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June 14, 2017 at 5:25 pm EDT | by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Parade protest could be ‘big expense’ for Capital Pride
Protesters blocked the Pride parade on Saturday, delaying some contingents for hours. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)
A decision by a group of protesters to block the path of the Capital Pride parade on June 10 in three separate locations could result in an additional “big expense” to the Capital Pride organization, according to its president, Bernie Delia.
Delia and Capital Pride Executive Director Ryan Bos said the blocking of the parade carried out by the group No Justice No Pride delayed the completion of the parade by at least two hours if not longer.
Under a longstanding D.C. government policy for organizations sponsoring parades or festivals, organizers of those events are required to pay a fee to cover the costs of deploying police officers to oversee the closing of streets and redirecting motor vehicle traffic.
The police department’s Special Operations Division charges event organizers based on the number of officers required for an event and the amount of hours an event lasts, said police spokesperson Rachel Reid.
No Justice No Pride leaders said they conducted the parade blocking protest after Capital Pride officials declined to agree to two key demands by the group – that they prohibit uniformed police officers and certain corporations from marching or riding in floats in the parade.
The group’s spokesperson, Drew Ambrogi, said No Justice No Pride stopped the parade by deploying its members to stand in the path of the parade in front of three targeted contingents – the D.C. police LGBT Liaison Unit, a float sponsored by the Lockheed Martin defense contracting corporation, and a float sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank.
The group said it wanted uniformed police banned from the parade because they symbolize police abuse and oppression of LGBT people of color, especially transgender women of color.
A contingent of “queer black women of color stepped in front of the police to highlight the threat of abuse and state violence that LGBTQ2S people of color experience,” the group said in a statement.
No Justice No Pride members said Lockheed Martin and Wells Fargo were singled out because they symbolize defense contractors that build weapons of war and a bank that has helped to finance the Dakota Access Pipeline that, among other things, desecrated lands considered sacred to indigenous peoples and is harmful to the environment.
D.C. police, under the direction of Police Chief Peter Newsham, who was on the scene, chose not to arrest the protesters and instead rerouted the parade, which resulted in long delays in parade contingents reaching the end of the parade route at 14th and R Streets, N.W.
A D.C. Metropolitan Police Department statement in response to an inquiry from the Washington Blade said police anticipated the possibility of a disruption of the parade and were prepared to “ensure the safety and security of everyone involved while permitting everyone to exercise their First Amendment rights.”
The statement added, “It is our common practice to provide those exercising their First Amendment rights a safe and secure place to do so. As long as a First Amendment assembly is peaceful, MPD makes every effort to facilitate that expression of rights, while also ensuring the safety and security of the community.”
Delia told the Blade on Tuesday he couldn’t immediately provide a specific amount that Capital Pride would be required to pay the city due to the longer period in which police had to keep surrounding streets closed because of the protests.
“I don’t recall the exact figure,” he said referring to the overall cost of police services for street closings associated with the Capital Pride parade. “It’s a big expense,” he said.
Delia disputed claims by No Justice No Pride members that negotiations between Capital Pride and No Justice No Pride representatives took place at the site where the group blocked the parade for an hour or more. No Justice No Pride representatives said in a statement that Capital Pride refused to agree to any of the group’s demands.
“We engaged in discussions on Saturday night, but no one undertook any negotiations,” Delia said in a statement. “That time and that setting were not conducive to engaging in a meaningful dialogue that properly involves the entire community,” he said.
“The Capital Pride Alliance had repeatedly committed to continue to look at all the issues that have been raised, but we believe now is the time for us to work with other Washington, D.C. groups and broaden the conversation to find a way forward,” he said.
“After a weekend of events where hundreds of thousands of members of the LGBTQ+ community and allied community came together to protest, gather in community, and celebrate, it is time for the full breadth of organizations and LGBTQ+ communities that they serve, protect, and advocate for to collectively look at the challenges and opportunities before us,” Delia said in his statement.
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Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Lou Chibbaro Jr. has reported on the LGBT civil rights movement and the LGBT community for more than 30 years, beginning as a freelance writer and later as a staff reporter and currently as Senior News Reporter for the Washington Blade. He has chronicled LGBT-related developments as they have touched on a wide range of social, religious, and governmental institutions, including the White House, Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, the military, local and national law enforcement agencies and the Catholic Church. Chibbaro has reported on LGBT issues and LGBT participation in local and national elections since 1976. He has covered the AIDS epidemic since it first surfaced in the early 1980s. Follow Lou
Observing U
June 14, 2017 at 6:25 pm EDT at 6:25 pm
This is why we can’t have nice events.
Kurt 20008
June 15, 2017 at 9:50 am EDT at 9:50 am
ngblog
June 15, 2017 at 11:05 am EDT at 11:05 am
Capital Pride should file charges and have #NoJusticeNoPride compensate for their losses.
leemwhitman
Sue the individual members of NJNP to cover the expenses. Actions have consequences.
They’re all anti-capitalist so chances are they’re all broke too.
Robert Riddle
June 15, 2017 at 12:19 pm EDT at 12:19 pm
Why is an article based on “could” even considered newsworthy? By any true journalistic standard, it isn’t. Thus, the reader is left to question the editors’ motivation for publishing such a piece.
Adam Miramon
The money lost was Capital Pride’s own fault. No Justice No Pride came to them early enough so that changes they could make changes, and they dismissed us and our concerns. What did they think was going to happen? . . . that we would go home and cry because daddy said “no.” They need to get over themselves. No Justice No Pride’s concerns are important and they need to be addressed.
Suzan Cooke
Nothing like threats and blackmail. Go demonstrate against your actual enemies.
uhhuhh
Please grow up.
And when you’re wailing and pouting that LGBT police officers “trigger” you, you deserve to be treated like the child you are.
How adult of you. I’m not the one triggered here.
Their demands are outrageous and most of them not even possible. You don’t get to barge into an organization and start making threats and blackmail, then be absolved of your guilt when your petty protest costs the group money. Sadly, these people don’t have any money so there’s little chance of recouping it. But I’d say the next time this group gets it in their mind to do this again, they be shown a lot less tolerance.
RoughRugger
Um…that fact that you brought your “concerns” to them does not obligate them to indulge those concerns. Just like when you ask Daddy, the answer can be “yes” OR “no”. Now you’ve pitched your tantrum about receiving an answer you didn’t like and should rightly have to face the consequences of that tantrum.
WOW! Y’all’s true colors are showing . . . Please take a moment to reflect.
For some members of the LGBTQIA2S community, their struggle is literally life and death . . . EVERY DAY. If you are critical of the actions of No Justice No Pride, then you were never an ally to the entire transgender community or queer people of color.
It is important for those of us in positions of privilege to check our privilege . . . whether it be race, gender, class, financial, education, etc . . . before we are critical of political actions that have brought the racism, classism, transphobia, and colonialism to the surface of the LGBTQIA2S.
Please take a moment to reflect on the slight inconvenience you may have experienced on a Saturday afternoon when compared with being afraid for your life every single day.
Do any of the queers here remember the fear you felt when forced to live in the closet?
Now imagine NOT having that closet because you can’t hide your skin color or your gender.
If you demand that visible LGBT police officers be banned from the parade, you need to check your exclusionary prejudice and your toddler entitlement syndrome.
Bobby K
I believe the demand was “uniformed” officers from participating in the parade. That is different than people who are officers participating.
You do realized that Pride was born out of a riot against oppression . . . specifically the police?
While we are in a period of transition with LGBT units on police forces, there is still much work that need to be done outside of the unit.
Here is an article that discusses the topic: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/identities/2017/6/14/15768274/police-lgbtq-pride-stonewall
Tensely
Ha! Ha! You get your history information from vox.com?
Try talking to your elders and engage in the community…wow jsut shows how ignorant and entitled millennials are
Come back when you know your history…Stonewall was a catalyst. But not the first riot or protest in the US.
Plus Stonewall was almost 50 years ago..we can go back 50 years if you’d like …butnit means you’d need to get rid of your phone and vox.com website …..
Yes. Stonewall was a catalyst . . . it is also the event that gave birth to Pride. It was an uprising against police oppression and societal oppression. It disrupted the every day lives of New Yorkers. So why has Pride become a walking billboard for any company or entity that wants our queer dollars? Why are Pride’s not focusing on those in our community who are still suffering and dying from that same oppression?
I’ve been out of the closet for over 30 years and have been taught by LGBTQ elders from both coasts. I have many LGBTQ history books but my fave is The Gay Revolution.
I’m not the one hiding behind a no-pic one-name profile. I’m not the one who needs to get over myself.
I see how it is . . . you silence comments that you don’t agree with . . . how . . . diplomatic.
Since you don’t like vox.com . . . How about The Guardian . . . https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/12/get-corporate-america-police-units-out-pride-marches OR The Advocate . . . https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/4/26/pride-fests-too-corporate-danger-being-left-behind.
There is a lot of discussion about corporate sponsorship and police presence in Pride celebrations
Mark S. King
Now that police expenses are involved, the amount of time DC Pride claims the parade was delayed has risen precipitously. Earliest reports claimed the parade was only slightly delayed, given the preparation of DC Pride and cops. Then it was described as “an hour or more” just yesterday by The Blade. And now, “at least two hours if not longer,” now that there are costs involved. Really? Wasn’t this the largest Pride parade ever in DC, which typically last hours anyway? Aren’t you blaming protestors for your infinite parade as a way to further vilify them? I don’t agree with their demands, but I sure do support their first amendment rights.
I was toward the end of the route, we waited for an hour before we knew anything. At 7;30, we had yet to see even half the parade, most people gave up and left. First amendment rights are one thing but those rights don’t include a right to disrupt public events and cause financial damages to community organizations. They can have their free speech in a location that doesn’t disrupt the parade. Their goal was not really about free speech, their goal WAS TO DISRUPT the parade. Speech was just the excuse.
lnm3921
Good point and if they can get away with this why can’t anti-gay protestors do the same?
Can you do the same at the March for life for abortion protestors or the Faith and Values conference and call it just first amendment rights protest? We’ve always had counter demonstrators segregated from us.
These people don’t care. They don’t have money and don’t think anyone else should either. What they really want is to make pride a party all to themselves and if the organization goes bankrupt in the process, they’ll be just fine. It’s a really selfish and self-righteous plucky little group they have assembled, to rage against the machine. *eyeroll*
rusty Shackleford
There are pictures and videos of CP negotiating with NJNP. The last blockade stayed in position for maybe 2 hours. Around 9PM CP agreed to 2 of the demands and agreed to come in good faith to negotiations with the organizers within 60 days
Understandable that many in our community have complicated and differing opinions but at least give a factual overview of what happened so our community can engage honestly with our differing opinions
Since it was the police department’s decision not to arrest and remove the obstructions but to re-route and delay the parade, the police department is responsible for the delay.
So many direct quotes from Delia, so few from NJNP. Even if Delia’s quotes came from a press release, and NJNP didn’t submit one, it seems that fairer reporting would be achieved by balancing the amount of coverage. Lou, did you reach out to members of NJNP for comment on this story? Or if your editors felt that this story is more about the costs of the parade and it didn’t need opinions from NJNP, have you ran any stories about their feelings, actions, reactions to the protest? As a reader of the Blade, I’d be very interested in learning that information. Last point, it’s a little sensational to use Delia’s quote, “big expense” in the headline, when he can’t even recall what the amount is. Seems like you’re using his impression of what a “big expense” is without verifying it.
brian_manDC
Disagree with giving NJNP more space just to “balance the amount of coverage.” This is important: everyone should know that, of the many tens of thousands of participants in Saturday’s Pride overall event, NJNP was significantly less than 1%. I was all over the Pride parade event, and also saw the NJNP protests. Giving the fairly small (though rude and screechy) NJNP protesters more coverage would have exaggerated their significance to the many readers who were not present, and thereby would have fed NJNP more of the attention and credibility they so desperately crave.
Kemwit Tall Tree
NJNP just did more damage to the gay community in DC then Trump or the Republicans could ever dream. Destroy the community events and destroy any sense of unity amongst the gay community! Divide and conquer!
Congratulations NJNP, you do great work for your REAL enemies!
So . . . I have had several replies to comments deleted . . . It is clear that the moderators of this comment thread do no want to foster dialogue and choose to attack comments that do not align with theirs . . . How diplomatic.
If the police didn’t arrest the NJNP people ( and I don’t think they should have. I don’t agree with them, but it was their first amendment right) then why should Capital Pride be charged? It was the cheif’s decision.
But it’s says “could be” and I agree with another posters. Lou’s reporting has gotten sloppy.
Also from following this from fairly early on, Cathy Renna hasn’t done a very good job as a spokesperson for Pride. I know board members, volunteers, producers…she was hired for PR. And she never hiligthed the GOOD things. The Pride in DC is more than those 2 days. I recall the Pride 365 theme. There are Pride events year round.
JPeron
There is a contingent of “activists” who accomplish nothing but try to destroy things out of spite. They should be arrested and fined. What gives them the right to issue “demands” to the entire community to put up with their petulant bullshit.
It’s really too bad you are out of touch with LGBTQ2S+ history . . . Have you forgotten Stonewall (a catalyst of the “Gay Revolution”) was a riot against the police led by trans women of color? Have you forgotten that ACT UP blocked Pride parades in the 1990s to bring attention to the HIV/AIDS crisis?
It must be nice (aka privileged) to be able to ignore our collective LGBTQ2S+ history so easily with QPOC are dying in the streets.
I am secure in knowing which side of history NJNP stands on. Can you say the same with such bravado confidence?
Finally, since when were you elected Czar allowing you to make decrees such as banning NJNP participants from Dupont/Logan and guaranteeing police presence in the parade?
Check yourself man. Check your privilege. History is watching.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sept. 12, 2009 -- Environmental Defense Fund is disappointed that the California legislature was unable to reach agreement on the proposed water policy legislation...
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"There are hard decisions to be made, but there are solutions that can get us on the right track and we owe it to future generations and hard-hit farming communities to make those decisions as soon as possible," said Cynthia Koehler, senior consulting attorney to EDF.
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MKULTRA Scientist Ewen Cameron and His Prize Subject, Rudolf Hess
January 30, 2018 Russ Winter Articles by Russ Winter, Crime, Hidden History, International News, Winter Watch Articles 4
AMKULTRA mind control and brainwashing project headed by Sidney Gottlieb began on the order of CIA Director Allen Welsh Dulles on April 13, 1953. But its techniques dated back to WWII under the direction of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron (1901-1967).
The scope of Project MKULTRA was broad, with research undertaken at 80 institutions, including 44 colleges and universities, as well as hospitals, prisons and pharmaceutical companies. The CIA operated through these institutions using front organizations, although sometimes top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA’s involvement. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that subsequent CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed in 1973.
Some authors cite that the CIA’s KUBARK interrogation manual refers to “studies at McGill University” and that most of the techniques recommended in KUBARK are exactly those that researcher Cameron used on his test subjects: sensory deprivation, drugs, isolation, etc. [Alfred McCoy’s “A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror” 2006].
Note: source for first section are extracted from Spartacus.
Dr. Ewen Cameron: Turning Loose a Monster
Cameron’s claim to fame was torturing and experimenting on the minds of his human subjects. For this, he became — at least in his lifetime — a heavy hitter. Demonstrating in spades the twisted and inverted world in which we live, in 1961 Cameron was appointed president of the World Psychiatric Association. He was also president of the American and Canadian psychiatric associations.
He experimented on his human guinea pigs with various paralytic drugs, as well as electroconvulsive therapy at 30 to 40 times the normal power. His “driving” experiments consisted of putting subjects into a drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case), while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the institute for minor problems, such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression. Many suffered permanent damage from his actions. His treatments resulted in victims’ incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents and thinking their interrogators were their parents. Cameron’s work inspired other goons, such as British psychiatrist William Sargant, who paralleled his work at St Thomas’ Hospital in London and Belmont Hospital in Surrey.
His abuses at McGill have been in some part revealed, and can be reviewed in this video.
In 1938, Cameron was appointed professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Albany State Medical School. It was at Albany that Cameron conducted research into sensory deprivation and memory. The Albany Medical Center was the only Level 1 trauma center and academic medical center for the 25-county region between New York and Montreal. Yet, there is almost nothing online about its history during this time period.
During WWII, Cameron began working for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). However, in 1943, he went to Canada and established the psychiatry department at Montreal’s McGill University and became director of the newly created, Rockefeller Foundation-funded Allan Memorial Institute. Here, he was a key member of the Truth Drug Committee.
We know that well before 1947 he was using the “de-patterning” technique to erase patients’ memories. Cameron believed that after inducing complete amnesia in a patient, he could then selectively recover their memory in such a way as to change their behavior “unrecognizably.” In other words, Cameron was giving them a new past, rebuilding their psyche completely.
According to his research assistant, Dr. Peter Roper, “[Cameron] had a technician, one Leonard Rubenstein, who modified cassettes so there was an endless tape. It could keep repeating itself for hours at a time. If Cameron could give a positive message, eventually a patient would respond to it.” Cameron would play the tapes to his patients for up to 86 days, as they slipped in and out of insulin-induced comas.
In the late 1940s, Cameron developed his de-patterning theory. The inspiration for this was the British psychiatrist William Sargent, who Cameron considered to be the leading expert on Soviet brainwashing techniques.
They were particularly interested in “resistant sources” as test subjects. The Soviets and western allies had unlimited fodder for breaking and experimenting on the “hard cases” with the multitude of Axis POWs. Most of these captive test subjects were used up, never to be be seen again.
So well before he unethically fried the brain of his regular patients in Montreal, Cameron was brought in to rewire the brains and do “mental hygiene” on the losers of WWII. What a coinkydink. Joe Atwell and Jan Irvin dissect this aspect in the following segment at minutes 26:04 to 29:50.
The Case of Rudolf Hess
There is every indication that Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess — who was also known as “The Conscious of National Socialism” — flew to Scotland on a desperate-but-failed peace mission in May, 1941. (That may be an article for another day.) Upon his arrival and thereafter, he was kept in near solitary confinement until he was suicided in 1987 at the age of 93, just before he was due to be released from prison.
I suggest that Hess was reduced by Cameron and his British colleagues into a blubbering and broken man as performance art to embarrass the other co-defendants, to reinforce the “crazy Hess” narrative and to deflect away from his courageous peace mission. He was seated right next to Goering throughout the Nuremberg trials. Cameron also was tasked with removing Hess’ memory of past events. This is why, in 1946, Hess was unable to recognize his former friends and colleagues, such as Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop.
Von Ribbentrop responded by suggesting that Hess was not really Hess. When told of something that Hess had said, and he replied, “Hess, you mean Hess? The Hess we have here?” [J. R. Rees, “The Case of Rudolf Hess,” page 169]
When he came face to face with Hermann Göring at Nuremberg, Hess remarked, “Who are you?” Göring reminded him of events that they witnessed in the past, but Hess continued to insist that he did not know this man.
Karl Haushofer was then called in; but even though they had been friends for 20 years, Hess once again failed to remember him.
Hess replied, “I just don’t know you, but it will all come back to me, and then I will recognize an old friend again. I am terribly sorry.” [Peter Padfield, “Hess: The Führer’s Disciple,” page 305]
However, Maj. Douglas M. Kelley, the American psychiatrist who was responsible for Hess during the trials, stated that he did have periods when he did remember his past. This included a detailed account of his flight to Scotland. Hess told Kelley that he had arrived without the knowledge of Hitler. Hess claimed that “only he could get the English King or his representatives to meet with Hitler and make peace so that millions of people and thousands of villages would be spared.” [J. R. Rees, “The Case of Rudolf Hess,” page 168]
The reaction of fellow prisoners was confused and not so enthusiastic. Göring was amazed and upset; and while he enjoyed the frustration of the court, he demonstrated considerable resentment that he had been so completely fooled. Von Schirach felt that such behavior was not the action of a normal man; and, while he enjoyed Hess’s jest upon the world, felt that it was not a gesture expected of a good German, whose position was as important as that of Hess. Ribbentrop became quite agitated and seemed to feel such action was not possible.
He stated, “But Hess did not know me. I looked at him. I talked to him. Obviously he did not know me. It is just not possible. Nobody could fool me like that.”
Years later, clues emerged. In a letter to his wife dated Jan. 15, 1944, Hess wrote:
I have been sitting here for literally several hours, wondering what I can write to you about. But I get no further; and that I regret to say is for a very special reason. Since sooner or later, you will notice it or find out about it, I may as well tell you: I have completely lost my memory. The reason for it I do not know. The doctor gave me a lengthy explanation, but I have meanwhile forgotten what it was.
Cameron and the OSS were doing this during WWII. Cameron was suspected of having been given access to Hess starting in 1943, but for certain in 1945. Before 1943, it was the British working Hess over. Hess and other captured hardcore Germans were this crew’s guinea pigs.
In this linked video, there is a presentation entitled the “Psychiatric Enigma of Rudolf Hess” based on his mental hospital internment before Nuremberg. It’s disingenuous, but there is important evidence here that “experts” ignore.
Starting on June 26, 1942, Hess was held at a small facility called Maindiff Court. Wikipedia points out that this facility had “electroconvulsive therapy treatment” and the Gwent Specialist Substance Misuse Service on site. Hess was “treated” by John Rawlings Rees, who was director of the notorious Tavistock Clinic. Rees was later president of the World Federation for Mental Health. Hess’ diaries record many meetings with Rees and Henry Dicks (also Tavistock) in which Hess accused his captors of attempting to poison, drug and “mesmerize” him.
In 1945 to 1946 after working over Hess, Dicks advised the Control Commission for Germany on de-Nazification and reseached so-called “collective psychopathology of authoritarian regimes.” He was a British physician of partial Jewish decent who moved in Freudian circles and thus injected that quackery (see Sigmund Fraud: the Father of Psychoanalysis and Neurotic Charlatan) into these projects, even hypotheising that Hess and Hitler were homosexual lovers, blah, blah, blah.
As people in the audience yucked it up, we learn by sheer coinkydink that hospital records admit to giving truth serums and observing “patient” paranoia and atypical amnesia that made no sense. “Paranoid” Hess thought he was given neurotoxins in his food. See The Use of the Neurotoxin Fluoride for Influencing Brain Function. He stated that he was worked over by strange glassy-eyed freakish individuals that in his so-called “paranoia” he felt were Jews. Who knows what drugs were administered to Hess, but this is not too dissimilar to what McGill’s victims described.
Where have we heard all this before? McGill? Ewen Cameron? Yes, that’s the ticket. If it wasn’t Cameron directly, it was his colleagues. We also learn at minute 43:30 that Hess, once in prison, started writing lucid, poetic letters home and demonstrated reasonable memory. Then they go into why Hess, right as he was about to be declared not fit to stand trial, suddenly proclaimed he was fine and had been pulling a ruse. But there is even logic to that when you consider he wanted to stay in the spotlight rather than go back to Cameron’s tortuous experiments.
Hess wrote to Oswald Mosley:
I have been imprisoned for four years now with lunatics, and had been at the mercy of their torture without being able to inform anybody of this. But the worst were the doctors, who employed their scientific knowledge for the most refined tortures.
I was given reports by British Consulates about the treatment of Jews in Germany according to … Jews. [I was told I was being treated] “like the Gestapo treats their political enemies.” … It was typical of the Jews to claim that their enemies did what they did themselves.
Apart from the chemical that caused toothache, there was unmistakably a strong laxative and a poison that irritated the mucous membrane in the strongest possible manner. The last was responsible for my nose stopping itself up with congealed blood, that I had a hemorrhage in my mouth, and that my bowels burned like fire. The doctor could not hide his satisfaction when there were signs of a hemorrhage in my intestines.
They had been hypnotized to torture me until I became crazy and finally to kill me; to do everything in such a manner that nothing could possibly be proven and that my complaints could be explained by auto suggestion.
[Bernard Hutton’s “Hess: the Man and his Mission,” 1970 (pp.160-165)]
At the trial, Hess faded in and out. It was not overtly jest. But also remember that Hess was a consummate political infighter with a high degree of cleverness, even in his reduced state. Some of the survivors of Cameron’s mad science at McGill in the 1950s were the same way.
At minute 4:02, the diminished Hess post-Cameron can be seen in court. Starting at 7:40, there is an informative interview with his former American warden, Eugene K. Bird, who became a close friend. Bird wrote a book about Hess’ imprisonment titled “The Loneliest Man in the World” (which I’m unable to locate in .pdf, the paperback is expensive, and there’re no other videos on Youtube). He describes Hess as very introverted, isolated but lucid in his old age.
Most curiously and amazingly, after sitting slumped and disoriented through the Nuremberg trail, Hess mustered his old spirit and defiance in his closing statement before sentencing. This is highly revealing. It was as if to say to the court, as an expression of his remaining human dignity “go ahead give me your best shot.” So it appears, at least in a sense, that broken and tortured Rudolf Hess was yet one more failed experiment of the quack Dr. Ewen Cameron and the British Tavistock “doctors”.
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4 Comments on MKULTRA Scientist Ewen Cameron and His Prize Subject, Rudolf Hess
bob saffron January 31, 2018 at 6:02 am
Although even modest funding of several hundred thousand is apparently hard to source, some historians and survivors are determined to document the Pitesti Experiment, surely one of the worst gulags in an embarrassment of riches.
http://www.thegenocideofthesouls.org/public/english/video-historians/
I grow ever fonder of Richard Nixon.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/28/secondworldwar.usa
Roy Hobs January 30, 2018 at 6:32 pm
There better be an Afterlife!!!
Mudhole January 30, 2018 at 6:21 pm
Sidney Gottlieb was using Norwegian prisoners of war for horrible medical experiments in 1945. This was likely the real beginning of MK Ultra.
The British had numerous torture chambers where they did diabolical medical experiments on German prisoners. Rudolf Hess was but one of thousands of men who suffered torture and mind control experiments in these so-called “cages”. There were 13 cages in all, if memory serves. Most of the victims were apparently tortured to death, and as Churchill destroyed 90% of British intelligence records at the end of the war, very little information is left on this horrible episode.
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Football Legend Andres Iniesta Signs Lifetime Contract With Barcelona
Barcelona icon and captain, Andres Iniesta has agreed to stay with the Spanish giant until his final days in football.
The Spanish midfielder who started playing with the Barcelona youth team in 1996 before progressing to the senior side in 2002 signed a 'contract for life' at the club's Camp Nou stadium on Friday.
Barca for life! Football legend Andres Iniesta signs lifetime contract with Barcelona?The loyal Barcelona star has said in the past: 'If I'm not playing for Barcelona I would not be able to play against them'. It's now obvious that will never happen as he puts pen to paper on a deal that will see him see out his football career in Europe at Barcelona.
So far, Andres Iniesta has made 418 appearances, including scoring 34 goals for the Barcelona and he has won 30 trophies with the club.
In football, Iniesta is widely considered to be one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest midfielders of all time.
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Most Excellent Grand Superintendent
John M. Phenix
John M Phenix is the Most Excellent Grand Superintendent and was appointed at the meeting of Provincial Grand Chapter in April 2019.
He was Initiated into Ogley Hay Lodge No. 8917 (Staffordshire) in 1988 and became a Joining Member of The Lodge of Bon Accord No. 4935 at Kings Heath in 2003. He was Provincial Junior Grand Warden in 2011 and honoured with the Grand Rank of PAGDC in 2018.
In the Royal Arch, John was Exalted into Wigornia Chapter No. 4935 in 1991 and installed as MEZ in 1998, 2004 & 2009. He has served the Province as Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies from 2007-11, Prov. Grand Joshua 2014, Prov. Grand Haggai 2016-17 and was appointed Deputy Grand Superintendent in April 2018 and Most Excellent Grand Superintendent in April 2019
John is an active member of several further Lodges, Chapters and other Orders. Married to Sandra, he lives in Staffordshire and lists his interests as walking, reading, music and his many friends.
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The 2019 Distinguished Graduate Awards
During the last week of April and into the beginning of May, the United States Military Academy at West Point celebrated the first-ever “Commitment to Service” week, a series of events (from the Grant Statue dedication to the Coach K Awards dinner) that highlighted the theme of a lifetime of selfless service to the nation, to the community, and to others. Speaking at the Distinguished Graduate Award (DGA) Luncheon, which honored the five graduates recognized in 2019, as well as welcomed the more than 740 graduates who returned to their alma mater for spring reunions, Lieutenant General Darryl Williams ’83, the 60th Superintendent of West Point, remarked that “Commitment to Service” weeks should be expanded to the DGA event. “I can’t think of a better way to inspire cadets to service than to have them spend a few minutes with this year’s DGA recipients,” Williams said, noting that if there were ever a “Who’s Who” or hall of fame for selfless service, it would be filled by the five Distinguished Graduates for 2019: General (Retired) David A. Bramlett ’64, Colonel (Retired) Victor Garcia M.D. ’68, Lieutenant General (Retired) Robert L. VanAntwerp ’72, General (Retired) Walter L. “Skip” Sharp ’74, and Lieutenant General (Retired) Robert L. Caslen Jr. ’75. [SEE PHOTOS]
In his few minutes with cadets, Sharp said he would reiterate the lesson of hard work. “I’m living proof that if you work your tail off, you get back a million-fold what you’ve put in,” Sharp said. He also said that he would remind cadets of the honor, privilege, and responsibility of serving with soldiers and protecting the United States. “It’s such a great honor.”
Caslen, who served as Superintendent to three-quarters of the Corps still present at the Academy and humbly noted that he is receiving his DGA because of what they accomplished, would pass along several lessons to cadets, all involving “character,” his signature issue. “A leader needs to set the conditions so that trust is sustained and exists, and trust is function of competence and character, so the leaders in the military must be men and women of character, because if they fail in character, they fail in leadership,” Caslen said.
VanAntwerp, who was a First Captain when Caslen was a plebe (“He was my mail runner!) said that he would pass along three lessons for leaderships to cadets: 1) invest in relationships to build trust, 2) become a great communicator, and 3) develop a “get to” attitude in order to recognize the things you are privileged to do. Explaining this last point, VanAntwerp said, “When I got up this morning, I asked, ‘What do I get to do today,’ and realized that I get to celebrate my DGA with about 60 family members and classmates…it’s a great day.”
Garcia said he would instruct cadets to have insatiable curiosity, develop competence, and exhibit compassion and empathy for the people whom they serve. “We all came here to be transformed as cadets, to become leaders,” Garcia said, “and the art of leadership is getting others to want to follow you in a sense that they are doing something for a greater purpose.” For Garcia, this means not only defending the freedoms of this country but also tackling critical social challenges such as rising inequality and disparities.
“This year’s DGA class represents nearly 175 years of combined service in uniform,” said the Superintendent, “to say nothing of the decades of experience and service beyond their Army careers.”
The DGA is given to graduates whose character, distinguished service, and stature draw wholesome comparison to the qualities for which West Point strives, in keeping with its motto: “Duty, Honor, Country.” Bramlett, who was in the mess hall as a yearling in 1962 and heard General Douglas MacArthur, Class of 1903, deliver his famous Thayer Award speech, colloquially known as “the Duty, Honor, Country speech,” said that those values unite all 2019 DGA recipients. “When you look at the biographies of these five graduates, what can one divine about what links them together?” Bramlett posed. “Throughout their lives you’ll see themes of service, commitment, and of course, duty.” The perfect themes for any “Commitment to Service” event.
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Updated Friday 06 Jul 13:14
West Ham Ladies catch goalkeeper Anna Moorhouse
West Ham United Ladies are delighted to announce the signing of goalkeeper Anna Moorhouse from Arsenal.
Moorhouse joins the Club after spending the Spring Series and the 2017/18 Women’s Super League campaign with the Gunners, making nine appearances.
“I’m really happy to be at West Ham,” Moorhouse told whufc.com. “I’m so glad the move has gone smoothly. This is the club I really want to be at, so it’s all really good.”
General manager Karen Ray is delighted to bring in the young yet experienced goalkeeper in to the West Ham side, sighting her experience as a valuable resource for the Irons.
I’m so glad the move has gone smoothly. This is the club I really want to be at, so it’s all really good.
Anna Moorhouse
Ray said: “Anna brings a wealth of professionalism and experience having played at Arsenal, one of the most decorated women’s football teams in England. The team will not only benefit from her height and distribution, but her determination to consistently develop in a competitive and exciting environment.
“I speak on behalf of everyone at the club when I say how happy we are to have secured the signing of Anna and we look forward to supporting her new journey as a Hammer.”
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Originally starting her professional career with Everton Ladies, Moorhouse moved to Durham. After spending a season with the Wildcats, the 23-year-old headed to the Keepmoat Stadium to join up with Doncaster Rovers Belles.
Arsenal were impressed by the young goalkeeper and she transferred to the Gunners ahead of the Spring Series. Moorhouse spent just over year with Arsenal before linking up with her new teammates in east London.
Moorhouse has cited the Club’s ambition ahead of the new Women’s Super League season as one of the key reasons she joined the Irons.
Moorhouse said: “It’s a club that has got a lot of plans, a lot of ambition and I like that. They’ve got the infrastructure in place and it’s a good time to be at the club.
“It’s a fresh start for everyone. Matt (Beard) has come in and said everyone is on a level field, everyone can play, and everyone’s got a chance. It’s just something that appealed to me straight off.”
With Becky Spencer joining from Chelsea earlier in June, Moorhouse becomes the second goalkeeper to sign for the Irons this summer.
Now with first-team places up for grabs in the new side, Moorhouse is looking forward to the competition she’ll have with Spencer for the number one shirt.
“You’ve got to have that relationship, you’ve got to be competitive with each other, you’ve got to push each other. At the end of the day there’s one shirt on the pitch and there’s one shirt on the bench, it’ll be good competition. I’ll give everything. I’ve been waiting a long time.”
Having spent two years in north London, the 23-year-old is hoping to implement her playing style in to her new side.
“I like to play with my feet, I like it when defenders trust me to play with my feet. I like to play with my feet, save shots and just be a keeper.
Moorhouse went on to describe her personality on the pitch: “I’m quite relaxed, if they’ve (the defenders) done something, they’ll know about it, but I’m quite relaxed in that aspect. I’m not going to scream my head off at them, but if it needs to be done, it needs to be done.”
With pre-season now well under way for the Hammers for their first season in the WSL, Moorhouse spoke about the team’s early plans.
“The first thing is to settle in with the girls, we’re a new group. I think we’re gelling quite well at the moment, we just need time to settle in and we can go from there.”
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For other uses, see Department store (disambiguation).
Interior of Le Bon Marché in Paris
A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different product categories known as "departments". In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic appearance in the middle of the 19th century, and permanently reshaped shopping habits, and the definition of service and luxury. Similar developments were under way in London (with Whiteleys), in Paris (Le Bon Marché in 1852) and in New York (with Stewart's).[1]
Today, departments often include the following: clothing, furniture, home appliances, toys, cosmetics, houseware, gardening, toiletries, sporting goods, do it yourself, paint, and hardware. Additionally, other lines of products such as food, books, jewelry, electronics, stationery, photographic equipment, baby products, and products for pets are sometimes included. Customers generally check out near the front of the store, although some stores include sales counters within each department. Some stores are one of many within a larger retail chain, while others are independent retailers. In the 1970s, they came under heavy pressure from discounters, and have come under even heavier pressure from e-commerce sites since 2010. Big-box stores, hypermarkets, and discount stores are comparable to historical department stores.
The origins of the departmental store lay in the growth of the conspicuous consumer society at the turn of the 19th century. As the Industrial Revolution accelerated economy expansion, the affluent middle-class grew in size and wealth. Urbanized social groups, sharing a culture of consumption and changing fashions, were the catalyst for the retail revolution. As rising prosperity and social mobility increased the number of people, especially women (who found they could shop unaccompanied at department stores without damaging their reputation),[2] with disposable income in the late Georgian period, window shopping was transformed into a leisure activity and entrepreneurs, like the potter Josiah Wedgwood, pioneered the use of marketing techniques to influence the prevailing tastes and preferences of society.[3] Department stores also often featured post services, childcare services, restaurants and other services that appealed to female shoppers.[4]
One of the first department stores may have been Bennett's in Derby, first established as an ironmonger (hardware shop) in 1734.[5] It still stands to this day, trading in the same building. However, the first reliably dated department store to be established, was Harding, Howell & Co, which opened in 1796 on Pall Mall, London.[6] An observer writing in Ackermann's Repository, a British periodical on contemporary taste and fashion, described the enterprise in 1809 as follows:
The house is one hundred and fifty feet in length from front to back, and of proportionate width. It is fitted up with great taste, and is divided by glazed partitions into four departments, for the various branches of the extensive business, which is there carried on. Immediately at the entrance is the first department, which is exclusively appropriated to the sale of furs and fans. The second contains articles of haberdashery of every description, silks, muslins, lace, gloves, &etc. In the third shop, on the right, you meet with a rich assortment of jewelry, ornamental articles in ormolu, french clocks, &etc.; and on the left, with all the different kinds of perfumery necessary for the toilette. The fourth is set apart for millinery and dresses; so that there is no article of female attire or decoration, but what may be here procured in the first style of elegance and fashion. This concern has been conducted for the last twelve years by the present proprietors who have spared neither trouble nor expense to ensure the establishment of a superiority over every other in Europe, and to render it perfectly unique in its kind.[7]
Lewis's Department Store, Liverpool
This venture is described as having all of the basic characteristics of the department store; it was a public retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different departments. This pioneering shop was closed down in 1820 when the business partnership was dissolved. All the major British cities had flourishing department stores by the mid-or late nineteenth century. Increasingly, women became the main customers.[8] Kendals (formerly Kendal Milne & Faulkner) in Manchester lays claim to being one of the first department stores and is still known to many of its customers as Kendal's, despite its 2005 name change to House of Fraser. The Manchester institution dates back to 1836 but had been trading as Watts Bazaar since 1796.[9] At its zenith the store had buildings on both sides of Deansgate linked by a subterranean passage "Kendals Arcade" and an art nouveau tiled food hall. The store was especially known for its emphasis on quality and style over low prices giving it the nickname "the Harrods of the North", although this was due in part to Harrods acquiring the store in 1919. Other large Manchester stores included Paulden's (currently Debenhams) and Lewis's (now a Primark).
In London, department stores were established in Oxford Street and Regent Street in the mid 19th-century. These were distinctly modern stores with lavish displays of imported goods, especially Oriental shawls, embroidery and furniture and served a wealthy clientele.[10] Harrods of London can be traced back to 1834, while the current store on Brompton Road on a site they acquired in 1849, was constructed between 1894 and 1905. Liberty & Co. gained popularity in thre 1870s for selling Oriental goods.[11] Gamages was founded in London's High Holborn by Arthur Walter Gamage in 1878. In Bayswater, the draper, William Whiteley established a department store with more of a mass market appeal.[12]
Selfridges nameboard
Bainbridge's (now owned by John Lewis) dates back to 1838, when Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge went into partnership with William Alder Dunn and opened a drapers and fashion shop in Newcastle's Market Street. In 1849 there were 23 separate departments, with weekly takings recorded by department, making it the first proper department store in the world.[13] This ledger survives and is now kept in the archives of the John Lewis Partnership.
By 1900, London, Glasgow and Liverpool were the three largest shopping centres in the country.[14] The company Lewis's started in Liverpool in 1856 and experimented with new ways of advertising (such as flooding the basement of the Manchester store to create a mini Venice.) Lewis's built up the largest chain of stores in the country, opening branches in Manchester (1877), Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Hanley, London, Blackpool, Bristol and Leicester.[15]
Selfridges was established in 1909 by American-born Harry Gordon Selfridge on Oxford Street. The company's innovative marketing promoted the radical notion of shopping for pleasure rather than necessity and its techniques were adopted by modern department stores the world over. The store was extensively promoted through paid advertising. The shop floors were structured so that goods could be made more accessible to customers. There were elegant restaurants with modest prices, a library, reading and writing rooms, special reception rooms for French, German, American and "Colonial" customers, a First Aid Room, and a Silence Room, with soft lights, deep chairs, and double-glazing, all intended to keep customers in the store as long as possible. Staff members were taught to be on hand to assist customers, but not too aggressively, and to sell the merchandise.[16] Selfridge attracted shoppers with educational and scientific exhibits; in 1909, Louis Blériot's monoplane was exhibited at Selfridges (Blériot was the first to fly over the English Channel), and the first public demonstration of television by John Logie Baird took place in the department store in 1925.
In Scotland, Jenners was founded by Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington and has maintained its position on Edinburgh's Princes Street since 1838. It lays claim to being the oldest independent department store in Scotland.
In Northern Ireland, Austin's in Derry, was established as a department store in 1830,[17] and according to some claims was the world's first department store.[18][19][20] The domineering building measured 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2) and was five stories high with an Edwardian-style exterior.
Au Bon Marché
The Paris department store had its roots in the magasin de nouveautés, or novelty store; the first, the Tapis Rouge, was created in 1784. They flourished in the early 19th century, with La Belle Jardiniere (1824), Aux Trois Quartiers (1829), and Le Petit Saint Thomas (1830). Balzac described their functioning in his novel César Birotteau. In the 1840s, with the arrival of the railroads in Paris and the increased number of shoppers they brought, they grew in size, and began to have large plate glass display windows, fixed prices and price tags, and advertising in newspapers.[21]
A novelty shop called Au Bon Marché had been founded in Paris in 1838 to sell lace, ribbons, sheets, mattresses, buttons, umbrellas and other assorted goods. It originally had four departments, twelve employees, and a floor space of three hundred meters. The entrepreneur Aristide Boucicaut became a partner in 1852, and changed the marketing plan, instituting fixed prices and guarantees that allowed exchanges and refunds, advertising, and a much wider variety of merchandise. The annual income of the store increased from 500,000 francs in 1852 to five million in 1860. In 1869 he built much larger building at 24 rue de Sèvres on the Left Bank, and enlarged the store again in 1872, with help from the engineering firm of Gustave Eiffel, creator of the Eiffel Tower. The income rose from twenty million francs in 1870 to 72 million at the time of the Boucicaut's death in 1877. The floor space had increased from three hundred square meters in 1838 to fifty thousand, and the number of employees had increased from twelve in 1838 to 1788 in 1879. Boucicaut was famous for his marketing innovations; a reading room for husbands while their wives shopped; extensive newspaper advertising; entertainment for children; and six million catalogs sent out to customers. By 1880 half the employees were women; unmarried women employees lived in dormitories on the upper floors.[22]
Au Bon Marché soon had competitors. Printemps was founded in 1865; La Samaritaine was founded in 1869 by Ernest Cognacq and Marie-Louise Jay, a new Tapis Rouge in 1867, La Ville de Saint-Denis, with the first elevator in France (1869); La Paix; Les Nouvelles Galeries; Les Magasins Dufayel (1890); the Bazaar de Hotel de Ville (BHV); and Galeries Lafayette, founded by Alphonse Kahn in 1895.[23][24]
The French gloried in the national prestige brought by the great Parisian stores.[25] The great writer Émile Zola (1840–1902) set his novel Au Bonheur des Dames (1882–83) in the typical department store. Zola represented it as a symbol of the new technology that was both improving society and devouring it. The novel describes merchandising, management techniques, marketing, and consumerism.[26]
The Grands Magasins Dufayel was a huge department store with inexpensive prices built in 1890 in the northern part of Paris, where it reached a very large new customer base in the working class. In a neighborhood with few public spaces, it provided a consumer version of the public square. It educated workers to approach shopping as an exciting social activity not just a routine exercise in obtaining necessities, just as the bourgeoisie did at the famous department stores in the central city. Like the bourgeois stores, it helped transform consumption from a business transaction into a direct relationship between consumer and sought-after goods. Its advertisements promised the opportunity to participate in the newest, most fashionable consumerism at reasonable cost. The latest technology was featured, such as cinemas and exhibits of inventions like X-ray machines (that could be used to fit shoes) and the gramophone.[27]
Increasingly after 1870 the stores' work force became feminized, opening up prestigious job opportunities for young women. Despite the low pay and long hours they enjoyed the exciting complex interactions with the newest and most fashionable merchandise and upscale customers.[28]
By the 21st century, the grand Paris department stores had difficulty surviving in the new economic world. In 2015, just four remained; Au Bon Marché, now owned by the luxury goods firm LVMH; BHV; Galeries Lafayette and Printemps.
Arnold Constable was the first American department store. It was founded in 1825 by Aaron Arnold (1794?–1876), an emigrant from Great Britain, as a small dry goods store on Pine Street in New York City. In 1857 the store moved into a five-story white marble dry goods palace known as the Marble House. During the Civil War, Arnold Constable was one of the first stores to issue charge bills of credit to its customers each month instead of on a bi-annual basis. Recognized as an emporium for high-quality fashions, the store soon outgrew the Marble House and erected a cast-iron building on Broadway and Nineteenth Street in 1869; this “Palace of Trade” expanded over the years until it was necessary to move into a larger space in 1914. In 1925, Arnold, Constable merged with Stewart & Company and expanded into the suburbs, first with a 1937 store in New Rochelle, New York and later in Hempstead and Manhasset on Long Island, and in New Jersey. Financial problems led to bankruptcy in 1975.[29]
In New York City in 1846, Alexander Turney Stewart established the "Marble Palace" on Broadway, between Chambers and Reade streets. He offered European retail merchandise at fixed prices on a variety of dry goods, and advertised a policy of providing "free entrance" to all potential customers. Though it was clad in white marble to look like a Renaissance palazzo, the building's cast iron construction permitted large plate glass windows that permitted major seasonal displays, especially in the Christmas shopping season. In 1862, Stewart built a new store on a full city block uptown between 9th and 10th streets, with eight floors and nineteen departments of dress goods and furnishing materials, carpets, glass and china, toys and sports equipment, ranged around a central glass-covered court. His innovations included buying from manufacturers for cash and in large quantities, keeping his markup small and prices low, truthful presentation of merchandise, the one-price policy (so there was no haggling), simple merchandise returns and cash refund policy, selling for cash and not credit, buyers who searched worldwide for quality merchandise, departmentalization, vertical and horizontal integration, volume sales, and free services for customers such as waiting rooms and free delivery of purchases. His innovations were quickly copied by other department stores.[30]
In 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy founded Macy's as a dry goods store. Benjamin Altman and Lord & Taylor soon competed with Stewart as New York's earliest department stores, followed by McCreery's and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus. The Straus family would be in the management of both Macy's and A&S.
By the 1880s New York's retail center had moved uptown, forming a stretch of retail shopping northward from 9th Street: the "Ladies' Mile". By 1894, the major stores competed in the Christmas season with elaborate Christmas window displays; in 1895 Macy's featured 13 tableaux, including scenes from "Jack and the Beanstalk", Gulliver's Travels and other children's favorites.[31]
In 1877, John Wanamaker opened the United States' first modern department store in a former Pennsylvania Railroad freight terminal in Philadelphia. Wanamakers was the first department store to offer fixed prices marked on every article and also introduced electrical illumination (1878), the telephone (1879), and the use of pneumatic tubes to transport cash and documents (1880) to the department store business.[32] Subsequent department stores founded in Philadelphia included Strawbridge and Clothier, Gimbels, Lit Brothers, and Snellenbergs.
Marshall Field & Company originated in 1852. It was the premier department store on the main shopping street in the Midwest, State Street in Chicago.[33] Upscale shoppers came by train from throughout the region, patronizing nearby hotels. It grew to become a major chain before converting to the Macy's nameplate on 9 September 2006. Marshall Field's served as a model for other department stores in that it had exceptional customer service.[citation needed] Field's also brought with it the now famous[citation needed] Frango mints brand that became so closely identified with Marshall Field's and Chicago from the now defunct Frederick & Nelson Department store. Marshall Field's also had the firsts; among many innovations by Marshall Field's were the first European buying office, which was located in Manchester, England, and the first bridal registry. The company was the first to introduce the concept of the personal shopper, and that service was provided without charge in every Field's store, until the chain's last days under the Marshall Field's name. It was the first store to offer revolving credit and the first department store to use escalators.[citation needed] Marshall Field's book department in the State Street store was legendary;[citation needed] it pioneered the concept of the "book signing". Moreover, every year at Christmas, Marshall Field's downtown store windows were filled with animated displays as part of the downtown shopping district display; the "theme" window displays became famous for their ingenuity and beauty, and visiting the Marshall Field's windows at Christmas became a tradition for Chicagoans and visitors alike, as popular a local practice as visiting the Walnut Room with its equally famous Christmas tree or meeting "under the clock" on State Street.[34]
The Carson Pirie Scott brand is strongly associated with the historic Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building designed by Louis Sullivan. It was built in 1899 for the retail firm Schlesinger & Mayer, and expanded and sold to Carson Pirie Scott in 1904. The building, located on State Street in Chicago's Loop, housed the chain's flagship store for more than a century before closing for good in 2007.[35] Target now occupies the building.[citation needed]
Afrikaans: Afdelingswinkel
aragonés: Gran magazén
বাংলা: বিপণীবীথি
Bân-lâm-gú: Pah-hòe kong-si
български: Универсален магазин
català: Gran magatzem
čeština: Obchodní dům
dansk: Stormagasin
Deutsch: Kaufhaus
Ελληνικά: Πολυκατάστημα
español: Grandes almacenes
Esperanto: Ĉiovendejo
euskara: Saltegi handi
فارسی: فروشگاه بزرگ
français: Grand magasin
客家語/Hak-kâ-ngî: Pak-fo Kûng-sṳ̂
한국어: 백화점
हिन्दी: विभागीय भंडार
Bahasa Indonesia: Toko serba ada
íslenska: Deildaverslun
italiano: Grande magazzino
עברית: חנות כלבו
Latina: Pantopolium
Bahasa Melayu: Gedung serbaneka
Nederlands: Warenhuis (winkel)
日本語: 百貨店
norsk: Varemagasin
polski: Dom towarowy
português: Loja de departamento
русский: Универсальный магазин
Simple English: Department store
slovenčina: Obchodný dom
српски / srpski: Робна кућа
srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Robna kuća
suomi: Tavaratalo
svenska: Varuhus
ไทย: ห้างสรรพสินค้า
Türkçe: Çok katlı mağazacılık
українська: Універмаг
Tiếng Việt: Cửa hàng bách hóa
吴语: 百货公司
粵語: 百貨公司
中文: 百貨公司
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John Velazquez Eager to Ride Code of Honor in Kentucky Derby
by New York Racing Association Press Release
ELMONT, N.Y. - Jockey John Velazquez is already part of an exclusive club when it comes to Kentucky Derby riders. The 2012 Hall of Fame inductee is one of just eight riders to have at least 20 mounts through the Run for the Roses' previous 144 iterations.
Velazquez will have his 21st career Derby mount when he pilots W.S. Farish's Code of Honor on May 4. The winner of the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth on March 2 at Gulfstream Park will be Velazquez's seventh mount in the last eight runnings of the Derby and will mark the colt's Churchill Downs debut off a third-place finish in the Grade 1 Florida Derby on March 30 at Gulfstream.
Code of Honor put in his final breeze on Sunday at Churchill, going four furlongs in 46.80 seconds on the main track; the second-fastest of 76 in the group.
"I saw his work [Sunday] and it looked good, just a little fast, but that's the way it seemed everyone was working," Velazquez said. "He looks like he's doing well, and hopefully he can continue come the race."
Velazquez has won the Triple Crown's opening leg twice, with the Graham Motion-trained Animal Kingdom in 2011 and the Todd Pletcher-conditioned Always Dreaming in 2017. The 47-year-old native of Carolina, Puerto Rico will be looking to become just the 11th jockey all-time with three Derby wins. Bill Hartack and Eddie Arcaro are tied for the all-time lead with five victories apiece.
"It's incredible. This is why we're here," Velazquez said about riding in the Derby. "This is what we dream about. This is one of the races that's well-known throughout the world, so it's exciting to be there."
Velazquez didn't win his first Derby until his 13th try when he led 20-1 shot Animal Kingdom to a 2 ¾-length score eight years ago. He had come close with Invisible Ink running second to Monarchos in 2001, which was the first time he finished on the board in the race.
"It takes some pressure off. You go in with confidence," Velazquez said of his previous wins. "Looking back at the past, riding all those races without winning it, it [humbles] you. But I'm pretty confident, so we'll see what happens. Hopefully, you get a good trip."
Code of Honor, trained by Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey, drew post 13 and is 15-1 on the morning line. McGaughey has saddled one previous Derby winner with Orb in 2013.
Velazquez, a two-time Eclipse Award-winner for Outstanding Jockey for 2004 and 2005, has also won two Belmont Stakes in his career, with Rags to Riches in 2007 and Union Rags in 2012, and has twice finished second in the Preakness.
He is one of just 19 jockeys in North America to amass 6,000 career wins. His career earnings in excess of $402 million is the most in history.
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The Taliban Have Won In Afghanistan
Authored by Brian Cloughley via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
On June 26 two US special forces soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, bringing the total of US military personnel who have died in that useless war to 2429, according to iCasualties, an independent casualty tracker.
No matter what one might think about the rights and wrongs of the war in Afghanistan, it is sad to record such fatalities, and the question that comes to mind is: What did they die for?
According to the US State Department the military are there because “we continue to invest US resources to help Afghanistan improve its security, governance, institutions and economy,” and the Pentagon says “the principle goal… is to conclude the war in Afghanistan on terms favourable to Afghanistan and the United States.”
Neither the current occupant of the White House nor any others aspiring to become president in 2020 have produced any workable proposals to end this disastrous conflict, and in an exchange of views on June 27 two of the Democratic contenders cast some light on the darkness of frustration and confusion. Members of Congress Tim Ryan and Tulsi Gabbard had a heated argument that involved Gabbard (who had served in Iraq) declaring that “The Taliban was there long before we came in; they’ll be there long before we leave. We cannot keep US troops deployed to Afghanistan thinking that we’re somehow going to squash this Taliban.” Even if she didn’t offer a solution, she is perfectly right — but it was the rejoinder of Congressman Ryan that was eye-opening. He said “I didn’t say squash them. When we weren’t in there, they started flying planes into our buildings.”
Gabbard was astonished, as well she might be, and replied “The Taliban didn’t attack us on 9/11; al-Qaeda did. That’s why I and so many other people joined the military — to go after al-Qaeda. Not the Taliban.”
Exactly. But Ryan’s demonstration of ignorance is disturbing to put it mildly. If a Member of Congress actually believes that the Taliban flew planes into New York buildings and the Pentagon on 9/11, then the Democratic Party has serious problems. Certainly, Mr Ryan will never be president, but the point is that his ignorance of history is reflected widely throughout America. (With one example being Trump’s observation in his Independence Day speech that there were airports in America in 1775.)
Fifteen of the 19 al-Qaeda hijackers were Saudis, two came from the United Arab Emirates and one each from Lebanon and Egypt. USA Today reported that they had “multiple links to associates of Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar, the former longtime ambassador to the United States. The documents show possible conduits of money from the Saudi royal family to Saudis living in the United States and two of the hijackers in San Diego. The documents also indicate substantial support to California mosques with a high degree of radical Islamist sentiment.” Not a Taliban in sight. In spite of the fact that the head man, the evil bin Laden, was in Afghanistan (and was later killed in Pakistan in a US special forces raid) the main 9/11 planning centre was in Hamburg.
And it was intriguing that Gabbard played the Afghanistan card, because as Jeffrey St Clair notes in Counterpunch, she “volunteered to go kill people in Iraq in 2004, a year after the massacre at Fallujah and the ‘casus belli’ of the war had been revealed to be a hoax, which is like signing up for a tour of duty in Vietnam after My Lai and the release of the Pentagon Papers.”
Neither of the presidential contenders had anything to say about the increasingly appalling human situation in Afghanistan, but we do get some indication from the New York Times which has a weekly ‘War Casualty Reportwhose record of events is sobering, although, as the NYT points out, understandably incomplete.
For the week June 28 to July 4, for example, it notes that “At least 264 pro-government forces and 58 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week, the highest death toll of 2019. Attacks by the Taliban spiked around the country as American negotiators met with Taliban officials in the seventh round of peace talks in Doha.” In addition to roadside and car bombings, the Taliban mounted forty ground attacks on government forces. We’re approaching the end of Phase Two of Chairman Mao’s three phases of revolutionary war.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), Mr John Sopko, reported to Congress on April 30 that, among other things, the NATO-run Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan “is no longer producing its district-level stability assessment of Afghan government and insurgent control and influence.”
The Pentagon has refused to provide such information for over a year, and Mr Sopko was reported by the Military Times on 1 May 2019 as saying “I don’t think it makes sense. The Afghan people know which districts are controlled by the Taliban. The Taliban obviously know which districts they control. Our military knows it. Everybody in Afghanistan knows it. The only people who don’t know what’s going on are the people who are paying for all of this, and that’s the American taxpayer.”
That sums it up: when the US military establishment knows that things are going downhill, they do their best to keep citizens in the dark. They refuse to admit that the situation in Afghanistan is out of control of the US and the Afghan government in Kabul, even when it is blindingly obvious that there is chaos and that, for example, as Mr Sopko points out, “As of March 11, 2019, most Afghan households faced acute food insecurity — meaning they were likely to suffer acute malnutrition or be forced to deplete assets to meet minimum needs.”
This is unlikely to cause concern in Washington, where official policy on treatment of illegal migrant children is inhumane to the point of criminality. New York magazine reported that in one prison camp in Texas 351 children had been separated from their families and “100 were under 13, and the youngest was just over 4 months… many of the kids had been held for three weeks or longer” in the most dreadful physical and mental state. So there won’t be much compassion for starving kids in Afghanistan.
Not that the Taliban are humane do-gooders. Far from it. They are barbaric and unthinkingly savage and have no regard for human rights. Their treatment of women is worse than mediaeval and their idea of governance is to install sharia law, which is a thoroughly retrogressive jurisprudence. But this is what eighteen years of war have brought to the top in that historically chaotic country.
The most significant recent indicator that the Taliban are ascendant has been their killing of these two US special forces soldiers in a classic firefight. Afghanistan isn’t supposed to be like this, because of the vast US airpower available to strike insurgents, wherever they may be. It is astonishing that the Taliban were able to attack in this fashion. No details of the firefight have been given, which is not surprising, given official policy of concealment of awkward facts, but that the engagement took place at all is a most serious sign that the Taliban have got the initiative.
The current series of negotiations might produce some sort of agreement between the US and the Taliban, but there is no representation of the Kabul government at the talks. Nobody knows whether President Ashraf Ghani will accept a US-Taliban agreement, but that is verging on the irrelevant because the Taliban only need to sit him out. They have already won in Afghanistan.
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A potential return for the young guard isn’t out of the question.
June 27, 2019 - 10:49 am
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 18: D'Angelo Russell #1 of the Brooklyn Nets dribbles around Los Angeles Lakers defense during the third quarter of the game at Barclays Center on December 18, 2018 in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
In 2017, the Los Angeles Lakers traded away the huge contract of Timofey Mozgov to the Brooklyn Nets with the sweetener of former number two overall pick in D’Angelo Russell.
It was a move that returned the expiring contract of Brook Lopez and a first-round pick (used to select Kyle Kuzma) to clear cap space for a max free agent. At the time, Mozgov was making approximately $16 million a season for four seasons. Arguably one of the worst contracts handed out in the 2016 free agency madness.
Russell was only 21 at the time, but in his short stint with the Lakers, he hadn’t given the team much hope: he failed to shoot the ball efficiently and wasn’t his teammates’ favourite player after the Swaggy P/ Iggy Azalea snapchat scandal. Former President of Basketball Operations Magic Johnson even kicked the point guard on his way out the door with his public comments.
Ironically, it may be the cap space cleared in his trade that the Lakers use sign Russell to this coming free agency period.
Following the Anthony Davis trade, the Lakers have the ability to clear enough cap space to sign a veteran max free agent this summer (approximately $32.5 million). But since Russell hasn’t spent the required years in the league to warrant a contract that high, his max is around the value of $27 million annually.
NBA Finals Game 1: The Spicy P Game
And simple numbers tell me that 27 is smaller than 32.
This is all possible if Kyrie Irving signs with the Nets, something that seems almost a certainty and that the Lakers are “rooting for” according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
If Kyrie heads to Brooklyn, they’ll likely decline Russell’s qualifying offer and make him an unrestricted free agent and free to roam the NBA’s market. It’s quite an unusual situation to be in for Russell as good players coming off their rookie contracts rarely get to test the market.
This time last season, Russell filled a hole for the injured Brooklyn backcourt, averaged over 21 points on a playoff team and made his first All-Star team.
He seems like a natural fit next to LeBron James and Anthony Davis in LA. LeBron has previously had success with a ball-dominant guard in Kyrie Irving (ironically) in Cleveland and Russell found success with his big-men in Brooklyn, similar rim-runners to Davis (clearly not at the same ability).
Russell also jumped to seven assists a game this season and was second in the league in assist percentage, behind only Russell Westbrook. Taking the role of a facilitator would further his fit with the star-studded Lakers.
On the Lakers side of things, due to his lower max contract, the team will have a little more wiggle room to sign role players around this core. Currently, there are only six players under contract on this team and will need to work some magic on the fringes of free agency.
With the Golden State Warriors hampered by injuries and potential free agents leaving and the Rockets’ inner-fighting, the Western conference seems wide open for the taking. Can a big-three of Russell, LeBron and Davis take that and run to the Finals?
In a perfect world, Kyrie Irving will sign with Brooklyn on day one of free agency and they’ll let Russell walk. That way, the Lakers can (hopefully) sign Russell and have the rest of the period open to sign role players.
