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ORA: Qualitative Research full structure
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Discussion. The objective here is to provide an interpretation of your results and support for all of your conclusions, using evidence from your experiment (research) and generally accepted knowledge, if appropriate. Suggest future directions for research, new methods, explanations for deviations from previously published results, etc.
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ORA: Quantitative research full structure
Abstract. The abstract, written in English, should be no longer than 300 words and must be written in the past tense. The abstract should give a succinct account of the objectives, methods, results and significance of the matter. The structured abstract for a Quantitative Research article should consist of seven paragraphs labelled Novelty and Topicality, Research purpose, Motivation for the study, Research approach/design and method, Main findings, Practical/managerial implications and Contribution/value-add.
Provide the following, each under their own heading.
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Those who contributed to the work but do not meet our authorship criteria should be listed in the Acknowledgments with a description of the contribution. Authors are responsible for ensuring that anyone named in the Acknowledgments agrees to be named. Also provide the following, each under their own heading:
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Disclaimer. A statement that the views expressed in the submitted article are his or her own and not an official position of the institution or funder.
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ORA: Theoretical research full structure
Title. The article’s full title should contain a maximum of 95 characters (including spaces).
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Introduction. The introduction normally starts by introducing the subject of the paper and its relevance, that is, the reason why it is considered as an interesting issue to explore. This is followed by the statement of the problem related to the issue (i.e., the situation presented) and the author's position regarding the solution of this problem. The exact aim of the paper and the main research question(s) should be clearly formulated. (In theoretical papers, research questions relate to finding possible solutions to the problem.) The introduction generally ends with a brief overview of the analytical approach/strategy to be pursued. Provide the following, each under their own heading:
Purpose of the study
Current theoretical perspective
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Rationale or value-add of the study
Literature review. The aim of the literature review is to provide theoretical background to the solution of the problem anticipated in the introduction. It offers a critical review of the
various treatments of the problem under investigation, enumerating arguments representing the body of literature both opposing and supporting the author's position.
Solution. The solution section offers a thorough and disciplined presentation of the possible solution/-s as envisaged by the writer. It should build upon the work of other researchers in the field, but authors are expected to come up with an original solution. All arguments/claims put forward by the author must be accompanied by some form of supporting evidence (e.g., examples, figures, facts, views of other researchers). This section ends with an evaluation of the proposed solution/-s, showing that it is (or these are) exempt from the weaknesses identified in the opposing view/-s.
Conclusion. Theoretical papers normally end by a restatement of the problem under investigation and a brief summary of the proposed solution(s) discussed. In the conclusion section, authors may indicate in what ways the study contributes to current achievements in the field, refer to the limitations of the paper, and point to possible areas for further investigation. Provide a brief conclusion that summarises the results and their meaning or significance in relation to each objective of the study.
Acknowledgments. Those who contributed to the work but do not meet our authorship criteria should be listed in the Acknowledgments with a description of the contribution. Authors are responsible for ensuring that anyone named in the Acknowledgments agrees to be named.
Also provide the following if relevant, each under their own heading:
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References. Authors should provide direct references to original research sources whenever possible. References should not be used by authors, editors, or peer reviewers to promote self-interests. Refer to APA referencing style.
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Sean McVay: I ‘promise’ Rams are not trading Brandin Cooks
Brandin Cooks had an excellent season with the Los Angeles Rams this year, but similar production in 2016 and 2017 was not enough to prevent him from being traded by his two previous teams. According to the wide receiver’s third head coach in as many seasons, that is not going to happen again this year.
Rams coach Sean McVay had high praise for Cooks on Tuesday and told reporters at the Super Bowl that there’s no way he will be traded heading into next season.
“Everybody that’s been around Brandin you can’t talk enough about the production. This is a special human being,” McVay said, per Kevin Patra of NFL.com. “The way he goes about his business. Guys like him are why you love coaching. … I could go on and on about what he’s done for this football team. He’s been instrumental in us getting here. Love that guy and you can’t say enough good things about Brandin Cooks. I can promise you this: We’re not trading him.”
McVay also noted that New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton — both of whom coached Cooks before he ended up in LA — “think the world” of the former first-round pick, so it’s not as if the trades are a reflection of his character.
Cooks signed a five-year, $81 million extension with the Rams after they acquired him from the Patriots last offseason. He was quick to fire back at one of his former teammates this week for talking smack heading into the Super Bowl, so it seems like he has adjusted to life with his latest team quite well. With how explosive the Rams’ offense looked all year, it makes sense that they have no intention of breaking it up.
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Tyrod Taylor prepared to block out noise about Baker Mayfield
While so much of the attention at Cleveland Browns camp will be on Baker Mayfield, he isn’t even going to be the starting quarterback.
That job belongs to Tyrod Taylor, who said it’s his duty to block out the chatter about Mayfield, and he believes he can do it.
“Absolutely,” Taylor said, via Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com. “It’s part of the job. It’s part of being a leader, being able to take on questions, even on days that you don’t want to take them on. I’m here to help turn this organization around. We have a step for us to take tomorrow (at the start of OTAs) and I’m looking forward to it as well as everyone else.”
If anything, Taylor is fueled by the underdog mentality he has.
“I was drafted in 2011,” Taylor said. “(10) quarterbacks were taken ahead of me. Two of them are playing now (Cam Newton and Andy Dalton). And that’s not any disrespect to the guys who aren’t playing, but what drove me every day was remembering my mom and my parents’ faces and the feeling that I had on draft day, not being happy about that. So I’m going to continue to keep pushing, continue to keep working the way I do.
“[I’m] ready to take my game to the next level. I think that I’ve been able to take steps in the right direction each year that I’ve been able to play the game. So I’m excited about the opportunity that I have here. There’s so much talent on this team and guys that are in the right mindset.”
Taylor has been assured of the starting job, but it still feels tenuous as the expectation settles on Mayfield. The veteran quarterback looks to be handling it as well as can be expected.
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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Arkansas Case Law › Arkansas Supreme Court Decisions › 1991 › Wenzel v. State
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Wenzel v. State
815 S.W.2d 938 (1991)
306 Ark. 527
Joseph Harold WENZEL, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.
No. CR 91-76.
Supreme Court of Arkansas.
Charles E. Davis, Springdale, for appellant.
Clint Miller, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.
HOLT, Chief Justice.
The appellant, Joseph Harold Wenzel, was charged with breaking into two homes and raping the occupants. He was tried by a jury, convicted of two counts of burglary and two counts of rape, and sentenced to a total of sixty years imprisonment.
On appeal, Wenzel claims the trial court erred in allowing the admission of FBI DNA profile test results because 1) the DNA laboratory proficiency test results were not timely disclosed, and 2) the DNA profile test results were obtained from vaginal swab samples which were depleted *939 during testing. There is no merit to either of Wenzel's arguments, and we affirm.
Wenzel first argues that the DNA profile test results should not have been admitted into evidence since the State's failure to timely provide the proficiency test results, with regard to the profiles, deprived him of due process and his right to pretrial discovery.
The FBI DNA profile results were obtained by comparing Wenzel's blood samples with vaginal swab samples containing semen, taken from both victims. Agent Lawrence Presley, who conducted the analyses, testified that both tests revealed a "match" between the DNA profile of Wenzel's blood and the semen obtained from the vaginal swabs. Although the record is unclear as to its definition, proficiency testing apparently is an internal procedure, conducted by the FBI on occasion, to determine whether its laboratory technicians are performing the analyses correctly.
In preparation for trial, Wenzel's counsel filed a motion for discovery of all scientific tests. Later, Wenzel filed an amended motion for discovery in which he requested a number of documents pertaining to the DNA tests. Wenzel received all the items requested, including autoradiographs, laboratory notes and the profile results, except for the proficiency test results.
The trial court conducted what it termed a "Frye" hearing[1] on July 11, 1990, to determine whether the DNA profile tests constituted admissible evidence and to consider Wenzel's discovery motions, particularly with regard to discovery of the proficiency tests. Agent Presley testified that it was the policy of the FBI not to release the proficiency tests. The hearing was continued on August 30, on which date Wenzel filed a motion in limine requesting that the DNA profiling results be excluded since he had been denied access to the proficiency tests. The trial court ruled that the profile tests were generally admissible but reserved ruling on the motion in limine until the day of trial, which was to begin on September 4. The court, apparently concerned as to whether it had jurisdiction to order the FBI's release of the proficiency tests, instructed the State to determine why the FBI maintained a policy against releasing the proficiency "grades," and cautioned that Agent Presley should bring the records to trial and be ready to release them if so ordered.
On the second day of trial, just prior to the State's direct examination of Agent Presley, the trial court took up the matter of Wenzel's motion in limine. The following dialogue took place:
THE COURT: The next one is that the defendant has been denied access to the proficiency tests. We had a hearingI don't remember what day it waswhen the FBI man was down here, Mr. Presley. It was about a month ago, maybe?
MR. ZISER: The first part of July, Your Honor.
THE COURT: And then on August 30th this Motion in Limine. Now, I've told you both on the record, I believe, that I was going to delay my ruling until I was able to have some information from the prosecutor. Are you willing to giveI know he said it was their policy not to give out proficiency tests. Now, are you not wanting to give them out?
MR. ZISER: Your Honor, Agent Presley arrived today and he brought the proficiency test results with him. He told me that as far as he was concerned, just to release them. So the State is in position to release them to the defendant in this case if they still want them. I've got them right here on my desk. I would like to have a copy made so that I have one as well as the defense does, but *940 I certainly have no objection to them seeing them.
THE COURT: Mr. Davis?
MR. DAVIS: Your Honor,'I'm most grateful to the State, but it's a little bit late in the hour to further proceed or call this witness until I have an opportunity to see those, Your Honor. Apparently, they were here not only today but yesterday.
MR. ZISER: No, sir, I got them over the lunch hour today.
THE COURT: Well, your original discovery motion has requested those, but it wasn't brought to my attention that you were stillyou know, wanted a motion to compel. A month ago you asked this fellow on the stand, or the first part of July, and he said, Well, by golly, our policy is we don't give them up. Now on August 30th is when you filed your Motion in Limine asking me to do something about it, and I'm trying to do it. I've told them we're going to wait until this fellow comes down here and see what he's got. Now, he's got these proficiency tests and what I'm going to do is let you make copies of them, Mr. Ziser, or give him the originals one, so Mr. Davis can look at them before he has to cross examine the witness. Over your objection, Mr. Davis, I'm going to allow him to call the witness to get his testimony started this evening, and I'm going to quit about five o'clock and he can finish up his testimony in the morning. That will give you this evening to go through these proficiency tests to see if there's any bad test results in there or what's in there. I don't know. But that's how we're going to work it. Your objection to my ruling will be noted.
MR. DAVIS: Thank you, Your Honor.
THE COURT: Anything else on your motion? I think that finally got all your motion covered, didn't it?
MR. DAVIS: Yes, Your Honor. (Emphasis added.)
Wenzel's argument on appeal, that because he was not furnished the proficiency tests in a timely manner, he was denied due process and his right to pretrial discovery under A.R.Cr.P. Rule 17.1, was not raised below. Wenzel argued, in his motion in limine and at the pretrial hearing, that denial of access to the proficiency tests violated the due process clause and the sixth amendment. Then, at trial, Wenzel's objection appears to have been premised on the fact that the court was going to permit Agent Presley to testify before Wenzel had an opportunity to examine the proficiency tests, to which the court responded, "Over your objection, Mr. Davis, I am going to allow them to call the witness, and he can finish up his testimony in the morning. That will give you this evening to go through these tests." Wenzel never objected, however, to untimely discovery and lack of time to examine the evidence, either when the court announced its decision to defer a ruling until the day of trial, or during the trial itself. More importantly, Wenzel did not ask for an additional continuance following his overnight examination of the records. See Renton v. State, 274 Ark. 87, 622 S.W.2d 171 (1981); Hughes v. State, 264 Ark. 723, 574 S.W.2d 888 (1978). Only specific objections made at trial are preserved for appeal. Prince v. State, 304 Ark. 692, 805 S.W.2d 46 (1991).
Furthermore, by failing to object on the basis of untimely discovery, both when the trial court deferred its ruling at the pretrial hearing and when it granted an overnight continuance, Wenzel, in effect, agreed with the trial court's ruling by which the profile results would be admitted and cannot now attack that ruling on appeal. See Matthews v. State, 305 Ark. 207, 807 S.W.2d 29 (1991).
Wenzel also objects to the admission of the DNA profile test results on the basis that FBI technicians used up all of the semen found on the vaginal swabs, during the DNA testing. This objection was properly preserved in Wenzel's motion in limine and at the pretrial hearing.
Wenzel concedes that the State did not technically withhold the samples, but argues that its failure to preserve enough evidence so that the defense could conduct its own tests, deprived him of a fair trial. The United States Supreme Court addressed *941 the issue in California v. Trombetta, 467 U.S. 479, 488, 104 S. Ct. 2528, 2534, 81 L. Ed. 2d 413 (1984), stating: "[whatever duty the Constitution imposes on the State to preserve evidence, that duty must be limited to evidence that might be expected to play a significant role in the suspect's defense." The court opined that "evidence must both possess an exculpatory value that was apparent before the evidence was destroyed, and be of such a nature that the defendant would be unable to obtain comparable evidence by other reasonably available means." Id. at 489, 104 S. Ct. at 2534. (Emphasis ours.) Later, in Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51, 109 S. Ct. 333,102 L. Ed. 2d 281 (1988), the court reiterated the necessity of showing the apparent exculpatory value of the evidence at issue and further held that "unless a criminal defendant can show bad faith on the part of the police, failure to preserve potentially useful evidence does not constitute a denial of due process of law." Id. at 58,109 S. Ct. at 345. The court directed its holding to "those cases in which the police themselves by their conduct indicate that the evidence could form a basis for exonerating the defendant." Id.
Wenzel has made no showing that the evidence possessed any apparent exculpatory value before it was destroyed, as required by the first prong of the standard in Trombetta, nor has he alleged or proven bad faith on the part of the State, as required by Arizona. Also, from the evidence presented at trial, the chance that the swab samples would have exonerated Wenzel appears virtually nil.
[1] The term "Frye" hearing stems from the seminal case of Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C.Cir.1923), which first promulgated a standard for determining the admissibility of novel scientific evidence. Although it labeled the hearing as such, the trial court noted that this court has not yet decided whether to adopt the Frye standard of admissibility (see Rock v. State, 288 Ark. 566, 708 S.W.2d 78 (1986)), and thus considered the matter in light of both Frye and the Arkansas Rules of Evidence. Again, we need not determine which standard is appropriate since the issue of reliability and admissibility of the DNA tests, themselves, is not before us.
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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › Courts of Appeals › Ninth Circuit › 1982 › Bill Johnson's Restaurants, Inc., Petitioner, v. National Labor Relations Board, Respondent
Bill Johnson's Restaurants, Inc., Petitioner, v. National Labor Relations Board, Respondent, 660 F.2d 1335 (9th Cir. 1982)
Argued and Submitted April 15, 1981. Decided Nov. 12, 1981. As modified on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing En BancMarch 2, 1982
Lawrence Allen Katz, Streich, Lang, Weeks & Cardon, Phoenix, Ariz., for petitioner.
Candace Carroll, Atty., NLRB, Washington, D. C., argued, for respondent; W. Christian Schumann, Atty., Washington, D. C., on briefs.
Petition to Review a Decision and Order of the National Labor Relations Board.
Before GOODWIN and CANBY, Circuit Judges, and BYRNE,* District Judge.
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
On April 30, 1980, the National Labor Relations Board affirmed a ruling by an administrative law judge that appellant Bill Johnson's Restaurants had committed unfair labor practices by discharging a waitress, interrogating other employees, and by threatening reprisals against and filing and prosecuting a state court lawsuit against picketers who were protesting unfair labor practices. The Board ordered the restaurant to reinstate the discharge waitress, with back pay, to reinstate three other waitresses who went on strike and to withdraw the lawsuit from state court. The restaurant seeks review of the Board's order under section 10(f) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 160(f). The Board cross-petitions for enforcement. We enforce the order of the Board.
The following facts were found by the administrative law judge and affirmed by the Board. In February 1972, Ruth Helton began working at Bill Johnson's Big Apple East, one of four restaurants owned and operated by Bill Johnson's Restaurants, Inc., in the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area. The corporation is owned by the Johnson family. By summer 1978, Helton was one of the two most senior waitresses at the restaurant; since 1977 she had received an hourly bonus, and she served on the breakfast shift, which because of the hours and tips was the most desirable shift at the restaurant.
On July 25, 1978, Vice President Johnny Johnson called a meeting of employees to announce a new policy of strict enforcement of company rules. Among other things, Johnson told the waitresses that they must call in on days off, and that they could not chew gum while working or use the business phone for personal calls. Johnson ended by stating that any waitress who broke company rules would be fired. The next day, a waitress on the breakfast shift who had not attended the meeting asked her supervisor, Suzie Gay, what had happened. Gay answered, "Nothing pertaining to the breakfast girls." The breakfast waitresses, as the most senior employees, had traditionally been excepted from some company rules. For example, they were not required to call in on days off, and they had been allowed to use the business phone for personal calls.
In the days after the speech, the waitresses discussed it extensively. Several waitresses agreed with Helton's suggestion that they needed a union to represent them. Discussions of unionization were held in the waitresses' lounge, at a nearby hotel, at a party where Supervisor Gay was present for at least part of the discussion, and in the restaurant during a coffee break while Gay was nearby.
On August 8, Helton worked her regular shift and went home. That afternoon, Gay called her and told her that she was fired. Helton asked why, and Gay answered that Johnny Johnson had not liked a question she had asked at the July 25 meeting. (Helton had asked only whether waitresses could sell customers a single pancake or had to sell orders of two.) Gay said also that Johnson did not like Helton's attitude. Helton asked for a written explanation, but Gay said that the restaurant was not required to give her one. On August 9, Helton filed a charge with the NLRB.
The day after Helton's discharge, Dirkson, a hostess, told Gay that all the waitresses thought Helton had been treated unfairly. Gay said that she didn't like firing Helton, but that "Ruth had been antagonizing the girls on the floor" and that she couldn't "run a shift with that type of friction." She then asked whether Dirkson knew "if Ruth had any contact with any of the girls." A few days later, after learning that Helton had filed a charge with the NLRB, Gay asked Dirkson if any other waitresses had been talking about the union.
On September 18, waitresses Nichols, Scott, and Michaud walked out of the restaurant without explanation. On the way out, they turned their checkpads in to the cashier. The cashier reported their leaving to Manager Lois Williams. That afternoon, the waitresses returned to fill out their tip reports. Williams told them that they could pick up their checks the next day. When Manager Sherry Sturgeon asked the waitresses why they had walked out, they responded that they thought Helton was fired unjustly, and complained about the treatment they had received since the July 25 meeting. Sturgeon told the waitresses that they could forget what Johnny Johnson had said at the meeting because she was back in charge after her vacation. During the conversation, Scott stated that she was tired of waitressing. Nichols complained that her daily commute was too long. At no time did the waitresses say that they had quit their jobs, but Sturgeon told them to pick up their checks the following day.
On September 20, the Board issued a complaint against the restaurant, and the three waitresses joined Helton and a few others to picket the restaurant. Their picket signs said that the restaurant had been accused of unfair labor practices and asked the public to boycott the restaurant. The picketers walked along the sidewalk in front of the restaurant. Although they crossed two driveways which led to the restaurant parking lot, they did not block public access to the lots. At no time were there more than seven adults and two children picketing. That day, Sturgeon confronted the picketers and took down their names. She said, "You might think you're funny, but I intend to have the last laugh. I will get even with you for what you're doing." She told Helton that "I'll get even with you if it's the last thing I do." That afternoon, Gene Johnson telephoned waitress Cheryl Nichols and asked to talk with her husband. Johnson asked Carl Nichols why they had been picketing the restaurant. Carl said that they were protesting Helton's discharge. Then Johnson said that she would hate to see the Nichols lose their new home, and also that she would hate to see them "get hurt by all this."
On September 21 and 22, the picketing continued. On September 22, the picketers distributed a leaflet to the public. The leaflet stated:
THE (NLRB) HAS ISSUED A COMPLAINT AGAINST THE BIG APPLE RESTAURANT ... FOR UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES.
The complaint was issued as a result of charges filed by (Ruth) Helton, a former employee who was fired August 8 after suggesting to other waitresses they should organize a union. Mrs. Helton had been an employee of the Big Apple seven and one half years.
Several other waitresses have quit their jobs to join Mrs. Helton in picketing the restaurant to inform the public of the dispute between the employees and the restaurant's management. Among the waitresses' complaints are the following:
* Eight hour shifts with no specified breaks.
* No pay for overtime when waitresses were required to remain at their posts until their last customer's check had been paid.
* Waitresses threatened with dismissal if they lost any time due to illness over the Christmas holiday season.
* Inconsistent management practices.
* Unwarranted sexual advances.
* A filthy restroom for women employees, with no soap, paper towels or toilet tissue provided.
EMPLOYEES OF BILL JOHNSON'S BIG APPLE FOR JUSTICE ON THE JOB.
On September 25, the restaurant filed a civil complaint in state court. The complaint alleged that the picketers had engaged in mass picketing, blocked public access to the restaurant, and created a threat to public safety. The complaint also alleged that the picketers had distributed a leaflet containing "false and outrageous statements, including misrepresentations of proceedings pending before the NLRB." The complaint sought actual damages, $500,000 in punitive damages, and an order enjoining the picketers from trespassing, mass picketing, violence, interfering with the restaurant's business operations, and publishing false and misleading statements about the restaurant and its management. That same day, the court issued a temporary restraining order granting most of the relief requested, and setting an October 5 hearing to consider the request for a preliminary injunction.
On September 26, the picketing continued, and Helton hired an attorney to represent her. On October 2, the restaurant's attorney deposed Helton, asking numerous questions about the nature and extent of Helton's union activities, the identities of other employees involved in union activities, and the extent of management's knowledge of these activities. On November 16, the state court denied the restaurant's request for a preliminary injunction. The suit for a permanent injunction and damages is still pending.
HELTON'S DISCHARGE
The Board found that the restaurant had violated sections 8(a) (1) and 8(a) (3), 29 U.S.C. § 158(a) (1) and (a) (3), by discharging Helton for engaging in union activity. The Board ordered reinstatement and back pay. Under section 8(a) (3), the test is whether the union activity was the moving cause behind the employee's discharge. L'Eggs Products, Inc. v. NLRB, 619 F.2d 1337, 1341-42 (9th Cir. 1980). The determination of motive is particularly within the Board's area of expertise. Pay'n Save Corp. v. NLRB, 641 F.2d 697, 702 (9th Cir. 1981); NLRB v. Fort Vancouver Plywood Co., 604 F.2d 596, 600 (9th Cir. 1979), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 915, 100 S. Ct. 1275, 63 L. Ed. 2d 599 (1980). An employer may not use a business reason as a pretext for a discharge which is motivated by anti-union animus. L'Eggs Products, Inc. v. NLRB, 619 F.2d at 1341. The Board need not credit an employer's self-serving statement that an employee was discharged for cause. NLRB v. Fort Vancouver Plywood Co., 604 F.2d at 600. If the Board's findings and inferences are reasonable and supported by substantial evidence, they must be affirmed. Pay'n Save Corp. v. NLRB, 641 F.2d at 702; NLRB v. Silver Spur Casino, 623 F.2d 571, 585 (9th Cir. 1980), cert. denied, 451 U.S. 906, 101 S. Ct. 1973, 68 L. Ed. 2d 294 (1981).
In this case, the restaurant argues that it fired Helton for rules violations. The Board found that this reason was a pretext, and concluded that Helton was fired for engaging in union activity. This finding is supported by substantial evidence. Helton was a senior waitress, one of two waitresses who received a bonus. She had not previously been reprimanded for rules violations. Gay specifically told another breakfast waitress after the July 25 meeting that the rules did not apply to the breakfast shift, and none of the breakfast waitresses was required to call in on days off until Helton was fired. Other waitresses who broke the rules were reprimanded, not fired. The timing of Helton's discharge, the restaurant's leniency in enforcing rules violations of other waitresses, and the absence of reprimands on Helton's record all support the conclusion that she was fired for union activity. See NLRB v. Warren L. Rose Castings, Inc., 587 F.2d 1005, 1008 (9th Cir. 1978).
The restaurant argues, however, that the evidence does not show that the restaurant management knew about Helton's union activities, and that without such knowledge, there can be no section 8(a) (3) violation. We conclude that there is substantial evidence to support the finding that the restaurant management knew about Helton's union activities. An employer's knowledge of union activity may be inferred from circumstantial evidence. Famet, Inc. v. NLRB, 490 F.2d 293, 295-96 (9th Cir. 1973). Because of the small number of employees who worked in the restaurant (40 waitresses total) and the close-knit, family management team, it is reasonable to infer that the management knew of Helton's efforts to organize a union. Id. After the July 25 meeting, the waitresses often discussed unionization in the restaurant. Their efforts at secrecy were minimal. At the August 3 party, Helton and another waitress discussed unionization in the presence of supervisor Gay. Later, after Helton was fired, Gay told Dirkson that Helton had been fired for creating friction among the waitresses, and asked whether Helton had contacted any other waitresses. The Board's conclusion that Helton was fired for union activity was a reasonable one, and supported by substantial evidence. We enforce the order of the Board on this issue.
STATUS OF THE STRIKERS
The Board found that waitresses Nichols, Scott and Michaud struck to protest Helton's lawful discharges, and were therefore entitled to reinstatement. The Board found otherwise, and we conclude that its finding is supported by substantial evidence. The waitresses told manager Sturgeon that they had walked out of the restaurant because they objected to Helton's discharge and to management's treatment of the waitresses after the July 25 meeting. It was reasonable for the Board to conclude from this statement and the other evidence that the waitresses went on strike and picketed to protest the unlawful discharge of Helton. The failure of employees to present more specific demands to management at the time of their walkout does not prevent it from being a strike, within the scope of Section 7, 29 U.S.C. § 157. NLRB v. Washington Aluminum Co., 370 U.S. 9, 14-15, 82 S. Ct. 1099, 1102-03, 8 L. Ed. 2d 298 (1962); Electromec Design & Development Co. v. NLRB, 409 F.2d 631, 634 (9th Cir. 1969). It is true that during the conversation with Sturgeon, Scott said that she was tired of waitressing, and Nichols complained that her daily commute was too far. It is also true that the leaflets distributed by the picketers stated that the waitresses had quit their jobs in support of Helton. While different inferences may be drawn from the facts, however, the inferences drawn by the Board were reasonable and supported by substantial evidence. Once it was determined that the waitresses were striking to protest the unlawful discharge of Helton, they were entitled to reinstatement on the terms specified by the Board. NLRB v. International Van Lines, 409 U.S. 48, 50-51, 93 S. Ct. 74, 76, 34 L. Ed. 2d 201 (1972). We therefore enforce the order of the Board on this issue.
THREATS AND INTERROGATION
The Board found that the restaurant had violated section 8(a) (1) by threatening and interrogating employees. An employer's interrogation of an employee violates section 8(a) (1) if, under all the circumstances, the interrogation reasonably tends to restrain or interfere with the employee in the exercise of his or her protected § 7 rights. Clear Pine Mouldings, Inc. v. NLRB, 632 F.2d 721, 725 (9th Cir. 1980), cert. denied, 451 U.S. 984, 101 S. Ct. 2317, 68 L. Ed. 2d 841 (1981); Penasquitos Village, Inc. v. NLRB, 565 F.2d 1074, 1080 (9th Cir. 1977). The test is whether the interrogation tends to be coercive, not whether the employee was in fact coerced. Clear Pine Mouldings, Inc. v. NLRB, 632 F.2d at 725; NLRB v. Anchorage Times Publishing Co., 637 F.2d 1359, 1364 (9th Cir. 1981). The Board found four instances of threats or interrogation which violated section 8(a) (1). These findings are supported by substantial evidence.
On the first day of picketing, manager Sturgeon threatened to get even with the picketers. That afternoon, president Gene Johnson told a picketer that she would hate to see him get hurt by all this. Both conversations involved threats which violated section 8(a) (1). On two occasions, supervisor Gay questioned Dirkson about union activities. On August 10, Gay told Dirkson that she had to fire Helton because Helton had been antagonizing the waitresses. Gay then asked whether any other waitresses had been contacted by Helton. A few days later, Gay again asked Dirkson whether any other waitresses had been talking about the union. Taken together, these two conversations clearly implied that a waitress involved in unionization would be fired. Therefore, these interrogations violated section 8(a) (1).
THE STATE COURT SUIT
The Board found that the restaurant had violated sections 8(a) (1) and 8(a) (4) by filing and prosecuting the state court civil suit against the picketers. It is clear that "the mere filing of a lawsuit can restrain the exercise of (section 7) rights." United Stanford Employees, Local 680 v. NLRB, 601 F.2d 980, 983 (9th Cir. 1979). Before condemning a lawsuit as an unfair labor practice, however, the Board must be careful to make an accommodation between the rights of all persons to seek resolution of their legal claims in court and the rights of employees under the NLRA. Clyde Taylor, 127 N.L.R.B. 103, 109 (1960). The Board has adopted the rule that it is not an unfair labor practice for an employer to file and prosecute a civil lawsuit against an employee, so long as the suit is filed in good faith and not in furtherance of an unlawful objective. See United Credit Bureau of America, Inc. v. NLRB, 643 F.2d 1017, 1023 (4th Cir. 1981); Power Systems, Inc. v. NLRB, 601 F.2d 936, 939 (7th Cir. 1979). Thus an employer who brings a good faith action against employees for mass picketing, and produces evidence making his claim a colorable one, is not guilty of an unfair labor practice simply because he ultimately loses the lawsuit on the merits. Cf. Associated General Contractors v. NLRB, 637 F.2d 556, 560-62 (8th Cir. 1980).
In this case, the restaurant's civil lawsuit had a lawful objective on its face; i. e., the complaint sought relief for alleged wrongs that the state court could remedy. The Board found, however, that the restaurant lacked a reasonable basis in fact for the lawsuit, and concluded that the lawsuit was filed in bad faith to retaliate against the picketers. The Board found violations of both section 8(a) (1) and section 8(a) (4). Other courts have stated that the employer's anti-union motive is a key element of such violations. See Associated General Contractors v. NLRB, 637 F.2d at 561; United Credit Bureau of America, Inc. v. NLRB, 643 F.2d at 1024.1 We conclude that there is substantial evidence in the record to support the Board's findings that the restaurant's lawsuit lacked a reasonable basis in fact, and that it was filed to penalize Helton for filing charges with the Board and to penalize the picketers for engaging in protected activity.
The restaurant produced no evidence to support its suit to enjoin the picketing. The allegations of mass picketing, trespass, and the resultant blocking of restaurant entrances and danger to the public were totally unsubstantiated. The state court did issue a temporary restraining order to limit the number of picketers and the manner of picketing. At no time, however, did the picketers number more than seven adults and two children who demonstrated peacefully on the sidewalk outside the restaurant. The mass picketing alleged in the complaint never materialized, and the preliminary injunction was later denied.
The restaurant also lacked a reasonable basis in fact for its libel suit. To prove libel in the context of a labor dispute, an employer must prove that the employees made false, defamatory statements, and that the statements were made with "actual malice," as defined in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 279-80, 84 S. Ct. 710, 725-26, 11 L. Ed. 2d 686 (1964). See Linn v. Plant Guard Workers, 383 U.S. 53, 65, 86 S. Ct. 657, 664, 15 L. Ed. 2d 582 (1966). The statements contained in the leaflets were somewhat ambiguous; it was not made clear whether all the picketers' listed complaints (which the administrative law judge found to be factually true) had been made the subject of charges by the NLRB. The restaurant may therefore have believed that the leaflets falsely characterized the NLRB proceedings. But the very ambiguity of the leaflets in that regard tends to negate actual malice. In fact, the restaurant produced no evidence to show that the picketers made the statements with reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the statements. Instead, the restaurant argues that its lawsuit had a reasonable basis because the complaint on its face was subject to state court jurisdiction. More than a carefully drawn complaint is required to avoid a finding that a lawsuit lacks a reasonable basis. See United Credit Bureau of America, Inc. v. NLRB, 643 F.2d at 1024-25.
The lack of a reasonable basis in fact for the lawsuit is some evidence that it was filed for an improper purpose. The Board's finding of an improper motive is supported by more than this reasonable inference, however. On the first day of picketing, manager Sturgeon confronted the picketers, and wrote down their names. She told them that she would "get even with you for what you're doing." She told Helton that she would "get even with you if it's the last thing I do." That afternoon, president Gene Johnson told a picketer that she would hate to see him "get hurt by all this." Five days later, the restaurant filed the lawsuit in state court. The restaurant almost immediately deposed Helton, and questioned her in depth about the identities of other pro-union employees. The deposition was conducted without the assurances against reprisal usually expected to accompany employer interrogation of employees.2
These circumstances, in the context of other unfair labor practices which the Board found, clearly permit a finding that the lawsuit was prompted by an improper motive. The immediate effect of this lawsuit upon Helton was to penalize her for filing an unfair labor practice charge with the Board. That motive and effect clearly produce a violation of section 8(a) (4). In addition, the lawsuit carried an implicit message to the other picketers: namely, that any persons who file charges against the restaurant or picket the restaurant will find themselves in court.3 The violation of section 8(a) (1) is also clear. We conclude that substantial evidence supports the Board's finding that the lawsuit filed by the restaurant against Helton and the other picketers violated sections 8(a) (1) and 8(a) (4). See United Credit Bureau of America, Inc. v. NLRB, 643 F.2d at 1025.
Since the Board properly found that the filing of the state court action was an unfair labor practice, it follows that the Board can order the employer to cease and desist from that practice. The federal anti-injunction statute, 28 U.S.C. § 2283, does not prevent the Board from curbing state court action that interferes with the Board's exercise of its own jurisdiction. Capital Service, Inc. v. NLRB, 347 U.S. 501, 504-06, 74 S. Ct. 699, 701-03, 98 L. Ed. 887 (1954); see also NLRB v. Nash-Finch Co., 404 U.S. 138, 144-48, 92 S. Ct. 373, 377-79, 30 L. Ed. 2d 328 (1971). Indeed, the Board's power to enforce the provisions of sections 8(a) (1) and 8(a) (4) would be largely crippled if it could not order the withdrawal of a retaliatory lawsuit.
It is true that the regulatory scheme established by the National Labor Relations Act does not of itself preempt state court jurisdiction over actions for libel arising in a labor context. Linn v. Plant Guard Workers, 383 U.S. 53, 86 S. Ct. 657, 15 L. Ed. 2d 582 (1966). The Supreme Court has recognized the potential of such state suits for interference with federally protected rights, however, and has consequently ruled that all state libel actions are preempted unless they are based upon defamatory statements published with knowledge of their falsity or with reckless disregard of truth or falsity. Id. at 65. This carefully drawn boundary between legitimate state and federal interests would be hopelessly obscured if a libel action was automatically sustainable so long as the plaintiff carefully drafted its complaint to allege malice. The proper test of the legitimacy of the state action is whether the plaintiff has evidence to support its allegations of malice. See United Credit Bureau of America, Inc. v. NLRB, 643 F.2d at 2024-25.
The state court, of course, is competent to determine whether an employer who brings a libel suit has evidence to support his allegations. The same determination, however, is one which the Board must make to decide whether filing the libel suit was an unfair labor practice. Since the Board has actually decided the issue, and the subject is central to the enforcement of federal labor policy, the Board's decision would appear to preempt further action by the state court. Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Carpenters, 436 U.S. 180, 209-10, 98 S. Ct. 1745, 1763-64, 56 L. Ed. 2d 209 (1978) (Blackmun, J., concurring); see San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon, 359 U.S. 236, 244-245, 79 S. Ct. 773, 779, 3 L. Ed. 2d 775 (1959). Whether or not the state court's jurisdiction is technically preempted, however, the Board has the power to enjoin a state court lawsuit when the impropriety of that lawsuit is properly addressed and adjudicated by the Board.
We recognize that this case involves a delicate balance between federal and state interests as well as between individual rights of organization and litigation. The Board has demonstrated its sensitivity to these issues by its sparing enforcement of limitations on the right to bring suit in state court. See United Credit Bureau of America, Inc. v. NLRB, 643 F.2d at 1022-23. In the present case the employer did not offer factual substantiation of its allegations of malice, and substantial evidence supported the Board's finding that the action was brought for retaliation and intimidation of employees in their organizational rights. In these circumstances, pursuit of the state action threatened the proper enforcement of the federal act and the Board was justified in putting a stop to it.
The Order of the Board is enforced in its entirety.
Honorable William M. Byrne, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation
We question whether motive should necessarily play a part in determining whether an employer violates section 8(a) (1) by filing a lawsuit, without a reasonable basis in fact, against an employee. On its face, section 8(a) (1) does not require a showing of motive: "It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer (1) to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in (section 7.)" In contrast, section 8(a) (4) requires a showing that the employer's conduct was provoked by the employee's filing of charges with the Board. Motive is therefore a necessary element of a section 8(a) (4) violation. Because we uphold the Board's finding of improper motive, we need not reach the question whether section 8(a) (1) may be violated in the absence of such motivation. See Ad Art, Inc. v. NLRB, 645 F.2d 669, 678 n.10 (9th Cir. 1981)
The Board found that the restaurant violated section 8(a) (1) by conducting this deposition. The deposition almost certainly had a chilling effect on Helton and the other picketers. It also tended to interfere with the Board's administration of federal labor policy by allowing the restaurant to circumvent the restrictive discovery rules which apply to unfair labor practice hearings. See NLRB v. Maxwell, 637 F.2d 698, 702-03 (9th Cir. 1981). Because we agree that filing and conducting the libel suit was an unfair labor practice, however, we do not consider whether the deposition alone violated section 8(a) (1)
The chilling effect of a state lawsuit upon activity protected by the Act is multiplied when the state action, as here, seeks large damages. Employees whose picketing is the subject of a state suit for injunction may default and simply comply with the terms of the state injunction. They can hardly afford to fail to defend a claim for $500,000 damages. See Linn v. Plant Guard Workers, 383 U.S. 53, 64, 86 S. Ct. 657, 663, 15 L. Ed. 2d 582 (1966)
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His chamber music partners have included André Previn, Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim, Boris Pergamenschikow, Barbara Bonney, Jessey Norman, and Thomas Hampson. He has also collaborated with actors such as Klaus Maria Brandauer, Peter Simonischek and Andrea Jonasson.
Franz Bartolomey regularly gives international master classes, which form an important part of his life. He was brought up in the best Viennese music tradition, and wishes to share his experiences of the Wiener Klangstil. His activities include a wide range of styles, from baroque and classical to contemporary music. He also teaches chamber music and provides training in orchestral pieces.
Bartolomey’s work has been documented by television and radio broadcasts (notably his recording of Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote with André Previn and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for TELARC). He has also recorded for Naxos and BMG.
From 2004-2006 Franz Bartolomey was Principal Cellist of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Claudio Abbado. He has been honoured with the “Große Silbernen Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich”.
In 2012 the “Ehrenring of the Vienna State Opera House” was conferred on him.
His book Was zählt, ist der Augenblick, about the Bartolomey family’s 120 year history at the Vienna State Opera, was published by Amalthea, Vienna, in 2012.
Franz Bartolomey plays a cello by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris 1860.
Tero Latvala
Former concertmaster, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish National Opera, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Tampere Philharmonic, Sinfonia Lahti, Turku Philharmonic and Lappeenranta City Orchestra.
Tero Latvala began playing the violin at the age of 7 and studied at the Sibelius-Academy with Leena Siukonen-Penttilä, Ari Angervo, Aleksander Vinnitsky and Tuomas Haapanen.
He has gained extensive experience as a concertmaster working regularly with renown orchestras such as the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish National Opera, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Tampere Philharmonic, Sinfonia Lahti, Turku Philharmonic and Lappeenranta City Orchestra. He has also gained recognition as an experienced soloist and chamber musician and has performed in Finland and abroad in different chamber formations.
Tero Latvala’s career as a violin teacher began as an instructor at the Sibelius Academy in 2005. Currently, Latvala is a full-time lecturer in violin and orchestral training at the University of the Arts, Helsinki. In addition, he works as a violin mentor together with Jukka-Pekka Saraste for both the Jean Sibelius Youth Orchestra and the Finnish Chamber Youth Academy.
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A heroic action-thriller, “The Finest Hours” is the remarkable true story of the greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history.Presented in Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D, the film will transport audiences to the heart of the action, creating a fully-immersive cinematic experience on an epic scale. On February 18, 1952, a massive nor’easter struck New England, pummeling towns along the Eastern seaboard and wreaking havoc on the ships caught in its deadly path, including the SS Pendleton, a T-2 oil tanker bound for Boston, which was literally ripped in half, trapping more than 30 sailors inside its rapidly-sinking stern. As the senior officer on board, first assistant engineer Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck) soon realizes it is up to him to take charge of the frightened crew and inspire the men to set aside their differences and work together to ride out one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast. View More The Finest Hours
The Boy
"The Boy" is a frightening thrill ride directed by William Brent Bell ("The Devil Inside") starring Lauren Cohan (“The Walking Dead”). Greta is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family’s 8-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son 20 years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta’s worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive.
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Top 10 Amazing Prison Escapes
Jamie Frater August 27, 2008 0
As long as we have had prisons, we have had prison escapes. This is a list of the 10 most daring and amazing escapes from prison in history. This adds to our collection of crime related lists, such as tips for escaping the cops, tips for committing the perfect crime, and prison survival tips.
Maze Prison Escape
In the biggest prison escape in British history, on 25 September 1983 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 38 Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners, who had been convicted of offenses including murder and causing explosions, escaped from H-Block 7 (H7) of the prison. One prison officer died of a heart attack as a result of the escape and twenty others were injured, including two who were shot with guns that had been smuggled into the prison. HM Prison Maze was considered one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe. In addition to 15-foot fences, each H-Block was encompassed by an 18-foot concrete wall topped with barbed wire, and all gates on the complex were made of solid steel and electronically operated.
Shortly after 2:30, the prisoners took control of the H-block holding the prison guards hostage at gunpoint. Some of the prisoners took the guards clothing and car keys in order to help with their escape. At 3:25, a truck bringing food supplies arrived and the prisoners told the driver that he was going to help them escape. They tied his foot to the clutch and told him where to drive. At 3:50 the truck left the H-block, and soon after the prison, carrying all 38 men.
Over the next few days, 19 escapees were caught. The remaining escapees were assisted by the IRA in finding hiding places. Some of the group ended up in the USA but were later found and extradited. Due to politics in Northern Ireland, none of the remaining escapees are being actively sought and some have been given amnesties. Note the wires strung across the yard in the picture above – this is to prevent helicopters from landing due to another escape attempt at Maze Prison. [Image Source | Wikipedia]
Alfred Hinds
“Alfie” Hinds was a British criminal and escape artist who, while serving a 12 year prison sentence for robbery, successfully broke out of three high security prisons. Despite the dismissal of thirteen of his appeals to higher courts, he was eventually able to gain a pardon using his knowledge of the British legal system. After being sentenced to 12 years in prison for a jewelry robbery, Hinds escaped from Nottingham prison by sneaking through the locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall for which he became known in the press as “Houdini” Hinds.
After 6 months he was found and arrested. After his arrest, Hinds brought a lawsuit against authorities charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest and successfully used the incident as a means to plan his next escape by having a padlock smuggled in to him while at the Law Courts. Two guards escorted him to the toilet, but when they removed his handcuffs Alfie bundled the men into the cubicle and snapped the padlock onto screw eyes that his accomplices had earlier fixed to the door. He escaped into the crowd on Fleet Street but was captured at an airport five hours later. Hinds would make his third escape from Chelmsford Prison less than a year later.
While eluding Scotland Yard, Hinds continued to plead his innocence sending memorandums to British MPs and granting interviews and taped recordings to the press. He would continue to appeal his arrest and, following a technicality in which prison escapes are not listed as misdemeanors within British law, his final appeal before the House of Lords in 1960 was denied after a three hour argument by Hinds before his return to serve 6 years in Parkhurst Prison. Pictured above is Nottingham Prison – the first prison that Hinds escaped from. [Wikipedia]
The Texas Seven
The Texas 7 was a group of prisoners who escaped from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas on December 13, 2000. They were apprehended January 21-23, 2001 as a direct result of the television show America’s Most Wanted. On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas town of Kenedy. Using several well-planned ploys, the seven convicts overpowered and restrained nine civilian maintenance supervisors, four correctional officers and three uninvolved inmates at approximately 11:20 a.m.
The escape occurred during the slowest period of the day when there would be less surveillance of certain locations like the maintenance area — during lunch and at count time. Most of these plans involved one of the offenders calling someone over, while another hit the unsuspecting person on the head from behind. Once the victim was subdued, the offenders would remove some of his clothing, tie him up, gag him and place him in an electrical room behind a locked door. Eleven prison workers and three uninvolved inmates were bound and gagged. The attackers stole clothing, credit cards, and identification from their victims.
The group also impersonated prison officers on the phone and created false stories to ward off suspicion from authorities. They eventually made their way to the prison maintenance pickup-truck which they used to escape from the prison grounds. The remaining 5 living members of the group are all on death row awaiting death by lethal injection. Of the other two, one committed suicide and one has already been executed. [Wikipedia]
Alfréd Wetzler
Wetzler was a Slovak Jew, and one of a very small number of Jews known to have escaped from the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust. Wetzler is known for the report that he and his fellow escapee, Rudolf Vrba, compiled about the inner workings of the Auschwitz camp – a ground plan of the camp, construction details of the gas chambers, crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from a canister of Zyklon gas. The 32-page Vrba-Wetzler report, as it became known, was the first detailed report about Auschwitz to reach the West that the Allies regarded as credible.
The evidence eventually led to the bombing of several government buildings in Hungary, killing Nazi officials who were instrumental in the railway deportations of Jews to Auschwitz. The deportations halted, saving up to 120,000 Hungarian Jews. Wetzler escaped with a fellow Jew named Rudolf Vrba. With the help of the camp underground, at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 7, 1944 — the eve of Passover — the two men climbed inside a hollowed-out hiding place in a wood pile that was being stored to build the “Mexico” section for the new arrivals. It was outside Birkenau’s barbed-wire inner perimeter, but inside an external perimeter the guards kept erected during the day. The other prisoners placed boards around the hollowed-out area to hide the men, then sprinkled the area with pungent Russian tobacco soaked in gasoline to fool the guards’ dogs. The two remained in hiding for 4 nights – to avoid recapture.
On April 10, wearing Dutch suits, overcoats, and boots they had taken from the camp, they made their way south, walking parallel to the So?a river, heading for the Polish border with Slovakia 80 miles (133 km.) away, guiding themselves using a page from a child’s atlas that Vrba had found in the warehouse. You can read their report on Auschwitz here. [Wikipedia]
S?awomir Rawicz
Rawicz was a Polish soldier who was arrested by Soviet occupation troops after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. When the Soviet Union and Germany took over Poland, Rawicz returned to Pi?sk where NKVD arrested him on November 19, 1939. He was taken to Moscow. He was first sent to Kharkov for interrogation, and then after trial he was sent to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. He claims to have successfully resisted all attempts to torture a confession out of him in prison. He was sentenced, ostensibly for spying, to 25 years of hard labor in a Siberian prison camp. He was transported, alongside thousands of others, to Irkutsk and made to walk to Camp 303, 650 km south of the Arctic Circle, to build the camp from the ground up.
On 9 April 1941, Rawicz claimed that he and his six allies escaped in a middle of a blizzard. They rushed to the south, avoiding towns in fear they would be betrayed, but apparently they were not actively pursued. They also met an additional fugitive, Polish woman Krystyna. Nine days later they crossed the Lena River. They walked around Lake Baikal and crossed to Mongolia. Fortunately, people they encountered were friendly and hospitable. During the crossing of the Gobi desert, two of the group (Krystyna and Makowski) died. Others had to eat snakes to survive. Around October 1941 they claim to have reached Tibet. Locals were friendly, especially when men said they were trying to reach Lhasa. They crossed the Himalayas somehow in the middle of winter. Another of the group died in his sleep in the cold and one fell into a crevasse and disappeared. Rawicz claims the survivors reached India around March 1942. [Wikipedia]
Escape From Alcatraz
In its 29 years of operation, there were 14 attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison involving 34 inmates. Officially, every escape attempt failed, and most participants were either killed or quickly re-captured. However, the participants in the 1937 and 1962 attempts, though presumed dead, disappeared without a trace, giving rise to popular theories that they were successful. The most famous and intricate attempt to escape from Alcatraz (June 11, 1962) saw Frank Morris, and the Anglin brothers burrow out of their cells, climb to the top of the cell block, cut through bars to make it to the roof via an air vent. From there they climbed down a drain pipe, over a chain link fence and then to the shore where they assembled a pontoon-type raft and then vanished.
The trio are believed to have drowned in the San Francisco Bay and are officially listed as missing and presumed drowned. However, they may have made it and gone to a place where people did not know them. [Wikipedia]
Libby Prison Escape
The Libby Prison Escape was one of the most famous (and successful) prison breaks during the American Civil War. Overnight between February 9 and 10, 1864, more than 100 imprisoned Union soldiers broke out of their prisoner of war building at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Of the 109 escapees, 59 succeeded in reaching Union lines, 48 were recaptured, and 2 drowned in the nearby James River. Libby Prison encompassed an entire city block in Richmond. To the north lay Carey Street, connecting the prison area to the rest of the city. On the south side ran the James River.
The prison itself stood three stories above ground with a basement exposed on the river side. Living conditions were extremely bad; the food, sometimes lacking altogether, was poor and sanitation practically nonexistent. Thousands died there. The prisoners managed to break in to the basement area known as “rat hell” which was no longer used due to rat infestations, and dig a tunnel. After 17 days of digging, they succeeded in breaking through to a 50-foot vacant lot on the eastern side of the prison, resurfacing beneath a tobacco shed inside the grounds of the nearby Kerr’s Warehouse. When Col. Rose finally broke through to the other side, he told his men that the “Underground Railroad to God’s Country was open!”
The officers escaped the prison in groups of two and three on the night of February 9, 1864. Once within the tobacco shed, the men collected inside the walled warehouse yard and simply strolled out the front gate. The tunnel provided enough distance from the prison to stealthily subvert those jurisdictional lines and allow prisoners to slip into the dark streets unchallenged. [Wikipedia]
Pascal Payet
There can be no doubt that this man deserves a place on this list – he has escaped not once, but twice from high security prisons in France – each time via hijacked helicopter! He also helped organize the escape of three other prisoners – again with a helicopter.
Payet was initially sentenced to a 30 year jail term for a murder committed during the robbery of a security van. After his first escape (in 2001) he was captured and given seven more years for his role in the 2003 escape. He then escaped from Grasse prison using a helicopter that was hijacked by four masked men from Cannes-Mandelieu airport. The helicopter landed some time later at Brignoles, 38 kilometres north-east of Toulon, France on the Mediterranean coast. Payet and his accomplices then fled the scene and the pilot was released unharmed. Payet was re-captured on September 21, 2007, in Mataró, Spain, about 18 miles northeast of Barcelona. He had undergone cosmetic surgery, but was still identified by Spanish police. [Wikipedia]
Stalag Luft III was a German Air Force prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force personnel. In January 1943, Roger Bushell led a plot for a major escape from the camp. The plan was to dig three deep tunnels, codenamed “Tom,” “Dick,” and “Harry.” Each of the tunnel entrances was carefully selected to ensure they were undetectable by the camp guards. In order to keep the tunnels from being detected by the perimeter microphones, they were very deep — about 9 metres (30 ft) below the surface. The tunnels were very small, only two feet square (about 0.37 m²), though larger chambers were dug to house the air pump, a workshop, and staging posts along each tunnel. The sandy walls of the tunnels were shored up with pieces of wood scavenged from all over the camp.
As the tunnels grew longer, a number of technical innovations made the job easier and safer. One important issue was ensuring that the person digging had enough oxygen to breathe and keep his lamps lit. A pump was built to push fresh air along the ducting into the tunnels. Later, electric lighting was installed and hooked into the camp’s electrical grid. The tunnellers also installed small rail car systems for moving sand more quickly, much like the systems used in old mining operations. The rails were key to moving 130 tons of material in a five-month period; they also reduced the time taken for tunnellers to reach the digging faces.
“Harry” was finally ready in March 1944, but by that time the American prisoners, some of whom had worked extremely hard in all the effort to dig the tunnels, were moved to another compound. The prisoners had to wait about a week for a moonless night so that they could leave under the cover of complete darkness. Finally, on Friday, March 24, the escape attempt began. Unfortunately for the prisoners, the tunnel had come up short. It had been planned that the tunnel would reach into a nearby forest, but the first man out emerged just short of the tree line. Despite this, 76 men crawled through the tunnel to initial freedom, even through an air raid during which the camp’s (and the tunnel’s) electric lights were shut off. Finally, at 5 AM on March 25, the 77th man was seen emerging from the tunnel by one of the guards. Out of the 76 men only 3 evaded capture. Fifty men were killed and the rest were captured and sent back. [Wikipedia]
Colditz Escape
Colditz was one of the most famous German Army prisoner-of-war camps for officers in World War II. The camp was located in Colditz Castle, situated on a cliff overlooking the town of Colditz in Saxony. There were numerous successful attempts at escaping Colditz, but one in particular is the most interesting. In one of the most ambitious escape attempts from Colditz, the idea of building a glider was dreamt up by two British pilots, Jack Best and Bill Goldfinch, who had been sent to Colditz after escaping from another POW camp. The plan was to construct a two-man glider part by part.
The glider was assembled by Bill Goldfinch and Jack Best in the lower attic above the chapel, and was to be launched from the roof in order to fly across the river Mulde, which was about 200 feet (60 m) below. The officers who took part in the project built a false wall, to hide the secret space in the attic where they slowly built the glider out of stolen pieces of wood. Since the Germans were accustomed to looking down for tunnels, not up for secret workshops, they felt rather safe from detection. Hundreds of ribs had to be constructed, predominantly formed from bed slats, but also from every other piece of wood the POW’s could surreptitiously obtain. The wing spars were constructed from floor boards. Control wires were made from electrical wiring in unused portions of the castle.
A glider expert, Lorne Welch, was asked to review the stress diagrams and calculations made by Goldfinch. Although the Colditz Cock never flew in real life, a replica of the Colditz glider was built for the 2000 Channel 4 “Escape from Colditz” documentary, and was flown successfully by John Lee on its first attempt at RAF Odiham with Best and Goldfinch in tearful attendance. While Best and Goldfinch did not escape Colditz (the camp was relieved by the allies just as the glider was nearing completion), they certainly had the most interesting and innovative method for executing it. [Wikipedia]
Jamie Frater
Jamie is the owner and chief-editor of Listverse. He spends his time working on the site, doing research for new lists, and collecting oddities. He is fascinated with all things historic, creepy, and bizarre.
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Top 10 Greatest Circus Performers
Jack Borgeson May 1, 2011 0
They came in all shapes and sizes, and we gawked and gasped, just like we were supposed to do. Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages: our list of the top ten attractions ever to grace the sawdust stage of circus big tops and sideshows is here!
Middlebush Giant
Billed as the world’s tallest man, Arthur James Caley (aka the Middlebush Giant), was given the stage name of Colonel Routh Goshen by P.T. Barnum. Stories about him abounded: Barnum either discovered him while traveling abroad, or first saw him on the streets of New York; he was either born on the Isle of Man, in 1827, or in Jerusalem in 1837 – Barnum made up so many stories about the big guy that he himself might not have remembered which one was true. At any rate, the circus billed the Middlebush Giant as standing 7’11” and weighing 620 pounds, but he most likely topped no more than 7’5″, around the same height as today’s tallest pro basketball players. “Colonel Routh Goshen” died in Middlebush, New Jersey, in 1889 and is buried there.
Mabel Stark
She may have been small in stature, standing just five feet tall, but the Marvelous Mabel Stark stood above the crowd as the greatest female tiger trainer in history. For a time, in the early1920’s, her act was the most popular of all six of Ringling’s world animal acts. In 1928, after she slipped in a muddy arena, two tigers knocked her to the ground and attacked her, clawing at her shoulders, arms and chest, and tearing muscles in her back, thigh and hip; her injuries required 378 stitches, but in just a few weeks, she was back in the steel cages, swathed in bandages and walking with a cane. In 1950, Mabel was attacked so brutally by one of her tigers that it took 175 stitches to save her right arm. The incidents didn’t stop fearless Mabel, though; she spent 57 years in the limelight, and died of a self-administered drug overdose after being fired from her last job, at a theme park called JungleLand.
Gargantua
Billed as “the world’s most terrifying living creature,” the gorilla known as Gargantua the Great saved the Ringling brothers from bankruptcy when he joined the show, in 1938. The circus claimed that the scar-faced, snarling gorilla, captured in Africa as a baby, hated humans – thus piquing the interest of a lot of humans. In his early years, Gargantua, known as “Buddy,” was renamed by new owners after a giant in French literature, which, quite frankly, sounded a lot more frightening than “Buddy.” Gargantua apparently had a circus mate named Mrs. Gargantua, but her title was in name only because he never showed any interest in her.
Mario Zacchini
Wanted: “Man who wishes to be explosively propelled ninety miles an hour out of a cannon across a circus tent into a net.” Mario Zacchini apparently thought that sounded like a good job because, after committing to the feat, he and four of his brothers spent years being launched from a silver-painted cannon, three times a day with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The Zacchinis have acknowledged that their shattering cannon blasts were purely sound effects, achieved by igniting half a cup of black gunpowder, but Mario and his family never revealed the secret of the launching mechanism. Mario often said that “flying isn’t the hard part; landing in the net is.”
One of the world’s greatest magicians got his start with the Welsh Brothers Circus in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1895. For 26 weeks, Harry Houdini and his wife, Beatrice, sang, danced and performed a trick called “metamorphosis,” in which they switched places in a locked trunk. Houdini continued to hone his voice and showmanship while becoming an expert at handcuff manipulation. The rest is history: his expertise in escapism launched him into international stardom far away from the circus world.
Flying Wallendas
In 1922, Karl Wallenda formed a foursome called the Great Wallendas. They toured Europe, performing daredevil acts like forming a four-man pyramid and cycling across a tightrope high above the crowd. John Ringling was so impressed with a performance he saw in Cuba, that he hired them to perform for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. They debuted at Madison Square Garden, in 1928, and performed without a net because it had been lost in transit. The act was a crowd-pleaser, but it wasn’t always fall-proof. At an Akron, Ohio performance, the group fell from the high-wire to the ground, but they were unhurt. A reporter witnessed the accident and said, “The Wallendas fell so gracefully that it seemed as if they were flying,” and that’s how the Great Wallendas became the Flying Wallendas. Forty-odd years later, on March 22, 1978 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wallenda fell to his death from the high wire at the age of 73.
Zip the Pinhead
With all due respect, William Henry Johnson was an oddity. His body developed normally, but his head remained small and tapered at the tip. Van Emburgh’s Circus in Somerville, New Jersey, paid Johnson’s parents to display their son and billed him as a “wild negro boy” who had been caught in Africa and put on display in a cage. Johnson’s popularity came to the notice of PT Barnum, who gave him a new look by putting him in a furry suit and shaping his afro into a tiny point, that accented his sloping brow; Barnum also renamed him “Zip the Pinhead.” It’s said that during his 67 years in show business, more than 100 million people visited Zip at the circus. His last words were “Well, we fooled’em for a long time, didn’t we?”
General Tom Thumb
In 1842, Barnum hired four-year old dwarf Charles Stratton, who soon became world-famous as General Tom Thumb. Only 25 inches tall, Stratton started touring the United States with Barnum’s circus, impersonating characters like Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte. He also sang, danced and participated in skits. In 1844, Barnum took him on a European tour, where he appeared twice before Queen Victoria and became an international celebrity. But it was his wedding (by which time he’d grown to his adult height of 2’11”) to 2’8″ Lavinia Warren, in 1863, that drew the greatest public attention. Barnum charged $75 per ticket and 2,000 people – including congressional representatives, millionaires, and generals – attended. During their honeymoon, the little couple were wined and dined by President and Mrs. Lincoln at the White House.
Emmet Kelly
Emmett Kelly’s best known routine was trying to sweep a spotlight into a dustpan on the Ringling circus stage. From 1942 to 1956, he appeared as a classic tramp clown called “Weary Willie,” his version of a Depression-era hobo. Kelly’s style was different from his flashy peers: he wandered around the arena dressed in tattered clothing, using pantomime instead of words to connect with the crowd. He died, aged 80, of a heart attack in Sarasota, Florida, which was the longtime winter quarters of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
PT Barnum brought Jumbo the elephant to New York City on Easter Sunday, 1882, just in time for the annual opening of “the Greatest Show on Earth” at Madison Square Garden. In the first six weeks, Jumbo helped the show gross $336,000. Twelve feet tall at the shoulders, and weighing in at six and a half tons (in fact, the word “jumbo”, as we use it, comes from his name), he’s considered the greatest circus attraction in American history. Jumbo traveled like royalty in a private railroad car called “Jumbo’s palace car,” a crimson and gold boxcar with huge double doors. Unfortunately, popularity and size were no match for a speeding freight train that took Jumbo’s life on September 15, 1885, in St. Thomas, Ontario as he was being loaded onto his palace.
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10 Sobering Facts About The US Nuclear Arsenal
Mike Floorwalker September 25, 2016 0
Many think of the looming threat of nuclear conflict as largely a thing of the past, a product of the Cold War. After all, US President Barack Obama made nuclear disarmament a key component of his 2008 election campaign, and it is true that the US nuclear arsenal has shrunk dramatically since the 1980s.
But the remaining weapons still possess the ability to destroy our planet many times over. As the world’s nuclear powers continue to butt heads, it’s time to examine some lesser-known aspects of the US arsenal.
10 It’s Only The Second-Largest Arsenal
In effect since 1970, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty states that countries possessing nuclear weapons should move toward disarmament and those without nuclear weapons should not seek to acquire them.
The treaty names five countries as “nuclear weapon states“: the United States, United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia. Many assume that the US has the largest arsenal, but it never has. That dubious honor goes to Russia, the former Soviet Union.
At its peak in the mid-1980s, the USSR had 45,000 warheads. Today, Russia’s inventory is only a fraction of this at 8,500, compared to about 7,700 held by the US. However, the US edges out Russia in the number of deployed warheads—those ready to be launched at a moment’s notice—with about 2,000 to Russia’s 1,800.
9 The Many Types Of Weapons
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Many of these deployed warheads could be delivered by Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 400 of which stand ready at 11 different launch silos scattered across the US. These missiles could target virtually any country on the globe, but they are not the only option for a US nuclear strike.
The United States maintains a fleet of nearly 100 nuclear-capable bombers, many of the stealth variety and all capable of delivering devastating payloads. But perhaps the most terrifying delivery device is the Ohio-class submarine.
Designed for long deployments deep underwater, this nuclear-powered sub contains 24 missile chutes, each of which can launch a Trident missile containing multiple independently targeted warheads. Just one of these subs contains enough firepower to kill millions. The US has 14 of them.
8 It’s Not Included In The Defense Budget
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Not all military spending is handled by the Department of Defense, which makes sense in certain areas. For example, health care costs and other veterans’ services are often counted separately or fall under the budgets of other departments.
Secret operations or “black ops” are left out of the military budget altogether. Meanwhile, the military’s most potent weapons and the entire nuclear program fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Energy (DOE).
Although their functions could not be more dissimilar, nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons both fall completely under the purview of the DOE. This is incredibly significant when considering that the US military budget, which tops all other countries in the world, isn’t required to report the additional billions spent each year on maintenance of its nuclear arsenal.
7 Its Maintenance Is Privatized
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The amount to be spent on maintenance of the US nuclear arsenal is currently estimated at about $1 trillion over the next 30 years. This includes funds for “modernization” of the arsenal—upgrading features like the targeting radius of some missiles.
Although such upgrades may provide little benefit in terms of actual security or deterrence, many private, nongovernment entities will reap a decades-long windfall from their implementation. These firms contract with the Department of Energy, and even the smallest contracts run into millions of dollars.
For example, smaller power generation company Babcock & Wilcox was paid over $76 million in 2014 for work on upgrading the nuclear submarine fleet. Larger firms like General Dynamics secure multibillion dollar contracts for development and design work. In 2015 alone, these firms spent $67 million to lobby Congress for increased weapons spending.
6 Much Of It Is Stored In Other Countries
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Even though the 2016 military coup attempt in Turkey failed, it raised serious questions about the effect on the US of a forced transfer of power. After all, Turkey is home to Incirlik Air Base, a US installation from which airstrikes have been launched against the Islamic State. About 50 US nuclear weapons are held in storage there under a NATO agreement from the 1960s.
