherent in who we are as a nation. I don’t really know how to put that into words other than to say that when you get a manufacturing base roaring in the United States, there is a quality component in the product that’s almost in the DNA of the workers. That’s been interesting. To be clear, that’s not to say that there hasn’t been really good products coming out of China, India, South America, or anywhere else, nor the ability for workers to build all that stuff.
But I think there’s a cultural pride – the “Made in America” brand that we grew up around – it really does seem to come through. When we get into a factory and we get a bunch of sewers working on some of our product, there’s a look that’s reflexive of desire or understanding that, “Oh, yeah, this is going to get made this way,” that’s transmitting into a great product. We’re finding that there’s this great understanding about it means to make great stuff here.
Read the Case Study article in Industrial Engineer.
Filed under: Industrial Engineer magazine
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Orchha – A Hidden Heritage Site
Suman Bajpai | Apr 13, 2020
Just because you’re stuck at home doesn’t mean you can’t add another place to your travel list.
Orchha in Madhya Pradesh, India is a ‘hidden’ gem. It’s historical monuments adjacent to pristine nature narrate a story.
I happened to be in Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, on the occasion of ‘Namaste Orchha’ festival, whose director Yasmin Kidwai said that, “Madhya Pradesh is a very underrated destination. While its wildlife is acknowledged, the state’s vast historical and architectural heritage is not. The state represents what best India has to offer. Orchha is a part of these untold and undiscovered destinations in the state.”
A small town in Bundelkhand region may have just emerged as the key to unleashing the rich potential of tourism in Madhya Pradesh, but it is a treasure trove of forts, rivers, forests, and cultures.
So, to explore its historical and architectural heritage, I had decided to roam around the nooks and corners of the small town with a glorious past.
Colors of Architecture
Chatturbhuj Mandir
Founded in the 18th century by Rudra Pratap Singh, Orchha became the capital of the Bundela Rajput dynasty. Planned along the river Betwa, the complex of forts, palaces, and cenotaphs surprise the visitors with the unexpected. While exploring them, legends come alive and you are lost in a labyrinth inducing curiosity.
Yes, this is Orchha. A vast canvas with all the colors of architecture and each color tells a unique and vibrant story. It is the only place in India where Lord Ram is worshipped as a King. The grand temples stand majestically against the landscape, merging the stories of valor of the Rajput Kings with those of the Gods.
Chhatris – Memorials of Rulers
Chhatris along the river.
Fourteen chhatris or cenotaphs line the Kanchan Ghat of the river Betwa. Built in the 17th and 18th centuries, chhatris are memorials spaces for the rulers of Orchha. Like the pyramids of Egypt, they were constructed to respect the dead, but no treasure can be found here. While watching the flowing river, walking through the green fields, you can marvel at their intricate beauty. While passing through the square shape cenotaph of Vir Singh Deo, I felt as though I could spend hours admiring the structure.
Splendid Palaces
Orchha, which means ‘hidden’, has a paradise of forts that need to be explored and admired for its blend of Mughal and Bundela architecture. To understand the grandeur of the past, one must visit the fort complex where Orchha’s rulers used to live. It is a delightful experience to watch the sunset from the jharokas built on the fort’s exteriors. From the top, you can see the entire town and three main structures of the fort – Raja Mahal, Jehangir Mahal, and Rai Praveen Mahal.
Raja Mahal includes the Sheesh Mahal and every evening you can enjoy a light and sound show which narrates the story of the Bundelas. It is one of the most historic monuments in the fort.
Situated to the right of the quadrangle, is a palace built by Madhukar Shah. The plain exteriors crowned by chhatris, give way to interiors with exquisite murals, bold colors, and a variety of religious themes.
Jehangir Mahal has intricate carvings and large verandahs at every step. Passing through several dungeon-like staircases and maze-like rooms will leave you in awe. Invited by the Bundela King, Jehangir came and ended up staying for a long time; this was constructed to honor him. The Jahangir Mahal is multi-story and offers spectacular views from its balconies.
Rai Praveen Mahal was constructed for the poetess and singer of the royal court at Orchha during the time of Raja Indramani. When Emperor Akbar heard about her beauty, he ordered to send her to Delhi. But, her commitment and love for Indramani forced Akbar to send her back to Orchha. The palace built for her is a low two-storied brick structure, designed to match the height of the trees in the surroundings. Now it is left with stories of the glorious past in its ruins.
Temple Tales
Raja Ram Temple is the main temple for the people of Orchha, where Ram is worshipped as king, not as a God. This complex was originally the palace of then-ruler, Madhukar Shah Judev, a devotee of Lord Krishna. His wife, Queen Ganesh Kunwari, worshipped Lord Rama and wanted to place his idol in the palace. At odds, the Queen set out to Ayodhaya. Pleased by her prayers alongside river Sarayu, Lord Ram appeared in the form of a baby and agreed to go with her on the condition that he will be the king of Orchha and the first place she seats him will be his final place of stay. On returning, the queen placed him in the palace for the night. Next morning, when she tried to take the idol to the Chaturbhuj Temple, which was constructed for it, Lord Ram did not move; hence the palace became the Raja Ram temple.
The Chaturbhuj Temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu and constructed on a stone platform and is a rectangular building only reached by climbing a long flight of stairs. The temple has brown walls and beautifully carved high ceilings; a 202-meter-high ceiling is undoubtedly a unique feature of any Hindu temple. You will not find any carvings in this temple but the beautiful blend of palace and temple architecture is impressive. Lotus emblems and other symbols of religious significances provide delicate exterior ornamentation. Within the sanctum, it is chastely plain with high, vaulted walls emphasizing its deep sanctity.
Laxminarayan Mandir
Laxminarayan Temple is also a blend of fort and temple architecture. The interior is decorated with wall paintings and ceiling murals, which are vivid compositions. Although it’s a palatial temple with ongoing construction, you can still feel the serenity and calmness soothe your mind and body.
Homestays – An Emerging Concept
Maximum tourists are preferring to stay in homestays, which is an emerging market. Designer Anupama Dayal painted the walls of these simple but comfortable stays with the drawings of Gond art. “It is a repetitive motif albeit in completely different art styles in the frescos and the colorful Gond art. These lovely motifs symbolize the freedom and the link between earth, waters, and strong elements of Orchha,” she told.
Suman Bajpai is a freelance writer, journalist, editor, translator, traveler, and storyteller based in Delhi. She has written more than 10 books on different subjects and translated around 130 books from English to Hindi.
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Amendment to Karnataka Land Reforms Act: what govt, opposition say
The amendments allow non-agriculturists to buy agricultural land in the state. Successive governments have in recent years gradually diluted land ownership norms under the Land Reforms Act to facilitate industrial growth and agricultural land ownership by non-farmers.
Written by Johnson T A | Bengaluru | Updated: December 19, 2020 9:16:18 am
In the Karnataka House.
The opposition Congress has called amendments to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act 1961 — which were passed in the state legislature last week by the BJP government with the support of the opposition Janata Dal (Secular) — a “death warrant” for farmers.
What are the latest amendments?
The Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2020 has repealed three key sections of the Karnataka Land Reforms Act of 1961 which imposed certain restrictions on ownership of farmland.
The amendments have done away with Section 79A of the Act that allowed only those earning less than Rs 25 lakh per annum to buy agricultural land, and Section 79B that said only people earning a living through agriculture could buy agricultural land. The amendment has also removed Section 79C of the Act, which allowed revenue departments to investigate alleged violations of Sections 79A and 79B during land purchases. 📣 Follow Express Explained on Telegram
What rationale has the state government cited?
Revenue Minister R Ashok, who piloted the Bill, said during discussions that the sections proposed to be repealed from the Act were only facilitating corruption in the offices of land registrars and tahsildars, rather than benefiting farmers who wanted to sell their land. He said over 13,814 cases of violation of Sections 79 A and B were pending without any action being taken. “The sections of the law are losing their relevance in the present situation and a report was given to carry out changes in urban areas during the tenure of the Congress itself,” he said.
Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has said irrigated agricultural land, and land owned by SC/ST communities, will remain protected as farmland despite the amendments. Only 2% of the agricultural land in the state has been used for industrial purposes, he has said.
What is the Congress’s objection?
Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah has said the amendment will result in the loss of agricultural land that could have been cultivated to meet food requirements. He has alleged that the amendment is intended to benefit the real estate mafia in Bengaluru.
“Under Sections 79 A and B, there are 13,814 cases pending in the courts involving around 60,000 acres in and around Bengaluru. Assuming a rate of around Rs 2 crore for each acre, property worth Rs 1.2 lakh crore will be freed up by this Act,” Siddaramaiah has said. “The retrospective nature of the Bill shows the government is hand in glove with corporate bodies and housing societies,. The law will be a death warrant for farmers, farm workers and Dalits. Farmer groups like the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha too have opposed the amendments.
In August 2015, the Congress government headed by Siddaramiah, too, had eased rules for land acquisition by people not engaged in agriculture. The Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2015 amended Section 79A and enhanced the annual income ceiling for acquisition of land by persons not engaged in agriculture from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 25 lakh. At that time, it was the then opposition BJP and JDS that had argued that the amendment would only help real estate businesses acquire more land around cities.
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And what is the JD(S)’s stand?
The JD(S) initially opposed the amendments proposed by the BJP on the ground that they were not in the interest of farmers. It specifically opposed an amendment proposed to Section 63A to increase the ceiling for land holdings — from 54 acres to 108 acres for a family of five, and from 108 acres to 216 acres for a family of 10. After the government dropped the move to amend Section 63A, the JD(S) supported the Bill. JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy said last week that he himself had to face allegations of violation of Sections 79 A and B over ownership of nearly 50 acres of agricultural land on Bengaluru’s outskirts.
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Under what circumstances has the move been taken?
There has been growing pressure from industry to amend land ownership laws to bring them in line with those in the neighbouring states in order to facilitate growth away from the stagnant agriculture sector. Yediyurappa had promised such changes during his visit to the World Economic Forum at Davos early this year as an incentive to attract investors.
In March this year, the government passed a Bill to amend Section 109 of the 1961 Act to allow industries to sell agricultural land they had bought for industrial purposes (rather than return it to the government at no cost) if they failed to carry on with the planned industry. The amendment allowed such sale after seven years of running the industry.
The ruling BJP has argued that curbs on sale and purchase of agricultural land in Karnataka do not exist in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu. “In Ballari, land is Rs 1.10 crore an acre while in neighbouring Ananthapur (Andhra) the land costs only Rs 10 lakh. Investors were going to Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu as a consequence,” said C R Janardhana, president, Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry. “The land reforms will change this. There is an opportunity to employ one crore people with acquisition of another 2% of land.”
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Toilet: An Incomplete Love Story
Over 100 million toilets have been constructed, but many are not used for various reasons.
Updated: December 9, 2020 8:37:28 pm
Success was preordained in the Swachh Bharat Mission, which targeted 602 million residents, who defecated in the open.
Written by Aayush Gupta
“Sanitation is more important than political freedom” — Mahatma Gandhi
On October 2, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the completion of India’s Swachh Bharat Mission with the construction of over 107 million toilets. India was, hereafter, “Open Defecation Free” (ODF). The announcement came 11 years ahead of the projection of the United Nations. However, a year later, experts are sceptical about the claim. While toilets have been built, the ODF “self-declarations” by India’s 603,000 villages, 706 districts and 35 states and union territories may not pass scrutiny.
Success was preordained in the Swachh Bharat Mission, which targeted 602 million residents, who defecated in the open. The government, way before 2019, had printed a calendar with the cut-off for October 2019 as the achievement of Total ODF status for India. In one sense, the country did achieve its target, in terms of its definition of ODF itself. As per the Toolkit for Urban Local Bodies by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, the definition of ODF is restricted to the construction of a toilet and not its use or availability of water. Going a step further, facilities like availability of water and proper drainage are only covered in the broader definition of ODF+ and ODF++ targets under the mission.
It would be unfair to dismiss altogether the achievements of the Indian government, which has made toilets available to over 162 million households across the country. Bollywood highlighted the issue on the big screen, with films like Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (Toilet: A Love Story).
While the government is proactively sharing details regarding the construction of toilets and implying their use based on self-declarations, valid and comprehensive data regarding their use is lacking. Due to the structure of subsidies and pace of disbursals, thousands of toilets are labelled “under construction”. The awareness of the construction of toilets is clearly not enough. For example, there is no record of how many single-pit toilets are still being manually scavenged (if at all) at pre-decided intervals. There is a need to create a system to record what happens after a toilet has been constructed.
As Advik Aggarwal, a past member of Project Raahat, an initiative with the Delhi government to curb open defecation in the capital city, says having a toilet does not always mean it is being used. There have been reports of toilets being rendered defunct due to lack of use by the community itself. Aggarwal points out that the successful use of a toilet depends on several factors, including proper upkeep and community support. Lack of social understanding is also a problem. Toilets are considered to be hotspots of infectious diseases, prompting people to defecate in the open. Apart from avoidance of “stinking urinals”, men avoid community toilets for “socialising” with their peers when they go out to defecate in the open. Lack of sufficient water is a major reason why toilets at homes are left unused. Experts further cite unwillingness to pay (for public toilets), improper maintenance and lack of water as the primary reasons for lack of use of toilets. In some cases, defunct toilets are being used to store discarded items. Caste issues also play a major part — since, traditionally, it has been the plight of select lower castes to clean lavatories and sewers.
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Three pressing needs emerge out of the issue. First, a need for the government to realise that access to toilets does not imply the usage of a toilet. Second, reporting of the metrics related to ODF+ and ODF++ needs to seep into the mainstream — not only for the urban but also rural regions. Finally, with access no longer deemed an issue, sensitisation needs to take priority — a much broader agenda than the five-year sprint to building over 100 million toilets. It is not mere access, but also use, that would have made Mahatma Gandhi flushed with pride.
The writer is an MBA student at IIM Ahmedabad. He was a member of Project Raahat – a student-run initiative to eradicate open defecation in the urban slums of Delhi.
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Not just a job
A politician decided to switch jobs, leaving her husband’s party. No one would care if they were investment bankers.
By: Editorial | Updated: December 23, 2020 8:09:52 am
To be fair to the MCG most government entities like to create a citizenry in their own image — bureaucratic, officious, eager to prosecute.
There’s a reason for that old adage, “Don’t discuss politics or religion at the dinner table”. But then, there’s a counter-cliche: “Communication is the key to a successful relationship.” On Monday, Sujata Mondal Khan, wife of BJP MP Saumitra Khan, joined the Trinamool Congress. She has been a long-time member of the BJP and her chagrin at her now-former party stems from the fact that “corrupt leaders from other parties” were being given positions in the BJP at the expense of party loyalists. Saumitra Khan broke down at a press conference held shortly after his wife’s departure and said he would send her a “divorce notice”.
Defections and counter-defections are hardly a new phenomenon in Indian politics. But in families, particularly in ideologically and politically polarised Bengal, switching parties is clearly more than just switching jobs. Remember, this is a time when family feuds erupt in WhatsApp groups over everything from the CAA to farmer protests. That impulse may well be compounded in families where both partners are politicians. Perhaps, politics should stop at the water’s edge, and beyond the threshold, more mundane domesticity should rule the roost. But that’s easier said than done — like business and Bollywood, a political career is often a family concern. Children take over political parties from their parents, spouses become stand-in chief ministers. In fact, when Saumitra was banned by a court from entering Bankura during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Sujata became the chief campaigner for her husband.
In an ideal world, where the political lines would not be so sharply drawn, a spouse switching parties wouldn’t be as upsetting as it seems to be. Political couples could ask each other, “how was your day” without worrying about defections, optics, elections and the burdens of ideology. After all, when investment banker couples switch jobs, there are no press conferences expressing anguish.
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Australia changes National Anthem wording to reflect Indigenous history
Australia has struggled for decades to reconcile with Aborigines, who arrived on the continent some 50,000 years before British colonists.
By: Reuters | Sydney | January 1, 2021 10:20:15 am
There is now a renewed focus on Indigenous empowerment amid the Black Lives Matter movement. (File)
Australia amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being “young and free” amid calls to recognise that its Indigenous people are the oldest continued civilization in the world.
The change to “for we are one and free” took effect on Friday.
“We live in a timeless land of ancient First Nations peoples, and we draw together the stories of more than 300 national ancestries and language groups,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Canberra.
“And our anthem should reflect that. The changes we have made and we have announced today, I think, achieve that goal.”
Each year Australians have a national holiday on Jan. 26, marking the date the “First Fleet” sailed into Sydney Harbour in 1788, carrying mainly convicts and troops from Britain. Some indigenous people refer to Australia Day as “Invasion Day”.
There is now a renewed focus on Indigenous empowerment amid the Black Lives Matter movement.
The idea to change the wording was floated in 2020 by New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian who had said the current wording ignored Australia’s “proud First Nations culture”.
The proposal was welcomed by several lawmakers, including federal minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt as well as firebrand rightwing One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson.
When asked if he would want to be the first person to sing the new national anthem, Morisson said: “I think singing by prime ministers is the same as public exercise by prime ministers — it is best done in private.”
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Architecture · Automotive · Electric Vehicles · Technology · Transportation
The world’s first all-electric sport utility truck is finally here – and it looks incredible
Written by Kristine Lofgren
News Transportation Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicle buyers are spoiled for choice these days – there’s electric sports cars, sedans, SUVs, minivans, and motorcycles. So where’s the electric truck? New York-based Bollinger Motors just answered that question with the B1 – the world’s first all-electric, all-wheel drive sport utility truck. It’s remarkably refined with a strong, stealthy profile – and it’s rough and rugged enough to haul heavy loads and tackle challenging terrain. The B1 has better horsepower, torque, and ground clearance than any gas-powered truck in its class – plus a few features you simply won’t find in internal combustion engine vehicles. Read on for a first look – straight from Bollinger’s unveil tonight in New York City.
Electric trucks make a lot of sense on paper, as EVs produce plenty of torque – which trucks need to cart heavy loads. However this power comes at a price – lithium ion cells are heavy, and automakers must carefully balance battery weight vs performance and cost when creating a new EV. Bollinger Motors found a winning formula by nesting the B1’s batteries in a remarkably strong aluminum chassis that weighs just 295 pounds.
Two battery setups are available – a 60 kWh system with 120 miles of range, and a 100 kWh system with 200 miles of range. The longer range beats most electric cars on the road today – which is even more impressive given the B1’s powertrain specs.
The Bollinger B1’s full-time, all-wheel drive powertrain features front and rear-mounted synchronous electric motors that produce 360 horsepower and 472 lb-ft of torque. That’s a lot of power – and it gives the B1 a 0-60 speed of 4.5 seconds and a top speed of 127 miles per hour. The vehicle’s curb weight is 3,900 pounds, which translates to a 10.8 power to weight ratio – and it has a payload capacity of 6,100 pounds.
The sport utility truck measures 150 inches long, 76.5 inches wide, and 73.5 inches tall. It has a 105-inch wheelbase and 15.5 inches of ground clearance, which can be adjusted by the vehicle’s hydro-pneumatic suspension within 10 inches of wheel travel. Since the batteries are sunk into the chassis, the B1 has an exceptionally low center of gravity, and the engineering team dialed in a perfect 50/50 weight balance. This all adds up to an extremely capable off-road vehicle that gets an estimated 67.4 MPGe.
The B1’s design is sleek and spartan inside and out. Aluminum interior panels help keep the truck’s weight down, and the dash features an old school mechanical speedometer and tachometer in addition to gauges for battery level, range updates, charging status, and FMVSS warning signals. The vehicle seats four within a steel passenger safety cage, and the interior can be fully hosed down thanks to polyurethane floor pans and rubber seals and gaskets that protect the instruments.
The B1’s electric powertrain frees up cargo space for a “frunk” that is accessible through the center console. This is a clever design decision, as a stack of 12-foot boards will fit handily within the enclosed vehicle. It also has another trick up its sleeve: “Since the B1 is an all-electric truck, it’s really a portable energy source,” says Bollinger Motors’ founder and CEO, Robert Bollinger. “So we put 100 volt plugs throughout the truck so you can use it to power any equipment and tools you might need out in the field. USB and 12 volt plugs are also integrated into the dash to cover all power needs.”
The inspiration for the B1 is easy to trace – it looks a bit like the iconic Land Rover Defender, stripped of its curves and fitted with a powerful all-electric powertrain. It’s not designed to be a mainstream truck, but as a boutique vehicle it’s stunning with performance to match.
“We are so thrilled to be able to finally take the wraps off of our Bollinger B1 SUT,” said Robert Bollinger. “This is the culmination of what has been a 40-year-long boyhood dream of mine and I couldn’t be more pleased with the vehicle and the incredible team who worked so hard to create it.”
The B1 prototype was designed, engineered and manufactured in Hobart, New York – and Bollinger is planning to keep all operations within the US as production begins. They’re currently talking to independent vehicle manufacturers with the goal of launching a production run of 10,000-15,000 vehicles later this year and delivering the first vehicles within 19 months.
Bollinger has yet to announce pricing, however they’re targeting “ranchers, builders, do-it-yourselfers” with a direct to consumer model and a price point comparable to a “nicely equipped sport utility vehicle.” Interested buyers can reserve a spot on Bollinger Motors’ website, which will enable them to place an order in early 2018 with a $1000 down payment.
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3 thoughts on “The world’s first all-electric sport utility truck is finally here – and it looks incredible”
Alex Holland August 2, 2017 at 7:30 am
H.P. Singh that is such a ridiculous, and backward thinking comment. Of course it is true that Tesla are making big steps in the world of EV. However this vehicle is aimed at a niche not currently provided for by Tesla. It is initially being aimed at ranchers and the like, it’s range should be ample to travel around their own ranch, and by incorporating solar cells and wireless charging into their homes, (Even using Tesla roof tiles and smart walls) they could charge their vehicles just by parking in their own back yard. That is without even considering the use of anaerobic digesters to convert yard manure into electricity and a manageable digestate for fertilising the ground. (reducing pollution, fertilising crops, powering EV and even Biogas tractors) You could even have solar cells on the roof of the B1 in some areas…. I’d like to see Bollinger work with less reliance on mechanicals, and more of a ‘fly by wire’ approach, meaning the vehicle could be quickly converted between LHD & RHD for export markets. My main fear would be the style, Land Rover’s Defender was killed off because it’s design was more dangerous in a collision with pedestrians. It is a ground-breaking new concept, and Bollinger should be applauded for doing something different not berated because they are not Tesla….
dc_us July 31, 2017 at 10:57 am
Walker Electric Vehicle Co. built electric and gasoline-electric hybrid trucks in Chicago from around 1918 until at least This Walker Electric Truck
H.P. Singh July 28, 2017 at 8:04 am
3 reasons why this and every other non-Tesla EV will fail: (1) No nationwide high-speed charging network (2) No nationwide high-speed charging network (3) No nationwide high-speed charging network
The world's first all-electric sport utility truck is finally here - and it looks incredible
Bollinger B1 Electric Sport Utility Truck
Electric vehicle buyers are spoiled for choice these days - there's electric sports cars, sedans, SUVs, minivans, and motorcycles. So where's the electric truck? New York-based Bollinger Motors just answered that question with the B1 - the world's first all-electric, all-wheel drive sport utility truck. It's remarkably refined with a strong, stealthy profile - and it's rough and rugged enough to haul heavy loads and tackle challenging terrain. The B1 has better horsepower, torque, and ground clearance than any gas-powered truck in its class - plus a few features you simply won't find in internal combustion engine vehicles. Read on for a first look - straight from Bollinger's unveil tonight in New York City.
Electric trucks make a lot of sense on paper, as EVs produce plenty of torque - which trucks need to cart heavy loads. However this power comes at a price - lithium ion cells are heavy, and automakers must carefully balance battery weight vs performance and cost when creating a new EV.
Bollinger Motors found a winning formula by nesting the B1's batteries in a remarkably strong aluminum chassis that weighs just 295 pounds.
Two battery setups are available - a 60 kWh system with 120 miles of range, and a 100 kWh system with 200 miles of range. The longer range beats most electric cars on the road today - which is even more impressive given the B1's powertrain specs.
The Bollinger B1's full-time, all-wheel drive powertrain features front and rear-mounted synchronous electric motors that produce 360 horsepower and 472 lb-ft of torque.
That's a lot of power - and it gives the B1 a 0-60 speed of 4.5 seconds and a top speed of 127 miles per hour.
The vehicle's curb weight is 3,900 pounds, which translates to a 10.8 power to weight ratio - and it has a payload capacity of 6,100 pounds.
The sport utility truck measures 150 inches long, 76.5 inches wide, and 73.5 inches tall. It has a 105-inch wheelbase and 15.5 inches of ground clearance, which can be adjusted by the vehicle's hydro-pneumatic suspension within 10 inches of wheel travel.
The B1's design is sleek and spartan inside and out.
Aluminum interior panels help keep the truck's weight down, and the dash features an old school mechanical speedometer and tachometer in addition to gauges for battery level, range updates, charging status, and FMVSS warning signals.
The vehicle seats four within a steel passenger safety cage, and the interior can be fully hosed down thanks to polyurethane floor pans and rubber seals and gaskets that protect the instruments.
The B1's electric powertrain frees up cargo space for a "frunk" that is accessible through the center console.
This is a clever move, as a stack of 12-foot boards will fit handily within the enclosed vehicle.
It also has another trick up its sleeve: "Since the B1 is an all-electric truck, it's really a portable energy source," says Bollinger Motors' founder and CEO, Robert Bollinger.
"So we put 100 volt plugs throughout the truck so you can use it to power any equipment and tools you might need out in the field. USB and 12 volt plugs are also integrated into the dash to cover all power needs."
In a word, the B1 is covetable - it looks a bit like the iconic Land Rover D90, stripped of its curves and fitted with a powerful all-electric powertrain.
It's not designed to be a mainstream truck, but as a boutique vehicle it's stunning with performance to match.
The B1 prototype was designed, engineered and manufactured in Hobart, New York - and Bollinger is planning to keep all operations within the US as production begins.
They're currently talking to independent vehicle manufacturers with the goal of launching a "modest" production run later this year and delivering the first vehicles within 19 months.
Bollinger has yet to announce pricing, however they're targeting "ranchers, builders, do-it-yourselfers" with a direct to consumer model and a price point comparable to a "nicely equipped sport utility vehicle."
Interested buyers can reserve a spot on Bollinger Motors' website, which will enable them to place an order in early 2018 with a $1000 down payment.
Bollinger B1 Electric Sport Utility Truck Chassis
Since the batteries are sunk into the chassis, the B1 has an exceptionally low center of gravity, and the engineering team dialed in a perfect 50/50 weight balance. This all adds up to an extremely capable off-road vehicle that gets an estimated 67.4 MPGe.
Robert Bollinger
Photo by Mike Chino for Inhabitat
Bolinger B1 Electric Truck
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Piedmont Office Realty Trust Acquires Ownership Company
8-Story Office Property, Second Building to Come, to be Named Piedmont Pointe
NORCROSS, Ga. (Dec. 19, 2007) – Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc. announced today it has acquired the 100 percent ownership interest of Rock Spring LLC, the entity owning Opus Center at Rock Spring Park I, a recently completed Class-A office building in suburban Washington, D.C. Piedmont also has signed a contract to purchase the entity that owns Opus Center at Rock Spring Park II, an adjacent building under construction.
The two highly efficient eight-story buildings will be connected, totaling approximately 407,000 square feet. The buildings will include outdoor terrace areas, a fitness center and an underground executive parking garage, as well as an adjacent parking structure.
The buildings will be renamed Piedmont Pointe I and II.
The property, part of Rock Spring Park, is located on Rockledge Drive in Bethesda, in close proximity to Interstates 495 and 270 and a short drive from Washington, D.C. Both buildings are now available for leasing; Jones Lang LaSalle will market leasing opportunities.
“This transaction is a good example of our strategy in action – quality properties in one of our concentration markets with an emphasis on long-term growth,” said Raymond L. Owens, executive vice president, capital markets, for Piedmont. “We’re very pleased with the transaction, and believe these buildings should make strong additions to the Piedmont portfolio.”
“These are excellent new office buildings in what we regard as one of the finest corporate parks in the Washington area,” said Wil Stone, senior vice president, capital markets, who represented Piedmont. “We like the area, and we like the real estate.”
The seller was the developer, Opus East, a member of The Opus Group. Terms were not announced. Opus East was represented by Eric Berkman and Steven Gichner of Grubb & Ellis. Piedmont specializes in Class-A office properties. As of Sept. 30, Piedmont owned 82 buildings totaling more than 21 million square feet in 23 states and Washington, D.C., with a 94 percent lease rate. Properties include the corporate headquarters of such other organizations as U.S. Bancorp, NASA and Nestlé USA. For more information, see www.piedmontreit.com.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including discussions regarding Piedmont’s use of proceeds and certain other factors that may affect future earnings or financial results. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include changes in general economic conditions, changes in real estate conditions, construction delays, increases in interest rates, lease-up risks, lack of availability of financing, and lack of availability of capital proceeds. Piedmont Office Realty Trust is closed to new investors. SEC filings: www.sec.gov.
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BYU looking to settle score after last year’s close defeat
By Keith ArnoldNov 19, 2013, 1:10 AM EST
In a season filled with high-wire acts and death-defying escapes, Notre Dame’s 17-14 victory over BYU feels like a chapter you might skim through. With Everett Golson out after a bell-ringing concussion against Stanford, the Irish leaned heavily on the running game, with Tommy Rees throwing just three times in the second half as the Irish came back from a halftime deficit to lock up a victory thanks to Theo Riddick’s clutch running and the defense pitching a second half shutout.
Among the year’s unforgettable memories, you could understand if the hard-fought victory was one that’s already started slipping away from the Irish (or at least their fans).
But that certainly isn’t the case for BYU.
With an easy victory against Idaho State hardly in the rearview mirror, the Cougars were already moving on to Notre Dame on Saturday, heading back to South Bend with the goal to spring an upset that was almost in the books last year.
“I don’t remember many games, but I remember that one,” BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall told the Deseret News’ Jeff Call after his team’s easy 59-13 victory over Idaho State. “So I’m looking forward to going back.”
Mendenhall isn’t the only one on BYU’s sideline that’s looking forward to a return trip to South Bend. Quarterback Taysom Hill talked about his chance at facing the Irish, after sitting out last season with a knee injury.
“I’m really excited,” Hill told the Deseret News. “Much like Wisconsin, you get a team like Notre Dame that’s known around the country for being a quality football team. It gives us an opportunity again to go on the road to showcase what we can do on a national stage.”
Wide receiver Cody Hoffman, who had eight catches and a touchdown last season against the Irish put it more candidly.
“It’s stuck with us because we easily could have won,” Hoffman said. “Seeing them in the national championship, knowing that we could have and should have beat them, it will be nice to go back this year and hopefully get revenge.”
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Press Release : Enabling Development through Panchayati Raj in India
The Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) hosted a dissemination workshop on "Enabling Development through Panchayati Raj in India" on May 27, 2014. The workshop was divided into three sessions.
Welcoming the panellists IRMA's Director, Prof. Jeemol Unni, inaugurated the workshop affirming that IRMA has been doing considerable work on Panchayati Raj over a long period of time, which had led to the evolution of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance- one of IRMA's five Centres of Excellence.
The keynote address was delivered by Dr. SS Meenakshi Sundaram, Executive Vice-Chairman of MYRADA and Former Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development), who laid emphasis on the fact that economic development was the starting point after which self-governance could take place. He also touched upon the importance of community participation in development, decentralization, and the "wide variation" that exists in "performance from state to state."
Ms. Sarada Muraleedharan (Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj) opined that Panchayats held the key to the major dimensions of poverty as well as to the status of women in rural society. She said that it is possible to address both issues "where systems of accountability are pronounced".
During Session 1, which was chaired by Dr. Vinod Vyasulu (Centre for Budget and Policy Studies), Prof. Hari Nagarajan (IRMA) expressed concern regarding the fact that India's villages remained under-developed despite two decades having elapsed since the creation of Panchayati Raj Institutions. Speaking on "The Impact of Restricted and Unrestricted Fiscal Grants on Tax Efforts of Rural Local Governments in India" he said, "Much of this is attributable to linking decentralization solely to administrative reforms."
Session 2, entitled "Social Identity and Education Attainment: The Role of Caste and Religion in Explaining Differences between Children in India", had Prof. Vani Kant Barooah of the University of Ulster (UK) as the main speaker.
Referring to issues concerning malnutrition, hygiene, among other things, Prof. Barooah spoke of education as a "big determinant of poverty and inequality backing his statement with a slide presentation on a study he'd conducted on school performance along caste lines. Speaking about the "reading gap" between scheduled caste and upper caste children he bemoaned the fact that "there is no accountability in the context of discrimination" stressing that the "setting up of institutions is the start of the journey."
Session 3 featured a discussion on "Enabling Service Delivery through Panchayats" and was chaired by Prof. Leela Visaria of the Gujarat Institute of Development Research. Expressing concern over the dropout rate of girl children from schools Prof. Visaria made the point that participation of women had been seen to lead to a lowered dropout rate.
Prof. Amita Singh of Jawaharlal Nehru University, on her part, articulated her unease regarding "Panchayats undergoing a information and knowledge deficit" and lack of knowledge sharing depriving themselves, thereby, of mutual learning. She also stressed the need to revive the Citizen's Charter to improve the quality of public services.
The last session on "Achieving Economic Development through Panchayats" had Prof. Debiprasad Mishra of IRMA speaking about "empirical research running contrary to theory" and of the need to "institutionalize variations", among other things. Panchayats being institutions of state, he said, "What gets designed by the government only creates necessary conditions..." Emphasizing the need for welfare commitments he pointed out that "Welfare states have been implemented through local governments."
Other speakers included Prof. Arti Nanvati (Professor and Head, Department of Economics and Director, Centre for Canadian Studies (UGC Area Studies Programme) at Faculty of Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Prof. G. Palanithurai (Gandhgram Rural Institute), Neeraj Chandra (Sahaj e-Village Limited), and Prof. KV Ramani (IIM, Ahmedabad).
IRMA's Prof. SN Biswas, also Coordinator of the institute's Centre for Public Policy and Governance, concluded the workshop by summing up the discussion thanking the panellists.
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Two gangs from opposite sides of the street. One romance that dared to cross the line. In 1961, this movie adaptation of the Broadway smash-hit musical West Side Story broke box office records and won an incredible 10 Academy Awards, more than any other musical before or since. On the streets of New York City, two gangs (the Sharks and the Jets) battle for territory and respect. But when Tony, the leader of the Jets, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Sharks leader Bernardo, a chain of events is set in motion that will tear their worlds apart forever. Featuring music from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, and songs like “America,” “Somewhere,” and “Tonight,” this timeless story of star crossed lovers and rival gangs races to a shattering climax you will never forget.
Musical masterpiece tackles race, with some violence.
Richard Beymer
George Chakiris
© 1961 Metro-Goldywn-Mayer Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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live stream Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change – Certificate of Title Handing-Over Ceremony @10:00 am
Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change – Certificate of Title Handing-Over Ceremony @10:00 am
Deputy Mayor Encourages Kingston Residents To Abide By Building Codes
Housing Ministry provided 2,221 Homes through Joint Venture Arrangement
The Ministry of Water and Housing, through its Joint Venture Partnership programme, provided 2,221 housing solutions for needy Jamaicans last year.
Of the total, 1,554 houses were completed under the joint venture aspect of the programme, where the Ministry utilizes its own lands for construction and 667 under the private sector facilitation component, where privately-owned lands are used.
In making his contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on June 16, Water and Housing Minister, Donald Buchanan, informed that the Ministry was currently involved in 12 active projects comprising 2,769 solutions, of which five projects providing 1,311 solutions, would be completed this fiscal year.
Turning to mortgage provisions, he noted that the Jamaica Mortgage Bank, which was established to be a principal mortgage agency providing secondary mortgages in particular, has made significant contributions in the area of housing financing.
“During the last year, the Jamaica Mortgage Bank financed the construction of 2,891 housing solutions island wide at a cost of $540 million. It is projected that during this current financial year, the Bank will finance some 1,356 units at a cost of $1.094 billion,” he informed.
Mr. Buchanan also highlighted achievements under the Provision of Social Housing programme, which was conceptualised by Prime Minister P.J Patterson and implemented in March 2004. The programme involves two modalities, with an initial $1 million allocated per constituency per modality, but the allocation was subsequently increased by $500,000 each, bringing the total allocations for 2004/05 to $150 million.
Modality one involves the repair of units while modality two involves the provision of housing units in partnership with Food For the Poor. Minister Buchanan explained that the impact of last year’s Hurricane Ivan resulted in a change of focus and at the request of some Members of Parliament (MPs), approval was granted for the conversion of some funds from modality two to modality one. The Minister also informed that some MPs had utilized the facility to change allocations within the modalities. He noted that of the $77.2 million allocated to modality one, $64.6 million has already been paid out, with 9,286 families benefiting. Of the $42.8 million allocated under modality two, $31.1 million has been paid out with 741 families benefiting. “We have paid out $95.7 million generating a total of 10,027 beneficiaries,” Mr. Buchanan told the House.
It is anticipated that when the $150 million allocated for 2004/2005 is fully utilized, approximately 12,000 families would have benefited.
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NYS Seeking to Recruit and Train 2,000 Young Persons
The National Youth Service (NYS) will seek to recruit and train over 2,000 young Jamaicans this financial year.”We are now in partnerships with some private sector entities in the country, in order to ensure that we reach more young people, and engage you in a formal way in training and work placement, so that you can get on with your lives,” Executive Director of the NYS, Rev. Adinhair Jones told more than 800 young persons who attended a Youth Opportunities Fair at Twickenham Park in St. Catherine, recently.
Since the re-establishment of the NYS in 1995, the organization has sought to train and develop approximately 1,400 young persons between 17 and 29 years on a yearly basis.
The NYS is of the view that given Jamaica’s demographic spread, the age cohort 15 to 24 must be a priority in development planning, as this segment of the population will have the most lasting impact on the future of the nation in terms of life expectancy and productive potential.
Commenting on the large turn-out at the St. Catherine Fair, Rev. Jones noted that the total far exceeded what had been the average attendance at the previous nine parish fairs.
“Young people in St. Catherine are eager to get on with their lives and they are trying to take hold of the opportunities that come to them and I believe that’s an important lesson the parish can hold on to in going forward,” he said.
The Executive Director appealed to those at the Fair to make it an occasion for self-examination, for thinking seriously about their future and the kind of self-leadership that they would provide for themselves to bring them into a prosperous and peaceful future.
Reassuring the participants of the organisation’s continued commitment to assist with their development and success, he pointed out that the NYS was now aiming to ensure that over 90 per cent of the recruits would go on to higher education or permanent employment.
“We have already put one programme in place to make that happen. The NYS is going to ensure that once you come to us, it is mandatory that you go back to school to continue your Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) examinations, so no one will have an excuse for being unsuccessful,” he added.
A tracer study that was done recently for persons who left the NYS in 2002, indicated that 61 per cent of the young people in the NYS, either went onto tertiary studies or to full employment.
The staging of a Youth Opportunities Fair in each parish since last August has been one of the organization’s most recent initiatives, aimed at exposing 6,500 youngsters to the different career opportunities and entrepreneurship possibilities within their respective areas.
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Personal: Life After Crunch Time
There wasn’t a Friday Fiction last week because a) my full-time job has been pretty demanding this past week and, b) any free time I had was devoted to putting the finishing touched on my Pathfinder game. There just aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything I wanted to do, and in the end making sure that the game was ready had to be my one big hobby project for most of the week.
If you’re not familiar with Pathfinder, it’s basically Dungeons and Dragons with some rules tweaks. D+D 3rd ed. was a very popular game, and when Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast/TSR decided to come out with a drastically revamped 4th ed., people balked. The new edition was more like a video game than a traditional table-top role-playing game; word around the table was that the powers that be wanted to make a rules system that could work through every type of gaming platform — tabletop, miniatures, video games. For some reason TSR decided to bail on the idea fairly early in, but 4th ed. was already a thing so….good job there, guys.
Pathfinder basically took the ball and ran with it, publishing a core rulebook that promised to make a lot of the problems with 3rd ed. (and there WERE problems) a bit more palatable while publishing new content including adventures and settings. I’m not sure where it sits on the popularity scale in general, but among my (admittedly small) circle of friends it is THE de facto fantasy RPG. You want medieval magical fantasy? You play Pathfinder.
I’m running a campaign that’s been going for a little over two years now, and the characters are getting fairly advanced — around 9th level or so. This means all the usual beginner’s stuff won’t represent much of a challenge for them; they can pretty much punch goblins and skeletons and the like without breaking a sweat. The demands of their abilities and the demands of the story means that the stakes have to be raised continuously — but not too much, or else you’ll end up with dead player characters before the story’s finished.
With my particular story the PCs have sailed across an ocean that’s been…corrupted by outside chaotic influences. As far as anyone knows, no one has been able to travel by ocean for over a hundred years, but they’ve managed it while sampling just some of the horrors that are out there in the open water. They’ve done this to get to an island where they believe a dimensional portal has been constructed, allowing demons and…other, more terrible things to enter into the world. One person in their group, a paladin named Alexander, had gone as part of a scouting party two months before and hasn’t been heard since. They have reason to believe he’s in a bad way.
On getting to the island, I wanted to give my players an immediate and memorable welcome — but this isn’t easy when you’re dealing with 9th-level players being backed by an entire squadron of paladins. Their entire purpose in life is to hunt down evil creatures and destroy them, and they have an astonishing array of abilities that lets them do just that. I needed to find a way to give the upcoming skirmish a proper scope while still making sure it’s challenging and fun for the players.
I’ve learned a few things after running the game I wrote last week; that it’s really OK to ‘fudge’ or simplify rolls that don’t directly involve player characters, that the less you have to worry about moving pieces the better, and accuracy will be trumped by great, exciting description every time. Pathfinder is a system that tries to construct rules geared towards a balanced, repeatable result. While that’s appreciated by a lot of people, I’m sure, the work it takes to get that result really disrupts game flow and can suck the life out of a game at the precise moment it should be at its most exciting — during combat. I’ll be working on other skirmishes of that scope (and bigger) as the players move closer to their objective. Hopefully they’ll get better as they go along.