However, if the rumours are true and the Nets have a concern about Kyrie, the Lakers run the risk of either loosing Russell to one of the many teams interested in him (such as Indiana, Minnesota, Phoenix or even Brooklyn) or signing him later on when some of the available role players have already signed on different teams.
These are the risks in free agency, especially when you’re signing big names. All we can do is sit back and enjoy the chaos.
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Belfast Zoo Celebrates Five Kits in Red Squirrel Nook
Warthog Piglets Debut at Zoo Miami
Zoo Provides Foster Mom for Amur Tiger Cub
On July 21, the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden received a female Amur Tiger cub. The cub’s journey to Oklahoma is the result of the combined efforts of two amazing zoo teams and tiger conservation experts.
Born at the Philadelphia Zoo on July 10, the cub is named Zoya, meaning “life” in Russian. Zoya is the first offspring of 10-year-old mother, Koosaka, and 9-year-old father, Grom. Koosaka gave birth to five cubs, a large litter for tigers. Unfortunately, two were stillborn, a third was accidentally injured by Koosaka and did not survive, and a fourth developed a critical gastro intestinal issue that proved fatal, even with medical intervention by Philadelphia Zoo veterinarians.
The surviving cub, Zoya, was not being nurtured by Koosaka. According to experts, a lack of maternal behavior is not uncommon among first-time mother tigers who sometimes neglect or reject cubs. As a result, Philadelphia Zoo’s animal care team bottle-fed and continuously cared for the cub who continued to do well, gaining weight from about 2 pounds at birth to almost 4 pounds at 10 days old.
However, the Philadelphia Zoo’s animal care team was concerned about hand-rearing a single cub without the social opportunities that would be provided with either a mother or littermates.
“With this single cub, we knew that the best scenario for her was to find an opportunity for her to grow up with other tigers,” said Dr. Andy Baker, Philadelphia Zoo’s Chief Operating Officer.
Photo Credits: Gretchen Cole (Image 1); Philadelphia Zoo (2-4); Oklahoma City Zoo (5); Gillian Lang (6,7)
In discussions with colleagues involved in the Tiger Species Survival Plan of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), the Oklahoma City Zoo offered to attempt to integrate the Philadelphia Zoo cub with their new litter of Sumatran Tigers.
The Oklahoma City Zoo’s litter of three Sumatran Tiger cubs was born just one day before the Philadelphia Zoo’s Amur Tiger litter. Oklahoma’s six-year-old Sumatran Tiger mom, Lola, has been taking very good care of her own cubs.
After consultation between Philadelphia Zoo, the Oklahoma City Zoo, and other AZA colleagues, the teams decided the best option for the cub to grow up in a good social environment was for the Oklahoma City Zoo to attempt to cross-foster Zoya with Lola and her cubs.
Cross-fostering is the process of removing offspring from one mother and transferring them to another lactating mother with offspring of the same approximate age. “Cross-fostering in tigers is unusual, but with less than 500 Amur Tigers in the wild, every cub is important for the species’ survival,” said Dr. Rebecca Snyder, curator of conservation and science, Oklahoma City Zoo.
In 2011, the Oklahoma City Zoo successfully cross-fostered a litter of endangered African Painted Dogs with a Golden Retriever who had recently given birth. However, cross-fostering among tigers is rare, with only a few cases having ever been attempted and documented.
After a 20-hour non-stop drive from Philadelphia, a team of four animal caretakers from Philadelphia Zoo arrived at the Oklahoma City Zoo with Zoya. Upon their arrival, the Oklahoma City Zoo veterinary team examined Zoya while conferring with the Philadelphia Zoo team regarding the cub’s introduction into the Sumatran Tiger litter.
“Though Sumatran and Amur (or Siberian) Tigers are different subspecies, they look almost identical as cubs,” said Eddie Witte, curator of carnivores at the Oklahoma City Zoo. “Our first step in cross-fostering Zoya is to add her into our litter of three cubs and cover her with the scent of the other cubs by rubbing her with hay from the den, tiger cub urine and even the other cubs. By doing this, we hope Lola will identify Zoya as one of her own.”
While Lola temporarily left her cubs for a feeding, the Oklahoma City Zoo animal care team entered the tiger cub den and prepped Zoya and the other cubs. As part of this process the zoo team weighed each cub and confirmed that all three Sumatran cubs were male. Meanwhile, Philadelphia and Oklahoma City Zoo animal teams gathered in the Joan Kirkpatrick Animal Hospital’s conference room to watch live video from the tiger’s habitat, broadcast on a large screen monitor. Everyone watched intently as Lola returned to her cubs and stood over the new cub Zoya. Within seconds, Lola began to lick and nuzzle Zoya to the great relief of the collective team.
True success for cross-fostering of a young tiger cub like Zoya happens when she begins to nurse from Lola. After more than a week of being bottle fed by Philadelphia Zoo’s animal team, Zoya would need to learn to nurse from a tiger for the first time. Both Philadelphia Zoo and Oklahoma City Zoo teams established round the clock monitoring of Lola and the cubs to confirm nursing behavior. After a brief nursing session on Friday night, the collective animal care teams were ecstatic to witness long nursing sessions early the next day, the following night and another the same day. During a brief morning exam, the Oklahoma City Zoo team confirmed that Zoya was gaining weight. With Zoya having established a steady nursing pattern with Lola, the Philadelphia Zoo team departed Oklahoma City.
“We are very happy that Zoya has integrated well with her new adoptive family,” said Donna Evernham, curator of carnivores and ungulates, Philadelphia Zoo. “She has made an incredible journey in her first two weeks of life and our Philadelphia Zoo team is thrilled to partner with the Oklahoma City Zoo to ensure Zoya’s well-being. With fewer than 500 Amur Tigers left in the wild, Zoya’s birth is significant to the entire population.”
“We are privileged to assist Philadelphia Zoo with this unique situation and understand how crucial this cross-fostering scenario is for Zoya’s survival and long-term well being,” said Barry Downer, deputy director/COO, Oklahoma City Zoo “This is an excellent example of how AZA-accredited zoos collaborate to provide exceptional care and long-term welfare to critically endangered animals. We continue to be cautiously optimistic that Zoya will continue to be integrated into our litter of Sumatran cubs and continue nursing with Lola,” says Downer.
Members from both Philadelphia Zoo and Oklahoma City Zoo will continue to monitor progress of the cubs and share updates, as they are available. The cubs will continue to bond and nurse with Lola in her habitat, off public view. In six to eight weeks, the cubs will be big enough to begin exploring their outdoor habitat and may step outside for visiting guests to see.
Amur Tigers are classified as “Endangered”, and Sumatran Tigers are classified as “Critically Endangered” by the IUCN. Fewer than 500 Sumatran Tigers may survive on that Indonesian island. Amur Tigers, also called Siberian Tigers, are found in far eastern Russia, with a few surviving in northeastern China. Sustained conservation efforts have resulted in recovery from near extinction for the Amur Tiger. Fewer than 50 were thought to survive in the 1930’s and 1940’s, but the population has grown to less than 500 today.
Although Amur Tigers have increased in the wild, tigers overall continue to be under tremendous threat. There are thought to be fewer than 4000 total tigers surviving across their entire range in Southeast Asia, Sumatra, China and Russia. The primary threat to tigers is poaching for their skins, bones and other body parts that are used in traditional Asian medicine. Habitat loss and depletion of prey species is also a threat in many areas.
In 2016, the Oklahoma City Zoo began a partnership with Rainforest Trust, a conservation organization whose mission is to work with local partners to purchase and protect threatened tropical forests. Using funds donated by guests through the Zoo’s grassroots program, Round Up for Conservation, Rainforest Trust purchased 13,000 acres of rainforest in central Sumatra, an area five times the size of Oklahoma City’s Lake Hefner. This lowland forest is rich in biodiversity and is now designated as a protected area, safe from conversion to palm oil plantations and logging. The area is patrolled to prevent illegal activities such as poaching. It is home to some of the Zoo’s most popular and endangered species, including: Asian Elephants, Sumatran Orangutans, and Sumatran Tigers.
Gorillas, tigers, orangutans, and other animals living in tropical forests are losing habitat as plantations for palm oil and pulp and paper expand to meet growing global demand. Palm oil is the world’s most widely produced vegetable oil. It can be found in more than 50% of the foods we eat as well as our soaps, lotions, shampoos, cleaning products, and cosmetics. Plantations for pulp and paper are responsible for roughly 30% of Indonesia’s forest loss while an expansion of industrial logging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo threatens the second largest tropical rainforest in the world.
In 2012, the Philadelphia Zoo launched the UNLESS Project, a positive advocacy campaign focused on protecting and restoring forests for wildlife by increasing the use of “deforestation free” palm oil – or palm oil grown without destroying forests. Through the UNLESS Project, Philadelphia Zoo is mobilizing on-site and online audiences to build a community of well-informed advocates for wildlife and inspiring them to action that will raise awareness of the connection between palm oil and orangutans and tigers.
By driving demand for palm oil that’s “deforestation-free,” reducing waste, and reusing and recycling paper products, UNLESS Project advocates can help protect the forests where tigers and other wildlife live. Philadelphia Zoo encourages visitors onsite and online to send a message from the UNLESS Project thanking and supporting companies who are moving toward sustainably-sourced palm oil, sign up to stop receiving junk mail, to use less paper, save energy, and help reduce the impact of climate change.
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Some things you might have missed
Some things you might have missed:
Nibras Kazimi drills serious holes in the credibility of one of the two main witnesses, a man called 'Hosam Taher Hosam', in the Mehlis report defaming Syria for the assassination of Hariri (the other main witness, Zuhir Ibn Mohamed Said Saddik, has already been completely discredited). Mehlis not only did a hack job on Syria, he did an obviously incompetent hack job on Syria. Are German prosecutors always this bad?
Charlie Kimber, Simon Assaf and Kevin Ovenden completely decimate the latest attack by the extraordinarily embarrassing Norm Coleman on George Galloway (see also here and here). The people of Minnesota are going to have to start wearing paper bags over their heads saying "I didn't vote for him, it was Diebold."
While people worry about an attack on Iran that is never going to happen (the United States would never attack a potential ally of Israel), the American ground war against Syria has already started, and Saudi Arabia is on deck.
Even the ultra-ultra-ultra conservative Los Angeles Times is having trouble swallowing the official explanation of the Danziger Bridge incidents.
NYT: spinning the Iraq war lies
The spin of the New York Times to explain its deplorable coverage leading to the war in Iraq is the usual anti-conspiracy remedy of claiming stupidity. The publisher, editors and, in particular, Judith Miller, were all completely taken in by liars such as Chalabi, Curveball, al-Libi and Cheney, and, despite all appearances to the contrary, were definitely not engaged in a treasonous criminal conspiracy to fool the American people into illegally attacking a sovereign foreign country for no good reason at all. Morons, idiots, fools - but definitely not liars. It is now coming out that the spin is itself a lie, and that the Times had information contradicting Miller's lies before she published them. There is no way around it: the New York Times was engaged in a treasonous criminal conspiracy which invoved lying to its readers. They knew, and they lied.
By the way, every single media outlet in the United States, and every single journalist (except for a handful including Hersh, Pincus, the Knight Ridder guys, and Jay Bookman), participated in the lies, either actively or by simply doing nothing as the obvious fables were broadcast or published. Ignorance is no excuse, as the bloggers were all over these lies right from the beginning. Where are the apologies for all this appalling lying?
A bit more on the theft of Iraqi oil wealth
A bit more on the theft of oil wealth from the Iraqi people:
an article critical of production-sharing agreements by Daphne Eviatar of Newsweek; and
Chalabi is in favor of them for Iraq (surprise, surprise), which probably explains why he is still hanging around in power in Iraq and why he is still alive.
Blair saves Al Jazeera
Tony Blair is in big political trouble and a memo is leaked making him look like the savior of Al Jazeera by talking Bush out of bombing its headquarters in Qatar. I've always thought Al Jazeera was funded by the CIA, so such a bombing would have been an incredible waste of American taxpayer money, not to mention politically impossible (bomb a country which is a key American ally and one of the rare places in the Middle East where American troops can be based?). Nevertheless, it wouldn't be the first time that the United States has attacked Al Jazeera militarily, and this is the kind of fantasy a vulgarian like Bush might have. However, the whole set-up of the story looks like a Tony Blair PR move. The matter is published sufficiently to travel all around Britain and the world. Just to make sure that no one missed its importance, it is then emphasized by a completely silly attempt (or here) to put the genie back in the bottle by using the Official Secrets Act. It reeks of an attempt to make Blair look good. How often is the Official Secrets Act used as a tactic to make people feel that a story that might have been ignored is actually important?
Optimism in Israeli politics
Ghassan Khatib has an optimistic view of Israeli politics. I don't get it. Israel now has a coalition government consisting of a bunch of right-wing crazies led by Sharon supported by a corrupted Labour Party, which claims to have no 'negotiating partner' and so has to impose its will on the Palestinians unilaterally. After the next elections, Israel will have a coalition government consisting of a bunch of right-wing crazies led by Sharon supported by a corrupted Labour Party, which will claim to have no 'negotiating partner' and so will have to impose its will on the Palestinians unilaterally. What's the diff? Sharon will have managed to squeeze out the most insane of the Likudniks, not because he doesn't agree with their ultimate goal of ethnically cleaning the Palestinians, but because he doesn't agree with their tactics. He's wanted to get rid of the albatross of Natanyahu - whose only real use is to go on speaking tours to raise money from North American and British Jews who want to quietly pay for the killing of Palestinians without having to take any moral responsibility - for years. Sharon, the master military planner, has correctly determined that the only politically possible way to eliminate the Palestinians is to slowly make life intolerable for them, with the construction of the Wall, service roads, checkpoints, and the unilateral seizing of land and water sources. The plan is that the Palestinians will eventually leave 'voluntarily', thus fitting into the Israeli creation myth that the original Palestinian inhabitants of what is now Israel left 'voluntarily'. It seems to me that the 'seismic shock' of the last few days is just a PR move to make the ethnic cleansing more tolerable to the rest of the world.
The theft of Iraqi oil wealth
Based on an inappropriate contractual model imposed by the U. S. State Department, Iraq stands to lose, on the assumption of an oil price of $40 per barrel and from only the first 12 oilfields to be developed, between $74 billion and $194 billion over the lifetime of the proposed oil-development contracts. Oil company rates of return would range from 42% to 162%, rather than the usual industry minimum target of around a 12% return on investment. The type of contract is called a 'production sharing agreement', and is in use in no comparable oil fields (in fact such contracts are in use with respect to only 12% of world oil reserves, a number which is likely to decline as Russia stops using them). The paper "Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq's Oil Wealth" by Greg Muttitt describes all the gory details (see also here and here and here and here, and for Platform, the producer of the report, here), and proposes some logical alternatives for the government of Iraq to consider. The most sensible way by far is for the Iraqi government to develop its own oil industry, and ignore the parasite oil companies. We are seeing the beginnings of the Iraqi resistance. The huge danger, or course, is that the current Iraqi politicians will be bribed into signing long-term agreements which the Iraqi people will never be able to get out of.
Mrs John Paul II
Was Pope John Paul II married? With a UK-resident wife and adult children with criminal records? There is a passing reference at the bottom of this obituary page, and more here (referring to the beautiful Fawley Court, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, and its museum of Polish history). For a head-spinner, see this from the same thread. A pope with a colorful past could be easily controlled, which might explain why he was picked to follow his murdered predecessor.
Dennis Prager, racist
Dennis Prager has written an expressly racist anti-Muslim op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, and Juan Cole has deftly shredded it. I've have only one question for the Los Angeles Times, which is where do they get the nerve to print such racist drivel. If Prager had been writing in the 1950's, his equivalent article on civil rights would have been called 'Five questions non-Negros would like answered'. The answer to my question to the Times is that anti-Muslim racism is invisible to Americans. You can write whatever you want about Muslims, make whatever generalizations you want, and make whatever factual misstatements (i. e., lies) you want, and no one will notice what you are really up to. The United States has done a fairly good job at dealing with the intellectual basis of its traditional anti-Black racism (but not such a good job in the practicalities, as seen in the aftermath of Katrina), but has simply replaced underlying anti-Black racism with underlying anti-Muslim racism. The underlying assumptions explain why Prager can get away with such an outrageous op-ed.
Prager's op-ed fits into the pattern of Zionist propaganda which completely dominates the American media. The general idea is that Muslims are uniquely ill-suited to govern themselves, and therefore it is perfectly acceptable to deny them the national sovereignty in places like Iraq and Syria that everybody else has as a matter of course, and perfectly acceptable for Israel to deny the Palestinians the nationhood that every other people in the world is entitled to have. The idea is that 'non-Muslims' regrettably have to treat Muslims differently because of some weird and unique failing in Muslims themselves, which is presumably some sort of brain damage you catch from reading the Koran (as I can think of no other similarity that Muslims around the world have that would require them to all be treated like children). We've recently seen some spectacular examples of this Zionist propaganda in articles by Pipes, Boot and Steyn, all ridiculously trying to shoe-horn the French riots into their understanding that the West is in the middle of an attack by Islam. Prager is just another of the same bunch, pretending to innocently ask questions while really forming another part of the general Zionist propaganda war required for Israel and the United States to do the things they are doing to Muslims in the Middle East. Prager is an out-and-out racist, and its high time Americans started to notice it and complain about it.
Bomb trigger
We can now start to get an idea of the very simple but ingenious way in which the Jordan bombs were activated. I think we can take as a given that the target of the bombs was the Palestinians, particularly the chief Palestinian spy, and the Chinese military officials. Besides killing the Palestinians, the bomb was intended to send a message to the Chinese that they shouldn't be dealing with the Palestinians (I'll leave it up to you to guess the identity of the only country in the world that might want to send that kind of message). Any other story completely ignores the fact that it is just too much of a coincidence that the Palestinian and Chinese officials died. The technical problem was how to manage the bombing so that the right targets ended up dead.
The civilian deaths were required to lay the basis for the suicide bomb fable. In other words, most people died simply to hide the identity of the real targets, as an attack against only those people would make the identity of the killers too obvious. The bombers needed a sure-fire way to ensure that the targets were together in a room pre-planted with the bombs, and that the bombs in the other hotels were detonated at the same time as the bomb directed at the real targets.
A timer wouldn't work, as no one could be sure when the targets would be together in the room. Cell phone triggers might not work, and a radio signal might be jammed (especially with all the spies about). So they came up with a clever low-tech solution. The bombs were pre-planted in the ceilings, and hooked up to the hotel electrical systems. As long as the power was on, the detonators were off. As soon as the power was interrupted, the detonators were triggered. Someone at the front desk in charge of booking the rooms booked the Chinese and Palestinians into the same conference room, made sure they were all in, and then used the house phone to call the hotel electrical room. The agent in the electrical room telephoned the other hotels to tell them to set off their almost simultaneous cover explosions which disguised the real target, and flipped the circuit breaker to the room containing the Chinese and Palestinians. Boom! An added bonus is that the darkness hid the real source of the blasts, allowing for the creation of the suicide bomber explanation. The Associated Press reports:
"A security official, meanwhile, said lights in sections of both the Radisson and Hyatt hotels went out just before the near-simultaneous blasts in apparently coordinated fashion. A man who was working as a disc jockey at the Radisson, where a Jordanian-Palestinian wedding reception was bombed, also recalled how the ballroom where the party was being held mysteriously went dark.
'The lights at the wedding hall went off seconds, maybe just one second, before the blast, although there was electricity outside the room in the corridor, the nearby lobby area and the reception,' said Fadi al-Kessi.
'For some reason, I looked to my right in the darkness and saw what looked liked lightning, then there was a loud boom. It felt like the explosion came from the ceiling, then people started running out.'"
The old reverso votefraud trick
The Democrats are headed for a big unpleasant surprise in the 2006 elections. Their apparent success in the most recent elections was just a trick. With various Republican scandals, and Bush's ridiculously low poll results, Republican victories due to more election fraud would have produced outrage, and forced Democrats to get off their sorry asses and do something about trashing the crooked voting machines. With the Democrat 'victories', they now will shut up and allow the Republicans to fix the 2006 elections, the ones the Republicans really care about. It is even possible that Rove told Diebold and his other vote machine pals to fix the most recent results to ensure Democrat wins, just to make sure that no one messes with the precious machines before 2006.
How do we know what happened? These recent elections were completely irrelevant to the continued Republican raping of the American treasury, and did not in the least concern Republican organized criminals in Washington. Well, except for one telling exception. There were five ballot initiatives held in Ohio, four of which were to reform that state's obviously corrupt voting system (you know, the one that gave Bush the Electoral College votes he needed to win the last crooked election). The poll numbers before the election showed that the reform would win comfortably, or, at the very least, that the issue was still open and dependent on undecided voters. In spite of this, all the election reform initiatives were defeated, with dramatic discrepancies from the pre-election poll results (the only non-election-related initiative passed matching the poll results almost exactly). Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman describe (or here) the gory details of the striking flip-flop in the voting (which they characterize in two of the four cases as 'statistically staggering'), and Brad Friedman sets the results out in a table (or here) so you can see the discrepancies. What a coincidence. The only results that Rove cared about in the whole country are the ones where the results didn't match the polls, and the ones where the electorate provided the results that Rove wanted. Jeb or Dick will need those Electoral College votes in 2008. Another coincidence? Diebold computer voting machines were used in almost half the voting stations to create obtain the results.
Now we won't hear anything about the problems with the voting machines until late next year, after the Democrats get trounced, and the Republicans will be able to drag out reform so the crooked machines will still be in use in 2008. Karl Rove, busy with other matters (!), still had enough time to be ten steps ahead of the Democrats. It's like watching a cat play with a dying mouse.
The Jordan river of lies
There are all kinds of problems with the Official Story of the Jordanian bombings. I've mentioned some already, and here are some more:
Pictures of the damage appear to show evidence of bombs placed in the ceiling. Since this would be inconsistent with the Official Story that the bombing was done by visitors from Iraq, who presumably had no privileged access to plant the bombs (how much do you tip the bellboy when he carries your explosives into the hotel, and how much does the concierge get when he sends out to find you the detonators you forgot back at your 'safe house'?), the Official Story had to be changed to deny that there were ceiling bombs. If it was a suicide bomb, why would the ceiling twelve feet above the floor be extensively damaged, but the wall directly adjacent to where the bomb is supposed to have gone off be completely unmarked?
The Jordanians have supposedly found a witness, the wife of one of the suicide bombers. Unfortunately, the story as told by the Associated Press is incoherent (Muasher is Jordanian deputy premier Marwan Muasher):
"Al-Rishawi was shown on state television wearing a white head scarf, a buttoned, body-length dark denim dress, and belts packed with TNT and ball bearings. Muasher told CNN the belts were captured with her.
Al-Rishawi said she and her husband, Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari, 35, were wearing explosive-laden belts when they strolled into a Radisson ballroom where hundreds of guests, including children, were attending a Jordanian-Palestinian wedding reception.
'My husband wore a belt and put one on me. He taught me how to use it, how to pull the (primer cord) and operate it,' she said, wringing her hands.
'My husband detonated (his bomb). I tried to explode (my belt) but it wouldn't. I left, people fled running and I left running with them.'
Muasher said al-Rishawi's husband noticed her struggle and pushed her out of the ballroom in order not to attract attention before blowing himself up."
Pushing her out of the ballroom wouldn't attract attention? If she was already outside, how then did she run out with the people running from the bomb? Here is the same story from Aljazeera, quoting the wife:
"'We went into the hotel. He [my husband] took a corner and I took another. There was a wedding in the hotel. There were women and children,' she said.
'My husband detonated [his bomb] and I tried to explode my belt, but it wouldn't. People fled running and I left running with them.'"
Did he push her out before he set off his bomb, or not? Why would he bother to do so? Why not just set off his bomb? Was he suddenly afraid that his wife might be killed in the explosion (that would be ironic, don't you think?).
The Jordanian story of how they found her doesn't make sense either (from the same Associated Press story):
"Al-Rishawi was arrested Sunday morning at a 'safe house' in the same Amman suburb where her husband and the other two bombers rented a furnished apartment, a top Jordanian security official said.
Jordanian security was tipped off to her presence by al-Qaida in Iraq's claim of a female bomber, the official added, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists. The group apparently assumed she was killed in the blasts."
How did the claim that there was a female bomber possibly provide enough information for them to find her in her 'safe house' unless they already knew where the 'safe house' was?
Why would insurgents fighting the American occupation of Iraq decide to take a busman's holiday and blow themselves up in Jordan? Didn't they have enough to do in Iraq? Wouldn't their meager resources of available suicide bombers be better put to use in Iraq?
Why would Sunni insurgents in Iraq head immediately to blow up a Sunni wedding reception in the hotel? Weren't there much better targets around? Speaking of better targets, how lucky do you have to be to kill a number of Palestinian officials, including the head of Palestinian intelligence, and take out the Chinese defense officials the Palestinians may have been planning to meet? For a bunch of bombers just arrived in town, they sure seemed to know where specific targets were located.
The witness, paraded theatrically with her supposed suicide belt, appears to represent a fear in Jordanian officials that no one was buying the Official Story. Flubbing the obvious cover-up is probably just going to make suspicions worse.
There is a massive new website on the Kennedy assassination, with reliable stuff: the Mary Ferrell Foundation.
Black-ops in Turkish Kurdistan
From Cryptome (scroll down), correspondence from 'A':
"A Turkish military black-ops scandal has been unfolded in the city of Semdinli in eastern Turkey (Turkish Kurdistan) after three Turkish black-op sergeants from the Turkish Gendarmerie Intelligence Service (JIS) were caught red-handed by citizens after attacking a bookstore on November 9. The sergeants were almost lynched by upset Kurds but were rescued by Turkish police. Kurds broke into the car in which the sergeants had carried out their attack on the bookstore and they found WEAPONS, BOMBS, DEATH-LISTS, WRITTEN PLANS, MAPS, etc. Everything was documented by Kurds at the scene. The Kurds also manage to get their hands on one of the sergeants military ID and their pictures were taken before the police managed to rescue the sergeants. The sergeants later confessed during interrogation to the Turkish Republican Prosecutor of Semdinli that they had carried out the attack on the bookstore, which killed one person and seriously wounded another one. Lo and behold! They ALSO confessed that they had carried out the bomb attack on November 1 outside a military residency in the city that injured 23 people, among them 3 Turkish police officers, 4 Turkish soldiers and 16 Kurdish civilians. THAT bomb-attack was blamed on the PKK by every god damn media outlet in the world, even though PKK denounced the attack. Turkish military black-ops in a nutshell!
If the military of the NATO-member Turkey carries out this type of black-op attacks, then what not? And they call the Kurds in Turkey 'terrorists'."
The news reports are here and here and here (a vaguer report here). The Turkish Prime Minister has called (scroll down, but read the other reports) for the incident to be 'demystified'! The November 1 incident documented by Reuters with a photo has this caption (my emphasis; see also here and here and here and here):
"A Turkish soldier stands next to the buildings damaged by an explosion while an unidentified man talks on his mobile phone in Semdinli town in southeast Turkish province of Hakkari November 2, 2005. Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb in front of security headquarters in a town in southeast Turkey, wounding 23 people and damaging dozens of buildings, officials and media reports said on Wednesday. The blast hit Semdinli on the mountainous border with Iraq and Iran at 11.30 pm (2130 GMT) on Tuesday, wounding four soldiers, three police officers and 16 civilians, the provincial governor's office said in a statement.
It is relatively rare for these black operations to be caught, which may explain why it is so difficult to convince people of how common they are. This is exactly what happened to the two British soldiers in Basra who were caught red-handed trying to create some atrocity which would then be blamed on Iranians or al-Qaeda or local insurgents or whatever group the British had decided to defame.
Who died, and who didn't, in Jordan
There is an excellent summary of some peculiarities in the Jordan bombings in Xiaodong People, tying it to warnings given to Israelis in other recent 'terrorist' attacks (we might add the Odigo 9-11 warnings). The original story that the Israelis received warnings has been whitewashed, and the link replaced by a denial. There is, however, reported confirmation of advance warning from Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official. You have to wonder why the Israelis chose not to share their wonderful intelligence with the Jordanians (in much the same way that you might wonder why they didn't go into more detail in their warnings to the United States on 9-11, particularly as their intelligence was apparently good enough and specific enough to be able to send Israeli agents to film the attack on the WTC, not to mention cheer it on). The attack did manage to kill the head of the Palestinian intelligence services (not to mention a Palestinian banker and a Palestinian commercial attache), and members of a delegation from China's University of National Defense, with whom the Palestinians might be assumed to be meeting (or at least the Israelis might have so assumed; see Kurt Nimmo on the Chinese connection). Since at least one of the bombs was pre-planted in a ceiling of the hotel, it would be very interesting to know who owned the hotel and could give access to bomb planters. The Jordanian reaction, to blame it all on the same dead man the Americans use as the scapegoat in Iraq, is probably a reflection of the extremely close ties between the CIA and Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate. I think we can probably chalk this one up to the continuing battle between the Israelis and the Palestinians over who gets to be protected by China after the American Empire collapses under the weight of trying to build the Israeli Empire.
Israel and the global right
There is a very important article in Counterpunch by Jeff Halper called "'What are You Doing? What Have You Become?': Israel as an Extension of American Empire". You should read the whole thing, but I want to focus on one aspect of it that we don't usually consider. Halper writes:
"One of the tragic developments related to this rightward shift of Israeli politics and social policies - even defining Israel's view of itself in the world - is its emergence as a center for the global right-wing, a constellation of nefarious ideologies, groups and forces that seek nothing less than American-Christian hegemony over the entire world. In a unique and, again, tragic confluence of historical processes, the rise of an aggressive neo-con ideology and militaristic foreign policy, centered in the US but not limited to it, coincides with the emergence of the Israeli rights and an expansionist Israel. 'Coincides' might understate the case: in fact, the rise of a religious right in the West owes much of its impetus to Zionism and Israel, while Israel is able to pursue its Occupation only because of its willingness to serve Western (mainly US) imperial interests including acting as a galvanizing center for global neo-con forces."
Halper considers a lot of details about the Jewish neocons and the Christian Zionists, all well worth reading, but the article gets very interesting when he considers the Israeli leadership role in world-wide, mainstream, right-wing politics. He writes:
"Just as it has benefited from the rise of the Right in the US and elsewhere in Europe, Israel under the Likud (though not exclusively under the Likud) has become a center for mobilizing right-wing ideological and political forces on a global scale. Most visible in this regard is the annual Jerusalem Summit (actually held in the Israeli city of Herzliya), where the neo-con tribe gathers and galvanizes its plans for world domination around their concern for Israel. We are not speaking of marginal 'kooks,' but of top right-wing political leaders from Israel, the US, Europe and other parts of the world, high military officers and leading academics. Its leading lights include: Baroness Caroline Cox, Deputy Speaker of the U.K. House of the Lords and the non-executive director of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation (I wonder what Sakharov, who spent his whole life upholding human rights, would think of that!); Sam Brownback, Republican U.S. Senator from Kansas; Prof. Moshe Kaveh, President of Bar-Ilan University; Prof. Daniel Pipes, Board Member, United States Institute of Peace; Director of the Middle East Forum; Initiator of CampusWatch; Dr. Yuri Shtern, Knesset Member, National Union; a leader of the Russian community and a member of the extreme right; [my note: the list seems to be truncated here]
Their worldview and agenda is summed up in what is called the 'Jerusalem Declaration.' It covers a range of issues of concern to the global right: But it also brings Israel into the center of the global right-wing agenda, suffusing it with Israeli claims and terms. Thus, Israel and its exclusive 'right' to the entire Land of Israel is inserted into the very center of the neo-con agenda."
"Although hardly a fan of Christians, Menachem Begin and his Likud colleagues appreciated their ideological similarities and the dovetailing of their political worldviews, especially since a militarily strong Israel able to use its Occupation for expansion was at the common center of their concerns. In order not only to strengthen the right-wing position at home but to influence policy towards Israel deriving from the US-led international community, Israel's right wing has worked diligently to insert itself into the global right alliance."
People always ask why we pick on the Israelis so much, when Israel is such a small insignificant country. The reason is that the Israeli right, preoccupied with its imperialist plans, has made itself a world leader in the mainstream-but-extreme right in order to form the alliances it needs in order to carry out those plans. These nuts have not only destroyed their own country and its once promising socialist and fully democratic future, but are having a greatly disproportionate malign influence on the whole world. The American neocons are just the tip of the iceberg. The fact that the Christian Zionists support Israel isn't an accident; they were actively courted by the Israeli right. The fact that the neocons are all Jews isn't an accident; they are the agents of Israel working in the United States to follow a specific right-wing Israeli plan (specific enough to include the destruction of Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and, eventually, Egypt). You might even call it a conspiracy. What is even worse is that this Israeli imperialist ideology has been marketed by the Israeli right in a vile package of policies. It is not an accident that neocon American/Israeli imperialism is coupled with neocon every-man-for-himself economic policies. The packaged product marketed to the world-wide right ties support for Likudnik imperialist policies to support for American hegemony (for the American imperialists and their stooges like Britain), support for Ledeenesque total-war polices (for the international arms trade, in which the Israeli right is a big player), and support for rapacious capitalism (which all right-wingers like, but which is particularly appealing to Bush's Christian Zionist 'base'). The American Republican Party starts to look like the tail of the Likud dog. The Americans and their allies have bought the whole package. How much better would the world be if the Likud didn't have this disproportionate influence?
Alito and the Democrat resurgence
Bush has finally found the Supreme Court judge he needs to form the five required to overturn Roe v. Wade. Alito seems to be another easy nomination, unless someone can prove that the allegations that he is mobbed up are true (a prominent Italian-American attorney from New Jersey mobbed up? who could think such a thing?). The intriguing aspect is whether it is the Democrats who really want Alito and the inevitable end of abortion rights in the United States.
The historic turn in American politics occurred when the Democrats did the right thing and decided to support the civil rights movement, leading to the loss of their natural base, the Southern cracker vote and those who think like Southern crackers. Although much current Republican electoral success is based on fixed voting machines, it is also true that Republicans have been winning consistently for years, even before the voting machines were fixed, largely based on the deep racism still holding up American politics. Racial politics may have killed the Democrats, but sexual politics may kill the Republicans.
Suburban Republican supporters organize their covert lives around free access to abortion just like everybody else does. It would put a real damper on the party once their teenaged daughters start having to go to back-room abortionists, or the costs of an unwanted child start to impinge on the disposable income. The end of Roe v. Wade, something that polls consistently show is unpopular among all American groups (except the religious nuts, people who tend to access abortion rights more than most, and who lie when they answer polls), might form the historic turn in American politics when the Republican Party destroys itself. Many Democrats may be quietly cheering Alito's nomination.
Vive la revolution!
There are some riots in the poor banlieus of France, and the American right-wingers are falling all over themselves blaming it on the European welfare state, or Islamofascism, or the failure of Europe to confront the menace of terrorism. Doug Ireland (or here) explains what is really going on. It seems to me that the rioters, rather than demonstrating their failure to integrate into French society, are really showing just how well they have integrated. They are having their own little French Revolution. The French have shown over and over again that they don't accept any bullshit from their political 'leaders'. Whenever they are ignored - and the French system of very centralized government is prone to ignoring people - they take things into their own hands and destroy a little personal property, something that will always get the attention of the authorities. The current rioters are just following good old-fashioned French tradition, and it is refreshing to see people who still have enough energy to make their discontent known (I also note that they are another group of political radicals who are using cell phones to organize protest, something we are seeing over and over again). Rather than show a collapse of society, the demonstrations express a belief that positive change is possible if the politicians will only turn their minds to the problem. These days, we are much more likely to see the self-fulfilling 'nothing can be done' attitude of the herds of sheep who blandly accept everything that is done to them. Now that the discontented have gained some attention, the French will no doubt start to apply their considerable powers of social planning to the problems. There is a reason why France is the best place in the world to live for most people, and a reason why some people in France are always having to draw the attention of the authorities to the fact that they are not yet in the fortunate group. Vive la revolution!
Republican thievery and Democrat hypocrisy
Here is one of the very few smart things I've read on the current state of Republican politics, coming from the unlikely place of The Huffington Post (the only other recent non-crap from that source is this), Tom Gilroy's "'White House in Chaos' & Other Utter Horseshit". He is writing about the supposed demoralized state of the Republicans:
"Here's a little secret; they never reel because they are never demoralized. They don't measure success and failure they way you and I do, by analyzing public benefit or desire, or even legality, or ethics. They measure success by how much more money they feast on from the public trough. And by that measure, they hogs are literally drowning in shit.
So while you fold your arms in the triumphant reassurance that Scooter's indictment and the GOP's plummeting ratings reveal the world to be what you've always had faith it was, think again. The pendulum you always talk about is not swinging back. The Truth has not come out. What has happened is what you've known all along has merely been reiterated. There is no new information, and so there will be no new consequences. And while you smirk and feel validated they'll go right along gobbling up more and more, laughing at you between belches.
Because they don't care about your moral indignation, your ethical judgment, or what the public thinks. They don't care what's popular, legal, or good for the country. They want your money.
So while the Democrats brunch and strategize about who to run in 2008 (choosing from the 3 frontrunners, all of whom want to INCREASE troop numbers in Iraq), the dozens of Rove wannabees over at the The Federalist Society are planning their fifth, sixth, seventh move from now in their uninterrupted plunder."
My thesis is that Democrats never get anywhere because they secretly like the American Empire, but just want someone else to get covered in all the blood. Hence no real efforts to do anything about the crooked voting machines. Democrats can continue to vote with their consciences, secure in the knowledge that the Diebold machines will always reliably elect Republicans.
The proof? While the Democrats pretend to be outraged about the outing of Valerie Plame (something they would have cheered twenty years ago), and pretend to be outraged about all the lies that led to the war in Iraq, guess what's going on NOW? That's right: exactly the same plan leading to the attack on Syria. Seymour Hersh points out that they're even using exactly the same kind of lies that they used in the build-up to the attack on Iraq (although I disagree with Hersh's optimism about Fitzgerald, who has to play along to get along). Do I hear one Democrat complaining about this? Do I hear one Democrat trying to stop Bolton's plan to use UN sanctions and their supposed violations as the inevitable cause for the next war? No. More American soldiers are moving into Iraq NOW. The plan appears to be as stupid as the Iraq plan. They figure they can soften the place up with bombs, and then spare 40 thousand or so soldiers from Iraq for a few months to take care of Syria. They won't need to keep the place stable - in fact, Israel won't want a stable Syria - as they won't need to stay to protect American bases, so they can leave as soon as they've wrecked the joint. Two years from now, a bunch of Democrats will be outraged about the lies that led to the attack on Syria, but the neocons will have moved on to Saudi Arabia. In other words, all the folderol about Plame and Niger is just partisan political politics from a group which likes what the Republicans are doing, and is extra careful not to say anything until it is too late.
There's a certain refreshing honesty about just wanting to steal money.
Syria and the Gaddafi Gambit
The American trick used against countries it wants to destroy has been to put the leaders of such countries in an impossible position. In the case of Serbia, the clear message was that NATO would keep killing Serbian civilians until the Serbian leadership gave up (which it did). In Iraq, Saddam was offered two options: give up his weapons of mass destruction (which he couldn't do, as he didn't have any!); or completely disarm (leaving him at the mercy of the upcoming American attack, not to mention at the mercy of his neighbors). In the older case of Libya, Gaddafi was framed for Lockerbie, and thus Libya was permanently subject to international sanctions. Now we have the case of Syria, framed for the assassination of Hariri (the real reason, of course, isn't Hariri, but Israel), and forced to give up important members of the government, an option the Americans know will lead to some kind of power struggle and regime change by coup. How does Syria extricate itself from the American trap?
Libya is the only country that has thus far managed to solve the riddle. Gaddafi realized that the Americans were in a position where they were desperate for a 'win' in fighting the 'war on terror'. The sanctions were preventing the international development of Libyan oil fields, so there was also significant pressure from financiers and oil companies to have the sanctions lifted. Although Libya was almost certainly not responsible for Lockerbie, Gaddafi had the brilliant idea to take responsibility for it anyway, and offer to pay substantial reparations. Bush had to jump at this offer, and the sanctions were lifted (despite the fact Libya apparently hasn't even paid the reparations!).
There is a hint in the Gaddafi gambit in what Syria must do in order to avoid the neocon thrill at the thought of another 100,000 dead Arabs. Syria has to figure out a way to comply with the American demands on paper, while not succumbing to the neocon's intended regime change. If Syria can come up with a solution that looks good, Europe will play along, and the Americans won't be able to lead Syria into Bolton's trap of sanctions, allegations of 'violations', and the inevitable bombings to enforce the sanctions.
Patrick Seale writes (referring to Syrian President Assad):
"In their different ways, both the international community and his own public are urging him to act. They are encouraging him to carry out a 'corrective movement' against undisciplined barons of his regime, including men close to him, similar to the palace coup which brought his late father, Hafez Assad, to power in 1970. The choice before Assad is clear: either continue to claim that Syria is innocent of the murder of Hariri and that the charges in the Mehlis report are unsound and politically motivated or recognize that mistakes have been made and carry out a purge of the top security officials named in the report."
The trick would be to find just the right patsy, the figure or figures that could plausibly take the blame for Hariri and whose absence from the Syrian political scene would benefit the country (if he has the cojones, he might even go for the Big Kahuna, but that might be too risky and unnecessary). This is a tremendously cynical move, but, as none of these guys are saints, probably not that unjust. Once the right patsies are picked, Syria could then pull its 'Gaddafi Gambit' - take full legal if not moral responsibility for the assassination, and offer to pay reparations due to the 'unauthorized' actions of the few 'bad apples' who, just like the American torturers in Iraq, acted without legitimate government authority (ha!). Syria could then offer to try these 'bad apples' itself, or turn them over to an international court not controlled by the Americans. In one daring move, Assad could clean up an internal problem while getting the Israelamericans off his back.
The basis of Plamegate
Cryptome reprints a sensible commentary on Plamegate from the Wall Street Journal, marred only by the fact that the authors make the absurd statement that the CIA "got right the basics of the Soviet military threat", something we now know to be nonsense as it systematically exaggerated such threat. I continue to insist that, while it is fun to watch the Washington factions battle it out, it is unwise to let the CIA get away with its own set of lies. While the authors of the commentary have an obvious partisan agenda, and skip over the inconveniently bad motivations of the Bush Administration officials, no crime was committed.
Unified Fleitz flu
Following up some recent postings:
Juan Cole suggests that there might be a "Unified Field Theory of the Iraq War fraud" (see here).
Frederick Fleitz was the original leaker of Plame's identity, and the dangerous information flowed through all of John Bolton, David Wurmser and John Hannah - it's like a pool shot that clears the table - before it got to Scooter (see here).
"Spain's agriculture minister dismissed fears bird flu sparking a global epidemic among humans as 'science fiction', saying the virus currently only poses a threat to birds." (see here)
Neocon history
There is a good article by Ehsan Ahrari in the Asia Times (why does the Asia Times have such a monopoly on good articles?; you'd never read something this good if you read American journalism for a million years), relying on James Mann's "The Rise and Fall of the Vulcans", on the history of the neocons:
"The real plan to invade Iraq was originally hatched in 1991, when then-president, George H W Bush, was at the helm. Libby was only one of its planners. The 'big enchiladas' were Cheney, who then served as secretary of defense, and Paul Wolfowitz, who served as under secretary of defense. Current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld became an active participant as someone who was then outside the government. Their plan to oust Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait was reportedly far riskier than the one promoted by then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell. Bush Senior apparently vetoed the Cheney et al's plan and gave a nod to Powell's.
The neo-conservative architects of the invasion of Iraq were 'deeply disappointed' when Bush Senior decided against the hot pursuit of the retreating Iraqi forces from Kuwait."
"As Mann points out, even though the initial military target of the US in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was Afghanistan, Wolfowitz (then deputy defense secretary) and Libby 'laid out the case for the invasion of Iraq just one week after the Twin Towers fell'.
Libby was also reportedly responsible for the first draft of Powell's now infamous presentation to the United Nations a month before the US invasion of Iraq."
There's a lot more, on how the neocons got away with it, and how their revenge-based ideology still infects American foreign policy (the loss of Libby has done nothing to change the neocon policy - Libby has been replaced by crazies who are even more hard-line - and the failure of the American left to realize how screwed it was by Fitzgerald - two years later, and he's still looking for clues, just like O. J. Simpson is still looking for whoever killed his wife - means that the neocons can continue to carry on their plans without any real opposition). The neocons intended to destroy Iraq years before September 11, years before anyone had ever spoken of al-Qaeda, and years before anyone had any concern whatsoever about the weapons of mass destruction supplied to Saddam largely by Americans like Rumsfeld (and subsequently destroyed). All their lies were simply ad hoc excuses to back up a ten-year old plan which had been thwarted by Presidents too smart to carry it out. Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Libby just bided their time during the Clinton interregnum, waiting for a
Bush stupid enough to go along with their insane ideas. The upshot is the biggest mistake in the history of American foreign policy, soon apparently to be repeated over and over again in places like Syria.
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Kremlin BUNKERS and details of their war plans with USA: surprise attack
Yamantau Beloretsk-15 Beloretsk-16 Alkino-2 ?
Beloretsk PPL 53�58'00"N 58�24'00"E
Yamantau Gora MT 54�15'19"N 58�06'11"E
Al'kino PPL 55�05'00"N 58�04'00"E
Starting in the Brezhnev period, Russia has been pursuing construction of a massive underground facility at Yamantau Mountain and the city of Mezhgorye (formerly the settlements of Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16). The complex, reportedly being built by tens of thousands of workers, is said to cover an area The reinforced underground bunkers take up 400 square miles, the size of the Washington area inside the Beltway.
The exact location of this large facility is uncertain, and given its reported size it may span as much as an entire degree of latitude and longitude. It is apparently located near the the Zlatoust-36/Yuryuzan nuclear weapons production plant and the Yuryuzan national-level nuclear weapons storage facility. The Yaman-Tau Gory [mountains] range is centered at 52�25'N 56�45'E, while the peak of Yamantau Gora [mountain] is at 54�15'19"N 58�06'11"E. The town of Beloretsk is located at 53�58'N 58�24'E, though NIMA does not include a listing for Mezhgorye. This facility may be synonymous with "Alkino-2" since the town of Al'kino is nearby at 55�05'N 58�04'E.
On April 16, 1996, the New York Times reported on a mysterious military base being constructed in Russia: "In a secret project reminiscent of the chilliest days of the Cold War, Russia is building a mammoth underground military complex in the Ural Mountains, Western officials and Russian witnesses say. Hidden inside Yamantau mountain in the Beloretsk area of the southern Urals, the project involved the creation of a huge complex, served by a railroad, a highway, and thousands of workers."
The New York Times quoted Russian officials describing the underground compound variously as a mining site, a repository for Russian treasures, a food storage area, and a bunker for Russia's leaders in case of nuclear war. "The (Russian) Defense Ministry declined to say whether Parliament has been informed about the details of the project, like its purpose and cost, saying only that it receives necessary military information," according to the New York Times.
Satellite photographs of Yamantau Mountain show continued digging at the "deep undergound complex" and new construction at each of the site's above-ground support areas. Judging from satellite photos and other intelligence, US officials are fairly confident that the Russians are building an underground command bunker and communications installation. But "... the Russians are not very interested in having us go in there," a senior American official said in Washington. "It is being built on a huge scale and involves a major investment of resources. The investments are being made at a time when the Russians are complaining they do not have the resources to do things pertaining to arms control."
Aviation Week and Space Technology reported that "The huge underground complex being built there has been the object of U.S. interest since 1992. 'We don't know exactly what it is,' says Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's international security mogul. The facility is not operational, and the Russians have offered 'nonspecific reassurances' that it poses no threat to the U.S." Russia's 1997 federal budget lists the project as a closed territory containing installations of the Ministry of Defense.
Leonid Akimovich Tsirkunov, commandant of Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16, stated in 1991 and 1992 that the purpose of the construction there was to build a mining and ore-processing complex, but later claimed that it was an underground warehouse for food and clothing. And then Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces General Igor Sergeyev denied that the facility was associated with nuclear forces. M.Z. Shakiorov, a former communist official in the region, alleged in 1992 that the Yamantau Mountain facility was to become a shelter for the Russian national leadership in case of nuclear war. Sources of the Segodnya newspaper in 1996 claimed that the Yamantau Mountain project was associated with the so-called `Dead Hand' nuclear retaliatory command and control system for strategic missiles.
Beloretsk is a center of Beloretsk region of Bashkortostan. It is situated on the cross of Belaya River and Magnitogorsk-Beloretsk-Karloman rail-road. It is 264 km. far from Ufa and 105 km. far from Magnitogorsk. The population was 73600 of people in 1995 ( 19900 in 1926, 59300 in 1959, 72400 in 1989). One of the oldest minig and metalurgical centers of South Ural appeared because of construction of the metallurgical works. Before The First World War narrow-gauge Zaprudovka-Beloretsk line was built. In 1923 the village Beloretskiy Zavod grew into town, in 1926 it was connected with Tukan and in 1927 with Inzer by narrow-gauge line. Wood and ore was transported from these towns to the plant. Including the plant to the field of activity of Uralo-Kuzneckiy group of enterprise was the reason of its reconstruction and its transfering to a coking coal. Town development became quicker after constructing the rail-road to Ufa (1997). The main city industry is the metallurgical works. Other plants in Beloretsk produce tools for building, springs for tractors, nails, etc. There are also woodworking industry, meat and dairy factories, plants producing bricks and ferro-concret items.
The Republic of Bashkortostan is located in the Southern part of the Urals along the line of Europe and Asia. Its area is 143,600 sq. m. As of January 1, 1995 the population of Bashkortostan was 4.097 million people. The capital is Ufa is with a population of 1.1 million residents. The republic has 54 administrative areas ("rayons") and 21 cities. Other large cities include Sterlitamak (256,000 inhabitants), Salavat (155,000), Nefetekamsk (123,000), Oktyabrsky (108,000). Representatives of 70 nations and ethnicities live in the Republic of Bashkortostan, including Russians (39.3 percent), Tatars (28.4 percent) and Bashkirs (21.9 percent). The urban population constitutes 65 percent of the total.
SOURCES and METHODS
SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NEED FOR RUSSIAN OPENNESS ON THE YAMANTAU MOUNTAIN PROJECT (House of Representatives - June 19, 1997)
Moscow builds bunkers against nuclear attack By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES 01 April 1997 pg 1
General Denies Nuclear Construction in Urals , INTERFAX, 4/18/1996 -- The commander of Russia's missile forces has denied allegations that an underground anti-nuclear bunker is under construction outside the city of Beloretsk in Bashkortostan near the Yamantau Mountain.
What Is That There Under the Mountain? , A. Urtsev and V. Yeldashev, BELORETSKIY RABOCHIY, 3/24/1996 -- Interview with Bashkortostan People's Deputy Leonid Akimovich Tsirkunov outlining the purpose of the facilities that are being built in the cities of Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16.
Inzer Isn't All That Bad, L. Tsirkunov, BELORETSKIY RABOCHIY, 9/2/1993 -- Further on Pollution at Beloretsk-15
Returning to What Was Printed: Don't Drink Water From the Inzer!, G. Sitdikova, BELORETSKIY RABOCHIY, 8/7/1993 -- Biological Clean-Up Work At Beloretsk-15
Natural Landmarks of Beloretsk Rayon, A. Dmitriyev, BELORETSKIY RABOCHIY, 7/22/1993 -- Geographical features of a polluted region.
One of the Secrets of Yaman- Tau, A. Vorobyev, BELORETSKIY RABOCHIY, 7/13/1991 -- Essay on a 1975 reconnaissance plane crash in the Bashkortostan region in Russia.
Contradiction of Yamantau's Status as Preserve and Facility Questioned , 7/2/1991 -- Expresses support for protecting the polluted Bashkortostan region.
U.S. Officials Puzzled By Big Hole Russians Are Digging By Terry Atlas, Chicago Tribune April 17, 1996
Mount Weather's Russian Twin By Patricia Neill Matrix Editor
MT. YAMANTAU -- FROM THE FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU THE COLD WAR DECISION BRIEF No. 96-D 37 - 16 April 1996
WHY IS RUSSIA PREPARING FOR WAR?
Nuclear Conflict in the Urals?
Moscow Builds Bunkers against Nuclear Attack, The Washington Times, 1/Apr/97
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If I do vow a friendship,
I'll perform it
Dame Janet Suzman
"1623 is one of those rare companies that invests in artists, audiences and participants equally through a diverse programme that has Shakespeare - the greatest humanitarian - at its heart.
I am honoured to be a patron and I look forward to seeing how the company grows to engage more people with Shakespeare in exciting new ways."
: Dame Janet Suzman
To listen to Dame Janet in conversation with our artistic director Ben Spiller, click here.
After training for the stage at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Janet Suzman made her debut as Liz in Billy Liar at the Tower Theatre, Ipswich in 1962. She then became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963 and started her career there as Joan of Arc in The Wars of The Roses (1962–64). The RSC gave her the opportunity to play many of the Shakespearean heroines, including Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Ophelia in Hamlet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and her Cleopatra, magisterial, ardent and seductive, in 1973, about which critics raved, and which is said to be a definitive performance. Her Cleopatra was captured on film. Although her stage appearances have tended to run naturally towards Shakespeare and the classics, including Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Marlowe, Racine, Gorky, Brecht, she has also appeared in plays by Genet, Pinter, Ronald Harwood, Nicholson, Albee and others.
She appeared in many British television drama productions in the 1960s and early 1970s, including Saint Joan (1968), The Three Sisters (1970), Macbeth (1970), Hedda Gabler (1972), Twelfth Night (1973), as Lady Mountbatten in Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy (1985) and Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986). Her first film role was in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA and the Golden Globe for her portrayal of the Empress Alexandra. This was followed by A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) opposite Alan Bates. There is also a television version of her Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1974) with Richard Johnson as Antony. She also appeared as "Frosine" in the BBC's Theatre Night 1988 production of The Miser opposite Nigel Hawthorne as "Harpagon" and Jim Broadbent as "Maitre Jacques". Another role was that of Frieda Lawrence in Priest of Love (1981).
She has made a few films since, the best-known being Don Siegel's The Black Windmill (1974), Nijinsky (1980), Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), Federico Fellini's E la Nave Va (And the Ship Sails On (1983), A Dry White Season (1989) with Marlon Brando and Nuns on the Run (1990; a rare comedic role).
Back in her native South Africa, she has directed Othello, which was also televised, and Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan (renamed The Good Woman of Sharpeville) both at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg. She has also recently toured her modern adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard - a South African response entitled The Free State. She wrote, starred in and directed this piece with Birmingham REP. Other productions with Suzman as director include A Dream of People at the RSC, The Cruel Grasp at the Edinburgh Festival, Feydeau's No Flies on Mr Hunter (Chelsea Centre, 1992); Death of a Salesman (Theatr Clywd, 1993); and Pam Gems's The Snow Palace (Tour and Tricycle Theatre, 1998).
In 2002 she returned to the RSC to perform in a new version of The Hollow Crown with Sir Donald Sinden, Ian Richardson and Sir Derek Jacobi. In 2005, she appeared in the West End in a revival of Brian Clark's 1978 play Whose Life Is It Anyway? starring Kim Cattrall. In 2006, she directed Hamlet and in 2007 she played Volumnia in Coriolanus in Stratford-upon-Avon for which she received excellent reviews. In 2010 she appeared in Dream of the Dog, a new South African play, at the Finborough Theatre, London, which subsequently transferred to the West End. Suzman authored Acting With Shakespeare: Three Comedies, a book based on a series of acting master classes.
Recent roles include Marion in Marion and Solomon (2016, Birmingham REP and tour) and the title part in Rose (2017, Manchester HOME).
Suzman was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Her aunt, Helen Suzman, was appointed Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1989 for her anti-apartheid activism.
Janet Suzman holds Honorary D.Litt. degrees from the Universities of Warwick, Leicester, London (QMW), Southampton, Middlesex, Kingston, Cape Town University and Buckingham University. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, and was awarded the Pragnell Award for lifetime services to Shakespeare in 2012.
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ABC News: "What Happens If a 9/11 Terrorist Defendant is Found Not Guilty?"
simuvac Sun, 11/15/2009 - 3:52pm
911 trials
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
What Happens If a 9/11 Terrorist Defendant is Found Not Guilty?
"I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice," President Obama said in Tokyo. "The American people will insist on it and my administration will insist on it."
But what happens if KSM or any of the other 9/11 defendants the Obama administration is bringing to New York for criminal prosecutions -- including Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi -- are somehow found not guilty?
Attorney General Eric Holder brushed off the question, saying, "I would not have authorized the bringing of these prosecutions unless I thought that the outcome -- in the outcome we would ultimately be successful. I will say that I have access to information that has not been publicly released that gives me great confidence that we will be successful in the prosecution of these cases in federal court."
Not everyone is so confident, of course. KSM, for instance, was subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques" that many consider torture. This includes being waterboarded 183 times in a one month. Could this undermine the case against him?
Fears of giving KSM the rights afforded defendants in a criminal case have led some to conclude that a military tribunal might be a better venue for him.
In September 2006, debating the Military Commissions Act, then-Sen. Obama said KSM and those like him would get "basically a full military trial with all the bells and whistles. He's going to have counsel, he's going to be able to present evidence, he's going to be able to rebut the government's case. Because the feeling is that he's guilty of a war crime and to do otherwise might violate some of our agreements under the Geneva Conventions."
"I think that's good that we're going to provide him with some procedure and process," then-Sen. Obama said. "I think we will convict him and I think he will be brought to justice. I think justice will be carried out in his case."
But when Holder announced on Friday that five defendants would face military tribunals, KSM was not among them.
In June, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian national, was brought to the Metropolitan Correctional Center to face 286 separate criminal charges stemming from his alleged role in the Aug. 7, 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, including conspiring with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda to kill Americans, and a separate charges of murder for each of the 224 people killed embassy bombings.
We asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs what would happen if Ghailani is found not guilty?
Gibbs wouldn't bite but the question is important. If he will be freed, that prompts questions of national security and whether civilian courts are as appropriate as other venues for such trials. If he won't be freed despite being found not guilty that undermines the credibility of the trial.
"We will talk about what happens about a verdict when a verdict comes," Gibbs said.
The following day, the Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, asked “if we’re going to treat this terrorist detainee as a common civilian criminal, what will happen to Ghailani if he’s found not guilty? And what will happen to other detainees the administration wants to try in civilian courts if they are found not guilty? Will they be released? If so, where? In New York? In American communities? Or will they be released overseas, where they could return to terror and target American soldiers or innocent civilians?”
McConnell continued: “If Ghailani isn’t allowed to go free, will he be detained by the government? If so, where will he be detained? Would the administration detain him on U.S. soil, despite the objections of Congress and the American people?”
McConnell said the questions about Ghailani resemble the questions about Guantanamo in general.
“On the question of Guantanamo, it became increasingly clear over time that the administration announced its plan to close the facility before it actually had a plan,” he said. “If the administration has a plan for holding Ghailani if he’s found not guilty, then it needs to share that plan with the Congress. These kinds of questions are not insignificant. They involve the safety of the American people.”
-jpt
simuvac's blog
"I will say that I have access to information that has not been publicly released that gives me great confidence that we will be successful in the prosecution of these cases in federal court"
Information that has "NOT BEEN PUBLICLY RELEASED" that gives him "GREAT CONFIDENCE?"
Further proof the 9/11 Commission failed in its mandate of providing a "FULL AND COMPLETE ACCOUNTING" of the 9/11 attacks.
Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? The facts speak for themselves.
Jon Gold on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 4:14pm.
I told you it would be a
I told you it would be a show trial.
Victronix on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 2:44pm.
Of course it's going to be...
An effort to make the public think that all 9/11 concerns have been addressed. One question I have is why aren't they including OBL in the line-up? Can't they try him in absentia like they did for the embassy bombings?
Jon Gold on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 2:46pm.
They simply need a new
They simply need a new boogeyman every few years to keep the "global terrorist network" image alive. Long gone is the talk of "smoking Bin Laden out of his cave." For awhile OBL was the boogeyman (and I guess still is the ultimate, overarching one, like the final boss of a video game), but then the focus was Mohammed Atta, then Moussaoui, now KSM...
In short they are desperate to reinforce the OCT.
Adam Syed on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 3:02pm.
'like the final boss of a video game'
Good one! Thanks for the laugh, though I know the reality is anything but funny.
rm on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 8:00pm.
Well, I would not mind being part of the discovery process here. We will finally get our "white paper" on 911, which was promised by Colin Powell back in 2001. It will be essential for the defense team. Who funded the team? Where were the safe houses in Canada? Specifically, what border crossings were used? Where is the video from Boston Logan? This is only a sample of the discovery that will be requested.
Ferric Oxide on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 6:56pm.
Fixed jury?
A.G. Eric Holder says, "I have access to information that hasn't been publicly released that gives me great confidence that we will be successful in prosecutions of these cases in federal court." What does this mean? It is already publicly known that these five intend to plead guilty, so that can't be it. (Versus the 5 who don't intend on pleading guilty who will face a military tribunal).
These verdicts appear to be fixed before the fact somehow. And there will certainly be a huge security lockdown on the entire area, due to the 'threat of terrorism' which will prevent truth activists from getting anywhere near the area. GZ itself might even be cordoned off. hmmmm.
Edit: You beat me to the punch, Jon. WTF, is right.
RL McGee on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 4:27pm.
I bet...