Under the deal, the United States “shares” nuclear weapons with a number of NATO partners who store them while others maintain aircraft capable of delivering the weapons. US-owned nukes are also stored in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Belgium.
The US is responsible for their maintenance and security. Critics of the program in Turkey have long pointed to the region’s instability when calling for the program’s termination. The coup attempt illustrated their reasoning nicely: The commander of Incirlik Air Base was actually detained during the event.
5 We’ve Reversed Course On Disarmament
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President Obama campaigned on the idea of a “nuclear-free world,” and his initial proposals for spending on maintenance reflected this. The somewhat paradoxical idea was that refurbishment of the nuclear arsenal would lead to increased confidence in it, which would lead to more disarmament treaties and fewer missiles. In the geopolitical climate of the last decade or so, this has not panned out.
In fact, Obama’s top nuclear adviser from his first term points specifically to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the moment that made a policy based on true unilateral disarmament unfeasible. Other supporters of arms reduction concede that the process of modernization has not produced warhead reduction.
4 Many Bombs Have Been Lost And Never Recovered
Since the beginning of the Cold War, several nuclear weapons, their vital components, or both have been lost permanently. Even more disturbing, nobody can seem to agree on just how many have been lost, perhaps due to the highly sensitive nature of such incidents.
Most sources put the number at somewhere between 6 and 11. There have been dozens more such “broken arrow” incidents which resulted in the recovery of the weapons.
Among the more alarming occurrences: the mysterious sinking of the USS Scorpion nuclear submarine in 1968 with two unspecified nuclear warheads, the 1956 disappearance of a B-47 bomber carrying two nuclear cores, and the 1961 crash of a B-52 bomber in a North Carolina swamp, resulting in the loss of a uranium core.
3 Nuclear Strikes Have Almost Been Ordered
Between 1945 and 1949, the US drew up nine detailed plans for a “first strike” nuclear attack against the Soviet Union even though the US nuclear arsenal was severely limited at that time. The 1949 Operation Dropshot plan might have begun on January 1, 1957, if the Soviet Union had not tested its own nuclear weapon later in 1949.
Other “first strike” options were almost implemented, too. A year before the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to take control of West Berlin. In response, Pentagon officials devised a highly detailed plan to use nuclear bombers to eradicate the Soviet nuclear arsenal, the Kremlin, and other strategic targets.
This “Berlin Crisis” led directly to the situation in Cuba. After Kennedy all but threatened a nuclear strike against the USSR in a public speech, Khrushchev resolved to place missiles in Cuba to gain military leverage.
2 The ‘Nuclear Football’
Photo credit: Smithsonian Institute Magazine
After the Cuban Missile Crisis, a memo from President Kennedy underlined his resulting concerns: “What would I say to the Joint War Room to launch an immediate nuclear strike?” and “How would the person who received my instructions verify them?” Apparently, nobody had thought to ask those questions earlier.
This led to the invention of the president’s emergency satchel, colloquially known as the “football.” It contains nuclear codes, a way to verify the president’s identity, a hotline to the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon, and a simplified table of options for various types of nuclear deployments.
Along with the laminated code card (the “biscuit”), the “football” has been constantly by the side of almost every president since Kennedy. The one notable exception was Bill Clinton. He misplaced the “biscuit” for several months in 2000.
1 The President Has Near-Unilateral Authority
There are practically no protocols in place to prevent a sitting US president from unilaterally ordering a nuclear strike.
The idea is that America’s nuclear arsenal must be equipped for fast deployment to properly deter an attack. The president must therefore have the ability to launch a strike quickly. Although the secretary of defense must confirm the order, he is legally obligated to do so. He does not have veto power.
If this sounds crazy, consider the words of then-Vice President Dick Cheney in 2008:
[The president] could launch a kind of devastating attack the world’s never seen. He doesn’t have to check with anybody. He doesn’t have to call the Congress. He doesn’t have to check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in.
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COMMENTARY: Why Northam Folded
The governor’s recent balk on cap-and-trade legislation angers environmentalists, signals a change in strategy.
by Peter Galuszka
Scott Elmquist/File Gov. Ralph Northam
Back in the 1980s, Virginians noticed that their cars often had little pimples on their paint. Trees high on mountains were dying. Scientists traced the phenomena to acid rain — pollution from sulfur and nitrous oxides emitted by coal-burning power plants.
In 1990, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set up a national system of setting a cap on those pollutants. Polluters could buy and sell allotments of them. The cap would decrease yearly. Damage from acid rain decreased as the program was deemed a resounding success.
More recently, Virginia had a chance to join a similar cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide, a pollutant that contributes to climate change and is a much more serious threat than acid rain.
Last month, the Air Pollution Control Board voted to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a 10-year-old program involving nine Northeastern states, including Maryland, to establish caps and a trading mechanism that could cut carbon emissions in the area by 30 percent within about a decade.
Like his Democratic predecessor Terry McAuliffe, Gov. Ralph Northam said he backed the idea. He faced strong opposition from Republicans in the General Assembly who had tied up the state's attempt to join the initiative in a convoluted budget bill that Northam would have to veto for the program to proceed.
On May 2, Northam balked. A representative said that a veto would set up a protracted legal battle and that it would be better to concentrate on November elections when Democrats could sweep aside Republican control of the legislature.
Powerful utility Dominion Energy praised Northam's decision, telling Style Weekly that the initiative was too expensive and that since 2005, the utility achieved a 52 percent reduction in carbon emissions without it.
Environmentalists are livid. In a media statement, Walton Shepherd, a Virginia policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council, called Northam's decision "a disastrous and cowardly retreat."
In fact, the failure to move forward with measures to fight climate change has long been a Virginia custom.
About a decade ago, some states came with an idea called a Renewable Portfolio Standard that would require their utilities to get a percentage of their generation capacity from renewable sources such as wind or solar within certain deadlines.
Many states adopted the measure and made it mandatory. Pro-business Virginia made it only voluntary. The consequence? For years, Virginia has lagged behind other states in renewable energy use, including neighboring North Carolina, which agreed to make the program mandatory.
The initiative's cap-and-trade system, the first one in the U.S., affects any fossil fuel generating station capable of generating 25 megawatts of power or more. There are about 30 of them in the state.
Dominion has upped its game recently with plants for solar generation and has been permanently shutting down older coal-fired plants.
For Northam, balking on initiative only further diminishes his position with the state's green community. It had already been angry with him for continuing to back the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would pump natural gas from fracking operations in West Virginia hundreds of miles through the Old Dominion to North Carolina. Dominion is the lead partner of a group that has been fighting for about five years for the huge project.
Opponents complain that it will destroy plants and wildlife, hurt property values, pose a safety hazard and contribute to climate change. It is also not entirely clear who would use the natural gas and if the project is necessary. Opposition has been so stiff that a series of legal challenges by green groups and others has halted its construction at least temporarily. The court battles have delayed the project's opening and have dramatically increased its price tag from about $6 billion to $7.5 billion or more.
One of Dominion's partners in the project, Duke Energy Corp., seems to be becoming squeamish. In March, Bloomberg News reported that Duke's chief executive, Lynn Good, said that her utility may need to find a Plan B to ship gas if the Dominion-led project fails.
It seems obvious that Virginia's participation in a mandatory-cap and-trade program would seriously impact demand for natural gas from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The program is designed to reduce the carbon cap gradually over the years.
As that happens, renewable energy would become more economically attractive. It "disincentives carbon-emitting fuel like fracked gas," says Ivy Main, a lawyer who works with the Sierra Club.
For now, Northam says he'll direct state agencies to find ways of lowering carbon emissions, but that's something that could have happened before. The next step is in November when all 140 General Assembly seats are up for grabs.
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Speech Differences And Stutter Series-Disabled Legend Bob Sanders
February 8, 2009 — lifechums
Demond “Bob” Sanders was born on 24 February, 1981 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Bob Sanders is an American football safety for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. Bob Sanders played college football at the University of Iowa. Bob Sanders was named AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2007 and is known for being the integral part of the Colts’ postseason defense that led the team to a victory in Super Bowl XLI. Nicknamed “The Hitman” because of his hard hits and tackles. Another nickname that has stuck is “The Sandman” because of his last name.
Born with a name Demond that was difficult for many to pronounce correctly, Bob Sanders asked his mother if his name could be changed. Bob Sanders’ mother suggested “Bob” as a nickname, and the name stuck. Bob Sanders’ parents are Jean and Marion Sanders.
Bob Sanders attended Erie Central High School as a freshman before transferring to Cathedral Preparatory School in Erie, Pennsylvania and was a student and a letterman in football as a running back and as a safety. In football, he was a 4-year letterman, a 2-time All-Conference selection. As a junior, he was a 3rd-team All-State selection. As a senior, he was a team captain, and a 1st team All-State selection and finished his senior season with 900 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns while leading his team to a 13-1 record and a trip to the state championship game. Bob Sanders graduated from Cathedral Preparatory School in 2000. Bob Sanders also had 7 sacks in a high school state championship. Bob Sanders also kick boxed during his childhood.
Bob Sanders was highly recruited out of high school (Cathedral Preparatory School) due to his lack of size, but he was offered and accepted a scholarship offer from the University of Iowa. Bob Sanders recorded 12 tackles and forced a fumble in his 1st career start against Wisconsin, and he was named Honourable Mention All-Big Ten as a freshman. In 2001, Bob Sanders started 11 games and led Iowa in tackles, garnering him the nickname “Hitman.”
Bob Sanders fully enforced his nickname on the practice field at Iowa during practice drills as a freshman; he was such a physical player that during tackling drills, most of his teammates walked to the back of the player line if they knew they were going to have to go against Bob Sanders. Bob Sanders was eventually taken out of specific full-contact drills after he separated the shoulder of running back Fred Russell during one play.
As a junior, Bob Sanders helped lead Iowa to its 1st undefeated conference season in 80 years and was a key part of the 5th best rushing defense in the country. Bob Sanders started 12 games and made several key plays for the 2002 Hawkeyes. Bob Sanders blocked a Purdue field goal attempt which was returned for an Iowa touchdown, resulting in a potential 10-point difference as Iowa narrowly defeated Purdue, 31-28. Bob Sanders also forced a fumble in the 2nd half of a game against Michigan as Iowa was clinging to a 1 point lead. Iowa scored a touchdown and cruised to a 34-9 victory. The Hawkeyes compiled an 11-2 record and shared the Big Ten title in 2002 along with Ohio State, the eventual BCS National Champion in that year. Bob Sanders was named 1st-Team All-Big 10 and a 4th-Team All-American.
Bob Sanders was issued the number 33 at Iowa because his high school number, 20, was unavailable when he was a freshman. When the player wearing No. 20 left the team, he requested to change his jersey, but was prevented from doing so because his No. 33 jersey had become quite popular in the replica jersey market.
Bob Sanders was hampered early in his senior season by a foot injury. Bob Sanders returned to score his 1st career touchdown against Illinois on a fumble return. In his final home game against Minnesota, Bob Sanders recorded 16 tackles and forced 3 fumbles as he was named the Big 10 defensive player of the week. Bob Sanders led the nation in forced fumbles in 2003. Bob Sanders was named Iowa’s defensive team captain and MVP after the season. Bob Sanders was named 1st-Team All-Big 10 for the 3rd consecutive year, and he was named a 2nd-Team All-American.
Bob Sanders recorded 348 tackles in his career at Iowa and became a fan favourite due to his heavy hits and relentless play. Bob Sanders graduated from Iowa in 2003, majoring in African-American World Studies.
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Speech Differences And Stutter Series-Disabled Legend Bob Love
Robert (Bob) Earl “Butterbean” Love was born on 8 December, 1942, in Bastrop, Louisiana. Bob Love is a retired American professional basketball player who spent the prime of his career with the NBA’s Chicago Bulls. A versatile forward who could shoot with either his left or right hand, Bob Love now works as the Bulls’ Director of Community Affairs.
After starring at Morehouse High School (now defunct) in Bastrop, Louisiana, Bob Love played basketball for Southern University, where he also became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega. Bob Love earned All-America honours in 1963, and in 1965, the Cincinnati Royals selected the 6’8” forward in the 4th round of the 1965 NBA Draft. Bob Love failed to make the team, and instead spent the 1965-66 NBA season in the Eastern Basketball League. After averaging over 25 points per game, Bob Love earned the EBL Rookie of the Year Award and gained enough confidence to try out for the Royals once more. Bob Love made the team on his 2nd attempt and played 2 seasons for the Royals, largely in a reserve role. In 1968, the Milwaukee Bucks selected him in the NBA Expansion Draft and traded him to the Chicago Bulls in the middle of the 1968-69 season.
Bob Love flourished while playing for Dick Motta’s Bulls. In 1969-1970, he became a full-time starter, averaging 21 points and 8.7 rebounds. The following 2 seasons he averaged 25.2 and 25.8 points per game, appeared in his 1st 2 All-Star Games, and earned All-NBA 2nd Team honours both seasons. Bob Love also appeared in the 1973 NBA All-Star Game, and he would average at least 19 points and 6 rebounds every season until 1976-1977. Bob Love was named to the NBA’s All-Defense 2nd Team in 1974 and 1975.
Bob Love’s No. 10 jersey was the 2nd jersey number to be retired by the Chicago Bulls. Jerry Sloan’s No. 4 was the 1st. Bob Love’s 1995 wedding ceremony to Rachel Dixon took place at the United Center.
Bob Love retired in 1977 with career totals of 13,895 points and 4,653 rebounds. Bob Love suffered from a severe stuttering problem, which prevented him from finding meaningful employment after his playing days were over. At one point, Bob Love was a busboy making $4.45 an hour. Eventually, the owner of the restaurant where Bob Love washed dishes offered to pay for speech therapy classes, and in 1993 he returned to the Chicago Bulls as their director of community relations. One of his duties in this position involves regularly speaking to school children. Bob Love has also become a motivational speaker.
Bob Love wrote a book, The Bob Love Story: If It’s Gonna Be, It’s Up to Me, in 1999.
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Speech Differences And Stutter Series-Disabled Legend Bo Jackson
Vincent Edward “Bo” Jackson was born on 30 November, 1962 in Bessemer, Alabama, USA. Bo Jackson is an American athlete and a former multi-sport professional. Bo Jackson played at the highest level of sports in the United States in both American football and baseball.
In football, Bo Jackson played running back for the Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League. In baseball, Bo Jackson played left field and designated hitter for the Kansas City Royals, the Chicago White Sox, and the California Angels of the American League in Major League Baseball.
Although a hip injury severely impaired his professional career, Bo Jackson was the 1st athlete to be named an All-Star in 2 major sports. Before his professional career, he earned the 1985 Heisman Trophy, the prize annually awarded to the most outstanding collegiate football player in the United States. Bo Jackson also ran a 4.12 40 yard dash.
In 1989 and 1990, Bo Jackson’s name became known beyond just sports fans through the “Bo Knows” advertising campaign, a series of advertisements by Nike promoting a cross-training athletic shoe named for Bo Jackson.
Bo Jackson, the 8th of 10 children, was named after Vince Edwards, his mother’s favourite actor. Bo Jackson’s family described him as a “wild boar,” as he would constantly get into trouble. The nickname was eventually shortened to “Bo.”
Bo Jackson attended McAdory High School, where he rushed for 1,175 yards as a running back in his senior-year football season. That year, Bo Jackson also hit 20home runs in 25 games for McAdory’s baseball team.
In June 1982, Bo Jackson was selected by the New York Yankees in the 2nd round of the MLB draft, but he instead chose to attend Auburn University on a football scholarship. Bo Jackson was recruited by head coach Pat Dye and then Auburn assistant coach Bobby Wallace. At Auburn, he proved to be a tremendous athlete in both baseball and football.
Bo Jackson graduated from Auburn with a degree in adult education.
Bo Jackson batted .401 with 17 home runs and 43 RBI in 1985. In a 1985 baseball game against the Georgia Bulldogs at Foley Field in Athens, Georgia, Bo Jackson led Auburn to victory with a 4-for-5 performance, with 3 home runs and a double. Bo Jackson launched his last home run that day into a brand new light standard. Bo Jackson was declared ineligible to play in the 1986 baseball season after taking a flight to Florida to undergo a physical examination for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
During his time playing for the Auburn Tigers football team, he ran for 4,303 career yards, which was the 4th best performance in SEC history behind Herschel Walker of Georgia. Bo Jackson finished his career with an average of 6.6 yards per carry, which set the SEC record (minimum 400 rushes).
In 1982, Bo Jackson’s freshman year, Auburn Tigers played Boston College in the Tangerine Bowl, where Bo Jackson made a one-handed grab of an option pitch that quarterback Randy Campbell lobbed over the head of a defender. Auburn Tigers went on to win the game.
In 1983, as a sophomore, Bo Jackson rushed for 1,213 yards on 158 carries, for an average of 7.7 yards per carry, which was the 2nd best single-season average in SEC history (min. 100 rushes). In the 1983 Auburn Tigers-Alabama game, Bo Jackson rushed for 256yards on 20 rushes (12.8 yards per carry), which at the time was the 6th-most rushing yards gained in a game in SEC history and the 2nd best yard-per-rush average in a game (min. 20 attempts) in SEC history. Auburn Tigers finished the season by winning the Sugar Bowl, where Bo Jackson was named Most Valuable Player. In 1984, Bo Jackson’s junior year (most of which Bo Jackson missed due to injury), he earned Most Valuable Player honours at Liberty Bowl.
In 1985, Bo Jackson rushed for 1,786 yards, which was the 2nd best single-season performance in SEC history behind Herschel Walker’s 1,891 rushing yards for the University of Georgia in 1981. That year, he averaged 6.4 yards per rush, which at the time was the best single-season average in SEC history. For his performance in 1985, Bo Jackson was awarded the Heisman Trophy in what was considered the closest margin of victory ever in the history of the award, winning over University of Iowa Quarterback Chuck Long.
Bo Jackson’s football number 34 was officially retired at Auburn Tigers in a halftime ceremony on October 31, 1992. Bo Jackson is 1 of only 3 numbers retired at Auburn Tigers, the others being 1971 Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan’s number 7, and Pat Sullivan’s teammate and favourite receiver, Terry Beasley (88). In 2007, Bo Jackson was ranked #8 on ESPN’s Top 25 Players In College Football History list.
Bo Jackson qualified for the 60-yard dash in his freshman and sophomore years. Bo Jackson considered joining the USA Olympic team, but sprinting would not gain him the financial security of the MLB or NFL, nor would he have sufficient time to train, given his other commitments.
Bo Jackson was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the 1st pick of the 1986 NFL Draft, but he opted to play baseball for the Kansas City Royals, the defending World Series champions, instead. Bo Jackson spent most of the season with the Memphis Chicks in the minor leagues before being called up for regular duty in 1987, where he had 22 home runs, 53 RBIs and 10 stolen bases as an outfielder for the Royals.
Bo Jackson began to show his true potential in 1989, when he was voted to start for the American League All-Star team, and was named the game’s MVP for his play on both offense and defense. Bo Jackson’s great plays in the game included a monstrous home run off Rick Reuschel of the San Francisco Giants which landed an estimated 448 feet from home plate – in his 1st All-Star at-bat. Bo Jackson also beat out an infield hit that resulted in the game-winning RBI. In addition to this, he had a stolen base, making him 1 of only 2 players in All-Star Game history to hit a home run and steal a base in the same game (the other is Willie Mays). Baseball announcer Vin Scully (calling the game for NBC-TV) was moved to comment, “And look at that one! Bo Jackson says hello!”
In 1990, he raised his batting average, but the uncertainty of his 2 sport loyalties may have swayed Royals management to not utilize him as much as he could have been.
On 5 June, 1989, Bo Jackson ran down a long line-drive deep to left field on a hit-and-run play against the Seattle Mariners. With speedy Harold Reynolds running from 1st base on the play, Scott Bradley’s hit would have been deep enough to score him against most outfielders. But Bo Jackson, from the warning track, turned flat footed and fired a strike to catcher Bob Boone, who tagged the sliding Reynolds out. Bo Jackson’s throw reached Bob Boone on the fly. Interviewed for the “Bo Jackson” episode of ESPN Classic’s SportsCentury, Harold Reynolds admitted that he thought there was no way anyone would throw him out on such a deep drive into the gap in left-center, and was shocked to see his teammate telling him to slide as he rounded 3rd base.
On 11 July, 1990 against the Baltimore Orioles, Bo Jackson performed his famous “wall run,” when he caught a ball approximately 2–3 strides away from the wall. As he caught the ball at full tilt, Bo Jackson looked up and noticed the wall and began to run up the wall, 1 leg reaching higher as he ascended. Bo Jackson ran along the wall almost parallel to the ground, and came down with the catch, to avoid impact and the risk of injury from the fence.
After a poor at bat he was known to snap the bat over his knee, or with his helmet on, over his head. This is illustrated in Bo Jackson’s 1991 Score “Bo Breaker” card.
Before Bo Jackson finished his career in California he spent 2 years playing for the Chicago White Sox, mostly as a Designated Hitter, as his hip injury hampered his ability to play the outfield. It was with the White Sox that he made his only post-season appearance in the 1993 American League Championship Series, which Chicago lost to the Toronto Blue Jays in 6 games.
While with the Sox, Bo Jackson promised his mum that once he returned from his hip replacement surgery that he would hit a home run for her. Before he could return, his mother died. In his 1st at bat after surgery he hit a home run to right field. Bo Jackson had the ball engraved in his mother’s tombstone.
In his 8 baseball seasons, Bo Jackson had a career batting average of .250, hit 141 home runs and had 415 RBIs, with a slugging average of .474. Bo Jackson’s best year was 1989, with his effort earning him all-star status. In ’89, Bo Jackson ranked in the league in both homers and RBI with 32/105.
Bo Jackson was drafted 1st overall in the 1986 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. However, the Buccaneers, not wanting their new draftee to injure himself playing baseball for Auburn Tigers that year, took Bo Jackson on a trip in a private plane that cost him his college eligibility. They also gave Bo Jackson an ultimatum to choose baseball or football. This prompted him to sign with the Kansas City Royals. Since he did not sign with a team by the 1987 draft, his rights were forfeited by Tampa Bay and his name was thrown back into the draft. The Los Angeles Raiders selected Bo Jackson in the 7th round with the 183rd overall pick. The Los Angeles Raiders owner Al Davis supported Bo Jackson and his baseball career and got Bo Jackson to sign a contract by offering him a salary that was comparable to a full-time starting running back but allowing Bo Jackson to only play part-time until the baseball season was done.
Joining the Los Angeles Raiders midway through the 1987 season, Bo Jackson rushed for 554 yards on 81 carries in just 7 games. Over the next 3 seasons, Bo Jackson would rush for 2,228 more yards and 12 touchdowns: a remarkable achievement, in light of the fact that he was a “2nd string” player behind Marcus Allen.
Bo Jackson turned in a 221-yard rushing performance on Monday Night Football in 1987 against the Seattle Seahawks. During this game, he ran over Seahawks linebacker Brian Bosworth, who had insulted Bo Jackson and promised in a media event before the game to contain Bo Jackson. Bo Jackson also made a 91-yard run to the outside, untouched down the sideline. Bo Jackson continued sprinting until finally slowing down as he passed through the entrance to the field tunnel to the dressing rooms with teammates soon following. Bo Jackson scored 2 rushing touchdowns and 1 receiving touchdown in the game.
In his 4 seasons in the NFL, Bo Jackson rushed for 2,782 yards and 16 touchdowns with an average yards per carry of 5.4. Bo Jackson also caught 40 passes for 352 yards and 2 touchdowns. Bo Jackson’s 221 yards on 30 November, 1987, just 29 days after his 1st NFL carry, is still a Monday Night Football record.
On 13 January, 1991, during a Los Angeles Raiders playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Bo Jackson suffered a serious hip injury while being tackled by linebacker Kevin Walker. The injury ended his football career and seriously threatened his baseball career. After Bo Jackson was tackled and lying in pain on the ground, he allegedly popped his hip back into place. In an interview on Untold, his Royals’ teammate George Brett, who attended the game, said he asked the trainer what had happened to Bo Jackson. The trainer replied “Bo says he felt his hip come out of the socket, so he popped it back in, but that’s just impossible, no one’s that strong.”
Following surgery and rehabilitation on his injured hip, it was discovered that Bo Jackson had avascular necrosis, as a result of decreased blood supply to the head of his left femur. This caused deterioration of the femoral head, ultimately requiring that the hip be replaced. Bo Jackson missed the entire 1992 baseball season. When he announced soon after his surgery that he would play baseball again, many thought that goal to be unrealistic, especially at the Major League level.
Before returning to his true professional sports, Bo Jackson tried his luck in basketball. Being a natural athlete, Bo Jackson played briefly for a semi-pro basketball team in L.A. Bo Jackson quickly retired.
Bo Jackson was able to return to the Chicago White Sox in 1993, and at his 1st at-bat, against the New York Yankees, he homered on his 1st swing. The next day Nike ran a full-page ad in USA Today; it simply read “Bo Knew.”
Bo Jackson would hit 16 home runs and 45 RBIs that season; yet while his power remained, he no longer possessed his blazing speed. During his time with the White Sox, Bo Jackson had no stolen bases. For the 1994 season, he was signed as a free agent by the California Angels for 1 final season, where he hit another 13 home runs in 201 at bats, before retiring.
Bo Jackson became a popular figure for his athleticism in multiple sports through the late 1980s and early 1990s. Bo Jackson endorsed Nike and was involved in a popular ad campaign called “Bo Knows” which envisioned Bo Jackson attempting to take up a litany of other sports, including tennis, golf, luge, auto racing, and even playing blues music with Bo Diddley, who scolded Bo Jackson by telling him “You don’t know diddley!”(In a later version of the spot, Bo Jackson is shown playing the guitar expertly, after which an impressed Diddley says, “Bo…you do know Diddley, don’t you?”)
Another clip, envisioning Bo Jackson playing ice hockey, was followed by Wayne Gretzky shaking his head in disbelief and dismissing the effort with a quick “No.” (In his autobiography, Gretzky says his negative rejoinder came in frustration after multiple takes of him saying “Bo knows hockey!” that the director didn’t like. Bo Jackson also said the bits showing Bo playing hockey were actually filmed on a wooden floor, with Bo Jackson in stocking feet.) T shirts sold by Nike capitalizing on their successful ad campaign had a list of Bo Jackson’s sports – both real and imagined – with hockey crossed out.
In a later spot, Bo Jackson sees all the hoopla surrounding him and says, “I have rehab to do! I don’t have time for this!”, after which boxer George Foreman says, “But I do!” and steps in to finish the commercial, now re-dubbed “George Knows.”
Bo Jackson also poked fun at the ad campaign during a guest appearance on a 1st season episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. In the scene, he played basketball with Clark, portrayed by Dean Cain. Bo Jackson clearly is the better athlete, until Clark uses his flying abilities to catch the ball. Bo Jackson replies, “Bo don’t know that!”
Bo Jackson also made an appearance during in an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with Will Smith where he asks Will, as “his close personal friend”, some advice on what to cook for a party saying “an’ when it comes to cooking, Bo Jackson don’t know diddley”.
Bo Jackson’s legend was further cemented by his digital counterpart, affectionately known as “Tecmo Bo”, in the video game Tecmo Super Bowl for the Nintendo Entertainment System. “Tecmo Bo” is one of the best running backs — and arguably the most lethal athlete — in video game history. Players using “Tecmo Bo” have been able to rush for 800-900 yards per game and run all over the field on one play and run out the time of a whole quarter without being tackled.
In retirement, his legend is intertwined with what many 25-35 year-olds recall as the 2nd golden age of home video gaming. Bo Jackson has commented that fans will often come up to him and regale him with stories not of his actual football feats, but rather memorable Tecmo Bowl plays.
Bo Jackson also had his own video game for the original Game Boy portable gaming system, Bo Jackson’s Hit and Run. The game featured both baseball and football, but had no pro licenses for either sport and could not use any team or players’ names. Released around the same time was Bo Jackson Baseball for the Nintendo NES system and IBM compatible computers. The game was heavily criticized by game reviewers and obtained poor sales results.
Bo Jackson had also made an appearance in the recent video game NFL Street 2 released in 2004 as the half back in the Gridiron Legends team. Unlocked by performing a wall move on a hotspot on the sportsplex field, he is available in the pickup pool for pickup games where you pick 7 players from the NFL. When playing the street event “open field showdown”, if you had not made an extremely fast character already in own the city mode or NFL challenge, he will always be picked by the computer. If you completed NFL challenge, you can choose him to be on your team or any other Gridiron legend once you complete the mode.
Following on the heels of this widespread fame, Bo Jackson appeared in ProStars, an NBC Saturday morning cartoon. The show featured Bo Jackson, Wayne Gretzky, and Michael Jordan fighting crime and helping children (although none of the athletes featured actually provided their voices).
In 2007, Nike released a set of Nike Dunk shoes honouring Bo Jackson. The set featured 3 colourways based on previously released Nike shoes: the “Bo Knows” Trainer I, Trainer 91, and Medicine Ball Trainer III.
In 1993, Bo Jackson was honoured with the Tony Conigliaro Award. In 1995, he completed his bachelor of science degree at Auburn to fulfill the promise he made to his mother.
Through the 1990s, Bo Jackson dabbled in acting, having made several television guest appearances 1st on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1990 as well as Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Married with Children. Bo Jackson later appeared in small roles in the films The Chamber and Fakin’ Da Funk.
Bo Jackson served as the President of the HealthSouth Sports Medicine Council, part of Birmingham, Alabama based HealthSouth Corporation. Bo Jackson was also spokesman for HealthSouth’s “Go For It”: Roadshow.
Bo Jackson was given the honour of throwing out the ceremonial 1st pitch before Game 2 of the 2005 World Series.
In 2006, Bo Jackson appeared on the Spike TV sports reality show, Pros vs. Joes. In his 2nd appearance, he easily defeated amateur athletes in a home run-hitting contest. When he bunted instead of swinging on his final try for a home run, the announcer stated, “Bo knows taunting.”
In 2007, Bo Jackson came together with John Cangelosi to form Bo Jackson Elite Sports Complex, an 88,000 square foot multi-sports dome facility in Lockport, Illinois. Bo Jackson is part-owner and CEO of the facility.
To this day he and his family live in Burr Ridge, Illinois.
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Speech Differences And Stutter Series-Disabled Legend Bill Walton
January 28, 2009 — lifechums
William Theodore “Bill” Walton III was born on 5 November, 1952 in La Mesa, California, USA. Bill Walton is a retired American basketball player and current television sportscaster. The “Big Red-Head”, as he was called, achieved superstardom playing for John Wooden’s powerhouse UCLA Bruins in the early ’70s and winning 3 straight College Player of the Year Awards and went on to have a prominent career in the NBA. Bill Walton was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on 10 May, 1993 and the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame that same year. Bill Walton is the father of current Los Angeles Lakers forward Luke Walton.
Bill Walton is the son of Gloria Anne (née Hickey) and William Theodore “Ted” Walton. At the age of 17, he played for the United States men’s national basketball team at the 1970 FIBA World Championship.
Bill Walton played college basketball for John Wooden at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1971 to 1974, winning the national title in 1972 over Florida State and again in 1973 with an 87-66 win over Memphis State in which the big redhead from San Diego made an impressive 21 of 22 field goal attempts and scored 44 points. Some regard this as the greatest ever offensive performance in American college basketball. The Walton-led 1971-72 UCLA basketball team had a record of 30-0, in the process winning its games by an average margin of more than 30points. Bill Walton was the backbone of 2 consecutive 30-0 seasons and was also part of UCLA’s NCAA record 88 game winning streak. The UCLA streak contributed to a personal winning streak that lasted almost 5 years, in which Bill Walton’s high school, UCLA freshman (freshmen were ineligible for the varsity at that time), and UCLA varsity teams did not lose a game from the middle of his junior year of high school to the middle of his senior year in college.
Bill Walton was the 1973 recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Bill Walton also received the USBWA College Player of the Year and Naismith College Player of the Year as the top college basketball player in the country 3 years in a row while attending UCLA, at the same time earning Academic All-American honours 3 times. Some college basketball historians rate Bill Walton as the greatest who ever played the game at the college level. In Bill Walton’s senior year during the 1973-74 season, the school’s 88 game winning streak ended with a 71-70 loss to Notre Dame. Coincidentally, the Bruins’ last loss was to Notre Dame and Austin Carr in 1971 (89-81). Bill Walton admits the loss to Notre Dame (coached by Digger Phelps) to end the 88-game streak still bothers him more than any other loss in his career. During the same season, UCLA’s record 7 consecutive national titles was broken when North Carolina State defeated the Bruins 80-77 in double overtime in the NCAA semi-finals. With Bill Walton’s graduation in 1974 and legendary Bruin coach John Wooden’s retirement after UCLA’s 1975 national title, the unprecedented UCLA dynasty came to an end.
Bill Walton was drafted number 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers and was hailed as the saviour of the franchise. Bill Walton’s 1st 2 seasons were marred by injury (at different times he broke his nose, foot, wrist and leg) and the Blazers missed the playoffs both years. It was not until the 1976-77 season that he was healthy enough to play 65 games and, spurred by new head coach Jack Ramsay, the Trail Blazers became the Cinderella team of the NBA. Bill Walton led the NBA in both rebounds per game and blocked shots per game that season and he was selected to the NBA All-Star Game but did not participate due to an injury. Bill Walton was named to the NBA’s 1st All-Defensive Team and the All-NBA 2nd Team for his regular season accomplishments. In the postseason, Bill Walton led Portland to a sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers in the conference finals (famously outplaying Kareem Abdul-Jabbar during the series) and went on to help the Trail Blazers to the NBA title over the favoured Philadelphia 76ers despite losing the 1st 2 games of the series. Bill Walton was named the Finals MVP.
The following year, the Blazers won 50 of their 1st 60 games before Bill Walton suffered a broken foot in what turned out to be the 1st in a string of foot and ankle injuries that cut short his career. Bill Walton nonetheless won the league MVP that season (1978) and the Sporting News NBA MVP, as well. Bill Walton played in his only All-Star Game in 1978 and was named to both the NBA’s 1st All-Defensive Team and the All-NBA 1st Team. Bill Walton returned to action for the playoffs but was reinjured in the 2nd game of a series against the Seattle SuperSonics. Without Bill Walton to lead them, Portland lost the series to Seattle in 6 games. As it turned out, Bill Walton would never play for the Trail Blazers again. During the offseason, Bill Walton demanded to be traded, citing unethical and incompetent treatment of his and other players’ injuries by the Blazers’ front office. Bill Walton did not get his wish and sat out the 1978-79 season in protest, signing with the San Diego Clippers when he became a free agent in 1979.
Bill Walton spent several seasons alternating between the court and the disabled list with his hometown San Diego Clippers. After the 1984-85 campaign, Bill Walton called on 2 of the league’s premier teams, the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. After several players on the Celtics said they liked the idea of having Bill Walton as a teammate backing up Robert Parish and Kevin McHale, Red Auerbach made the deal happen. One anecdote that particularly illustrates Bill Walton’s decision to choose the Boston Celtics over the Los Angeles Lakers is about Larry Bird, who happened to be in Auerbach’s office when Bill Walton called and said that if Bill Walton felt healthy enough to play that it was good enough for him, as opposed to Los Angeles Lakers GM Jerry West, who was hedging his interest in Bill Walton pending a doctor’s report. Boston Celtics acquired Bill Walton by sending popular forward Cedric Maxwell to the San Diego Clippers along with a 1st-round draft pick. Providing a reliable backup to Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, Bill Walton received the NBA 6th Man Award that season en route to the NBA Championship, becoming the only player to have ever won an NBA Finals MVP, 6th Man Award, and regular season MVP. Bill Walton is the last player to win a 6th Man Award the same year he played on an NBA Champion-winning team.
Bill Walton injured himself again the following season, but returned for the 1987 playoffs. Bill Walton spent the 1987-88 season on the injured list. Bill Walton attempted a comeback in February 1990, but injury intervened and he retired from the game. Bill Walton’s ankle problems became so severe years later that he had both his ankles surgically fused. Bill Walton’s saga of injury and failed rehabs was connected to the use of pain killers by the doctor who was assigned to his case. Bill Walton has said repeatedly in his broadcasts that he is just as much to blame for taking the medication as the doctor was for giving it to him. Yet his experience with injuries and the circumstances surrounding them have come to serve as a warning for professional athletes who undergo major injury as well as being an interesting case study for medical ethics. Bill Walton’s injuries, along with his 1978-1979 year-long protest, gave him an unpleasant, if not odd, record. Bill Walton holds the record for the most games missed during an NBA playing career, when taking into account the number of years he was officially listed as a player on a team roster.
Bill Walton was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, and had his number 32 retired by the Blazers in 1989. In 1996, he was named as one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players of all time.
Since his retirement as a player, Bill Walton has overcome a severe stuttering problem to become a successful and controversial NBA colour commentator for NBC(1990-2002), Los Angeles Clippers (1990-2002) and ABC/ESPN (since 2002).
Bill Walton’s trademark catchphrases include, “That’s a terrible call! Terrible,” “Where in the world is [x]?” (for a player who has disappeared from a game), “What is a foul?”, “Dial a violation,” “He couldn’t even inbound the ball!”, “Throw it down, big man! Throw it down!”, and “Basketball is a game played by men competing for the ultimate prize”. In addition after a predominantly one-handed player makes a basket going to his strong hand Bill Walton will summarize the action and then say, “He’s left-handed by the way Marv” or “Someone should tell player x that player y is left-handed and promises to be so for the remainder of the game,” intimating that perhaps the defender should defend that side of the player. Bill Walton typically is paired up with Steve “Snapper” Jones for NBA games due to him and Steve Jones having a point-counterpoint banter during games. Despite their frequent on-air argumentative banter they are actually good friends as was evidenced in Bill Walton’s short lived 2003 TV series Bill Walton’s Long Strange Trip.
In addition, his commentary during games is notable for his frequent use of hyperbole. In one instance where Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs had a pass deflected out of bounds by a defender, Bill Walton stated, “Tony Parker just made the worst pass in the history of Western civilization!” Often this is done to intentional or perhaps unintentional comedic effect. Bill Walton also is rumoured to have challenged Marv Albert to a wrestling cage match and was considered “out of line” for the provocation. During one game he announced, Bill Walton stated, “I am the hero, I am No. 1, I can go in there and shake and bake all those youngins and teach them some real basketball so they can stop their complaining”.
Bill Walton currently resides in his hometown of San Diego with his wife Lori. Bill Walton and his 1st wife, Susie, have 4 sons: Adam, Nathan, Luke, and Chris. Luke, although not as tall as his father, played collegiately for the University of Arizona and now plays for the Los Angeles Lakers as a forward. Another of Bill Walton’s sons, Chris, played for San Diego State University. Nate, his middle son, played basketball at Princeton University but then entered the corporate world and earned his MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. (Bill Walton himself attended Stanford Law School for 2 years but never graduated.) Nate was also on the ballot for the 2003 California Recall Election, receiving 1,697 votes. Bill Walton’s other son, Adam, also played NCAA basketball at LSU.
Bill Walton is also a well-known fan of the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers Band, Neil Young, Phish, and Bob Dylan. Bill Walton attended more than 650 Grateful Dead concerts, including traveling with the band to Egypt for its famous 1978 performance before the Pyramids (joining the band on drums), quotes Dead lyrics in TV and radio interviews. To fellow Deadheads, Bill Walton is fondly known as “Grateful Red” and the “Big Red Deadhead” and “World’s Tallest Deadhead”. In the video for “Touch of Grey”, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is wearing a Celtics jacket that was given to him by Bill Walton. In 2001, Bill Walton was officially inducted into The Grateful Dead Hall of Honour.
Bill Walton expounds upon his music interests on his own satellite radio show, One More Saturday Night (named after the Dead song “One More Saturday Night”), heard during late prime time on Sirius Radio’s Jam On channel. Bill Walton has stated in his online introduction to his radio show column that he enjoys going to concerts alone because then he has fewer things in between him and reaching the omega point that all concert goers seek at shows.
Bill Walton still has a committed relationship with the Boston Celtics, if not professionally, as a fan. Despite the area where he grew up, and the team his son Luke plays for, Bill Walton is careful to point out, “Even though I grew up in the heart of Laker country, the Boston Celtics were always MY team”. Bill Walton also keeps a picture of the floor of the old Boston Garden in his kitchen.
In June 2008, he was asked by ESPN to predict the outcome of the NBA finals matchup between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, their 1st meeting in the finals since 1987, his 2nd and final as player for Boston Celtics. Bill Walton predicted the Boston Celtics would take the series in 6 games, a prediction that came true on 17th of that month.
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Speech Differences And Stutter Series-Disabled Legend Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton was born on 27 March, 1940 in Warren, Ohio, USA. Austin Pendleton is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor.
Austin Pendleton is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key Society. As a stage actor, he has appeared in The Last Sweet Days of Isaac (for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance), The Diary of Anne Frank, Grand Hotel, Goodtime Charley, The Little Foxes, Fiddler on the Roof, and Up from Paradise.
Austin Pendleton penned the plays Uncle Bob, Booth, and Orson’s Shadow, all of which were staged off-Broadway. Austin Pendleton’s direction of Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton in Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes garnered him a Tony Award nomination. Additional directing credits include Spoils of War by Michael Weller, The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt, and The Size of the World by Charles Evered.
Austin Pendleton served as Artistic Director for Circle Repertory Company with associate artistic director Lynne Thigpen.
Austin Pendleton is an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. began his artistic relationship there by directing Ralph Pape’s Say Goodnight, Gracie for the 1979-80 season. In addition to directing at Steppenwolf, Austin Pendleton has appeared as an actor in such Steppenwolf productions as Uncle Vanya, Valparaiso and Educating Rita.
Austin Pendleton has had several television roles as well including a recurring role on HBO’s Oz as the mentally unstable murderer William Giles. Austin Pendleton did his voice-over work as Gurgle in Finding Nemo.
In August 2006, Austin Pendleton appeared as the Chaplain in Bertholt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline in the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater production directed by George C. Wolfe at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, New York City.
In 2007, he appeared as Friar Lawrence in the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
Austin Pendleton Pendleton currently teaches acting at the HB Studio and directing at The New School for Drama, both in Greenwich Village.
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Speech Differences And Stutter Series-Disabled Legend Arthur Blank
Arthur M. Blank was born on 27 September, 1942, in Sunnyside, New York, USA. Arthur Blank is an American businessman and a co-founder of Home Depot. Today he is known for his philanthropy and his ownership of the Atlanta Falcons team in the National Football League and the Georgia Force team in the Arena Football League.
Arthur Blank grew up in Flushing, New York, with his father, Max, his mother, Molly, and his older brother, Michael. Arthur Blank graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and went on to attend Babson College, where he graduated in 3 years in 1963 with a B.S. degree in Business Administration. In 2009, Arthur Blank was awarded by prestigious Georgia Speaker of the Year by Emory’s Barkley Forum Debate Society.
After graduating from college, Arthur Blank was hired by Handy Dan Hardware, and worked his way up through the company to become a regional manager. Arthur Blank was fired in 1978 for a disagreement with executives.
In 1978, Arthur Blank co-founded Home Depot with Bernie Marcus, another former Handy Dan manager. New York investment banker Ken Langone assembled the initial group of investors. The store revolutionized the home improvement business with its warehouse concept and Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus became billionaires as a result. Arthur Blank spent 19 years as the company’s chief financial officer before succeeding Bernie Marcus as CEO. Arthur Blank retired from the company in 2001 as co-chairman.
In February 2002, Arthur Blank purchased the Atlanta Falcons franchise in the National Football League from longtime owner Taylor Smith. In September 2004, he bought the Arena Football League franchise, the Georgia Force; he moved the team back to the city of Atlanta after it had spent several years in suburban Gwinnett County.
Arthur Blank has expressed serious interest in purchasing other Atlanta franchises. In early 2006, he temporarily withdrew from contention as a potential buyer of the Major League Baseball team Atlanta Braves. Some months later, Arthur Blank re-entered serious talks with Time Warner and a report indicated that a sale was imminent. However, in February 2007, the Atlanta Braves completed the sale of the team to Liberty Media. Arthur Blank has also spoke of purchasing an expansion franchise in Major League Soccer. Atlanta is currently being considered for MLS expansion.
Arthur Blank is the Chairman, President, and CEO of AMB Group, LLC, and the Arthur Blank Family Foundation. Arthur Blank serves on the Board of Trustees of Emory University. Arthur Blank is married with Stephanie and they have 6 children and 2 grandchildren. As of 17 September, 2008, his net worth was estimated at $1.3,000,000,000. Arthur Blank was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2006. Arthur Blank and his wife reside in the Buckhead section of Atlanta, along with their 3 youngest children. A strong believer in work-life balance, Arthur Blank still makes time daily for working out and spending time with family.
In 2009, Arthur Blank was named Georgia Speaker of the Year by the Barkley Forum debating society of Emory University.
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Speech Differences And Stutter Series-Disabled Legend Enoch Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett was born on 27 May 1867 in a modest house in Hanley, one of a conurbation of 6 towns which joined together at the beginning of the 20th century as Stoke-on-Trent, in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Enoch Bennett died on 27 March 1931 of typhoid at his home in Baker Street, London, England, UK. Enoch Bennett’s ashes are buried in Burslem cemetery. Their daughter Virginia Eldin lived in France and was president of the Arnold Bennett Society.
Enoch Bennett was an English novelist.
Enoch Bennett’s father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the family were able to move to a larger house between Hanley and Burslem. The younger Enoch Bennett was educated locally in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Enoch Bennett was employed by his father – his duties included rent collecting. Enoch Bennett was unhappy working for his father for little financial reward, and the theme of parental miserliness is important in his novels. In his spare time he was able to do a little journalism, but his breakthrough as a writer was to come after he had moved from his native Potteries. At the age of 21, he left his father’s practice and went to London as a solicitor’s clerk.
Enoch Bennett won a literary competition in Tit-Bits magazine in 1889 and was encouraged to take up journalism full time. In 1894, he became assistant editor of the periodical Woman. Enoch Bennett noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial which was bought by the syndicate for £75.00. Enoch Bennett then wrote another. This became The Grand Babylon Hotel. Just over 4 years later, his 1st novel A Man from the North was published to critical acclaim and he became editor to the magazine.
From 1900 he devoted himself full time to writing, giving up the editorship and writing much serious criticism, and also theatre journalism, one of his special interests. Enoch Bennett moved to Trinity Hall Farm, Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, on Watling Street, which was the inspiration for his novel Teresa of Watling Street, which came out in 1904. Enoch Bennett’s father Enoch Bennett died there in 1902, and is buried in Chalgrove churchyard. In 1902, Anna of the 5 Towns, the 1st of a succession of stories which detailed life in the Potteries, appeared.
In 1903, he moved to Paris, where other great artists from around the world had converged on Montmartre and Montparnasse. Enoch Bennett spent the next 8 years writing novels and plays. In 1908 The Old Wives’ Tale was published, and was an immediate success throughout the English-speaking world. After a visit to America in 1911, where he had been publicised and acclaimed as no other visiting writer since Dickens, he returned to England where Old Wives’ Tale was reappraised and hailed as a masterpiece. During the First World War, he became Director of Propaganda at the War Ministry. Enoch Bennett refused a knighthood in 1918. Enoch Bennett won the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Riceyman Steps and in 1926, at the suggestion of Lord Beaverbrook, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the Evening Standard newspaper.
Osbert Sitwell, in a letter to James Agate, notes that Enoch Bennett was not, despite current views, “the typical businessman, with his mean and narrow outlook”. Osbert Sitwell cited a letter from Enoch Bennett to a friend of James Agate, who remains anonymous, in Ego 5:
I find I am richer this year than last; so I enclose a cheque for £500.00 for you to distribute among young writers and artists and musicians who may need the money. You will know, better than I do, who they are. But I must make one condition, that you do not reveal that the money has come from me, or tell anyone about it.
Enoch Bennett separated from his French wife in 1922, and fell in love with the actress Dorothy Cheston, with whom he stayed for the rest of his life.
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Brazilian office for SNPTC via World Nuclear News
China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corp (SNPTC) has set up its first South American office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The office was formally inaugurated by Chinese consul general Chen Xiaoling and Shen Weidong, the head of SNPTC’s Brazilian delegation, at a ceremony attended by diplomats and representatives of Chinese businesses, enterprises and financial institutions. At the ceremony, Chen Xiaoling said that she hoped the office would enrich and enhance the level of bilateral cooperation between the two nations.
SNPTC was set up in 2004 to take charge of technology selection for new plants being bid from overseas, and has extensive overseas partnerships, notably with Westinghouse. Together the two companies are working on the construction of four Westinghouse-supplied AP1000 reactors at Haiyang 1 and 2 and Sanmen 1 and 2, the first of a fleet of AP1000 reactors planned for China. Technology transfer to general contractor SNPTC has formed a major part of the project, and the company is involved in the development of the CAP1400 reactor with a view to the export market.
Brazil’s two nuclear reactors at Angra currently provide around 3% of its electricity, and a third unit is under construction at the site. Looking further ahead, state nuclear company Eletronuclear is considering building two new four-unit plants, although construction is not likely to start before 2020. No design has been chosen yet, although Westinghouse’s AP1000, Areva-Mitusbishi’s Atmea1 and AtomStroyExport’s VVER-1000 are being considered.
Read more at Brazilian office for SNPTC
Tagged with Atomic Age, Brazil, China, China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corp, energy policy, SNPTC.
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Settlement for Tarrytown Passenger Injured in Car Accident
by admin | Apr 4, 2015 | Personal Injury
Martin & Colin, P.C. announces a six figure settlement for a passenger injured in a car accident on State Route 84 at the intersection of State Route 23 in the Town of Cairo, County of Greene, and State of New York.
The passenger injured in the automobile accident was a resident of Tarrytown, New York, visiting family members in Greene County in 2013. On her way home, the plaintiff was seated in the rear seat, passenger side, wearing her seatbelt, when her car was struck by another vehicle that failed to yield when entering State Route 23. The front of the vehicle the plaintiff was traveling in made contact with the front left of the other vehicle. The collision of the vehicles was brutal and caused both vehicles to sustain extensive property damage. The plaintiff suffered physical injuries in the car crash. She was transported by ambulance from the scene of the accident to Columbia Medical Hospital emergency room where she made complaints of pain in her neck, shoulder, back and was diagnosed with a broken foot.
A friend of the injured passenger referred her to the injury lawyers at Martin & Colin, P.C. We commenced a lawsuit on the injured victim’s behalf, alleging that the driver of the other car was careless and negligent in the operation of his motor vehicle; in failing to be observant of the surrounding circumstances; and in failing to observe plaintiff’s motor vehicle. We also alleged that the car crash was caused by the other driver’s operation of his car in violation of New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law provisions: NYS VTL 1110 (failure to obtain a traffic control device), NYS VTL 1142 (failure to yield the right of way), and NYS VTL 1143 (failure to yield when entering a roadway).
As the lawsuit progressed, the injured passenger’s back and neck injuries resolved through physical therapy. However, advanced medical testing, including MRIs, revealed that the intense pain in the woman’s left shoulder resulted from a full-thickness rotator cuff tendon tear with impingement. Orthopedic surgery was required. Although the surgery repaired the shoulder injury and ended the pain, the surgery left three permanent scars on her left shoulder.
The injured plaintiff asked her lawyers at Martin & Colin, P.C. to obtain a reasonable settlement if at all possible, rather than take the case all the way through trial. When our experienced car accident lawyers obtained a six figure settlement offer, the plaintiff elected to settle her case without a trial.
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Resources documenting the life and times of Mr Nelson Mandela are to be found in an extraordinary range of locations, both within South Africa and internationally. These resources are embedded in various legal and other jurisdictions. The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory provides a unique facility which allows people access to this history.
Locates, documents, and ensures the preservation of these scattered resources
Collects and curates Mr Mandela’s personal archive
Promotes public access to these resources and fosters dialogue around them
Ensures that all initiatives in the name of Nelson Mandela are true to his legacy
The Centre also seeks to reach both global audiences and those systematically disadvantaged within South Africa by:
Undertaking outreach programmes, including travelling exhibitions, books, comic series, and internships
Ensuring web-based access to information through its web portal
Supporting digitisation initiatives designed to broaden access to resources
Facilitating research by individuals and institutions
We believe that the vehicle for sharing this effectively, for growing it, and for engaging it in the promotion of justice, is dialogue. We actively open our work – on the life and times of Mr Nelson Mandela, the events and the people he influenced or was influenced by – to debate and discussion. And we draw on this in convening dialogue on critical social issues that present a threat to justice in society.
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This Year No Losar; Poem from inside Tibet
February 12, 2009 in 1959 Tibetan National Uprising, 50th Anniversary, Action for Tibet, Anti-Chinese Protest, China, Chinese force, Free Tibet, Human Rights, Lhasa, No Losar, Photo, Tibet | Leave a comment
This year no Losar.
Last year was washed by blood.
In Lhasa countless compatriots
were fallen under a piercing arrow.
This year no Losar for us.
In Szechuan, countless people buried
under the earth.
There is only the word “No” on your lips,
We are speechless.
You are filled with anger.
We have no bitterness.
For the sake of the deceased,
valiant heroes,
Let us offer our regrets.
For the deceased people,
Let us make offerings.
– By an anonymous Tibetan blogger (heard on Students for a Free Tibet “Our Nation”).
Heavy handed response to Tibet demonstration, London.
February 1, 2009 in Action for Tibet, Anti-Chinese Protest, Buddhism, Free Tibet, Human Rights, news, Photo, photography, Tibet | Tags: China, London, Tibet protest, Wen Jiaobao | Leave a comment
Scuffles broke out between police and protesters at a pro-Tibet demonstration outside the Chinese embassy in London.
The protest was organised to coincide with a state visit by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7863707.st
Use of Torture Widespread in Tibet, Report Says
December 10, 2008 in Action for Tibet, Anti-Chinese Protest, China, Dalai Lama, Free Tibet, Human Rights, Jigme Gyatso, news, Photo, photography, Tibet | Leave a comment
The use of torture in the restless Chinese region of Tibet is widespread and routine and officials regularly ignore legal safeguards supposed to be in place to prevent it, a new report said on Wednesday.
This photo, taken in the second week of November, shows Chinese soldiers patrolling the area around the Jokhang Temple in central Lhasa. Recent reports indicate China has intensified its military presence in Tibet amid fears of recurring protests in the restive Himalayan region. (Phayul/Photo: Courier Mail)
Even when detainees are released, they may die of their injuries, be scarred for life mentally or physically and not be able to afford medical treatment or be denied it completely, the Free Tibet group said.
“Despite claims by the Chinese government that there are ‘extremely few cases of torture’, the evidence tells a different story,” Free Tibet director Stephanie Brigden said. “There is no doubt that the Chinese government is permitting the use of torture as a weapon to suppress the Tibetan people.”
China’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment and calls to the spokesman’s office of the Chinese-run Tibetan government in Lhasa went unanswered.
Chinese troops marched into Tibet in 1950 and the region’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled into exile in 1959 after a failed uprising against Beijing’s rule.
Mountainous and remote Tibet was rocked by anti-Chinese protests earlier this year, which China blamed on the Dalai Lama, whom it brands a separatist. He has repeatedly denied the claims.
Free Tibet said it had profiled numerous cases of torture carried out against people detained following the demonstrations, which spilled over into other ethnically Tibetan parts of China such as Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan provinces.
It said that one monk at the Labrang monastery in Gansu, Jigme Gyatso, had to be hospitalised for almost a month after his injuries received in detention.
“They would hang me up for several hours with my hands tied to a rope … hanging from the ceiling and my feet above the ground. Then they would beat me on my face, chest, and back, with the full force of their fists,” he said in the report.
“Finally, on one occasion, I lost consciousness and was taken to hospital. After I regained consciousness at the hospital, I was once again taken back to prison where they continued the practice of hanging me from the ceiling and beating me.”
China has vowed to stamp out torture in its judicial system, described as widespread by some critics, in the face of international and domestic pressure.
Last month, the U.N. Committee Against Torture, in a rare public review of China’s record, expressed dissatisfaction with a “very serious information gap” about abuses in the country where criminal justice information is often considered a state secret. Free Tibet, in the report issued to coincide with International Human Rights Day, said Chinese laws aimed at protecting detainees were regularly ignored in Tibet.
“The international community can no longer hide behind sound bites condemning China’s human rights track record in Tibet and must now take specific actions to reverse the worsening crisis in Tibet,” Brigden added.
China and envoys of the Dalai Lama have been meeting on and off for the past few years, but with little to show for their talks.
Beijing has rejected the Dalai Lama’s calls for greater autonomy as being part of a plot for covert independence.
On Wednesday, the semi-official China News Service quoted Si Ta, a deputy head of the United Front Work Department which handles relations with non-Communists and ethnic and religious minorities, as repeating that the door to talks was always open.
“The Party still has expectations of the Dalai Lama and plenty of patience, but ‘Tibet independence’, ‘half independence’ or ‘covert independence’ are unacceptable,” it paraphrased him as saying in Washington.
81-year-old Tibetan Should Be Freed–Human Rights Watch
December 6, 2008 in Action for Tibet, Art, Buddhism, China, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, imprisonment, master printer, Paljor Norbu, Photo, photography, Sepratism, Tibetan Flag | 1 comment
The international community should protest the imprisonment and secret sentencing of Paljor Norbu, an 81-year-old Tibetan traditional printer, and seek his immediate exoneration and unconditional release, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.
According to HRW, Norbu was taken by the police from his home in Lhasa on October 31, 2008, on suspicion that he had printed “prohibited material,” including the banned Tibetan flag. During his detention, judicial authorities refused to inform his relatives that he was being detained, or to reveal the charges against him, HRW said on its website. “He was tried in secret in November and sentenced to seven years in prison. A letter informing his family of the sentence was then hand-delivered to them. His current whereabouts are unknown.”
“Just about any material on Tibet that lacks the Chinese Communist Party’s explicit blessing is ‘prohibited material,’” said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “But no one should be jailed for printing flags, books, or pictures just because a government would prefer to suppress those ideas – that’s why freedom of expression is a basic right.”
Although the authorities have not made public the details of the verdict, the nature of the initial accusations leveled against Norbu and the length of the sentence suggest that he was tried on charges of “inciting separatism” (article 103 of the Criminal Law). This vaguely defined crime has been used repeatedly to silence Tibetans resisting the tight and often arbitrary limits imposed on their freedom of expression by Chinese law, said Richardson.
A descendant of a family with a long history of printing and publishing Buddhist texts for monasteries, Norbu is an internationally renowned master printer. He used both modern and traditional woodblock printing techniques in his workshop, which employed several dozen workers. In addition to religious texts, the shop printed prayer flags, folk reproductions, books, leaflets, and traditional literature.
After Norbu’s arrest, the police closed his shop, affixed notices of official closure on the door, and prohibited employees from returning. The police also confiscated books and woodblocks from the shop’s collection.
“Instead of persecuting Paljor Norbu, the Chinese government should prize his contributions toward historical and cultural preservation,” said Richardson.
Human Rights Watch said that Norbu was not granted even the minimal rights that are supposed to be provided under Chinese criminal procedures. Violations included the failure to notify his family of his formal arrest or of the trial date; the refusal to reveal where he was detained; the failure to allow him defense representation of his choice in court; the failure to communicate the full verdict of the trial; and, the refusal to inform the family of his current whereabouts and of where he will serve his prison term.
Human Rights Watch said it has observed an increase in the number of arrests and convictions related to exercising the freedom of expression in recent weeks, indicating that the crackdown that Chinese authorities threatened after Tibetan protests in March 2008 was extending beyond the people suspected of involvement in those demonstrations. Other recent cases include:
· Jigme Gyatso (lay name Jigme Guri), a senior monk from the Labrang monastery, who was re-arrested on November 4 after he described how he had been tortured by the police during his detention in March and who is now in custody in Lanzhou (Gansu province);
· Norzin Wangmo (Chinese name: Longzhen Wangmu [龙真旺姆]), an employee of the Judicial Bureau of Hongyuan county (Sichuan province), sentenced on November 3 to five years of imprisonment after he told relatives abroad of the situation in Tibet; and
· Dhondup Wangchen, who had been detained in March in Tong De (Qinghai province), for his role in filming a clandestine documentary in the Tibetan areas. He is being held in the Ershilipu detention center in Xining.
“The Chinese government will almost certainly say that the charges brought against Paljor Norbu were ‘in accordance with the law,’” said Richardson. “But, by definition, those laws restrict free speech, and until the government brings its laws into conformity with international human rights norms, we will continue to see peaceful critics like Norbu incarcerated for alleged ‘separatism.’”
Woeser – “What is This?”
December 4, 2008 in "What is This?", Action for Tibet, Anti-Chinese Protest, Buddhism, Free Tibet, Gyatso, Human Rights, Jokhang, Labrang, Mechak, Monks, news, Photo, photography, Protest, Tibet, Woeser | Leave a comment
From Mechak.org (Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art)
What is this? Let that Moment Become Eternal!
New Works by the Tibetan Artist Losang Gyatso
by Woeser
Likely they had known that that moment would appear not only on televisions in many countries but also through the omnipresent internet connections. Let alone other venues, the first ten pages of a YouTube search for “Jokhang” can lead to at least nearly a score of videos that were from the footage recorded that moment. They must have known it. They must have been told in advance that reporters from foreign media (a couple dozen of them) would arrive in Jokhang that morning – for the first time in seventeen days since the temple was closed on March 10th. Everyone was ready. Authorities had assigned some of the most obedient Tibetans to cooperate. Yet, “Those worshippers, they are all cadres in disguise; it’s a cheat….,” they, those monks in Jokhang, told the truth at that moment. Apparently, they had been preparing to speak out. Nevertheless, it is impossible that they had not thought of the unpredictable price they would have to pay by doing so. As a result, their participation disclosed the episode which was orchestrated to give the impression that Tibetans are fortunate and free. While rushing out to surround reporters, they desperately yelled: “No, we don’t have freedom! The Dalai Lama is innocent….” The reporters who had been invited to tour the tightly controlled Lhasa finally saw the act which had the most shocking journalistic effect; in a matter of minutes, the authorities were left no place to hide the intention behind the show they had wanted to stage. That shocking moment was said to have lasted about fifteen minutes. I remember clearly the indescribable pain which I felt that evening when watching the short segment of that moment on the internet. I was reminded of this line by Anna Akhmatova – “The heart gives up its blood.”
Nevertheless, most likely they have not known that, months later, that moment had been recreated by an artist. Although art should be unbounded by boundaries of nation and artists are often not tied to their native place — as deities are not confined by their sex, I would still rather refer to this artist in a more restrictive and somehow assertive manner. He, Losang Gyatso (la – according to the formality of our tradition) is a Tibetan artist. The point here is “Tibet.” Although he now lives Washington, DC, although he has not returned to his native place in the Snow Lands for the past forth-nine (and soon fifty) years, he is the Tibetan artist who has through his work of art transformed that moment into six images. In the meantime, he has also created another six images to note another moment in the Labrang Monastery in Amdo, which was as crucial as the one in Jokhang. These twelve images are all modeled after monks who are recognizably Tibetan and native, and they are a great deal similar to each other. Yet, they are also apparently different. One image is more so than the other in overwhelming their beholders. I can nearly hear their voiceless cries piercing through the internet; my ears hurt.
European Parliament Fasts in Support of Tibet
December 4, 2008 in Action for Tibet, Anti-Chinese Protest, China, Dalai Lama, European Parliament, Human Rights, news, Photo, photography, PRC, Tibet, Tibet Intergroup | Leave a comment
At a press conference held this afternoon, the Tibet Intergroup of the European Parliament reiterated its support for the ‘Middle Way’ – the policy being pursued by the Tibetan Government-in-Exile in its negotiations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Opening the press conference, the Tibet Intergroup President, Mr. Thomas Mann MEP, spoke of the need to maintain a spirit of dialogue. The participation of over thirty members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and five hundred officials in a fast to coincide with the visit of the Dalai Lama to the European Parliament represented a “great success”
Mr. Mann went on to express his hope that the French President, Nicholas Sarkozy, would use his forthcoming meeting with the Dalai Lama in Gdansk, Poland, on 6 December 2008 to show that the European Union would not give in to Beijing.
Echoing Mr. Mann’s comments, Ms. Eva Lichtenberger told journalists that she was “delighted” by the support the fast has received and called on members of the European institutions “to be consistent and clear” in the messages they sent to the PRC.
Ms. Lichtenberger noted that following the Olympic Games in August 2008 the situation for Tibetans had got worse and that the “Tibetan people need our support more than ever before”.
