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Home Central Asia AKHS expands healthcare in Afghanistan
AKHS expands healthcare in Afghanistan
HAH Report
Paediatric services at the Bamyan Hospital, which AKHS already operates, include a Therapeutic Feeding Unit, a Neonatal intensive Care Unit, vaccination and TB-DOTS for effective treatment of tuberculosis.
Kabul: The Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) has taken over management of health care facilities in the Bamyan and Badakhshan provinces of Afghanistan.
An agreement to this effect was signed at the Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health the other day.
Through the project, AKHS will now manage over 1,015 health posts in villages, 158 basic and primary health centres, 24 comprehensive health centres (around 10 beds each), five (5) district hospitals (30 beds each), and two (2) ISO-certified provincial hospitals in Faizabad and Bamyan until June 2021.
The project has the objective of increasing the use and quality of health, nutrition and family planning services across 31 provinces. The expansion is based on earlier positive experience of the AKHS, which has managed the Bamyan and Faizabad provincial hospitals, on behalf of the government of Afghanistan since 2004.
“The agreement specifies the staff, equipment, diagnostic services and medications that should be provided by each primary health facilities in the Afghan health system,” said Dr Massoud Mehrzad, Chief Executive Officer of AKHS Afghanistan. “It also sets the standards for hospitals in the system,” he added.
Under the Sehatmandi project, the new health system will operate under a new pay-for-performance model. The agency’s success will be measured on the number of antenatal and postnatal care visits, institutional deliveries, family planning, growth monitoring and nutrition counseling for children under the age of 24 months, health consultations for children under the age of five, the number of immunized infants, the number of women of reproductive age who are immunized against tetanus, the number of tuberculosis cases that are successfully treated, and the quantity, as well as quality, of caesarean sections and major surgeries.
“The idea that service providers will be compensated for their work if they meet pre-established benchmarks is a game changer for Afghanistan,” said Dr Gijs Walraven, AKDN Director of Global Health. “And while these requirements may seem challenging, the AKHS and the AKF are committed to meeting the targets set by the Sehatmandi project.”
The project was launched in 2018 in recognition that while significant advances had been made to improve access and the quality of health care in Afghanistan since 2002, progress had been uneven. The World Bank in partnership with the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), USAID and the European Union, launched the programme known as a pay-for-performance model. The project holds service providers accountable for delivering improvements based on established targets.
AKHS has also trained community midwives to work in rural areas in Badakhshan, Bamyan and Baghlan where maternal and child health care provisions were most needed. The Agency established the first 24-month Community Midwifery Education Programme in 2004, and has since trained, as well as deployed, 459 midwives across the three provinces. In 2012, AKHS initiated the Community Nursing Education Programme, which has graduated 194 community health nurses who now work across the three provinces.
The AKHS in Afghanistan is a partner of the MoPH in providing basic health and hospital services to a population of over 1.5 million in some of Afghanistan’s most remote and inaccessible districts in the provinces of Badakhshan, Baghlan, and Bamyan. AKHS is also working with the Afghan government to develop and maintain qualified health human resources in all areas of health care by offering continuous education for doctors, nurses, health professionals and administrators, as well as providing technical advice and support on health policy, nursing standards and midwifery education.
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The Healthcare Law Review - Edition 2
Kirsi Kannaste
Terhi Kauti
Leena Lindberg
I OVERVIEW
Under Finnish law, municipalities are currently primarily responsible for organising healthcare and social services. Municipalities can also purchase social welfare and healthcare services from other municipalities, organisations or private service providers. Private healthcare services thus supplement municipal services. In addition, employers have a statutory obligation to arrange occupational healthcare for employees. Despite the recent considerable growth of the private sector's share in the provision of services, healthcare and social services are at present still mainly provided by public entities.
The Finnish healthcare and social services system is currently undergoing a major reform, which if materialised would be implemented gradually as of 2021 onwards. This would drastically change the structure and organisation of healthcare services in Finland. Therefore, while this chapter describes the current state of the healthcare system in Finland, it should be borne in mind that the reform is likely to change the system significantly in the near future.
On a general level, the purpose of the reform is to obtain costs savings and to enhance efficiency in public healthcare. One of the main changes would be that the responsibility for providing public healthcare services would be transferred from the currently responsible 311 municipalities to 18 new larger autonomous regions (counties). The state would be primarily responsible for financing the new autonomous regions. The customers' freedom of choice would be enhanced by allowing the customers to choose where they want to receive services by the payment of the basic user charge. This reform would also further integrate private operators into the healthcare and social services system and would thus likely enhance the growth of the private healthcare companies.
As for the relevant national bodies in the Finnish healthcare sector, the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is in charge of the planning, steering and implementation of social and health policy and preparing legislation. The Social Insurance Institution of Finland is a government agency that provides basic economic security for everyone living in Finland and is responsible, for example, for paying various social benefits, such as family benefits and basic unemployment security. The National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health guides, supervises and runs the licensing administration of social and healthcare while the Finnish Medicines Agency (Fimea) does the same for the pharmaceutical sector. The Regional State Administrative Agencies are responsible for supervising healthcare on a regional level.
II THE HEALTHCARE ECONOMY
i General
The constitutional obligation for providing adequate social, health and medical services to all is enforced primarily via municipalities, who are responsible for offering primary healthcare services to their residents.2 Moreover, specialised medical care is assigned to five regional hospital districts, which together cover all Finnish municipalities.3
The municipalities are free to choose how they carry out the required primary healthcare operations, as long as they fulfil the requirements set by law. Also specialised medical care may be procured from third parties.
Permanent residents of Finland are insured against illness by the National Health Insurance scheme, which covers a share of medication costs, private medical expenses as well as certain sickness and parental allowances.
In addition to the above, employers are required to offer occupational healthcare services to their employees. Employers may choose to use either public or private service providers.4
Hence, both public and private options for health and medical care are available, although the most demanding medical care is typically carried out by public specialised hospitals. While the National Health Insurance covers a small share of private medical expenses, it remains considerably more expensive than the fees collected by public service providers.
ii The role of health insurance
The National Health Insurance scheme generally applies to every permanent Finnish resident, meaning persons who are domiciled and spend most of their time in Finland.5 The scheme is financed by mandatory premiums paid by employers, employees and the state.
The premiums paid by employees and employers are both set as a percentage of the employee's annual salary. The employer's premiums are mandatory for any employer or self-employed person where their operations in Finland last longer than four months (irrespective of where the self-employed person resides). In addition, employers shall take out an insurance against occupational accidents and diseases for their employees. Employers may also choose to take out excess coverage for all or key employees.