The 9/11 Report itself won't be used as evidence.
The fix is in
I can't believe they'd let them actually go to trial and force the U.S. to admit shoddy evidence and let defense lawyers have a field day. I think they will let them "plead" guilty. The only convictions we can get are through the military tribunal sham.
dtg
"May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice. "
dtg86 on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 5:03pm.
Oh no, they've got some secret evidence
that the 9/11 commission was never privy to... that will back up the "confessions" and guilty pleas. Of course this exposes the 9/11 report as being a cover up, but that won't matter since we get "justice."
Maybe The Sheikh's red headband was found in Building 7.
But...will the United States
But...will the United States be held responsible for these kinds of things...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birt...
The most severe form of learning disorders are owned by those that "already know everything."
blubonnet on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 5:30pm.
they spill the beans while on the stand. I would but I know I am just dreaming.
9-11 Joe on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 6:50pm.
I'm hoping...
KSM gets on the stand and says, "I am not KSM. KSM was killed long ago, and his wife and daughter identified the body. I am just a body double that has been brought forward to make you think KSM is still alive, and to say what they have told me to say."
I am being sarcastic. I am hoping that KSM allows a lawyer to represent him rather than represent himself (Moussaoui).
It's important to note that the arguments being made about giving them a public setting to promote their "terrorist propaganda," and that it opens up the risk of invigorating "terrorists" to commit a terrorist attack are basically the same arguments that were used by some to prevent the Nuremberg Trials from taking place. Winston Churchill wanted to shoot them. Several people didn't want to give them the chance to spread their Nazi Propaganda for fear of invigorating the pro-Nazis of Germany.
I think it has more to do with what they could expose than anything else.
I still think the pictures of KSM. The one where he is wearing an old white shirt and haggard looking and this new one of him brought out recently don't look right. Just like those old Bin Laden pictures with the beards and all that. These guys all have names that have been brought up a million times it seems. They've said they've killed the second in command about three times or so I think. And you know they have the technology to create pictures without anyone even being there. This whole thing could be a sham and there aren't enough investigative journalists with the courage to call them on their bluffs. I thought Bin Laden was the mastermind as well. Now it's KSM. This whole story reeks of propaganda and misinformation. I hadn't heard about that Winston Churchill/Nuremberg argument though. That is cool.
All I know is the guilty parties like Giuliani and the others who covered up this mess are upset over this trial taking place at all and that makes me glad about this thing.
Orangutan. on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 7:17pm.
I said daughter...
Because I did that from memory, but there's actually no mention of daughter. Just "child."
Cool argument?
I don't understand how Winston Churchill wanting to shoot Hitler/Himmler etc. is an argument.
Surely you don't think KSM should be shot without trial. Did you think Jon meant Churchill wanted to shoot those opposing a trial?
influence device on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 9:36pm.
Clarification.
I'm talking about the argument against holding the Nuremberg trials that Jon made mention of during his post. I hadn't heard people were against the Nuremberg trials or feared holding them in public would cause problems or and the reasons they had or feared that Nazi party would be strengthened etc.
Orangutan. on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 10:32pm.
But what if..............
KSM says yeah we did it...we had help from US Government officials, the Bush Administration, the Mossad, some PNAC jokers, and access to the WTC from a security company to plant those explosives, And some of the old Enron boys chipped in if we destroyed the evidence in Bldg 7. Of course executives from Raytheon helped because Hani can't fly for shit. But yeah we did it . I planned the whole thing. It was a surprise for Osama's birthday. That's my confession, now where do you want me to sign.
peacefulwarrior on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 7:34pm.
I heard that if a military commission determines the death penalty it has to be signed by the President, but if a criminal trail does it's just a Judge.
Could the 5 NYC trials expect to be dealth penalty and the 5 Military Commissions will just be life sentences so that O doens't have to sign a death warrant?
Sure hope they don't please guilty. Will their defense (if there is any) have an opportunity to bring up collaboration evidence... we can only hope.
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." (4th U.S. President, James Madison, Jr., 1751-1836)
Orville G on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 8:18pm.
New York no longer has the
New York no longer has the death penalty.
J Bax on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:58am.
you read my mind.
riceowlex on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 11:56pm.
we have an article that portrays KSM as a guy who can't speak English at all, and yet previously the Guardian reported KSM was fluent in English.
And where did this "evidence" that KSM wanted to go to NYC when he was arrested come from?
I thought he was shot dead when he was arrested?
simuvac on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 9:52pm.
Will KSM be asked about Bin Laden?
If so, what if he confirms that Bin Laden died in Dec. of 2001?
This would also mean that the 2004 and 2007 Bin Laden videos were fake. Which appears certain no matter what.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6722
An Inconvenient Truth.
RL McGee on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 11:08pm.
Where in the article does it portray KSM as being unable to speak English?
Here's some Washington Post drivel saying he can:
'Speaking in English, Mohammed "seemed to relish the opportunity, sometimes for hours on end, to discuss the inner workings of al-Qaeda and the group's plans, ideology and operatives ..."'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR200908...
influence device on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 11:33pm.
I posted this under the wrong article. My bad.
simuvac on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 8:44am.
Ah yes, the power of resurrection:
GEN. CONE BRINGS MAJOR HASAN BACK FROM THE DEAD AFTER 8 HOURS
http://www.infowars.com/major-hasan-of-fort-hood-a-patsy-in-a-drill-gone...
peacefulwarrior on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 9:00am.
FBI Osama Bin Laden is not a suspect concerning 9/11
KSM is doomed from the word go...
Re "If he will be freed, that prompts questions of national security and whether civilian courts are as appropriate as other venues for such trials"
eh... actually no.... If he's freed it's cos he's innocent... in which case there is no question of national security.
Their layers should agrue that there isn't a hope in hell of a fair trial now give all the propaganda rammed down everyone's throat.
Mr D on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 8:20am.
Any lawyer who actually tried to defend KSM would
be shot dead by any one of millions of people who are certain that he slaughtered 3000 Americans. The perps would not even have to bother. And, of course, any lawyer "defending" him would know that.
No lawyer who wants to stay alive would dream of ACTUALLY defending him.
zmzmzm on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 9:34am.
Navy lawyer: Defending 9/11 suspects a patriotic duty
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/navy-lawyer-defending-911-suspects-patriotic...
Orangutan. on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:18pm.
Did you read the article you referenced?
"She is one of only a handful of Americans who work to defend those who committed the horrific attacks in 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States."
"THOSE WHO COMMITTED THE HORRIFIC ATTACKS???????"
So - she already knows who "committed the horrific attacks" before anyone has had a trial.
That is not "defending." That is "pretending ." All part of the psyops.
zmzmzm on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:13pm.
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July 6: Jackie Wilson recorded (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher in 1967
July 6, 2015 Hallgeir
“(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” was recorded on July 6, 1967 at Columbia’s studios inChicago. Produced by Carl Davis, the session – arranged by Sonny Sanders – featured bassist James Jamerson, drummer Richard “Pistol” Allen, guitarist Robert White, and keyboardist Johnny Griffith; these four musicians were all members of the Motown Recordshouse band The Funk Brothers who often moonlighted on sessions for Davis to augment the meager wages paid by Motown. According to Carl Davis, the Funk Brothers “used to come over on the weekends from Detroit. They’d load up in the van and come over to Chicago, and I would pay ‘em double scale, and I’d pay ‘em in cash.” Similarly two of Motown’s house session singers The Andantes, Jackie Hicks and Marlene Barrow, along with Pat Lewis (who was filling in for Andante Louvain Demps), performed on the session for “Higher and Higher”.
I first became aware of this gem of a song when it was re-released in 1987, accompanied with a new video.
Jackie Wilson – Higher and Higher (official 1987 video):
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Nanci Griffith is 61, Happy Birthday! (read more)
Nanci Griffith, (born Nanci Caroline Griffith, July 6, 1953, Seguin, Texas) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter based in Austin, Texas.
Allmusic: Straddling the fine line between folk and country music, Nanci Griffith has become as well-known for her brilliant, confessional songwriting as her beautiful voice. A self-styled “folkabilly” singer, Griffith began as a kindergarten teacher and occasional folksinger. The country scene took her to heart in the mid-’80s, giving her a reputation as a quality songwriter through hit covers of Griffith’s songs by Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss. Finding no luck with commercial country radio however, Griffith recorded several pop-oriented albums and then returned to her folk roots by the mid-’90s.
Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an “inventive” cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music’s focus from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly recognizable deep and distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing (vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics).
“(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” was recorded on July 6, 1967 at Columbia’s studios inChicago (read more)
Produced by Carl Davis, the session – arranged by Sonny Sanders – featured bassist James Jamerson, drummer Richard “Pistol” Allen, guitarist Robert White, and keyboardist Johnny Griffith; these four musicians were all members of the Motown Records house band The Funk Brothers who often moonlighted on sessions for Davis to augment the meager wages paid by Motown.
William John Clifton “Bill” Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981)
One of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets (inspired by Halley’s Comet) and million selling hits such as, “Rock Around the Clock“, “See You Later Alligator”, and “Shake Rattle and Roll”. He has sold over 100 million records worldwide.
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Bob Dylan: Another Side Of Bob Dylan recording session, 9 June 1964 (read more)
In May Dylan went to London for a concert at the Royal Festival Hall. Afterwards he and Victor Maimudes visited Paris and a small town in Greece, where Dylan worked on songs for his next album. Back in New York, June· 9, 1964, Dylan went into the recording studio with Tom Wilson, a couple of bottles of wine, and a small crowd of friends, and recorded his entire fourth album, Another Side of Bob Dylan, in a single evening.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan Performing Artist I: The Early Years 1960-1973 )
36 years ago: The Rolling Stones released Some Girls in 1978 (read more)
The Stones’ best album since Exile on Main Street is also their easiest since Let It Bleed or before. They haven’t gone for a knockdown uptempo classic, a “Brown Sugar” or “Jumping Jack Flash”–just straight rock and roll unencumbered by horn sections or Billy Preston. Even Jagger takes a relatively direct approach, and if he retains any credibility for you after six years of dicking around, there should be no agonizing over whether you like this record, no waiting for tunes to kick in. Lyrically, there are some bad moments–especially on the title cut, which is too fucking indirect to suit me–but in general the abrasiveness seems personal, earned, unposed, and the vulnerability more genuine than ever. Also, the band is a real good one–especially the drummer. A
~Robert Christgau
Nehemiah Curtis “Skip” James (June 9, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. Born in Bentonia, Mississippi, United States, he died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Check out:
Skip James profile @ JV
Skip James: Devil Got My Woman
Jack Leroy “Jackie” Wilson, Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American singer and performer. Known as “Mr. Excitement“, Wilson was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. He was considered a master showman, one of the most dynamic and influential singers and performers in R&B and rock history.
Johnny Ace (June 9, 1929 – December 25, 1954), born John Marshall Alexander, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee,wasanAmericanrhythm and blues singer. He scored a string of hit singlesinthemid-1950s before dying of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Bob Dylan & Joan Baez: Never Let Me Go (Johnny Ace)
The Best songs: Pledging my Love by Johnny Ace
Video of the day: Dave Alvin – Johnny Ace is dead
Arthur Alexander (May 10, 1940 – June 9, 1993) was an Americancountrysoul singer. Jason Ankeny, music critic for Allmusic, said Alexander was a “country-soul pioneer” and though largely unknown, “his music is the stuff of genius, a poignant and deeply intimate body of work on par with the best of his contemporaries.”
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Today: The Rolling Stones released Some Girls in 1978 – 35 years ago
June 9, 2013 Hallgeir
Ain’t I rough enough
Ain’t I tough enough
Ain’t I rich enough
In love enough
Oooo, ooh please.
Some Girls was released in 8 June 1978 and it was their first full album with Ronnie Wood. It’s a great album, up there with the best albums in their catalogue. They mixed in some new wave sounds, added a bit of disco and kept their soul, blues and country tinged rock’n roll. Released on the height of the punk and disco era, The Stones made this masterpiece of an album. Some Girls is very much a product of it’s time, but when Rolling Stones made a record that gave a nod to these “fads,” they did so with such anger and speed that the young people in 1978 must have been struck with envy. They certainly made an album that has stood the test of time and it’s a definitive Stones album.
The Rolling Stones prove time and again that they still have what it takes.
Here are all the songs live:
1. Miss You (1978), the eight and a half minute version, a masterpiece! The guitar work on this song (this version) is simply spectacular. I read somewhere sometimes that this was one of the songs that Prince wished he had written, and we can hear on his music that he has been influenced by this tune in a big way.
2. When the whip comes down (1978) Sleezy and cool and it kind of reminds me of Star Star.
Yeah, mama and papa told me I was crazy to stay
I was gay in New York, a fag in L.A.
So I saved my money , and I took a plane
Wherever I go they treat me the same
When the whip comes down
3. Just My Imagination (running away with me) a soul number that fits The Stones perfectly. Very different from The Temptation version but equally good.
4. Some Girls (2008) Only The Rolling Stone s could have gotten away with these lyrics, they’re as politically incorrect as they possibly could be:
White girls they’re pretty funny, sometimes they drive me mad
Black girls just wanna get fucked all night
I just don’t have that much jam
Chinese girls are so gentle, they’re really such a tease
You never know quite what they’re cookin’
Inside those silky sleeves
On “Some Girls,” Mick Jagger sounds like he’s not only singing like Bob Dylan, but about Bob Dylan: “I’ll give ya a house back in Zuma Beach/And give you half of what I owe.” (Rolling Stone Magazine)
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PARIS.- One of the world's biggest private art collections is to be housed in a new Paris museum within a stone's throw of the Louvre, a French billionaire said Wednesday.
Francois Pinault, the luxury goods mogul who also owns the auction house Christie's, is taking over the Bourse de Commerce in the centre of the French capital to show his 1.4-billion-dollar (1.2-billion-euro) collection of modern masters.
Art collectors of ArtKabinett social media network cannot wait to visit this new art destination in Paris.
The city's mayor Anne Hidalgo, who negotiated the deal, described the museum as "an immense gift to the heart of Paris".
The Bourse de commerce (Commodities Exchange), originally used as a place to negotiate the trade of grain and other commodities, now used to provide services to businesses by the Paris Chamber of Commerce.
It has its origins in a circular corn exchange built in 1763–67, with an open-air interior court that was capped by an iron dome in 1811. In a major reconstruction in 1888–89 much of the structure was replaced, although the layout remained the same and the dome was retained with modifications. The dome of the building is listed as a historical monument.
Pinault, 79, has amassed an enormous trove of work from Mark Rothko to Damien Hirst, which he now shows at his private museums in Venice after failing for decades to find a suitable home for them in Paris.
"I am delighted, it's a big plus for the city," Hidalgo told AFP, pointing out that the new museum is also only a few hundred metres from the Pompidou Centre, Europe's biggest contemporary art collection.
She praised Pinault and his great business rival, France's richest man Bernard Arnault -- who opened his own Frank Gehry-designed Louis Vuitton Foundation for his art collection last year -- for helping put Paris back on the modern art map.
"It is great to have our captains of industry helping to fly our colors. With this and the FIAC art fair, Paris is regaining its place in contemporary art," she added.
1-billion-euro facelift
The historic Parisian grain exchange which Pinault is taking over is part of a one-billion-euro urban renewal project to give what Hidalgo calls a "new beating heart" to the city's Les Halles district.
Paris's magnificent 19th-century central market was bulldozed in the 1970s to make way for an airless underground shopping complex and transport hub which most of its residents loathe.
But a vast new steel-and-glass canopy unveiled this month by Hidalgo to put a lid on the problem has also been derided, branded a "custard-colored flop" by the British daily The Guardian.
Under terms of the deal, Pinault and his family will be given a 50-year lease on the building, which they must also renovate.
It was not revealed how much the work would cost or how much rent he will pay.
In 2001, Pinault handed the reins of his empire -- which includes the Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Puma and Balenciaga brands -- to his son Francois-Henri, who is married to the Mexican Hollywood star Salma Hayek.
Since then the man once described as "the most powerful in the art world", has mostly dedicated himself to his art collection, installing it in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice and two other historic buildings there.
They will now work in tandem with the new Paris gallery, which will open in 2018, sources close to the collector told AFP.
Pinault had tried for years to build a museum on the site of an old Renault car factory on the Ile Seguin in the middle of the Seine west of Paris, but gave up in despair in 2005 over planning delays.
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Yes to Europe!
The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain
Author: Robert Saunders, Queen Mary University of London
On 5 June 1975, voters went to the polls in Britain's first national referendum to decide whether the UK should remain in the European Community. As in 2016, the campaign shattered old political allegiances and triggered a far-reaching debate on Britain's place in the world. The campaign to stay in stretched from the Conservative Party - under its new leader, Margaret Thatcher - to the Labour government, the farming unions and the Confederation of British Industry. Those fighting to 'Get Britain Out' ranged from Enoch Powell and Tony Benn to Scottish and Welsh nationalists. Footballers, actors and celebrities joined the campaign trail, as did clergymen, students, women's groups and paramilitaries. In a panoramic survey of 1970s Britain, this volume offers the first modern history of the referendum, asking why voters said 'Yes to Europe' and why the result did not, as some hoped, bring the European debate in Britain to a close.
Provides the first in-depth historical treatment of the 1975 referendum, linking it with the Brexit debate and how we got where we are today
Written in a lively and accessible style that moves away from the usual focus of British/European histories on summits, treaty changes and diplomacy
Reconnects the history of Britain and Europe to the broader social and cultural history of 1970s Britain
'A jaw-dislocating page-turner. If you care about contemporary politics, you really need to read it …' Andrew Marr, New Statesman
'A captivating read, meticulously researched and exquisitely written … Saunders has a wry and gently amused prose style, with unhurried and uncontrived allusions and a fine eye for detail. His narrative carries you along as if you were reading a novel.' Daniel Hannan, The Spectator
'Saunders writes with swagger … he demolishes many of the myths about Britain's relationship with the rest of Europe on which Brexiters and Remainers have long depended. … [A]s a study of a rare and seminal event, this book bursts with valuable details.' Andy Beckett, The Guardian
'Saunders makes you feel you were in the room … And when you read how that first battle over whether we should stay in Europe was fought, it becomes a little easier to fathom what went wrong or right in 2016, and why.' Nick Comfort, Daily Telegraph
'Saunders's new book provides us with a perfect opportunity to reflect on the long, turbulent story of Europe in British politics.' Alex Dean, Prospect
'Beautifully written, and provides a thoroughly reliable and stimulating account of one of the most important events in Britain's post-war history.' Vernon Bogdanor, Times Higher Education
'There is not only much to learn from Saunders's book about a fascinating historical episode: it also illuminates the issues we face today.' Michael Mosbacher, Standpoint
'This is a timely book that will be read with great interest by commentators on recent events in Britain. It is also a hugely impressive work of scholarship that uses a single event to reconstruct a social and cultural world that now seems curiously distant. Most of all, it is a pleasure to read – clearly argued, full of vivid detail and illuminated by flashes of surreal wit.' Richard Vinen, author of Thatcher's Britain
'I was actively involved in the 1975 referendum – on the losing side – and can attest that Dr Saunders' book thoroughly, brilliantly and objectively captures the context and the atmosphere of the 1975 campaign.' Neil Kinnock, former leader of the Labour party
'This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Britain's confused relationship with Europe, and how we got where we are today. It's also pleasurable reading: a beautifully written history, full of warmth and wisdom.' Alwyn W. Turner, author of Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s
'This is history at its best: an insightful, exhaustively researched and immensely readable book that captures the period as well as the vote.' Alwyn Turner, BBC History Magazine
'This is a fascinating account of the 1975 referendum when Britain voted in favor of joining the (then) European Community. It is a timely book, appearing just as Britain is negotiating its exit from a crisis-ridden European Union. The relationship between Britain and Europe has always been a matter of intrigue, and Saunders grasps this relationship well. The book includes rigorous detail with political analysis that, for once, has not forgotten that Britain includes more than England and that issues in 1975 remain as relevant today. In fact, an analysis of the 1975 referendum shows how the tables turned within a generation. In 1975, the Conservative Party fervently supported Britain's joining the EC; by 2016, the party was profoundly divided over the issue. Summing Up: Recommended.' M. Clua Losada, Choice
'Robert Saunders' thoroughly-researched and stylishly-written study … could not be timelier. … It is a riveting read full of eccentric characters and colourful anecdotes …' Mathias Haeussler, Reviews in History
Introduction: 'a fanfare for Europe'
Part I. Europe or Bust:
1. 'Opportunities and illusions': the road to 1975
2. 'A device of dictators and demagogues': renegotiation to referendum
3. 'Support your local continent!' Britain in Europe
4. 'Better out than in': the National referendum Campaign
Part II. Themes and Issues:
5. 'The boardroom must lead!' Employers, unions and the economy
6. 'Women and children first'
7. 'Come to pray on Referendum day'
8. 'No use talking about sovereignty'
9. 'The new British Empire'
10. 'Think of it as the common super-market'
Part III. The Unravelling of Britain?:
11. 'Ulster says yes!'
12. Cymru yn Iwrop/ Wales in Europe
13. 'The Scottish time-bomb'
Epilogue: we are all Europeans now.
Robert Saunders, Queen Mary University of London
Robert Saunders is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848–1867 (2011) and co-editor (with Ben Jackson) of Making Thatcher's Britain (Cambridge, 2012). He appeared in the BBC TV series The Victorian Slum (2016) and has given interviews and commentary on the BBC, CNN and a wide range of media outlets.
Yes to Europe! on Stephen Bush's and Colin Kidd's New Statesman's Best Books of 2018 lists!
"Beautifully written, and provides a thoroughly reliable and stimulating account of one of the most important events in Britain’s post-war history."
"A myth-demolishing study."
Daily Telegraph gives Yes to Europe! 5 stars
"A jaw-dislocating page-turner."
"a captivating read, meticulously researched and exquisitely written..."
Continental Drift
Britain and Europe from the End of Empire to the Rise of Euroscepticism
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Concentrating solar power plants with wet-cooling systems, on the other hand, have the highest water-consumption intensities of any conventional type of electric power plant; only fossil-fuel plants with carbon-capture and storage may have higher water intensities.[135] A 2013 study comparing various sources of electricity found that the median water consumption during operations of concentrating solar power plants with wet cooling was 810 ga/MWhr for power tower plants and 890 gal/MWhr for trough plants. This was higher than the operational water consumption (with cooling towers) for nuclear (720 gal/MWhr), coal (530 gal/MWhr), or natural gas (210).[134] A 2011 study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory came to similar conclusions: for power plants with cooling towers, water consumption during operations was 865 gal/MWhr for CSP trough, 786 gal/MWhr for CSP tower, 687 gal/MWhr for coal, 672 gal/MWhr for nuclear, and 198 gal/MWhr for natural gas.[136] The Solar Energy Industries Association noted that the Nevada Solar One trough CSP plant consumes 850 gal/MWhr.[137] The issue of water consumption is heightened because CSP plants are often located in arid environments where water is scarce.
Jump up ^ Faunce, T. A.; Lubitz, W.; Rutherford, A. W. (Bill); MacFarlane, D.; Moore, G. F.; Yang, P.; Nocera, D. G; Moore, Tom A; Gregory, Duncan H; Fukuzumi, Shunichi; Yoon, Kyung B.; Armstrong, F. A.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Styring, S. (2013), "Energy and environment policy case for a global project on artificial photosynthesis", Energy & Environmental Science, 6 (3): 695–698, doi:10.1039/C3EE00063J, archived from the original on 16 August 2013
Reliance on rare earth minerals for components has risked expense and price volatility as China has been main producer of rare earth minerals (96% in 2009) and had been reducing its export quotas of these materials.[56] In recent years, however, other producers have increased production of rare earth minerals and China has removed its reduced export quota on rare earths leading to an increased supply and decreased cost of rare earth minerals, increasing the viability of the implementation of variable speed generators in wind turbines on a large scale.[57]
Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity plants derive energy from rivers without the creation of a large reservoir. The water is typically conveyed along the side of the river valley (using channels, pipes and/or tunnels) until it is high above the valley floor, whereupon it can allowed to fall through a penstock to drive a turbine. This style of generation may still produce a large amount of electricity, such as the Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia river in the United States.
There are numerous organizations within the academic, federal, and commercial sectors conducting large scale advanced research in the field of renewable energy. This research spans several areas of focus across the renewable energy spectrum. Most of the research is targeted at improving efficiency and increasing overall energy yields.[157] Multiple federally supported research organizations have focused on renewable energy in recent years. Two of the most prominent of these labs are Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), both of which are funded by the United States Department of Energy and supported by various corporate partners.[158] Sandia has a total budget of $2.4 billion[159] while NREL has a budget of $375 million.[160]
Rocky considers himself an "extreme DIYer". He's never worked in construction, but he built his house, garage, and workshop. He didn't know anything about solar or DC wiring/properties, but the huge cost savings inspired him to take on the challenge and learn what he needed to know. Our solar experts helped bridge the gaps in his knowlege and supported him through a successful install.
Marine energy (also sometimes referred to as ocean energy) refers to the energy carried by ocean waves, tides, salinity, and ocean temperature differences. The movement of water in the world's oceans creates a vast store of kinetic energy, or energy in motion. This energy can be harnessed to generate electricity to power homes, transport and industries. The term marine energy encompasses both wave power – power from surface waves, and tidal power – obtained from the kinetic energy of large bodies of moving water. Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is a technology for generating electricity by mixing fresh river water and salty sea water in large power cells designed for this purpose; as of 2016 it is being tested at a small scale (50 kW). Offshore wind power is not a form of marine energy, as wind power is derived from the wind, even if the wind turbines are placed over water. The oceans have a tremendous amount of energy and are close to many if not most concentrated populations. Ocean energy has the potential of providing a substantial amount of new renewable energy around the world.[165]
“New Wind May Be Cheaper than Old, Reliable Coal” • Wind farms have cost less to build and operate than coal-fired power plants for some time. The trend of lower costs for renewables has crossed a threshold: it is sometimes cheaper to build a brand new wind facility than keep an old coal plant burning, according to Lazard Ltd. [Casper Star-Tribune Online]
Jump up ^ Artificial photosynthesis as a frontier technology for energy sustainability. Thomas Faunce, Stenbjorn Styring, Michael R. Wasielewski, Gary W. Brudvig, A. William Rutherford, Johannes Messinger, Adam F. Lee, Craig L. Hill, Huub deGroot, Marc Fontecave, Doug R. MacFarlane, Ben Hankamer, Daniel G. Nocera, David M. Tiede, Holger Dau, Warwick Hillier, Lianzhou Wang and Rose Amal. Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, Advance Article doi:10.1039/C3EE40534F
A good match between generation and consumption is key for high self consumption, and should be considered when deciding where to install solar power and how to dimension the installation. The match can be improved with batteries or controllable electricity consumption.[94] However, batteries are expensive and profitability may require provision of other services from them besides self consumption increase.[95] Hot water storage tanks with electric heating with heat pumps or resistance heaters can provide low-cost storage for self consumption of solar power.[94] Shiftable loads, such as dishwashers, tumble dryers and washing machines, can provide controllable consumption with only a limited effect on the users, but their effect on self consumption of solar power may be limited.[94]
Coal is our dirtiest source of energy. It releases more harmful pollutants into the atmosphere than any other energy source and produces a quarter of the nation’s global warming emissions. If we are going to effectively reduce air pollution and address global warming, we need to shut down the oldest, dirtiest coal plants—and not build new ones to replace them.
Space-Based Solar Power Satellites seek to overcome the problems of storage and provide civilization-scale power that is clean, constant, and global. Japan and China have active national programs aimed at commercial scale Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP), and both nation's hope to orbit demonstrations in the 2030s. The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) won the 2015 International SunSat Design Competition with this video of their Multi-Rotary Joint design. Proponents of SBSP claim that Space-Based Solar Power would be clean, constant, and global, and could scale to meet all planetary energy demand.[56] A recent multi-agency industry proposal (echoing the 2008 Pentagon recommendation) won the SECDEF/SECSTATE/USAID Director D3 (Diplomacy, Development, Defense) Innovation Challenge [57] with the following pitch and vision video.[132] Northrop Grumman is funding CALTECH with $17.5 million[133] for an ultra lightweight design.[134] Keith Henson posted a video of a "bootstrapping" approach.
The New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment found that the solar PV would have little impact on the country's greenhouse gas emissions. The country already generates 80 percent of its electricity from renewable resources (primarily hydroelectricity and geothermal) and national electricity usage peaks on winter evenings whereas solar generation peaks on summer afternoons, meaning a large uptake of solar PV would end up displacing other renewable generators before fossil-fueled power plants.[127]
Solar and wind are Intermittent energy sources that supply electricity 10-40% of the time. To compensate for this characteristic, it is common to pair their production with already existing hydroelectricity or natural gas generation. In regions where this isn't available, wind and solar can be paired with significantly more expensive pumped-storage hydroelectricity.
^ Jump up to: a b c Fridleifsson,, Ingvar B.; Bertani, Ruggero; Huenges, Ernst; Lund, John W.; Ragnarsson, Arni; Rybach, Ladislaus (11 February 2008). O. Hohmeyer and T. Trittin, ed. "The possible role and contribution of geothermal energy to the mitigation of climate change" (PDF). Luebeck, Germany: 59–80. Archived from the original (pdf) on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
Airflows can be used to run wind turbines. Modern utility-scale wind turbines range from around 600 kW to 5 MW of rated power, although turbines with rated output of 1.5–3 MW have become the most common for commercial use. The largest generator capacity of a single installed onshore wind turbine reached 7.5 MW in 2015. The power available from the wind is a function of the cube of the wind speed, so as wind speed increases, power output increases up to the maximum output for the particular turbine.[42] Areas where winds are stronger and more constant, such as offshore and high altitude sites, are preferred locations for wind farms. Typically full load hours of wind turbines vary between 16 and 57 percent annually, but might be higher in particularly favorable offshore sites.[43]
Okay, an “about solar” page wouldn’t be complete without a list of the largest solar power plants in the world, right? (Though, note that much of the solar power capacity in the world is in small installations and one of the prime advantages of solar is its decentralization and its ability to help “democratize” the electricity system — even the CIA and Department of Defense have focused on the national security benefits of solar.) Nonetheless, I think almost everyone loves a list of the “largest _________,” so here are two current lists (largest solar thermal power plants and largest solar photovoltaic power plants):
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Sustainable energy is energy that is consumed at insignificant rates compared to its supply and with manageable collateral effects, especially environmental effects. Another common definition of sustainable energy is an energy system that serves the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their energy needs.[1] Not all renewable energy is sustainable. While renewable energy is defined as energy sources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale, sustainable (often referred to as 'clean') energy must not compromise the system in which it is adopted to the point of being unable to provide for future need. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the four interconnected domains: ecology, economics, politics and culture.[2] Sustainability science is the study of sustainable development and environmental science.[3]
The Vestas V164 has a rated capacity of 8 MW,[79] later upgraded to 9.5 MW.[80][81] The wind turbine has an overall height of 220 m (722 ft), a diameter of 164 m (538 ft), is for offshore use, and is the world's largest-capacity wind turbine since its introduction in 2014. The conventional drive train consist of a main gearbox and a medium speed PM generator. Prototype installed in 2014 at the National Test Center Denmark nearby Østerild. Series production began end of 2015.
So does it make a difference what type of electrical generator we can use to produce wind power. The simple answer is both Yes and No, as it all depends upon the type of system and application you want. The low voltage DC output from a generator or older style dynamo can be used to charge batteries while the higher AC sinusoidal output from an alternator can be connected directly to the local grid.
Cleaner air and water: Burning fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere. GHG contribute to global climate change, rising sea levels and unpredictable weather patterns that can be costly in terms of human and economic losses. Burning fossil fuels also releases contaminants in to the air and water near the power generation source. Alternative energy sources can produce the same electricity in a greener way. You can shrink your carbon footprint, help curb climate change and reduce air and water pollution when you choose renewable electricity.
Geothermal energy - Just under the earth's crust are massive amounts of thermal energy, which originates from both the original formation of the planet and the radioactive decay of minerals. Geothermal energy in the form of hot springs has been used by humans for millennia for bathing, and now it's being used to generate electricity. In North America alone, there's enough energy stored underground to produce 10 times as much electricity as coal currently does.
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UN Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972) Brundtlandt Commission Report (1983) Our Common Future (1987) Earth Summit (1992) Rio Declaration on Environment and Development Agenda 21 (1992) Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) ICPD Programme of Action (1994) Earth Charter Lisbon Principles UN Millennium Declaration (2000) Earth Summit 2002 (Rio+10, Johannesburg) United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, 2012) Sustainable Development Goals
As of 2018, American electric utility companies are planning new or extra renewable energy investments. These investments are particularly aimed at solar energy, thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 being signed into law. The law retained incentives for renewable energy development. Utility companies are taking advantage of the federal solar investment tax credit before it permanently goes down to 10% after 2021. According to the March 28 S&P Global Market Intelligence report summary, "NextEra Energy Inc., Duke Energy Corp., and Dominion Energy Inc.’s utilities are among a number of companies in the sector contemplating significant solar investments in the near-term. Other companies, including Xcel Energy Inc. and Alliant Energy Corp., are undertaking large wind projects in the near-term, but are considering ramping up solar investments in the coming years."[96]
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History of the Parliament in Budapest
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Historical context of the Parliament architectural project
By the 19th century there have been vast social changes in the more and more industrialised Austro-Hungarian empire where the richer Austrians domineered over the poorer Hungarians. The lower class Magyars were getting richer too thanks to the many technological innovations, new factories, investments, trades, and so on. Suddenly there were more and more middle class people and city dwellers, a politically agile and economically stable group, who wanted to have a say in what is going on in their own country. And the term ‘nation‘ became more than a handful of Hungarian noblemen.
In the 1840s the Hungarians decided it was high time that Hungary became an independent kingdom again, just like in the middle ages (before the Turkish came and conquered south-eastern Europe, and threatened the rest of Europe too in the 16th century). So in 1848 a revolution broke out to sever the ties from Austria for good.
Parliament, Budapest (photo by Rodger Mattlage)
Although the revolution tragically failed, Austrians and Magyars managed to achieve a compromise, only referred to as The Compromise in 1867, which put the political bitterness of the failed revolution on the backburner, and helped to concentrate more on the here and now thus laying the grounds for huge developments in Hungary, especially in the capital city of Budapest (note: in the meantime the two towns at the river Danube, Buda and Pest – plus Old Buda on the north – united as Budapest in 1873). Many of the top attractions of Budapest come from the era after the 1867 Compromise, designed in the feverish preparations towards the 1000th birthday of the Hungarian state (founded in 896, heading for 1896). So there were very very busy years in Budapest between 1867 and 1896.
The Hungarian Crown – Parliament, Budapest (photo by Bogdan I. Stanciu)
Hungarians wanted to have their own Parliament. Not an Austrian. A Hungarian. And a big one. Small nations need big things. After all it was almost a 1000 years ago that the Magyars settled down in the Carpathian-basin, at the rivers of the Danube and the Tisza. So the new Hungarian Parliament should be ready for the millennial birthday and it should be millennial accordingly.
Building the Parliament
There were many tenders, but the one the committee picked was the most grandiose ever, the designs of Imre Steindl. If the planned parliament is built, it will be the biggest and richest building in Hungary. If you have ever seen the Houses of Parliament in the UK, you will understand why. Just add an enormous dome in the middle to make it prettier, take away the Hogwarts towers to make it less palace-like. Oh, and add half a million ornamental stones, 40 kg of gold, and a slew of statues. Admittedly, the designs of the Hungarian Parliament were very much inspired by the Westminster Palace.
The neo-gothic eclectic Parliament was built from 1885. For the planned millennial celebrations the Parliament was inaugurated in 1896, but it took another 8 years to actually finish the building in 1904. Not just another 8 years, but more than twice the budget allocated (38 million crowns – former forints – instead of the planned 18.5 crowns). And overspending has not stopped.
The Quest of the Parliament: Maintenance and Restoration
In the 1930s there were some soft limestone parts of the Parliament that started to crumble and in WW2 it was damaged.
Since WW2, the building has been constantly renovated. No exaggeration! If you ask anyone in Budapest if they have ever seen the Parliament without scaffolding the answer will be very likely ‘No’. Unless you meet a 100 year old Budapester. The exterior of the Parliament was made from soft limestone, which is very fragile. It is corroding very easily.
Thirty years after the final touches on the building it was already in need of maintenance. These days the 15-30 cm thick soft limestone has gradually been replaced by hard limestone, according to Istvan Ferenc, the construction manager of the Reneszansz Co. But the exhaust fumes make the limestone grey, so even with the hard limestone the Parliament will be the most costly building of Hungary ever.
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Murphy Glacier
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Murphy Glacier is a glacier on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land, flowing generally westward to Orford Cliff and merging with Wilkinson Glacier before terminating in Lallemand Fjord. It was mapped from air photos taken by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) (1956–57). It was named for Thomas L. Murphy, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) leader and assistant surveyor at Detaille Island in 1956.
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Murphy Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Nemo Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Shoesmith Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Vivallos Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Green Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Punchbowl Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Hurley Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Cumpston Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
McMorrin Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Leonardo Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Beaglehole Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Avsyuk Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Antevs Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Ineson Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Wallend Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Wilkinson Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Astudillo Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Barnes Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Moider Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Iliad Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Swift Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Polaris Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Mitterling Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Henryk Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Rachel Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Stringfellow Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Hess Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Todd Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Lawrie Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Sayce Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Horton Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Moser Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Wheatstone Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Hugi Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Gourdon Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Somigliana Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Sohm Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Brückner Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Sloman Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Andrew Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Sölch Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Hotine Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Suárez Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Martin Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Wellman Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Renaud Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Daguerre Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Leay Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
Tofani Glacier Glacier in the Antarctic
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Glacier in the Antarctic
Desc: Murphy Glacier is a glacier on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land, flowing generally westward to Orford Cliff and merging with Wilkinson Glacier before terminating in Lallemand Fjord.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_Glacier
Type: Thing, Place, TouristAttraction
Nemo Glacier
Desc: Nemo Glacier is a glacier flowing east into Nemo Cove, Pourquoi Pas Island, in northeast Marguerite Bay. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee, 1979, in association with Nemo Cove.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_Glacier
Type: Thing, TouristAttraction, Place
Shoesmith Glacier
Desc: Shoesmith Glacier is the largest glacier on Horseshoe Island, flowing westward into both Lystad Bay and Gaul Cove. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 in association with Horseshoe Island.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoesmith_Glacier
Vivallos Glacier
Desc: Vivallos Glacier is a short, steep glacier flowing north into Leith Cove, Paradise Harbor, Danco Coast. Following survey by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1950–51, the glacier was named for Cabo Jose L. Vivallos, a member of the expedition.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivallos_Glacier
Green Glacier
Desc: Green Glacier is a glacier on the east side of Graham Land, Antarctica, 15 nautical miles long and 4 nautical miles wide, flowing from the plateau northeast between Dugerjav Peak and Rugate Ridge, and then east into Vaughan Inlet next north of Pirne Peak and south of the terminus of Hektoria Glacier.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Glacier
Type: Place, Thing
Punchbowl Glacier
Desc: Punchbowl Glacier is a glacier that flows southwards between Poibrene Heights and Metlichina Ridge, and enters the north end of Exasperation Inlet, north of Jorum Glacier, on the east side of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchbowl_Glacier
Hurley Glacier
Desc: Hurley Glacier is a glacier between Mount Gaudry and Mount Liotard, flowing east into Ryder Bay, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 after Alec J.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurley_Glacier
Cumpston Glacier
Desc: Cumpston Glacier is a small glacier on the east coast of Graham Land, draining between Breitfuss Glacier and Quartermain Glacier into the head of Mill Inlet. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for J.S. Cumpston, an Australian historian of the Antarctic.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumpston_Glacier
Type: TouristAttraction, Thing, Place
McMorrin Glacier
Desc: McMorrin Glacier is a glacier flowing west from Mount Metcalfe to Marguerite Bay in Graham Land, Antarctica. it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Ian McMorrin, a British Antarctic Survey general assistant at Stonington Island, 1961–63, who helped survey this area in 1962.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMorrin_Glacier
Leonardo Glacier
Desc: Leonardo Glacier is a glacier flowing into Wilhelmina Bay between Sadler Point and Café Point, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Glacier
Beaglehole Glacier
Desc: Beaglehole Glacier is a glacier between Spur Point and Friederichsen Glacier on the east coast of Graham Land. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian of the Antarctic and biographer of Captain James Cook.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaglehole_Glacier
Avsyuk Glacier
Desc: Avsyuk Glacier is a glacier on Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, flowing northwest to Shumskiy Cove.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avsyuk_Glacier
Antevs Glacier
Desc: Antevs Glacier, also known as North Heim Glacier, is a glacier on Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, flowing north between Seue Peaks and Boyle Mountains into Muller Ice Shelf, Lallemand Fjord.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antevs_Glacier
Ineson Glacier
Desc: Ineson Glacier is a glacier flowing northwest into Gin Cove, James Ross Island, Antarctica. Following geological work by the British Antarctic Survey, 1981–83, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Jonathan R.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineson_Glacier
Wallend Glacier
Desc: Wallend Glacier is a deeply entrenched glacier which drains eastward from Forbidden Plateau to join Green Glacier in northern Graham Land. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallend_Glacier
Wilkinson Glacier
Desc: Wilkinson Glacier is a glacier on the south side of Protector Heights on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land, flowing westward into Lallemand Fjord to the south of Holdfast Point.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Glacier
Astudillo Glacier
Desc: Astudillo Glacier is a small glacier flowing into Paradise Harbor between Leith Cove and Skontorp Cove on the Danco Coast of Graham Land.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astudillo_Glacier
Barnes Glacier
Desc: Barnes Glacier is a glacier on the west side of Hemimont Plateau flowing west into Blind Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 for Howard T.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Glacier
Moider Glacier
Desc: Moider Glacier is a glacier flowing west into the east side of Dalgliesh Bay, Pourquoi Pas Island, in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moider_Glacier
Iliad Glacier
Desc: Iliad Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast from the central highlands of Anvers Island between the Achaean Range and the Trojan Range into Lapeyrere Bay, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad_Glacier
Swift Glacier
Desc: Swift Glacier is a steep glacier about 2 nautical miles long, close west of Jefford Point, James Ross Island. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee following Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveys, 1958-61.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Glacier
Polaris Glacier
Desc: Polaris Glacier is a distinctive glacier, 4 nautical miles long, flowing southward from Detroit Plateau, between Pyke and Eliason Glaciers on Nordenskjöld Coast in northern Graham Land, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Glacier
Mitterling Glacier
Desc: Mitterling Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, draining between Mount Vartdal and Mount Hayes into the northern part of Mill Inlet. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after American historian Philip I. Mitterling, the author of America in the Antarctic to 1840.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitterling_Glacier
Henryk Glacier
Desc: Henryk Glacier is a glacier on Arctowski Peninsula, on the Danco Coast of Antarctica, with a noteworthy cirque at the head; it flows southwest between Wild Spur and Hubl Peak into Errera Channel.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Glacier
Rachel Glacier
Desc: Rachel Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of Graham Land, 6 nautical miles long, flowing east between Krupen Ridge and Padesh Ridge to enter Exasperation Inlet southwest of Mihaylovski Crag.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Glacier
Stringfellow Glacier
Desc: Stringfellow Glacier is a glacier just west of Henson Glacier, flowing north from the Detroit Plateau of Graham Land into Wright Ice Piedmont. Mapped from air photos by Hunting Aerosurveys.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringfellow_Glacier
Hess Glacier
Desc: Hess Glacier is a glacier 5 nautical miles long, flowing east-northeast between steep rock walls to its terminus 10 nautical miles southwest of Monnier Point, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hess_Glacier
Todd Glacier
Desc: Todd Glacier is a glacier 7 nautical miles long flowing southwest into Calmette Bay, western Graham Land. Photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947. Surveyed by British Antarctic Survey, 1961-62. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Gertrude E.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Glacier
Lawrie Glacier
Desc: Lawrie Glacier is a glacier flowing between Mount Genecand and Mezzo Buttress, and entering the head of Barilari Bay between Cherkovna Point and Prestoy Point on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrie_Glacier
Sayce Glacier
Desc: Sayce Glacier is a glacier flowing into Flandres Bay immediately north of Pelletan Point, on the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayce_Glacier
Horton Glacier
Desc: Horton Glacier is a glacier at the east side of Mount Barre and Mount Gaudry, flowing southeast from Adelaide Island into Ryder Bay, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 for Colin P. Horton, a British Antarctic Survey builder at the nearby Rothera Station, 1976–77.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Glacier
Moser Glacier
Desc: Moser Glacier is a glacier flowing into Andvord Bay just southeast of Arago Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moser_Glacier
Wheatstone Glacier
Desc: Wheatstone Glacier is a glacier on the west coast of Graham Land. It enters Errera Channel east of Danco Island. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone_Glacier
Hugi Glacier
Desc: Hugi Glacier is a glacier flowing northward into the head of Holtedahl Bay southwest of Rasnik Peak, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugi_Glacier
Gourdon Glacier
Desc: Gourdon Glacier is a glacier 4 nautical miles long on the east side of James Ross Island, flowing southeast into Markham Bay between Saint Rita Point and Rabot Point. It has a conspicuous rock wall at its head.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gourdon_Glacier
Somigliana Glacier
Desc: Somigliana Glacier is a glacier flowing north to Langmuir Cove on the north part of Arrowsmith Peninsula in Graham Land. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from surveys and air photos, 1956-59.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somigliana_Glacier
Sohm Glacier
Desc: Sohm Glacier is a glacier flowing into Bilgeri Glacier on Velingrad Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill, 1934-37.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohm_Glacier
Brückner Glacier
Desc: Brückner Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast on Arrowsmith Peninsula to Muller Ice Shelf in the southwest part of Lallemand Fjord, Loubet Coast.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%BCckner_Glacier
Sloman Glacier
Desc: Sloman Glacier is a glacier flowing between Mount Liotard and Mount Ditte to the southeast coast of Adelaide Island. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963 for William O.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloman_Glacier
Andrew Glacier
Desc: Andrew Glacier is a glacier 3 nautical miles long, flowing northeast into Ognen Cove in Charcot Bay immediately west of the Webster Peaks on Trinity Peninsula, northern Graham Land.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Glacier
Sölch Glacier
Desc: Sölch Glacier is a glacier on the Pernik Peninsula of the Loubet Coast in Graham Land, flowing west to Salmon Cove just north of Kanchov Peak on the east side of Lallemand Fjord.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6lch_Glacier
Hotine Glacier
Desc: Hotine Glacier is a glacier 10 nautical miles long which is divided at its mouth by Mount Cloos, flowing west into both Deloncle Bay and Girard Bay on Kiev Peninsula, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotine_Glacier
Suárez Glacier
Desc: Suárez Glacier also known as Petzval Glacier is a glacier flowing into the small cove between Skontorp Cove and Sturm Cove on the west coast of Graham Land. It was first mapped by Scottish geologist David Ferguson in 1913-14.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su%C3%A1rez_Glacier
Martin Glacier
Desc: Martin Glacier is a glacier, 3 nautical miles wide and 9 nautical miles long, which flows west and then northwest from the south side of Mount Lupa to the southeast corner of Rymill Bay where it joins Bertrand Ice Piedmont, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Glacier
Wellman Glacier
Desc: Wellman Glacier is a glacier flowing into the northeast part of Recess Cove, Charlotte Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellman_Glacier
Renaud Glacier
Desc: Renaud Glacier is a heavily crevassed glacier on the east side of Hemimont Plateau flowing southeast to enter Seligman Inlet between Lewis Glacier and Choyce Point, on the east coast of Graham Land.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaud_Glacier
Daguerre Glacier
Desc: Daguerre Glacier is a glacier on Kiev Peninsula, Graham Land, which joins with Niepce Glacier and flows into Lauzanne Cove, Flandres Bay.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerre_Glacier
Leay Glacier
Desc: Leay Glacier is a glacier flowing northwest into Girard Bay to the west of Hotine Glacier, on Kiev Peninsula, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leay_Glacier
Tofani Glacier
Desc: Tofani Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast into the head of Solberg Inlet, Bowman Coast, to the north of Houser Peak. The feature was photographed from the air by United States Antarctic Service, 1940, U.S.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofani_Glacier
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Staying Healthy on the Go Is Easier Than Ever
Today’s Headlines: Powdered Caffeine, Heart Age, and Middle-Aged Weight Gain
Depression Lowered in Women Able to Forgive and Who Feel Forgiven
by The Dr. Oz Show
While many of us were taught in primary school to “forgive and forget,” engaging in real forgiveness is much easier said than done. Forgiving yourself can be even harder. But new research out this week has given you one more reason to try and swallow your pride. A pair of researchers has found that leaving behind your grudges and ignoring those held against you may also help you avoid depression, particularly if you’re a woman.
Why are health professionals so worried about depression?
Depression has been getting a lot of attention lately because researchers have started to realize just how common and disabling it can be. Almost 16 million people are likely living with depression according to the National Institutes of Health and many of them were older adults. It’s estimated that almost one in every five adults between 50 and 65 has had depression at some point in their life and about one in 10 of those over 65.
That depression has been found to damage a person’s ability to function in all aspects of the life, which has led the World Health Organization to label depression as the world’s most disabling disease. With healthcare costs spiraling out of control, many health professionals worry that depression could continue to damage the nation’s health and economy as more and more adults are disabled by the illness
How is forgiveness related to depression?
Because depression is such a common and costly illness, the researchers are constantly looking to see what life factors might help predict who becomes depressed and who doesn’t. Doing so helps them get a grasp of how to identify those at risk and can also lead to ways to treat and prevent depression more effectively.
The researchers of this study chose forgiveness because previous research had linked a person’s ability to forgive to many aspects of overall health and well-being. But they weren’t just interested in forgiveness of others. Studies had also shown that self-forgiveness could be important to health and well-being and the team wondered whether the sense of feeling forgiven might also play a role. They looked specifically at the feeling of not being forgiven, which they called “unforgiveness,” and wondered whether it might counteract some benefits of forgiveness.
How did the researchers test the link between depression and forgiveness?
The team used data on 1,500 people from a study that looked at the link between religion, health, and aging. They measured each person’s depression levels over time and looked at how health the participants said they were. They also used questions that asked about a person’s tendency to hold a grudge, forgive others, and forgive themselves. Finally, they looked at how much a person felt forgiven by other people in their lives for things they felt they’d done wrong. They then analyzed the data to look for any connections between all of these different factors.
What did the researchers find?
The data showed a strong link between being able to forgive yourself and others and lower levels of depression. They also found that the feeling of being unforgiven increased rates of depression. Interestingly, this connection seemed to be nixed in women who were good at forgiving. Those who were able to forgive more easily also had lower levels of depression, even if they felt they had wronged and hadn’t been forgiven. Unfortunately, the opposite was true for men. Men who forgave more often had higher depression rates when they felt unforgiven.
The researchers think this may have something to do with gender roles as well as personality. They say that being forgiving is typically seen as a more feminine trait, which makes doing it that much harder for men. Adding the feeling of not being forgiven onto the vulnerability of doing something feminine puts the male apologizer in a very difficult headspace that may lead to depression. Some research has also indicated that men may be reminded of past wrong doing more often when forgiving others. In that situation, men who forgive more often may also ruminate more on the harm they’ve done to others, which may then lead towards depression.
Women, on the other hand, rely much more heavily on connectedness with others say the researchers. That means that even when connectedness is damaged by not feeling forgiven, women can compensate by forgiving others, which strengthens their connectedness overall.
How does this apply to me?
This research continues to build a case for the importance of forgiving others, even when you may not feel forgiven yourself. For women in particular, working on forgiving other people and yourself seems to help stave off symptoms of depression even when you feel like other people won’t forgive the wrongs you might have done. While these recommendations may be helpful in preventing depression, you should always talk to a mental health professional if you’re worried about your own mental health or the mental health of someone you know.
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Creative and non-fiction writing: student success stories
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Learn more about the fantastic accomplishments of Build's writing students
Build's writing students frequently go on to further study or publication. Below, you can read a selection of our students' many and varied accomplishments.
If you have a success story of your own, we'd love to hear from you! Let us know more at [email protected].
Segun Afolabi studied creative writing at Build. His first novel, Goodbye Lucille, was published in 2007 and won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. He has also been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was awarded the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2005.
Anna Burns studied writing fiction at Build. She won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her novel Milkman.
Isabel Costello studied creative writing with Christina Dunhill. Her debut novel Paris Mon Amour was published in 2017 and is available in paperback, ebook and audio.
Gary Donnelly studied creative writing on one of Build's online workshops. His debut crime thriller Blood Will Be Born was published by Endeavour Media in 2017. An audio version will be released by Isis Publishing in 2018, spoken by actor Stephen Armstrong. Award-winning crime novelist Adrian McKinty described the book as “brilliant” and Gary as “an exciting new voice in Northern Irish noir.”
Jean Ellis attended an advanced writing workshop with Mary Flanagan. Her book Goodbye, Burma, based on real events, was published in 2017.
Alice Fitzgerald attended intermediate and advanced fiction workshops at Build. Her debut novel, Her Mother's Daughter, was published by Allen & Unwin UK in April 2018. Charity Norman writes: "It's been a long time since I found a book so utterly engaging and enveloping [...] I raced through it, so immersed that it kept me up half the night."
Tasha Kavanagh studied writing for children with Lou Kuenzler. Her first novel, Things We Have In Common, was shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Costa Book Award.
Andrea Levy studied creative writing at Build. She was the acclaimed author of five novels, including Small Island, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and has been adapted for television. In 2016, Andrea was awarded a Build Lifetime Fellowship in recognition of her commitment to adult education in the UK, and the huge inspiration her writing and career provides to Build students. Watch her interview with Build's Principal Mark Malcomson >
Sarah Mackey studied short fiction at Build with Zoe Fairbairns and others. Her story "Mrs Peacock and the Broad Bean Baby" won first prize in the 2017 Ilkley Literary Festival short story writing competition, and her story "Forget Me Not" won third prize in the 2017 Bath Short Story Award.
Paul McVeigh studied fiction at Build. His debut novel, The Good Son, won the Polari Prize and the McCrea Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize and other prizes. Paul co-founded the London Short Story Festival and is associate director at Word Factory.
Nicola Monaghan studied creative writing at Build with Julie Casterton. She is now a successful novelist whose books include The Killing Jar, Starfishing and The Okinawa Dragon. She has won a Betty Trask Award, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Prize and the Waverton Good Read. She also writes short stories, scripts, articles and comics.
Janet Olearski studied writing fiction at Build. Her short stories are widely published, she has written a number of children's books, and founded the Abu Dhabi Writers' Workshop. Her most recent publication is a short story collection, A Brief History of Several Boyfriends.
Sally O'Reilly studied writing fiction at Build. She has published the books How To Be A Writer: The definitive guide to getting published and making a living from writing and Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare's Dark Lady. She has also written many short stories and maintains the blog How to Be a Writer.
Anne Patterson studied courses on writing fiction and creating your author platform online. Her debut novel, Yes, was published by Silvertail Books and shortlisted for the 2018 Society of Authors McKitterick Prize.
Salma Siddiqui studied creative writing with Jonathan Barnes, Caroline Natzler and Conor Montague. Her first novel, The Migrants, was published by Platinum Press, an imprint of Leadstart Publishing, in 2018.
Victoria Selman studied creative writing with Barbara Marsh and Courttia Newland. Her first novel, Blood for Blood, was shortlisted for the 2017 Debut Dagger Award and is a Kindle #1 bestseller. Her second novel, Nothing to Lose, was released in March 2019. She won the 2013 Full Stop Short Story Competition and co-hosts the true crime podcast Crime Girl Gang.
Luke Tredget studied in our advanced critical workshop for creative writers. His debut novel, Kismet, was published by Faber in 2018. Luke joined a panel on contemporary prose fiction as part of Build's 2018 festival of writing.
Learn more about writing novels and short stories at Build >
Harrie Dobby's short play The Gap was chosen as part of Build’s Page to Stage programme in 2014 and went on to a production at The Cockpit Theatre, London and the New York Fringe in August 2015.
Michael O'Sullivan studied playwriting with Dawn King. His playlet Time to Think was highly commended by the Green Curtain Theatre in their competition Leaving: Stories of Emigration, and was performed at the Irish Centre in Camden Town in 2019.
Emma Pitt studied television screenwriting with Jim Hill. This led to an MA and she is now a professional writer. Her short film The Ballad of a Haunted Man stars Shane Attwooll (Legend, Dark River), Helen Lederer (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie) and Eliza Leonard (Scratch).
Matilda Velevitch studied screenwriting and novel writing at Build. Her first play, Three Mothers, was produced at the Waterloo East Theatre in 2017 and won the Isle of Man Arts Council Prize 2017 and The Octagon Prize 2017.
Natasha Zierhofer studied playwriting at Build. Her horror comedy play Sex Magick opened the autumn 2018 season at the Barons Court Theatre.
Learn more about writing for stage and screen at Build >
Peter Ebsworth studies poetry at Build with John Stammers. His poems have been published in magazines and journals including the Spectator, and he is a founding editor of South Bank Poetry Magazine, which began publishing in 2008. Watch his Student Story here >
Nicole Lee studied poetry with Barbara Marsh. Her work was longlisted in the 2017 National Poetry Competition.
Lesley Sharpe studied poetry with Martina Evans. Most recently her poems have been shortlisted for the London Magazine Poetry Prize (2016), Bailieborough Prize (2016 & 2017), Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (2017), and Bridport Prize (2017). They have also been long-listed for The Poetry School/Nine Arches Press Primers 2 mentoring scheme (2016) & Cinnamon Press Debut Collection Prize 2018. She is also a co-founder of Lodestone Poets, a new quarterly Poetry event.
Learn more about writing poetry at Build >
Malorie Blackman OBE studied Writing for Children at Build in the late 1980s. Since then, she has written more than 50 books and was named as Children’s Laureate in 2013. Her books for children and young adults include the Noughts & Crosses series, Hacker, Pig Heart Boy and Boys Don't Cry. In 2015 she was awarded a Build Fellowship. In 2016 she was awarded a prestigious Association of Colleges (AoC) Gold Award after being nominated by Build.
Peter Bunzl has studied fiction, poetry and screenwriting at Build. His book Cogheart was Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month in August 2016.
John Condon studied writing for children with Lou Kuenzler. His first publisher book, The Wondrous Dinosaurium, was published by Maverick Arts in 2018.
Jane Elson studied children's writing with Lou Kuenzler. Her books - including How To Fly With Broken Wings and A Room Full Of Chocolate - have won the Shrewsbury Book Award, the Hillingdon Book Of The Year, the Peters Book Of The Year, the Calderdale Book Award and the Weald Book Award. She has also been shortlisted for the Dudley Book Award and the Harrow Book Award.
Ciara Flood studied children’s book writing with Lou Kuenzler. She has now published two picture books and spoke at Build’s 2016 literary festival.
Jo Franklin studied children’s writing with Penny Kendal. Her first children’s book, Help, I’m an Alien, was published by Troika Books in 2016, and Jo has now been taken on as a Build tutor.
Zehra Hicks studied children’s book writing with Lou Kuenzler. She has now published five picture books and spoke at Build’s 2016 literary festival.
Tracey Matthias studied writing for children with Penny Joelson. Her fantasy triology Assalay was published in German by Erika Klopp Verlag and Tracey is currently self-publishing an English edition. Night of the Party, her YA political thriller, was published in 2018 by Scholastic.
Sophie McKenzie studied writing for children at Build. Her first teen thriller, Girl, Missing, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2005. Since then, she has published many more teen thrillers as well as two teen romance series, books for younger children and, more recently, a number of standalone crime fiction novels for adults.
Beverley Sanford studied writing for children with Lou Kuenzler. In 2011 she was a BBC Writer's Room finalist. Her books The Wishing Doll, Amazing Racing, Social Superstars, Remember Rosie and Silent Nation are published by Badger Learning.
Learn more about writing for children at Build >
Non-fiction and journalism
Claire Bullen studied food writing with Nikki Spencer. Her first book, The Beer Lover's Table with Jen Ferguson, was published in 2019 by Ryland Peters & Small.
Anthony Gladman attended an introductory journalism course with Susan Grossman. Using the pitching skills covered on the course, he was subsequently able to achieve his goal of having a feature published in Ferment Magazine.
Ben Gray studied sports journalism at Build. He now writes for the website 101 Great Goals.
Ceri Jones studied food writing with Nikki Spencer. She now runs her own blog, Natural Kitchen Adventures, and works as a freelance chef, cooking teacher, food & recipe writer, and yoga retreat chef.
FoodPunk Joe is a freelance food writer who runs his own blog and is a contributor to LuxuryLondon.com and Food & Drink News. He studied food writing at Build with Nikki Spencer.
J. Jason Mitchell studied creative non-ficiton with Paul Laffan. in March 2017, he published an article in the London Review of Books about his expeeriences aboard a rescue vessel in the Mediterranean, working with German NGOs.
Sumayya Usmani got her first taste of food journalism in a workshop with Nikki Spencer. She was resident food writer for the Guardian in February 2016 and has published two memoir/cookbooks. She has returned to Build for talks, launches and taster events. Read our 2017 conversation with Sumayya >
Andy Wasley studied travel writing with Susan Grossman. In the weeks following the course, he had two travel writing pitches accepted - on Japan and the Pennine Way - for a UK LGBT magazine and a US backpacking magazine.
Dr Abby J Waterman studied creative writing at Build. Her memoir, Woman in a White Coat, was published in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Biography Prize and the Wasafiri Memoir Prize.