Mr. Marco Cappato MEP pressed for a unified approach to the Tibet issue from the international community. Two stories were being told, Mr. Cappato stated, one of which was true and the other which was not. In such circumstances the international community could not be neutral and had to come out in support of human rights in Tibet, and China as a whole.
Before opening the conference to questions, Mr. MacMillan-Scott MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament, recalled his own visit to the PRC in 1996 and the subsequent detention by the Chinese authorities of those individuals with whom he had met. He believed that the timing of the fast was therefore “very significant” and it was crucial that the European Union remained committed to maintaining pressure on the PRC.
Answering questions from the assembled press, members of the Intergroup expressed their belief that the fast was an important sign, and one of which the Chinese authorities would take note. Mr. Cappato stated that the fast “means something for the Chinese” – going on to say that Beijing’s cancellation of the EU-China summit was in itself a demonstration of the value Beijing placed upon such symbolic acts.
Exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama (C), addresses the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday, December 4, 2008. Dalai Lama is on two-day visit in Belgium.
Tibetan Exiles Demand Chinese Sincerity, to Uphold “Middle-Way” Policy
November 23, 2008 in Action for Tibet, Autonomy, Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, Free Tibet, Human Rights, Karma Chophel, news, Photo, photography, Tibet, Tibetan Government in Exile | Leave a comment
While reaffirming their absolute “faith and allegiance” in the Dalai Lama’s leadership and agreeing to pursue for Tibet’s autonomy, Tibetan exiles did not rule out a possible shift in policy to independence if current middle-way policy fails to yield any result in the near future.
Over 500 Tibetan leaders and representatives from around the world today ended a six-day “Special Meeting”, which was started on Monday, in Dharamsala, the base for the Tibet’s government in exile in northern India.
The speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile Mr Karma Chophel, who chaired the meeting, described the final report of the meeting as a summary of the opinions and suggestions of the people to be submitted to the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama for his further considerations.
“independence” or “autonomy”, the Tibetan people will maintain total commitment to non-violence in their struggle for freedom.
“China has rejected our proposal for a genuine autonomy in all its form. But there is still time for China to respond positively to our sincere efforts,” Chophel told Phayul. “If China is not at all willing to do that, it will only force us to review our current policy again. Then as expressed strongly by Tibetan delegates during the meeting, there is no reason not to consider shifting our policy to independence,” the speaker added.
Jamyang Norbu, a prominent Tibetan writer and a staunch advocate of Tibetan independence, described the meeting itself as an “encouraging” one that gives public an opportunity to express their opinion and accordingly help review the Tibetan government’s policies. He said the meeting had vitalized the need to review and revamp the current middle way policy.
“To have a review of the current policy in future, we must observe Chinese side’s reaction and discuss seriously about it,” he said.
To make China come forward, Lobsang said “it depends on what strategies we adopt and the kind of international pressure that we can build on China.”
Speaker Chophel said the meeting also called on China to stop criticizing and making defamatory attacks on the revered Tibetan leader. He said such remarks not only hurt the sentiments of the Tibetan people, but also hurt the sentiments of Buddhists, including Chinese, around the world and also Tibet supporters and individuals who admire the Dalai Lama’s moral principles.
“The meeting has concluded that China must accept that this year’s unrest in Tibet is a result of its misrule and wrong policies adopted against the Tibetan people for the last many decades. China has said it has evidence to prove that Dalai Lama’s exile groups have instigated the riots in Tibet, but they have already failed to show any evidence to prove their accusations,” he added.
Chophel said Tibetan people “unanimously reaffirming their trust and allegiance to His Holiness the Dalai Lama” during the meeting was a fitting reply to Chinese leadership’s remarks that the Dalai Lama has no right to represent Tibetan people. “Tibetan people reaffirming that they will follow the Dalai Lama in whatever path he deems most appropriate is a clear message; and China must acknowledge this reality,” he added.
Chophel also said the Tibetan envoys, during the latest round of talks with Chinese representatives earlier this month, had also challenged the Chinese government to allow a free and independent poll on what Tibetans inside Tibet have had to say about the Dalai Lama’s role.
Jetsun Pema, former Kalon (Tibetan minister) and the younger sister of the Dalai Lama, said the meeting was an important platform to “prepare for the future” of the Tibetan movement.
“His Holiness the Dalai Lama has always wanted to have a genuine democracy for Tibetan people and he has always promoted it,” Pema said.
Ahead of the ‘special meeting’, some 17,000 Tibetans inside Tibet had also been consulted about their opinions on the future course of action Tibet. Of them more than 8000 Tibetans said they will follow the Dalai Lama’s direction and almost 3000 backed the Dalai Lama’s middle-way approach.
The Dalai Lama is expected to address the meeting delegates on Sunday.
“Undercover in Tibet” Film Honored
November 20, 2008 in Action for Tibet, Anti-Chinese Protest, Buddhism, Documentary, Free Tibet, Human Rights, Jezza Neumann, news, Photo, photography, Tash Despa, Tibet, Undercover in Tibet, video | 5 comments
A television documentary filmed secretly in Tibet has been honored in a competition recognizing the work of freelance cameramen and camerawomen who gather news in “regions where it is difficult to operate.”
The competition, the Rory Peck Awards, is sponsored by the Rory Peck Trust, an independent London-based charity set up in 1995 to provide help to freelance newsgatherers and relatives of those killed, injured, or persecuted in the course of their work.
The Impact award, the category in which the film “Undercover in Tibet” was a competitor, is given “for freelance footage which raises humanitarian issues and has had an impact internationally or contributed to a change in perception or policy.”
The documentary was one of the top three selected for consideration at the annual event, held on Nov. 13 at the British Film Institute in London.
“Undercover in Tibet,” produced by cameraman Jezza Neumann and interviewer Tash Despa, was filmed over three months from late April 2007. It was first broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4 “Dispatches” program on March 31 this year.
“Once I met Tash and learned about the Tibetan cause, I knew how important this film could be,” Neumann said in an interview. “I feel this film is incredibly valuable, as it is video documentation of issues the Chinese are trying to say don’t exist.”
To make their film, Neumann and Despa traveled through Tibet by car, dodging Chinese police and security patrols and speaking to ordinary Tibetans.
Protecting these contacts was their “main concern,” Neumann said.
Though interviews were shot in silhouette, he said, “voices couldn’t be disguised until we returned home, so any footage needed to be hidden on a secret partition of a hard drive, and the tapes destroyed at the earliest opportunity.”
“I also smuggled in a secret camera which I then had to re-wire and assemble once inside Tibet.”
“At all times, we were in danger of arrest given the equipment we were carrying,” Neumann said. “However, this increased at times. For example, one interviewee got wind of spies in the area we were due to meet in, so we changed the rendezvous at the last minute.”
Each meeting was treated as a “military operation” and would take several days to plan, he added.
Often, the men and women that Neumann and Despa spoke with were victims of abuse by Chinese officials and police.
One was a woman coerced into a painful sterilization without anesthetic for having a child “above quota.” Another was a former prisoner who had been tortured for posting leaflets calling for Tibetan independence. Others were nomads deprived of their livestock, livelihood, and land.
“Nothing is better than the grassland,” a nomad woman tells the filmmakers at one point while standing in the road of a desolate forced-resettlement town.
Painful lives
Another nomad, interviewed inside his bleak concrete apartment, describes high rates of alcoholism and depression among the town’s 300 families.
“We live in terror,” he says.
At another point in the film, the former prisoner, who had been immersed in water by his jailers and subjected to electric shock, breaks down part-way through his interview. “I’m less than half the man I was before the Chinese tortured me,” he says.
Tash Despa, a former Tibetan refugee and now a British citizen, conducted the interviews in his native language. He said that he had been asked by a friend on behalf of the British production company True Vision if he would go back into the region to help make the documentary.
“This was a really good chance to show the world what happened in Tibet, to bring the true story out of Tibet,” Despa said. “So I said, ‘Let’s do it!’”
Despa said that he and Neumann flew first into Hong Kong, where they received a visa, and then flew on into Tibet.
“We went all over Tibet: Lhasa, Amdo,” said Despa, who fled Tibet’s northeastern Amdo region himself in 1996. “We couldn’t go to Kham, because we couldn’t find any contacts to meet with.”
Despa said he hopes that audiences viewing the film will “put pressure on their governments to help Tibet.”
The annual Rory Peck Awards provide a platform for filmmakers to “get their stories out, and to get their point of view out,” said Tina Carr, director of the London-based Rory Peck Trust.
“Lots of people get to see all this, and we get a lot of inquiries. And very often, broadcasters who didn’t know about these films see them and want to show them.”
“I’m absolutely certain [this] will happen with Jezza’s piece,” she said.
Click play to watch the dispatches episode here:
Tibetan exiles review tactics against Chinese rule
November 18, 2008 in Action for Tibet, B. Tsering, Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, Free Tibet, Government-in-Exile, Human Rights, Independence, India, Kalon Tripa, Karma Chophel, news, Photo, photography, Samdhong Rinpoche, Tibet, Tibetan Exiles, Tibetan Women's Association | Leave a comment
Speaker of Tibetan parliament-in-exile Karma Choephel
Tibetan exiles worked Tuesday to hammer out a new strategy for their fight against Chinese rule in the region, after the Dalai Lama called for fresh guidance from his followers.
More than 500 prominent Tibetans have gathered at the government in exile’s base in northern India to debate whether to ditch the Dalai Lama’s push for “meaningful autonomy” in favour of a demand for full independence.
B. Tsering, a delegate and president of the Tibetan Women’s Association, said the week of discussions could re-define the movement.
“Everyone feels the big responsibility entrusted to us,” she said after the first sessions of debate. “And there is concern that we are trying to come up with a solid strategic plan in just a few days.
“We are working in groups of 40, hearing representatives express the opinions that they have collected.”
The Tibetan Women’s Association has long supported the Dalai Lama’s “middle way” autonomy policy, but Tsering said it was now time to ask if a new approach was necessary.
“All of us are aware that the Dalai Lama has left no stone unturned in his work and yet he has not had any breakthrough,” she said.
“If at the end of this week the majority feel we should stick to the ‘middle way’, we have to think how we can make it work better. Maybe we have to seek alternatives.”
The Dalai Lama, who is not expected to attend the talks, said earlier this month that the “middle way” had failed, and he was now asking fellow Tibetans how to proceed.
A growing number of young exiles favour a call for independence, but such a policy switch would likely see a sharp drop in international support for their cause — and could also split the community.
Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok, a delegate and member in the parliament in exile, said the meeting, which began Monday, was also focused on the current situation in Tibet.
Prime Minister of Tibetan government in exile, Samdhong Rinpoche (L)
In March, protests against Chinese rule in the capital, Lhasa, erupted into violence that spread to other areas of western China with Tibetan populations.
Tibet’s government in exile said more than 200 Tibetans were killed in the subsequent Chinese crackdown. China has reported police as killing just one “insurgent” and blames Tibetan “rioters” for the deaths of 21 people.
Phuntsok said the Dharamshala talks had already revealed some reluctance to abandon the Dalai Lama’s moderate stance.
“The debate over the ‘middle way’ or independence has started, but changing policy is not easy,” he said. “Perhaps we still have to give more energy to the present approach to see if it can work.”
Phuntsok described the meeting as “good brain-storming” that would result in a clear idea of Tibetan opinion.
The strategy session has no policy-making power — any recommendations would require the approval of the Tibetan parliament — but the prime minister in exile said the outcome would be influential.
“The atmosphere has been rather emotionally charged due to the repression in Tibet and the mixed feelings we have of fear and hope,” Samdhong Rinpoche told reporters on Tuesday.
“We are sincerely committed to democracy, and that means respecting the public opinion that is being sought in this meeting.”
The Dalai Lama was smuggled out of Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, since when thousands of his followers have also fled.
Tibetan Exiles Discuss Impasse with China
November 17, 2008 in Action for Tibet, Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, Free Tibet, Government-in-Exile, Human Rights, Independence, Karma Chophel, news, Photo, photography, Samdhong Rinpoche, Tibet | 1 comment
DHARAMSALA, India: Tibetan leaders opened a six-day meeting over the direction of their struggle with China on Monday, after the Dalai Lama, the region’s exiled spiritual leader, expressed frustration over years of fruitless talks with Beijing.
The meeting here in northern India, called by the Dalai Lama, comes after his comments last month bemoaning the lack of any progress by his envoys in talks with the Chinese government since 2002.
Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, called for an “open and frank discussion” and new ideas. Much of the debate is expected to boil down to two main choices: to continue pushing for Tibetan autonomy or beginning a movement for independence.
Rinpoche said in an opening speech to the hundreds of delegates that the meeting may not necessarily lead to a new approach with China and that any new path needs to have “the clear mandate of the people.”
The Dalai Lama was not expected to attend the meetings, said Lobsang Choedak, press officer of the government-in-exile.
On Sunday, the Dalai Lama’s envoys to the last round of talks with Beijing said in a statement that they had presented China with a detailed plan on how Tibetans could meet their autonomy needs within the framework of the Chinese Constitution. Their plan says the Constitution “contains fundamental principles on autonomy and self-government” that would allow Beijing to “respond to the uniqueness of the Tibet situation.”
But China apparently rejected the plan and recent “Chinese statements distort the position and proposal” outlined in the paper, the statement said.
Chinese officials said no progress was made in the talks two weeks ago, calling the Tibetan stance “a trick.”
“The Dalai Lama or the Tibetan government-in-exile cannot be held responsible for the failure of the Chinese to respond to our sincere and genuine attempts,” said Lodi Gyari, an envoy of the Dalai Lama who has participated in all eight rounds of talks since 2002.
“The Chinese leadership keeps on saying that the doors to a dialogue are always open but they haven’t shown any willingness to take any step, however small, forward,” he said.
China has dismissed the meeting this week as meaningless, saying the participants do not represent the views of most Tibetans. Beijing says the Dalai Lama and his followers are seeking outright independence from Chinese rule.
The Dalai Lama has declined to offer his views on the future of the movement because he said he did not want to tilt the debate in any particular direction.
Karma Chophel, speaker of Parliament in the government-in-exile, said more than 8,000 of 17,000 Tibetans recently surveyed in Tibet said they would follow the Dalai Lama. More than 5,000 said they wanted Tibetan independence, more than twice the number who wanted to continue with the current approach, he said. He did not offer any details about how the survey was conducted.
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A LOSAR GIFT FOR RANGZEN ACTIVISTS – Jamyang Norbu
February 25, 2009 in Free Tibet, Human Rights, Independence, Jamyang Norbu, March 10, March 10th Uprising, news, No Losar, People's Republic of China, Phayul, photography, Rangzen, Tibet, Tibetan History | Tags: China, Government-in-Exile, Losar Gift, No Losar, Students for a Free Tibet, Tibetan Resistance Movement | 1 comment
From Phayul:
Inside Tibet people have made the decision not to celebrate Losar this year. It appears to be not just an expression of sorrow for those Tibetan shot, tortured and imprisoned in last years uprising, but also an act of defiance against the Chinese government that wants to show the world that Tibetans enjoy religious and cultural freedoms under its rule. In exile there has been some debate on whether or not to celebrate Losar. There are valid arguments on both sides, but then again the logic of revolution is another thing altogether. When the struggle calls we can only obey.
Earlier I had written a cultural essay for Losar, but then I decided on a a more political gift for Rangzen advocates and activists. The following piece is actually a pamphlet to be distributed on March 10 and future rallies and meeting, but I thought that those who believe in Rangzen might enjoying sitting back with a chang-koe and reading it on Losar day. Most of us have a general idea of the facts that have been presented before the UN and the world, to show that Tibet was an independent country before the Communist invasion: treaties, the Shakabpa passport, the flag and so on. I have tried to provide details that are probably not that well known but which I hope will edify and perhaps even cheer and encourage.
I have attempted to be scrupulously honest with the facts and have provided authentic references for nearly every claim or statement made in the pamphlet. Since the pamphlet had to be kept short, all the references, additional material, related documentation, photographs, maps, illustrations, audio clips and bibliography will be on a website http://www.rangzen.net. You can access what you want on the section “Independent Tibet – Some Facts” and clicking on the reference number.
The fully laid-out and illustrated pamphlet can be downloaded (in black & white or colour) at the website and can be printed at home or at a commercial printer. Individuals or organization can print and distribute the pamphlet, and space is provided on the front cover for the organizations credit line. The website will be up in a few days – definitely before March 10.
INDEPENDENT TIBET – SOME FACTS
Compiled by Jamyang Norbu for the Rangzen Alliance
FUNCTIONING STATE
Before the Chinese Communist invasion of 1950 Tibet was a fully functioning and independent state. It threatened none of its neighbors, fed its population unfailingly, year after year, with no help from the outside world. Tibet owed no money to any country or international institutions, and maintained basic law and order. Tibet banned capital punishment in 1913 (mentioned by a number of foreign travelers [1]) and was one of the first countries in the world to do so. There is no record of it persecuting minorities (e.g. Muslims [2]) or massacring sections of its population from time to time as China and some other countries do – remember Tiananmen. Although its frontiers with India, Nepal and Bhutan were completely unguarded, very few Tibetans fled their country as economic or political refugees. There was not a single Tibetan immigrant in the USA or Europe before the Communist invasion.
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Illustrations: 54
Trim Size: 6 x 9 inches
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit / Reincarnation
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This is the translation with word-for-word meanings to the original Sanskrit. It has an analysis and application to all except the last three verses. No details are spared in the discussion about the transmigration journeys taken by a soul.
The journey through physical existence and hereafter and then back into this world, repeatedly, is neatly and precisely described by a siddha from a higher dimension. The soul with the effect-energies from its socially-acceptable and criminal acts, travels to the hereafter where it is fittingly rewarded either in a heavenly world or a hellish place. Then it returns to this earthly planet and becomes adapted as an infant of parents.
Anu Gita is intense. It is Krishna’s action thriller. Unlike the Bhagavad Gita where He explained many topics about the application of yoga proficiency to social involvement, the Anu Gita begins with an inquiry into the nature of the individual being and its transmigration between the physical world and the astral existence.
There is no drifting away from the topic. Krishna did not stress his divinity and supremacy as in the Bhagavad Gita. He simply quoted a discourse which occurred between a perfected siddha and Kashyapa.
This has an analysis and application verse by verse which was dictated into the mind of the author by Rishi Singh Gherwal, a mahayogin of repute who is now departed. There are illustrations throughout the text which show the layout of the components of consciousness. These instructions assert the individual’s right to liberation from the material world.
Anu Gītā is the last talk between Krishna and Arjuna, giving the final instructions on how to leave the body and venture into the hereafter. The journey between this location and the afterlife is described, with instructions on how to return here, or go to the celestial heavens for a time.
One can go the spiritual world which is beyond the celestial heavens where the lower deities reside. In this conversation, Krishna did not stress himself as the Supreme Being. Though requested, he declined to show the Universal Form or to repeat the Bhagavad Gita verbatim. Instead Krishna explained what he was told by a siddha who transited from the highest subtle dimension.
Author's Comment:
Anu Gita is the last talk between Krishna and Arjuna, giving the final instructions on how to leave the body and venture into the hereafter. The journey between this location and the afterlife is described, with instructions on how to return here, or go to the celestial heavens for a time.
By John Wilson JW (Songtan, Korea), October 2011:
Anu Gita Explained is much smaller than the other Gita Explained books by this author. And the writing seems to have evolved considerably. It took me three days to read the all 270 pages and here's what I thought:
1) There were a lot more pictures than I expected.
2) The author clearly has a Ph.D. level understanding of our existence in this world and the preparation required to expertly TRANSIT OUT of it at the time of death.
3) The analysis and application of the ANCIENT AND ONCE-SECRET text is very clear. Imagine a sliding slope of evolutionary CONSCIOUSNESS and this writing explains how to move up or down on that evolutionary plane.
4) The MAIN POINTS that I took away from the book are:
It is very important to MASTER ASTRAL PROJECTION before the end of this lifetime as that's the means of travel and operation after the spirit departs the flesh body.
The CORE SPIRIT is made up of a spiritual quality and those who seek spirituality, seek to place the core self in a place that is on par with it 100%.
Most individuals are focused on material existence, some individuals are focused religiously, and the least of individuals are focused on self-realization. This book is for all three but is of the most use to the latter category who have DETERMINATION.
The author makes an excellent analogy...A slave (to material existence) who does not how he was captured can still PLAN HIS ESCAPE through observation and knowledge of his owner's habits.
Bottom line, if you are SEEKING, then this is the best book for you to read and it explains the ancient knowledge about eternal realities and machinations of the INNER PSYCHE. The last sentences of the book say, "This is all that is to be said. There is nothing beyond this. [...] ONE WHO PRACTICES PROFICIENTLY AND CONSISTENTLY FOR SIX MONTHS ACCOMPLISHES THIS."
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# [http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/clinical/features.html Pertussis: Clinical Features from CDC]
# [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16552064 Elahi S, Buchanan RM, Attah-Poku S, Townsend HG, Babiuk LA, Gerdts V. The host defense peptide beta-defensin 1 confers protection against Bordetella pertussis in newborn piglets. PubMed. 2006 Apr.]
# [http://iai.asm.org/content/61/2/399 Mills K.H., Barnard A, Watkins J, and Redhead K. Cell-mediated immunity to Bordetella pertussis: role of Th1 cells in bacterial clearance in a murine respiratory infection model. ASM. 1993 Feb.]
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Microbiology in Italy[1]
Haemophilus pertussis inside a lung[2]
1 Etiology/Bacteriology
1.1 Taxonomy
2 Pathogenesis
2.1 Transmission
2.2 Infectious dose, incubation, and colonization
2.3 Epidemiology
2.4 Virulence factors
2.4.1 Ahesins
2.4.2 Autotransporters
2.4.3 Toxins
3 Clinical features
6 Prevention
7 Host Immune Response
Etiology/Bacteriology
| Domain = Bacteria | Phylum = Proteobacteria | Class = Betaproteobacteria | Order = Burkholderiales | Family = Alcaligenaceae | Genus = Bordetella | species = pertussis
NCBI: Taxonomy Genome: [4]
Pertussis, more commonly known as “whooping cough,” had its first epidemic in Paris, France in 1578. Thomas Sydenham named it “pertussis,” meaning “violent cough.” The organism that causes this disease is called Heamophilus pertussis or Bordetella pertussis. It was first isolated in 1906 by Jules Bordet. B. pertussis is an aerobic, non-spore forming, Gram-negative ccoccobacillus bacterial pathogen that is strict to infecting and residing in the mouth, nose, and throat of humans[4][5].
Transmission of B. pertussis occurs via airborne respiratory droplets from other people’s coughs and sneezes [4] [5]. Adults and adolescents serves as reservoirs for transmission of B. pertussis to infants and children [4].
Infectious dose, incubation, and colonization
There are four important steps relating to infection, colonization, and disease due to B. pertussis: (i) attachment, (ii) evasion of host defenses, (iii) local damage, and (iv) systemic manifestations. Infection is initiated by the attachment of B. pertussis to the cilia of epithelial cells of the upper respiratory tract with the aid of protein adhesins. Evasion of host defenses is facilitated by adenylate cyclase toxin (CyaA) and PT. Specifically, CyaA enters neutrophils and catalyzes the excessive production of cAMP, which intoxicates the cells such that phagocytosis is compromised. Like CyaA, PT also adversely affects phagocytosis and killing of organisms by inhibiting migration of lymphocytes and macrophages to areas of infection. Local tissue damage of the ciliated epithelial cells may be due to TCT, DNT, and perhaps CyaA. Systemic manifestations results in the common clinical features exhibited by pertussis patients[5].
B. pertussis's infectious dose is < 100 CFU [7]. The incubation period is 7-10 days long with the exceptions of household secondary cases being 28 days longer than primary cases [5].
B. pertussis is still common in areas where vaccinations are low. About 48.5 million yearly cases are reported worldwide, and about 295,000 deaths [4]. Before vaccines were existent, the average reported incidence of pertussis cases was 157 out of 100,000. There were epidemic cycles every 2-5 years. After vaccines become available, the reported amount decreased by 150-fold (0.5-1.0 per 100,000. However there is now a slight increase to 3 per 100.000. During the period from 1997 to 2000, there were 62 reported pertussis deaths in the United States. Research also show that pertussis cases occur among females more than males. This disease seemed to not vary among races very much. However, there are studies that claims that the disease occurrence is related to seasons and geographic areas [5].
Ahesins
Filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA) is required for B. pertussis’s tracheal colonization. To make sure the tracheal colonization is persistent, the assistance of Fimbriae (FIM) is also available. This is required for protective immunity to infections[6]. B. pertussis inhibits T-cell proliferation to exogenous antigens in vitro in an FHA-dependent manner. Interactions of FHA with receptors on macrophages results in suppression of the proinflammatory cytokine, interleukin-12 (IL-12), via an IL-10 dependent mechanism [5]. Both FHA and FIm are some of the main components of the acellular pertussis vaccines [6].
Autotransporters
Pertacin (PRN) mediates eukaryotic cell binding to enhance protective immunity. BrkA is a putative adhesion that confers serum resistance and protection against antimicrobial peptides. SphB1 allows FHA maturation [6].
The primary component of pertussis vaccines is the Pertussis toxin (PT), which is associated with pertussis-associated lymphocytosis. Adenylate cyclase (CyaA) acts as an anti-inflammatory and antiphagocytic factor during infections. Other toxins include Type III secretion, dermonectrotic toxin, and tracheal cytotoxin [6].
The LPS of Bordetella pertussis is pyrogenic, mitogenic, and toxic and can activate and induce tumor necrosis factor production in macrophages[5]. Locus wlb consists of 12 genes that are required for LPS biosynthesis [6].
A siderophore, called Alcaligin, complexes iron internally through outer membrane receptors. This is important for B. pertussis’s survival in its host [6].
Infant with pertussis[3]
The illness usually could last 6-12 weeks [5]. According to CDC, clinical course of the illness is divided into three stages: catarrhal, paroxysmal and convalescent [8].
Catarrhal symptoms are indistinguishable from those of minor respiratory tract infections[8]. These could be rhinorrhea, lacrimation, and mild coughing[5]. The cough, which is initially intermittent, becomes more frequent over a 7-14 days period, which leads to being more paroxysmal. During the second week of the sickness, paroxysms occurs with more intensity. Eventually paroxysms terminate with inspiratory whoops and can be followed by posttussive vomiting. In conjunction with a paroxysm, cyanosis, bulging eyes, protrusion of the tongue, salivation, lacrimation, and distention of neck veins may occur [5][8].
The classical method for identifying pertussis is to culture a nasopharyngeal sample. Yet, this method is not preferred due to the disease’s nature to disappear early in its process [1]. It is difficult to get an early diagnosis in adults due to the fact that intense coughing could be a result of other factors such as asthma, smoking, GERD, and medical treatments. It is also difficult to detect in young children unless severe symptoms like coughing occurs before vaccination. The most useful test for a diagnosis of a Bordetella pertussis infection is bacterial DNA tests performed on a nasal swab or wash specimen [3]. Other methods include antigen detection by direct fluorescent antibody and PCR [1].
Diagnosis can also be done serologically through complement fixation, agglutination tests, toxin neutralization, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The last method being the most commonly used today [1].
Another quick test consists of using monoclonal antibodies against the bacterium’s virulence factors: lipo-oligosaccharide and peroxidase conjugate. The test dries cells of Bordetella pertussis in a formalin-saline onto a nitrocellulose disk, the disk is placed in a filtration device, and then the monoclonal antibodies are added. Afterwards, disk is washed in a peroxidase substrate solution and Bordetella pertussis is identified using a direct fluorescent-antibody assay [5].
Apnoeic or cyanotic cases of infants under 6 months should be taken care of in hospitals. Any suspicion of symptoms of whooping cough should be a sign to excuse children from school and receive antibiotic treatments within 3 weeks of illness. Clarithromycin and azithromycin are the preferred antibiotics for babies from birth to 1 year old. Adults can also take these antibiotics. However, co-trimoxazole can be used if the individual who cannot tolerate macrolides. Pregnant women who already has the disease are treated with erythromycin to prevent transmission to infant. Spasms are treated with mild sedation, and cyanosis is treated with administration of oxygen. [2]
The key to preventing pertussis is vaccination, in infants as well as teenagers and adults. Booster vaccinations were recommended by the Advisory Council on Immunization in 2006 to increase immunity. Many developed countries now administer the DTap vaccine to reduce pertussis and its circulation among human populations [4]. Pregnant women are also vaccinated a month before giving birth to decrease the chances of the infant getting infected [3]. Primary vaccinations today are presented as pertussis antigens contained in pentavalent childhood vaccine, administered as a “before preschool” immunization requirement [1].
Host Immune Response
First of all, the host (our bodies) will initiate and perform through the innate immune response. Host defense peptides such as beta-defensins represent major components of innate immunity. A study was conducted to investigate the role of porcine beta-defensin 1 (pBD-1), a porcine defensin homologue of human beta-defensin 2, in conferring protection against respiratory infection with Bordetella pertussis. Protection was associated with the expression of pBD-1 in the upper respiratory tract. In fact, pBD-1 expression was developmentally regulated, and the absence of pBD-1 was thought to contribute to the increased susceptibility of newborn piglets to infection with B. pertussis. Results demonstrated that the human host defense peptides play an important role in protection against pertussis and are essential in modulating innate immune responses against respiratory infections [9].
Oakley S, and Kilcoyne A. The whooping cough epidemic: prevention and treatment. Practice Nursing. 2012 Oct. 604-7
Treatment of Whooping Cough. General Practice Notebook (online)
Pluta R.M. Pertussis. JAMA. 2010 Aug. (online)
Cherry J.D. and Mattoo S. Molecular Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, and Clinical Manifestations of Respiratory Infections Due to Bordetella pertussis and Other Bordetella Subspecies. ASM. 2005 Apr. (online)
Clyburn M. Pertussis.(online)
Cherry J.D. and Mattoo S. Molecular Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, and Clinical Manifestations of Respiratory Infections Due to Bordetella pertussis and Other Bordetella Subspecies. ASM. 2005 Apr. (online table)
Weyrich LS, Feaga HA, Park J, Muse SJ, Safi CY, Rolin OY, Young SE, Harvill ET. Resident microbiota affect Bordetella pertussis infectious dose and host specificity. PubMed. 2013 Nov.
Pertussis: Clinical Features from CDC
Elahi S, Buchanan RM, Attah-Poku S, Townsend HG, Babiuk LA, Gerdts V. The host defense peptide beta-defensin 1 confers protection against Bordetella pertussis in newborn piglets. PubMed. 2006 Apr.
Mills K.H., Barnard A, Watkins J, and Redhead K. Cell-mediated immunity to Bordetella pertussis: role of Th1 cells in bacterial clearance in a murine respiratory infection model. ASM. 1993 Feb.
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Home / Programs / Restoring Natural Functions in Developed River Basins / Mekong River Basin / Laos (Xe Kong)
Sustainable Hydropower Master Plan for Xe Kong Basin in Lao PDR
Submitted to the Government of Lao PDR (GoL) in early February 2018, “The Master Plan” was developed by the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) and a team of international experts to assist the GoL in implementing its Policy on Sustainable Hydropower Development that was decreed by the Prime Minister on January 12, 2015. The Master Plan has the potential to meet the country’s energy goals and preserve the last intact remnant of the Mekong River. NHI focuses on the Xe Kong tributary because of its irreplaceable fishery value and contribution of sediment all the way to the Mekong Delta. Up to 81 migratory species of fish and the livelihoods of millions are under threat from Lao’s hydropower development plans, including 7 large dams that are proposed for the mainstem of the Xe Kong. The Master Plan provides an alternative development scenario that would allow flushing of sediments and maintain a flow pattern conducive to the needs of the migratory fish. It also includes a solar/hydro hybrid alternative that would eliminate the need for new dams. The Master Plan has been endorsed by the Prime Minister of Lao through two official directives (dated 16 February 2018 and 13 August 2018) to the relevant line ministries to adopt and implement the findings and recommendations of NHI’s Master Plan as the basis for further hydropower development for the entire nation.
Today, the mainstream of the Xe Kong tributary is the last undeveloped major tributary in the Mekong River Basin, and its natural function remain unimpaired down the mainstream Mekong, through the Cambodian floodplains and the Tonle Sap Great Lake through the Vietnam Delta, to the South China Sea. However, there are currently seven hydropower dam sites on the Xe Kong that are being actively studied and the lowest six are located right in the prime migratory fish spawning habitat of the mainstream river. The lower reach of the Xe Kong River is characterized by a high level of fish biodiversity, amounting to 175 species, including ~81 migratory fish species. Fifteen species are exclusive to the Xe Kong River; they are neither found in any other Mekong River tributary nor anywhere else in the world. Many of these species must migrate upstream to spawning areas. Completing these migrations require unobstructed passage upstream, as well as the capacity for adults, larvae and juveniles to migrate or drift downstream. The livelihood benefit of the fishery resource, in terms of nutrition, income and employment, is crucial, particularly for rural poor, who have few other livelihood options.
The Xe Kong is also the most important remaining source of sediment contributions to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. According to the IPCC, it is one of the three major delta systems in the world most vulnerable to sea level rise, with its attendant storm surges and salinization. The resilience of the delta to the effects of climate change depends directly on this annual replenishment of sediment. This delta is home to 18 million people, produces half of the rice harvest for Vietnam, the world’s second largest rice exporter, and the epicenter of fish harvesting and biodiversity. The sediments coming out of the Xe Kong basin also nourish the food chain in the Tonle Sap Great Lake.
The degree of impact that the potential Xe Kong dams and reservoirs would cause to migratory fish, due to both the barrier they pose to fish migration and to the inundation of riverine spawning habitats, depends on their size and, most important, their location. The further downstream the dam, the more impactful it would be. The lower six would create an absolute barrier to fish migration as it is not feasible to engineer fish by-passes around these large dams, and each would create impoundments that would inundate these habitats. The combined effect would be to turn what is now a river ecosystem into a series of lakes which would not sustain the hundreds of migratory species that require these habitats to survive.
Project Description and Results:
NHI was asked by the Ministry of Energy and Mines and other relevant agencies of the Government of Lao to advise it in implementing the new Policy on Sustainable Hydropower Development, decreed by the Prime Minister on January 12, 2015, by creating a “Master Plan” for hydropower development in the Xe Kong basin. Neither the Policy nor its implementation guidelines provide substantive standards or criteria for determining the sustainability of proposed hydropower projects. Therefore, an early step in preparing the Master Plan was to identify a set of attributes of sustainable hydropower that are based on measures to counteract the main environmental impacts that hydropower dams inflict on the natural functions of river. The Master Plan presents an alternative development scenario that focuses on opportunities for:
siting future hydropower dams in locations that do not inundate or block fish passage into the habitats that are most valuable for migratory fish breeding and rearing;
designing the dams to efficiently pass sediments and nutrients; and
operating the dams to maintain a semblance of the natural flow patterns, including the seasonal variability of flows, to enable the fish to access and use the high-value riverine and floodplain habitats.
The alternative sites are not accessible to migratory fish because they are above existing barriers (already constructed dams in the Xe Kaman tributary) or so far up in the catchment that the fish visitations are relatively minor. In the aggregate, they would provide enough power to replace the proposed mainstreams dams.
A key element of this alternative scenario is the augmentation of power output at the largest of the existing hydropower dams in the basin, the Xe Kaman 1 Hydropower Project, owned and operated by Viet Lao Power Joint Stock Company (a Vietnamese Company). This 290 MW facility is ideally suited for deployment of floating solar photovoltaic panels that would be fully integrated with the hydropower powerhouse and operated as single unit (see the map for location). This is because the reservoir is very large and shallow; it can store more than a year of inflow which gives it great operational flexibility to counteract the daily fluctuations in power output from solar panels; it has excess transmission capacity that can facilitate the solar component; and it has a smaller reservoir immediately downstream, which is owned by the same company, that can re-regulate the flow distortions from Xe Kaman 1 when operated in this manner.
Modeling was conducted to ascertain the optimal scale for the solar component and how the hydropower reservoir would need to be operated to buffer the fluctuations in the solar generation. The NHI team looked at scales ranging from 150MW-400MW-500MW-to ~1200MW (which would represent covering 15% of the reservoir area with solar panels). This alternative would avoid negative impacts of developing new hydropower, while approximately doubling energy output, improving firm power reliability, reducing GHG emissions – as much as 357,000 tons per year (for a 280 MW facility, according to solarmango.com), and greatly reducing financial risks to the investors. Also, the floating solar technology can be brought on line much more quickly than any other alternative, and the costs of such systems have decreased rapidly over the past decade and further cost decreases are likely. Present costs of $1,000/kW for floating systems are likely to reduce to $900/kW over the next decade.
The Master Plan also includes an implementation strategy. It modifies the respective roles of the hydropower developers and the GoL with respect to the selection of sites, designs and operations of future hydropower facilities. Today, those decisions are made by the developers with minimal oversight by the GoL. Under the Master Plan approach, the GoL itself would conduct a study, illustrated by the NHI Master Plan, to determine in advance the sites, designs and operations that best benefit the people of Laos and the downstream neighboring countries over the long term. This would include a programmatic environmental and social impact assessment. These projects would then be offered to developers to submit competitive applications to undertake full-fledged engineering and economic feasibility studies and a project-specific environmental and social impact assessment. The GoL would select the winning bid on the basis of capabilities and performance record of the developers rather than on the price point. Developers who win a MoU and show that the project is feasible would have an exclusive right to a concession agreement to build, own, operate and then transfer the project to the GoL.
The major recommendation of the Master Plan is to defer any commitment to the mainstream Xe Kong dams and pursue instead the sustainable options in the rank order in which they are presented in the Master Plan, with the solar augmentation of existing reservoirs as the top priority. If there comes a time when additional power development from the Xe Kong basin is needed, the uppermost dams should be given a higher priority. The lowermost dams should not be developed under any circumstance because of their very large impacts, including blocking passage of migratory fish and sediment to the Mekong Delta.
The full Master Plan and the associated Implementation Plan can be downloaded here.
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National University of Lao
Project Presentation: Sustainable Hydropower Development Alternatives for the Mekong, July 2018
Summary of Key Findings of the Sustainable Hydropower Master Plan
Master Plan for Sustainable Hydropower_Executive Summary_English & Lao (Jan 2018)
Xe Kong Project Concept Paper, Nov. 2016
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Reginald Heber – Bishop of Calcutta
September 9, 2016 November 28, 2016 by Rob
Reginald Heber [1783-1826] served in Norway, Sweden and Russia before becoming the second bishop of Calcutta in 1823. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a copy to digitise. This book is in the Public Domain.
Arthur Montefiore [1859-1927], Reginald Heber. Bishop of Calcutta. Scholar and Evangelist. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1894[?]. Hbk. pp.160. [Click to download complete book in PDF]
Scandinavia and Russia in 1805
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The Last Year
As far as I am aware, no Life of Bishop Heber has appeared since that which his widow issued almost immediately after his death in 1826. This work was largely made up of his journal, his correspondence, various literary fragments, and newspaper reports of numerous meetings held in India and England to mark the universal regret felt at his sudden and almost tragic end, and to set on foot various statues and other memorials of his services to his country and his Church. The work was necessarily rendered so expensive by its bulk that no cheap and new edition of it could be expected, and consequently it has not lain in the power of the many who admired his career, or loved him for his gift of sacred song, to become acquainted with the main incidents of his life or the channels along which his thoughts and hopes had travelled.
It has therefore been thought that a sketch of his career would be welcome to not a few, and it has fallen to my lot to write an outline of his life which should indicate its chief features, and describe, if it does not fill in, the arc on which his energies were projected. [Continue reading]
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The Chainsmokers + 5 Seconds of Summer Drop "Who Do You Love"
It's the first of several new songs on the way from The Chainsmokers
Bob Diehl
As promised, The Chainsmokers & 5 Seconds Of Summer have dropped their new collaboration “Who Do You Love.” The irritated but lively track perfectly blends the keen producing sensibilities of Alex Pall and Andrew Taggart with the vocal harmonies of the four young stars from down under.
On “Who Do You Love,” The Chainsmokers and 5SOS get right to the point with their suspicions about a relationship gone sour: “You've been acting so conspicuous. You flip it on me, say I think too much. You're moving different when we’re making love. Baby tell me, tell me who do you love, do you love, now. I want to know the truth.”
Related: Fans React to Blink-182 Teasing a Collaboration With The Chainsmokers
The Chainsmokers aren't done here. They have also been hinting at numerous tracks in the near future with Juice WRLD. The group has confirmed that one song is in the can and another four will follow. There’s also a song with Blink-182 on the way so stay tuned.
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Here’s Why Ariana Grande Didn’t Announce More International Tour Dates
On Thursday (June 20), Ariana Grande announced 19 new dates on her Sweetener world tour. U.S.-based Arianators were thrilled to see all the dates were domestic. International fans, however, were not pleased.
"I just can't understand why she's literally doing 4-5 shows in a STATE instead of going to other countries," one fan tweeted. "It really makes no sense to me."
Ari, being the goddess that she is, responded to the disgruntled fan and explained her reasoning thoughtfully and respectfully. "the truth is: european leg is going to be a big step," she wrote. "i’m really excited about it and grateful to do it! but since you’re asking, this is simply the best i’m capable of at this time and keeping me closer to home for a majority of the dates is what’s best for my health rn. love u!"
Though some fans were upset, others were more than understanding. "we love you much baby we understand and we’re so proud of you for even adding on extra dates," one happy Arianator wrote.
"thank u ! i’m very excited about them tbh," the pop star responded. "doing the best i can do for right now and so grateful for my health and for this chapter and for my fans for supporting and understanding the pace i’m moving at. soooo grateful for u. thank u."
Ariana already has 30 shows planned in the UK and Europe, including dates in London, Paris, Berlin, Dublin, and Amsterdam. She'll also be returning to Manchester, which will be emotional. Two years ago, 22 people died during an attack at her show. Though she's shown her strength time and time again, the 25-year-old recently revealed scans showing the "terrifying" levels of PTSD in her brain, so the fact that she'll be on the road for nine months this year is an impressive feat.
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Source: Here’s Why Ariana Grande Didn’t Announce More International Tour Dates
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Tagged: Orestes Destrade
May 8 – Happy Birthday Orestes Destrade
One of the things that has changed most about the Major League game between the time I started following the Yankees and now is the balance of trade when it comes to Major League Baseball and baseball in Japan.
Before WWII, the people of Japan had fallen in love with the game of baseball and Babe Ruth became just as popular in the Land of the Rising Sun as he was in our country. WWII of course changed the dynamic between the two countries. By the time I was Bradley’s age in the late 1950s, the bitter feelings and suspicions we Americans and the Japanese had for each other still lingered and carried over to each country’s professional baseball leagues. At the same time, however, the game of baseball was a passion shared by both peoples and it was that passion for a common game that would eventually help bring us together again.
The first American to play professional baseball in Japan after the War was a Japanese American and former NFL running back named Wally Yonamine, who played there in 1951. The first Japanese player to play in America was a left handed pitcher named Masanori Murakami who played for the Giants in 1964 and 65. By the time I was a teenager, the Japanese professional leagues had become a common destination for American players who were not quite good enough to make the rosters of Major League teams. By the time my sons were born in the late seventies and early eighties, Major League veterans, who’s best playing days were behind them in the US were finding new markets for their slowing bats and fast balls on the other side of the Pacific.
It took until 1995 for the pendulum to begin swinging and it was the one-time Yankee, Hideki Nomo who got it going in the other direction, when he signed to pitch with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Yankees first ever Japanese born roster member was pitcher Hideki Irabu, who began his career in pinstripes in July of 2007. The greatest Japanese-born Yankee to date has been Hideki Matsui. The big league successes of guys like Nomo, Matsui and especially Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki, have caused every Major League franchise to both begin and then expand their scouting operations in Japan.
Orestes Destrade was a classic example of a young Major League prospect who struggled to make a big league roster and then traveled to Japan and became a star in that country’s version of the same sport. I can remember when he hit a bunch of homers as a minor-leaguer for the Albany-Colonie Yankees during their 1985 season. The Yankees had predicted this left-hand-hitting Cuban native would be a thirty-home-run hitter, playing in Yankee Stadium. That never happened. He failed to hit a home run during his nine-game, 1987 stint in pinstripes. He had much more success in Japan, leading the league in home runs for three straight seasons from 1990-’92. He then returned to the States and managed to hit 20 round trippers for Seattle in 1993.
This one-time Yankee catcher was also born on May 8.
1987 NYY 9 24 19 5 5 0 0 0 1 0 5 5 .263 .417 .263 .680
4 Yrs 237 866 765 80 184 25 3 26 106 1 87 184 .241 .319 .383 .702
FLA (2 yrs) 192 789 699 73 172 24 3 25 102 1 77 162 .246 .322 .396 .719
PIT (1 yr) 36 53 47 2 7 1 0 1 3 0 5 17 .149 .226 .234 .460
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Earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters have been top-of-mind for most North Carolina residents this week. Not for me, though. I have remained focused like a laser beam on tracking criminal law news.
1. I blogged last week about the Durham murder case that was dismissed due to the state’s release of the decedent’s bones to her family after a defense request for the preservation of physical evidence. As expected, the state has appealed the dismissal, and the court of appeals has stayed the dismissal pending resolution of the appeal. The News and Observer has the story here.
2. The paper also recently ran this story, about a break-in at the state supreme court building. The perpetrator only got into a stairwell, so the work of the court has not been impaired. Justice Edmunds discovered the intrusion when he came in to work on Sunday evening.
3. The sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn have been dismissed. The New York Times has this story on point. In a nutshell, prosecutors lost confidence in the complaining witness after learning that she had lied about her past and, likely, about at least some aspects of her encounter with Strauss-Kahn.
4. The United States Supreme Court is poised to consider the issue of eyewitness identification in the coming Term, for the first time since 1977. Adam Liptak’s story for the Times is here. It’s a good read, opening as follows: “Every year, more than 75,000 eyewitnesses identify suspects in criminal investigations. Those identifications are wrong about a third of the time, a pile of studies suggest.” Whatever the Court does with respect to eyewitness identifications — and it might do quite a lot, or it might do very little — change is again afoot in New Jersey, which has been an influential leader in this area. The AP covers the story here, noting that the state high court has changed some procedural rules, making pretrial hearings on the admissibility of eyewitness identifications easier for defendants to obtain. The story also states that the new rules will “require judges to give more detailed instructions to juries about the potential flaws with eyewitness identifications — in some cases before a witness takes the stand so that jurors can listen more critically.”
5. Although it hasn’t yet granted certiorari on the issue, it’s starting to look like the Supreme Court will also need to address the retroactivity of Padilla v. Kentucky, __ U.S. __, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010), which held that criminal defense attorneys must advise clients about relevant immigration consequences of potential criminal convictions. A divided panel of the Seventh Circuit just ruled that Padilla is not retroactive, creating a circuit split on the issue. Sentencing Law and Policy covers the Seventh Circuit’s decision here.
6. Finally, a couple of quick items of possible interest. The WSJ Law Blog considers the constitutionality of red light cameras here, noting that at least a dozen cities have banned the devices. Meanwhile, Gizmodo discusses an initiative being implemented in Surrey, England, to give citizens real-time information about the location and activities of police, under the headline Hey Criminals! Your Town Made You an App to Track Cops. Finally, the Cleveland Plain Dealer notes here that an individual named Eric Gein, proprietor of a business called Serial Killers Ink, is selling dirt from the backyard of an Ohio murderer’s house for $25 per gram. Gein claims that the dirt is valuable because the killer’s victims were buried in it, and that he expects to sell it to “professors of criminal law,” among others. Not this one, at any rate.
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Motiva and GetUpside Partner with GasBuddy
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HOUSTON – (December 11, 2018) – Motiva and GetUpside announced today a strategic partnership with GasBuddy, the leading source for real-time fuel prices at more than 150,000 gas stations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Through this partnership, consumers will be able to claim GetUpside personalized cash back offers directly in the GasBuddy app, earning as much as 25 cents/gallon cash back on their fuel purchase. The benefit for gas station owners participating in the GetUpside program is measurable and proven incremental gallons from GasBuddy app users.
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Now live in 30 markets in 13 states, Motiva and GetUpside plan to expand the GetUpside program to wholesalers across the entire United States in 2019.
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Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Motiva refines, distributes and markets petroleum products throughout the United States. Motiva owns and operates North America’s largest refinery in Port Arthur, Texas with a crude capacity of more than 630,000 barrels a day. The company also operates the country’s largest lubricant plant. Under exclusive, long-term brand licenses for the Shell and 76® brands, Motiva’s marketing operations support more than 5,000 retail gasoline stations. Motiva is wholly-owned by affiliates of Saudi Aramco.
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This is Motown Junkies, a track-by-track review of every US and UK Motown single, including all subsidiaries. Not ambitious, then.
“I wasn’t always a Motown junkie. In fact, I wasn’t always interested in pop music at all. Thirteen-year-old me was into Kraftwerk, T.Rex, the Electric Light Orchestra, and knew nothing of Motown beyond a handful of overplayed oldies on the radio. (I also knew nothing of the Beatles, Stones, Commodores, Coltrane, Cole, Beethoven or Bix Beiderbecke, for that matter. I knew nothing full stop, really.) I was unprotected and unprepared, and I made easy prey for pop music’s most insidious pushers of hooks and tunes. I spent my teens listening to all sorts of random stuff, in search of the ultimate hit (in every sense), eventually rummaging around in the equivalent of the music industry’s scrap bins – samplers from Finnish indie labels, unsigned Louisiana hip hop collectives, anything – to try and get another taste of something that ran through the veins of all my favourite records, something I couldn’t quite grasp or understand but always recognised as soon as I felt it. I didn’t know, of course, that what I was looking for was staring me right in the face the entire time. So when – thanks to a bunch of compilation CDs at a local shop’s closing-down sale – I eventually fell for Motown, I fell hard and I fell deep.”
– (from my review of Dancing in the Street)
Ten years ago, this sort of undertaking would have been totally impossible; it’s only with the release of the superb Hip-O Select Complete Motown Singles box sets, and the scholarship of the compilers and researchers who put those sets together and provided the copious liner notes, that a buffoon like me is able to sit here and do a blog like this.
Research by many dedicated, knowledgeable soul fans across the Internet has unearthed a great many more facts, corrections and other bits of trivia, serving as a kind of gloss on those box sets. As recently as twenty years ago, the information that’s now freely available through a couple of clicks and a few well-worded Google searches would have marked you out as an expert, a Motown nerd of the highest caliber. Nowadays this vast slew of other people’s hard work provides an instant reference for anyone wanting to know anything about what came out on any Motown label, who wrote it, who recorded it, when it was released, how it fared on release, and what happened afterwards. Provided you’re willing to put in a minuscule amount of time searching for it, that information is out there.
And yet, there’s seemingly very little information on the net about what some of these records are actually like, or which ones people like, and which ones they think are rubbish. And if there’s one thing I like to do, it’s talk about records. At length. That, and swearing a lot. (Sorry.) So I pounced, almost catlike, on the opportunity to talk about these records. All of them.
So, here we are. I’m Nixon, and I’m British. I love music in almost all its forms, and I love Motown. The title, for the uninitiated, is a Manic Street Preachers joke. (I note James Dean Bradfield has long since stopped singing the opening bars of Baby Love when introducing Motown Junk; good for him.)
Here’s how this will work. I’m going to do a separate post for every released (or planned) A- and B-side, and these will then be compiled both on the pages for each label, and also in the Master Index, which is just a great big list of everything that’s been posted to date. Unless otherwise noted, for the stuff between 1959 and 1972, I’ve treated the liner notes in the Complete Motown Singles box sets as the Word of God, and will only be dissenting from the officially-sanctioned “party line” where I think it’s important to do so (and noting the conflict). I’ll also provide external links to any information out there which I’ve taken note of, or which might provide useful further reading.
Each song will have its own post, and that post will note (in the header) what label it was on, the catalogue number, the month of release (or scheduled release) – not the date of recording – and the writers. At the bottom of each post, there’s also now an entirely subjective mark out of ten, mainly for my own amusement and to provoke debate. There, you’ll also find links back to the previous Motown release and forward to the next one. (Obviously, I’ll add those last ones retrospectively.) Yeah, I can tell you’re excited.
Comments are enabled, so should you disagree with what’s been said or spot a glaring error, you can have your say too.
Well, that’s enough preamble. Now, time for a bit of prehistory. Enjoy the blog.
63 thoughts on “About Motown Junkies”
Robb Klein said:
Hi Nix, I’ve just answered your query about information on Morris/Luvel Broadnax on Soulful Detroit’s Motown Forum.
Here it is: Morris Ervin Broadnax was his given name. Luvel must have been a nickname, and his credits changed to “Luvel” Broadnax about 1/2 way through his career. He was born in 1931.
He started with Motown in 1961, signed an exclusive contract as a songwriter. He had been sent to Motown by his friends, The Four Tops, to try out for a singing contract. They liked his songs a lot better than his singing. On You-Tube there is an interview with him. As the “new writer”, Berry Gordy assigned him to work with Little Stevie Wonder, as the others didn’t want to work with him. He teamed up with Clarence Paul (Wonder’s producer). He was the one who first encouraged Stevie to write songs, and helped him start out. He later worked also with Hank Cosby and Sylvia Moy. He wrote songs for most of the more known Motown acts, including The Miracles, Temptations, Mary Wells, Four Tops, Gladys Knight and The Pips, etc. With The Clarence Paul crew, it was Broadnax’s job to overdub the lead and background vocals. He wrote “Just A little Misunderstanding” -the Contours, “I Miss You, Baby”-Marv Johnson, many songs for Stevie Wonder and The Four Tops.
On Google you can find some links to info about him. He worked with Motown from 1961-1969, when he started working as an independent songwriter, working with Aretha Franklin (whose family he had known for many years). He had written “Till You Come Back To Me” (along with Stevie Wonder and Clarence Paul) for Stevie, but offered it to Aretha (for whom it became a big hit).
Broadnax was the one most instrumental in trying to start a Motown Alumni Association, in 1989. It didn’t start until 1995. He died in 2009.
Here’s a link to an interview with Mr. Broadnax by his nephew. It was made not so long before he died.
Thanks Robb, it’s very much appreciated! I was just looking for confirmation that Morris and Luvel were definitely the same person, which would explain the seeming lack of biographical information on the latter.
Stewart Bloor said:
What a brilliant site! Found it by chance when googling The Satintones. Going to give this a mention on my facebook page onj a regular basis. KTF
Jennifer Atherley said:
and I followed Stewart here – cheers Stew 🙂
this old heart said:
any chance once this hefty tome is completed we might see it in printed form … like a book? so much more personal and interesting than the notes in “the complete motown singles – still unfinished(!) ” multi-volumned cd set. i would sure use it as a constant companion. then you could start your companion piece, “choice tracts and unreleased masters”!
At the rate I’m currently going, “once this hefty tome is completed” is so far in the future that books may have ceased to exist by then.
MotownFan1962 said:
Let’s hope not. Books should be kept around. They don’t have to be recharged or rebooted and won’t short out if you spill your soda on them.
True, though precious few books will withstand the soda treatment either!
Sorry for the delay in getting the new entry up, everyone. The Marvelettes will be on deck very shortly.
Chris Hewitson said:
After reading your review of Tommy Good’s ‘Baby I Miss You’, I found this interesting information about Tommy Good on the web:
http://static.record-eagle.com/2006/may/11tommy.htm
Great site, by the way!
All best wishes, Chris
Ray Colbert said:
MOTOWN IS RICH WITH GREAT SONGS, TONS OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF SONGS THAT WERE HITS BY ALL OR MOST OF THE ARTISTS AND GROUPS AT
MOTOWN IN THE VAULT AND OUT IN THE MARKET. MOTOWN HAS MORE SONGS AND DISCOVERIES OF ARTISTS IN THE CAN. I LOVE MOTOWN AND YES, I AM TRULY A MOTOWN JUNKIE!!!
THANKS BERRY, SMOKEY, THE FUNK BROTHERS AND TO THE ALL OF THE GROUPS, WRITERS, AND THE ADANTES WHO PLAYED DOUBLE FOR THE MAJOR GIRL GROUPS AND ALL OF THE BACKGROUND SINGERS WHO HANDCLAPPED OR ADDED EFFECTS TO THE MAGIC OF MOTOWN FOR THE
WONDERFUL MUSIC AND APOLLOS SHOWS…THAT BROUGHT THE WORLD TOGETHER AND SHARED MANY GREAT MEMORIES
AND THANKS TO THE DETROIT GOLDEN PERIOD AND THE LOS ANGELES PERIOD. 1959-1985
Whimpy Burger said:
What a terrrific site!!! I don’t know how I stumbled here, but it’s an amazing site. One of the best on the WWW.
Thanks WB. I appreciate the kind words.
Debs said:
I just did the same! was about half hour ago and i cant remember the reason for the connection lol…however I am very pleased I did. how cool is this! nice one : )
Thanks Debs! Sorry for the late reply. Glad you’re enjoying!
Aida Hobbs said:
Knowledgeable, but entertaining, as are many of your pages. I read through the archives over the past week or two, and I must say I think I’m found a new bookmark.
Thanks Aida, I appreciate it. I hope you’re enjoying the site 🙂
Randy Brown said:
Mr. Nix, have you heard about this?
Motown’s Unsung Female Trio Finally Gets Acclaim
Forgive me if the href tag gets messed up…the Yahoo article is about the Andantes getting a spot in a Motown Museum exhibit.
ed in fl said:
I feel I’ve uncovered a previously hidden special christmas present in finding this site. I plan to spend quality time playing with this “toy” for a long time to come, Lord willing!
Howard Carver said:
Love your site! So MUCH information that is really appealing to me as I also grew up being a ‘Motown Junkie’ in the USA. Although I’ve known about your site for some time through the Soulful Detroit Motown Forum (on which I am “motownlover”), I’ve not until now spent much time reading your blog.
Your approach brings back lots of good memories to me from the hey day of classic Motown in the 1960s. I consider Motown as my life’s soundtrack. When listening to a familiar song from that era, I can think back to the year it was released and what my life’s journey entailed at the time.
I used to make believe I was a Motown dj and make my very own top 30 lists that were subject to change day by day, all typed out on a very old German typewriter! Too bad I didn’t save those typed listings to look back at.
Thanks big time for all your wonderful, dedicated efforts!
cd barton said:
Has the continuing review of the motown discography stopped? What a shame if that is the case! So much new information here that I never knew about motown.
Not stopped! I’ve just got a lot on my plate at the moment, so the pace has slowed down a bit. New entries appear once or twice a week at the moment.
Perfect! You’re just now getting into the middle of the classic era before the H-D-H meltdown. Looking forward to your new postings once I get to the end of the current blog! Thanks!!!!
Rupert Kinnard said:
“…it’s almost impossible to pinpoint a dividing line between “classic era” Motown and what came before and after; the “Motown Sound” is hard to define, and the development of a recognisable musical style wasn’t something that was just switched on overnight one day, this record simply marking another step along the way…” I love any attempt to try to figure out what single Motown record represented the beginning of “The Motown Sound”. I am almost as interested in what others would consider to be the LAST Motown record that featured that sound. I have a great appreciation for that Motown boxed set that separated the Motown Sound era between the Detroit sessions and the LA sessions, when Motown made it’s west coast move. What say you guys?
One of the last records to have an identifiable Motown sound was Keith and Darrell’s “You’re My Gardener”, released on Tamla in 1981.
I am also rabidly interested in what folks here think about the distinction between a “favorite record” and a “favorite SONG.” My all-time favorite record…EVER…is The Temptation’s My Girl. I wouldn’t say that My Girl is my favorite song, though it ranks among them. I love Stevie’s take on the song…totally hated Smokey and the Miracles take on it. What say ya’ll?
I’ve been listening to music since 1950 or so. I have about 150,000 recorded songs on vinyl and/or styrene, plus, probably another 20,000 songs on cassette tape, plus probably another 3,000 on CD, and another 1,000 on digital files, recorded over five decades, and located in 5 different countries on 2 different continents. It would be extremely difficult to narrow down to a “top 500”, or possibly, even a Top 1000, let alone a single favourite. My favourite would change daily, with my mood and time distance from last hearing a song. One day, it might be “Up On The Roof” by The Drifters, or “My Saddest Hour” by The Five Keys, or “Grand Spanish Lady” by The Royal Ravens, or “Lucky To Be Loved By You” by Emanuel Lasky, or “I’ll Come Running” by Carolyn Crawford, or “I’m Yours” by The Flamingos, or “It’s Been So Long” by The Leaping Flames, or “Young Boy” by Barbara Green, or “Found True Love” by Billy Butler and The 4 Enchanters, etc., etc.
As to “favourite song” vs. “Favourite record”, my favourite records are all like old friends (like Scrooge McDuck remembered each and every coin he ever obtained). HAAA! HAAAAA! HAAAAA! (he cried, frothing at the mouth in a mad fit). I remember where and when I got each one of the many 1000s. Again, I’d be hard pressed to name a top 1,000. They also are all old friends. Remember, I’m a record collector-NOT a music collector! But, I AM a music lover, nevertheless (as Billy Butler once said!)
Would my favourite song be the one of which I have the most different versions by the most different artists?: “Over The Rainbow”, “White Christmas”, “Stormy Weather”, “The White Cliffs Of Dover”, “The Glory Of Love”, “Red Sails In The Sunset”, etc., etc.? Or one of the many 1,000s to which I have a sentimental attachment?
Impossible to answer your question. I CAN say, however, that “My Girl” would make both Top 500 lists.
My dear Mr. Kinnard & my friend Robb,
Finally, finally, finally …. someone has hit upon Good Record vs Good Song. I get tired of all of those websites (not this one!) where people list their most hated songs. In many cases people get “bad record”/”bad song” mixed up. I will have to think hard about my favorite Motown record vs song. A possible example is “War” by Edwin Starr (& originially done by the Temptations). Simply looking at the lyrics, they sound very naive. Kind of like a 10th grade position papers (ie “War causes unrest in the younger generation”). Of course, I agree that was is bad, but anyway. When put together in a fantastic production (ie Starr’s version), you have a completely awesome record. When judged as “sheet music alone” many Motown songs, at first glance, look a little lame, but put together a great arrangement/production/instrumentation/vocals & you have a great record!
And to my friend, Robb… Wow! You have quite a collection of songs. And I must say that I really, really like “Found True Love” by Billy Butler. Wonderful record. A lost gem! An now defunct oldies station in Baltimore, MD used to play that on their Sunday Night forgotten 45’s show.
A possible favorite song (though not Motown) might be the standard “Tenderly”. I tend to like every version I have heard of that.
Anyway, I hope you have a great week my friends!
Landini,
Thanks for the feedback. I totally agree that loving every version of a song makes a good case for it being worthy of a being considered favorite song. I know that many could consider For Once in My LIfe a smaltzy song but I have to say that I have loved just about every version of it that I have heard because no performance of it that I have heard obscures the beauty of the lyrics and melody. Paul Williams version is still the apex!
Yes sir… “For Once” is a great song, though I have gotten used to Stevie Wonder’s uptempo version. The ballad versions are nice. Funny that some people don’t realize that the song started out as a ballad. Yes, Mr. Williams did a fine version of this song.
As I read your most recent post I am listening to Billy Butler singing Right Track! LOVE IT!!!!
You said it brother!
Robb, Hi! Hope you are well. I just noticed you mentioned “Red Sails In The Sunset”. A great song. Have you heard Joe Turner’s uptempo version? That is really cool. Love the 5 Keys doing “Glory of Love”. Love the Righteous Bros doing “White Cliffs of Dover” & the Magnificent Men doing “Stormy Weather”. Best to you my friend!
Rupert said:
I LOVE the Dells’ version of Glory of Love!!!!
Will have to check that out. Not sure if I heard it before. Have no doubt it is great!
Hi Landini,-yes, I have hear Joe Turner’s version of “Red Sails In The Sunset”, and have it on vinyl record. Glad you are cancer free once again.
colin said:
A Motown site ,great job Nix,
Cassie J. Fox said:
Former Motown Promoter & recording artist Cornell Blakely has passed away. December 3 in his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. I have biographical information on Cornell. I have known him “worked: & written about him & his multi faceted & colorful career.
Cornell introduced Legendary John R Richbourg to Berry Gordy in the early Sixties.. Thats was history & a global audeniece for The Motor Town Sound -The “Sound Of Young America” .
I can be contacted on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cassie.j.fox and my e-mail addy is: news2cassie@yahoo.com
johnny spencer said:
Great site, I can’t believe I’ve only just discovered it. I stumbled upon it looking up Sammy Ward and then quickly flicked around and was shocked to see that you weren’t American and that you had come to Tamla by way of Rock!
Have only had a chance to read a few pages so far but can already see that it is a truly valuable asset to fans of Tamla like myself. I look forward to reading all the rest.