In the meantime, the crush of deadlines has subsided for a time and I find myself with a bit more breathing room. I hope to put the time to good use; I’ll make sure that I write my blog entries a bit early so I can polish them a bit more before posting, and I’ll begin writing one short story and editing another. Here and there, as ideas come to me, I’ll be putting together the next Pathfinder session. I know that I have a good story in there, but I’m mostly concerned about being able to tell it in the best possible way.
Diet and exercise has gone about how they usually do — ups and downs. But it’s still at the forefront of my mind, and I’m trying to cook in as much as possible. There are a few more trips to the store before I’d feel comfortable cooking off the top of my head one lazy Sunday afternoon, but I’m getting there.
So, those are my goals for the week: consistent writing, eating in, some sort of exercise every day. What are yours?
Posted by Jakebe on April 14, 2014 in Diet and Exercise, RPGs, Self-Reflection
One response to “Personal: Life After Crunch Time”
sylvan012
You can even fudge with rolls that involve players … but only if it reinforces what the players are doing with regards to reinforcing their intent with their playing. Even still, it’s got to be done rarely or you undermine the players’ faith in the rules of the game and that’s like pulling bricks out of a Jenga stack. 🙂
My goals this week are getting back to a consistent diet.
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Legend Review
Posted on April 7, 2016 by Jason Leave a comment
A GANGSTER “DOUBLE TROUBLE”
Gangster (or Mob) films have become commonplace in Hollywood as well as in the history of movie making. Whether the usage of familiar staples of gangsters, kingpins, mobsters, henchmen, money, police, and crime waves, the allure and overall fascination has been depicted in many variations, some stereotypical in nature, while others try to reinvent themselves in the “mobster” genre. Films like Goodfellas, Scarface, The Godfather (all three movies), and Pulp Fiction have become classic “fan-favorites” of the genre as newer films join its ever-growing body, including The Departed, Black Mass, and Public Enemy. Now director Brian Helgeland and actor Tom Hardy bring the newest gangster film to life in the cinematic retelling of the “The Kray Twins” in the movie Legend. Does this film have the “guts” to stand toe-to-toe with its mobster genre “betters” or is it a movie that should swim with the “fishes”.
Set to rule London’s nightlife of the 1960s, Reggie Kray (Tom Hardy) keeps his “criminal” interest beneath his swagger bravado and charming charisma, while his twin brother, Ronnie Kray (Tom Hardy), is a mental disturbed “loose cannon” individual, who’s clinical diagnose with paranoid schizophrenic. Sensing and desiring a romantic connection, Reggie is quite taken with the young Frances Shea (Emily Browning), welcoming her into his comforting lifestyle of money and glamour, but of also painful isolation and shocking horrors. Bridging his life with his new bride, Reggie builds his empire with casino and nightclub acquisitions, leaving Ronnie to take care of the enforcement gangster issues. With Detective Leonard “Nipper” Read (Christopher Eccleston), a member of Scotland Yard, hot their heels, the Krays’s reign over London’s ensues, while ties to the American mafia help build their reputation. As the years pass, the conflicts between the two brothers increase, with Frances caught in the middle of their “family bonds”.
THE GOOD / THE BAD
As my opening paragraph states, gangster / mob films have been around for quite a while. Most riff on the idea of classic mobster movies, while others will try to depict famous crime bosses and kingpins (albeit in a fictional dramatized to a degree) in a sort of “rise and fall” feature film. Like many, classic ones like Goodfellas and The Godfather trilogy are my favorite gangster / mob movies (I know….it sounds like I’m on the bandwagon, but there classic for a reason). As for the movie Legend, I remember seeing the trailer for it in theaters (roughly around end of summer) and, loving gangster movies as well as actor Tom Hardy, was interested in seeing it. However, Legend was overseas and was only brought to the United States in limited screens. Thus, I couldn’t see it in theaters and had to wait for it to come home release. I purchased on Blu-Ray when I went to pick up Creed (love that movie), but with seeing a lot of movies in theaters currently, I didn’t get the chance to watch Legend until now. After viewing it, I felt that while Hardy does a good job at playing duo roles, Legend is a shallow gangster that movie that only scratches the surface of what could’ve been cinematically recounted about the Kray brothers.
Legend is directed by Brian Helgeland, who previously worked on feature films as a writer including Mystic River, L.A. Confidential, and Man on Fire as well as directed The Order and 42. Like any mobster crime movie, Legend is punctuated violent acts of brawls and skirmishes and Helgeland knows how handle those scenes well, with visceral of bloody fisticuffs playing throughout. If you’re a fan of that, then Legend will be towards your liking. Interestingly, Helgeland also adds a pinch of humor to the proceedings, playing up Ronnie’s craziness with dash of comedic presences. Additionally, Legend also captures London during the 1960’s, offering viewers a visual look of the city from the drab row homes of London’s famous East End to the glitz and the glamour of bars, clubs, and Casino that surrounds the Kray’s thriving empire. Coinciding with that and aesthetically speaking, the look and feel of the movie (cars, clothing attire, furniture, song selection, etc.) also feels appropriate and authenticity for that time period.
The main problem with Legend is that it glosses over its entire story of the Krays. Helgeland wants to cram a lot into his 131-minute movie, but only shows glimpses at various parts of the two brother’s organized crime wave. Because of this notion, the movie is more interested (and invested) in its narration rather than its characters, who are, more or less, flat or undeveloped to make a lasting impression. In addition, the movie has a lot of exposition (and I do mean a lot) and narrated by Browning’s character Frances. This won’t be so bad if it was in moderation, but most of the movie comprises of Frances explaining this and that and who’s who that it sort of dilutes that the whole fascination of the movie. Again, this goes back to the whole thing with movie “exposition” as it supposed to help a movie…not cripple it. In short, Legend could’ve been really good, but with show much to tell and so much exposition the film such becomes flat, tedious, and little bit unsatisfying.
Of course, the highlight of the movie (and much of the draw to see it) is how actor Tom Hardy does as the two Kray brothers (Reggie and Ronnie). Hardy, who mostly known for playing the tough roguish characters like in Warrior, Lawless, and most recently in Mad Max: Fury Road, seems to relish the chance to play two completely different personas in this movie. As Reggie, Hardy gives a performance that’s cool and collective and excludes the confident swagger of crime kingpin. At the other end of the spectrum, Hardy’s Ronnie is more of an opposite, with a slurred speech, contorted facial expressions, and a crazy twitch of maniac presences. (Ronnie also provides a comedy in the movie). While Hardy gives both performance a well-done job, the character personas of the two are nothing more than outer caricatures shells (i.e. the suave one and crazy one). This, of course, doesn’t fall on Hardy’s acting ability, but rather on Helgeland and his writers for delving further into the Kray twins.
For the love interest in the Legend, actress Emily Browning fills that role as Reggie’s beau Frances. Browning, who’s known for her roles in Sucker Punch, Pompeii, and A Series of Unfortunate Events (wow…. I can’t believe that’s Violet Baudelaire)), hold her own and does good job as Frances, but, like Hardy’s Reggie and Ronnie Kray, feels somewhat shallow as her character is sort of glossed over, popping in and out of situations and leaving a lot of question about her life unanswered. As I mentioned above, Browning’s Frances does do the film’s exposition, so her voice gets more screen time than she does on-screen. Then there’s Christopher Eccleston, who’s a good actor (loved him as Ninth Doctor on Doctor Who), as the driven Scotland Yard Detective Leonard “Nipper” Read who’s doesn’t really do much in the movie, only bookends the story with a few brief appearances in-between. Just another clichéd flat-foot cop out to get the gangsters.
The rest of the cast is (collectively) a good group talented individuals, including David Thewlis as the Kray’s business manager Leslie Payne, Taron Egerton as Ronnie’s close confidante gangster Edward “Mad Teddy” Smith, Chazz Palminteri as an associate to a Philadelphia crime family and business partner to the Krays Angelo Bruno, and Paul Bettany as one of the leader’s to the Kray’s rival gang Charlie Richardson. All give solid performances, but again, are giving little room to make their characters memorable, resulting in most of them being a flat or a footnote of a particular scene / scenario.
Reggie and Ronnie Kray rule the crime ringing 1960s London in the movie Legend. Helgeland latest entry in the mob / gangster genre has its moments of clarity, creating a believable backdrop of 60s London as well as a unique dramatized narrative about the infamous Kray twins. While Hardy is fantastic in his polar opposite roles and his supporting cast is overall good, the movie can’t live up to its feature title namesake, feeling shallow in storytelling as well as its characterization of its cast of characters. To me, the movie was okay, but could’ve been better. Thus, I would recommend this movie has a rental only (nothing to rave about except Hardy’s performance). If you’re looking for a deep theatrical gangster movie, get your kicks elsewhere as Legend scratches the surface of what Reggie and Ronnie Kray and their crime empire.
3.2 Out of 5 (Rent It)
Released On: September 9th, 2015
Reviewed On: April 7th, 2015
Legend is rated R for strong violence, language throughout, some sexual and drug material
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Vi Redd
January 16, 2019 January 20, 2019 • Lauryn Gould
Vi Redd is one of the few female saxophonists who was a bandleader outside of the all-girl bands that I’ve encountered in my research on women in jazz this month. (At the time I originally wrote the post, I’d collected 79 names and only 10 of them were ones I knew previously. Now I’m up to 242!)
Daughter of drummer, Alton Redd VI, she grew up in a musical household. Redd started to sing in church when she was five and picked up the saxophone at about age 12. Her great aunt, Alma Hightower was considered to be one of the foremost LA music teachers during that time and gave her lessons. (Incidentally, Alma Hightower was also Melba Liston’s music teacher for a while.) She formed a band in 1948 and began to sing and perform professionally, but her career really took off in the early 1960s. She was one the first female instrumentalists to headline the Las Vegas Jazz Festival in 1962, and even then as a 34-year old woman with children and an established career was reviewed patronizingly as “an attractive young girl alto sax player.” [1]
According to Yoko Suzuki, University of Pittsburgh, Vi toured with Earl Hines in 1964, played with her own band at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966, and traveled to London to “play with local musicians at the historic Ronnie Scott’s jazz club. She was initially invited there as a singer and was scheduled to perform for only two weeks, but due to popular demand her performance was extended to ten weeks.” Suzuki also shares the story told by Leonard Feather that Vi was “Booked in there (Ronnie Scott’s)…only as a supporting attraction…she often earn[ed] greater attention and applause than several world-famous saxophonists who appeared during that time playing the alternate sets.” [1]
Vi Redd recorded two albums: Bird Call in 1962 and Lady Soul in 1963. Lady Soul is my favorite and Rob Ferrier of All Music describes it nicely:
“This record is a sterling example of what the music [jazz] lost in the name of its phallocentricity. Vi Redd demonstrates a thoughtful tone and a careful respect for those around her. Her solos are pithy and directly to the point…Quite honestly, there’s really nothing quite like her records.” [2]
Redd also appears on several other albums including Al Grey’s Shades of Grey, Count Basie: Live at Antibes 1968, Gene Ammons and Dexter Gordon: The Chase, and Marian McPartland, Now’s The Time (Also featuring the great Mary Osborne!) [3] Here’s an excellent video clip of Redd performing with the Basie band at that concert in 1968:
Listen to a playlist of her music here.
(Re)sources
[1] Yoko Suzuki. “Invisible Woman: Vi Redd’s Contributions as a Jazz Saxophonist.” American Music Review. Vol. XLII, No. 2, Spring 2013. http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/centers/hitchcock/publications/amr/v42-2/suzuki.php
[2] Curt Davenport. “Unsung Women of Jazz #7 – Vi Redd.” Curt’s Jazz Cafe. https://curtjazz.com/2011/10/01/unsung-women-of-jazz-7-vi-redd/
[3] Wikipedia contributors, “Vi Redd,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vi_Redd&oldid=872902200 (accessed January 16, 2019).
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Music Monday: Local Artist Doing His Part To Get Us Through Covid-19
Jim Borden family, lessons learned, music, passion, politics, social justice April 6, 2020 3 Minutes
Back on March 15, local musician Scott McClatchy started his “Mission To Civilize Internet Guitar Pull” on his Facebook page.
A guitar pull is a southern tradition where a small group of musicians sit around and take turns playing songs on a guitar.
Scott started the tradition as a way to bring music to people during the covid-19 crisis, and as a way to support musicians, and others, whose livelihood has been affected by the crisis.
Scott is now up to day 23 of his Mission To Civilize Guitar Pull, and it has been wonderful listening to him perform a new song every morning. He performs a mix of both original songs as well as some covers. But as Scott points out, his covers are not of greatest hits, but often the B-side, deep cuts of an artist. To date, he has played songs of Springsteen, John Fogerty, John Prine, John Hiatt, Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Steve Van Zandt, Simon and Garfunkel, and even an old Irish Rebel song on St. Patty’s Day.
Here are a couple of my favorites:
an original: Toasting My Friends:
cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Tougher Than the Rest
And to give you a little bit more of Scott’s music, here is the music video for one of his more popular songs, Take a Walk with Me:
The song was even chosen to close out one of the episodes of the TV show Rizzoli and Isles, sung by the actor Bruce McGill:
I much prefer Scott’s version…
Here’s a brief background on Scott, from his web site:
Scott McClatchy started out as the singer/songwriter/guitarist for Philadelphia’s The Stand. McClatchy guided The Stand through a successful run that included being named Best Unsigned Band by both East Coast Rocker magazine & WMMR Radio. McClatchy’s music blurs the lines between all styles of American music. Rock, folk and country are all touchstones of his song writing. McClatchy and his band have worked nationally with acts as varied as Steve Earle, John Hiatt, Confederate Railroad, The BoDeans and Little Steven. McClatchy also performed acoustically with artists like T-Bone Burnette and Corey Glover (Living Colour). McClatchy left his native Philadelphia for New York City to join forces with Scott Kempner and Manny Caiati of The Del Lords. In 2000, McClatchy and Kempner paired up as artist and producer on McClatchy’s debut CD: “Blue Moon Revisited”. With follow up CDs; “Redemption” & “Burn This.” McClatchy then partnered up with Nashville songwriter & producer, Billy Lee, and released his 4th CD; “A Dark Rage.” Scott McClatchy and Billy Lee have also co-written songs for the Nashville market. McClatchy has just released his latest album, with a 10 piece band that will include a full-blown horn section.
McClatchy has toured extensively. He has traveled as guitar player for Hall of Fame member, Dion [“Runaround Sue”] and with Dave Kincaid’s [of The Brandos] “The Irish Volunteer” show. Three of Scott’s songs can be heard on the soundtrack of the independent film, God, Sex & Apple Pie, which won the Award For Best Picture at the 30th Parallel Film Festival.
Besides his musical talents, there are a couple of other things that make me a fan of Scott’s:
I went to high school with his brother, so even though I’ve never met him, that makes us just one degree of separation
we have the same beliefs politically and from a social justice perspective
Scott is a dead ringer for one of my college roommates
I encourage you to give Scott a listen; you can find his “Mission To Civilize Guitar Pull” on his Facebook page.
Thank you, Scott, for your efforts to keep us entertained during this crisis and your support of other artists and non-profits.
While I do hope for a speedy end to the covid-19 crisis, one downside will be the end of your performances…
Stay safe, and thank you to all the helpers out there…
*image from Scott’s Facebook page
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17 thoughts on “Music Monday: Local Artist Doing His Part To Get Us Through Covid-19”
Tandy | Lavender and Lime says:
thanks, Tandy. I hope you enjoyed Scott’s music.
salsaworldtraveler says:
Thank you! Music makes life better.
it certainly does!
Jim, this is a well written salute to another talented Pennsylvanian! Must be something in the water. Yet another ray of sunshine in these cloudiest of times. Thanks for sharing!
glad you enjoyed it, Brad. And yes, just like the Flyers, all the talent is in the Eastern part of the state 🙂
(found this in my spam folder for some reason, sorry for the delay in responding)
No worries, my friend! I know how busy you are..🤣🤣
yes, I am feeling overwhelmed… 🙂
thanks for introducing us to him ,and i love the guitar pull concept !
thanks, Beth! I do enjoy his music!
As a Southern transplant, still taking root in SC after 24 years…. the term “guitar pull” has, at least in my corner of paradise, evolved into just another name for a music festival, with thousands and sometimes tens of thousands in attendance.
it seems to be a pretty loosely defined term…
Music is the one thing that can fill our souls anywhere. anytime. Thanks Jim 🙂
thanks, Debby! I agree, there is magic in music.
Awesome post Jim! You introduced me to a fantastic music artist, and these songs bring a style I will listen to again. Thanks so much for sharing Scott McClatchy.
glad you enjoyed him Richard!
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Posts Tagged ‘no end in sight for scourge of climate change’
‘There Will Be A Reckoning’
by Jon Queally, Common Dreams, February 25, 2015
Environmental visionary Lester Brown delivers stark warning over dust bowl conditions spreading over Africa and Asia.
A satellite captured a 2001 dust storm swirling over China. The storm eventually crossed the Pacific and reached the United States. (Photo: NASA)
On the verge of retirement, noted environmentalist and celebrated systems analyst Lester Brown has a dire warning for the world he has spent more than half a century advising on issues of food and energy policy: there is no end in sight for the interrelated scourge of climate change, global poverty and hunger.
In fact, according to Brown, in several vulnerable areas around the world, the situation may be about to go from very bad to much worse.
“We are pushing against the limits of land that can be plowed and the land available for grazing and there are two areas of the world in which we are in serious trouble now,” said Brown, who founded both the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, in an interview with the Guardian’s environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg.
“One is the Sahel region of Africa, from Senegal to Somalia,” explained Brown. “There is a huge dust bowl forming now that is actually stretching right across the continent and that dust bowl is removing a lot of top soil, so eventually they will be in serious trouble.”
At some point soon, he added, “there will be a reckoning” in those regions.
According to this NPR report from November, based on the work of the Earth Policy Institute, the dust bowl conditions forming in northern Africa and across central Asia are already having dire consequences:
In China, dust storms have become almost an annual occurrence since 1990, compared to every 31 years on average historically. In northern China and Mongolia, two large deserts — the Badain Jaran and the Tengger — are expanding and merging, often swirling together in massive sand storms when strong winds blow through each spring. The Gobi desert is also growing, inching ever-closer to Beijing as the grasslands at its edges deteriorate.
Meanwhile, in the Sahel region of Africa, millions of acres are turning to desert each year in countries including Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger and Nigeria. Dust from Chad’s Bodele Depression been traveling the globe for many centuries — in fact, scientists think it helped make the Amazon fertile. But the amount of dust blowing out of West Africa has increased in the last 40 years. Dust clouds from the Sahara can affect air quality as far away as Houston, and may even harm Caribbean coral reefs.
According to Brown, as the situation worsens in these areas, the impacts will likely be much worse than they were in the United States during the 1930s. “Our dust bowl was serious,” Brown explained to Goldenberg, “but it was confined and within a matter of years we had it under control … these two areas don’t have that capacity.”
The warning over soil erosion and the unsustainable farming practices that currently dominate large swaths of the planet have been on the mind of ecologists and agricultural experts for decades. As the threat of global warming has entered the public debate, the stakes have only intensified. Brown was among the first and most thorough minds to set attention on the threat of planetary climate change, devoting an entire series of books—collectively titled Plan B—which assess and put forth solutions to the approaching crisis. The most recent edition is Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
However, in a statement last month, Brown announced that he would officially retire later this year and wind down the Earth Policy Institute following the publication of his next book, The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy.
“After careful consideration of my life at 80 years,” announced Brown in the statment, “and with profound appreciation to my staff, collaborators and supporters, I have decided to step down as president of the Earth Policy Institute and end its work as of July 1, 2015.”
Brown continued, “I believe the Earth Policy Institute has accomplished what we set out to do when we began in 2001, and now it is time for me to make a shift and no longer carry the responsibility of managing an organization. I plan to continue to research and write on issues that I believe I can add to in some meaningful way.”
Speaking with Goldenberg, Danielle Nierenberg, who joined Worldwatch in 2001 and went on to co-found her own institute, Food Tank, said the world owes much to Brown for his decades of work and unique vision.
“He’s the godfather of merging environmental and food issues,” said Nierenberg. “If you are talking about food and the environment, everybody looks to Lester Brown.”
As the world continues to grapple with the catastrophes spurred by our own human development, Brown wrote this in the introduction to Plan B 4.0: “The question we face is not what we need to do, because that seems rather clear to those who are analyzing the global situation. The challenge is how to do it in the time available. Unfortunately, we don’t know how much times remains. Nature is the timekeeper but we cannot see the clock.”
He continued, “The thinking that got us into this mess it not likely to get us out. We need a new mindset.”
The last question society should ask, he concluded, is whether or not what needs to be done is considered possible.
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Rochester’s City Flag Named Among America’s Worst!
First question: Did you even know that Rochester has its own city flag? Well, it does! Before now, did you know what it looked like? Probably not. But some experts consider its design among the worst in the nation...
There's a website called 99% Invisible, which started as a collaboration between public radio station KALW and the American Institute of Architects in San Francisco, that creates podcasts about architecture and design. It turns out that 99% Invisible is well aware of Rochester's civic flag.
Mostly, because a group of vexillologists chose it as one of the worst civic flag in the entire country! What the heck is a vexillologist? It's somebody who studies flags and flag design. They chose our flag, along with those of several other cities, including Minneapolis, Minnesota; Dallas, Texas; Tampa, Florida; and the flag for the state of New Jersey, as being among the worst in America!
Just what makes for good design in a city flag? According to the 99% Invisible post on the subject, the features for a successful city flag include keeping it simple, meaningfully symbolic of the city it represents and distinctive. A limit of colors and staying away from seals or lettering is also important..
Even though our flag is on the list, it could be worse. The flag for the city of Pocatello, Idaho, was chosen as THE WORST city flag in all of America! But to Pocatello's credit, they have actually started working to create a new flag for the city.
If only there was something we could do to redesign a new flag for Rochester...
Oh, wait. Maybe there is! Let's get a campaign going using #newflagforRochester and see if we can get the ball rolling...
Who's in?
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Trump ditches New York to become a Florida resident, court documents show
President Donald Trump, a native New Yorker, has now declared himself a Florida resident, according to court documents.
The President changed his permanent residence to his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, in late September, and first lady Melania Trump followed suit in October, in forms filed with the Palm Beach County Circuit Court.
In a series of tweets Thursday night, Trump said he was leaving New York because he’s been “treated very badly” by politicians in the Empire State.
“1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House, is the place I have come to love and will stay for, hopefully, another 5 years as we MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, but my family and I will be making Palm Beach, Florida, our Permanent Residence,” Trump tweeted.
“I cherish New York, and the people of New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse. I hated having to make this decision, but in the end it will be best for all concerned. As President, I will always be there to help New York and the great people of New York. It will always have a special place in my heart!”
The documents assert that the Florida resort is now Trump’s “predominant and principal home.” They list his former address as that of Trump Tower in New York, and the addresses of his “other places of abode” as those of the White House and the private Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Trump has spent 307 days at one of his properties since taking office, including 239 days at one of his golf clubs, according to a CNN tally.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, was not sad to see Trump go.
“Good riddance. It’s not like @realDonaldTrump paid taxes here anyway,” Cuomo tweeted. “He’s all yours, Florida.”
The New York Times first reported the switch in residence.
The change was primarily for tax purposes, a person close to the President told the Times. Florida does not collect income tax.
The person close to the President also told the Times that Trump was enraged by the Manhattan district attorney’s lawsuit in pursuit of his tax returns. It is unclear how switching residences would affect the lawsuit.
That suit, which all sides see heading to the Supreme Court for an election-year showdown, has not gone Trump’s way so far. A federal judge in early October dismissed Trump’s effort to prevent his tax returns from being turned over to a New York grand jury — a decision that an attorney for Trump appealed minutes later.
The appeals court immediately ordered a temporary stay of the subpoena. But last week, that appeals court expressed skepticism that Trump can block a subpoena from New York state prosecutors for his tax returns.
Pelosi announces retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré to lead review of ‘security infrastructure’ after Capitol attack
275 cases open in Capitol riot investigation, US prosecutors say
Taxidermy and a Lincoln bust among departing White House effects
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The Mother of all Film Bombs – Fairfield Daily Republic
When the U.S. dropped the 21-ton Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), nicknamed the “Mother of All Bombs,” on Afghanistan last week, it inspired me to write about what I feel is the Mother of All Film Bombs: 1978’s “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
The musical was based on the iconic 1967 Beatles album of the same name and starred the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and numerous other artists in an incomprehensible train wreck of a story. The accompanying soundtrack initially sold well until it was torpedoed by the film release a few weeks later.
First things first: Before I begin, I feel it’s appropriate to finally offer a public apology to my brother Kelvin for dragging him to the Fairfield Cinema I theater downtown and inflicting this film on his psyche when it came out.
The confession: While I am a huge (5 foot 16 inches) Beatles fan now, in 1978 I was only dimly aware of them. I actually (please don’t tell any one this) had never heard the original album until after hearing the soundtrack to the film. Oh, the humanity!
The background: While researching this column I discovered that the film was loosely based on a 1974 off-Broadway show called “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road.” It starred Ted Neely, who played the title role in the 1973 film adaptation of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” as well as Alaina Reed of “Sesame Street” and “227.”
The plot: Well, explaining the story is difficult. That’s because it makes no freakin’ sense unless you are on peyote. Here’s the (spoiler alert) climactic scene in the film: Frampton’s played Billy Shears, whose girlfriend (named Strawberry Fields) was accidentally killed by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith (don’t ask), and this is what happens next, according to an account on Wikipedia:
“The town of Heartland holds an elaborate funeral for Strawberry, after which a depressed Billy attempts suicide by jumping from a rooftop. Before he can hit the ground, the Magical Weather Vane on top of City Hall comes to life (as Billy Preston) and catches him with a magical lightning bolt. The Magical Weather Vane then dances through the town square, tossing magical lightning bolts that transform Mr. Mustard and the Brute into a bishop and a monk, Mustard’s van into a VW Beetle, Dougie and Lucy into an altar boy and a nun, and finally restores Strawberry to life. As Billy and Strawberry happily embrace, one last lightning bolt transforms his and the Hendersons’ (the Bee Gees) mourning suits into shiny new Sgt. Pepper uniforms.”
It makes “Xanadu” seem like Shakespeare.
The irony: Earth Wind & Fire’s version of “Got to Get You Into My Life” from the film is in my view an improvement on the original, sold a million copies and won a Grammy.
The finale: At the end of the movie they had a bunch of then-celebrities gather in what was an attempt to sorta recreate the famous Sgt. Pepper album cover that featured notables such as Mae West, Lenny Bruce, Sonny Liston, Bette Davis, Dylan Thomas and more. I’m not gonna list who the film had singing the “Sgt. Pepper” reprise in their homage, but one of them was Leif Garrett. ’Nuff said.
The reviews: Movies like this one bring out atomic snark attacks by critics and my favorite is from David Ansen of Newsweek: “a film with a dangerous resemblance to wallpaper.”
The objection: I’m anticipating a robust objection from Kelvin, who would point to another film I dragged him to see, 1980’s “Can’t Stop the Music,” as the true Mother of All Film Bombs. It was a wretched mock-biopic about and starring the Village People. The nadir? A song called “Milkshake.” Here’s a lyrics sample:
“Just get a glass of milk, you see it’s not very hard to make,
Add some ice cream and blend, you will have yourself a great milkshake!
Do the shake, do the shake.”
Now, Kelvin’s objection is noted, but I would point out that there is a very brief scene in “Can’t Stop the Music” where co-star Valerie Perrine was topless. Even without raging teenage hormones that several-seconds-long scene is better than anything in “Sgt. Pepper.”
Reach Fairfield writer Tony Wade at [email protected].
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Standing and the Juliana v. United States Plaintiffs
Sympathetic Plaintiffs Also Help Legally
It’s not news that the 21 children (some now adults) who are suing the United States for the right to a safe and stable climate are sympathetic and telegenic. They are the primary reason Juliana v. United States has garnered so much attention, including a lengthy, highly positive segment on 60 Minutes. But the Juliana youth are not just telegenic. They are also key to one of the most important legal questions in the case: whether the plaintiffs have the right to bring the case at all, under the constitutional doctrine of standing. The lawyers for the youth plaintiffs – from the organization Our Children’s Trust – have used their obligation to establish standing in a strategically brilliant way: they have not just gone through the motions to meet the requirements of the doctrine, but have used standing as an opportunity to showcase the children and the very real harms they are already experiencing — and will continue to experience — from a warming planet.
Tomorrow, June 4th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear an appeal of a lower court decision in the Juliana case. The lower court held — in a sweeping decision — that the youth plaintiffs have “standing” to sue the federal government. The court also found that the plaintiffs have stated a valid legal claim that the United States government has an obligation to maintain a safe and stable climate in order to protect the life, liberty and property of the children as required by the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Furthermore, the federal government has a public trust obligation to protect certain resources under the Due Process Clause.
It’s the standing part of the case I focus on in this post.
Since 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that environmental organizations suing in federal court must demonstrate that at least one or more of their members have standing to sue. This is a constitutional requirement under Article III of the Constitution, which limits federal court jurisdiction to “cases and controversies.” To establish standing, a plaintiff (in this case at least one of the children or the other plaintiffs) must show three things: 1) that they have been “injured in fact;” 2) that their injury is “fairly traceable” to the conduct of the defendant; and 3) that a favorable ruling from the court would “redress” their injury. Environmental organizations have for many years argued in favor of lenient standing requirements, starting with Sierra Club v. Morton in 1972, where they argued that they should be able to establish “organizational” standing instead of showing that their individual members were harmed by the behavior being sued over. After losing a number of standing cases beginning in 1987, environmental plaintiffs achieved two big victories in Laidlaw v. Friends of the Earth in 2000 and in Massachusetts v, EPA, the landmark climate change case. There the Court held that states like Massachusetts face somewhat relaxed standing requirements in environmental cases. Plaintiffs like the Juliana kids do not receive this “special solicitude” that states do and must present strong evidence to meet the three doctrinal requirements of standing.
What is impressive about the standing evidence in Juliana is that, rather than grudgingly complying with the doctrinal requirements, the lawyers for the Juliana youth plaintiffs have embraced them. Coincidentally, I wrote an article two decades ago arguing that environmental lawyers should view standing requirements as an opportunity rather than an obstacle. Standing allows lawyers to humanize what can otherwise be dry and technical cases, to connect those who feel intensely about the environmental issue at stake in a case to the issues before a court. The Juliana lawyers apparently feel similarly. They have filed a number of what I think are the most compelling documents in the case: a series of affidavits from each of the children documenting the harms they are already facing and will continue to face as the earth continues to warm. These are accompanied by affidavits from experts connecting the kids’ injuries to climate change, to the behavior of the federal government and to the remedy the plaintiffs are seeking. Together, these affidavits provide strong evidence that the children have met their standing burden. They also tell a powerful story.
The affidavits of the children help establish the first doctrinal requirement of standing, that the plaintiffs have been “injured in fact.” Here is an excerpt from one of the most compelling, from thirteen year old Jayden F., from Rayden, Louisiana about her experience when her town faced catastrophic flooding (in a house supposedly not at risk for flooding):
FLOODWATERS AND SEWAGE RUINED MY HOME
At 5:00 a.m. on August 13, 2016, my siblings woke me up. I noticed there was water coming from under the door to my room. My room is at the back of the house with a door that goes outside. When I stepped out of my bed, I stepped in water that came up to my ankles. I stepped right in the middle of climate change. When I opened my bedroom door to the rest of our home, the water flowed into other parts of the house.
I was scared and did not know what to do. We called our Mom and told her what was happening. Mom told us that she was trying to get home to us, but that she did not know when she could get there. The roads were flooding, with cars floating down highways. It took her all day to get home to us. Her car was swept up in the flood. On her way home, my Mom had to walk through floodwater up to her thighs. She finally made it home late that night of August 13.
All day, floodwater continued to pour into our home. To try to keep us safe, we began using towels and blankets to cover the bottom of all of the doors that went outside. Yet the floodwaters kept pouring in, through doors, toilets, sinks, bathtubs, and even the roof. The floodwaters also came up through thefoundation, underneath the carpet. Our home had cracks in our foundation due to subsidence, so the water was even coming up from below our house.
Floodwaters were pouring into our home through every possible opening. We tried to stop it with towels, blankets, and boards. The water was flowing downthe hallway, into my Mom’s room and my sisters’ room. The water drenched my living room and began to cover our kitchen floor. Our toilets, sinks, and bathtubs began to overflow with awful smelling sewage because our town’s sewer system also flooded. Soon the sewage was everywhere. We had a stream of sewage and water running through our house.
My brother went to the police station to try to get help, but there was no one there to help. There were only some sandbags for people to take. No one knew what to do. Later, a police officer friend of my Mom came by to check on us after my Mom called him, but there was nothing he nor anyone could do to stop the floodwaters.
The hard rain and floods continued for two weeks. Even during the days of the flooding, we had nowhere to go. We could not go outside because of all the rain and floodwaters. There were no shelters. All of the grocery stores were closed. We were basically stranded. So we kept sleeping in our house that was full of sewage and floodwater damage.
When my Mom returned that first night of the flood in our home, she and my older brother and sister began trying to clean up. The water that came into our home was orange. It smelled so foul in the house, so they wore masks and gloves while they pulled up our carpet.
The flood destroyed my home and many of our belongings, including our furniture and mattresses, and my little brother’s toys. We had to pull out all of our carpet because it was soaked with sewage water. We have to scrape all the affected linoleum off of our floors. We think many of our walls, including the walls in my room, have to be torn down because the sewage floodwater also got into the insulation in our walls, which creates black mold. We have to do this work right away because we have to prevent black mold from growing. We also have rain damage to our ceiling and roof that needs to be repaired.
When the government workers came to examine the damage, they said we had at least four inches of water in my house.
Now we are collecting supplies, and we are in the demolition phase to try to get rid of all of the damaged parts of our home.
My family is all sleeping in our living room because we cannot sleep in our bedrooms. There is still foul water in the walls there.
A few days after the flood, my siblings and I began to get real sick. Everyone in my family had flu-like symptoms with fevers and sore throats, as well asstomach pain and diarrhea. My whole body felt hot and my hands were very cold. I had bad headaches, a sore throat, and an upset stomach. We are not alone. Most people we know in the town of Rayne are also sick. We think it is from the polluted water that we have all been exposed to.
Jayden’s declaration is not the only compelling one. In finding that the plaintiffs have provided strong evidence to establish standing, the district court relied on declarations from Kelsey Juliana about the polluted air she has breathed due to Oregon wildfires, and injuries to indigenous and cultural resources from plaintiffs Mico, Jamie and Xiuhtezcatl, among others. The affidavits also show the emotional harms the kids are experiencing, including 11 year old Levi, who has nightmares about storms washing away his house on a Florida barrier island.
Lawyers for the Juliana youth also submitted compelling expert declarations to meet the other two requirements, that the injuries of the children are “fairly traceable” to the federal government’s conduct and that a favorable court ruling would “redress” the injuries. These expert declarations describe the rapid increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the human contribution to that increase, and the unprecedented weather events that are already occurring and will continue to occur at an increasing rate as a result. The declarations tie injuries from flooding, wildfires, increased air pollution and other harms to increasing greenhouse gas emissions. A declaration from climate scientist James Hansen shows that a failure to curtail greenhouse gases will cause further harm to youth plaintiffs residing in Louisiana, New York, Oregon, Florida and Washington. They also show in detail the ways in which the federal government has supported and subsidized the fossil fuel industry, through leasing activities on federal lands and waters, through the building of infrastructure to support the transport of fossil fuels, through financial subsidies for oil and gas exploration, and more. They also remind the court that the U.S. has contributed more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than any other country. Finally, they demonstrate that the U.S. can phase out its reliance on fossil fuels largely with existing technology over the next several decades. In short, these declarations tell a powerful story, spelling out in persuasive detail what, exactly, is at stake in the litigation.
By contrast, the federal government submitted no evidence to contradict the plaintiffs’ standing declarations. They instead argue that plaintiffs have failed to allege “concrete” injuries, that the causal link between the injuries and the government’s behavior is too weak, and that even if the court were to order the defendants to stop supporting and subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, other countries would keep on emitting greenhouse gases. Therefore a court order would not “redress” the youths’ injuries. The district court dismisses all of these arguments in its opinion.
Tomorrow’s argument will focus on many issues, not just standing. But in the case for standing, the plaintiffs have not only submitted strong evidence to meet the doctrinal requirements. They have also made clear to the court exactly what is at stake for the children who are before them, and for the planet.
Juliana v. United States, Our Children's Trust, Standing Doctrine
One Reply to “Standing and the Juliana v. United States Plaintiffs”
Bruce Burdick says:
The Federal EPA has also failed to tell U.S. citizens when they are contributing to global warming and climate change. The people of Bhutan serve as an example. All of the CO2 emissions of the people of Bhutan are sequestered by the trees and forests of Bhutan. The people of Bhutan emit about 19 pounds of CO2 per day, and the forests of Bhutan sequester about 59 pounds of CO2 per day.
How much CO2 can US citizens emit per day and not contribute to global warming and climate change?
The following website (Figure 1) says the earth sequesters about half of world CO2 emissions.
https://phys.org/news/2012-08-earth-absorbing-carbon-dioxide-emissions.html
Half of world CO2 emissions of 36.2 billion metric tonnes of CO2 comes to about 18.1 billion metric tonnes. If we divide that by 7.6 billion people, we each can emit about 2.38 tonnes of CO2 per year and not contribute to global warming. 2.38 tonnes of CO2 times 2205 pounds of CO2 per tonne, divided by 365 days per years shows we can each emit about 14.4 pounds of CO2 per day and not contribute to global warming.
It takes about 10 pounds of CO2 per day to grow food for a vegetarian in the United States, and about 20 pounds of CO2 per day to provide food for a meat loving American.
To protect the rights of young people to a stable climate, U.S. citizens need to be told how many pounds of CO2 they can emit each day and not contribute to global warming and climate change.
In the Paris talks, world leaders agreed to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C, but there is no plan on how to limit global warming to 1.5 degree C. Would decreasing population help us limit global warming to 1.5 degree C? If so, how much would population need to be reduced to limit global warming to 1.5 degree C?
It is possible to take the amount of CO2 sequestered by the world each year, and divide it by a state or country’s per capita CO2 emissions, and answer the question “how many people could live on earth if everyone emitted that amount of CO2 each year?”
For example, Californians emit on average 9.26 metric tonnes of CO2 each year. If you divide the 18.1 billion metric tonnes of CO2 sequestered by the world each year by 9.26 tonnes of CO2, you find the world could hold 1.41 billion people. This represents an 81% decrease in world population. If California’s population decreased 81%, California’s 39.25 million people would need to decrease to 7.31 million people to stop increasing atmospheric CO2.
To limit global warming to 1.5 degree C, does every world citizen need to emit less than 14.1 pounds of CO2 per day?
If we don’t decrease our CO2 emissions, do we need to reduce our population to limit global warming to 1.5 degree C?
Neither of these are attractive ideas. Would knowing these solutions spur more investment in taking CO2 out of the atmosphere?
Professor Stuart Licht and his company C2CNT believe they have found a way to transform carbon dioxide in the air into carbon nanofibers. They calculate their process could remove all of the CO2 emitted since pre-industrial times within 10 years. (4)
Since our CO2 emissions are continuing to trap heat, it seems important to get our CO2 emissions down as rapidly as possible.
Should Juliana v. United States, Our Children’s Trust, help all Americans understand the situation we and the world are in?
(4) https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2015/august/co2.html
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Lendo.io — the most promising ICOs of 2018
Lendo.io is one of the hottest Fintech startups of 2018. Its pre-ICO closed ahead of schedule, proving that it has captured the interest of blockchain believers, as well as conventional financial experts, who understand its vision and promise to bridge the gap between the crypto word and traditional finance.
The fact that Lendo’s concept is both practical in financial terms, due to its personal loans product, and fascinating as a blockchain technology use case is the key attraction for its existing supporters who come from these somewhat different worlds of the new and the traditional.
The positive response to Lendo in the media since the pre-ICO began at the end of March has already been a strong indication that it could unite those who looked at it as an innovative financial product and those who are more excited by it as an example of the blockchain’s potential.
Lendo is ready for its big ICO
The team is preparing for the launch of the ICO on the 28th April when Lendo will distribute a further 170 million ELT tokens during phase one of the ICO, and the tokens will be sold at a starting price of €0.20 per token.
Updated whitepapers
The team has also been working on refining the Commercial and Technical whitepapers. The new Technical whitepaper has very important updates and now explains in much greater detail some of the world-beating, state-of-the-art security measures Lendo employs to keep its members’ money secure. You can read them here.
The media loves Lendo
The media has been very vocal in its praise of the Lendo platform. Cointelegraph, one of the top crypto and blockchain news sources said:
“The controversial debate with blockchain and cryptocurrency has been affecting this new market for the good, the bad and the ugly. Yet a newcomer on the block, Lendo Platform, a London based fintech start-up, has been sailing through with ease, pioneering the way towards a new regulated crypto.”
And, Monty Munford, writing for Forbes magazine, one of the most prestigious business publications globally, wrote:
“Lendo’s software looks set to bridge the gap between the crypto community and the mainstream world. Lendo’s genius is the exclusive link they will create between both worlds, enabling them to work together.”
Discover Lendo today and what it can offer you — all you have to do is visit lendo.io, you’ll find all the answers there as to why it’s going to have a major impact on the financial world, and it will happen soon.
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Pop Culture | February 8, 2017
Top 10 Celebrities Who Lived Double Lives
J.M. Kerr
Celebrities are a lot like us. They have secrets, and sometimes they even have aspects of their lives that, for one reason of another, they keep hidden for years. But, in Hollywood, your secrets can only stay hidden for so long.
10Joaquin Phoenix
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Joaquin Phoenix gained critical success for his role as rockabilly legend Johnny Cash in the 2005 biopic Walk the Line. Phoenix shined as the “Man in Black,” even learning to play the guitar and mimic Cash’s dulcet vocals. In the process, Phoenix gained a reputation for his extreme commitment to character, to the point that his roles often spilled into the actor’s personal life.