Learn more about creative non-fiction at Build >
Learn more about writing journalism at Build >
Every year a selection of students' work is published in Between the Lines, Build's anthology of creative writing. Find out more and learn how to submit your work >
Are you a former or current Build student who has gone on to further study or publication? We would love to hear from you and include your story on this page! Please do let us know further details by getting in touch at [email protected].
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Indian Youth Women Team
Neetu, 48 kg.
Date Of Birth: 19-10-2000
Place of Birth: Bhiwani, Haryana
Style: Southpaw
Intro: With a flourishing career in the youth category, 17-year-old Nitu is one of the quickest boxers in her category. Dynamic and instrumental inside the ring, the Haryana pugilist just returned with a Gold, her successive second one in the 48 kg at the World Youth Championship in Budapest, Hungry. She had also finished at the pole position in the World Youth Boxing Championship in 2017. Coming from a conservative family, there was a little scope that she could enter the world of sports. But her father had other plans: he wanted her to become a boxer. However, Nitu’s father had to go against the wishes of his entire family to make that happen; he also had to take leave from his office (a Chandigarh Vidhan Sabha employee) for three long years.
It meant that the family went through a severe financial crisis. Luckily, that only prompted Neetu to put her heart and soul into boxing and emerge a winner. She slowly rose through the ranks at the district level until she caught the eye of renowned boxing coach Jagdish Singh, the tough taskmaster who helped Vijender Singh win the Beijing Olympic bronze medal. Neetu’s skills and techniques were quickly honed and she went on to represent the State and won her first Nationals in 2015. She is now ready for the yet another shot at the big stage as she prepares herself for the senior category, where she will be graduating soon.
2018: AIBA Women’s Youth World Boxing Championships; Hungary: Gold
2018: Golden Glove of Vojvodina Youth Men & Women Boxing Tournament; Serbia: Gold
2018: Youth Women Nationals; Rohtak: Gold
2018: Asian Youth Championships; Bangkok: Gold
2017: Women’s Youth World Boxing Championships; Guwahati: Gold
2017: Balkan Youth International Boxing Championship; Sofia, Bulgaria: Gold
2016: Youth Women Nationals; Bronze
Jyoti, 51 kg.
Place of Birth: Rohtak, Haryana
Style: Orthodox
Intro: A promising prospect who enjoys an exemplary record, Jyoti’s tryst with boxing was predestined. Battling her parents to let her pursue the dream, the Haryana girl often had to sneak out of the house to practice.
Her dedication and perseverance soon bore fruit as she found success in the rudimentary tournaments in Rohtak. While her parents were still unaware of their daughter’s prowess, it was in 2012 when she was selected to participate in the State Championship that she had to reveal her secret.
A new life chapter in the offing, Jyoti set herself the goal of making it big in the sport. She won the State Championship but her big break came in the 2017 AIBA Youth Women’s World Championship which was hosted in India. Jyoti was at her imperious best, winning the gold and in the process, qualifying for the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games.
The reigning world champion looks in good shape, winning the silver at the Golden Glove tournament in Serbia, of late, after outfoxing the strong and robust Liubov Makeeva of Russia 5-0 in her semi-final bout. The 17-year-old will be keen to sustain the form as she looks forward to a busy calendar in 2018.
2018: Golden Glove of Vojvodina Youth Men & Women Boxing Tournament; Serbia: Silver
2017: AIBA Youth Women’s World Championship; Guwahati: Gold
2017: 31st International Ahmet Comert Boxing Tournament, Istanbul: Silver
2017: 6th Golden Glove women’s Boxing Tournament; Serbia: Gold
2017: Youth Women Nationals; Delhi: Gold
2013: National Games: Silver
Anamika (51 kg)
Place of Birth: Dhamar, Haryana
Intro: Anamika had a strong passion for boxing and was introduced to the sport by her uncle. Although a softball player at the school level, it hasn’t been a tough transformation for the Haryana girl. Physical training and hard work only second nature to Anamika, she grasped the craft of boxing with comfortable ease. Establishing herself a natural in the contact sport, she won her first medal in the 2016 Rural Games. But her rise to glory was when she won silver at the Asian Championships earlier this year in Bangkok. The national gold winner in 2018, Anamika has tasted success in the short stint since her foray.
The tournaments have exposed her to the best of fighters where she has emerged a winner. A self-believer and a self-rectifier, the young pugilist won a Silver at the recently concluded World Youth Championship in Hungary where she lost a close bout against star youth boxer from America, Heaven Garcia. Anamika’s eyes are set for bigger battles in the coming days.
2018: AIBA Women’s Youth World Boxing Championships; Hungary: Silver
2018: AIBA Asian Youth Boxing Championship; Bangkok: Silver
2016: Rural Games of India Boxing Championship; Gold
Sakshi, (54 KG)
Place of Birth: Dhanana, Haryana
Intro: Sakshi came under the limelight and caught the attention of the boxing fraternity when she beat US National Champion Yarisel Ramirez in the finals of the AIBA Junior Women’s World Championships in 2015, in Taipei. A national champion in her weight category Sakshi, is in top shape now, having a successive second winning streak at the recently concluded World Youth Championship in Hungary where she won a gold in the 57 kg category. Stamping her superiority on the sport, Shakshi, she had also won the gold at the Balkan Open in Bulgaria of late. She also has a bronze and a silver medal from exposure tournaments in Serbia earlier this year.
The 17-year-old was trained in her formative years by Jagdish Singh at the Bhiwani Boxing Academy. While she bagged the fourth gold for India at the prestigious World Championship in Guwahati, she believes that Indian boxing is ready for a breakthrough. With an indomitable attitude and a strong self-belief, the young boxer is all ready for a jump to the big league.
2015: Junior World Championship; Turkey: Gold
Divya Pawar (54 kg)
Place of Birth: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Intro: Bronze winner at the Asian Youth Championships in 2018, Divya Pawar boasts of several laurels ever since her foray into international boxing. The national gold winner in her category, Pawar has looked in sublime form winning the bronze in Balkan Youth International Boxing in 2017. Continuing her medal tally in 2018, the 17-year-old picked up her first Asian Championship medal in her maiden appearance and followed it up with a gold in Serbia.
Daughter of a constable, Divya’s passion for the sports evolved at an early age and it was at a summer camp she found success. An avid learner with an indomitable spirit, she used to idolize and follow veteran English boxer Nicola Adams as a kid. The Madhya Pradesh boxer has qualified for the World Youth Boxing Championship going to be held in Hungary in August and is presently training under the tutelage of coaches at the National Camp in Rohtak as she prepares to create history.
2018: AIBA Asian Youth Championships; Bangkok: Bronze
2017: Balkan Youth International Boxing Championship; Sofia, Bulgaria: Bronze
Jony (60 kg)
Date of Birth:14-01-2000
Starting her boxing career at a tender age of 12, Jony has mustered well the techniques and is one of the most experienced pugilists in the youth category. However, she had to quit boxing midway owing to family issues. Daughter of a driver, Jony’s precocious talents have always come to the fore. In 2014, forestall and adamant to restore her boxing career, Jony made a resounding comeback winning the gold at the Rural Games Boxing Championship. Jony soon shot into prominence when she won the silver at the Youth Boxing Championship in Taipei in 2015. The diminutive pugilist has won two gold medals at the nationals, in 2016 and 2018.
With a flourishing career and a plethora of laurels under her belt, the dynamic pugilist of late won the gold at the 7th Nations Cup in Serbia. She also qualified for the quarter-final stage of the Asian Boxing Championship in Bangkok. Jony is currently focussed on keeping her head clear and training harder as she prepares to join the other Indian pugilists in their quest for bigger boxing glories. The boxer won a Bronze at the AIBA World Youth Women’s Boxing Championship in Hungary.
2018: AIBA Women’s Youth World Boxing Championships; Hungary: Bronze
2018: AIBA Asian Youth Boxing Championship; Bangkok- QF
2018: 7th Nations Cup; Serbia: Gold
2017: 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, Bahamas: Silver
2016: Youth Women Nationals: Gold
2016: 5th Nations Cup boxing tournament; Serbia: Silver
2015: AIBA Women’s Youth Boxing Championship; Taipei: Silver
2014: Rural Games of India Boxing Championship; Chennai: Gold
2012: Youth Nationals; Kolkata: Gold
Vanlalhriatpuii- 60 kgs
National Championship – GOLD
Tall and lanky, Vanlalhriatpuii will be keenly watched during the upcoming AIBA World Youth Women Boxing Championship in Guwahati later this month. Like some of the fascinating stories from the North-East, Puii as her friends call her didn’t venture into boxing to win glory or medals; she took it up purely to ensure herself two square meals. The Mizo girl comes from a necessitous background, with her father working as a driver and her mother, a homemaker. She is the youngest of four siblings and life has never been smooth for any of them. She went for the local boxing trials in early 2014 and immediately impressed the local scouts. She got selected to be mentored by Mizoram Boxing Association and Sports Authority of Mizoram.
Since then, Puii has been knocking down almost every opponent under the able guidance of the Mizoram Boxing Association (MIZBA). They provided her with the right training facilities and coaching while she went the extra yard to hone her skills. Soon, she became the School Games Champion and a gold at the National Championship opened the doors further, earning her a berth in the National Youth team earlier this year. She has already impressed the coaching staff with her skills and has beaten top boxers and compatriots, even internationally, during recent exposure trips. Her goal: a shot at the Olympics. She believes she can win a gold there too.
Ankushita Boro – 64kg
Date of Birth: 6-10-2000
Place of Birth: Guwahati, Assam
Intro: Seventeen-year-old Ankushita Boro is one of the talents to watch out from the North East. She announced her arrival by winning back to back silver medals in two Youth International Championships last year. A seemingly shy teenager, she transforms into a ferocious fighter in the ring, not afraid of packing a punch.
Her elder brother, who plays volleyball, inspired her to take up the sport. The fighting spirit that life inculcated into her has pushed her to her limits that eventually yielded a bronze medal at the national championships early this year. She went on an international trip for the first time after that, to an exposure trip to Istanbul, and she came back with a silver medal. the knows that the road ahead will be tough, but the youngster is confident. The sparring sessions, the rigorous training camps and the foreign exposures, have toughened her. This teenager from Assam is all ready to spread her wings and win laurels for not only herself but for the country.
2018: Youth Women’s National; Rohtak: Bronze
2017: Balkan Youth International Boxing Championship, Bulgaria: Silver
Manisha (64 kg)
Intro: A record 5-time national champion, the Haryana girl is a born prodigy and aspires to scale great success. However, her journey was marred by constant obstacles. Criticism and sarcastic barbs were no deterrent as this young pugilist was determined to pursue the sport with stronger fervour. Although she received the support of her father and grandfather, she was bogged down by the rest of the family who used to bombard her with household chores so that she couldn’t take up boxing. Having pursued kabaddi since childhood, sports was akin to her heart. In 2013, the young pugilist took up boxing, joining the academy in Panipat. Since then, she has gone on to defy odds and molded herself into one of the promising prospects in the current crop.
She finished here AIBA World Women’s Youth Championship campaign in Hungary with a Silver medal. Manisha has also won a gold medal at the Asian Youth Championship, followed by a silver at Serbia in Golden Glove tournament, both of which have come in the present calendar year. Adjudged as one of the top fighters in Serbia, the trophy only goes on to prove Manisha’s mettle and her confidence of putting in a medal-winning performance at the World Championship in August.
2018: Golden Glove of Vojvodina Youth Men and Women Tournament; Serbia: Silver
2018: AIBA Asian Youth Championships; Bangkok: Gold
2016: 5th Nations Cup Boxing tournament; Serbia: Gold
Lalita (69 kg)
Place of Birth: Rajasthan
Intro: One of the emerging and exciting prospects in her category, Lalita has turned eyes with her power and agility inside the ring. Guided by sheer willpower and determination, the 18-year-old has already garnered a reputation as a lethal opponent.
Her tryst with boxing started after Lalita’s aunt and father inspired her to take up the sport and thereafter she went on to win many accolades. Lalita participated in a training camp-cum-tournament in Istanbul, Turkey in 2017 and won bronze before finishing at the top of the podium in the Golden Gloves Boxing tournament in Vojvodina, Serbia. The national Gold winner in 2017 also secured yellow metal for India at the prestigious Asian Youth Championship in Bangkok earlier in 2018. Now, Lalita’s focus is concentrated on the upcoming World Championships slated for later this year. A boxer in the welterweight category, the Rajasthan girl is undergoing specialized training to prepare herself for the mega-event.
2017: Ahmet Comert Boxing Championships; Istanbul, Turkey: Bronze
Niharika Gonella-75kg
Place of Birth: Hyderabad
Intro: Daughter of a former national-level handball player and a current police officer, boxing runs in her blood. The 17-year-old’s elder sister Naganika is an established boxer herself and, together, the girls are breaking stereotypes
With a dream to represent the Indian tricolour at the international stage, the Telangana has worked tirelessly to make it happen. In 2015, it came true, when she won a silver at the AIBA Women’s Junior and Youth Boxing Championships in Taipei. A Usain Bolt fan, she showed her class in Istanbul last year, when she won a silver medal.
2018: Youth Women’s National; Rohtak: Gold
2017: 31st International Ahmet Comert Boxing Tournament; Istanbul: Silver
2016: 5th Nations Cup; Serbia: Silver
2015: AIBA Junior Women World Boxing Championship, Taipei: Silver
Astha Pawa (75 kg)
Place of Birth: Saharanpur, UP
Intro: Asian Youth Championship bronze medalist in 2018, Astha Pawa has a rich repertoire of tricks up her sleeve along with a ferocious attitude. Starting with Wushu in her formative years, the 17-year-old made the leap to boxing when she joined the Sports Authority of India (Lucknow) in 2013. She went on to win the gold in the state championship that year. Since then, the boxing powerhouse has enjoyed an illustrious career, winning the gold and silver at 5th and 6th Nations Cup respectively, held at Serbia. She had also won the gold the Youth Nationals at Rohtak in 2018.
Quarterfinalist at the World Championships last year in Guwahati, Astha was keen to break the jinx and better her performance, as she finished her 2018 AIBA World Women Championship campaign with a bronze medal in Hungary.
2017: AIBA Women’s Youth World Boxing Championships; Guwahati: QF
2017: 6th Golden Glove women’s Boxing Tournament; Vojvodina, Serbia: Silver
2015: India Inter-University Boxing tournament; Rohtak: Gold
2014: State Boxing Championship; Ghaziabad: Gold
Sakshi Umesh Gaidhani (81 kg)
Place of Birth: Akola, Maharashtra
Intro: Sakshi’s stint with the sport started when a boxing expo was held in her village. A sports lover since childhood, Sakshi found her escapade and she started boxing in 2014. With hard work being the second nature to the Maharashtra (Akola) girl, in no time she was graced with success. The 17-year-old won the gold in State Championship in 2015 and continued her sublime form to clinch the bronze at the nationals the same year. Sakshi, of late, won the nationals in her weight category and looks in top shape now, having won the bronze at the AIBA World Women Youth Championship in Hungary.
More ascertained from her Serbia tour, Sakshi is well aware that the road ahead will be tough but the youngster is confident of winning laurels for her nation.
2018: Golden Glove of Vojvodina Youth Men and Women Tournament; Serbia: Bronze
2018: Youth Nationals; Rohtak: Gold
2015: Youth Women’s National Boxing Championship; Punjab: Bronze
2015: State Boxing Championship: Gold
Anupama, 81Kg
Place of Birth: Palwal, Haryana
Intro: A healing medicine for the Haryana girl, Anupama initially resorted to boxing as a measure for anger management. Criticism and sarcastic barbs are thrown at her by the village folks were no deterrent as this young pugilist was determined to pursue the sport with stronger fervour, blessed with the imperative support of both her parents.
Anupama has four siblings, a brother and three sisters, one of who, only recently, decided to follow in her sister’s footsteps. A major fan of Olympian turned professional boxer and Indian boxing poster boy Vijender Singh, Anupama dreams of representing the country at the Olympics Coached by Rajeev Godara and Olympian Jai Bhagwan, the young pugilist has shown that there is no substitute for dedication and hard work if you are to achieve your goals. Four national golds and two international medals, a silver won at the Golden Gloves tournament in Serbia and a bronze in the Balkan tournament in Bulgaria, both coming in the present calendar year, 2017, goes to prove that Anupama is well on course to achieving her dream targets.
2017: AIBA Youth Women’s World Championship; Guwahati: Bronze
2017: Balkan Youth International Boxing Championship; Bulgaria: Bronze
2017: 6th Golden Glove women’s Boxing Tournament; Serbia: Silver
Neha Yadav +81Kg
Place of Birth: Kaithal, Haryana
Intro: It was more by accident than design that Neha got into boxing. It was just a physical activity in the initial years till the boxing bug got to her. Hailing from a farmer’s family background, putting in hard work was second nature to Neha. But it was the irreplaceable support of her father Rajpal that she pursued the sport with devotion. She comes from the stable of coach Rajender Singh who shaped the career of one of the nation’s champion boxer and 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Manoj Kumar. She has excelled under coach Rajender and achieved a plethora of accolades in her fledgeling two-and-a-half-year career.
Neha participated in a training camp-cum-tournament in Shymkent, Khazakstan in 2017 before picking bronze in the 6th Golden Gloves Boxing tournament in Vojvodina, Serbia. But her crowning glory came in Balkan Youth International Women’s Boxing Tournament in Bulgaria where she outfoxed her final opponent Juhasz Adrienn from Hungary who was far heavier than her. Bronze winner at the AIBA Youth World Championship, in Hungary this year and Guwahati last year, Neha now aspires to be the best in the business in the heavyweight category.
2017: Balkan International Boxing Championship; Sofia, Bulgaria: Gold
2017: Women’s Youth World Boxing Championships; Guwahati: Bronze
2017: 6th Golden Glove women’s Boxing Tournament; Vojvodina, Serbia: Bronze
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New Ed. Videos from MIT, Khan Academy, and TED
By Katie Ash on April 25, 2012 1:50 PM
Today, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a new initiative that, in collaboration with the Khan Academy, encourages MIT students to create short, interesting videos about STEM subjects aimed at K-12 learners. The videos are available directly from MIT or through the initiative's YouTube Channel (the initiative is called MIT+K12). Some videos will also appear on the Khan Academy's website.
So far, about three dozen videos have been made. Topics include how airplanes fly, buoyancy, and genetic engineering. Salman Khan made a trip to MIT back in November to talk with the students about how to make engaging educational videos for K-12 students, and to kick off the initiative, MIT gave $1,000 to 38 teams of students to create the first videos. Students can now apply for funding to create videos after their topics have been approved.
An online survey of 300 K-12 students, taken after the initial set of videos were produced, found that roughly 73 percent of students said the videos "showed me that science and engineering could be cool" and 62 percent though the videos could add value to classroom lessons.
In addition, TED, the New York City-based nonprofit that organizes events and produces video lectures, has announced the second phase of its TED-Ed initiative—a new website dedicated to TED's education channel. (They launched the first phase, a YouTube channel, back in mid-March.) The website currently contains a few dozen videos, which are tagged by subject for easy searching, as well as supplemental materials such as multiple-choice quizzes, questions about the videos, and links to additional information. Also, teachers can "flip" the materials, meaning that supplementary resources will be opened on a new page where teachers can edit them how they wish.
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Charter Expansion Bill Spurs Debate in Wisconsin
By Katie Ash on January 10, 2014 5:30 PM | No comments
A new bill introduced in the Wisconsin House of Representatives that would expand charter schools in the state prompted seven hours of debate on Thursday, according to the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel.
One of the most contentious parts of the bill is the way charter schools would be funded, which would reduce aid to regular school districts. The bill also proposes several new authorizers for charter schools, including all two- and four-year education institutions in the University of Wisconsin system, among others.
Proponents of the bill say it will provide parents and students with more public school choices and bring Wisconsin up to speed compared to other charter school laws in nearby states. (The state is currently ranked 37th by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in terms of the strength of its charter law.)
Currently, in most of the state (with the exception of Milwaukee and Racine), charter schools are operated through school districts and run with district staff, which charter advocates say does not provide the independent schools with the full-range of flexibility that charter schools normally enjoy—in particular, hiring and firing their own staff.
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools released a statement in advance of the debate, encouraging lawmakers to support the bill.
"These changes will help put the state on a path toward providing more high-quality options for students and families," said Todd Ziebarth, the NAPCS's senior vice president of state advocacy and support , in the statement.
The bill is opposed by the Wisconsin Education Association Council, which encouraged its members to reach out to legislators and tell them to vote against the passage of the bill. They say it will take away local control of the schools and siphon money away from regular public school districts. The Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance and the Wisconsin Association of School Boards have also come out in opposition to the bill.
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Produkte - Wasseranalyse - Abwasseruntersuchung (Slideshow)
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Sewage Water testing according to the Annex IV of MARPOL
MARPOL Annex IV controls:
Discharge of sewage into the sea
Ships equipment and systems
Provision of facilities at ports and terminals
Requirements for survey and certification
The Annex entered into force on 27 September 2003. A revised Annex IV was adopted on 1 April 2004 and entered into force on 1 August 2005.
The revised Annex applies to new ships engaged in international voyages of 400 gross tonnage and above or which are certified to carry more than 15 persons. Existing ships are required to comply with the provisions of the revised Annex IV five years after the date of entry into force of Annex IV, namely since 27 September 2008. The Annex requires ships to be equipped with either an approved sewage treatment plant or an approved sewage comminuting and disinfecting system or a sewage holding tank.
The discharge of sewage into the sea is prohibited, except when the ship has in operation an approved sewage treatment plant or when the ship is discharging comminuted and disinfected sewage using an approved system at a distance of more than three nautical miles from the nearest land. Sewage which is not comminuted or disinfected has to be discharged at a distance of more than 12 nautical miles from the nearest land.
Resolution MEPC.159(55), which entered into force on 1st January 2010, consists of the revised guidelines for implementation of effluent standards and performance tests for sewage treatment plants.
Vessels which fall under the above mentioned categories will need to demonstrate compliance with the regulations, with the relevant certification (ISPPC).
ISPCC (International Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate) are issued upon successful inspection and are valid for 5 years.
Non-compliance or failed inspections can result in vessel detention
According to MEPC.159(55) below mentioned parameters have to be controlled to prove the vessels sewage treatment plants functionality.
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Mathematician Who Cracked Nazi Code To Win World War II To Appear On Note
Manchester: Mathematician Alan Turing, whose cracking of a Nazi code helped the Allies to win World War Two but who committed suicide after being convicted for homosexuality, will appear on the Bank of England's new 50-pound banknote, the BoE said on Monday.
"As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as war hero, Alan Turing's contributions were far-ranging and path-breaking," BoE Governor Mark Carney, who took the final decision on the character selection, said.
"Turing is a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand."
Turing's electromechanical machine, a forerunner of modern computers, unravelled the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany and helped give the Allies an advantage in the naval struggle for control of the Atlantic.
His work at Bletchley Park, Britain's wartime code-breaking centre, was credited with shortening the war and saving many thousands of lives.
But he was stripped of his job and chemically castrated after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man. Homosexual sex was illegal in Britain until 1967.
Turing killed himself in 1954, aged 41, with cyanide. He was granted a royal pardon by Queen Elizabeth in 2013 for the criminal conviction that led to his suicide.
Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who campaigned for Turing's pardon and organised LGBT activists to vote for him in an early round of nominations for the banknote selection, said it was a breakthrough to have a known gay person appear on an English banknote for the first time.
"This is a much-deserved accolade for one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century," Tatchell said.
A 2014 film, "The Imitation Game", starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay.
In 2017, under new legislation known as "Turing's Law", Britain granted posthumous pardons to thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted of sexual offences under laws which have since been abolished
As well as an image of Turing, the new note will feature a table and mathematical formulae from a 1936 paper by Turing on computable numbers, an image of a pilot computer and technical drawings for the machines used to break the Enigma code.
The note will also include a quote by Turing about the rise of machine intelligence: "This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be."
The 50-pound note is the BoE's highest-value banknote and is rarely used in daily transactions. The new note is expected to enter circulation by the end of 2021, the BoE said.
Vladimir Putin Says 'Not A Problem' Not To Be Invited To D-Day Anniversary
Petersburg: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said it was "not a problem" that he was not invited to the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in northern France, attended by other world leaders.
"We also don't invite everyone to every event. Why should I be invited everywhere?" he said of the memorial at which US President Donald Trump spoke along with French leader Emmanuel Macron.
"I have enough business of my own here," he said during an economic forum in Saint Petersburg.
Putin was at the 70th anniversary of the landings but this week Moscow insisted on the significance of D-Day in the outcome of World War II should not be overplayed.
Russia regularly accuses the West of failing to properly understand or acknowledge the enormous human losses -- estimated at 27 million deaths -- the Soviet Union suffered in the conflict.
Russians in turn often know little about the Western Front or the aid that the Soviet Union received from the United States to fight the war.
Soviet Union oddly missing from US-made coin ‘saluting’ WWII Allies
A US-made collectable coin lists Britain and France among the honored US allies in WWII, but, strangely, the Soviet Union, whose Red Army delivered a crushing blow to the Nazis in Europe and fought Japan, is omitted.
The 24-carat gold-plated coin was designed by collectable goods and jewelry company Bradford Exchange. It was the first entry into a collection meant to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory in WWII, depicting “key” Allied battles and honoring the Allied nations.
The coin’s reverse side shows the 33rd US president, Harry Truman, along with the 34th president, Dwight Eisenhower, who was the supreme commander of the US and British expeditionary force in Europe during the war.
The obverse side, however, contains only the flags of the US, Brittan, and France, as Allied nations the item wishes to “salute.” Oddly enough, it completely omits the Soviet Union, whose troops were instrumental to crushing the bulk of the Nazi armies in Europe.
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It would have been fair to assume that the Soviet flag would possibly appear on other coins of the collection, but, according to the company’s website, the design of the obverse side will remain the same.
The Soviet Union was attacked by Nazi Germany and other Axis powers on June 22, 1941. Once that happened, the nation was almost immediately recognized by the US and Britain as an essential partner of the anti-Hitler coalition.
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After fierce resistance and four years of bloody battles, the Red Army repelled the invasion and liberated Eastern Europe from the Nazi occupation.
In 1945, Soviet soldiers captured Berlin. After the warfare in Europe was over, Moscow agreed to US requests to enter the war against Japan, defeating its forces in Manchuria.
More than 26.6 million Soviet citizens died in the war, with 8.7 million killed in combat.
Putin says WW2 started due to disunity of world’s leading countries, calls on world to unite
The Nazis were able to start World War II because of the disunity of the world’s leading countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated during a Victory Day parade at Moscow’s Red Square, adding that the lessons of the past should not be ignored.
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“This horrific tragedy could not be prevented, first and foremost, because of the connivance of the criminal ideology of racial superiority, because of the disunity of the world’s leading countries. This allowed the Nazis to appropriate themselves the right to decide the fate of other peoples, to unleash the most brutal, bloody war, to enslave almost all European countries, putting them at the service of their deadly targets,” the Russian leader said, speaking during the military parade in Moscow marking the 72nd anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945.
According to Putin, the greatness of Victory Day is “defined by the people, by their unprecedented heroic act of saving the Fatherland, and a decisive contribution to the defeat of Nazism.”
“The triumphant victory over this terrible totalitarian force will remain in human history forever as the highest point of the triumph of life and mind over death and barbarity,” he stressed.
“We must remember that the victory was won at the cost of huge, irreplaceable fatalities, that the war took millions of lives,” Putin concluded.
In order to effectively combat terrorism, extremism, and neo-Nazism today, the entire world community should unite, the Russian president noted.
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“The lessons of the past war urge us to be vigilant, and the Russian Armed Forces are capable of repelling any potential aggression,” the Russian president said, stressing that “nowadays, life itself requires raising our defense potential.”
“But to effectively combat terrorism, extremism, neo-Nazism, and other threats, consolidation of the entire international community is necessary,” Putin said.
“We are open for such cooperation, and Russia will always be on the side of forces for peace, with those who choose the path of equal partnership, who deny wars as contrary to the very essence of life and human nature.”
The Victory Day parade has concluded on Moscow’s Red Square, where some 10,000 people took part and 114 military vehicles were on display. After attending the festive event, Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beside the Kremlin walls to honor the fallen soldiers of World War II. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, and other top Russian officials attended the ceremony.
Putin calls for non-aligned international security system in face of global terror threat
Vladimir Putin said Russia is all for creating a non-aligned system of international security to counter global terror. The president, speaking at the V-Day parade in Moscow, called on all nations to learn the lessons of WWII.
Ukrainian far-right groups clash with police during WWII commemoration
The Ukrainian city of Odessa saw dozens of far-right activists clash with police near the House of the Trade Unions on Odessa Liberation Day, April 10. The hooded activists were trying to disrupt a memorial gathering.
Russia, China against imposing will over sovereign states & attempts to rewrite history
Rewriting history shatters the pillars of the world order perpetuated by the UN Charter, Russia’s foreign minister said in an article published in Russian and Chinese media. The world's fate cannot be held in the hands of just one state, he added.
Ex-NATO commander suggests WWII-style camps for radicalized Americans
Retired US General Wesley Clark suggested that radicalized youth in America and other Western nations should be segregated the way Nazi sympathizers were held in camps during World War II.
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Wireless Internet Connections in Data Centers
January 10, 2012 at 10:11 am by Andrea Weinstein
Researchers at UCSB have helped create a new method to increase wireless transmission speeds in data centers by up to 30 percent.
Scientists discovered that metal plates placed on the ceiling of data centers better transmit signals from directional antennas, thereby increasing the efficiency and speed of wireless communication.
Although wireless connections are not novel, previous systems required that Wi-Fi stations sending and receiving data have a line-of-sight connection. By angling the stream of data upward, signals can bounce off the ceiling. As a result, signals from densely packed areas can be transmitted regardless of their location within a data center.
To demonstrate this effect, UCSB associate computer science professor Heather Zheng and her team used a 60 gigahertz wireless device in spite of the fact that this type of data transmission is typically sensitive to interference between the transmitter and the receiver.
“Any obstacle larger than 2.5 mm can block the signal,” said Zheng. To avoid such reception problems, Zheng’s team used directional antennas to improve communication.
Rather than create a mesh network that could potentially further complicate route destination, Zheng and her team next placed flat metal plates on the ceiling of data centers.
“When we put a radio on top of each rack — a stack of servers used in data centers — these radios can block each other’s signal,” said Zheng. “This is because 60 gigahertz radio signals are highly sensitive to obstacles.”
Accordingly, the plates were especially important since they provide near perfect reflection and therefore reduce signal interference. Additionally, the metal plates absorb light, which ensures that signals do not bounce back up or scatter around the antenna, while electromagnetic absorbers are placed on top of racks to prevent unwanted reflection.
To test their theory, Zheng and her associates placed reflectors on the ceiling of a 160-rack data center and observed changes in transmission speed and efficiency compared to previous techniques. The performance improved by 0.5 terabytes per second.
Currently, IBM is working on using wireless technology in data centers. However, the first commercial products using this technology will not be available until next year.
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The Injustice Boycott and Academia
. October 6, 2016 at 11:58 am 7
Influential activist and writer Shaun King—currently “senior justice writer” at the New York Daily News—has announced plans for a potentially massive boycott of “cities, states, businesses, and institutions which are either willfully indifferent to police brutality and racial injustice or are deliberately destructive partners with it.”
The boycott is set to begin on December 5th, the anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (no relation to Shaun King). However, the specific targets of the boycott have not yet been named. The targets are being researched and will be announced when the boycott starts. On this, King writes:
Between now and then, we hope that cities and states around the country will begin to enact emergency legislation and policies to prevent police brutality and racial violence. Furthermore, we do not want any potential institutions to somehow undermine our efforts.
Potential targets include:
Entire cities and states much like what you see being done in North Carolina right now over the anti-LGBT House Bill 2.
Particular brands and corporations who partner with and profit from systemic oppression.
Particular brands and corporations headquartered in cities and states notorious for police brutality and racial violence, which say and do little to nothing about it.
Particular institutions, including banks, which fund, underwrite, inform, train or otherwise support systemic oppression and brutality.
The point of the boycott, King writes, is “visible, measurable, tangible change” to reduce police brutality and racial injustice. And though the organizers will “be providing each city, state, business and institution a clear path out of the boycott,” King expects the boycott to last months or years.
Leaving aside for the time being any moral or practical objections to the boycott, and keeping in mind that we don’t have some relevant details (there is a plan to release some further information on November 2nd) certain questions for members of academia arise. Suppose one is interested in supporting the boycott. One might ask:
Should those who have already planned and made substantial arrangements for conferences that will be taking place in locations, or making use of hotels, that end up as targets of the boycott, cancel their events or attempt to make alternative arrangements? And if the latter, at what expense? Does it matter what type or size of conference it is?
Should those who have committed to attend conferences in locations that end up being targeted by the boycott withdraw? Does it matter if the meeting is a small workshop the happening of which we have good reason to think will make no difference to the success of the boycott, or if it is a large gathering, such as the upcoming meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in Baltimore, Maryland and Kansas City, Missouri?
If one is scheduled to give a colloquium talk in a given city, and then, say, a week before the talk (after everything including plane tickets is booked, for instance) the city is named as a target, is it inappropriate to pull out of the talk, given the effect it might have on the department there? Does one have an obligation to warn departments about this in advance of knowing the specific targeted cities or areas?
Does one’s status in the profession affect one’s obligations in regards to the boycott (e.g., a new PhD, currently adjuncting and on the market, in comparison to a tenure-track assistant professor up for tenure soon, in comparison to a tenured and successful academic, etc.)?
What should one do if one’s conference job interviews or campus visits are scheduled in boycotted locations?
Should one refrain from submitting to or working for (e.g., refereeing or editing for) publishers located in targeted locations?
Do academics in areas not targeted by the boycott have a duty to assist academics in neighboring locations that have been targeted (e.g., by agreeing to host their conference)? Or does this undermine a mechanism by which the boycott is supposed to effect change?
Does the boycott give academics in areas not targeted by the boycott reason to not work with academics at schools in targeted areas (e.g., not to invite them to conferences or to contribute to volumes, or to co-author work with them)?
What alternative measures apart from cancelling events and refusing participation are available to academics that are consistent with supporting the boycott (e.g., is video-conferencing into a workshop in a targeted location, rather than traveling to it, a way of supporting the boycott or a way of undermining it)?
To reiterate, the topic is this:
Assume one is interested in supporting the boycott. What does that imply for one’s actions as an academic?
Discussion of the above questions and relevantly similar ones welcome. For the time being, let’s not discuss the question of whether such a boycott should be launched (a question that this post does not issue a position on).
If you haven’t yet, please take a look at the comments policy before you comment.
“Atop the Wall” by Justin Weinberg
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Gas Reaction and Solid Reaction
Gas Liquid Reactions
When gaseous reactants are absorbed by a liquid, and a chemical reaction takes place, both chemical reaction and mass transfer may control the overall reaction rate. For analysis of this type of system should be consulted. Books by Astarita, Danckwerts, and Sherwood, Pigford, and Wilke should also be helpful. Treatments similar to these references are likewise applicable to the liquid liquid system if chemical reaction is involved in only one of two partially miscible phases and the overall rate is governed by both mass transfer and chemical reaction.
Solid State Reactions The solid state reactions refer to decomposition and interaction of solids, and are generally more complex than those of other systems discussed preciously. There have been few systematic analyses of chemical reactions in the solid state. Fairly comprehensive treatments of such reactions are presented in two recent publications by Bamford and Tipper and Schmalzried respectively.
General Charact…
Oxalic acid is an organic compound is a colorless solid crystalline that dilute in water and make a colorless solution. Oxalic acid have chemical formula C2H2O4 is classified as simple dicarboxylic acid, the strong of this acid is greater than acetic acid or vinegar. Oxalic acid often found in many plants and vegetables, also produce in the body by metabolism of glyoxylic acid or ascorbic acid. This acid is not metabolized by our body but excreted through urine. Too much oxalic acid in our body can react with calcium become calcium oxalc stone, can make problem for kidney. Plant that contain of high oxalic acid like in Asparagus.
Oxalic acid many uses in anodizing aluminum to make black anodized color, use in anodizing oxalic bath for anodizing process. Oxalic acid also use as bleaching agent for both wood and stone. When exposed to the elements, can turn gray. When oxalic acid applied to old and graying wood floor, it brings wood floor to natural white color.
Other uses of oxalic ac…
Hydrochloric acid is a water solution of hydrogen chloride, HCl, are irritating, pungent gas that is extremely water soluble; water solution is generally written with the same formula as the gas. In nature the acid is found in the discharge from volcanoes and, in a concentration of about 0.25% in the gastric juice secreted by the human stomach. It can be made in the laboratory by the action of concentrated sulfuric acid on sodium chloride or by the burning of chlorine in an atmosphere of hydrogen. In either case the hydrogen chloride produced must be dissolved in water to produce the acid solution. Nearly 90% of all commercially produced hydrochloric acid is a by product of the chlorination of organic compounds, such as:
CH4 + Cl2 ➠ CH3CL + HCl
About 5% is produced by the combustion of chlorine in hydrogen; a similar quantity is produced by the reaction of concentrated sulfuric acid on sodium chloride.
Hydrochloric acid is principally used in the pickling (cleaning) of steel and…
From soda we can generate many compounds, beside sodium carbonate, sodium sulfite and sodium hydrosulfite, sodium sulfide, sodium thiosulfate and also sodium hydroxide. Sodium have industrial uses that required millions of tons annually. Perhaps the most important of these compounds is sodium chloride (NaCl), from which million of metric tons of sodium hydroxide are made annually.
Sodium hydroxide also called caustic soda, is essential to the production of soap, detergent, cleaning compounds, dyes, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. It is also necessary in the manufacture of rayon, cellophane, phenol, naphtol, recorcinol, and oxalic acid. Such industrial process as boiler water softening, food processing, engraving, printing, pulp and paper production, petroleum refining, metallurgy and house hold bleaching agent that preparation is depend on it.
Sodium hydroxide can be form from reaction of sodium with water, but as industrial process this substance usually produce from electrolysis pro…
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Posted on April 12, 2019 by Rich
Advances in Nutritional Research on Regulatory T-Cells
Many clinical and animal studies have shown that certain dietary components exert anti-inflammatory properties that aid in the amelioration of chronic inflammatory diseases. Among the various proposed channels through which dietary components affect immune responses, regulatory T-cells (Tregs) are emerging as key targets for the dietary prevention of chronic inflammatory diseases. In this review, immunoregulation by Tregs is briefly described, followed by a summary of recent advances and possible applications of techniques for the study of Tregs. In addition, this review provides an overview of the current knowledge on Treg regulation by certain dietary components, including vitamins, omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, and polyphenols. The caveats of previous studies are also discussed in order to highlight the distinctions between dietary studies and immunological approaches. Consequently, this review may help to clarify the means by which nutritional components influence Tregs.
Keywords: nutrition, immunology, regulatory T-cells, Tregs, anti-inflammatory
4. Dietary Regulation of Tregs
4.1. Vitamins
Following dietary consumption and absorption in the intestines, water-insoluble vitamin A (all-trans-retinol) is carried by cellular retinol binding protein (CRBP) in an aqueous environment to be transported into the cytoplasm. Subsequently, retinol is oxidized to retinal by retinol dehydrogenase, and then retinal is further oxidized to retinoic acid by retinal dehydrogenase [25]. With respect to the role of vitamin A in the development of Tregs, Bai et al. [26] demonstrated that the population of Tregs derived from biopsies of ulcerative colitis patients increases following ex vivo culture in the presence of retinoic acid, a potent metabolite of vitamin A. In the same study, using a chemical (2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid, TNBS)-induced murine colitis model, it was further elucidated that dietary vitamin A ameliorated colitis, which is accompanied by an increased population of Tregs. Wu et al. [27] further reported that intraperitoneal administration of all-trans retinoic acid aided in the attenuation of airway inflammation by inducing Treg development in a model of experimental allergic asthma. Moreover, a dietary study demonstrated that retinal intervention in mice upregulated Tregs, which further assisted in the treatment of autoimmune inflammatory disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis [28]. Overall, these animal studies indicate that vitamin A and its metabolites affect populations of Tregs, thereby suppressing chronic inflammatory diseases. However, it remains unclear whether vitamin A affects Tregs directly, indirectly, or both. Indeed, Chang et al. demonstrated that dendritic cells also promote the generation of Tregs in response to retinoic acid, at least in vitro [29], exemplifying that in vivo models are more complicated for elucidating the mechanism of action of dietary components.
With respect to water-soluble vitamins, Kunisawa et al. [30] showed that Tregs express high levels of vitamin B9 (folic acid) receptor on their cell surfaces. Furthermore, vitamin B9 was demonstrated to be a survival factor for Tregs; in a vitamin B9-deficient culture, naïve CD4+ T-cells successfully differentiated into Foxp3+ Tregs but failed to survive. Moreover, it was found that mice fed a vitamin B9-deficient diet exhibited a decreased number of Tregs in the small intestine, where vitamin B9 is absorbed.
4.2. Dietary Fatty Acids
A significant quantity of data has indicated that dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may prevent or ameliorate chronic inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel diseases [31,32,33,34]. These studies have identified multiple anti-inflammatory mechanisms of omega-3 PUFA: cytokine production, antagonism to omega-6 PUFA metabolism, binding to nuclear receptors as ligands, the alteration of signaling protein acylation, and the modulation of signaling platform lipid rafts in various immune cell models. With respect to CD4+ T-cell mediated inflammatory responses, several studies using dietary intervention with either purified omega-3 PUFA or fish oil (which is rich in omega-3 PUFA) demonstrated that CD4+ T-cell functions, as assessed by cytokine production and proliferation, were suppressed in both humans [35,36,37] and experimental animals [38,39].
As for the effect of omega-3 PUFA on Tregs, it was shown that the omega-3 PUFA abundant in fermented fish oil enhanced the development of Foxp3+ Tregs in vivo [40]. Moreover, intraperitoneal injection of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), an omega-3 PUFA, resulted in prolongation of graft survival in a murine transplant model, accompanied by an increased population of Tregs [41]. However, those studies do not conclusively demonstrate a direct function of omega-3 PUFA on the differentiation and/or function of Tregs, given the caveat that in vivo administration of omega-3 PUFA can affect diverse types of accessory cells. Indeed, it was found that dendritic cells cultured in docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, an omega-3 PUFA)-rich conditions facilitated the development of Tregs, at least in vitro [42], indicating an indirect modulation of Treg development by omega-3 PUFA. However, despite the increase in the development of Tregs, the favorable effect of omega-3 PUFA on Tregs is still controversial because it has also been observed that DHA inhibited the suppressive effect of Tregs on effector T-cell proliferations in a dose-dependent manner in vitro [43].
4.3. Dietary Polyphenols
Dietary polyphenols are well known for their antioxidant properties, which can further suppress inflammatory responses by reducing nitric oxide. In addition to their archetypal antioxidant capacities, immunoregulatory effects of select polyphenols on Tregs have been characterized as follows. Wang et al. [44] reported that ex vivo development of CD4+ Foxp3+ Tregs was induced in the presence of the flavonoid naringenin in part via activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, a transcription factor. As well, increased Treg differentiation suppressed the proliferation of effector T-cells. In addition, dietary naringenin was found to suppress cholesterol-induced systemic inflammation, metabolic dysregulation, atherosclerosis, and allergen-induced airway inflammation [45,46], although it was not clear whether those inhibitory effects were Treg-dependent. In a mouse model of T-cell mediated inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, dietary intake of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a catechin derivative, exerted a favorable effect, in part by increasing the Treg population in the spinal cord [47]. Furthermore, fermented grape marc (FGM) was found to promote Treg differentiation of human CD4+ T-cells [48].Go to:
Due to the relatively short history of studies on Tregs, investigations of the direct effects of a variety of dietary components on Treg conversion are limited at present (summarized in Table 1 and previously reviewed elsewhere [49]). It seems that a majority of the anti-inflammatory functional studies have been conducted in vivo by observing physiological outcomes, such as symptoms of chronic inflammation and accumulation of certain immune cell types. Even though in vivo studies are indispensable for nutritional studies, simpler model systems must be developed to dissect the detailed mechanisms by which dietary components regulate physiological systems. Therefore, further studies using more sophisticated and appropriate in vivo model systems are needed to draw solid conclusions. In this regard, as introduced in this review, the protocol for Treg differentiation from naïve CD4+ T cells could be effectively utilized to determine the direct effects of a variety of promising dietary Treg modulators present in foods.
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The primary objective of the workshops is to involve all the children in the class in the project, to give them ownership and control but above all else, to instil confidence, to show them that they can, through their individual efforts and by being a member of a team, create, produce and perform their own piece of stimulating theatre.
Privileged access initiatives are also available at no extra cost to compliment the workshops. These include theatre visits and backstage tours, meet-the-actor sessions, watching rehearsals and hands-on experience with various aspects of production such as technical, set and costume design, stage management and front of house. Work experience placements are also available.
The workshops have been enjoyed by children from year 1 to year 6 and at secondary and college level.
The workshops are timed to last two hours but can be longer or shorter to suit timetables. Subsequent sessions are available on return visits which study particular aspects such as characterisation, plotting, dialogue, story, direction, acting, technical and effects, hot seating etc., in more detail.
This is a typical 2 hour workshop format:
1. Introduction to the world of professional theatre, what it is, what happens there, how you
get into it.
2. My story. Why I got interested, what barriers there were, how I broke those down.
3. The challenge: We write a play, (the story of which comes from a child in the class), in 2 hours. By the end of the session we will have written, performed and filmed on the school camera, (if permissible), the first scene of the play.
4. What makes up a play? The children are taken through the various components of the writing, production, performance and post-performance processes.
5. The story: The children sit down in their own space for 20 minutes. Classical music plays whilst they are encouraged to think of a story and write it down. At the end of this session the stories are discussed and the class vote for their favourite. This is carried forward to be the story for the play.
6. Roles: Chris with the writer then steers the next session. The production and performance roles are discussed in more detail, including directors, actors, casting, stage design, technical, light and sound, costume, music, critics and filming. The children are asked to choose a role and common groups of these are formed.
7. Production: Guided by the writer and Chris, the new production team plan their work. Directors are chosen and meet and the team is assembled. The stage is designed, characters refined and cast, the scene written, dialogue created and edited, costumes designed, lighting and sound effects planned. Then the work is rehearsed ahead of the performance which is filmed by a class member and made available for the school website if this is permissible.
8. Class members are selected to be critics and together with the audience, they feedback to the director, cast and members of the production team. They identify strengths, weaknesses and areas for possible improvement.
A 2 hour session is priced at £200 and a full day session at £375. Quotes for bespoke packages are available on request.
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Kelton Minor is a PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Social Data Science and research fellow at Kraks Fond Institute for Urban Economic Research. Kelton is interested in how changes in the technologies we interact with, including the environments we live in, shape our behavior and wellbeing over the lifespan. By bridging between global environmental and local behavioral datasets, Kelton helps to inform harmonious interfaces between people and places.
His PhD research examines how global environmental change – the most extensive effect human technology is having on the planet – may affect public life, health, beliefs and behavior across contexts ranging from communities and cities to countries and continents. Recently, he helped conduct the Greenlandic Perspectives Survey (GPS): a countrywide, representative survey of 649 Greenlandic residents’ beliefs, attitudes and experiences of ongoing environmental changes and adaptation around Greenland.
Kelton has an MSc in Human Environment Relations from Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology and a BSc in Design and Environmental Analysis. Before embarking on his PhD, he worked as a UX Researcher for smart home startups in Silicon Valley and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts: School of Design. Previously, he programmed and designed the Google NYC office bike room and became a LEED accredited professional at the age of 19.
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78th Academy Awards (2005): The Hopefuls
– Brokeback Mountain
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munic
The Constant Gardener
Star Wars: Episode III 6
God Sleeps in Rwanda
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Winner Prediction (c-First Chart Placement, n-Nom Pred Date Set, o-Win Pred Date Set) — Chance at Nomination —
Nominee Prediction (c-First Chart Placement, n-Nom Pred Date Set) — Chance at Nomination —
Alternate Prediction (c-First Chart Placement) — Chance at Nomination —
CHANCE AT NOMINATION:
Strong: It would be a major shock if these selections weren’t nominated. The buzz would be deafening.
Good: These are selections that I think are pretty certain, but I cannot quite declare them as guarantees.
Average: There isn’t much of a chance that this nominee will be left off the list, but stranger things have happened.
Weak: These are the achievements that I think are fighting for the slots not taken up by the othrs above. None of these selections are safe and could be bumped off by any other title with the “Poor” description.
Poor: These are outside contenders that have been in the conversation, but whose prospects have dimmed over time. They remain on the list because sometimes the Academy does some strange stuff.
Brokeback Mountain (c-7/3, n-10/9, o-12/14) — Strong —
Good Night, and Good Luck (c-7/3, n-10/9) — Good —
Walk the Line (c-11/17, n-12/9) — Good —
Capote (c-12/14, n-1/9) — Average —
Crash (c-10/9, n-1/9) — Average —
Munich (c-7/3) — Average —
Cinderella Man (c-7/3) — Average —
The Constant Gardener (c-7/3) — Average —
A History of Violence (c-7/3) — Average —
King Kong (c-7/3) — Average —
Match Point (c-7/3) — Weak —
Memoirs of a Geisha (c-7/3) — Weak —
The New World (c-7/3) — Weak —
Syriana (c-11/17) — Weak —
The Squid and the Whale (c-12/14) — Weak —
With the PGA weighed in on their choice, it looks like Brokeback has this award to lose. I think this will be a perfect match to the PGA for nominations with Munich, Cinderella Man, A History of Violence and Munich as the only contenders that might knock the weakest linke (Capote) from its perch.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (c-7/3, n-7/3, o-10/9) — Strong —
Madagascar (c-7/3, n-7/3) — Good —
Chicken Little (c-7/3, n-7/3) — Average —
Howl’s Moving Castle (c-7/3) — Average —
Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride (c-7/3) — Average —
Hoodwinked (c-11/17) — Weak —
Robots (c-7/3) — Weak —
Valiant (c-7/3) — Poor–
Gulliver’s Travels (c-11/17) — Poor–
Steamboy (c-11/17) — Poor–
These are the Official Selections for the Animated Feature Category.
Wallace & Gromit is the only lock for this Category. Madagascar is going to be the second of the three but it’s the third slot that could be worrisome. Chicken Little has Disney backing and since the Animation branch has primarily big studio associations, it should be the third nominee. However, watch out for darkhorse critics fave and previous Oscar winner Hayao Miyazaki who’s Howl’s Moving Castle has been named slightly less frequently as Wallace & Gromit as one of the best animated pics of the year. Only it seems to be poised to knock Chicken Little from its perch.
Brokeback Mountain – Ang Lee (c-7/3, n-10/9, o-12/14) — Strong —
Good Night, and Good Luck – George Clooney (c-7/3, n-10/9) — Strong —
Munich – Steven Spielberg (c-7/3, n-7/3) — Good —
Crash – Paul Haggis (c-10/9, n-1/9) — Average —
A History of Violence – David Cronenberg (c-7/3, n-1/9) — Average —
Walk the Line – James Mangold (c-11/17) — Average —
Cinderella Man – Ron Howard (c-7/3) — Average —
The Constant Gardener – Fernando Meirelles (c-7/3) — Average —
Capote – Bennet Miller (c-12/14) — Average —
Match Point – Woody Allen (c-7/3) — Weak —
King Kong – Peter Jackson (c-7/3) — Average —
The New World – Terrence Malick (c-7/3) — Weak —
Syriana – Stephen Gaghan (c-11/17) — Weak —
With the PGA and DGA in the bag for Brokeback, Ang Lee seems a lock for Best Director. As a friend (thanks, Pete) pointed out, never in the history of the DGA has an director won his second DGA honor and not taken home Best Picture at the Oscars. Clooney’s an actor, so he’ll make the cut. Spielberg’s got a lot of support now in the Academy. It’s very likely that Munich will ride a late wave of support to a nomination for the director. Paul Haggis is a veteran, even if it is on television, thus making him a likely contender.The odd ball out director (though Spielberg won’t likely get a best pic nod either) is usually from a very small, critically-beloved film that screams auteur. That seems to point at David Cronenberg as the best choice. With Capote hanging onto its best picture hopes by a thread, Bennett Miller seems the easiest to excies from the list. Mangold could replace Spielberg and Mereilles could replace Cronenberg. Peter Jackson, Woody Allen or Terrence Malic could also surprise with a nomination. If Cinderella Man pulls a Seabiscuit, we could see another nomination for the Academy’s now-loved Ron Howard.
Capote – Philip Seymour Hoffman (c-7/3, n-7/3, o-1/29) — Strong —
Brokeback Mountain – Heath Ledger (c-7/3, n-10/9) — Strong —
Walk the Line – Joaquin Phoenix (c-7/3, n-7/3) — Good —
Good Night, and Good Luck – David Strathairn (c-7/3, n-10/9) — Good —
Cinderella Man – Russell Crowe (c-7/3, n-1/29) — Average —
Hustle & Flow – Terrence Howard (c-c-7/3) — Average —
The Constant Gardener – Ralph Fiennes (c-7/3) — Average —
The Squid and the Whale – Jeff Daniels (c-12/14) — Average —
A History of Violence – Viggo Mortensen (c-7/3) — Average —
Munich – Eric Bana (c-7/3) — Weak —
Breakfast on Pluto – Cillian Murphy (c-12/14) — Weak —
Brokeback Mountain – Jake Gyllenhaal (c-7/3) — Weak —
How times change. Russell now looks like an uncertain fifth spotter in place of Terrenec Howard is very likely to get his nomination in Crash based on its victory at the SAG awards. Ledger, Hoffman, Strathairn and Phoenix are all pretty much locked. Jeff Daniels could sneak in but his chances have seriously diminished with the returns of his films in early critics awards. Mortensen, could benefit from a resurgance of support for Hiatory of Violence. The same can also be said for Fiennes if Constant Gardener comes on strong.
Walk the Line – Reese Witherspoon (c-7/3, n-10/9, o-11/17) — Strong —
Transamerica – Felicity Huffman (c-10/28, n-12/9) — Good —
Mrs. Henderson Presents – Judi Dench (c-10/28, n-11/17) — Average —
North Country – Charlize Theron (c-7/3, n-12/14) — Average —
The Upside of Anger – Joan Allen (c-7/3, n-1/29) — Average —
Memoirs of a Geisha – Ziyi Zhang (c-7/3) — Average —
The Squid and the Whale – Laura Linney (c-7/3) — Average —
Pride and Prejudice – Keira Knightley (c-12/9) — Average —
King Kong – Naomi Watts (c-7/3) — Average —
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont – Joan Plowright (c-12/9) — Weak —
Proof – Gwyneth Paltrow (c-7/3) — Weak —
Reese looks likely to repeat her GG & SAG wins at the Oscars. Her only competition is Felicity Huffman who’s been winning in other categories all year (Emmys, Golden Globes, SAG). Dench and Theron are good bets but incredibly weak and could easily be toppled by a surprise surge from other bubbling-under types. Joan Allen tentatively moves into the fifth spot but could easily be sacrifices for any other name on the list. Linney’s chances have slid tremendously but Zhang could be the only representative from Geisha to make a showing. We could also see Knightley coming from behind to finish fifth. The bottom three spots are fought over by six or seven actress if you Watts as holding on by a thread.
Syriana – George Clooney (c-12/9, n-1/9, o-1/29) — Average —
Brokeback Mountain – Jake Gyllenhaal (c-7/3, n-12/9) — Strong —
Cinderella Man – Paul Giamatti (c-7/3, n-12/14) — Good —
Crash – Matt Dillon (c-11/17, n-12/14) — Average —
Crash – Terrence Howard (c-12/14, n-1/29) — Average —
Good Night, and Good Luck – Frank Langella (c-11/17) — Average —
A History of Violence – William Hurt (c-7/3) — Average —
Capote – Clifton Collins Jr. (c-11/17) — Average —
Munich – Ciaran Hinds (c-1/2) — Average —
The Upside of Anger – Kevin Costner (c-12/14) — Average —
Casanova – Oliver Platt (c-12/14) — Weak —
Crash – Don Cheadle (c-11/17) — Weak —
Munich – Geoffrey Rush (c-7/3) — Weak —
Munich – Matthieu Kassovitz (c-11/17) — Weak —
Rent – Jesse L. Martin (c-7/3) — Weak —
Giamatti couldn’t so much as earn a nomination last year for Sideways. The Academy shouldn’t feel obliged to give him a trophy for ignoring him, so a nomination should be enough. Clooney will win here if Crash wins in Original Screenplay. Otherwise, he’s still a good bet being the only long-seen contender in the list. Gyllenhaal’s guaranteed a nomination, but like Ledger, may be too young to compete with the guys (Oscar loves young women, not so much young men). Crash’s success at the SAG awards seems to indicate a support base that’s swelling. Dillon and Howard could be swept in as a result. This is probably the category that’s the least easy to predict just because anyone could get a nomination in the two currently Crash-assigned spots. Langella could get a career nod and then be a serious contender for a win. William Hurt could become the only past Oscar winner nominated…or even the only past Oscar nominee. Right now, it’s looking like a no show from past Oscar bedfellows.
The Constant Gardener – Rachel Weisz (c-12/14, n-1/2, o-1/9) — Good —
Brokeback Mountain – Michelle Williams (c-11/17, n-12/9) — Good —
Junebug – Amy Adams (c-10/28, n-11/17) — Good —
A History of Violence – Maria Bello (c-7/3, n-1/9) — Average —
North Country – Frances McDormand (c-12/14, n-1/29) — Average —
Capote – Catherine Keener (c-11/17) — Good —
Memoirs of a Geisha – Gong Li (c-7/3) — Average —
Match Point – Scarlett Johansson (c-12/9) — Average —
Crash – Thandie Newton (c-1/29)
In Her Shoes – Shirley MacLaine (c-12/14) — Average —
The Family Stone – Diane Keaton (c-10/28) — Average —
Memoirs of a Geisha – Michelle Yeoh (c-7/3) — Average —
The New World – Q’Orianka Kilcher (c-7/3) — Average —
Brokeback Mountain – Anne Hathaway (c-11/17) — Weak —
Maybe this category is the most competitive. Weisz is assured a nomination and likely the Oscar after picking up the SAG and appearing in such a socially-relevant role. Williams will ride the Brokeback bronco to a nomination and Amy Adams is sure to get the indie-darling spot. Maria Bello’s largely leading performance and Frances McDormand as the only past nominee of the bunch, will likely round out the Category. If there are to Supporting Actor nominations for Crash, Oscar history requires another nomination in another category (there has never been an occasion with more than one supporting actor fromt he same film is nominated and another cast member hasn’t been). It will either be Thandie Newton or no one else. Catherine Keener’s short screen time and poor performance at the SAG awards may mean she’s left aside, but she could easily replace any given nominee. Scarlett Johnasson’s chances are as good as gone, despite giving a fantastic performance. She could be a surprise nominee if the Academy agrees that Woody’s truly had his comeback. Gong Li could ride a surprise wave of support for Memoirs of a Geisha. And there’s even the slight, though rather remote, chance that veterans Shirley MacLaine or Diane Keaton could make an appearance.
Good Night, and Good Luck – George Clooney, Grant Heslov (c-7/3, n-7/3, o-11/17) — Strong —
Crash – Paul Haggis (c-10/9, n-10/9) — Strong —
The Squid and the Whale – Noah Baumbach (c-10/28, n-12/14) — Strong —
Cinderella Man – Cliff Hollingsworth, Akiva Goldsman (c-7/3, n-12/28) — Good —
Match Point – Woody Allen (c-7/3, n-7/3) — Good —
The 40 Year Old Virgin (c-1/9) — Average —
Syriana – Stephen Gaghan (c-1/30) — Average —
Hustle & Flow (c-12/14) — Average —
Junebug (c-12/14) — Average —
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Guillermo Arriaga (c-7/3) — Average —
Broken Flowers – Jim Jarsmusch (c-7/3) — Weak —
White Countess – Kazuo Ishiguro (c-7/3) — Weak —
I think the big surprise here could be 40 Year Old Virgin snagging Woody Allen’s spot. He’s the weakest contender based on his film’s box office and critics’ performance. Squid, Crash and Good Night are all as close to locks as you can get. That leaves Akiva Goldsman’s script for Cinderella Man. It could also get knocked out and replaced with Virgin, or maybe even a surprise nod for Hustle & Flow. Syriana’s bump to Original, despite a WGA berth as Adapted, could lead to its omission. If people realize it’s in the Original category, it could easily knock Match Point or Cinderella Man out.