As for dissent: Should I Tell Them by The Velvelettes, perhaps it’s my age, but I would give that a nine any day. A gem of of a recording that seems to be about the boy/girl romance thing and transend it too, all wraped up in a strange off beat kind of way.
David Wilson said:
Firstly I have recently discovered your website- well done, it truly is a labour of love and your exuberant enthusiasm is evident in every line. It is great that after so many years I’m able to connect with likeminded fans of the greatest music ever, thanks to the world wide web. I was born in 1961 so have only hazy recollections of the 60’s with regards to pop culture although I was surrounded by music – my cousins who would babysit along with their boyfriends would bring their singles collections to play on my fathers state of the art stereogram and my dad, who was a member of a dance band, would play pop, c&w, jazz and we would listen to and record the pirate stations on his Grundig reel to reel tape recorder. How I wish those tapes had survived if only to hear my childhood self playing Disc Jockey between the tracks! I’ve always been aware of Motown and the Supremes and Four Tops in particular. Growing up in an all white rural Scotland they represented another alien world, exotic, beautiful and sophisticated ‘negresses’ (in the words of the Daily Record newspaper in 1965!) Although I would buy the odd single now and again (e.g. Sugar Sugar) I really started seriously collecting music in 1974 and studying the charts- BBC/Luxembourg/Billboard. I fell in love with the Supremes and Diana Ross in particular with all her faults. First Supremes album I bought was a Music for Pleasure release off early recordings titled ‘Baby Love’ which had been re-released and charted on its 10th anniversary. The triple ‘Anthology’ album was next as wereDiana’s solo projects and duets with Marvin. My collection expanded to include singles and albums by all motown artists, alongside contemporary artists of the day. I get frustrated when Motown’s influence on the development of popular music is downplayed by the mainly white middle-class music press/critics. Their ignorance can at times be staggering- take Amy Winehouse as an example- hailed as original yet she was in my opinion nothing more than a glorified 60’s girl group tribute act. The Back to Black album is a complete plagiarised rip off of motown classics- yet this was never acknowledged and Whitehouse was lionised as a supreme (pun intended) new talent. These critics seem to view Motown’s importance as a side bar. What nonsense- listen to any modern pop singer and the structure of pop songs and Motowns is evident in its DNA. To completely ignore the significance of the Supremes in pop culture is criminal. 12 US No1’s bettered only by Elvis and the Beatles, breaking through the colour bar in so many ways. It is also conveniently forgotten that Diana was the top female star of the 70’s with a record 6 no1’s in US. Without them the Spice Girls, Destiny’s Child Whitney, Madonna, Janet, Beyonce, Rihanna and co would have found life much tougher and yet they rarely acknowledge Diana and the Supremes. Keep up the great work and I look forward to regular visits.
I never read this section of Nixon’s wonderful blog and David Wilson I agree with you completely. Before I moved from Philly to Ft. Lauderdale I remember a poll taken by WDAS Radio Station. WHO IS THE GREATEST FEMALE GROUP OF ALL TIME? Would it be The Spice Girls, The Jones Girls, Destiny’s Child, En Vogue, or, perhaps, The Supremes? Now WDAS is a serious SOUL station and probably never played any of these groups. However, the result in 2011 was —— The Supremes, by a land slide. So, on occasion, though never enough, they get their due.
Patrick English said:
It’s a great pleasure to discover this website. I was a pre-teen when I bought my first 45, and I can proudly say it was “Playboy” by the Marvelettes. Didn’t even know what a “Playboy” was, but that song made me want to be one. And I can remember what a thrill it was to listen to “My Girl” on the radio when it was FIRST released (“Here’s a brand new song by the Temptations”), and hear that opening guitar riff by Robert White. Most of my friends were fanatics for Elvis and The Beatles, but I was grooving to Motown. It’s the music of my youth, and I love it as much today as I did then.
Tremaine said:
I have recently purchased some property of an old Motown executive. Some of what I found amongst her belongings are quite astounding. I have several rare acetates containing The Supremes “Where Did The Love Go”, The Temptations “My Girl”and several others. They are 10″and in very good condition. Would you know anything about these. Let me know.
Dan Packard said:
Love your site and great thorough write up’s about the songs. Great work!
Tony Moore said:
First – thank you for this amazing site – in many ways it’s better, more complete and better organized than most of the books available on Motown. I’m currently using it as a listening guide as I study the Complete Singles collection. I have a small enhancement request: if a copy of the Previous/Next buttons could be placed at the top of each page, it would be easy to quickly navigate through (in my case, looking for composer credits) without having to scroll to the bottom each time.
david h said:
AM I missing something.i haven’t seen any new reviews of songs. I still have This Old Heart Of Mine up . was this the last review? I am in withdrawal
You are correct that “This old Heart of Mine(Is weak For You)” is the last review. Mr. Nixon has been beset with familial and career obligations, but has already again started work on reviews for this site, and told us they some will be forthcoming “relatively soon”. I look forward to them. But, in the meantime, I have discovered that there are many songs on which I have not commented.
thanks. need my Motown junkies fix
Greg Kipp said:
Hmmm…..For some reason, it looks like this website has been abandoned!!!!! That’s a shame because this looks like it could be the best site on THE MOTOWN SOUND that ever existed on the World Wide Web. Therefore, I’m gonna list the fifty Motown singles that I would give a rating of “10” thus are my personal favorite Motown songs.
My list is as follows:
1.) “I Hear A Symphony” THE SUPREMES
2.) “Since I Lost My Baby” THE TEMPTATIONS
3.) “Nowhere To Run” MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS
4.) “Ooo Baby Baby” THE MIRACLES
5.) “You Lost The Sweetest Boy” MARY WELLS
6.) “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” THE FOUR TOPS
7.) “Don’t Mess With Bill” THE MARVELETTES
8.) “Stop In The Name Of Love” THE SUPREMES
9.) “War” EDWIN STARR
10.) If This World Were Mine” MARVIN GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL
11.) “Every Little Bit Hurts” BRENDA HOLLOWAY
12.) “The Love You Save” THE JACKSON 5
13.) “My World Is Empty Without You” THE SUPREMES
14.) “Hey Love” STEVIE WONDER
15.) “I’ll Try Something New” THE MIRACLES
16.) “Ain’t That Peculiar” MARVIN GAYE
17.) “Shotgun” JR. WALKER AND THE ALL STARS
18.) “If I Were Your Woman” GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS
19.) “Smiling Faces Sometimes” THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH
20.) “Love Child” DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES
21.) “The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game” THE MARVELETTES
22.) “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep” THE TEMPTATIONS
23.) “That’s The Way Love Is” MARVIN GAYE
24.) “Strange I Know” THE MARVELETTES
25.) “Quicksand” MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS
26.) “Ask The Lonely” THE FOUR TOPS
27.) “For Once In My Life” STEVIE WONDER
28.) “Never Can Say Goodbye” THE JACKSON 5
29.) “You’re All I Need To Get By” MARVIN GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL
30.) “When I’m Gone” BRENDA HOLLOWAY
31.) “My Baby Loves Me” MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS
32.) “The One Who Really Loves You” MARY WELLS
33.) “Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday” STEVIE WONDER
34.) “I’ll Be There” THE JACKSON FIVE
35.) “Too Many Fish In The Sea” THE MARVELETTES
36.) “A Place In The Sun” STEVIE WONDER
37.) “If I Could Build My Whole World Around You” MARVIN GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL
38.) “Baby I Need Your Lovin” THE FOUR TOPS
39.) “Don’t Look Back” THE TEMPTATIONS
40.) “Where Did Our Love Go” THE SUPREMES
41.) “My Cherie Amour” STEVIE WONDER
42.) “Don’t Make Hurting Me A Habit” THE MARVELETTES
43.) “Here Comes The Judge” SHORTY LONG
44.) “Save Me” SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES
45.) “A Bird In The Hand (Is Worth Two In The Bush)” THE VELVELETTES
46.) “I Can’t Believe You Love Me” TAMMI TERRELL
47.) “A Thrill A Moment” KIM WESTON
48.) “What Love Has Joined Together” MARY WELLS
49.) “Just Ain’t Enough Love” EDDIE HOLLAND
50.) “Darling Baby” THE ELGINS
Hopefully, there are enough people who still come to this website that Mr. Nixon will start posting more GREAT REVIEWS and those of us who want to post on this blog can get back to discussing THE GREATEST MUSIC EVER MADE AKA THE MOTOWN SOUND. Until then, I wish everybody who comes here THE VERY BEST IT CAN BE!!!!
Greg “Gregorzick” Kipp
Not abandoned, just… Resting. 🙂
Jeff said:
A really informative site, and the best I have seen on Motown. Well done (Da iawn)!
Franklin S. Goins said:
Just discovered your fantastic website! Been a Motown fan since high school. I still remember hearing “Stubborn Kind of Fellow” for the first time on the radio in 1962 while in college in Washington D.C. .. I thought I had died and gone to heaven! Motown was the thread of much of my life in the 60s onward! I still have many many 45s! Thanks for the memories!
well I am still in withdrawal and need a fix. miss this site so much. seems like forever.
you are so appreciated and missed.
please come back soon. wishing you peace and rest .
Tony S. said:
Really enjoy the site. But is there any way you can make it easier to read? The grey-on- black template has me constantly squinting and struggling to make out words. If the grey-ish text could be whiter or brighter (similar to the text you have in bold), it would be easier to read — and less tiresome to read in depth. I’d like to peruse the whole site, but it creates eye strain to view more than a few pages at a time. Thanks!
the new Supremes a go go got me thinking about this sight and wanted to stopin and see if there are any updates. please come back soon. our world is empty without you. sorry I had to.
you are missed.
Randy Preston said:
This site is fantastic. I recently picked up the CD “Greetings From Detroit – The Sound of Early Motown.” It’s a pretty basic, probably public domain collection of the early Motown singles. No liner notes whatsoever, so I Googled and found this site. Thanks so much for the wealth of information.
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Laura Beeby said:
No update in two years? I has the sads! I hope you’re writing somewhere because I happened across your review of Marvin Gaye’s first single and was totally absorbed by your writing style! And I’ve learned a lot…
Thanks! I’ll be back at some point, though I’ve learned not to go promising any kind of definite time frame. Just having an extended break, writing commercial things and spending time with my family. Motown Junkies will return!
Michael S. said:
Is it still possible to be notified when you post a new review? Thanks and welcome back!
APH (@apharris_nyc) said:
There’s currently a huge project underway on genius.com to transcribe the lyrics to all 1,838 songs released on “The Complete Motown Singles” – So far 1,184 tracks have been transcribed. What’s really cool is that most the people transcribing these songs are either teenagers or in their 20s and this website has been a huge help providing context and learning about the individual bands/songs. Link to the project thread: https://genius.com/discussions/319976-The-motown-singles-project-19591972 So thanks for your help!
John Roberts said:
I am not sure if this is the proper forum where to post this notice, so please advise if it isn’t.
I have collected the entire Motown catalog on LP vinyl and have every issue since the beginning on the Motown, Soul, Tamla, Gordy and Mowest labels and am interested in selling the entire collection. All discs are playable. If anyone is interested or knows someone who is, please contact me by email at
ogemaw516@gmail.com
dondi bastone said:
Trying to identify the instrumental played by Choker Campbell’s Orchesta at the beginning of the Motortown Revue live at the Apollo in 1963. Can anyone be of help?
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Mount St. Mary's Men's Basketball Set to Visit Saint Francis U on Saturday in Rematch of 2017 Northeast Conference Title Game
Saint Francis U
Mount St. Mary's (10-9, 4-2 NEC) 28 47 6 81
Saint Francis U (10-7, 4-2 NEC) 30 45 5 80
Pts: Chris Wray - 22
Reb: Chris Wray - 8
Ast: Junior Robinson - 10
Pts: King, Jamaal - 31
Reb: Braxton, Keith - 11
MOUNT ST. MARY'S (9-9, 3-2 NEC) at SAINT FRANCIS U (10-6, 4-1 NEC)
Saturday, January 13, 2018 | 2:00 p.m.
DeGol Arena| Loretto, Pa.
WATCH: NEC Front Row
LISTEN: WFMD (930 AM) (Adam Pohl, Play-by-Play)
GAME NOTES | TWITTER | LIVE STATS
MOUNT STORY LINES
Junior Robinson scored 23 points as Mount St. Mary's held off Sacred Heart, 81-75, on Thursday night at Knott Arena. The Mountaineers held a 20-point lead in the first half, but a late 13-0 Sacred Heart run cut the Mount's lead to 62-58. The Mount scored the next four points and then hit 13-of-16 at the foul line in the final 2:37 to earn the win. Donald Carey added 14 points, Jonah Antonio 13 and Greg Alexander 12 in the victory.
This is the first meeting between the Mount and Saint Francis U since the Mount's 71-61 win over the Red Flash on March 7, 2017, at Knott Arena. Mount St. Mary's won all three meetings with the Red Flash last season, and have won five in a row in the series. The Mount has won eight of the past 10 matchups at DeGol Arena, including an 81-62 victory last year.
Freshmen Donald Carey (14), Jonah Antonio (13), Omar Habwe (8) and Bobby Planutis (7) combined to score 42 points in the Mount's 81-75 win over Sacred Heart. The Mount has had three freshmen in the starting lineup (Carey, Antonio and Planutis) in each of the past three games. 12 of the 16 players on the Mount's roster are freshmen this season.
Mount St. Mary's is averaging 13.7 three-point field goals made over the past three games. The Mount averages 10.0 three-pointers made per game on the year.
In the latest KenPom rankings, the Mount is second in offensive efficiency in Northeast Conference games this year, scoring 111.8 points per 100 possessions. The league leader is Saint Francis U at 116.0 points per 100 possessions.
The offense has been clicking for the Mount during the three-game win streak. The Mount is averaging 85.0 points while shooting 50.9 percent overall and 46.1 percent from three-point range during the win streak. The Mount has made 41 three-pointers over the past three games.
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Junior Robinson and Chris Wray Picked for Inaugural Dos Equis 3x3U National Championship
March 26, 2018--Mount St. Mary's seniors Junior Robinson and Chris Wray have been selected to participate in the inaugural Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship. This event will pit 32 four-man teams consisting of players from every Division I college basketball conference against each other in a three day, 3-on-3 tournament. These teams, comprised of seniors who have exhausted their collegiate eligibility, will compete for a $100,000 prize pool viewable live on Twitter and ESPN2 from Friday, March 30 through Sunday, April 1, 2018 at St. Mary's University's Bill Greehey Arena in San Antonio. Robinson and Wray will represent the Northeast Conference along with Wagner's JoJo Cooper and LIU Brooklyn's Joel Hernandez.
Robinson, who will compete in the 30th annual State Farm College Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships on Thursday, posted one of the top seasons in Mount St. Mary's history this year. The 5-5 guard was named the Northeast Conference (NEC) Player of the Year, becoming just the second player in Mount history to earn NEC Player of the Year honors. He led the NEC and is currently 14th in the nation in scoring at 22.0 points per game while he finished second in the conference with 4.9 assists per game. Robinson scored 20 or more points in a game on 23 occasions this year, currently the fifth-most in the nation this year.
With 703 points this season, Robinson moved into third on the Mount St. Mary's all-time scoring list with 1,872 career points. His 703 points are the second-most in a season in Mount history, and he joins Mount legendary players Jack Sullivan, John O'Reilly, Chris McGuthrie and Fred Carter as the only players to score 600 or more points in a season. Those four are the only Mount players to have their number retired.
Robinson is the second player at the Mount to earn NEC Player of the Year honors, joining McGuthrie who won the award in 1995-96. Robinson was also named First Team All-NEC, becoming the sixth player in Mount history to earn First Team All-NEC honors, joining Elijah Long (2016-17), Jeremy Goode (2008-09; 2009-10), Gregory Harris (1998-99), Riley Inge (1995-96) and McGuthrie (1994-95; 1995-96) as the only Mount players to earn First Team All-NEC honors. He was named NEC Player of the Week on five occasions this year, tying the conference record for most NEC Player of the Week awards in one season.
Wray became the second Mountaineer to be named NEC Defensive Player of the Year, joining two-time winner Mychal Kearse, who won the award in back-to-back seasons in 2005-06 and 2006-07. One of the most versatile players in Mount history, Wray led the NEC blocks (2.1), was tied for third in steals (2.0) and finished fourth in rebounds (8.3) in league games. He blocked a career-high six shots in the Mount's win over Wagner, and has finished third all-time at the Mount with 141 career blocks. Wray, who missed the first eight games of the season due to injury, was a consistent performer on the defensive end, tallying 16 games with two or more steals and 15 games with two or more blocked shots. He grabbed five or more rebounds in 23 of 24 games played this year, while he had six games with double figures in rebounds.
Wray was also named Third Team All-NEC, becoming the third Mount player to earn Third Team All-NEC honors, joining Gregory Graves (2014-15) and BK Ashe (2014-15 and 2015-16). Wray averaged 9.6 points, 8.3 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 2.0 blocks and 2.1 steals per game this season while shooting 62.2 percent (102-of-164) from the field. He was even better in NEC games, averaging 10.6 points per game while he led the NEC in field goal percentage (.631) and blocks (2.1), tied for third in steals (2.0), was eighth in assists (4.3), fourth in rebounds (8.3), fourth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.9-to-1) and second in offensive rebounds (3.1).
The Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship will begin on Friday, March 30 with 24 pool play games streamed live on Twitter from 7 p.m.-12:30 a.m. EST and will continue on Saturday, March 31 with another 24 pool play games streamed live on Twitter from 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. EST. The event will conclude on Sunday, April 1 with the quarterfinals broadcast live on Twitter from 1:35-3 p.m. EST, and the semifinals, third-place game and championship game broadcast live on ESPN2 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. EST.
"We are so excited to host these 128 players at this one-of-a-kind event," said Drew Russell, Intersport's Vice President of Sports Properties. "For fans, this will be an opportunity to see the nation's top seniors compete in the rapidly growing and faced-paced nature of 3-on-3 basketball. For players, it will be one last opportunity to showcase their skills on a national stage and give them the chance to earn a significant sum of money. It will also expose them to the 3-on-3 format which may lead to new opportunities as they take the next step in their professional careers."
Every game of the Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship matters as money will be on the line at all times throughout the competition. Participants will compete for a $100,000 prize pool that will be distributed as follows:
Each pool play win will earn the team $1,000.
A quarterfinal win will earn the team $1,000.
A semifinal win will earn the team $1,000.
The team that wins the third-place game will earn $1,000.
The team that wins the championship will earn $50,000.
Each team roster will be comprised of four eligible seniors from the same Division I college basketball conference. Teams will be organized into eight pools of four and each team will be guaranteed three pool play games. The Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship Player Selection Committee consists of college basketball experts from a wide range of media outlets including ESPN, CBS Sports, The Athletic, USA Today, NBC Sports, The Ringer, and more. The Committee worked feverishly throughout the season to determine the nation's top senior college basketball players who have been selected to compete. The complete rosters for each conference will be revealed through a series of studio shows streamed live on Twitter once a day from Monday, March 26 through Thursday, March 29.
Tickets for the Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship are on sale now and start at just $15 with multi-day and group packages available.
For more information on the Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship, including buying tickets, event updates, details and rules, please follow us on Twitter, @3X3UHoops, or visit www.3X3UHoops.com.
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Ellen Burstyn Is ‘Lovely Still’
Ellen Burstyn Is Lovely Still
Nic Fackler has lined up both Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn for his directorial debut entitled Lovely Still. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Elizabeth Banks and Adam Scott have also joined the project.
Fackler wrote this holiday film about a senior bagger at a grocery store that finds love for the first time in his life. Landau will play the elderly bagboy, while Burstyn is set to play his love interest. Banks will be playing Ellen's daughter, and Scott has signed on as the storeowner.
Producer Lars Knudsen stated, "It's a testament to his talent, that at such a young age he has wooed actors like Martin and Ellen; he's one of those naturals who never went to film school. Maybe Nik is the next one to come out of Omaha."
The film will start shooting early next year.
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‘Hobbit’ Trilogy Extended Edition Comes to Theaters This October
Hobbit Trilogy Extended Edition Comes to Theaters This October
— August 26th, 2015
Yesterday, it was announced that The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies is getting an R rated extended edition release on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD this November. But fans who want to see it early and on the big screen are getting that chance. We have a new The Hobbit extended edition trilogy trailer, and it shows off some of the new, never-before-seen moments from the final chapter in this epic fantasy saga. And we have have new information on when and where the movie will be playing this fall as part of a bigger theatrical event.
Fathom Events and Warner Bros. are thrilled to bring The Hobbit Trilogy back to select cinemas nationwide for an exclusive series of three in-theater events. The three movies include The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition on October 5, 2015; The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition on October 7, 2015; and the world premiere of The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies on October 13, 2015. Each event will begin at 7:30 p.m. local time.
From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes one of the most magical epic adventures in motion picture history, adapted from the enduringly beloved novel, The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit Trilogy tells a continuous story set in Middle-earth 60 years before The Lord of the Rings. Nominated for 7 Academy Awards and winning numerous prominent awards, The Hobbit Trilogy is an epic journey of men, hobbits, dwarves, elves and the rest of Middle-earth's creatures and cultures.
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Tickets are available by clicking on the orange Buy Tickets button on Fathom Events. If online ticketing is not available for your location, you can purchase your tickets by visiting the box office at your local participating movie theater. Fans who purchase a ticket will get to enjoy an exclusive introduction from director Peter Jackson as well as the extended editions of all three films from The Hobbit Trilogy, including never-before-seen footage from The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies.
This trilogy tells the story of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), a hobbit who sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves and Gandalf the Grey to reclaim their mountain home, and the gold within it, from the dragon Smaug. In an epic quest, Bilbo and his fellowship of friends and allies must protect their homeland from falling into the hands of rising darkness.
Beside Freeman, the trilogy stars Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey, and Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield. The international ensemble cast is led by Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billy Connolly, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Aidan Turner, Dean O'Gorman, Graham McTavish, Stephen Fry, and Ryan Gage. The film also stars Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Orlando Bloom, Mikael Persbrandt, Sylvester McCoy, Peter Hambleton, John Callen, Mark Hadlow, Jed Brophy, William Kircher, Stephen Hunter, Adam Brown, John Bell, Manu Bennett and John Tui. For the first time ever, the extended editions of each of the films in The Hobbit Trilogy will be shown on the big screen. Don't miss your chance to see this historic series as it was meant to be seen!
The Hobbit Trilogy Event Dates:
An Unexpected Journey - Monday, October 5
The Desolation of Smaug - Wednesday, October 7
The Battle of The Five Armies - Tuesday, October 13
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Jack Nicholson in Talks for New James L. Brooks Film
— June 2nd, 2009
While James L. Brooks' new film doesn't quite have a title yet, the cast is rounding out with the possible addition of a screen legend. According to Variety, Jack Nicholson is in negotiations to join the cast of the Untitled James L. Brooks Project.
If Nicholson should sign on, he would join a cast that already includes Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson. It was said that Bill Murray was in extensive talks to portray the father of Rudd's character, it seems that Murray has lost interest in the film and Nicholson may come on board as the last key member of the cast.
The story is said to revolve around a love triangle, with both Rudd's character, a white-collar executive, and Wilson's character, a pro baseball pitcher, both trying to win Witherspoon's character over.
Nicholson is no stranger to Brooks' work, with two of his three Oscar awards coming from the Brooks films Terms of Endearment and As Good As It Gets.
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STUDIO BRIEFING TV: December 12, 2007
Brian B.
— December 12th, 2007
ABC'S LOSSES ARE CBS'S GAIN
CBS regained the title of most-watched network last week after ABC had to do without Dancing With the Stars, which has ended its current run, and Desperate Housewives, which has gone into hiatus due to the writers' strike. NBC also savored a week to boast about as it won Sunday and Monday and tied for first place on Tuesday. For the week, CBS averaged a 6.6 rating and an 11 share. ABC slipped to second place with a 5.7/9. NBC was close behind with a 5.2/8, while Fox trailed with a 4.1/6.
The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research:
1. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 11.6/17; 1. (Tie) Grey's Anatomy, ABC, 11.6/18; 3. 60 Minutes, CBS, 10.6/17; 4. ABC Premiere Event: Mitch Albom's For One More Day, ABC, 8.3/13; 4. Without a Trace, CBS, 8.3/14; 6. Survivor: China, CBS, 8.2/13; 7. NBC Sunday Night Football, NBC, 8.1/13; 8. Law and Order: SVU, NBC, 8.0/13; 9. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, ABC, 7.7/11; 10. Barbara Walters Presents, ABC, 7.6/13; 10. (Tie) Cold Case, CBS, 7.6/11; 10. (Tie) Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, CBS, 7.6/12.
HOW COSTLY IS STRIKE TO WRITERS?
The Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers has posted a counter on its website indicating that the strike has thus far cost writers $104.56 million. The figure is based on the writers' own estimate of overall compensation in 2006 of $1.05 billion. The counter is apparently aimed at validating critics of the strike who have argued that it is likely to cost writers more than they can ever hope to gain even if their demands are met. (The WGA claims that its proposals for new media will cost the studios $151 million over the next three years.) Meanwhile, today's (Wednesday) Los Angeles Times reported that dissension has arisen in the writers' ranks among members who are unhappy that the negotiations were sidetracked by "secondary" issues, including the WGA negotiators' demands for jurisdiction over reality show producers and writers of animated series. Negotiators for the writers, however, claim that the talks did not break up over those issues and that the studios claim that they did was, in the words of one WGA leader, "a ploy by the AMPTP ... to divide us."
WGA TO ALLOW WRITER FOR SAG AWARDS SHOW
The Screen Actors Guild has received a waiver from the Writers Guild of America allowing it to use a writer for its annual awards show on January 27. However, the WGA said it has not made a decision on whether to grant similar waivers in the case of the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards telecasts. "For the time being, it's too preliminary to forecast," a WGA West spokesman told the Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday. The Globes telecast, however, is scheduled to take place on January 13, two weeks earlier than the SAG affair. (In a related matter, it was announced Tuesday that U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB will carry the Golden Globes telecast live for the first time.)
CHASE TO TESTIFY IN LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY JUDGE OVER SOPRANOS
The Sopranos creator, David Chase, is expected to testify in New Jersey this week in a federal lawsuit brought by former judge Robert Baer who claims that he was responsible for providing Chase with the idea for the HBO series and in developing the central characters. While acknowledging that he met with Baer and talked to him about matters related to gangland characters in New Jersey, Chase maintains that the judge's contributions were insignificant. The Smoking Gun website has posted Chase's "court certification" about the origins of the show, in which he notes that his family name was originally DeCesare; that he grew up fascinated with the movie gangster classic Public Enemy and watched The Untouchables on TV; that he followed Mafia activities in the Newark Evening News; that at 14, the mob was the subject of his oral presentation in speech class; and that his own family had "tenuous links" to the Mafia.
ABC SHIFTS STOSSEL INTERVIEW TO WEB
ABC has decided not to air an interview with Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul by 20/20 co-host John Stossel and instead present it as an online "exclusive." Paul advocates the kind of libertarian approach to many issues that Stossel appears to support. The network's decision aroused anger among Paul's supporters. On the liberal Huffington Post blog, Matt Simon, who heads a New Hampshire organization that advocates marijuana-law reform, asked, "If ABC claims to be operating in the public interest, on what grounds can it reasonably suppress this unusually thought-provoking interview?" (The interview could fall under the FCC's Equal Time rule, requiring the network to provide free time to Paul's rivals.) As Stossel notes in his online introduction to the interview, Paul has been effective in raising awareness of his candidacy -- and raising campaign funds -- on the Internet. On ABC's 20/20 message board, one Paul supporter wrote, "The truly sad thing is that ABC won't air this on television. We on the Web know Ron Paul's views and beliefs, so why are they wasting time here when he could be on TV being much more effective in spreading his ideas?" Another wrote, "My grandmother is very interested in Ron Paul and doesn't have access to the Internet! This is outrageous that ABC won't air the interview."
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Chen Xiang and the others were shocked that the dark area of the Life Forest was actually a G.o.d Realm punishment grounds. Now that they had barged into this place and were unable to leave, and the punishment energy had not disappeared, it meant that the punishment energy would continue. As long as there was a creature inside, it would be activated.
Chen Xiang tried to use his spatial energy, but it was completely useless. The s.p.a.ce and time here were extremely strange, and the spatial laws he mastered were not applicable here at all.
"If you want to die, then don't resist the poison in your body. Just let the poison spread and you can die." Chen Xiang was calm, but he used his divine power to support his body and slowly moved towards h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians.
"This won't do. If those strange poisons destroy my body, then a power will be born here. It will invade my body to restore my body, and my soul will also be forcefully pulled back into my body by that power to continue bearing the punishment." h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians snorted: "Even if you wanted to kill me now, you wouldn't be able to."
"There is another power in this place that can revive dead people. Otherwise, the Life Forest outside would not have been so strange, it would have been affected by the life force here."
Chen Xiang laughed, "I can't kill you? If I kill you, don't regret it …. Of course, the dead cannot be regretted. "
"Come at me!" h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians was very confident that Chen Xiang wouldn't be able to kill him.
All of the bones in Chen Xiang's body had been broken, and his muscles had been severely injured. However, his divine power was very strong, he could use it to attach to his four limbs, and then use it to move his limbs.
"Then I'll thank you first!" Chen Xiang snickered and took out a special wooden box. After opening the wooden box, there was some white powder.
"Thank me? What is that thing in your hand? " The h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians frowned. Chen Xiang had many kinds of strange poisons in his hands, he thought that this might be a very strong poison.
"Something that can take your life!" Chen Xiang poured the powder from the wooden box onto h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians's body. "This thing is called G.o.d-eclipse powder, you should …"
"Ah — —" Before Chen Xiang could finish his words, the h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians let out a wild roar. His body was emitting mist and was being corroded.
Chen Xiang laughed, "Thank you for your divine soul. To be able to obtain such a powerful divine soul like yours, my injuries are worth it!"
He channeled his Devouring magic kungfu and the Soul Absorbing Devil Spell, quickly extracting the h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians's soul from it, then devouring it into his own Divine Sense Sea, before placing it into the Divine Deity.
h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians's body had already turned into mist and dissipated. His soul had also been swallowed by Chen Xiang and had already died!
In Chen Xiang's eyes, this place that punished the G.o.ds was not as scary as what the h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians had said.
After entering and killing the h.e.l.l Prince, he had gained the h.e.l.l Prince's Divine Deity and divine soul, as well as the Eagle Emperor's three beast emperors' divine souls. Furthermore, he had also obtained the h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians's divine soul, so his harvest was extremely bountiful.
"Start to heal, then properly digest the soul that has been devoured these days! If only these souls could be moved. " Chen Xiang wanted to give these divine souls to Liu Meng'er and Xue Xianxian.
"That's not good. It's better for the soul to cultivate it itself, or to use other methods to help it grow. For example, the methods in the Divine Devil Cult, using someone else's soul as the base of their soul is not good." Long Xueyi said: "Other people's soul is only suitable for cultivation."
Chen Xiang said: "When the Divine Devil Cult's Sect Leader's memories were searched, I know that they have cultivated the secrets of the G.o.d Soul. Once I leave this d.a.m.ned place, I will return to the Nine Heaven World and help Xianxian and the Elder Sister Meng'er develop their G.o.d Soul."
"Hurry up and refine the s.p.a.ce black iron. If you want to return to Nine Heaven World, you will need to rely on the artifacts refined by the s.p.a.ce black iron to be safe."
Liu Meng'er and the other girls were busy inside the ring, understanding that the presence of so many s.p.a.ce black iron was a huge project. If they were to do it in the Divine Fire Forest, with Jiang Sheng's help as a Divine Craftsman, it would be much easier.
Chen Xiang started to cultivate. Since the nine blood colored Bane Stars in the sky did not make any movements, it meant that there would not be any danger for the time being.
"Using the Heavenly Alchemy to refine those divine souls should be a lot faster. When my divine soul becomes stronger, I can then refine the Divine Deity of the h.e.l.l Prince into my own Divine Deity so that my Divine Deity can become even stronger." Chen Xiang thought.
His body was extremely weak when compared to the cultivation of his soul, and looking at his current cultivation level of Divine Deity, plus the fact that he could cultivate Emperor soul s in the future, he would need to have at least the jade bones to be able to balance himself.
Cultivating the physical body was extremely difficult, and the quickest way was through high level pills, such as sacred pills!
Back then, the Pill Saint relied on eating the Holy Elixir to cultivate to become a powerful Jade Bone, Chen Xiang was very confident that he would be able to obtain a powerful physical body in the future. As long as he could refine a Holy Elixir and find a medicinal ingredient to strengthen his body, he would definitely be able to do so.
Chen Xiang had Divine Deity. As long as he could settle down and cultivate, he could quickly refine the soul that had been devoured, and make his own soul stronger.
The divine souls of h.e.l.l Prince, Dragon Emperor and h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians were all extremely strong, and were not easy to refine. Only when Chen Xiang combined with his Divine Deity, could there be any obvious progress, and even then, it still required a period of time to complete.
As he trained, he did not feel the pa.s.sage of time, especially when Chen Xiang was studying the Heavenly Alchemy and cultivating at the same time. During this time, he did not have much contact with the girl inside the Youyao ring, nor did they disturb Chen Xiang, which was why he was able to concentrate on cultivating.
It had already been a year, and in this blood-coloured starlight covered punishment grounds, only Chen Xiang was left. The surroundings were deathly still without any sound, but this place was filled with an extremely dense amount of life force.
Even if the previously heavily injured Chen Xiang didn't heal himself, he would still be able to recover quickly after lying here for a period of time. This was exactly as the h.e.l.l Suppressing Guardians had said, it would be extremely difficult for him to die here.
"I've finally finished refining those Divine Deity!" Chen Xiang opened his eyes and exhaled. There was a look of disappointment on his face.
"You haven't cultivated a Emperor soul?" Long Xueyi asked. If it was like this, she could understand Chen Xiang's disappointment.
Chen Xiang shook his head: "No, those fellows' souls can only absorb a little too little energy. The rest will turn into impurities and be refined away during refinement, the main reason is that these fellows' souls are not pure enough."
Although the souls of h.e.l.l Prince and the Dragon Emperor were strong, there were too many elements of evil that could not be absorbed. Therefore, although Chen Xiang had devoured a lot of the souls, although the souls were strong, only a small amount of them could be absorbed.
"Don't be discouraged, how can cultivating Emperor soul be so easy? In the past, the Strong of Lord Stage s would at least take ten thousand years to cultivate. " Long Xueyi comforted her: "Do you need my help?"
Long Xueyi's help was to cultivate the G.o.ds join method!
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Tag: Harmonium
Posted on February 27, 2019 February 27, 2019 in Featured, In Retrospect, Music, Pop, Review, Song review
IN RETROSPECT: Vanessa Carlton – “White Houses”
Vanessa Carlton is probably best known for her 2002 debut hit single “A Thousand Miles”, or its memorable feature in the 2004 film White Chicks. That iconic piano motif and those whimsical lyrics of longing won over a lot of hearts, as well as earning the American three Grammy Award nominations, with both the song and her debut album Be Not Nobody charting in several countries.
Carlton has since gone on to release more albums, albeit with less commercial success and not without some label issues, including her most recent Liberman in 2015. But shortly after her big break came her sophomore album, Harmonium (2004), named after the organ-type musical instrument. “White Houses” was the lead single and opening track, co-written and produced by Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind), and it’s a coming-of-age story of naïvety, friendships, comparison and the sensitive topic of losing one’s virginity.
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Music Copyright / Legal, Music Industry, Music Publishing
Everything You Need to Know About Copyright
Your copyrights are your business! So it makes sense to take the time to understand how it all works. Unfortunately, “copyright” and “law” tend to have pretty scary connotations. Just hearing the words is often enough to make our heads hurt.
This article from Digital Music News pretty much lays out everything you need to know about your copyrights, publishing, royalties, and licenses in a way that’s easy to understand. Here’s the copyright segment of the article.
I know it’s not the most exciting topic out there, but understanding your rights (and more importantly how you can monetize them) will unlock a lot of income opportunities for you in music. After you finish this article, check out this free ebook to learn how to take those rights and score awesome licensing deals.
We’re also hosting a free licensing webinar covering a surefire way to license your music. You’ll learn how to get your music on music libraries and how to make connections directly with music supervisors. Click here to register for free and choose the date and time that works best for you.
As a musician you are a creator. Whether you’re a composer, lyricist or performing artist, you create works. These works automatically become copyrighted once they are documented; for example through recording or writing.
Copyright is a form of intellectual property. The creator becomes the copyright owner. If there are multiple creators, this right is automatically split equally. Writers are free to deviate from this equal share through mutual agreement.
The duration of this copyright is generally until 70 years after the death of the last surviving author. It differs in some countries.
Copyright ownership rights give control over who can reproduce, distribute, perform publicly, display and create derivatives of a work. These ownership rights can be fully transferred and assigned to others. Others can also be granted licenses to use your music, typically in exchange for a payment. These payments are called royalties.
There are two types of musical copyright;
Musical Composition Copyright:
A musical composition is a piece of music, in part or in whole. The authors are typically the composer (writer of music) and the lyricist (writer of text, in case of lyrics). These authors are the owners of the musical composition copyright. Typically in equal share, as both the composer and lyricist of a track get assigned 50% of the composition’s copyright, unless they agreed on a different split. This can be done when one party contributed more than the other.
The creators have the exclusive right to determine who can produce copies of their song, for example to create records. This right can be granted to others by giving out a mechanical license, which is done in exchange for a monetary payment (mechanical royalties).
Whenever a record label or performing artist wants to record a song that they do not own, they have to get a mechanical license from the people that do. Always.
All decisions regarding the composition can only be made when agreed upon by all copyright owners. As mentioned before, the ownership and control of copyright can be transferred to others. Generally, songwriters get a specialized third party, namely a publisher, to control and manage their songs. In exchange, they get a cut of the royalty streams which they help generate with the repertoire.
Writer-publisher splits tend to range between 50%-50% and 70%-30%, depending on the clout of the artist and sometimes even on the relevant country’s regulations.
Sound Recording Copyright:
A sound recording is the actual final recording of a song, a fixation of sound. It often goes by the name of ‘master’ from the old ‘master tape’ expression. The authors are the performing artist and record producer, who in essence are therefore the owners. Producers typically get a small share of the master rights (up to 12.5%). However, recordings are typically made in assignment of record labels, whom have negotiated deals with both the artist and producer in which they transfer ownership of their copyright to the label in exchange for royalty payments.
Also, it’s increasingly more common and easy for performing artists to record independently. In these cases, the master ownership belongs to just them, or them together with the producer.
Royalty payments to performing artists are called artist royalties. Royalty payments to producers are called producer royalties.
Now that you know about the two different types of musical copyright, it is important that you grasp the difference between the ‘writers’ of a track and the owners of the actual ‘master recording’. The composition, made by the writers, is typically represented by a publisher. The sound recording, made by the performing artist and producer, is typically represented by a label.
To learn more about publishers, royalty calculations, and licenses, check out the full article over on Digital Music News.
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The Planned Gutting of Industrial America: Who Did It and Why
By John Hoefle
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/southernstrategyassaultonamerica01jan01.shtml
Original title: Southern Strategy: Assault on the American Republic published in EIR January 2001
The political success of Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter’s “Southern Strategy,” transforming the White House and Congress into bastions of white Southern power, would have been impossible, without the economic transformation of the United States from the greatest industrial and scientific nation-state in history, to a post-industrial nation of white-collar accountants, real estate brokers, computer programmers, retail clerks, and hamburger-flippers.
This transformation of America, over the past 30-plus years, has been characterized by the collapse of the urban industrial and cultural centers of the North–New York, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, etc.–and the gradual emergence of the “New South” as the heartland of America’s post-industrial economy.
Today, Southern cities like Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, and even Charlotte, North Carolina dominate the new economy” and house the multinational corporate and banking headquarters that preside over the deregulated looting of every last remaining income stream.
This Houston-Atlanta-Charlotte nexus can be dubbed “Southern Strategy, Inc.” Of course, it was Wall Street–most prominently the financial interests associated with Harriman, Morgan, and Rockefeller–which set this shift in motion. But the deregulated monster represented by such corporate creatures as Enron Corp. in the energy field, the Rainwater interests buying up hospitals, or Corrections Corporation of America in private prison operations, signals as process of financial speculation and physical-economic chaos, which Wall Street can no longer control. With President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney moving from Texas to Washington, the power of this Southern-based corporate looting apparatus is almost certain to grow at an even more accelerated rate.
We take up one significant slice of that corporate octopus, the Texas-centered network of oil industry giants that have been tied to the political fortunes of the Bush clan for much of the last century.
Behind the Bushes
The role of the Bushes in pushing deregulation, like their role in grabbing control of physical assets, is in the service of something much older and nastier.
Sitting at the center of this web, and typifying the level of corruption, are two Texas-based energy industry giants, each with ties into the nastiest of the Wall Street and European financial oligarchies: Schlumberger and Enron.
By far the older and filthier of the two is Schlumberger, the intelligence apparatus masquerading as an oil services company. Schlumberger is one of the two biggest oilfield services companies in the world, Halliburton being the other. While Schlumberger, the company, was formed in Paris in the early 1900s, the intelligence network which operates through it is much older, a part of the banking empire of the interlocked de Neuflize, Schlumberger, and Mallet-Prevost families, which have been running operations against the United States since the American Revolution. In Houston, the Schlumberger/Lazard nexus is closely allied with a nest of British assets centered around the Harriman interests and operating through a group of powerful law firms. E.H. Harriman was a 19th-Century railroad robber baron whose companies were fronts for the British royal family and their fellow aristocrats. Harriman’s agents in Houston included Baker & Botts, the law firm of former Bush Secretary of State James A. Baker III, which has also represented Schlumberger since the 1950s. The Bush family is also a creature of the Harriman networks and their British controllers, through both the Bush and the Walker sides of the family. Both George H.W. Bush’s father, Prescott Bush, and his uncle Herbert Walker were top officials of the Harriman investment bank, and the Harrimans, Lazard, and Scottish banker James Gammell funded the business and political career of Sir George (Prescott, Herbert, and Sir George were also members of Skull & Bones, the powerful Yale-based secret society). Also coming together in Houston were the British intelligence networks of Col. Edward Mandell House, the global oil cartel, and the “legendary” King Ranch.
Enron, which has an energy trading room in its Houston headquarters which rivals the trading rooms of the big Wall Street investment banks, is perhaps the single company most responsible for the chaos in today’s domestic energy markets. Its “success” in energy speculation has raised virtually every electricity bill, natural gas bill, and heating oil bill in the country, some of them by orders of magnitude,
Enron is a relative newcomer, but plays an important role in allowing the financial sharks, under the guise of deregulation, to get their hands on the income streams generated from the production and consumption of electricity, natural gas, and related energy products. Enron’s fortunes are directly tied to the Bush League: Enron is the single largest contributor to the political campaigns of President George W. Bush, and the firm hired as “consultants” a number of top officials of his father’s administration–including James Baker III, and Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher–after they left Washington. In return, these officials used their political pull to get Enron a series of lucrative contracts around the world. Enron chairman Kenneth Lay has been touted as a potential member of the Bush Cabinet, and Southern Strategy zealot Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) is widely known as “the Congressman from Enron.”
Enron is “Dubya” Bush’s biggest career patron, having given him more than $500,000, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
A Bit of Texas History
When Texas became a Republic in 1836, the political battle revolved around the forces of patriot Sam Houston on the one side, and Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar on the other. Lamar was a member of the aristocratic, plantation-owning Lamar family of Georgia and New York. Houston was inaugurated as the first President of Texas in October 1836, with his bitter enemy Lamar as his Vice President. Under the Texas Constitution, Houston could not succeed himself in office, and not one, but two of his hand-picked successors died while campaigning for the Presidency, a fortuitous set of circumstances which helped Lamar become the second President of the Republic of Texas, in 1838.
This Texas-Georgia-New York connection is one of the recurring themes in this report, exemplified by the Carter-Menil Foundation of former President Jimmy Carter and Dominique Schlumberger de Menil, and the Houston connections of Atlanta-based Coca Cola. Coke chairman J.P. Austin was the Trilateral Commission member who helped Zbigniew Brzezinski recruit and train Jimmy Carter, to be the President of the Democratic Party’s version of the Southern Strategy. The Lamar tradition also remains strong in Texas: It was in the Lamar Hotel that the Houston elite gathered to play cards and run much of the state, and when Texas Commerce Bancshares celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Republic of Texas with an ad paying homage to the heroes of the Texas Revolution, leading the list was oligarch Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, with no mention of the patriot Sam Houston.
In the late 1800s-early 1900s, the government of the State of Texas was dominated by an alliance between the King Ranch and Col. Edward House. House, who later gained fame as Woodrow Wilson’s controller, was the son of a wealthy British plantation owner in Houston. Back in Houston, the House family groomed young Jesse Jones to take over as Houston’s leading light. In the 1920s, Jones became a real estate developer in New York, and among his partners was Robert Lovett, who succeeded E.H. Harriman as the head of the Union Pacific Railroad. Jones’s personal attorney was Capt. James Addison Baker of Baker & Botts, a firm which represented Harriman interests in Texas. Jones, in turn, passed the torch to what became known as the “8F Crowd,” so named because they gathered to play poker and run the state in Room 8F of Jones’s Lamar Hotel. The 8F crowd ran Houston and exerted considerable control over state affairs from the 1940s to the 1960s, and created institutions that continue to exert significant power today, notably three of the most powerful law firms in the country, Baker & Botts, Vinson & Elkins, and Fulbright & Jaworski. Until the late-1980s demise of the Texas banking system, these law firms were all closely associated with a major bank: Baker & Botts with Texas Commerce; Vinson & Elkins with First City; and Fulbright & Jaworski with Bank of the Southwest.
In 1983, Debrett’s Peerage Ltd., publisher of Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage, issued a book entitled Debrett’s Texas Peerage, on “the aristocrats of Texas.” Featured quite prominently in the book was “The Royal Family of Ranching,” the Klebergs of the King Ranch.
“Robert Justus Kleberg, Jr., was a god among Texas ranchers,” the chapter on the King Ranch began. “They still talk about him today in reverent tones, not only on ranches around the world, but at `21,’ The Pierre, Saratoga, The Jockey Club and other exclusive enclaves which he used to frequent during racing season in the East.”
The New York Times has repeatedly referred to the spread as “the legendary King Ranch,” and Debrett’s said that before the ranch opened itself to oil production, it was known as “the Walled Kingdom.” The Klebergs, Debrett’s gushed, had “lifelong friendships with the Whitneys, Vanderbilts and other horsey families of the East.” The ranch has also been host to some of the most powerful oligarchs in the world, including Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, hereditary head of the Venetian intelligence service, and Prince Charles of Britain. Anne Armstrong of the King Ranch was U.S. Ambassador to Britain in the 1970s, as well as being chairman of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) from 1982 to 1990, under Reagan and Bush. [5]
The King Ranch was formed in 1857 by Captain Richard King, who had made his living as a steamboat captain running cargo and passengers along the Rio Grande River; he had arrived on the Rio Grande just after Gen. Zachary Taylor arrived with his army to defend the State of Texas against Mexico. King and his partner, Mifflin Kenedy, ran supplies for Taylor, in an operation which was actually an intelligence network operating under the cover of commerce. Just prior to the Civil War, King and Kenedy bought huge tracts of land just south of Corpus Christi; another member of the network was Charles Stillman, a border merchant who later moved to New York to found the National City Bank (a.k.a. Citibank). King’s principal lawyer in the early days was Stephen Powers of Brownsville, who had previously been a U.S. consul to Switzerland.
During the Civil War, the King Ranch was an important transshipment point for Confederate supplies, particularly when the Mexican port of Matamoros took on crucial importance after the Union blockade closed the ports in the South. The ranch also functioned as an intelligence center for the Confederacy.
The Klebergs entered the picture when Robert Justus Kleberg (“Kleberg the First,” according to Debrett’s) married Captain King’s daughter, Alice. When Captain King died in 1885, Kleberg took command of the ranch. Kleberg the First and Alice had two sons and three daughters. The elder son, Richard Mifflin Kleberg, went to Washington as a Congressmen, and hired a young man named Lyndon Johnson as an aide. The younger son, Robert, Jr., eventually took over the ranch from his father.
The business operations of the ranch in the mid-1980s were run by Jim Clement, the Princeton-trained son of Martin Clement, a former honcho of the Pennsylvania Railroad. One of Clement’s friends and regular guests was the late Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, the aforementioned Venetian spook and oligarch.
The King Ranch got a financial boost when oil was discovered on the property, and royalties from Humble Oil & Refining (later bought by Exxon) started rolling in. With their social and political connections, and the oil money, the King-Kleberg heirs moved into the corporate world. [6]
In 1977, Prince Charles visited the Armstrong Ranch to play polo with Anne’s husband, Tobin Armstrong of the Armstrong Ranch; his brother John Armstrong of the neighboring King Ranch; John’s son Charles Armstrong, and oil heir Will Farish of Houston, among others.
Enter the Schlumbergers
On Jan. 10, 1901, Captain Anthony Lucas and Patillo Higgins discovered oil at Spindletop, Texas. The Spindletop salt dome contained enough oil to double the production of the Pennsylvania fields where John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil ruled, and allowed the United States to surpass Russia as the world’s leading oil producer. Oil had been drilled in Texas since 1866, but Texas had never come close to matching the output of Pennsylvania–until Spindletop. With the Spindletop gusher, a black-gold rush began, and fortune-seekers from all over the world poured into Texas. Among them were oligarchs and their agents, seeking to gain control over this new source of wealth. Over time, Houston became a center of the oil industry, and a captive of the British-dominated global oil cartel.
With Schlumberger came two important figures: Jean de Menil and his wife, Dominique Schlumberger de Menil. Jean, whose background had been deliberately muddied, was a Tsarist White Russian of some stature, who had fled Russia to avoid Communist reprisals, while Dominique was the daughter of company co-founder Conrad Schlumberger. As a top official of Schlumberger, Jean de Menil’s responsibilities included the company’s Ibero-American operations, while Dominique was a cultural and political warfare operative who founded the Rothko Chapel as a coordinating point for all sorts of unsavory operations, including terrorist networks involved in the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
While the full story of Schlumberger’s intelligence remains the subject for further investigation, some aspects are already known. Jean de Menil, as documented in EIR’s book Dope, Inc., was a member of the Solidarists, a group comprised of Eastern European and White Russian fascists and feudalists. Many of the Solidarists had been officials of “quisling” pro-Hitler governments during World War II. A leading component of the Solidarist movement was a highly professional espionage, sabotage, and assassination network called the Narodnyi Trudovoy Soyuz (NTS). The NTS had been founded by Menshevik circles in Russia in the 1920s, and functioned as one of British Intelligence’s premier spy rings inside Russia. The principal Western financing conduit for the NTS and the Solidarist movement was the Tolstoy Foundation of New York, of which Jean de Menil was a director.
De Menil and Schlumberger were involved in helping to put Castro in power in Cuba, and later in attempts to overthrow him, in operations involving both the CIA and George Bush’s Zapata Offshore oil company. More importantly, Jean de Menil was a key figure in Permindex, the corporate front for the assassins of John F. Kennedy and the numerous attempts on the life of French President Charles de Gaulle. Permindex was closely linked with British Intelligence’s Special Operations Executive of Sir William Stephenson and Col. Louis Mortimer Bloomfield, and with the FBI’s secret Division Five, headed by Bloomfield. Schlumberger’s links with the intelligence community are also indicated by its close relationship to former CIA director George Bush, and the presence on its board today of former CIA director John Deutch. This is not to suggest that Schlumberger is a CIA “front,” however, but rather that Schlumberger is part of a much older oligarchic intelligence network, with tentacles into national intelligence agencies such as the CIA.
The Schlumberger/de Menil apparatus had strong ties to the Houston corporate world and ruling elite. Jean de Menil was, for a time, on the board of Bank of the Southwest, the bank closely interlinked with Fulbright & Jaworski, the firm which produced Nuremberg and Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Baker & Botts partner Dillon Anderson, an official in the Eisenhower administration, was on the board of the Schlumberger Foundation in the 1950s, and senior partner George Jewell was on the board of Schlumberger in the 1980s. Schlumberger is also closely linked with Lazard, which played a big role in financing Texas companies like George Bush’s Zapata and Pennzoil. Later, Dominique de Menil would co-found the Carter-Menil Center in Atlanta, with former President Jimmy Carter. A key liaison between Carter and de Menil was Charles W. Duncan of Houston, who is both a former president of Coca-Cola and Carter’s Secretary of Energy. Both Charles and his brother John House Duncan sat on numerous corporate boards of relevance to this network, including John Duncan’s seat on the King Ranch board.
Schlumberger family and board member Didier Primat has rather secretive operations in the Carolinas and Virginia, overlapping the intelligence and eugenics operations of the Smith-Richard Foundation and the family of Bush legal counsel C. Boyden Gray. Primat also held the property title to Mary Sue Terry, who, as Virginia Attorney General, led a witch-hunt against the Lyndon LaRouche movement, throwing a number of innocent individuals into state prison on trumped-up charges.
These Texas-Virginia-Carolina connections also played a role in the rise of Charlotte, N.C. as a national banking center. Charlotte’s North Carolina National Bank (NCNB) has, through an ever-larger series of acquisitions, transformed itself into Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the world, while crosstown rival First Union has grown into a top-ten bank in the United States. NCNB significantly extended its reach in 1989, when it bought the bankrupt First RepublicBank of Dallas for virtually nothing, in a move that helped conceal the maneuvering that was used to keep First RepublicBank’s doors open until after Presidential candidate (and former director) George Bush had won the Texas primary. NCNB transformed itself into NationsBank in 1991, with the acquisition of C&S/Sovran, itself the union of Georgia and Virginia banks. After a number of smaller acquisitions, NationsBank bought the San Francisco-based Bank of America in 1998; with the takeover, NationsBank renamed itself Bank of America, with the headquarters, and the control, remaining in Charlotte. Bank of America is number 12 on the list of top contributors to the political campaigns of Gov. George W. Bush, and in its NCNB days, the bank was caught running dirty tricks against the LaRouche movement.
The Bush League
After graduating from Yale, young Skull & Bones member George Herbert Walker Bush got his start in the business world at Cleveland-based Dresser Industries, where his Bonesman father, Prescott Bush, was a director from 1930 until he entered the U.S. Senate in 1952. Dresser was controlled by the W.A. Harriman & Co. bank, [7] where Prescott Bush worked and where George H.W. Bush’s uncle and namesake, George Herbert “Bert” Walker, was president. After stints in Cleveland and California, young Bush moved to the Permian basin oilpatch town of Odessa, Texas, circa 1949, to work for Dresser’s IDECO subsidiary. While Bush would cultivate an image as a Texan, the money which would finance his career came from Wall Street and the City of London; under the cowboy hat was a preppie Connecticut Yankee.
Not long after arriving in Texas, Bush decided to strike out on his own, forming the Bush-Overbey Company with landman John Overbey, funded with $300,000 raised through Uncle Bert Walker. A significant portion of that money came from the City of London and from Scottish investor James (later Sir James) G.S. Gammell of Edinburgh’s Ivory & Sime. Other investors included the Lazard-linked publisher of The Washington Post, Eugene Meyer, and daddy Prescott Bush. Gammell, by the way, would later partner with Schlumberger’s Didier Primat in Adams Bank.
In 1953, Bush decided to link up with Midland oilmen the Leidtke brothers, the sons of a Tulsa judge who became a top lawyer for the Mellons’ Gulf Oil. They formed a new company, Zapata Petroleum, financed through Uncle Herbert; Herbert kept a chunk of the company for himself, and sold some to James Gammell, who got a seat on the board. Basically, Herbert Walker raised $500,000, and the Leidtkes’ Tulsa crowd raised a like amount. In 1954, the company formed Zapata Offshore, a for-hire drilling subsidiary. Officially, the offshore company was formed to take advantage of the new leases being offered in the Gulf of Mexico, but there were other reasons as well. Zapata’s first rig, the Scorpion, was leased by Gulf Oil in 1958 (three years before the Bay of Pigs fiasco) and started drilling just 54 miles north of Isabela, Cuba, a perfect base for covert intelligence operations against Castro.
In 1959, Bush and the Leidtkes decided to split their company into two parts, with Bush taking the CIA-connected Zapata Offshore, and the Leidtkes taking the rest. Bush became CEO of Zapata Offshore and moved it to Houston, while the Leidtkes expanded Zapata Petroleum through mergers, eventually transforming it into the Houston-based Pennzoil. But it wasn’t long before Bush cast his eye on politics.
In those days, the Democratic Party, dominant in Texas, was divided into two camps: a liberal/FDR-influenced wing led by Ralph Yarborough, Sam Rayburn, and Wright Patman, and a Dixiecrat wing, grouped around former Democratic Texas Governor Alan Shivers and John Connally, who ultimately ran for President as a Republican. These Dixiecrats would become the basis for a Republican takeover of the South, determined to undo the industrial and racial progress which had occurred in the South under FDR and the war mobilization.
When Bush moved to Houston in 1959, he began socializing with the likes of James A. Baker III, and the Houston oily-garchs, and became active with the Harris County Republican Party, of which he became chairman in 1963, helped both by Harriman money and the sudden dropping out of the race by his opponent. In September 1963, he announced another Senatorial bid. Bush won the Republican nomination, but lost the election to Yarborough. But Bush had an ace up his sleeve, with a lawsuit to force a redrawing of Congressional districts in Texas. The result was the creation of an entirely new district on the west side of Houston, an area which Bush had carried in the 1964 election. Faced with this gift of a friendly district with no incumbent, Bush left Zapata Offshore in 1966 to run for Congress. Not surprisingly, he won, and in January 1967, George Bush became a member of the House of Representatives. In Congress, Bush heavily pushed birth control and malthusian policies, while defending the oil depletion allowance. Dissatisfied with a seat in the House, however, Representative Bush decided to run for the Senate in 1970. In that race, he expected to face Yarborough, but Yarborough lost the Democratic nomination to Lloyd Bentsen, who beat Bush 53% to 47%.
After the defeat, Bush took a series of non-elective offices. In December 1970, Nixon appointed Bush to the post of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Bush moved to New York City, and the Waldorf-Astoria. He was nominally working for Secretary of State William Rogers, but his real boss was National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. In 1973, Nixon appointed Bush to head the Republican National Committee. When Nixon resigned in 1974, Bush angled for President Gerald Ford to appoint him Vice President, but the job went to Nelson Rockefeller, and Bush got the job as U.S. Liaison to the People’s Republic of China; since the United States did not have formal diplomatic relations with China at the time, Bush was not officially an ambassador, and thus did not require what would likely have been a difficult confirmation by the Senate. In late 1975, Ford shifted personnel around, in preparation for his own Presidential bid, and George Bush was appointed director of the CIA. After a contentious confirmation battle, Bush was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as CIA Director on Jan. 30, 1976. It was a short-lived post, as Ford lost to Carter, and Bush returned to Texas when Carter took over in 1977.
Back in Houston, Bush was appointed to the board of First International Bank of Houston, its parent First International Bankshares (a.k.a., InterFirst) of Dallas, and InterFirst’s London-based First International Bankshares merchant bank. [8] Bush also joined a few corporate and educational boards, and became an adjunct professor at Rice University.
Bush’s main preoccupation was building a political machine that would carry him to the White House, and one of his key allies was James A. Baker III. Baker was the chairman of the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980, while fellow Texan Robert Strauss headed the Carter-Mondale effort. Baker had headed the Ford campaign in 1976, and had been Ford’s Deputy Secretary of Commerce. Oilman Robert Mosbacher headed up Bush’s national finance operation.
Bush formally announced his Presidential candidacy on May 1, 1979, and one of his campaign themes was the Union of English-Speaking Peoples. “The British are the best friend America has in the world today…. Sure, I’m an Anglophile,” Bush said at the time. “We should all be. Britain has never done anything bad to the United States.”
`Post-Industrial’ Southern Strategy
The heart of the Southern Strategy was the oligarchy’s plan to shift the United States from the world’s most powerful industrial economy, into a post-industrial rentier-financier empire. The industrialized cities of the North would be allowed to decay, while the relatively small cities of the South would be built up as cheap-labor service centers. As the Industrial Belt turned into the Rust Belt, the New South ascended. Houston, spurred by the oil boom, became the fourth-largest city in the country, old Atlanta became the “New Atlanta,” and sleepy Charlotte became a major international financial center. Existing cities were transformed–Dallas, San Antonio, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Miami, to name a few–while Northern cities such as Baltimore, Cleveland, and Philadelphia went into decline.
Coincident with this Southern shift, was the ascension of finance over industry. U.S. industry had largely been in the hands of the financiers since the days of J.P. Morgan’s creation of the industrial trusts, and that control was rapidly consolidated during the 1980s. Orchestrated by Bush’s masters, the speculators took over. The corporate raiders, financed by the dirty-money junk bond networks, bought up significant chunks of corporate America, and terrified the rest. The raiders’ targets, and those who feared they might become targets, turned to Wall Street’s investment banks and law firms for “protection.” As such, the leveraged buy-out/junk bond operation functioned as a giant protection racket, destroying some as a way of collecting tribute from the rest. At the same time, dirty money poured into the real estate market, notably through the giant Canadian developers Olympia & York and Cadillac Fairview. These firms built the skyscrapers which were then filled up with service workers–bankers, lawyers, accountants, clerks, and other white-collar types. Having the tallest office building became something of a fetish for the business leaders, spurring ever larger towers, which in turn were filled with ever larger numbers of white-collar workers.
The pouring of hot money into the real estate markets caused real estate prices to rise. The “wealth” created by these rising values provided more money to pump into the bubble. The rising stock market served a similar function. The cities were transformed into service centers ringed by suburbia, leaving the inner cities full of the poor and minorities, ripe for Strategic Bombing Survey decimation through drug distribution and “Negro removal.”
In the office buildings and the suburbs, the ordinary citizen was also being hooked on speculation. One of the effects of Fed Chairman Paul Volcker’s deadly interest-rate hikes in 1979-80, was that ordinary savings accounts suddenly started paying high rates of interest, giving the ordinary citizen a taste of the action. As more and more of the “little people” discovered the joys of usury, the modern “my money” era was born. That process escalated with the rise in residential real estate prices–homes were transformed from residences to “investments,” with rising equity values adding significantly to the pools of “my money.” The ordinary citizen also began making money from the rising stock market. Over time, a significant portion of the population became addicted to usury and speculation, considering it their right to make money from the manipulation of money. The speculator went from being the enemy to being the role model; the suckers now identified with the casino. The old-style productive industry became the realm of “losers,” replaced by the hot new “industries” of finance and information. Make derivatives, not steel!
While this transformation was made possible by the policy changes in Washington and in the states, the mechanism for the change was specific networks within the corporate world.
The junk-bond market of the 1980s, for example, was a joint operation of the Morgan/Rothschild Drexel Burnham Lambert investment bank, and the money laundries of Dope, Inc. Today, the junk bond market is bigger than ever, with more junk bonds issued in 1998 alone, than in all of the 1980s combined. The leveraged buy-out (LBO) wave was led by Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, which was closely linked to the Harriman/Bush machine, and continues with such new Bush-connected players as Hicks Muse Tate & Furst, the Carlyle Group, the Bass Brothers, Richard Rainwater, and Sam Wylie’s Maverick Capital hedge fund. The LBO market declined significantly during the 1990s, as highly inflated stock prices became the currency of choice for takeovers, but is now making a comeback as a vehicle for taking key assets private in preparation for a crash.
The Texas networks have spawned wave after wave of deregulation. The deregulation of the airline industry began in Texas with Frank Lorenzo and Texas Air, which became Texas International, and ultimately took over Continental and Eastern, while the Bush League’s Albert Checchi took over Northwest Airlines. Texas is also the center of energy deregulation, home to Enron and a host of smaller competitors, such as James A. Baker III’s Reliant Energy (the parent of Houston Lighting & Power) and Dynegy; while many other players have Houston links, notably North Carolina’s Duke Energy and the Schlumberger-linked CMS and American Electric Power. Enron has also moved into the private water market in England and the United States, hoping to get a piece of the income streams from water and sewage.
The effect of all this deregulation and speculation has been the decimation of the physical economy of the United States. Over the last three decades, the productive capacity of the U.S. economy has been cut in half, measured in terms of market baskets of goods on a per-capita, per-household, and per-square-kilometer basis. At the same time, the monetary claims on that declining production have risen hyperbolically. The process defined by rapidly rising claims on a steadily declining production is clearly unsustainable–at some point, it must break down; the question is not if, but when, that will occur.