Private health insurance functions as an addition to the existing public health insurance and does not limit the statutory insurance coverage. Typically, private policies cover private medical expenses wholly or partly. Moreover, insurance companies may typically conclude agreements with certain private healthcare service providers on services for its policy holders.
iii Funding and payment for specific services
Municipalities may charge fees for the primary healthcare services they provide.6 The maximum level of fees is set in legislation and typically covers only a fraction of the services' costs.7 Moreover, fees for public services have an upper limit per calendar year per person, beyond which services are free of charge. Similarly, patients bear only a fraction of the costs of public specialised medical care by paying publicly determined fees, while the bulk is covered by public funds.8
The National Health Insurance is funded by beneficiaries' and employers' mandatory health insurance premiums as well as state subsidies. It covers a share of certain expenses, such as private doctor fees, examinations and treatments prescribed by private doctors, private dentist fees and examinations prescribed by the same, costs of prescribed medications and illness-related transport. Persons covered by National Health Insurance are also entitled to sickness allowance owing to long-term incapacity to work, rehabilitation allowance and parental allowance (separate from maternal and paternal allowance). These reimbursements and allowances are granted by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland.
Using private healthcare services is almost entirely at the individual's expense, as the National Health Insurance only covers a minor share of private medical costs. Private operators are free to fix the price of services at the desired level, which is normally notably higher than in the public sector.
III PRIMARY/FAMILY MEDICINE, HOSPITALS AND SOCIAL CARE
The provision of private healthcare and social care is subject to licence, the conditions of which are set in legislation.9 Currently private licensed entities may provide all the same services as public entities. Within public sector healthcare, patients shall, in case of illness, primarily contact their own designated health centre to make an appointment with a general practitioner or a nurse. Appointments on short notice are possible for illnesses that require urgent care, while the waiting time for non-urgent healthcare may be rather long. It is also possible to consult a nurse or a general practitioner ad hoc at a local public health centre during duty hours. Outside the opening hours of a public health centre, urgent cases are directed to emergency clinics located in connection with hospitals.
For both pre-booked appointments and ad hoc visits to the health centre, it is evaluated, based on the patient's symptoms, whether treatment by a nurse or a general practitioner is required. Appointments with specialists may thus not be booked directly. Instead, general practitioners refer patients to specialists where necessary.
Private healthcare providers are typically able to provide appointments to both generalist practitioners and specialist medical consultants with rather short notice. Private healthcare providers typically may make referrals also to public laboratories, but private referrals are not valid for public sector X-rays, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
In Finland, medical records are restored electronically by the healthcare institutions. This information can then be found in the nationwide register called Kanta. This platform offers individuals the possibility to study all personal medical records in one place. It requires the consent of the individual for different institutions to be able to use information provided in the register by other institutions where the patient has already been treated.
Sharing identifiable patient data constitutes processing of personal data and therefore the provisions of data protection legislation need to be taken into account, especially the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Finnish Data Protection Act along with Finnish sectoral legislation (which is fairly plentiful in the field of healthcare). The Finnish sectoral legislation is currently under review by the relevant Ministries and changes to the healthcare-related legislation are also expected. One interesting topic is the future of the Finnish Biobank Act under the regime of the GDPR. The biobank legislation in Finland has had a rather permissive approach for the use of data in connection with biobanks and has allowed for a broad consent to be obtained, which among other issues is now being discussed thanks to the GDPR.
IV THE LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND PROFESSIONALS
i Regulators
The Regional State Administrative Agencies have been entrusted with guiding and monitoring municipal and private social welfare and healthcare services and evaluating the availability and quality of basic services provided by municipalities in their respective regions. They are also responsible for granting licences to private service providers in the region. Meanwhile, the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health guides, monitors and manages the administration of licences for the social welfare and healthcare sector. It is also responsible for granting the right to practise as a licensed or authorised healthcare professional and for authorising the use of occupational titles.
ii Institutional healthcare providers
Municipalities, who provide statutory basic social welfare and healthcare services either alone, or form joint municipal authorities with other municipalities, do not require a licence. Similarly, hospital districts provide medical care services without the need for a licence.
Private service providers must obtain a licence to operate health, medical or social care services. Where the service provider operates in one region only, the licence is granted by the Regional State Administrative Agency in the respective region and where the service provider operates in several regions, the licence is granted by the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health. Exceptionally, where employers themselves organise statutory occupational healthcare for their employees, no licence is required for the employer itself but the healthcare professionals are of course subject to the same requirements as described below.
Unlicensed provision of healthcare services is criminally sanctioned and may lead to fines or imprisonment.10 A licence may also be revoked following gross negligence of the laws concerning the provision of healthcare.11
Operating a pharmacy is also subject to licence. A pharmacy licence can be granted to qualified pharmacists having obtained a Master of Science degree in Pharmacy. Fimea grants pharmacy licences based on applications, taking into account, among other factors, the demand for pharmacy services at the location of the pharmacy. As an exception, certain universities may operate pharmacies by virtue of special legislation. Unlicensed operation of a pharmacy is criminally sanctioned. Fimea may also issue a written or oral warning to a pharmacist for undue conduct as well as revoke a licence, for instance if the pharmacist is unable to maintain operations because of bankruptcy, illness, or substance abuse, or if the pharmacist is otherwise clearly unfit to operate a pharmacy.12
iii Healthcare professionals
Practising the professions of a doctor, dentist and nurse in Finland is subject to licence.13 Unlicensed provision of healthcare services is sanctioned in criminal law. Recently, an unlicensed person was sentenced to five years of unconditional imprisonment for having practised medicine for roughly 10 years without a valid permit.14 Moreover, all healthcare operators must take out statutory patient insurance providing primary insurance coverage for patients' personal injuries.
As a member of the EU, Finland guarantees the free movement of healthcare professionals from other EU Member States, who may practise their profession in Finland upon receiving the required professional licence. In general, the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health grants the licence, upon application, to doctors, odontologists and nurses from other Member States in accordance with the principle of automatic recognition.
Granting nationals of non-EU or non-EEA states authorisation to practise as licensed professionals in Finland is subject to stricter requirements. In principle, the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health may grant the authorisation only for special reasons and on conditions prescribed by it. These conditions may include, among others, additional studies and examinations as well as mandatory training periods.
In order to obtain a licence, healthcare professionals must possess adequate language proficiency to practise their profession in Finland. The required level of proficiency is in connection with managing the profession adequately in either of the two official languages in Finland: Finnish or Swedish.
All information on up-to-date licences of authorised healthcare professionals is available to the public on an internet portal provided by the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health.
V NEGLIGENCE LIABILITY
All healthcare providers, including self-employed healthcare professionals, companies that offer healthcare or emergency medical services, pharmacies, hospital districts, and government agencies and public bodies must have patient insurance as set out in the Patient Injuries Act.15 Negligence liability cases are primarily covered by this patient insurance system. The insurance covers bodily injury arising from malpractice, infection, accidents, accidents caused by medical devices, damages caused by the treatment rooms and apparatus, harm caused by delivery of medicaments and other unreasonable damage. The insurance does not cover risks inherently contained in the treatment, nor is compensation available when an appropriately applied treatment does not give the desired results. Minor damages are also not covered.
The Act on the Status and Rights of Patients primarily sets out requirements for the quality of healthcare services to be provided by both public and private operators in Finland.16 Furthermore, there is legislation regulating specific situations.17 While the violation of these Acts does not directly affect the compensation to be granted by the Patient Insurance Centre, the Finnish entity responsible for handling all personal injuries that have occurred in connection with healthcare activities in accordance with the Patient Injuries Act, the Acts provide a backdrop for assessing the acceptable quality level of healthcare services. The level of compensation paid on the basis of negligence in the healthcare context is relatively moderate on a global scale and punitive damages, for example, are not allowed under Finnish law.