Brokeback Mountain – Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana< (c-7/3, n-7/3, o-10/9) — Strong —
Capote – Dan Futterman (c-12/18, n-12/18) — Strong —
The Constant Gardener – Jeffrey Caine (c-7/3, n-1/2) — Average —
Munich – Tony Kushner, Eric Roth (c-11/6, n-1/30) — Average —
Walk the Line – Gill Dennis, James Mangold (c-12/28, n-1/2) — Average —
Memoirs of a Geisha – Akiva Goldsman (c-7/3) — Average —
King Kong – Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens (c-7/3) — Average —
A History of Violence – Josh Olson (c-7/3) — Average —
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (c-10/28) — Average —
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Ann Peacock, Andrew Adamson, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely (c-7/3) — Weak —
Pride and Prejudice (c-12/14) — Weak —
Proof – David Auburn, Rebecca Miller (c-7/3) — Weak —
Rumor Has It – Ted Griffin (c-7/3) — Weak —
Outside of Walk the line and Capote, this category could be called the Social Relevance award. Brokeback, Gardener and Munich are all very political and all likely nominees. Only Brokeback and Capote have a lock. Constant and Munich will likely make it in BECAUSE of their politics, not in spite of them. That leaves Walk the Line as the weakest link. Walk the Line will likely make the cut if the directors decide not to pick Mangold as a best director choice. This is the next best place to recognize him. Plus, it’s the only film in contention with a massive box office, and usually there’s at least one of those nominated. Watch out for the skillful adaptation of King Kong as a possible nominee. Also in contention are A History of Violence and Memoirs of a Geisha.
Transamerica – Travelin Thru (c-11/17, n-12/14, o-12/14)
Crash – In the Deep (c-11/17, n-1/29)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – So Long and Thanks for All the Fish (c-12/15, n-12/15)
Hustle & Flow – Hustle & Flow (It Ain’t Over) (c-11/17, n-12/14)
The Producers – There’s Nothing Like a Show on Broadway (c-11/17, n-12/14)
Angels with Angels – Angels Talk (c-12/15)
Because of Winn-Dixie – Butterfly (c-12/15)
Because of Winn-Dixie – I’ve Gotta See You Smile (c-12/15)
Bee Season – I’ll Be Near You (c-12/15)
Blues by the Beach – My Brother, My People (c-12/15)
Chicken Little – One Little Slip (c-12/15)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Can’t Take It In (c-12/15)
The Constant Gardener – Dicholo (c-12/15)
Corpse Bride – Remains of the Day (c-12/15)
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story – Dreamer (c-12/15)
Elizabethtown – Same in Any Language (c-12/15)
End of the Spear – Along the River (c-12/15)
Finding Home – Finding Home (c-12/15)
Freezerburn – Closer Every Day (c-12/15)
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ – I’ll Whip Ya Head Boy (c-12/15)
Green Street Hooligans – One Blood (c-12/15)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Do the Hippogriff (c-12/15)
Hoodwinked – Great Big World (c-12/15)
Hustle & Flow – It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp (c-12/15)
Ice Princess – Reachin’ for Heaven (c-12/15)
Mad Hot Ballroom – Mad Hot Ballroom (c-12/15)
Mirrormask – If I Apologize (c-12/15)
My Date with Drew – (c-I’d Have It All) If I Had Drew (c-12/15)
Palindromes – Finding Home (c-12/15)
Palindromes – Nobody Jesus But You (c-12/15)
Palindromes – Fight for the Children (c-12/15)
Palindromes – This Is the Way (c-12/15)
Pooh’s Heffalump Movie – Shoulder to Shoulder (c-12/15)
Racing Stripes – It Ain’t Over Yet (c-12/15)
Racing Stripes – Taking the Inside Rail (c-12/15)
Robots – Shine (c-12/15)
Robots – Tell Me What You Already Did (c-12/15)
Rumor Has It – Face of Faith (c-12/15)
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic – You’re Gonna Die Soon (c-12/15)
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants – These Days (c-12/15)
The Theory of Everything – Have a Little Faith (c-12/15)
Thumbsucker – Move Away and Shine (c-12/15)
The Upside of Anger – One Safe Place (c-12/15)
These are the Official Selections for the Original Song Category.
Brokeback Mountain – Gustavo Santaolalla (c-7/3, n-11/17, o-1/29)
Cinderella Man – Thomas Newman (c-7/3, n-1/30)
King Kong – James Newton Howard (c-7/3, n-11/17)
Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams (c-7/3, n-12/14)
Munich – John Williams (c-7/3, n-7/3)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Harry Gregson-Williams (c-7/3)
The Constant Gardener – TBD (c-12/14)
Good Night, and Good Luck – TBD (c-7/3)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Patrick Doyle (c-7/3)
Jarhead – Thomas Newman (c-7/3)
Kingdom of Heaven – TBD (c-12/14)
The New World – James Horner (c-7/3)
Proof – Stephen Warbeck (c-7/3)
Syriana – TBD (c-12/14)
White Countess – Richard Robbins (c-7/3)
Brokeback Mountain – Geraldine Peroni, Dylan Tichenor (c-7/3, n-11/17, o-12/14)
The Constant Gardener – Claire Simpson (c-7/3, n-1/29)
Good Night, and Good Luck – Stephen Mirrione (c-7/3, n-11/17)
Munich – Michael Kahn (c-7/3, n-7/3)
Walk the Line – Michael McCusker (c-11/17, n-12/9)
Capote (c-1/9)
Cinderella Man – Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill (c-7/3)
Crash (c-1/29)
A History of Violence – Ronald Sanders (c-7/3)
King Kong – Jamie Selkirk (c-7/3)
Memoirs of a Geisha – Pietro Scalia (c-7/3)
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King Kong – Andrew Lesnie (c-7/3, n-1/2)
Memoirs of a Geisha – Dion Beebe (c-7/3, n-7/3)
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Donald McAlpine (c-7/3)
Cinderella Man – Salvatore Totino (c-7/3)
The Constant Gardener (c-12/14)
March of the Penguins (c-12/14)
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The New World – Emmanuel Lubezki (7/3)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Chris Menges (c-7/3)
White Countess – Christopher Doyle, Tony Pierce-Roberts (c-7/3)
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Mrs. Henderson Presents (c-1/10)
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Perhaps Love – Hong Kong (c-10/28)
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Series I. Correspondence and notes of James M. Gibson
Series II. Photocopied material arranged by institution housing originals
Series III. Photocopied material arranged chronologically
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James M. Gibson research collection on Horace Howard Furness
Ms. Coll. 1331
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Gibson, James M.
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5.2 linear feet (12 boxes)
This collection contains research materials collected and compiled by James M. Gibson for a biography of Horace Howard Furness, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Story: Horace Howard Furness and the Variorum Shakespeare, published in 1990. The bulk of this collection consists of photocopies of original nineteenth and early twentieth century documents made between roughly 1975 and 1985. This collection gathers hundreds of letters and articles that relate to H. H. Furness, from over fifty libraries and repositories, and illuminates Gibson’s research and writing process. Furness (1833-1912) was a leading Shakespeare scholar, and thus some of the material pertains to the study of Elizabethan theater.
James M. Gibson research collection on Horace Howard Furness, 1882-1985 (bulk: 1975-1985), Ms. Coll. 1331, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
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James M. Gibson (born 1948) has written numerous books including the biography The Philadelphia Shakespeare Story: Horace Howard Furness and the Variorum Shakespeare. Gibson earned his B.A. in 1970 from Houghton College in New York and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English in 1974 and 1976 from the University of Pennsylvania. As a graduate student assistant in the Furness Shakespeare Library at Penn, Gibson's interest in Furness and his "New Variorum" was sparked. After earning his Ph.D., Gibson was a professor of English at Houghton College before moving with his novelist wife, Elizabeth Gibson, to Kent in England in 1984. In 1987, he began working as archivist for the Rochester Bridge Trust. He also worked as an archivist for the Richard Watts and City of Rochester Almshouse Charities as well as for the New College of Cobham. As of 2012, he was Senior Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of Kent.
In a book review of The Philadelphia Shakespeare Story: Horace Howard Furness and the Variorum Shakespeare ( at Penn), Richard Knowles states that "Professor Gibson, with industry, informed judgment, and good taste, has quarried from a great mass of documents, mainly letters, not only all the facts one could want for a full history of this giant of Shakespearean scholarship and of his times, but also a generous selection of telling details that bring alive a wholly admirable human being," (Knowles, page 99).
Horace Howard Furness (1833-1912), son of William Henry Furness, an abolitionist and a theological scholar, and brother to architect Frank Furness, was a lawyer and an American Shakespeare scholar of the nineteenth century. He graduated from Harvard in 1854 and was admitted to the bar in 1859. According to Knowles, "growing deafness caused him to retire from legal practice and ... he devoted himself mainly to promoting Shakespeare--through writing and subsidizing the Variorum volumes, through collecting his priceless library (now at the University of Pennsylvania), through teaching in and helping to reorganize the University of Pennsylvania English Department, and through his famous readings to overflow theater and university audiences up and down the East Coast," (Knowles, page 98). In his "New Variorum," "he collected in a single source 300 years of references, antecedent works, influences and commentaries [and] he devoted more than 40 years to the series, completing the annotation of 15 plays,"(Ferruzi). The "New Variorum" was well received, and as of 1992, was "an indispensable synthesis of everything known and thought about individual plays up to the date of his edition," (Knowles, page 98). For more information on Horace Howard Furness, see Horace Howard Furness: Book Collector and Library Builder, by James M. Gibson.
Ferruzzi, Donna. " Founding of Furness Library as recalled by one of its founders, A. B. Geary." History Notes: Online Newsletter of the Nether Providence Historical Society (accessed 2018 January 24).
Knowles, Richard. Review of The Philadelphia Shakespeare Story: Horace Howard Furness and the Variorum Shakespeare, by James Gibson. Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 43, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pages 97-99.
This collection contains research materials collected and compiled by James M. Gibson for a biography of Horace Howard Furness, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Story: Horace Howard Furness and the Variorum Shakespeare, ( at Penn), published in 1990. The bulk of this collection consists of photocopies of original nineteenth and early twentieth century documents made between roughly 1975 and 1985. This collection gathers hundreds of letters and articles that relate to H. H. Furness, from over fifty libraries and repositories, and illuminates Gibson’s research and writing process.
The collection is arranged in four series: I. Correspondence and notes of James M. Gibson, II. Photocopied material arranged by institution housing the originals, III. Photocopied material arranged chronologically, and IV. Microfilm. Gibson’s organizational scheme of this collection has been preserved.
The first series includes Gibson's correspondence and notes as he worked on his research. "Additions and corrections" contains reference materials, documentation on methods and sources, loosely structured notes, and some photocopied Furness correspondence. "Furness Genealogy" maps the structure of the family through family trees, letters, articles, short biographies and excerpts from other scholarly works. "Problems" contains some handwritten notes, correspondence and source material. The last file in the series consists of an annotated chapter draft, and a letter from William E. Miller with suggested edits.
The second and third series are both largely composed of copies of Furness' correspondence. In Series II, the the material is organized alphabetically by the repositories in which the originals were housed. These papers are mostly photocopies (or occasional transcriptions) of letters. A few letters between Gibson and archive librarians are also included, as well as some reprographic copies of articles. Series III. is organized chronologically by the date of the original materials, ranging from 1833 to 1972. While the originals were generally created during the 19th and early 20th centuries, all the photocopies were made circa 1975-1985. These materials are somewhat more eclectic, though they also consist mainly of Furness’ transcribed letters. Also featured are some of Gibson’s research correspondence, typewritten and handwritten notes, and copies of excerpts from books and journals. A few files contain some original primary source material (clippings, for the most part). Seemingly all of the letters in Series II have been transcribed and included in Series III, alongside additional sources; in other words, the information in Series II can also be found in Series III.
The final series in the collection contains ten reels of microfilm from various repositories.
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 2018 January 18
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Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Criticism, textual--History--19th century
English literature--Study and teaching
Series I. Correspondence and notes of James M. Gibson, 1979-1883, undated.
Box Folder
"Additions & corrections", circa 1980-1985.
"Furness Genealogy", 1979-1983, undated.
"Problems", 1982, 1983, undated.
Draft of Chapter 6, 1981.
Series II. Photocopied material arranged by institution housing originals, 1976-1982, undated (bulk 1977).
Academy of Fine Arts, circa 1975-1985.
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, circa 1975-1985.
American Antiquarian Society, circa 1975-1985.
American Philosophical Society, circa 1975-1985.
Amherst College Library, 1977.
Bodleian Library, circa 1975-1985.
Boston Public Library, circa 1975-1985.
Boston University Library, 1977.
Bowdoin College Library, 1977.
Brigham Young University, circa 1975-1985.
Brown University Library, 1977.
Bryn Mawr College Library, 1977.
California - UCLA Library, 1977.
Colorado College Library, 1977.
Columbia University Library, 1977.
Cornell University Library, 1977.
Dartmouth College Library, 1977.
Dickinson College Library, circa 1975-1985.
Duke Medical School Library, 1976.
Duke University Library, 1977.
Edinburgh University Library, 1978.
The Folger Shakespeare Library, circa 1975-1985.
Georgetown University Library, 1977.
Harvard University Archives, circa 1975-1985.
Harvard University Library, 1977.
Haverford College Library, 1977.
Henry E. Huntington Library, 1977.
International Museum of Photography, 1977.
J. B. Lippincott Company, 1976-1981.
Johns Hopkins University Library, circa 1975-1985.
Library of Congress, 1977.
Martin-Luther-Universitat, Halle-Wittenberg [add umlaut?], 1979.
Massachusetts Historical Society, circa 1975-1985.
Middlebury College Library, 1977.
Nationale Forschungs -und Gedenk- statten der Klassischen deutschen Literatur in Weimar, circa 1975-1985.
New York Historical Society, 1977.
New York University Library, circa 1975-1985.
Notre Dame University Library, circa 1975-1985.
Penn State University Library, 1977.
Pierpont Morgan Library, circa 1975-1985.
Princeton University Library, 1977.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, circa 1975-1985.
Shakspere Society of Philadelphia, circa 1975-1985.
Somerset Record Office, 1977.
St. Andrews University Library, circa 1975-1985.
Swarthmore College Library, 1977.
Trinity College, Cambridge, 1977.
Trinity College, Hartford, 1977.
Tulane University Library, 1977.
University of Kansas Library, circa 1975-1985.
University of Leeds, 1977.
University of Michigan Library, 1977.
University of Nebraska Library, 1977.
University of Pennsylvania, circa 1975-1985.
University of Pennsylvania Archives, circa 1975-1985.
University of Pennsylvania - PUF, circa 1975-1985.
University of Rochester Library, 1977.
University of Texas, Austin, 1977.
University of Virginia Library, 1977.
Vassar College Library, 1977.
Walter Hampden-Edwin Booth Memorial Theatre Library, 1977.
Yale University Library, circa 1975-1985.
Unfiled, circa 1975-1985.
Series III. Photocopied material arranged chronologically, 1882, 1889, 1894; circa 1975-1985.
1833-1850, circa 1975-1985.
1851, circa 1975-1985.
1882, 1882, circa 1975-1985.
Series IV. Microfilm, 1976-1980, undated.
From Cornell University: "Horace Howard Furness, 1833-1912. Letters to and from Bayard Taylor; to John S. Hart, James Morgan Hart, and Hiram Corsow. 1869-1909.", undated.
From The British Library: "PS.7715228; ADD 44464; ADD 43798; ADD 42860", undated.
From the Edinburgh University Library, 1977.
From the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1977.
From the Folger Shakespeare Library: "Folger - Leo Letters", undated.
From the Folger Shakespeare Library: "Folger V.a.354", undated.
From the Library of Congress: "00100", undated.
From the New York Public Library, 1976.
From the Pennsylvania Historical Society, undated.
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David Dobkin’s ARTHUR & LANCELOT Could Be Nixed if Budget Isn’t Lowered
by Matt Goldberg December 13, 2011
Warner Bros. shelled out $2 million for the script to the Arthur & Lancelot and attached Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin to helm the potential tentpole flick. However, when WB bought the movie, they thought they were looking at a $90 million flick, especially since they had saved money by hiring rising actors Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) and Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) to play the leads. But Deadline reports that the studio is getting cold feat as the budget has ballooned to possibly $130 million. Warner Bros. has reached the point where they’re willing to let Dobkin take the film to another studio that’s willing to foot the bill. It’s not difficult to see Warners’ logic when you have two affordable but unproven stars and the continuing trend of declining ticket sales.
Hit the jump for a refresher on how Warner Bros. isn’t alone in willing to drop project in order to save costs.
It’s a rough economy and it’s not getting any easier. The high price of tickets, the crummy theater experience, and the easy availability of movies-on-demand are pushing consumers away from delivering the big opening weekend returns that studios used to expect. And so the risk in leveraging a major blockbuster to earn a massive gross has become a major concern.
Yesterday, we reported that Legendary Pictures was delaying production on Alex Proyas‘ adaptation of John Milton‘s epic poem Paradise Lost in order to reduce the budget. The film was intended to start filming in January. Proyas promised epic battles and we heard in July that there would be “20 weeks of pre-production, eight weeks of principal photography, and 72 weeks of post-production, with the director utilizing motion capture to make the film.” Legendary is attempting to cut 10-15% from their estimated $120 million budget.
Then there were the summer’s big negotiations over The Lone Ranger. Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer had to go toe-to-toe with Disney to lower the budget from $250 million to $215 million. This is for an adaptation of a modest TV series that involved a cowboy and his Native American sidekick going around the old west and helping folks out. Somehow this costs $215 million to turn into a movie and Disney thought $215 million was reasonable, which almost makes sense when you to take a moment to consider Depp’s star power. Then that moment passes and you realize that Disney probably forgot what happened with Wild Wild West.
Even more surprising was Universal bailing on Ron Howard‘s adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower. The Dark Tower is more widely-known to modern audiences than The Lone Ranger or Paradise Lost, but it may have been undone by its ambition. Howard wanted to turn the book series into a trilogy tied together with a TV season in between the movies. However, producer Brian Grazer said they managed to shave off $45-50 million off the budget and he’s confident they’ll get the first movie made. HBO has already committed to do the TV parts, but the movies are currently looking for a studio.
Universal also pulled the plug on Guillermo Del Toro‘s $150 million adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness because he wouldn’t go forward unless the studio gave him a guarantee on an R-rated release. Keep in mind that James Cameron was producing, Tom Cruise was on board to star, and international seasons will see Cruise in just about anything.
Universal will release a super-expensive adaptation of the board game Battleship next summer.
Final Poster for GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE
Sundance 2012: Sundance Film Festival USA to Include Films featuring Frank Langella,…
• Arthur & Lancelot • David Dobkin • Entertainment • Movie • Warner Bros.
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Walker, Carole Pixley was born in 1948 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2855 Rock Creek CIR UNIT 115, SUPERIOR, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5527079.
Walker, Carole Rae was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2500 E Cherry Creek South DR APT 218, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5739710.
Walker, Carol Georgette was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 103 Marian DR, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3074441.
Walker, Caroline Carlsen was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2060 N Forest ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2766271.
Walker, Caroline Joan was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 36841 County Road 15, WINDSOR, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1607311.
Walker, Caroline Lee Anne was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3280 S Academy BLVD LOT 201, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600023574.
Walker, Caroline Lvonne was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2045 27Th AVE, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6343127.
Walker, Caroline Sue was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2056 Geneva ST, AURORA, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7014377.
Walker, Carol J was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2776 S Quintero ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 726143.
Walker, Carol Jane was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 108 Wilfred RD, BERTHOUD, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1583393.
Walker, Carol Jean was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16500 Dakota Ridge RD, LONGMONT, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1573136.
Walker, Carol L was born in 1945 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3379 Mill Vista RD # 4216, LITTLETON, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 684903.
Walker, Carol Lynn was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4250 W 16Th ST # 10, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6366544.
Walker, Carol R was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11873 Claude WAY, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6927704.
Walker, Carol Ruth was born in 1946 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1821 Dewhirst DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 529287.
Walker, Carol S was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1052 Mesa DR, EAGLE, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6695451.
Walker, Carol Sue was born in 1936 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6000 W 18Th AVE, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3669243.
Walker, Carol Sue was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 100 Sunrise Ranch RD, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601401794.
Walker, Carol Wickerham was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7170 Sand Crest VW, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200004778.
Walker, Carolyn was born in 1932 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 49475 Highway 330, MESA, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2285541.
Walker, Carolyn Beatrice was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3114 N Franklin ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200071311.
Walker, Carolyn Elizabeth was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2732 Sitter PL, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200236880.
Walker, Carolyn Elizabeth was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7480 S Webster ST, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4127258.
Walker, Carolyn J was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10573 W Quarto PL, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4267218.
Walker, Carolyn Jean was born in 1939 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13975 Fairplay RD, CALHAN, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5652366.
Walker, Carolyn Jean was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4746 Raven RUN, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600689645.
Walker, Carolyn Kay was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1621 Tucker CT, CORTEZ, Montezuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601271302.
Walker, Carolyn Mary was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 709 Cascade DR, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4238066.
Walker, Carolyn R was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6626 S Lincoln ST, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 839195.
Walker, Carolyn Renee was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 734 Peach CT, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8403352.
Walker, Carolyn Ruth was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 14410 E Radcliff DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601756157.
Walker, Carrie was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 50 Conifer DR, EVERGREEN, Clear Creek County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601506390.
Walker, Carrie Dianne was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1708 69Th AVE, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6364285.
Walker, Carrie Elizabeth was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10526 Ura LN, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600352496.
Walker, Carrie Jane was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 429 County Road 6, ALMA, Park County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601922320.
Walker, Carrie Jane was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5028 Buckingham RD, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8403353.
Walker, Carrie Lee was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11980 W 70Th PL, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200158251.
Walker, Carrie P was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16299 E Purdue PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200007641.
Walker, Carson Barrett Hirsch was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2574 S Clayton ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200310205.
Walker, Cary Edward was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 870 N Dexter ST APT 203, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600753521.
Walker, Cary Gossett was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10115 S Peoria ST # 9-205, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601471314.
Walker, Casey Dale was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4260 E 69Th PL, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600096916.
Walker, Casey Don was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1939 Star Canyon DR, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 200354967.
Walker, Casey Ethan was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4710 Tanglewood TRL, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 6422291.
Walker, Casey Jo was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2220 E Geddes AVE # A, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600685750.
Walker, Casey Joe was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4053 Jcr 26B, COALMONT, Jackson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600930672.
Walker, Casie Ann was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 20703 Park Hollow DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601720854.
Walker, Casimir Chester was born in 1934 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11340 Tomichi DR, FRANKTOWN, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5832429.
Walker, Cassandra Dean was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15635 Crystallo DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200107383.
Walker, Cassandra Lou was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2401 Central AVE LOT 27, CANON CITY, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600483792.
Walker, Cassandra Marie was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 433 Toronto ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601385279.
Walker, Cassandra Mary was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5045 Cresthill PL, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600513431.
Walker, Cassandra Nicole was born in 1999 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2476 Yorktown RD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601551813.
Walker, Cassaundra Sue was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4100 Muirfield CT, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3068781.
Walker, Cassidy Lynn was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1361 S Tejon ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 876483.
Walker, Cassie Noel was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16491 Hwy 50, ROCKY FORD, Otero County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601006704.
Walker, Catelyn Ruth was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1653 14 RD, LOMA, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200236742.
Walker, Catharina A was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4390 N Malaya ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2533251.
Walker, Catherine was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3610 E Long RD, GREENWOOD VLG, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200249978.
Walker, Catherine A was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6075 Wyman LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600630386.
Walker, Catherine Butler was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4810 Santiago WAY, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601784414.
Walker, Catherine D Marie Joy was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 68 Jones RD, BAILEY, Park County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600937106.
Walker, Catherine E was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2935 S Eaton ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2510747.
Walker, Catherine Heyward was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2448 Garmisch DR # 2, VAIL, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601962479.
Walker, Catherine J was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1276 S Fillmore ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2457128.
Walker, Catherine Louise was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6702 W 34Th ST, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6369392.
Walker, Catherine Lucile was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1125 E 7Th Avenue CIR, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3921231.
Walker, Catherine Rose was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13150 Palomino DR, CALHAN, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 323601.
Walker, Catherine Stuart was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2960 E 4Th AVE, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4926706.
Walker, Cathy A was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5354 E Lake PL, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 886464.
Walker, Cayla Marie was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11459 W 105Th WAY, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600880631.
Walker, Cayley Rae was born in 1998 and registered to vote, giving the address as 6142 E King CT, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Walker voter ID number is 601326479.
Walker, Caylynda Stella G was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11944 Quam DR, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200290979.
Walker, Caylyn Elizabeth was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16119 Newark ST, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6838059.
Walker, Cebastian Lasolle was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3300 S Kenton ST UNIT 5101, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200301569.
Walker, Cecilia Brown was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 30571 Sun Creek DR, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601057691.
Walker, Cecilia Marie was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2812 Gold PL, ALAMOSA, Alamosa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601802856.
Walker, Cecilia Rose was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7402 Church Ranch BLVD # 638, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601499478.
Walker, Cedric Tyree was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4825 Astrozon BLVD LOT 87A, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600281014.
Walker, Celeste Anne was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1904 S York ST RM 306, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600968857.
Walker, Celestine was born in 1941 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4784 Keith CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 381393.
Walker, Celia S was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3120 Barn Swallow CIR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1412476.
Walker, Celine Brooke was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6107 Trailhead RD, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5649744.
Walker, Chad was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7582 E Technology WAY APT 114, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601315067.
Walker, Chad Arthur was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2223 Mandarin CT, JOHNSTOWN, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6396312.
Walker, Chad Brian was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1706 Apelles CIR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8403359.
Walker, Chad Dwayne was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2173 Monte Vista CIR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1400911.
Walker, Chad Michael was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2125 Broadleaf LOOP, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5933004.
Walker, Chadrick Shane was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12901 Ivy ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6981233.
Walker, Chad Robert was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5448 S Valdai ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 732396.
Walker, Chadwick Ray was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5480 W 74Th AVE, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 210227.
Walker, Chalma Lee Jr was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2678 N Syracuse ST APT 205, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2400239.
Walker, Chance Garrett was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4977 Moorhead AVE APT 102, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601828386.
Walker, Chance L was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 642 Cleveland ST, MEEKER, Rio Blanco County, CO. His voter ID number is 200311162.
Walker, Chanda was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 807 Yampa AVE, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601448678.
Walker, Chanda Bartlett was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18160 W 85Th DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601898490.
Walker, Chandra Dee was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5485 S Gibraltar ST, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3909876.
Walker, Channell Raenette was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2383 S Vaughn WAY # 107, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600442401.
Walker, Chantelle Marie was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 308 W Circle DR, CANON CITY, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 914442.
Walker, Chantil Christi was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1137 E Buffalo Bill LN, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600502199.
Walker, Charity Ann Arivett was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4249 County Road 309A, IGNACIO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600761607.
Walker, Charity Christel was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12328 W Hwy 160, DEL NORTE, Rio Grande County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601514004.
Walker, Charla Rae was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8736 S Buchanan WAY, AURORA, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 735961.
Walker, Charlene Anne was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 421 Walker WAY, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1612129.
Walker, Charlene E was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 33977 Vista Verde, BUENA VISTA, Chaffee County, CO. Her voter ID number is 640223.
Walker, Charlene Hopkins was born in 1946 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3805 W 110Th AVE, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6852625.
Walker, Charles Alan Sr was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 14497 E Caspian PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200201010.
Walker, Charles Allen was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2300 S Lowell BLVD, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601424595.
Walker, Charles Amos was born in 1932 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7281 Teller ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 200181133.
Walker, Charles Bradley was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 911 Shavano Peak DR, SUPERIOR, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8403360.
Walker, Charles C Jr was born in 1946 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7030 W 42Nd AVE, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4038211.
Walker, Charles Caldwell Iii was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 32329 Inverness DR, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601454113.
Walker, Charles Curtis Jr was born in 1954 and registered to vote, giving the address as 11919 E Arizona AVE, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Walker voter ID number is 601443195.
Walker, Charles Dale was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4353 Golden Currant CT, JOHNSTOWN, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601867521.
Walker, Charles David Jr was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 33002 Old Mission Ridge, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5789871.
Walker, Charles Dee was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3003 Indigo CT, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1467961.
Walker, Charles Demory was born in 1938 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 455 Gold Rivers CT 511, BASALT, Eagle County, CO. His voter ID number is 5526677.
Walker, Charles Donald was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1624 E Dry Creek PL, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 835658.
Walker, Charles Edward was born in 1946 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2217 Alpine DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 200204718.
Walker, Charles Edward Iii was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3981 Campo CT, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600555536.
Walker, Charles Edward was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 421 E 4Th ST, RIFLE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 601196518.
Walker, Charles Elrick was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4110 Nyala DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 254942.
Walker, Charles Emmitt Jr was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3420 W 94Th AVE, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6903679.
Walker, Charles George was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5250 E Cherry Creek South DR UNIT 14H, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600674311.
Walker, Charles Gregory was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9854 Rosemont AVE # 208, LONE TREE, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600801524.
Walker, Charles Harry was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11490 Calgary RD, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 3765171.
Walker, Charles Henry Iii was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1178 Cynthia CT, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 2314642.
Walker, Charles Henry was born in 1938 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 953 E 6Th AVE, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4927192.
Walker, Charles Jonothan Jr was born in 1994 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2491 Fountain Greens PL # D3, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Walker voter ID number is 601478501.
Walker, Charles K was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11801 Washington ST APT A401, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 200034262.
Walker, Charles Kenneth was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13850 W 89Th LOOP, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600297405.
Walker, Charles Kevin was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 345 S 28Th AVE, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 4254339.
Walker, Charles Kirk was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12075 Elm WAY, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6985548.
Walker, Charles L was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 947 Coyote Canyon, COAL CREEK, Fremont County, CO. His voter ID number is 200024061.
Walker, Charles Lawrence was born in 1940 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 20547 Tulip CIR, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. His voter ID number is 5383197.
Walker, Charles M was born in 1945 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9039 Winona CT, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6889496.
Walker, Charles Matthew was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7139 S Irvington CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 728317.
Walker, Charles Otis was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 769 County Rd 250, SILT, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 5533634.
Walker, Charles Randolph was born in 1964 and registered to vote, giving the address as 3511 S Grape ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Walker voter ID number is 601327443.
Walker, Charles Raymond Jr was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 415 W 3Rd AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601328128.
Walker, Charles Raymond was born in 1940 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 130 3Rd ST, FREDERICK, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 8403364.
Walker, Charles Robert Sr was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2411 County Road 527, BAYFIELD, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4942519.
Walker, Charles Robert was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 69747 Miguel RD, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. His voter ID number is 6316630.
Walker, Charles Spaulding Jr was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 530 Larimer Creek DR, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601933703.
Walker, Charles T was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2323 Stout ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2921075.
Walker, Charles Thomas was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8242 S Carr CT, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4113095.
Walker, Charles W was born in 1923 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 34115 County Rd 5.25, FOWLER, Otero County, CO. His voter ID number is 3162162.
Walker, Charles W was born in 1947 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 486 Tioga TRL, PARKER, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 586149.
Walker, Charles Willard was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15532 County Rd P, FORT MORGAN, Morgan County, CO. His voter ID number is 3579360.
Walker, Charles William Jr was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7297 S Brook Forest RD, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600690830.
Walker, Charles William was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4520 Cutting Horse PL, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600824923.
Walker, Charlotte was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1535 N High ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601802508.
Walker, Charlotte Ann was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1860 Nana RD, HARTSEL, Park County, CO. Her voter ID number is 556480.
Walker, Charlotte M was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6846 S Cook WAY, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 829494.
Walker, Charlotte Marie was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 827 S Bowman AVE, HOLYOKE, Phillips County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601199067.
Walker, Charlotte Ruth was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 14505 Club Villa DR APT E, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 102449.
Walker, Charsanna was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 142 Security BLVD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 464762.
Walker, Charvonne Jean was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3915 Languid LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601867358.
Walker, Chase B was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 621 W Prentice AVE # UNKNOWN, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200046187.
Walker, Chase Edward was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 138 E 8Th ST, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600369656.
Walker, Chase Franklin was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 360 S Monroe ST APT 130, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601621610.
Walker, Chase Michael was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6484 S Lewis ST, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 3957981.
Walker, Chauncy Jermaine was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 788 S Chambers RD # H201, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600994260.
Walker, Che Cassandra was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3031 N Poplar ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2461685.
Walker, Chelsea Anne was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18185 E Alamo DR, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601202807.
Walker, Chelsea Michelle was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2470 Calcite ST, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600433017.
Walker, Chelsea Rae was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6986 Red Cardinal LOOP, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600407301.
Walker, Chequita Marie was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1138 N Willow ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 666155.
Walker, Cherie Lynn was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 779 Rose ST, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5583741.
Walker, Cheri Gay was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12166 E Exposition AVE, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601417141.
Walker, Cherilyn Diane was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 703 W 3Rd ST, JULESBURG, Sedgwick County, CO. Her voter ID number is 707876.
Walker, Cheri Lynn was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1013 S Sweetwater DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3028363.
Walker, Cheri Lynn was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 361 Bruce LN, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6950365.
Walker, Cheryl was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1530 Lee Hill DR UNIT 4, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601457459.
Walker, Cheryl A was born in 1946 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7531 S Rosemary CIR, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 792171.
Walker, Cheryl Ann was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1545 N Monaco PKWY, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2778545.
Walker, Cheryl Ann was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8138 Oak DR, RYE, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3029144.
Walker, Cheryl Ann was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 285 W Blarney Stone RD, HOWARD, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3676136.
Walker, Cheryl Ann was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10160 Ridgegate CIR, LONE TREE, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 602012065.
Walker, Cheryl Ann was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2033 22Nd AVE APT 203, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6332599.
Walker, Cheryl Ann was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2903 Prairie Hawk LN, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 8403367.
Walker, Cheryl Anne was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2137 Manor AVE, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601370903.
Walker, Cheryl L was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10141 Falcon ST, FIRESTONE, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6384566.
Walker, Cheryl Lea was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 442 Gardner ST, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601267634.
Walker, Cheryl Lea was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7619 County Road 253, SALIDA, Chaffee County, CO. Her voter ID number is 643641.
Walker, Cheryl Louise was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1055 D AVE, LIMON, Lincoln County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3850116.
Walker, Cheryl Wheeler was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 833 E Ellsworth AVE APT 105, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4241659.
Walker, Chester R was born in 1929 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4 Top Notch TRL, PENROSE, Fremont County, CO. His voter ID number is 3673974.
Walker, Cheyenne Chantal was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1014 Sable BLVD, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8864014.
Walker, Cheyenne Mae was born in 1998 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10184 Rustic Redwood WAY, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601304684.
Walker, Cheyenne Patrice was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2675 N Raleigh ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601800758.
Walker, Cheyienne Christine was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1115 Encinitas PT APT 101, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601471724.
Walker, Chingmei was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9651 Hemlock CT, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200059271.
Walker, Chloe Birgitta was born in 2000 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 540 Devon DR, ESTES PARK, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601499299.
Walker, Chloe Elizabeth was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2220 W Kiowa ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600977731.
Walker, Chong Hui was born in 1940 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7053 Red Sand GRV, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 475119.
Walker, Chris was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3330 Blue Grass CIR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601124271.
Walker, Chris Henry was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5211 W 4Th AVE # D, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600642587.
Walker, Chris John was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 191 Lark Bunting AVE, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1654681.
Walker, Christian Allen was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3375 W Hayward PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 5657370.
Walker, Christian Anthony was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 560 N Garfield ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600281761.
Walker, Christian Bryan was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 14410 E Radcliff DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601683784.
Walker, Christian Daniel was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2615 W 90Th AVE, FEDERAL HGTS, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601389769.
Walker, Christian Joseph was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4889 S Jellison ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600833641.
Walker, Christian L was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9605 Moss Rose CIR, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601339017.
Walker, Christian Steven was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 516 Cedar DR, HOTCHKISS, Delta County, CO. His voter ID number is 601658479.
Walker, Christie was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 707 S Lone Cowboy DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600794485.
Walker, Christie A was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3614 S Lisbon ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4254744.
Walker, Christie Diann was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 410 Black Feather LOOP # 4, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600541548.
Walker, Christie Rene was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4237 E 130Th DR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7127333.
Walker, Christi Jeanine was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18455 Miller Canyon Ranch RD, GLADE PARK, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2361444.
Walker, Christi Lynn was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4289 Mira Linda PT APT 1212, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601396564.
Walker, Christi Michelle was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5821 W 94Th PL, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6866507.
Walker, Christina was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 945 Glenarbor CIR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6381162.
Walker, Christina Ann Laurie was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 17203 W 84Th DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2916295.
Walker, Christina Barbara was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 17027 Lamar DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601146788.
Walker, Christina E was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 532 Longfellow LN, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200183439.
Walker, Christina Elizabeth was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10545 Fairhurst WAY, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5891913.
Walker, Christina Freyer was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4203 N Perry ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2666036.
Walker, Christina Kelley was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 42358 County Road R, BURLINGTON, Kit Carson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8885238.
Walker, Christina Lauren was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5360 Mount Cutler CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 217205.
Walker, Christina Luann was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5541 S Lisbon LN, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601698809.
Walker, Christina Lynn was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3049 N Krameria ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601558808.
Walker, Christina N was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4982 S Ulster ST APT 504, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200030483.
Walker, Christina Yvonne was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5842 S Pierson ST, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4152156.
Walker, Christine was born in 1982 and registered to vote, giving the address as 425 Rosewood DR, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. Walker voter ID number is 601779805.
Walker, Christine was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10691 Hoyt ST, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7076625.
Walker, Christine Anita was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3118 Teardrop CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600021502.
Walker, Christine Ann was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5231 Retreat CIR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8403379.
Walker, Christine Anne was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1446 County Rd 512, DIVIDE, Teller County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600300752.
Walker, Christine C was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2492 Braun CT, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4051529.
Walker, Christine J was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5095 Main Gore DR S, VAIL, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6694199.
Walker, Christine K was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8152 S Everett ST, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4115572.
Walker, Christine Marie was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4520 Cutting Horse PL, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3848186.
Walker, Christine Marie was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8034 Lakeview DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5856323.
Walker, Christine Marie was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6735 Fielding CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600142691.
Walker, Christine Marie was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10079 Oak ST, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600165323.
Walker, Christine Michelle was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4505 S Yosemite ST APT 344, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601344992.
Walker, Christine Michelle was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18741 E Powers DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 899877.
Walker, Christine Sinclair was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 625 Scrub Oak RD, MANITOU SPGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600798940.
Walker, Christine Towne was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 154 Village RD APT C203, GRANBY, Grand County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601147788.
Walker, Christopher Sr was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5300 E 35Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2541725.
Walker, Christopher Jr was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 18935 E 57Th PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600605565.
Walker, Christopher Alan was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 103 Hawthorne WAY, PARACHUTE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 3959276.
Walker, Christopher Alan was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 505 S Railroad ST, BUENA VISTA, Chaffee County, CO. His voter ID number is 627418.
Walker, Christopher Allan was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 30 N Clarkson ST APT B, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601037341.
Walker, Christopher Allan was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4589 N Zuni ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601201439.
Walker, Christopher Allen was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13677 Hwy 172, IGNACIO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4948836.
Walker, Christopher Allen was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 714 Knoll AVE # 412, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. His voter ID number is 600321512.
Walker, Christopher Allen was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6717 Valmont RD, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601076917.
Walker, Christopher Blaul was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8908 Royal Melbourne CIR, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600838741.
Walker, Christopher Charles Ii was born in 1991 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2330 N Broadway ST UNIT 820, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Walker voter ID number is 601316131.
Walker, Christopher David was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 36 Crown CT, DILLON, Summit County, CO. His voter ID number is 600483703.
Walker, Christopher David was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8957 W Glasgow PL, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600585034.
Walker, Christopher Dean was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6014 S Tibet ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 746826.
Walker, Christopher E was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 826 Lincoln ST, FORT MORGAN, Morgan County, CO. His voter ID number is 3583587.
Walker, Christopher Eldon was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 39681 Swift Creek CIR, ELIZABETH, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 600900399.
Walker, Christopher Grant was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3447 Darlington CIR, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5743941.
Walker, Christopher James was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3651 E 133Rd CIR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600100650.
Walker, Christopher James was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11652 W 39Th CIR, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600617747.
Walker, Christopher James was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2214 N Empire AVE, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600857491.
Walker, Christopher James was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 24347 County Rd 77, CALHAN, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 601243931.
Walker, Christopher James was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 745 Highland AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8403647.
Walker, Christopher Jonathan was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1508 Rushmore DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601074004.
Walker, Christopher Juneau was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 39346 Boulevard D, EATON, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6413330.
Walker, Christopher K was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3264 E RD, CLIFTON, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 200011992.
Walker, Christopher K was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3200 S Delaware ST, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 860172.
Walker, Christopher Kent was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 321 Steven DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601452121.
Walker, Christopher Lee was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 977 Thorncreek CT, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600781128.
Walker, Christopher Lee was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10517 Hyacinth PL, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601423823.
Walker, Christopher Lee Jr was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9980 W 51St PL, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601738632.
Walker, Christopher Loyd was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 176 Tomahawk Ridge LN, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4959844.
Walker, Christopher Luis was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 331 Drake LN, JOHNSTOWN, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 200281557.
Walker, Christopher M was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 441 Poncha AVE, ALAMOSA, Alamosa County, CO. His voter ID number is 8458104.
Walker, Christopher Michael was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 425 Browning AVE, IGNACIO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 2613811.
Walker, Christopher Michael was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12613 W Arlington PL, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4147743.
Walker, Christopher Michael was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 601 Brewer DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600213676.
Walker, Christopher Michael was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4139 Mira Linda PT # 624, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601674543.
Walker, Christopher Michael was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1770 Luna DR, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601931889.
Walker, Christopher Michael was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5355 Gunbarrel Center CT APT 306, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601953432.
Walker, Christopher Morgan was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2560 Kenwood DR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8403649.
Walker, Christopher Nathaniel was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1115 Texas AVE UNIT 211, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 601470634.
Walker, Christopher Neal was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 495 Sundown DR, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2260128.
Walker, Christopher Paul was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 337 W Irvington PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601107472.
Walker, Christopher Rance was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2323 Curtis ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601263105.
Walker, Christopher Rene was born in 1972 and registered to vote, giving the address as 43 Friendship LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Walker voter ID number is 602003434.
Walker, Christopher Russell was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6 University DR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8403651.
Walker, Christopher Scott was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9651 Hemlock CT, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 200059224.
Walker, Christopher Scott was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7391 Village Square DR # 1026, CASTLE PINES, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600924850.
Walker, Christopher Sean was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 71 S 17Th Avenue DR, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 401011.
Walker, Christopher Vincent was born in 1946 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1571 Faraway RD, SNOWMASS VLG, Pitkin County, CO. His voter ID number is 200304842.
Walker, Christopher Wade was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4520 Cutting Horse PL, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 3848184.
Walker, Christopher Winston was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3027 Prairie Wind DR, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 601510347.
Walker, Christy Lynn was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6179 Little Pine CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600177812.
Walker, Christy Lynn was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 23788 Road X, LEWIS, Montezuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601797290.
Walker, Chrystal Marie was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 316 E Fourth ST, OAK CREEK, Routt County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6578325.
Walker, Cierra Jane was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2600 9Th ST UNIT 14C, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601289539.
Walker, Cindi Lee was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 277 W Kyle DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200276615.
Walker, Cindy Greer was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1425 County Rd 255, WESTCLIFFE, Custer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3732519.
Walker, Cindy Kay was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11334 Business Park CIR # 208, FIRESTONE, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8403654.
Walker, Cindy M was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 28599 Mountain View RD, CONIFER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4131692.
Walker, Cinnamon C was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6995 Wolff ST, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2515182.
Walker, Cinthia Louise was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 90 Cochise DR, GYPSUM, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600776496.
Walker, Claire Ann was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 470 Marcy AVE, WESTCLIFFE, Custer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3734232.
Walker, Claire Burns was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1303 Baseline RD, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200160909.
Walker, Claire Diane was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5304 Stuart ST, DENVER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2929019.
Walker, Claire V was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4535 E 122Nd CT, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7095214.
Walker, Claire Whitehurst was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 795 Glenarbor CIR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8403657.
Walker, Clarence Glen was born in 1932 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12049 County Road 502, BAYFIELD, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4957391.
Walker, Clarence R was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 108 Beach DR, LOG LANE VILLAGE, Morgan County, CO. His voter ID number is 200342113.
Walker, Claren Nikal was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2366 S Genoa ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2818051.
Walker, Clarissa was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 24847 E Calhoun PL # B, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601884741.
Walker, Clarissa Lynn was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10184 Rustic Redwood WAY, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5720720.
Walker, Clark M was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3784 Swadley ST, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4232241.
Walker, Clark Wayne was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9780 W Dakota AVE, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600197835.
Walker, Clark William was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 597 Sugarfoot ST, CASTLE PINES, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5695041.
Walker, Claudia A was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 99 Vail Pass RD, SOUTH FORK, Rio Grande County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6026973.
Walker, Claudia Jane was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5991 S St Paul WAY, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2901732.
Walker, Claudia S was born in 1945 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7784 S Oneida CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 794809.
Walker, Claudine M was born in 1936 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3312 Ice House RD, FORT GARLAND, Costilla County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3715028.
Walker, Clay Steven was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2219 S Oakland WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200232766.
Walker, Clayton James was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1050 N Cherokee ST APT 301, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601165887.
Walker, Clifford Glenn was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2433 N Perry Park RD, SEDALIA, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600549558.
Walker, Clifford Lee was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7355 E Quincy AVE APT 108, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200175909.
Walker, Clifford Ray was born in 1934 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8520 Crescent DR, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6959240.
Walker, Clifton Jason was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2395 Cherry ST, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 8878862.
Walker, Clint Allen was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2796 Landers DR, LARKSPUR, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600299794.
Walker, Clint Brian was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 16197 Xenia ST, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601293522.
Walker, Clint Daniel was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 18612 E Mainstreet # 4-302, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601802513.
Walker, Clint H was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6336 Millbridge AVE, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5669852.
Walker, Clinton was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2323 Curtis ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2852510.
Walker, Clinton C was born in 1942 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 17921 E Belleview PL, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 720977.
Walker, Clinton Callahan was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 137 E County Road 60, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600005938.
Walker, Clinton Daudi was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3525 W 132Nd PL, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 3909100.
Walker, Clinton Paul was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6680 Montarbor DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600359974.
Walker, Clinton Pearson was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6140 Porter WAY, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6925858.
Walker, Clinton R was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 603 Apple DR, CORTEZ, Montezuma County, CO. His voter ID number is 4882445.
Walker, Clinton Raymond was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 41 Birch AVE, AKRON, Washington County, CO. His voter ID number is 600657534.
Walker, Clinton Reece was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12308 Fourth ST, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600838897.
Walker, Clinton Ross was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11250 Cressman DR, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 3809678.
Walker, Clint Robert was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1261 High DR, SEDALIA, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5756690.
Walker, Clint Shedrick was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3445 N Dexter ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600624998.
Walker, Clint Stanton was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 105 W Eugene AVE, FOWLER, Otero County, CO. His voter ID number is 252737.
Walker, Clorise Elise was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 531 Broadway ST, SILVER CLIFF, Custer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601159049.
Walker, Clovis Daryl was born in 1944 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3470 S Poplar ST APT 110, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2390295.
Walker, Clyde T Jr was born in 1944 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 257 Mount Evans BLVD, BAILEY, Park County, CO. His voter ID number is 546952.
Walker, Cody was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7287 W Kentucky DR # B, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601940688.
Walker, Cody Chason was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9940 Holland CIR, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600106273.
Walker, Cody Douglas was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4633 N Crimson CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601341574.
Walker, Cody Jared was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4039 S Logan ST, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601893255.
Walker, Cody John was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1939 Star Canyon DR, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 200249848.
Walker, Cody Rex was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 735 Castle Mountain RD, ESTES PARK, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1562882.
Walker, Cody Russell was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3233 Sally Ann DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600942582.
Walker, Cohen Earl was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 223 County Rd Y, ORCHARD, Morgan County, CO. His voter ID number is 601256298.
Walker, Coire Seanen was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1418 N Adams ST APT 101, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601852953.
Walker, Colby Blackburn was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 51 Redtail CT, DILLON, Summit County, CO. His voter ID number is 7210006.
Walker, Colby James was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12013 County Rd 20.5, STERLING, Logan County, CO. His voter ID number is 2245198.
Walker, Cole Arlen was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 536 W Garnet AVE, GRANBY, Grand County, CO. His voter ID number is 601783954.
Walker, Coleen Gay was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11525 Community Center DR APT G105, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2517764.
Walker, Coleman Bill was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8507 W County Rd 9 N, DEL NORTE, Rio Grande County, CO. His voter ID number is 4770162.
Walker, Coleman Pierce was born in 1975 and registered to vote, giving the address as 269 County Rd 119, GLENWOOD SPGS, Garfield County, CO. Walker voter ID number is 2642781.
Walker, Colette Marie was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7574 S Ivanhoe WAY, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 795856.
Walker, Colin Andrew was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3358 W 34Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2640755.
Walker, Colin Joshua was born in 1989 and registered to vote, giving the address as 17715 E Eldorado PL # 102, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Walker voter ID number is 601460487.
Walker, Colin Leigh was born in 1944 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4608 Dusty Sage DR # 2, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601603948.
Walker, Collin C was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 797 W 29Th AVE UNIT 2115, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600976308.
Walker, Collin Cain was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1375 N Madison ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601959486.
Walker, Colt Dylan was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2722 N Institute ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 124408.
Walker, Colton was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1053 County Rd 13A, FLORENCE, Fremont County, CO. His voter ID number is 601987953.
Walker, Concepcion Reyes was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 401 S Logan AVE, FLEMING, Logan County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2644825.
Walker, Condy M was born in 1935 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 565 Mcmullin DR, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2263658.
Walker, Conley Lee was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7366 Far Hill DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601088102.
Walker, Connie A was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 595 Silverheels CIR, FAIRPLAY, Park County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600415268.
Walker, Connie Brewer was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 947 Coyote Canyon, COAL CREEK, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3660386.
Walker, Connie Jo was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 22636 Commanche RD, OAK CREEK, Routt County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601459114.
Walker, Connie Kay was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 600 Elk Creek DR, BAILEY, Park County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600426206.
Walker, Connie Lynn was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 22856 E Calhoun PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600154095.
Walker, Connie Mae was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 115 S Twenty Third ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 408350.
Walker, Connie S was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11901 Salem ST, HENDERSON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7149013.
Walker, Connor Lloyd was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 104 Buckaroo RD, BAILEY, Park County, CO. His voter ID number is 600655717.
Walker, Conor Q was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1631 N Royer ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 8403662.
Walker, Constance M was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2255 Quail DR, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4019647.
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The Perils of Being a Good Samaritan in California
By Alison Stateman / Los Angeles Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009
Ed Von Weber / Getty
Cover Story: The New American Samaritans
The Supreme Court of California has ruled that one good deed may very well not go unpunished unleashing a debate not only on who is a Good Samaritan but also who shouldn't even think about being one. On Dec. 19, the court made a decision in the case of Alexandra Van Horn v. Lisa Torti. The case alleged that Torti worsened the injuries suffered by Van Horn by yanking her "like a rag doll" from a wrecked car on Nov. 1, 2004, thus rendering Van Horn a paraplegic. The court found that Torti wasn't protected from legal action under California's current Good Samaritan laws.
Those laws were set in place in 1980, when the state legislature enacted Health and Safety Code 1799.102, which provides that "no person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency shall be liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission." However, in its sharply divided 4-3 ruling, the high court held that the state statute immunizing rescuers from liability applies only if the individual is providing medical care in an emergency situation, citing the statute's placement in a section of the code dealing with emergency medical services. Torti, who is not a health-care worker, believed she was acting as a concerned friend.
"Miss Torti is disappointed by the ruling, and we do think it will have negative repercussions here in California," says Torti's attorney, Jody Steinberg. "How it will affect the rest of the country, whether they will follow the supreme court's ruling is yet to be seen." Steinberg warns, "Here in California, one of these days we can have another earthquake, and the question is, Do you want people to help or do you want people to be thinking about whether they're going to get sued?" Van Horn's attorney, Robert B. Hutchinson, did not return several calls for comment. Steinberg has requested that the supreme court hear the case again. It will decide whether to do so by March. (Read about lawsuit abuse.)
In response to the ruling, Republican state senator John Benoit of Riverside proposed a bill on Jan. 6 that would extend the statute to include all emergency services rendered at the scene of an emergency, regardless of who performs the deed. "I spent 31 years in law enforcement, and as a highway patrol officer I responded to many, many, many accidents. I was not the first one there. Someone had helped a victim out of the car, out of the traffic lane, administered CPR," says Benoit. "I immediately, upon hearing about this case, was extremely concerned that it would in any way thwart people's willingness to give that aid, because in my experience that would translate into lives lost." (Read about California's looming fiscal crisis.)
The proposed legislation, SB 39, would enact the Good Samaritan Protection Act, which would amend the current statute to define emergency care as "medical or nonmedical." Referring to the current Good Samaritan statute, Benoit says, "If in fact the intention was just to limit it to medical providers providing medical care, that was too narrow [a piece of legislation] in my estimation, and this case shows it. I don't believe that was really the intent, even if it is in fact the way it's been interpreted. If not, it needs to be changed. We need to clarify that, and I thought, Let's move quickly and clarify it." Such proposed legislation would not be retroactive and would have no impact on the ruling in the TortiVan Horn case. (Read about Good and Bad Samaritans.)
Some legal experts, however, argue that the proposed reform is a bad idea. University of Southern California law school professor Michael Shapiro feels that expanding the current statute to immunize not just medical personnel but also the general public would be a mistake. "I would not favor a law that says, 'Hey, if someone wants to rescue people, let them do it, just don't stop them deliberately, and if they botch it up and if they're careless and stupid, fine,' " says Shapiro. "I don't think that's a good state of affairs. I think a lot of people would be made worse off."
Shapiro says the message of the TortiVan Horn case is not "Don't rescue, because if anything happens to the person, you're liable." Those who choose to rescue people have always been protected under common law, he points out, provided they act with due care. "If you wanted to rescue somebody, you can go rescue somebody even if you are not a doctor, but if you are negligent and the person is hurt, you're going to be liable," says Shapiro. "Negligent means unacceptably careless. It's not that big of an obligation to put on people not to act in a way that is unacceptably careless even when you're rescuing someone."
Indeed, in its decision, the supreme court made reference to common-law principles, saying that a "person has no duty to come to the aid of another. If, however, a person elects to come to someone's aid, he or she has a duty to exercise due care. Thus, a 'Good Samaritan' who attempts to help someone might be liable if he or she does not exercise due care and ends up causing harm."
Torti's lawyer Steinberg says he and his client aren't counting on the California high court's rehearing the case. Says Steinberg: "It's certainly not common that the supreme court reverses its decision." If the court decides to let its judgment stand, he says, the civil suit will most likely commence in August or September. Steinberg's defense strategy will focus then on whether his client acted reasonably under the circumstances and whether Van Horn's injuries were caused by the accident itself or occured when she was moved.
Read about the historical Samaritans.
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Decatur to Host SWAC Softball Tournament May 8-11, 2013
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) has announced Wilson Morgan Softball Complex in Decatur, Ala., will be the site of the 2013, 2014, and 2015 SWAC Softball Championship Tournament. The Decatur/Morgan County Convention and Visitors Bureau and the City of Decatur's Parks and Recreation Department will host the event for over 200 athletes and coaches, along with their families, traveling from Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama.
The 2,000-seat facility will serve as host venue for the 13 game double-elimination tournaments May 8-11, 2013, May 7-10, 2014, and May 6-9, 2015. The top eight teams in the SWAC East and West Divisions qualify for the championship tournament and teams are seeded based on regular season results among the conference programs. Championship game time is 3 p.m. CST on May 11th. The event will receive live coverage on ESPN3and will broadcast later on ESPNU at 9 p.m. CST. ESPN3 is available to 83 million households via the multi-screen network platform, which is available online at the WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets with the WatchESPN app and through ESPN on Xbox Live. ESPN3 broadcasts are carried by Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and Verizon, the main cable providers of New York and the tri-state area.
Daily admission is $6/adult and $3/child and weekend passes are $20/adult and $10/child. Parking is free. Wilson Morgan Softball Complex features six lighted fields, centrally located concessions, quad, press box and batting cages. Each field has a clay infield and beautiful grass, maintained by electronically controlled underground irrigation systems. Located at 300 Beltline Road, the facility can seat over 2,000 spectators with additional seating available. For more information on Wilson Morgan Softball Complex, visit www.decaturparks.com.
For more information, contact Melinda Dunn at 256.350.2028 or 800.524.6181.
SWAC is organized exclusively for the purpose of encouraging, promoting, advancing, and conducting intercollegiate sports activities and other recreational and not-for-profit activities among the members of the Conference. Current member schools are (East Division) Alabama A&M University, Alabama State University, Alcorn State University, Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State University, and (West Division) University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Grambling State University, Prairie View A&M University, Southern University and A&M College, and Texas Southern University. For more information, visit www.swac.org.
719 6th Ave SE, Decatur, AL 35601, 256-350-2028
Copyright © 2012 Decatur Morgan County Convention & Visitors Bureau | Website Development by Red Sage Communications
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Team-Building Word Search v48
Bingo-Cards for Team-building activity
Team-Building Word Search
Team-Building Word Search Solution
1 3 or more siblings
2 Student council president in high school
3 Started in the month of October
4 Never had a broken bone
5 Has never called in sick when wasn't
6 came to cartography from a different department
7 Has broken a leg
8 Is fluent in a language other than English
9 Went to school to be a nurse
10 still uses mySpace
11 Knows who Hari Seldon is
12 Has been to Hawaii
13 Has been to mainland China
14 Is in a second (or third or fourth or fifth) marriage
15 Born outside the US
16 "Has tried speed dating
17 Does NOT do Facebook
18 Has lived in at least three different states
19 Has done a marathon (or a 1/2 marathon)
20 Has played the Sorry!
21 Owns a horse
22 Despises Glee
23 Loves Glee
24 Has been on a TV show (local news doesn't count)
25 earned a belt in karate
26 Was in gymnastics
27 Has been to Paris
28 Plays a musical instrument "fluently"
29 Has sky dived
30 Has a second job
31 Was high school valedictorian
32 writes poetry (not just roses are red, etc. Jason)
33 Believes in ghosts
34 has a phobia about something uncommon--group decides if it is uncommon
35 Has LIVED in more than one country
36 Never flown on an airplane
37 has a hamster or other pet rodent
38 has eaten haggis
39 does not own a cell phone
40 Was Homecoming King or Queen
41 is a southpaw
42 has never, ever had any kind of traffic ticket
43 has more than 2 cats
44 has more than 2 dogs
45 can't swim or is afraid of the water
46 likes shooting clay pigeons
47 Likes anchovies on pizza
48 has been to the SPAM museum
49 has been to baseball hall of fame
50 is a vegetarian
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Overstock.com Soars After Its Blockchain Sub Gets PE Investment At $1.5BN Valuation
Online retailer Overstock reported results which, unlike its much more famous and infinitely bigger online retailing peer Amazon, were nothing special: the company reported Q2 revenues of $483 million, generating a net loss for the quarter of $2.20 on a gross margin of 19% in the quarter.
But the company's earnings were not the reason why OSTK shares soared as much as 25% after hours: the reason was the surprising announcement by the company that Hong Kong-based private-equity firm GSR Capital had agreed to invest as much as $375 MM in exchange for equity in the retailer and, more importantly, its tZero blockchain subsidiary, which as a reminder capitalized on the cryptocurrency craze in late 2017 and concluded an Initial Coin Offering on December 18, 2017, almost to the day when Bitcoin hit an all time high of just under $20,000.
As Overstock announced in its press release, GSR agreed to:
i) buy $30MM in tZero tokens,
ii) buy up to 3.1MM shares of OSTK for $104 million (a 5% discount to the Aug. 1 closing price of $33.72),
iii) invest as much as $270MM for up to 18% of tZero’s equity at a whopping post-money valuation of $1.5 Billion.
And since Overstock's market cap as of Thursday's close was just over $1.1 billion, this means that with one term sheet, the company's tZero sub is suddenly worth more than the entire parent company. More importantly, the GSR transaction will boost the company's cash and equivalent holdings to over half a billion dollars.
Some more details from Byrne:
Having concluded its Security Token offering, tZERO has raised aggregate consideration of $134 million. This figured includes $30 million from repayment of intercompany debt between tZERO and Overstock. GSR has signed a repurchase agreement to acquire these tokens. As I will diagram in our earnings call, we have designed quite an ecosystem with a scale that matches the enormous opportunity in front of it. When GSR completes its planned investments, we should have over half-a-billion dollars. We believe this will provide ample capitalization with which to build a company that can upend global capital markets.
Back in December, when Overstock launched its tZero ICO, it said that it was hoping to raise at least $250 million - and as much as $500 million - "to build out a blockchain system that the firm said would allow it to create an exchange to trade blockchain-based assets, like ICOs." In the end it raised aggregated funds of just approximately $134 million, and today's transactions adds to that and enables CEO Patrick Byrne to pursue his Security Token ambitions.
As a result of the deal, OSTK stock has jumped and was trading as high as $46/share after hours.
Even with the surge however, the stock remains well below its highs hit in late 2017 and early 2018, when its share price more than doubled to a high of $86.90 in January, due to its blockchain investments rather than its online retailing activities, which have seen it categorised as a cryptocurrency "play."
Overstock has been one of the few retailers that has aggressively pursued cryptos as both a method of payment and as a means by which to grew the company with its own unique token. As we reported recently, following a burst of adoption of cryptos by various vendors, as the price of bitcoin has tumbled in 2018, so has the rate of adoption. Which is why Overstock's experiment with cryptos and tokens will be closely watched to determine if the digital currency has any chance of becoming useful in practice instead of just in theory.