Post-Crash Positioning
It is widely understood among the governments, political elites, and by the financial oligarchy, that the present financial system is doomed. While there is a desperate attempt to postpone the inevitable as long as possible, the serious thought is being put into preparing a new system to be implemented when this one goes. From the oligarchic perspective, the key to retaining control in a post-crash environment is twofold:
1) smash the power of sovereign nations through balkanization and globalization, so that they cannot protect their citizens from looting; and
2) grab control of as much of the world’s supplies of essential raw materials, strategic minerals, food supplies, energy supplies, and similar assets as possible. If they can do those two things, the oligarchs believe, they can run the post-crash world.
This process is far advanced, both within the United States and internationally. Take electricity, for example: U.S. firms such as Enron have been buying up power plants all over the world. One little-known firm, AES Corp.,[9] is poised to become the largest generator of electricity in Ibero-America, once its various acquisitions are completed. If you and a cartel of “competitors” can control the electricity supply of a continent, you have tremendous power to decide who survives and who dies, while grabbing as much of the electricity income stream as the market will bear.
Apply the same process to agriculture, where consolidation among the major food companies is proceeding at a breathtaking pace. Apply it to the telecommunications companies, which provide essential communications services; apply it to the production of strategic minerals and metals that are essential to modern industrial production. What you are left with, in effect, is a return to the days of the empires, when imperial trading companies controlled entire continents, and those who were not involved in making the companies rich, were considered expendable.
1. Halliburton, which acquired the Harrimans’ Dresser Industries, has surpassed Schlumberger as the largest oilfield services company. Among Halliburton’s subsidiaries is Brown & Root, the Houston construction firm which does sensitive work worldwide for the Pentagon and the State Department. Halliburton was also the first U.S. oil company to work the Chinese mainland and, beginning in 1986, was selected by the People’s Republic of China to perform offshore field work. In the 1980s, the Halliburton board included James Glanville of Lazard, Lord Polwarth of the Royal Bank of Scotland, William Simon of Wesray and Kissinger Associates, and the King Ranch’s Anne Armstrong. The “Torbitt” report identified Halliburton and Brown & Root as being among the principal financiers of Permindex, the financial front suspected of involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Halliburton head Richard Cheney, a former Secretary of Defense, left the firm to become George W. Bush’s Vice President.
2. The Schlumberger family was part of a Swiss-based intelligence network operating in partnership with the British Secret Intelligence Service, to defeat the American Revolution. Among the agents run by this network were Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton and who was tried for treason, Jefferson’s Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin, and the most notorious of all American traitors, Benedict Arnold. A key role was played by members of the Prevost family, British military commanders from a Swiss oligarchic family which was intermarried with the Mallet family of the de Neuflize, Schlumberger Mallet Bank, known today as the Schlumberger interests. For further details, see Anton Chaitkin, Treason in America (Washington, D.C.: Executive Intelligence Review, 1998).
3. Lazard Freres is an international investment bank, operating out of Paris.
4. The firm today known as Baker & Botts was formed in 1866 by Judge Peter Gray and Walter Browne Botts, and became Baker & Botts when Captain James A. Baker joined in the 1870s. It had a distinct Confederate and Masonic heritage. Judge Gray had been the Assistant Treasurer of the Confederate States of America, where, under the command of Confederate Secretary of State Robert Toombs, he had financed the operations of Gen. Albert Pike among the Indian tribes in the Southwest. After the war, Pike and Toombs reestablished the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite, and Pike deputy Philip C. Tucker set up a Scottish Rite lodge in Houston in 1867, with Walter Browne Botts and Benjamin Botts as leaders. Captain Baker would later play a key role in pushing eugenics–the precursor of Nazi race science–for the Harrimans, through Rice University, which he helped found and chaired for 40 years. In 1912, Baker brought in the head of the British Eugenics Society, Julian Huxley, to help the school set up its biology department.
5. Anne Legendre Armstrong, the daughter of aristocratic New Orleans coffee merchant Armant Legendre, became friends with Helenita Kleberg at the exclusive Foxcroft School and Vassar College. She married Tobin Armstrong, whose brother John was married to Helenita’s sister Henrietta Kleberg, and was second in command at the King Ranch. The Armstrongs trace their heritage to Texas Ranger John Armstrong, an enforcer for the King Ranch in its early days. Their much smaller Armstrong Ranch is, politically, an adjunct to the King Ranch. At PFIAB, Armstrong was involved in operations against Lyndon LaRouche and his associates, and helped bring Henry Kissinger into the Reagan administration in 1983. She chaired the advisory committee of the influential Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, and was co-chair of the Republican National Committee in 1971-73.
6. Belton Kleberg “B.K.” Johnson started his own ranch, and joined the boards of AT&T, Campbell Soup, Tenneco, U.S. Trust and First City Bancorp., among others. His half-brother Robert Richard “Bobby” Shelton bought a ranch in Kerrville, Texas; Bobby Shelton also served a stint as head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the state police agency which included the famous Texas Rangers, which at times seemed to have functioned as the private police of the King Ranch and its cohorts. These offspring, along with Anne Armstrong, were heavily interlocked with the 8F Crowd institutions in Houston. BK and Anne both sat on the board of First City Bancorp. of Houston, and Anne was also a director of American Express, General Motors, Boise Cascade, Braniff, Union Carbide, and Halliburton.
7. W.A. Harriman & Co., organized in 1919, was the private bank of the Harriman family. The chairman was W. Averell Harriman, who with his brother Roland “Bunny” Harriman controlled the bank, while founding members included George Herbert Walker, Sr. and Percy Rockefeller. Prescott Bush joined the firm in 1926. All but one were members of Skull & Bones; Walker was not, but his son, G.H. Walker, Jr., would be.
In 1931, W.A. Harriman & Co. merged with the Brown Brothers investment bank to form Brown Brothers Harriman. The Harriman brothers and Prescott Bush were senior partners at BBH, while Walker retired to his own G.H. Walker & Co. Brown Brothers was a spin-off of the British bank Brown, Shipley, whose best-known partner was Bank of England head Montagu Norman.
In October 1942, the U.S. government seized the Union Banking Corp. under the Trading With the Enemy Act for acting as an agent of Nazi Germany. UBC had been co-founded by Bert Walker, Sr., and its board included Roland Harriman and Prescott Bush. Several other Harriman-Bush-related companies were also seized, for the same reason.
8. In 1987, the ailing InterFirst merged with its Dallas crosstown rival RepublicBank to form First RepublicBank, which became the biggest bank in Texas and ultimately its biggest banking disaster. Within months, First RepublicBank was insolvent, but Federal regulators kept the bank open until after the Texas primary in Spring 1988, to avoid embarrassing Bush in his Presidential bid. A few weeks after Bush won the primary, the remnants of the bank were sold to Charlotte’s NCNB in a sweetheart deal. A Federal study later revealed that the government had pumped $3 billion into the bank to keep it afloat.
9. AES may be not be widely known, but it has very high-level sponsors. Co-founder Roger Sant is a director of Prince Philip’s World Wildlife Fund/World Wide Fund for Nature, and AES director Russell Train is the former chairman and president of the WWF. AES specializes in expanding into areas controlled by narco-terrorists.
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“First Comes Registration Then Comes Confiscation.” Charlton Heston — OUR GREATER DESTINY
Disarmament always precedes communist takeover From Doreen Every genocide in modern history started with gun registration followed by confiscation followed by genocide. A new world order is being implemented via public-private-partnerships. Freedom from war is complete disarmament except for the UN one world militarized police, enforcing false peace a.k.a. globalism, collectivism, communism, etc. https://www.mikenew.com/pub7277.html What […]
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Are we going to overthrow these global criminals and digital tyrants….or not? One signature can wipe them off the face of the planet – and put the technology, which was stolen in the first place, back in the hands of PATRIOTS for freedom of speech and transparency around the world. Make sure you have contacted […]
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Campus & community, Campus news
Banning the box, opening a door for job seekers with records
By Cathy Cockrell, Berkeley News| May 3, 2016 May 4, 2016
May 3, 2016 May 4, 2016 Cathy Cockrell
UC Berkeley job applicants who have prior conviction histories will find it easier to be considered on the merits of their knowledge and experience, under a policy that went into effect May 1. Aspiring staff employees will no longer be asked, at the start of the application process, to disclose felony or misdemeanor convictions that resulted in imprisonment, probation or fine.
Underground Scholars Clarence Ford and Rodrigo “Froggy” Vazquez (UC Berkeley photo by Cathy Cockrell)
The campus’s decision to “ban the box” – the prior-conviction question on the job-application form – reflects an institutional commitment to a “fair and equitable hiring process,” Jeannine Raymond, assistant vice chancellor for human resources, explained in a May 3 email message announcing the change.
“After a careful review of the process,” she wrote, “we have determined that placing this question at the beginning of the application is acting as a deterrent to people who may be well-qualified to become a Berkeley employee, and would like to apply, knowing that they will be fairly considered.”
Under the new policy, background checks will be conducted for staff positions deemed to be critical or sensitive, but only after a candidate’s qualifications have been reviewed and the person has been selected as a finalist for the position.
The Underground Scholars Initiative – an organization of Berkeley students who have been personally impacted by the criminal-justice system – played a key role in advocating for revisions to the campus job-application process.
Graduation ceremony, housing support
Underground Scholars will hold a graduation ceremony from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, May 15, at Anna Head Alumnae Hall. It is believed to be the first commencement for formerly incarcerated students at a four-year college or university in the U.S.
The organization aims to raise $30,000 to provide transitional housing support for graduating USI students. (Its members, about half of whom are parents, do not qualify for public low-income housing because of their conviction records.)
To help kick off the campaign, the UC Police Department is providing $4,000. “I’m excited and honored,” says UCPD chief Margo Bennett, “to be part of a program to help people get their lives back on track.”
Donating to Underground Scholars
Supporters may make a donation to Underground Scholars here.
To make a tax-deductible donation, use the Equity and Inclusion website. Write “Berkeley Underground Scholars” in the “Special Instructions, designations…” section of the donation form, to ensure that the donation is properly directed.
The prior-convictions question – encountered even before applicants have a chance to list their skills and qualifications – discourages many individuals (including some whose convictions are decades old) from applying for staff openings on the campus, says Rodrigo “Froggy” Vazquez, a political-science major with the Underground Scholars group.
For a formerly incarcerated person “it’s a red flag: ‘stay away, this job is not for you,'” he says. “We feel it’s a form of discrimination, having that box there.”
While doing jail time in his teens, “I would sit up at nighttime with cellmates” imagining life post-release, recalls American studies major Clarence Ford, a senior set to begin graduate studies in public policy this fall. “The main concern and priority was finding a job. But the box would come up in our conversations. People were already deterred from applying.”
Now, says Ford, “the conversation will switch up.” As word gets out that the box has been removed, those inside jails and prisons “will be more hopeful.”
Ford and Vazquez – who met as community organizers before coming to Berkeley – shared such experiences in a series of meetings, beginning last October, between formerly incarcerated students and Human Resources staff.
Jeannine Raymond, assistant vice chancellor for human resources
“It’s great that the university can support the students in this way, creating a true win-win for everyone,” Raymond says of the collaborative process and resulting policy. “We’ll look back on this partnership as a historic turning point in inclusion that started here at Berkeley because of the students.”
Domino effect
Underground Scholars regards higher education as a key to reducing recidivism, but it’s also committed to challenging an array of policies – on employment, housing, voting rights and more – that “keep our population from moving forward,” Vazquez says. Having successfully lobbied to change the campus’s job-application process, he adds, “our idea is to create a domino effect” – encouraging other institutions, starting with other UC campuses, to ban the box as well.
California’s ban-the-box law, affecting public agencies (though not UC), took effect in 2014. Ford worked with the Safe Return Team, in Richmond, California, to pass that city’s 2013 ordinance. So far, more than 100 U.S. cities, counties and states have adopted ban-the-box protections. On Friday the Obama administration proposed banning the box for tens of thousands of federal jobs.
Vazquez is a member of the civil-rights organization All of Us or None, which has led the “ban the box” movement and advised Underground Scholars as they worked with HR to revise the staff hiring process.
UC Berkeley’s new policy, he says, “is going to open up job opportunities” for people with prior records. “Versus, ‘Oh man, there’s that box.'”
Underground Scholars reverse school-to-prison pipeline (Berkeley News article, 2015)
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McDonald's Announces Initial Steps In Turnaround Plan Including Worldwide Business Restructuring And Financial Updates
OAK BROOK, Ill., May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- McDonald's President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Easterbrook today announced the initial steps of the Company's turnaround plan including a restructuring of McDonald's worldwide business and financial updates.
"Today we are announcing the initial steps to reset and turn around our business," Easterbrook said. "As we look to shape McDonald's future as a modern, progressive burger company, our priorities are threefold - driving operational growth, returning excitement to our brand and unlocking financial value."
Easterbrook added, "The immediate priority for our business is restoring growth under a new organizational structure and ownership mix designed to provide greater focus on the customer, improve our operating fundamentals and drive a recommitment to running great restaurants. As we turn around our business, we will look to create more excitement around the brand and ensure that we build on our rich heritage of positively impacting the communities we serve."
New Market Segments Established
Easterbrook continued, "The first critical step of our operational growth-led plan is to strengthen our effectiveness and efficiency to drive faster and more customer-led decisions. We will restructure our business into four new segments that combine markets with similar needs, challenges, and opportunities for growth."
Beginning July 1, 2015, McDonald's will operate under a new organizational structure with the following market segments:
U.S. - the Company's largest segment, accounting for more than 40% of the Company's 2014 operating income;
International Lead Markets - established markets including Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the U.K., which operate within similar economic and competitive dynamics, offer similar growth opportunities and collectively represented about 40% of the Company's 2014 operating income;
High-Growth Markets - markets with relatively higher restaurant expansion and franchising potential including China, Italy, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Together these markets accounted for about 10% of the Company's 2014 operating income; and
Foundational Markets - the remaining markets in the McDonald's system, each of which has the potential to operate under a largely franchised model. Corporate activities will also be reported within this segment.
Easterbrook added, "Our new structure will be supported by streamlined teams with fewer layers and less bureaucracy, and our markets will be better organized around their growth drivers, resource needs and contributions to the Company's overall profitability. McDonald's new structure will more closely align similar markets so they can better leverage their collective insights, energy and expertise to deliver a stronger menu, service, and overall experience for our customers."
Segment Leadership Team Appointed
"Our new organization creates a structure under which leadership of McDonald's new segments will be able to more effectively address the common needs of their markets and customers," Easterbrook said. "It is critical that we position our management talent within our new structure in a way that capitalizes on their skill sets. As such, I am pleased to announce the leadership team for our new segments, effective July 1, 2015."
"Mike Andres will continue to serve as President - McDonald's U.S. Mike is a progressive, strategic thinker with the vision necessary to capitalize on the opportunities in the U.S. market."
"Doug Goare, currently President - McDonald's Europe, will become President - International Lead Markets. Doug is an exceptional leader with strong management and operations experience and a deep working knowledge of McDonald's business. Doug is ideally suited to oversee the talented teams in place across this established group of markets as they work to improve their performance."
"Dave Hoffmann, currently President - McDonald's Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA), will transition to the role of President - High-Growth Markets. Dave is a results-oriented leader with outstanding experience building the brand in emerging markets like China. He is uniquely qualified to lead this new segment in pursuing the tremendous opportunities that exist for McDonald's across this group of markets."
"Ian Borden, currently the Chief Financial Officer - McDonald's APMEA, will assume the role of President - Foundational Markets. In this role, Ian will be responsible for maximizing the potential of these approximately 100 markets that represent about 10% of the Company's operating income. Ian brings very broad geographical and functional expertise to this role having worked in Canada, Europe and APMEA in various finance and operations leadership positions."
New Refranchising Target and Financial Updates Announced
"As we restructure our organization and instill greater customer focus, McDonald's turnaround will be governed by stronger financial discipline, faster decision making and clear management accountability," said McDonald's Chief Administrative Officer Pete Bensen. "This new organization structure will unleash more entrepreneurial spirit and more innovation across our system while bolstering what makes McDonald's a formidable leader in the industry: our incredible network of dedicated franchisees."
The enhancements to McDonald's operating approach will be accompanied by plans to further optimize the Company's restaurant ownership mix, deliver G&A savings and accelerate cash returned to shareholders. Specifically, the Company expects to:
Refranchise 3,500 restaurants by the end of 2018, accelerating the pace of refranchising and increasing the global franchised percentage from the current 81% to about 90%. This marks a significant step forward from our prior plan to refranchise at least 1,500 restaurants by 2016;
Deliver approximately $300 million in net annual G&A savings, most of which will be realized by the end of 2017, in connection with the Company's organizational restructure, refranchising strategy, and more stringent discipline around spending throughout the organization; and
Return $8 to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its 3-year $18 to $20 billion cash return to shareholders target by the end of 2016.
Bensen continued, "As part of our business restructuring, we are focused on further optimizing our restaurant ownership mix and expect franchised restaurants to account for approximately 90% of our global restaurant base by the end of 2018. In conjunction with our refranchising plans, we will take a market-by-market approach, set higher financial screens for markets operating company-operated restaurants, and leverage both conventional and developmental licensee structures across the segments. Our new, more heavily-franchised business model will generate more stable and predictable revenue and cash flow streams and will require a less resource-intensive support structure. Finally, we will continue to evaluate opportunities to further enhance value for all shareholders."
Easterbrook concluded, "These are exciting and liberating moves for our System, and this is how leadership brands evolve to stay in step with their customers. Meaningful, positive measures of improvement will take time. The most impactful measures of our performance will be through the eyes of our customers. While we continue our efforts to regain business momentum through our turnaround plan and improve sales at our more than 36,000 restaurants around the world, our current performance reflects the ongoing pressures of the business, which we expect to persist through at least the first half of the year. We are taking decisive and necessary action to drive foundational improvements in the business and position the Company for long-term growth."
RELATED COMMUNICATIONS
This press release should be read in conjunction with Exhibit 99.2 in the Company's Form 8-K filing for supplemental information.
McDonald's Corporation will broadcast an investor conference call to discuss its initial turnaround plan live over the Internet at 10:00 a.m. Central Time on Monday, May 4, 2015. A link to the live webcast will be available at www.investor.mcdonalds.com. There will also be an archived webcast and podcast available for a limited time.
The Company plans to release April 2015 sales information on May 8, 2015.
ABOUT McDONALD'S
McDonald's is the world's leading global foodservice retailer with over 36,000 locations serving approximately 69 million customers in over 100 countries each day. More than 80% of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business men and women.
This release contains certain forward-looking statements, which reflect management's expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date hereof. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations are detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as its annual and quarterly reports and current reports on Form 8-K.
SOURCE McDonald's Corporation
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Penn College student's 'wired glove' brings robot to life
A "wired glove” created by Penn College student David M. Slotnicki, of Oil City, allows him to manipulate the arm of a robot.
Image: Pennsylvania College of Technology
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Darkness envelops the college. The campus mall is quiet and still. It’s the middle of the week and nearly 1 o’clock in the morning. Most of the Pennsylvania College of Technology community will be asleep for several more hours, recharging for another productive day.
But a couple of electronics majors are wide awake. Their windowless lab is bright and buzzing with activity. An unsuspecting guest would assume it’s the middle of the afternoon as the students painstakingly contemplate their latest challenge.
Among them is junior David M. Zlotnicki. He is tired and has an analog systems class in eight hours. He’s also not leaving the lab for the comforts of bed. Zlotnicki is on a roll.
Such dedication has yielded an impressive project incorporating Zlotnicki’s love of electronics and robotics. His creation is a showstopper for the college’s Open House and everyday tours of prospective students. Visitors break into a smile when Zlotnicki’s robot mirrors the moves of his “wired glove.”
“One of the biggest reasons I chose electronics at Penn College was because it’s hands-on learning,” said Zlotnicki, of Oil City. “I like projects where you can build, incorporate different aspects and see it working. If you’re looking for a good blend of theoretical and technical, I think Penn College is a great fit.”
Zlotnicki knew technology was a great fit for him at an early age when he moved from the spotlight as an actor and singer in community theater to backstage as a tech guru for drama productions throughout high school.
“Running sound and lights was really my introduction to electronics,” he said.
Advanced computer courses solidified that interest and prompted him to seek a technology college. After visiting a friend at Penn College, that search came to an end. The school’s applied technology focus within a traditional college environment led him to seek a bachelor’s degree in electronics and computer engineering technology. Eventually, he added an associate degree in robotics and automation to his full schedule.
“I like techy things and gadgets,” Zlotnicki said.
His project qualifies as both.
A one-arm, six-axis robot possesses humanoid capabilities, thanks to his determination to incorporate electronics, robotics and automation.
“What’s interesting about David’s project is that he took one of our robots and is controlling it in a way that it really isn’t meant to be controlled,” said Richard J. Calvert Jr., assistant professor and department head of electronics and computer engineering technology. “He integrated concepts from several different classes and that takes some good skill. His project encompasses so many areas, and he made it all work.”
Typically, a computer program controls the movements of the educational robot. Zlotnicki bypassed the computer for that responsibility. He created and programmed his own dual processor on a development board and printed a circuit board to control the robot’s motors. Zlotnicki glued a stamp-size sensor, an accelerometer, to the top of a black work glove that he slips onto his right hand. The sensor monitors the glove’s orientation and sends the corresponding signal to the robot via the board driving the robot’s six motors.
When Zlotnicki moves the glove side to side and up and down, the robot’s arm dutifully follows.
“The moment I knew everything was worth it was when I saw it operate successfully for the first time,” he said. “I was like, ‘OK, this is cool!’ Up to that point, I had a lot of failure. It’s not for the faint of heart.”
'Wired Glove' brings robot to life
Pennsylvania College of Technology student David Zlotnicki provides a brief demonstration of his "Wired Glove," a creation that allows him to manipulate the arm of a robot.
“What impressed me the most is that he didn’t ask many questions,” said Ken J. Kinley, instructor of electronics and computer engineering technology. “Other than having to get him a few parts and answering some minor questions here and there, David did it on his own.”
To be prepped for industry success, students must embrace troubleshooting with limited assistance, according to Calvert.
“We are always looking for students who we can tell, ‘Go do this.’ And they go, ‘OK.’ Then they come back later and it all works. That is by far the kind of employee that industry wants, someone who can operate independently and take initiative. David didn’t know how to do this project. He worked it out. There’s going to be a wonderful future for a person like that. Industry wants to snatch those folks up,” he said.
Zlotnicki hopes his future includes a career as an automation integrator, traveling to various industrial facilities to establish automation systems.
Calvert believes that’s a wise choice.
“I tell the students, that for this generation, the jobs are in automation. There’s just a tremendous amount of growth,” he said.
Between now and his May 2019 graduation, Zlotnicki will be adding to the 100 hours thus far dedicated to his “wired glove.” He will be improving it as part of his senior project.
“I want the robot to be able to move in several directions,” he said. “I want it to be able to track my hand in 3-D space, follow my hand one-to-one. That’s going to be tricky.”
But he is up for the challenge, no matter the time of day.
“I love what I’m doing,” he said. “I know all the hard work will pay off. Seeing the robot work and seeing other people’s reactions to it, definitely makes it worth it.”
For Zlotnicki, that satisfaction is obviously worth much more than sleep.
For more about the electronics and computer engineering technology major and other programs offered by the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies, call 570-327-4520 or visit www.pct.edu/icet.
Penn College is a national leader in applied technology education and workforce development. Visit www.pct.edu, email admissions@pct.edu or call toll-free 800-367-9222.
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2018 Central PA 4thFest to feature almost 12,000 fireworks
The 4thFest fireworks display begins at 9:15 p.m. July 4 on Penn State's University Park campus. For access to the best viewing vantage point — not only for the overhead fireworks, but also a ground show — visitors may purchase a VIP viewing pass.Image: Patrick Mansell
Chris Koleno
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Every year during the Central PA 4thFest — held July 4 on Penn State’s University Park campus and in downtown State College — there seems to be a new twist on a fireworks display that has been touted as one of the best in the country.
What new twist will visitors experience this year?
“We can’t divulge that information,” said Karl Libhart, executive director of the Central PA 4thFest, an event run by the nonprofit organization Central Pennsylvania July 4th, Inc.
While there may be some mystery involving this year’s fireworks display, which begins about 9:15 p.m., most of the day’s activities are no secret. A full list of the day’s entertainment can be found online, but a few of the highlights include the Firecracker 4K and 4-mile races, set to start at 9 a.m.; the Independence Day Parade, which kicks off at 2 p.m.; and new this year, a BMX Bike Show, which will take place at 1 p.m. on Allen Street and 4 and 6:30 p.m. at the Bryce Jordan Center parking lot.
For more details about the day’s events, including musical acts from quality out-of-town performers and local favorites, visit www.4thfest.org/entertainment/.
While Libhart said local residents make up 80 to 90 percent of the 60,000 to 80,000 people who attend 4thFest, this year the number of local attendees is expected to be even higher than normal. Because July 4 falls on a Wednesday, more people may choose to forgo a trip to a more distant location during the holiday and instead celebrate at home, he said.
“Penn State has been a very gracious partner in all of this,” said Libhart.
But the event still carries a price tag of more than $200,000. These expenses are covered by sponsorships from local businesses, parking revenue, a grant from the Central PA Convention and Visitors Bureau, and smaller revenue sources.
4thFest by the numbers:
60,000 to 80,000 attendees
Almost 12,000 fireworks
45-minute fireworks show
500-plus volunteers
12,000 volunteer hours donated
$10 per car requested donation
9 a.m.: Events start
Cost: More than $200,000
For access to the best viewing vantage point — not only for the overhead fireworks, but also a ground show — visitors may purchase a VIP viewing pass. VIP parking passes also are available, and both may be purchased through the Central PA 4thFest website, the Bryce Jordan Center ticket office, Red Line Speed Shine, EventBrite, or on the day of the event in the VIP area.
For more information about the Central PA 4thFest, go to http://www.4thfest.org/.
Members of the U.S. Army State College Recruiting Company fold a flag during a past 4thFest event. The theme of this year's 4thFest is "Pledge Your Allegiance."
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Series of public lectures, community discussions to examine ethics of policing
Conference will take place Sept. 20-22
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Public concern about police integrity, the regulation of physical force in law enforcement, and racial discrimination in policing and law are some of the topics to be explored during the upcoming Ethics of Policing conference taking place Sept. 20-22 at various locations on the Penn State University Park campus. The conference will feature several keynote events that are free and open to the public.
Michael Walzer, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, will present a lecture titled “Soldiers and Police: Why Are They Different,” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20, in 121 Sparks Building. His presentation is the opening keynote address of the Rock Ethics Institute’s Ethics of Policing conference. Walzer has written about political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice, and the welfare state. During the lecture, Walzer will examine the differences between rules for police and soldiers.
Vesla Weaver, Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, will present the Friday keynote address, “Portals to Politics: Grassroots Narratives of Policing in the ‘Low End,’ Downtown Baltimore, South L.A., and the 53206,” at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium. Weaver contributes to scholarly debates around the persistence of racial inequality, colorism in the United States, the causes and effects of the dramatic rise in prisons, and the consequences of rising economic polarization. During her lecture, Weaver will explain how new technology can be used to initiate conversations about policing and incarceration in communities where there are high concentrations of police activity.
A panel discussion titled, “Race, Policing, and the Law,” will take place at 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium. Panelists include Eleanor Brown, Penn State professor of law and senior research scientist in the Rock Ethics Institute; Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown Law; Tracey L. Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and founding director of the Justice Collaboratory, Yale Law School; and Cynthia Young, associate professor and head of the Penn State Department of African American Studies.
At 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, a community discussion will take place in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium. "A Community Dialogue on Criminal Justice,” will feature panelists Thom Brewster, Executive Director of CentrePeace; John Gardner, Chief of Police of State College Police Department; Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent at State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County, PA; and Harold McKenzie, Senior Pastor, Unity Church of Jesus Christ. Laurie Mulvey, executive director of Penn State's World in Conversation project, will moderate the discussion.
Frank Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law at Berkeley Law at the University of California, will present, “When Police Do Not Need to Kill,” at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Nittany Lion Inn as the closing keynote address of the Ethics of Policing conference. During his talk, Zimring will describe the police chief's ethical obligation to value the lives of the citizens who reside in the communities where officers work. He will also explain that clear administrative rules are both efficient and fair methods to save hundreds of civilians without putting police lives at further risk.
The Ethics of Policing conference is hosted by the Rock Ethics Institute in the Penn State College of the Liberal Arts, with support from Penn State’s Justice Center for Research, Social Science Research Institute, Penn State Law, Penn State University Libraries, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Department of African American Studies, and Department of Philosophy. For more information, visit rockethics.psu.edu/events.
The Rock Ethics Institute was established through a $5 million gift in 2001 from Doug and Julie Rock to the College of the Liberal Arts. The institute’s mission is to promote ethical awareness and inquiry across the University, and in the public and professional sectors, through a three-fold emphasis on teaching, research and outreach. Recently, the Rocks endowed the Nancy Tuana Directorship of the Rock Ethics Institute with an additional $5 million gift, which was part of a broader commitment they made to the College during "For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students."
Whitney Chirdon
whitney@psu.edu
http://publicpolicy.psu.edu
Information sessions on Master of Public Policy scheduled for Nov. 7
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Department of African American Studies, Department of Criminology and Sociology, Department of Philosophy, Justice Center for Research, Penn State Law, Penn State University Libraries, Social Science Research Institute
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Bollente Companies, Inc. Granted Significant Patent for its award-winning Trutankless® Smart Water Heaters
Bollente Companies, Inc Jun 23, 2016
PHOENIX - Bollente Companies, Inc. (OTCQB: BOLC) announced today that the company was granted 32 patent claims protecting its technology (U.S. Pat. No. 9,341,391), and that several new claims are now pending on the technology related to the company's provisional patent filings in 2013. The main claims of the patent were published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on May 17(th), 2016 and represent key advancements which are driving demand among builders, remodelers and plumbing professionals around the world for the company's trutankless products.
Recently featured as a water saving device in Consumer Reports' Top 5 Remodeling Trends for 2016 write-up, Bollente's multi-award winning tankless water heating technology was also named "Best of Houzz 2016" representing a repeat of last year's success among Houzz.com's 40,000,000 homeowners.
Users can control the unit with a smart device using the trutankless app which is now available for download for Apple's iOS in the iTunes app store and for Android operating systems in the Google Play store. "We're pleased to announce that the 'World's Smartest Water Heater' is now even more user-friendly and efficient, thanks to innovations in our technology and engineering," said Michael Stebbins, president of trutankless.
Stebbins continued, "We have several new patent claims pending which we believe will keep Bollente at the forefront of the industry. The patents recently granted ensure that trutankless will continue to be in position to gain market share as older technologies fall by the wayside."
The first-generation trutankless unit debuted at the IBS show in 2014, where it was named "Best Home Technology Product." Since then, the product has captured a multitude of accolades for its forward-thinking technology and energy efficiency. In late 2015, the company announced its international expansion to the United Kingdom and throughout Europe, Asia, Dubai, Australia and New Zealand.
The Bollente team will showcase its smart trutankless electric tankless water heater line at the Pacific Coast Builders' Conference June 21 through 23, 2016 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco (booth #132). This is the third year trutankless will make an appearance at the show, where industry buyers and key decision makers will find trutankless featured in the 2016 PCBC High Performance Home Showcase.
About trutankless:
Hot water. Perfected. Packed with patented and patent-pending proprietary technologies, trutankless is engineered to outperform and outlast both its tank and tankless predecessors in energy efficiency, output, and durability. Not only does it provide endless hot water on demand for an entire household, it also integrates with home automation systems and has its own online control panel, allowing homeowners to control water temperature to within one degree, obtain service notifications, and monitor usage from their computer or mobile devices. Because hot water is such an intimate and essential part of daily life, this is a highly meaningful new "Internet of Things" player in the arena of smart home tech. For a visual demonstration of the tech behind trutankless, please visit http://www.youtube.com/trutankless.
Founded in 2010, trutankless, a division of Bollente Companies, Inc. (OTCQB: BOLC), was brought to life through the combined insight, ingenuity, and drive of industry professionals, engineers, and entrepreneurs. The objective was to create a line of electric tankless water heaters that far surpasses traditional tank water heaters in energy efficiency, output, dependability and environmental sustainability while overcoming the frustrating drawbacks of other tankless units on the market today.
The trutankless mission is to efficiently provide hot water on demand by combining smart engineering with forward-thinking technologies that save owners money, energy, and space.
For more information, please visit www.trutankless.com or call 855-TO-BUY-TRU.
Bollente Companies, Inc.
Contact: Jennifer Breitegan, 480-528-7870, jen@kwprgroup.com
Web Site: http://www.bollente.com
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Artist Titus Kaphar to discuss The Jerome Project and other artworks
Titus Kaphar will speak about The Jerome Project, The Vesper Project, and his other artworks in the second session of the Spiro Lecture Series, titled “Learning to See.”
The talk will begin at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., on Thursday, Feb. 25. Refreshments will be served. Hosted by the Program for Humanities in Medicine, the event is free and the public is invited.
Kaphar is a widely exhibited artist based in New Haven. His artworks interact with the history of art by appropriating its styles and mediums. The Jerome Project began while he was researching his father’s prison records and came across a number of men who shared his father’s full name. Intrigued by this pattern, Kaphar began a series of small portraits of the men based on their “mug shots.” The Jerome Project (Asphalt and Chalk) XXII, 2015 represents a new phase of this project and investigates racial injustice through the vagaries of the justice and penal systems in contemporary American society.
Kaphar’s installation The Vesper Project, 2013 is currently on tour across the United States in venues that include the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts, Cincinnati, and the Katzen Arts Center at American University. It is a culmination of Kaphar’s five-year engagement with surviving members of the historical Vesper family, who unearth lost storylines of psychological trauma and oppression.
Kaphar received an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art. His work has been exhibited at Savannah College of Art and Design, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Seattle Art Museum. Kaphar’s art is included in the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2014, TIME commissioned Kaphar to create an artwork in response to protests in Ferguson.
The Learning to See series is sponsored by the Barwick Fund. The Titus Kaphar session is also co-sponsored by SNMA/LMSA.
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Beatification of Palestinian nun
On November 22, 2009, Mother Marie Alphonsine Danil Ghattas was beatified at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. Born to a Palestinian family in Jerusalem in 1843, she spent her whole life working among the poor of Palestine.
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Nazareth's Old city is a wonderful Mediterranean mountain town. To make sure it stays that way, a municipal team has identified architectural and historical sites that should be preserved. One of them, at the foot of the ridge, is a large concentration of traditional two-story houses of Galilee stone, with tile roofs, patios, and inner courtyards. Most of these were built in the 1800s or the (...)
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Who do TPVs protect?
By Emily Meller
17.Dec.14
‘Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought … laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.’ – John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice
In 2013, when Scott Morrison said that, under the Refugee Convention, there is ‘no guarantee or requirement for permanent residency’, he was not wrong. There is no provision in the act that means signatories must provide permanent protection, even to those found to be legitimate refugees. It would be unreasonable to require countries facing an influx of asylum seekers to grant each person permanent protection. Since the 2011 Syrian crisis, more than 3 million refugees have fled. As of December 2014, the UNHCR reports Jordan has accepted over 620, 000 people, generally over the shared land border. In such a case, most people would agree that granting temporary protection to most is not only acceptable but just – what use would it be to offer refugees resources that a country simply doesn’t have?
At of 30 November 2014, Australia reported that 3,176 people were being held in immigration detention facilities, both onshore and offshore. Of these, 81.6 percent were ‘illegal maritime arrivals’ (formerly referred to as ‘irregular maritime arrivals’). Under new laws, any person who arrives in this way will only be granted a three year Temporary Protection Visa (TPV) and, in a best case scenario, will be able to move on to a five year long visa after that. But there are, naturally, no guarantees. Such is the nature of a TPV, which is not a mechanism of necessity but is explicitly punitive. These are very different to the kind of temporary protection envisaged under the Convention.
When advocates say that TPVs deny asylum seekers’ rights, they’re correct. Pauline Hanson first formally proposed TPVs in 1996, while she was leader of the One Nation Party, an organisation that still claims to ‘[adhere to] the principles for which she fought.’
The current One Nation Immigration Policy website makes the party’s views abundantly clear, with a rather ingenious (if grammatically tenuous) metaphor.
What we have here is someone coming into your home telling you they like your house better than theirs and they are going to live with you. You have to feed, cloth, care, and educate them while looking after their needs … They don’t have to work you are providing for them.
It’s a sentiment similar to the rhetoric of ‘queue jumping.’ Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the people smuggling debate relates to the idea of ‘paying’ to get a better life. This is what seems to strike a chord among Australians, the fundamental misconception that being an asylum seeker is the same as being an economic migrant. It’s not. To be a refugee is to face a real threat of persecution. It’s about paying to keep your family alive at all.
When TPVs were adopted by the Howard government in 1999, the debate was framed around the idea of deterrence. On paper they were a very neat solution: stop people smuggling, take in refugees pre-screened by the UNHCR and do humanitarian good, while maintaining tight control over who gets in. People smuggling undermines this system, and has been deemed ‘illegal’.
But perhaps a better view is that the demand for people smuggling is driven by the increase in humanitarian crises, rather than because smugglers offer a premium illegal ‘queue jumping’ service.
When the Australian government says it has ‘stopped the boats’, it is not wrong. Increased powers for maritime authorities mean that boats can be dragged to any country other than ours, ensuring they never reach our shores. TPVs will come in for those that slip through. Those people will never be able to settle here permanently, and they will not be able to reunite with their families. The much-criticised way the policy denies fundamental rights to asylum seekers and the psychological impact of this denial – including the promotion of uncertainty, helplessness, the compounding of PTSD and prolonged periods in detention – are not just side effects of the policy. They are its underlying goals.
From 1999 until 2008, the boats did not stop leaving the shores of developing countries. They still haven’t. They are carrying children too – the same children used as leverage by our government to pass new laws unprecedented in Australia’s history, laws that give the Immigration Minister sweeping and untested powers, and mean the rules of natural justice no longer apply for asylum seekers intercepted at sea, the rules of natural justice no longer apply.
The Australian government says its policies don’t break any laws. But asylum seekers haven’t broken any laws, either. So perhaps a better question is whether punishing them, as TPVs are designed to, can be considered in any way just.
Emily Meller is a Sydney-based writer and law student. Her work has appeared in The Lifted Brow, Vertigo and The Full Bench Law Journal.
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From Amanda Mackay on 17 December 2014 at 6.07 pm
What a timely reminder of the dire political situations and human rights abuses leaving no option for many of our world citizens to flee and seek asylum.
After the brutal murder of Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson this week, the negative side of ‘illegal arrivals’ will gain traction so it is imperative that voices of reason like yours prevail in the media.
Keep on speaking for the oppressed – they need you.
From O. Puhleez on 1 January 2015 at 5.20 pm
The snowball effect: someone gets in, sends word back up the line, and so a number >1 start their own journey. This happened to/under Gillard.
At last count there were around 50,000,000 refugees on the UNHCR list, mainly refugees from Islam’s endemic sectarian wars.
How many of those 50,000,000 do you propose we welcome in, and what do we do with the excess arrivals after them?
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Robert Preidt
Another Cost of the Opioid Epidemic: Billions of Dollars in Lost Taxes
TUESDAY, April 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Opioid abuse-related job losses have cost U.S. federal and state governments tens of billions of dollars in lost tax revenue, a new study claims.
Penn State researchers analyzed data from the U.S. National Survey on Drug Use and Health along with estimates of declines in the U.S. labor force due to the opioid epidemic.
Between 2000 and 2016, federal tax losses due to opioid-related reductions in the labor force totaled $26 billion, researchers estimated. State governments lost an estimated $11.8 billion in tax revenue over that period.
The federal hit was entirely due to lost income tax revenue, while states also lost sales tax revenue, according to the study.
Pennsylvania was among states taking the biggest hit -- a $638.2 million tax revenue loss.
"This is a cost that was maybe not thought about as explicitly before, and a cost that governments could potentially try to recoup," said Joel Segel, an assistant professor of health policy and administration at Penn State.
"Instead of focusing on the cost of treating people with opioid use disorder, you could think about it in terms of a potential benefit to getting people healthy, back on their feet, and back in the workforce," he added in a university news release.
In 2016, nearly 2.1 million Americans had an opioid use disorder, and about 64,000 died of opioid overdoses, previous research has found.
Segel noted those studies have focused on substance abuse treatment and other medical costs associated with the epidemic.
These new findings help show the value of treating people with opioid addiction and should be considered when treatment programs are being evaluated, according to Segel.
"Not only are treatment programs beneficial to the individual and to society, but if you're thinking about the total cost of these treatment programs, future earnings from tax revenue could help offset a piece of that," he said.
The study was recently published in the journal Medical Care.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on opioids.
SOURCE: Penn State, news release, April 15, 2019
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National Energy Action
New energy poverty website goes live
Tuesday, 10 April 2018 7:04 PM
More than 50 million households in the European Union are in energy poverty, struggling to attain adequate warmth, pay their utility bills on time and live in homes free of damp and mould. The issue has been identified as a policy priority by a number of EU institutions, most notably in the European Commission’s Clean Energy for All Europeans legislative package.
To help address this challenge the EU has created a new Energy Poverty Observatory to improve the measuring, monitoring and sharing of knowledge and best practice on energy poverty. The focal point of the Observatory is a newly-launched web portal which contains a range of useful resources to help support decision making at local, regional and national level. The portal is open-access and easy to use, and will promote public engagement on key issues as well as disseminate information and good practice among public and private stakeholders.
The portal launched on Monday 29 January at an event in Brussels, hosted by the European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefcovic. Speaking at the launch event, European Commissioner for Climate Action & Energy Miguel Arias Cañete said: ‘The European energy sector is undergoing a change of paradigm - from a system based on fossil fuels, towards a more efficient, more sustainable, clean energy sector. And it is our duty to make sure that no one is left behind.’
The University of Manchester is leading the development of the Observatory, with support from a consortium of experts in energy poverty policy and practice. Professor Stefan Bouzarovski, Chair of EPOV said: ‘The Observatory’s web portal offers a unique focal point for understanding and tracking the extent of energy poverty across the European Union, as well as efforts to address the problem. The wide range of indicators presented on the website show that the prevalence of energy poverty in some Member States is very high.’
‘The portal also contains the world’s single largest database of energy poverty amelioration measures. Many of these have been recorded in Southern and Eastern European countries that have received comparatively less visibility to date’.
To find out more about the Observatory and to access the resources visit https://www.energypoverty.eu/
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National Office of Animal Health (NOAH)
#AnimalHealthMatters – a manifesto for animal health
Wednesday, 8 May 2019 7:14 PM
NOAH has released a manifesto for the upcoming European Parliament elections, setting out its vision for animal health, welfare and sustainability in the UK and across Europe.
Dawn Howard, NOAH Chief Executive, explained: “NOAH is a member of AnimalHealthEurope and will remain so after the Brexit discussions are finalised – with Europe being the second largest animal medicines market in the world. We have high hopes and big ideas to contribute towards its future. NOAH’s vision is to be at the forefront of UK animal health and welfare.
“In the UK, NOAH’s membership, ranging from multi-nationals to small family owned businesses, represents over 95% of the UK animal health sector, worth over £2bn to the UK economy and a veterinary medicines market worth in excess of £645 million per annum. Our industry directly supports well over 2000 highly skilled jobs, as well as indirectly supporting 19000 vets, over 6000 qualified animal health advisors (SQPs), over 11000 veterinary nurses and thousands of livestock farmers and people involved in pet and equine care, sports and leisure.
“The #AnimalHealthMatters manifesto shows how animals are a huge part of our daily lives – for companionship, assistance, leisure and our food. No matter how well we care for them, animals can still get sick and may need medicines.
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“But treating sick animals is only part of the story. Treatment will always be important, but there is a shift to disease prevention (for example through vaccination) as well as earlier diagnosis to facilitate better interventions to improve animal health. As an innovative industry, NOAH is working to ensure a wide range of solutions, not only to treat animal disease, but to prevent illnesses, improve animal well-being and to keep our animals in optimal health,” she added.
Healthy animals also mean safe food. A safe and sustainable food supply chain is essential for feeding the UK population. The animal health industry delivers the therapies and disease prevention tools to make this a reality.
Dawn said: “By protecting the health and welfare of animals we can improve the quality of life for both animals and people, whilst contributing to safe, affordable and sustainable food production. We safeguard public health by preventing disease outbreaks in animals and help prepare for emerging diseases, as well as those which are transferable from animals to people.”
By protecting the health and welfare of all our animals, the animal health industry:
· improves the quality of life for animals and people
· contributes to safe, affordable and sustainable food production
· safeguards public health by preventing disease outbreaks in animals and protecting against diseases which are transferable from animals to people
· enhances Europe’s preparedness against emerging diseases
“We all have a role to play in ensuring that animals are protected from disease and suffering – because #AnimalHealthMatters,” said Dawn.
1. For more information please contact Dawn Howard or Alison Glennon at NOAH on 020 8367 3131 or see www.noah.co.uk
2. NOAH represents the UK animal health industryIt promotes the benefits of safe, effective, quality products and services for the health and welfare of all animals.
3. AnimalhealthEurope represents 12 of Europe’s leading manufacturers of animal health products and 20 national associations. It represents innovators and generics alike, as well as large, medium-sized and small companies.?
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re: A Requiem for Mobile Apps VIEW POST
Andy Zhao
Interesting article and points you've brought up.
I personally think it's okay to have a lot of software/apps die out. Technology moves ridiculously fast, whether for good or bad. If we use hardware as an example, there's so much hardware that's not useful to people anymore. Sure, an old typewriter is pretty cool, but if you can have a laptop you can do so much more than putting words on paper. Technology always gets better and better, and it's okay to have old software make room for the new.
I do think it would be pretty cool to have a museum of apps or something like that. How cool would it be to go to a museum and just play and use old technology? I'd go there almost every day! You can certainly learn a lot from the past, but I'm a believer that we don't need to dwell on past ideas forever to move forward.
If you do decide to make a museum of apps, let me know. I'll gladly be your first customer. :)
Camilo Author
Haha! true.
Technology moves faster every day. Not every software/hardware can be preserved for future generations in a way they could experience it like today.
Some apps could be saved in an old iPhone. Like flappy bird that could still be played if you don't update your iOS.
A non digital museum could be created for this kind of technology preservation effort. But with the amount of apps being made today I think it's better a digital only form with videos, photos and documents. May be one with a bunch of phones like the Firefox OS so people know them better :).
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Happy Anniversary Liberal Government? Not in Vegreville
In one month – on October 19, 2017 - it will be the second anniversary of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. It is also day that the federal government has chosen to impose as a deadline for employees of the Vegreville Immigration Centre. Because of the government’s decision to close the centre and move it to Edmonton, 250 employees in Vegreville will celebrate the Liberals’ two-year anniversary faced with the choice to uproot their families and move to Edmonton, accept a three-hour commute, or leave the job they love.
Write to Minister Hussen: support Vegreville workers
“In the 2015 election campaign, Prime Minister Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada campaigned on a promise to listen to public service workers, and to ensure the vibrancy of all communities, urban and rural, throughout Canada," said Marianne Hladun, Regional Executive Vice-President, Public Service Alliance of Canada – Prairie Region. “We are calling on the Prime Minister to reflect on those promises, and reverse his decision to close the Vegreville Immigration Centre.”
The closure will have a devastating impact on workers and their families, the Vegreville community, and all other surrounding communities. lt will kill jobs in the community, close businesses, devastate property values, and undermine the tax base—making it harder to operate hospitals, schools and other essential community services. The case processing centre in Vegreville has been a cornerstone of the community for over 20 years. With 250 workers—about five percent of the town’s population—it is one of the town’s largest employers.
“It is not realistic to expect workers to sell their homes and leave their communities, or commute over 100 kilometres away to Edmonton to be able to keep the jobs they love and have held for years,” said Hladun. “October 19 is the two-year anniversary of this Liberal government. Two years is too long to live up to this simple promise.”
We now know that the cost of this unnecessary exercise will be far higher than initially anticipated. Clearly, it is time to rethink this entire process. PSAC calls on the federal government to immediately work with the union, the employees at the centre and the local community to come up with a solution that will meet the government's goals in a way that will also benefit the workers and the community.
PSAC represents more than 170,000 workers across Canada, including 250 employees at the Vegreville Case Processing Centre. CEIU is a component of PSAC, which represents the majority of workers at Service Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and the Immigration and Refugee Board.
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Beatrice Warde at the GPO
Mortimer and Warde posed in front of the plaque bearing Warde’s text, which still greets visitors in the lobby of the Government Publishing Office in Washington, DC. (GPO)
Some time ago, I stumbled across a photo on the Internet of Beatrice Warde, the famed typographic publicist and writer, posed in front of the “This is a Printing Office” plaque in the lobby of the Government Publishing Office in Washington, DC. She is standing with GPO’s longtime director of typography, Frank H. Mortimer. The photo caught my attention for a couple of reasons, and sent me off down a couple of interesting paths.
For those who don’t know about her, Beatrice Lamberton Warde, neé Becker, was an American, born in 1900, daughter of a musician father and journalist mother who also wrote books for young readers. Beatrice married the book and type designer Frederic Warde in 1922, and after a stint working for Henry Lewis Bullen in the library of the American Type Founders Co., she and Frederic left for England in 1925 and Beatrice, writing as “Paul Beaujon” began to publish articles on typography. She and Frederic divorced a few years later. She was hired by Stanley Morrison to edit The Monotype Recorder, the magazine of the (English) Monotype Corporation, and eventually became the company’s publicist. She lived in England until her death in 1969.
The photo grabbed me first because it was new to me, even though the setting and subjects were immediately familiar. We know from an obituary notice that appeared in 1969 in GPO’s house newsletter Typeline that Beatrice was a “frequent visitor,” the last time in June, 1965. We have several photos that we can’t date absolutely authoritatively, although they’re probably 1950, when we know she visited. She poses in one shot in a very chic black dress and a quite exuberant hat with Public Printer John Deviny, who served from 1948 to 1953. The group shot from this series must illustrate what an awful lot of her career looked like: Beatrice at center surrounded by a mass of middle aged men. That photo was shot in the GPO Refectory, which was the executive dining room. There are assorted samples on the table in front of the group, and the only one we can positively identify is the Penguin Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot, which was published in 1948. One person is holding a book that may be about the London Underground, but there just isn’t any match to be made on it. It may be safe to assume that this is a selection of the books that were part of Books Across the Sea, a project that Warde and her mother, May Lamberton Becker, were movers and shakers in from its beginning at the start of the war, and which eventually became a part of the program of the English Speaking Union.
Beatrice Warde, Frank Mortimer, and GPO employees, ca. 1950. (GPO)
But the photo I came across is seemingly earlier. Beatrice wrote the “Crossroads of civilization …” text for a broadside for Monotype’s introduction of Eric Gill’s Perpetua type in in 1932. In the photo, Beatrice and Frank Mortimer are standing in front of the bronze plaque that the GPO apprentice class of 1940 placed when the new GPO building opened in 1940. In 1941 the Typophiles in New York published a little volume of Beatrice’s letters and other writings about the early days of the war in London called Bombed But Unbeaten. In one essay she writes about the text of the broadside, and her reaction on learning that the GPO apprentices were putting up the plaque: “… then came news from a remote planet (as it then was), the USA, that the inscription was to be cast in bronze and affixed to the wall of the GPO in Washington. There is something about the very words ‘cast in bronze’ that sends joyful shivers down any writer’s back.” The plaque remains in the same spot today.
This photo vexed me because of timing: We had no note at GPO of a visit before the war, and the clothing is seemingly not post-war, not to mention the fact that Beatrice and Frank Mortimer both look considerably younger than the ca. 1950 photos. Yet a visit between late 1940 and the end of the war just seemed unlikely, since it would have meant a trans-Atlantic voyage at a time when waters were not at their safest.
So I began looking around to see what I might find that would tell us something about Beatrice’s professional travels in this period. I discovered that a large body of her papers are at the University of Birmingham (UK), and they have produced a nice preliminary box list which is available online, in advance of full cataloging. Nothing in the box list provided me with anything definite (although there are some awfully tantalizing things listed).
I then looked at the Nicholas Barker biography of Stanley Morrison (a decidedly important figure in Beatrice’s professional and personal life). It seems that Beatrice did make a visit to America in 1942, which fits as far as the visible clues are concerned. Perhaps a look at the actual papers in Birmingham would provide a more definite answer, and so I suppose that trip goes on my retirement desiderata list.
The photo itself appears in The Monotype Recorder 44/1, 1970, which was a tribute issue to BLW. But, alas, it is merely grouped with three others on page 10 under the heading “The 1930s and 1940s.”
Meanwhile, I have enough puzzle pieces to feel fairly certain about the date of the photo as 1942.
Paul Romaine 29 March, 2016 at 12:22 am
George, I believe she visited and was feted by the Typophiles. There certainly is her 1943 book Bombed but unbeaten, issued by the Typos.
George Barnum 29 March, 2016 at 8:53 am
The librarian blushes.
A friend who does family history kindly checked FamilySearch.org, and located ships entry lists that place Beatrice entering the U.S. in 1926, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1942, 1947, 1950 and 1953. The 1942 entry was via Halifax (doubtless a wartime expediency).
As a side note, in all this casting around I found several interesting bits and pieces about Beatrice including two interviews for radio: the first from the BBC archives, in a documentary program about Eric Gill (another of her close associates), and the other a later interview about her career, from Australian radio and made in the early 60s.
Beatrice speaks!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/sculptors/12816.shtml
http://www.typeradio.org
Paul Romaine 9 April, 2016 at 7:41 am
Great research and links George! I will have to share with the Typophiles!
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George Barnum is Agency Historian and Program Planning Specialist at the US Government Publishing Office. He has written extensively on rare and valuable government documents, electronic dissemination of government information, and the history of the GPO. He is President of APHA's Chesapeake Chapter and presented at the 2014 and 2016 APHA conferences.
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Image: Reflection nebula NGC 1999
by European Space Agency
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)
This spooky sight, imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, resembles fog lit by a streetlamp swirling around a curiously shaped hole – and there is some truth in that. While the 'fog' is dust and gas lit up by the star, the 'hole' really is an empty patch of sky.
When the dark patch was first imaged, it was assumed to be a very cold, dense cloud of gas and dust, so thick as to be totally opaque in visible light, and blocking all light behind it. In general, such globules are known to be small cocoons of forming stars, but thanks to ESA's Herschel Space Observatory, which would have been able to see any hints of star formation at infrared wavelengths but did not, along with ground-based observations, it turned out to be a truly empty patch of sky.
Astronomers think that is was formed when jets of gas from some of the young stars in the wider region punctured the sheet of dust and gas that forms the surrounding nebula. The powerful radiation from a nearby mature star may also have helped to clear the hole.
The bright star seen here is V380 Orionis, a young star 3.5 times the mass of our own Sun. It appears white owing to its high surface temperature of about 10 000ºC – nearly twice that of the Sun. The star is so young that it is still surrounded by a cloud of material left over from its formation. This bright material in the area pictured here is only visible because of the light from the star; it does not emit any visible light of its own. This is the signature of a 'reflection nebula' – this one is known as NGC 1999.
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New Earth-based telescope observations show that auroras at Jupiter's poles are heating the planet's atmosphere to a greater depth than previously thought—and that it is a rapid response to the solar wind.
Cooking up alien atmospheres on Earth
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are cooking up an alien atmosphere right here on Earth. In a new study, JPL scientists used a high-temperature "oven" to heat a mixture of hydrogen ...
Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form
Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many massive planets have been detected in such a young system. The system has also set a new ...
Juno shows Jupiter's magnetic field is very different from Earth's
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S., including NASA and a pair from Denmark has found that Jupiter's magnetic field is quite different from Earth's. In their paper published in the journal ...
Jupiter had growth disorders
Researchers of the Universities of Bern and Zürich and of ETH Zürich show how Jupiter was formed. Data collected from meteorites had indicated that the growth of the giant planet was delayed for 2 million years. Now, the ...
'Ribbon' wraps up mystery of Jupiter's magnetic equator
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Jupiter's moon count reaches 79, including tiny 'oddball'
Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found—11 "normal" outer moons, and one that they're calling an "oddball." This brings Jupiter's total number of known moons to a whopping 79—the most of any planet in our Solar ...
Brown dwarf detected in the CoRoT-20 system
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Data from Juno shows Jupiter moons causing footprints in aurorae
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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass slightly less than one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times more massive than all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the Jovian planets.
The planet was known by astronomers of ancient times and was associated with the mythology and religious beliefs of many cultures. The Romans named the planet after the Roman god Jupiter. When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent magnitude of −2.8, making it on average the third-brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus. (Mars can briefly exceed Jupiter's brightness at certain points in its orbit.)
Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium; it may also have a rocky core of heavier elements. Because of its rapid rotation, Jupiter's shape is that of an oblate spheroid (it possesses a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator). The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the 17th century when it was first seen by telescope. Surrounding the planet is a faint planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere. There are also at least 63 moons, including the four large moons called the Galilean moons that were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede, the largest of these moons, has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury.
Jupiter has been explored on several occasions by robotic spacecraft, most notably during the early Pioneer and Voyager flyby missions and later by the Galileo orbiter. The most recent probe to visit Jupiter was the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft in late February 2007. The probe used the gravity from Jupiter to increase its speed and adjust its trajectory toward Pluto, thereby saving years of travel. Future targets for exploration in the Jovian system include the possible ice-covered liquid ocean on the moon Europa.
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Similar Brain Changes Seen in Those with ADHD and Emotional Instability Disorders
By Traci Pedersen
Last updated: 1 Sep 2018
Clinical observation has long shown that individuals with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often have emotional problems, such as chaotic emotional responses, anxiety and depression.
Yet the link between ADHD and impaired emotional regulation has not been identified, even though theories have proposed that both conditions are rooted in a dysfunction in how the brain processes information.
Now a new Swedish study finds that the brains of people with ADHD and those with emotional instability disorders (borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder in children) may exhibit similar changes in overlapping areas, suggesting the two types of conditions should be seen as related.
For the study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden observed more than 1,000 adolescents to study the brain images of those with ADHD and emotional instability traits (conduct disorder). The findings, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, may lead to a broader treatment for both conditions.
“We can call them sibling conditions, since they both involve partly overlapping underlying brain mechanisms, and therefore attention should be paid to both dimensions during diagnosis,” said Dr. Predrag Petrovic, associate professor at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and consultant psychiatrist at North Stockholm Psychiatry.
Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was able to demonstrate how both ADHD and conduct disorder traits in adolescents manifested themselves in the form of reduced brain volume and surface area in parts of the frontal lobe and nearby regions.
The affected parts of the brain were generally overlapping, but the researchers also found changes that were specifically related to ADHD symptoms or symptoms seen in conduct disorder. The study also included behavioral experiments that demonstrated both conditions.
“These results are important not least for the patients with emotional instability, since in many cases they are treated with scepticism and feel frustrated at not being taken seriously,” said Petrovic.
“We now show that this is related to changes in the brain that resemble those that have been observed in patients with ADHD, which can lead to a broader understanding and better diagnosis.”
The research was part of the IMAGEN-project, an EU-funded collaboration amongst several European countries that aims to better understand how the brain and behavior develop.
The researchers hope the new findings will not only lead to better diagnoses but also to better treatments, where people with an ADHD diagnosis can receive special therapy to help them better handle their emotions.
“We also need to do more research to understand if central stimulant medication used for ADHD can also produce positive results for people with emotional instability disorders,” Petrovic said.
Source: Karolinska Institutet
Traci Pedersen
Traci Pedersen is a professional writer with over a decade of experience. Her work consists of writing for both print and online publishers in a variety of genres including science chapter books, college and career articles, and elementary school curriculum.
Pedersen, T. (2018). Similar Brain Changes Seen in Those with ADHD and Emotional Instability Disorders. Psych Central. Retrieved on July 16, 2019, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/09/01/similar-brain-changes-seen-in-those-with-adhd-and-emotional-instability-disorders/138356.html
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Similar Levels of Antimicrobial Resistance in U.S. Food Service Ground Beef Products with and without a “Raised without Antibiotics” Claim
Vikram, Amit, Miller, Eric, Arthur, Terrance M., Bosilevac, Joseph M., Wheeler, Tommy L., Schmidt, John W.
Journal of food protection 2018 v.81 no.12 pp. 2007-2018
DNA, Enterococcus, Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica, acid tolerance, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, bacteria, beef cattle, beef production, food service, genes, ground beef, metagenomics, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, microbiome, phylogeny, production technology, quantitative polymerase chain reaction, United States
U.S. ground beef with “raised without antibiotics” (RWA) label claims are perceived as harboring fewer bacteria with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) than are found in conventional (CONV) ground beef with no such label claim. A total of 370 ground beef samples from CONV (n = 191) and RWA (n = 179) production systems were collected over 13 months from three food service suppliers. The following bacteria were cultured: Escherichia coli, tetracycline-resistant (TETr) E. coli, third-generation cephalosporin-resistant (3GCr) E. coli, Salmonella enterica, TETr S. enterica, 3GCr S. enterica, nalidixic acid–resistant S. enterica, Enterococcus spp., erythromycin-resistant Enterococcus spp., TETr Enterococcus spp., Staphylococcus aureus, and methicillin-resistant S. aureus. TETr E. coli was more frequently detected in CONV ground beef (CONV, 54.2%; RWA, 35.2%; P < 0.01), but supplier (P < 0.01) and production system × suppler interaction (P < 0.01) effects were also significant. Metagenomic DNA was isolated from each sample, and equal amounts of metagenomic DNA were pooled by supplier, month, and production system for 75 pooled samples (38 CONV, 37 RWA). The abundance of aac(6′)-Ie-aph(2″)-Ia, aadA1, blaCMY-2, blaCTX-M, blaKPC-2, erm(B), mecA, tet(A), tet(B), and tet(M) genes was assessed by quantitative PCR. The tet(A) (2.9-log2-fold change, P = 0.04) and tet(B) (5.6-log2-fold change) (P = 0.03) genes were significantly more abundant in RWA ground beef. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that ground beef microbiomes differed more by supplier than by production system. These results were consistent with prior research suggesting antimicrobial use in U.S. beef cattle has minimal impact on the AMR of bacteria found in these products. These results should spur a reevaluation of assumptions regarding the impact of antimicrobial use during U.S. beef production on the AMR of bacteria in ground beef.
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Aikido is a modern Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to defend themselves while also protecting their attacker from injury. Aikido is often translated as "the way of unifying (with) life energy" or as "the way of harmonious spirit".
Aikido was created by Morihei Ueshiba, referred to by some aikido practitioners as ?sensei (Great Teacher). The term aikido was coined in the twentieth century. Ueshiba envisioned aikido not only as the synthesis of his martial training, but as an expression of his personal philosophy of universal peace and reconciliation. During Ueshiba's lifetime and continuing today, aikido has evolved from the aiki that Ueshiba studied into a variety of expressions by martial artists throughout the world.
Ueshiba developed aikido primarily during the late 1920s through the 1930s through the synthesis of the older martial arts that he had studied. The core martial art from which aikido derives is Daiti-ryi aiki-jijutsu, which Ueshiba studied directly with Takeda Sikaku, the reviver of that art. Additionally, Ueshiba is known to have studied Tenjin Shin'y-ry with Tozawa Tokusaburi in Tokyo in 1901, Gotiha Yagyi Shingan-ryi under Nakai Masakatsu in Sakai from 1903 to 1908, and judo with Kiyoichi Takagi in Tanabe in 1911.
The art of Daiti-ryi is the primary technical influence on aikido. Along with empty-handed throwing and joint-locking techniques, Ueshiba incorporated training movements with weapons, such as those for the spear (yari), short staff, and perhaps the bayonet. However, aikido derives much of its technical structure from the art of swordsmanship (kenjutsu).
Ueshiba moved to Hokkaid? in 1912, and began studying under Takeda Sokaku in 1915. His official association with Dait?-ry? continued until 1937. However, during the latter part of that period, Ueshiba had already begun to distance himself from Takeda and the Daiti-ry. At that time Ueshiba was referring to his martial art as "Aiki Budi". It is unclear exactly when Ueshiba began using the name "aikido", but it became the official name of the art in 1942 when the Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society (Dai Nippon Butoku Kai) was engaged in a government sponsored reorganization and centralization of Japanese martial arts.
In aikido, as in virtually all Japanese martial arts, there are both physical and mental aspects of training. The physical training in aikido is diverse, covering both general physical fitness and conditioning, as well as specific techniques. Because a substantial portion of any aikido curriculum consists of throws, beginners learn how to safely fall or roll. The specific techniques for attack include both strikes and grabs; the techniques for defense consist of throws and pins. After basic techniques are learned, students study freestyle defense against multiple opponents, and techniques with weapons.