If the injured patient is entitled to receive compensation from the party that caused the injury, the insurer has a right of recourse towards that party. In rare cases where the damage is not covered by the statutory patient insurance, the patient may have a right to claim compensation for injuries directly from the healthcare provider (e.g., under the Tort Liability Act or the Product Liability Act).18 Claims for material damage caused in connection with medical treatment may also be filed against the party causing the damage. It is also noteworthy that under the Tort Liability Act the employer is primarily liable for damages caused by an employee or a public official through an error or negligence at work.
In the most severe cases, healthcare professionals may bear criminal liability. Negligent homicide and negligent bodily injury are the most probable offences in this context.19 Sanctions for these offences vary from fines to imprisonment for at most six years. However, damages resulting from incorrect treatment rarely lead to criminal liability, in particular because of challenges in demonstrating intent or negligence.
Other measures protecting patients' rights include the right to submit an objection to the director of a healthcare unit or a complaint to the competent Regional State Administrative Agencies, the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health, the Parliamentary Ombudsman or the Chancellor of Justice. In addition, patients have the right to appeal against decisions concerning involuntary treatment. The competent supervisory authority may, for example, give administrative guidance, in the form of warnings, to the healthcare professionals. In severe cases, the professional's licence to practise can be limited or removed. Similar restrictions can be imposed to the service provider functioning as the employer.
ii Notable cases
Liability and compensation for treatment injuries or other healthcare-related damages are often dependent on whether the injured party can prove causality between the injury and the treatment, and negligence. However, the threshold for reimbursement from the patient injury insurance under the Patient Injuries Act is somewhat lower, as its precondition is a 'probable' causality between treatment and injury, and because no demonstration of wilful conduct or negligence is required. Instead, the patient's right to compensation depends on whether an experienced healthcare professional would have examined, treated or otherwise dealt with the patient in a different manner and would thereby probably have avoided the injury.
A recent case on personal injury from the healthcare sector concerns vaccinations against swine flu distributed with government support in 2009. After the pandemic had passed, narcolepsy cases were found to have increased among vaccinated individuals, leading to the precautionary suspension of the vaccines in 2010. Compensation was eventually paid to patients from the non-statutory Pharmaceutical Injuries Insurance, which covers injuries caused by all medicines distributed, manufactured, imported or marketed by entities who are members of the Finnish Cooperative for the Indemnification of Medicine-Related Injuries.
A landmark criminal case relating to liability in the healthcare sector is the Supreme Court ruling KKO 1994:101 dealing with manslaughter of a child. A, who had claimed to be a naturopathy expert, had advised parents whose child suffered from diabetes to replace insulin treatment by a treatment based on hot baths. The child's condition had aggravated while A was treating him, but A did not give the child insulin nor take him to a hospital. The Supreme Court held that A should have understood that the provided treatment was not proper for the child and A was thus liable for the child's death. A was sentenced to conditional imprisonment of six months for manslaughter.
The Supreme Court case KKO 2010:67 concerned compensation based on the Patient Injuries Act. The Supreme Court considered whether a fracture in the patient's hip allegedly caused by the installation of an endoprosthesis could have been avoided if a specialised and experienced professional had treated the patient. The Supreme Court held that in this case the level of expertise and care had been adequate and consequently no injury was to be compensated. Furthermore, no weight was given to the fact that the risk of fracture had not been explained to the patient, because it did not influence the avoidability of the injury.
Issues relating to data protection have also been topical in Finland. An exemplary case was KKO 2014:86 where a physician in a psychiatric outpatient clinic had read his spouse's relative's patient information, even though the patient was not in his care. The court considered this action unnecessary and wilful misconduct and, thus, a violation of official duty.20 The court also maintained the lower court's decision making the physician liable for damages to the injured party.
Furthermore, in a recent case of data leakage, personal data and laboratory test results of around 6,000 persons were accidentally made available online by the National Institute for Health and Welfare. The National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health has also investigated cases where patient information system issues have potentially endangered patient safety. Currently no information on sanctions or follow-up claims is available.
VI OWNERSHIP OF HEALTHCARE BUSINESSES
The public sector is under a statutory obligation to provide adequate healthcare services and, consequently, most healthcare services are provided by publicly owned entities. Non-profit organisations are active in the social welfare sector, but less so within healthcare. In addition, self-employed persons and private businesses provide healthcare services. The ownership of private healthcare businesses is rather highly concentrated when it comes to nationwide chains. All healthcare provision is regulated by law, but more regulation and monitoring is applied to private service providers to ensure the safety and quality of the services.
There are no sector-specific limitations on the ownership of healthcare businesses, and major players in the sector include listed companies as well as companies wholly or partly owned by foreign entities. As an exception, pharmacies can generally not be operated by a company, but only by a licensed pharmacist. Moreover, the Act on the Monitoring of Foreigners' Corporate Acquisitions (623/1999) may have an impact on foreign ownership, should the acquisition be considered to jeopardise an extremely important national interest.
EU and national competition laws may restrict the possibility to create large concentrations within the sector. This will be true in particular if the planned healthcare reform is successful, as new sector-specific regulation on merger control is likely to be proposed. Private healthcare service providers are governed by the Private Healthcare Act.21 As mentioned above, private healthcare providers are required to apply for a licence either from the competent Regional State Administrative Agency or the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health. The Private Healthcare Act does not include any specific criteria for financial viability, but sets requirements, such as for appropriate facilities and equipment, proper training of staff, quality of medical services and patient safety. The service provider has to, among other things, have a healthcare service manager who has been approved by the licensing authority and a patient ombudsman who enforces the patient's rights.
VII COMMISSIONING AND PROCUREMENT
Municipalities may provide primary healthcare services in-house, form joint municipal authorities, or procure them partly or wholly from third parties, such as other municipalities, NGOs and private sector service providers. Several municipalities have outsourced the provision of their entire healthcare services to private companies by long-term contracts. Some municipalities have also established joint ventures with private companies. Moreover, hospital districts and university hospitals may procure specialised medical care from third parties.
Municipalities may also decide to provide social and healthcare services by granting service vouchers to local residents. In this case, the Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts does not apply. If service vouchers are used, all service providers fulfilling certain objective criteria must be accepted onto a list from which residents may choose a service provider of their liking.
Where healthcare and medical care is procured from third parties, Finnish public procurement law applies.22 Tenderers must fulfil the qualification criteria set out by the contracting authority in the contract notice or invitation to tender. The criteria to be chosen are at the discretion of the contracting authority, as long as the criteria comply with the principles of openness, non-discrimination and proportionality.