In 2012, Phoenix again garnered praise for his role in The Master. In the film, Phoenix portrayed a war veteran lured into a cult by its charismatic leader, played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. In preparation for the role, Phoenix drew from experience with a cult that he knew well—the one he lived with for many years.
As a child, Joaquin, along with his brother River, grew up in the controversial religious group called the Children of God. Phoenix’s family joined the group in the early 1970s and, during Joaquin’s formative years, traveled throughout South America with the church.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Phoenix explained his family’s infatuation with the group: “I think my parents thought they’d found a community that shared their ideals. Cults rarely advertise themselves as such.”
Ultimately, the family left the Children of God after becoming disenchanted, and Joaquin has put the whole experience behind him in pursuit of his prolific acting career.
9Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren, a Swedish-born male model, made a name for himself, early, as a hypermasculine ’80s action star. With a black belt in karate, Lundgren began his career as a competitive martial artist while moonlighting as a club bouncer. It was at a club that Lundgren met, and began a relationship with, model-actress Grace Jones. His tryst with Jones would lead to a chance encounter with writer-director Sylvester Stallone and to Lundgren’s breakout role as Ivan Drago, the Soviet-bred antagonist of Rocky IV. The rest is Hollywood history, but acting marked a sharp turn away from Lundgren’s first career choice: chemical engineer.
Despite his macho persona onscreen, Lundgren possesses a genius-level intellect, and before he ever stepped foot in the ring with the “Italian Stallion,” Lundgren was a promising and sought-after academic star.
The actor excelled at science from an early age and was even offered a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lundgren describes the day he rode his motorcycle to meet with university staff: “The professors are waiting for the star student from Sweden and then they see me ride past outside all decked out in leather. They probably didn’t know what was going on.” Thankfully, Lundgren abandoned his career in academia, and we can all enjoy his talents in not one, but three installments of The Expendables.
8Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson came to fame in the 1956 classic Giant, starring alongside heavyweights Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. Hudson’s looks coupled with his boundless charm made him an instant celebrity.
Actors with Hudson’s talent rarely stay single long, and in 1955, Hudson married actress Phyllis Gates. However, unknown to Gates, the marriage was arranged by her employer and Hudson’s agent Henry Wilson. The coupling was meant to keep up appearances as Hudson, the man coveted by women around the world, was gay.
Predictably, Hudson and Gate’s marriage ended quickly, but due to societal pressure, Hudson would remain in the closet for several more decades. In 1984, Hudson defied years of suppression to publicize his sexuality, becoming one of the first openly gay stars in Hollywood and a model for generations to come.
A year later, Hudson also revealed his diagnosis with AIDS. Hudson used his image and fame to bring public attention to the disease and helped spread awareness of its dangers. Sadly, Hudson died in October 1985. He was 59. As one of the first openly gay men in Hollywood, and an early advocate for AIDS victims, Hudson’s legacy lives on to this day.
7Chuck Barris
Barris came to prominence in the 1960s working as an assistant to Dick Clark. With a loan of $20,000, from his father-in-law, Barris was able to develop his first television show The Dating Game, which became a huge success. Later, Barris created The Gong Show, an instant classic, that showcased contestants performing wacky talents.
For most people, the life of a successful TV producer would be enough, but not for Barris. He liked to keep busy, and while working on various projects, the producer claimed to have been very busy operating covertly as a spy for the United States government.
In his 1984 autobiography Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Barris alleges to have been an assassin for the CIA during the ’60s and ’70s. While the claims of the book are dubious, and Barris offers no evidence to back them up, his story was interesting enough for George Clooney to make a movie out of it in 2002. Barris has gone on to write many more books, including Della: a Memoir of My Daughter, in which he recounts the tragic loss of his only daughter to drug abuse.
The CIA officially denies all of Barris’s claims about his time as a spy—but then they would, wouldn’t they?
Photo credit: US Mission to the UN
Bruce Jenner was born in 1949 in Mt. Kisco, New York. In high school, Jenner proved to be a gifted athlete, lettering in football as well as basketball. He once took up water skiing as a hobby and went on to become the East Coast All-Over Champion in 1966, 1969, and 1971.
After high school, Jenner attended Graceland College on a football scholarship, but he was sidelined by a knee injury that left him limited to basketball and track.
In 1971, Jenner participated in his first decathlon, and by 1972, Jenner was competing in the decathlon at the Munich Olympics, where he finished 10th overall in the event. In 1976, Jenner won the gold in the Men’s Decathlon at the Montreal Olympics and was declared, by the media, to be the “world’s greatest athlete.” Jenner accomplished all of this while living with a deep personal secret that wouldn’t emerge for another 40 years.
In 2014, Jenner announced his divorce from his longtime wife, Kris Jenner. A year later Jenner shocked the world when he revealed that he had undergone gender reassignment surgery. At the age of 65, Caitlyn Jenner, introduced herself to the world. In 2015, ESPN awarded Jenner the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, and to this day, Caitlyn is one of the most prominent public figures to come out as transgender.
5Sam Hurd
Photo credit: Jeffrey Beall
Sam Hurd was once a talented college football star at Northern Illinois who was known not only for his skills on the field but also for his friendly personality and devout Christian faith. In 2006, Hurd’s hard work paid off when he signed a contract to play for his favorite childhood team, the Dallas Cowboys. Hurd was handed a chance at NFL fame, but Sam had other ambitions in mind.
It was a mere five years later, in 2011, that Hurd was arrested outside of a Chicago steakhouse. Like so many others in the NFL, this arrest was drug-related, but Hurd wasn’t interested in scoring a few ounces of weed on a Saturday night. No, he was busted while trying to purchase a kilogram of cocaine from an undercover cop.
Hurd, allegedly, told the officer that he wanted to purchase an additional 5–10 kilos of coke a week, as well as 1,000 pounds of marijuana. He planned to distribute the drugs throughout Chicago in an operation that would have given Walter White a run for his money. On top of this, Hurd told the cop he was already selling 4 kilos of coke per week.
As if these confessions weren’t proof enough of Hurd’s poor judgment, consider that, at the time of his arrest, he had just signed a three-year contract with the Chicago Bears reported to be worth $5 million. Rather than collect his massive paycheck, Hurd found himself in a courtroom in November 2013, where he was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on the charge of drug trafficking. Let Hurd’s story be a lesson for all: Sometimes people can really screw up a good thing. Don’t believe it? Just google Aaron Hernandez sometime.
4Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel, a legendary Parisian designer, was born in Saumur, France in 1883. By the age of 27, Chanel owned a successful clothing shop, and within a decade, she had launched her first perfume line and introduced the world to her “little black dress,” revolutionizing the fashion industry.
Unfortunately, by the 1930s, Chanel witnessed her native France invaded by Hitler’s army. Although France was quickly overwhelmed by the scourge of Nazis, many French citizens chose to resist the Germans at every turn. Chanel, however, was less than resistant. During the war, Chanel began dating a Nazi officer named Hans Gunther von Dincklage. This relationship might have been written off as a harmless, if not regretful, tryst, but renowned journalist Hal Vaughan claims otherwise.
In his book Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War, Vaughan asserts that Chanel did not object to the Nazi occupation because she, herself, was an anti-Semite. Vaughan goes even further to claim that Chanel acted as a Nazi Intelligence operative. The journalist pens an intrigue-fueled story in which Chanel is portrayed as jet-setting across Europe, her Nazi boyfriend in tow, and acting as a celebrity ambassador for the Nazi regime.
After the war, Chanel absconded to Switzerland (not a suspicious move at all), but in later years, she was able to reestablish herself in France with the backing of the wealthy Wertheimer family. The Wertheimers still hold majority control the Chanel brand to this day but are reluctant to speak on Chanel’s wartime activities.
3Alice Cooper
Photo credit: Kreepin Deth
Heavy Metal frontman Alice Cooper always had a flair for the dramatic. Performing with his band of the same name, Cooper pioneered the art of Shock Rock, a stage performance that drew its style from the macabre and horror genres. He developed a stage-persona that capitalized on the band’s outlandish music, makeup, and behavior. In one of his more bizarre stunts, Cooper once threw a live chicken off stage, not knowing that the bird couldn’t fly. Cooper watched in horror as a rabid crowd tore the animal apart. With that stunt, Cooper may have cornered the market on shock, but few fans know his most shocking persona—that of a self-described “prodigal son.”
Cooper grew up in a strictly religious house, and both his father and grandfather preached the gospel as Evangelical pastors. After living for decades as a typical hard-drinking rock star, Cooper had a change of heart. The rock star finally saw the light, and for the past several years, he has lived as a devout Born-again Christian. Cooper hasn’t quit rocking, though, and he hasn’t completely abandoned his onstage antics, but now he views himself more as an actor playing a character when onstage. He has, however, removed the live poultry from his act.
2Patty Hearst
Patty Hearst was born lucky. As the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst—think the 19th-century Rupert Murdoch—she was the heir to the fortune her family built through a media empire that thrives to this day. Yet, by the age of 19, it seemed that Hearst’s luck may have finally run out.
The world was shocked when, as a freshman at Berkeley University, Hearst was kidnapped from her dorm room by members of a homegrown terrorist group calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. The urban terrorists abducted Hearst with the goal of extorting a ransom from Heart’s wealthy family. The plan may have worked too, but sometimes plans, and allegiances, can change.
Two months into her abduction, Hearst again shocked everyone by announcing her full-fledged allegiance to her captors via released audiotapes. Some believed that Hearst was pressured into supporting the group, but all myths were dispelled when Hearst was caught, on camera, taking part in a bank robbery along with the SLA. Hearst was also culpable in extorting an estimated $2 million from her father, during her abduction.
In 1975 Hearst was arrested by the FBI, convicted of bank robbery, and sentenced to 35 years in prison. Her sentence was subsequently commuted by President Jimmy Carter, and Hearst was released in 1979. Many have questioned Hearst’s actions during her abduction, and some have chalked up her behavior to Stockholm Syndrome, where a victim begins to identify with their captors overtime. Maybe Hearst, scared and young, was desperate to cope with her circumstances in any way possible. We may never know. As for her part, Hearst has remained tight-lipped about her time with the SLA.
1Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel is known as a tough guy, and his roles in movies like The Fast and the Furious, Pitch Black, and xXx have done little to dispel that macho persona. But this tough guy might have the darkest secret of all. A secret so dark, so cloaked in mystery that Diesel has kept it locked away in the dungeon of his past for years. Until, during promotion for his movie The Last Witch Hunter, Diesel was forced to reveal his long-hidden truth.
Vin Diesel is . . . a closet Dungeons and Dragons player.
Actually, maybe not quite closeted. Diesel has given plenty of hints to his love for the role playing game throughout his career. Take, for instance, his role of Xander Cage in xXx. Diesel insisted that the character of Cage have the name “Melkor” tattooed on his chest. Melkor just so happens to be the name of Diesel’s real-life Dungeons and Dragons character.
Another nod to Diesel’s fandom came in 2004 when he wrote the foreword to 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons and Dragons. And then there was the time that Diesel posted a video, on his own YouTube channel, that featured him, and others, playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons that ended with Diesel declaring, “I just played a game of Dungeons and Dragons . . . and I had so much fun!”
Kerr lives in Texas, where he works as a high school English teacher by day and a freelance writer by night. He recently had his short story “Prospectors” published in Helios Quarterly.
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Book vs. Film: "Caging Skies" vs. "Jojo Rabbit"
Column by Christopher Shultz January 21, 2020 4 comments
Book Versus Film
Who would have thought that a film featuring a young boy whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler would be nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture? Moreover, would anyone have figured that said movie would be a heartwarming coming-of-age narrative that is as sweet and endearing as it is darkly comedic (and sometimes downright dark)? Probably few people, but as this is now the year two thousand and twenty, very little should surprise us anymore. And in fact, Jojo Rabbit, the film in question, is exactly the kind of story we need in this day and age, a story that shows us just how juvenile and ridiculous hatred is, and one that depicts Hitler as a bumbling prima-donna.
Waititi's narrative reaches for the light, while Leunens's prefers the dark.
One person who definitely did not predict a movie like Jojo Rabbit is Christine Leunens, who wrote the novel Caging Skies, upon which the film is based. Written for the screen and directed by Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit bears only the most passing resemblance to its literary predecessor, its DNA more closely related to Waititi's previous films, the charmingly goofy What We Do In The Shadows and Thor: Ragnorak—which is not to say Jojo isn't a drama at heart, just that it's a wickedly funny one. By contrast, Leunens's book is dark, nay, stygian, exploration of obsession, masculinity, societal norms, and of course, hatred. There is nothing funny about it, or nothing much anyway. It's a bit like Nabokov's Lolita, set against the backdrop of the Holocaust. Its lack of cheeriness, however, isn't a bad thing, just something for which readers should prepare themselves, especially if you're expecting the novel to resemble the film.
The book and film share the same basic premise: Johannes, a ten year-old boy (played in the film by Roman Griffin Davis), becomes enamored with the figure and beliefs of Adolf Hitler during the rise and eventual fall of the Third Reich. After suffering a debilitating injury that renders him unable to fight in the war, Johannes spends most of his free time indoors, whereby he discovers that his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is not only a member of the anti-Nazi resistance, but she is also hiding a teenage Jewish girl, Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie), in a crawlspace inside their home. While initially repulsed by Elsa's presence, Johannes ultimately befriends the girl, and even develops a crush on her.
It is here that the two narratives diverge. In Waititi's take, Johannes remains a boy throughout, and learns to let go of his nationalistic hate through his relationship with Elsa; she in turn is a defiant spitfire who refuses to be victimized, even in her abject imprisonment, and it is this fierce determination to survive that helps Johannes see Elsa as a person and not a "thing." This allows him to finally reject Hitler's ideologies in full (represented physically by the specter of the Führer himself, played by Waititi). But the dynamic between Johannes and Elsa in Leunens's novel is much different, and their relationship is influenced by three significant factors:
One, the change in titles. Waititi's film gets its name from the derogatory nickname Johannes's superiors in the Hitler Youth give him, after the boy is unable to kill a rabbit to prove his manhood. He is thus identified as a "sissy," too weak and sensitive to be a true Nazi soldier (and his subsequent injury from a dynamite blast seals his "invalid" status). But there is no scene revealing Johannes's "weakness" in the book; in fact, the author briefly mentions the Hitler Youth members hunting and eating a hare during their training. It's an afterthought, this killing of another living being, and thus Johannes experiences no emotional upheaval.
Two, the appearance of Hitler himself. The buffoon as played by Waititi does not appear in Leunens's novel, nor in any imaginary formation. Though Johannes does feel disillusioned about the failure of the Third Reich and Hitler's suicide, he never fully sees the man for what he is, and thus never rejects him as he does in Jojo Rabbit. Instead, the ideologies that guided Johannes throughout his boyhood experiences linger into his adult life. In this way, Leunens isn't just interested in exploring the clear falsehoods in Nazi rhetoric, but also in traditional and nationalistic viewpoints as well; in doing so, the author reveals how the Third Reich in all its hateful glory came to be, how it appealed to thousands upon thousands of people, and the lasting effect it had on those who supported it or, at best, abided it. In other words, Leunens's scope goes well beyond the specific (Nazism) and encompasses more universal considerations, skewering not only pre- and post-World War II Europe, but more modern societal ills as well.
This leads us to the third consideration, the fact that Johannes, in a gambit to keep the girl in his life, lies to Elsa when the war ends and tells her the Axis forces won. Waititi's Jojo and Leunens's Johannes both commit this act of deceit, but it plays out as a childish, temporary "hail Mary" in the film, while in the novel it is far worse and deeply unsettling, given that the character is nineteen, and not ten, when he tells the lie, and that Johannes keeps up the ruse for another three years. His love for Elsa, in this instance, isn't an innocent, boyhood crush, but a full-blown narcissistic obsession, made worse by the fact that he believes he is owed her requited love, that because he looks after her, feeds her and provides for her, she should return rather than rebuff his advances. These sentiments are of course echoed by the beliefs of Incels and "men's rights" activists, who insist their "chivalry" and "goodness" should be rewarded with affection and adoration from the opposite sex, both romantically and sexually. (That the views of Incels and MRAs have been comfortably co-opted by the "alt-right," AKA, the white supremacists and Neo-Nazis, should surprise no one.)
Even Johannes recognizes his status as a dinosaur with beliefs that are antiquated compared to more modern and freer ways of thinking. And this seems to be the crux of Leunens's psychologically dense novel: that old fashioned customs lead only to isolation and crippling loneliness (Johannes, by the end of the narrative, literally ends up bricked in within the walls of his own apartment). Conversely, Waititi's ultimate message is more or less the same, but arrived-at from a different angle. Hitler's lonely death by suicide, his narcissistic obsessiveness, represents the pathetic nadir of Third Reich idealogy. When Jojo rejects Hitler (by kicking him in the nuts and blasting him through a window, no less) and frees Elsa from the crawlspace, he chooses the opposite path, one that leads to modern notions of inclusivity, togetherness, and love. In other words, Waititi's narrative reaches for the light, while Leunens's prefers the dark.
Neither approach to this type of story is superior to the other, and in fact, we need both representations at this moment in time, explorations of light and dark in equal measures. In this way, Caging Skies and Jojo Rabbit are perfect companions and best ingested within close proximity to each other.
Column by Christopher Shultz
Christopher Shultz writes weird, dark fiction. His stories have appeared both online and in print, including most recently in Apex Magazine, freeze frame flash fiction and Grievous Angel. In addition to LitReactor, he has also written for Ranker.com, Cultured Vultures and Tor.com. At times, he dabbles in digital art and photography. Christopher lives in Oklahoma City with his fiancée Lauren and their two mostly well-behaved cats. More info at christophershultz.com.
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paula m santana from new jersey April 13, 2020 - 6:03pm
Made an account just to say I absolutely loved this column, especially the little message in the end. We need both sides of the story, and they do complement one another. I think this is perfectly shown by the fact that Jojo Rabbit garnered just as much attention as the beyond dark Parasite during award show season. But I will say it is refreshing to see a director take the road less traveled when exploring such heavy subjects, I feel the same “we can do the right thing” spirit that Once Upon a Time In Hollywood has.
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WhatsApp is adopted to serve some government agencies | Brazil
The Brazilian government will start using WhatsApp as a means of service in some of its agencies. The initiative came from the Ministry of Economy, which will allow questions about bids, the transfer of funds from the Federal Government and the release of daily rates and tickets through the application.
The solution was developed with a focus on public servants, but, according to the ministry, it can be used by any citizen. The expectation is that it will help the government to save R $ 260 thousand per year that would be destined to human service.
With the help of artificial intelligence, WhatsApp service will be taken to three government systems: ComprasNet, aimed at bidding; Plataforma + Brasil, for the transfer of resources from the Union to other public administration bodies; and Daily and Ticket Concession System (SCDP).
WhatsApp is part of a government action to adopt chatbots in its service. In March, the Ministry of Economy created Lia, as was the assistant of ComprasNet. In May, it was the turn of Isis, assistant at Plataforma + Brasil.
By October, they had made 26,524 calls on the website of the two systems and helped to halve the expenses that were recorded for human service. Diva, the newest virtual assistant, was created to answer questions about daily rates and tickets.
The same wizards available on the sites will be taken to WhatsApp, where they will be an alternative for users. Until then, systems were serviced only by phone or through the Federal Government’s Service Portal.
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'Walking Dead' pulls a 'Game of Thrones,' departs from comics with major character death
Greg Nicotero, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Josh McDermitt, Norman Reedus, Austin Amelio and Christian Serratos Fox presents 'A night with The Walking Dead' TV Series screening and Q&A
Image: Jonathan Hordle/REX/Shutterstock
By Proma Khosla 2017-12-11 15:51:13 UTC
Warning: The following post contains spoilers for the most recent episode of The Walking Dead and the comics on which it is based.
In its final season, The Walking Dead is showing no mercy – but what else is new?
On Sunday night's episode, we learned that Carl Grimes took a severe bite to the abdomen and his death is imminent. Carl, played by Chandler Riggs, has been on the show since Season 1 – the only character besides Rick who's been around for that long. Riggs told The Hollywood Reporter that Carl is "definitely" at his end, halfway through Season 8.
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Meanwhile, in the comics, Carl is alive and well, the young leader his world needs as it tries to rebuild. The Walking Dead has remained mostly faithful to Robert Kirkman's comics, but this is a rare exception reminiscent of a certain other big TV show based on printed source material.
"I didn't expect for Carl to ever get killed off," Riggs told THR. "But it serves a good purpose in the story. There's still a little more left in Carl's story — in episode nine [the midseason premiere in 2018] — and that impacts Rick, Michonne and everyone. Although Carl's story is coming to an end it's not over yet."
Riggs has been on the show since he was a literal child, so the audience has grown up with him as much as he has grown up with the show. Carl will still be around when the show starts back up in 2018, and we can expect that farewell to be a doozy.
The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9 p.m. EST on AMC.
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Technology | DOI: 10.1145/1562164.1562172
medical Nanobots
Researchers working in medical nanorobotics are creating
technologies that could lead to novel health-care applications,
such as new ways of accessing areas of the human body that
would otherwise be unreachable without invasive surgery.
SinCE KarEL CapEK first used the word “robot” in print in a 1920 play, a vast array of autonomous electro- mechanical systems have emerged from research labs, making their way onto production lines for industrial tasks, into toy stores for entertainment, and even into homes to perform simple household jobs. While the bulk of robotics research strives to make robots more useful and more capable of even greater levels of autonomy, several labs are attempting to make robotic systems much smaller. One of the most active areas of such research is medical nanorobotics, an emerging field positioned at the intersection of several sciences.
As a discipline, medical nanorobotics remains young for now, but many scientists are already demonstrating new developments they say will form the foundations for the next major breakthroughs in this area. Such breakthroughs could lead to novel applications that offer new ways of accessing small spaces in the human body that would otherwise be unreachable without invasive surgery.
“Nanorobotics can play a major role in medical applications, especially for target interventions into the human body through the vascular network,” says Sylvain Martel, director of the nanorobotics laboratory at École Polytech-nique de Montréal. “In many types of interventions, medical specialists are lacking appropriate tools to do a good job, and I believe that nanorobotics could bring new methods and tools to these particular applications.”
Recent fabrication, actuation, and steering demonstrations of nanoscale robots represent the first crucial steps toward developing real-world applications for targeted drug delivery and other uses. But researchers say that with
many engineering and medical challenges remaining to be met, clinically usable medical nanobots might be viable only after several more years of work in this area. “I believe that the first real application that will have a huge impact is in targeted cancer therapy, such as delivering therapeutic agents directly to the tumor through the vascular network,” says Martel.
Currently, Martel and his team are focused on developing a medical application designed to target regions inaccessible to traditional catheterization techniques. The platform they created uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for feeding information to a controller that is responsible for steering the nanobots along blood vessels. The nanobots, which consist of magnetic carriers and flagellated bacteria that can be controlled by computer and loaded with therapeutic and sensing agents, essentially serve as wireless robotic arms that can perform remote tasks.
“Unlike known magnetic targeting
methods, the present platform allows us to reach locations deep in the human body using real-time control,” Martel says. Still, he predicts it will take three to five years before the system reaches maturity, meaning complete computer-based control of the propulsion and steering mechanisms.
Another researcher designing a similar approach to controlling nanobots is Metin Sitti, director of the nanorobotics lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Sitti and his team are working on building nanobots for drug-delivery applications. In one recent project, he and his team have used bacteria to move nanoscale robots, which use the chemical energy inside the bacteria and in the environment for propulsion. In addition to this propulsion method, Sitti and his team have experimented with optical and magnetic stimuli to coax the bacteria into decelerating, stopping, and moving again.
But as with other similar projects in this area, Sitti and his team are facing
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a nanobot created at carnegie mellon university and demonstrated to be functional in real-world experiments. The flagella motion of the bacteria’s cells propel the nanobot, which is controlled by the application of environmental stimuli.
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He remains the only President to be elected from Pennsylvania and to remain a lifelong bachelor. Tall, stately, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only President who never married.
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It’s a Mean World! Or Is It?
Behavioralism, Cartoons, Cognitive, Cultivation Theory, Gerbner, Influence, Mean World Sydrome, Media Effects, Media Literacy
Anybody who has ever watched television or films knows that both mediums are replete with violent entertainment – from cartoons and children’s programs, to horror “porn” such as the Hostel film series that “grossed” $80 million, worldwide. If one takes in enough of the stuff they may believe it is a mean world indeed.
George Gerbner (August 8, 1919 – December 24, 2005) was dean emeritus of the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania and a World War II veteran of the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency). He founded the Cultural Indicators Research Project in 1968 which tracks television content (especially that of a violent nature) and how that content affects viewers’ perceptions of the world. Its database has information on more than 3,000 television programs and 35,000 characters (Associated Press, 2006). By its estimates, American children witness more than 8,000 murders and 100,000 other violent acts on television by the time they leave elementary school (Stossel, 1997). This study led to Gerbner’s formation of cultivation theory which states “the more time people spend “living” in the television world, the more likely they are to believe social reality portrayed on television…//… effects occur only after long-term, cumulative exposure to television” (Cohen & Weimann, 2000). This cognitive bias is known as mean world syndrome and may be comprised of up to four different recurring attitudes to include the beliefs in:
Increased chances of involvement with violence
Fear of walking alone at night
Perceived activity of police
General mistrust of people (Miller, 2013; Griffin, 2011)
In the following six minute clip provided by the Media Education Foundation Gerbner discusses how this culture of violence has come about and how it translates easily in films and television programming around the world directly stereotyping minorities. Additionally he observes that violent film sequels typically double the level of violence when compared to their predecessors.
Further, Gerbner testified to a congressional subcommittee that “Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line measures. They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities. That is the deeper problem of violence-laden television” (Associated Press, 2006).
Interested in more proof? Scott Stossel of the The Atlantic Online had the following independent studies to offer which appear to backup Gerbner’s hypothesis:
A 1956 study compared the behavior of twelve four-year-olds who watched a Woody Woodpecker cartoon containing many violent episodes with that of twelve other four-year-olds who watched “The Little Red Hen,” a nonviolent cartoon. The Woody watchers were much more likely than the Hen watchers to hit other children, break toys, and be generally destructive during playtime.
In 1981, Brandon Centerwall, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington, hypothesized that the sharp increase in the murder rate in North America beginning in 1955 was the product of television viewing. Television sets had been common household appliances for about eight years by that point — enough time, he theorized, to have inculcated violent tendencies in a generation of viewers. He tested his hypothesis by studying the effects of television in South Africa, where the Afrikaaner-dominated regime had banned it until 1975. He found that twelve years after television was introduced there, murder rates skyrocketed.
In 1960 Leonard Eron, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, studied third-graders in Columbia County in semi-rural New York. He observed that the more violent television these eight-year-olds watched at home, the more aggressive they were in school. Eron returned to Columbia County in 1971, when the children from his sample were nineteen. He found that the boys who had watched a lot of violent television when they were eight were more likely to get in trouble with the law when older. Eron returned to Columbia County a third time in 1982, when his subjects were thirty. He discovered that those who had watched the most television violence at age eight inflicted more violent punishments on their children, were convicted of more serious crimes, and were reported more aggressive by their spouses than those who had watched less violent television. In 1993, at a conference of the National Council for Families & Television, Eron estimated that 10 percent of the violence in the United States can be attributed to television.
Associated Press. (2006, Jan 3). George Gerbner, 86, Researcher Who Studied Violence on TV, Is Dead. Retrieved Dec 9, 2012, from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/obituaries/03gerbner.html?_r=1&
Associated Press. (2006, Jan 2). George Gerbner; Studied TV Culture. Retrieved Dec 9, 2012, from The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010200577.html
Cohen, J., & Weimann, G. (2000). Cultivation Revisited: Some Genres Have Some Effects on Some Viewers. Communication Reports , 99-114.
Griffin, E. (2011). A First Look At Communication Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Miller, J. (2013, July 18). Cultivation…Farming? or Media? Retrieved from Applied Social Psychology: http://www.personal.psu.edu/bfr3/blogs/asp/2013/07/cultivationfarming-or-media.html
Stossel, S. (1997, May). The Man Who Counts Killings. Retrieved Dec 9, 2012, from The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97may/gerbner.htm
In 1961, Bugs Bunny May Have Saved a Life (His Own)
Behavioralism, Cartoons, Cognitive, Identity, Neural Pathways, Social Identity
For those of you who don’t know him, Mel Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a voice actor fondly known as the “The Man of a Thousand Voices.” His more popular characterizations included Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzales, and many, many others. The podcast below examines Mel’s near death experience in 1961, and the events around his death in 1989. It leaves a lot of questions as to how it may be possible that the characterizations brought to life by a man may have preserved his life in 1961, and were a part of his final moments. In this case media appears to have become a part of the man.
“Cognitive cues are strategies that help the individual remember the sequence of steps, as well as content … They are especially important to those who can’t seem to retain, or follow multi-step, or multi-element situations” (Packer, 2009). These cues can activate neurological networks associated with them that affect the way a subject behaviorally executes their self-concept.
Discrete social identities, such as those formed based on relational roles and positions with other people and social groups, may correlate to specific neural pathways, which when cued, would lead to certain typical behavioral responses associated with them (such as specific way of talking, walking, thinking, relating to oneself and others etc.). These discrete identities are normally not experienced as such, as the mind instantaneously re-creates a sense of a singular, continuous, unchanged, overarching self that encompasses them all – unless damaged. Thus, while the observed behavior might change from one situation to another, a different identity may be cued when prescribed situations come into play – or possibly when another can’t respond. Neurologically, there is interconnectedness between these circuits, and a higher order organizational principle – the sense of a unified self – that maintains continuity, and creates enough consistency in observable behavior for others to witness an underlying singular personality that changes minimally throughout many different situations. Blanc, as discussed, easily slipped in and out of various characters all of his life, and any number of times throughout a single day over the course of more than 60 years, therefore the range of possible cognitive cues for his various discrete personalities would have been exceptional. Which leads to the possibility that when his singular self could no longer respond due to physical stress or trauma, his characterizations still could.
Podcast by the group at Radiolab, with analytical contributions from my wife, Liza Persson.
Packer, L. E. (2009, Jan). Environmental Cues, Supports, and Strategies. Retrieved Nov 7, 2012, from Tourette Syndrome “Plus”: http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/disorders/executive-dysfunction/environmental-cues-supports-and-strategies/
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Medicine in Motion at UCSF was founded in July of 2020. We hosted a virtual workout event for the MOVE Campaign in August and will be hosting a second virtual MOVE Campaign event in October. We will also be hosting a virtual event in September to raise money for the American Heart Association! We hope to continue to grow the Medicine in Motion at UCSF chapter and to be a force within the community for fitness, philanthropy, and fun!
Matt Orringer
I am a second-year medical student at UCSF, originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prior to medical school, I was a varsity swimmer and team captain at Brown University. Today, I still love to lift weights, swim, and play golf. I hope to be able to share my love of fitness with the UCSF community and to raise money for local and national causes through my work with Medicine in Motion!
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Brown University where I was a member of multiple school-record setting relays and a multi-A finalist at Ivy Championships. I was born and raised in San Rafael, CA and was so excited to come back to the Bay Area for medical school. I love staying active with daily HIIT workouts, yoga, and exploring SF. I am very excited to help build Medicine in Motion at UCSF and make a meaningful impact on our community!
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Chris is a second year medical student at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. After graduating from Columbia University in 2016 with a degree in Neuroscience and Behavior he worked in consulting and then managed a private practice for a cardiologist. Currently obsessed with boxing, calisthenics and functional strength training, Chris has always been a fitness fanatic. Since becoming a NASM certified personal trainer in 2018 he has been committed to promoting exercise and general wellness within each of his communities.
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Jacob is a 4th year MD/PhD student at Tufts University School of Medicine working on his PhD in neuroscience. He currently works to create motor neurons from human stem cells, but when he isn’t in the lab, he can be found running down the esplanade, practicing handstands or tending to his indoor forest. Before joining Tufts, he worked as a clinical research assistant creating and maintaining a patient tissue bank for Alzheimer’s disease research. While at MGH, he helped establish the MGH running club and ran the 2017 Boston marathon. He continues his obsession with running as the leader of the TUSM running club and now as the COO at Medicine in Motion.
Amanda Cao
Amanda is a 2nd year student at Harvard Medical School. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri before attending college at MIT, where she graduated in 2019 with a degree in Biology. Amanda has always enjoyed playing sports and keeping active, and her favorite forms of exercise include swimming and boxing. Amanda is excited to work with Medicine in Motion to combine her interest in physical activity with her passion for building community within her profession.
Michael Duggan
Mike is a second year medical student at the University of Queensland-Ochsner Clinical School in Brisbane, Australia. After graduating from the University of Maryland in 2016 with a BS in Biology, he worked as a clinical research coordinator on childhood obesity focused research projects at Massachusetts General Hospital. His biggest fitness accomplishments to date are running the Boston Marathon and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. He is looking forward towards utilizing fitness to create and develop a sense of community among medical students.
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Shani Aharon is a 4th year medical student at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. She considers herself adventurous, and would try any sport once: she grew up figure skating, rowed crew in college, played ultimate frisbee while working, and now runs in her free time in medical school. Having a few years of work-life balance as a healthcare consultant prior to medical school, Shani is passionate about maintaining mind-body wellness and helping do the same. She’s excited to put her past experience to good use as the CFO of Medicine in Motion.
Logan Briggs
Logan Briggs is a 4th year Harvard Medical Student. He swam for, and captained, the Dartmouth swim team and graduated in 2016. During a gap year before medical school, he worked as a wilderness guide in Tanzania and biked across the US to raise money for medical service work that he later performed in Nepal. Having been a lifelong swimmer, transitioned to triathlete, Logan strongly believes that regular exercise and social connection is the key to balance and happiness. He helped found Medicine in Motion to extend those benefits to others.
Chase Marso
Chase is a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical school and co-founder of Medicine in Motion. A former Augustana University quarterback and basketball coach in his hometown of Brandon, SD, he has always had a passion for physical fitness and a desire to encourage others in athletic achievement. Chase sees Medicine in Motion’s mission of inspiring others towards their physical fitness goals while promoting philanthropy as Medicine in Motion’s most unique and worthwhile endeavor.
Cray Noah
Cray is an engineer and doctor-in-training dedicated to innovating ways to increase access to preventative medicine and health technology. As a fourth-year student in Harvard’s MD/MBA program, he brings experience working at the nexus of biomedicine and business in the medical device startup space during his time at Georgia Tech and now in Boston. While passionate about innovative biotechnology, Cray believes creating community through exercise and fitness is the best form of preventative medicine to date and is dedicated to furthering that mission through Medicine in Motion. A native Texan, Cray has transitioned from football to triathlons, tennis and sailing since moving northeast.
Michael Seward
Mike is a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School (HMS) where he co-founded Medicine in Motion in 2017 with Chase, Logan, and Derek. As a varsity ice hockey player at Harvard College, he became interested in nutrition and for his senior thesis implemented a traffic-light food labeling study in the college dining halls to encourage healthy eating choices. After graduating, he worked for two years in clinical research at an Obesity Prevention Program at HMS and worked at the Hospital for Special Surgery where he saw the alarming rise in knee replacements mirror national trends in obesity. This sparked his interest in the intersection of orthopaedic surgery, nutrition, and fitness, and his medical school thesis investigates a pre-operative remote weight loss intervention and mobile app for patients anticipating total joint replacement surgery.
Derek Soled
Derek is a fourth-year MD/MBA candidate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. He serves as the student council co-president at the medical school. Derek graduated from Yale University in 2016 as a double major in biology and sociology and was the captain of the Yale fencing team. He then pursued a MSc in medical anthropology from the University of Oxford where he set an all-time record in the pole vault. A recipient of the Walter Byers Scholarship, an honor bestowed by the NCAA to the country's best overall male and female student-athlete each year, and a current member of Team USA for fencing, Derek is passionate about sport and continues to compete at a professional level as well as coach low-income children in Boston. As a first-year medical student, Derek co-founded Medicine in Motion.
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Grant Riew
Grant is a first year medical student at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from Harvard College in 2019 with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology and Economics. He is interested in the effects of modern environments (low activity, lots of sitting, and lots of calories!) on human health and disease and has previously researched the effects of exercise on joint health. Grant is now excited to be involved in MiM research and and can’t wait to get active with others to promote healthy lifestyles. In his spare time, Grant enjoys hanging with friends, going on long walks, and playing the cello.
Sara Rubin
Sara is a 6th year MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School and is currently in her 4th year of the Immunology PhD Program studying blood cell development in zebrafish. After graduating from Princeton University in 2014 with a degree in Chemistry, she spent one year conducting research that the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. In addition to her passion for medicine and science, Sara is an avid athlete who over the years has participated and competed in many different sports including gymnastics, softball, tennis, and pole vaulting. She was introduced to CrossFit and weightlifting in 2014 and hasn’t looked back since, always looking for opportunities to train and compete with friends and to share her love and knowledge of the sport of fitness with others. She is eager to bring her passion for fitness and community building to Medicine in Motion.
Jenny Sullivan
Jenny is a second-year medical student at UMass Medical School. She received her undergraduate degree in Global Health at Georgetown University in 2018, where she was also a diver on the Swim and Dive team for four years. Jenny is excited to find the same sense of community, support, and passion for fitness that she had during college athletics as a member of Medicine in Motion.
Erica Lee
Erica is a third year undergraduate student at the University of Maryland - College Park in the Integrated Life Sciences Honors College. She is pursuing a degree in biology with a minor in business. She is interested in the effects of burnout in the medical field as well as how action can be taken to mitigate this growing issue. Erica has been swimming and playing soccer since she was six years old and looks forward to being able to combine her love of sports and science!
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Moffitt Cancer Center To Host Florida Oncology Symposium
WHO: Open toclinical and surgical oncologists in academia and private practice
WHAT: TheFlorida Oncology Symposium will feature clinical and surgical advances in cancer care, including new technologies in molecular imaging; genetic testing for women with breast and ovarian cancer; robotics for lung and prostate cancers; and personalized medicine and the future of cancer care.
Friday’s keynote speaker is Craig H. Smith, J.D., partner with Hogan & Hartson in Miami. Smith specializes in critical health care issues, including federal and state health care regulations, the future of Medicare and Medicaid, health care litigation, and electronic health information.
Symposium speakers include specialists in hematology/oncology; diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology; women’s oncology; endocrine tumors; neuro-oncology; gastrointestinal tumors; lung cancer; and personalized medicine. Continuing education credits are available for physicians and nurses.
WHEN: May 7-8, 2010
WHERE: TheRitz-Carlton, 280 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Naples
REGISTER: www.moffitt.org/continuinged/floncs or (813) 745-7252
CONTACT: Claire Modarelli, (813) 745-7252
Located in Tampa, Florida, Moffitt Cancer Center is an NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center - a designation that recognizes Moffitt’s excellence in research and contributions to clinical trials, prevention and cancer control. Moffitt currently has 15 affiliates in Florida, one in Georgia and two in Puerto Rico. Additionally, Moffitt is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a prestigious alliance of the country’s leading cancer centers, and is listed in U.S. News & World Report as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” for cancer. Moffitt’s sole mission is to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.
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Woman walking with stroller struck and killed by snow plow in small Quebec town
MONTREAL -- A pedestrian has died after being struck by a snow plow in Cacouna, a small town on the St-Lawrence River about two hours northeast of Quebec City.
The woman had been walking along Route 132 with a stroller in the late afternoon when the pair was hit by the plow, according to provincial police (SQ). Emergency services were on site shortly before 5 p.m. on Monday.
The woman, in her 30s, succumbed to her injuries after being taken to hospital in critical condition. The infant also had to be taken to hospital, but its injuries were minor, said SQ spokesperson Catherine Bernard.
"According to initial reports, visibility may have been reduced due to precipitation," she said.
A policeman and road controllers from Rimouski were dispatched to the scene to shed light on the circumstances of this tragedy.
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North Korea watched intently for rocket launch
North Korea plans to launch what it says is an experimental communications satellite, perhaps as early as Saturday.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) âÄî Spy satellites trained high-resolution cameras on a coastal North Korean launch pad. U.S., Japan and South Korea deployed warships with radar and other surveillance equipment in the waters near the communist nation âÄî all for one of the most closely watched rocket launches ever. North Korea plans to launch what it says is an experimental communications satellite âÄî perhaps as early as Saturday âÄî from its Musudan-ri facility in the northeastern part of the country. Washington, Seoul and Tokyo suspect North Korea’s real motive is to test its long-range missile technology. The planned launch has sparked alarm because North Korea has admitted it has nuclear weapons and has repeatedly broken promises to shelve its nuclear program or halt rocket tests. President Barack Obama, appearing Friday with French President Nicolas Sarcozy in Strasbourg, France, called the launch “provocative” and said it should be stopped. Cloudy conditions were forecast for the launch area Saturday âÄî not perfect, but without the strong winds that could force a delay. Saturday is the start of a five-day window for the rocket, North Korea said. Fueling of the rocket at Musudan-ri appears nearly complete, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unidentified government official. Experts say the launch would likely follow quickly because rocket fuels are generally highly corrosive. Efforts to persuade North Korea to give up the plan continued, though there were no signs of a last-minute diplomatic breakthrough. Two U.S. destroyers are believed to have departed from South Korea to monitor the launch. South Korea is using its destroyer equipped with Aegis ballistic missile defense technology, according to a Seoul military official who asked not to be identified, citing department policy. North Korea has complained that the U.S. is using high-altitude U-2 spy planes and has warned the aircraft would be shot down. Japan has deployed warships and Patriot missile interceptors off its northern coast to shoot down any wayward rocket parts that the North has said might fall over the area. Tokyo has said it is only protecting its territory and has no intention of trying to shoot down the rocket itself, but North Korea accused Japan of inciting militarism at home to justify developing a nuclear weapons program of its own. The North has said its rocket will fly over Japan and its first stage is expected to fall in waters less than 75 miles from Japan’s northwestern shore, according to coordinates the government in Pyongyang provided to U.N. agencies. The other zone where the second stage should fall lies in the middle of the Pacific between Japan and Hawaii. Pressure on Pyongyang to drop the plan has been intense. The U.S., South Korea and Japan discussed the issue with world leaders at the G-20 Summit in London. China, North Korea’s closest ally, said it was working to avert a launch. Beijing has tried to persuade North Korea on several occasions and will attempt to do so “to the last minute,” Chinese President Hu Jintao told his South Korean counterpart, Lee Myung-bak, on Friday in London, according to the South Korean president’s spokeswoman, Lee Dong-kwan. Obama said the planned launch has put “enormous strains” on international talks over North Korea’s disputed nuclear ambitions. The U.S. will “take appropriate steps to let North Korea know that it can’t threaten the safety and security of other countries with impunity,” he said. Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. envoy on North Korea, said the communist nation would face consequences if the launch goes ahead. But he also said he is prepared to go to Pyongyang whenever it would be useful in order to restart international negotiations aimed at getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. After the “dust from the missiles settles,” he told reporters, the United States will be keen to get back to the six-nation talks. Regional powers have warned of consequences, repeatedly noting that the launch would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution banning North Korea from ballistic missile activity. North Korea has warned against any efforts to censure it, claiming it, like other countries, has the right to the peaceful use of outer space. It also has threatened retaliation against any efforts to intercept the rocket, telling Japan such a move would mean “war.” Despite their opposition, the U.S., Japan and South Korea appear resigned to North Korea going ahead with the launch. Pyongyang announced the launch in advance in marked contrast to firings in 1998 and 2006. The monitoring effort is clearly the biggest for a North Korean launch. Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said Thursday that a Saturday launch was likely. A senior U.S. intelligence official also told The Associated Press that North Korea was on track for liftoff then. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence issues. South Korea has set up task forces, including at the Defense Ministry and Joint Chiefs of Staff, to monitor and swiftly respond to a launch. The Foreign Ministry also planned to meet Saturday to draw up post-launch measures. Lee was likely to convene a National Security Council meeting in the event of a launch, said a government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because a final decision had yet to be made. Japan and other nations plan to request an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council as soon as this weekend. A strong united response likely would prove difficult, however, because China and Russia hold veto power in the council and could argue that the 2006 ban does not extend to nonmilitary space missions. Still, Hu agreed with Lee that the “rocket launch would negatively affect peace and stability in Northeast Asia and there should be a discussion among related countries” after it takes place, Lee’s office said. Reaction among ordinary South Koreans was largely muted. Most went about their business on a pleasant spring day. Still, some tension and concern was evident. At a rally in Seoul, about 100 activists burned a North Korean flag and a missile replica plastered with leader Kim Jong Il’s portrait.