Physical training goals pursued in conjunction with aikido include controlled relaxation, correct movement of joints such as hips and shoulders, flexibility, and endurance, with less emphasis on strength training. In aikido, pushing or extending movements are much more common than pulling or contracting movements. This distinction can be applied to general fitness goals for the aikido practitioner.
In aikido, specific muscles or muscle groups are not isolated and worked to improve tone, mass, or power. Aikido-related training emphasizes the use of coordinated whole-body movement and balance similar to yoga or pilates. For example, many dojos begin each class with warm-up exercises, which may include stretching and ukemi (break falls).
The most common criticism of aikido is that it suffers from a lack of realism in training. The attacks initiated by uke (and which tori must defend against) have been criticized as being "weak", "sloppy", and "little more than caricatures of an attack". Weak attacks from uke allow for a conditioned response from tori, and result in underdevelopment of the skills needed for the safe and effective practice of both partners. To counteract this, some styles allow students to become less compliant over time but, in keeping with the core philosophies, this is after having demonstrated proficiency in being able to protect themselves and their training partners. Shodokan Aikido addresses the issue by practising in a competitive format. Such adaptations are debated between styles, with some maintaining that there is no need to adjust their methods because either the criticisms are unjustified, or that they are not training for self-defense or combat effectiveness, but spiritual, fitness or other reasons.
Another criticism pertains to the shift in training focus after the end of Ueshiba's seclusion in Iwama from 1942 to the mid-1950s, as he increasingly emphasized the spiritual and philosophical aspects of aikido. As a result, strikes to vital points by tori, entering (irimi) and initiation of techniques by tori, the distinction between omote (front side) and ura (back side) techniques, and the use of weapons, were all de-emphasized or eliminated from practice. Some Aikido practitioners feel that lack of training in these areas leads to an overall loss of effectiveness.
Conversely, some styles of aikido receive criticism for not placing enough importance on the spiritual practices emphasized by Ueshiba. According to Minoru Shibata of Aikido Journal, "O-Sensei's aikido was not a continuation and extension of the old and has a distinct discontinuity with past martial and philosophical concepts." That is, that aikido practitioners who focus on aikido's roots in traditional jujutsu or kenjutsu are diverging from what Ueshiba taught. Such critics urge practitioners to embrace the assertion that "[Ueshiba's] transcendence to the spiritual and universal reality were the fundamentals of the paradigm that he demonstrated."
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Health Care Reform in Norway: The End of the “Profession State”?
Vibeke Erichsen
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (1 June 1995) 20 (3): 719–737.
...Vibeke Erichsen From the early nineteenth century until about 1980, a close relationship developed in Norway between the state and the medical profession. Medicine became integrated into the state at all levels of government, and the profession assumed important roles in initiating and formulating...
Social Science and the Public Agenda: Reflections on the Relation of Knowledge to Policy in the United States and Abroad
Harold L. Wilensky
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (1 October 1997) 22 (5): 1241–1265.
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.... More corporatist democracies (such as Sweden, Norway, Austria, and Germany) evidence a tighter relation between knowledge and power in which a wider range of issues is connected, longer-range effects are sometimes considered, and research is more often actually used for planning and implementation...
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... study disability and related policies in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark, Norway, Swe- den, and the European Economic Community. Dr. Noble was a Federal Execu- tive Fellow of the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., from November 1976 to October...
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Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System
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Jillian M. Tindall, Esq. has an extensive background litigating a wide range domestic relations matters in Clark County, Nevada, including, divorce, annulment, child custody and visitation, child support, property valuation and distribution, debt division, alimony, domestic violence proceedings and protective orders, termination of parental rights, annulments, name changes, adoptions, legal separations, and the international recovery of children through Hague Convention proceedings. She is experienced with all aspects of family law and is dedicated to giving clients a strong voice in the legal arena. She has been in practice for over 19 years in Federal and State Courts, including Municipal and Justice Courts, and has experience with appellate work in the Nevada Supreme Court. She has written and lectured on domestic relations issues for multiple continuing legal education providers, and has received recognition for her contributions for pro bono representation in Clark County. Ms. Tindall is experienced with high conflict litigation, as well as mediation and alternative dispute resolution.
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Revolution Midseason Finale: A Good Start But It’s Time to Step it Up
Posted by rainbowchair on December 3, 2012
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NBC’s new show Revolution hit is mid-season finale, the point where the network will air no new episodes for a number of weeks. Usually, a show returns around March after a mid-series finale but there is no telling when it will actually return. So far there have been ten episodes in the first season and, if they tighten up the plot in the second half of the season, it could shape up to be a pretty good show.
Quick recap for those of you who don’t know. The story of Revolution takes place ten years after all the power in the world stopped working. Cars, trains, planes, lights and everything using power stopped working in an instant. Ten years later, the world has turned dystopian. After years of the powerless world crumbling, settlements have turned into safe zones but the rest of the world is still in turmoil. In the North Eastern United States, an oppressive force known as the Monroe Militia has risen up, lead by Sebastian “Bass” Monroe (David Lyons). Sending out one of his best men to scour the States for Ben Matheson (Tim Guinee), the man who may known why the power went out, the story begins when Captain Tom Neville (Giancarlo Esposito) arrives at Ben’s settlement.
Resistance occurs from Ben’s family when Neville tries to take him. Ben is shot and Neville ends up taking Ben’s son Danny Matheson (Graham Rogers). This kidnapping sets up the first half of the season as Charlie Matheson (Tracy Spiridakos), Danny’s older sister, embarks on a quest to save him. Enlisting the help of her uncle, Miles Matheson (Billy Burke), a friend of her father’s, Aaron Pittman (Zak Orth), her stepmother, Maggie Foster (Anna Lise Phillips), and resistance fighter Nora Clayton (Daniella Alonso), Charlie and her group head to Monroe’s base in Philadelphia. The mid-season finale culminates in most of the group making it to Philadelphia and confronting Monroe.
The reason I began watching this show was due to one name, J.J. Abrams. As long as Abrams puts his name on a show, I will at least watch two episodes of it. As the story line continues, Revolution becomes much more than just a story about rescuing Danny. We learn that Miles used to be heavily involved in the Monroe Militia, in fact him and Monroe were best friends. Another interesting plot twist appears during the course of the show as we learn that Charlie and Danny’s mother, Rachel Matheson (Elizabeth Mitchell), is alive and being held by Monroe. Each episode drastically changes Rachel’s character development as she tries to survive Monroe without helping him turn the power back on or build a weapon.
In my opinion, Revolution has left us with a lot to be hopeful for. The J.J. Abrams style running unanswered questions does appear throughout the show, leaving the audience still wondering why the power was ever turned off in the first place. We know that it has something to do with twelve pendants, each of which has the ability to power up items around it, but why and how the power turned off is still unknown. We know that both Rachel and Ben Matheson were working on a project that lead to the mass power outage. The story behind the pendants and the project involving them unravels slowly as it is referenced in flashbacks and mysterious pendant weilding members of the project begin to appear.
I was hoping for a good, thought provoking cliffhanger at the end of the mid-season finale and at first I was disappointing. SPOILER ALERT After being imprisoned by Monroe, Charlie and her group finally escape with Danny and Rachel in tow. As they are running away, a project Rachel was working on for Monroe begins working, giving Monroe the ability to boost the pendants power. With this he is able to get a helicopter working and points the guns at the main characters. Now of course that’s not a good cliffhanger. We all know that the main characters aren’t going to die. The interesting part of the cliffhanger is the prospect of Monroe having power during the second half of the season. The story line so far has had a unique background but has started to get a little stale after just half a season. The idea that Monroe is the only person in the world to have power opens up the story to an endless amount of possibilities.
Overall I think Revolution has a pretty good start. With a complex background to the story that gives the opportunity for even more complex growth, Revolution could very well turn into a complicated mystery thriller. The show needs to stop its villain of the week setup and start expanding its story line. There have been enough episodes to establish how bad the world has become after the blackout with enough sickeningly twisted characters to prove how bad things have gotten. I look forward to the return of Revolution with the hopes that they step it up and turn into the mind-blowing show it has the potential to be.
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Kristin Scott Thomas
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Oscar Best Picture Winner 1996: The English Patient
Posted in: 1001 Movies to See Before You Die, Entertainment, Movies, Oscar Best Picture Winner. Tagged: 1996, affair, Best Supporting Actress, bomb squads, burn victim, Coen Brothers, Colin Firth, Count Laszlo de Almasy, Fargo, flashback structure, Geoffrey Clifton, good movie, Hana, hopsital unit, Jerry Maguire, Juliette Binoche, Katharine Clifton, Kip, Kristin Scott Thomas, love, mapping, minefield, Naveen Andrews, orangechair, Oscar Best Picture Winner, Ralph Fiennes, Secrets and Lies, Shine, The English Patient, tragedy, world war 2. 1 Comment
For the purpose of this article I am going to need to explain one of my cinematic beliefs. If I say that I like a movie, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it is a good movie. When I say that a movie is good, it doesn’t necessarily mean that I like the movie. What makes a film good are the components of it, the acting perfromances, the shot composition and the directing. A film can be very skillfully directed and I still may not like it. That doesn’t make it a bad movie, it just means I didn’t like it. This concept becomes ever so important during the context of this review because recently I watched the 1996 Oscar Best Picture winner The English Patient and, though I thought it was a good movie, I did not like it.
The film follows a flashback structure, bouncing back and forth from before and after WWII. The film opens by introducing us to an army nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), who is convinced that everybody she falls in love with will die. Working for a hospital unit that is forced to go mobile, Hana is taking care of a severe burn victim, Count Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes). When the movement of the truck becomes too much for the dying man to bear, Hana volunteers to stay with and care for the man in an abandoned estate until he eventually passes onto the next life. As Hana cares for Laszlo, he tells her his story and the plot follows two timelines: the present and the past.
Though the film follows two different story lines, it focuses on one main theme: love. Laszlo’s past consists a dramatic love affair that started with an expedition to create a number of different maps. The expedition consists of a number of different people, most notably Laszlo, Geoffrey Clifton (Colin Firth) and his wife Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas). When Geoffrey is forced to leave, Katharine and Laszlo begin a painfully passionate affair. As the two fall in love with one another while dealing with Katharine’s marriage, the affair escalates and ultimately ends in tragedy.
As Laszlo’s story is revealed, Hana begins a love story of her own. As WWII comes to an end, bomb squads travel the countryside, searching for bombs and mines that have not yet been disarmed. When a minefield is found close to where Hana and Laszlo are staying, a bomb squad asks to use the same building as shelter. Hana agrees and eventually falls in love with a member of the squad, a man named Kip (Naveen Andrews). Hana, a woman who already believes that everybody she loves is cursed to die, has to try and deal with forming a relationship with a man who puts his life on the line everyday.
The acting in this film is truly outstanding. Ralph gives brilliant performances when playing both versions of his characters, the maimed burned victim and the heartbroken young man. Colin Firth lives up to the standards he created for himself, gracing the screen with the charm he is known for and a rare stint of jealousy. Making her character timid and strong at the same time, Juliette Binoche earned herself a Best Supporting Actress win for her performance. Kristin Scott Thomas gave a performance that would have made any female archeologist happy, excluding the affair of course, and earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Independent, strong and sure of her talents, Thomas’ character is the only female in a world dominated by men but the men seem more uncomfortable with her than she was with them.
The English Patient won the Best Picture Oscar in 1996, beating a number of great films. Going up against Shine, Jerry Maguire, the Coen Brothers’ Fargo as well as Secrets and Lies, I am somewhat surprised the English Patient came out victorious. Personally I would have given the win to Fargo but I am a little bias towards the Coen Brothers. Though I like Fargo better, I can still see the skill that went into this film and why it was chosen as the best film of 1996. Overall I give this film a 5 out of 10. This rating seems low but keep in mind my argument at the start of this blog. If I split the points between it being a good movie and a movie I like I would say it gets a 5 out of 5 for being a good film and a 0 out of 5 for being a film I like hence, 5 out of 10.
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The UP Resilience Institute
The UP Resilience Institute was established as a proactive hub of benchmark innovative information vital to the nation's efforts in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Its mission is to empower local communities through multidisciplinary actions toward resilience.
As a response through its Memorandum No. PAEP-16-67, the University of the Philippines Board of Regents (BOR) approved on 28 July 2016 the establishment of the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute (UP RI) to have the following functions and programs concerning multi-hazard, multidisciplinary, multisectoral, comprehensive disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM):
Research and Creative Work: undertake policy research, action research and interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research or creative work
Knowledge Sharing: disseminate research findings, creative works and innovations
Education: establish non-degree educational programs and support degree programs within the UP System
Institute Building: improve the capability of the UP System as an agent of change for disaster resilience in the Philippines and the Pacific Rim region.
Special Provision in the 2018 General Appropriations Act:
The UP NOAH Center
The UP NOAH Center is the core component of the UP Resilience Institute. It was formally adopted by the University of the Philippines during the Board of Regents 1325th meeting on February 23, 2017 as a research center for climate actions and disaster risk reduction and management. An Executive Order signed by UP President Danilo L. Concepcion, (EO PLDC 17-03), established the NOAH Center as a research institute in the UP System.
The vital role of UP NOAH’s work is producing freely accessible, accurate, reliable, and relevant scientific disaster data. It also highlights a multidisciplinary approach in assessing risk and using the lens of different scientific areas. This ensures that Filipinos are provided an integrative appraisal of the natural hazards that put them in danger.
"UP NOAH Center's benefits go far beyond its research value. It has literally been a lifesaver for millions of Filipinos threatened by natural disasters like floods, landslides, and storm surges. It deserves a new lease on life, and UP is happy to welcome it into its fold." - UP President Danilo L. Concepcion
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Initiated as a Social Welfare Section within the Department of Sociology and Social Welfare in 1950 in the then College of Liberal Arts, the present College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD) became a separate Department of Social Work by 1961 and evolved into the Institute of Social Work and Community Development in 1969 through R.A. 5174 which was passed in 1967. Its reclassification as a full-fledged college was prompted by the University’s move to standardize the nomenclature of academic units performing similar functions. The CSWCD offers graduate and undergraduate programs in both social work and community development, as well as graduate programs on women and development.
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Recycling Programme Launched To Support Butterfly Appeal
A Derby charity’s fundraising appeal has got off to a flying start thanks to a recycling initiative spearheaded by a local business.
Safe and Sound recently launched the Butterfly Appeal to raise funds needed to expand its work to transform the lives of children and young people in the county who are victims of or at risk of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE).
One of the businesses who immediately signed up to back the appeal was Sinfin-based Century Mobile.
The company is collecting old mobile phone handsets which are then recycled and all money collected is donated to Safe and Sound’s Butterfly Appeal.
Century Mobile has already collected unwanted handsets from business customers HUUB and from Derby County Football Club – raising £200 for the appeal.
Century Mobile Managing Director Scott Harrhy said: “As a business committed to supporting local communities and as the father of young children, I was determined to do all that I could to support Safe and Sound.
“We specialise in finding our customers the right mobile phone package to improve their business communications and the recycling of unwanted, obsolete and damaged handsets is therefore the perfect way for us to raise vital funds for this amazing charity.
“We are grateful to both HUUB and DCFC for helping us to get this off the ground and will be spreading the word with all of our customers to support this appeal.”
Mr Harrhy continued: “I was horrified when I met with the Safe and Sound team and learned the uncomfortable truth about the dangers that our children and young people face at the hands of these evil perpetrators.
“We all know about the dark side of the internet but I was particularly shocked about how easy it is for groomers to find and manipulate children online.
“This is therefore an issue that could affect the lives of any family – whoever they are and wherever they live.
“I would appeal to everyone to search through their office and kitchen drawers and give us their old handsets which we are happy to pick up and make it easy to contribute to this appeal.”
Safe and Sound CEO Tracy Harrison concluded: “We are very grateful to Century Mobile for quickly turning awareness about CSE into tangible action and for their customers who have already supported the mobile phone recycling initiative.
“By simply donating an old, unused handset, we can raise vital funds for the Butterfly Appeal to help us to support even more young people who are vulnerable to or currently facing sexual exploitation.
“CSE not only affects the children and young people targeted by perpetrators but their whole family and the Butterfly Appeal will enable us to support them as well as providing the vital education across the wider public to make them aware of the dangers facing our local communities.”
To recycle your old phones to raise money for Safe and Sound, please telephone 01332 362120 to arrange collection.
For more information about how to support Safe and Sound, please visit www.safeandsoundgroup.org.uk and follow on Facebook and Twitter @safeandsoundgroup or email [email protected]
Media enquiries: Sarah Jenkin-Jones, JJPR, Tel: 01332 515102/07951 945665; [email protected]
About Safe and Sound and the Butterfly Appeal
Safe and Sound was launched in 2002 and is the only local charity that is totally focused on transforming the lives of thousands of children and young people who are victims or are at risk of child sexual exploitation across Derbyshire.
Safe and Sound’s expertise came to the fore during the 2010 landmark case – Operation Retriever – which was Derby’s first prosecution for child sexual exploitation and abuse. The charity’s specialist team supported every young person affected by the criminal actions of 13 defendants who were jailed in total for up to 22 years for 70 offences.
Safe and Sound’s specialist team provides individual support for children and young people from as young as eight up to the age of 18. They also raise awareness of the issue and the dangers facing children and young people through awareness programmes for schools, organisations, businesses and community groups.
Safe and Sound has launched the Butterfly Appeal #Buildingstrongwings to bring to fruition its vision for expanded services to support young people, families and wider community.
The charity’s future vision is extensive and includes:
– A new outreach programme to provide hands-on support where young people are at their most vulnerable
– Wider support for the families of victims and those at risk of CSE
– Youth work programmes with new activities from music to sport to build young people’s confidence and resilience
– Specialist psychological therapy programmes to tackle trauma, anxiety, and depression
– Longer-term support for survivors moving into adulthood enabling them to mentor younger victims
– An expanded community education programme to increase public awareness of CSE and the dangers facing young people
Supporters and ambassadors include the Chief Constable of Derbyshire who has chosen Safe and Sound as one of his chosen charities.
For more information about child sexual exploitation, Safe and Sound Derby and the Butterfly Appeal please visit www.safeandsoundgroup.co.uk and follow on social media. A powerful video outlining young people’s experiences and why local people and businesses should support Safe and Sound is online at https://youtu.be/xjcb1y2cfGE
In the UK today, one in 20 children suffer sexual abuse which includes child sexual exploitation. That means that in every classroom in Derbyshire, there is at least one vulnerable young person in need of help.
Child Sexual Exploitation (commonly referred to as CSE) is a form of child sexual abuse and takes many different forms from rape and sexual assault to online grooming and encouraging children to share inappropriate images of themselves.
CSE is a particularly manipulative form of abuse and is also linked to such criminal exploitation issues such as County Lines, gangs, trafficking and modern slavery.
The key factor is that individuals or groups take advantage of young people by manipulating or deceiving them into sexual activity in exchange for something the victim needs or wants. This could range from money and alcohol to less tangible things such as the attention that they crave at a vulnerable time in their lives.
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Facebook: It’s Not Just for the Kids
By the time subscribers to The New York Times settled into their Wednesday morning paper with steaming cups of coffee in hand, the fact that Scott Brown had just won a monumental victory in Massachusetts for Edward “Ted” Kennedy’s senate seat was already old news.
In addition to the breaking news being posted on news websites worldwide shortly after Brown’s 9:25 p.m. victory, social media users were posting their own reactions on sites such as Twitter and Facebook almost immediately following the announcement that the Republican had taken a long-held Democratic seat in the Senate, a move that single-handedly will likely change the direction of national health care reform.
“The reality is, besides traditional media, we now recognize that each of us — all of us — are members of the media,” said WordHampton Public Relations President Steve Haweeli.
Haweeli added that he believed trusted news sources, like newspapers, are critical to ensure non-biased information is making it through the spin machine, but that ultimately the impact of social networks on news, public relations and marketing is staggering.
“The growth of the social network is beyond a phenomenon,” he said. “The numbers are simply staggering.”
There are currently 350 million users, worldwide, on Facebook, said Haweeli, making Facebook the fourth largest country in the world.
“It’s a comfortable place to be, it’s a fun place to be,” said Haweeli. “You can control your content or what you want to see when you want to see it, and you can un-friend people. From a marketing standpoint, it can widen your audience and it allows for updates in real time.”
For example, said Haweeli, Town Line BBQ in East Hampton has engaged friends on Facebook by leaking a Monday night pub quiz question on their Facebook page and using the site to announce their winners the next day.
At WordHampton, Haweeli has found embracing social networks to be critical to the business’s growth and development, and something he urges his clients to take part in.
WordHampton jumped on the social network bandwagon early in its heyday, starting on MySpace and, like the rest of the market, shifting their focus to Facebook and Twitter.
“We had been tracking the trend of social media since May of 2006,” he said. “And we were able to quietly build a base of knowledge and were ready before our clients were.”
Last year, said Haweeli, the social network phenomenon truly took hold and WordHampton was there to help clients set up and run their Twitter and Facebook pages, but more importantly understand what they needed to do to successfully use the sites as marketing tools.
“I would never have considered myself a techie, but I would say I might be one now because I think understanding our world as it relates to communications and marketing means I need to understand where this kind of mobile marketing is moving,” he said.
On Twitter, for example, Haweeli said it is critical to understand what your voice is, who you are marketing to and what your ultimate message will be in the series of 150-word updates you leave on the site. Best practices are also key, he said, ensuring you are not bombarding your friends on Facebook with news about your business, but sending out updates in digestible chunks.
“You also have to be careful,” said Haweeli, about who in your company you are willing to entrust with passwords and posts, which is why he recommends each company develop a social media policy of their own.
For many clients, simply having the time to keep people engaged through social media can be a hurdle in itself; but, according to Haweeli, embracing this new kind of outreach is an absolute necessity for any business in this day and age.
“People understand now this is real – it’s not just for kids or college kids,” said Haweeli. “In fact, women over 50 are the largest growing demographic on Facebook.”
Haweeli added that the social network phenomenon is only growing as we become a more mobile society, many relying on smart phones like the iPhone as their main link to the Internet. Mobile websites and media like iPhone applications are the wave of the future, he said, as are text message campaigns.
“Just look at how that has impacted Haitian relief,” he said.
As of Tuesday, over $22 million had been donated by U.S. residents via text message to support Haitian earthquake relief through the American Red Cross. That organization said in previous years it had yet to break $500,000 using similar text message campaigns.
WordHampton Public Relations is located at 512 Three Mile Harbor Rd. in East Hampton. For more information, call 329-0050.
Pictured above: Nicole Starr Castillo, the executive vice president of WordHampton Public Relations, checks on the company’s Facebook page, one of several social networks that increasingly have played a larger role in the marketing of local businesses on the East End.
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Michael Ralph
Assoc Professor
NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
Dr. Michael Ralph teaches in the Department of Social
and Cultural Analysis and the School of Medicine at New York University. He is the author of the 2015 book, *Forensics of Capital*, which argues that the profile of a country or individual is a forensic profile and a credit profile. He is also author of the forthcoming graphic book, *Before 13th,* which challenges the consensus that the practice of leasing prison inmates to private corporations begins with the 13th amendment, showing instead that it began several decades earlier in a prison that included people of different races and genders. Michael is the recipient of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, Institute for Advanced Study, and Charles Warren Center at Harvard University. This year, Michael is a W.E.B. Dubois Fellow at Harvard University.
Events featuring Michael Ralph
Imagination & Ingenuity: Prison as Learning Space at Austin Convention Center Room 11AB
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Difference Between Transcription and DNA Replication
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What Are the Four Roles That DNA Must Play in Cells?
By Noelle Thompson
Transcription and DNA replication both involve making copies of the DNA in a cell. Transcription copies the DNA into RNA, while replication makes another copy of DNA. Both processes involve the generation of a new molecule of nucleic acids, either DNA or RNA; however, the function of each process is very different, with one involved in gene expression and the other involved in cell division. Although DNA and RNA have some chemical similarities, each molecule performs different functions in living organisms.
Transcription involves copying DNA into RNA. The portion of the DNA that codes for genes is transcribed, or copied, into messenger RNA, known as mRNA. The first step in the process is the unwinding and separation of the two strands of the DNA helix. An enzyme called RNA polymerase then travels along the length of the strand of DNA and binds complementary RNA nucleotides to it, until a complete strand of mRNA is formed. The mRNA is essentially the cellular blueprint for the construction of a particular protein. It travels from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, where it is translated into protein, a process known as gene expression
DNA replication is the process of copying the DNA in a cell so that there are two copies. This is done in preparation for cell division, or mitosis. Before a cell divides, the DNA must be copied so that there is a copy for each of the resulting daughter cells. First, the DNA unwinds and the two strands of the helix separate. An enzyme called DNA polymerase then travels along each strand, binding complementary nucleotides, the building-blocks of DNA, and resulting in two double-stranded helices which are an exact copy of each other.
Both DNA replication and transcription involve binding complementary nucleic acids to DNA, yielding a new strand of either DNA or RNA. Both processes can lead to errors if an incorrect nucleotide is incorporated. An error in either DNA replication or transcription can cause a change in the gene, by either changing the DNA sequence in one of the daughter cells leading to transcription of the incorrect mRNA sequence, or by causing the mRNA to incorporate an incorrect base pair resulting in the wrong protein sequence being translated.
DNA replication occurs in preparation for cell division, while transcription happens in preparation for protein translation. DNA replication is important for properly regulating the growth and division of cells. The DNA will not replicate if the cell lacks certain growth factors, thereby keeping the cell division rate under control. Transcription of DNA is the method for regulating gene expression. Although all of our cells contain copies of all of our genes, each cell only expresses, or turns on, the genes that are necessary for the functions of that cell. Transcription only occurs when a gene is turned on.
National Library of Medicine: DNA Replication
National Library of Medicine: Regulation of Transcription in Eukaryotes
Elmhurst College: DNA Replication
Noelle Thompson has extensive experience with health and scientific research, including in the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a B.S. in cell and developmental biology. Thompson then went on to earn a Ph.D. in biological chemistry, with an emphasis on stem cell biology, from the University of California, Irvine.
How Does DNA Replication Affect Your Body?
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What Are the Purine Bases of DNA?
Steps of DNA Transcription
What Happens to a Cell If It Does Not Copy DNA Chromosomes Before It Divides?
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Posts Tagged ‘sun’
“Doubt thou the stars are fire”*…
Solar storms are a relatively regular occurrence. But in 1859, a massive solar storm occurred; solar flares created the one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record. Telegraph service failed… but otherwise the event was largely a curiosity.
A new study calculates that our sun may produce another ‘superflare’ in the next 100 years… and suggests that the resulting damage to electronic systems on which we’ve come to depend could be devastating.
How much more disruptive would a superflare be? It’s hard to say because the damage would seem to be incalculable. A superflare even a hundred times more powerful than what we normally experience would almost certainly hit every unprotected electronic system on Earth in some fashion, disrupting or outright crippling powergrids around the world, disabling machinery and manufacturing, blowing out cell phones, satellites, and all the rest. Transportation systems depend on electronics, as do utility systems, communications systems, in short: everything could just stop working overnight, even though we probably wouldn’t feel a thing.
If the superflare was thousands of times more powerful than normal? For all we know, it could send humanity back to the Age of Sail practically overnight–at least until we can repair or replace the entire planet’s electronic infrastructure, a tall order when you have no power transmission to manufacture replacement electronic components and we’re all reduced to communicating using carrier pigeons and old fashioned letters…
The solar storm of 2012 was of similar magnitude to the 1859 flare, but it passed Earth’s orbit without striking the planet, missing by nine days. For more on what we might expect of we’re not so lucky next time, see “Massive Superflare Eruption from Sun within 100 Years Possible, New Study Says.”
And for more background see: “Solar Flare: What If Biggest Known Sun Storm Hit Today?”
* Shakespeare
As we slip on our shades, we might spare a thought for Giovanni Battista Riccioli; he died on this date in 1671. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for discovering the first double star. But he is perhaps most remembered for introducing (in in Almagestum Novum in1651) the current scheme of lunar nomenclature: he named the more prominent features after famous astronomers, scientists and philosophers, while the large dark and smooth areas he called “seas” or “maria”. The lunar seas were named after moods (Seas of Tranquillity, Serenity) or terrestrial phenomena (Sea of Rains, Ocean or Storms).
Tagged with astronomy, Giovanni Battista Ricciol, lunar features, Moon, risk, Science, solar flare, solar storm, sun, Technology
“Wherever there is light, one can photograph”*…
Three decades ago, as a graduate student at the San Francisco Art Institute, Mimi Plumb [see here] was wandering around Bernal Heights when she came across the site of a recent house fire. Plumb went inside to explore the building’s charred remains. She paused to photograph a blackened globe and a singed stack of telephone books. In the basement, she found snapshots of an unknown family, and in the bedroom, a burned lamp and dresser. The grim, soot-filled rooms would later remind her of her childhood during the Cuban missile crisis, when duck-and-cover drills occurred every few weeks. “My mother told me there might be a nuclear war,” Plumb says. “I would wake up in the middle of the night.”
The photos of the house were among the first that Plumb would take for her series Dark Days, which will be published this summer by TBW Books in a collection titled Landfall…
After seven years of taking photos for the series, Plumb did the unthinkable: She packed the negatives into a box and didn’t look at them again. In some ways, she knew she had nothing more to add to the work, that she had adequately captured that feeling of imbalance. But there was also another reason. Plumb felt pressure as a female photographer to take more “palatable” images.
The series was tucked away until 2015, when Plumb, having retired from teaching black-and-white photography, began going through her archives. She was struck by how much the work — with its themes of nuclear anxiety and environmental decline — “runs eerily parallel to our current situation.”…
More on Plumb’s work at “Unearthed“; see more of the Dark Days series at her site
* Alfred Stieglitz
As we ponder the pix, we might recall that it was on this date in 1845 that French physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault took the first photograph of the sun. The daguerreotype was just 4.7 inches, but as National Geographic reported, still caught sunspots.
Tagged with daguerreotype, Dark Days, history, Leon Foucault, Louis Fizeau, Mimi Plumb, photography, sun
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily”*…
All the old rites and superstitions that once warded off mystical evils have been condensed into one single command, so vast and monolithic we’ve forgotten that it’s even possible to disobey: Don’t look directly at the sun.
Not to look directly into the sun is (at a guess) one of the first lessons everyone is taught by their parents. As unquestioned ideological precepts go, it’s enormously effective. You learn it, you internalize it, and never really think of it again until you have kids of your own. And then you say it once more, repeating your parents’ words, and theirs, in an unbroken tradition going back God knows how many millennia. No, honey, never look directly into the sun… But people do it. And our world is the better for it, because staring directly into the sun is our moral and political duty…
Question authority: “What happens when you stare at the sun.”
* François de La Rochefoucauld
As we put down the smoked glass, we might spare a thought for the creator of the object of another set of taboos, Harry Wesley Coover, Jr.; he died on this date in 2011. A chemist working for Eastman Kodak, he accidentally discovered a substance first marketed as “Eastman 910,” now commonly known as Super Glue. Coover was a prolific inventor– he held 460 patents– but was proudest of the organizational system that he developed and oversaw at Kodak: “programmed innovation,” a management methodology emphasizing research and development, which resulted in the introduction of 320 new products and sales growth from $1.8 billion to $2.5 billion. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame; then in 2010, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Tagged with chemistry, folk wisdom, Harry Coover, history, innovation, Science, stare, sun, Super Glue, taboo
Signs of the Times, Part 666…
Earlier missives have covered the ironic antics of Bansky (e.g., here). Now, in the spirit of his faux Paris Hilton CD covers, TrustoCorp and their “Tabloid Magazine Interventions“…
As Arrested Motion reports:
… they’ve gone into magazine stands, bookstores and pharmacies throughout Hollywood, Manhattan, Williamsburg, LAX and JFK to drop copies of these little artistic interventions for the unsuspecting public.
No details were spared as headlines blasted celebrities and public figures like Lindsey Lohan, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump in hypothetical features of entertaining variants for ever popular gossip magazines such as US, People and OK. What’s more is that each page of the tabloid have an embedded alphanumeric code that leads to a secret website for people that can figure it out. So keep your eyes peeled as you pass by your local newsstands as you may be lucky enough to find that TrustoCorp made a special delivery in your neighborhood.
See the rest of the covers at Arrested Motion.
And visit the TrustoCorp site for an interactive map revealing the locations of the signs that the collective has helpfully distributed around Manhattan, signs like…
Lexington and 24th
Greenwich and Morton
As we celebrate semiotic significance, we might recall that it was on this date in 1833 that the first successful “penny newspaper,” the New York Sun, was first published. While it is probably best remembered for its 1897 editorial “Is There a Santa Claus?” (commonly referred to as “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus”), it also published “The Great Moon Hoax” (featured here recently), and Edgar Allan Poe’s “Balloon Hoax.”
We also have the Sun— more specifically, its managing editor from 1863-1890, John Bogart– to thank for that oft-quoted definition of the journalistic enterprise: “When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.”
Tagged with Balloon Hoax, Banksy, Donald Trump, Edgar Allan Poe, fake Paris Hilton CD cover, fake tabloid magazines, fake tabloids, funny signs, Great Balloon Hoax, Great Moon Hoax, Heidi Montag, history of journalism, history of newspapers, hoax signs, Is there a Santa Claus, John Bogart, journalism, Kim Jong-il, Lindsey Lohan, Man Bites dog, Moon Hoax, New York Sun, news, Newspapers, Paris Hilton, Paris Hilton CD, Sarah Palin, Signs, Space, sun, tabloid magazines, tabloids, TrustoCorp, Yes Virginia, Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus
click on the image above, or here, for larger version (well worth doing)
Amateur astronomer Alan Friedman captured this photo of the surface of the sun. As Discover‘s Bad Astronomy reports:
The scene-stealer is that detached prominence [that appears to be a cloud] off to the left. That’s the leftover material ejected from the Sun by an erupting sunspot (you can see other sunspots in the picture as well). The gas is ionized — a plasma — and so it’s affected by magnetic fields. The material follows the magnetic field of the Sun in the explosion, lifting it off the surface and into space. Sometimes it falls back, and sometimes it leaves the Sun entirely. In this case, Alan caught some of the material at what looks like the top of its trajectory.
The beauty of this picture belies its violence and sheer magnitude: the mass of material in a prominence can easily top 10 billion tons! As for size, see that dark elongated sunspot near the base of the prominence, just to the right of the bigger, speckly one? That spot is roughly twice the size of the Earth.
We’ve come a long way since the discovery of sun spots in 1611… but that too was the work of a gifted and dedicated amateur.
As we raise our SPFs, we might recall that on this date in 1957, a star of a different sort fell when Charles van Doren’s winning streak on the television game show Twenty One came to an end. Van Doren was a young Columbia professor at the time, the scion of a storied family: son of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and literary critic/teacher Mark Van Doren and novelist and writer Dorothy Van Doren, and nephew of critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Carl Van Doren. This pedigree, along with an academic resume that included St. Johns, Cambridge, and Columbia and advanced degrees in both astrophysics and English, made him a natural for the broad general knowledge challenge of the quiz show.
And indeed, in January of 1957, Van Doren started a winning run that ultimately earned him more than $129,000 (more than $1 million in 2009 dollars) and made him famous (he graced the the cover of Time on February 11, 1957). His reign ended when he lost to Vivienne Nearing (a lawyer whose husband Van Doren had previously beaten).
Subsequently, allegations were made that Van Doren has cheated; and in 1959, he testified before a House investigatory committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance of the show:
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception… I asked (co-producer Albert Freedman) to let me go on (Twenty One) honestly, without receiving help. He said that was impossible. He told me that I would not have a chance to defeat Stempel [the long-running champ before Van Doren knocked him off] because he was too knowledgeable. He also told me that the show was merely entertainment and that giving help to quiz contests was a common practice and merely a part of show business. This of course was not true, but perhaps I wanted to believe him. He also stressed the fact that by appearing on a nationally televised program I would be doing a great service to the intellectual life, to teachers and to education in general, by increasing public respect for the work of the mind through my performances. In fact, I think I have done a disservice to all of them. I deeply regret this, since I believe nothing is of more vital importance to our civilization than education.
Vivienne Nearing, host Jack Barry, and Charles Van Doren (source)
Tagged with Alan Friedman, Albert Freedman, Carl Van Doren, Charles Van Doren, Columbia College, Columbia University, Dorothy Van Doren, game show scandal, games show, Herb Stempel, Jack Barry, Mark Van Doren, quiz show, quiz show scandal, solar activity, solar phenomena, sun, sun spots, Twenty One, Vivienne Nearing
Great Ball of Fire!…
In this x-ray photo, the dark arc near the top right edge of the image is a filament of plasma blasting off the surface (NASA, AP Photo)
From Astronomy Now, news of a “coronal mass ejection”:
The Sun appears to have jolted from its deep slumber, blasting tonnes of plasma into interplanetary space on Sunday, which is expected to collide with the Earth within the next 24 hours.
“This eruption is directed right at us, and is expected to get here early in the day on 4 August,” says astronomer Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “It’s the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time.”
By the time one receives this missive, the plasma should have come ashore.
.. if indeed, one is able to read this. As The Telegraph reports (via News24):
Scientists have warned that a really big solar eruption could destroy satellites and wreck power and communications grids.
Or maybe not. Solarcycle24, a specialist site, is more circumspect:
There will be a chance for minor geomagnetic storming and a small possibility of major geomagnetic storming at high latitudes.
Which is to say that penguins and polar bears may be in for even-more-vivid-than-usual light shows in their night skies…
As to which prediction is right: well, Dear Readers, if you are reading this…
As we recheck all of our surge protectors, we might recall that it was on this date in 1858 that, after several unsuccessful attempts, the first telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean was completed– and the world became materially smaller.
Cover for a 1858 musical composition commemorating the cable (source: Naval Historical Center); click here or on image to enlarge
Tagged with Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, plasma, plasma storm, plasma wave, solar activity, solar flares, sun, sun spots, telegraph cable, telegraph line, Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable
Looking directly at the sun…
With thanks to photographer Thierry Legault, the only image ever taken of a transit of a space shuttle (Atlantis) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in front of the Sun– during the last repair mission of Hubble. Legault took the photo in Florida (100 km south of the Kennedy Space Center) on May 13th (at 12:17 local time), several minutes before grapple of Hubble by Atlantis.
See the full image here… and see other examples of Legault’s extraordinary “astrophotography” work here.
As we rub our eyes, we might recall that it was on this date in 1804 that Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France– at least in part an unintended consequence of Britain’s declaration of war against France (again), exactly one year before, in response to Napoleon’s “activities” in Italy and Switzerland… (Napoleon formally crowned himself “Emperor Napoleon I” on December 2, 1804 at Notre Dame de Paris.)
Jacques-Louis David’s portrait of Napoleon (1812)
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sammyalinaeem
How old is your daughter ?
Me: little one is 4 going on 5
Abe : fun age
Me: yeah…..( as I thought …. I wouldn’t know)
miss you SD
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It is life. However we have to live to it. Mistakes need to be paid for in full. One day however I will come for you and you wont deny me what is rightfully mine, if it ever was to begin with. One day I will find out the truth behind every word you ever said. Until then I will now, build something no one can expect from the fallen. One life, one love.
This is the day when I feel like I woke up from a zombie like state. I realized that I have lost my way, that I do not have much time to repair. Man oh man, what was I thinking?
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It is the best word and the most misused one. What is loyalty?
“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”
Another said :
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can’t get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That’s in friendship, that’s a deal, that’s a commitment. Don’t give me paper – I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that’s for life.
I personally have been accused of so much in life and I could fight and counter all of it if I would just open my mouth. But, I will not, because I have to keep my word. To me, if the only way I can look good is by destroying another, then I careless what some think of me based on hearsay . Life is not about excuses or not having a spinal cord. I take sides and I stand by those I call or called friends long after they have switched. Someone said to me ” in this world sammy, easy way is better”. I really, really wish to do that, but it is not me. I have now been scammed for over 500k in last 8 years in car business. Not even close to what some have lost as they claim. But I don’t blame cars for it. Until the end of time I will stand by them, love them and never quit. I will get it right and I have no choice, I want no other choice. I will rule this business and mark my fucking words, because that is the only redemption for my wrongs and the only proof of my innocence. Loyalty is the only way to get something done.
They say, you should only speak, when someone is listening, today no one listens, they just need a distraction from there own misery. They pretend to listen long enough to find comfort by comparison in your plight.
They advise me to move on, no sir, I will not, I will mend what I break. Grass is not always greener on the other side. Loyal to a fault.
Blessed are the people who have a sense of direction and a purpose.
I saw the car in person and it is absolutely stunning. However some say it is “cushy” for a Porsche. I guess we will find out soon enough. Below is text from Porsche itself.
The Porsche 918 Spyder embodies the essence of the Porsche idea, combining pedigree motor racing technology with excellent everyday suitability, and maximum performance with minimum consumption. The début of the 918 Spyder at the IAA 2013 marks the start of a new chapter in the future of the hybrid drive.
– Quick Specs –
Make Porsche
Engine 4.6L V8 Hybrid
0-60 time 2.800
MPG 78
And the technology pioneers are not the only ones who are excited by this flagship project, as the 918 Spyder demonstrates the potential of the hybrid drive to a degree never seen before, achieving a parallel improvement in both fuel efficiency and performance without compromising on either. This is the idea that has made the Porsche 911 the most successful sportscar in the world for the past 50 years. In short, the 918 Spyder contains the genetic blueprint for the Porsche sportscar of the future.
The Porsche 918 Spyder has been greatly influenced by its affiliations with motorsport. A number of the developments to the Porsche race car for the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2014 were used in the 918 Spyder – and vice versa. The structural concept, which is based on a rolling chassis (i.e. a chassis without bodywork), is standard for Porsche race cars. The design of the V8 engine is based on that of the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) race car, the RS Spyder, and the supporting monocoque structures and unit carriers are made from carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP). More importantly, however, the Porsche 918 Spyder is considerably more fuel efficient than any of its competitors. In fact, this plug-in hybrid combines the performance of a race car with an output of over 880 bhp with an estimated NEDC fuel consumption of just three liters per 100 km, which is lower than the majority of today’s compact cars. Drivers can therefore enjoy maximum driving pleasure and minimum fuel consumption.
The core message surrounding the 918 Spyder is that the Porsche hybrid drive offers uncompromising dynamic performance. The unique all-wheel drive concept with a combined combustion engine and electric motor drive system on the rear axle and a second electric motor on the front axle make this possible. This concept is based on Porsche’s motorsport development work for the successful 911 GT3 R hybrid.
The additional, individually controllable front-wheel drive enables new driving strategies to be used for extremely high yet safe speeds through bends in particular. What’s more, the advanced “boost” strategy manages the energy of the electric drive so intelligently that the unrestricted total power of the 918 Spyder can be accessed simply by fully depressing the accelerator pedal for every burst of speed at maximum acceleration. In short, the Porsche 918 Spyder allows even drivers without motorsport training to experience the potential of advanced longitudinal and lateral dynamics.
The centrepiece of the 918 Spyder concept is the distribution of propulsive power across three power units, all of which are integrated and controlled via an intelligent management system. To benefit as much as possible from the coverage offered by the different systems, the Porsche developers have defined a total of five operating modes, which can be activated via a map switch in the steering wheel, just like in race cars. Using the pre-selected mode, the 918 Spyder applies the most suitable operating and boost strategy without any further intervention from drivers, thus allowing them to concentrate fully on the road.
When the vehicle is started up, “E-Power” mode is selected as the default operating mode, provided that the battery is sufficiently charged. Depending on load, the 918 Spyder can cover between 16 and 32 kilometers on purely electric power. Even in pure electric mode, the Porsche 918 Spyder accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in under seven seconds and can reach speeds of up to 150 km/h. In this mode, the combustion engine is used only when needed. If the battery charging condition drops below a set minimum level, the vehicle automatically switches to hybrid mode.
In “Hybrid” mode, the electric motors and combustion engine work alternately, focusing on achieving maximum efficiency and minimum fuel consumption. The power output of the individual drive components is modified in line with the current driving situation and the required performance level. Hybrid mode is typically used for fuel-efficient driving.
If a more dynamic performance is required, the power units in the 918 Spyder switch over to “Sport Hybrid” mode. The combustion engine now operates continuously, representing the main propulsive force. The electric motors are activated to support acceleration through the electric boost function, or at points when the operating point of the combustion engine can be optimized for greater efficiency. This mode focuses on performance and a sporty driving experience at top speeds.
“Race Hybrid” is the mode for maximum performance combined with an especially sporty driving experience. The combustion engine is chiefly used under high load, and charges the battery whenever the driver does not require maximum power. The electric motors provide additional support in the form of boosting in this mode too. The gearshift program of the Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) is also designed for even sportier driving. The electric motors are used up to the maximum power output limit to deliver the best possible performance for the race track. In this mode, the battery charging condition is not kept constant and instead fluctuates over the entire charge range. In contrast to Sport Hybrid mode, the electric motors run at their maximum power output limit for a short period for enhanced boost performance. This increased output is balanced out by the fact that the combustion engine charges the battery more intensively. The electric power boost is thus always available to the driver even for several very fast laps.
The “Hot Lap” button in the centre of the map switch releases the 918 Spyder’s final reserves and can only be activated in “Race Hybrid” mode. Similar to a qualification mode, “Race Hybrid” mode pushes the traction battery to its maximum power output limits for a few fast laps. This mode uses all of the available energy in the battery.
The main drive source is the 4.6-liter, eight-cylinder engine with an output of up to 608 bhp. Based on the power unit of the successful RS Spyder endurance race car, the engine delivers engine speeds of up to 9150 rpm and a power output per liter of approx. 132 bhp/litre – 26 bhp/liter more than that of the Carrera GT, making this the highest specific power of any naturally aspirated Porsche engine.
And it is not just the performance of the 918 Spyder engine that stirs up an emotive response: The sound of this vehicle is just as impressive, and can primarily be attributed to the “top pipes” – exhaust tailpipes that terminate directly above the engine in the upper part of the rear end. No other series production vehicle features this solution.
The V8 engine is coupled to the hybrid module as the Porsche 918 Spyder is designed as a parallel hybrid like Porsche’s current hybrid models. The hybrid module essentially comprises a 115-kW electric motor and a decoupler that serves as the connection with the combustion engine. Because of its parallel hybrid configuration, the 918 Spyder can be powered at the rear axle either individually by the combustion engine or the electric motor, or via both drives together. As is typical for a Porsche super sportscar, the power unit assembly in the 918 Spyder has been placed in front of the rear axle, and it does not have a direct mechanical connection to the front axle. A seven-speed Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) transmission handles power transmission to the rear axle.
There is another independent electric motor that generates approximately 95 kW of power at the front axle. The front electric drive unit drives the wheels at a fixed gear ratio. A decoupler decouples the electric motor at high speeds to prevent the motor from over-revving. The drive torque is independently controlled for each axle, creating a very responsive all-wheel drive function with significant potential in terms of traction and dynamic performance.
The electric energy for the electric motors is stored by a liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery comprising 312 individual cells with an energy content of approximately seven kilowatt hours. The battery in the Porsche 918 Spyder has a performance-oriented design in terms of both power charging and output, enabling it to meet the performance requirements of the electric motor. The power capacity and operating life of the lithium-ion traction battery depend on several factors, including thermal conditions. This is why the 918 Spyder’s battery is liquid cooled by a dedicated cooling circuit. The global warranty period for the traction battery is seven years.
Porsche has developed a new system with a plug-in charging interface and improved recuperation potential for charging the battery. For example, on the German 230 Volt mains supply, the traction battery can be charged within four hours by connecting the Porsche Universal Charger (AC) provided in the scope of delivery to a ten-ampere fused power socket. The Porsche Speed Charging Station (DC) is also available as an option, and will fully charge the high-voltage battery in just under 25 minutes.
The Porsche 918 Spyder’s multi-link chassis was inspired by motorsport design, and is complemented by additional systems such as the Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) adaptive shock-absorber system and rear-axle steering, which is essentially an electro-mechanical adjustment system at each rear wheel. This adjustment is speed-sensitive, providing steering angles of up to three degrees in each direction.
The rear axle can therefore be steered in the same direction or in the opposite direction to the front wheels. At low speeds, the system steers the rear wheels in the opposite direction to the front wheels, which has the effect of shortening the wheelbase. This makes cornering even more direct, faster and more precise, and reduces the turning circle. At higher speeds, the system steers the rear wheels in the same direction as the front wheels, which has the effect of lengthening the wheelbase. This significantly increases rear end stability when changing lanes quickly, resulting in exceptionally safe and stable handling.
On the one hand, the tyres needed to have optimum grip and razor-sharp handling on all road types. On the other hand, the tires needed to be durable on the racetrack and have as low a rolling resistance as possible. As a result, the developers of the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires for the Porsche 918 Spyder were faced with a seemingly insurmountable conflict of objectives. However, working closely with Porsche engineers, the tyre experts from Michelin were able to overcome this challenge in impressive fashion: The 918 Spyder is rolling out of production facilities exclusively on specially tuned Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires. A total of 550 prototype tires were produced and tested over the course of the testing period. 400 preproduction prototypes and 200 series test specimens were also produced before Porsche gave the final approval for the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires in size 265/35 ZR 20 for the front axle and 325/30 ZR 21 for the rear axle. The tires developed specially for the Porsche 918 are also raising the benchmark in the ultra sports tyre segment when it comes to driving on wet surfaces and in terms of aquaplaning safety. The Porsche 918 sees this exclusive partnership between Michelin and Porsche in the development of special tires for super sportscars entering its second phase. This partnership started more than ten years ago with the Carrera GT.
For customers looking for an even better performance from the 918 Spyder, Porsche also offers the “Weissach” package. Super sportscars modified with this package are also available in special colors and designs inspired by legendary Porsche race cars, making them instantly recognizable. The emphasis on performance is not just visual: Super lightweight magnesium wheels reduce the unsprung weight, decreasing the gross weight by around 35 kg. These lightweight features are decisive when it comes to further enhancing the dynamic performance of the vehicle. Other references to motorsport include six-point seatbelts for the driver and front passenger, an optional film coating instead of a paint finish, plus additional aerodynamic add-on parts in visible carbon fibre.
Porsche Active Aerodynamic (PAA) is a system of adjustable aerodynamic elements that provides a unique and variable aerodynamic response. The system works in three stages, switching automatically between optimum efficiency and maximum downforce, and working in harmony with the operating modes of the hybrid drive.
In “Race” mode, the retractable rear wing is set to a steep angle to generate high downforce at the rear axle. The spoiler, which is positioned between the two wing supports at the trailing edge of the airflow, also extends. Two adjustable air flaps are opened in the underbody in front of the front axle, directing some of the air into the diffuser channels of the underbody structure to also produce a “ground effect” at the front axle.
In “Sport” mode, the aerodynamics control system reduces the approach angle of the rear wing slightly, enabling a higher top speed. The spoiler remains extended but the aerodynamic flaps in the underbody close, which also reduces aerodynamic drag and increases the potential vehicle speed. In “E” mode, the system focuses solely on low aerodynamic drag; the rear wing and spoiler are retracted and the underbody flaps are closed. Adjustable air intakes under the main headlights round off the adaptive aerodynamics system. When the vehicle is stationary and in “Race” or “Sport” mode, the intakes are opened to enable maximum cooling. In “E-Power” and “Hybrid” mode, the air intakes close as soon as the vehicle is driven off in order to keep aerodynamic drag to a minimum. They are not opened again until the vehicle reaches speeds of approximately 130 km/h or when cooling requirements are higher.
The driver is the focus behind all the technology in the future Porsche super sportscar. With this in mind, the engineers have developed a cockpit that is typical of the brand and pioneering in its clarity. The cockpit concept is divided into two basic sections: The first section comprises the controls that are important for driving. These items are grouped around the multi-function steering wheel and combined with driver information displayed on three large round instruments. The second section comprises the infotainment block housed in the elevated centre console, which was originally introduced in the Carrera GT.
Systems like climate control, wing adjustment, lighting and the Porsche Communication Management (PCM) system along with the Burmester High-End sound system can be operated intuitively via the multi-touch control functions on the innovative black panel display.
As a super sportscar designed for everyday use, the Porsche 918 Spyder offers a spectacular top-down driving experience. The two roof panels made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP) are removable, as is the tradition at Porsche, and can be stored securely in the 100-liter luggage compartment located at the front of the vehicle.
The 918 Spyder continues a long tradition of super sportscars at Porsche. Many of these vehicles have set technological benchmarks and have become the ultimate sportscars of their decades: the Carrera GTS, the first Porsche Turbo, the 959, the 911 GT1 and the Carrera GT. More so than any of its predecessors, the 918 Spyder is providing the key momentum for developing technologies for future vehicle concepts. The Porsche 918 Spyder features all the components that reflect the Porsche DNA in a format that is more powerful than ever before.
Source: Porsche Press
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Kicking and screaming and rereading my babies
For some time, one of my good writer friends has been threatening to drag me kicking and screaming into the 21st century. It’s a joke between us, but it really did take some dragging to persuade me to turn my published mysteries, at least the five to which I have all the rights, into electronic books for Kindles, Nooks, and all those other gizmos. My friend is right, of course. With Her Brother’s Keeper coming out in April, it makes sense to help readers find the earlier books in the series, and it certainly makes sense to sell them to a new audience. But the process of getting from here to there flummoxed me.
Little by little, I learned enough to face it. These books have already had the benefit of editors and copy editors and proofreaders in their original editions. My agent, who’s been nothing but honorable for years and will take the agency’s usual reasonable percentage of whatever I earn, arranged for the books to be scanned and will upload them to all the various platforms. (I almost know what I’m talking about.) And I persuaded the friend who got me into this business to design covers for them (dragging kicking and screaming works both ways).
It turns out there’s an art to that. Unlike regular book covers, the ones for ebooks have to be effective when they’re seen thumbnail size—only about an inch tall–by people who might consider buying them. You’d be amazed how hard it is to get the title and the author’s name legible in such a small space and still have any design.
The first one, Murder in C Major, was relatively easy. Poisoned Pen Press, which still has it in print, kindly allowed me to use their cover art, and we messed around with the lettering to make my long name legible. I hunted up the actual music for the solo the oboe player is beginning to play when he keels over–why not? It will be fun for musicians who know Schubert’s Great C Major symphony, and it will just look like music to anyone else.
But we didn’t have cover art for Buried in Quilts, or any of the others. After persuading a friend to let us photograph her “buried” under some of my quilts, we first decided to use a rumpled one with nobody actually under it.
Here’s an early version that doesn’t work at all,.
And here’s an almost-final version of what I thought we were going to use. The quilt is mine–the sad iron an image we bought from an online source, where we’ll probably buy a violin for The Vanishing Violinist. I don’t have the skills to do this kind of work, but that doesn’t keep me from kibitzing.
My real job is to proof the scanned texts. I know how to do that, but it has hit me in a way I didn’t expect. This series takes place over a very few years in the lives of the characters, but the first one came out in 1986, and I hadn’t gone back and read any of them straight through for years. Oh, sure, I remembered what they were about enough to talk about them occasionally, but not all the details that make them come alive, much less the words my characters speak or think.
It’s a very different experience from writing, or rewriting, or even proofing something I’ve written recently. Even writing this informal blog, I think about word choices and whatever else matters to me as a writer. But rereading these books is more like reading mysteries by someone else. By now I’m so far removed from them I don’t remember which sentences came easily and which were a struggle. I find I’m reading for the story, even while watching for possible scanning errors. I smile at the funny bits. Over and over I catch myself thinking, “I wrote that? Really?” Or “I did that much research?” Or every once in a while, “That’s pretty good.” And so help me, the other night I read Witness in Bishop Hill much too late–because I couldn’t remember whodunit!
Before I started, I wondered whether I’d be tempted to change the words. I’ve caught a few typos and a speck on the page that turned into a period, but that’s all. These books are what they are. I’m not even messing with a date that makes it obvious that the children in Murder & Sullivan could be middle-aged parents in Her Brother’s Keeper, when in fact they’ve aged only about four years in all this time. I can only hope that today’s readers will tolerate the disconnect. My aging babies have to stand on their own two e-feet.
And it turns out my friend may yet show up buried in quilts after all.
Sara Hoskinson Frommer, Uncategorized
ebook covers, ebooks, musical mysteries, quilt mysteries
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7 thoughts on “Kicking and screaming and rereading my babies”
nancy345wright says:
Sara, this is a delightful blog, and I can see now why I loved your series from the start. I, too, had a struggle getting my 5 SMP books into ebooks, and finally sent them all to Belgrave House, who scanned and sent them into ebook land for no charge except to share any profits (which have come dribbling in). I had to find images for the cover art, but BH gave me a number to choose from. I admire you for doing it all yourself, though now you have full control re: price, et al.
Anyway, it’s like a little resurrection, isn’t it?
Sara Hoskinson Frommer says:
Thank you, Nancy! Resurrection by ebook–now there’s a concept!
mmgornell says:
Sara, congratulations on getting your books out in eBook format! More and more readers tell me they read on Kindle and Nook exclusively. I like both! Continued success, I’ve enjoyed all your books.
Thanks so much, Madeline. It means a lot to me.
Laura Kao says:
Sara, your blog is informative and inspirational. I hope this will introduce more readers to your musical, college town cozies.
cminichino says:
Your post reminds how much “the writer’s life” has changed, over a relatively short time.
I’ll say! The friend who dragged me into it said, “You have the Word files, of course.” I told her I wrote the first one on a manual typewriter.
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Dido Event Time & Tickets
Dido in Seattle
The Showbox Sodo
with Ria Mae
Still On My Mind wafts in like a beautiful breeze, a chilled out tumble of sadness and joy, melancholy and bliss. That familiar voice is fully present, soft, intimate and delightfully conversational, caressing melodies over a subtle flow of beats, with an aching catch that tugs at the heart strings. She was the girl who got away. But after five years of silence, Dido is back. Dido Armstrong made two of the best-selling albums in British chart history. No Angel still remains the top-selling debut by a British female artist worldwide. The chilled out singer-songwriter notched up over forty million album sales across her career. There wasnt really an intention to walk away from music, she insists. Im not a very intentional person. I've never been good at the big picture. I'm not good at next week, I'm not good at next year. But I'm brilliant at today! I know what I'm enjoying in the moment. Didos titanic success swept her away. It started when she was a backing singer with her brother Rollos band Faithless. She toured in support of their 1996 debut album all the way through to the release of her own debut in 1998. No Angels success was slow burning, growing and growing to eventually become the bestselling album of 2001. All that time Dido was on the road, through the phenomenal Life For Rent in 2003, all the way to performing to a TV audience of billions at Live8 in 2005. I toured for nine years straight. And then I just stopped. It was time for Dido to catch up with her own life. Safe Trip Home was released in 2008, with a more acoustic and orchestral ambience. I love that record. It has stood the test of time for me, she says. But Dido chose not to go back on tour to promote it. I was sort of coming down the mountain back home, and it was a real moment of liberation when I realised I could just make music, and the people who want to hear it will find it for themselves. She got married in 2008 and a son, Stanley, was born in 2011. Dido went on to release one more album, Girl Who Got Away, in 2013, but once again opted not to take it on the road. The last album was a bit of a blur. Id sung all the songs while I was pregnant. It was lovely, and I wanted people to hear it, so eventually I put it out. And then I thought I just wanna hang out with my kid, you know. And that was the only real thought for a long time. Didos return has been as much of a surprise to her as it will be to her fans. To be honest, this album was almost accidental. I woke up one morning and thought I just want to work with my brother, Rollo. Its why I got into this in the first place. Were great together, I enjoy the company and we are so in sync. And in between having a lovely time hanging out with his family and walking the dogs, talking about music and the world, this album just sort of happened.Opening track Hurricanes is a mesmerising evocation of the enduring power of everyday domestic love, artfully blending Didos intimate songwriting with a mellifluous torrent of beats. Because I come from a club background, I find it very inspiring to create an atmosphere and sort of tease a song from it. I spend a huge amount of time messing about, creating backing tracks that conjure up images. Its like watching a movie in your mind and that becomes a song. You Dont Need A God is a gentle anthem to the power of music. Give You Up is a delicate ballad about recovering from a lost love affair. A key song, for Dido, was Have To Stay, in which she was able to articulate a mothers love for her child without over-sentimentalising. I'm writing in a new way I think. I guess when you have a child you slightly go into another dimension ... from which you might never return. For a long time, Dido felt she had nothing more to add to her oeuvre. What I write about are little moments of conflict, I think. There is always light and dark to it. But when you have a kid there is no conflict, you just love them and want to protect them and hang out with them. And I think that got in the way of writing for a while Have To Say, though, almost spontaneously emerged from conflicted feelings, thinking about a time when her love for her child would mean one day in the future having to let them go. The song had a powerful impact on people she played it too. Its very funny, everyone who has a kid cries a little. There's been grown men sitting in the room sobbing. After she wrote it, Dido couldnt stop writing. The floodgates opened and it was like everything came back. It stirred up a lot of emotions. I had a lot of things I felt strongly about. I'm really proud of the songs.Things have changed for female musicians since Dido first broke through. It used to be like oh, you're not going to get played on the radio cos there's already two females being played today. I mean I literally heard those words come out of someone's mouth. Now, I think the only thing that matters is if youve got a voice that resonates and stirs up emotion. Thats the key. Theres a lot of great singers around now, male and female. She looks at streaming as a positive development too. Fans are able to choose what they love and sort of take control in a way, and not just be force fed. I think that's really liberating, it puts the onus on an artist to make every song count, to make it something that people would actually want to listen to.With just a hint of trepidation, Dido is even looking forward to touring again. I love this album. Its been an absolutely magical experience making it. And I want people to hear it. So I think its time to go out there again. She admits that her natural environment is in the studio writing songs and I am a little bit nervous about going on stage again. Its been 15 years since I played a big show. But I think it will be fun. Theres a lot of songs that people will know and enjoy. I have nothing but great memories of singing Thank You for instance. When you are singing, and everyone is singing along, that is the ultimate feeling in a live show, there is no better thing.Still On My Mind is only Didos fifth album in 20 years. And it is right up there with her best work. I wanted to capture the feeling I still get from listening to music, she explains. Just that rush, like you just don't need anything more than this. I've lived a life which is just music. I hear melodies in my head. Music is comfort, it is excitement, it's everything, and it is always there for me.
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Greipel takes Tour of Britain's first stage
Team Sky riders ride up a climb at Defynnog on the first stage of the Tour of Britain
Andre Greipel won the opening stage of the Tour of Britain as the German powered to the finish line in a bunch sprint on Sunday.
Lotto Soudal rider Greipel beat Australia's Caleb Ewan, riding for Mitchelton, and Fernando Gaviria of QuickStep at the end of the 174.8-kilometres stage from Pembrey Country Park in Carmarthenshire.
Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas was 77th and his Team Sky colleague Chris Froome, the four-time Tour de France winner competing at his national tour for the first time since 2009, finished 64th.
Cardiff's Thomas, racing on home roads, has been enjoying his yellow jersey success but was determined to put on a show.
The 32-year-old attacked on the day's final climb, but was joined by Julian Alaphilippe and QuickStep teammate Bob Jungels.
Jungels forged on as his fellow escapees were reeled in and the Luxembourg rider was caught with 1km to go as the sprinters' teams found their formation.
And it was Greipel, an 11-time Tour de France stage winner, who emerged victorious for a first stage victory since May.
"I went with 200 (metres) to go. I'm happy I could finish it off. It was a long time that I didn't win and now I'm happy I could win finally again," Greipel told ITV4.
"Gaviria went from really far back - he did a really good job. I knew it was going to be hard for Gaviria to be in front and I think I timed the sprint perfectly."
Monday's second stage is a 174.9 km ride from Cranbrook to Barnstaple.
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Inflation and economic crisis: Argentines have had enough
Alexandre PEYRILLE
"IMF Out" -- Argentines are venting their frustration at the International Monetary Fund over their economic woes
Every morning, Ezequiel Gonzalez takes a two-hour bus ride from his Buenos Aires suburb to the city hospital where he's in charge of maintenance. And like many Argentines he is feeling first-hand the pinch of government austerity measures.
Even working the maximum possible overtime, he earns 20,000 pesos ($500) a month -- which is not enough to afford the "asado" barbecue that traditionally brings Argentine families together on Sundays.
"That's just for birthdays. Meat has become too expensive," Gonzalez complains. "Enough! We can't keep living in a state of permanent sacrifice, the price of meat is going up every day."
The economy is in a fragile state. The currency has lost more than 50 percent of its value against the dollar since the start of the year, inflation is due to surpass 30 percent by the end of 2018 and interest rates have just been hiked to a world-high 60 percent.
In a desperate bid to steady the ship, President Mauricio Macri agreed a $50 billion loan with the International Monetary Fund in June, but the outlook has continued to deteriorate.