The procurement of healthcare services has been reviewed in several court cases. The cases have mainly concerned compliance with public procurement rules, in particular as regards ambiguity of award criteria and evaluation of tenders. In addition, a large-scale outsourcing project within the healthcare sector was appealed against before the Market Court in December 2017. The estimated value of the contract was €1 billion. However, the appeal was withdrawn.23
The ongoing reform of the Finnish social and healthcare system would change the commissioning of these services. According to the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority, which also supervises public procurement, the upcoming reform has already affected the nature and volume of procurement of these services. In 2017, out of all sectors, social and healthcare services as well as procurement of medical devices gave rise to the largest number of opened procurement cases at the authority.24
VIII MARKETING AND PROMOTION OF SERVICES
At present, the applicable regulation and monitoring of marketing is mainly directed at private healthcare service providers in Finland. Marketing and promotion of private healthcare services is primarily regulated under the general consumer protection laws and unfair business practice legislation. No specific legislation in the field of marketing or promotion of health services exists.
The Consumer Protection Act regulates that any marketing that is inappropriate or otherwise unfair from the point of view of consumers is prohibited.25 Marketing must clearly indicate its commercial purpose and on whose behalf the marketing is carried out. A general prohibition to use false or misleading information applies.
The Unfair Business Practices Act prohibits practices that are unfair to other entrepreneurs as well as sets out general provisions on marketing.26 The Act requires compliance with good business practice and prohibits the use of misleading comparative marketing. The marketing provisions in the Unfair Business Practises Act correspond to a great extent with the provisions in the Consumer Protection Act.
Marketing offences are also criminalised under the Criminal Code of Finland. Criminal sanctions can be imposed on the marketing entity where false or misleading information conveyed in marketing is significant from the point of view of the target group.
In addition to the aforementioned legislation, the healthcare industry practises self-regulation on marketing. This includes general marketing guidelines and guidelines on marketing on social media provided by The Finnish Medical Association as well as the monitoring of marketing of health services conducted by a supervisory board under the Finnish Medical Association. Moreover, the Code of Advertising and Marketing Communications Practice by the International Chamber of Commerce applies to marketing of healthcare services as well.
The general marketing guidelines by the Finnish Medical Association emphasise the truthfulness, appropriateness, reliability and fair practice of marketing. The severity of an illness or a symptom is not allowed to be used for intimidation nor is the use of superlatives allowed in marketing. The guidelines prohibit the use of any type of anonymous marketing on the internet, social media or search engines. Moreover, the private service provider shall not market other services outside its field nor shall the medical services be connected to product marketing.
For the time being, there are no specific regulations on the marketing of health services conducted by public entities or third-sector service providers, nor is there an authority supervising overseeing such marketing. Private and public service providers are thus treated differently with respect to the marketing of health services, and public service providers may market public healthcare services in ways prohibited from private entities. The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority has deemed this an issue in the current system, and emphasis will be given to said issue in future reforms. Despite the lack of specific marketing regulations for public or third-sector service providers, public entities are nevertheless subject to principles of good administration such as the service principle, which sets a requirement for the marketing of public health services to be appropriate.
IX FUTURE OUTLOOK AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Having regard to the ongoing major health and social services reform, it is hard to predict how the healthcare sector will look in the near future. The reform package has been highly politicised and, thus, the detailed content of the reform is still subject to changes. As mentioned above, if successful, the reform would change the structure and organisation of the whole Finnish healthcare system and result in significant changes in legislation. It is expected that the reform would facilitate the entry and expansion of privately produced healthcare services.
Technological advances over recent years have also created new opportunities for healthcare service providers. For instance, new biobank legislation was introduced in late 2013, which has provided for a new field to emerge in the health sector.27 In the field of e-health, a personalised health programme is envisaged by a network of public sector actors to pursue the creation of international business and innovation for personalised healthcare platforms by utilising data from different sources, such as biobanks or lifestyle data collected by the individuals themselves.28 The ambitious goal for the programme is for Finland to become the global pioneer in the provision of personalised health by 2025.
X CONCLUSIONS
The current healthcare service system in Finland is heavily based on public funding and healthcare services are mainly provided by the public sector. Meanwhile, the role of private insurance is supplementary to the statutory scheme. The responsibility for organising healthcare is delegated to municipalities, which can provide basic social welfare and healthcare services independently, together with other municipalities, or purchase social welfare and healthcare services from third parties. The health and social services reform would, however, transfer these responsibilities from municipalities to counties, which would be created as part of the reform.
Despite the strong position of public healthcare in Finland, the number of private service providers has considerably increased in the 21st century. Demand of private healthcare services is partly explained by the employers' responsibility to arrange basic healthcare for its employees. The private sector is expected to take on an even greater importance as part of the healthcare system once the health and social services reform may open up the market to new players.
Because the final scope of the health and social services reform is still unclear and is likely to change owing to conflicting political visions, it is yet impossible to forecast how exactly the reform would affect current legislation.
1 Kirsi Kannaste, partner, Terhi Kauti, counsel, and Leena Lindberg, partner, jointly head Krogerus Attorneys Ltd's healthcare and pharmaceuticals group.
2 The Constitution of Finland (731/1999), The Primary Health Care Act (66/1972).
3 The Act on Specialised Medical Care (1062/1989).
4 Occupational Health Care Act, 1383/2001.
5 The Health Insurance Act (1224/2004).
6 Primary healthcare includes health promotion, and any related provision of health counselling and health checks, oral healthcare, medical rehabilitation, occupational healthcare, environmental healthcare, as well as emergency medical care, outpatient care, home nursing, at-home hospital care and inpatient care, mental health services, and substance abuse services where these are not covered by social services or specialised medical care (See Health Care Act, 1326/2010).
7 See Act on Social and Healthcare Client Fees (734/1992) and Decree on Social and Healthcare Client Fees (912/1992).
8 Specialised medical care entails specialised medical and dental healthcare, services pertaining to preventing, diagnosing and treating illnesses, emergency medical service, emergency medical care and medical rehabilitation.
9 Private Health Care Act (152/1990), Private Social Care Act (922/2011).
10 Section 3 of Chapter 44 of the Criminal Act (39/1889).
11 Section 22 of the Private Health Care Act (152/1990).
12 See the Medicines Act (395/1987).
13 See the Act on Health Care Professionals (559/1994).
14 Helsinki Court of Appeal, judgment 112532, 30 March 2017.
15 The Patient Injuries Act (585/1986).
16 The Act on the Status and Rights of Patients (785/1992).
17 E.g., the Mental Health Act (1116/1990) and the Communicable Diseases Act (583/1986).
18 The Tort Liability Act (412/1974) and the Product Liability Act (694/1990).
19 Chapter 21, Sections 8–11 of the Criminal Code of Finland (39/1889).
20 Chapter 40, Section 9 of the Criminal Code of Finland (39/1889).
21 The Private Healthcare Act (152/1990).
22 The Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts (1397/2016).
23 The Market Court, case MAO:315:/18, 11 June 2018.
24 The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority: Report on supervision of public procurements on 2017, 26 April 2018.
25 The Consumer Protection Act (38/1978).
26 The Unfair Business Practices Act (1061/1978).
27 The Biobank Act (688/2012).
28 https://www.businessfinland.fi/en/whats-new/news/2018/personalized-health-program-begins/.