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Infineon Announces Time-of-Flight 3D Image Sensor
“The offering appears to be a response to the success of Apple’s Face ID system on the iPhone X, which also uses infrared imaging to enable 3D facial recognition.”
Germany-based semiconductor solutions provider Infineon has announced a new 3D image sensor designed to enable 3D facial recognition on mobile devices.
Developed in collaboration with pmdtechnologies, the sensor has a footprint of 12mm x 8mm, with the imaging system based on infrared light and the 38,000-pixel REAL3 chip. It’s based on time-of-flight, which Infineon is positioning as a more powerful and less energy-consuming imaging method than stereoscopic or structured light systems.
The offering appears to be a response to the success of Apple’s Face ID system on the iPhone X, which also uses infrared imaging to enable 3D facial recognition. In a statement announcing the solution, Infineon asserted that market forecasters are predicting that “smartphones with 3D sensing functionality to increase from about 50 million units in the year 2017 to roughly 290 million units in 2019.”
Infineon won’t be able to capture all of that potential. Other major companies such as Samsung are already putting forward their own 3D facial recognition systems for integration into mobile devices, and Infineon says its 3D image sensor won’t be ready for volume production until Q4 of this year. But samples are already available, and Infineon and pmdtechnologies are planning to showcase the solution at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show, where it will have a good shot at attracting some interest from OEMs starting to plan future devices that might incorporate 3D face imaging.
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Interview: Marina and the Diamonds
Posted in interviews, Nottingham Post by Mike A on October 8, 2010
A shorter version of this interview originally appeared in the Nottingham Post.
What are you up to you today?
Well, I’m doing something good today. I’m going for a fitting at Dolce e Gabanna, so it’s really not that bad! I rarely go to parties, but I’m in town for two day doing fashion week, and there’s Naomi Campbell’s party tonight. That’s about the only glamorous thing in this business! (Laughs)
You’ve just returned from the States. Was that your first major tour over there?
Yeah, and it was absolutely amazing. America’s bizarre as a country, and the pop culture is bizarre and weird. So for me, as an artist who draws her inspiration from observing it, it was so fascinating.
You’ve spoken before about feeling emotionally drawn to the US in your writing. There’s that famous line from Hollywood: “I’m obsessed with the mess that’s America”. Where did that feeling of connection come from?
I’m not sure whether other people of my generation feel the same, or whether it’s just something personal to me, but when I was growing up, success as an artist meant being on MTV – and those things were very iconic and imprinted on my brain as a child. So maybe I related it to success. And for me, I will not have made it until I’ve won something like the VMA awards, because that for me equals success.
So it’s important for you to win over an American audience.
Yeah, and it’s not just because of this old myth of “if you make it in America, you can make it everywhere”. It’s not strictly true. However, I think there’s something really bleak about America. And that relates to middle America, and to the people who live there – just normal, everyday people. I don’t care about the celebrity side of it. I care about normal people and the public. I grew up in much the same way, in a little village in Wales, from quite a humble background. So that’s what I think of when I go there and play to people.
You must have had certain preconceptions of American life. How did they measure up against the reality?
When I first started going there, I felt very cold towards it. That’s how you feel when an illusion is exposed as an illusion. It’s like biting into a cake that has no flavour. I don’t mean that in a bad way – that was just in the beginning. And now people are so warm. It’s not just a naïvely happy thing – they’re like that because they’re very hopeful people. And I don’t think we should be so cynical about that. The country has gone through a hard time, and it’s not the people’s fault. It’s the government, and the system that’s in place there, and the media that’s in place there, that’s the ruin of the country.
Do you now have an opportunity to infiltrate that media yourself, and to get some different messages out there?
Absolutely. I think that’s why I have found a strange fan base there, even though I’m not pop enough to be on the radio. It’s because I’m very honest, and I think my lyrics relate to big things in people’s lives: their dreams, their aspirations and how they feel about themselves. So I don’t want to portray things like: OK, I’m in a club with loads of guys around me, and I’ve got loads of money. Because that’s not true! (Laughs)
No, I think we’ve got enough of that. You’re not after Ke$ha’s market. Could you ever imagine yourself moving to the US?
Oh, absolutely. As a young person, I haven’t got the responsibilities of children and husbands and all that kind of thing. I really want to move to New York next year, maybe for a year, a year and a half. Then I’ll come back to London, because I do love the UK.
The video for your new single (Shampain) is a strong contrast from your previous video (Oh No). In Oh No you were the aggressor, but in Shampain you’re almost the victim. Was this an attempt to show a different side?
Yeah, definitely. Because I’ve only done one album, I suppose people only have that snapshot of me: as a success-hungry, questioning person who wasn’t very happy. (Laughs) And that is very true, but it’s quite hard sometimes when you’re quite a hungry person and people think that you’re like that all the time. But obviously those songs come from somewhere. So with Shampain, it made sense to do a darker, heavier video.
The song is about vices, and about being a very split personality. It’s the fine line between feeling absolutely incredible when you’re hammered, and then suddenly something going wrong and everything going to hell and you want to die. (Giggles)
The title reads as “sham pain” – but lyrically, you’re describing a very real pain. So what’s going on there?
(Laughs) Well, I always want to make things more interesting! And I actually hate champagne. If I had put “Champagne” as the title, perhaps people would have thought it was some typical club song.
The video was shot in Southwark Park, in London, from 4pm until 7am. It was the coldest video I’ve ever done in my life. I was absolutely freezing.
It’s an uptempo track, but you have also performed it as stripped down ballad. Was it originally written as an uptempo song?
It’s one of the few that were. Most of my songs start as ballads – Hollywood was a ballad – I’ll do them on piano. But Shampain was actually studio written.
Do you like playing around with differing interpretations of your songs?
It’s really important to me. In the pop world, I don’t think people don’t expect to see a real musician. And with people like Elly [Jackson, aka La Roux] and Florence, and Lady Gaga as well, they all have great voices, and I love that. Because you really have to stand up as an artist live, to be a long term act. In America, it’s quite unheard of. Not that they don’t have great singers, but pure pop is very Autotuned.
Somehow, if you put the same song through different interpretations, it highlights the strength of the song. It makes people listen to the song in a fresh way.
Yeah, you’re absolutely right. And for me as a songwriter as well, that’s a test – that I’ve written a song that could be timeless, if you take it out of the studio and strip it of the production and play it on your own.
It must have been a mad, busy year for you. How are your energy levels holding up?
Usually, I’m like “Yeeeeeah, I’m FINE! I can go on for nine more years!” But today, I feel absolutely knackered. It’s probably the jetlag from L.A. But generally I’m happy. I’m gearing up for the autumn tour, and I feel great.
When you do get downtime – assuming you get any at all – do you find it easy to relax, or do you tend to crash and burn?
I don’t know what I tend to do, because it rarely happens. So if I do, I actually just take sleeping pills, because I can’t sleep very well either. I’m quite an anxious sleeper.
Oh my goodness, you want to watch that. (Laughter)
So I’m not sure – I just try and chill out, I suppose. I stay at home usually, and I write.
Do you still have the time and space to work on new material?
Yeah, I do. I’m inspired every day, even if it’s just writing lyrics. It’s like a muscle. If you don’t use it, then the next time you go back and try, you tend to be cranky. So I try. But I don’t think you should force yourself to be creative, especially when you’re pretty stressed. The key is calm, and then you can do it.
Are any new lyrical themes emerging?
Yeah – death, usually! But it’s going well! (Laughs)
Oh well, that’s what success does to you, then. It makes you morbid.
Yeah, it does!
It has been a year of great change, of course. Your whole professional career has stepped up several notches. Were you prepared for that change, and has it matched your expectations?
Oh, absolutely. Yes, yes and yes. I’m someone who over-thinks everything, and I’ve over-thought my career since I planned it ten years ago. So nothing has felt strange. Also, I have quite a wry outlook on things. Even though on the first album I was talking about success – what it means, and that I want it, and that I’m ambitious – I’m very aware of what this entails, and I don’t lie to myself. So I don’t really feel like things have changed. I just expect more of myself.
Some people find it a disillusioning process, but it sounds like you didn’t have too many illusions to begin with.
No, I didn’t. I wanted to be worked, and I want to feel like I’ve earned this. Some people come into this expecting the soft beauty and glamour of it. I think there are loads of people who really struggle – but the work horses don’t. And they usually last.
Is there necessarily more of a distance between you and your fans now – or your “diamonds” as you call them – or do you consciously try to bridge that distance?
I still comment on Facebook, and I tweet them sometimes. I have several fans from the beginning who I’m in very regular contact with, and have been for four years. So it might not be as publicised, as in everyone knowing about it, but I have really close contact with people. And it’s on a very genuine level.
I don’t say “diamonds” to be cute. I created Marina and the Diamonds because I felt very excluded, and I never want to make anybody feel like that. I want to make people very welcome.
There’s a kind of hierarchical nature in this industry, which is encouraged. I hate it. I think it’s bullshit. So I’ll meet people after every single gig, on every single tour.
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Check out the Trailer for Charlize Theron in ‘Tully’
Emily Chapman January 12th, 2018 - 2:54 PM
Focus Features, known most recently for Victoria & Abdul, Phantom Thread, and Darkest Hour, has just released the trailer for Tully. The film revolves around a character who shares the name of the film, Tully, played by actress Mackenzie Davis (What If, The Martian) and a mother named Marlo, played by Charlize Theron. The trailer does great work to emphasize the love but also the frustration of early child-rearing, showing a long clip of an infant crying, interspersed with shots showing Theron’s character engaging in acts of motherhood, cementing her experience. Davis’ character then becomes employed as a night nanny for Marlo’s family, which drives the plot of the film as the two women work together to take care of the children. As of now, the trailer is sparse on material with Davis, but that actually works quite well to heighten the emotion and experience of Theron’s character.
The cast also includes Ron Livingston (The Conjuring, Office Space) and Mark Duplass (Creep, The Lazarus Effect).
Written by Diablo Cody (Jennifer’s Body, Juno), the movie marks a reunion with her and Theron. A frequent project partner with Cody, Tully director Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking, Labor Day) also helped bring together the film.
Watch the trailer for the movie below!
Tully will hit theaters on April 20th of this year.
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ to Work with Star Wars Composing Veteran
Daniel Jungenberg December 30th, 2017 - 2:29 PM
John Williams is one of the greatest film composers of all time, having created film classic themes including those for Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, and of course Star Wars. Williams will be bringing back his musical talent to a galaxy far, far away by making the theme song for Solo: A Star Wars Story, according to Variety. Work done by Williams has done much to cement the franchise into iconoclastic status, especially with his pieces ‘Binary Sunset (Force Theme)’ as well as ‘The Imperial March,’ which even now audiences immediately associate with Darth Vader. John Powell will be covering the rest of the score with help from Williams.
Though their collaboration is completely peaceful work between two talented, mutually respectful artists, there’s certainly been a lot of interesting and unexpected news about the upcoming anthology film. After all, Solo: A Star Wars Story has had a difficult production stage. The original directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, left in June because of creative differences and were replaced by Ron Howard. Michael Kenneth Williams was originally cast for the film, but could not make the reshoots and was eventually replaced by Paul Bettany. According to Howard, production has concluded and the film will follow its release date for next year.
Solo will do what Rogue One offered the Star Wars franchise: give more details on a specific event or character that leads into the other films. Han Solo will be the focus of the movie, and we will be able to see his and Chewbacca’s adventures before the rebellion, including his first ones with Lando Calrissian. The cast is a strong one which will include Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Thandie Newton, Woody Harrelson, and Donald Glover. The film is set to release on May 25, 2018.
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Howard Stern Net Worth in 2015: Highest-Paid Radio Host in US
The legendary radio disc jockey ‘Howard Stern’ worked in several radio stations and seems to owing most of his wealth to hosting, but also earned a great deal from writing, and appearing as a judge on ‘America’s Got Talent’ as well as a box-office success movie titled ‘Private Parts’ which won him the awards of Blockbuster Entertainment and a Golden Apple Award.
Howard Stem is currently married to Beth Ostrocky Stern who is an actress and model, they married back in 2007, 6 years after breaking up his marriage to his college sweetheart Alison Berns whom he had three daughters from.
Howard is the highest-paid radio host in US, and managed to rank twice as the Forbes Celebrity 100 list ranking in #66 back in 2014 and jumping to #5 in 2015. His current net worth is estimated to be around $620 million as of September 2015. His yearly salary is reported to be a jaw-dropping sum of $95 million a year.
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Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Is a Rugged Version of the S7
The all new Samsung Galaxy S7 Active is a rugged Galaxy S7 with a Shatterproof screen, IP68 water-proofing, and a Military Grade Body. It’s something you can take on your outdoor adventures and not be afraid of breaking.
It’s not an all new phone, as it’s still a Galaxy S7, but has been made tougher for the outdoors. The specs of the device is the same as the original S7, but it’s been packaged in a stronger body. That’s about it really.
Samsung has, once again, done a good job with the Active version of their flagship device. Unfortunately, like the Galaxy S6 Active, even the new S7 Active will only be available for AT&T customers in the United States.
As mentioned above, the Galaxy S7 Active has the same specifications as the slimmer S7, apart from a bigger battery and other external improvements. You still get the 5.1 inch Quad HD AMOLED display, a Snapdragon 820 Quad-core processor, 4GB of RAM, the 12 MP rear camera, 5 MP front camera, and other S7 goodies.
What you also get, is IP68 certification that allows you to dip the S7 Active in up to 5 feet of water. A MIL STD-810G rating, which means you can drop or throw this phone multiple times without damaging the screen or internals.
The display on the S7 Active is shatterproof, but still has a Quad HD resolution, which is excellent. This is also the first in the Galaxy Active line-up to receive a fingerprint sensor. The recent and back keys get physical buttons, to keep the ruggedness in line.
Overall, the phone weighs 185 grams, whereas the S7 is around 152 grams. It is also thicker, obviously, at 9.9 mm, compared to the 7.9 mm regular S7. Samsung has also added a larger battery on the Active. The regular S7 gets a 3000 mAh battery, whereas the S7 Active gets a 4000 mAh battery. It supports Adaptive fast charging and wireless charging.
There’s a special Activity Zone button on the side of the phone that shows important details such as temperature, barometer, weather, compass, stopwatch, flashlight, and S Health. You can even use this app to launch any other app you like.
Samsung has priced the Galaxy S7 Active at $800, and that’s without taxes and other fees. As stated in the beginning, the phone will only be available from AT&T. You can get one using the AT&T Next installment plans. The release date for the smartphone is all set for June 10th. You can buy them online at AT&T or in stores.
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Man Gets 23 Months to 10 Years in Prison For Shooting BB Gun
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A Michigan man is going to prison for 23 months to 10 years for shooting his BB gun at windows for something to do.
According to WWMT, a 44-year-old Coldwater Michigan man by the name of Ricky Dale Cox II, of Quincy, shot up random windows of vehicles and business's with a BB gun all across Branch County.
The Branch County Circuit Court judge has ordered Cox to pay over $36,000 in restitution. Man he must have shot up a ton of windows.
In court, Cox pleaded no contest to breaking and entering a building and two counts of malicious destruction of property. Police had found 22 locations where windows were shot out from a BB gun.
Cox was sentenced to 23 months to 10 years in prison but was given credit for time served in Branch County Jail.
Cox was already in jail when a tip came in to police about him shooting windows up with a BB gun.
Coldwater Deputy Director of Public Safety, Joe Scheid said, "He never really had no clear decisive motive other than kind of under the influence of drugs and wanted something to do.
Source: Man Gets 23 Months to 10 Years in Prison For Shooting BB Gun
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Published by Local Democracy Reporter
By Kirstie Topp – Local Democracy Reporter
A north east car sales firm could open a new dealership in Turriff if planning permission is approved.
Crudie-based business Crown Motors has submitted plans to Aberdeenshire Council in a bid to open a new showroom on Station Road, Turriff.
The proposals include plans for a vehicle display area, service centre, MOT bay and customer parking.
3D visulisation of the new car showroom
External and internal electric vehicle charging points would be installed at the site while the showroom would focus on hybrid and electric cars.
The proposed site is located across from an existing tractor and agricultural machinery dealership.
A new footpath has also been proposed for construction from the site to the bus stop on the A947 to provide access to the showroom for pedestrians.
A planning statement issued with the application states that the family-run business is looking to expand their operations” and believe Turriff is the “ideal location to extend their services”.
It adds that the facility would provide new jobs in the area and would “benefit Turriff and the wider Formartine area”.
Application number APP/2021/0001
Planning applications can be viewed by clicking the application number above or by searching for the application number here https://upa.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/online-applications/
Filed Under: LDRS, Planning, Turriff News Published 6th January 2021 at 6:46 pm and Last Modified: January 9, 2021 at 8:22 am
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The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2018 launches on National Poetry Day
The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2018 launches today, 28 September, to coincide with National Poetry Day 2017.
Run by leading poetry magazine The Rialto, in partnership with the RSPB, BirdLife International and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, the competition is open to original submissions written in English by entrants aged 18 years and over from anywhere in the world.
Judging the competition for the first time this year will be multi-award-winning Belfast poet Michael Longley CBE, who will pick the winning five poems – an overall winner, second and third place, plus two additional runners up.
Editor of The Rialto, Michael Mackmin said: “We’re delighted Michael Longley accepted our invitation to judge the Nature and Place Poetry Competition this year, especially given the strong presence of nature and place themes in his own work which serves as an inspiration for many readers and writers of poetry.”
Now in its 5th year, the Nature and Place Poetry Competition has become a standout event in the poetry calendar, with a first prize of £1,000, and second and third place prizes of £500 and a place on a creative writing course. Plus two additional prizes for the two runners up of personal tours with naturalists and nature writers Mark Cocker and Nick Davies.
With such wonderful prizes on offer, the competition attracts a high standard of entries.
Michael Mackmin: “The quality of the poems people write and enter into the competition is always high, which I think reflects the importance of nature and place in our lives but also the value and power of the written word to enable people to express the human connection with the world around them.”
As well as inspiring creative writing about the natural world and our place in it, the Nature and Place Poetry Competition makes a tangible contribution to nature conservation and has raised more than £60,000 for the work of competition partner the RSPB.
Matt Howard, RSPB Fundraising Officer and Rialto board member said: “The money The Rialto has raised through the competition makes a very real difference by helping us save nature, but its value runs beyond the financial contribution it makes to the RSPB’s conservation work. The competition shows just how important nature is to our cultural and imaginative lives, and vice versa.”
This is the first year the competition is being launched in conjunction with National Poetry Day, which will take place on Thursday 28 September 2017 and has as its theme ‘Freedom’.
Susannah Herbert, Executive Director, National Poetry Day: “We at National Poetry Day strongly believe everyone should have the chance to enjoy, discover and share poetry. In encouraging people to turn their attention to place and to nature – and to turn that attention into a poem – this competition is a great creative spur. When you look closely at any aspect of the natural world – from a spider to a mountain – you learn to tune your senses, the first task of a poet. We are proud to be associated with this competition and with work of the Rialto, the RSPB and the great poet Michael Longley.”
Find out how you can take part in National Poetry Day: www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk
@PoetryDayUK #NationalPoetryDay on social media.
Entering The Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2018 couldn’t be simpler. You can find out everything you need to know about submitting your poems on The Rialto’s website: www.therialto.co.uk
The closing date for the competition is midnight on 1 March 2018.
For further information and to arrange an interview, please contact:
Rupert Masefield, RSPB Communications Officer: 01603 697595 Mob: 07872 814878 rupert.masefield@rspb.org.uk
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Share this Story: AP Explains: How tough new Australian social media law works
AP Explains: How tough new Australian social media law works
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia hopes its new laws that threaten prison and major fines for social media executives who fail to quickly remove violent livestreaming from their platforms will become a model for other countries.
The government has described its response to the March 15 gun massacre in which an Australian allegedly killed 50 Muslims in New Zealand as a world-first in legislating the conduct of social media and online platforms.
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Critics argue that global social media giants could pull out of Australia if other countries don’t adopt similar laws. There are also concerns the law could lead to media censorship and prevent whistleblowers from exposing atrocities.
Here is a look at the legislation and the problems it hopes to overcome:
THE AFTERMATH OF THE NEW ZEALAND MASSACRE
A white supremacist apparently used a helmet-mounted camera to broadcast live on Facebook as he shot worshippers in Christchurch mosques. Facebook livestreamed the massacre for 17 minutes without interruption before reacting. Facebook said it removed 1.5 million videos of the shootings during the first 24 hours afterward. The government argues that social media companies need to do more to exclude such content. The sharing of the video between online users that followed the livestreaming is not covered by the law.
HOW DOES SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM SUCH AS FACEBOOK COMMIT A CRIME
Internet service providers and providers of hosting services or content have committed a crime if they fail to remove “abhorrent violent material expeditiously.” The material has to be accessible from Australia. “Abhorrent violent material” is defined as acts of terrorism, murder, attempted murder, torture, rape and kidnapping. The material must he recorded by the perpetrator of the crime or an accomplice for the law to apply.
The definition excludes sports such as boxing, medical procedures and sexual acts that are violent but consensual. The material can be audio-visual, solely audio, or solely visual. It can be livestreamed or recorded and can include still images taken from video. “Expeditiously” is not defined. That would be decided by a jury. The crime would be punishable by three years in prison and a 2.1 million Australian dollar ($1.5 million) fine for an individual. Corporations can be fined AU$10.5 million ($7.5 million) or 10% of the platform’s annual turnover, whichever amount is larger.
ARE THERE EXCEPTIONS?
There are legal defences where the material relates to a news report that is in the public interest, a court proceeding, research or an artistic work. The attorney general has the discretion to prevent prosecutions considered inappropriate. The government argues the operations of traditional media are unlikely to be effected.
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Confession of Guilt
The World in False Face
The Great Revilo Oliver: The Jewish Plague, part 2
UK: Jewish MP Says “Jewish Money” Controls Government
Gray April
Studebaker Rescues Bolshevism
Art: Fraudulent and Real
The Children of Ra: Artistic, Historical, and Genetic Evidence for Ancient White Egypt
Muslims Expected to Surpass Jews as Second-Largest U.S. Religious Group
Rosemary W. Pennington 2015-04-22
Rosemary W. Pennington (Editor) · 22 April, 2015
What the Pew Research Center doesn’t tell us is that non-White Muslims, with their far higher birth and fertility rates, will overtake not only Jews but Whites as well — even if all immigration was halted tomorrow.
TWO TRENDS THAT are already well underway — the decline of Christians and the growth of religiously unaffiliated people as a share of the U.S. population — are expected to continue in the decades ahead, according to the Pew Research Center’s projections of major religious groups around the world. (ILLUSTRATION: Muslims praying at the Jama Masjid in Delhi, India)
But, if current demographic trends hold, there also will be other significant changes in the U.S. religious landscape: Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion in the country and, by 2050, Muslims are projected to be more numerous in the U.S. than people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion.
Due in part to their continued migration into the country, Muslims are forecast to make up 2.1% of the U.S. population in 2050, up from 0.9% in 2010. Two other major factors are driving Muslim growth: They currently have the highest fertility rate and the youngest median age of any major religious group in the U.S.
People who identify their religion as Jewish in surveys are projected to decline from an estimated 1.8% of the U.S. population in 2010 to 1.4% in 2050. The median age of U.S. Jews as of 2010 (41) was 17 years older than the median age for Muslims (24), while Jews, on average, have 1.9 children per woman compared with 2.8 for U.S. Muslims.
A 2013 Pew Research survey found that more than one-in-five U.S. Jewish adults (22%) say they are atheist, agnostic or nothing in particular, but still consider themselves Jewish. For the purposes of the projections, these “cultural” or “ethnic” Jews are categorized as unaffiliated and not included in the Jewish population. If the projected Jewish numbers were expanded to include cultural or ethnic Jews, it is possible that the Jews (more broadly defined) might still outnumber Muslims in 2050.
In any case, Muslims are not the only American religious minority that is growing. Hindus, who make up another relatively young group that continues to be boosted by migration, are projected to double as a share of the U.S. population, from 0.6% in 2010 to 1.2% in 2050. Similar factors account for the modest expected rise in the share of Buddhists (from 1.2% to 1.4%).
Two other relatively small groups also are expected to grow. Members of “other religions” (a category for all those not categorized elsewhere in the projections, including Sikhs, Wiccans and Unitarian Universalists) are projected to increase from 0.6% of the U.S. population in 2010 to 1.5% in 2050, while adherents of folk religions are forecast to increase from 0.2% to 0.5%. Religious switching into these categories, observed in recent surveys, accounts for some of the increases.
Altogether, minority religious groups — that is, everyone other than Christians and the unaffiliated — are expected to grow from roughly 5% of Americans in 2010 to about 8% in 2050.
Source: Pew Research Center
Two Worlds, Not One
The Task of the National Alliance
Neuron Bombs: The Holocaust and Other Atrocity Stories
Jewish Prayer Calls for Holocaust of Non-Jews
Russia to Launch "Independent Internet"
Atlantic's New Editor Jeffrey Goldberg: Maniacal Warmongering Zionist Jew
Anonymous Just Declared War on Donald Trump With a Massive Cyberattack
Reject the Controlled Opposition
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22 April, 2015 9:24 pm
Beware of another Big Lie. The standard 6 million Jews who allegedly live in this country is more like 15 TO 25 million. I’d say closer 25 million Jews living in the country.
The South fought against all this forced amalgamation in the 1960s while the rest of the country slept. I told you so…
Michael R
22 April, 2015 10:30 pm
25 million? What? I thought there’s only 14-15 million in the world?
Harvard Encyclopedia
1977. 5.8 million Jews in America.
The Jews would have us believe that 38 years later, the Jew population has increased by only 200 thousand. The Harvard book also states that by 1977 about 300 thousand Jews left Israel and came to America. The only thing coming out of Israel is misery.
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It’s Time to Decriminalize our Education Systems for Youth of Color
All children deserve to have access to a quality education. They deserve to feel safe and supported in a place that exists to prepare them for their futures. Yet, for Black youth and other youth of color, this is far from the reality. Every day, Black children and other youth of color, some as young as six are being pushed out of classrooms and schools because of deep racial profiling. Across the country, Black high school students are twice as likely to be suspended as white students. In Oakland, while Black youth made up 26 percent of the Oakland Unified School District’s enrollment, they represented 73 percent of arrests. This vicious cycle continues to fuel pathways to prison and confinement, where Black youth are consistently over-represented, which creates additional barriers for our young people to realize and achieve their full potential.
One message stood out: we must stretch beyond what we’ve tried before. Just aligning corporate philanthropy with a company’s business interests will no longer suffice. With our nation’s health, climate, race relations, economy, and democracy under assault, our social order is quite squarely in the balance. The brand that invests in communities' own systems for survival, leverages its voice and influence to advance change, and stands up to be counted, will resonate most.
5 Ways Funders Can Help Grow the Transgender Movement In This Time of Crisis
Despite the historical inattention to the needs of trans communities from mainstream philanthropy, I am grateful to a small group of plucky, pioneering transgender-led funders like the Trans Justice Funding Project (TJFP), the Third Wave Fund, and Borealis Philanthropy’s Fund for Trans Generations, who have charted a path for many more funders can learn from today.
Free the Vote: Prop 17 is One Step Forward
Niki Martinez, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison, was recently granted early parole, however, she still faces the stigma of being implicated with the criminal justice system. Despite her leadership in building community within the prison system and, when released, being a community advocate for alternatives to incarceration and simultaneously juggling four jobs, she still has no right to vote. Through Proposition 17, California’s practice of extending punishment for people have completed their sentences can end, and instead, focus resources
Member Spotlight with Pedro Arista
These past months, we've found ourselves returning to the same question: are our plans still serving their purpose, or is there a greater opportunity made possible by the crises in which we find ourselves? We asked NCG's board, staff, and membership to weigh-in on how they're balancing this question. Pedro Arista, Director at Hirsch Philanthropy Partners, joined us to share what inspires him to do this work and what's exciting him about the sector.
By Alice Y.
Nephthali Ramirez Joins the NCG Team
NCG is pleased to welcome the newest member of its team, Nephthali Ramirez, as its Programs and Communications Consultant. As a part-time staff member, Nephthali's addition to the team comes as NCG is expanding its virtual programming. If you have not already, you will be seeing her at all of our future events. To get to know her better, Nephthali shared some details about what has led her here.
Affirmative Action Slammed Shut Behind Me: Prop 16 Reopens Opportunity
The places we call home, their streets, smells, sounds, and sights, shape our opportunity for a fair shot at a long and healthy life. I grew up in the shadows of greatness, in the city of pride and purpose, Richmond, California. During WWII, it was a busy port between San Francisco and Sacramento, home to the Kaiser shipyards. It was also home of Rosie the Riveter, the female empowerment icon.
A new season is upon us and September has us witnessing grief, diving deep on the connection of law enforcement and white supremacy, and envisioning life where all of one’s identities are affirmed and celebrated. Take a bit of time to reflect on these examples of power, activism, and questions about bridging activism and law enforcement, white supremacy, workplace issues, LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter in this month's selections.
This month, President and CEO Dwayne S. Marsh has officially taken the reins from Steve Barton and Phuong Quach, senior staff who’ve served as NCG’s interim leaders for the past six months. The three took turns answering questions about the moment in which we find ourselves and the possibilities ahead. As the interview was drawing to a close, Dwayne paused to check if we were going to address race explicitly. And so, signaling the new future into which we are stepping, we did.
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Tag: Leonhard Euler
Reading the Comics, November 13, 2019: I Could Have Posted This Wednesday Edition
Now let me discuss the comic strips from last week with some real meat to their subject matter. There weren’t many: after Wednesday of last week there were only casual mentions of any mathematics topic. But one of the strips got me quite excited. You’ll know which soon enough.
Mac King and Bill King’s Magic in a Minute for the 10th uses everyone’s favorite topological construct to do a magic trick. This one uses a neat quirk of the Möbius strip: that if sliced along the center of its continuous loop you get not two separate shapes but one Möbius strip of greater length. There are more astounding feats possible. If the strip were cut one-third of the way from an edge it would slice the strip into two shapes, one another Möbius strip and one a simple loop.
Or consider not starting with a Möbius strip. Make the strip of paper by taking one end and twisting it twice around, for a full loop, before taping it to the other end. Slice this down the center and what results are two interlinked rings. Or place three twists in the original strip of paper before taping the ends together. Then, the shape, cut down the center, unfolds into a trefoil knot. But this would take some expert hand work to conceal the loops from the audience while cutting. It’d be a neat stunt if you could stage it, though.
Mac King and Bill King’s Magic in a Minute for the 10th of November, 2019. This and other mathematics-based tricks featured in Magic In A Minute are at this link.
Zach Weinersmith’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal for the 10th uses mathematics as obfuscation. We value mathematics for being able to make precise and definitely true statements. And for being able to describe the world with precision and clarity. But this has got the danger that people hear mathematical terms and tune out, trusting that the point will be along soon after some complicated talk.
Zach Weinersmith’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal for the 10th of November, 2019. This and many other essays discussing Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal are at this link.
Brian Boychuk and Ron Boychuk’s The Chuckle Brothers for the 11th would be a Pi Day joke if it hadn’t run in November. But when this strip first ran, in 2010, Pi Day was not such a big event in the STEM/Internet community. The Boychuks couldn’t have known.
The formulas on the blackboard are nearly all legitimate, and correct, formulas for the value of π. The upper-left and the lower-right formulas are integrals, and ones that correspond to particular trigonometric formulas. The The middle-left and the upper-right formulas are series, the sums of infinitely many terms. The one in the upper right, , was roughly proven by Leonhard Euler. Euler developed a proof that’s convincing, but that assumed that infinitely-long polynomials behave just like finitely-long polynomials. In this context, he was correct, but this can’t be generally trusted to happen. We’ve got proofs that, to our eyes, seem rigorous enough now.
Brian Boychuk and Ron Boychuk’s The Chuckle Brothers rerun for the 11th of November, 2019. It originally ran the 29th of November, 2010. This and other essays mentioning The Chuckle Brothers , which has gone into perpetual reruns, are at this link.
The center-left formula doesn’t look correct to me. To my eye, this looks like a mistaken representation of the formula
But it’s obscured by Haskins’s head. It may be that this formula’s written in a format that, in full, would be correct. There are many, many formulas for π (here’s Mathworld’s page of them and here’s Wikipedia’s page of π formulas); it’s impossible to list them all.
The center-right formula is interesting because, in part, it looks weird. It’s written out as
That looks at first glance like something’s gone wrong with one of those infinite-product series for π. Not so; this is a notation used for continued fractions. A continued fraction has a string of denominators that are typically some whole number plus another fraction. Often the denominator of that fraction will itself be a whole number plus another fraction. This gets to be typographically challenging. So we have this notation instead. Its syntax is that
There are many attractive formulas for π. It’s temping to say this is because π is such a lovely number it naturally has beautiful formulas. But more likely humans are so interested in π we go looking for formulas with some appealing sequence to them. There are some awful-looking formulas out there too. I don’t know your tastes, but for me I feel my heart cool when I see that π is equal to four divided by this number:
however much I might admire the ingenuity which found that relationship, and however efficiently it may calculate digits of π.
Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy’s The Duplex for the 13th of November, 2019. This surprises me by not being a new comic tag. Essays mentioning The Duplex are at this link.
Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy’s The Duplex for the 13th uses skill at arithmetic as shorthand for proving someone’s a teacher. There’s clearly some implicit idea that this is a school teacher, probably for elementary schools, and doesn’t have a particular specialty. But it is only three panels; they have to get the joke done, after all.
And that’s all for the comic strips this week. Come Sunday I should have another Reading the Comics post. And the Fall 2019 A-to-Z draws closer to its conclusion with two more essays, trusting that I can indeed write them, for Tuesday and Thursday. I also have something disturbing to write about for Wednesday. Can’t wait.
Author Joseph NebusPosted on Monday, 18 November, 2019 Monday, 18 November, 2019 Categories Comic Strips, Geometry, Math, Mathematics, MathsTags Chuckle Brothers, Leonhard Euler, Magic In A Minute, Pi Day, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, The DuplexLeave a comment on Reading the Comics, November 13, 2019: I Could Have Posted This Wednesday Edition
My 2019 Mathematics A To Z: Koenigsberg Bridge Problem
Today’s A To Z term was nominated by Bunny Hugger. I’m glad to write about it. The problem is foundational to both graph theory and topology.
I’m more fluent in graph theory, and my writing will reflect that. But its critical insight involves looking at spaces and ignoring things like distance and area and angle. It is amazing that one can discard so much of geometry and still have anything to consider. What we do learn then applies to very many problems.
Art by Thomas K Dye, creator of the web comics Projection Edge , Newshounds , Infinity Refugees , and Something Happens . He’s on Twitter as @projectionedge. You can get to read Projection Edge six months early by subscribing to his Patreon.
Königsberg Bridge Problem.
Once upon a time there was a city named Königsberg. It no longer is. It is Kaliningrad now. It’s no longer in that odd non-contiguous chunk of Prussia facing the Baltic Sea. It’s now in that odd non-contiguous chunk of Russia facing the Baltic Sea.
I put it this way because what the city evokes, to mathematicians, is a story. I do not have specific reason to think the story untrue. But it is a good story, and as I think more about history I grow more skeptical of good stories. A good story teaches, though not always the thing it means to convey.
The story is this. The city is on two sides of the Pregel river, now the Pregolya River. Two large islands are in the river. For several centuries these four land masses were connected by a total of seven bridges. And we are told that people in the city would enjoy free time with an idle puzzle. Was there a way to walk all seven bridges one and only one time? If no one did something fowl like taking a boat to cross the river, or not going the whole way across a bridge, anyway? There were enough bridges, though, and enough possible ways to cross them, that trying out every option was hopeless.
Then came Leonhard Euler. Who is himself a preposterous number of stories. Pick any major field of mathematics; there is an Euler’s Theorem at its center. Or an Euler’s Formula. Euler’s Method. Euler’s Function. Likely he brought great new light to it.
And in 1736 he solved the Königsberg Bridge Problem. The answer was to look at what would have to be true for a solution to exist. He noticed something so obvious it required genius not to dismiss it. It seems too simple to be useful. In a successful walk you enter each land mass (river bank or island) the same number of times you leave it. So if you cross each bridge exactly once, you use an even number of bridges per land mass. The exceptions are that you must start at one land mass, and end at a land mass. Maybe a different one. How you get there doesn’t count for the problem. How you leave doesn’t either. So the land mass you start from may have an odd number of bridges. So may the one you end on. So there are up to two land masses that may have an odd number of bridges.
Once this is observed, it’s easy to tell that Königsberg’s Bridges did not match that. All four land masses in Königsberg have an odd number of bridges. And so we could stop looking. It’s impossible to walk the seven bridges exactly once each in a tour, not without cheating.
Graph theoreticians, like the topologists of my prologue, now consider this foundational to their field. To look at a geographic problem and not concern oneself with areas and surfaces and shapes? To worry only about how sets connect? This guides graph theory in how to think about networks.
The city exists, as do the islands, and the bridges existed as described. So does Euler’s solution. And his reasoning is sound. The reasoning is ingenious, too. Everything hard about the problem evaporates. So what do I doubt about this fine story?
Well, I don’t know that this bridge problem was something the people of Königsberg thought about. At least not in the way it’s presented, this idle problem everyone who visited the river wondered about without trying very hard to solve. The only people I ever hear discussing this are mathematicians. And mathematicians are as fond of good stories as anyone else, and accept that when the reality is messy and ambiguous and confused. I’m not alone in having doubts. The Mathematics Association of America’s web page about the problem concedes it is “according to lore” that the people of the city had this problem.
Teo Paoletti, author of that web page, says Danzig mayor Carl Leonhard Gottlieb Ehler wrote Euler, asking for a solution. This falls short of proving that the bridges were a common subject of speculation. It does show at least that Ehler thought it worth pondering. Euler apparently did not think it was even mathematics. Not that he thought it was hard; he simply thought it didn’t depend on mathematical principles. It took only reason. But he did find something interesting: why was it not mathematics? Paoletti quotes Euler as writing:
This question is so banal, but seemed to me worthy of attention in that [neither] geometry, nor algebra, nor even the art of counting was sufficient to solve it.
I am reminded of a mathematical joke. It’s about the professor who always went on at great length about any topic, however slight. I have no idea why this should stick with me. Finally one day the professor admitted of something, “This problem is not interesting.” The students barely had time to feel relief. The professor went on: “But the reasons why it is not interesting are very interesting. So let us explore that.”
The Königsberg Bridge Problem is in the first chapter of every graph theory book ever. And it is a good graph theory problem. It may not be fair to say it created graph theory, though. Euler seems to have treated this as a little side bit of business, unrelated to his real mathematics. Graph theory as we know it — as a genre — formed in the 19th century. So did topology. In hindsight we can see how studying these bridges brought us good questions to ask, and ways to solve them. But for something like a century after Euler published this, it was just the clever solution to a recreational mathematics puzzle. It was as important as finding knight’s tours of chessboards.
That we take it as the introduction to graph theory, and maybe topology, tells us something. It is an easy problem to pose. Its solution is clever, but not obscure. It takes no long chains of complex reasoning. Many people approach mathematics problems with fear. By telling this story, we promise mathematics that feels as secure as a stroll along the riverfront. This promise is good through about chapter three, section four, where there are four definitions on one page and the notation summons obscure demons of LaTeX.
Still. Look at what the story of the bridges tells us. We notice something curious about our environment. The problem seems mathematical, or at least geographic. The problem is of no consequence. But it lingers in the mind. The obvious approaches to solving it won’t work. But think of the problem differently. The problem becomes simple. And better than simple. It guides one to new insights. In a century it gives birth to two fields of mathematics. In two centuries these are significant fields. They’re things even non-mathematicians have heard of. It’s almost a mathematician’s fantasy of insight and accomplishment.