"The situation worsens every day, I don't know how all this will end," worried Gonzalez.
Public ire is directed in equal measure at the center-right government and the IMF, with daily street protests.
"IMF Out!" messages adorn many walls while some protesters have taken to banging cooking pots in a pointed reference to them being underused for their main purpose.
It's not quite a repeat of the street protests from the economic crisis of 2001, but discontent is widespread.
"I'm beside myself. I feel helpless, I'm afraid of being hungry and unable to pay for my medication once I'm retired a year from now," said Garciela Perez, a 64-year-old teacher.
- 'Government of the rich' -
"People have been waiting two years for things to get better, we're losing patience, it seems like those governing us aren't up to the economic challenges," said 50-year-old Antonio Buffo, a newspaper stall owner.
Argentina's economy reacted particularly badly last month to news that Macri had asked the IMF to speed up disbursements of the remaining $35 billion in loans, the next $3 billion of which wasn't due until November.
Even new austerity measures announced on Monday, slashing the government's bureaucracy in half and restoring taxes on grain exporters, haven't reversed the gloomy trend.
And this in the year Argentina hosts the G20 meetings of the world's largest economies.
"This government, they're leaders who govern for the rich," said Edith Zaida, a domestic employee who works nights looking after an elderly lady.
The 42-year-old has to support four children aged between five and 14 on the minimum wage of 12,000 pesos a month.
She lives in Tigre, 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the capital, and spends at least three hours a day in public transport.
She is nostalgic for the leftist government that preceded Macri's -- and which the current leader blames for Argentina's economic woes.
"Cristina Kirchner did more to look after the poor. Maybe she stole, but we had something to eat when she was president," added Zaida, referring to Kirchner being investigated for allegedly receiving millions of dollars in bribes.
"I'm very worried. Sometimes I cry. I want to leave the country."
President from 2007 to 2015, Kirchner could yet make a comeback as Macri's popularity has been in decline.
- 'Another crisis' -
"Another crisis," sighed Imelda Rodriguez, 43, who works in administration. "Things get harder every day."
She voted for Macri in 2015 and hates Kirchner.
"I'm disappointed but there isn't a better political alternative. With all the sacrifices they're asking for, I hope that at least there will be some results in the long term."
Lirio Tevez, 69, retired three years ago but had to go back to work for a funeral services company as his devalued pension of 12,500 pesos barely covered his 10,000-peso rent.
"I have to keep working to be able to live. They've been telling us for years that things will improve but a liter of milk now costs 50 pesos," he said, smiling.
"What I fear most... is looting. There were some instances recently and a kid died," he added, referring to the case of a 13-year-old who was killed as he tried to rob a supermarket in Chaco, one of Argentina's poorest regions.
"The IMF are governing us," he said. "I've had enough, enough, enough!
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8 Lefty Guitarists You Need to Know About
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August 13th was International Left-handers Day and we’re highlighting some left-handed guitarists and bassists that you should know about.
Lefty guitarists and bassists that are visible in the mainstream may be few and far between, but there tends to be a common thread among lefties whether they’re mainstream, indie, or the everyday bedroom recorders. This commonality is adaptability and a reinvention of how the instrument is played to suit one’s own style. Many of the musicians mentioned below had to learn on a right-handed guitar played upside down. So let’s take a moment to acknowledge all the lefties out there. Let’s be real though, there is no reason not to celebrate left-handed musicians everyday.
Know any favorite left-handed guitarists or bassists? Let us know in the comments below.
Self-taught guitarist Elizabeth Cotten (1893–1987), of Chapel Hill, North Carolina got her start by playing her brother’s right-handed guitar upside down and left-handed. Despite Cotten’s early passion for guitar, she only began recording and performing in her 60s. Her unique fingerpicking style is filled with an attention to detail and improvisation that has directly influenced fingerstyle folk and blues guitar today.
Kathy Foster
Bassist and drummer Kathy Foster grew up in the Bay Area before relocating to Portland, OR and co-founding punk/indie band The Thermals with former band mate Hutch Harris. With her latest musical project, Roseblood, Foster writes, arranges, and records everything. Full disclosure: Kathy is also the host of our workshops this summer!
Australian born Courtney Barnett is a lefty guitarist known for her quick-witted storytelling lyrics and her own unique fingerstyle technique that came about by not enjoying the sound of a pick. Barnett founded Milk! Records in 2012 and has recently made a collaborative album with Kurt Vile. PS: Courtney is on the cover of our 15th issue, currently available at a store near you or through subscribing!
Shamir is a guitarist and singer-songwriter who has created numerous indie rock recordings that are often DIY and lo-fi in style. Shamir plays the guitar left-handed and upside down and their music is heavily influenced by country and punk.
Barbara Lynn of Beaumont, Texas, has been playing blues-infused soul since the 60s. She’s often discussed as the “lefty queen of R&B and blues” and has had numerous billboard-charting hits including “You’ll Lose a Good Thing” and “I’m a Good Woman,” the latter of which was recently sampled by Lil Wayne. Lynn has toured with Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, and Ike and Tina Turner.
Malina Moye
Inspired by Tina Turner and Janis Joplin, Malina Moye is a singer-songwriter who fuses soul and blues-rock. She is one of the only women invited to play the Jimi Hendrix Experience Tour. Moye plays the guitar left-handed and upside down and is also the first African-American woman to join the Fender team who plays guitar in this way.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Hayley Kiyoko’s first instrument was the drums around age six. Kiyoko plays guitar and bass left-handed, both of which have been part of her songwriting process in the early days of her career. Now, she has evolved her sound into the synth-pop world creating chart-topping hits and is one of the only queer Japanese-Americans to do so.
Taipei born and LA raised, Joanna Wang has been releasing music since 2008. Wang’s debut album, Start From Here, was written and recored in both English and Chinese. The album became number one in Southeast Asia. Wang creates a unique blend of folk, jazz, and pop sounds in her work.
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Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 13–15th centuries
Magnus Ducatus Lithuania, Tobias Lotter, 1780
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state from the 12th[1] –13th century until 1569. In 1569 it became a part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1791. It was started by the Lithuanians.[2][3][4] The duchy grew to include large parts of the former Kievan Rus' and other Slavic lands. It covered the land of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. At its biggest in the 15th century, it was the largest state in Europe.[5] There was great diversity in languages, religion, and cultural heritage.
Bringing together of the Lithuanian lands began in the late 12th century. Mindaugas, the first ruler of the Grand Duchy, was crowned as Catholic King of Lithuania in 1253. The pagan state was targeted in the religious crusade by the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Order. When Gediminas began to rule, he allowed people to have different religions.[6] This grew under his son Algirdas.[7] In 1386 Jogaila changed the religion to Catholicism. He also made a dynastic union between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland.[8]
Lithuanian ancient hill fort mounds in Kernavė, now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Vytautas the Great grew the land of the Grand Duchy. He also led the defeat of the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Grunwald in 1410. After Vytautas's death, Lithuania's relationship with the Kingdom of Poland was not good.[9] The Union of Lublin of 1569 created a new state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In this federation, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania had a separate government, laws, army, and treasury. [10] They were invaded by Russia in 1792. The land was divided out among the Russian Empire, Prussia and Austria in 1795.
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↑ T. Baranauskas. Lietuvos valstybės ištakos. Vilnius, 2000
↑ Rowell S.C. Lithuania Ascending: A pagan empire within east-central Europe, 1295-1345. Cambridge, 1994. p.289-290
↑ Ch. Allmand, The New Cambridge Medieval History. Cambridge, 1998, p. 731.
↑ Encyclopædia Britannica. Grand Duchy of Lithuania
↑ R. Bideleux. A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change. Routledge, 1998. p. 122
↑ Rowell, Lithuania Ascending, p.289.
↑ Z. Kiaupa. "Algirdas ir LDK rytų politika." Gimtoji istorija 2: Nuo 7 iki 12 klasės (Lietuvos istorijos vadovėlis). CD. (2003). Elektroninės leidybos namai: Vilnius.
↑ N. Davies. Europe: A History. Oxford, 1996, p. 392.
↑ J. Kiaupienė. Gediminaičiai ir Jogailaičiai prie Vytauto palikimo. Gimtoji istorija 2: Nuo 7 iki 12 klasės (Lietuvos istorijos vadovėlis). CD. (2003) Elektroninės leidybos namai: Vilnius.
↑ D. Stone. The Polish-Lithuanian state: 1386-1795. University of Washington Press, 2001, p. 63.
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine quantity
Categories: 2017, Health/Wellbeing
The gap between mainstream and alternative medicine is blurring. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is widely used in Australia; increasingly, people are turning to these treatments for ailments ranging from minor conditions to life-threatening illnesses. While there are many enthusiastic proponents of alternative healing, others remain sceptical and demand scientific evidence of its success.
This book explores the various techniques and therapies available, and looks at how to find a reliable CAM practitioner. The book also considers the myths and facts in the debate over the use of alternative treatments, offering differing perspectives from conventional and alternative medical practitioners and peak bodies. What are the potential benefits and harms of these therapies, and how are they regulated? What evidence is there to support the effectiveness and safety of dietary treatments such as herbal medicines and vitamin supplements? Are these medical alternatives a panacea or a placebo?
Chapter 1: Complementary therapies and medicine in Australia
Chapter 2: Safety and effectiveness of complementary medicines
Worksheets and activities; Fast facts; Glossary; Web links; Index
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Escalade Increases Ownership in Swedish Table Tennis
Table tennis - 09 May 2003
Escalade, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESCA) announced it has increased its ownership interest in Sweden Table Tennis AB from 37.5% to 50%. Sweden Table Tennis AB owns the STIGA table tennis brand name and is the recognized leader in table tennis design and engineering. STIGA is widely recognized as the 'professional standard' in table tennis tables and accessories.
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For the year ended December 31, 2002, Sweden Table Tennis AB reported revenues of $12.8 million, an increase of 26% over the prior year. The Company continues to be profitable, and is very optimistic about future growth prospects.
Escalade Sports, a wholly owned subsidiary of Escalade, Inc. and the largest producer of table tennis tables in the world, utilizes the STIGA brand name on its high-end professional grade tables.
'In addition to identifying us as a world class supplier of professional table tennis tables and equipment' stated Dan Messmer, President of Escalade Sports, 'our relationship with Sweden Table Tennis AB gives us access to the latest developments in product designs and materials. Increasing our ownership interest enhances a close and profitable relationship.'
Escalade Sports manufactures and distributes a full line of sporting goods products including Table Tennis Tables and equipment, Pool Tables and equipment, Basketball Systems, Game Tables, Archery equipment, Darting Products and Fitness equipment. For more information about Escalade Sports, contact Phil Piccolo, Vice President of Marketing, 817 Maxwell Avenue, Evansville, Indiana 47711, 812-467-1200 or visit the company website at: www.escaladesports.com .
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For more information on Escalade, Inc., please contact John R. Wilson, Vice President and CFO at 812/467-1265 or C.W. (Bill) Reed, President and CEO at 260/569-7233.
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The courses listed below are offered throughout the year at Stanford in Washington; not all are offered every quarter. Courses are subject to change each quarter according to the academic interests of students.
SIW 103: Economic Growth and Development
This class is designed to provide an overview of the history of economic and social development, the evolution of thinking on the subject, and current debates regarding the best policy approaches to foster development objectives. To emphasize the constantly evolving nature of the policy debate on development, the text is supplemented by articles from a wide variety of sources, and some additional readings will likely by assigned from contemporary newspaper, blog and magazine articles. Grades will depend on weekly pre-class reading comments and questions, four short assignments, and class participation.
SIW 104: Congressional Oversight and the Press
Who keeps watch of the federal government and its activities as they grow more complex at home and abroad? This seminar will look at oversight, or the lack of it, by the Executive Branch itself, by Congress, the Courts, outside groups, and the media, with some emphasis on the latter. We will establish the Constitutional basis for oversight through various readings, and we will look at some major scandals and issues from the past.
SIW 105: Education Policy
This tutorial has three primary goals: 1) introduce today’s major education policy issues; 2) investigate the ways education policy questions are addressed at the federal level, and by implication, the state and local levels; and 3) develop skills to develop and recommend appropriate policy options and solutions. You will become familiar with major education policy questions and over the course of the quarter, analyze these issues, consider policy options, and provide written and oral support for possible solutions.
SIW 106: Criminal Justice Policy
This class is designed to offer students a chance to explore how criminal justice policies and laws come into being, are executed, and end up changing. Through a different topic focus each week, students will grasp the actors that affect criminal justice policy (across all branches of government) and will learn the true recourse of the law in the United States (it’s more surprising than you might think). Through an end-of-term paper, students will argue for and against a specific policy of their choosing.
SIW 107: Civil Right Law
This course analyzes the major civil rights laws that Congress has enacted since the 1960s, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fair Housing Act, the Public Accommodations Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The course provides an in-depth study of the statutory language of each of these laws, examines how courts have interpreted the statutes, and explores the policy arguments in favor and against such laws. The course also reviews the history context surrounding the enactment of these statutes, including an examination of the civil rights movement as a political and social force.
SIW 110: U.S. Foreign Policy
How is foreign policy made and implemented in the United States? This course features policy analyses, notable guest speakers, and discussion to allow students to investigate the answers to these questions. Sample weekly topics include “Dealing with proliferation of WMD in a dangerous world,” “Climate and energy: new security challenges,” and “U.S. Security in a Trumpian world and beyond.” By the end of the course, students will also understand how the process produces outcomes and decisions on contemporary foreign policy challenges.
SIW 119: Transatlantic Relations and Trade
How are Brexit, Trump, Merkel and Macron reshaping the key relationship between the US and Europe? At a time of rising international threats from Russia, China, the Middle East, and Africa, as well as the challenges of populism, Euro-Skepticism, and Islamist terrorism, this course explores the Trans-Atlantic alliance that has been the central axis of US and European relations. By the end of the course, students will have engaged in substantive readings and class discussion in order to investigate these topics.
SIW 124: The American Presidency
This course will examine the tenures of past United States Presidents, comparing and contrasting styles, policies, histories, contexts, and outcomes. The course will consist of readings, class discussions, and a 20-page paper due at the end of the term. Sample weekly topics include “TR and the Making of the Modern Presidency” and “Woodrow Wilson and the Growth of Federal Power.”
SIW 151: Banking Regulation
Why is banking special? This course will examine the United States’ financial system, taking in-depth looks at the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank, Wall Street, and more. It will investigate the US financial crisis, the history of banking regulation, and current structures of regulators in the industry. Learning will rely on in-class debate and discussion, as well as written papers.
SIW 156: Washington Policymaking: A New Era?
Divided Government. Executive Orders. Court Challenges. Congressional Oversight. Presidential Tweets. Regulatory Rollback. Campaign Finance. Foreign Agents. Are the rules of policymaking changing? Does anything get done anymore? (Hint, yes, more than the headlines suggest and on a bipartisan basis.) In this class, students will learn advocacy and strategy tools needed to participate effectively in the legislative and regulatory policymaking process. We will filter out the noise, and examine the practical aspects and complex intricacies of policy development at the federal level, using current and rapidly evolving topics as examples, while also drawing on historical precedents.
SIW 129: Health Policy for Women and Children
This course focuses on women’s, maternal and children’s health policy. The course presents the policymaking process in the USA and at global health organizations, such as the United Nations, organizations (NGOs). The policy course uses a public, social, economic and legal framework to examine women’s, maternal and children’s health policy issues in the context of theoretical, research and evidence-based knowledge.
SIW 139: Purposeful Advocacy and Public Policy
The course is designed to provide insights into the workings of the legislative and executive branches of government and to prepare participants to land jobs and excel in policy and political positions in Washington, DC. We will focus on developing and honing the analytical, writing and oral skills necessary to operate at a high level in high-pressure policymaking and advocacy environments in the nation’s capital. Each of our meetings will include a review of active political and policy debates in the House and Senate as well as critical regulatory rule-makings and reviews of Executive branch agency actions.
SIW 157: Current Issues in International Law and Policy
The current political moment is generating dramatic shifts in international law and policy. This course will provide a general introduction to the basic concepts and mechanisms of international law and then delve into several high-profile current issues. Students will be assigned three writing exercises that will be advocacy oriented and tied to the subject matter of the week’s class. Reading and active participation are also key components of the course.
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Johnny Depp can't seem to catch a break. (Image via Deadline)
Thoughts x June 28, 2018
Johnny Depp Admits to Using an Earpiece, as Well as Generally Falling Apart
Things couldn’t be going more poorly for the fading superstar.
By Jamie Lovley, University of Maine
For the past six months, Johnny Depp has been going through a rough time. Because of his emaciated appearance, fans speculate that the actor is sick, and after a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from his management team for gross misconduct, he is admittedly broke. Most recently, “A Knife in the Heart” director, Yann Gonzalez revealed that the actor’s son, Jack Depp, is seriously ill.
A Rolling Stone profile on Depp confirmed suspicions that the award-winning actor has fallen on difficult times. Following his divorce from Amber Heard in 2017, which was steeped in allegations of domestic abuse, Depp spiraled into a series of catastrophic events which have left him broke and the subject of criticism.
2018 held no light at the end of the tunnel for Depp, and he was sued again in May by his bodyguards for unpaid wages. The lawsuit is still ongoing, and Depp admitted to Rolling Stone that his hardships, paired with frivolous spending on drugs and alcohol, as well as an $8 million payout to his ex-wife, have left him scraping the barrel. But, when Depp saw an article reporting that he spends over $30,000 a month on wine, he glibly took the number to be an insult and insisted that the real figure is much higher.
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For someone who is strapped for cash, Johnny Depp is spending money like he has it. (Image via Newsweek).
Alcohol dependency and extravagant spending, however, were not the most surprising things released about Depp in his Rolling Stones article. Depp’s admittance to paying a sound technician to wire his lines through an earpiece he wears while filming was the most shocking reveal.
Johnny Depp, an actor so prolific that his awards and nominations take up an entire additional page on Wikipedia, is fed his lines like an inexperienced newscaster. Fans were appalled, critics feasted and Depp insists that the process does not detract from his skill as an actor.
“It (has) to be behind the eyes. And my feeling is, that if there’s no truth behind the eyes, doesn’t matter what the f—ing words are,” Depp explained.
Those who doubt Depp’s explanation suspect that he uses an earpiece because his substance clouded state makes it hard to remember his lines. Despite these suspicions, using prompters is a regular practice in media, and Depp is not the first actor to use an earpiece.
Tom Cruise is the most notable among the aforementioned offenders. In “Days of Thunder,” because of frequent script changes and scenes that involved delivering dialogue while driving a racecar, the actor wore an earpiece.
Michael Riedel, who reviewed Bruce Willis’ theater appearance in Steven King’s “Misery,” criticized Willis’ performance and commented that the actor “sports an earpiece the size of a cellphone circa 1984.” Even Al Pacino is guilty of the same in the Broadway production of “China Doll,” and there are reports that seven teleprompters were also in use at the time. However, the defense in this case is that Pacino isn’t as young as he once was.
But age isn’t always an excuse because Rita Ora, a British singer who starred in “Fifty Shades of Grey” admitted she used an earpiece to feed her lines and blamed her nervousness. In case you have not seen the film, Ora had only four lines and roughly two minutes of screen time.
Regardless of how you feel about actors using earpieces to assist them in their portrayal, Depp has a history of cinematic greatness that precedes him. The emotion he exhibits, whether it be through body language or “behind the eyes” is as convincing as it is memorable. Depp’s personal life may be unraveling, but his acting legacy will remain untainted for those who refuse to let a little earpiece change their opinions of his roles.
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Xi has a message for world’s elite
PRESIDENT Xi Jinping will promote “inclusive globalization” at next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos and will warn that populist approaches can lead to “war and poverty,” Chinese officials said yesterday.
This year’s forum, from January 17 to 20, is expected to be dominated by discussion of the surge in public hostility toward globalization and the rise of US President-elect Donald Trump, whose tough talk on trade, including promises of tariffs against China and Mexico, helped win him the White House. Trump is being sworn in on January 20.
Xi is the first Chinese president to attend the forum in Davos, which brings together top-level political and business leaders.
Jiang Jianguo, head of the State Council Information Office, told a World Trade Organization symposium in Geneva that Xi would go to Davos to push for development, cooperation and economic globalization in order to build “a human community with shared destiny.” He added: “With the rise of populism, protectionism and nativism, the world has come to a historic crossroads where one road leads to war, poverty, confrontation and domination while the other road leads to peace, development, cooperation and win-win solutions.”
At a briefing in Beijing on the Davos visit, Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong said China would respond to the international community’s concern over globalization by putting forward China’s opinions on how to “steer economic globalization toward greater inclusiveness.”
Li said criticism of trade protectionism levelled at China, by Trump and others, was unjust. “Trade protectionism will lead to isolation and is in the interests of no one,” he said.
“Channels of communication are open” between China and Trump’s transition team at the forum, Li said, but he warned that scheduling a meeting might be difficult.
Xi will attend the forum on Tuesday during a state visit to Switzerland which begins on Sunday.
The United States will be represented at Davos by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, days before they leave office, as well as a representative from the Trump transition team, the WEF said.
This year’s forum should be seen as a call for “responsible and responsive leadership,” WEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab said.
The event is expected to draw a record 3,000 eminent political and business figures to Davos, which usually has just 12,000 inhabitants. Schwab, 78, said he hoped the gathering could brainstorm on how to address “root causes” of the widespread anxiety seen in the world today.
“Why the people are angry, and why they are not satisfied,” he said, insisting on the need for “responsibility which needs courage and which needs decision-making and which needs action orientation.
“We will have in Davos numerous initiatives … which together may make positive contributions, not only to economic development, but also to social, more inclusive progress,” he said.
Schwab said the main interest at the forum “probably will be with the unique Chinese delegation, which will be in Davos under the leadership of President Xi.”
He expected the US transition to be one of the hot topics. There would also be “great interest given to the question of Brexit and the future of Europe.”
Davos will feature new UN chief Antonio Guterres this year, as well as ministers representing 70 countries, including all G20 nations. The heads of some 1,000 companies are expected to attend, among them Alibaba founder Jack Ma, Dalian Wanda Group chairman Wang Jianlin and Baidu President Zhang Yaqin.
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President Obama, ASEAN leaders adopt Sunnylands Declaration as guiding principles
President Obama held a press conference at Sunnylands Center following the US-ASEAN leaders summit.
President Barack Obama of the United States and leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations issued a joint statement at the conclusion of their two-day summit at The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands on Feb. 16.
Known as the Sunnylands Declaration, the statement said the summit, a historic first gathering in the United States of ASEAN leaders, “marked a watershed year for both ASEAN and for the increasingly close U.S.-ASEAN strategic partnership.”
In a news conference televised to a live national audience from Sunnylands Center on Feb. 16, President Obama said:
“Here at Sunnylands, we agreed to a number of key principles, including the principle that ASEAN will continue to be central — in fact, indispensable — to peace, prosperity and progress in the Asia Pacific. When ASEAN speaks with a clear, unified voice, it can help advance security, opportunity and human dignity not only for the more than 600 million people across ASEAN, but for people across the Asia Pacific and around the world.”
ASEAN is comprised of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
President Obama meets with ASEAN leaders in the living room of the historic house.
Members of ASEAN and the United States affirmed the following key principles:
1. Mutual respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, equality and political independence of all nations by firmly upholding the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations, the ASEAN Charter and international law;
2. The importance of shared prosperity, sustainable, inclusive economic growth and development, and the nurturing of our young people to sustain continued peace, development, and stability for mutual benefit;
3. Mutual recognition of the importance of pursuing policies that lead to dynamic, open, and competitive economies that foster economic growth, job creation, innovation, entrepreneurship and connectivity, and that support SMEs and narrow the development gap;
4. Our commitment to ensure opportunities for all of our peoples, through strengthening democracy, enhancing good governance and adherence to the rule of law, promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms, encouraging the promotion of tolerance and moderation, and protecting the environment;
5. Respect and support for ASEAN Centrality and ASEAN-led mechanisms in the evolving regional architecture of the Asia-Pacific;
6. Firm adherence to a rules-based regional and international order that upholds and protects the rights and privileges of all states;
7. Shared commitment to peaceful resolution of disputes, including full respect for legal and diplomatic processes, without resorting to the threat or use of force in accordance with universally recognized principles of international law and the 1982 United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS);
8. Shared commitment to maintain peace, security and stability in the region, ensuring maritime security and safety, including the rights of freedom of navigation and overflight and other lawful uses of the seas, and unimpeded lawful maritime commerce as described in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as well as non-militarization and self-restraint in the conduct of activities;
9. Shared commitment to promote cooperation to address common challenges in the maritime domain;
10. Strong resolve to lead on global issues such as terrorism and violent extremism, trafficking in persons, drug trafficking, and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, as well as illicit trafficking of wildlife and timber;
11. Shared commitment to addressing climate change and developing a climate-resilient, environmentally sustainable ASEAN, as well as to implement individual countries’ nationally determined contributions made under the Paris Climate Agreement;
12. Shared commitment to promote security and stability in cyberspace consistent with norms of responsible state behavior;
13. Support for the advancement of a strong, stable, politically cohesive, economically integrated, socially responsible, people-oriented, people-centered and rules-based ASEAN Community;
14. Shared commitment to strengthen people-to-people connectivity through programs that engage ASEAN and American citizens, particularly young people, and that promote opportunities for all our peoples, particularly the most vulnerable, to fulfil the vision of the ASEAN Community;
15. Shared commitment to promote a global partnership for sustainable development through the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, to ensure a sustainable, equitable and inclusive society where no one is left behind;
16. Shared commitment to enhance collaboration at international and regional fora, especially at existing ASEAN-led mechanisms; and
17. Shared commitment to continue political dialogue at the Head of State/Government level through our Leaders’ attendance at the annual U.S.-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit.
For more information, read the statement released by the White House
President Obama greeted the 10 ASEAN leaders to Sunnylands Center on the first day of the summit.
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Bush, Barbara, 1925-2018
Barbara Bush (1925-) was First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1992. She was born Barbara Pierce on June 8, 1925, to Marvin Pierce (a president of McCall publishing company) and Pauline (Robinson) Pierce. She attended Smith College. She grew up in Rye, New York, where she met and later married George Herbert Walker Bush on January 6, 1945. The Bushes' first daughter, Robin, died in 1953 after fighting Leukemia, but today the family includes four sons (George W., Jeb, Marvin and Neil); one daughter (Dorothy); four daughters-in-law; one son-in-law; and 14 grandchildren. Throughout her years in public life, she volunteered in and supported hundreds of charity and humanitarian causes. During her time as first lady, she focused on literacy, visiting literacy programs around the United States and founding the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy in 1989.
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Home > About CCAC > CCAC Newsroom > Press Releases 2018
The CCAC Public Relations office, a part of Institutional Advancement, provides up-to-date information and news reports about the college and serves as a liaison between the college and the media.
To that end, we maintain an archive of recent press releases. You can read press releases from the current year by clicking the links below, or click the links to the left to view press releases from past years. You can also access media coverage of the college by viewing CCAC in the News.
CCAC director of Admissions named the Pennsylvania School Counselor Advocate of the Year
PITTSBURGH-Dr. Elizabeth DeChurch Strenkowski, director of Admissions at CCAC Boyce Campus, has been named the Pennsylvania School Counselor Advocate of the Year by the Pennsylvania School Counselors Association (PSCA). She was honored at the Recognition Banquet of the 63rd Annual PSCA Conference, held in Hershey, Pa., on November 29. PSCA members pointed to Strenkowski's role in developing a college- and career-ready approach at CCAC with numerous high schools in Allegheny County.
CCAC South Campus opens Campus Closet service to help students dress for success
Community College of Allegheny County's South Campus is offering a new service to help ensure students have everything they need to be successful beyond the classroom. Following on the success of the Campus Cupboard Food Pantry, South Campus has created the Campus Closet, which opened with a soft launch in November. The Campus Closet provides professional attire at no cost for students who don't have the proper clothing for job interviews or conferences.
CCAC and local businesses join forces to advocate for federal investment in education and workforce programs that prepare workers for in-demand fields
The Community College of Allegheny County, Catalyst Connection and DMI Industries joined 50 other business leaders and community college partners from 15 states in Washington, D.C., this month to speak with senators and representatives, including leadership on the Senate and House education and workforce committees, to discuss the critical role that small- and medium-sized businesses should play as Congress develops and modernizes education and workforce policies. The attendees urged lawmakers to close the skills gap and invest in strategies that develop a pipeline of skilled, trained workers that meets the demand of growing industries.
Men of Merit Initiative and Women on a Mission Fall Speaker Series concludes this week with Carmen A. Anderson
The Community College of Allegheny County will conclude the Men of Merit Initiative and Women on a Mission Fall 2018 Speaker Series with a presentation by Carmen A. Anderson, director of Equity and Social Justice at the Heinz Endowments. The presentation will take place on Thursday, Nov. 29, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 520 of the K. Leroy Irvis Science Center on Allegheny Campus.
CCAC and Sharon Regional Medical Center to offer Paramedic program
The Community College of Allegheny County and Sharon Regional Medical Center are partnering to offer a new satellite paramedic program at the Sharon, Pa. facility. The Paramedic program will provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to be eligible to obtain National Registry certification as paramedics. Applicants must be at minimum certified EMTs. The partnership will meet the urgent need for paramedic level education to develop emergency medical services (EMS) professionals to care for communities and patients in the northwest region of Pennsylvania.
CCAC Boyce student recognized for leadership by the Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association
Sierra Dunlap, a resident of Penn Hills and a student in the Physical Therapist Assistant program at CCAC Boyce Campus, was presented with the Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association (PPTA) 2018 Student Leadership award at PPTA's annual conference, held last month in Valley Forge. Annually, two outstanding students-one each from among the 18 physical therapy programs and the 17 physical therapy assistant programs in the commonwealth-are honored with the award.
Student in CCAC program receives award from Community Action Association of Pennsylvania
Maria (Mia) Maneer was working parttime as a security guard, making about $5,000 a year and receiving food, medical and transportation assistance, when she learned about the Modern Office Systems Training (MOST) program offered at CCAC Braddock Hills Center. The program provides free, up-to-date office technology training to unemployed and underemployed individuals for the purpose of developing employment skills that will lead to self-sufficiency and career advancement.
CCAC North Campus to offer intersession classes for students during the winter break
The Community College of Allegheny County's North Campus will offer winter intersession courses from December 18, 2018, to January 11, 2019. The four-week courses between the fall and spring semesters will enable students to stay on track with their goals by affording them the opportunity to take foundation classes that apply to many degrees, as well as other classes of interest.
CCAC FireVEST scholarship program graduates honored by Allegheny County Council
Allegheny County Council honored recent graduates of the Community College of Allegheny County FireVEST scholarship program during the council's meeting on October 23 at the Allegheny County Courthouse.
CCAC to hold College Kickstart Day at all campuses and centers on Saturday, November 10
The Community College of Allegheny County will host College Kickstart Day at all eight of its locations on Saturday, November 10, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This free open house event welcomes all prospective students, their family members and friends.
CCAC Allegheny Campus to offer intersession classes for students during the winter break
The Community College of Allegheny County's Allegheny Campus will offer winter intersession courses from December 18, 2018, to January 11, 2019. The four-week courses between the fall and spring semesters will enable students to stay on track with their goals by affording them the opportunity to take foundation classes that apply to many degrees, as well as other classes of interest. The initiative also provides opportunities for Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients to continue receiving their monthly housing allowance while furthering their degree during the break.
CCAC Mechatronics Technology students attend PACK EXPO, four receive merit scholarships
Nine students in CCAC’s Mechatronics Technology program at West Hills Center visited Chicago from Oct. 15 to 18 to attend the PMMI PACK EXPO International trade show held by the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (formerly Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute). Accompanied by CCAC Assistant Professor Patricia Thompson and CCAC Adjunct Professor Janine Mickey, the second-year students had the opportunity to witness cutting-edge technology and to meet with more than 2,000 vendors of automated equipment used in the packaging industry.
CCAC North Campus to host Candidate Forum November 1
The Community College of Allegheny County's North Campus will host a Candidate Forum on Thursday, November 1, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the North Campus Atrium stage. The forum will feature four candidates-two running for the Pennsylvania Senate and two running for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Members of the public are invited to attend. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
CCAC’s Physical Therapist Assistant program to celebrate 30 years of academic excellence and career training
he Community College of Allegheny County's Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) program is recognizing 30 years of academic excellence, career training, civic engagement and service learning. The anniversary will be celebrated on Thursday, November 15, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the program's 22nd Annual Alumni Poster Night hosted by the PTA Class of 2019. The hallmark event will be held in the Performance and Lecture Hall Lobby located in the South Wing of CCAC Boyce Campus.
CCAC presents labor & management discussion focusing on filling the jobs of the future
CCAC will present “Mission Critical: Filling Tomorrow’s Jobs”, a labor and management panel discussion focusing on how business and labor can collectively address the rising challenge of the growing skills gap. The event will take place from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 15, at Allegheny Campus.
Men of Merit Initiative and Women on a Mission Fall Speaker Series continues this week with Representative Austin A. Davis
The Community College of Allegheny County will continue the Men of Merit Initiative Fall 2018 Speaker Series with a presentation by the Honorable Austin A. Davis, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 35. The presentation will take place on Thursday, Oct. 18, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Room 520 of the K. Leroy Irvis Science Center on Allegheny Campus.
CCAC employees step up to the challenge to get fit
Employees of the Community College of Allegheny County have walked the distance to promote good health by participating in the SparkPittsburgh Company Step Challenge. The college finished in third place among large companies in the Pittsburgh region-up from seventh place last year-with 43,798,006 steps in all.
CCAC South Campus Theatre to present student One-Act Festival October 24 to 26
Community College of Allegheny County's South Campus Theatre will present a One-Act Festival that is acted, directed and produced entirely by students. The plays will be performed on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 12:00 p.m. and on Thursday, Oct. 25, and Friday, Oct. 26, at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free.
CCAC West Hills Center to host 11th annual Skilled Trades & Services Fair on November 20
Students and community members are invited to find out how they can receive training at the Community College of Allegheny County in two years or less toward high-paying and highly rewarding careers. CCACs West Hills Center will host a Skilled Trades & Services Fair on Tuesday, November 20, from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. This is CCAC's 11th annual trades fair, which typically draws 400 to 600 high school students from 50 area high schools.
CCAC Respiratory Therapy program celebrates National Respiratory Care Week
Community College of Allegheny County's Respiratory Therapy program will celebrate National Respiratory Care Week, Oct. 22 to 26, with activities designed to promote respiratory health. On Tuesday, Oct. 23, students at Allegheny Campus will staff informational tables in the Milton Hall Rotunda as well as in the Foerster Student Services Center, outside of the cafeteria, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
CCAC West Hills Center to celebrate Manufacturing Day on October 24
Community College of Allegheny County's West Hills Center is inviting high school students, parents, community members and local businesses to Manufacturing Day 2017 on Wednesday, October 24, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Manufacturing Day is an international event where thousands of businesses and schools across North America celebrate modern manufacturing and inspire the next generation of manufacturers.
CCAC South Campus to host its first community 5K on Sunday, October 14
The Community College of Allegheny County's South Campus will host its first-ever 5K race on Sunday, October 14, at 10:00 a.m. The event is open to the college and the wider community. Proceeds from the race will benefit CCAC South Campus student clubs and organizations.
CCAC to host Odyssey Day event to promote use of alternative fuel vehicles
The Community College of Allegheny County's West Hills Center in Oakdale will host Odyssey Day in collaboration with Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities on Friday, Oct. 12, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The education and outreach event is coordinated by the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy. This year's theme is "Smart Cities."
Men of Merit Initiative Fall Speaker Series continues this week with K. Chase Patterson at CCAC Allegheny Campus
The Community College of Allegheny County will continue the Men of Merit Initiative Fall 2018 Speaker Series with a presentation by K. Chase Patterson, chief executive officer of Urban Academy, a K-5 elementary charter school in Pittsburgh's Larimer neighborhood. The presentation will take place on Thursday, Oct. 4, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Room 520 of the K. Leroy Irvis Science Center on Allegheny Campus. As an active member of the community, Patterson has been instrumental in shepherding black millennial leaders into roles of power throughout the region.
Assistant to the CCAC president named a Women of Excellence honoree by New Pittsburgh Courier
Bonita L. Richardson, assistant to the President and the Board of Trustees of the Community College of Allegheny County, has been named a Women of Excellence honoree for 2018 by the New Pittsburgh Courier. The honorees will be recognized at a special reception followed by a luncheon at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Hotel on Friday, October 12, at 12:00 p.m.
CCAC’s Homewood-Brushton Center to host Junior Chamber of Commerce workshop in partnership with African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania
The Community College of Allegheny County and the African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania will present a Junior Chamber of Commerce Workshop on marketing and communications at CCAC's Homewood-Brushton Center on Wednesday, September 26. The workshop, "Marketing Savvy for Your Business," will take place from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
CCAC Allegheny Campus to host HBCU Recruitment and Transfer Fair on October 11
CCAC Allegheny Campus will host the second annual HBCU (Historically Black Colleges & Universities) Recruitment and Transfer Fair on Thursday, October 11 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
CCAC student nurses host free health picnic for North Side community on Saturday, Sept. 8
The Community College of Allegheny County's Allegheny Campus Student Nurses' Association of Pennsylvania (SNAP) Club will host their fifth "Cookout in the Park with Healthcare Options" on Saturday, September 8, from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. in Cedar Park on Pittsburgh's North Side, located across the street from Light of Life Mission at 10 East North Avenue.
CCAC to hold College in High School fair at Northgate High School on Sept. 19
The Community College of Allegheny County and the Northgate School District are partnering to offer high school students an opportunity to earn a 30-credit General Education Certificate through the College in High School (CIHS) program, with classes taught onsite at Northgate High School.
CCAC Washington County Center offering a Small Business Management hybrid course in October
The Community College of Allegheny County's Washington County Center is offering a Small Business Management course that starts October 19 and runs for eight weeks. The hybrid course combines traditional classroom instruction (60 percent) with online collaboration and learning (40 percent). The in-class portion of the course will be held at the center on Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
The Community College of Allegheny County’s South Campus will host its first-ever 5K race on Sunday, Oct. 14, at 10:00 a.m. The event is open to the college and the wider community. Proceeds from the race will benefit CCAC South Campus student clubs and organizations.
CCAC student named 2018 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar
Community College of Allegheny County student Qingqing Zhao of Cheswick is one of 207 Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society members named as a 2018 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and, as such, will receive a $1,000 scholarship. A dual enrollment student, Zhao is a junior at Shady Side Academy Senior School. She is pursuing an Associate of Science in Business Management at CCAC, where she is taking General Chemistry 1 and Differential Equations courses this semester.
CCAC Allegheny Campus to host Men of Merit Initiative Fall Speaker Series
CCAC will launch the Men of Merit Initiative Fall 2018 Speaker Series beginning in September. The series will feature presentations by outstanding Pittsburgh leaders on how to achieve personal and professional success in the 21st century.
CCAC, German American Chamber of Commerce partnering for the first time to provide Mechatronics training for apprentices of local manufacturers
The Community College of Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh Chapter of the German American Chamber of Commerce have partnered for the first time to establish a new apprenticeship program that will train employees of local manufacturers in mechatronics.
CCAC partners with Penn Hills School District to offer College in High School program
The Community College of Allegheny County and the Penn Hills School District are partnering to offer high school students an opportunity to earn college credit while still in high school. The College in High School (CIHS) program, which begins with the start of the school year on Sept. 4, offers an alternative to the traditional method of taking the Advanced Placement (AP) exam administered by The College Board.
CCAC students taking advantage of scholarships through Archways to Opportunity program
Students at the Community College of Allegheny County who work at McDonald's restaurants may be eligible for up to $2,500 a year in scholarship money. The Archways to Opportunity program provides eligible McDonald's employees funds to pursue their educational goals as long as they are in school.
CCAC offering Saturday class to help applicants prepare for trade union entrance exams
The Community College of Allegheny County is offering a nine-session class that has been developed to help individuals prepare for the math portion of the entrance examination that is used by the local trade unions when recruiting new apprentices. The class will be held at CCAC Allegheny Campus on Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. beginning Aug. 25.
Students in CCAC Community Education writing classes become published authors
Ann Howley, a writing instructor at Community College of Allegheny County, is very proud of her students, and with good reason-since taking her noncredit writing classes at CCAC, four students have become published authors.
CCAC to host “Vietnam: A Working Class War” on Saturday, September 22
Community College of Allegheny County's Allegheny Campus will host a conference that explores the Vietnam War from the varying perspectives of Vietnam veterans, anti-war resisters and representatives from the Vietnamese community. The conference will take place on Saturday, September 22, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Foerster Student Services Center Auditorium and Lobby, followed by a march to the Vietnam Memorial on the North Shore where a ceremony will be held honoring T.J. McGarvey and the Pittsburgh Building Trades who built the memorial with donated labor.
CCAC hosts 5th Annual TAZ Writers’ Conference on September 8
The Community College of Allegheny County's Allegheny Campus will host the 5th Annual TAZ (The Authors' Zone) Writers' Conference on Saturday, Sept. 8, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (The exact location is to be determined, based on enrollment.) The TAZ Writers' Conference is an opportunity for writers of all levels to receive in-depth instruction on various writing-related topics in one day.
CCAC North Campus president and dean receive awards from Allegheny County Council members
Dr. Gretchen Mullin-Sawicki, president of the Community College of Allegheny County's North Campus and West Hills Center, and John Boehm, dean of Administration at CCAC's North Campus and West Hills Center, have been selected as District 1 Difference Maker Award winners by Allegheny County Council District 1 officials. The awardees were honored along with eight other winners at the 4th Annual District 1 Town Hall meeting on July 30.
CCAC holds “Digging for DNA Biotech Bootcamp” for middle school students
The Community College of Allegheny County's Allegheny Campus recently hosted a day-long educational camp that taught students entering sixth through eighth grades all about DNA. In the Digging for DNA Biotech Bootcamp, students engaged in fun hands-on learning activities, such as creating models and investigating a "crime scene."
CCAC judges winners in Robotics category at Covestro Science & Engineering Fair
CCAC served as a sponsor and judge in the Robotics category for the Covestro Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair (Covestro PRSEF) held at Heinz Field in the spring.
CCAC and Achieva continue to cultivate mutually beneficial partnership with community garden
A partnership between the Community College of Allegheny County and Achieva, a nonprofit organization supporting and empowering individuals with disabilities and their families, promises to yield another bountiful harvest from the CCAC South Campus community garden this summer.
Apply for Scholarships Today!
CCAC scholarship applications for the fall 2018 semester are being accepted now through the Award Spring online application portal. The deadline to apply is Friday, August 24 by 4pm. Good luck!
CCAC Sociology professor travels to Cuba with fellow educators
Community College of Allegheny County Associate Professor Jill Oblak traveled to Cuba last month with a group of college professors and high school teachers from Pittsburgh and across the country to see and experience first-hand the island nation that has been closed to most Americans for almost 60 years. Knowing very little about Cuba prior to embarking, Oblak, who teaches Sociology at CCAC Boyce Campus, found the trip to be "fascinating and enriching."
CCAC to demonstrate Mechatronics Technology program during Open House, Wednesday, July 18
The Community College of Allegheny County's West Hills Center in Oakdale will offer demonstrations of its Mechatronics Technology program during College Kickstart Day, a free open house event that will be held at all eight of CCAC's locations. The event runs from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18, and is open to all prospective students, their family members and friends.
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A New Smoking Gun In Benghazi Terrorist Attack Fiasco Proves That Obama Had THREE WEEKS WARNING Prior To Actual Attack – And Did NOTHING.
Allow me to introduce this story by citing the words of one of the few honest journalists left in the “profession”:
“I really believe, having read it, that it is the smoking gun warning here. You’ve got this emergency meeting in Benghazi, less than a month before the attack. At that briefing, the people are told that there are ten, ten, Islamic militias and al-Qaeda groups in Benghazi. The consulate can not sustain a coordinated attack and they need extra help. This information goes directly to the office of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. So, again, you have the culpability of the State Department. This is a very specific warning that they’re in trouble, they need help and they see an attack on the horizon,” FOX News’ Catherine Herridge reported on FOX News’ “On the Record” Wednesday night.
Smoking gun. This story amounts to a HUGE smoking gun. Liberals looked and looked for evidence that George Bush knew or should have known about the original 9/11 attack but did nothing to prevent it. They never found it because it never existed; and the fact is that Osama bin Laden declared America a “weak … paper tiger” and vowed to attack America as a result of Bill Clinton’s policies and COMPLETELY under Clinton’s watch, planned the 9/11 attack entirely under Clinton’s watch,brought in all the terrorists who attacked us entirely under Clinton’s watch, financed the operation entirely under Clinton’s watch, and completed virtually ALL of the necessary training for the attack under Bill Clinton’s watch. It was never anything but vile to blame the attack on George Bush – whose only crime was being blindsided by the extent of the failure of the Clinton national security shambles that he left behind for Bush to inherit.
But we now have the same smoking gun proving that Obama either knew or should have known about this NEW 9/11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya that occurred on United States soil and that resulted in the murder of the first US Ambassador since 1979:
Exclusive: Classified cable warned consulate couldn’t withstand ‘coordinated attack’
By Catherine Herridge
The U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an “emergency meeting” less than a month before the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, because Al Qaeda had training camps in Benghazi and the consulate could not defend against a “coordinated attack,” according to a classified cable reviewed by Fox News.
Summarizing an Aug. 15 emergency meeting convened by the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Aug. 16 cable marked “SECRET” said that the State Department’s senior security officer, also known as the RSO, did not believe the consulate could be protected.
“RSO (Regional Security Officer) expressed concerns with the ability to defend Post in the event of a coordinated attack due to limited manpower, security measures, weapons capabilities, host nation support, and the overall size of the compound,” the cable said.
According to a review of the cable addressed to the Office of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Emergency Action Committee was also briefed “on the location of approximately ten Islamist militias and AQ training camps within Benghazi … these groups ran the spectrum from Islamist militias, such as the QRF Brigade and Ansar al-Sharia, to ‘Takfirist thugs.’” Each U.S. mission has a so-called Emergency Action Committee that is responsible for security measures and emergency planning.
The details in the cable seemed to foreshadow the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. compound, which was a coordinated, commando-style assault using direct and indirect fire. Al Qaeda in North Africa and Ansar al-Sharia, both mentioned in the cable, have since been implicated in the consulate attack.
In addition to describing the security situation in Benghazi as “trending negatively,” the cable said explicitly that the mission would ask for more help. “In light of the uncertain security environment, US Mission Benghazi will submit specific requests to US Embassy Tripoli for additional physical security upgrades and staffing needs by separate cover.”
As for specific threats against the U.S., the cable warned the intelligence was not clear on the issue, cautioning that the militias in Benghazi were not concerned with any significant retaliation from the Libyan government, which had apparently lost control in Benghazi. A briefer explained that they “did not have information suggesting that these entities were targeting Americans but did caveat that (there was not) a complete picture of their intentions yet. RSO (Regional Security Officer) noted that the Benghazi militias have become more brazen in their actions and have little fear of reprisal from the (government of Libya.)”
While the administration’s public statements have suggested that the attack came without warning, the Aug. 16 cable seems to undercut those claims. It was a direct warning to the State Department that the Benghazi consulate was vulnerable to attack, that it could not be defended and that the presence of anti-U.S. militias and Al Qaeda was well-known to the U.S. intelligence community.
In a three-page cable on Sept 11, the day Stevens and the three other Americans were killed, Stevens wrote about “growing problems with security” in Benghazi and “growing frustration” with the security forces and Libyan police. The ambassador saw both as “too weak to keep the country secure.”
Fox News asked the State Department to respond to a series of questions about the Aug. 16 cable, including who was specifically charged with reviewing it and whether action was taken by Washington or Tripoli. Fox News also asked, given the specific warnings and the detailed intelligence laid out in the cable, whether the State Department considered extra measures for the consulate in light of the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks – and if no action was taken, who made that call.
The State Department press office declined to answer specific questions, citing the classified nature of the cable.
“An independent board is conducting a thorough review of the assault on our post in Benghazi,” Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said in written statement. “Once we have the board’s comprehensive account of what happened, findings and recommendations, we can fully address these matters.”
FactCheck.org – normally a left-leaning organization – has a devastating timeline to document just how incoherent and dishonest the Obama administration has been regarding this attack almost from the moment it happened until the present.
We now know that Obama had THREE WEEKS OF SPECIFIC WARNING ABOUT AL QAEDA ATTACKING THE U.S. CONSULATE IN LIBYA AND HE DID NOTHING.
We now know that the two former SEALs who laid down their lives did so by refusing the Obama administration’s orders to stand down because they lived – and the United States had until Obama always lived by – the doctrine that when Americans are under fire you go in and you save them from the enemy.
We now know that the US Ambassador and his staff in Libya were PLEADING for more security and that not only did Obama refuse to GIVE them more security but he actually CUT the insufficient security that they had prior to the attack (see also here).
And we now know that the reason that Ambassador Chris Stevens was in Benghazi to begin with was because of his role in what would clearly amount to a bigger scandal than the Iran-Contra affair if the media were honest; because we have details of secret White House arms transfers THAT HAD NOT BEEN APPROVED BY CONGRESS.
We most certainly know that there was NO “spontaneous protest” prior to the well-coordinated and preplanned terrorist attack that featured multiple phases/waves as well as both direct AND indirect fire, and that all Obama did for the first three full weeks PLUS was offer nothing but deceitful fabrications intended to stave off scrutiny until AFTER Obama was elected and there was no longer any way to throw his weasel ass out of office.
We now know that Obama had to have been briefed on the deteriorating conditions and potential 9/11 attacks at least the day before the attack. And given that we KNOW that Obama knew this, and given that we KNOW that Obama repeatedly brought up “spontaneous protests” and “the video” when he KNEW FOR A FACT that he was lying to the American people and to the entire world. There is NO question that Obama fabricated a linkage to a protest that never even happened and to a video that had nothing to do with the attack. And he cynically and deceitfully lied and slandered our First Amendment freedoms to give himself political cover to try to conceal his massive failure to govern and to lead. And what has been unfolding ever since was an incompetent cover-up to try to obfuscate incompetent presidential leadership.
And yes, now we know that the Obama administration had three weeks of credible and specific warning describing exactly who was going to attack the consulate and exactly how they were going to do it. And Obama decided to go campaign instead of dealing with it both before and immediately after the disaster.
Obama has now thoroughly demonstrated that he will NOT come clean with the facts. Because he knows the American people would vote him out if they knew just how terribly and despicably he had failed.
The best way to judge Obama is to judge him by his own party’s attacks against George W. Bush. And Obama fails wildly by that metric in a way that Bush did not.
Tags:attack, August 15, Benghazi, coordinated attack, cover up, emergency meeting, Hillary Clinton, incompetent, NSC, Obama administration, principals committee, prior warning, September 10, three weeks, trending negatively
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Do you really think that one's repulsion at a Nazi should be governed by the fact that Nazism is voluntary? That's not really the first thing I think of when I contemplate Nazis.
What if I'm repulsed by Republicans, or Tories? That's equally voluntary (if it is - some people's brains just seem wired that way), yet not being willing to kiss anyone who's a Tory might be seen as a mark of unreasonable prejudice.
What about smokers? That's certainly voluntary - a person may be driven by brain chemistry to crave tobacco, but it's always considered within the repertoire of reactions to refrain, or quit - yet many non-smokers find it viscerally repulsive in a physical way not comparable to the sort of dainty aversion that might describe one's distaste for romance with Tories, or even with Nazis. Is that, then, also a phobia or prejudice?
Of course there must be borderline cases, but I think there's a fairly reasonable distinction between being physically repulsed by transsexual women, and murdering them. If they're both "transphobia", we really, really need more words.
Do you really think that one's repulsion at a Nazi should be governed by the fact that Nazism is voluntary?
Well, yes I do, really. Conversely, as a general principle I don't think anyone should be blamed for things that are beyond their control. (Which isn't to say that it's always easy to determine what is beyond one's control.)
Republicans/Tories were the kinds of example I had in mind when I mentioned borderline cases. (And of course both are very broad churches anyway - certainly the Tories, amongst whom I've known several very decent people.)
The smoking example's an interesting one, and there I suspect that other factors may be involved. The repulsion may be in large measure to the smell of tobacco, for example, rather than to the act of smoking as a voluntary choice. But I'll give it some thought.
Perhaps, but I have no problem labelling both as such; just as, while there's a big difference between not letting Jews join your country club and setting up death camps, both acts are anti-Semitic.
"may be in large measure to the smell of tobacco"? May? That aversion I'll admit to, and I'd say entirely. That she might be addicted, or even if humans somehow emitted tobacco smoke without their own volition, would make no difference whatever to my physical repulsion to the stuff.
Conversely, I'd feel no physical repulsion if she owned a tobacco farm as long as she didn't indulge in the stuff herself. I might be appalled at her choice of profession, but that's a mental opinion at an entirely different level.
For death camps, we already have another word: "genocide". And yet I still find it very hard to convince people that the term "anti-semitism" also covers genteel, politely-worded quota systems and stuff like Gentleman's Agreement. My repeated experience is that anti-semites are just lying in wait for you to say, or even imply, that they're anti-semites, because that gives them the chance to get all huffy, seize the upper hand and blame you for going beyond the pale in name-calling. And this when "genocidal" is a clearly established term.
So I'd be really cautious about wielding the term "transphobia."
vschanoes
It doesn't matter whether or not you invent a new word; if that new word connotes disapprobation of somebody's prejudice, that somebody will get huffy.
We're not inventing a new word to replace the old word. We're inventing the new word to free the old word to mean what it's always meant. Doesn't work. I've even had this argument explicitly on words in less contentious subjects. Someone wants to change the meaning of a word, and chides me for wanting to keep the old meaning. I say fine, we can use the old word for the new meaning, but then we need a new word to mean what the old word used to mean. So wouldn't it be less confusing if we use the old word in its old meaning, and use a new word for a new meaning?
That seems to me a sensible argument, but it doesn't prevail.
In this case, that's moot. The issue is that people who are expressing a harmful prejudice resist admitting it, and one of their defense mechanisms is to get huffy and nasty when called on it. It doesn't matter what word is used.
(no subject) - kalimac, 2015-08-15 04:34 pm (UTC)(Expand)
(no subject) - vschanoes, 2015-08-15 07:54 pm (UTC)(Expand)
But why on earth let the anti-Semites control your use of the term? That seems quite backwards to me.
They're not controlling your use of the term; they're controlling their use of the term. Since their use includes their reading of your use, what you're accomplishing by using it is letting them derail the argument and win on points. Is that what you want?
(no subject) - ethelmay, 2015-08-15 04:45 am (UTC)(Expand)
(no subject) - kalimac, 2015-08-15 05:03 am (UTC)(Expand)
I take your point (which you expand on in later comments) about giving people an easy "out" by using terms that they can latch onto as offensive. However, I don't think "genocide" - which is an act that has been carried out against various peoples, not all of them Jews - is an adequate substitute for "anti-Semitism", which is a motivation for such an act. That's a bit like saying, "We can't call this attack transphobic - what it really is is murder."
I really do think that being Jewish is the accurate analogy--if somebody is attracted to me and making out with me, and then I mention that I'm Jewish and they are so repulsed they have to go throw up, they're viscerally anti-Semitic. Do they have the right to be? Sure. But it's anti-Semitism nonetheless, and I would have the right to condemn them as a horrible, dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semite.
What if they're absolutely opposed to discrimination to Jews in any other way, and even participate actively in support of Jewish anti-discrimination? They just personally find Jews repulsive sexually.
This concerns me because, as a liberal, I support the right of people to do and be things I personally do not agree with and even strongly disapprove. I think the relevant judgment is not what I think, but how I treat it.
I would not ask a Southern white who grew up thinking blacks inferior and repulsive to love them, let alone be willing to marry one. All he has to do is treat them equally and fairly, and not raise objections to other people's inter-racial marriages.
I would not ask a Southern white who grew up thinking blacks inferior and repulsive to love them, let alone be willing to marry one.
I wouldn't either, but I would still call them racist for feeling that way. Racism doesn't become less problematic when it's so ingrained one can't get rid of it. (Incidentally, I don't think it's simple repulsion that's at issue in most cases -- look at the incidence of white racists who are willing to patronize black sex workers.)
You are making up a situation that has occurred neither in real life nor in any of the fiction cited here: somebody is so staunchly opposed to anti-Semitism that they fight it in every active aspect of their life, they just happen to puke when they find out the person they've been kissing is Jewish? I don't buy that.
But the issue is not whether or not they're attracted to Jews in this imaginary scenario: obviously they are, given that they've been kissing me. The issue is that they find the idea of being attracted to me so repulsive that they vomit once they find out I'm Jewish. That's anti-Semitism. And sure, they have the right to be an anti-Semite despite my disapproval. I'm not advocating jailing them for it. But I reserve the right to judge them as odious human beings for being anti-semites.
No I am not making this situation up. Not if X = something other than Jews. I don't wish to expose myself too personally here, but there are some things in the contested rights field that I personally find totally disgusting and nauseating, yet I'm entirely, in some cases even enthusiastically, in favor of the rights of other people to do if they want to.
Actually, I just thought of a case involving the stance of public figures, albeit "nausea" wouldn't be the best description of their personal reactions.
There are Catholic politicians in the US - Joe Biden among them - who are totally personally opposed to abortion. Yet they do not believe their religious beliefs should be binding on other people, and their position on public policy is pro-choice.
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February 4, 2017 by StopAndPrayTV
Prince’s ex-girlfriend said ‘demons slept in her bed,’ until Jesus appeared in a vision
Denise Matthews after she gave up the name Vanity and the sin of rock star fame.
“Kill Vanity.”
Vanity lay agonizing in a hospital bed in 1994 with only three days left to live. With her kidneys shutting down after a crack cocaine overdose, Prince’s ex was at the end of her musical career and wild living when Jesus showed up in a vision and told her that if she “killed” her lingerie-donning stage persona and become a Christian, she would live.
“My blood pressure was 250 over 190. I lost both kidneys,” Vanity told Jet. “I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.”
So Vanity died, and Denise Matthews lived. Denise executed a radical 180-degree turnaround in her life, going from church to church to share her testimony. She pushed Jesus even harder than she had promoted sexuality, an image cultivated by the “Purple Rain” megastar. “When I came to the Lord Jesus Christ, I threw out about 1,000 tapes of mine — interview, every tape, every video,” she said. “Everything.”
A year ago on Feb. 15, Denise went to her eternal reward after two decades of kingdom service.
When she rolled with Prince.
Denise was born on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Her mother abandoned the household, and her dad was abusive. Because of the hurts in her childhood, she hurtled into a hedonistic lifestyle that offered only temporary relief from the internal pain.
She immigrated to America to pursue a career in modeling and music in New York, where she hooked up with “Superfreak” funk legend Rick James, according to the Daily Beast. In 1980, she met Prince at the American Music Awards, and joined his entourage. Prince re-christened her as “Vanity” and set her up from the start in the sultry girl group Vanity 6 which burst on the music scene with “Nasty Girl.” Prince urged her to flaunt her sexuality, she said.
“Prince created the whole Vanity 6 image. It bothered me at the time. I lied and said it was the image I wanted. I did it because he told me I had to do it,” she said. “If I didn’t do it, I wouldn’t get paid. I got into it. I wanted the old Diana Ross image.”
Behind the headlong rush into sin there was a little girl still hurting from the abuse of her father and neglect of her mother.
Behind the show, she cried. Drugs could only distract her from the pain temporarily.
“I always put on a show. I’m a mighty fine actress when it comes to that. I would wear a smile on the outside and come back and cry inside,” Denise said. “I would truly hate what I was doing, but I was all caught up in it. It’s like someone caught up in a lie who wants to tell the truth. You put this big façade up and you don’t want to give anyone the idea that you’re weak. I finally let it go and gave it to God. I said, ‘I am nobody. I need somebody. Please help me.’”
Along with the promiscuity came drugs. Denise became highly addicted to smoking crack cocaine. When she parted ways with Prince and Vanity 6, she signed for Motown Records as a solo artist and released two underperforming albums Wild Animal and Skin on Skin. She tried to jump-start an acting career with roles in the movies “The Last Dragon,” “Never Too Young to Die,” “Action Jackson” and “52 Pick-Up.”
Then Denise met and got engaged in 1987 to Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx, who was also addicted to drugs. The couple abused drugs for entire nights and enabled each other’s habit. Sixx overdosed and nearly died the year he got engaged. “I can’t believe I did freebase with Vanity all night,” Sixx wrote in his drug memoir The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star. “I threw her out at about 8 a.m. She was getting crazy.”
Then in 1994, Denise had her own brush with death and met Jesus.
“It was drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, that whole sexual thing. Vanity was praying to die because she was lost and hurting inside. God said you have to go through darkness until you find His light,” she said. “Torture was going on in my life and led me to the Lord. For 33 years, I was walking dead. I masked myself in clothes, makeup, anything.”
The fame and the “fun” were all futile attempts to cope with the lack of love in her life. On the outside she exuded delight in the reckless abandon, but on the inside she suffered from the pangs of conscience for the evil she was committing.
“I was extremely wild. I found out that if you are not walking with God, the Devil will possess you. I prayed that God would take me because I was afraid of what would happen to my body,” Denise said.
“Demons were coming into my bed and sleeping in my bed. Those things will happen if you’re carrying on like I did. I have a strong love for Jesus Christ. He delivered me from anguish, death and sin. I get excited by God. No man shall enter the Kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
So that is how Denise changed her deathbed to a birthing bed. Jesus appeared to her in a vision and offered her life if she would let “Vanity” die. Denise re-assumed her the name given by her parents. Her transformation was so thorough that she even refused the royalties coming from her entertainment career.
Denise met and married the L.A. Rams player Anthony Smith the following year, but he didn’t share her growing zeal for the Lord.
“If I don’t watch out she will even hand out the furniture in our house,” Smith complained. “She is constantly giving out her number and offering meals and showers to people.”
Two years later, the couple divorced. Smith was subsequently arrested, tried and convicted for the double-murder of brothers Ricky and Kevin Nettles in 1999 and the 2001 death of Dennis Henderson. He is serving three life sentences in prison.
Denise, on the other hand, kept growing in her Christian faith. She wrote and spoke, sharing her testimony tirelessly, in attempt to rescue other suffering young women from the deception of the devil.
“When I was Vanity, it was all about being sexy, getting slimmer, and getting cuter,” she said. “Things have changed. Now it’s not the outward appearance, it’s the inward man that I’m trying to change. And that’s the message I bring to the people.”
She received a kidney transplant in 1997 and wrote an autobiography, Blame It On Vanity: Hollywood, Hell and Heaven, in 2010.
Ultimately, the damage to her kidneys claimed her life. In 2015, she checked into a hospital in Fremont, California, for health complications related to the kidneys. At age 57, she slipped into eternity.
Prince eulogized the love he once shared with his protégé, but that love was superseded by the love of the Lord.
Christian friend MC Hammer tweeted on the announcement of her death. “Today my friend & Sister Denise Katrina Matthews aka #Vanity passed away. She absolutely loved GOD unto salvation. Rest in his Glory.”
The Author Kayla Armstrong is a sophomore at the Lighthouse Christian Academy in Santa Monica.
https://mustardseedbudget.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/vanity-prince-girl-friend-tried-to-escape-pain-through-fame-drugs-and-sex/
http://blog.godreports.com/2017/01/princes-ex-girlfriend-said-demons-slept-in-her-bed-until-jesus-appeared-in-a-vision/
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Katia Cardenas
Katia Cardenas is a jazz and R&B vocalist in the Twin Cities, recognized for her radiant energy, impeccable range, and dynamic and powerful voice. Releasing her debut EP, "I'll Be Seeing You" in June 2016, she has been performing locally since 2014 at respected venues, including Dakota Jazz Club, Crooners Lounge, Vieux Carré and Jazz Central Studios.
Making music in the Twin Cities has been a family tradition ever since her father, Mark Cardenas, joined Morris Day and The Time in 1983, appearing in Prince's iconic film "Purple Rain," and later playing in Jessie Johnson's Revue. Her mother, singer-songwriter Janis Kelly, also began her singing career here at that time. While her family left MN before she was born, Katia's emergence on the local music scene has not gone unnoticed. Deemed "one of the fastest rising stars on the Twin Cities jazz scene," Jazz Police also describes her as "a young but veteran vocalist who can cover Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, yet is equally adept at modern folk/pop/blues," while Rhythm & Grooves (KFAI 90.6) says, "Katia Cardenas has the pipes to get over an R&B tune, but also has the instincts and subtlety to handle jazz standards."