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Pre-merger competition review has advanced significantly since its creation in 1976 in the United States. As this book evidences, today almost all competition authorities have a notification process in place – with most requiring pre-merger notification for transactions that meet certain prescribed minimum thresholds.
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Coachella Band Preview: Kungs
Another week down, 11 more to go. It doesn’t feel like it at the end of January, but Coachella will be here before you know it. That’s why it’s time to preview another band performing in Indio this year. Like last week though, this week’s preview doesn’t feature a band (maybe I should change the name on these previews). It’s an electronic artist named Kungs.
Kungs is a French DJ whose real name is Valentin Brunel. He’s also only 20 years old (and freshly 20 might I add because his birthday was in December)! He grew up interested and involved in music with influences from his parents especially his dad who introduced him to rock n’ roll as well as other genres. By the age of 17, he began writing his own material and posting it to the internet. His remixes of Bob Marley’s “Jammin'” and Lost Frequencies’ “Are You With Me” as well as his Lana Del Rey “West Coast” cover ft. Molly have several million views on SoundCloud and Youtube. What turned into his breakthrough hit was released almost a year ago. It’s called “This Girl”, which he remixed. It was originally a 2009 song by Australian funk band Cookin’ On 3 Burners. It turned into a massive hit worldwide and paved the way for Kungs and his debut album Layers. The album was just released on November 4th.
Kungs electronic style is mostly house music. His particular style blends different genres of music together, which is what he aimed for on his debut album. I listened to the album a few weeks ago right before the Coachella lineup dropped and each song brings a different vibe. Besides “This Girl”, two of my favorites are “Don’t You Know” ft. Jamie N Commons and “Melody” ft. Luke Pritchard of The Kooks. I feel like both of those songs blend house with rock and indie rock, which might be why I like them so much. The album is so good that I actually took a little break while writing this to buy it online. So worth it. It’s that good.
I first heard Kungs via Instagram. A girl I follow posted a video with “This Girl” playing in the background. I didn’t take an interest in the song and it was kind of just “background music” for me. A few weeks later I found myself stuck with part of the song in my head and I couldn’t figure out where I knew the song from. It took me about a day before I realized it was the song from that Instagram video. Then about 2 weeks after that I stopped to visit my cousins before heading to the NWSL Semifinal. At dinner on the night I visited, my cousin started telling me about a song he was currently addicted to. It was, of course, “This Girl”. I didn’t recognize the song title or artist when he told me the name (cause I actually didn’t know who the artist was or what the song was called from that Instagram video), but once he played it I realized what I was listening to. The following week I added the song to my workout playlist and to my iTunes too. I was hooked on it ever since. Like I said I listened to Kungs’ debut album a few weeks ago and loved what I heard. I can’t wait to have the album in my grasp. Until then, I plan on doing some serious listening on Spotify.
Along with Coachella, Kungs is booked to play Europe’s biggest electronic music festival, Tomorrowland. I highly recommend seeing him play Coachella this year more than any other artist or band I preview. He’s already blowing up and there’s no doubt if he continues making solid music he’ll just get bigger. He’s not a highly billed artist at Coachella this year either and in my opinion there’s something special about seeing a band or artist before they reach headlining status. That’s not to say he won’t be given a spot later in the day. The kid has already opened for David Guetta on tour so I wouldn’t put it past him. He plays Friday. Here’s what you should know if you plan on seeing him (and you should!):
This Girl ( vs. Cookin’ On 3 Burners)
Melody (ft. Luke Pritchard)
Don’t You Know (ft. Jamie N Commons)
Crazy Enough (ft. Richard Judge)
Are You With Me (Kungs Remix)
I Feel So Bad (ft. Ephemerals)
Honestly, just listen to Layers and you should be good.
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MSU wellness center hosts 10th annual turkey trot
Jake Clancy, Reporter|November 16, 2018
Jeffrey Hamon, exercise physiology senior, runs in the Turkey Trot on Nov. 14.
Some 100 people participated in the Turkey Trot at Sikes Lake on Nov. 14. The Turkey Trot is an annual event put on by the Wellness Center. The entry fee for this event was a donation of a non-perishable food item. All donations went to Mustangs Pantry, the new food bank for students.
“We typically have a really good turnout for this event,” Angie Reay, wellness center director, said. “Not only with students but with faculty, alumni and community members. We’re more than happy to put on events like these.”
The first 100 participants received a long sleeve shirt with a Turkey Trot logo on it, and the first male winner and first female winner both received turkeys provided by the Wellness Center.
“I chose to participate because I just started running again,” Conner FitzHenry, criminal justice sophomore, said. “I don’t run 5k’s often, so I thought this would be some good practice.”
The participants ran three laps around Sikes Lake.
“My family is running one back at home so that helped motivate me to run this one,” Anna Kittelson, undecided freshman, said.”I don’t really like running, but it was really fun. It’s more fun with a lot of people participating.”
According to Teri Higgins, general business freshman, the only thing she didn’t like about the event was the amount of goose poop that she had to dodge during the run.
“We had to dodge it as we were running,” Higgins said. “I feel like they should have someone power wash the track before events like these.”
Tags: 5k, food, Midwestern State University, MSU Texas, mwsu, Thanksgiving, Turkey, Turkey Trot
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Tearing Down KIPP Charter Schools By Destroying Discipline
The no-nonsense charter school chain KIPP does good work getting inner city black and Latino kids to graduate from high school by emphasizing discipline, hard work, and fundamentals. As I wrote in 2015 in a review of historian Raymond Wolters book The Long Crusade:
A few reformers have actually done some good, usually by undoing the work of past gurus. Perhaps the most appealing figures in The Long Crusade are Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, who founded the KIPP charter-school chain in 1994 to offer discipline, hard work, and back-to-basics schooling to the fairly small percentage of slum students serious about earning a way out of the hood. Good kids deserve some breaks in life, such as getting to go to a school without a bunch of layabouts and knuckleheads.
Some of the success of KIPP is due to reviving many of the techniques of public order and respect used by schools before the ascendance of progressive education ideology in the late 1960s.
But now the forces of decay are out to get KIPP, too. From the New York Times news section:
Why Some of the Country’s Best Urban Schools Are Facing a Reckoning
Amid a growing backlash against charter schools, leaders within the movement are acknowledging that some criticism of their schools is warranted.
By Eliza Shapiro, July 5, 2019
When the charter school movement first burst on to the scene, its founders pledged to transform big urban school districts by offering low-income and minority families something they believed was missing: safe, orderly schools with rigorous academics.
But now, several decades later, as the movement has expanded, questions about whether its leaders were fulfilling their original promise to educate vulnerable children better than neighborhood public schools have mounted.
When Richard Buery took over last year as the head of policy at KIPP, the nation’s largest charter network, he began to ask the same questions.
He was used to challenging charter schools after years as a top deputy to Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is skeptical of the schools.