But this does happen. The world suggests no end of little mathematics problems. Sometimes they are wonderful. Richard Feynman’s memoirs tell of his imagination being captured by a plate spinning in the air. Solving that helped him resolve a problem in developing Quantum Electrodynamics. There are more mundane problems. One of my professors in grad school remembered tossing and catching a tennis racket and realizing he didn’t know why sometimes it flipped over and sometimes didn’t. His specialty was in dynamical systems, and he could work out the mechanics of what a tennis racket should do, and when. And I know that within me is the ability to work out when a pile of books becomes too tall to stand on its own. I just need to work up to it.
The story of the Königsberg Bridge Problem is about this. Even if nobody but the mayor of Danzig pondered how to cross the bridges, and he only got an answer because he infected Euler with the need to know? It is a story of an important piece of mathematics. Good stories will tell us things that are true, which are not necessarily the things that happen in them.
Thanks for reading this. All of the Fall 2019 A To Z posts ought to be at this link. On Thursday I should publish my ‘L’ post. All of my past A To Z essays should be available at this link, And tomorrow I hope to finish off the comic strips worth just quick mentions from last week. See you then.
Author Joseph NebusPosted on Tuesday, 8 October, 2019 Wednesday, 9 October, 2019 Categories Math, Mathematics, Maths, Recreational MathematicsTags A-To-Z, Fall 2019, graph theory, Leonhard Euler, mathematics history, topology2 Comments on My 2019 Mathematics A To Z: Koenigsberg Bridge Problem
A Bunch Of Tweets I’d Thought To Save
I’m slow about sharing them is all. It’s a simple dynamic: I want to write enough about each tweet that it’s interesting to share, and then once a little time has passed, I need to do something more impressive to be worth the wait. Eventually, nothing is ever shared. Let me try to fix that.
Euler's elementary algebra book, notes by Bernoulli, translated into English, free https://t.co/aCADKPh3Bm #mathhistory cc @OnThisDayinMath
— John Golden 🔗 (@mathhombre) November 7, 2017
Just as it says: a link to Leonhard Euler’s Elements of Algebra, as rendered by Google Books. Euler you’ll remember from every field of mathematics ever. This 1770 textbook is one of the earliest that presents algebra that looks like, you know, algebra, the way we study it today. Much of that is because this book presented algebra so well that everyone wanted to imitate it.
Shortest Math Paper Ever: pic.twitter.com/24vztV4GSv
— Emilio Méndez Pinto (@kroftopkin) November 3, 2017
An entry in the amusing and novel proofs. This one is John Conway’s candidate for most succinct published mathematics paper. It’s fun, at least as I understand fun to be.
Today's theorem, due to the ever-impressive @edraygoins and others, makes an amazing leap from a simple trigonometric question into the foothills of algebraic number theory pic.twitter.com/cZPEUsBvXA
— theoremoftheday (@theoremoftheday) November 19, 2017
This Theorem of the Day from back in November already is one about elliptic functions. Those came up several times in the Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z. This day about the Goins-Maddox-Rusin Theorem on Heron Triangles, is dense reading even by the standards of the Theorem of the Day tweet (which fits each day’s theorem into a single slide). Still, it’s worth lounging about in the mathematics.
Entropy and Dimensions (following Landau and Lifshitz) https://t.co/aiNeBnBTLp
— Elke Stangl (@elkement) November 24, 2017
Elke Stangl, writing about one of those endlessly-to-me interesting subjects: phase space. This is a particular way of representing complicated physical systems. Set it up right and all sorts of physics problems become, if not easy, at least things there’s a standard set of tools for. Thermodynamics really encourages learning about such phase spaces, and about entropy, and here she writes about some of this.
Non-limit calculating e by hand. https://t.co/Kv80RotboJ Fun activity & easily reproducible. Anyone know the author?
— John Golden 🔗 (@mathhombre) December 2, 2017
So ‘e’ is an interesting number. At least, it’s a number that’s got a lot of interesting things built around it. Here, John Golden points out a neat, fun, and inefficient way to find the value of ‘e’. It’s kin to that scheme for calculating π inefficiently that I was being all curmudgeonly about a couple of Pi Days ago.
New post! 'Lost vocabulary'. For interest, I've listed some words used in a Victorian maths textbook that we rarely, if ever, hear in modern classrooms.https://t.co/GzfdpdhJlB#mathschat #teammaths pic.twitter.com/khHhtq7Q3Y
— Jo Morgan (@mathsjem) January 3, 2018
Jo Morgan comes to the rescue of everyone who tries to read old-time mathematics. There were a lot of great and surprisingly readable great minds publishing in the 19th century, but then you get partway through a paragraph and it might as well be Old High Martian with talk about diminishings and consequents and so on. So here’s some help.
For college students that will be taking partial differential equations next semester, here is a very good online book. https://t.co/txtfbMaRKc
— math prof (@mathematicsprof) December 19, 2017
As it says on the tin: a textbook on partial differential equations. If you find yourself adrift in the subject, maybe seeing how another author addresses the same subject will help, if nothing else for finding something familiar written in a different fashion.
Here's a cool way to paper-fold an ellipse:
1) Cut a circle and fold it so that the circumference falls on a fixed point inside
2) Repeat this procedure using random folds pic.twitter.com/TAU50pvgll
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) January 10, 2018
And this is just fun: creating an ellipse as the locus of points that are never on the fold line when a circle’s folded by a particular rule.
Finally, something whose tweet origin I lost. It was from one of the surprisingly many economists I follow considering I don’t do financial mathematics. But it links to a bit of economic history: Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons . It’s 31 pages plus references. And more charts about wheat production in 19th century Sicily than I would have previously expected to see.
By the way, if you’re interested in me on Twitter, that would be @Nebusj. Thanks for stopping in, should you choose to.
Author Joseph NebusPosted on Tuesday, 23 January, 2018 Tuesday, 16 January, 2018 Categories Math, Mathematics, Maths, Recreational MathematicsTags E, elliptic curves, Leonhard Euler, mathematics history, partial differential equations, phase space, TwitterLeave a comment on A Bunch Of Tweets I’d Thought To Save
As I Try To Make Wronski’s Formula For Pi Into Something I Like
What Only One Person Ever Has Thought ‘Pi’ Means, And Who That Was
As I Try To Figure Out What Wronski Thought ‘Pi’ Was
Deciphering Wronski, Non-Standardly
I remain fascinated with Józef Maria Hoëne-Wronski’s attempted definition of π. It had started out like this:
And I’d translated that into something that modern mathematicians would accept without flinching. That is to evaluate the limit of a function that looks like this:
So. I don’t want to deal with that f(x) as it’s written. I can make it better. One thing that bothers me is seeing the complex number raised to a power. I’d like to work with something simpler than that. And I can’t see that number without also noticing that I’m subtracting from it raised to the same power. and are a “conjugate pair”. It’s usually nice to see those. It often hints at ways to make your expression simpler. That’s one of those patterns you pick up from doing a lot of problems as a mathematics major, and that then look like magic to the lay audience.
Here’s the first way I figure to make my life simpler. It’s in rewriting that and stuff so it’s simpler. It’ll be simpler by using exponentials. Shut up, it will too. I get there through Gauss, Descartes, and Euler.
At least I think it was Gauss who pointed out how you can match complex-valued numbers with points on the two-dimensional plane. On a sheet of graph paper, if you like. The number matches to the point with x-coordinate 1, y-coordinate 1. The number matches to the point with x-coordinate 1, y-coordinate -1. Yes, yes, this doesn’t sound like much of an insight Gauss had, but his work goes on. I’m leaving it off here because that’s all that I need for right now.
So these two numbers that offended me I can think of as points. They have Cartesian coordinates (1, 1) and (1, -1). But there’s never only one coordinate system for something. There may be only one that’s good for the problem you’re doing. I mean that makes the problem easier to study. But there are always infinitely many choices. For points on a flat surface like a piece of paper, and where the points don’t represent any particular physics problem, there’s two good choices. One is the Cartesian coordinates. In it you refer to points by an origin, an x-axis, and a y-axis. How far is the point from the origin in a direction parallel to the x-axis? (And in which direction? This gives us a positive or a negative number) How far is the point from the origin in a direction parallel to the y-axis? (And in which direction? Same positive or negative thing.)
The other good choice is polar coordinates. For that we need an origin and a positive x-axis. We refer to points by how far they are from the origin, heedless of direction. And then to get direction, what angle the line segment connecting the point with the origin makes with the positive x-axis. The first of these numbers, the distance, we normally label ‘r’ unless there’s compelling reason otherwise. The other we label ‘θ’. ‘r’ is always going to be a positive number or, possibly, zero. ‘θ’ might be any number, positive or negative. By convention, we measure angles so that positive numbers are counterclockwise from the x-axis. I don’t know why. I guess it seemed less weird for, say, the point with Cartesian coordinates (0, 1) to have a positive angle rather than a negative angle. That angle would be , because mathematicians like radians more than degrees. They make other work easier.
So. The point corresponds to the polar coordinates and . The point corresponds to the polar coordinates and . Yes, the θ coordinates being negative one times each other is common in conjugate pairs. Also, if you have doubts about my use of the word “the” before “polar coordinates”, well-spotted. If you’re not sure about that thing where ‘r’ is not negative, again, well-spotted. I intend to come back to that.
With the polar coordinates ‘r’ and ‘θ’ to describe a point I can go back to complex numbers. I can match the point to the complex number with the value given by , where ‘e’ is that old 2.71828something number. Superficially, this looks like a big dumb waste of time. I had some problem with imaginary numbers raised to powers, so now, I’m rewriting things with a number raised to imaginary powers. Here’s why it isn’t dumb.
It’s easy to raise a number written like this to a power. raised to the n-th power is going to be equal to . (Because and we’re going to go ahead and assume this stays true if ‘b’ is a complex-valued number. It does, but you’re right to ask how we know that.) And this turns into raising a real-valued number to a power, which we know how to do. And it involves dividing a number by that power, which is also easy.
And we can get back to something that looks like too. That is, something that’s a real number plus times some real number. This is through one of the many Euler’s Formulas. The one that’s relevant here is that for any real number ‘φ’. So, that’s true also for ‘θ’ times ‘n’. Or, looking to where everybody knows we’re going, also true for ‘θ’ divided by ‘x’.
OK, on to the people so anxious about all this. I talked about the angle made between the line segment that connects a point and the origin and the positive x-axis. “The” angle. “The”. If that wasn’t enough explanation of the problem, mention how your thinking’s done a 360 degree turn and you see it different now. In an empty room, if you happen to be in one. Your pedantic know-it-all friend is explaining it now. There’s an infinite number of angles that correspond to any given direction. They’re all separated by 360 degrees or, to a mathematician, 2π.
And more. What’s the difference between going out five units of distance in the direction of angle 0 and going out minus-five units of distance in the direction of angle -π? That is, between walking forward five paces while facing east and walking backward five paces while facing west? Yeah. So if we let ‘r’ be negative we’ve got twice as many infinitely many sets of coordinates for each point.
This complicates raising numbers to powers. θ times n might match with some point that’s very different from θ-plus-2-π times n. There might be a whole ring of powers. This seems … hard to work with, at least. But it’s, at heart, the same problem you get thinking about the square root of 4 and concluding it’s both plus 2 and minus 2. If you want “the” square root, you’d like it to be a single number. At least if you want to calculate anything from it. You have to pick out a preferred θ from the family of possible candidates.
For me, that’s whatever set of coordinates has ‘r’ that’s positive (or zero), and that has ‘θ’ between -π and π. Or between 0 and 2π. It could be any strip of numbers that’s 2π wide. Pick what makes sense for the problem you’re doing. It’s going to be the strip from -π to π. Perhaps the strip from 0 to 2π.
What this all amounts to is that I can turn this:
into this:
without changing its meaning any. Raising a number to the one-over-x power looks different from raising it to the n power. But the work isn’t different. The function I wrote out up there is the same as this function:
I can’t look at that number, , sitting there, multiplied by two things added together, and leave that. (OK, subtracted, but same thing.) I want to something something distributive law something and that gets us here:
Also, yeah, that square root of two raised to a power looks weird. I can turn that square root of two into “two to the one-half power”. That gets to this rewrite:
And then. Those parentheses. e raised to an imaginary number minus e raised to minus-one-times that same imaginary number. This is another one of those magic tricks that mathematicians know because they see it all the time. Part of what we know from Euler’s Formula, the one I waved at back when I was talking about coordinates, is this:
That’s good for any real-valued φ. For example, it’s good for the number . And that means we can rewrite that function into something that, finally, actually looks a little bit simpler. It looks like this:
And that’s the function whose limit I want to take at ∞. No, really.
Author Joseph NebusPosted on Thursday, 7 December, 2017 Thursday, 7 December, 2017 Categories Math, Mathematics, MathsTags analysis, calculus, complex numbers, exponentials, Leonhard Euler, mathematics history, pi7 Comments on As I Try To Make Wronski’s Formula For Pi Into Something I Like
The Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z: Diophantine Equations
I have another request from Gaurish, of the For The Love Of Mathematics blog, today. It’s another change of pace.
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Diophantine Equations
A Diophantine equation is a polynomial. Well, of course it is. It’s an equation, or a set of equations, setting one polynomial equal to another. Possibly equal to a constant. What makes this different from “any old equation” is the coefficients. These are the constant numbers that you multiply the variables, your x and y and x2 and z8 and so on, by. To make a Diophantine equation all these coefficients have to be integers. You know one well, because it’s that thing that Fermat’s Last Theorem is all about. And you’ve probably seen . It turns up a lot because that’s a line, and we do a lot of stuff with lines.
Diophantine equations are interesting. There are a couple of cases that are easy to solve. I mean, at least that we can find solutions for. , for example, that’s easy to solve. it turns out we can’t solve. Well, we can if n is equal to 1 or 2. Or if x or y or z are zero. These are obvious, that is, they’re quite boring. That one took about four hundred years to solve, and the solution was “there aren’t any solutions”. This may convince you of how interesting these problems are. What, from looking at it, tells you that is simple while is (most of the time) impossible?
I don’t know. Nobody really does. There are many kinds of Diophantine equation, all different-looking polynomials. Some of them are special one-off cases, like . For example, there’s for some integers x, y, z, and w. Leonhard Euler conjectured this equation had only boring solutions. You’ll remember Euler. He wrote the foundational work for every field of mathematics. It turns out he was wrong. It has infinitely many interesting solutions. But the smallest one is and that one took a computer search to find. We can forgive Euler not noticing it.
Some are groups of equations that have similar shapes. There’s the Fermat’s Last Theorem formula, for example, which is a different equation for every different integer n. Then there’s what we call Pell’s Equation. This one is (or equals -1), for some counting number D. It’s named for the English mathematician John Pell, who did not discover the equation (even in the Western European tradition; Indian mathematicians were familiar with it for a millennium), did not solve the equation, and did not do anything particularly noteworthy in advancing human understanding of the solution. Pell owes his fame in this regard to Leonhard Euler, who misunderstood Pell’s revising a translation of a book discussing a solution for Pell’s authoring a solution. I confess Euler isn’t looking very good on Diophantine equations.
But nobody looks very good on Diophantine equations. Make up a Diophantine equation of your own. Use whatever whole numbers, positive or negative, that you like for your equation. Use whatever powers of however many variables you like for your equation. So you get something that looks maybe like this:
Does it have any solutions? I don’t know. Nobody does. There isn’t a general all-around solution. You know how with a quadratic equation we have this formula where you recite some incantation about “b squared minus four a c” and get any roots that exist? Nothing like that exists for Diophantine equations in general. Specific ones, yes. But they’re all specialties, crafted to fit the equation that has just that shape.
So for each equation we have to ask: is there a solution? Is there any solution that isn’t obvious? Are there finitely many solutions? Are there infinitely many? Either way, can we find all the solutions? And we have to answer them anew. What answers these have? Whether answers are known to exist? Whether answers can exist? We have to discover anew for each kind of equation. Knowing answers for one kind doesn’t help us for any others, except as inspiration. If some trick worked before, maybe it will work this time.
There are a couple usually reliable tricks. Can the equation be rewritten in some way that it becomes the equation for a line? If it can we probably have a good handle on any solutions. Can we apply modulo arithmetic to the equation? If it is, we might be able to reduce the number of possible solutions that the equation has. In particular we might be able to reduce the number of possible solutions until we can just check every case. Can we use induction? That is, can we show there’s some parameter for the equations, and that knowing the solutions for one value of that parameter implies knowing solutions for larger values? And then find some small enough value we can test it out by hand? Or can we show that if there is a solution, then there must be a smaller solution, and smaller yet, until we can either find an answer or show there aren’t any? Sometimes. Not always. The field blends seamlessly into number theory. And number theory is all sorts of problems easy to pose and hard or impossible to solve.
We name these equation after Diophantus of Alexandria, a 3rd century Greek mathematician. His writings, what we have of them, discuss how to solve equations. Not general solutions, the way we might want to solve , but specific ones, like . His books are among those whose rediscovery shaped the rebirth of mathematics. Pierre de Fermat’s scribbled his famous note in the too-small margins of Diophantus’s Arithmetica . (Well, a popular translation.)
But the field predates Diophantus, at least if we look at specific problems. Of course it does. In mathematics, as in life, any search for a source ends in a vast, marshy ambiguity. The field stays vital. If we loosen ourselves to looking at inequalities — , let's say — then we start seeing optimization problems. What values of x and y will make this equation most nearly true? What values will come closest to satisfying this bunch of equations? The questions are about how to find the best possible fit to whatever our complicated sets of needs are. We can't always answer. We keep searching.
Author Joseph NebusPosted on Monday, 7 August, 2017 Monday, 7 August, 2017 Categories Math, Mathematics, MathsTags A-To-Z, equations, Fermat's Last Theorem, integers, Leonhard Euler, number theory, polynomials, solutions, Summer 20174 Comments on The Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z: Diophantine Equations
The End 2016 Mathematics A To Z: Tree
Graph theory begins with a beautiful legend. I have no reason to suppose it’s false, except my natural suspicion of beautiful legends as origin stories. Its organization as a field is traced to 18th century Köningsburg, where seven bridges connected the banks of a river and a small island in the center. Whether it was possible to cross each bridge exactly once and get back where one started was, they say, a pleasant idle thought to ponder and path to try walking. Then Leonhard Euler solved the problem. It’s impossible.
Graph theory arises whenever we have a bunch of things that can be connected. We call the things “vertices”, because that’s a good corner-type word. The connections we call “edges”, because that’s a good connection-type word. It’s easy to create graphs that look like the edges of a crystal, especially if you draw edges as straight as much as possible. You don’t have to. You can draw them curved. Then they look like the scary tangles of wire around your wireless router complex.
Graph theory really got organized in the 19th century, and went crazy in the 20th. It turns out there’s lots of things that connect to other things. Networks, whether computers or social or thematically linked concepts. Anything that has to be delivered from one place to another. All the interesting chemicals. Anything that could be put in a pipe or taken on a road has some graph theory thing applicable to it.
A lot of graph theory ponders loops. The original problem was about how to use every bridge, every edge, exactly one time. Look at a tangled mass of a graph and it’s hard not to start looking for loops. They’re often interesting. It’s not easy to tell if there’s a loop that lets you get to every vertex exactly once.
What if there aren’t loops? What if there aren’t any vertices you can step away from and get back to by another route? Well, then you have a tree.
A tree’s a graph where all the vertices are connected so that there aren’t any closed loops. We normally draw them with straight lines, the better to look like actual trees. We then stop trying to make them look like actual trees by doing stuff like drawing them as a long horizontal spine with a couple branches sticking off above and below, or as * type stars, or H shapes. They still correspond to real-world things. If you’re not sure how consider the layout of one of those long, single-corridor hallways as in a hotel or dormitory. The rooms connect to one another as a tree once again, as long as no room opens to anything but its own closet or bathroom or the central hallway.
We can talk about the radius of a graph. That’s how many edges away any point can be from the center of the tree. And every tree has a center. Or two centers. If it has two centers they share an edge between the two. And that’s one of the quietly amazing things about trees to me. However complicated and messy the tree might be, we can find its center. How many things allow us that?
A tree might have some special vertex. That’s called the ‘root’. It’s what the vertices and the connections represent that make a root; it’s not something inherent in the way trees look. We pick one for some special reason and then we highlight it. Maybe put it at the bottom of the drawing, making ‘root’ for once a sensible name for a mathematics thing. Often we put it at the top of the drawing, because I guess we’re just being difficult. Well, we do that because we were modelling stuff where a thing’s properties depend on what it comes from. And that puts us into thoughts of inheritance and of family trees. And weird as it is to put the root of a tree at the top, it’s also weird to put the eldest ancestors at the bottom of a family tree. People do it, but in those illuminated drawings that make a literal tree out of things. You don’t see it in family trees used for actual work, like filling up a couple pages at the start of a king or a queen’s biography.
Trees give us neat new questions to ponder, like, how many are there? I mean, if you have a certain number of vertices then how many ways are there to arrange them? One or two or three vertices all have just the one way to arrange them. Four vertices can be hooked up a whole two ways. Five vertices offer a whole three different ways to connect them. Six vertices offer six ways to connect and now we’re finally getting something interesting. There’s eleven ways to connect seven vertices, and 23 ways to connect eight vertices. The number keeps on rising, but it doesn’t follow the obvious patterns for growth of this sort of thing.
And if that’s not enough to idly ponder then think of destroying trees. Draw a tree, any shape you like. Pick one of the vertices. Imagine you obliterate that. How many separate pieces has the tree been broken into? It might be as few as two. It might be as many as the number of remaining vertices. If graph theory took away the pastime of wandering around Köningsburg’s bridges, it has given us this pastime we can create anytime we have pen, paper, and a long meeting.
Author Joseph NebusPosted on Friday, 16 December, 2016 Friday, 16 December, 2016 Categories Math, Mathematics, MathsTags A-To-Z, End 2016, graph theory, Koningsburg, Leonhard Euler, trees4 Comments on The End 2016 Mathematics A To Z: Tree
Reading the Comics, August 19, 2016: Mathematics Signifier Edition
I know it seems like when I write these essays I spend the most time on the first comic in the bunch and give the last ones a sentence, maybe two at most. I admit when there’s a lot of comics I have to write up at once my energy will droop. But Comic Strip Master Command apparently wants the juiciest topics sent out earlier in the week. I have to follow their lead.
Stephen Beals’s Adult Children for the 14th uses mathematics to signify deep thinking. In this case Claremont, the dog, is thinking of the Riemann Zeta function. It’s something important in number theory, so longtime readers should know this means it leads right to an unsolved problem. In this case it’s the Riemann Hypothesis. That’s the most popular candidate for “what is the most important unsolved problem in mathematics right now?” So you know Claremont is a deep-thinking dog.
The big Σ ordinary people might recognize as representing “sum”. The notation means to evaluate, for each legitimate value of the thing underneath — here it’s ‘n’ — the value of the expression to the right of the Sigma. Here that’s . Then add up all those terms. It’s not explicit here, but context would make clear, n is positive whole numbers: 1, 2, 3, and so on. s would be a positive number, possibly a whole number.
The big capital Pi is more mysterious. It’s Sigma’s less popular brother. It means “product”. For each legitimate value of the thing underneath it — here it’s “p” — evaluate the expression on the right. Here that’s . Then multiply all that together. In the context of the Riemann Zeta function, “p” here isn’t just any old number, or even any old whole number. It’s only the prime numbers. Hence the “p”. Good notation, right? Yeah.
This particular equation, once shored up with the context the symbols live in, was proved by Leonhard Euler, who proved so much you sometimes wonder if later mathematicians were needed at all. It ties in to how often whole numbers are going to be prime, and what the chances are that some set of numbers are going to have no factors in common. (Other than 1, which is too boring a number to call a factor.) But even if Claremont did know that Euler got there first, it’s almost impossible to do good new work without understanding the old.
Charlos Gary’s Working It Out for the 14th is this essay’s riff on pie charts. Or bar charts. Somewhere around here the past week I read that a French idiom for the pie chart is the “cheese chart”. That’s a good enough bit I don’t want to look more closely and find out whether it’s true. If it turned out to be false I’d be heartbroken.
Ryan North’s Dinosaur Comics for the 15th talks about everyone’s favorite physics term, entropy. Everyone knows that it tends to increase. Few advanced physics concepts feel so important to everyday life. I almost made one expression of this — Boltzmann’s H-Theorem — a Theorem Thursday post. I might do a proper essay on it yet. Utahraptor describes this as one of “the few statistical laws of physics”, which I think is a bit unfair. There’s a lot about physics that is statistical; it’s often easier to deal with averages and distributions than the mass of real messy data.
Utahraptor’s right to point out that it isn’t impossible for entropy to decrease. It can be expected not to, in time. Indeed decent scientists thinking as philosophers have proposed that “increasing entropy” might be the only way to meaningfully define the flow of time. (I do not know how decent the philosophy of this is. This is far outside my expertise.) However: we would expect at least one tails to come up if we simultaneously flipped infinitely many coins fairly. But there is no reason that it couldn’t happen, that infinitely many fairly-tossed coins might all come up heads. The probability of this ever happening is zero. If we try it enough times, it will happen. Such is the intuition-destroying nature of probability and of infinitely large things.
Tony Cochran’s Agnes on the 16th proposes to decode the Voynich Manuscript. Mathematics comes in as something with answers that one can check for comparison. It’s a familiar role. As I seem to write three times a month, this is fair enough to say to an extent. Coming up with an answer to a mathematical question is hard. Checking the answer is typically easier. Well, there are many things we can try to find an answer. To see whether a proposed answer works usually we just need to go through it and see if the logic holds. This might be tedious to do, especially in those enormous brute-force problems where the proof amounts to showing there are a hundred zillion special cases and here’s an answer for each one of them. But it’s usually a much less hard thing to do.
Johnny Hart and Brant Parker’s Wizard of Id Classics for the 17th uses what seems like should be an old joke about bad accountants and nepotism. Well, you all know how important bookkeeping is to the history of mathematics, even if I’m never that specific about it because it never gets mentioned in the histories of mathematics I read. And apparently sometime between the strip’s original appearance (the 20th of August, 1966) and my childhood the Royal Accountant character got forgotten. That seems odd given the comic potential I’d imagine him to have. Sometimes a character’s only good for a short while is all.
Mark Anderson’s Andertoons for the 18th is the Andertoons representative for this essay. Fair enough. The kid speaks of exponents as a kind of repeating oneself. This is how exponents are inevitably introduced: as multiplying a number by itself many times over. That’s a solid way to introduce raising a number to a whole number. It gets a little strained to describe raising a number to a rational number. It’s a confusing mess to describe raising a number to an irrational number. But you can make that logical enough, with effort. And that’s how we do make the idea rigorous. A number raised to (say) the square root of two is something greater than the number raised to 1.4, but less than the number raised to 1.5. More than the number raised to 1.41, less than the number raised to 1.42. More than the number raised to 1.414, less than the number raised to 1.415. This takes work, but it all hangs together. And then we ask about raising numbers to an imaginary or complex-valued number and we wave that off to a higher-level mathematics class.
Nate Fakes’s Break of Day for the 18th is the anthropomorphic-numerals joke for this essay.
Lachowski’s Get A Life for the 18th is the sudoku joke for this essay. It’s also a representative of the idea that any mathematical thing is some deep, complicated puzzle at least as challenging as calculating one’s taxes. I feel like this is a rerun, but I don’t see any copyright dates. Sudoku jokes like this feel old, but comic strips have been known to make dated references before.
Samson’s Dark Side Of The Horse for the 19th is this essay’s Dark Side Of The Horse gag. I thought initially this was a counting-sheep in a lab coat. I’m going to stick to that mistaken interpretation because it’s more adorable that way.
Author Joseph NebusPosted on Sunday, 21 August, 2016 Sunday, 21 August, 2016 Categories Comic Strips, Math, Mathematics, Maths, ProbabilityTags cheese, entropy, Leonhard Euler, number theory, numerals, pie charts, sudoku2 Comments on Reading the Comics, August 19, 2016: Mathematics Signifier Edition
Theorem Thursday: The Five-Color Map Theorem
People think mathematics is mostly counting and arithmetic. It’s what we get at when we say “do the math[s]”. It’s why the mathematician in the group is the one called on to work out what the tip should be. Heck, I attribute part of my love for mathematics to a Berenstain Bears book which implied being a mathematician was mostly about adding up sums in a base on the Moon, which is an irresistible prospect. In fact, usually counting and arithmetic are, at least, minor influences on real mathematics. There are legends of how catastrophically bad at figuring mathematical genius can be. But usually isn’t always, and this week I’d like to show off a case where counting things and adding things up lets us prove something interesting.
The Five-Color Map Theorem.
No, not four. I imagine anyone interested enough to read a mathematics blog knows the four-color map theorem. It says that you only need four colors to color a map. That’s true, given some qualifiers. No discontiguous chunks that need the same color. Two regions with the same color can touch at a point, they just can’t share a line or curve. The map is on a plane or the surface of a sphere. Probably some other requirements. I’m not going to prove that. Nobody has time for that. The best proofs we’ve figured out for it amount to working out how every map fits into one of a huge number of cases, and trying out each case. It’s possible to color each of those cases with only four colors, so, we’re done. Nice but unenlightening and way too long to deal with.
The five-color map theorem is a lot like the four-color map theorem, with this difference: it says that you only need five colors to color a map. Same qualifiers as before. Yes, it’s true because the four-color map theorem is true and because five is more than four. We can do better than that. We can prove five colors are enough even without knowing whether four colors will do. And it’s easy. The ease of the five-color map theorem gave people reason to think four colors would be maybe harder but still manageable.
The proof I want to show uses one of mathematicians’ common tricks. It employs the same principle which Hercules used to slay the Hydra, although it has less cauterizing lake-monster flesh with flaming torches, as that’s considered beneath the dignity of the Academy anymore except when grading finals for general-requirements classes. The part of the idea we do use is to take a problem which we might not be able to do and cut it down to one we can do. Properly speaking this is a kind of induction proof. In those we start from problems we can do and show that if we can do those, we can do all the complicated problems. But we come at it by cutting down complicated problems and making them simple ones.
So suppose we start with a map that’s got some huge number of territories to color. I’m going to start with the United States states which were part of the Dominion of New England. As I’m sure I don’t need to remind any readers, American or otherwise, this was a 17th century attempt by the English to reorganize their many North American colonies into something with fewer administrative irregularities. It lasted almost long enough for the colonists to hear about it. At that point the Glorious Revolution happened (not involving the colonists) and everybody went back to what they were doing before.
Please enjoy my little map of the place. It gives all the states a single color because I don’t really know how to use QGIS and it would probably make my day job easier if I did. (Well, QGIS is open-source software, so its interface is a disaster and its tutorials gibberish. The only way to do something with it is to take flaming torches to it.)
States which, in their 17th-century English colonial form, were part of the Dominion of New England (1685-1689). More or less. If I’ve messed up don’t tell me as it doesn’t really matter for this problem.
There’s eight regions here, eight states, so it’s not like we’re at the point we can’t figure how to color this with five different colors. That’s all right. I’m using this for a demonstration. Pretend the Dominion of New England is so complicated we can’t tell whether five colors are enough. Oh, and a spot of lingo: if five colors are enough to color the map we say the map is “colorable”. We say it’s “5-colorable” if we want to emphasize five is enough colors.
So imagine that we erase the border between Maine and New Hampshire. Combine them into a single state over the loud protests of the many proud, scary Mainers. But if this simplified New England is colorable, so is the real thing. There’s at least one color not used for Greater New Hampshire, Vermont, or Massachusetts. We give that color to a restored Maine. If the simplified map can be 5-colored, so can the original.
Maybe we can’t tell. Suppose the simplified map is still too complicated to make it obvious. OK, then. Cut out another border. How about we offend Roger Williams partisans and merge Rhode Island into Massachusetts? Massachusetts started out touching five other states, which makes it a good candidate for a state that needed a sixth color. With Rhode Island reduced to being a couple counties of the Bay State, Greater Massachusetts only touches four other states. It can’t need a sixth color. There’s at least one of our original five that’s free.
OK, but, how does that help us find a color for Rhode Island? Maine it’s easy to see why there’s a free color. But Rhode Island?
Well, it’ll have to be the same color as either Greater New Hampshire or Vermont or New York. At least one of them has to be available. Rhode Island doesn’t touch them. Connecticut’s color is out because Rhode Island shares a border with it. Same with Greater Massachusetts’s color. But we’ve got three colors for the taking.
But is our reduced map 5-colorable? Even with Maine part of New Hampshire and Rhode Island part of Massachusetts it might still be too hard to tell. There’s six territories in it, after all. We can simplify things a little. Let’s reverse the treason of 1777 and put Vermont back into New York, dismissing New Hampshire’s claim on the territory as obvious absurdity. I am never going to be allowed back into New England. This Greater New York needs one color for itself, yes. And it touches four other states. But these neighboring states don’t touch each other. A restored Vermont could use the same color as New Jersey or Connecticut. Greater Massachusetts and Greater New Hampshire are unavailable, but there’s still two choices left.
And now look at the map we have remaining. There’s five states in it: Greater New Hampshire, Greater Massachusetts, Greater New York, Regular Old Connecticut, and Regular old New Jersey. We have five colors. Obviously we can give the five territories different colors.
This is one case, one example map. That’s all we need. A proper proof makes things more abstract, but uses the same pattern. Any map of a bunch of territories is going to have at least one territory that’s got at most five neighbors. Maybe it will have several. Look for one of them. If you find a territory with just one neighbor, such as Maine had, remove that border. You’ve got a simpler map and there must be a color free for the restored territory.
If you find a territory with just two neighbors, such as Rhode Island, take your pick. Merge it with either neighbor. You’ll still have at least one color free for the restored territory. With three neighbors, such as Vermont or Connecticut, again you have your choice. Merge it with any of the three neighbors. You’ll have a simpler map and there’ll be at least one free color.
If you have four neighbors, the way New York has, again pick a border you like and eliminate that. There is a catch. You can imagine one of the neighboring territories reaching out and wrapping around to touch the original state on more than one side. Imagine if Massachusetts ran far out to sea, looped back through Canada, and came back to touch New Jersey, Vermont from the north, and New York from the west. That’s more of a Connecticut stunt to pull, I admit. But that’s still all right. Most of the colonies tried this sort of stunt. And even if Massachusetts did that, we would have colors available. It would be impossible for Vermont and New Jersey to touch. We’ve got a theorem that proves it.
Yes, it’s the Jordan Curve Theorem, here to save us right when we might get stuck. Just like I promised last week. In this case some part of the border of New York and Really Big Massachusetts serves as our curve. Either Vermont or New Jersey is going to be inside that curve, and the other state is outside. They can’t touch. Thank you.
If you have five neighbors, the way Massachusetts has, well, maybe you’re lucky. We are here. None of its neighboring states touches more than two others. We can cut out a border easily and have colors to spare. But we could be in trouble. We could have a map in which all the bordering states touch three or four neighbors and that seems like it would run out of colors. Let me show a picture of that.
A hypothetical map with five regions named by an uninspired committee.
So this map looks dire even when you ignore that line that looks like it isn’t connected where C and D come together. Flood fill didn’t run past it, so it must be connected. It just doesn’t look right. Everybody has four neighbors except the province of B, which has three. The province of A has got five. What can we do?
Call on the Jordan Curve Theorem again. At least one of the provinces has to be landlocked, relative to the others. In this case, the borders of provinces A, D, and C come together to make a curve that keeps B in the inside and E on the outside. So we’re free to give B and E the same color. We treat this in the proof by doing a double merger. Erase the boundary between provinces A and B, and also that between provinces A and E. (Or you might merge B, A, and F together. It doesn’t matter. The Jordan Curve Theorem promises us there’ll be at least one choice and that’s all we need.)
So there we have it. As long as we have a map that has some provinces with up to five neighbors, we can reduce the map. And reduce it again, if need be, and again and again. Eventually we’ll get to a map with only five provinces and that has to be 5-colorable.
Just … now … one little nagging thing. We’re relying on there always being some province with at most five neighbors. Why can’t there be some horrible map where every province has six or more neighbors?
Counting will tell us. Arithmetic will finish the job. But we have to get there by way of polygons.
That is, the easiest way to prove this depends on a map with boundaries that are all polygons. That’s all right. Polygons are almost the polynomials of geometry. You can make a polygon that looks so much like the original shape the eye can’t tell the difference. Look at my Dominion of New England map. That’s computer-rendered, so it’s all polygons, and yet all those shore and river boundaries look natural.
But what makes up a polygon? Well, it’s a bunch of straight lines. We call those ‘edges’. Each edge starts and ends at a corner. We call those ‘vertices’. These edges come around and close together to make a ‘face’, a territory like we’ve been talking about. We’re going to count all the regions that have a certain number of neighboring other regions.
Specifically, F2 will represent however many faces there are that have two sides. F3 will represent however many faces there are that have three sides. F4 will represent however many faces there are that have four sides. F10 … yeah, you got this.
One thing you didn’t get. The outside counts as a face. We need this to make the count come out right, so we can use some solid-geometry results. In my map that’s the vast white space that represents the Atlantic Ocean, the other United States, the other parts of Canada, the Great Lakes, all the rest of the world. So Maine, for example, belongs to F2 because it touches New Hampshire and the great unknown void of the rest of the universe. Rhode Island belongs to F3 similarly. New Hampshire’s in F4.
Any map has to have at least one thing that’s in F2, F3, F4, or F5. They touch at most two, three, four or five neighbors. (If they touched more, they’d represent a face that was a polygon of even more sides.)
How do we know? It comes from Euler’s Formula, which starts out describing the ways corners and edges and faces of a polyhedron fit together. Our map, with its polygon on the surface of the sphere, turns out to be just as good as a polyhedron. It looks a little less blocky, but that doesn’t show.
By Euler’s Formula, there’s this neat relationship between the number of vertices, the number of edges, and the number of faces in a polyhedron. (This is the same Leonhard Euler famous for … well, everything in mathematics, really. But in this case it’s for his work with shapes.) It holds for our map too. Call the number of vertices V. Call the number of edges E. Call the number of faces F. Then:
Always true. Try drawing some maps yourself, using simple straight lines, and see if it works. For that matter, look at my Really Really Simplified map and see if it doesn’t hold true still.
A very simplified blocky diagram of my Dominion of New England, with the vertices and edges highlighted so they’re easy to count if you want to do that.
Here’s one of those insights that’s so obvious it’s hard to believe. Every edge ends in two vertices. Three edges meet at every vertex. (We don’t have more than three territories come together at a point. If that were to happen, we’d change the map a little to find our coloring and then put it back afterwards. Pick one of the territories and give it a disc of area from the four or five or more corners. The troublesome corner is gone. Once we’ve done with our proof, shrink the disc back down to nothing. Coloring done!) And therefore .
A polygon has the same number of edges as vertices, and if you don’t believe that then draw some and count. Every edge touches exactly two regions. Every vertex touches exactly three edges. So we can rework Euler’s formula. Multiply it by six and we get . And from doubling the equation about edges and vertices equation in the last paragraph, . So if we break up that 6E into 4E and 2E we can rewrite that Euler’s formula again. It becomes . 6V – 4E is zero, so, .
Do we know anything about F itself?
Well, yeah. . The number of faces has to equal the sum of the number of faces of two edges, and of three edges, and of four edges, and of five edges, and of six edges, and on and on. Counting!
Do we know anything about how E and F relate?
Well, yeah. A polygon in F2 has two edges. A polygon in F3 has three edges. A polygon in F4 has four edges. And each edge runs up against two faces. So therefore . This goes on forever but that’s all right. We don’t need all these terms.
Because here’s what we do have. We know that . And we know how to write both E and F in terms of F2, F3, F4, and so on. We’re going to show at least one of these low-subscript Fsomethings has to be positive, that is, there has to be at least one of them.
Start by just shoving our long sum expressions into the modified Euler’s Formula we had. That gives us this:
Doesn’t look like we’ve got anywhere, does it? That’s all right. Multiply that -1 and that 6 into their parentheses. And then move the terms around, so that we group all the terms with F2 together, and all the terms with F3 together, and all the terms with F4 together, and so on. This gets us to:
I know, that’s a lot of parentheses. And it adds negative numbers to positive which I guess we’re allowed to do but who wants to do that? Simplify things a little more:
And now look at that. Each Fsubscript has to be zero or a positive number. You can’t have a negative number of shapes. If you can I don’t want to hear about it. Most of those Fsubscript‘s get multiplied by a negative number before they’re added up. But the sum has to be a positive number.
There’s only one way that this sum can be a positive number. At least one of F2, F3, F4, or F5 has to be a positive number. So there must be at least one region with at most five neighbors. And that’s true without knowing anything about our map. So it’s true about the original map, and it’s true about a simplified map, and about a simplified-more map, and on and on.
And that is why this hydra-style attack method always works. We can always simplify a map until it obviously can be colored with five colors. And we can go from that simplified map back to the original map, and color it in just fine. Formally, this is an existence proof: it shows there must be a way to color a map with five colors. But it does so the devious way, by showing a way to color the map. We don’t get enough existence proofs like that. And, at its critical point, we know the proof is true because we can count the number of regions and the number of edges and the number of corners they have. And we can add and subtract those numbers in the right way. Just like people imagine mathematicians do all day.
Properly this works only on the surface of a sphere. Euler’s Formula, which we use for the proof, depends on that. We get away with it on a piece of paper because we can pretend this is just a part of the globe so small we don’t see how flat it is. The vast white edge we suppose wraps around the whole world. And that’s fine since we mostly care about maps on flat surfaces or on globes. If we had a map that needed three dimensions, like one that looked at mining and water and overflight and land-use rights, things wouldn’t be so easy. Nor would they work at all if the map turned out to be on an exotic shape like a torus, a doughnut shape.
But this does have a staggering thought. Suppose we drew boundary lines. And suppose we found an arrangement of them so that we needed more than five colors. This would tell us that we have to be living on a surface such as a torus, the doughnut shape. We could learn something about the way space is curved by way of an experiment that never looks at more than where two regions come together. That we can find information about the whole of space, global information, by looking only at local stuff amazes me. I hope it at least surprises you.
From fiddling with this you probably figure the four-color map theorem should follow right away. Maybe involve a little more arithmetic but nothing too crazy. I agree, it so should. It doesn’t. Sorry.