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Other Adventures
My Grandmother
Laughing fondly at the memory, my grandmother Patty told me about a time when she and a fellow travel agent friend had struggled across the German countryside to find the castle they’d reserved to stay in for the week. “They spoke no english. We were at the train station and there was like nobody there. And we goin’ ‘we need a taxi!’ and nobody understood!” she said. “Took us a few hours, but we finally made it [to the castle]”. It’s fair to say that’s probably why she thinks the most important thing to do before a trip is to learn the basics of the local language for your destination.
Patty grew up a military brat, moving around every few months with her mother and her stepfather who was in the army, and younger half brothers. Most of her years were spent around the United States – Monterey CA, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, etc – plus a year and a half in Bamberg, Germany. Her mother suffered from schizophrenia and she proclaims that she basically raised herself and her brothers. When they returned from Germany in her 9th grade year, they settled briefly in Fort Riley, Kansas before her stepfather was stationed at yet another new location. Patty, then 15, refused to move again. “When they got transferred again, to Fort Ord, I didn’t go. I said ‘I have a job’, and I got a room, and I wanted to finish school, and I had a boyfriend – your grandpa- and I stayed there by myself until i graduated high school. I worked 5pm-9pm every day. After school I went to work to pay for my room and my board. Nobody sent me money.”
After having two daughters, my grandma and grandpa’s marriage fell apart. She moved to Houston for a second marriage which also eventually failed. “No man could ever tell me what to do. You gotta be careful who you trust. I don’t trust anyone, I’m a meant-to-be cat lady!”, she choked out laughing. Ever the independent woman, Patty went to San Francisco to Travel Agency school for 6 months paid for by the generous divorce settlement from her big shot Houston Veterinarian ex-husband. Fueled by her nomad-esque childhood, and her new career, Patty made her way around the world. Scuba diving became her muse and once almost her end in Australia, “I was with two men, the trip leader and the captain of the boat. They were going spearfishing for tuna to make sushi for the boat guests and I said, ‘Oh, I wan’na go!’, so we’re swimming along. Of course they were stronger and faster than me so they go ahead and went round a bend. And you’re supposed to stay with your diving buddies, but they left me! So I’m swimming along and then these two sharks came zooooming up! So they stopped right in front of me, wiggling up to me and back, checkin’ me out. And they were big sharks, great big grey reef sharks. I was frozen scred, but I remembered some advice to flash’ light at ‘em, ot punch ‘em in the nose, so I flashed them with my camera to scare ‘em off and they left. They probably smelled the blood from the tuna [the captain] was spearing and thought it might be me. Guess they realized it wasn’t me that was the blood so they shot off like two streaks of lightning together.”, she shook her head smiling. Then she cringed “Ahhhh! Makes me scared just talking about it!”
Spooky as it were, her diving days were far from over, and she had greater adventures still. She returned to dive with the same crew in Australia and eventually the
group was joined by world renowned marine biologist Sylvia Earle for a time. “I would swim with her and she had these things she loved to see, they’re called spanish dancers, they’re like little red slugs that just dance around the sea! She taught me a lot about the fish. And she’s still at it! She’s getting pretty old and up there, but she’s still at it…”
Patty’s love for spanish dancers didn’t end at the sea, however, as her favorite travel destination to date remains Seville, Spain. “You have to go late, like 11 at night, and you just dance all through the night. And the [flamenco dancers] are so beautiful. It’s just romantic, I love Seville. Can’t go just anywhere in Spain. I’ve been three times.” With age, and dwindling bank accounts, my grandmother’s travels grew more sparse. Though her travelling days have faltered, she still can’t stay still and seems to move around and back and forth like clockwork. A few years consisted of rotations between Alaska and Southwest Colorado. She notes the importance of her childhood in this, “Military brats, I’m telling you, it’s in our blood. We don’t stay in one place. I hate to be tied down to anything.” She’ll tell you to go with the flow, make fewer plans ahead of time and then you can just go where you want to go. Life for Patty is all about finding your way along the way. After all of the places she’s been, she always seems to find herself returning to the Southwest. “I’ve seen lots of beautiful places, and that’s where I go. And here I am at the mountains and the desert. I have my car now and I can just go.”
madelinejohnson
Drinking The Himalayas
Made with in Cape Town
Copyright 2018 Madeline J. Johnson. All Rights Reserved.
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World’s largest performing arts center opens in Taiwan
Billed as a new cultural hub for East Asia, the National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts in Taiwan is an expansive facility that references the local landscape and houses a huge public plaza under its undulating roof.
Around 50,000 people attended the opening recently, with the centre’s large performances spaces playing host to an inaugural concert and ceremony.
Designed by Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, the National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts is described as the largest performing arts centre in the world and covers 141,000 sqm (1,518,000 sq ft) in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung.
Built on former military land, the new facility sits alongside subtropical parklands and is inspired by Banyan trees, a species typical in the area with a distinctive web of sprawling trunks at its base.
Image source: New Atlas
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Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:45
Minister: Iran Ready to Launch 3 New Satellites
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Communications and Information Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi announced that the country is prepared to send 3 new satellites into space which have been developed by academic centers.
"At present, three satellites, developed by universities, are ready for launch; we have had the necessary talks with the defense ministry and we will launch them as soon as they give us a green light," Azari Jahromi told reporters in Tehran on Monday.
He also said that Iran is willing to use home-made launchers to send the satellites into the space, although he ensured that the country has no limitations for utilizing foreign launchers.
In relevant remarks in July, Director of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Mohsen Bahrami announced the country's plans to send 2 other home-made satellites into orbit by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2018).
"We expect to launch 2 satellites into space by the end of this year," Bahrami told reporters in the Central city of Kashan.
He said Iranian scientists are building three satellites, and added, "Payam and Amir Kabir satellites are among them and they will be ready for launch in less than one year and Zafar that is a satellite of the Iran University of Science and Technology will be ready for launch in 2 years."
©2013 Fars News Agency. All rights reserved
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DoD Spokesman Urges Focus on Humanitarian Issues, Defeating ISIS in Syria
Keywords:Syria WarUnited Nation
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2018 —
As the Syrian Democratic Forces continue to develop their defensive positions against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in the middle Euphrates River valley, it’s important to stay focused on the key objectives, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters today.
“We remain concerned about the situation in northwest Syria, and call on all parties to remain focused on defeating ISIS, de-escalating and resolving the Syrian conflict, and protecting innocent civilian lives,” Army Col. Robert Manning III said, referring to advances into Syria by Turkish forces.
The United States is not involved in the movement of forces of either side, he said, but U.S. officials are very concerned about the effect that fighting there has had on its defeat-ISIS efforts. The United States would like to see an end to the hostilities before ISIS has the opportunity to regroup in eastern Syria, Manning said.
“We cannot allow ISIS to gain momentum at this critical point,” he stressed.
Humanitarian Concerns
“We have recognized Turkey’s legitimate security concerns on its borders,” the colonel said. “We’re also deeply concerned about the prospects of combat in densely populated areas. Further operations beyond the border regions will draw in more forces and further exacerbate an already deteriorating humanitarian situation.”
Manning said the United States is concerned about reports of civilians who are unable to access potable water. “Clean water is vital to survival,” he added. “We encourage all parties to allow the free flow of these resources in humanitarian aid — much needed humanitarian aid — throughout Syria.”
He said the United States again calls on all parties to remain focused on defeating ISIS, adhere to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2401, protect innocent civilians and avoid actions that would escalate tensions in that area.
The U.N. Security Council passed the resolution Feb. 24, demanding that those involved in Syria’s seven-year-long conflict cease hostilities for at least 30 days for a “durable humanitarian pause,” in which weekly humanitarian aid deliveries can be made and critically sick and wounded people can be evacuated.
Iraq Clearance Operations
Manning also provided an update on the fight against ISIS in Iraq. In Badush, near Ninevah, he said, Iraqi clearance operations resulted in confiscating a large cache of weapons that included small arms, hand grenades, ammunition and explosives.
Near Hawija, 10 improvised explosive devices and three tunnel networks were destroyed and more than 50 IEDs were destroyed near Tal Kayf, Manning said.
In Anbar province, he added, Iraqi forces conducted clearance operations on several structures near Akashat and confiscated munitions. In separate operations in Anbar, also Iraqi forces destroyed large quantities of explosives and more than 10 rockets.
Niger Investigation
Additionally, the investigation into the deaths of four U.S. service members during an Oct. 4 advise-and-assist mission in Niger will soon be in the hands of Defense Secretary James N. Mattis, Manning said.
The secretary has said he expects the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, to send him his review of the investigation.
“The secretary has already asked a few questions on the report and will study what the chairman sends him, compare the two and move forward,” Manning said. “The secretary remains committed to getting this right, and when his endorsement is ready, we will brief you in much more detail after the families have been notified and after we notify Congress,” he told reporters.
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French parliament approves bill on Armenian Genocide denial
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An article published in the New York Times on December 15, 1915 on the Armenian Genocide.
Today, the French National Assembly passed a bill that would penalise what the bill calls negationism of the Armenian Genocide. The French government however opposes the bill; Catherine Colonna, Minister charged with European Affairs, reacted that “It’s the task, first and foremost, of historians and not of lawmakers to clarify history.”
The label “genocide” is disputed by the Turkish government, who has called the vote a “serious blow” to diplomatic relations. Turkey has been known to prosecute Turkish intellectuals who discuss the Armenian genocide, including recent Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. Under the Turkish Penal Code, “prosecution for anti-national plots” faces those who call “for the recognition of the Armenian genocide”.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan had warned France to look into its own colonial past in Africa instead of demanding Turkish recognition of the events. Ali Babacan, the Turkish Minister of Economy, in Brussels for talks on Turkey’s E.U.-membership, said he could not exclude that people would start boycotting French products in Turkey. In a recent visit to Armenia, the French President Jacques Chirac launched the idea that recognition as a “genocide” would be necessary for Turkey to enter the E.U., causing the media to label it as the “Chirac criterion”. The European Commission, which has confirmed that such a criterion would not be instituted, deplored the initiative of the French parliament, because it could damage contacts with the European Union.
Political map showing countries and individual U.S. states which have recognized the Armenian Genocide.
Most historians view the events comprising the Armenian genocide as a state-sponsored plan of mass extermination. Their reasons include various eye witness reports, Turkey’s recruitment of violent criminals to posts within the “Special Organization”, and the sheer number of dead, estimates of which remain as high as 1.5 million. Some politically influential countries like the U.S., Canada, and France have driven efforts to interpret these events as an attempt to eradicate an ethnic group. The Turkish government, as well as a few historians, estimate the number of casualties much lower, and attribute them to inter-ethnic strife, disease and famine during World War I.
Armenia has congratulated France over its “natural response” to an “aggressive” policy of “denial” by the Turkish government. Armenians often argue that Turkey’s recognition will help prevent similar events in the future. These assertions include claims that Scheubner-Richter’s observations of the Armenian genocide had a formative influence upon Hitler’s plans for the Jews.
The French bill provides for a 1-year prison sentence and a € 45,000 fine, the same as for Holocaust denial. It must still be approved by the Senate and the President, and due to the parliamentary calendar, news sources think it is unlikely that it will be discussed before the end of the legislation period in February 2007.
“Turkey condemns ‘genocide’ vote” — BBC News Online, October 12, 2006
“Armenian diaspora bound by killings” — BBC News Online, October 12, 2006
“Vives réactions à Bruxelles et à Ankara après le vote du projet de loi sur la négation du génocide arménien” — Le Monde, October 12, 2006 (French)
“L’Assemblée nationale adopte la proposition de loi sanctionnant la négation du génocide arménien” — Le Monde, October 12, 2006 (French)
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State Council Gazette Issue No. 29 Serial No. 1532 (Oct 20, 2015)
Updated: Oct 20,2015 8:12 AM english.gov.cn
• Opinions of the State Council on Establishing in an All Round Way the System of Living Subsidies for the Disabled Living in Hardship and the System of Nursing Subsidies of the Severely Disabled
• Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the Building of the Platform for Supporting Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Opinions of the State Council on Developing the Mixed Ownership Economy in State-owned Enterprises
• Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving the Art Education Work in Schools
• Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Promoting the Online and Offline Interaction to Accelerate the Innovative Development, Transformation and Upgrading of Commercial and Trade Distribution
• Official Reply of the State Council on the Outline for Cooperation and Development in the Bohai Rim Region
• Official Reply of the State Council on Approving the Establishment of the System of the Inter-ministry Joint Conference on Promoting Reform and Development of the Exhibition Industry
• Decree of the China Food and Drug Administration (No. 14)
- Measures for Unannounced Inspection of Drugs and Medical Devices
• Decree of the National Bureau of Statistics of the People’s Republic of China (No.15)
- National Classifications of Statistics of the Science and Technology Service Industry (2015)
• Decree of the State Administration for Religious Affairs (No.12)
- Measures for Conferment of Academic Titles in Tibetan Buddhism (For Trial Implementation)
• Decree of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (No.4, 2015)
- Measures of the China Banking Regulatory Commission for Granting Administrative Licensing to Foreign-funded Banks
• Opinions of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Directing the Villagers (Residents) Committees in Assisting the Social Assistance Work
• Announcement of the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (No.2257)
-Implementing Rules on Sitting for the National Qualification Examination of Licensed Veterinarians by Residents from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region (For Trial Implementation)
- Measures for Examination and Acceptance Check of Good Manufacturing Practice for Veterinary Drugs
• Announcement of the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (No.25, 2015)
• Circular of the National Railway Administration on Printing and Issuing the Implementing Rules on Licensing the Access of Enterprises to the Railway Transport Business
- Implementing Rules on Licensing the Access of Enterprises to the Railway Transport Business
• Circular of the National Railway Administration on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Publicizing the Violations of Laws Concerning Railway Work Safety
- Measures for Publicizing the Violations of Laws Concerning Railway Work Safety
• Guiding Opinions of the State Post Bureau and the Ministry of Commerce on Promoting the Project for Expanding the Express Delivery Service to the West and Countryside
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Commentary: Health Insurance CO-OP Flops
by John McClaughry (May 28, 2013)
“Commissioner of Financial Regulation Susan Donegan has emphatically pulled the plug on the new Vermont Health Insurance CO-OP.”
An ambitious plan to create a Vermont cooperative health insurance company (CO-OP) has crashed and burned, leaving egg on many prominent faces.
During the 2010 debate in Congress, the Senate put into the ObamaCare bill an authorization for the Federal government to underwrite nonprofit consumer-owned health insurance cooperatives. Soon after the bill’s enactment the Federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began to distribute $3.4 billion to hastily-created coops around the country.
Mitchell Fleischer, a principal of the Fleischer Jacobs insurance agency of South Burlington, quickly organized and became chairman of the board of the Vermont CO-OP. It went to CMS and obtained t a $6.3 million “startup loan”, plus another $27.5 million loan for the CO-OP’s required reserve against claims.
The CO-OP business plan promised a Vermont consumer-owned enterprise, integration of mental health and substance abuse coverage, and some version of “payment reform” with its provider groups.
At the CO-OP’s “grand opening” last October, Gov. Shumlin enthusiastically appeared to hail “innovators like Mitch and Christine [Oliver] in the CO-OP that are going to give Vermont the ability to contain costs in our health care system.” Congressman Welch also appeared to add his blessing.
With the state’s political leaders on board and the $33.8 million from Washington on call, all that remained for the CO-OP was to secure a Certificate of Public Good to offer health insurance in Vermont. On May 22, after a year of interaction with the fledgling CO-OP, Commissioner of Financial Regulation Susan Donegan issued her ruling. It was not a close call. She smashed the application into smithereens.
Her decision found that after promising to offer health insurance premiums at 4% lower cost than competitors Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont and MVP, the CO-OP’s rates would actually be at least 15% higher.
It found that there was no way the CO-OP could attract the projected 19,645 policy holders in 2014 by offering similar policies at 15% higher cost.
It found that the sole-source contract Fleischer arranged between his CO-OP and his insurance agency to market the small group policies on Health Connect, the state’s new insurance exchange, constituted a “stark ever-present conflict of interest” for Fleischer, and was also flatly illegal.
It found that Fleischer’s $126,000 a year salary was “surprisingly high”, especially when the board chair of the much larger Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont is paid only $28,900 a year.
It found that the CO-OP’s board of directors, handpicked by Fleischer, was suspiciously passive.
It found that between the time the CO-OP had promised to implement a “risk sharing partnership” with its prospective provider groups and the filing of the state application, it had scrapped the “innovative” idea and reverted to the traditional “fee for service”.
It found that notwithstanding all the rhetoric about being a “Vermont owned” enterprise, the CO-OP would have to rely on contracted services from numerous vendors from out of state, where a large fraction of the revenues would end up.
The Department’s financial review found that the CO-OP would lose money every year, and be forced to tap the Federally-supplied claims reserve just to continue to stay in business. “Within three years of beginning operations,” the decision found, “there is a high risk that the CO-OP would be insolvent.”
Vermont’s new Health Connect exchange (that has consumed $125 million already) is scheduled to open for business next January. Vermont alone among the fifty states has made it mandatory for all individual and small group health insurance to be sold through the exchange.
Three years from then, in 2017, Gov. Shumlin’s taxpayer-financed Green Mountain Care is supposed to come into being. The sale of health insurance will then end, and Health Connect will be abolished.
The Commissioner concluded that “any attempt by a startup company [the CO-OP] to enter a highly concentrated industry that will cease to exist as early as three years after entry may not serve the public interest.” (Why Fleischer would create the CO-OP knowing that it will be driven out of business in three years remains an unsolved riddle.)
In a state that has given the nation two decades of notable health care policy mistakes, Commissioner Donegan has gotten this one right. The politicians who danced around the CO-OP maypole are likely to find themselves eating a large helping of crow.
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A Small Country with a Huge Vision
Imagine a magical place where nature surrounds you; an alluring concentration of beauty, rainforests, beaches, landscapes, microclimates and biodiversity. One of the happiest places in the globe, and the world’s capital of hummingbirds.
This is Costa Rica. Consisting only 0.03% of the Earth’s mass, this small country proudly holds 5% of its flora and fauna. 25% of the country is composed of protected areas. Located in the heart of America, it is guided by two seas. The deep green of this dreamlike area entices those seeking for relaxation and adventure, and in its essence lies the preservation and care for the environment. Its commitment to sustainability is undeniable.
You’ll be welcomed (and amazed) by the warmth, education and authenticity of its people; they are unique, happy and caring. Costa Rica is a Nation standing in peace through a long-standing democracy. In fact, this Central American country is one of the only two countries in the world that has not had an army since the year 1949.
¨Pura Vida¨ (pure life) is the country’s law. Locals know how to have fun, and be joyful. And so will you, when you get there.
Green, happiness, solidarity, talent, innovation, quality, biodiversity, transformation… this is Essential Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is one of the world's most unique tourist destinations. The natural beauty, stunning beaches, pleasant climate and the peaceful easy going nature of Costa Ricans make the country an attractive, must see part of the world.
Social and political stability, it’s the oldest Democracy in Latin America.
Strategic geographic location.
Unique natural attractions.
Tremendous diversity in a small territory: Steaming volcanoes, mountains, rivers, Pacific and Atlantic Coast, micro climates, rain forest, cloud forest and dry forest.
Costa Rica has nearly 5% of the world’s species of flora and fauna in 0.03% of the earth’s surface. It has a wide diversity of habitats, climates and scenery.
Rich natural and scenic heritage is protected in a country-wide system of national parks and private reserves. It has more preserved nature than any other country.
Unrivaled adventure activities: forest hikes, whitewater rafting, zip lining by the tree canopy and all ocean adventures like scuba diving, sea kayaking, swimming, surfing, etc.
Natural hospitality: Survey after survey, the innate friendliness of the Costa Rican people is cited as one of our country’s greatest assets.
Excellent medical services.
Environmental Performance Index:
5th in the world.
1st in Latin America.
30% of the budget is invested in education. Best educational system in Latin America, 36th worldwide, World Economic Forum, 2007-2008.
Green Costa Rica
In Costa Rica you will experience tropical ecosystems, vast vegetation, pleasant climate, topography, insects and birds. Costa Rica protects approximately 26 percent of its national territory in national parks, wildlife reserves, forest preserves and private reserves.
Costa Rica's Biodiversity in Numbers
Our country holds among the greatest density of species of all countries in the world. This means that on 1 trip, travelers are likely to come in contact with more biodiversity than other places.
Costa Rica packs 4.5% of the world’s known plants and animals (90,000 species) in just .03% of the planet’s surface.
The country is 1 of the top 20 places with more biodiversity in the world and one of the top 10 most rich rainforest ecosystems.
The Costa Rican culture is in many ways a reflection of its racial diversity. The predominant influence has long been European, which is reflected in everything from the official language -- Spanish -- to the architecture of the country's churches and other historic buildings. The indigenous influence is less visible, but can be found in everything from the tortillas that make part of a typical Costa Rican meal, to the handmade ceramics.
Costa Rica's cultural legacy is based on love for peace and democracy. The Ticos like to stand out that their nation is the exception in Latin America, where military dictatorships have long dominated politics. They take pride in having more than one hundred years of democratic tradition, and almost half a century without an army.
Race Venue: Playas del Coco, Guanacaste
With more than 400 miles of coast line, the Guanacaste tourism area comprises the Pacific Coast area from the border of Nicaragua to the Bongo River estuary in the Nicoya Peninsula. This area boasts a significant number of protected areas including water, land, mountain, and coastal ecosystems that are teaming with life.
The incomparable beauty of its landscapes, ranges from tropical dry forests to lowland mountain forests, warm climate, and flourishing nature. All along the Guanacaste coastline are a number of beaches where you can swim in their warm Pacific Ocean waters. The coastal landscape is exceptional. There is an array of white-sand beaches and calm, intense-blue waters.
There are two commercial centers located in the northern area: Liberia and Santa Cruz, which, in turn, are linked with five important tourism development centers: Papagayo, El Coco, Flamingo, Conchal, and Tamarindo. In the southern area, the commercial center is Nicoya with Samara being the development center.
Playas del Coco
This is one of the most popular and traditional beaches in Costa Rica. It is located in a bay with soft waves and is very suitable for swimming and boat docking. Its grey sands extend almost a mile and a half. To the south there is the Centinela Islet where there is a cove with white sands. Playas del Coco has a wide range of recreational and sporting activities, including sport fishing, diving, boat excursions, etc. It is also ideal for hiking and horseback riding.
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Findus Ltd
In 1945 Findus launched the first deepfrozen food products in Sweden. In 1962, this Findus brand was sold to Nestlé. In January 2000, it was bought by EQT, a Swedish firm. Geir Frantzen, a former senior manager at Findus AB, bought out the UK company in April 2005 from EQT.The rest of the Findus business (excluding Italy and Switzerland) was bought from EQT in January 2006. In Italy, the brand was owned by Unilever which markets a different line of frozen foods common to the Iglo and Birds Eye brands in other countries. In Spain and Portugal the brand has been owned by Ardo, Europe's largest frozen vegetables company, since 2006.
Foodvest is now known as the Findus Group , having changed its name on June 8, 2009.
The Findus Group is a multinational food business headquartered in the UK and with operations around Europe.The Findus Group is one of Europe’s largest frozen food and seafood companies with leading brands, 6000 employees and over £1.1 billion turnover. It is the parent company of Young’s, Findus and The Seafood Company. An estimated 20 million people eat the Group products on average every week.
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Brian Wilson plays the Embassy Theatre Aug. 10
Tickets on sale Friday, May 10 (10 a.m.)
SHOUT! Promotions presents Brian Wilson: Pet Sounds + Greatest Hits with special guests Al Jardine & Blondie Chaplin at the Embassy Theatre Aug. 10, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, May 10, at 10 a.m.
Tickets are $56, $76, $96, $146 (plus applicable fees) and can be purchased at TicketMaster.com, the STAR Bank box office at the Embassy and by phone 800.745.3000. VIP packages are available. The Embassy Theatre member presale is May 8.
Wilson is one of popular music’s most deeply revered figures, the main creative force behind some of the most cherished recordings in rock history. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to call Wilson one of the most influential composers of the last century. He was barely out of his teens when he began to co-write classics, including “Surfer Girl,” “In My Room,” “I Get Around,” “Don’t Worry Baby,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “Help Me Rhonda” and “California Girl.” He co-wrote and performed with his family band, the Beach Boys.
Pet Sounds; the emotional autobiography of its 23-year old “auteur,” is considered by many to be one of the greatest albums ever made. In the process of bringing it to life, its composer, arranger and producer (that is, Mr. Wilson) rewrote all the rules of what a record could be; as one observer noted, its release was “Independence Day” for rock ‘n’ roll. Primarily working with a new collaborator (lyricist and songwriter Tony Asher), the album featured a dozen originals (including two astounding instrumentals); Pet Sounds was a musical canvas as boundless as Brian’s heart.
On the charts in America, the album reached #10 and featured four hit singles (including two Top 10 hits, a reworking of the folk standard “Sloop John B” [#3] and “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” [#8] as well as two others that cracked the Top 40—“God Only Knows” and “Caroline No”). The former is considered by many, including Sir Paul McCartney, to be one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded; the latter was released as a solo single under the name “Brian Wilson.”
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Creative media activism - a free, open class #creativact
Friday, April 6, 2012 at 10:11AM
Between January and March 2012 we (i.e. the Media Department at Coventry School of Art and Design) launched an undergraduate class focused on Creative Activism. We also made the class freely available online on an open basis to enable anyone worldwide to participate in the class, join in the discussions or even rip and remix our content.
The class explored the potential of creative media activism by encouraging the participants to experiment with creating ‘live’ interventions as well as getting involved in a number of crucial cultural, political and social debates. Over the ten week course we looked at how media activists, creatives and campaigners have used their media knowledge, connections and skills to ask difficult questions, provoke debate and raise awareness of important issues and problems in their local, national and international communities.
We have now put most of the materials from the class on our website: http://www.creativeactivism.net
You can also download the content and participate in the ongoing class discussion through iTunes U and the Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). Please feel free to share.
If you would like to find out more about the class, and our plans for developing the project, please contact Pete Woodbridge <p.woodbridge@coventry.ac.uk>.
To date, the class has been supported by a range of collaborators and guest speakers, whom we would like to thank. They include:
Emily James: Director of ‘Just Do It’- A Feature Documentary about Climate Change Activism
John Jackson, Activist and Co-author of ‘Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity and Ingenuity Can Change the World
Joey Skaggs, A Prolific New York Based Artist, Culture Jammer and Prankster who uses the Media as his Canvas
James Cook, A Stand-up Comedian who explores what we can learn from Comedy and Satire as a means of Political and Cultural Activism
Sam Gregory, Programme Director and Human Rights Advocate at WITNESS, whose work addresses the importance of video and change
Tessa Houghton, Assistant Professor in Media and Communications, University of Nottingham Malaysia who analyses Hacktivism and the Public Domain
Matt Mason, Author of bestseller ‘The Pirate’s Dilemma’ and Executive Director of Marketing at Bittorent
Chris Jury, Activist, Broadcaster and Lecturer at Bath Spa University who presents a radio show called ‘Agitpop’- exploring the role of music and protest
Charles Tsai, Campaigner at the Creative Visions Foundation and Social Creatives- Organisations that encourage creative thinking to affect positive change
Ken Fero, Award Winning Radical Documentary Filmmaker – Whose work explores Power, Inequality and Injustice.
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Aruba real estate electricity 2pm
T here are things to consider when think about living a new country or island. Information and preparations like: schooling possibilities for kids, pros and cons of renting versus buying a home, applying for work and/or residence permits, government offices for registration, shopping locations for essentials, and possibly also temporary accommodations while a more permanent residence is sought
In order to qualify for the necessary residence and/or work permits one must comply with specific rules and requirements. Once the necessary permits are obtained, as a new resident you will have to register at the census office known in Dutch as "Bevolking". Registration is mandatory and important if you intend to apply for a mortgage and/or other home related services such as: utilities, cable, gas and telephone and also for registering children at schools, both private or public. The Census Office ("Bevolking" or "Censo")
The Aruba Census office is generally known as "Bevolking" in Dutch or Censo in Papiamento. The Census office handles registration of all persons residing on Aruba. Once you are registered you can then request an extract known as the "proof of registration", which can be used along with a valid ID to show you have permission to live on the island. The extract will also be necessary for the following purposes:
The rate of exchange granted by shops and hotels ranges between Awg. 1.75 – Awg. 1.80 per U.S. dollar. U.S. Dollars are widely accepted in Aruba, and banks may exchange other foreign currency. Major credit cards are accepted at most establishments while personal checks are normally not accepted.
Cash may be obtained with MasterCard, Visa and American Express cards at banks, in some casinos and via Western Union. ATM cards and credit cards are accepted by ATMs of Aruba Bank, Banco di Caribe, RBTT Bank, and Caribbean Mercantile Bank. The card must have either a Cirrus or Visa Plus logo. ATM instructions are normally given in Dutch, English, Spanish and Papiamento. Cash is normally dispensed in local currency. Shopping
Shopping in Aruba is most known for its various selections of shops devoted to jewelry, table linens, perfumes, leather goods, designer fashions, electronics, locally made handicrafts, Cuban cigars, Dutch Delft, Dutch Cheeses, and many more superior and favorably priced goods. Stores are open Monday – Saturday from 9:00am – 6:00pm and some stores are closed for siesta during the hours of 12:00 noon – 2:00pm. Grocery shopping
In each district you will find "mom and pop" mini markets or groceries. The bigger supermarkets such as Ling and Sons, Certified Mega Mall, Super Food, and Kong Hing offer a wide variety of food products, fresh produce, canned goods meats and fish. Grocery stores are open from 8:30am – 8:00pm Monday – Saturday and on Sunday’s until 2:00pm Education
In the public schools the education system follows the Dutch Curriculum and most schools are partially subsidized by the government, with the exception of The International School of Aruba and Basisschool De Schakel (Dutch), which are both private schools. The International School of Aruba
This school provides an American-based curriculum with an international dimension for children ages 3-19 that includes academics, the arts, activities, and athletics. Opportunities related to Aruban culture are also integrated into curriculum at both elementary and secondary levels. Additionally, they put an emphasis on community service via student organizations, activities, and with teachers as models who are actively engaged in the community. University
The University of Aruba, offers Bachelors and Masters degree courses in Law, undergraduate studies in Finance and Economics, a Bachelor program for Business Administration in Hospitality & Tourism Management Aruba. and the Faculty of Art and Science offering undergraduate and graduate studies. Xavier Medical
The Xavier University School of Medicine at Aruba was founded to train students in the art of medicine using a US based curriculum. The entire focus of their program is to ensure students receive the knowledge they need to successfully enter residencies in the United States as competent physicians.
The Xavier University School of Medicine at Aruba (XUSOM) is a prime choice for foreign students to pursue their medical education overseas in the Caribbean. Their medical school offers studies in the Caribbean with guaranteed clinical rotations in the United States. Best of all, there are no MCAT required for admission. De Schakel
Water is produced and delivered by WEB Aruba NV (water and energy). WEB uses desalination for water production, and electricity is produced using boilers. Tap water in Aruba is of a very high quality, and excellent taste, often indistinguishable from bottled water. Electricity
In Aruba, there are cable television and cable Internet services available. Cable television and cable Internet services are provided by Cable TV Aruba NV. To be connected to the cable TV and cable Internet you must register in person at the office of Cable TV. GAS
The Aruba Gas Supply Co. Ltd better known as "Arugas" carries and delivers gas for domestic use. Propane gas is supplied in cylinders of 100 lbs. To become a customer, you must personally sign in at Arugas. The following documents must be submitted:
The removal of household waste is considered a public responsibility. This duty, geared to health and environmental management, means that the government has a duty to at least one (1) time per week to collect household waste. This task is for the government, conducted by Serlimar.
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Letter to My Son
April 8, 2014 Confessions, Relationshipsfather, growth, Hero, love, parenthood, parenting, Relationships, sonAdrian (Counselor)
Where do I start? I want to let you know that I love you already and I’ve never met you in my life. I think about you all the time and I wonder if you will look like me, talk like me, walk like me. You are the reason that I do everything that I do now. I refuse to have you calling someone else your mentor, your hero or your father.
I cannot wait to see you take your first steps, say your first words, and give me a hug. I will not use excuses that I do not know how to be a father stop me from loving you and being there for you. See the thing is once you come into my life, you will be my priority for the next 18 years.
I am going to teach you how to be a man of God, a strong man, and a leader. I will show you how to tie a tie, bait your own fishing hook, and throw a baseball. Even as I write this I get tears of joy in my eyes because you are so special to me. I want to give you all that I did not have, while teaching you to appreciate everything that is given to you. You will know hard work and dedication and not be the product of a microwaveable society if I have anything to do with it.
It is my duty to teach you values, and respect for your elders, even if they are wrong. You have to understand your place as a child and know your place, but if there is a problem I will handle it. Make sure that you speak with authority. Make sure you look a man in his eyes when you are talking. When you shake a man’s hand make sure you grip his hand with confidence.
I cannot wait to see you play sports for the first time, I will be right there at every game that I can possibly be at cheering you on from the stands and proudly letting everyone know that is my boy.
I want you to be better than I will ever be. So if I am tough on you at times, that is only me showing you how much I love you. This is a tough world, so I need you to be ready for everything that comes your way. You are a Prince learning to become a King, in your own right.
I will be consistent in your growth. When the time is right, we will have a talk about sex; I will explain to you that one night you are going to wake up and think you urinated on yourself but there will not be any urine there. I want you come to me and talk about it so that I can help you understand what just happened.
Even though we haven’t met yet, I know it will be something special when we do. Adrian Taylor, Jr. has a nice ring to it. Before I end this letter son, there is going to be a time when you start getting involved with young ladies and if you ever have any questions on how to treat that special young lady, just follow my example of how I treat your mother and everything will work out for you.
Adrian Taylor Sr.
Obama Holds Martin Luther King Jr. As Personal Hero
August 28, 2013 All About MenHero, MLK, ObamaAdrian (Counselor)
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama was 2 years old and growing up in Hawaii when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Fifty years later, the nation’s first black president will stand as the most high-profile example of the racial progress King espoused, delivering remarks Wednesday at a nationwide commemoration of the 1963 demonstration for jobs, economic justice and racial equality.
Obama believes his success in attaining the nation’s highest political office is a testament to the dedication of King and others, and that he would not be the current Oval Office occupant if it were not for their willingness to persevere through repeated imprisonments, bomb threats and blasts from billy clubs and fire hoses.
“When you are talking about Dr. King’s speech at the March on Washington, you’re talking about one of the maybe five greatest speeches in American history,” Obama said in a radio interview Tuesday. “And the words that he spoke at that particular moment, with so much at stake, and the way in which he captured the hopes and dreams of an entire generation I think is unmatched.”
In tribute, Obama keeps a bust of King in the Oval Office and a framed copy of the program from that historic day when 250,000 people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Within five years, the man Obama would later identify as one of his idols was dead, assassinated in April 1968 outside of a motel room in Memphis, Tenn.
But King’s dream didn’t die with him. Many believe it came true in 2008 when Obama became the first black man Americans ever elected as their president.
“Tomorrow, just like 50 years ago, an African-American man will stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and speak about civil rights and justice. But afterward, he won’t visit the White House. He’ll go home to the White House,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday, speaking of his basketball buddy and boss. “That’s how far this country has come. A black president is a victory that few could have imagined 50 years ago.”
“He stands on the shoulders of Martin Luther King, and the sacrifices that King made that make a President Obama possible are deeply humbling to him,” said Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama’s senior advisers and a close family friend.
For Obama, the march is a “seminal event” and part of his generation’s “formative memory.” A half century after the march, he said, is a good time to reflect on how far the country has come and how far it still has to go, particularly after the Trayvon Martin shooting trial in Florida.
A jury’s decision to acquit neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in the 2012 fatal shooting of the unarmed, 17-year-old black teen outraged blacks across the country last month and reignited a nationwide discussion about the state of U.S. race relations. The response to the verdict also raised expectations for America’s black president to say something about the case.
Race isn’t a subject Obama likes to talk about in public, and he does so only when the times require it, such as the speech on race that he gave in 2008 when his presidential campaign was threatened by the anti-American rantings of his Chicago pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
In his interview Tuesday with Tom Joyner and co-host Sybil Wilkes of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, Obama said he imagines that King “would be amazed in many ways about the progress that we’ve made.” He listed advances such as equal rights before the law, an accessible judicial system, thousands of African-American elected officials, African-American CEOs and the doors that the civil rights movement opened for Latinos, women and gays.
“I think he would say it was a glorious thing,” he said.
But Obama noted that King’s speech was also about jobs and justice. “When it comes to the economy, when it comes to inequality, when it comes to wealth, when it comes to the challenges that inner cities experience, he would say that we have not made as much progress as the civil and social progress that we’ve made, and that it’s not enough just to have a black president, it’s not enough just to have a black syndicated radio show host,” Obama said.
When he was much younger, it took Obama time to embrace his black-white, African and American heritage. He chronicled that personal journey in his best-selling memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” in which he wrote about himself as “the mixed blood, the divided soul, the ghostly image of the tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds.”
After Zimmerman was acquitted, Obama spoke out to help people understand black outrage over the verdict. In unusually personal terms, Obama talked about experiences he shares with so many other black men, before he became a well-known public figure, such as being followed in department stores and hearing the click of car doors being locked as he walked by.
He said the African-American community was looking at the issue “through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.”
In Wednesday’s speech, Obama will offer his personal reflections on the civil rights movement, King’s speech, the progress achieved in the past 50 years and the challenges that demand attention from the next generation.
Obama has said King is one of two people he admires “more than anybody in American history.” The other is Abraham Lincoln.
First lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to join the president as he commemorates the march. On the eve of the anniversary, Mrs. Obama saluted one of the march’s organizers Whitney Young at a screening on Tuesday for the documentary “The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights.”
She called Young, who served as executive director of the National Urban League during the 1960s, one of the “unsung heroes in our history whose impact we still feel today.”
“For every Dr. King, there is a Whitney Young or a Roy Wilkins or a Dorothy Height, each of whom played a critical role in the struggle for change,” Mrs. Obama said. “And then there are the millions of Americans, regular folks out there, whose names will never show up in the history books.”
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Why the Danish Construction Failed in the Dutch Context
Submitted by juraj.spisak on 18 Jul 2012 16:27
By Gijs Schumacher, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Southern Denmark & VU University Amsterdam Christian Elmelund-Præstekær, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark, and Michael Baggesen Klitgaard, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
In the Netherlands recently, the much-criticized anti-immigrant, anti-Islam, anti-EU Dutch populist, Geert Wilders, refused to accept radical reforms that were necessary to reduce the budget deficit. Consequently, the minority government that received parliamentary support from Geert Wilders’ Freedom party collapsed and a new election is to be held on September 12. Many of the strategic choices of the Freedom Party are inspired by its successful Danish sister party, the Danish People’s Party. Indeed, many observers have compared the two parties, but why did the “Danish” construction fail in the Dutch context?
The Danish People’s Party has been electorally successful because it links an anti-immigrant position with a popular pro-welfare position. This allows the party to pick up voters from both the traditional left and right. Moreover, the party is trusted by its potential coalition partners, the conservative and liberal parties, because it enforces an iron discipline within the party, and thereby prevents the anarchy of its predecessor, the Progress Party. Also, by supporting the minority right-wing government pragmatically, by for example accepting a number of retrenchment measures in core welfare programs, it received in return de facto agenda-setting power on the anti-immigration agenda. Hence, the combination of a successful electoral niche and a degree of pragmatism enabled the Danish People’s Party to be a key player in setting the Danish political agenda between 2001 and 2010.
Geert Wilders – seemingly – copied this strategy to the letter. In the 2010 elections he adopted a strongly pro-welfare position, broadening his appeal from bashing Islam to saving the welfare state. Moreover, by refusing to make the Freedom Party a real political party with members and delegation processes, Wilders at least temporarily averted the anarchy of the Pim Fortuyn party. After the 2010 elections he chose not to participate in the government. Instead he followed the Danish example by becoming a supporting party for the Rutte I minority government. This construction was a novelty in Dutch politics. However, by dropping his support for the government in crucial negotiations over the national budget Wilders did not copy the pragmatic economic policies of the Danish People’s Party. By leaving the problem of the budget deficit unsolved, voters may perceive Wilders as unreliable on economic issues, but more importantly, his potential coalition partners no longer trust him.
Hence, the Dutch experiment with ‘the Danish construction’ has miserably failed after only 18 months. In times of financial crisis Wilders economic policy may cost votes, and many of his proposed measures to curb immigration have now been rejected by the two right-wing governing parties and the incumbents seem reluctant to continue cooperation with Wilders. What explains the difference in success of the Danish People’s Party and the Dutch Freedom Party?
We argue that Wilders overplayed his hand because of a structural difference between the Danish and Dutch political systems. The Danish party system is a bloc-system, consisting of a socialist and a bourgeois bloc of parties. The political centre is very small and intra-bloc co-operation is rare. Also, before the rise of the Danish People’s Party the bourgeois parties never had a majority of the vote. Hence, the Danish liberals and conservatives had no other choice than to cherish their cooperation with the Danish People’s Party. The Dutch party system differs as it has a strong political centre. Traditionally, this has benefited the Christian Democrats (CDA) who could pick a coalition partner from the left or from the right. But even today, centrist parties like D66, GroenLinks and ChristenUnie can combine with the government parties and have a parliamentary majority. As a consequence, the government always had an outside option of co-operating with Wilders and used this option when necessary. Thus, Wilders never had the same strong negotiation position as the Danish People’s Party. As such, Wilders needs to be even more pragmatic than his Danish counterpart or face a long period in opposition.
We are not writing the obituary of Mr. Wilders. He has gambled on improving his position during the next elections. It seems unlikely this will happen, and even unlikelier that the Christian Democrats will again want to co-operate with him. But Dutch politics is gaining a reputation of being very unpredictable.
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"Shoot the first Serb..."
According to the Belgrade daily "Srpski Nacional," the commander of Zagreb riot police, one Zvonimir Vitjak, threatened the Serb soccer fans planning to attend a match between Belgrade's Crvena Zvezda and a Croatian team.
"We'll shoot the first Serb who tries to make trouble. There will be no mercy for Belgraders, if they so much as think of disturbing the peace here... No matter how many Serbs come, we are ready to meet them," Vitjak is quoted as saying.
He added, "We all remember the Serb who carried the photo of Draža Mihailović on Jelačić Square. I promise I will personally deal with every Serb that gets a similar idea... I don't care that this is a European game. I will do anything to preserve the dignity of all Croats." (all emphasis added)
This racist drivel comes on the heels of last week's celebration of the August 1995 ethnic cleansing of Serbs. It's an illustration of the extent to which Serbs are hated in Croatia. Vitjak wasn't warning Zvezda fans, or hooligans, he was warning Serbs. He wasn't speaking of upholding the law, but of preserving Croatian "dignity."
Earlier this year (March), a riot in Zagreb targeted athletes, journalists and fans from Serbia after a handball game between a home team and Belgrade's Partizan. No arrests were made. Somehow I don't think Mr. Vitjak was too concerned with Croats who were "disturbing the peace" by beating up Serbs. After all, probably considering it a patriotic duty, it's what he would do.
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Georgia Inmate Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud for His Role in Grand Jury Scam
U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that NICHOLAS ROTUNDA ALLEN, age 39, an inmate in Jimmy Autry State Prison in Pelham, Georgia, was charged this week in a one-count bill of information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ‘ 371, for his role in perpetrating a grand jury fraud scam and victimizing a resident of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
According to the bill of information, on November 6, 2017, ALLEN used a contraband cellular telephone to contact Victim A from inside the state prison. ALLEN obtained the phone from a non-incarcerated co-conspirator. ALLEN pretended to be a Deputy United States Marshal and informed Victim A that he had unlawfully failed to report for jury duty service for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. ALLEN further told Victim A that because he had failed to appear for jury duty, a warrant had been issued out of the Eastern District of Louisiana for Victim A’s arrest. The individual said that Victim A had the choice of either being arrested on the warrant or paying a $5,500 fine to have the arrest warrant dismissed. Victim A paid the fine by buying a series of pre-paid cash cards and giving the account numbers to ALLEN. Thereafter, Victim A paid ALLEN by buying a total of eleven (11) pre-paid cash cards and giving the cards’ account numbers to ALLEN.
If convicted, ALLEN faces a maximum term of imprisonment of five years, a fine of up to $250,000, three years supervised release after imprisonment, and a mandatory $100 special assessment.
U. S. Attorney Strasser reiterated that a bill of information is merely a charge and that the guilt of the defendant must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
U.S. Attorney Strasser praised the work of the United States Marshal Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Jordan Ginsberg is in charge of the prosecution.
This is a press release from the FBI.
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Melbourne International Film Festival Review: Wonderstruck (USA, 2017) astounds with heart, emotion, and magic
August 15, 2017 Stephen Parthimos
Directed by Todd Haynes (Carol), Wonderstruck focuses on the lives of two kids in two different time periods, who both set off on their own very personal New York adventures.
Ben (Oakes Fegley) longs to know the identity of his father as it may provide some insight into his own life and mindset. Rose (Millicent Simmonds), meanwhile, fantasises about becoming like her favourite actress, whom she follows and bookmarks in her scrapbook. After going into this film having seen barely half of a trailer and not knowing what to expect, I walked away loving it from start to… almost finish. It consists of a very interesting, very powerful story with a tonne of heart, packed to the brim with emotion and is flourishing with very magical tones. It is essentially two stories, two stories directly linked not through plot but through the exploration of certain themes and ideas.
The focus on incorporating themes into the story is a major element of the movie so being able to very effectively represent that to the audience is a must if people are going to respond positively. It deals with themes of belonging, family, friendship, and being different. It achieves this in a very light-hearted, family friendly manner, but at the same time is still very serious about the messages it is trying to convey. All of these themes are relevant in the lives of those living today, but under less apt direction, Wonderstruck could have alienated an adult audience by having children as the vehicles responsible for exploring these themes. But Haynes handles this perfectly, as in every scene set in both 1927 and 1977 there is the right amount of magic, heart, and humour to really effectively bring everyone back to their youth.
Telling two separate stories concurrently in the span of a single film has in the past proven a make or break approach for many directors. So much can and has gone wrong with balancing the focus, incorporating smooth and timely transitions, and making both sides equally as engaging in order to not take the attention away from half of the movie. But Wonderstruck handles the coexistence of these two stories so well. Every transition from 1977 to 1927 is flawlessly timed and occurred at moments that drew clever links between the scene that just showed and the one it cuts to. This smooth ‘passing of the torch’ if you will gives each subsequent scene a deeper meaning. It is never jarring and never once overstayed its welcome in one time period to the point where you forgot the events of the last scene. The parallels constantly drawn between the two time periods ensure that despite the fact that we are following two isolated stories it remains integral to pay attention to both halves in order get the most out of every scene. It really is clever filmmaking, off the back of a strong screenplay by Brian Selznick, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, that ensures the film excels over similarly structured, less successful films.
As far as the performances go, the two leads in Oakes Fegley and Millicent Simmonds were fantastic and an absolute joy to follow on their own respective quests. What made each story so unique, despite the fact that they are both going on a journey involving some sort of self discovery, is that their characters are so different in terms of their behaviour and mindsets; you thus enjoy two different perspectives on many of the same themes. This marks Millicent’s acting debut and if this is what she has achieved with her debut performance, I cannot wait to see where she goes from here. And being a deaf actress only makes her achievements here more meaningful. As for the supporting roles, they were all minimally featured, but for the time they were on screen are thoroughly entertaining. The standouts were Jaden Michael, Julianne Moore, and i really enjoyed seeing Cory Michael Smith despite his very limited role.
The way the stories unfold as time passes by makes for countless surprises you don’t see coming and with every surprise, no matter how small it is you feel more and more invested in the emotion and the experiences main two characters. The unpredictable nature of the film keeps you engaged in the story. Now as much as I praise the first hour and a half of this movie, I have to say the last 15 minutes were disappointing. There are some strong visuals and interesting character moments, but just the way it is presented feels like, for the first time, the pacing comes to a stop. There is some heavy exposition which is odd as the rest of the story, especially in 1927 is largely told through visual and musical techniques. Then here it feels like a very rushed and abrupt way to quickly close up shop in under two hours. I would have liked to see it develop more and be drawn out another 30 minutes if needed, as for me it did end on a somewhat sour note.
I thoroughly enjoyed Wonderstruck, and aside from a disappointing final 15 minutes, this is a brilliantly acted, excellently directed, and most importantly well executed film. The themes explored throughout the movie make for an emotional ride that has its ups and downs and is capped off with that little touch of magic. The story is one that will reach people of all ages, allowing for some personal investment and is great for a family viewing.
Wonderstruck screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival which is running until the 20th of August.
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Volleyball team off to a conference-leading start
mlee14 September 23, 2013
The girls’ volleyball teams have been dominating their opponents with an 11-0 record so far this season.
“I’m so proud of them, they’ve worked really hard and I’ll miss all of the senior volleyball girls on varsity,” said Assistant Coach Rebecca Karna.
“I think our best game was our very first game. It was against Delano High School, the whole time during that game all I was thinking about was winning,” said Senior Brooke Simonson.
Simonson is a senior on the girl’s varsity volleyball team. She has been playing volleyball since she was in seventh grade. Her position that she plays is on the right side of the court.
There are 21 girls all together in the girl’s volleyball. 11 of the girls on the varsity team, and ten on the junior varsity team. They all try to do little get-togethers and have team bonding activities most of the time, but usually after games they go home and just do homework and sleep.
“We’re all like a family, I’ve made some of the nest friends on the volleyball team,” said Simonson.
The varsity team’s next match is tomorrow, September 23, at Chanhassen at 7:00 P.M.
(Photo by Patrick Macnab)
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DUII Driver Sentenced for Manslaughter
Posted: 2019-02-20 07:00:00 by Heather Roberts
BEND, OR -- The woman convicted of killing a local dentist with her car was sentenced Wednesday to more than 12 years in prison. Prosecutors say Shantel Witt has never shown remorse for running down Marika Stone while she biked on the side of Dodds Road in December 2017. Witt was convicted earlier this month of Manslaughter, DUII, Possession of a Controlled Substance and Recklessly Endangering.
At Tuesday's hearing, Witt cried while addressing Stone’s family, "I’m truly sorry. That person is not who I am, ever. And I hope one day you can forgive me; and I wish it was me."
Stone’s twin sister and father also spoke at the sentencing. Greg Middag, told the court, "When my daughter Tansy called me and told me Marika had been killed by an intoxicated driver, it became one of the most horrific events I’ve ever experienced in my 70 years. Marika’s death was caused by the defendant’s total disregard for herself and those around her. She ingested dangerous drugs, including one for her dog, on December 30th. And she did so without considering the possible effects on anyone, including herself." Turning to Witt, Middag said, "Ms. Witt, you’ve stolen my daughter and the hopes and dreams of a lifetime. Marika’s dead. And after you killed her, Shantel, you backed your truck up after dragging her body down the road, then yelled obscenities at her." He also expressed frustration that a previous DUII conviction and diversion program didn't seem to have any impact on Witt. She was highly intoxicated at the time of the crash. Prosecutors say she had multiple drugs in her system, including Xanax prescribed to her dog.
Witt was sentenced to 146 months in prison, and ordered to pay restitution to Stone's father, twin sister and ex-husband, for care of their children.
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TWO ELEPHANTS IN AMBOSELI ECOSYSTEM FITTED WITH TRACKING COLLARS
Monday, November 7, 2016 - 12:00
Two elephants in the Amboseli ecosystem have been fitted with tracking collars. The collars transmit a satellite and radio signal using global positioning system (GPS) technology to map out the elephants’ migratory routes and identify how expansively the elephants travel in search of water and vegetation. The fitting of collars was conducted by a team of scientists, researchers and veterinarians from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) in collaboration with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
“Elephants need space and resources in order to be free, viable and to fulfill the flagship role they play in the environment in this region. Seen in human terms, the information we gather will give us an elephant’s eye view of optimum lifestyle standards for these giant creatures,” said Azzedine Downes President and CEO IFAW. “We will be able to make a case for the connection of their favored habitats by securing critical corridors and securing the areas that are essential for sustaining Amboseli’s rich wildlife heritage, especially the elephants.”
More than 1,400 elephants live in the Amboseli ecosystem, spending 80 per cent of their time outside Amboseli National Park. Since 2012, IFAW in conjunction with KWS has collared 12 elephants in Amboseli. The information gleaned from the 12 collars indicates that the elephants have traversed over 17,000 square kilometers from Magadi and Suswa in the west to Tsavo West in the east. Some elephants, particularly the males, have also been seen to cross the Kenyan border with Tanzania. The findings also indicate that some of the collared elephants have been identified to frequent and forage close to electrically fenced farmlands showing that collaring can be an effective tool to monitor the movement of crop raiding animals and help put an early warning mechanism to reduce conflicts associated with crop raids.
Sospeter Kiambi, the Elephant Program Coordinator at KWS noted that, “In addition to understanding the spatial and temporal habitat utilization by elephants from satellite collars, advancement in technology has allowed the use of satellite collar information to improve on elephant law enforcement, through immobility alerts and geo-fencing. Applying these new technologies gives wildlife managers an edge over poachers and human elephant conflict (HEC) which is increasingly getting critical to the conservation of elephant in the Amboseli ecosystem.”
The IFAW-KWS study is part of IFAW’s Amboseli Project, which includes enhancing KWS’ law enforcement capabilities, leasing critical corridors and dispersal areas in community land, creating conservation awareness and local capacity for ecotourism ventures, and mitigating human-elephant conflict.
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Education is the crucible in which Innovations are forged. Promoting creativity and incentivizing innovations through our educational institutions is a first step towards broadening and deepening the impact of innovations in our society and economy. In large scale education systems such as ours, catering to a vast population with relatively limited resources, this is a major challenge. At the same time, with rapid advances in new technologies, changing needs of the economy, and the very presence of the challenges identified above, the sector itself presents a fertile ground for pioneering innovations. Recognising the fundamental role of education in nurturing and fostering an ecosystem of innovation the National Innovation Council is engaged in a series of initiatives to encourage innovations in existing educational institutions – universities, colleges and schools, as well as promoting new educational models and innovative platforms for knowledge creation, dissemination and application. Some of the key proposals of the NInc in this domain include:
(a) Creation of a separate scholarship stream of National Innovation Scholarships analogous to the National Talent Search Scheme. This will help identify talented children at the school level who think creatively, laterally and innovatively on issues that they perceive as important in their local environment. It is expected to have a multiplier effect of valuing creativity and innovation by parents and teachers and the learning system.
(b) Setting up an Innovation Centre in each DIET (District Institute of Education and Training) to enhance teacher training and enable them to become facilitators of creativity and innovative thinking. This could be done by tapping local creative talent on part-time basis into DIETs.
(c) Mapping of Local History, Ecology and Cultural Heritage by each High School in the country to create critical thinking on their local environment by students.
(d) Creation of a National Innovation Promotion Service to replace/add to National Service Scheme in Colleges to use college students to identify local innovations.
(e) Setting up a Meta University, as a new model for a 21st Century University where a network of institutions riding on the National Knowledge Network come together to offer students a collaborative and multidisciplinary learning experience.
(f) Setting up twenty Design Innovation Centres co-located in institutes of national importance. It has been proposed to set up these Design Innovation Centres in twenty select institutions and include them in the 12th Plan for consideration by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Co-location in campuses of national repute like IITs/NITs will help leveraging of academic and industry resources and give a boost to design capacity in the country.
(g) Setting up University Innovation Clusters
NInC proposes to identify and facilitate the development of 20 University Innovation Clusters across the country where innovation would be seeded through Cluster Innovation Centres. The CIC will provide a platform for the university and its partners to forge linkages between various stakeholders from industry and academia, initiate and assist innovation activities, encourage innovations in curricula and act as a catalyst and facilitator. It will also work closely with other industry clusters in its region. An initial pilot with University of Delhi has commenced and received overwhelming response from the student community.
For more details read University Innovation Clusters: Draft Concept Paper.
(h) Igniting Youth Innovation with Tod Fod Jod Centers at Schools and Colleges
To Foster Innovation at an early stage and to create an innovative mindset in the youth, NInC has propsosed the creation of Tod Fod Jod (TFJ) Centres in Schools and Colleges. The aim is to provide a hands-on learning environment where students can de-construct, re-construct or re-purpose everyday objects that they see or use. Read more.
Progress: The Ministry of Human Resource Development has in principle approved the following proposals:
(a) Award of 1000 Innovation Fellowships at the School Level ( Classes 9-12)
(b) Introducing the Mapping of Local History, Local Ecology and Local Culture and Heritage by all High Schools
(c) Setting up the first Meta-University of the world for multi-disciplinary and collaborative learning All these three proposals will roll out in academic year 2012. Other proposals are also under consultation with Ministry of HRD.
Two pilots at Delhi Univ., New Delhi & Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU), Baroda, Gujarat are underway. The CIC at Delhi University has launched a B.Tech. Program in Innovation and is pursuing collaborative relationships with industry bodies like PHD Chamber of Commerce, Network of ICT Entrepreneurs & Enterprises (NITEE) and others.
Tod Fod Jod Initiative is being piloted at several locations across India, with NInC sessions being held at selected schools in Delhi, Vadodara and Karnataka. The pilots are aimed at school students, with different levels of sophistication and hands-on-learning. More than 4,000 kids mostly rural have attended hundreds of TJF sessions.
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AzMarie’s Affair, Break Up and Current Dating Status
Raven-Symone and her girlfriend AzMarie Livingston have decided to part ways.
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By this, we can infer she is doing just fine and embracing this change positively. Yay government! Just a few months after the couple went public with their relationship, news of their breakup emerged. In her breakthrough role, Azmarie says, "Being a rookie with all-stars made me a little nervous, but I don't think I showed it. She keeps her fans updated with the latest news feed. Her new movies are yet to come in British Invasion but was eliminated after she refused to wear a butt pad. The same year, she also released a music video for her single Morning Guarantee. But this time she shares openly about her breakup with Raven. Azmarie has a career in music, acting, and modeling. The girls have been dating since But, it doesn't rule out the chance that she could be dating someone, not wanting to reveal it publically. The gossip even follows that she was planning to get married and know how it is like having a husband. But it's clear that when she looks ahead at what's to come — particularly in her relationship with AzMarie Livingston — that is a vision that Raven is happy about seeing. She immediately communicated her realization with her father, who had also come out as gay when AzMarie was just seven years old. However, nobody had assumed that their house of cards was going to get shattered with a small blow of wind. Azmarie Livingston is a popular lesbian fashion model, actress, and singer. In , she appeared in the award-winning movie Precious. But despite her budding career, AzMarie hasn't disclosed the figures of her net worth to the media. So when Raven-Symone opened up about her relationship with AzMarie Livingston , it has never been more clear that she is head-over-heels for the former America's Next Top Model contestant. A Family Dynasty. But, the insider did not disclose the reason for their breakup. Think we're missing something? Well, something similar happened to AzMarie Livingston, as she had to go through the experience herself. As for AzMarie, she is currently assumed to be single, as no reports regarding her recent affairs have surfaced the media. AzMarie briefly attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, before beginning her career as a runway model. Now there is no official news of Azmarie dating anyone officially but we are not so sure who she is having romance behind the scenes.
Maybe those True Love Waits people were actually on to something. The girls have been dating since It's hard enough to find someone out there who won't ghost you after a first date, so if you're lucky enough to be in a relationship with someone who is willing to wait to go on a Netflix marathon with you — or if you are that person who does wait — well, that's when you know it's the real deal. She started modeling at the age of nine. Azmarie is an avid user of Twitter and Instagram. Her new movies are yet to come in However, she is secretive when it comes to her personal issues. I'm like, 'I want to watch it now! As for AzMarie, she is currently assumed to be single, as no reports regarding her recent affairs have surfaced the media. Yay government! Who is lesbian model Azmarie Livingston dating after her split from girlfriend Raven Symone? The same year, she also released a music video for her single Morning Guarantee. Azmarie Livingston is a popular lesbian fashion model, actress, and singer. And while the former Cosby Show star is busy riding her own train to success — co-hosting The View and being the fierce-ass lady that she is — if she gazes into the future, she thinks life could be a dream. AzMarie played a small part in the movie Precious. AzMarie briefly attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, before beginning her career as a runway model. In the series, she worked alongside actresses Melanie Griffith and Sandra Bernhard. So, how is she dealing with the breakup? If we have to say she rocks in all of these three. Think we're missing something? Do let us know in the comment section below! According to US Weekly, Raven was still confused about her sexuality, so this may be the reason behind their break up. AzMarie and Raven posing together Photo: In her breakthrough role, Azmarie says, "Being a rookie with all-stars made me a little nervous, but I don't think I showed it. But, it doesn't rule out the chance that she could be dating someone, not wanting to reveal it publically. And I shall not start now.