Mr. Buery, who is black and grew up in East New York, Brooklyn, noticed that black and Hispanic students in KIPP schools were sometimes being disciplined too harshly by their white teachers. The network’s high schools had impressive academic results and graduation rates, but their students then struggled in college. And KIPP executives’ relationships with elected officials were fraying.
In response, Mr. Buery adopted an unusual strategy: He publicly declared that some of the criticism of KIPP — and the charter movement in general — was merited, and announced that KIPP needed to change for it to continue to thrive. …
“The stereotypes of the sector — there’s a reality behind them,” Mr. Buery said, referring to criticism of how charters handle discipline, race and politics. “It’s up to us to demonstrate, visibly, that we are better than the stereotype and striving to be better than what we are.”
The leaders of KIPP STAR in Harlem said having more teachers of color has naturally led to an easing of strict discipline in the school.
The college graduation rate for KIPP alumni is about 35 percent, above the national average for low-income students but not nearly as high as its founders had envisioned. After years of attempts to help KIPP alumni graduate, the network is proposing new solutions, which it hopes other schools will emulate.
The network has also recently challenged President Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, perhaps the nation’s most prominent charter supporter, for reversing an Obama-era policy aimed at reducing racial disparities in discipline.
So far, New York’s progressive politicians seem unconvinced….
“It’s not every day you see a principal who looks like me,” said Brandi Vardiman, the principal of KIPP STAR, a Harlem elementary school, on a recent morning as she passed pictures of students and teachers in Black Lives Matter shirts. About 70 percent of STAR’s staff is black or Hispanic, one of the highest rates of KIPP’s 13 New York schools.
Mr. Buery is part of a push to reverse the norm of mostly black and Hispanic charters in New York being staffed mainly by white teachers. Studies have found that black students who have even one black teacher are more likely to go to college than black students who do not. KIPP hired a chief diversity officer to promote “anti-racist practices.”
Ms. Vardiman created a class for students to learn about the Harlem Renaissance and the effects of gentrification on the neighborhood. She rephrased word problems in math classes: “Instead of, ‘Sally went to the store to buy five apples’, it might be instead, ‘Maria went to the bodega to get three avocados.’” …
Eliza Shapiro is a reporter covering New York City education. She joined The Times in 2018. Eliza grew up in New York City and attended public and private schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn. @elizashapiro
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WASHINGTON POST Gets Hysterical Over Legal Deportations
Brenda Walker
On Sunday, the Washington Post cranked up its Terrorized Migrant meme to the max, with adjectives galore in the face of approaching lawful deportations. The front page featured a scary headline in the upper right corner (shown) although the huge California earthquake got the central photo.
An uninformed reader might think that President Trump is a meanie racist who hates foreigners, judging from the overwrought verbiage more suitable to a tabloid than the capitol city newspaper.
In fact, the deportees have gone through all the court proceedings and have been found to require removal. Presumably, the aliens will choose to take their kids along home which would be natural, though the Post worried a lot about Families and The Children.
Here’s the online version with a slightly different headline:
Fear of immigration raids looms as plans for ICE ‘family operation’ move forward, Washington Post, July 6, 2019
President Trump said his administration will move forward “fairly soon” with a plan to arrest thousands of migrant families in surprise roundups across major U.S. cities, with the two-week deadline he imposed on Democrats coming up on Saturday.
Trump tipped off the mass arrests in a June 17 tweet, vowing “millions” of deportations, but called them off five days later. The president tweeted that he delayed the raids for two weeks at Democrats’ request, “to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border.”
“If not,” he wrote, “Deportations start!”
Trump’s threats have left immigrants living in the United States illegally in a fog of dread, putting neighborhoods on edge and making residents fear venturing outside.
Eva, who works at a plant nursery in Homestead, Fla., said she has stopped going to the park and makes trips to the grocery store every few weeks.
“I don’t know when I leave in the morning if I’ll come home in the night,” said Eva, who arrived illegally 19 years ago from Mexico and whose teen daughter is a U.S. citizen.
“They could come and get me at any time,” she said, asking for her last name to be withheld for fear it could help ICE find her. (Continues)
Below, the United States cannot be the Welfare/Employment Office to the World, so deportations must go forward. Foreigners need to stay home and fix their own countries because billions cannot come here.
Meanwhile, the new acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli was doing the rounds of the Sunday shows with a lot more facts. He appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation and the 12-minute discussion was surprisingly rational.
Here’s a snip from the transcript that refers to the deportations:
CBS INTERVIEWER MARGARET BRENNAN: So what is the administration going to do?
KEN CUCCINELLI: Well, essentially at this point it’s been put in Matt Albence’s hand, the acting director at ICE. He’s a career ICE officer, came up through the ranks and they’re ready to just perform their mission which is to go and find and detain and then deport the approximately one million people who have final removal orders. They’ve been all the way through the due process and have final removal orders. Who among those will be targeted for this particular effort, or not, is really just information kept within ICE at this point.
BRENNAN: So there had been reports that this would be just in the thousands. You’re saying the roundups will be far larger scale.
CUCCINELLI: No, no I’m just pointing out that the pool of those with final removal orders is enormous. And, it’s important to note, here we are talking about ICE doing its job as if it’s special. And really this should be going on on a rolling basis for ICE and they’ve been interfered with effectively and held up by the politics of Washington to a certain extent and they’re looking forward to just getting back to doing their job.
BRENNAN: Well, the Trump administration has deported far fewer people than the Obama administration had.
CUCCINELLI: Thus far. Thus far, that’s right. Well, and of course ICE has been, for much of the Trump Administration, has been swamped with — they’re in the second stage of the border crisis. We focus so much on the Border Patrol. But the reason you see overcrowding in those facilities is because they can’t be moved to the facilities where they were expected to go and those are ICE facilities because the ICE facilities themselves are over capacity. So the whole pipeline is clogged and ICE is backing up the Border Patrol in the southwest border.
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Grand Theft Auto V sales climb past 85 million, increasing by 5 million since May
Mike Minotti@tolkoto November 7, 2017 1:50 PM
Above: Money. You know how I love money!
Image Credit: Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Auto V came out in 2013, and it is still selling millions of copies. Take-Two revealed today as part of its financials for the second quarter that total sales for the open-world game are now at over 85 million.
Grand Theft Auto V originally released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but the newer versions on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC have kept the game going. Rockstar Games supports its online multiplayer, Grand Theft Auto Online, with a constant stream of updates that add new vehicles and multiplayer modes. Players spend real cash to help unlock cars, clothing, and more.
Just this May, GTAV’s sales were at 80 million. So it has sold another 5 million since then. Grand Theft Auto V’s relevancy so long after release is an abnormally for triple-A gaming, and it’s one that has brought in a lot of money for Take-Two.
Rockstar Games is now working on Red Dead Redemption 2, another open-world experience that will have an online component. It is coming out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One during the second quarter of 2018.
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Jerusalem – Been There
Reliving Jesus' betrayal at the Mount of Olives
Photo by Ton Koene
Jerusalem – Been There Reliving Jesus' betrayal at the Mount of Olives
Outside the walls of Old Jerusalem, the historic city’s magic continues with the legendary Mount of Olives rising up in the east.