Author Joseph NebusPosted on Thursday, 14 July, 2016 Friday, 8 July, 2016 Categories Geometry, Math, Mathematics, MathsTags coloring, featured, history, Leonhard Euler, maps, New England, states, Theorem Thursday, topology10 Comments on Theorem Thursday: The Five-Color Map Theorem
A Summer 2015 Mathematics A To Z: graph
Graph. (As in Graph Theory)
When I started this A to Z I figured it would be a nice string of quick, two-to-four paragraph compositions. So far each one has been a monster post instead. I’m hoping to get to some easier ones. For today I mean to talk about a graph, as in graph theory. That’s not the kind of graph that’s a plot of some function or a pie chart or a labelled map or something like that.
This kind of graph we do study as pictures, though. Specifically, they’re pictures with two essential pieces: a bunch of points or dots and a bunch of curves connecting dots. The dots we call vertices. The curves we call edges. My mental model tends to be of a bunch of points in a pegboard connected by wire or string. That might not work for you, but the idea of connecting things is what graphs, and graph theory, are good for studying.
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Author Joseph NebusPosted on Monday, 8 June, 2015 Thursday, 14 May, 2020 Categories Analysis, Math, Mathematics, MathsTags A-To-Z, atoz, bridges, digraphs, drawing, graph theory, graphs, Koningsburg, Leonhard Euler, networks, Summer 2015, travel22 Comments on A Summer 2015 Mathematics A To Z: graph
Descartes and the Terror of the Negative
When René Descartes first described the system we’ve turned into Cartesian coordinates he didn’t put it forth in quite the way we build them these days. This shouldn’t be too surprising; he lived about four centuries ago, and we have experience with the idea of matching every point on the plane to some ordered pair of numbers that he couldn’t have. The idea has been expanded on, and improved, and logical rigor I only pretend to understand laid underneath the concept. But the core remains: we put somewhere on our surface an origin point — usually this gets labelled O, mnemonic for “origin” and also suggesting the zeroes which fill its coordinates — and we pick some direction to be the x-coordinate and some direction to be the y-coordinate, and the ordered pair for a point are how far in the x-direction and how far in the y-direction one must go from the origin to get there.
The most obvious difference between Cartesian coordinates as Descartes set them up and Cartesian coordinates as we use them is that Descartes would fill a plane with four chips, one quadrant each in the plane. The first quadrant is the points to the right of and above the origin. The second quadrant is to the left of and still above the origin. The third quadrant is to the left of and below the origin, and the fourth is to the right of the origin but below it. This division of the plane into quadrants, and even their identification as quadrants I, II, III, and IV respectively, still exists, one of those minor points on which prealgebra and algebra students briefly trip on their way to tripping over the trigonometric identities.
Descartes had, from his perspective, excellent reason to divide the plane up this way. It’s a reason difficult to imagine today. By separating the plane like this he avoided dealing with something mathematicians of the day were still uncomfortable with. It’s easy enough to describe a point in the first quadrant as being so far to the right and so far above the origin. But a point in the second quadrant is … not any distance to the right. It’s to the left. How far to the right is something that’s to the left?
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Author Joseph NebusPosted on Thursday, 17 November, 2011 Thursday, 17 November, 2011 Categories Explaining E, MathTags coordinate system, Isaac Newton, J E D Williams, Leonhard Euler, negative numbers, Rene Descartes3 Comments on Descartes and the Terror of the Negative
One Goat Short
I like game shows. Liking game shows is not one of the more respectable hobbies, compared to, say, Crimean War pedantry, or laughing at goats. Game shows have a long history of being sneered at by people who can’t be bothered to learn enough about game shows to sneer at them for correct reasons. Lost somewhere within my archives is even an anthology of science fiction short stories about game shows, which if you take out the punch lines of “and the loser DIES!” or “and the host [ typically Chuck Woolery ] is SATAN!”, would leave nearly nothing, and considering that science fiction as a genre has spent most of its existence feeling picked-on as the “smelly, unemployed cousin of the entertainment industry” ( Mike Nelson’s Movie Megacheese ) that’s quite some sneering. Sneering at game shows even earned an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore show which managed to be not just bad but offensively illogical.
Nevertheless, I like them, and was a child at a great age for game shows on broadcast television: the late 1970s and early 1980s had an apparently endless menu of programs, testing people’s abilities to think of words, to spell words, to price household goods, and guess how other people answered surveys. We haven’t anything like that anymore; on network TV about the only game shows that survive are Jeopardy! (which nearly alone of the genre gets any respect), Wheel of Fortune, The Price Is Right, and, returned after decades away, Let’s Make A Deal. (I don’t regard reality shows as game shows, despite a common programming heritage. I can’t say what it is precisely other than location and sometimes scale that, say, Survivor or The Amazing Race do that Beat The Clock or Truth Or Consequences do not, but there’s something.) Now and then something new flutters into being, but it vanishes without leaving much of a trace, besides retreading jokes about the people who’d watch it.
All that is longwinded preliminary to one of those things that amuses mostly me. On the Thursday (27 October) episode of Let’s Make A Deal, they briefly looked like they might be playing The Monty Hall Problem.
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Author Joseph NebusPosted on Monday, 31 October, 2011 Monday, 31 October, 2011 Categories Math, Probability, Recreational MathematicsTags Commodore 128, game show, Leonhard Euler, Monty Hall, Pell equation, Pierre de Fermat, probability, Samuel Pepys5 Comments on One Goat Short
Bases For Comparison
Back to the theme of divisibility of numbers. Since we have the idea of writing numbers with a small set of digits, and with the place of those digits carrying information about how big the number is, we can think about what’s implied by that information.
In the number 222, the first two is matched to blocks (hundreds) that are ten times as large as those for the second two (tens), and the second two is matched to units (tens) which are ten times as large as those for the third two (units). It is now extremely rare to have the size of those blocks differ from one place to the next; that is, a number before the initial two here we take without needing it made explicit to represent ten times that hundreds unit, and a number after the final two (and therefore after the decimal point) would represent units which are one-tenth that of the final two’s size.
It has also become extremely rare for the relationship between blocks to be anything but a factor of ten, with two exceptions which I’ll mention next paragraph. The only block other than those with common use which comes to my mind is the sixty-to-one division of hours or degrees into minutes, and then of minutes into seconds. Even there the division of degrees of arc into minutes and seconds might be obsolete, as it’s so much easier on the computer to enter a latitude and longitude with decimals instead. So blocks of ten, decimals, it is, or in the way actual people speak of such things, a number written in base ten.
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Author Joseph NebusPosted on Saturday, 22 October, 2011 Saturday, 22 October, 2011 Categories Math, Modular ArithmeticTags base, Isaac Asimov, Javascript, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, latitude and longitude, Leonhard Euler, metric system, repeating digits2 Comments on Bases For Comparison
The Person Who Named e
One of the personality traits which my Dearly Beloved most often tolerates in me is my tendency toward hyperbole, a rhetorical device employed successfully on the Internet by almost four people and recognized as such as recently as 1998. I’m not satisfied saying there was an enormous, slow-moving line for a roller coaster we rode last August; I have to say that fourteen months later we’re still on that line.
I mention this because I need to discuss one of those rare people who can be discussed accurately only in hyperbole: Leonhard Euler, 1703 – 1783. He wrote about essentially every field of mathematics it was possible to write about: calculus and geometry and physics and algebra and number theory and graph theory and logic, on music and the motions of the moon, on optics and the finding of longitude, on fluid dynamics and the frequency of prime numbers. After his death the Saint Petersburg Academy needed nearly fifty years to finish publishing his remaining work. If you ever need to fake being a mathematician, let someone else introduce the topic and then speak of how Euler’s Theorem is fundamental to it. There are several thousand Euler’s Theorems, although some of them share billing with another worthy, and most of them are fundamental to at least sixteen fields of mathematics each. I exaggerate; I must, but I note that a search for “Euler” on Wolfram Mathworld turns up 681 matches, as of this moment, out of 13,081 entries. It’s difficult to imagine other names taking up more than five percent of known mathematics. Even Karl Friedrich Gauss only matches 272 entries, and Isaac Newton a paltry 138.
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Author Joseph NebusPosted on Thursday, 13 October, 2011 Categories Explaining E, MathTags Isaac Newton, Karl Friedrich Gauss, Leonhard Euler, Mathworld2 Comments on The Person Who Named e
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Elizabeth D. Samet/ December 2, 2009
A Lonely Kind of Courage
The view from within Eisenhower Hall.
When, at 6:15 pm--known in local parlance as 1815--coveted ticket in hand, I boarded a bus with various members of the West Point community for the short ride to Eisenhower Hall to listen to President Obama, I thought about how very early we would be. But “Ike,” the second largest U.S. theater east of the Mississippi (only Radio City is bigger), was already full: cadets, over four thousand strong, had been there for hours. Body heat and a distinctive hum rose from the undulating dress-gray sea. (I confess that my immediate thought was to calculate whether my flu shot had had sufficient time to kick in.)
The cadets, eminently practical, had brought something to do: Many were hunched over graph paper, calculators, textbooks, or novels. A few were dozing tranquilly. Hurry up, the saying goes, and wait ... and wait. I searched unsuccessfully for cadets in my poetry class. They were, I hoped, using the time to study two Civil War poems, Elizabeth Bishop’s “From Trollope’s Journal” and Robert Lowell’s “For the Union Dead,” in preparation for our next meeting.
Cadets are gathered together not infrequently in one of various auditoriums to listen to statesmen, generals, pundits, or performers. But presidents are a special case. “Two presidents in two years!” I overheard one cadet say to another with a kind of wonder as he recollected that then-President Bush had visited only last December.Over the years, the rhetoric directed at the Corps of Cadets has ranged from the lofty to the earthy. At the 1962 commencement, President Kennedy addressed Cold War anxieties: “I know that many of you may feel ... that in ... the nuclear age, when war may last in its final form a day or two or three days before much of the world is burned up, that your service to your country will be only standing and waiting. … Many serve, all applaud, and the tide of patriotism runs high. But when there is a long, slow struggle, with no immediate visible foe, your choice will seem hard indeed.” Would the cadets in my poetry class have recognized the allusion to Milton?
President Truman’s remarks at a Mess Hall luncheon ten years earlier had a decidedly different tone: “I try my level best to make people feel that they do not have to be afraid of the President, because he is only interested in the welfare of the whole country. He has nothing else to do but to see that the country runs as it should, and to see that we keep our friends in the world, so we won’t have a third world war, and so you won’t have to go and be cannon fodder. I hope you will remember that.” How could they forget?
Yet oratory, presidential or otherwise, occupies a peculiar place in military culture, where action is king. Cadets are accustomed to being exhorted, and they become adept at responding with an automatic enthusiasm. But they are even better, when given the chance (as I think they were last night), at thinking seriously about responsibility.
Speakers often feel the need to remind cadets of their status as volunteers, as patriots, as young people who understand the concept of sacrifice. They sometimes try to flatter cadets with jingoism, bromides, and generalities rather than challenging them with questions, difficulties, and specifics. I sometimes wonder whether, in a society in which a true consciousness of the military has receded for so many, cadets make visitors uneasy in some fundamental way. Is that why so many of these events begin with jokes, as if the speaker had mistaken West Point for the nearby Catskills? And end in pandering perorations?
There were no jokes last night. The event was prefaced by a colonel’s celebration of the American tradition of a non-partisan military. The president, in keeping with the gravity of the occasion, delegated to the Superintendent the granting of amnesty to cadets being punished for minor infractions—an authority customarily exercised by heads of state on visits to West Point. It seemed to me that the cadets’ response to the announcement of amnesty, made moments before the president’s arrival, was more subdued than usual. They were ready to listen.
Service academies theoretically provide safe audiences for the Commander-in-Chief. But to look into the eyes of the people you are sending to war, when what you hope to do is forge a world in which young people, as Truman put it in the language of a veteran artilleryman of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, “won’t have to go and be cannon fodder,” is, I think, an act of honesty. President Obama’s challenge was twofold of course: to articulate a policy and to attend to an audience that would be directly, materially affected by that policy in ways they can see only too well and in ways they cannot even imagine.
The seniors I teach have just chosen the branches of the Army in which they will serve—aviation, infantry, military police, etc. All semester I have watched them devote to this choice, as well as to a consideration of the profession of arms and to the ambiguous situations into which it might deliver them, a substantial amount of thought. How could a Commander-in-Chief’s emphasis on deliberation and restraint, on the “nimble and precise ... use of military power,” and on a set of national values encompassing the value of disagreement, not strike a chord with an audience so circumstanced?
When my classes next meet, the cadets will no doubt share their thoughts on the speech, and I will share with them another speech, written, like last night’s, after a decade of national crisis and transformation, a speech that, like President Obama’s, linked domestic prosperity and foreign engagement, civilian and military enterprises. In his 1939 West Point commencement address, FDR refrained from excessive congratulation and challenged his audience to regard their commissioning as a beginning rather than a culmination: “You will find, as I have, that ... service never ends—in the sense that it engages the best of your ability and the best of your imagination in the endless adventure of keeping the United States safe, strong and at peace.” The demand for such imagination on the part of military leaders has only increased since 1939.
Roosevelt regarded another attribute as essential to an officer’s successful negotiation of complex responsibilities, namely a “sympathetic knowledge of how other men’s minds work and of the processes by which non-military life operates. There is no greater quality of discipline than the ability to recognize different techniques and different processes, and by persuasion and reason to bring these divergent forces into fruitful cooperation.”
It is to the growth of that “sympathetic knowledge” in cadets that I look forward each day when I head to class. When we meet shortly to look at Robert Lowell’s meditation on the Union dead, the cadets will seek to understand the workings of the poet’s mind and perhaps the workings of that of his subject, Robert Gould Shaw, the 25-year-old colonel of the Massachusetts 54th, a regiment of African-American soldiers, over 70 of whom died along with Shaw in the assault on Ft. Wagner, South Carolina, in the summer of 1863. In the image of Shaw in St. Gaudens’s memorial on the Boston Common, Lowell perceived a “wrenlike vigilance, / a greyhound’s gentle tautness.” William James, speaking at the dedication of the monument on Memorial Day in 1897, discovered in Shaw a “lonely kind of courage,” a courage beyond even that required to “storm a battery.” I’m going to ask the cadets what they think that means.
Elizabeth D. Samet is a professor of English at the U.S. Military Academy and the author of Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point. The opinions she expresses here are her own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or the Department of Defense.
More on Obama's Afghanistan Speech:
"Obama's Inconsistencies," by Richard Just
"More On Obama's Inconsistencies," by John B. Judis
"How Obama's Surge Is Like Bush's," by Steven Metz
"Obama Sticks To His Guns," by Michael Crowley
"Obama's Other Front: The Hill," by Lydia DePillis and Jesse Zwick
"The Day After: A Hollow Withdrawal Pledge Comes Into Focus," by Michael Crowley
"Sorry, But I Hear Echoes of Vietnam," by John B. Judis
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Paul Feig, Judd Apatow talk realistic teen shows in Freaks And Geeks exclusive
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16 years ago, Freaks And Geeks entered our lives and met its demise, all in about 10 months. But the short-lived series launched the careers of James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini, Martin Starr, and John Francis Daley (among others), as well as earned a significant cult following. Freaks And Geeks filled the void in teen TV programming between more perilous adolescent struggles (see: Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and the ultimately meandering melodrama of Dawson’s Creek. The show essentially brought together the sort of awkward and/or nerdy kids who were often relegated to the sidelines or punchlines of other dramedies and put them front and center.
In this exclusive clip from Shout! Factory’s Blu-ray release of the full series—which hits stores today—creator Paul Feig and executive producer Judd Apatow talk about their determination to develop a realistic teen show that eschewed the wish fulfillment of other series.
When Feig and Apatow set out to tell relatable stories from a different high-school demographic, it was partially in reaction to the glossy content of other coming-of-age tales on TV. Apatow even says he brought some of the Larry Sanders approach from that sitcom, on which he’d recently served as a writer, producer, and director. There was also a strict “no bullshit” rule.
The Freaks And Geeks Blu-ray edition is available as of today through Shout! Factory.
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Program Today to Welcome New AD John Currie
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UT’s Athletics Department will host an introductory program to welcome new vice chancellor and director of athletics John Currie at 4:30 p.m. today at Thompson-Boling Arena.
The event will be streamed live on UTSports.com. The introductory program is open to the campus and larger community. Faculty, staff, and students who wish to attend should enter through the main upper concourse entrances.
UT Knoxville Chancellor Beverly Davenport announced Tuesday that Currie, now athletics director at Kansas State University, will begin April 1. He spent 12 years in UT Athletics serving in various capacities before going to K-State.
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Yale scientists identify gene that controls the spread of melanoma
Yale’s Vincent DeVita named a fellow of American Association for Cancer Research Academy
Oncology pioneer Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at Yale Cancer Center, and professor of epidemiology and public health at Yale School of Medicine, was named a fellow of the American Association for Cancer...
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MedDay Presents Phase 3 Extension Data on Potential Drug to Treat Progressive MS
Data from an extension phase of a Phase 3 clinical trial, given in an oral presentation by MedDay, reported that the biotin MD1003 showed effectiveness over time as a possible treatment of non-active, progressive multiple sclerosis (MS).
The data were presented at the recent 2nd Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) in Denmark by Professor Ayman Tourbah, the trial’s principal investigator, in the talk “High doses of biotin in progressive multiple sclerosis: extension phase results of the MS-SPI trial.“
MS-SPI, as the clinical trial and its two-year follow-up is known, evaluated MD1003 at a total dose of 300 mg per day (100 mg, 3 times a day) to treat patients with not-active progressive MS. Participants had to demonstrate disease progression of disability in the previous two years with no evidence of inflammatory activity, and were randomly assigned to receive either MD1003 (n=103) or placebo (n=51) for 12 months, according to a news release.
The study continued in an extension phase, during which all patients received the drug but remained uninformed of whether they had been treated with MD1003 in the first phase.
MedDay presented data in April 2015, at the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) annual meeting that year, showed the trial met its primary endpoint — a reversal in disease progression as measured Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) or time to walk 25 feet (TW25) — potentially making MD1003 the first drug able to treat progressive MS.
Results from the extension phase, first presented at AAN 2016, determined sustained efficacy for up to two years and further established a good safety profile for the drug.
MD1003 is a highly concentrated form of biotin, a vitamin that activates some enzymes involved in cell growth and myelin production. The drug, which is already commercially available in certain European countries under early access programs, has previously shown efficacy in patients with progressive MS. It acts by increasing a route of cellular energy production, protecting against the breakdown of nerve cell axons. It also activates enzymes that are setting the pace on myelin repair by being involved in the production of myelin constituents.
MS is a demyelinating disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells (myelin) in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. This damage disrupts the ability of parts of the nervous system to communicate, resulting in a range of signs and symptoms, including physical, mental, and sometimes psychiatric problems.
EAN 2016 ran from May 28 to May 31 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tagged 2nd Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, EAN, MD1003, MedDay, MS-SPI trial, Myelin repair, Progressive MS.
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Bankers claims they’re open to SME lending
In its announcement, the BBA said that banks are more willing to lend than small businesses think with only 37 per cent of small businesses planning to apply for finance believing they will get approval from their bank. In contrast, the BBA says more than two thirds of small businesses have their loan applications approved.
“The problem is there is not just a scepticism among small business owners about their chances of securing bank lending but actually a perception, rightly or wrongly, that the banks are just not on the side of small business,” explains Marlon Wolff, CEO of small business advice hub Ingenious Britain.
The lending landscape, he adds, has changed significantly since the start of the recession to the point that small businesses are more open to alternative sources of lending than ever before.
“We think the banks are sensing that there may finally be genuinely serious threats to their position as the only major lending option and we think that, in part, is driving this new marketing campaign from the BBA. They must be concerned, for example, at the prospective launch of OakNorth, this new bank being set up by former Barclays head of UK operations Richard Davies, to specifically target small and medium sized businesses,” he adds.
The Government have been actively encouraging banks to enter the market as a way of providing choice to customers and finance for small businesses. But, says Wolff, the future of small business finance does not revolve solely around conventional forms of lending.
“Cash is the lifeblood of any business and cash flow is critically important, although many small business owners still fail to realise that. Wages need to be paid, overheads met, and stock or raw materials bought. So however profitable a business might be, whatever its potential is, and whatever the value of its invoice book, it needs good liquidity to meet immediate costs. Without liquidity it will fail. Whilst the banks have held back over the past few years small businesses have had to look elsewhere.”
Wolff cites peer-to-peer lending, invoice financing and even crowd funding as examples.
“There are real alternatives to bank funding now,” he continues. “There are companies offering a twist on invoice finance, for example, using an online platform where companies seeking immediate cash against valid invoices attract bidders in an auction. A company might offer, for instance, 85 per cent of a £5,000 invoice with repayment set at sixty days where the final offer bid might be, say, 1.05 per cent of the value, a mutually satisfactory outcome for the SME and for the investor. This is much cheaper than traditional bank factoring, lower barriers to entry and the small business remains in control of the invoices they want to auction and the price they pay for the service.”
The important thing to remember, Wolff adds, is that the UK has to get this right if its SME sector is to flourish and drive economic growth.
“The UK’s five million SMEs are vital to the economy, as they are at the heart of economic growth, providing 60 per cent of private sector jobs and half of private sector turnover. But despite 67 per cent of SMEs saying they’re ambitious to grow within two to three years, just 20% expand their workforce each year, mostly because of constraints on funding and investment.”
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Civil Aviation Authority on alert for Thomas Cook collapse
Honda unveils its electric vision strategy for Europe at Frankfurt Motor Show
Government sets out new support to small business
Small Business: GREAT Ambition is a commitment to go-getting firms. It sets out how government can make it easier for small businesses to grow as the country gets behind local traders on Small Business Saturday.
These new measures will remove some of the barriers small businesses face, improve the business environment and make it easier for them to fulfil their potential.
The announcements and commitments include:
Brand new broadband vouchers – 22 cities across the UK will benefit from up to £100 million of Broadband vouchers worth up to £3,000 each to help more small firms boost their business by accessing faster and better broadband connectivity.
A fairer deal on energy– An agreement from the major energy firms to end auto-rollovers for business customers, limit back billing, increase transparency of contract terms and make switching easier.
Access to £230 billion of public sector contracts – Implementing Lord Young’s recommendations, which were accepted by the Prime Minister in May, to make it easier and simpler for small firms to win public sector business.
Tackling late payment of small firms – We will ensure that from now on all small businesses who supply the public sector in a supply chain will be paid at the same time as we pay our big contractors. And we will consult on new measures to tackle late payment in the private sector.
This follows a substantive package of support in this week’s Autumn Statement for small businesses, which included an extension of the doubling of Small Business Rate Relief to March 2015, a business rates discount of up to £1,000 for retail premises with a rateable value up to £50,000 and making it cheaper to employ staff aged under-21.
Small businesses will also benefit from an additional £250 million being made available to the British Business Bank to improve access to finance, announced by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Business Secretary Vince Cable earlier this week. Also a further £160 million will allow the successful Start Up Loans scheme to be extended to more entrepreneurs.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said: “I meet with small businesses regularly who tell me about what government support works well and what doesn’t. Through our commitment to small firms we are directly addressing that feedback, freeing them from unnecessary burdens, providing more finance and improving access to advice and support.
“In particular we are tackling the issue of late payment, which can threaten the survival of otherwise healthy businesses. We are enforcing prompt payment through the entire public sector and asking what more we can do to get credit flowing in the private sector.”
Enterprise and Skills Minister Matthew Hancock said: “I’m delighted that on the national day for small businesses, Small Business Saturday, we can demonstrate our commitment to making it easier for small businesses to grow.
“Small businesses are the lifeblood of the British economy and responsible for nearly half the job creation in the UK. That’s why we are removing barriers to growth and supporting them, so that they can create jobs and compete in the global race.”
Small Business: GREAT Ambition sets out how BIS will be the champion of small business across government, making it easier for small businesses to:
Finance business growth by creating the right banking and investment environment and the most supportive tax regime in the world
Hire people by making employment processes more straightforward and promoting a more skilled workforce
Develop new ideas and products by helping businesses get access to the expertise, equipment and funding they need to turn great ideas into reality
Break into new markets by removing barriers to certain sectors and providing advice and support for businesses trying to export
Get the right support at the right time by making business support schemes easier to find and more relevant
Get on with doing business by making sure regulation and the way it is enforced is proportionate and pro-growth
This includes our commitment to making business support easier to access. We are rationalising the number of different support schemes and joining them up so that businesses can go to one place to get the help they need. Business support at local level will also be brought together through Growth Hubs, providing a single place on their doorstep where businesses can go to get help.
This sits alongside our new Business is GREAT campaign, which points businesses to sources of advice and support that can help them grow, and celebrates small businesses that have grown with the help of government support.
Small Business: GREAT Ambition also states that Lord Young will conduct an Enterprise Education Review and make recommendations on how to inspire more people with the entrepreneurial spirit needed to succeed in employment or enterprise. He will report back in summer 2014 on his findings.
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Mindfulness can help PhD students shift from surviving to thriving
Students adopting the mindfulness practice are approaching their research with greater clarity and confidence
Self-help strategies such as mindfulness now have a proven place for supporting the PhD journey. www.shutterstock.com
Undertaking a PhD can be very stressful, due to a range of challenges. These include having to develop discipline expertise as well as generic skills (such as academic writing and maintaining motivation) during a largely solo pursuit.
Concern has been growing about the prevalence of mental health issues (such as depression and anxiety) among PhD candidates. A survey of more than 2,000 graduate research students from 26 countries published this year found they were six times as likely to experience depression or anxiety as the general population.
Read more: Doing a PhD can be a lonely business but it doesn’t have to be
A study of PhD students in the United States showed that of those who identified as experiencing depression or anxiety, 84% did not seek help from university support services. Perhaps, then, the best way to help PhD candidates is to give them the skills and strategies to manage their stress.
Earlier this month, we published a study in the Journal of American College Health. It provides evidence that practising mindfulness can help reduce stress, improve levels of depression and anxiety, and enhance feelings of hope, optimism, resilience and self-efficacy about completing a PhD.
How mindfulness can help
In recent years, mindfulness has become increasingly popular as a method for managing feelings of stress and distress.
Mindfulness research has exploded in the past five years. A medline (the major medical literature search engine) keyword search on the topic today reveals 5,815 search results, with more than 70% of these in the last five years. The quality of this research is also increasing, with 584 systematic reviews (the strongest level of evidence that combines lots of similar studies) included in these results.
Mindfulness techniques like meditation or guided breathing activities can help PhD students manage stress and anxiety. from www.shutterstock.com
Our research is the first to examine the psychological impacts of mindfulness in a controlled trial with PhD students. It followed the findings of a randomised controlled trial conducted at our institution by Emma Warnecke.
Her study showed that a guided mindfulness practice could significantly decrease perceived stress and anxiety among 66 undergraduate medical students. This is a relatively small study, but it used the gold standard design of a randomised controlled trial, and showed statistically and clinically significant results.
Our new study used the same guided mindfulness practice over an eight-week period as a daily intervention in a randomised control trial design. More than 80 students at our university volunteered to take part, and were randomly allocated to a control or intervention group.
How we measured stress
Psychological distress was measured before and after the eight-week trial period using the perceived stress scale (PSS) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress scale (DASS).
We also measured levels of psychological capital, which is a positive psychological state of development composed of four psychological resources: feelings of hope, optimism, resilience, and self-efficacy.
Psychological capital was originally developed in the field of positive organisational behaviour, and previous research has primarily explored how psychological capital influences workplace attitudes, behaviours and performance. In recent years, scholars have begun to explore how it may also influence educational performance.
PhD students are six times more likely than the general population to experience depression or anxiety. Shutterstock.com
Pre- and post-intervention surveys collected from both groups provided data on the stress candidates experienced, how it affected their studies, the strategies they used to manage things that stressed them out, and their experiences of completing the intervention. Some 14 members of the intervention group also volunteered to be interviewed about their experiences.
For some candidates, mindfulness practice provided a period of peace and calm which gave them a time to relax, regroup, and recharge their batteries. For others, it provided an opportunity to deal with negative feelings and then shake them off. Some said the practice gave them more clarity and focus, new ways to deal with challenges, or enabled more productive work.
Read more: PhD completion: an evidence-based guide for students, supervisors and universities
Several candidates felt increased confidence in their ability to complete their PhD, for example by giving them a tool to deal with challenging times. Candidates also reported that completing the practice regularly had its own particular benefits, such as by helping them become more disciplined and structured in their habits.
The study showed completing the mindfulness practice significantly reduced candidates’ reported levels of depression and improved their psychological capital. Perhaps just as importantly, these effects occurred even though study participants actually practised the mindfulness meditation much less often than requested.
The intervention group was asked to complete the 30-minute mindfulness intervention daily, a total of 56 practices over eight weeks. But the average number of sessions completed was 35.
Read more: Ten types of PhD supervisor relationships – which is yours?
An even greater effect may be possible if students practised more often. Alternatively, a daily practice may not be required in participants who are used to learning new complex skills so often. Or, shorter practices (such as 5-10 minutes) could be used with similar effect, such as those available through apps such as smiling mind.
Placing attention not only on the academic but also the psychological aspects of learning is key to successful outcomes and well-being. Self-help strategies such as mindfulness now have a proven place for supporting the PhD journey. Integration of these approaches with peer support programs such as the Write Smarter Feel Better program developed by the CRC for Mental Health provides a win-win to reduce loneliness on the journey to a PhD, and turn surviving into thriving.
Written by Karen Barry, University of Tasmania; Emma Warnecke, University of Tasmania, and Megan Woods, University of Tasmania
Karen Barry, Senior Lecturer, Plant Pathology, University of Tasmania; Emma Warnecke, Associate Professor, Director, Student Development and Support, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania, and Megan Woods, Senior Lecturer in Management, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
From stem cells, billions of brain cells grow
A Grey Matter
The question of brain bias
Birds, bees and brains
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IDOLM@STER Concepts: Tantou vs. Favorite
In the age of Stan and Waifu, there has long been many different ways to say “love” in all sorts of contexts; forget about the Alaskan words for snow (it’s an urban legend of sorts anyway). The way the Greeks did it is what I was weaned on but in this day and age there are more ways to say the same things than ever. And it has been always the case as far as history went.
It just dawned on me on a practical difference between what IM@S Ps say “tantou” versus which idols a producer may simply like. To some Ps, there are no differences between the two. To others, they are entirely different things. And from where I stand there are no wrong ways to go about it.
(“Tantou” here means “in charge of.” A producer is someone in a position of responsibility over a project. In this case, it’s an artist or idol. It is not unusual for IDOLM@STER content to put the producer in charge of a project in which artists of the agency is then selected to participate under said project. If you talk to Japanese producers, the proper way to refer to your cartoon waifu is tantou, and while you may or may not be a wretched twitter critter, we all know what you mean.)
There are however technical differences. One is the basic understanding that IDOLM@STER is a game franchise in which the player is the producer, and the idols the player selects to literally produce, well, are the idols the player produces. Sometimes this is literally every idol in the game, sometimes this is even more (not all idols are really in the games if you think about it), and sometimes it’s just whatever the P wants.
If we extrapolate it from selecting an idol in games to engagement in general, the idols I produce are just the ones I will go out of my way to learn more, to read up on, to research, to think about, and to create content for. After all, it is all we can do to literally “produce” a fictional character. This is pretty much the same way anyone stans anyone else, but maybe there are some differences. Maybe there will be another post for that.
The idols from IDOLM@STER that I like, however, I don’t necessarily produce. Maybe for those characters, I just enjoy the content and call it a day.
This is most evident when you participate in IDOLM@STER content like a big live event. Your favorite or tantou characters, odds are, will only take up a fraction of the full show. The rest of the time you probably are still engaged in the content, even if it isn’t your favorite or it has little relationship to the idols you produce. Sometimes this does mean you might take a seat. But also, a concert is a concert, a show is a show–it’s enjoyable to watch and be a part of.
So while I don’t produce Syoko, I still have a lot of respect for the Matsuda twins and an affinity to the brand of rock that is X Japan. This is why the Kurenai cover during CG7th Osaka was a really special experience personally, especially given the venue, the setup, and the way things played out. These kinds of considerations were the reasons why I was even there in the first place.
I have been following Cinderella Girls since my initial baptism by MOIW 2014. What struck me as odd now is that while many idols from 346P are appealing to me personally, I don’t want to produce any of them. It’s a big reason why I gave up playing Starlight Stage, and also it made the franchise easier to deal with when I treat it like this bag of content that pops out hit beats once in a while, at arm’s length.
I try to go to a show every year still, because I do enjoy this branch of IM@S and I still know something about them. Plus, I never stopped being a seiyuu otaku and IDOLM@STER content is still some of the best kind of seiyuu content out there. An IM@S show (and this applies even to all the other branches) are often elaborate productions. Cinderella Girls lives are the most elaborate of them all, both because of the success (popularity and commercially) of the franchise and the style of the content that is conducive of big, bright, shiny productions at a large scale. That the franchise shows have been dome-sized the past couple years actually plays to the strength of the content and the material. That is contrary to my normal preferences; to me, domes are a negative otherwise–you are far from the action, it’s very crowded, the acoustics and view often sucks, and the seats suck too usually.
On paper, maybe I can call myself, at best, a Miho/PCS producer, because at least I roll for them. I also find myself leaning towards Tsuda and Tanezaki a lot, at least as far as seiyuu affinities go among 346P cast members. It is a production of conveniences. But I produces way more back home in 765Pro, which hopefully my actions speak for themselves.
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Home › Columns › Sean Leary › Criticism of LeBron Should Be Slam Dunked
Criticism of LeBron Should Be Slam Dunked
Sean Leary August 9th, 2018 Sean Leary Share:
I’m never going to say anything bad about LeBron James again.
This week LeBron announced that he’s donating millions of dollars to help send kids around his native Ohio to a special school, the I Promise School in Akron, he’s creating that will be free, will give them free uniforms, free breakfast lunch and snacks, free books, free transportation, and if they graduate, free tuition to University of Akron. He’ll also pay for their parents to get their GEDs, pay for childcare and pay for them to continue their own educations.
It’s an incredible gesture of largesse and return to his community that’s been unparalleled to this point among professional athletes.
I was always kind of ambivalent towards LeBron before. I thought he seemed like a good guy and he’s undeniably a fantastic player, but I was way too sick of the hype and thought the comparison of him with Michael Jordan was tiresome. I was also not a fan of him flopping for fouls at times and team jumping in search of championships.
But quite frankly, in the grand scheme of things, flopping for fouls and team jumping for championships are pretty venial sins compared to the fact that he’s donating an epic amount of money to help a lot of people with his new schools, not to mention that by most reports the guy seems to be a good husband and dedicated father. And this brings up an interesting point that seems to be getting lost so much in society nowadays… CONTEXT AND PERSPECTIVE.
There needs to be more understanding of context by people to recognize what are venial sins and what are mortal sins from a humanistic perspective.
Would I rather be with someone who’s a good friend and human being who loves Nickelback and Michael Bolton, or would I rather be with someone who’s a horrible human being who loves the same music and entertainment I do?
And perspective — ALL of us have flaws. ALL of us have said and done stupid things. ALL of us, in the past, were the products of our upbringing and environment and may have said and done things that in retrospect were stupid, immature and that we now regret, because people have the capacity to learn and evolve, and there should be credit given for that, as opposed to a stark judgmental attitude towards people condemning them for every little thing they’ve done in their lives.
There are very few absolutes in this world, folks, there are very few black-and-white situations, and the shades of gray are colored by our backgrounds and our life’s travels and travails. Things can change from moment to moment, time to time in our lives, and we need to be more conscious of that.
Is someone going to be maybe more angry and cynical and salty to people if they’re going through a divorce? Probably. Are they going to be much more upbeat and happy and generous if they’re in love? Probably.
Take LeBron. Here’s a guy who was already on magazine covers being called “the chosen one” in high school, who was pampered and praised obsequiously from an early age. He was not raised in the same way or in the same era as guys like Jordan, Magic and Bird, so to him, the prospect of joining forces with other stars for a championship seemed like a good idea rather than “selling out.” Many, myself included, who grew up in the Jordan era, knocked the guy for star chasing. But in the grand scheme of things, is that REALLY that big of a deal?
REALLY? No.
As opposed to what he’s doing now, which is basically giving free school and life help away to thousands of people and not only making their lives better, but making the world better through that ripple effect, those are very minor criticisms.
Think of that the next time you start to criticize someone — ask yourself if what you’re criticizing them for is really that big of a deal, and ask yourself to look at the person in general and see if for all the good they may add to the world, is it really worth it for you to tear them down or attempt to rip them up for something that’s ultimately subjective and superficial.
Shit. Poop. Shit. Poop.
If you are offended by one word but not the other, when both mean the same, it is because of your cult-ural programming, society telling you from a small age that some words are bad, others good, when they’re all just words, neutral patterns of symbols likewise charged by repetition and appropriation to take on meaning according to the fluke circumstances of your birth. So, in other words, any negative connotations taken from a word are solely due to chance and subjectivity and have nothing to do with empirical value or worth.
Unlike a person’s actions, which are largely solely the responsibility of themselves and are a far more accurate determination of their character.
LeBron is donating millions of dollars to give poor children free schooling, clothes and food and their parents free education, childcare and opportunities to better their lives, including free college for all involved.
So you’ll forgive me if I don’t give a shit that he dropped an f bomb while giving a pep talk to a bunch of 13-year-olds on his son’s basketball team.
Or a poop either.
Sean Leary
Sean Leary is an author, director, artist, musician, producer and entrepreneur who has been writing professionally since debuting at age 11 in the pages of the Comics Buyers Guide. An honors graduate of the University of Southern California masters program, he has written over 50 books including the best-sellers The Arimathean, Every Number is Lucky to Someone and We Are All Characters.
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Oliver Wahlstrom goes from viral stardom to NHL top prospect
By Sean LeahyOct 24, 2017, 2:45 PM EDT
There some pretty neat benefits to having a parent work at your local hockey rink. For Oliver Wahlstrom, it meant hours and hours of free ice time to hone his skills before and after school.
Growing up in Cumberland, Maine, that time on the ice helped develop the 17-year-old Wahlstrom into a highly-rated prospect as the 2018 NHL draft approaches. It also led to the hockey world first knowing his name when we was only nine years old.
While playing for the Portland Junior Pirates in 2009, Wahlstrom was invited to participate in the TD Bank Mini 1-On-1 competition before a Boston Bruins game. It was there that all those hours in the rink by himself paid off with a viral sensation of a goal.
“I would just mess around, try some things,” Wahlstrom recently told Pro Hockey Talk. “I got up to that move and I just kept doing it and doing it and I just fell in love with it, so I was like, Hey, why not, I’m just going to try it.”
The video blew up on the Internet, even as Twitter was still in its early days of popularity. The trick shot led to a media tour that included appearances on CBS’s “The Early Show” and SportsCenter with Barry Melrose, among others. Eight years later, as Wahlstrom enters his draft year and the attention surrounding him has only increased, he looks back at that experience as good training.
“That was really cool. It was really special. At the time, it was very nerve-wracking,” he said. “But I think that was very good for me to go through at a young age. I learned all about that stuff early.”
(Two and a half years later, he scored another wild trick shot goal in the same competition.)
Eight months from now, Wahlstrom, a center, will hear his name called in Dallas during the 2018 draft, likely within the top 10-15 picks if the various rankings are any indication. Those rankings, however, aren’t on his mind. As he helps the U.S. National Team Development Program side in the United States Hockey League this season, he has his NHL future in the “way back” of his mind, and is focusing on another title at the U-18 World Championships next spring.
“All I want to think about right now is winning gold and making sure I develop as a person,” he said. “Obviously, my mindset is to be No. 1, to be the best, so I work to be that every day. I have a mindset of I want to be first overall. I want to have that mindset. It’s cool to have the draft coming up, but right now I’m just focused on the season and getting that gold medal at the end of April.”
The 6-foot-1, 205 lbs. Wahlstrom, who models his game after the power and shots of Patrik Laine and Evgeni Malkin, is currently viewed as a sure first-rounder, and as we’ve seen with other top prospects, a good draft year could vault him up the rankings. Before the season, TSN’s Craig Button had him at No. 16, while Bob McKenzie pegged him at lucky No. 13 and ISS Hockey has him at No. 11. There’s no doubt scouts like him as a player, but there’s still plenty to improve upon.
“Wahlstrom has long been among the top forwards in his age group. A lot of it has to do with his offensive creativity. He simply makes plays. We obviously all know about his viral moment as a kid, but as a teenager he continues to grab attention with his play on the ice,” said Chris Peters, ESPN’s NHL Draft and prospects analyst. “I think we’ll all be looking for consistent production from him this year and making the players around him better. The skills are there to be a producer at the next level, with his ceiling being a top-six forward, most likely on the wing. He sees the ice so well and has the creativity that seems to translate into goals and assists.”
From the media experience at an early age to playing against older competition since he was 13 to working out with NHL players at Edge Performance Systems in Massachusetts in the off-season, Wahlstrom has prepared himself well for the next step in his hockey career.
That next step will be one of two things: the NHL or Harvard University, where he committed as a 15-year-old, 18 months after committing and de-committing to Maine as a seventh-grader. Being friendly with the Donato family, including Crimson head coach and former NHLer Ted Donato, played a big role in his college selection.
“He’s a great coach and how they’ve been doing the past couple of years, they’re really coming along,” Wahlstrom said. “Hopefully I can come in and contribute a lot and be a good player for them coming up in the future.”
In helping him get to the point where he had NCAA D-I programs to choose from, Wahlstrom credits the NTDP program for preparing him for what lies ahead and also bringing a once shy kid out of his shell.
“It’s probably the best decision I ever made coming here. Last year was probably one of the toughest years of my hockey career, to be honest. I face a lot of adversity,” he said. “We went through a lot last year, getting beat up by older guys. The NTDP here taught me how to fight through adversity, how to overcome that.
“This year, U-18 year, all of us can focus on playing in the USHL, beating those guys and getting that anger and stuff out from last year and bring it this year and accomplish greater things.”