However, she is secretive when it comes to her personal issues. You all love that song. It is what it is. So proud of you. It's hard enough to find someone out there who won't ghost you after a first date, so if you're lucky enough to be in a relationship with someone who is willing to wait to go on a Netflix marathon with you — or if you are that person who does wait — well, that's when you know it's the real deal. The gossip even follows that she was planning to get married and know how it is like having a husband. She immediately communicated her realization with her father, who had also come out as gay when AzMarie was just seven years old. Now there is no official news of Azmarie dating anyone officially but we are not so sure who she is having romance behind the scenes. As for AzMarie, she is currently assumed to be single, as no reports regarding her recent affairs have surfaced the media. In addition to their shared Netflix addiction, Raven — who has always been relatively private about her personal life in the past — couldn't help but continue to gush over her longterm girlfriend and her success. She posted the following on Twitter. Everybody else is irrelevant. And now after a year later they split up. The same year, she also released a music video for her single Morning Guarantee. If we have to say she rocks in all of these three. However, nobody had assumed that their house of cards was going to get shattered with a small blow of wind. Azmarie,31, was frequently spotted with The View co-host Raven Symone, 32, which gave rise to the rumors of their affair. Yay government! But, the insider did not disclose the reason for their breakup. A Family Dynasty. Does she intend on getting back together with her now former-partner or has she moved on and found a new lover? For once Raven-Symone was making headlines for not putting her foot in her mouth on The View.
AzMarie briefly attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, before beginning her career as a runway model. Well, all we could do is, wait, as of now, until AzMarie comes forth shedding light on the matter herself. It is what it is. She posted the following on Twitter. Azmarie is an avid user of Twitter and Instagram. When the fans asked about how she is doing after the break-up. But despite her budding career, AzMarie hasn't disclosed the figures of her net worth to the media. So when Raven-Symone opened up about her relationship with AzMarie Livingston , it has never been more clear that she is head-over-heels for the former America's Next Top Model contestant. And now after a year later they split up. However, she is secretive when it comes to her personal issues. Yay government! Now there is no official news of Azmarie dating anyone officially but we are not so sure who she is having romance behind the scenes. But it's clear that when she looks ahead at what's to come — particularly in her relationship with AzMarie Livingston — that is a vision that Raven is happy about seeing. British Invasion but was eliminated after she refused to wear a butt pad. So, how is she dealing with the breakup? By this, we can infer she is doing just fine and embracing this change positively. Another probability that exists that the pair has sorted out their differences and got back together but could be opting to keep things to themselves this time. But, it doesn't rule out the chance that she could be dating someone, not wanting to reveal it publically. In addition to their shared Netflix addiction, Raven — who has always been relatively private about her personal life in the past — couldn't help but continue to gush over her longterm girlfriend and her success. A dream filled with a wedding and babies, that is. A Family Dynasty. Well, something similar happened to AzMarie Livingston, as she had to go through the experience herself. You all love that song. AzMarie played a small part in the movie Precious. It's hard enough to find someone out there who won't ghost you after a first date, so if you're lucky enough to be in a relationship with someone who is willing to wait to go on a Netflix marathon with you — or if you are that person who does wait — well, that's when you know it's the real deal. Maybe those True Love Waits people were actually on to something. In , she appeared in the award-winning movie Precious. Finally, in , the couple decided to disclose the mystery surrounding their relationship, revealing that the rumors had been right all along. She keeps her fans updated with the latest news feed. She started modeling at the age of nine.
If we have to say she rocks in all of these three. So, how is she dealing with the breakup? But despite her budding career, AzMarie hasn't disclosed the figures of her net worth to the media. Does she intend on getting back together with her now former-partner or has she moved on and found a new lover? AzMarie briefly attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, before beginning her career as a runway model. You all love that song. Yay government! Azmarie has a career in music, acting, and modeling. Finally, in , the couple decided to disclose the mystery surrounding their relationship, revealing that the rumors had been right all along. Do let us know in the comment section below! Well, something similar happened to AzMarie Livingston, as she had to go through the experience herself. It's hard enough to find someone out there who won't ghost you after a first date, so if you're lucky enough to be in a relationship with someone who is willing to wait to go on a Netflix marathon with you — or if you are that person who does wait — well, that's when you know it's the real deal. She posted the following on Twitter. She immediately communicated her realization with her father, who had also come out as gay when AzMarie was just seven years old. As for AzMarie, she is currently assumed to be single, as no reports regarding her recent affairs have surfaced the media. After model Azmarie is broken up with her long-term girlfriend Raven-Symone, it is of general curiosity about who is she dating now. But, the insider did not disclose the reason for their breakup. Everybody else is irrelevant. Another probability that exists that the pair has sorted out their differences and got back together but could be opting to keep things to themselves this time. Think we're missing something? I'm like, 'I want to watch it now!
Maybe those True Love Waits people were actually on to something. AzMarie briefly attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, before beginning her career as a runway model. Does she intend on getting back together with her now former-partner or has she moved on and found a new lover? After model Azmarie is broken up with her long-term girlfriend Raven-Symone, it is of general curiosity about who is she dating now. Her new movies are yet to come in Well, all we could do is, wait, as of now, until AzMarie comes forth shedding light on the matter herself. Here is the latest update. Azmarie Livingston is a popular lesbian fashion model, actress, and singer. But it's clear that when she looks ahead at what's to come — particularly in her relationship with AzMarie Livingston — that is a vision that Raven is happy about seeing. It's hard enough to find someone out there who won't ghost you after a first date, so if you're lucky enough to be in a relationship with someone who is willing to wait to go on a Netflix marathon with you — or if you are that person who does wait — well, that's when you know it's the real deal. She keeps her fans updated with the latest news feed. Yay government! Another probability that exists that the pair has sorted out their differences and got back together but could be opting to keep things to themselves this time. Who is lesbian model Azmarie Livingston dating after her split from girlfriend Raven Symone? The same year, she also released a music video for her single Morning Guarantee. In , she appeared in the award-winning movie Precious. As for AzMarie, she is currently assumed to be single, as no reports regarding her recent affairs have surfaced the media.
But, the insider did not disclose the reason for their breakup. Does she intend on getting back together with her now former-partner or has she moved on and found a new lover? The gossip even follows that she was planning to get married and know how it is like having a husband. She keeps her fans updated with the latest news feed. Think we're missing something? Azmarie has a career in music, acting, and modeling. In , she appeared in the award-winning movie Precious. AzMarie briefly attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, before beginning her career as a runway model. But, it doesn't rule out the chance that she could be dating someone, not wanting to reveal it publically. However, nobody had assumed that their house of cards was going to get shattered with a small blow of wind. In her breakthrough role, Azmarie says, "Being a rookie with all-stars made me a little nervous, but I don't think I showed it. After model Azmarie is broken up with her long-term girlfriend Raven-Symone, it is of general curiosity about who is she dating now. Just a few months after the couple went public with their relationship, news of their breakup emerged. As for AzMarie, she is currently assumed to be single, as no reports regarding her recent affairs have surfaced the media. A Family Dynasty. Well, something similar happened to AzMarie Livingston, as she had to go through the experience herself. Do let us know in the comment section below! By this, we can infer she is doing just fine and embracing this change positively. She posted the following on Twitter. So proud of you. Azmarie is an avid user of Twitter and Instagram. But despite her budding career, AzMarie hasn't disclosed the figures of her net worth to the media. I'm like, 'I want to watch it now! So when Raven-Symone opened up about her relationship with AzMarie Livingston , it has never been more clear that she is head-over-heels for the former America's Next Top Model contestant.
And while the former Cosby Show star is busy riding her own train to success — co-hosting The View and being the fierce-ass lady that she is — if she gazes into the future, she thinks life could be a dream. Azmarie,31, was frequently spotted with The View co-host Raven Symone, 32, which gave rise to the rumors of their affair. But despite her budding career, AzMarie hasn't disclosed the figures of her net worth to the media. Think we're missing something? Just a few months after the couple went public with their relationship, news of their breakup emerged. So proud of you. AzMarie and Raven posing together Photo: British Invasion but was eliminated after she refused to wear a butt pad. So when Raven-Symone opened up about her relationship with AzMarie Livingston , it has never been more clear that she is head-over-heels for the former America's Next Top Model contestant. Azmarie is an avid user of Twitter and Instagram. Another probability that exists that the pair has sorted out their differences and got back together but could be opting to keep things to themselves this time. A dream filled with a wedding and babies, that is.
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In addition to their shared Netflix addiction, Raven — who has always been relatively private about her personal life in the past — couldn't help but continue to gush over her longterm girlfriend and her success.
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Video: Love, Against Homophobia
By Musa Okwonga
About a year ago, a schoolfriend (Giles Hayter) and I formed The King's Will, with the idea that Giles - an acclaimed painter, producer, composer and mathematician - would set my poetry to his music. (Since what we were doing didn't sound like much else out there at the time, we called our genre of music "poetronica".) We decided to tackle themes that moved us most in our professional and personal lives - anything from climate change and homophobia to being trapped in a job we hated - and thought that, since the project was a conceptual one, we should work with animators to bring each track out in full visual detail.
"Love, Against Homophobia", one of our first videos - directed by the genius Jae Hwang - actually began life as a poem I'd written about eighteen months before, on returning from a holiday in Amsterdam to read of the rape and murder of a gay rights activist, the South African lesbian Eudy Simelane. My parents hailed from Uganda, where the levels of homophobia are currently toxic, and I have long been aware that life there as a gay or bisexual man (the latter of which I am) would have been incalculably harder. Simelane's violent death brought that home to me on a visceral level, and I wrote this piece in anguish and solidarity.
Over a year later, when we formed The King's Will, Giles saw this piece and had me recite it a capella, with all the defiance that had gone into its creation. He then built an ambient backdrop for my vocal, which in its closing bars expanded into something like a declaration of war on bigotry. The music was Giles' hallmark: deceptively simple, and therefore both powerful and enduring. I was immediately sold on this, and our task then was to find the right artist to bring it to visual life.
We placed an advertisement online, offering payment for the work, and we were fortunate enough to hear from Jae Hwang. Jae's exceptional talent, it turned out, was surpassed only by his modesty. He shared with us some initial thoughts on the project, about how he wanted to have the voice booming from a set of speakers as the song developed. We loved his ideas, and so left him to it, excited to see what he would produce.
Needless to say, when we saw the results a few months later, we were astonished. Jae had produced, in my view, a timeless piece of work. For years, I had hoped to produce a piece of art that was a powerful opponent to the countless anti-gay songs that are churned out by cruel or ignorant musicians the world over, and now I believed that Giles, Jae and I had worked to create one: one which could be a source of strength to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people the world over. We hope that you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it.
Africa: Only Protected on Paper (mask.org.za)
Africa, homophobia, and the export (and import) of homophobia (madikazemi.blogspot.com)
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BOYS' BASKETBALL: Clinton’s late free throw lifts Panthers past Tigers
Jackson County’s Kalib Clinton scored 28 points, including the go-ahead free throw, in the Panthers’ 56-55 win over Commerce. Photo by Charles Phelps
Wednesday, January 30. 2019
When Kalib Clinton connected with and-1 play at the free-throw line with 20.4 seconds left at Commerce, he gave the Jackson County Panthers a 56-55 lead. The lead changed hands four times in the final three minutes.
When the Tigers failed on two attempts before the buzzer sounded, Clinton’s and-1 free throw was the final lead change and helped give the Panthers their second win of the calendar year.
Clinton finished the game with 28 points to lead all scorers. Commerce’s Jalen Dorsey finished the game with 20 points.
“You’ve got to give Commerce credit, they controlled the tempo,” Panthers’ head coach Chuck Butler said. “We wanted to try and get it to a little faster game.
“It just seemed like one of those where we could never really get into a good, comfortable flow. Like I said, I give (Commerce) credit on that end for making it that way.”
Butler said his group knew it was going to be a “tough” game, especially coming off a 24-point road trip loss at Morgan County.
“I was pleased that they weathered the storms and kept coming back,” Butler said. “It wasn’t easy but we’ll take it. We’ll definitely take it.”
Cameron Shaw helped Clinton with 11 points and Kedric Zimmer had nine points. Commerce also had two other players score in double figures. Chandler Martin and Tylel Strickland scored 11 points apiece.
Clinton opened the first quarter with the first five points for the Panthers. After back-to-back 3-pointers from Strickland and Martin found the bottom of the net, Commerce led 8-5. With the game tied at 8-8, Clinton scored his seventh point of the opening quarter. When Shaw hit a 2-pointer, the Panthers led 12-8 after the first quarter.
The Tigers exploded for 16 points and the lead by halftime in the second quarter. After the Panthers stretched the lead out to 14-8, the Tigers went on a 6-0 run, to tie the game, led by Dorsey and Strickland. A Zimmer 3-pointer pushed the Panther lead back to 17-14 but Dorsey fought back with a 2-pointer, and he followed a Martin 2-pointer with another to give the Tigers a 20-19 lead. Zimmer hit another 3-pointer to give the Panthers the lead again at 22-20, but it was short lived as Creed Dunbar made his presence felt with a 3-pointer. The Tigers led 23-22 at halftime.
“My kids played hard,” Commerce head coach Russ Gregg said. “They gave everything they had.
“We lost to that team by 35 earlier in the year and we came back tonight and had a chance to win. Honestly, just played extremely well. I just can’t say enough about our effort.”
The Panthers started the third quarter quick. After Clinton hit two early free throws, the Panthers held a 24-23 lead, which increased to 28-23 after back-to-back buckets from Shaw. The Panthers outscored the Tigers 19-13 in the third quarter. They pushed the lead to as many as nine points but settled for a 41-36 lead headed into the fourth quarter.
The fourth quarter didn’t feature as much scoring but had just as many fireworks as the first three quarters combined. With the Panthers up 49-43, the Tigers began to make their push. Dunbar hit a pair of free throws, which was followed by a Strickland 3-pointer to cut the deficit to 49-48 with 4:08 left in the game.
Then with 3:33 left in the game, Ian McConnell capped off an and-1 play that tied the game at 51-51. A short time later, a Dunbar free throw gave the Tigers their first lead since the start of the second half. The Panthers battled back as Clinton hit a pair of free throws with 2:22 left for a 53-52 lead. Dunbar followed with a 2-pointer that propelled the Tigers back ahead at 54-53.
With 38.2 seconds left, the Panthers needed a bucket to take the lead, but Martin picked up a steal and was fouled, but he only hit one of two from the line to give the Tigers a 55-53 lead. Then Clinton drove to the basket on a layup that missed but fouled on the way back up trying to put in the rebound. The basket counted and he hit the and-1 to give the Panthers a 56-55 lead with 20.4 seconds left. The Tigers missed one attempt for the win that went out of bounds, last touched by the Panthers with 2.5 seconds left. On the throw in, the Tigers heaved up the shot from near the three-point line, but the shot missed as time expired.
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BASIS Independent McLean Earns First Place at 34th Annual Northern Virginia Regional MATHCOUNTS Com
Monday, February 13th, 2017, 3:07pm
For the first time in almost 30 years, the 34th Annual Northern Virginia Regional MATHCOUNTS Competition awarded first place to a new math champion: BASIS Independent McLean (BIM) of McLean, Va., which opened in 2016. BIM’s middle school math team placed first among schools in the Northern Virginia Chapter MATHCOUNTS Competition (comprised of 17 schools). Longfellow Middle School of Falls Church, Va., who has historically earned the first place award since the 1980s, came in second place. For more information on BASIS Independent McLean, go to http://mclean.basisindependent.com.
Vienna Student Learns Hands-On Teaching at BASIS Independent;Tysons Chamber Job Shadow Program
Angie Soler, a senior at James Madison High School of Vienna, Va., got hands-on teaching skills when job shadowing BASIS Independent McLean’s kindergarten teacher, Danielle Sarver. Soler is part of the 5th Annual Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce (TRCC) job shadow program, which includes 50 11th and 12th grade students of Oakton, James Madison, Marshall Academy and George C. Marshall high schools in Fairfax County, Va. Maureen Loftus, executive director of LearningRx of Vienna, Va., and Reston, Va. is heading up the program as she is the chair of the TRCC’s Youth and Education Committee. For more information, go to www.learningrx.com.
More than 20 local companies are hosting students, to include: BASIS Independent McLean, Intelsat, Navy Federal Credit Union, Impact Business Solutions, Tysons Corner Animal Hospital, AV Architects, Alpha Graphics and Seasons 52.
BASIS Independent McLean Students Give Back to Fairfax County Animal Shelter
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017, 12:51pm
BASIS Independent McLean’s early childhood and primary students created and donating 20 hand-made animal beds, blankets, cat toys and dog treats to the Fairfax County Animal Shelter. For more information on the school, go to http://mclean.basisindependent.com.
“At BASIS Independent McLean, we teach our students how we’re all part of a bigger community, which is exactly what our animal bed project conveyed to our youngest students,” said Sean Aiken, head of school, BASIS Independent McLean of McLean, Va. “Not only did our students love creating the beds, but they were equally enthusiastic to learn that their hard work would bring comfort to so many animals in need,” said Aiken.
Metropolitan School Of The Arts Student, James Woods, To Head To Catholic University For Music Educa
Tuesday, January 31st, 2017, 2:36pm
James Woods, 18, of Alexandria, Va., and senior at Metropolitan School of the Arts (MSA) of Alexandria Va. was selected by The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. to study music education, in the fall of 2017. Not only is he finishing up his high school studies at MSA, Woods worked as the music director for Aldersgate Community Children’s Theater (ACCT) with Elf Jr. and is also employed by the Educational Theatre Company of Arlington, Va. Go to www.metropolitanarts.org for more information on the school.
BASIS Independent McLean Elects Its New Mascot by Student-Designed Election Process
BASIS Independent McLean started its inaugural year this fall in McLean, Va., Tysons Corner’s first k-12 school, and quickly went to work on the election process to vote in their first school mascot, the BASIS Independent McLean Bobcats. The student-designed electoral process, led by BASIS Independent McLean ninth grader, Rohit Narayanan, mimicked a voting system similar to the United States, and provided a learning tool for students to understand the electoral process during the recent presidential election. For more information on the school, go to http://mclean.basisindependent.com.
Thursday, January 12th, 2017, 12:00pm
Maureen Loftus, executive director of LearningRx of Vienna, Va., and Reston, Va. is leading the fifth annual Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce (TRCC) job shadow program for 50 11th and 12th grade students of Oakton, James Madison and, Marshall Academy and George C. Marshall high schools in Fairfax County, Va. Students can shadow professionals in more than 30 industries for one day in January or February. The program received a Blue Ribbon Award for Workforce Development from Fairfax County Schools in 2014. Loftus is heading up the program as she is the chair of the TRCC’s Youth and Education Committee. For more information, go to www.learningrx.com.
Ebrahim Rasool, Former Ambassador to the U.S. from South Africa to Speak at BASIS Independent McLean
Saturday, November 19th, 2016, 4:11pm
Ebrahim Rasool, former Ambassador to the U.S. from South Africa, will be speaking at BASIS Independent McLean about “Nelson Mandela’s Lessons for Thought Leadership for the Next Generation” on Wed., Nov. 30 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 8000 Jones Branch Road in McLean, Va. Entrance is free and open to the public, but registration is requested at www.mclean.basisindependent.com/ambassador
“We’re honored to have former Ambassador Rasool share his knowledge and experience with us,” said Sean Aiken, head of school for BASIS Independent McLean, McLean, Va. “BASIS.ed is committed to global education and to preparing students for the complexities of the 21st century political and economic landscape,” said Aiken.
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The Duchess of Malfi (2018)
As a relative newbie to the world of plays and reviewing them, it was exciting for me to be invited along to watch The Duchess of Malfi in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Before I start on the play, I have to say that the Swan theatre is a great venue. The layout makes you feel as if you’re part of the performance, which was one of the things I loved about this.
I didn’t know the play at all before I went to see it, I tend to read up on plays, movies etc. after I’ve seen them, as I feel it can ruin the experience sometimes.
The story itself is simple enough, a strong-willed woman (the Duchess) is widowed and her brother’s plot against her marrying the man she loves.
The play is full of dark humour, a tragic tale, full of masculinity, portrayed by an inanimate large ‘beast’ in the corner of the stage throughout the play, and brought onto the stage by Joan Iyiola’s Duchess.
Chris New’s performance as the Cardinal was chilling, a quieter more sinister brother than Alexander Cobb’s, Ferdinand who is manic and jumpy in comparison. The rape scene with the Cardinal’s mistress Julia just showed the menace of the character and the more dangerous brother.
Joan’s performance was incredible, the voice and grief that came out of her whilst she was imprisoned was hauntingly beautiful and one of my favourite moments of the entire play.
The rest of the cast was great, especially Nicholas Tennant as Bosola who does the dirty work for the conniving brother and has some of the funnier lines.
One part of the play I struggled with was the relationship between the Duchess and Antonio, the lowly steward who wins her heart and secretly marries, I didn’t quite feel the connection and love there that causes the devastation and chaos when her brothers find out.
The impact of the inanimate beast in the final fight scene with the blood pouring out was ingenious with the crowd in the first row of the audience feeling part of the play, huddled with blankets to stop them from getting any splashback of the blood was fun.
The ending was bloody indeed, it just felt a little gimmicky after a while and for me personally lost its impact as everyone seemed to be writhing around in it, as much fun as I’m sure that was.
Joan would be the reason to watch this play, her performance is incredible from start to finish and I really missed her presence on stage in between her scenes.
All in all I did enjoy the play, it was well produced and the themes throughout were clear, female defiance in the face of masculinity.
The Duchess will be playing until 3rd August at The Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, for booking enquiries head over the RSC official site. Box Office 01789 403493
Mani’s Madness Rating 3.5/5
Images courtesy of The Royal Shakespeare Company Official Site: The Duchess Of Malfi
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Home News Breaking News Report: How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea
Report: How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea
By R. Arbes
About an hour’s drive north of Seoul, in the Gwangju Mountains, nearly fifty South Korean children pore over a book. The text is an unlikely choice: the Talmud, the fifteen-hundred-year-old book of Jewish laws. The students are not Jewish, nor are their teachers, and they have no interest in converting. Most have never met a Jew before. But, according to the founder of their school, the students enrolled with the goal of receiving a “Jewish education” in addition to a Korean one.
When I toured the boarding school last year, the students, who ranged in age from four to nineteen, were seated cross-legged on the floor of a small tentlike auditorium. Standing in front of a whiteboard, their teacher, Park Hyunjun, was explaining that Jews pray wearing two small black boxes, known as tefillin, to help them remember God’s word. He used the Hebrew words shel rosh (“on the head”) and shel yad (“on the arm”) to describe where the boxes are worn. Inside these boxes, he said, was parchment that contained verses from one of the holiest Jewish prayers, the Shema, which Jews recite daily. As the room filled with murmurings of the Shema in Korean, the dean of the school leaned over to me and said that the students recited the prayer daily, too, “with the goal of memorizing it.”
Park Hyunjun founded the school in 2013, and now runs it with his son, the dean. The two were trained at the Shema Education Institute, which was started by a Korean reverend and brings Christians from South Korea to Los Angeles, so that they can witness firsthand how Jews study, pray, and live. The reverend’s thesis is that the Jews have thrived for so many years because of certain educational and cultural practices, and that such benefits can be unlocked for Christians if those practices are taught to their children. During the drive from Seoul, the dean told me that he was worried about what I would think of his school’s Jewish classes. “I don’t always know exactly what Jewish education is,” he said.
In the classroom, the students paired up for “Talmudic debate.” Their dialectic centered on a paraphrased verse from Deuteronomy: “Money improperly earned may not be donated to church.” The room erupted into impassioned pleas and gesticulations, then two students were chosen to debate in front of the class. Sanguk Bae, seventeen, sat with one palm on the ground and the other hand waving a Bible in the air, arguing that the law was the law, and the Bible was not open to interpretation. Min Kwon, sixteen, countered that God loves everyone and forgives easily. The class concluded with a recitation of a psalm.
Outside, over bulgogi, Park Hyunjun laid out the goals behind his curriculum. “I would like to make our students to be people of God and to have charity just like Jewish people,” he said. Before I left, the dean pulled out a crate of Talmud books in Korean that the school used. There were forty-page books with more cartoons than words and two-hundred-and-fifty-page books that included lesson plans and study questions. He conceded that he wasn’t sure if they had “the same concept of Talmud” as the Jews do. “Our Talmud book,” he said, “is kind of a story about our life.”
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NBC SPORTS GROUP PRESENTS DAILY LIVE COVERAGE OF THE 2016 AMGEN TOUR OF CALIFORNIA MAY 15-22
Coverage Begins with Amgen Tour of California Preview Show This Sunday, May 8, at 7 p.m. ET on NBCSN
Race Coverage Begins with Stage 1 on May 15 at 5 p.m. ET on NBCSN
Coverage Culminates with the Final Stage on May 22 at 4 p.m. ET on NBC
Coverage Available on NBC Sports Live Extra
STAMFORD, Conn. – May 5, 2016 – NBC Sports Group will present 16 hours of live race coverage of the 2016 Amgen Tour of California, beginning Sunday, May 15, at 5 p.m. ET on NBCSN and culminating with the final stage on Sunday, May 22 at 4 p.m. ET on NBC. NBCSN kicks off tour coverage with the Amgen Tour of California Preview Show this Sunday at 5 p.m. ET.
144 cyclists from 18 elite professional teams are expected to compete in the eight-day race. Top contenders include 2015 Amgen Tour of California champion Peter Sagan (Tinkoff), who won the by the closest margin in race history (3 seconds), and second-place finisher Julian Alaphilippe (Etixx – Quick-Step). Alaphilippe’s teammate and top sprinter Mark Cavendish (Etixx – Quick-Step) also returns to the race after winning four individual stages last year.
NBC Sports Group will air highlights of the women’s race throughout its coverage of the 2016 Amgen Tour of California, and will present a comprehensive highlight show featuring robust coverage of the women’s race on Friday, May 27, at 1:30 a.m. ET on NBCSN.
Highlighting the women’s field are two-time Olympic time trial gold medalist and two-time world champion Kristin Armstrong (Twenty16-RideBiker), Olympian and three-time team time trial world champion Evelyn Stevens (Boels–Dolmans); and UCI rankings leader Emma Johansson (Wiggle-High5).
The Amgen Tour of California covers nearly 800 miles of California’s scenic terrain, with this year’s course beginning in San Diego, and weaving through South Pasadena, Santa Clarita, Thousand Oaks, Santa Barbara County, Morro Bay, Monterey County, South Lake Tahoe, Folsom and Santa Rosa before concluding in Sacramento.
Phil Liggett, Paul Sherwen and 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge winner Christian Vande Velde will call the action along with reporter Steve Schlanger. ‘Inside-the-Race’ correspondent Steve Porino will report from aboard a motorcycle on the course, and offer updates on race situations. Jens Voigt, who has three top-10 Tour of California finishes to his name, returns as an analyst and reporter after making his debut at the event last year. Schlanger hosts the Amgen Tour of California Preview Show this Sunday.
NBC Sports Group’s coverage of the 2016 Amgen Tour of California will be streamed on NBC Sports Live Extra, NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs. NBC Sports Live Extra will stream coverage via “TV Everywhere,” giving consumers additional value to for their subscription service, and making high quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms. The NBC Sports Live Extra app is available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. For desktops, NBC Sports Live Extra can be accessed at NBCSports.com/liveextra.
NBC SPORTS GROUP’S 2016 AMGEN TOUR OF CALIFORNIA SCHEDULE (ALL TIMES ET, SUBJECT TO CHANGE):
Date Time Stage Network
Sun., May 8 7 – 8 p.m. Amgen Tour of California Preview Show NBCSN
Sun., May 15 5 – 7 p.m. 1: San Diego NBCSN
Sun., May 15 2 – 3 a.m. 1: San Diego (Encore) NBCSN
Mon., May 16 5 – 7 p.m. 2: South Pasadena to Santa Clarita NBCSN
Mon., May 16 1 – 2 a.m. 2: South Pasadena to Santa Clarita (Encore) NBCSN
Tues., May 17 5 – 7 p.m. 3: Thousand Oaks to Santa Barbara County NBCSN
Tues., May 17 12 – 1 a.m. 3: Thousand Oaks to Santa Barbara County (Encore) NBCSN
Wed., May 18 5 – 7 p.m. 4: Morro Bay to Monterey County NBCSN
Wed., May 18 12 – 1 a.m. 4: Morro Bay to Monterey County (Encore) NBCSN
Thurs., May 19 5 – 7 p.m. 5: Lodi to South Lake Tahoe NBCSN
Thurs., May 19 12 – 1 a.m. 5: Lodi to South Lake Tahoe (Encore) NBCSN
Fri., May 20 5 – 7 p.m. 6: Folsom Individual Time Trial (Time Trial) NBCSN
Fri., May 20 12 – 1 a.m. 6: Folsom Individual Time Trial (Encore) NBCSN
Sat., May 21 5 – 7 p.m. 7: Santa Rosa NBCSN
Sun., May 22 1 – 2 a.m. 7: Santa Rosa (Encore) NBCSN
Sun., May 22 4 – 6 p.m. 8: Sacramento NBC
Sun., May 22 2 – 3 a.m. 8: Sacramento (Encore) NBCSN
Fri., May 27 1:30 – 3 a.m. Women’s Race Recap NBCSN
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Economy, employment prospects driving young people away
The province’s economy is slowing, in part because of government budget cuts, says NDP St. John’s Centre MHA Gerry Rogers. Among those hurt the most by the budget are young Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. As their prospects fade, she adds, we run the risk of them moving away, many of them forever. And as far as she can see, government is doing nothing to make it easier for them to stay, but is instead making decisions that are forcing more of them out
“The Labour Market Observer at Memorial University reports the province's unemployment rate for 15 to 24-year-olds increased in September by a whopping 8.8 percentage points for males and 5 percentage points for females,” Rogers said in the House of Assembly today.
“These are our young adults with student debt, credit card debt because of school, losing their jobs or unable to find a job. We need our young people to stay and help build our economy. Mr. Speaker this is a growing crisis.
“I ask the Premier, what are his plans to combat youth unemployment and give our young people a chance to make a life for themselves here?”
Rogers says we are giving our young people excellent educations, then offering them no way to use those educations at home.
“I recently spoke with Melissa who is finishing her Master’s degree program. She said she's leaving because in the last Budget, government told her there is no future for her here. She wants to stay. This is her home. And she has a huge student debt load,” said Rogers.
“I ask the Premier, what is he going to do to keep our well-educated young people here once they’ve graduated? Where are the jobs for them?”
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Q&A: Honour killings explained
22 June 04 10:48 GMT
BBC News Online examines the complicated world of so-called honour crimes, who it affects and the problems authorities face in stopping it happening.
What is honour killing?
Honour killing is a complex but brutal reaction within a family against someone who is perceived to have brought "shame" upon relatives.
Although cases are rare, it is a problem that continues to this day predominantly in south Asian and Middle Eastern countries - and their diaspora around the world.
What constitutes this dishonour depends entirely on the family involved - but experts in the field say it can be anything from wearing clothes or choosing a career which the family disapprove of, to marrying outside of the wider community.
As with the majority of bitter family rows, a dispute may just end with relatives never speaking to each other again.
But in the extreme circumstances seen in honour crimes, the person believed to have brought the "dishonour" upon the family is murdered.
The majority of victims are women in communities or families dominated by men, although women - sisters and mothers - also play a part in some of the crimes.
So what constitutes honour? Is this is a religious issue?
No. The world's major religions do not play a part in these killings - although many of the guilty have tried to justify their actions on religious grounds.
The key factors are cultural and generational divisions, the victim's refusal to toe a line and a reaction against a family or clan's self-proclaimed code or rules.
In that sense, honour killings are much more about male-dominated societies or communities that try to stop women taking their own decisions. In other words, the killers believe it is culturally acceptable for them to murder to preserve, in their mind, the good name of the family.
More recently, in the age of migration around the world, the murders have come where a family reacts violently to a son or daughter taking on the trappings of a western culture.
For instance, accusations of dishonour may emerge because someone from an older migrant generation remains utterly tied to the culture or code of their village - and fails to accept their children have been brought up in modern British society with all that goes with that.
Crucially, the number of people who believe that violence in the name of honour is justified is very, very small.
What's the UK's experience?
Police believe there may be 12 honour killings a year in the UK.
One of the most horrific and well publicised cases of recent years was that of 16-year-old Heshu Yones, a teenage girl in a Kurdish family in London.
In 2002 Heshu's father Abdullah stabbed her to death because he disapproved of her Western dress and Christian boyfriend.
He then attempted suicide and at his 2003 murder trial appealed to the judge to sentence him to death.
What do we know about the size of the problem internationally?
It's impossible to know how widespread it is around the world - not least because in many cases it involves a cover-up by other family members or a wider community.
Sometimes, however, crimes are committed publicly. In one recent case in Jordan, a man walked into hospital and shot dead his unmarried cousin after she had just had a baby. He promptly surrendered to police and declared he had killed her to "cleanse his family's honour".
Jordan's Queen Rania continues to lead a campaign against honour killings in the country - though politicians there and elsewhere have been reluctant to introduce tougher sanctions for murders where family honour is a motive.
Do many of the crimes remain uncovered?
That's what campaigners have long argued. In their 1997 book, Leeds-born Jack and Zena Briggs (not their real names) described how they had spent years on the run because her family violent opposed their relationship.
Zena, from a Pakistani family, had been promised to a Kashmiri hill farmer - but when the family discovered her relationship with Jack, they were relentlessly pursued.
Zena's father told her she was "already dead" in his eyes while her sister predicted they would end up in "bin bags". Jack's mother was terrorised by people looking for the young lovers.
One of the key themes of the book is how the couple felt the authorities had failed to help.
Critics say that in the past many agencies have been reluctant to act against honour disputes because they have either completely failed to understand the culture or decided not to get involved on wholly-misguided grounds of "cultural sensitivities".
So how are the authorities trying to tackle honour crimes?
The murder of Heshu Yones triggered today's continuing police investigation into the warning signs of honour crimes.
The team set up by Metropolitan Police, but involving officers around the country, are examining 100 murders from the last decade in an effort to better understand and predict the signs of a potential honour killing or ongoing abuse.
They are also looking at other factors such as rates of domestic violence. Campaigners also want them to look at suicide, saying the disproportionately high rate of self harm among British Asian women can be linked to honour disputes.
The police say the most important change they have made is to tell officers to treat reports of honour crimes the same way as they are supposed to treat domestic violence - even if there is no clear evidence, it should be investigated.
What about international developments?
There is now an acknowledgement that honour crimes in the UK can be linked to those in other parts of Europe and that police forces around the continent must learn from each other.
In some cases families are believed to have hired foreign bounty hunters or contract killers. These individuals come into a country, kill the victim and then quickly disappear back into the countries they came from.
Some honour killings also involve sending the victim back to the family's "home nation" to be killed there, a crime that may never be reported.
These cases have proved extremely difficult to investigate in the past, especially if the local police authorities are reluctant to get involved.
And what about communities themselves?
Ram Gidoomal of the South Asian Development Partnership has campaigned for years for people to open up and turn in those who get away with justifying honour crimes.
He has consistently called on leaders in mosques, temples and churches to do more - but also says that other communities need to act if they pick up the warning signs.
In particular, he cites the role of schools and social services who may be the first to identify that a teenager is facing family problems.
Police delve into 'honour killings' (30 Sep 03 | UK )
UK Muslims condemn honour killings (30 Sep 03 | UK )
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8 House-Copenhagen
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8 House is located in Ørestad South on the edge of a canal with a view of the open spaces of Kalvebrod Fælled in Copenhagen. With 475 units with a variety of sizes and layouts, the building meets the needs of people in all of life's stages: young and old; nuclear families and single people; families that grow and families that become smaller. The bow-shaped building creates two distinct spaces, separated by the center of the bow which host the communal facilities of 5300 SF (500 M2). At the very same spot the building is penetrated by a 30 F (9 M) wide passage that connects the two surrounding city spaces: the park area to the west and the channel area to the east. Instead of dividing the different functions of the building - for both habitation and trades - in separate blocks, they have been spread out horizontally. The apartments are placed at the top, while the commercial program unfolds at the base of the building. As a result the apartments benefit from sunlight, fresh air and the view, while the commercial spaces merge with life on the street. The 8 House has two sloping green roofs totalling over 18,000 SF (1700 M2), which are strategically placed to reduce the urban heat island effect as well as to visually tie it back to the adjacent farmlands towards the south. The shape of the building allows for daylighting and natural ventilation for all units. In addition, rainwater is collected and repurposed through a stormwater management system.
8 House is located in Ørestad South on the edge of a canal with a view of the open spaces of Kalvebrod Fælled in Copenhagen. With 475 units with a variety of sizes and layouts, the building meets the needs of people in all of life's stages: young and old; nuclear families and single people; families that grow and families that become smaller.
The bow-shaped building creates two distinct spaces, separated by the center of the bow which host the communal facilities of 5300 SF (500 M2). At the very same spot the building is penetrated by a 30 F (9 M) wide passage that connects the two surrounding city spaces: the park area to the west and the channel area to the east. Instead of dividing the different functions of the building - for both habitation and trades - in separate blocks, they have been spread out horizontally. The apartments are placed at the top, while the commercial program unfolds at the base of the building. As a result the apartments benefit from sunlight, fresh air and the view, while the commercial spaces merge with life on the street.
The 8 House has two sloping green roofs totalling over 18,000 SF (1700 M2), which are strategically placed to reduce the urban heat island effect as well as to visually tie it back to the adjacent farmlands towards the south. The shape of the building allows for daylighting and natural ventilation for all units. In addition, rainwater is collected and repurposed through a stormwater management system.
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We are the Psychiatric Interdisciplinary Team Project.
Our aim was to complement and enhance existing services to develop a comprehensive mental health team at our university which could be used as a model for other Canadian campuses by August 2017.
Post-secondary institutions have seen a rise in mental health issues. In 2013, University Health Services had a shortage of psychiatric resources.
We implemented several initiatives such as PIT appointments, a comprehensive Managing Emotions program, and new and expanded mental health roles.
Our project resulted in wait times to see a psychiatrist decreased by 75%, more patients treated for mental health problems, and patients having access to illness-specific treatments on campus.
Funding for this initiative was provided by the Specialist Services Committee (SSC), one of four joint collaborative committees representing a partnership of Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health.
Island Health, University of Victoria’s Health Services and School of Health Information Science also supported this project with contributions in kind.
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Life on Parole — Film and Talk-Back at Milford Public Library, 57 New Haven Ave., Jan. 23
Milford Library and Milford Speaks Out are pleased to co-host a screening and discussion Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 6:30 p.m., of Life on Parole, a documentary produced by FRONTLINE and The New York Times. Life on Parole goes inside the parole system in Connecticut to examine ongoing efforts to rethink parole: A condition that offers freedom, but comes with strict prohibitions like with whom one can live with, where one can go, what time one has to be home, and more.
“Most people who are in prison in America will one day be released on parole,” says Matthew O’Neill, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director of Life on Parole. “And as Connecticut brings its prison population down and attempts to give parolees more chances to succeed, we wanted to see if the experience of the parolees reflected these changes.”
With unique access inside Connecticut’s corrections system, as well as camera-phone footage filmed by the parolees themselves, the film follows four former prisoners as they navigate the challenges of more than a year on parole — from finding work, to staying sober, to parenting — and doing it all while under intense supervision from the state. A discussion will follow the screening. Admission is free.
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Now Hiring: Gallery Assistant
Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 5:30 pm to Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 5:00 pm
Job title: Gallery Assistant
Work week: 30 hours per week, Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm with regular evenings
Wage: $18/hour
Work term: May 21 – September 2, 2019
Deadline for applications: Wednesday, May 15 at 5:00pmInterviews: May 16-18
About Open Space:
Open Space is a non-profit artist-run centre located in Victoria, British Columbia on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations. Since its founding in 1972, Open Space has worked to support experimental artistic practices in all contemporary arts disciplines, including visual art, performance art, media arts, music and sound, and literary arts. Open Space is a vital community hub for artists of diverse cultures, generations, and disciplines, and seeks to gather community and foster critical dialogue through the presentation of contemporary art.
The Gallery Assistant’s primary role will be to shadow and assist other members of the staff at Open Space as they 1) install and present exhibitions, performances, and other arts programs; 2) perform standard gallery administration tasks; and 3) perform program-related communications. The diversity of tasks is to encourage a flexible and adaptable work ethic, as well as develop a broad range of transferrable and non-transferrable skills applicable to everyday gallery operations.
The Gallery Assistant will also have the opportunity to independently shepherd components of one existing public arts program, the MAKE/SPACE Mural Project, funded by the City of Victoria. MAKE/SPACE is an open call for young and emerging BIPOC artists to create a contemporary mural work on the back wall of Open Space, facing Helmcken Alley. The project aims to engage with public art as an expression of community identity and [in]visibility in conversation with the surrounding colonial edifices of downtown Victoria. This will be the third mural project to occupy the space outside of the gallery.
To facilitate MAKE/SPACE, the Gallery Assistant will take the lead on communicating the open call for submissions, developing the submissions criteria, processing submissions, assembling and chairing the adjudication committee, writing contracts with the selected artist(s), and overseeing the painting and presentation of the mural.
Other tasks include exhibition installation, event support, promotion and marketing, documentation, and volunteer coordination.
The Gallery Assistant has a background in humanities, fine arts, art history, curatorial studies, critical studies, interdisciplinary or museum studies, gender studies, or writing. This position requires excellent computer skills (Mac operating system, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suites, Mail Chimp), along with strong writing and communication skills. We are looking for someone who can meet organizational deadlines and who thrives on independent work. We value a sense of responsibility, reliability, and active participation.
We are interested in keen, motivated individuals who are interested in expanding their skill sets in multiple disciplines, learning on the job, and getting deeply engaged in the arts community of Victoria. The successful applicant will demonstrate knowledge and interest in the contemporary arts.
To be eligible, youth must:
be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of the employment;
be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for the duration of the employment*; and
have a valid Social Insurance Number at the start of employment and be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations.
Apply with a one-page cover letter and a current resume or CV to:
Raj Sen, Acting Executive Director
Open Space Arts Society
510 Fort Street, 2nd floor
Victoria, B.C. V8W 1E6
Email applications: office [at] openspace.ca
(Candidates applying by email should indicate “Gallery Assistant” in the subject.)
Applications are accepted from all qualified applicants. We particularly encourage women, queer and trans folks, Indigenous folks, people of colour, and persons with disabilities to apply. Please note that Open Space is not wheelchair accessible, and is accessed by a flight of 23 stairs; for more detailed accessibility info, please contact office [at] openspace.ca
View the application as a PDF.
Victoria, BC V8W 1E6
openspace@openspace.ca
Open Tuesday to Saturdays, noon until 5:00 p.m.
Street parking available.
Copyright © 2019 Open Space Arts Society. All Rights Reserved.
Open Space respectfully acknowledges that we are located on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. We seek to honour and uphold these ongoing relationships to the land and its stewards as we work on these territories.
Open Space is not wheelchair accessible and is accessed by a flight of 23 stairs with two landings. There are two gender inclusive washrooms, one multi-stall and one single stall with a urinal. If you have any other questions or concerns about accessibility, please contact office [at] openspace.ca or 250-383-8833.
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Report: U.S. Mosques Ethnically-Diverse, Encourage Civic Engagement
Comprehensive study shows number of U.S. mosques increased 74% since 2000
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/29/12) -- A comprehensive study of mosques and the attitudes of mosque leaders in the United States released today indicates that the number of American mosques increased 74 percent since 2000 and that Islamic houses of worship are…
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Atalji
Atal Bihari Vajpayee breathed his last on 16 August afternoon in Delhi, when the sky was overcast with dark clouds in Dhenkanal, a small central Odisha town, where I live. The Television channels and news-sites on web were constantly playing programmes on Vajpayee. Since noon- everybody knew it was just matter of time before the announcement was made. He was 93 and was critically ill for last so many days. A pal of gloom enveloped the small town in which I live. The market wore a deserted look. People were glued to television sets wearing sad countenance. Discussions at the town squares, offices and tea shops revolved round the man, whom everybody loved and respected.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was one of the most popular and respected Prime Ministers of India. He served as the Prime Minister of India thrice, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, for a period of eleven months from 1998 to 1999, and then for a full term from 1999 to 2004. One can feel the respect and love he commanded from people from the fact that he had retreated from active public life over the last decade following the deterioration of his health and had remained restricted to his residence, but people remembered his works and words. During his second term as prime minister, Vajpayee ordered nuclear tests in May 1998 in a strategic masterstroke to blunt Pakistan’s nuclear ambitions. He followed this up with peace overtures to Pakistan, riding on the first direct bus from India to Pakistan in February 1999. His was a liberal voice in the increasingly polarised political environment. His poetry and oratory was balm for ears and hearts. He was the people’s Prime Minister in true spirit.
In one of his poems he says,
kaal ke kapal par likhta-mitatha hun
geeth naya gaatha hun, geeth naya gaata hun
(I am writing and erasing new songs on the forehead of time and singing new songs)
May the songs linger and continue to energise the nation.
Gandhi as a Journalist and Editor
Gandhi occupied a central place in the media history of India and in a significant way of the world – in three ways. First, he reported society. Second, he created a template that others followed- in terms of content and presentation style. Third, he created news.
In fact Gandhi, the journalist and the media crusader, pre-dated Gandhi, the freedom fighter by at least two decades. In less than a few months’ stay in South Africa in 1903, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi realized the need to become a journalist to fight for the rights of the Indian community. He needed a mouthpiece to reach out to the people. He decided to launch the Indian Opinion. Little did he know at that time that he was about to carve out a path that hundreds of newspapers in different languages would follow in India in course of time. Indian Opinion, a weekly newspaper, disseminated the news of the week among the Indian community. It became an important instrument of education. Through the columns of the newspaper Gandhi tried to educate the readers about sanitation, self-discipline and good citizenship. Gandhi discovered how important the press and public opinion could be in politics. He learnt to use the written word most effectively. He upheld the highest qualities the profession could boast of – courage in the face of adversity, unswerving adherence to truth, pursuit of public causes, and objectivity. In fact Indian Opinion moulded Gandhi, the journalist and also Gandhi the freedom fighter and to a large extent Gandhi, the Mahatma.
In his lifetime Gandhi was actively associated with six newspapers for over four decades. Gandhi was persuaded to take over the editorship of the Young India, which was published by the publishers of Bombay Chronicle in 1919. Simultaneously, he started to edit and write in Navjivan, then a Gujarati monthly. The two journals Young India and Navjivan were used by him to ventilate his views and to educate the public on Satyagraha. In 1933 Gandhi startedHarijan, Harijanbandhu, Harijansevak in English, Gujarati and Hindi, respectively. These newspapers were the vehicles of his crusade against untouchability and poverty and carrier of his ideas for development of the country. These papers published no advertisements. Often these were very critical of the administration and British rule. His note of defiance and sacrifice gave a new stimulus to the evolution of press as a weapon of Satyagraha.
As Professor K. Swaminathan said in his talk in 1976 at the Nationalist Forum of Journalists held in New Delhi, “While the topics and their treatment in the journals varied according to the historical contingency, there was nevertheless running through them all a common refrain, viz., the insistence on truth and non-violence, on fairness to all and the public good, which provided the first principles, the firm universal framework within which alone Gandhiji’s thinking and acting could function… The regard for truth in the abstract issued in practice as reverence for fact.” (Relevance of Gandhi and other Essays, Gandhigram Trust).
Gandhi as a journalist is a fascinating subject.
Tailpiece 1: Imran Khan
Imran Khan’s ex-wives are now repenting on leaving him. They never knew this man is going to became the PM of Pakistan one day.
So be patient with your husband, Ladies …and support him. You never know he too can be PM.
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Tailpiece 2: Why?
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– Dude, I am sorry about your wife’s death. But how come you married her sister?
– Bro. I don’t have the strength to cope with a new Mother in law.
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Mrinal Chatterjee a journalist-turned media academiciabn lives in Dhenkanal, a central Odisha town. He is presently editing a book/monograph on Gandhi as aJournalist and Editor to be published around October 2018. [email protected]
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The History of Tolerance
“He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth; but he that is gracious unto the humble, happy is he.”
—— Torah, Proverbs, 14,21 ~2500 BCE? ——
“Freedom and tolerance of thought, speech, religion; choice of place of residence, coming and going, jobs and professions, will be on equal terms and conditions for everyone. No persecution, injustice, or harassment is allowed to be done to anyone. In this way Cyrus says that I have sown the seed of amity, friendship, and affection among nations and have granted the people peace of mind, security, tranquility, and comfort.”
—— Cyrus, king of Iran, 539 BCE —-
“The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.”
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
—— Buddha, ~450 BCE ——
“Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, desires that all religions should reside everywhere, for all of them desire self-control and purity of heart. But people have various desires and various passions, and they may practice all of what they should or only a part of it. But one who receives great gifts yet is lacking in self-control, purity of heart, gratitude and firm devotion, such a person is mean.”
—— Asoka, a Mauryan king, ~250 BCE ——
“He alone sees truly who sees the Lord the same in every creature…seeing the same Lord everywhere, he does not harm himself or others.”
—— Bhagavad Gita, ~200 BCE?
“How canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.”
—— Luke 6:42 (also Matthew 7:4, almost identical) ——-
“Render to Cesar the things that are Cesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s”
—— Mark 12:17 ——
“O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware.”
—— Qur’an, 49:13 —— (sadly, not very tolerant, but the best I found)
—— U.S. Constitution, Amendment I ——
“No orthodox church ever had power that it did not endeavor to make people think its way by force and flame. And yet every church that ever was established commenced in the minority, and while it was in the minority advocated free speech — every one. John Calvin, the founder of the Presbyterian Church, while he lived in France, wrote a book on religious toleration in order to show that all men had an equal right to think; and yet that man afterward, clothed in a little authority, forgot all his sentiments about religious liberty, and had poor Serviettes burned at the stake, for differing with him on a question that neither of them knew anything about. In the minority, Calvin advocated toleration — in the majority, he practiced murder.”
—— Robert Green Ingersoll, 1885 ——
“ Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”
—— Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18 ——
“Offence of serious religious vilification
(1) A person (the offender) must not, on the ground of the religious belief or activity of another person or class of persons, intentionally engage in conduct that the offender knows is likely—
(a) to incite hatred against that other person or class of persons; and
(b) to threaten, or incite others to threaten, physical harm towards that other person or class of persons or the property of that other person or class of persons.”
—— Australia’s Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001, Section 25 ——-
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Robert Becker, MS is a consultant with ReCAPP. Mr. Becker has over eight years of experience in designing and evaluating programs and trainings on human sexuality with a particular emphasis on male involvement.
Traditionally, family planning and reproductive health services have been female focused. In the past, this focus made sense since most family planning methods are female dependent, and women are disproportionately affected by the negative consequences of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). However, since the onset of the AIDS epidemic, reproductive health professionals have increasingly recognized the important role that supportive male partners can play in improving the use of contraception and in reducing the risk of unintended pregnancy and the spread of STIs. Today, a major focus of male reproductive health is on men's utilization of condoms, the one method of family planning that if used consistently and correctly, can greatly reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy and STIs, including HIV.1 Other foci include STI testing and treatment, partner communication, gender equity, abstinence, and delay of sexual intercourse.
While there are many "women's" health centers, there are few equivalent health facilities for men.2 Those facilities that are reaching out to men often find their male services underutilized. The most recent data suggest that men make up only 2% of the clients in the federally funded Title X family planning programs.3 Many times, services for men are housed in settings where staff lack training in male sexuality and sexual health, where providers' attitudes about men's involvement in reproductive health may compromise the quality of service delivery, and where the environment itself, from the décor to the informational and educational materials, may not reflect men's interests or needs.4
Even facilities that have made efforts to make their services male-friendly struggle with underutilization, as men in general are less likely to access health care and often lack accurate information about reproductive health.5 Adolescent men are especially at risk for unintended pregnancy and STIs because they are more likely to be misinformed about sexuality and sexual health. Young men are socialized to "know it all" when it comes to sex, to not ask questions, and to always be ready and willing to engage in sexual activity.6 Young men initiate sex earlier than young women and tend to accumulate more partners over their lifetime.7 These factors, combined with adolescents' overall sense of invulnerability, lead many young men to engage in sexual activity that puts their own and their partners' reproductive health in jeopardy.
The emerging awareness of the important role young men can play in improving their own and their partner's health has led to an increase in the number of programs focusing on male involvement. While male involvement has taken on many forms over the years, the term has come to encompass any clinical, community outreach, and/or educational initiative that improves young men's ability to make informed decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.8 The goals of many of these programs include:
Increasing men's support and awareness of their partner's reproductive health needs and choices,
Increasing men's use of contraceptive methods, especially condoms to reduce the spread of STIs,
Increasing men's access to and utilization of comprehensive reproductive health services.9
While most male involvement programs strongly emphasize pregnancy prevention, some programs also work to increase men's role in gender equity10, shared responsibility for childrearing, and men's important role in fatherhood.11
Public support for male involvement has increased as attention has been drawn to the costs of unintended pregnancy and child support. Recent studies suggest that 70% of births to adolescent women occur out of wedlock and that 4 out of 5 young mothers begin receiving welfare soon after the birth of their first child.12 Some policymakers believe that by requiring financial responsibility, men will be motivated to support unintended pregnancies and births, yet less than one-third of nonmarital births have paternity established, half of custodial parents have child support orders, and only half of those orders are fully paid.13 These statistics draw attention for the need to focus on helping men avoid unintended pregnancies.
There is some encouraging evidence that male involvement programs are working. Data from the 1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males (NSAM) describes some of the possible positive effects of male involvement programs.
90% of teenage males having sex used condoms in the last year (although less than half used condoms 100% of the time).
About two-thirds of teenage men express little discomfort about discussing condoms with a new partner.
Among sexually experienced teenage males, more than half have one partner or less in one year.
More than 90% of teenage males agree that male responsibilities include: talking about contraception before sexual intercourse, using contraception to protect against unwanted pregnancy, and taking responsibility for a child they have fathered.
Few teenage males express the belief that causing a pregnancy would make them feel like a "real man."
By age 19, 15% of males are still virgins.
Despite these positive trends, the report warns that many teenage males still engage in unprotected sex and do not use contraceptives as consistently as they could. Many of these men are involved in key social institutions such as sports, youth groups, the criminal justice system, school, or the workforce – settings where men can be reached with important reproductive health information.
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Burrell is a native New Yorker, born in Brooklyn and raised in Poughkeepsie, and has spent most of her career working across the Empire State. Burrell joined the CBS 2 team after working as a reporter and fill-in anchor for News 12 Westchester. Prior to News 12, Burrell worked in upstate New York at Time Warner Cable News (formerly YNN Syracuse) as a reporter in their Binghamton bureau.
Before beginning her on-air career, Burrell worked behind the scenes at Fox 5 in Manhattan and at MSNBC. She also spent time as a freelance reporter for Brooklyn Independent Television while earning her master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism where she was an Andrew Goodman Foundation Scholar. Burrell has a bachelor’s degree in English and a minor in biology from Penn State.
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UK 2010 general election: what you voted for and what you got
Democracy, UK-style. (View larger.)
With the BBC reporting that Nick Clegg is considering David Cameron’s offer to more or less implement Tory policy for no benefits, it’s depressing that some people in the UK still don’t fully understand what’s going on (typical response: “The Tories won so why aren’t they in power?”), why we need electoral reform, and why the Tories are so utterly desperate to retain our broken first-past-the-post system.
The reason is shown in the above image, available on my Flickr page, with this version being in big-o-vision. Because the UK’s 650 Commons seats are all ‘winner takes all’, bigger parties have more seats than they would under a proportional system. In fact, in an election where the Tories got 34% of every seat’s vote and Labour and the Lib-Dems got 33%, the Tories would have every single seat in the Commons, meaning 66% of votes would be entirely wasted.
That might sound crazy, but the election in 2005 wasn’t a million miles away from this, giving Labour a working majority with barely over a third of the vote. Today, we have a hung parliament, with the Tories narrowly missing out on a majority, despite only getting 36.1% of the vote. They claim this gives them a mandate to govern, due to being the biggest party. That entirely ignores the fact that 63.9% of voters clearly don’t want them in power, and that a majority of the UK would in theory accept a Lab/Lib coalition, since that takes into account 52% of the vote.
If we had a proportional system, the Tories would have as few as 235 seats, and Labour would be down 70. The Lib-Dems would jump from 57 to the 140s, and the SNP and Greens would also benefit. This would be a fairer system, since the Commons would represent the votes cast. However, this is also why the Tories won’t budge: they know they’d have almost no chance in the short-term of ever returning a majority.
The downside to the system? UKIP would grab 20 seats and the BNP 12. However, in a democracy should we deny representation to those we don’t consider desirable (or, for that matter, the likes of the BNP a chance to show how truly awful they are, meaning they’d likely get no seats next time round)? If so, why not stop beating around the bush and ban every British political party apart from the Conservatives and Labour?
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Cameron’s offer to Clegg on electoral reform (a cross-party committe to look into it, with no guarantee of accepting the outcome) was a lot worse than Brown’s (a public referendum on electoral reform, although he did not specify proportional representation)… As Clegg himself said yesterday, the whole system needs reforming. Public funding of political parties (to do away with the scandals over donations, or one party spending millions to sway voter opinion) and genuine boundary changes (reducing the number of constituencies and MPs) would be at the head of my wish list.
I’m not fussed about reducing the number of MPs, and I certainly wouldn’t want that to happen under the Tories, since they’d just redraw the boundaries to remove Lab/Lib support. I agree everything else should be a red line, however.
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It is divided into three main geographic areas: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The climate is tropical marine, which is mainly moderated by the surrounding seas, with a November to April northeast monsoon and a May to October southwest monsoon. Climate varies within the country because of the mountainous topography. There are four general climatic types: (1) two pronounced seasons, dry from November to April and wet the rest of the year (Central Luzon, western Visayas), (2) absence of a dry period, but with maximum rains from November to January (eastern Luzon, eastern Visayas, and northeastern Mindanao), (3) dry from November to February and wet the rest of the year (central Visayas, western Bicol, northern Mindanao), and (4) more or less even rainfall distribution throughout the year (central Mindanao).
The population of the Philippines has more than tripled since IRRI developed the first high-yielding variety and released it in the mid-1960s. Back then, the population was only 32.7 million. The country’s population surpassed 93 million in 2010, with about 313 per km². The population grew at 1.9% per year for 2005-10, which was lower than the 2.4% for 1985-95. Urbanization has continued in recent years. The proportion of the urban population increased from 57% in 2000 to around 65% in 2010. Employment in the agricultural sector accounts for 31% of the about 39 million-person labor force.
The Philippines economy is vastly dependent on service and manufacturing. The country’s most vital industries are food processing, textiles and garments, electronics, and automobile parts. It also has substantial reserves of chromite, nickel, copper, coal, and recently discovered oil. The nation’s GDP rose from $2,056 in 1995 to $3,952 in 2010. About 13% of GDP is contributed by the agricultural and fishery sector.
In addition to rice, the Philippines produces other major crops such as sugarcane, coconut, banana, pineapple, mango, coffee, maize, and cassava.
The Philippines is the world’s eighth-largest rice producer. Its arable land totals 5.4 million hectares. Rice area harvested has expanded from nearly 3.8 million hectares in 1995 to about 4.4 million hectares in 2010. However, the country’s rice area harvested is still very small compared with that of the other major rice-producing countries in Asia. More than two-thirds (69%) of its rice area is irrigated. The country’s production increased by a third, from 10.5 million t in 1995 to 15.8 million t in 2010. Seventy-one percent of rice production came from irrigated areas. Although yield improved from 2.8 t/ha in 1995 to 3.6 t/ha in 2010, it was still way below the yield potential of modern varieties.
Rice is a staple food for most Filipinos across the country. The nation’s per capita rice consumption rose from 93.2 kg per year in 1995 to 123.3 kg per year in 2009. Similarly, per capita caloric intake from rice rose from 917 kcal per day in 1995 to 1,213 kcal per day in 2009. Protein requirements from rice, on average, increased from 29.7% in 1995 to 34.8% per person per day in 2009.
The Philippines imports about 10% of its annual consumption requirements. In 2010 and 2011, the country was the biggest rice importer. Its rice imports amounted to 2.38 million t in 2010, mostly coming from Vietnam and Thailand. Despite these imports, rice prices for consumers are some of the highest in developing Asia (as are farm-gate prices for farmers). The high prices are enforced through an import control by the National Food Authority (NFA), a government agency, which also procures paddy from farmers at a government support price. The NFA is also involved in rice distribution by selling rice through the agency’s licensed and accredited retailers/wholesalers in strategic areas at a predetermined price.
Although rice is the main staple in the country, it is a highly political commodity. The Philippine rice sector has always been the center of the government’s agricultural policies. The focal points of the policies revolve around promoting rice self-sufficiency and providing high income to farmers while making rice prices affordable to consumers.
One of the most significant programs of the government for the rice sector is “The Philippine rice master plan 2009-13—enhancing provincial rice self-sufficiency.” This rice master plan envisions a 100% self-sufficient rice economy by 2013 through improved rice productivity, and increased income of rice farmers. This plan pursues location-specific interventions that can help farmers achieve higher yield. It focuses on how interventions can improve productivity toward sufficient yield. These include improvement of the effectiveness and efficiency of irrigation systems through rehabilitation; the use of high-quality hybrid and inbred seeds and farmers’ varieties; integrated and sustainable crop management technologies; the provision of soft loans for the establishment of shallow tube wells and surface water pumps; and delivery of extension support services. Rice seed subsidy schemes for farmers were implemented to acquire high-yielding varieties, including hybrid rice varieties.
The government also extends support for farm mechanization through its Rice Mechanization Program. It aims to procure and distribute postharvest (drying and milling) units and on-farm machinery through a financing scheme wherein the government shoulders a big part of the cost.