Andy Mossack
The distinct shape of the Seven Arches Hotel at its summit often glints bright in the sunlight, a direct contrast to the golden glow from the Dome of the Rock far below. It is a 760-meter climb to the top but a sherut – a shared taxi – takes me to the summit, where I plan what to see during a gentler stroll down.
The southwest slopes of the Mount of Olives have been used as a place of Jewish burial since biblical times and, according to Jewish tradition, it is where the resurrection will begin when the Messiah finally comes. The cemetery now holds more than 150,000 souls, many dating back over 3,000 years. There are some notable names interred here, both in the cemetery itself and in various churches nearby. Among them are King David’s son Absalom, former prime-minister Menachem Begin and his wife Aliza, and even Princess Alice, mother of Philip Duke of Edinburgh, and the Hollywood-immortalized Oskar Schindler.
The Tomb of the Virgin Mary, the Cave of Betrayal and the Garden of Gethsemane lie suitably close to each other at the base of the Mount, befitting the drama played out there. Standing next to Gethsemane’s ancient olive trees, a biblical picture opens up in my mind and I silently relive the story of Jesus’ betrayal.
Other stories about Jerusalem
Centuries come and go
Hello Jerusalem, where three sabbaths are celebrated by the many different religions who see this ancient city as a centerpiece of their faith. From the time of the Old Testament, through the Ottomans and Crusaders, to the birth of Israel and the modern battles for control of the Holy Places, it has seen the centuries come and go and remains a place of living history.
How to photograph the regulars at the Western Wall
In Jerusalem my challenge was to get permission to photograph the regulars at the Western Wall. Not an easy task for a man with a camera who could pass for just a tourist.
Jerusalem’s center of faith
The Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem eventually leads to the holiest spot in the Christian faith, the magnificent Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the hill where Jesus was crucified, laid to rest and resurrected.
Managing God's letter box
The Western Wall – the ancient limestone wall in Jerusalem’s Old City which once supported the sacred Second Temple – is the holiest place on earth for the Jewish people.
A perfect example of political incorrectness
In Jerusalem, I follow a rather innocuous ramp just to the right of the Western Wall that gives access, after a rigorous search, to one of the holiest sites in Islam. But this is no Mosque.
Visiting the holiest spot in the Christian faith
The Arab souk of Jerusalem has no shortage of tawdry souvenir shops, and vendors promising to sell me “a piece of the actual cross” are commonplace but I ignore all this and just revel in its sights, sounds and smells.
Why Hezekiah’s Tunnel is a special place for me
Hezekiah’s Tunnel is the highlight to my visit to the ancient City of David in Jerusalem. As I’m wading through its waters of living history, I get goose bumps all over.
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Person to Know: Industrial Designer Olivia Lee
By Sinéad Tan
Art & Design /26 May 2017
Singaporean industrial designer Olivia Lee is currently in the spotlight for her well-received installation at Milan Design Week 2017.
Olivia Lee made waves most recently when her installation at Salone del Mobile 2017 in Milan, Italy, was roundly praised in the international press. The 32-year-old Singaporean exhibited the Athena Collection at SaloneSatellite, the emerging design platform of the annual furniture fair. The collection and its designer received effusive reviews and made Best-Of lists compiled by renowned industry publications and websites.
The Athena Collection is “an ode to the contemporary woman”, comprising 10 pieces of furniture and home accessories intended to solve lifestyle problems arising from modern-day technology. Among the objects on show were a pastel pink vanity table with a stand on which to prop up an iPhone while FaceTiming or taking selfies, and a cheerfully-patterned carpet with tactile details to create a safe physical space for those experimenting with virtual reality headsets.
From the Athena Collection (2017): The ALTAR vanity set, shown with a table mirror attachment.
“I describe the Athena Collection as a smart-home concept without the use of electronic components – an analogue smart-home,” says Lee. “It represents my love of technology and the future, as well as my love of objects and creating beautiful things. I felt that there was an opportunity to bring these two things together.”
“I tried to bridge the relationship between technology and our physical environment without being intrusive or making ‘Frankenstein objects’. I’ve seen other items that try to bring (technology and design) together, and it ends up as something like a lamp that that suddenly wants to have Bluetooth, or a pillow that is also a wi-fi router – a madness of just trying to put the Internet on everything. I felt that there was another way of approaching it, by being true to the characteristics of furniture whilst embracing the tide of technology.”
The EMBLEM wall grid system from the Athena Collection (2017), which fulfils the functions of storage, acoustic buffering, and temporary seating.
The genesis of the Athena Collection was in Lee’s own observations about how our lives have changed as a result of technology. In fact, her qualities of curiosity, open-mindedness and perceptiveness have facilitated much of her creative work. “Everything inspires me!” she enthuses. “Sometimes I like to deliberately step outside the world of design and do something totally different, like take care of my plants, or learn how to cook something, or go see a history exhibition. I always make it a point to read up voraciously and keep up with good Netflix programmes. I find that the further away you are from the thing that you do on a day-to-day basis, the more refreshed you come back to that medium. I think it’s good to keep your net cast very wide – the more broadly you scatter your interest points, the bigger area you have to draw inspiration from.”
It may very well be that Lee is primed to perceive the world through a more inventive lens than most. The Central Saint Martins graduate was born into a family of art-lovers and grew up watching her parents – both of whom trained in graphic design – working with gouaches, Letraset typesetting systems and analogue photography at home. Naturally, they were supportive when young Lee regularly switched ambitions from becoming an astronaut, to a philosopher, to a detective, to an architect, to a poet (all professions involving an aspect of creation and discovery, she points out), and continued to be supportive when she eventually pursued industrial design as a career.
The ARENA rug, made from acrylic yarn and designed for the Athena Collection (2017).
Lee explains that an industrial designer, as opposed to an artist or any other kind of designer, works closely with businesses that involve skilled manufacture. “We’re trained to design any kind of product that has the potential to be reproduced for mass-market,” she elaborates. Her portfolio includes collaborations with Korean electronics behemoth Samsung, British heritage brand Mathmos, and the crowd-favourite i Light Marina Bay Festival.
The guiding principle underlying all of Lee’s design ventures is her desire to find a balance between form and function. “I think beauty has a bit of a bad reputation – people tend to think that if you talk about it, you’re superficial. But I feel that a quality of beauty is more than just the appearance of a thing: it can be the way it makes you feel, the way it harmonises with the rest of the environment, or the way it’s been executed.”
She also has a particular predilection for storytelling as an angle from which to begin the creative process, regardless of format or medium. Likening the process to planning a surprise party, she derives joy from being able to interact with and delight the audience, be it through telling a good story, presenting something witty or surprising, or incorporating an element of playfulness. This sentiment was unmissable in Lee’s 2015 project, the Marvellous Marble Factory, which was created using materials from Polystone (local importers of marble and natural stone) and was on display at that year’s Singaplural design event.
Pieces of marble and other natural stone made to look like a box of candy at the Marvellous Marble Factory installation (2015).