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Variations in anal submucosal muscles in elderly Japanese subjects
Takashi Arakawa, Gen Murakami, Aiji Ohtsuka, Tomohiko Goto, Tatsuo Teramoto
A histological investigation of the anal submucosal muscle was performed on 73 specimens obtained from 30 elderly Japanese cadavers. On immunohistochemistry, the submucosal muscle (maximum thickness of the muscle layer, 0.3-5.0 mm) was positive for smooth muscle actin and desmin. This smooth muscle was accompanied by abundant elastic fibers, and clearly differed from the rectal muscularis mucosae. It was present around the entire circle of the anal canal wall, except for the mid-dorsal portion, and covered the internal aspect of the internal anal sphincter. The sphincter consistently issued several muscle fibers to the submucosal muscle. The distal end of the rectal muscularis mucosae almost corresponded with the level of the squamous-columnar epithelial junction. The muscularis mucosae either intermingled with (11/30) or did not co-exist with (19/30) the submucosal muscle. The submucosal muscles were usually more sparsely distributed than the internal sphincter, but they sometimes (5/30) included a dense, plate-like part adjacent to the lateral portion of the sphincter. Physiologically, the anal submucosal muscle seemed to provide a cushion for smooth evacuation; however, under pathological conditions, hemorrhoidal venous plexuses developed in this area. For functional preservation during hemorrhoidectomy, restricted treatment of the submucosal layer, based on individualized presurgical evaluations of its morphology, is required.
https://doi.org/10.2220/biomedres.25.45
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Arakawa, T., Murakami, G., Ohtsuka, A., Goto, T., & Teramoto, T. (2004). Variations in anal submucosal muscles in elderly Japanese subjects. Biomedical Research, 25(1), 45-52. https://doi.org/10.2220/biomedres.25.45
Variations in anal submucosal muscles in elderly Japanese subjects. / Arakawa, Takashi; Murakami, Gen; Ohtsuka, Aiji; Goto, Tomohiko; Teramoto, Tatsuo.
In: Biomedical Research, Vol. 25, No. 1, 02.2004, p. 45-52.
Arakawa, T, Murakami, G, Ohtsuka, A, Goto, T & Teramoto, T 2004, 'Variations in anal submucosal muscles in elderly Japanese subjects', Biomedical Research, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 45-52. https://doi.org/10.2220/biomedres.25.45
Arakawa T, Murakami G, Ohtsuka A, Goto T, Teramoto T. Variations in anal submucosal muscles in elderly Japanese subjects. Biomedical Research. 2004 Feb;25(1):45-52. https://doi.org/10.2220/biomedres.25.45
Arakawa, Takashi ; Murakami, Gen ; Ohtsuka, Aiji ; Goto, Tomohiko ; Teramoto, Tatsuo. / Variations in anal submucosal muscles in elderly Japanese subjects. In: Biomedical Research. 2004 ; Vol. 25, No. 1. pp. 45-52.
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Casino mogul Steve Wynn may sell his stake in Wynn Resorts
(Reuters) – Wynn Resorts Ltd’s former chief executive, Steve Wynn, may elect to sell all or a portion of his stake in the company, according to a regulatory filing dated Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: Steve Wynn, Chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Steve Wynn is the largest shareholder in the company, owning about 11.8 percent of the casino operator followed by his former wife who has a 9.3 percent stake, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon data. bit.ly/2G0pcDu
An exterior view Wynn hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Steve Marcus
Under an agreement with Wynn Resorts, the former CEO could not sell more than one-third of the shares he held in the company. bit.ly/2GxVVOB
The mogul resigned as CEO last month, following claims he subjected women who worked for him to unwanted advances. Steve Wynn has denied the accusations.
Nevada state regulators opened an investigation into sexual misconduct accusations by former and current employees against Steve Wynn, said Karl Bennison, enforcement chief for the Nevada Gaming Control Board, in an email to Reuters in January.
Reporting by Mekhla Raina in Bengaluru; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier
http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/businessNews/~3/kfVk31s8Nqg/casino-mogul-steve-wynn-may-sell-his-stake-in-wynn-resorts-idUSKCN1GS0HY
Wall Street to open flat as political, tariff concerns persist
A factory worker at 13, Hong Kong’s iconic billionaire retires
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william arkin Jan. 18, 2019
A Former NBC News Military Analyst on Why Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Underrated
By Benjamin Hart@realaxelfoley
Photo: Courtesy of William Arkin
It’s not often that a TV news commentator’s resignation creates a stir. William Arkin, a military analyst at NBC News for 30 years, is a notable exception. In an impassioned open letter announcing his exit earlier this month, Arkin — a nuclear weapons expert, onetime soldier, and co-author of a groundbreaking Washington Post series about America’s national security bureaucracy — railed against reflexive jingoism on TV news, despaired of the “Trump circus” that dominates coverage, and disparaged top U.S. military brass — whom he calls “frauds.” Intelligencer spoke with Arkin about how America’s wars should be covered on television, and why he thinks President Trump doesn’t get enough credit for his unorthodox foreign policy.
In your letter, you wrote that you had appreciated your time at the network, but that you think it has consistently glorified the idea of perpetual wars, privileged military expertise over civilians, and has not adequately reported the “failures of American generals and national security leaders.” In your view, what would a healthier approach to covering America’s foreign entanglements look like?
First of all, whatever it is that I diagnosed, whatever I observed at NBC, applies universally in the mainstream. We have to admit that. It’s not like somehow MSNBC, because it’s quote the “liberal network,” has a set of liberal generals that it can employ, and Fox, being a conservative network, has a set of conservatives that it can employ. And yet they both do that. But we never are let in on the joke, which is: Do generals have partisan political views? Because if we start to believe that, the idea that expertise is driving what they say begins to fall apart.
Most insiders in the military would say that the proper role of the soldier is to be completely nonpartisan. That horse left the barn a long time ago, but we’re still left with the notion that somebody who formerly wore the uniform, or was an ambassador or an assistant secretary, is above partisanship, and that somehow we should be listening to them purely for their insight and expertise.
So that’s problem number one. Problem number two is: Who are these people? They are the architects of the past 20 years of warfare, which has yielded, in my mind, no positive results. And yet we’re looking to them to offer their recommendations on what we should do in Syria or Afghanistan or Russia. And to tell you the God’s honest truth, I think I could go to any bar in New York City and line three people sitting up at the bar and probably, with the proper questioning, get just as intelligent answers.
This is all to say that that idiot Donald Trump’s intuition is right: that Washington is the problem, that the swamp is for real, that there is a deep state.
The foreign policy blob, as Ben Rhodes would call it?
Yeah. But that perspective is a little too raw for the rarefied world of mainstream television, and so we tend to shy away from that. Now, that’s not to say that the Glenn Greenwalds and Julian Assanges of the world have any more of the answer than the generals, but I believe they have a right to be heard.
The middle ground would be including true civilian experts and true analysis of reality. We can have the opportunity for General X to speak and for Glenn Greenwald to speak, but there’s a voice in the middle that’s factual and historic and uncompromising in its truth.
I’m a little confused as to why the dynamic you describe is still the dominant one on a network like MSNBC. In the aftermath of 9/11, there was obviously a huge public appetite to prosecute the war or terrorism, get more involved in the Middle East without asking many questions, and so on. I don’t feel like that appetite is there anymore. I don’t think most Americans are enthusiastic about keeping troops in Afghanistan, for instance. But interventionism is still often the default position on TV. Why do you think it has such staying power?
What I said in my letter was that this is actually the product of what we do. If you do not make an intentional effort to have a diversity of voices, if you don’t make the intentional effort to fill that panel with a range of views, then let’s be honest about what the unintended consequences are.
The point I’m making is I think that the voices become more and more limited, and more and more snappy. And if I say to somebody, “Why don’t we have more academics on the air,” the answer is that they’re long-winded and they can’t give good sound bites. And it’s like “fuck you,” you know? Then train them to be better on television. Don’t just cut them out of the debate. What I’m identifying is inadvertent result of television becoming so overproduced and expert and quick.
I’m just not sure that at a time of prosperity for the mainstream media that anyone is sitting back and saying, “What are we communicating and are we communicating it enough? Are we providing enough nourishment and are we doing our duty, our sacred duty to inform the public?” I think the answer right now is a resounding no, and I think that’s why my letter has gotten such a gratifying response and seems to have touched so many nerves.
We have this double problem that (a) the Trump circus is all that we talk about, and then (b) the voices that speak about the Trump circus are the same voices over and over again.
It’s a problem across media, because it’s hard to separate the signal from the noise with Trump. And he’s the president, so we do have to cover him …
But I’d also like to see an equal number of stories about how powerless he is and how incompetent he is. Some of those stories should provide a little bit of comfort the American people and others around the world, that Trump is not going to blow up the planet, and that in fact he’s a powerless phony. Yet if every day everyone’s hair is on fire, then that message doesn’t get across.
Print media seems to be better at that aspect of things.
Well, I don’t know. I’ve worked at both the Washington Post and the New York Times, and friends there tell me that the phenomena, though not as extreme as it is on cable television, is the same. That is, if you’re not in the Trump inner circle, reporting on the White House, then you’re not in the inner circle of the newspaper anymore.
When I first started at the Post, the national security reporters reporting on actual military affairs were the elite. Now you couldn’t probably even name me a Pentagon correspondent, That’s how invisible they’ve become. We don’t report on war. We report on Washington.
So I think that there has been a change. But really the thing that I think is most dangerous is what I refer to as “inadvertent products.” If the inadvertent product is that war is just perpetual and there’s no solution for it; if the inadvertent product is that everything is a horse race, everything is a partisan issue, then the end result is a poor informing of the public and a kind of immobilization of power on the part of people in terms of their ability to influence things.
Has this all gotten worse in the last 30 years?
Oh, definitely. Yeah.
I mean, look, as I said in my own letter, I’m an annoying guy. This is not the first time I’ve left NBC. But I think that what has gotten worse is the rapidity with which response has to now take place.
If we recognize that 2000 was the beginning of the cable news hegemony, we’re now in the social-media hegemony, and it’s even more powerful than cable news. Cable news is barely keeping up with social media, and maybe something else will come to replace that as well. So there has been a change in the world, but I don’t think it’s Trump. I think it’s social media.
You also wrote that NBC — and I think this applies to other networks — is wrong to automatically position itself against possibly sensible Trump initiatives, like the Syrian troop withdrawal or meeting with Kim Jong-un. But how much of the pushback is a result of anti-Trump animus and how much of it just makes sense, given the president’s consistently haphazard execution of these ideas? With North Korea, he hasn’t really gotten any concessions out of Kim Jong-un, which is exactly what experts predicted. And the Syria withdrawal has been chaotic so far — hastily announced, and there are conflicting messages from all his advisers. Isn’t it a fool’s errand to give him the benefit of the doubt on anything at this point?
Yes and no. Let’s look at Korea specifically. I think you’re absolutely wrong in saying that we got nothing out of Korea. There were nuclear tests held under the Obama administration. North Korea has not tested a nuclear weapon under the Trump administration. The last long-range missile test was conducted in November 2017, so you’re wrong. Somehow, either Trump scared the bejeesus out of the North Koreans through all of his pompous overstatement, or the North Koreans made the correct assessment that maybe this president could do anything and they backed away.
Okay, maybe not nothing. But there hasn’t be a cessation of the nuclear buildup or the kind of thing that he was promising would happen under his …
You know what? If it’s either eight more years of what was achieved during the Obama administration, which was nothing — or an attempt at figuring out how we might slow the pace and even end the development of the nuclear arsenal on the part of North Korea, which by the way is in the interests of both South Korea and China, so let them take the lead — I think that what we’re incompetently and inattentively pursuing under Trump is better than the status quo. And I might even go one step further and say that President Hillary Clinton might have put us in a worse place.
On North Korea, you mean. Not generally.
On North Korea. But I would certainly think on Russia, too. I certainly think in Syria it could be the case. I also know that when Trump says “get the U.S. forces out of Syria,” it resonates with the American public, that there’s a strain of both fatigue and strong isolationism in American society that’s completely out of touch with what Washington believes.
That’s pretty clear at this point, I think.
Yeah. And so again, I’m not necessarily arguing that Trump demands more favorable coverage or any of that. I mean, I called him an imbecile in my letter. He does not have the ability to implement anything. But I do at the same time think that when Mr. Magoo walks across the girder from one skyscraper to another we should at least recognize that he did it.
The quickness with which the elite is willing to dismiss him — and this covers a very broad political spectrum, from Rachel Maddow all the way to the weirdo Tony Shaffer at Fox News — I mean, they all agree. And when they all agree, that makes me really nervous.
You argued that the national security Establishment, which we’ve talked about quite a bit, has become even more impervious to criticism under Trump, But it does seem to me that there is a bit of a political shift happening. The Democratic Party isn’t exactly revolutionary on this issue, but it does seem increasingly unafraid to criticize a lot of the facets of militaristic foreign and domestic policy, whether that’s continued American support for Saudi Arabia, ICE tactics, or defense spending. There’s less need to be seen as tough by conservative voters than there was ten years ago. Do you see any hope in that trend?
Well, I think you’re right. I would say let’s give a little bit of credit to Donald Trump, at least when he was on the campaign trail.
Once again, we’re not giving him his due!
I mean, look, he called the military a bunch of incompetents, and then all of a sudden he became president and it was like “my generals say …”
He’s all over the place.
Yeah. So if he’s an idiot, we’ll accept that. But on the other hand, you know, as a Republican Party presidential candidate, he criticized the military and no one seemed to really question his patriotism. So that door was indeed opened.
But here’s the problem with your characterization. When we criticize ICE, there’s no name attached to it. When we criticize the Pentagon, there’s no name attached to it. When we talk about the problems of Saudi Arabia, there’s no real name attached to it. So what happens at the same time is that maybe we’ve made a little bit of sport out of our ability to take potshots at the national security Establishment, but we don’t attach any names to it.
I’ll give you a little anecdote. The week before Christmas, James Mattis resigned as secretary of Defense, and that morning I walked into the newsroom and very loudly said, “I’ll give $100 to anyone who can tell me one thing that James Mattis has done as secretary of Defense.” And there was a sea of silence.
I think he’s most famous for the things he prevented Trump from doing.
Okay. That’s the theory. Now let’s unpack that, okay? So he should merely be known because he put his finger on the button so that Trump couldn’t get there. And yet, who is he? What does he believe?
If I look at it, I say to myself, we’re in as bad a position as we are in all those countries as when Trump took office, and there’s no real reason to believe that Mattis, with his experience fighting the first Iraq War and the second Iraq War, and Afghanistan, and being the commander-in-chief of the Central Command — that he did anything that ended a battle, started a battle, ended a war. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
These guys are frauds. They are very good at doing what they do, but they are not the civilian leaders we need, who have broader visions of what’s required. Now let me make clear: I believe in a strong military. I believe that the military should be the military. And I believe that the military should be the military because I also believe in strong civilians.
I want the military populated with people like Curtis LeMay, who really want to destroy things. I don’t want it populated with a bunch of guys who are so conversant in the ways of Washington that they can passive-aggressively defeat any attempts to change anything. That’s what happened in the Obama administration, by the way.
I want a strong military, and I want strong civilian leaders. If I’m the president, I want to ask the general, “What are the options?,” and I hope to hell he says, “Bomb the crap out of them.” And I want to be able to go to a civilian who says, “Yes, we can bomb the crap out of them, but here’s the implications of it.” And now the president has gotten both views.
But I think what happens instead is that the civilian and the military guys who sit at the table these days are just negotiating what the color of the bombs are. They’re not really having the debate. I want to have the debate. So in order to have the debate, we need to have strong civilians in civilian roles. That means real civilians populating the office of the secretary of Defense, real civilians being the national security adviser, the Director of National Intelligence, et cetera.
Now, did Trump start this problem? Hell no. Who was Obama’s director of National Intelligence? Admiral Blair. And who was Obama’s national security adviser? Jim Jones, retired Marine Corps General. This did not start with Trump. But I think there has been a failure since 9/11, since the global war on terrorism, since perpetual war has become perpetual, that the civilian world of academic experts, of experts, et cetera, have either become so marginalized, that we don’t have a true civilian perspective.
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Uber Investor Ashton Kutcher On CEO Scandal: ‘People Make Mistakes’
by Around the Web June 21, 2017
You know Ashton Kutcher the actor and husband of Mila Kunis, but are you as familiar with Ashton Kutcher the tech entrepreneur and buddy to former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick?
If you haven’t already, get ready to meet the latter. In an interview on “The Howard Stern Show” Wednesday, Kutcher addressed Kalanick’s removal from the company he founded in 2009, in which the actor invested “probably a couple million dollars.” (It was at an “early” point in the company’s history, some time after hearing about the idea on “a party bus” with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.)
Despite that investment, and what he described as a friendship with Kalanick, Kutcher seemed unaware of the finer points of the former CEO’s fall from grace. When asked how he felt about the news, Kutcher responded, “I’m conflicted.”
“I’m 100 percent certain there were mistakes made and he would cop to the fact that he made mistakes and did things that he maybe shouldn’t have done,” the actor began.
“But at a certain point, I feel like we’re in a society today that is so fast to judge people, and that we have to realize people make mistakes, and you have to let people learn from their mistakes. But I don’t know the extent of the internal damage, so I can’t really comment, because I don’t really know.”
To refresh, Kalanick resigned his post this week after Uber shareholders demanded a change in leadership in the wake of a series of scandals that included a hashtag, #DeleteUber. The company’s problems have involved charges of rampant sexual harassment across all levels of its workforce, an intellectual property challenge, Kalanick’s hotheaded retort to an Uber driver’s concerns and a history of less-than-satisfying responses to charges that it has profited off calamity and political strife.
Kutcher, who founded a venture capital company called A-Grade in 2011, seemed unfamiliar with many of those issues. He defended his friend Kalanick, who recently suffered a devastating loss to his family, saying that “without a guy like him, the company wouldn’t be where it is.”
And if it were up to him, Kutcher probably wouldn’t have booted Kalanick from his top spot.
“I know there were cultural shortfalls within the company that happened along the way. I don’t know that removing him is the best answer, but I think, you know, optically, things have to happen like that sometimes,” the actor said.
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Will a Total Bond Fund Keep Up With Inflation?
In reply to the previous article about fixed-income options in a low-yield environment, a reader wrote in with the following question:
“Would Vanguard’s Total Bond Market fund (or the equivalent) be expected to match inflation over time?”
For a bond (or bond fund), the best estimate for its expected return is its yield. Right now, the SEC yield for Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund is 1.19% You can find this on either the “Overview” or “Price & Performance” tab on the fund’s page on the Vanguard site.
But there are two important points of note here.
First point of note: that’s the expected return over the fund’s average duration. We can click over to the “Portfolio & Management” tab to find the fund’s average duration: 6.5 years. So what we’re seeing here is that the fund’s expected return over the next 6.5 years is 1.19%.
For periods shorter or longer than 6.5 years, there’s a greater degree of uncertainty about what the actual return will be.
For shorter periods, 1.19% is still probably the best expected return estimate, but the actual return is going to be primarily affected by price movements (i.e., whether the bonds’ prices move up or down as a result of interest rate changes). See any of the following articles for a discussion of how bond prices respond to changes in interest rates:
What Happens to Bond Funds When Interest Rates Go Up?
Why Do Longer-Term Bonds Have Greater Price Volatility?
For longer periods, 1.19% is (again) likely the best guess, but we (again) have a lower degree of certainty. In this case, a major cause of the uncertainty is that, as we look at longer and longer periods, we simply don’t know what bonds are going to be in the fund’s portfolio. For example, imagine that we were concerned with the expected return over the next 20 years. Given the fund’s average effective maturity of 8.5 years, most of the bonds currently held by the fund will have matured before the 20-year period is even halfway over. In other words, the return earned by the fund over the next 20 years will be hugely affected by the yields on bonds that it hasn’t even bought yet — and which haven’t even been issued yet. And since those bonds don’t even exist yet, we have absolutely no way to know what their yields will be.
Second point of note: because this is a nominal bond fund, the 1.19% figure is a nominal yield (i.e., before inflation) and therefore a nominal expected return.
A good way to get a rough estimate of the market’s expectation for inflation over a given period is to find the difference in yields between TIPS and nominal Treasury bond for the period in question. For example, since our expected return is for a 6.5-year period, we could look at the yields for 7-year TIPS and 7-year Treasuries. Right now, the yield on 7-year TIPS is -1.10%, and the yield on 7-year Treasuries is 0.55%. That’s a difference of 1.65%, which tells us that the market is expecting inflation of roughly 1.65% over the next seven years.
So, in summary, with an expected nominal return of 1.19% over the next 6.5 years and expected inflation of roughly 1.65% over the next 7 years, we can say that the expected return for Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund is about 0.46% below inflation over the next 6.5 years.
But that’s just an expected return. The actual nominal return could be meaningfully different from the 1.19% figure. Or inflation could be meaningfully different from the 1.65% figure. And as discussed above, for periods shorter or longer than 6.5 years, there’s an even greater degree of uncertainty.
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Meet Anna Chapman: Sexy Russian Spy and ‘Practiced Deceiver’
By Irina Aleksander • 06/29/10 4:10pm
According to documents filed yesterday, Manhattan resident Anna Chapman has been meeting with a Russian official to exchange information over secret wireless networks every Wednesday since January.
READ: Russian Spy Exchanged Information All Around Manhattan
Ms. Chapman, 28, has either red or brown hair—depending on which Facebook photo you find. According to the New York Post, she “flitted from high-profile parties to top-secret meetings around Manhattan.” The interests on her Facebook are listed as follows: Alma De Agave Tequila, New York Entrepreneur Week, Do It In Person, AMBAR, MostProperties.com, School of Academic and Professional Blogging.
The Post provides a brief background: Ms. Chapman has a masters in economics; she owns an online real estate business and an apartment in the Financial District; she is recently divorced from her husband, a U.K. citizen and has no children.
Around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, an undercover FBI agent met with Ms. Chapman at a cafe in downtown Manhattan posing as a Russian consulate employee. The agent said he needed Ms. Chapman to pass along a fake passport to another female agent, according to the filed complaint.
“Are you ready for this step?” the undercover agent asked.
“Shit, of course,” Ms. Chapman replied.
The meeting was finished at 6 p.m. and Ms. Chapman was followed to Brooklyn where she darted in and out of a Verizon store and a Rite Aid pharmacy and proceeded to toss a Verizon bag into the trash can outside. Inside the discarded bag, FBI agents found an agreement for the purchase of a cell phone in the name of “Irine Kutsov” at “99 Fake Street.” Authorities believe she planned to use the cell phone temporarily so that her calls could not be traced.
Ms. Chapman was arrested at 7:38 p.m. Sunday evening when trying to pass off the fraudulent passport.
At her arraignment Monday evening, federal prosecutor Michael Farbiarz called her a “highly trained agent” and a “practiced deceiver,” according to CBS news. Ms. Chapman reportedly wore a white T-shirt and designer jeans standing before judge Ronald Ellis in a Manhattan federal court. Her attorney, Robert M. Baum, asked the judge to dismiss the charge of conspiracy, saying there is no crime in communicating with a member of a foreign government. But Mr. Farbiarz argued that Ms. Chapman was an “extraordinary agent for Russia” and “is in the control of a foreign government agent.”
Ms. Chapman is being held without bail. Her next court appearance will be July 27.
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By Sophie Webb on November 10, 2014 Leave a Comment
A Fascination with Hummingbirds
Male violet-tailed sylph, photo by Sophie Webb.
Ever since I saw that first ruby-throated hummingbird feeding on a trumpet vine in my mother’s garden on Cape Cod I have had a fascination with hummingbirds. In recent years there have been a number of scientific papers published about both their evolution and physiology which have made me even more entranced with them.
Hummingbirds are the New World’s birds of paradise on a tiny scale. They can have extravagant plumage such as the long-tailed and violet-tailed sylphs, while some of the other plainer species may have a bubbly complex songs or a spectacular display, and myriad behaviors. There are 17 species of hummingbirds that breed in the United States—a fair number, but as one heads south of the border, the species diversity increases dramatically. In the neotropics hummingbirds species figure to literally hundreds of species. Current thought is that there are between 330 and 340 hummingbird species on Earth, depending on one’s taxonomy. Evolutionarily, hummingbirds are relatively new, splitting from the swifts and tree swifts in Europe some 40 million years ago starting their own lineage, then thought to have come to the new world across the Bering land bridge, arriving in South America 22 million years ago. From there, apparently, they radiated through North America. and east to the Caribbean. The family continues to diversify at a rapid rate. One paper suggests that without human interference of habitat alteration and loss they could evolve to more than 700 species!
Booted racket-tail and woodstar, sketch by Sophie Webb.
Like many taxa, it is in the Andes of South America, a region of high peaks, canyons and deep valleys containing myriad micro habitats, that hummingbird diversity has taken off; as many as 25 species can be found in one locale, perhaps 140 species can be found in the Andes alone.
Male booted rocket-tail, photo by Sophie Webb.
Occurring from sea level to the high Andes at more than 15,000 feet, hummingbirds have uniquely adapted to combat cold and thin air in combination with their small size and high metabolism. Even here in the U.S. on cold nights, they can fall into a hibernation mode called torpor, and lower their heart rate from around 1,000 beats per minute down to 50-180 BPM, and lower their body temperature from 104 ° F to 65° F. When in this state they almost seem dead, taking 20 minutes to “wake up.” Hummingbirds of the high Andes have another adaptation: their hemoglobin can bind more readily to oxygen, so they can utilize more easily air with a low oxygen ratio, enabling them to forage and live efficiently at high altitudes. The hillstars have a third behavioral adaptation to deal with cold nighttime temperatures at high elevations:, They make a huge, bulky nest of alpaca, llama and sheep fur, nestled under an overhang.
Buff-tailed coronet feeding on flowers at Barbara and Tony Nunnery’s about 1 kilometer/half mile below Bella Vista lodge, by Sophie Webb.
A few years ago I went to the Andes in Ecuador for a month to look at hummingbirds. It was not a typical birding trip trying to see as many species as possible. I went to only three places not far from Quito. I wanted to spend time in each area watching and sketching hummingbirds, and, of course, whatever else I might see. My first stop was in the Tandayapa Valley. I stayed at Bella Vista lodge, in Northwestern Ecuador, at an elevation of 5,000-7,200 feet. Like most lodges in the area, it had an array of humming bird feeders to watch, fruiting and flowering trees around the property and numerous trails to hike as well as the main, dirt road through the valley. By far my favorite hummingbird here was the endlessly entertaining and cute booted racket-tail.
Fawn-breasted brilliant resting on a banana flower after feeding, photo by Sophie Webb.
Although I did spend a good deal of time watching the feeders at Bella Vista, I really wanted to see what and where the hummingbirds were feeding away from the feeders.
My second stop was just over the Andes through Papallacta pass to Guango lodge on the east side. There is so much speciation in South America that each elevation and each slope of the Andes hosts a different avifauna. There is, of course, some overlap here and there, but frequently, one species at different locations are distinct subspecies.
Empress brilliant, a stunning hummingbird seen in the lower elevation Tandayapa Valley, photo by Sophie Webb.
My visit to Guango was only for a couple days, on route to my final long stay at San Isidro. Guango is at 8,858 feet elevation and is one of the easiest places to see the fantastic sword-billed hummingbird. No matter how many photos or videos one sees of this odd hummingbird, there is nothing like seeing it in life as it flies down and backward after feeding on the huge bell-like Burgmansia sanguinea, or angel’s trumpet: The bill seems endless. Apparently most Burgmansia are moth-pollinated, but this species, with red-rimmed flower,s is pollinated by the sword-billed hummingbird, one of many examples of the co-evolution between flowering plants and hummingbirds found in the neotropics.
Angel’s trumpet, photo by Sophie Webb.
The east slope of the Andes at an elevation of 6,800 feet. Here there were several of the same species that occurred both at Guango and at Bella Vista, such as the abundant collared inca
Sword-billed hummingbird, photo by Sophie Webb.
Collared inca with tongue out after feeding, photo by Sophie Webb.
Hummingbird tongues have long, lengthwise side grooves. It was thought that through capillary action nectar was drawn up along these two grooves, but apparently the skin is actually closed around the nectar, thus capturing it. I imagine when one sees a hummingbird sitting with its tongue flicking in and out as in the above picture it is cleaning out those grooves
Chestnut bellied coronet, common at both Guango and Cabañas San Isidro, are richly colored birds. Photo by Sophie Webb.
I frequently saw feeding sylphs in the crowns of small shrubs and trees when I hiked around San Isidro.
Long-tailed Sylph, by Sophie Webb.
All too soon my month with the hummingbirds (and other birds too of course) was over.
I have mentioned only a few the numerous species of hummingbirds one encounters in the Andes. I spent my time in only three places and saw upwards of 50 species, providing me with just a taste of the extraordinary diversity of hummingbirds found in the Andes.
Velvet-purple coronet landing on a fruiting heliconia, by Sophie Webb.
There is an ever increasing interest by scientists in understanding more fully hummingbirds’ remarkable physiology, their evolution and their role as pollinators in the tropics. I look for ward to reading the results of their studies and watching, drawing and painting more hummingbirds in the future.
Sophie has travelled from the Antarctic to the Arctic and numerous places in between to both draw and study birds. She co-authored and illustrated a Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America (Oxford University Press), a Field Guide to the Marine Mammals of the Pacific Coast (University California Press) and written and illustrated three children’s books about research projects she has worked on (Houghton Mifflin Co). One of her favorite pastimes is to sketch wildlife in the field. She is a director of Oikonos: ecosystem knowledge, a research associate of Point Blue and an occasional employee of NOAA’s South West Fisheries Science Center.
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The National School
Now the ANTIQUES EMPORIUM, this building was once the National School, founded in 1861 by the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principle of the established Church. It was later used as the St Mary’s Church schoolroom.
Pembroke’s other surviving Victorian school building is the EAST END SCHOOL, founded in 1873 following the passing of the landmark Education Act of 1870 which made the State responsible for Education and laid down that schools be provided for all children. (It is located at Point 16 of the Trail)
Look across the road
ELM TREE SQUARE marks the boundary of the Parish of St Mary’s to the west, and St Michael’s Parish to the east.
A depression in the road is said to mark the end of the earliest town defences; the extension of the town to the east was a later phase. Elm Tree Square was once a popular meeting place but the elm which gave it its name was destroyed by Dutch elm disease in the late 1970s.
This was also reputedly the site of the town gallows and stocks.
Make your way to Point 8 – OLD CROSS SAWS INN
You will pass some interesting Georgian houses; several of the larger properties were the town houses of the local gentry. You will also pass the TABERNACLE, an example of grandiose Victorian chapel building, one of four impressive chapels in Pembroke. It holds Sunday services and opens for meetings, events and exhibitions.
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Where We’re Working
With its unique geography, access to mountains, the ocean and temperate climate, there is no doubt that the Old North State has outdoor recreation opportunities for all interests. But those opportunities, and experiences are threatened by climate change–right now.
After at least three “once in a century” weather events took place in the state over the course of two years, North Carolinians have started to accept climate science. Major flooding causing coal ash and hog waste to contaminate water supplies have residents looking for elected leaders to do more.
North Carolina’s senate race will be one of the most hotly contested battles this November. In fact, in 2014, the campaign for this seat was the most expensive in history at that time, and will again pull in millions of dollars in outside spending and national attention. North Carolina is a right-leaning purple state. Moderate Democrats have had success winning state-wide races over the past decade, but the state legislature remains firmly in Republican hands. Current Senator Thom Tillis defeated incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan by less than 2 percent or approximately 45,000 votes. Though not seen as a likely pick up early in the 2020 election cycle, North Carolina has become a true toss-up, with former democratic State Senator Cal Cunningham now consistently polling 2 to 4 percent ahead of Tillis. As for U.S. House races in the state, districts were court-ordered to be redrawn in 2019, shifting the political calculation across the state. POW AF’s targets of Congressional Districts 2 and 13 saw their political leanings shift with Congressional District 2 moving to a likely democratic district and 13 holding on to its Republican leanings, though shifting slightly more to the center. POW AF also identified Congressional District 11 as a district where it could have some influence. Though the very liberal city of Asheville is in the district, two very conservative counties were also included when political lines were redrawn in 2019. That being said, a strong democratic candidate is up against a weak GOP candidate and polling is much closer than it should be.
POW Action Fund has endorsed Cal Cunningham for U.S. Senate, Deborah Ross for CD02, Moe Davis in CD11 and Scott Huffman in CD13.
CAL CUNNINGHAM
CARBON PRICING:
Cunningham does not include any language on carbon pricing as part of his campaign platform and POW AF researchers could not find instances in published media or in the public record of the candidate expressing views on this issue.
RENEWABLE ENERGY:
Cunningham believes in reducing emissions and achieving 100 percent carbon neutrality by 2050, saying, “let’s take our cues from places like North Carolina, which has led the way on growing the solar industry. We should rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. We need to support efforts to train workers for the green energy jobs of the future. And we should invest in research and development to be at the forefront of creating new technologies.”
Cunningham supports federal investment in the clean energy economy, including funding renewable energy development and incentivizing renewable energy through tax credits. He has said that he wants to “make sure that we look over the horizon and use the power of the federal government to create incentives for alternative forms of energy.”
Cunningham has said that tackling climate change will be a top priority and promises to be a particularly strong advocate for North Carolina’s solar industry. He believes that North Carolina can “lead on solar energy.”
Cunningham believes the U.S. should rejoin the Paris Agreement.
Cunningham supports the creation of a renewable energy standard, which would require utilities to generate an increasing amount of energy from renewable sources and reduce carbon emissions.
As a North Carolina State Senator, Cunningham has a track record of supporting meaningful environmental regulations. He was a co-sponsor of legislation that reduced harmful pollutants from the state’s coal-fired power plants by over 70 percent.
PUBLIC LANDS:
Unlike his opponent, Cunningham strongly opposes drilling off the North Carolina coast and has promised to “fight to protect” the coast. He has said that “there is not enough oil and gas off of North Carolina’s coast to be a meaningful part of an energy solution for America.”
ELECTRIFYING TRANSPORTATION:
Cunningham does not include any language on electrification of transportation as part of his campaign platform and POW AF researchers could not find instances in published media or in the public record of the candidate expressing views on this issue.
Deborah Ross
Ross has not expressed views on the issue and POW AF researchers were unable to determine whether or not he would support putting an economy-wide price on carbon.
Although she has not called for a transition to 100 percent carbon-free energy, Ross has a record of supporting renewable energy in her private practice, and as a member of the North Carolina Assembly. She has called for investment in renewable energy and clean technology investments, fought legislation to roll back energy conservation work, and has called for a reduction in fossil fuel energy usage.
As a member of the North Carolina Assembly, Ross repeatedly voted in opposition of fracking-friendly legislation. She has vowed to fight offshore drilling and has made access to clean air and water a central component of her platform.
Ross stated her goal is to drive investment in transportation and infrastructure projects that increase renewable energy options to pursue a carbon-free future.
MOE DAVIS
POW AF researchers could not find instances in published media or in the public record of the candidate expressing views on this issue.
It is unclear if Davis supports a 100 percent transition to renewables or in what timeframe. However, he has made it clear that he supports renewable energy and has called for Western North Carolina to be a leader in renewable energy development. “We need to look to the future, not the past, and alternative energy is the right road to be on.”
POW AF researchers couldn’t find any instances of Davis talking about the limiting of fossil fuel extraction from public lands. Davis has called for more funding for the National Parks Service, and said we have a “moral obligation to preserve and protect our land, air and water.”
SCOTT HUFFMAN
Huffman has not expressed views on the issue and POW AF researchers were unable to determine whether or not he would support putting an economy-wide price on carbon. Tangential statements he’s made on climate and clean energy reflect that he would likely be open to such measures.
Huffman believes the United States can move to 80 percent renewable energy by 2030 and be 100 percent free from carbon-based fuel by 2050.
As a member of the North Carolina Assembly, Huffman repeatedly voted in opposition of fracking-friendly legislation. She has vowed to fight offshore drilling and has made access to clean air and water a central component of her platform.
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SCREENSHOTS: We Will Have to Wait for 'Aquaman 2'
A release date is set for Jason Momoa to return to the sea
Michael Cerio
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All we want for Christmas is more Aquaman, but unfortunately it will be a few years before we get to unwrap the Jason Momoa sequel under the sea. Warner Bros just announced that Aquaman 2 is set for theaters on December 16, 2022. That's a four year span between the original adventure and the second superhero swim.
Aquaman has been a big success since it hit screens in 2018, making over 330 million dollars domestically and over 1.1 billion dollars worldwide. The underwater extravaganza also earned rave reviews for the willingness to lean into a bonkers sci-fi aesthetic with off-the-wall imagery. It was rewarded, being the most successful DC film for Warner Bros, beating out The Dark Knight Rises for the top spot.
But why the wait for a return to Atlantis? It may be to make room for a few trips to Pandora first.
As Forbes points out, 2022 will be the first holiday movie season without an Avatar sequel clogging things up for challengers. The first two sequels to the 2009 film are set for December 18, 2020 and December 17, 2021. The follow-ups to the highest-grossing film of all time are sure to be box office behemoths, and our trident-wielding friend might feel it's best to pick battles, sticking to the sea rather than the Na'vi.
Also, there's more in the works from the Aquaman universe. It was reported earlier this month that a spinoff from the film featuring The Trench has been given the green light. The monsters which fight Aquaman in the movie will be the subject of an upcoming horror film, which Aquaman director James Wan has signed on to produce. Wan is also currently the executive producer for an upcoming Swamp Thing TV series.
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider completes Lara Croft’s journey, solve puzzles to get clues
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Square Enix recently announced Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One later this year, Shadow of the Tomb Raider completes Lara Croft’s journey.
While Shadow of the Tomb Raider won’t be officially unveiled until April 27, Square Enis has released a teaser trailer (below). The Tomb Raider website currently features a countdown to the reveal event and an online puzzle.
The trailer only goes for 20-seconds and is entirely pre-rendered. It shows Lara doing what she does best in a rainforest, cave and atop massive pyramids.
It appears from the footage released thus far that Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be set in South America, amongst Mayan ruins. In fact, the puzzle featured on the Shadow of the Tomb Raider website requires you to match ‘Mayan’ glyphs.
The puzzle is a cumulative effort and as the community solve the puzzle, more clues about Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be unlocked.
Residents of the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and France will also have a chance to win a trip for two to one of three Shadow of the Tomb Raider events in Montreal, LA and London.
Winners will be able to play Shadow of the Tomb Raider, chat with the developers and enjoy food and drink. A new puzzle will be added to the website every Monday.
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While details are scarce at the moment, it’s only 37-days until the official unveiling.
After the success of both Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider, there is an enormous amount of pressure on the developers to make Shadow of the Tomb Raider absolutely spectacular.
We’ll be sure to stay on top of all the news for Lara Croft’s upcoming third adventure. The one that will complete her story and her adventures.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be available on September 14, 2018.
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NFL Picks of Teams Jockeying for Playoff Positioning in Week 16
December 20, 2018 May 8, 2019 Rajan "the SportsPundit" Nanavati
You know that part of a tight horse race when it seems like all the horses are all conglomerated together in a pack, and you’re not quite sure who’s going to emerge out of it and cross the finish line first? That’s a lot like what Week 16 of the NFL season feels like. There are lots of teams that are in the thick of the playoff race, or right on the outside looking in, and several of the matchups this weekend will help determine what their final positioning in the playoff race will look like. Here are some of the big games and NFL picks of teams jockeying for Playoff Positioning in Week 16.
Washington at Tennessee (-10)
By virtue of mathematics, both of these teams are still eligible for the playoffs. Whether they’ll actually make the playoffs, or if anyone really wants to see them make the playoffs, is an entirely different matter.
As bad as the Washington Redskins have looked recently, thanks to some spectacularly miserable efforts and because they’re starting their fourth quarterback this season, they can still make the playoffs if they win out, thanks to an ugly win against the floundering Jacksonville Jaguars last Sunday. Now, with two wins to close the season, plus some help from the Minnesota Vikings (who would need to lose at least one game) or the Seattle Seahawks (who would need to lose both their remaining games), Washington would be assured a playoff spot. If you want to torture yourself, imagine a world where the Redskins win out and Dallas loses one game, translating into Washington winning the NFC East.
But again, all of that supposes that Washington wins their last two games, which would include this Saturday’s game against Tennessee, in which they’re 10-point underdogs. If anyone on Washington’s coaching staff is even the slightest bit confused about what Tennessee’s game plan will be this weekend, they should be fired immediately, because it’s painfully obvious: the Titans will be trying to run the ball right down Washington’s throat.
Over the last three weeks, Titans running back Derrick Henry has run for 448 yards and seven touchdowns. After looking like a player primed to get traded during this year’s trade deadline you could argue that there isn’t a hotter player in the NFL today than Henry. According to FootballOutsiders.com, Henry is not only ranked #2 in Defense-adjusted Yards Above Replacement (DYAR) measurement, which measures the overall value of a running back compared to a replacement-level player at the position but is ranked #1 in Defense-adjusted Value Over Average (DVOA), which measures the -in-game value of a running back compared to a replacement-level player at the position.
The Titans have won their last three in a row (albeit against teams who are already making postseason vacation plans) by handing the ball repeatedly to Henry and letting quarterback Marcus Mariota basically “manage” the game (he’s thrown less than 25 passes in Tennessee’s last two games).
Washington has the fourth-worst rushing defense DVOA in the NFL this season and is coming off a week in which they allowed 172 rushing yards to the Jaguars. Even if you try and spin said fact with the rationale that half of those yards came from runs by quarterbacks and running backs, it’s not like Tennessee lacks in athletic playmakers at those two positions.
With Mariota currently ranked as the 4th-worst quarterback in the NFL in terms of his passer rating on first down, expect another week of Henry getting a full workload. Assuming the Titans can continue their success on the ground, that might shorten the game such that the 10-point margin by which they’re favored might be too much of a spread to cover. Tennessee very likely wins this game, but take the points.
Pick: Washington (+10)
Baltimore at LA Chargers (-4.5)
This matchup features two teams who could very well be the two Wild Card entrants into the AFC Playoffs, as well as the two teams that none of the division winners who’ll still have to play in the opening weekend of the postseason will want to play.
Last Thursday evening, if America wasn’t fully keyed in on the fact that the Los Angeles Chargers had won nine of their last ten games entering their key divisional matchup against Kansas City, with their scintillating come-from-behind win against the Chiefs, everyone is now paying attention to them.