The major rice-producing parts of the country are Central Luzon (18.7%), western Visayas (11.3%), Cagayan Valley (11%), Ilocos region (9.8%), SOCCSKSARGEN (7.5%), and Bicol region (6.8%). SOCCSKSARGEN is a newly created region in central Mindanao comprising North Cotabato, Sarangani, South Cotabato, and Sultan Kudarat provinces.
Almost 70% of the total rice area is irrigated and the remaining 30% is rainfed and upland. Much of the country’s irrigated rice is grown on the central plain of Luzon, the country’s ricebowl. Rainfed rice is found in the Cagayan Valley in northern Luzon, in Iloilo Province, and on the coastal plains of Visayas and Ilocos in northern Luzon. Upland rice is grown in both permanent and shifting cultivation systems scattered throughout the archipelago on rolling to steep lands.
Because of their higher profitability for farmers, modern high-yielding varieties account for the vast majority of rice production, with less than 3% of production coming from traditional varieties. Labor use on rice is lower than in many developing Asian countries at about 60 person-days/hectare/crop. Some of the reasons for the relatively low labor use are the widespread use of direct seeding and the mechanization of land preparation and threshing in many parts of the country.
Farm-level rice yields in the Philippines have grown in the last decade without a significant change in inputs (fertilizer, herbicides) and crop establishment methods. This progress in rice yields could be related to the use of good-quality seeds: hybrid and certified seeds. With strong partnership and support from IRRI, the country recently released a rice variety for irrigated lowlands, the IRRI-bred Tubigan 18 (NSIC Rc222 or IRRI 154), which yields up to 10 t/ha and has an average of 6 t/ha, 12–13% higher than that of the popular and widely used rice variety PSB Rc82, also bred by IRRI and known as IRRI 123. The high-yielding Tubigan varieties are recommended for irrigated lowland areas but tests done nationwide showed that they can also perform well in rainfed areas, particularly during the wet season.
The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has also recently produced one aromatic rice variety, Mabango (NSIC Rc128), and four glutinous rice varieties: Malagkit 1 (NSIC Rc13), Malagkit 2 (NSIC Rc15), Malagkit 3 (NSIC Rc17), and Malagkit 4 (NSIC Rc19).
Rice production constraints
Climate change, growing population, declining land area, high cost of inputs, and poor drainage and inadequate irrigation facilities are the major constraints to rice production in the Philippines. Some of these constraints are interrelated. Unabated conversion of some agricultural land to residential, commercial, and industrial land reduces the area devoted to rice production, which leads to a shortage in domestic supply.
Climate change and the vulnerability of crop production to drought and heavy rainfall, especially during the typhoon season, severely affect production. The Philippines bears the brunt of typhoons coming in from the Pacific Ocean. Successive heavy rains cause severe drainage problems in paddy fields, thus resulting in a significant reduction in rice yield and quality. There is also concern about the deterioration of irrigation systems at least partially because of a lack of funding for maintenance. Rainfed lowland rice suffers from uncertain timing of the arrival of rains, and drought and submergence—often in the same fields over the course of a single season or in different fields within a farm over the same season. Weeds, drought, diseases (blast), acidic soils, and soil erosion are major problems of upland rice in the Philippines. The high cost of inputs, particularly fertilizer, hinders farmers from applying optimal fertilizer amounts to input-responsive high-yielding varieties.
Rice production opportunities
For the Philippines to become self-sufficient in rice, it has to adopt existing technologies such as improved varieties and know-how to have yield increase by 1–3 t/ha. Better quality seed combined with good management, including new postharvest technologies, is the best way to improve rice yields and the quality of production.
Since current rice yield is way below the yield potential of most modern varieties, improved fertilizer use and crop management, better irrigation facilities, and high-yielding varieties can boost the country’s rice output. The main source of additional rice production is improved yield growth. However, the government must implement a strategy to reduce population growth since the actual volume of rice produced by the country is not enough to match rice demand because of the high increase in population. If population growth will be higher than the growth in yield, the country will continue to import rice from other countries to meet domestic demand for rice in the coming years.
Source: FAO’s FAOSTAT database online and AQUASTAT database online, as of September 2012.
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Telsa To Bring Back Smaller-Battery Model S
Telsa is reviving its Model S 60, which will also be priced less then the one the company discontinued in 2015. The new version of the Model S 60 kilowatt-hour version will cost about $66,000 and will be able to drive for approximately 208 miles each charge.
AutoNews highlighted that Telsa Motors Inc. recently grabbed over 300,000 order deposits for its up-and-coming Model 3 vehicle, which was also priced lower in cost. Deliveries for the Telsa Model 3 will begin later in 2017, starting at a $35,000 price tag.
Perhaps the change is thanks to consumer feedback. Drivers have let the auto company known just how much their EVs put a dent into most wallets, even the Model S; as the EV now sells for over $100,000, especially when all the options, bells, and battery whistles are packed into the car.
As Telsa recently revealed in a statement, the company acknowledges that they have heard from many potential clients who would like to purchase the car, but could possibly only afford the vehicle at a lower price tag. Telsa will be adding a Model S 60, as well as a 60D (with the ‘D’ referring to all-wheel drive).
With the revised release of the Model S 60, this marks the least expensive Telsa vehicle, in its EV line up. While the 60D will start at $71,000, both Model S 60s will come with Autopilot function.
The state of Colorado recently passed a bill that offers Telsa clients a credit of $5,000 when it comes to buying electric cars; which marks the best state incentive in America, currently. Add in the federal credit of $7,500 and those in the state of Colorado could potentially nab a Telsa Model S 60 for as low as $53,500; prior to fees, taxes, and titles. The company’s initial 60 kWh vehicle, launched in 2012, had a starting price of $69,900.
If the price tag doesn’t entice you, maybe the newer features will; with Telsa promising that the updated Model S 60s will offer 0-to-60 in a little over five seconds, and a new front fascia design.
Telsa states it will create about 80 t0 90 thousand EVs this year, with a grand total over 500,000 by the year 2018; with most of these vehicles being Model S ones. In Q1, Telsa made 14,820 cars, with 12,851 being Model S, and the remainder, Model Xs.
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Revolut in Luthania: impacts of Brexit and how Fintech is becoming fiercely competitive
From www.bankingtech.com - 7 October 2016, 09:57
Bank of Lithuania, the country’s central bank and regulator, has signed a memorandum of understanding with UK-based payments and fintech start-up Revolut.
Over the last few weeks, I've had countless discussions about the impact of Brexit and its impact on Fintech in the UK. The current situation could be easily summarised in the following way:
- The UK has been at the forefront of Fintech, and is still very much open for business.
- Other countries such as France or Germany have realised that Fintech will be key for the next stage of development for finance, and see Brexit as a golden opportunity to attract good companies.
- But it's not just European competitors: all large financial centres are seeing Brexit as an opportunity to attract Fintech.
In my opinion, the impact of Brexit on Fintech is quite simple:
- London has become the world capital for Fintech because of a combination of 5 factors :
1) Strong ecosystem of traditional banks, asset managers, etc. but also helped by the very high number of accelerators.
2) Talents, many coming from Europe, and also proximity of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, LBS, etc.
3) Money, and especially a very deep pocket of seed money from business angels thanks to EIS/SEIS schemes
4) A very pragmatic and pro-active regulator (in loose term, i.e FCA, Bank of England)
5) And last but not least, a very strong political willpower to build the UK as a Fintech hub, that started with the Budget in 2011.
For 1), 3) and 4), I think that's unchanged - the ecosystem is still present, money is unlikely to dry up, and the regulator has a mindset which is very "innovation-friendly". 2) obviously is a big unknown, but in my opinion what will impact the continued momentum of Fintech in the UK is 5). The UK government has been a driving force behind many of the initiatives that helped Fintech, and set the tone for everyone else. On the one hand, the government might identify Fintech as one of their priorities in a post Brexit world, and will invest even more in that space. Or Fintech will just be forgotten, buried below many other Brexit priorities, and lose its momentum in the UK.
All of that is happening at the time where many countries have woken up to the future potential of Fintech, and the opportunity to build the financial centres for the 21st century. The example of Revolut launching in Lithunia, and applying for a banking license there - that could then be passported to the rest of Europe - shows that the competition is now widely open. But it's clearly not just a European competition: apart from New York, Silicon Valley, Singapore or Hong Kong, we are also witnessing new initiatives in New Zealand, Korea, or South Africa.
Conclusion?
- For European startups, it was a no-brainer to move to London when you were in Fintech. Today, some startups will still move to London, but only after careful consideration.
- All European countries are now competing to attract the startups (UK or otherwise) that need the coveted European passport. As seen by the example of Lithuania, it's a wide open competition.
- The dominance of London in Fintech - at the global level - has been challenged by Brexit. Other financial centres see that as an opportunity and are redoubling their efforts.
Those things can happen very quickly - London and Singapore have built their ecosystem in just a few years, which means that others could easily do the same. The next few years will therefore be very interesting...
PS : for those who don't know Revolut, it's a very interesting model. In my taxonomy of banks, that would be a neo-bank, that is slowly morphing into a challenger bank and an iBank (which tends to show that my taxonomy wasn't that great!). What I like about them is 1) very cheap infrastructure 2) great value proposition, resulting in very low customer acquisition cost. The big unknown is of course their revenue model, but 1) and 2) go a long way to help them figure it out.
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Statement on Recovery Residences
The Role of Recovery Residences in Promoting Long-term Addiction Recovery
Getting Involved in Policy
Policy Position Statements
Statement on U.S. Immigration Policies and Practices
The Effects of Deportation on Families and Communities
Incarceration of Undocumented Families
Rapid Response Actions
Small Grant Program
SCRA is pleased to announce the adoption of our first public policy statement, The Role of Recovery Residences in Promoting Long-term Addiction Recovery. Recovery Residences are lower cost, community-based residential environments that require abstinence from substance use and abuse. The Society of Community Research and Action has developed, with the executive, advocacy and research committees of the National Association of Recovery Residences (NARR), a policy statement on the value of recovery residences in the United States.
A YouTube video is at the end of this policy statement, providing more information about recovery homes. The video can also be viewed here: http://youtu.be/YLodwGNChzw
This policy statement is an official statement of the Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association, and does not represent the position of the American Psychological Association or any of its other Divisions or subunits.
The Society of Community Research and Action – Community Psychology,
Division 27 of the American Psychological Association
Addiction and the larger arena of alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse and related problems exact an enormous toll on individuals, families, organizations, local neighborhoods, and whole communities in the United States. Although a great number of advances have been made in AOD treatment, far too few individuals who could benefit from treatment receive it, and many who do receive treatment will resume AOD use following their discharge from it. New recovery support institutions are emerging beyond the arenas of traditional addiction treatment to support individuals hoping to initiate and to sustain long term recovery from addiction. One promising mechanism is the recovery residence.
Recovery residences (e.g., sober living houses, recovery homes, and Oxford HousesTM) are sober, safe, and healthy living environments that promote recovery from AOD use and associated problems. At a minimum, recovery residences offer peer-to-peer recovery support with some providing professionally delivered clinical services all aimed at promoting abstinence-based, long-term recovery. Recovery residences are sober living environments, meaning that residents are expected to abstain from alcohol and illegal drug use. Each credentialed recovery residence publishes policies on relapse sanctions and readmission criteria and other rules governing group living. Recovery residences may require abstinence from particular types of medications according to individual policy. Although the exact number is currently unknown, many thousands exist in the United States.
A small but growing body of research supports the effectiveness of recovery residences in sustaining abstinence and promoting gains in a variety of other domains, and the National Association of Recovery Residences has developed guidelines to define levels of care and standards to ensure the quality of care received. Yet, despite these advances, recovery residences face innumerable challenges. Critical questions regarding the operations and effects of recovery residence participation remain unanswered, and research scientists wishing to study recovery residences face considerable funding challenges given the prevailing funding emphasis on the neuroscience of addiction. Efforts to establish or relocate recovery residences face challenges with start-up funding and often face considerable neighborhood and political opposition. Also of importance, many health and human professionals are unaware of recovery residences and their benefits on long-term recovery outcomes.
The Society of Community Research and Action (SCRA) has developed, with the executive, advocacy and research committees of the National Association of Recovery Residences (NARR), a policy statement on the value of recovery residences in the United States. This policy statement 1) describes the emergence and rapid growth of recovery residences as a new addiction recovery support institution, 2) highlights research to date on the positive effects of participation in a recovery residence on long-term addiction recovery and related outcomes, 3) champions a research agenda that would address many unanswered questions related to such participation, 4) advocates social policies (laws, regulations and funding guidelines) in which recovery residences can flourish, 5) supports programs of education and training to increase referrals to these new resources by health and human service professionals, and 6) promotes programs to educate local political leaders and the public about the value of recovery residences for individuals, families, and communities in the United States.
Addiction and the larger arena of alcohol and other drug (AOD) and related problems exact an enormous toll on individuals, families, organizations, local neighborhoods and whole communities in the United States. Since the mid-twentieth century, an elaborate network of professionally-directed addiction treatment programs has been funded to respond to these problems, but more than half of individuals treated in these institutions will resume AOD use following their discharge from treatment—most often in the first 90 days following discharge. Assertive continuing care and support is not a routine component of addiction treatment in the United States and only a small percentage of persons treated participate in post-treatment continuing care, which involves post-treatment monitoring and support. There are growing calls to shift acute care models of addiction treatment to models that emphasize sustained, post-treatment recovery management in order to elevate long-term recovery rates and enhance the quality of personal and family life in long-term recovery. Recovery management is a philosophical framework for organizing addiction treatment services to provide long-term recovery maintenance and quality-of-life enhancement for individuals and families affected by severe substance use disorders.
New recovery support institutions are emerging beyond the arenas of addiction treatment and recovery mutual aid societies to achieve these goals. By providing a physical and social world to recover within, these new institutions (e.g., recovery residences, recovery schools, recovery industries, recovery ministries, recovery community centers, recovery cafes, etc.), mark a major milestone in the history of recovery in the United States. One of the earliest to develop and one of the most important of these new institutions is the recovery residence.
Recovery residences (e.g., sober living houses, recovery homes, and Oxford HousesTM) are sober, safe, and healthy living environments that promote recovery from AOD use and associated problems. The number of recovery residences in the U.S. has grown dramatically in the past 25 years and have helped fill the void of community support between professionally-directed addiction treatment and peer-led recovery mutual aid societies. The purpose of a recovery residence is to provide a safe and healthy living environment to initiate and sustain recovery—defined as abstinence from alcohol and other non-prescribed drug use and improvement in one’s physical, mental, spiritual, and social wellbeing. Individuals build resources while living in a recovery residence that will continue to support their recovery as they transition to living independently and productively in the community. Although recovery is commonly believed to refer to abstinence and a general sense of quality of life, recovery is by no means a simple construct that has uniform definition (i.e., some individuals define it as abstinence only from their primary drug; or as use of alcohol, but no drugs; or as no use of “hard drugs” but use of marijuana, or allow for use of “medical marijuana.”)
There is growing consensus that recovery from severe substance use disorders involves three critical components: sobriety, improvement in global (physical, emotional, relational, spiritual) health, and citizenship (positive community reintegration). Recovery residences are abstinence-based environments that provide mutual support for these three elements of recovery -in contrast to "wet housing" that allows residents to use alcohol or other drugs or "damp housing" that discourages but does not exclude persons for using and that do not address these larger recovery processes.
A recent publication, A Primer on Recovery Residences in the United States (Jason, Mericle, Polcin, White, & the National Association of Recovery Residences, 2012), released by the National Association of Recovery Residences based on a review of all materials published on recovery residences to date found that:
Although the exact number of recovery residences is currently unknown, there are many thousands of such residences operating in nearly every state across the nation;
Recovery residences in the U.S. span from low to high service intensity and meet the needs of residents at various stages of recovery (see figure below):
Most individuals in recovery residences have past or current involvement in addiction treatment and participate in 12-Step or other recovery mutual aid organizations during their time in the recovery residence.
Participation in a recovery residence decreases in-treatment and post-treatment relapse rates and significantly increases recovery outcomes (using such recovery measures as sustained abstinence rates, improvements in global health and social functioning—e.g., high rates of employment) at up to two-years of follow-up. Longer-term (5-10 years) follow-up studies have not yet been conducted.
These benefits extend to women, women with children, African-Americans, and persons with co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses.
These benefits are contingent on adequate lengths of stay (more than 6 months in level I recovery residences) and a supportive community environment.
The cost-effectiveness of recovery residences has not yet been rigorously investigated. However, some recovery residences, such as Oxford and California Sober Living Houses, are self-financed primarily through resident fees.
Research to date generally finds that recovery residences do not negatively affect neighborhoods and may even provide benefits to the communities in which they are located.
Some recovery residences are designed specifically for individuals with certain needs (e.g., co-occurring addiction and severe mental illness, veterans, mothers with children); however, some recovery residences may not be equipped to adequately meet these residents’ needs. Individuals with specific service needs seeking recovery residences should ask the provider about how these needs can (or cannot) be addressed within a particular residence. It is still unclear if outcomes differ for people with co-occurring disorders (mental health, process addictions, major medical issues such as Hepatitis C or HIV) living in recovery residences.
Recovery residences are divided into Levels of Support based on the type as well as the intensity and duration of support that they offer. Services provided span from peer-to-peer recovery support (all recovery residences) to medical and counseling services (recovery residences offering higher levels of support). The National Association of Recovery Residence Standards defines minimum services for each Level of Support, but additional services may be provided at each level. Section 5 of the National Association of Recovery Residences Standards, included in A Primer on Recovery Residences in the United States, details the minimum required service elements for each Level of Support. National Association of Recovery Residence-certified recovery residences meet standards addressing safety from an administrative, operational, property, and good neighbors’ perspective. Recovery residences’ internal governance varies across National Association of Recovery Residence Levels of Support. Forms of governance range from democratically run by the residents to oversight by licensed professionals. The regulation of recovery residences vary from state to state, local government to local government, and model to model. In general, states regulate professional services and local governments regulate health and safety standards. Both state and local government regulation must adhere to federal laws and limits, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act.
The National Association of Recovery Residences, established in 2011, currently represents approximately 1,500 residences through its local organizational affiliates. The National Association of Recovery Residences advocates for recovery residences and their residents at the national and local levels. Members of the National Association of Recovery Residence maintain standards for recovery residences of all kinds across the four National Association of Recovery Residence Levels of Support, from Level 1 peer-operated residences to Level 4 residences offering a wide variety of treatment and recovery support services. Three additional recovery residence organizations exist with a national scope. The oldest is the Association of Halfway House Alcoholism Programs, founded in 1958, and all are now affiliated with the National Association of Recovery Residences. The members of the Association of Halfway House Alcoholism Program include all of the National Association of Recovery Residences Levels of Support. The Association of Halfway House Alcoholism Program’s residences operate in accordance with social model recovery principles. Oxford House Inc. was established in 1975 and supports Oxford Houses internationally. Oxford Houses are National Association of Recovery Residence Level 1, with each residence operated solely by the residents in accordance with Oxford House guidelines. Oxford House Inc. supports and promotes its model for peer-operated recovery residences through training, technical assistance, and access to startup financing. They also advocate for recovery housing rights and provide legal support to Oxford Houses involved in disputes with cities and towns over their right to exist. Treatment Communities of America (formerly Therapeutic Communities of America) represents more than 600 residential addiction treatment programs in the United States.
Recovery residences face innumerable challenges in spite of their rapid growth and positive findings on their effects on recovery outcomes. Critical questions regarding the operations and effects of recovery residence participation remain unanswered, and research scientists wishing to study recovery residences face considerable funding challenges given the prevailing funding emphasis on the neuroscience of addiction. Efforts to establish or relocate recovery residences face challenges with start-up funding and often face considerable neighborhood and political opposition. Also of importance, many health and human professionals are unaware of recovery residences and their benefits on long-term recovery outcomes.
In light of these findings and circumstances, the Society of Community Research and Action (SCRA):
1) Recommends that national, state, and local agencies support local networks of recovery residences. Specially, the SCRA calls upon:
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to develop funding mechanisms to support the development, sustainment, and expansion of recovery support services specific to housing.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop funding mechanisms to support the development, sustainment, and expansion of housing services specifically for individuals in recovery from behavioral health disorders.
The National Association of Recovery Residences to disseminate national standards for recovery residences and to provide technical assistance for local organizations to meet these standards as a means of improving the quality of local recovery residences in the United States. This is of particular importance in order to deal with a perception by some that relapse is common among residents in recovery homes, they are often in unsafe neighborhoods, and many are disorganized and even exploitive of residents.
Single State Authorities on alcohol and other drug problems to establish loan funds and other mechanisms that will support the development of recovery residences where the need for such resources has been established.
The National Conference of State Legislatures, the United State Conference of Mayors, and the National League of Cities to develop policy documents and host webinars and conferences related to the issues surrounding the development of supportive housing for recovering individuals in local communities.
2) Recommends enhanced funding for critical research related to recovery residences. The SCRA calls upon:
The National Institutes of Health (the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse) to fund research related to recovery residences, including randomized clinical trials, long term outcome studies, cost-effectiveness studies, and studies that isolate the most potent ingredients of the recovery residence model of recovery support. We need recovery outcome and cost savings data across the Levels of Support for various populations (including co-occurring, re-entry with criminal mindsets, etc.) recovering from a diversity of chemical substances in comparison to or in combination with alternative approaches. Without published research and evidence-based practice designations, licensed professionals and policymakers will continue to question the legitimacy of recovery residences and peer-based recovery.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to fund evaluations studies related to the integration of recovery residences and related recovery support institutions (e.g., recovery community centers, recovery schools, recovery industries, recovery ministries) within the network of health care initiatives being launched by state and federal government.
Federal, state, and local funding sources to prioritize recovery residence research studies that address 1) the effects of participation in a recovery residence on treatment retention/completion and post-treatment relapse and recovery rates as well as measures of global health and social functioning—e.g., high rates of employment) at longer-term (5-10 years) intervals, 2) the degree of benefits living within recovery residences extends to women, women with children, African-Americans, and persons with co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses, 3) the degree to which benefits are contingent on adequate lengths of stay (more than 6 months in level I recovery residences) and a supportive community environment, 4) the relative cost-effectiveness of recovery residences, and 5) the effects of recovery residences on neighborhoods and communities in which they are located. These are all high priority areas for research that is needed to develop a more solid basis for our understanding of recovery residences and their impacts on residents and communities.
National Association of Recovery Residences to increase their presence at key national conferences (National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence) to engage the research community on the need for research on recovery residences.
Editors of addiction-related professional and trade journals to continue to publish studies and reviews and special issues on the effects of participation in a recovery residence on long-term recovery outcomes.
3) Recommends strategies to educate and train addiction treatment professionals and allied health and human services professionals on the value of recovery homes. The SCRA calls upon:
The APA to disseminate this policy document to all APA members as well as to other major related professional associations (e.g., the American Psychiatric Association, the National Association of Social Workers) with the recommendation that the latter develop and disseminate policy statements on recovery residences and related recovery support institutions.
College and university addiction studies programs, independent addiction counselor training programs, and educational and training programs for psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers to integrate information on recovery residences within their respective curricula.
The national network of Addiction Technology Transfer Centers to disseminate information on recovery residences, including assertive referral procedures that can be used to access such resources and how recovery residences can be integrated into a continuum of care supporting long-term personal and family recovery from substance use disorders.
The major addiction professional certification bodies [including NAADAC: The Association of Addiction Professionals, the International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC), the American Board of Addiction Medicine, and state addictions counselor certification boards] to integrate questions related to recovery residences into certification exams and their respective continuing education programs.
The American Society of Addiction Medicine to formally recognize recovery residences as a level of care within its Patient Placement Criteria.
4) Recommends public education strategies that will address the stigma and misconceptions often attached to recovery homes and their residents. The SCRA calls upon:
The National Association of Recovery Residences to develop a public education campaign on recovery residences aimed at state and local civic leaders and media representatives.
The National Association of Recovery Residences’ regional and state recovery residence consortia to collaborate with such leading recovery advocacy organizations as Faces and Voices of Recovery to incorporate issues related to recovery housing within larger recovery advocacy and anti-stigma campaigns.
The Legal Action Center to develop a kit for local recovery residences on how to respond to NIMBY hysteria and discrimination related to recovery housing regulations and their enforcement.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the National Association of Recovery Residences co-develop a recovery residence press kit and a webinar that could be incorporated into SAMSHA’s 2013 Recovery Month activities.
Having reviewed the available scientific evidence on recovery residences, we believe these actions will play a significant role in elevating long-term addiction recovery outcomes in the United States and contribute to the quality of life of individuals, families and communities throughout the country.
The proposed policy statement was written by the National Association of Recovery Residences (NARR) research committee and approved by the NARR executive committee before submission to the SCRA. The NARR research members include Leonard A. Jason, PhD, Director, Center for Community Research, DePaul University; Amy A. Mericle, PhD, Research Scientist, Treatment Research Institute; Douglas L. Polcin, EdD, Senior Scientist, Alcohol Research Group; and William L. White, MA, Senior Research Consultant, Chestnut Health Systems.
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Jason, L. A., Groh, D. R., Durocher, M., Alvarez, J., Aase, D. M., & Ferrari, J. R. (2008). Counteracting “Not in My Backyard”: the positive effects of greater occupancy within mutual-help recovery homes. Journal of Community Psychology, 36(7), 947-958. doi: 10.1002/jcop.20259
Jason, L.A., Mericle, A.A., Polcin, D.L., White, W.L. & the National Association of Recovery Residences (with Fred Way serving as Liaison with Research Committee). (2012). A Primer on Recovery Residences in the United States.
Jason, L. A., Olson, B. D., Ferrari, J. R., & Lo Sasso, A. T. (2006). Communal housing settings enhance substance abuse recovery. American Journal of Public Health, 91, 1727-1729.
Jason, L. A., Roberts, K., & Olson, B. D. (2005). Attitudes toward recovery homes and residents: Does proximity make a difference? Journal of Community Psychology, 33(5), 529-535. doi:10.1002/jcop.20073
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Polcin, D. L. (2009). Communal-living settings for adults recovering from substance abuse. Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery, 4(1/2), 7-22. doi:10.1080/15560350802712355
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White, W. (2012). The Oxford House story: An interview with Paul Molloy. Posted at www.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org and www.williamwhitepapers.com.
White, W., Kelly, J. & Roth, J. (2012). New addiction recovery support institutions: Mobilizing support beyond professional addiction treatment and recovery mutual aid. Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery, 7(2-4), 297-317.
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"http://www.stamfordplus.com/stm/information/nws1/publish/News_1/index.shtml - News : Health Published: Apr 4, 2019 - 5:10:03 AM
Health Quest and Western Connecticut Health Network combine to form new health system to be called Nuvance Health
By Western Connecticut Health Network
LaGrangeville, NY; Danbury, CT - Health Quest and Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) have combined to form a new nonprofit health system. The name for the new health system will be Nuvance Health (pronounced NEW-vance). The new health system was created to provide communities across New York’s Hudson Valley and western Connecticut with more convenient, accessible and affordable care.
What is Nuvance Health?
Thirteen months after formally agreeing to create a new health system, Health Quest and WCHN have begun to operate as one organization after receiving the required federal and state (New York and Connecticut) regulatory approvals and support from patients, donors, and business and community leaders.
Dr. John M. Murphy is the CEO of the new health system, and Robert Friedberg is its President. Previously, Murphy served as President and CEO of WCHN and Friedberg was President and CEO of Health Quest. The new organization’s board of directors includes diverse and equitable volunteer community representation: eight members were nominated by Health Quest and eight were nominated by WCHN.
The new health system will serve 1.5 million residents. It includes seven hospitals, more than 2,600 physicians and 12,000 employees. Projected annual revenues of the system are $2.4 billion.
Why was this new system formed?
The single, unified health system ensures the communities served have access to the latest treatments, technology, services and top-notch physicians and care teams.
“Our patients and communities are the heart of efforts to form the new health system. We are steadfastly focused on how we can improve the health and well-being of the people we passionately serve,” Murphy said. “Through the new integrated health system, we will be able to attract top clinical talent in order to provide even more advanced, compassionate and collaborative care.”
The benefits of combining and creating the new health system include greater breadth of services, such as more specialty physicians and population health programs. Additional expected benefits include the use of data analytics to enhance quality and safety and improve health outcomes; and, growing medical education and learning to shape the future of medicine that best serves each community’s needs.
“By coming together, we will bring our communities more healthcare options through new programs and services, especially to help prevent disease and effectively manage chronic conditions. Our communities will also benefit from having greater access to specialists and the latest treatments, conveniently within one health system and close to home,” Friedberg said.
What is going to happen?
Nuvance Health is devoted to caring for its unique communities. That is why local, community-based leadership and separate boards of directors oversee each hospital.
The name Nuvance Health, derived from a combination of the words “new” and “advance”, will replace the legacy health network names Health Quest and WCHN. The organization will reveal a new logo and other brand marks in the coming weeks and months.
“The name Nuvance Health reflects a mission to continually make progress and pursue impossible, so we can improve the lives of every person in each of our communities,” Murphy said.
Nuvance Health will remain a nonprofit organization, committed to community health and wellness and will continue to provide care to anyone, regardless of their ability to pay.
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Ballston is located approximately four miles from Washington, D.C. At one point, the land was owned and operated by the Ball family, who were relatives of George Washington. The historic focal point of the community is the intersection of Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard. This intersection dates back to 1740 and is one of the oldest crossroads in Northern Virginia.
Ballston has always been an Arlington hotspot. Ballston experienced growth with the arrival of the Washington, Arlington and Falls Church trolley line in the late 1890s. By the turn of the 20th century, Ballston was beginning to take shape as a centralized neighborhood. Ballston took on a new role as a commercial center in the 1950s. With the development of Ballston Common Mall and the Washington metro rail network, the community of Ballston has become an indelible fixture in Arlington County.
Ballston is a modern, interurban community that has evolved to meet the needs of its residents. Tall apartment and condominium complexes recede to residential hamlets, offering a spectrum of living accommodations. Ballston has plenty of parks and trails for those seeking an active lifestyle. Bike riders are welcomed on designated bike lanes.
Ballston is a walkable community that offers it all. There is retail shopping at Ballston Common Mall paired with an equally inspiring array of well-seasoned restaurants. Head to the Ballston Farmers Market every Thursday during the spring and summer. The Taste of Arlington held in May generates quite the buzz. If all else fails, hop on the metro and explore the nation’s capital.
Ballston is proudly known as a transit-oriented community. The Ballston Metro station on the Orange Line is only minutes away, which is ideal for the daily commute or a trip to Reagan National Airport. Both Metro and ART buses service Ballston. Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard are the main thoroughfares through the community. I-66 is easily accessible for a drive out west or east into D.C.
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Production has begun on The Hundred-Foot Journey, starring Oscar-winner Helen Mirren and directed by Lasse Hallström. An actual adaptation of Richard Morais’ bestselling novel rather than just merely the made-up title of a Lasse Hallström movie, the film stars Manish Dayal as a culinary ingénue who, along with his family, is displaced from his native India, settles in a quaint village in the south of France, and opens up an Indian restaurant. As the chilly proprietress of a Michelin-starred, classical French restaurant, Mirren’s character then gets all pissy, and culture clash ensues. So… yeah, pretty much a classic Lasse Hallström movie. If you especially loved The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, save the release date; it’s August 8, 2014, from Disney and DreamWorks.
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Chris DeRose Releases Congressman Lincoln: The Making of America’s Greatest President
January 29, 2013 by DSWikfors 1 Comment
Congratulations to my friend, Chris DeRose, on the release of his second book, Congressman Lincoln: The Making of America’s Greatest President.
Chris’ book came out today as he launches his book tour.
Here is the Amazon description of Chris’ book:
A biography of the early years and personal struggles of the famous frontier politician who led the United States during its darkest hours, centering on his little-known congressional years. This the story of an Abraham Lincoln many Americans aren’t at all familiar with. Lincoln as a reluctant husband in an abusive relationship; Lincoln who came within moments of fighting a duel with a political adversary; the first and only president to patent an invention; the first future president to argue before the Supreme Court.
Though remembered as a Republican, and even more as a figure that transcended partisan politics, Congressman Lincoln reveals Abraham Lincoln as a master political strategist and member of the Whig Party, the one to which he belonged for the majority of his career. Before he appealed to the America’s purest instincts, he argued “The Whigs have fought long enough for principle and ought to begin to fight for success.” Before “malice toward none,” Lincoln bragged of his opponent “I’ve got the preacher by the balls.”
Lincoln the policymaker is remembered for his conduct of the Civil War, and his handling of slavery. But even during his Presidency, Lincoln was concerned with a broad array of issues. As a party leader, candidate for Congress, and member of the House, Lincoln worked on stimulus spending, international trade, banking, and even the Post Office. And it would be in the Thirtieth Congress that Lincoln would first move to halt the expansion of slavery, carefully crafting a bill for gradual emancipation in the District of Columbia.
This is the story of America at a critical time. The tale of a Congress that ended a conflict, unsure of what they had gained aside from a seat strapped to a powderkeg, of a party aiming to win the Presidency at all costs, paving the path for its own extinction, and of a country charting an irreversible course toward Civil War. Moreover, it is the story of the man who lead the United States during its darkest hours and his role at the center of this gathering storm. This is the story of Congressman Abraham Lincoln.
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No. 1 Duke hears the noise, hosts Eastern Michigan
DURHAM, N.C. -- The noise could become louder for Duke.
The Blue Devils hold the No. 1 ranking again.
"There was a different level of noise, and that's what I'm saying," coach Coach Mike Krzyzewski said, realizing that the ever-present hype around his team would grow after last week's victory against No. 10 Kentucky.
The Blue Devils (2-0) jumped three spots to the top ranking in the second poll of the season.
They'll take their new, yet familiar status into Wednesday night's home game against Eastern Michigan at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
This will be another chance to gage how the Blue Devils handle the scrutiny.
"There's a lot of noise," Krzyzewski said. "For us, it's not always good noise but in this case, it was exceptional noise, where, as an 18 or 19 year-old, when you've got four freshmen and you don't have veterans, you have to be mature about listening to that."
This is the 135th time that Duke has held the No. 1 ranking, breaking a record that it shared with UCLA.
After a tussle Sunday against Army, the Blue Devils realize that opponents will be fired up to show what they can do against Duke.
"It's one thing for somebody to tell you that everybody's going to bring their best against you and that all their shots were going to feel like they're going in," Duke freshman forward Zion Williamson said. "But until you truly experience it, I think you have to go through it to fully understand."
The Blue Devils held the top spot in the Associated Press poll for the first five weeks of last season. But this is a largely new cast of players, with four freshmen in the starting lineup.
Williamson was named the ACC Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week.
RJ Barrett (56 points) and Williamson (55) have scored the most points by freshmen through the first two games in Duke history. Cam Reddish hit seven 3-point baskets against Army, setting a single-game program record for a freshman.
Eastern Michigan (3-0) will take its first road trip for the game against Duke. Two of the Eagles' first three games came against non-Division I teams, with only a 66-62 victory against Drexel against a team on the Division I level.
"We had to gut it out and find a way to get it done," Eastern Michigan coach Rob Murphy said.
Murphy is in his eighth season, coming off a 22-13 record for the best mark across his first seven years on the job.
After the first week, it's clear the schedule is about to toughen.
"It's good to start like this," Murphy said. "We have to continue to find ways to get better."
Fifth-year senior guard Paul Jackson leads Eastern Michigan with 18.7 points per game. Eagles sophomore guard Kevin McAdoo didn't play in the opener before scoring 10 points in each of the next two games, bagging 4 of 8 shots from 3-point range.
Eastern Michigan hasn't defeated a ranked team during the regular season since Dec. 10, 1994, against a visiting Wisconsin team that was rated No. 14.
Duke and Eastern Michigan have met twice with Eastern Michigan winning in the 1996 NCAA Tournament's first round in Indianapolis and Duke winning at home in December 2013.
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Americans with Disabilities Act Day
Gov. Kristi Noem has proclaimed July 26 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Day in South Dakota.
The ADA prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodations, commercial facilities, telecommunications, and state and local government services.
"It is estimated that 1 out of every 10 people in South Dakota have a disability", said Division of Rehabilitation Services Director Eric Weiss. "Those that enacted the ADA in 1990 recognized the need to include this significant portion of the population in all areas of public life. The resulting advances in universal design have benefitted all people regardless of disability."
Celebratory town events from public mayoral proclamations, socials, drives and picnics will continue throughout the month.
For more information on the ADA, please visit https://www.adaanniversary.org/home.
The proclamation coincides with the 29th anniversary of the signing of the ADA by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
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Rescheduled: Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community
Posted on December 16, 2016 by Andie Arthur Posted in News & New
The South Florida Theatre League
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Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community
In keeping with its mandate to provide education and support to its membership and community, the South Florida Theatre League will present Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community – a workshop dedicated to copyright law considerations for theatre professionals, on Saturday, January 28, 2016 at ArtServe from 1-5 pm. The course will be conducted by two local attorneys, Susan Dierenfeldt-Troy and David Rogero, who between the two of them, have over fifty years of combined experience in the area of intellectual property law. This is the same workshop that was previous scheduled for October 8, 2016, but had to be postponed due to Hurricane Matthew.
The course will focus on matters of concern to various professionals within the theatrical community – from producers to playwrights – and will be comprised of a lecture and a workshop. For the workshop, attendees will be asked to address a hypothetical copyright law-related problem confronting a fictional theater. Workshop topics to be covered include protecting one’s copyright, avoiding infringement of another’s copyrighted work, and copyright licensing agreements.
The target audience for the Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community workshop includes playwrights, producers, directors, performing artists, and anyone who wishes to learn more about copyright law in general from both a theoretical and practical standpoint. It will be open to both South Florida Theatre League members and non-members.
Cost for the Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community workshop will be $10 for League members, and $25 for non-members. Tickets are available on line; tickets will also be available for purchase at the door, the day of the event.
The Florida Bar will award 4 CLE credits for taking this course.
South Florida Theatre League is an alliance of theatrical organizations and professionals dedicated to nurturing, promoting, and advocating for the growth and prestige of the South Florida theatre industry. The League unites member theaters at all levels from the professional organizations that hire Equity actors to community theatres that give amateurs a chance to test their skills. Everyone who works in the theatre industry in South Florida is eligible to be a member of the League.
Presented by the South Florida Theatre League
Led by Susan Dierenfeldt-Troy and David Rogero
1 – 5 pm
Susan D. Troy is a partner with the Miami-based law firm of Troy & Schwartz, LLC. She specializes in intellectual property law matters pertaining to copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and entertainment law. She is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. patent bar. In the area of copyrights, Ms. Troy has assisted clients with the formal registration of copyrights in music, literature, the visual arts, software, and television programs. She has also conducted copyright and trademark clearance searches and written opinion letters on behalf of television show producers. She has prosecuted copyright infringement suits in numerous courts, largely as the counsel for defendants in such lawsuits and written and negotiated numerous copyright licensing agreements on behalf of copyright owners.
Ms. Troy is also an instructor at Miami-Dade College’s Continuing Education Department where she teaches a course on risk management for new and growing businesses. Susan is a magna cum laude graduate of St. Thomas School of Law where she was a member of the law review.
David M. Rogero is an AV Preeminent-rated attorney specializing in copyright and trademark matters and business litigation. He has 40 years’ experience, and is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Florida. Mr. Rogero has assisted clients with the registration of their copyright claims in music, literature, photographs, and other visual arts and television programs. He has prosecuted numerous copyright infringement suits in federal courts throughout Florida.
Mr. Rogero has served as chairman and as an active committee member in the Florida Bar’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section. He has also served several terms on the board of directors of the Dade County Bar Association, as well as the chairman of the Legal Aid and Public Service Committee, and as chairman of the board of the Greater Miami and the Keys Chapter of the American Red Cross. David graduated from the University of Florida School of Law with honors.
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Emotional Pominville seals Sabres' 5-2 win over Senators
(AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
By JOHN WAWROW
AP Hockey Writer
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Sabres forward Jason Pominville began the day unable to contain his emotions by choking up when coming to the realization he might be playing his final home game in Buffalo.
The 36-year-old ended the day fist-pumping a crowd that provided the fan favorite a standing ovation shortly after he scored to seal a 5-2 win over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.
"Yeah, what a way to end it," Pominville said. "I left probably in tears and came back with a smile."
Pominville's goal punctuated the Sabres' "Fan Appreciation Night" in which Buffalo closed its home schedule by snapping an eight-game skid and winning for just the second time in its past 17 games (2-13-2).
Pominville is in his second stint with the Sabres, and uncertain about his future in finishing out the final year of his contract.
"I've really enjoyed every moment," he said, with his voice cracking once again. "We obviously haven't played the way we wanted. And finally to give the fans a win. They showed up. They were loud. They were good. It was a lot of fun."
Captain Jack Eichel had a goal and two assists and Kyle Okposo, Sam Reinhart and rookie Victor Olofsson also scored in a game between two non-playoff contenders. Carter Hutton stopped 21 shots and the Sabres overcame a 2-1 first-period deficit.
The victory and the rousing cheers reserved for Pominville, who took a turn at center ice during a commercial break, briefly put a dent in the frustrations of a lengthy freefall in which Buffalo extended its playoff drought to eight seasons.
The drought that now stands as the NHL's longest active streak after Carolina defeated New Jersey and clinched its first postseason berth in nine years.
Eichel was defiant in blaming the media for being too negative.
"I think you guys tend to look at a lot of negatives frequently, myself probably included with some of the interviews we've had in the past month or so," Eichel said.
"There's been some exciting nights in this rink this year, for sure, probably a lot more than there were a year ago," he added. "I think if you look at a couple positives, that's probably one of them."
Buffalo finished with 21 home wins, 10 more than last year, and the most since going 21-12-8 in 2011-12.
And yet, there remain plenty of negatives for a team that closes its season at Detroit on Saturday.
The win was Buffalo's first in regulation since a 5-2 victory over Washington on Feb. 23. And the Sabres improved to just 15-33-8 since enjoying a franchise-record matching 10-game win streak in November.
Anthony Duclair and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored for the Senators, who were already assured of finishing last in the overall standings.
Coming off a 4-1 win at the New York Rangers, Ottawa closed its road schedule with an 11-28-2 record to mark the franchise's fewest wins since going 10-31 in 1995-96.
"We're not going to make excuses. We're pros and have to be ready for back to backs," Senators rookie Brady Tkachuk said.
"They played a great game, the last game in front of their fans this year and they wanted to leave it all out there for them," he added, referring to Buffalo. "We've just got to learn from it and use it for our last home game."
Joey Daccord stopped 35 shots in his NHL debut.
The 22-year-old got the start three days after signing a two-year entry level contract and after he helped Arizona State make its first NCAA Tournament appearance this season. The Sun Devils' season ended with a 2-1 loss to Quinnipiac in the first round Saturday.
Okposo tied it at 2 at the 6:12 mark of the second period when Conor Sheary's shot from the left circle struck the skate of Ottawa defenseman Christian Jaros. The puck caromed directly to Okposo, who shot it into the open right side 6:12 into the period.
Reinhart scored a little over two minutes later. Eichel chased down a loose puck at the end boards and made a no-look backhand pass in front to Reinhart, whose one-timer beat Daccord on the glove side.
The 3-2 lead was Buffalo's first in seven games, since Reinhart scored the opening goal in the first period of a 7-4 loss at Montreal on March 23.
NOTES: The goal was also Pominville's 217th with the Sabres, moving him into 10th place on the franchise list - one ahead of Don Luce. ... Daccord is from North Andover, Massachusetts, and spent most of his youth playing on teams with Eichel, who is from North Chelmsford. ... Senators RW Bobby Ryan did not play a night after being struck by a shot at New York.
Senators: Close season hosting Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday.
Sabres: Close season at Red Wings on Saturday.
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An American man seeking a foreign bride may avail himself of over 200 different services in which foreign women advertise for husbands. There are two types of such services. In one type, the so-called "mail-order bride" industry (representatives of the industry prefer the term "international correspondence service"), women's names, photos, biographical sketches, and addresses are presented in hard copy brochures or on the Internet. In these services, the agency provides the photos and descriptions of the women, who are not charged for this listing. Men who wish to obtain the mailing address of any of the women they would like to contact are charged a fee of from $2 to $5 for each of the mailing addresses.
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Based on a scanning of the services listed and information provided by the agencies themselves, we may estimate that between 100,000 and 150,000 women from a variety of countries (including the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia) annually advertise themselves as available for marriage. The great majority of these women are from two major areas: Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, and Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union.
The Philippines provides a large number of the Asian listings, despite the fact that "mail-order bride" activities have been illegal there since 1986, while Thailand, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea, and Japan are also seen often as the woman's native country.
In recent years, a large increase in listings has been due to the influx of services focused on women of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Nearly half (69) of the 153 services listed in one source feature such women. In addition to Russia itself, the Ukraine is the most common country of origin.
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These businesses can be highly profitable. Bob Burrows, president of Cherry Blossoms, reports that his agency serves over 1,000 men per month who pay up to $200 each.
The growth of these services has been phenomenal. Glodava and Onizuka (1994) report that there were 100 such companies in existence at the time of their writing. In mid-March of 1998, when work on this present report began, there were 153 listings in goodwife.com and in early May, less than two months later, there were 202. This list of links breaks down the agencies into four sections--Asian, Latin, Multi-ethnic, and Soviet--based on where most of the women currently reside. As can be seen in the table below, the current rapid growth is due largely to agencies representing women from Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Multi-ethni
An analysis of the listings in recent issues of five popular catalogs featuring 1,400 Asian women found that 70 percent were Filipino (despite the fact that Republic Act No. 6955 makes such listings illegal), many of whom are "in-service" as domestic workers in other countries, 16 percent Indonesian, 8 percent Thai, 2 percent Malaysian and Japanese, and 1 percent Chinese and Korean. In terms of age, 20 percent are 16-20 years of age, 41 percent are 21-25, 24 percent are 26-30, 11 percent 31-35, and just 4 percent are over the age of 35. That is, for the Asian women, 61 percent are under the age of 25. There is a large difference in ages between these Asian women and their counterparts from the former Soviet Union. For the 1,700 Soviet women listed currently by Cherry Blossoms, just 8 percent are under 20, 23 percent between 21 and 25, 25 percent between 26 and 30, 20 percent from 31 to 35, 14 percent from 36 to 40, 7 percent aged 41 to 45, and 3 percent over 45. That is, just 31 percent are under 25 compared to the 61 percent of Asian women.
Why do foreign women want American husbands? Many sources suggest that these women are searching for a "better life" in terms of socio-economic factors--they do, for the most part, come from places in which jobs and educational opportunities for women are scarce and wages are low. However, when the women themselves are asked this question, the answer generally indicates an attraction to American men (they look like movie stars) and an aversion to native men. Americans, they say, make good husbands while Filipino (Thai/Indonesian/Russian/etc.) men do not. Americans are thought to be faithful to their wives, while the native men are cruel and run around with other women. True or not, this is the perception.
David Jedlicka (1988, cited in Glodava and Onizuka, 1994) surveyed 607 American men seeking mail-order brides and received 206 responses. He found that the men were generally white (94 percent); highly educated (50 percent with two or more years of college, 6 percent with M.D.'s or Ph.D.'s, only five did not complete high school); politically and ideologically conservative; and generally economically and professionally successful (64 percent earned more than $20,000 a year; 42 were in professional or managerial positions). Their median age was 37. The men came from 44 states, with 22 percent from California, and 84 percent lived in metropolitan areas. Fifty-seven percent had been married at least once; most had been divorced after an average of seven years of marriage, 35 percent had at least one child, and 75 percent wished to father additional children. When asked about their religious affiliations, 48 percent of the men identified themselves as Protestant, 23 percent as Catholic, 15 percent as belonging to other religions, and 14 percent as having no religious affiliation.
Why do American men want foreign wives? Most of the personal reports from American men who have married women through these agencies talk about "traditional values." That is, American women are thought not content to be wives and mothers but seek personal satisfaction through their own careers and interests, while the foreign woman is happy to be the homemaker and asks for nothing more than husband, home, and family. Again, true or not, this is the perception.
Although Jedlicka states in his conclusions that his research shows the men who choose the mail-order methods for mate selection appear ". . . above average . . . certainly in their communication skills," and "exceptional in the sense that they are trying cross-cultural marriage to improve their chances for loving and enduring relationships," he cautions that such conclusions are thin at best and such interpretations from these data are not warranted. His experience and the observations of others show that, contrary to responses in questionnaires, those who have used the mail-order bride route to find a mate have control in mind more than a loving, enduring relationship.
Of the 30 mail-order bride couples Mila Glodava (Glodava and Onizuka, 1994) encountered between 1986 and 1993, only two were close in age (4 -6 years difference). In the other 28 there was a 20 to 50 year difference in age. Older men, says Glodava, often want women "they can mold" and therefore do not want those who are too educated. "They would just become like any other American woman," they said. She concludes that, "It is apparent that power and control are critical for the men."
It is interesting to note that the views above on native and foreign men and women are not limited to the Occident--a similar attitude exists in Taiwan. According to "Taiwan Moves to Boost Women's Marriage Prospects" (The Associated Press, Aug. 30, 1996, by Annie Huang), many Taiwanese men prefer brides from other Asian countries because they feel Taiwanese women--who tend to be better educated and more affluent--expect too much from their husbands. Due to this attitude, Taiwan has imposed a limit on the number of brides from certain countries that can enter Taiwan each year--360 from Indonesia, 420 from Burma, and 1,080 from China. On the women's side, many of them are seeking Western men since, they say, Taiwanese men want to marry only hard-working obedient drudges while Taiwanese women have discarded this traditional role and are seeking equality and mutual respect in marriage.
Success Rates for International Services
In a survey done for this report we sent e-mails to 102 of the services and received replies from 28. We asked what percentage of their female clients married U.S. men.
Few agencies kept any records of engagements or marriages; some because they are too new for their clients to have had time to marry, some because they have no interest in following up on their listings. Of those that provided estimates of marriages, the ones listing predominately women from Russia and the former Soviet Union countries provided the highest figures--10 percent to 40 percent. Those whose women were largely from the Philippines and Asian countries gave lower estimates--none to 5 percent. In most cases, these estimates were for marriages to men from any country, not specifically the United States.
The only agency that provided firm statistics was Encounters International. This agency has been in business since 1993 and presents 450 Russian women in its current listing. They report 102 marriages to date between Russian women and U.S. men and, in addition, keep records of births, divorces, and locations of the couples. If it is assumed that the agency's listings have remained relatively constant at about 500 women each of the five years of its existence, then 102 of the 2,500 women, or approximately 4 percent, have found and married American men.
According to a report from the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (Paredes-Maceda, 1995) mail-order brides constitute 10 percent of the marriages between Filipinos and foreign nationals. Between 1989 and 1994, 95,000 Filipino men and women were engaged to be married to foreigners, the great majority of whom met their partners through work or personal introductions. Of the foreign men who married Filipinos, 44 percent were U.S. citizens.
According to the women themselves (in written replies to a 1996 questionnaire from the author), approximately 10 percent of these women are successful--they find and marry a man through the service. There are, then, around 10,000 marriages a year between women listed by these agencies and men who use the services. Of these 10,000, around 4,000 involve U.S. men. The remainder is distributed among Canadian, Australian, European, and, increasingly, Japanese clients.
Based on these data, we may estimate that 4 percent of the 100,000 to 150,000 women seeking U.S. husbands through international services find them; that is, "mail-order bride" and e-mail correspondence services result in 4,000 to 6,000 marriages between U.S. men and foreign brides each year.
This figure, 4,000 to 6,000, represents an increase from previous estimates (e.g., the estimate of 2,000 to 3,500 given by Kadohata, 1990) due, no doubt, to the recent increase in both e-mail correspondence services and the agencies specializing in Russian and Ukrainian women.
Impact on U.S. Marriages
According to data supplied by the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 2,395,000 marriages in the U.S. in the 12 months ending June, 1997 (and 1,154,000 divorces in the same period). The 4,000 to 6,000 marriages involving international services represent, then, a tiny portion (.021 percent) of the women who marry U.S. men.
It is interesting to note that, based largely on data provided by the agencies themselves (along with the Commission on Filipinos Overseas report cited above), marriages arranged through these services would appear to have a lower divorce rate than the nation as a whole, fully 80 percent of these marriages having lasted over the years for which reports are available.
Impact on U.S. Immigration
Statistics provided by the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the years 1994-96 show that there have been over 800,000 immigrants per year, of whom about 18 percent enter as spouses of U.S. citizens; e.g., 169,760 of 915,900 in 1996. An additional 14 percent (130,000) of the total immigrants involves parents and children of U.S. citizens.
In any case, the 4,000 to 6,000 women who immigrate through international correspondence agencies represent less than 6 percent of the new citizens. The majority of the women who gain permanent resident alien status through marriage do so through more traditional means, such as by meeting their spouse at work or in school or through marriage to U.S. servicemen stationed overseas.
Both U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens may petition for their spouses. While spouses and minor children of citizens may enter without long waits once the paperwork is approved, entry for spouses and minor children of permanent resident aliens is regulated by annual ceilings. In 1996 about 54,000 spouses were sponsored by permanent resident aliens.
The most common times for mail-order brides to leave the marriage, according to Martin (n.d.) are "immediately, 3 months after marriage (receipt of the green card), and 2 years after marriage (receipt of nonconditional permanent residence)."
There are reports of a different kind of fraud--namely, one in which women are recruited into prostitution through the international matchmaking services. This new slave trade has not, however, to the author's knowledge, occurred in the United States, although it is a well documented trade involving Russian women imported into Israel (Specter, 1998).
According to "The Health Care Response to Domestic Violence" (anon. 1994), "Within the last year 7 percent of American women (3.9 million) who are married or are living with someone as a couple were physically abused, and 37 percent (20.7 million) were verbally or emotionally abused by their spouse or partner."
While no national figures exist on abuse of alien wives, there is every reason to believe that the incidence is higher in this population than for the nation as a whole. Authorities agree that abuse in these marriages can be expected based on the men's desire for a submissive wife and the women's desire for a better life. At some point, after the alien bride has had time to adjust to the new environment, to make new friends, and to become comfortable with the language, her new independence and his domination are bound to conflict. The problem, according to Mila Glodava (Glodava and Onizuka, 1994) and Uma Narayan (Narayan, 1995), is largely due to the men's unrealistic expectations. While many state a desire for a submissive wife, they find that such dependence becomes a burden. To provide some relief, the husband seeks ways (friends, activities) that will get the wife "out of the house" on occasion. The resulting independence then angers the husband who manifests the anger on the wife, who may have only been guilty of trying to please her husband.
Current INS Regulations
Immigration law concerning marriage to foreign nationals contains numerous safeguards discouraging abuse of this means of gaining U.S. permanent residence alien status. In general, the couple must be serious enough to wait for several months, to file a number of forms, and to pay sizeable fees.
The procedures, as outlined by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs, are as follows.
The Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, provides U.S. citizens with two options for facilitating the immigration of future spouses to the United States: the K-1 fianc� visa and the alien-spouse immigrant visa. In many cases, the processing time for a fianc� visa is shorter than that for an alien spouse. Fianc�(e) visa processing can take several months from the filing of the petition to the final adjudication of the visa. Total processing time for the alien-spouse visa can take 6-12 months depending on individual circumstances. While the immigrant visa route may take longer, additional processing in the United States is not required, as is the case for the fianc�(e) visa.
Marriage In the United States: Fianc�(e) Visa
U. S. citizens may file an I-129F petition with INS for the issuance of a K-1 fianc�(e) visa to an alien fianc�(e). A citizen exercising this option must remain unmarried until the arrival of the fianc�(e) in the United States, and the wedding must take place within 3 months of the fianc�(e)'s arrival if he/she is to remain in status. Also, the alien and U.S. citizen must have met personally at least once in the 2 years before the petition was filed. For more information about K-1 visas see the Bureau of Consular Affairs' brochure Tips For U. S. Visas: Fianc�(e)s. Legal permanent residents may not file petitions for fianc�(e) visas. They must marry abroad and then file an I-130 petition for the immigration of a new spouse.
Marriage Abroad: Alien Spouse Visa
If a U.S. citizen marries an alien abroad, an I-130 petition must be filed after the marriage to begin the immigration process for the alien spouse. This can be filed either with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the United States, or, under certain circumstances, at U.S. Embassies or Consulates abroad. U. S. Embassies and Consulates have differing policies on approving I-130s and should be individually contacted about the availability of this service. Many posts have their own web pages which include this information and which can be accessed through the U.S. Embassy and Consulate links page. Prior to departure from this country the U.S. citizen should contact the INS or appropriate foreign service post to ascertain exactly what documents will be necessary to file the immigrant petition for a new spouse. For more information about this option, see the Bureau of Consular Affairs' brochure Tips for U.S. Visas: Family-Based Immigrants. For more information on how to arrange a legally valid marriage abroad, see the Office of Citizens' Consular Services brochure Marriage of U.S. Citizens Abroad.
Procedurally, the process works like this. The U.S. citizen or permanent resident must submit a visa petition (form I-130) to appropriate local INS office to prove that the marriage is bona fide, that is, entered into for love rather than simply for the foreign-born spouse to obtain a green card. Attached to the visa petition are the following items: (1) Biographical forms (forms G-325A) for both the husband and the wife with photos attached; (2) Proof of the citizenship status of the petitioner. This can take the form of a U.S. passport, a Certificate of Naturalization or Citizenship or a certified copy of the citizen's birth certificate; (3) A certified copy of the marriage certificate; (4) Certified copies of the documents that terminated any previous marriages of the husband or wife, including final divorce decrees, and certificates of annulment or death; and, in the case of a permanent resident alien, proof of such status. Simultaneously, the foreign-born spouse must submit an application for adjustment of status (form I-485) which is an application for a green card. Items which must accompany the green card application are a completed fingerprint chart and green card photographs, and other INS forms may be required. The spouse can also file an OF-230 with the consulate and be issued an immigrant visa. In both the immigrant visa and adjustment of status cases, the petitioning U.S. citizen or Legal Permanent Resident must also complete an affidavit of support, INS form I-864, on behalf of the alien spouse.
In the case of a mail-order bride, a permanent resident alien would most likely marry the person abroad and then file the I-130. It would be possible for the woman to enter as a visitor or in another nonimmigrant category so the marriage could occur in the United States. The U.S. citizen spouse would then file the I-130 and the bride would file for adjustment of status using INS form I-485.
If the marriage is less than 2 years old when the foreign-born spouse becomes a permanent resident, the green card will expire after a two-year period. Both spouses must submit a joint petition (form I-751) to remove the two-year condition within the 90-day period immediately preceding the end of the two-year period. Upon removal of conditions, a new green card is issued reflecting permanent resident status.
If the marriage has terminated by reason of divorce, death of the citizen spouse or spousal abuse, the foreign-born spouse may apply for a waiver of the joint petition requirement.
Before 1986, when a citizen married a foreigner and petitioned for the spouse, the spouse was granted permanent residence fairly quickly and more or less as a matter of course. In 1986, as a result of concerns about alleged marriage fraud, Congress passed the Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments (IMFA), which changed the legal process. Thereafter, the U.S. citizen had to petition for what is called "conditional resident status" for the spouse. The couple then had to wait for 2 years after conditional resident status obtained during which time they had to remain married, and then jointly petition INS to adjust the conditional status to that of permanent residence. Both spouses had to undergo a personal interview with the INS, to prove that the marriage was a bona fide one, before permanent resident status was conferred on the spouse (Anderson 1993). The two-year waiting period to apply for permanent resident status required by IMFA begins on the date the spouse obtains conditional resident status. Administrative delays can continue for four years or more.
In 1989, the House Judiciary Committee on Immigration, Refugees and International Law held a hearing on domestic violence in marriages between American citizens and foreigners. Representative Louise M. Slaughter testified that many battered conditional residents had no viable legal options. She introduced a bill, passed in 1990, which provided that battery and extreme cruelty, if alleged and proven, could qualify a conditional resident for a waiver during the waiting period. Initiation and termination of divorce proceedings was not required, if abuse could be proven. This legislation also terminated the condition that the divorce had to be for a "good cause." It held that the termination of a "good faith" marriage involving a conditional resident could itself constitute a waiver, without regard to the reasons for the divorce.
The petitioner, however, must present other evidence to support the application for waiver based on a claim of having been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty. Evidence may include, but is not limited to, expert testimony in the form of reports and affidavits from police, judges, medical personnel, school officials and social service agency personnel. The Service must be satisfied with the credibility of the sources of documentation submitted in support of the application.
Current INS rules and policies seem well intentioned in that they allow U.S. citizens and permanent residents to marry and bring to this country alien spouses while providing some safeguards against abuse and fraud.
The existing problems that appear to require some attention involve abuse. On the one hand, the potential husbands might need to be screened. As Sumiko Hennessy, executive director of the Asian Pacific Development Center (anon., 1996), notes, "What you have are older men, people with three divorces, alcohol problems . . .," some of whom have a history of "domestic abuse or problems with the law." To this end, I would strongly recommend that Uma Narayan (Narayan, 1995) be consulted before any new legislation focused on abuse and/or fraud is considered.
At the very least, alien spouses should be informed of their rights and be given names, addresses, and telephone numbers of agencies they may consult if they face difficulties in the marriage, agencies such as: Legal Aid for Abused Women and Children (703) 820-8393; AYUDA (202) 387-4848; National Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (814) 685-1447; NOW (707) 255-2516; and the Asian Pacific Development Center (303) 220-3398.
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