As part of a musical family, she grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and was raised on a strict diet of jazz, funk, and R&B. As a teen, she moved to Sacramento, CA, where she received a Waldorf education, and began singing in jazz choirs and performing in clubs with her mother's funk band, The Groove Ambassadors. Katia came to the Twin Cities in 2006 to attend Macalester College, where she performed in a cappella groups and jazz combos. After graduating, music was just a side note for a few years as she pursued a career in acting and theater education. But in 2013, she realized the significant lack of music in her life, and needed to make a change.
Since her Twin Cities debut performance in February 2014, she has collaborated with numerous local musicians, exploring different musical styles, including jazz, latin, R&B, and pop. In October 2014, she performed her first of many shows at the world-renowned Dakota Jazz Club, and by July 2015, she was invited to sing as the featured artist for the grand opening of their new St. Paul venue, Vieux Carré (formerly The Artist Quarter). In August 2015, she also joined Casablanca Orchestra (CBO), the Midwest's premiere show band.
Katia is passionate about creating community around the arts and has engaged with numerous local artist networks including Jazz Central Studios, Twin Cities Cabaret Artists Network (TCCAN), Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education, and Minnesota Music Coalition. As an actor and arts administrator, she also works with local theater companies Teatro Del Pueblo, Pangea World Theater and TigerLion Arts. The people she’s met through the Twin Cities arts and music community are a huge part of where she is today; they are a constant inspiration, and reminder to pursue her dreams.
I'll Be Seeing You Katia Cardenas
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Department of Surgery » Conditions & Procedures » Alagille Syndrome
What is Alagille syndrome?
Alagille syndrome is a genetic condition that results in various symptoms in different parts of the body, including the liver. A person with Alagille syndrome has fewer than the normal number of small bile ducts inside the liver. The liver is the organ in the abdomen—the area between the chest and hips—that makes blood proteins and bile, stores energy and nutrients, fights infection, and removes harmful chemicals from the blood.
Bile ducts are tubes that carry bile from the liver cells to the gallbladder for storage and to the small intestine for use in digestion. Bile is fluid made by the liver that carries toxins and waste products out of the body and helps the body digest fats and the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. In people with Alagille syndrome, the decreased number of bile ducts causes bile to build up in the liver, a condition also called cholestasis, leading to liver damage and liver disease.
A person with Alagille syndrome has fewer than the normal number of small bile ducts inside the liver.
What is the digestive system?
The digestive system is made up of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract—also called the digestive tract—and the liver, pancreas, and gallbladder. The GI tract is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus. The hollow organs that make up the GI tract are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine—which includes the colon and rectum—and anus. Food enters the mouth and passes to the anus through the hollow organs of the digestive system. The liver, pancreas, and gallbladder are the solid organs of the digestive system. The digestive system helps the body digest food.
What causes Alagille syndrome?
Alagille syndrome is caused by a gene mutation, or defect. Genes provide instructions for making proteins in the body. A gene mutation is a permanent change in the DNA sequence that makes up a gene. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the material inside cells that carries genetic information and passes genes from parent to child. Approximately 30 to 50 percent of people with Alagille syndrome have an inherited gene mutation, meaning it has been passed on by a parent. In the remaining cases, the gene mutation develops spontaneously.1 In spontaneous cases, neither parent carries a copy of the mutated gene.
Most cases of Alagille syndrome are caused by a mutation in the JAGGED1 (JAG1) gene. In less than 1 percent of cases, a mutation in the NOTCH2 gene is the cause.2
1Spinner NB, Leonard LD, Krantz ID. Alagille syndrome. GeneReviews website. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1273/External NIH Link. Updated February 28, 2013. Accessed July 16, 2014.
2Kamath BM, Bauer RC, Loomes KM, et al. NOTCH2 mutations in Alagille syndrome. Journal of Medical Genetics. 2012;49(2):138–144.
Each cell contains thousands of genes that provide the instructions for making proteins for growth and repair of the body. If a gene has a mutation, the protein made by that gene may not function properly, which sometimes creates a genetic disorder. Not all gene mutations cause a disorder.
People have two copies of most genes; one copy is inherited from each parent. A genetic disorder occurs when one or both parents pass a mutated gene to a child at conception. A genetic disorder can also occur through a spontaneous gene mutation, meaning neither parent carries a copy of the mutated gene. Once a spontaneous gene mutation has occurred in a person, it can be passed to the person's children.
Read more about genes and genetic conditions at the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) Genetics Home Reference at www.ghr.nlm.nih.govExternal NIH Link.
How common is Alagille syndrome and who is more likely to have Alagille syndrome?
Alagille syndrome occurs in about one of every 30,000 live births.3 The disorder affects both sexes equally and shows no geographical, racial, or ethnic preferences.
JAG1 and NOTCH2 gene mutations are inherited in an autosomal dominant way, which means a child can get Alagille syndrome by inheriting either of the gene mutations from only one parent. Each child of a parent with an autosomal dominant mutation has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the mutated gene.
The following chart shows the chance of inheriting an autosomal dominant gene mutation:
Each child of a parent with an autosomal dominant mutation has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the mutated gene.
The gene mutations that cause Alagille syndrome may cause mild or subtle symptoms. Some people may not know they are affected, while others with the gene mutation may develop more serious characteristics of Alagille syndrome. A person with a gene mutation, whether showing serious symptoms or not, has Alagille syndrome and can pass the gene mutation to a child.
Read more about how genetic conditions are inherited at the NLM's Genetics Home Reference website at www.ghr.nlm.nih.govExternal NIH Link.
3Kamath BM, Loomes KM, Piccoli DA. Medical management of Alagille syndrome. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.2010;50(6):580–586.
What are the signs and symptoms of Alagille syndrome?
The signs and symptoms of Alagille syndrome and their severity vary, even among people in the same family sharing the same gene mutation.
In some people, problems in the liver may be the first signs and symptoms of the disorder. These signs and symptoms can occur in children and adults with Alagille syndrome, and in infants as early as the first 3 months of life.
Jaundice. Jaundice—when the skin and whites of the eyes turn yellow—is a result of the liver not removing bilirubin from the blood. Bilirubin is a reddish-yellow substance formed when hemoglobin breaks down. Hemoglobin is an iron-rich protein that gives blood its red color. Bilirubin is absorbed by the liver, processed, and released into bile. Blockage of the bile ducts forces bilirubin and other elements of bile to build up in the blood.
Jaundice may be difficult for parents and even health care providers to detect. Many healthy newborns have mild jaundice during the first 1 to 2 weeks of life due to an immature liver. This normal type of jaundice disappears by the second or third week of life, whereas the jaundice of Alagille syndrome deepens. Newborns with jaundice after 2 weeks of life should be seen by a health care provider to check for a possible liver problem.
Dark urine and gray or white stools. High levels of bilirubin in the blood that pass into the urine can make the urine darker, while stool lightens from a lack of bilirubin reaching the intestines. Gray or white bowel movements after 2 weeks of age are a reliable sign of a liver problem and should prompt a visit to a health care provider.
Pruritus. The buildup of bilirubin in the blood may cause itching, also called pruritus. Pruritus usually starts after 3 months of age and can be severe.
Xanthomas. Xanthomas are fatty deposits that appear as yellow bumps on the skin. They are caused by abnormally high cholesterol levels in the blood, common in people with liver disease. Xanthomas may appear anywhere on the body. However, xanthomas are usually found on the elbows, joints, tendons, knees, hands, feet, or buttocks.
Other Signs and Symptoms of Alagille Syndrome
Certain signs of Alagille syndrome are unique to the disorder, including those that affect the vertebrae and facial features.
Face. Many children with Alagille syndrome have deep-set eyes, a straight nose, a small and pointed chin, large ears, and a prominent, wide forehead. These features are not usually recognized until after infancy. By adulthood, the chin is more prominent.
Eyes. Posterior embryotoxon is a condition in which an opaque ring is present in the cornea, the transparent covering of the eyeball. The abnormality is common in people with Alagille syndrome, though it usually does not affect vision.
Skeleton. The most common skeletal defect in a person with Alagille syndrome is when the shape of the vertebrae—bones of the spine—gives the appearance of flying butterflies. This defect, known as "butterfly" vertebrae, rarely causes medical problems or requires treatment.
Heart and blood vessels. People with Alagille syndrome may have the following signs and symptoms having to do with the heart and blood vessels:
heart murmur—an extra or unusual sound heard during a heartbeat. A heart murmur is the most common sign of Alagille syndrome other than the general symptoms of liver disease.1 Most people with Alagille syndrome have a narrowing of the blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to the lungs.1 This narrowing causes a murmur that can be heard with a stethoscope. Heart murmurs usually do not cause problems.
heart walls and valve problems. A small number of people with Alagille syndrome have serious problems with the walls or valves of the heart. These conditions may need treatment with medications or corrective surgery.
blood vessel problems. People with Alagille syndrome may have abnormalities of the blood vessels in the head and neck. This serious complication can lead to internal bleeding or stroke. Alagille syndrome can also cause narrowing or bulging of other blood vessels in the body.
Kidney disease. A wide range of kidney diseases can occur in Alagille syndrome. The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs, each about the size of a fist, that filter wastes and extra fluid from the blood. Some people have small kidneys or have cysts—fluid-filled sacs—in the kidneys. Kidney function can also decrease.
What are the complications of Alagille syndrome?
The complications of Alagille syndrome include liver failure, portal hypertension, and growth problems. People with Alagille syndrome usually have a combination of complications, and may not have every complication listed below.
Liver failure. Over time, the decreased number of bile ducts may lead to chronic liver failure, also called end-stage liver disease. This condition progresses over months, years, or even decades. The liver can no longer perform important functions or effectively replace damaged cells. A person may need a liver transplant. A liver transplant is surgery to remove a diseased or an injured liver and replace it with a healthy whole liver or a segment of a liver from another person, called a donor.
Portal hypertension. The spleen is the organ that cleans blood and makes white blood cells. White blood cells attack bacteria and other foreign cells. Blood flow from the spleen drains directly into the liver. When a person with Alagille syndrome has advanced liver disease, the blood flow backs up into the spleen and other blood vessels. This condition is called portal hypertension. The spleen may become larger in the later stages of liver disease. A person with an enlarged spleen should avoid contact sports to protect the organ from injury. Advanced portal hypertension can lead to serious bleeding problems.
Growth problems. Alagille syndrome can lead to poor growth in infants and children, as well as delayed puberty in older children. Liver disease can cause malabsorption, which can result in growth problems. Malabsorption is the inability of the small intestine to absorb nutrients from foods, which results in protein, calorie, and vitamin deficiencies. Serious heart problems, if present in Alagille syndrome, can also affect growth.
Malabsorption. People with Alagille syndrome may have diarrhea—loose, watery stools—due to malabsorption. The condition occurs because bile is necessary for the digestion of food. Malabsorption can lead to bone fractures, eye problems, blood-clotting problems, and learning delays.
Long-term Outlook
The long-term outlook for people with Alagille syndrome depends on several factors, including the severity of liver damage and heart problems. Predicting who will experience improved bile flow and who will progress to chronic liver failure is difficult. Ten to 30 percent of people with Alagille syndrome will eventually need a liver transplant.3
Many adults with Alagille syndrome whose symptoms improve with treatment lead normal, productive lives. Deaths in people with Alagille syndrome are most often caused by chronic liver failure, heart problems, and blood vessel problems.
How is Alagille syndrome diagnosed?
A health care provider diagnoses Alagille syndrome by performing a thorough physical exam and ordering one or more of the following tests and exams:
cardiology exam
slit-lamp exam
Alagille syndrome can be difficult to diagnose because the signs and symptoms vary and the syndrome is so rare.
For a diagnosis of Alagille syndrome, three of the following symptoms typically should be present:
liver symptoms, such as jaundice, pruritus, malabsorption, and xanthomas
heart abnormalities or murmurs
skeletal abnormalities
posterior embryotoxon
facial features typical of Alagille syndrome
blood vessel problems
A health care provider may perform a liver biopsy to diagnose Alagille syndrome; however, it is not necessary to make a diagnosis. A diagnosis can be made in a person who does not meet the clinical criteria of Alagille syndrome yet does have a gene mutation of JAG1. The health care provider may have a blood sample tested to look for the JAG1 gene mutation. The gene mutation can be identified in 94 percent of people with a diagnosis of Alagille syndrome.2
Blood test. A blood test involves drawing blood at a health care provider's office or a commercial facility and sending the sample to a lab for analysis. The blood test can show nutritional status and the presence of liver disease and kidney function.
Urinalysis. Urinalysis is the testing of a urine sample. The urine sample is collected in a special container in a health care provider's office or a commercial facility and can be tested in the same location or sent to a lab for analysis. Urinalysis can show many problems of the urinary tract and other body systems. The sample may be observed for color, cloudiness, or concentration; signs of drug use; chemical composition, including glucose; the presence of protein, blood cells, or bacteria; or other signs of disease.
X ray. An x ray is a picture created by using radiation and recorded on film or on a computer. The amount of radiation used is small. An x-ray technician performs the x ray at a hospital or an outpatient center, and a radiologist—a doctor who specializes in medical imaging—interprets the images. Anesthesia is not needed. The patient will lie on a table or stand during the x ray. The technician positions the x-ray machine over the spine area to look for "butterfly" vertebrae. The patient will hold his or her breath as the picture is taken so that the picture will not be blurry. The patient may be asked to change position for additional pictures.
Abdominal ultrasound. Ultrasound uses a device, called a transducer, that bounces safe, painless sound waves off organs to create an image of their structure. The transducer can be moved to different angles to make it possible to examine different organs. In abdominal ultrasound, the health care provider applies a gel to the patient's abdomen and moves a handheld transducer over the skin. The gel allows the transducer to glide easily, and it improves the transmission of the signals. A specially trained technician performs the procedure in a health care provider's office, an outpatient center, or a hospital, and a radiologist interprets the images; anesthesia is not needed. The images can show an enlarged liver or rule out other conditions.
Cardiology exam. A cardiologist—a doctor who treats people who have heart problems—performs a cardiology exam in a health care provider's office, an outpatient center, or a hospital. During a full exam, a cardiologist may inspect the patient's physical appearance, measure pulse rate and blood pressure, observe the jugular vein, check for rapid or skipped heartbeats, listen for variations in heart sounds, and listen to the lungs.
Slit-lamp exam. An ophthalmologist—a doctor who diagnoses and treats all eye diseases and eye disorders—performs a slit-lamp exam to diagnose posterior embryotoxon. The ophthalmologist examines the eye with a slit lamp, a microscope combined with a high-intensity light that shines a thin beam on the eye. While sitting in a chair, the patient will rest his or her head on the slit lamp. A yellow dye may be used to examine the cornea and tear layer. The dye is applied as a drop, or the specialist may touch a strip of paper stained with the dye to the white of the patient's eye. The specialist will also use drops in the patient's eye to dilate the pupil.
Liver biopsy. A liver biopsy is a procedure that involves taking a piece of liver tissue for examination with a microscope for signs of damage or disease. The health care provider may ask the patient to stop taking certain medications temporarily before the liver biopsy. The patient may be asked to fast for 8 hours before the procedure.
During the procedure, the patient lies on a table, right hand resting above the head. A local anesthetic is applied to the area where the biopsy needle will be inserted. If needed, sedatives and pain medication are also given. The health care provider uses a needle to take a small piece of liver tissue. The health care provider may use ultrasound, computerized tomography scans, or other imaging techniques to guide the needle. After the biopsy, the patient should lie on the right side for up to 2 hours and is monitored an additional 2 to 4 hours before being sent home.
Genetic testing. The health care provider may refer a person suspected of having Alagille syndrome to a geneticist—a doctor who specializes in genetic disorders. For a genetic test, the geneticist takes a blood or saliva sample and analyzes the DNA for the JAG1 gene mutation. The geneticist tests for the JAG1 gene mutation first, since it is more common in Alagille syndrome than NOTCH2. Genetic testing is often done only by specialized labs. The results may not be available for several months because of the complexity of the testing.
The usefulness of genetic testing for Alagille syndrome is limited by two factors:
Detection of a mutated gene cannot predict the onset of symptoms or how serious the disorder will be.
Even if a mutated gene is found, no specific cure for the disorder exists.
When to Consider Genetic Counseling
People who are considering genetic testing may want to consult a genetics counselor. Genetic counseling can help family members understand how test results may affect them individually and as a family. Genetic counseling is provided by genetics professionals—health care professionals with specialized degrees and experience in medical genetics and counseling. Genetics professionals include geneticists, genetics counselors, and genetics nurses.
Genetics professionals work as members of health care teams, providing information and support to individuals or families who have genetic disorders or a higher chance of having an inherited condition. Genetics professionals
assess the likelihood of a genetic disorder by researching a family's history, evaluating medical records, and conducting a physical exam of the patient and other family members
weigh the medical, social, and ethical decisions surrounding genetic testing
provide support and information to help a person make a decision about testing
interpret the results of genetic tests and medical data
provide counseling or refer individuals and families to support services
serve as patient advocates
explain possible treatments or preventive measures
discuss reproductive options
Genetic counseling may be useful when a family member is deciding whether to have genetic testing and again later when test results are available.
How is Alagille syndrome treated?
Treatment for Alagille syndrome includes medications and therapies that increase the flow of bile from the liver, promote growth and development in infants' and children's bodies, correct nutritional deficiencies, and reduce the person's discomfort. Ursodiol (Actigall, Urso) is a medication that increases bile flow. Other treatments address specific symptoms of the disorder.
Liver failure. People with Alagille syndrome who develop end-stage liver failure need a liver transplant with a whole liver from a deceased donor or a segment of a liver from a living donor. People with Alagille syndrome who also have heart problems may not be candidates for a transplant because they could be more likely to have complications during and after the procedure. A liver transplant surgical team performs the transplant in a hospital.
More information is provided in the NIDDK health topic, Liver Transplantation.
Pruritus. Itching may decrease when the flow of bile from the liver is increased. Medications such as cholestyramine (Prevalite), rifampin (Rifadin, Rimactane), naltrexone (Vivitrol), or antihistamines may be prescribed to relieve pruritus. People should hydrate their skin with moisturizers and keep their fingernails trimmed to prevent skin damage from scratching. People with Alagille syndrome should avoid baths and take short showers to prevent the skin from drying out.
If severe pruritus does not improve with medication, a procedure called partial external biliary diversion may provide relief from itching. The procedure involves surgery to connect one end of the small intestine to the gallbladder and the other end to an opening in the abdomen—called a stoma—through which bile leaves the body and is collected in a pouch. A surgeon performs partial external biliary diversion in a hospital. The patient will need general anesthesia.
Malabsorption and growth problems. Infants with Alagille syndrome are given a special formula that helps the small intestine absorb much-needed fat. Infants, children, and adults can benefit from a high-calorie diet, calcium, and vitamins A, D, E, and K. They may also need additional zinc. If someone with Alagille syndrome does not tolerate oral doses of vitamins, a health care provider may give the person injections for a period of time. A child may receive additional calories through a tiny tube that is passed through the nose into the stomach. If extra calories are needed for a long time, a health care provider may place a tube, called a gastrostomy tube, directly into the stomach through a small opening made in the abdomen. A child's growth may improve with increased nutrition and flow of bile from the liver.
Xanthomas. For someone who has Alagille syndrome, these fatty deposits typically worsen over the first few years of life and then improve over time. They may eventually disappear in response to partial external biliary diversion or the medications used to increase bile flow.
Can Alagille syndrome be prevented?
Scientists have not yet found a way to prevent Alagille syndrome. However, complications of the disorder can be managed with the help of health care providers. Routine visits with a health care team are needed to prevent complications from becoming worse.
Eating, Diet, and Nutrition
Researchers have not found that eating, diet, and nutrition play a role in causing or preventing Alagille syndrome. However, these factors are important for people with Alagille syndrome, particularly children, who are malnourished, growing poorly, or have delayed puberty. Caregivers and parents of children with Alagille syndrome should try to maximize their children's potential for growth through good eating, diet, and nutrition.
A nutritionist or a dietitian—a person with training in nutrition and diet—can work with someone with Alagille syndrome and his or her health care team to build an appropriate healthy eating plan. A person with Alagille syndrome may need to take dietary supplements or vitamins in addition to eating a set number of calories, based on the type of complications the person has. Researchers consider good nutrition to be one of the most important aspects of managing the disorder.
If potential liver problems are present, a person with Alagille syndrome should not drink alcoholic beverages without talking with his or her health care provider first.
Additionally, eating, diet, and nutrition play a part in overall health and preventing further health problems.
Alagille syndrome is a genetic condition that results in various symptoms in different parts of the body, including the liver.
In people with Alagille syndrome, the decreased number of bile ducts causes bile to build up in the liver, a condition also called cholestasis, leading to liver damage and liver disease.
Alagille syndrome is caused by a gene mutation, or defect. Approximately 30 to 50 percent of people with Alagille syndrome have an inherited gene mutation, meaning it has been passed on by a parent.
Alagille syndrome occurs in about one of every 30,000 live births. The disorder affects both sexes equally and shows no geographical, racial, or ethnic preferences.
The gene mutations that cause Alagille syndrome may cause mild or subtle symptoms. Some people may not know they are affected.
In some people, problems in the liver may be the first signs and symptoms of the disorder.
The complications of Alagille syndrome include liver failure, portal hypertension, and growth problems.
Ten to 30 percent of people with Alagille syndrome will eventually need a liver transplant.
A health care provider diagnoses Alagille syndrome by performing a thorough physical exam and other tests.
Genetic counseling can help family members understand how genetic test results may affect them individually and as a family.
Treatment for Alagille syndrome includes medications and therapies that increase the flow of bile from the liver, promote growth and development in infants' and children's bodies, correct nutritional deficiencies, and reduce the person's discomfort.
Scientists have not yet found a way to prevent Alagille syndrome.
Caregivers and parents of children with Alagille syndrome should try to maximize their children's potential for growth through good eating, diet, and nutrition.
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Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi Announces New Transformative Brand Positioning
June 24, 2019 admin PRESS RELEASES
“From One For All” National Campaign Brings Brand’s Pioneering Spirit to the Forefront of Story and Marks a Number of Brand Firsts
LODI, Calif., June 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi, the number-three wine brand in the United States* with 40 years of history dedicated to raising the standard for everyday wines in America and globally, announces a new milestone with the launch of its new national brand campaign. The “From One For All” campaign celebrates Woodbridge founder Robert Mondavi’s pivotal role in democratizing wine. It is supported by a 360-degree integrated marketing plan backed by the largest investment in the brand’s history.
For the first time, Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi tells the winery’s powerful founding story and industry-changing vision through the lens of its iconic founder Robert Mondavi in the new “From One For All” marketing campaign. Celebrated for his achievements helping to establish California’s reputation for fine winemaking on a global scale through his extraordinary work in Napa Valley, Mr. Mondavi next turned his focus to encouraging a growing wine culture in the US. He believed that good wine shouldn’t be reserved for the wealthy, and at 65 years old he founded Woodbridge Winery in Lodi, California to be a wine for all people.
The campaign brings Robert Mondavi himself and his storied heritage to life through a captivating narrative in Woodbridge’s first ever 60-second TV commercial, as well as 15- and 30-second TV spots. In another brand first, Woodbridge will air these new advertisements during live sports gaining high visibility on ESPN and NFL Network. The brand’s digital advertising creative features compelling language including “Born From A Legend. Enjoyed By All” and a quote from Robert Mondavi “Whatever You Choose To Do, Pour Yourself Into it with Your Heart and Soul.”
“Since its founding in 1979, Woodbridge has remained steadfast in its commitment to making quality California wines of exceptional value for everyday enjoyment,” said Jaymie Schoenberg, Vice President of Marketing for Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi Wines. “We are proud to tell Woodbridge’s founding story and salute the pioneering spirit of our revolutionary leader Robert Mondavi, who’s vision made high quality wine more accessible across the globe. We know consumers are seeking a deeper connection to the brands they choose and this new strategy celebrates Woodbridge’s forty-year commitment to our consumers by reliving the history that got us here, with the backing of our largest investment yet.”
TV commercials commenced on June 17, 2019 on cable networks including; ESPN, NFL Network, TBS, HGTV, Food Network, Bravo, and FX, among others. Broadcast, digital marketing and social media ads will being rolling out across Facebook and Instagram today, June 24, 2019, through fall 2019.
“From One For All” was created by Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi’s creative agency of record, Cavalry, produced and directed by Stink Films, edited by Whitehouse Post, with Visual Effects Production by Carbon and Color by CO3. Full credits available upon request.
Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi “From One For All” TV Commercials:
60-second TV Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHRtraZrGLM
30-second TV Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrXte8vSQZg
Kara Larmie, Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi, kara.larmie@cbrands.com
ABOUT WOODBRIDGE BY ROBERT MONDAVI WINES:
Robert Mondavi founded Woodbridge Winery near his childhood home in Lodi, California to make quality wines accessible to wine lovers across the world to enjoy as part of daily life. Mr. Mondavi’s pioneering vision for Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi has raised the standard for everyday wines in America, and has made Woodbridge one of the most beloved wines in the U.S. The trusted heritage and quality of Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi ensures you don’t need to spend more for great wine and the diverse portfolio of classic wines marked by bright fruit flavors made to complement food means there is something for everyone. For more about Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi, including food and wine pairings and recipes ideas, please visit www.WoodbridgeWines.com.
Please enjoy responsibly. © 2019 Woodbridge, Acampo, CA
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The Bloggers are the Problem...The Bloggers are the Problem
Hang on...Who is the real target here?
The long awaited Leveson Report has been released and those newspapers orientated towards the Left (The Guardian, The Independent, along with a host of celebrities) are scandalised by the outcome that, thus far, the Prime Minister hasn't endorsed official regulation of the newspaper industry by statute.
The newspapers traditionally orientated towards the right of British politics, (The Telegraph, The Times, The Daily Mail) have meanwhile praised David Cameron for resisting pressure and not endorsing a statutory body for press regulation.
My first reaction is thus: David Cameron, as we have seen, seems to move along the left to right spectrum like a table football figure depending on how politically expedient it is to do so. So...what has the British Press got on David Cameron?
However, while the British mainstream media chew over the results of the Leveson Report, a totally unexpected tangent has suddenly been taken, one supported, most prob…
A Quote for Our Times
H/T Fr Z
Dissenting Bitter Pill Correspondent Mickens in US Talk on 'My Church'
I challenge readers to watch this for longer than five minutes without reaching for a sick bag or smashing up their computer monitor. This is the guy who wept when Benedict XVI was made Successor of St Peter. Presumably, that's because despite his hatred of the 'institutional Church', he sees the Papacy as the Office which could turn the Catholic Church into a loyal sister of the Anglican Communion.
The Vatican is imploding, right? Funny that because I was under the impression that Tablet sales are down year upon year and that it is The Tablet which is heading into oblivion. Incredibly, this man is so blinded by the half century of fifth columnist liberals who have laid waste to parishes and dioceses around the World, in all sectors of the Church's mission, that he has the audacity to point to the Successor of St Peter and the Vatican in terms of blame, because, obviously, the Church isn't liberal enough to maintain its 'relevancy' to the people.
I expect …
Power over Life and Death...
"Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee?"
What power today is in the hands of those who like Pontius Pilate either ask, 'What is truth?' or who have no interest in asking the question! What power indeed and how unwisely is it used and with what dreadful consequences!
The unborn who were and are told, 'I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee' by doctors and nurses, by politicians and the supporters of the destruction of innocent life! Then after they have dismembered the unborn body, wash their hands as if they are innocent of their blood!
To the elderly who are told by doctors and nurses, by politicians, 'I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee'! Such people know the power that they have and like Pilate use it with devastating effect upon human lives and families, starving the defenceless to death!
To mothers and families under the cons…
"It's Just the Word...Marriage!"
I went to a pub in a nearby town and saw a man reading a newspaper article about 'same-sex marriage'.
So, having never met the guy before and not living in the area I just decided to ask him what he thought of 'gay marriage'.
He replied that he had nothing in particular against civil partnerships and all that. He said, "It's just the word...marriage! Why can't they call it something else? Anything else but marriage!"
Rotherham is the Tip of the Iceberg
Christopher Brooker is one of the few people in the public forum who stands up for the rights of families against what is becoming an ever greater threat to human dignity and the right to a family life. The awful reality is that social services, backed up by family courts across the United Kingdom have, for years, even decades, been removing children unjustly from families to be put up for what has been described as 'forced adoption. The policy has been explicitly eugenic and is directed at poor families who are left powerless and with no voice to speak out.
A minority of extreme cases of child abuse and terrible neglect of children in the media have been used as an excuse for this trend in social engineering in a racket that spans decades. Victims, as well as mothers and fathers and grandparents, in this racket, include children who are severed from their roots and placed often into a care system that dehumanizes them and in cases abuses them.
The Conservative/Liberal Coalition…
The Chinese Model of State-Sanctioned Religion?
If the established Church is a spent force in British society then why does the Government want to control it?
Don't get me wrong, I don't believe the Anglican Church has much relevance in British society since its orders are surely 'null and void'. The refashioning of the hierarchy according to equalities discourse does it no favours, wins it no more converts and serves not to make it more relevant, but more irrelevant to the modern age.
The kowtowing to modern trends in sociological theory and the 'equal' workplace dogma only serves to make it appear less and less like a Church and more and more like any other institution. Though this Church was founded not on Christ and St Peter, but an earthly king with some earthly motives who sought power over the true Church, even perhaps liberal Anglicans would have to admit, if questioned, that the Church was not established to be 'just like any other British institution'. To say that would be to suggest that …
Some Thoughts on Sexuality
As we move into a more secularised society in which the Church's message is less welcome it is worth reflecting on what the Church is saying to people who have sexual identity issues. Besides the obvious compassion the Church has on those who struggle with homosexuality (and sexuality in general), the Church presents to every age the same vision of redemption, of man placed into a wondrous relationship with God by virtue of his Baptism and the other Sacraments.
The message is not heard as loud or as often as it should be, perhaps, but the message for nearly 2,000 years remains the same. Our happiness is linked intrinsically to our relationship with God and our neighbour. The happiness we seek is blessedness - not mere contentment and security, nor the pursuit of pleasure. The Beatitudes laid out by Christ in His proclamation of the Kingdom of God upon the Mount are those teachings that will make us truly happy. They just so happen to overturn what the World says of how we can ach…
Equality for Ladies?
Not here, thank you very much, Mr Cameron...
Like the traditional vestments, boys. What a game of chess you could have on that floor!
Meanwhile, look at this disgusting example of patriarchy in action. Go on, sister, smash the patriarchy! How typical of a man in authority to think he has the duty, as a man, to comfort a downtrodden sister...
Searching for Homeless Interviewees with the BBC
I was recently contacted by the BBC in Brighton who are looking to make a documentary on the homeless and the cuts. So, I accompanied a reporter from the BBC to the St Mary Magdalen Soup Run.
The BBC are looking for a particular strand of homeless person who has been affected directly by the Government's cuts.
In other words, the BBC are looking for 'deserving poor', rather than 'undeserving' poor. The deserving poor are those who have been hit by the cuts. The undeserving are those who are homeless because of some other event or feature in their lives. Interestingly, nobody from the Soup Run really came forward to be interviewed. One who did think about coming forward was reticent about being interviewed because he has family in another part of the country and he doesn't want them to see him in his situation as it is now.
I don't know why the BBC man, who is very affable and likeable, requires someone from the Church to put him in touch with homeless men …
Hey, Dave, what's the rush?
MPs are set to vote on 'gay marriage', within weeks.This is, by all accounts, a monumental shift in UK Government policy. What's the rush? Are the lions in Britain's zoos hungry due to the rising price of meat or something?
It's a big decision, Dave. You're rushing into this and its a decision you may live to regret. Take some time out to think about it. You know, it could upset a lot of people - voters even. People could lose their jobs not too long after you've 'taken the plunge'.
I don't know. Maybe Dave's just a misunderstood biblical Christian who has seen the words of Scripture, 'What thou doest, do quickly,' and has decided to take Our Lord literally.
Meanwhile, the Chancellor, George Osborne (of Bilderberg participation fame) has also publicly committed himself to the drive for same-sex marriage. Quite what the issue has to do with the Treasury or the City of London is a mystery, but there we go. On the face of it, I suppose…
Government by Banking Institutions
On Tuesday, The Independent reported that City banks and investment institutions told George Osborne to step up the Government's commitment to low carbon energy in order to avoid a future marked by climate change related disasters.
On Wednesday, George Osborne stressed how vital big banking institutions are to our society and told the United Kingdom:
"I want Britain to be the home of big successful banks. I think it would be a real shame if we were saying to the likes of HSBC that they can't locate themselves in the UK. I think that would be a mistake for us as a country."
It looks rather to me like we're being governed by banks. For some reason the entire banking sector of the United Kingdom has jumped on board the carbon bandwagon. Stepping into a local branch of HSBC recently, I saw two promotional posters. One had a picture of a bee or wasp with cameras for eyes with a caption that said something like, 'In the future, nature and technology will work in ha…
Pope Benedict XVI: 'Practical Atheism' More Destructive than Disbelief
CNA reports on the Holy Father's recent lessons on Faith, at Paul VI Hall.
'The practical atheism of those who say they are Christian but live as if God does not exist is a greater threat than actual atheism, Pope Benedict XVI said as he presented three ways for people to more fully discover God.
While actual atheists often think deeply about God before rejecting belief, practical atheism “is even more destructive … because it leads to indifference towards faith and the question of God,” the Pope stated. His fourth installment in a series of lessons on faith was delivered Nov. 14 to an overflow crowd of nearly 7,000 in the Pope Paul VI Hall, near St. Peter’s Square. Benedict XVI focused his address on the challenge of witnessing to Christ in today’s world. Christian witness is always hard, he said, because people are prone to “being dazzled by the glitter of worldliness,” but in the Western world sharing the faith is even harder today.
As he described it, the Christian fai…
Sir James Lovelock Admits He Might Have Exaggerated a Little Over Climate Change
The Daily Mail today reports...
'Environmental scientist James Lovelock, renowned for his terrifying predictions of climate change's deadly impact on the planet, has gone back on his previous claims, admitting they were 'alarmist'. The 92-year-old Briton, who also developed the Gaia theory of the Earth as a single organism, has said climate change is still happening - just not as quickly as he once warned.
He added that other environmental commentators, such as former vice president Al Gore, are also guilty of exaggerating their arguments. The admission comes as a devastating blow to proponents of climate change who regard Lovelock as a powerful figurehead. Five years ago, he had claimed: 'Before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.' But in an interview with msnbc.com, he admitted: 'I made a mistake.'
He said: 'The problem is we don’t…
Despotic Leaders' Favourite Personality Disorder to Be Eliminated
That's right. The narcissistic personality disorder is no longer a disorder at all.
Perhaps the only personality disorder for the Western world will be those disorders that suggest the patient has some kind of traditional morality and refuses to accept new and certified norms of human behaviour and convention. Despotic, genocidal leaders will be happy about the development in psychological theory and practice.
Pray for Peace
Former Chief Executive of Family Planning Association is New Head of Girl Guides
Life Site News today reports that...
'The former chief executive of the UK’s Family Planning Association, the UK branch of Planned Parenthood, has been appointed as the new head of the country’s Girl Guide organization.
Julia Bentley said that she was delighted by her appointment to what she called “the ultimate feminist organization,” and indicated that under her leadership, Guiding will “offer girls what they really need.”
Tens of Thousands Protest 'Same-Sex Marriage' in France
Meanwhile, here in the United Kingdom, The Telegraph today reports that, 'Liz Truss, an education minister, refused to rule out the possibility that teachers, even in faith schools, could face disciplinary action for objecting on grounds of conscience.' At the time of counting, The Telegraph article has attracted 3085 comments and counting. Readers are not amused.
And who can blame them. The redefinition of marriage will turn mothers and fathers into progenitors A and B. 'Husbands' and 'wives' will become merely 'parties to a marriage'. The entire landscape of the post same-sex marriage is totalitarian in its application to society. It has already been proved so by the experience of Canada and those states in the US where it has been brought in, like Massachusets. Parents will be unable to pull their children from lessons on homosexuality and marriage as the State takes away from parents the right to be primary moral educators of their children. It wil…
Royal Society Was Founded by Freemasons
Ah, so now we know why...
'...historically, and continuing right now, Britain, and in particular London, has been and is the geopolitical epicentre of the culture of death'...
Back in June of 2012, the Royal Society used the Rio+20 Conference to...
'...urge action not only on reducing consumption, but also on slowing population growth, with a particular focus on educating women and girls in developing countries. “For too long the dual issues of population and consumption have been left off the table due to political and ethical sensitivities,” said Professor Charles Godfrey, Fellow of the Royal Society and Working Group Chair of the IAP, the global network of science academies. “These are issues that affect us all, developed and developing nations alike, and we must take responsibility for them together.”
The good news was that at the time, the Vatican threatened 'to block moves for free access to reproductive health services because of concerns about contraception a…
The Royal Society: It Blogs
Well, thankfully, despite raising the tension over the over 300 year old Royal Society and suggesting that the institution has been at the forefront of the social re-engineering of the United Kingdom towards a eugenic dystopia in which all but a select class will be rendered highly limited in their reproduction, don't worry, because its really not a conspiracy at all.
No. They're quite open about it really.
You can read the blogs posted by The Royal Society. They really do hammer home the point that this Society, dominated throughout history by eugenics advocates of one kind or another, still to this very day is interested in the same Malthusian prophecies that concerned Fellows from before Darwin and beyond.
For evidence of this, try reading The Royal Society's blogs. Latest blog posts include such riveting reads as:
We Need to Talk About Population
7 Billion: Can We Count on It?
Access to Contraceptive Services - A Woman's Legal Right?
And here's one for Tina Beatt…
London Victoria Train Station November, 2012
The Royal Society: An Illustrious Group of Fellows
'Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places. Therefore take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of justice, And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.' ~ St Paul to the Ephesians
What links Thomas Malthus, Charles Darwin, J.Robert Oppenheimer, Lord Rothschild, Clement Attlee, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Richard Dawkins, Isaac Newton, Charles Galton Darwin, Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous, who wrote Brave New World, David Attenbrough, Henry Wellcome, John D Rockefeller, Tim Bernard Lee, Bertrand Russell and many, many other 'luminaries'?
Answer: The R…
Is this what Vatican II called for?
A friend has introduced me to a band called The Electric Prunes, who produced this album entitled Mass in F Minor. As the Vatican II documents called for, Latin has been retained. My friend believes that this was a group of very devout Catholics who took a lot of acid in 1968. I believe this could be called Chant psychedelia...Very prayerful...if you're on acid.
Smoking Licence
What next, reproduction licences?
10 Hours of Medieval Music
Some people have too much time on their hands.
Savita and the Case for Abortion
Poor Ireland. I have read, so far, just a few good articles on Savita and the case for abortion, so before you read anything else on this tragedy, including this blogpost, read Life Site News.
First and foremost, may she, they, rest in peace, Savita and her unborn child, may the Angels and Saints lead them into Paradise.
But else what can we say? This could be the case that breaks Ireland's resistance to abortion. Most likely, it will be. If you read media reports, Ireland is now in self-flagellation mode over Savita's tragic death. It should not be. Let us state it clearly - Ireland should not be hanging its head in shame.
I've read several pieces, including William Oddie's piece for The Catholic Herald in which he argues that doctors could or should have induced labour despite the fact that doctors would know that an unborn child of 19 weeks would certainly die outside the womb. As far as I know, the principle of double effect works for ectopic pregnancy where an in…
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For centuries, society sought men as leaders, while women attend to their aid. Women were once perceived as secondary, existing only to commit their duties and responsibilities as home makers. However, since the 20th century, occupation choices have expanded for women, possibly caused by the plea for equality in gender (Women’s Rights). Today, society has been more accepting of women dominating the workplace and carrying on the same occupations, titles and responsibilities of men.
The European features some of the brilliant minds as standouts in their respective industries; spearheading companies.
URSULA M. BURNS
Chairman and CEO (VEON)
Burns’ slay of achievements also include being a senior advisor (Teneo), a senior advisor (Diageo) and a member of the board of directors (Uber). With all these under her belt, she remains unstoppable. The 60-year-old American’s rags to riches story continues to inspire those who come to know her. Initially wanting to become an engineer, enrolling at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute for college came off as a challenge in terms of the hefty workload and feeling inferior from predominantly white males. Guaranteed, it was not a walk at the park.
Everything comes in full circle eventually when she became the leader of a enterprise she interned years ago: Xerox. Today, she holds the record for being the first African-American woman to lead an S&P 500 company.
WHITNEY WOLFE-HERD
Founder and CEO (Bumble)
Women are taught to be prim and “hard-to-get” by interested men – at least, that’s how the older society once taught. As young as 26-years-old, Herd has made a fortune for herself and for her fellow females. The main difference with her online dating app “Bumble” compared to those in the market (i.e., Tinder, where she also worked prior to creating Bumble!) is how women are instructed make the “first move” to the males upon the “match”.
Although dating apps have built a reputation for making women a commodity, an avenue to exchange lewd photos, an initiator for hook-ups or even killing the joy of experiencing romance, Herd’s main objective for creating the app is to simply empower her fellow females. As of 2018, Bumble’s value is at $1 billion according to Forbes, but with the rate at which Bumble is going, Herd would be able to swipe right to the top of one of the richest self-made women in America in no time.
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STEPHANIE ELTZ
Founder (Doctify)
In today’s modern age, the wide accessibility for technology can be an advantage or disadvantage. For Stephanie Eltz, she chose the path of the former. She founded “Doctify”, an app that enables patients to book appointments with specialist doctors. With a swipe or tap on the screen of one’s mobile device (and with the internet handy for some scenarios), everything you need is available in an instant – which also includes attending to medical cases.
The orthopaedic surgeon, who is based in the United Kingdom, started Doctify based on a personal experience – she needed to find a doctor near her area who was available during her day off. Willing to spend money for a specialist, she was unable to find someone fitting of her schedule. Dr. Eltz has definitely saved the lives of patients in more ways than one.
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RANA GHANDOUR SALHAB
Executive Board member (National Commission for Lebanese Women)
Leadership and loyalty come hand in hand with Rana Ghandour Salhab, after establishing a name for herself in a company she’s been working at for over 15 years. She was a former director for human resources for Deloitte Middle East as well a partner in its talent and communications operations.
She works in several other sectors in the industry such as consulting, talent and diversity management, social responsibility, corporate branding and communications. Additionally, she’s dedicated to ministries in Lebanon particularly with issues on gender equality laws and practices; she also sits on advisory boards of her alma matter, American University of Beirut. She’s got a lot of responsibilities to keep up with, but her dedication towards her work trumps all busyness. It’s no surprise that she was included at the list of Global Champions of Women in business in 2017, awarded by the Financial Times and HERoes.
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TRACEY GROVES
Founder and CEO, (Intelligent Ethics)
Behind every successful business leader is a woman. Groves likes to keep herself involved and busy with what she is passionate about – mentoring. From being an expert adviser to the City of London Corporation, a board member of City Women Network, as well as a non-executive director of the Middlesex County Cricket Club, Groves serves as her clients’ backbone by helping them enhance their own potentials to improve one’s respective work ethics.
Just recently, Groves was appointed as the Global Managing Director of Talking Talent’s Client Advisory services, where she will continue to help individuals enhance their skills in the workplace. It’s no surprise that her efforts have paid off as she is one of the Financial Times’ Top 100 Female Champion of Women in Business and a recipient of the Variety Catherine Award for Consulting both garnered in 2018.
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How to check whether a link is safe
Seth Rosenblatt October 1, 2018
The sharp flutter of momentary panic that stabs at you when a website link arrives in your inbox or by text message may not (yet) have a specific term in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but that doesn’t mean you’re wrong to worry about whether that link is safe to click on.
Certainly, it’s not hard to imagine a feeling of dread in the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, when John Podesta’s email account was notoriously phished by now indicted Russian hackers.
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The incredibly short answer to the question of whether you should click on a suspicious link is, not surprisingly, “No,” says Gabriel Weinberg, CEO and founder of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo. But whatever the compelling reason is, whether the attack is a generic phishing attempt or a targeted spear-phishing attack, sometimes it seems important to click on a fishy-looking link. Studies have shown for more than two decades that links are, for many people, psychologically compelling bells that must be rung.
Search engines struggle to keep malicious links from consumers because the scammers “frequently” change them to confound traditional blacklisting techniques, Weinberg says.
“The bad actors are constantly creating new domains, new scams, and otherwise subjugate efforts to stop them. The lists get out of date,” he says. “It always will be an arms race.”
A 2018 study by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology found that phishers were more likely to succeed when crafting messages to fit the specific job responsibilities of their targets. A 2016 study at Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany found that half of the 1,700 students who received a simulated phishing email clicked on the link inside, even though 78 percent of the students “knew” the risks, the researchers said.
In a similar Columbia University study, conducted in 2012, despite warnings to targets about malicious links between multiple rounds of simulated phishing attacks, at least one target clicked on one of the links in question in each of the first three rounds.
The list of phishing studies appears almost to be without end. And as Podesta found out, hackers can be extremely clever in crafting emails not only designed for a specific target, but to look compelling and authentic. Once a hacker has convinced a target to click on a surreptitiously malicious link, he or she may not even need to get the target to do anything else: In some cases, the attack requires no user interaction. So-called drive-by attacks recently became a common technique in cryptojacking, which uses victims’ computers and phones to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
As endless phishing studies show, the first and most important lesson in stopping a phishing attempt is to be skeptical of links: in emails, in text messages, in anything that appears to be a personal, private communication. If you’re sent an invoice for a product you didn’t order, for example, don’t click on anything in the email; manually search for the vendor’s website to confirm its legitimacy, then call.
Phishing is not the only way to receive a malicious website link. Friends, family, and colleagues often pass them on as part of a chain of jokes or otherwise ostensibly important content. Links can also come to you in a shortened form, truncated by a legitimate third-party service such as Bit.ly, TinyURL, Goo.gl (which Google plans to discontinue in March), or Twitter’s T.co.
“The bad actors are constantly creating new domains, new scams, and otherwise subjugate efforts to stop them.”—Gabriel Weinberg, CEO and founder, DuckDuckGo
Sometimes targets can tell just by looking at the link whether it’s malicious, such as when there are percent signs or other symbols in the URL. Hovering a mouse over a link, or using a URL unshortener, can also sometimes reveal the destination URL.
Another way to check, which can be faster—especially if the link in question doesn’t come with a customer service department, as an invoice might—is to highlight or right-click the link, copy it, and paste it into a link safety verification service. Many computer security software companies offer link safety-checking services for free on their websites without having to download additional software.
URL Void runs user-submitted links through 39 link safety checkers at once, including those services run by big names in computer security and some specific security subgenres, such as cryptocurrency-specific BadBitcoin and phishing-focused PhishTank. URL Void shows which services ranked the URL as safe or unsafe, offers links back to the service, the URL’s IP address, and even latitude and longitude of the IP address server. If even one of them rates a site as unsafe, it’s probably best to skip it.
However, manually checking links is another opportunity to introduce human error. While new research explores automatic detection of malicious URLs, the NIST report recommends a more holistic approach.
Kristen Greene, a human factors researcher at NIST, recommends a three-pronged approach that combines training consumers and employees to be aware of attacks, machine learning so technology can be not just reactive but preventative, and providing tools to make it easier for users to report phishing attacks and malicious links.
The context of a message containing a malicious link is a “critical factor” in how likely the target will click on the link. “The more the context of the message seems relevant to a person’s life or job responsibilities, the harder it is for them to recognize it as a phishing attack,” she says in a public-service video on NIST’s research.
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Seth is editor-in-chief and founder of The Parallax. He has worked in online journalism since 1999, including eight years at CNET News, where he led coverage of security, privacy, and Google. Based in San Francisco, he also writes about connected technology and pop culture.
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Essensa, AHL announce partnership
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NEW YORK/SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League (AHL) and Essensa, a national group purchasing organization (GPO), today announced a new, multi-year partnership. Essensa will become a sponsor of the AHL Marketing Meeting and AHL Annual Meeting, and will be the Official GPO of the AHL, providing cost-saving opportunities to the league and its participating AHL member clubs. This agreement was brokered by Denver-based Impression Sports & Entertainment.
Essensa will provide the AHL and participating clubs with business development opportunities and access to lower pricing on a wide variety of contracted products and services used in day-to-day business operations.
“This relationship is a natural progression for Essensa, which for more than five years has helped teams as well as sports and recreation organizations streamline and reduce costs in procuring goods and services,” said John P. Sganga, Essensa President and CEO. “This collaboration will deliver significant benefits to the AHL and its fans. We look forward to many years of shared success.”
Under the agreement, individual AHL clubs will also have the opportunity to become Essensa GPO members. Five clubs, the Rockford IceHogs, San Diego Gulls, Syracuse Crunch, Texas Stars, and Utica Comets, have already signed on.
"We are excited to begin our partnership with Essensa," said Chris Nikolis, EVP, Marketing & Business Development for the AHL. "Essensa has a proven track record at streamlining the business operations and reducing costs for its members. We are sure our teams will benefit from Essensa’s insights and business partnerships."
The AHL becomes the third national professional sports league to join Essensa. Essensa is also the exclusive GPO of the ECHL and Minor League Baseball (MiLB).
About Essensa:
Essensa is the fastest-growing national GPO delivering procurement solutions, supply chain efficiencies, and greater operating margins to sports and recreation leagues, as well as hotels, spas, country clubs, and entertainment venues. Essensa members have access to a $41 billion portfolio comprising 2,000 contracts through more than 900 suppliers. With value-added services, including the Employee Discount Program, complimentary publications, regular contract updates, and exceptional customer service and support staff, Essensa is the clear choice to make a real impact on expenses. Learn more at www.essensa.org.
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Formed in 1936 and celebrating its 80th-anniversary season in 2015–16, the American Hockey League (theahl.com) serves as the top development league for the players, coaches, managers, executives, broadcasters and staff of all 30 National Hockey League teams. More than 88 percent of today’s NHL players are American Hockey League graduates, and for the 14th year in a row, more than 6 million fans attended AHL games across North America in 2014–15. Through the years, the AHL has been home to more than 100 future members of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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Defining China’s Identity
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Written by Chen Jimin.
In recent years, the development of Sino-US relations has increasingly concerned the international community. It can be explained by the growing importance of Sino-US relations, which have gone beyond the scope of bilateral relations to have global impact, and the inherent complexity of the relationship. The competitiveness in their relations has been highlighted via issues such as the South China Sea disputes, cyber security, and overall global rules-making. This is not necessarily a bad thing for the United States. Indeed, according to Huntington’s argument, one defines the “self” – and from there our own interests and strategic orientation – precisely because the “other” exists. However, this state of affairs will inevitably produce negative impacts on US primacy in global affairs if the United States defines China’s own identity improperly.
From a historical perspective, the rise of the United States has been closely related to defining the “other” or “enemy”. During World War II, the United States took Germany, Italy and Japan as the major threat to American security. Because of this identification, the U.S. not only eventually became the most important force against the fascist regimes, but was later able to take the role of maintaining world justice and peace and build a domestic narrative capable of promoting America’s international standing to an unprecedented level. Hence, the ability of the United States to establish a new international order was not only based on its strong military and economic strength, but also deeply influenced by its narrative on the morality and authority of its own foreign policy.
However, after the end of the Cold War, the United States fell into a strategic competitor “vacancy”, which led to a state of strategic confusion. To a large extent, the United States has a deep-rooted “enemy” complex. Thus, the United States has been looking for an enemy in attempting to redefine itself in the process. At the beginning of the 21st century, the United States seemed to find an appropriate “enemy” in China. During the early days of the Bush administration, the aircraft collision incident in April 2001 over the South China Sea seriously damaged the bilateral relationship. But U.S. officials seemed to be excited by the incident, as they thought the U.S. had found a real enemy. In fact, Bush had publicly claimed that China was not America’s strategic partner, but a U.S. strategic competitor. Furthermore, they actively made major strategic adjustments to respond to a purported Chinese threat. A “Return to Asia” policy was only a matter of time.
Quite unexpectedly, 9/11 broke the U.S. strategic plan and the era of global war against terrorism was born. Nevertheless, although the United States “locked” its enemy sights on al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations, it continued to make major strategic investments in traditional nation-state weapons systems. By launching the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States not only dismantled the organization of al-Qaeda, but its forces penetrated and expanded into Central Asia and the Middle East. Besides, in the name of the global war on terrorism, the U.S. widely rented or established military bases in the Caucasus, Africa and labelled key states in each region an “axis of evil” or “outpost of tyranny”, such as Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, among others. All these actions were based on geo-strategic considerations, rather than simply combating terrorism. However, after eight years of the global war on terrorism, it became clear that taking terrorism as the major enemy of the United States was absurd and unsustainable.
By the end of the Bush administration, involvement in two wars, a damaged international image, a troubled U.S. economy and geo-strategic challenges, such as the Russia-Georgia war in August 2008, meant that the US faced a very different environment from 2001. Six years later, the Obama administration faced a similar dilemma: Because of the Ukraine issue, the United States and Russia stood in the centre of the game field once again and the US-Russian “reset” process begun in the Obama’s first term has been suspended. On the surface, the United States seems to be in a relatively passive position and the counter-measures taken by the United States are limited, casting some suspicion on its effectiveness and current role as guarantor of stability in the international system. Thus, the credibility of the political commitment made by the U.S. to its allies has been questioned. President Barack Obama responded to some of these concerns on March 20, 2014, by stressing that “America’s support for our NATO allies is unwavering” when delivering a speech on the issue of Ukraine.
The United States has defined three major objects as its global enemies after the Cold War: China, terrorism, and Russia. Among them, terrorism largely represents a number of political entities such as nation-states in the form of Iran, as well as more diffuse groups, such as ISIS, al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations. After careful observation, we can find that it is only China that has not posed actual or potential challenges to the U.S. hegemonic interests. On the other hand, China has become a U.S. partner in dealing with a number of important international or regional issues. It is undeniable that China and the US have significant differences in ideology, social systems, cultural values, among others. Furthermore, the gap of economic and military strength between the two has narrowed. Competition is, therefore, inevitable. But China doesn’t and won’t challenge American hegemony, but rather seeks to build a new type of relations characterized as “no conflict or confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation”. China wants to avoid the “tragedy of Great Power politics.”
However, such a prospect can not be achieved by China alone. It is crucial to build a correct perception of each other’s identity and contribute to the positive interaction between them. Given the asymmetric relations, it is more important for the United States to form a reasonable and correct assessment of China’s identity. Obviously, taking China as an enemy is the worst option. Joseph Nye once pointed out, if the U.S. treats China as the enemy, it could become a self fulfilling prophesy. This would indeed be the worst possible outcome.
Dr. Chen Jimin is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for International Strategic Studies at the Party School of the Central Committee of the CCP. Image credit: CC by futureatlas.com/Flickr
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Building a Better Winter Dream: Beijing 2022 & the International Olympic Committee
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Written by Christopher J. Finlay.
On December 15th, 2017, Beijing unveiled the official emblem of the Olympic Winter Games. During the unveiling, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach outlined his hope that the emblem, called “Winter Dream”, would bring “the joy of winter sports to a new generation in China and beyond”. This simple sentiment belies a much more complex truth: China is poised to become a central actor in the future of the Olympic Movement. Chinese audiences, businesses and strategic global investments have the potential to fuel a more robust future for the Winter Olympics and the IOC.
At the time of writing, the evolving and tenuous possibility of the IOC-facilitated “Olympic détente” between North and South Korea continues to capture the world’s attention. The 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics appears set to become a central event in this evolving geopolitical drama. This has had the effect, at least briefly, of obscuring two fundamental problems facing the Olympics and it’s many organisational actors: drugs and declining audiences.
The still-developing scandal around Russia’s state-sponsored doping scandal threatens to cast a shadow over the Olympics far beyond the barring of Russian athletes from the 2018 Games. Key questions about the place of doping in athletics, and the intertwining of drugs, nationalism and political brinksmanship have just begun to be explored. Although the IOC promotes itself as an instrument for global peace through initiatives like the Olympic Truce, this scandal has again shown how easily the global media event can be operationalised as a weapon in symbolic warfare.
The second, arguably more pernicious problem facing the IOC is a decades-long pattern of declining interest in the Olympics in key markets, such as the United States and Western Europe. The 2016 Rio Olympics, for example, were the oldest-skewing broadcast in the history of American Games broadcasts, recording a 30% drop in TV viewers under 34 compared to London 2012. The Winter Olympics, which have never been able to capture the same attention as the Summer Games, is facing a similar problem. The median age of viewers for the last Winter Olympics, Sochi 2014, was 55. In effect, as Clio Chang suggests in The New Republic, the Olympics appears to be aging into irrelevance.
For the IOC, audiences are currency. Over 90% of the organization’s revenue comes from Olympic sponsors and Olympics Rights-Holding Broadcasters. Without lucrative (young, upwardly mobile) audiences, the IOC will be unable to sustain the prices they charge advertisers and broadcasters.
Aware of this alarming pattern, the IOC has initiated multiple projects to court younger audiences and new audiences in regions where the Olympics have traditionally underperformed. These tactics include the establishment of the Youth Olympic Games, which was first held in Singapore in 2010; the introduction of new competitions, such as snowboarding and skateboarding, to bridge the gap between “stodgy” Olympic sports and “hipper” X-Games-oriented younger viewers; and significant investment in digital and social media outreach, including the establishment of the Olympic Channel project, which produces and distributes Olympics content throughout the year.
China is central to this strategy of fortifying the Olympic brand through identifying and converting new pools of young Olympics enthusiasts. Beijing 2022 will be the third Asian Olympic host in a row, after Pyeongchang this year and Tokyo in 2020. While the IOC continues to pilot new ways to reach millennials in North America and Europe, it is simultaneously pursuing an aggressive outreach agenda across Asia. An estimated 94% of Chinese viewers watched the Olympic Games in 2008. By contrast, the IOC estimated that only 51% of China’s TV population tuned into the Sochi Winter Games in 2014. If history repeats, and the IOC is certainly betting on it, the Chinese host will deliver a much larger domestic audience in 2022. By working with the Chinese government to successfully facilitate China’s “winter dream”, the IOC is pursuing a dream of its own: an engaged, youthful, upwardly mobile audience that exists outside the shifts in Western generational attitudes towards the Games that continue to threaten IOC revenue.
Partnering with China to build new Olympic markets throughout Asia and beyond is particularly lucrative because the IOC will be able to capitalize on China’s increasing investment in regional and strategic global development and trade.
The 2008 Olympics were largely contextualised globally within a discourse of East-West relations, with key narratives framing the Olympics as China’s coming out party or part of its larger soft power/charm offensive strategy to engage the West. Because of this, the 2008 Beijing Games were all too often measured by Western metrics and norms, ranging from ranging from human rights and environmental standards to ongoing questions about the quality of Chinese infrastructure and the country’s ability to shoulder the responsibility of a global media event.
In 2022, a more powerful and confident China is poised to host the Olympics largely free of the shackles of Western expectations, and instead be able to speak directly to regional and strategic partners and interests on its own terms. This will only be heightened if the United States, Britain and other Western actors continue to follow isolationist paths. Imagine the 2022 Winter Olympics as the “Belt & Road Games”, and the potential new Olympics audiences the IOC could reach by proxy through China’s ambitious regional development investments in Asia, Africa and other related contexts.
In partnering with China’s burgeoning technology industry to build a better Winter Olympics, the IOC has also identified key partners to help them better use technology to reach audiences through mobile networks and social media. In developed countries, digital media is a tool for appealing to younger audiences. But, in developing countries in Asia and Africa, digital media, particularly through mobile platforms, has become the primary method for reaching everyone.
In January 2017, the IOC announced it had reached a $600 million global sponsorship deal with Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company. Alibaba is only the second Chinese company to join the coveted and expensive The Olympic Partner Programme (TOP). As a TOP sponsor, Alibaba will be responsible for Olympics cloud computing services. Importantly, the partnership between the two organizations also extends to the construction of a global e-commerce platform for Olympics stakeholders and a founding partnership in the Olympic Channel. Alibaba’s contributions to the Olympic Channel project are particularly interesting. It is a still nascent outreach effort to use digital platforms and partners to engage young and new global audiences. Most recently, for instance, the IOC announced it will be partnering with Snap to produce and distribute 2018 Winter Games content to Snap’s coveted young user base. As a founding partner in the Olympics Channel, Alibaba is working with the IOC to develop this new product, including the production of customized content for the Chinese market.
Beiing 2022’s “Winter Dream” emblem was designed to evoke what IOC president Bach called “a unique blend of modern and ancient traditions.” On February 25th, 2018, during the Closing Ceremonies in Pyeongchang, when responsibility for the next Winter Games will be officially transferred to Beijing in an elaborate ceremony set to be directed by Zhang Yimou, IOC members will likely be more firmly invested in the modern than the traditional. Hoping to capitalise on the ambitious expansionist interests of the Chinese government, largely untapped new audiences, and the deep pockets and technological entrepreneurialism of the Chinese technology sector, IOC members will be dreaming about how China is going to help build a better Winter Games.
Christopher J. Finlay is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on the Olympic Games, China, new technology, social media, and global politics. His publications on China’s relationship with the Olympics include two chapters in Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China and “Public Diplomacy Games” with Dr. Xin Xin in Sport in Society. His most recent publications include “The Right to Profitable Speech: Olympians, Sponsorship and Social Media Discourse” (2017) and “National Proxy 2.0: Controlling the Social Media of Olympians through National Identification” (2016), both in Communication & Sport. In 2016, he was awarded the Matteo Ricci Fellowship by the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies. Image Credit: CC by Ken Yee/Flickr.
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Management During Natural Disasters
From the Texas oil fields to the Alberta tar sands, the oil industry in North America is currently in crisis, leaving many workers unemployed, including many young workers with little education and no experience working outside the energy sector.
This week, in the midst of the oil industry’s already devastating downfall, one impacted community faced a challenge even greater than the industry’s collapse–a forest fire covering close to half a million acres that can’t be brought under control.
Since last weekend, a fire has been rapidly expanding in and around Fort McMurray, Alberta–a community of approximately 90,000 residents that built up quickly over the past decade as workers from around the world flocked to the town for high-paying jobs in the world’s largest oil patch outside Venezuela and Sauid Arabia. What began as a small forest fire that most residents felt would soon be brought under control, quickly spread wiping out entire sections of the town and forcing some residents to flee their homes with only minutes warning. Now nearly all the town’s residents are displaced with thousands living in schools, church basements, stadiums and other facilities in Edmonton and Calgary located four to seven hours south of the disaster.
While most residents of Fort McMurray fled, some residents stayed to engage in critical work operations and some corporations, including most of the region’s energy sector companies, have also been on the ground attempting to manage not only the safety of their businesses but also the safety and future well being of their employees. Despite the ensuing chaos, there is much to learn from how many of the region’s businesses have responded to the devastation and danger.
The Energy and Airline Industry’s Corporate Collaboration is Saving Lives
When evacuation orders were issued, most residents initially drove south but as the only highway leading out of Fort McMurray was shut down due to the fire, many evacuees were forced to head north instead. Since Fort McMurray is the last major stop on the highway leading north, the only place to go was to the oil refiners, which are primarily located north of the city. Several major producers, including Suncor and Shell, immediately offered shelter to the evacuees in their on-site worker barracks. Unfortunately, as the winds turned, their benevolent act backfired, leaving thousands of evacuees at risk of being trapped north of the city in the oil fields. By the end of the week, the same companies were working hard to to airlift the evacuees to cities far south of Fort McMurray. To accomplish the massive airlift, West Jet, a discount Canadian airline based in Alberta that has benefited greatly from the oil boom and its business, stepped in to help shuttle thousands of evacuees to safety in a single day.
The oil industry and airline industry’s efforts have demonstrated great care, responsibility and corporate collaboration at a critical moment.
Staying Put–The Heroism of Fort McMurray’s Essential Service Workers
While most news stories on the raging forest fire in Fort McMurray have focused on the fire fighters, it is important to bear in mind that fire fighters are not the only people who have remained in the town and on the ground throughout the fire. A small number of workers at the city’s water plant have also stayed on the ground–at times working only fifty feet away from the flames in a control room full of smoke (the workers were reportedly only wearing dust masks)–in order to keep the city’s water system operating and the reservoirs full so fire fighters can continue to fight the fire within the city limits. As one supervisor from the plant who stayed behind for the first five days explained, “We care, and it’s hard to stop caring. We know keeping the water going is important for the firefighters, and we’re there for them as much as they’re here for us.”
For the time being, oil operations–1 million barrels per day–have come to a total halt in the region just north of Fort McMurray, and the halt is already causing reverberations around the world as oil prices, especially in North America, surge.
As the fire continues to burn through the region’s northern forests, reports of best practices in management remind everyone that taking care of workers is important both in and beyond the workplace, and this is especially true in the face of natural disasters.
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