Now, the Chargers go from playing the porous Kansas City defense in their opponent’s house to the hosting the air-tight Baltimore defense in their own house. The Ravens have the second-best passing defense DVOA in the NFL, and the 82.9 passer rating they’ve allowed to opposing quarterbacks this season is the third-lowest in the league.
While they’re certainly very stout against the run (they allow the third-fewest rushing yards per game to opponents this year), they’re highly capable of stopping opposing offenses from moving the ball through the air. The Ravens bring pressure (five or more rushers) on 36.5% of their defensive snaps, which is the highest such percentage in the NFL. When they do so, the passer rating of opposing quarterbacks drops to 81.3% (the 6th-lowest passer rating allowed in the NFL when blitzing).
How Baltimore’s passing defense stops – or simply limits – Phillip Rivers will be the biggest subplot of this game. While most people handicapping the 2018 NFL MVP race have Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes and New Orleans’ Drew Brees as the top two contenders, there’s a growing contingent of people who believe Rivers is the darkhorse in said race.
Rivers has the highest yards per attempt among quarterbacks who have started at least eight games this season, and is tied with Brees for having thrown the third-most touchdown passes (31) this season; in LA’s 14 games this year, Rivers has thrown at least two touchdown passes in 13 of them. He’s currently third in overall passer rating this year, which includes ranking fourth in passer rating when throwing from inside the pocket, but actually ranking even higher (third in the league) when throwing from outside the pocket.
Even if Baltimore can execute a game plan which limits the amount of time that Rivers has the ball in his hands, it’s not like things will be much easier when the Ravens are on offense. The Chargers are very stout defensively, evidenced by their two Pro Bowl selections (edge rusher Melvin Ingram and stud rookie safety Derwin James), and two other guys who could’ve – or should’ve – been selected as well (Desmond king has been one of the best slot cornerbacks in the NFL, and defensive end Joey Bosa is still among the best at his position but missed too much time due to injury).
With Chargers’ head coach Anthony Lynn getting serious Coach of the Year considerations, this game will go a long way in telling just how deserving he is. It’s not hard to get your team up to play against a division rival whom everyone is saying is better than you, but it’s an entirely different matter to keep your team as motivated after such an emotional win.
Pick: Los Angeles (-4.5)
Houston at Philadelphia (-1)
What seemed like a ho-hum type of game only a few weeks ago suddenly has a lot more intrigue, especially when you consider that a team that’s one loss away from playoff elimination is favored against the team that was considered to be the hottest in the NFL at the beginning of this month.
As ridiculous as it might sound to the more pragmatic fans of the NFL anywhere outside of the eastern Pennsylvania area, there are a group of “bleed green” Philadelphia Eagles fans who believe that the reinsertion of Nick Foles as the team’s starting quarterback – even at the cost of yet another injury to Carson Wentz – represents some type of serendipitous circumstances. In their minds, this was right about the time when Wentz went down with his season-ending knee injury, only have to have Foles lead the franchise to its first-ever Super Bowl win. So, why can’t history repeat itself?
While talk of the Super Bowl is way too premature, the energy that Foles provided in the game against the Los Angeles Rams last Sunday was palpable. The Eagles’ offense looked like it got a major jump-start, scoring 30 points for only the second time this season. The guys around Foles just seemed to play with that extra bit of energy when they know that something good is taking place.
Regardless of whether you think what’s going on in Philadelphia is coincidence or providence, all the attention is clearly on them. Why else would the money have swung so decisively in Philadelphia’s direction, with the line opening at a pick‘em, with some sports books now having the Eagles laying as much as 2.5 points?
For some reason, people seem to have forgotten that Houston has the 5th-most wins of any NFL team, and has only one loss since the last weekend of September.
Foles and the Eagles won’t have the same comfort on offense as they did against the Rams, considering Foles was able to rely on an Eagles’ ground game that got 106 yards and three touchdowns; the Texans allow the fourth-fewest rushing yards per game, and are tied for the third-fewest touchdown runs allowed this year.
For all the talk about the Philadelphia quarterback situation, this game will actually be a huge litmus test for Houston’s Deshaun Watson. The Texans have played “old school football” this season, balancing their passing game with their running game, playing good defense, and forcing opponents into mistakes for which they’ll have to pay. The Texans have the highest variance between points scored ‘organically’ versus points scored off turnovers of any team in the league.
If Philadelphia plays a “clean” football game, Watson will have to overcome the inconsistency in moving the ball and converting third down situations, which plagued them in their loss to the Colts two weeks ago. The Texans aren’t a play-from-behind team either, considering Watson has faced the most pressure of any NFL quarterback this season, having some pressure registered on him on 41.7% of his dropbacks this year.
One of the great maxims in football is to be wary of the team that’s at the center of the preceding week’s hype train. Philadelphia was the main engineer of said train this week, so go with Houston.
Pick: Houston (+1)
Pittsburgh at New Orleans (-6)
With the recent faltering by the Los Angeles Rams, the road is now completely clear for the New Orleans Saints to put their foot on the proverbial gas pedal, and zoom away with the top overall seed in the NFC.
Whether you win by three points or win by thirty-three points, it makes no difference in the standings. That’s a good thing for New Orleans because while they still have an NFC-high 12 wins at the moment, their last couple of wins were a bit harder to come by. The Saints trailed at the end of the third quarter a couple of weeks ago against the lowly Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and only mustered one touchdown against the Carolina Panthers this past Monday evening. Even with Drew Brees having an absolute vintage season, there are some people who are inching their hands closer to the proverbial panic button, when it comes to the Saints offense; December is not the time this team wants to be slumping.
We’ve recently begun to associate Pittsburgh as an offense-first (if not “offense-only”) team, but Pittsburgh has overcome some of the hiccups they’ve had on offense this year with an underrated stout group on defense.
Sure, Pittsburgh still has Ben Roethlisberger (having a vintage season himself), Antonio Brown (still leads the NFL in touchdown catches), a functional running game, the best red zone offense in the league (scoring touchdowns on over 76% of their red zone trips), and even one of the most underrated offensive weapons in wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, who’s recorded 721 yards receiving when lining up in the slot, good for fourth-most in the league.
But Pittsburgh also blitzes opposing quarterbacks the third-most of any team in the NFL when they’re on defense, and even if they do allow passes to be complete, they limit the impact of those; Pittsburgh allows the lowest average yards after catch (YAC) in the league.
The Steelers are coming off as an emotional win as they’ve had since winning the Super Bowl in 2009, after defeating the New England Patriots this week. But Baltimore remains right on the heels of the Steelers in the AFC North race, so if they want to ensure that they keep their postseason hopes alive, winning the division is a priority, lest they want to join the mosh pit for the last playoff spot in the AFC.
This will assuredly be a very telling game, as far as the state of the Saints. When they’ve faced a couple of stout defenses (like Dallas and Carolina), they’ve struggled to move the ball. But the other common denominator in those two games was the fact that they were on the road. This game is at home, where the Saints are 12-2 over their last 14 regular season home games.
Securing wins in their next two home games is of paramount to the Saints. If this team is serious about a deep postseason run, this game has to serve as the showcase for what happens when top opponents come into the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Pick: New Orleans (-6)
Kansas City (-2.5) at Seattle
Both teams in the NFL’s marquee primetime matchup this weekend are coming off tough losses that made their respective playoff positions a lot murkier. Another loss by either one of these teams would inflict serious damage to all the good work they’ve done in the weeks and months leading up to the end of the regular season.
The Kansas City Chiefs lost a total of one game through the middle of November this year, yet have now lost two of their last four games. Taking a home loss to a division rival (the Los Angeles Chargers) that was missing their top two running backs, #1 wide receiver, and a slew of defensive starters, was not a good look for the team that was supposed to be the #1 contender to end the AFC supremacy of the New England Patriots.
Kansas City still has better than a 70% chance to win the AFC West division even after the loss (thanks in large part to tiebreakers), but their highly suspect defense continues to be their Achilles’ heel. While the unit had a strong performance in the first half of the Chargers game, they were the main culprit in blowing a 14-point lead with four minutes to go in the game against the Chargers.
The Chiefs’ rushing is dead last in the NFL in rushing defense DVOA, which could work right into the hands of the Seattle Seahawks. With a stink bomb of a performance against the division rival San Francisco 49ers last week, the Seahawks are in a must-win scenario on Sunday, if they want to remain in contention for one of the NFC Wild Card spots.
Despite all their chatter about getting hosed by the referees last weekend (even if they’re right), there’s no excuse for the fact that they committed a season-high 14 penalties against the 49ers, and got caught several times by the 49ers in major coverage busts downfield (which San Francisco wasn’t able to capitalize upon).
If Seattle were smart, they’d stick with what works: running the football right at their opponents. Between Chris Carson (ranked the 6th-best running back in the NFL in DYAR), Mike Davis, possibly Rashad Penny (if he’s cleared to play), and the scrambling ability of Russell Wilson, they can play the ball control game against Kansas City, keeping the Chiefs’ high-octane offense off the field.
Patrick Mahomes is a bona fide wizard with the ball in his hands, but he’ll need to conjure up some serious sorcery to go into CenturyLink Field and beat the Seahawks. The deciding factor is the speed of Kansas City’s skill position guys against the Seattle secondary. While they do a good job limiting damage from opposing tight ends (like holding San Francisco’s George Kittle to only 51 yards on three catches), the Seahawks have been among the worst teams in the NFL against the #1 receiver of their opponents. Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill could be in for a big game on Sunday evening.
Simply put: the Seahawks might have home field advantage, and possibly even a greater urgency factor, but the Chiefs still have the best player on the field.
Pick: Kansas City (-2.5)
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Failure Turns Into Success
by Susan Carter Morgan | Feb 22, 2011 | International Community, Learning, PD | 0 comments
Matt Scully, Director of Technology and English teacher at Providence Day School in North Carolina, had a “fail” last year. But he turned it around to one of the best learning experiences his students had ever had.
“I’ve always liked the idea of a project-based learning classroom, a learning studio environment, but I’ve struggled with how to make it work,” he said. His Powerful Learning Practice experience a few years ago provided him with the tools to help “pull it all together.”
But when he began a unit on Romeo and Juliet, it didn’t go quite according to plan.
“I wanted the students to discuss true love-where we find it,” he said. “They turned it around and asked, ‘what is true love?’ and I had no answer.”
So he turned the students loose, telling them to figure it out. They invited speakers to class, created a wiki to enable community members to comment, and researched. The wiki included contributions from everyone from the biology teacher to the head of food service.
“Once the students had the information, they had to decide if Romeo and Juliet met the criteria for true love,” he said.
Matt, an NAIS Teacher of the Future, asked the students to create blog posts and videos, explaining their research.
The wiki is definitely worth a visit. You’ll learn all you need to know about true love!
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WHAT HAPPENED TO LYTHAM, LANCASHIRE, AFTER THE GOVERNMENT’S DISSOLUTION OF THE CATHOLIC MONASTERIES?
“At the dissolution of the monasteries, the former Benedictine Cell of Lytham, which had been a dependency of Durham Abbey, was granted to Sir Thomas Holcroft, a noted ‘trafficker’ in confiscated monastic possessions. He sold the property to Sir Cuthbert Clifton, and thus Lytham became the principal residence of the Cliftons, a family which had held large estates in Lancashire as early as 1258. Sir Cuthbert Clifton was a staunch Catholic, for at the dissolution of the monasteries he gave a home in his own house to Thomas Prymbett for the rest of his life, inasmuch as Prymbett had been the officiating priest of the Clifton Chantry at the parish church of Kirkham.
The exact spot occupied by the Benedictine monastery is now unknown
The exact spot occupied by the Benedictine cell is unknown, but it is thought to have been on or near the site of the present Hall at Lytham; for in the walls of some of the offices attached to it, remains of the ancient monastic edifice have been incorporated. Sir Cuthbert Clifton built the first Hall in 1625 on his first possessing the estate, and a large room was constructed within it, most probably for a chapel. This remained unaltered when the Hall was rebuilt by Thomas Clifton in 1764. So far the Catholic Annual and I quite agree with the account; but when it goes on to say, ‘It was used for Mass up to the year 1800. It is now in existence and is used as a lumber room,’ these two sentences seem to me to apply only to the chapel wing, which was built in 1764, as the date cut in stone bears witness. Nothing more likely than that Thomas Clifton in 1764, when he was building the new Hall, would construct a special chapel and a priest’s room, and place these at the back of the Hall for secrecy, since emancipation had not then been granted. But the ‘large room’ constructed in 1625, and remaining unaltered in 1764, is the ‘picture-gallery’ so called. There would be little object in placing so large a room on the second floor of the house, unless it were that its size might accommodate the tenantry and neighbouring Catholics, and its retired position ensure the desired amount of secrecy.
Lytham Hall, “The Large Room”, ca. 1923
‘The man at the top of the house’
The above is confirmed by the practice, common in times of persecution, of speaking of the priest or chaplain at these Catholic houses as ‘the man at the top of the house.’ Our illustration shows ‘the large room,’ and here from 1625 to 1764 holy Mass was offered by the numerous priests who, in succession, served the Catholics of Lytham. The old oak floor, well worn by generations of faithful Catholic worshippers, comes out well in the photograph. In passing, it may be mentioned that similar ‘large rooms’ are found in many of the old Catholic houses; for example, at Speke Hall and at Astley Hall, near Chorley, both of which were built at the time when their owners were staunch Catholics.
The site where the Hall now stands has been uses as a chapel of persecution times from 1554 to 1800
In any case, the site where the Hall now stands has been used for Catholic services, as a Benedictine cell from 1199 till the Reformation, and as a chapel of persecution times from 1554 to 1800. It certainly has associations venerable to the Catholics of to-day. From 1800 to 1839 Mass was said in a tythe-barn fitted up as a chapel, the priest living in a house close by. In 1839 the present church, dedicated to St Peter, was solemnly opened by Bishop Briggs, and thus the days of the Hall chapel, with its services in concealment and secrecy, passed away, and the Catholics of Lytham rapidly increased in numbers and importance in the town.
Father Anderton was apprehended and exiled by the Government agencies, but he managed to return
MrMr. Gillow (Cat. Rec. Soc., Vol. XVI) gives a complete list of the priests who served the Mission of Lytham, of which the following is an abbreviation. The first was Rev. Lawrence Anderton, S.J., alias Scroop, alias Hart, who wrote many learned works under the pseudonym ‘John Brereley, Priest.’ He had studied at the University of Cambridge, where he gained the title of ‘Silver-mouthed Anderton.’ He published several controversial works, which were printed at the secret printing press at his cousin’s house at Lostock Hall, and later at Birchley Hall. At some period Father Anderton was apprehended and exiled, but he seems soon to have returned to the Mission, and it is probable that he became chaplain to Sir Cuthbert Clifton, when this latter removed from West by to Lytham till his death in 1643, aged sixty-seven. In 1629 we have the mention of ‘Anderton and Smith, two priests at Sir Cuthbert Clifton’s’ (Cat. Rec. Soc. Miss., III, 108).
Father William Shackleton, alias Stanton, alias Bannister, S.J., succeeded Father Anderton at Lytham Hall, where he is found baptising many of the Cliftons. He died there in 1655, aged seventy-one.
He received a letter which apparently had been intercepted
Father Augustus Heneage, alias Newby, S.J., came to Lytham in 1653, two years before Father Shackleton’s death. He was brother-in-law to Sir Thomas Clifton, whose wife Bridget was Father Heneage’s sister. From a letter of the Earl of Derby to the Duke of Albemarle dated from Lathom House, March 10, 1664, it appears that Father Heneage, like his predecessor, was an active controversialist. The Earl enclosed a letter, dated February 21, 1664, which apparently had been intercepted, from Augustus Heneage, ‘a supposed priest, living in Sir Thomas Clifton’s house, to Mr. Edward Keynes, S.J., who lived with Sir Cecil Trafford.’ Father Heneage had had ‘verbal skirmishes with his old friends, the Nigri (Anglican ministers), who showed ignorance and knavery,’ and asked Father Keynes to send him John Lewgar’s Erastus Senior, published in 1662. This book, says Mr. Gillow, whose account we are following, referred to the question of the validity of Anglican ordinations, and made so great an impression upon the Anglican clergy, who thereby became sensible to the defects of the ordination forms of the episcopacy and priesthood hitherto in use, that immediately after its publication in the year 1662 it was made obligatory by a decree of Convocation to use more explicit forms. In consequence both Father Heneage and Father Keynes had to fly from their respective stations. The former went to London, where he died a victim to the plague, January 18, 1669, aged fifty-two.
He was taken to the Tower of London to be tried for his life on a trumped-up charge
Father John Stevenson, S.J., came to Lytham Hall in 1676, and remained there till his death in 1692, when he was succeeded by Father Thomas Blundell, S.J., third son of William Blundell, of Crosby. Two years later Sir Thomas Clifton was arrested at Wrea Green, July 17, 1694, taken to the Tower of London, and brought back to Manchester to be tried for his life on a trumped-up charge of high treason, with Sir William Gerard of Bryn, and a number of other Lancashire gentlemen. He was acquitted, but the strain had been too great, and he died on November 13. It is probable that he died before he could return to Lytham. Anyhow, his body was carried to Kirkham for internment with his ancestors in the parish church.
Lytham Hall, ca. 1923
‘O death, where is thy victory?’
But before starting on its last journey, ‘a funeral sermon upon Sir Thomas Clifton,’ under the text ‘O death, where is thy victory?’ was preached by Rev. Richard Jameson. Father Blundell remained at Lytham Hall till his death ‘in Mr. Clifton’s house on Wednesday, 27th May, 1702. His body was carried to Crosby and buried in ye Harkirke on ye 29th. He was a learned man, aged 55’ (Crosby Records, p. 81). These were wonderful times, when the Catholic lord of the manor died in prison, or at any rate died as the result of imprisonment, as did Sir Thomas Clifton, whilst his chaplain only eight years later was carried in funeral procession the long distance from Lytham to Crosby. But then the good priest wished to be buried in consecrated ground, and certainly no more beautiful spot could be found than the little Catholic cemetery of Harkirke, which had cost his forefathers so dear. [Footnote: ‘Blundell of Crosby was fined £2,000, equal to £20,000 of the present money [around 1923], for burying Papists and other excommunicated persons in Harkirke.]
The feeling against Catholics was so great, and the bigotry so violent, that the door of the chapel had to be locked before Father Mansell began Mass
Father Ralph Hornyhold, alias Glover, S.J., was priest at Lytham from 1702 till 1722; Father Christopher Burton, S.J., 1722 to 1728; Father John Gosling, alias Bennett, S.J., 1728 to 1741. Early in 1729 the Vicar-Apostolic of the Northern District, Bishop Thomas Williams, O.P., made his visitation at Lytham, and confirmed in the Hall chapel 247 persons belonging to the Lytham and West by congregations. Father Berington, alias Harper, S.J., was at Lytham only two years when he died, and was interred in Lytham parish church, the registers of which contain the entry, ‘John Harper (R.C.) from ye Hall, 18 Aug. 1743.’
Father John Talbot, alias Mansell, came to Lytham in September, 1743, and his salary from the Cliftons seems to have been increased to £13; no mean figure, be it noted, for 100 years after this the allowance from Propaganda to the priests in the Highlands of Scotland was only £12. After the rising of 1745 in favour of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the feeling against Catholics was so great, and the bigotry so violent, that the door of the chapel at Lytham Hall had to be locked before Father Mansell began Mass. In a report to his superiors in 1750, he returned the number of communicants in his congregation at 230. In January, 1753, he began the existing baptismal register. In 1767 the Protestant Bishop of Chester had a report drawn up of all Catholics in his diocese, and ‘John Mansell, alias Talbot, Jesuit priest,’ appears as chaplain to Thomas Clifton, Esq., the congregation being estimated at 384. In 1774 Bishop Walton confirmed 148 persons in the Hall chapel, and ten years later Bishop Mathew Gibson confirmed eighty-six persons…
In 1791 Father Mansell, enfeebled by age, retired from Lytham, where he had been priests in charge for nearly fifty years. He died at Walton-le-dale, near Preston, in 1799, aged ninety. Meanwhile the Society of Jesus had been suppressed in 1773, and as the ‘gentlemen of the ex-Society,’ as they were called, gradually became reduced in numbers, they withdrew from the Lytham Mission, to which a Benedictine in the person of the Rev. William Blacow, O.S.B., was appointed, who remained till 1793.
A tythe-barn was fitted up as a chapel
Dom Richard Pope, O.S.B., was here ten years – 1793 to 1803. It was during his incumbency that the chapel in the Hall was closed, and a tythe-barn just outside the park was fitted up as a chapel. The Mission was then handed over to the Bishop of the Northern Vicariate, who appointef Rev. Thomas Dawson. Owing to ill-health, he had numerous assistants, Rev. John Lawson being definitely appointed as his curate in 1820. Both these priests left in 1829 for Croston Hall, and later they together started the Mission at Mawdesley.
Of Mr. Pope the story is told that he used to ride a very poor-looking old pony, and riding one day in the neighbourhood of Chorley he was overtaken by several young gentlemen also riding – one of them being the late Mr. Townley Parker – who had recently been made magistrates (J.P.). They began to chaff him about his pony, and advised him to get a donkey instead. He very quietly said, ‘I would, but, unfortunately, they are very bad to get, as they have all been made J.P.s.’
In 1839, the present church was opened
Rev. Joseph Walmesley came to Lytham in 1829, and remained till his death in 1873, when he was buried at The Willows, Kirkham. In 1839 he opened the present church, dedicated to St Peter, and fitted up the new church with benches and other furniture from the old tythe-barn chapel. After being Rector of the Mission for over forty-four years, Mr. Walmesley died in harness, August 16, 1873, aged seventy-one, respected by all the inhabitants of Lytham, and held in affectionate memory by many people to this day.
Rev. Roger Taylor was priest at Lytham from 1874 to 1885. In 1874 he enlarged the schools and built an infant school. In 1875-76 he erected new sacristies and constructed the side chapels, and in the following year he added a new high altar, Lady altar, and altar of St. Joseph. He was succeeded by his brother, Canon James Taylor, who built the spacious new rectory, and in 1892 opened the cemetery and mortuary chapel. Canon O’Reilly, the present rector, succeeded, and has recently entirely renovated the church building…
Colonel Talbot Clifton, who had been reconciled to the Church in 1878 built the handsome tower at the cost of £1,000; he likewise re-leased the rectory for ninety-nine years and the church for 999 years on a nominal chief rent. His funeral was one of the most impressive events in the history of Lytham, the priest having most thoughtfully sent a mortuary card to each and every Catholic house in the parish, feeling sure – as he said – that they would be glad to possess a moment of one who had endeared himself to all. As the local paper expressed it: ‘The fact of the family having been members of the Catholic Church accounts for the non-appearance of the name of Clifton on the roll of Sheriffs from the time of the Reformation. Their long and steadfast adherence to the ancient Faith was no doubt one of the principal means of so large a portion of The Fylde remaining attached to the Catholic Church.'”
– Dom F. O. Blundell, O.S.B., Old Catholic Lancashire, Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1925
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Wembley: The History of the Iconic Twin Towers and the Events They Witnessed
by Maurice CrowMaurice Crow
It was the field of dreams, the birthplace of legends, the hallowed home of our sporting gods. Historic Wembley Stadium, with its iconic Twin Towers, was truly the most revered of venues. Until the Millennium, when the world-renowned colossus was demolished to make way for its futuristic replacement, the famous old Stadium witnessed some of the most heroic events of the Twentieth Century. But its history, although always exciting, was also often uncertain– and not a little bizarre. So, despite most eyes being on future fixtures as the sporting hub heads towards it centenary, it is the ancient edifice's often forgotten past that is the subject of this book. And the uncomfortable truth is that Wembley's original debut was anything but auspicious. In fact, it was once viewed as a debt-ridden disaster. So doomed was it deemed to be that the North London complex was about to be knocked down – and was rescued only at the last moment, in the most extraordinary circumstances. Happily, it recovered to become a success story, the memories of which are recorded here, hopefully to open the floodgates of nostalgia for followers of sport. Wembley, it must be remembered, came to the rescue of the first postwar Olympics when no other nation on earth would accept the challenge. It gripped greyhound racing aficionados and it thrilled to the roar of speedway stars. The giants of American football also muscled in to display their skills there. Great Britons like Frank Bruno and Henry Cooper stepped into the ring (and Cassius Clay was felled to the canvas) before stunned boxing fans. And, of course, Wembley crowds gasped in awe at the footwork of Stanley Matthews and wept in ecstasy at the triumph of Bobby Moore. But the North London location is more than just the Holy Grail of sport. It has seen defining moments in pop music history, such as Live Aid. It has given platforms to the Pope and evangelist Billy Graham. It has staged breathtaking spectaculars no other venue could hope to accommodate, growing in stature over the course of an astonishing century. This then, for both sports buffs and social historians, is historic Wembley's story … an unfolding saga played out beneath those symbolically soaring Twin Towers.
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‘The Remaining’ by Erica Canepa
August 31, 2011 in Activist Art, Documentary | Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Desaparecidos, Dirty War, Erica Canepa, ESMA, Extermination Automotores Orletti, The Remaining | by petebrook | Leave a comment
Ex-Clandestine Centre for Detention, Torture and Extermination Automotores Orletti, Buenos Aires. Plug used for the picana eléctrica (cattle prods) in the torture chamber. © Erica Canepa
The Remaining by Erica Canepa is mostly interior photographs of the sites used for detention and torture during Argentina’s Dirty War (1976-1983). Also included are a few portraits of survivors, notably Victor Basterra whose photos taken while he was prisoner have been used in trials for crimes that occurred at the main prison, The School of Naval Mechanics (ESMA).
Canepa’s title for the series comes from a quote by Basterra:
“The military dictatorship began with the idea of culturally changing Argentinian people. It has been a progressive change towards a more individualist, selfish and insensitive society that reached its apogee during the Nineties, but where the basis was brutally planted during the dictatorship era. What you see outside the window is what’s remaining, what we are left with. It is today’s Argentina, that shows the indelible marks of genocide, but in which I can still see the ideals that we fought for.”
– Victor Basterra, ex detainee of the Clandestine Centre for Detention, Torture and Extermination ESMA, 2011.
Though not apparent in the photographs alone, Canepa’s project is not just a tribute to the students, university professors, intellectuals, artists, sports men, workers and others who opposed the Jorge Rafael Videla military dictatorship, but also a call for us to view the aftermath of extreme political violence. It is about the acknowledgement and attachment – or not – of subsequent generations.
Canepa’s work is laudable but the photographs are surely just an entry point to the massive and terrifying details of the Dirty War (1976-1983), a terror that “disappeared” over 30,000 Argentinians. Canepa’s lengthy accompanying text would suggest she is aware of the limitations of photography:
The junta did not achieve its goal, the deletion of a generation’s ideals. The lives of the ex-desaparecidos are living proof of this. […] Sometimes, a smell takes them back to the horror, sometimes a tear rolls down their cheek. They cannot explain the reason why they survived and they ask themselves this question every day. They are alive, and they feel the responsibility to help justice make its course. […] The country is rebuilding the truth and owning it, learning how not to commit the same mistakes, learning how to live without fear. The scar left by the military dictatorship is painful, but not crippling. The survivors are no longer victims. They resisted: they went back to school, they now have families and they have careers.
What you can see outside the window, what you can read in people’s eyes is the strength and the courage to believe in a fresh start.
What you can see outside the window is ‘the remaining’: it’s today’s Argentina.
If you are interested by this topic you should look also at the photographs of Paula Luttringer and Joao Pina.
Sin Olvido is an archive of photographs and descriptions of 3,400 victims of the Dirty War.
Recovering, Remembering, Returning: ‘The Wailing of the Walls’ by Paula Luttringer
June 11, 2010 in Fine Art, Rehabilitative | Tags: 100x100, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Desaparecidos, Dirty War, El Lamento de los Muros, ESMA, Houston Fotofest, Paula Luttringer, Slaughterhouse, the disappeared, The Wailing of the Walls | by petebrook | 9 comments
EL LAMENTO DE LOS MUROS
On March 31st 1977, Paula Luttringer, a 21 year-old pregnant botany student was kidnapped by police of the Argentine military junta and detained in an extrajudicial prison. During her five month detention, she gave birth to her eldest daughter.
Released abruptly during what she thought was transfer to a regular prison, she was forced to leave the country immediately to avoid another “disappearance.” She went first to Uruguay, finally settling in France. (Source)
During the Dirty War (1976-1983) hundreds of secret detention centres were established across Argentina for the purposes of interrogation and torture.
In 1995, Paula returned to Argentina and took up photography as a means to explore the memories, mental scars and the crimes against her and other women. El Lamento de los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) is the result.
Three years ago, I met Paula. She had just enjoyed acclaim at the 2006 Houston Fotofest, and was searching for further funding to travel the exhibition and expand on the educational lessons attached to the project.
The Wailing of the Walls is about the violence brought against women and the continuing means by which those women cope and live in the aftermath. Paula was adamant; she only wanted funding from women. 100 donors to fund the gathered testimony of 100 survivors. This was a project by a woman, for women supported by women. The funding initiative was named 100×100.
PAULA’S WORDS
I have twice heard people urge Paula happiness in that she survived. Paula is unequivocal; having survived does not make her happy, living in a world in which people didn’t have to be survivors would make her happy. The violence once it is done, cannot be undone.
For more on Paula’s motivations for the project read this interview, this articleand listen to this audio interview.
Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin, of Houston Fotofest must be singled for special praise in bringing Paula’s work to a larger audience and consciousness.
The statements that accompany each of these images have been co-opted from Fotofest’s feature and from the George Eastman House page on Paula’s work.
‘THE WAILING OF THE WALLS’ IMAGES AND TEXT
“Walls that served to stifle the desperate screams, the cries of those tortured and raped, and the indescribable, agonized moans of those who, although they were freed, remain aware of their open wounds—who feel that they will never get out of that hole.”
Juan Travnik, Buenos Aires in the FOTOFEST2006 catalogue.
“It is very hard to describe the terror of the minutes, hours, days, months, spent there. At first when you’ve been kidnapped you have no idea about the place around you. Some of us imagined it to be round, others like a football stadium with the guards walking above us. We didn’t know which direction our bodies were facing, where our head was, where our feet were pointing. I remember clinging to the mat with all my strength so as not to fall even though I knew I was on the floor.”
Liliana Calizo was abducted on September 1st, 1976 in Cordoba. She was then taken to the Secret Detention Center “La Perla”
“I went down about twenty or thirty steps and I heard big iron doors being shut. I imagined that the place was underground, that it was big, because you could hear people’s voices echoing and the airplanes taxiing overhead or nearby. The noise drove you mad. One of the men said to me: so you’re a psychologist? Well bitch, like all the psychologists, here you’re really going to find out what’s good. And he began to punch me in the stomach.”
Marta Candeloro was abducted on June 7, 1977 in Neuquen. She was then taken to the Secret Detention Centre “La Cueva.”
“And this marks you, it’s a wonderful feeling that stays with you the rest of your life. You’re left with this dual task: you have to be constantly working out what comes from the trauma and what from normal life. I have this dual task in life. I have to decide which feelings are the result of the trauma and what there is beneath of less intensity, more diluted, which is that what comes from normal life. So I talk to someone who has never been in a clandestine prison and then I play the role of a normal person and I realise what that involves, I step into normality. These things that happen to all of us who were victims of repression …”
Liliana Gardella was abducted on November 25, 1977 in Mar del Plata. She was then taken to the Secret Detention Center “ESMA”
Ants used to come in and out, and I would watch these ants because they were coming in and then going out into the world. They were walking across the earth, the outside world, and then coming back in again, and watching them I didn’t feel so alone.
Ledda Barreiro,” La Cueva” Illegal Detention Centre
“Something strange used to happen at night, the screams of torture were different than those during the day. Even if the screams of torture are always the same they sound different at night. And it’s also different when they come to get you at night. The noises and the screams are not with me always, but when I do remember them, it makes me very sad. I am paralyzed by those screams, I’m back in that time and place. As somebody once said — and I’ve given this some thought and I think it’s right — although life goes on, although some of us were freed, you never get out of the pit.”
Isabel Cerruti was abducted on July 12, 1978 in Buenos Aires. She was then taken to the Secret Detention Center “El Olimpo.”
‘EL MATADERO’
It is worth noting an earlier project too.
The images below are from Luttringer’s earlier series El Matadero (The Slaughterhouse) for which she won the best Portfolio Prize at PhotoEspana (1999). The manhandling of carcasses through rooms designed for dismemberment is a shocking precursor to The Wailing of the Walls. Luttringer’s work echoes themes of mortality and the manipulation (herding, processing) of flesh.
Many people are gripped by the psychological charge of Roger Ballen‘s work, but the photography of Outland, Shadow Chamber and Boarding House obscures reality and fuses it with imagination. Luttringer’s work, on the other hand, is an attempt to mobilise our understanding of the historical moment. Photography is a tool for Paula, but the real import of this exercise is the oral testimonies recorded and written and the associated benefits that may have arisen for the women having shared their memories.
For me at least, the visceral images of El Matadero, are a solemn counterpoint to Luttringer’s work on kidnap and detention from Argentina’s Dirty War.
In 1999, Luttringer was chosen by the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires as one of the twenty photographers of the ‘New Generation’. In 1999, she won the best Portfolio Prize at PhotoEspana, for her project “El Matadero”. In 2000, she was awarded an artist`s grant by the National Arts Fund of Argentina for her project “El Lamento de los Muros”. In 2001, she was made a Guggenheim Fellow for her project “El Lamento de los Muros”. Luttringer’s photography is part of the permanent collections of both The National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) and the Museum of Modern Art (MAMBA) in Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (MFAH); the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY; Portland Art Museum in Oregon; La Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris; and the Portuguese Photography Centre in Portugal. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.
ESMA, The Dirty War, Memory, Photography
March 5, 2010 in Amateur | Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Dirty War, ESMA | by petebrook | 3 comments
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina © Pete Brook
You may have noticed that I switched out the banner image for Prison Photography. I didn’t want to say goodbye without mentioning again the photograph’s origin.
The original banner was a non-descriptive crop, abstracting the top of a stairwell.
Exterior stairwell, ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. © Pete Brook
ESMA & THE DIRTY WAR
The exterior stairwell led to the basement of the Naval School of Mechanics in Buenos Aires (Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada). In Argentina it is commonly known by its abbreviation ESMA.
ESMA, particularly its basement, was the main site of illegal detention and torture during the Dirty War (1976 to 1983). The Dirty War was a state-sponsored program of violence against Argentine citizenry carried out primarily by Jorge Rafael Videla‘s military government. There were hundreds more sites like it across the country. There were scores of illegal detention sites in Buenos Aires alone.
ESMA is now a museum and memorial.
The horrors of the Dirty War are still fresh in the collective memory and, as such, problems exist with its interpretation in contemporary Argentine society. The surveillance and by-night kidnappings affected every Argentine’s life. 30,000 persons were ‘disappeared’; they are known as the Desaparecidos.
Photomontage of Desaparecidos, Memory Museum, Cordoba, Argentina © Pete Brook
I am aware of a handful of photographers who have made central to their work the prisons and politics of the Dirty War.
I should like to write and post about these photographers in the coming months.
For more info on the Desaparecidos; more on the establishment of the museum/memorial; more on the continuing peace & justice efforts; and more on the national archives.
Sin Olvido is a MUST VISIT. It is a very poignant archive of photographs and descriptions of 3,400 victims from the Dirty War.
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For the 2010 full year, revenue increased 31% to $41.3 million from $31.5 million for 2009. Gross profit rose to $24.6 million, or 60% of revenue, from $16.8 million, or 53% of revenue, for the prior year. Adjusted operating income for 2010, which excludes $2.2 million of legal expenses accrued in connection with the indemnification of a former ClearOne Officer, was $4.0 million. Adjusted operating loss for 2009, which excludes credits for $1.2 million received on insurance settlements and a $1.1 million reversal of accrued legal expenses in connection with the indemnification of a former ClearOne Officer, was $2.9 million. Net income for 2010 was $2.4 million, or $0.27 per diluted share, compared with $384,000, or $0.04 per diluted share, for 2009.
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Jennifer Nagel’s research focuses on knowledge, belief, and our capacities to track these states in ourselves and others. Prof. Nagel is interested in the history of epistemology, both in the Western tradition back to Plato, and in the Classical Indian and Tibetan traditions. She also works in contemporary philosophy of mind, with special interests in metacognition and mental state attribution.
For more information visit Prof. Nagel’s personal website.
Recent, selected
Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014).
“The Psychological Dimension of the Lottery Paradox”, forthcoming in The Lottery Paradox, Igor Douven, ed., Cambridge University Press.
“The Psychology of Epistemic Judgement” (with Jessica Wright), forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology, John Symons, Paco Calvo and Sarah Robins, eds. New York: Routledge.
“Epistemic Territory”, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association (2019), 67-86.
“Classical Indian Skepticism: Reforming or Rejecting Philosophy?” Comparative Philosophy 10:2 (2019), 113-118.
“Factive and non-factive mental state attribution”, in Mind & Language, 2017; 32: 525–544.
“The Psychological Context of Contextualism” (with Julia Jael Smith), for the Routledge Handbook to Contextualism, Jonathan Ichikawa, ed. 2016.
“Knowledge and Reliability”, in Alvin Goldman and his Critics, ed. Hilary Kornblith and Brian McLaughlin. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, 237-256.
“The Social Value of Reasoning,” in Episteme 12 (2015), 297-308.
“Intuition, Reflection, and the Command of Knowledge” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 88 (2014), 217-39.
“Lay Denial of Knowledge for Justified True Beliefs” (with Valerie San Juan and Raymond A. Mar), Cognition (2013), 652-661.
“Knowledge as a Mental State”, in Oxford Studies in Epistemology 4 (2013), 275-310.
“Intuitions and Experiments: a Defense of the Case Method in Epistemology”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85:3 (2012), 495-527.
Visit more of Jennifer Nagel’s publications on the Philosophy Faculty Bookshelf.
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5 Types of People Who Are Naturally Attracted to Each Other
Medically reviewed by Scientific Advisory Board — Written by Christine Hammond, MS, LMHC on December 8, 2017
Every wonder what causes an immediate attraction the first time two people meet?
Sarah finally discovered that she kept dating the same type of abusive person over and over. Bill accidentally called his new girlfriend his mother in the middle of an argument. Steven who was shy his whole life married a flamboyant salesperson.
While there is no known origin of the saying, Opposites attract, the concept appears to be related to Coulombs Law of physics (1785). The electrical force between positive (+) and negative (-) is stronger the closer the two move towards each other. While this is true in nature, it can also be true in relationships.
But while opposites attract, so do dysfunctions. Some types of mental disorders naturally seem to be drawn towards others in a way that either compliments or repels the other. Another saying, Birds of a feather flock together, helps explain how some people are naturally drawn to their own dysfunction.
Yet another concept can be realized from British author and philosopher, James Allen (1909). The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours, that which it loves, and also that which it fears. So the very thing a person might fear the most, they might have the strongest attraction towards. This can be very dangerous for a person who has experienced severe trauma.
Understanding the natural attraction two people have for each other is an essential foundation for discovering a healthier alternative. Here are five common examples.
Magnetic attraction. The closer two opposing magnets get to each other, the stronger the connection. This concept explains these three typical examples.
Introvert/extrovert: Introverts are drawn to those who are comfortable in social environments and can help to stabilize an otherwise anxious situation. Extroverts like the tranquility an introvert naturally possesses.
Hyperactive/unhurried: Unhurried people tend to have moments when their brain is turned off which is a direct contrast to the constant over-thinking of most hyperactive people. In some way, each wants a piece of what the other does not naturally have.
Sensitive/stoic: A sensitive person feels so deeply that it is a relief to be around a person who doesnt. Stoic people tend to admire the intensity of the sensitive person.
Like finds like. This idea of Birds of a feather flock together, manifests in relationships that are matched by two people with the same type of personality trait.
Passive-aggressive: No one understands a passive-aggressive person quite as well as another passive-aggressive person. This personality trait is marked by someone who feels an emotion such as anger but wont directly express it. Instead, it comes out in forgetfulness or procrastination of a task that has been repeatedly requested.
OCD: A person with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) appreciates and values another person with similar behavior. The two tend to feed off each other and normalize their dysfunctional actions.
Anxiety: Heightened bouts of anxiety and/or panic attacks are best understood by others who suffer from the same disorder. Those who dont experience intense anxiety tend to minimize the situation and its affect.
Dysfunctions that match. This list is a small sampling of common disorders that are naturally drawn towards each other in a cycle that perpetuates the continuation of each.
Addicts/co-dependents: In order for an addict to thrive, they need someone who enables their addiction. Co-dependents get pleasure from rescuing others especially those who are typically forgotten or misunderstood by others.
Borderline/dependent: A person with borderline personality disorder (BPD) is well-matched with a person who has a dependent personality disorder (DPD). The BPD has an intense fear of abandonment which is a good match for the DPD who will not leave even a dysfunctional relationship.
Aggression/suppression: The anger style of aggression likes to unleash on those who will not fight back, such as a person who suppresses their anger. Likewise, a suppressive person admires the aggressors ability to let go of their anger and not revisit it over and over.
Parental attraction. Sigmund Freud believed that a person is often attracted to their parent in childhood. But weirdly enough some carry this subconscious attraction into their adult relationships.
Marry favorite parent: A person might enter into a relationship with another because of the strong similarities a mate possesses with the parent they most adore. While this might be favorable initially, sexual attraction often diminishes when the realization of the similarities becomes more conscious.
Marry least favorite parent: By contrast, some enter into a relationship with a person very similar to the parent they least liked. This is a subconscious attempt to heal the broken relationship between the adult child and their parent.
Trauma rehashed. Unfortunately, when trauma has not been dealt with properly, people often place themselves in similar places of vulnerability
Abusers/abused: This is most clearly demonstrated when a person finishes with one abusive relationship only to enter into another one. Until the reason for the tolerance of the abuse is addressed, a person will continue to repeat the abusive pattern.
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. M. Scott Peck wrote in his book, The Road Less Traveled, which is the inspiration for this article. Healing from natural dysfunctional attractions opens a person up to healthy functional relationships.
Last medically reviewed on December 8, 2017
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