The installation featured pieces of marble in the forms of ice-cream and candy, presented alongside an artificial factory set-up replete with a conveyor belt and machines made from old appliance parts. Lee expanded upon the inversion of experiences and the theme of presenting a traditional material in an unexpected manner by distributing ice-cream named after types of marble. “People thought they were eating marble-flavoured ice-cream!” she laughs. “I’ve always loved the qualities of wonder and a sense of humor. Being able to inject that in my work is great.”
In addition to her upcoming projects with a multitude of brands both international and local (Scottish whisky distillery Balvenie and independent Singaporean book-binder Bynd Artisan, respectively), Lee keeps busy running Wonder Facility, a co-working space for creatives that she established in 2016. The 1,000 sq ft studio located in an industrial estate is comfortable, bright and airy, with a fully-stocked pantry, plenty of tropical plants, and the resident artists’ works lined up on shelves beside tchotchkes and souvenirs. “Wonder Facility has been specially put together to create a sense of home, as a rejection to the super-slick corporate office environment,” she says. “I feel like this is a space that is trying to be human and not trying to be overly polished at the same time.”
While the trend of co-working spaces has been on the rise in recent years, Lee started Wonder Facility in order to fill a niche. As an introvert, the existing spaces were lively and conducive to networking but didn’t appeal to her need for a quiet, subdued environment. At the same time, she realised that many independent creators here are composed of teams of only one or two people, and understood the loneliness of working on one’s own every day. Consequently, she decided to set up a space where artists could work in relative solitude while still having the opportunity to learn from the expertise and ideas of others in a small community.
Ice-cream made from onyx and marble at the Marvellous Marble Factory installation (2015).
“Things have transformed so radically in the last five years,” she says, reflecting on the growth of the design community in Singapore. “When I first returned (from college in London) the scene wasn’t so bustling. It was around the time that Art Stage had just opened here, and there weren’t as many eponymous studios or much of an established design scene. The momentum was just starting to build, and it was a nice opportunity for (artists) to write our own roles and be part of the new wave that was coming up in Singapore.”
Lee excitedly references the introduction of Singapore Design Week in 2014, the increasing number of independent magazines, and the entrepreneurial spirit of fresh art school graduates as evidence of the positive growth of the country’s arts and culture scene. “We have a thriving network of designers, illustrators, graphic designers, branding agencies...it’s so exciting! I can see the same energy that I experienced when I was living in a young, creative design neighbourhood in London picking up here.”
Part of the Athena Collection (2017), the DAIS system of tray tables can be used for work or leisure and feature secondary storage space.
She contrasts the current terrain with the traditional Singaporean assumption that creative fields are the domain of the academically weak (Lee herself is an alum of the prestigious Raffles Girls’ School and Raffles Junior College), standing in opposition to “sensible” pursuits in the vein of law, medicine, and engineering. Despite the improving perception of the respectability and legitimacy of careers in the arts, she highlights that the challenge of helping people understand the importance of the arts in society remains.
“We want people to see that design and creative work are valuable, not luxuries that are good to have but ultimately unnecessary,” she says. “Businesses, especially traditional ones, have to recognise that design is a very powerful tool for innovation and creating new value. This is especially true now that technology is beginning to disrupt professions and industries – there’s even talk of AI replacing humans in the fields of medicine and law, so even those aren’t stable. All of a sudden, the beliefs that people have held onto in the past are no longer valid.”
Lee’s wish is for Singaporean audiences to be more receptive toward local content, and to move beyond the idea that design in Singapore is not of an international standard or that only design work from overseas is masterful. She is optimistic that this change is already beginning to take root here. With enterprising, passionate creatives like her in the industry, the future of Singapore’s design scene is promising indeed.
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Cancer and the Precautionary Principle
by Janet Maker, Ph.D. | Oct 1, 2018 | Blog post | 2 comments
Seventy percent of people with breast cancer have none of the known risk factors, like early puberty, late menopause, or family history of cancer. This suggests that most breast cancer is caused by carcinogens in the environment, and there is a great deal of evidence that carcinogens in food, water, air, and industrial, agricultural, and consumer products are the principal cause of cancer.
Many corporations have responded to this evidence by hiring scientists to show that their products are perfectly safe; by lobbying Congress to keep consumers in the dark by preventing labeling; by prosecuting whistleblowers; and by lobbying for international trade deals that prevent governments from protecting their own citizens. It’s very clear that many corporations put profits ahead of public safety.
Government, both state and federal, is of far less help than it could be. The sad truth about politicians is that most of them will do what it takes to keep their jobs, and what it takes in the U.S. is a pile of money to fund their constant campaigning. Most politicians solicit corporate cash, and they claim that taking the money does not influence the way they legislate. The fact is that they have not been doing a responsible job at protecting public health.
One thing that many other countries, including those in the European Union, do to protect public health is to invoke the precautionary principle. The precautionary principle says that any new substance or technology that industry wants to introduce into the food supply or the environment must be proven safe before it can be approved. An easy way to think of it is “better safe than sorry.” The precautionary principle is a risk management tool. It recognizes that some potential damages to public health and to the environment cannot be scientifically proven at this time, and it puts the burden of proof of safety on industry. The U.S. does pretty much the opposite: it allows the substance or the technology to be released (sometimes with sketchy safety evidence provided by the manufacturer) until it is proven harmful. The precautionary principle gives greater weight to protection of public health and the environment than to business interests; the U.S. does the opposite.
National, state, and local governments all over the world have tried to use the precautionary principle with varying degrees of success. In the U.S., some government bodies have adopted the precautionary principle for some purposes. For example, members of the Bay Area Working Group on the Precautionary Principle, including the Breast Cancer Fund, helped bring about a 2005 ordinance which requires the City of San Francisco to use the precautionary principle in weighing the environmental and health costs of all its purchases.
Some corporations have voluntarily adopted the precautionary principle as a basis for making at least some of their decisions. This means they might balance their need for profits against possible future harm. For example, a company might stop using ingredients that were suspected carcinogens rather than waiting until science had proof that they caused cancer, even though this decision might cost the company more. Of course, companies are much more motivated to do the right thing when consumers demand products that are free of suspected toxins.
The precautionary principle is usually opposed by conservative groups, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. On its website, the U.S. Chamber says its strategy is to “Oppose the domestic and international adoption of the precautionary principle as a basis for regulatory decision making.”
As global climate change adversely impacts economic growth, the right-wing corporate elites are counting on new technologies to save the global economy. One is genetic engineering, which is creating entirely new organisms (GMOs) that don’t exist in nature. Another is geo-engineering, which aims to alter the weather to counteract global warming (also used for military purposes). Another is nanotechnology, which manipulates atoms and molecules. What could go wrong? How do they affect cancer? It would seem that if ever the precautionary principle were called for, that time is now. However, so long as corporations have the ability to corrupt politicians with money, we as citizens will be subjects in a global science experiment without our consent.
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Brenau Chief of Staff Jody Wall had a bit of trouble getting work done in her office last week, as the film crew worked to capture sound and video as part of the production for a cable television network broadcast related to Brenau's role in helping solve the mystery of what happened to the "Lost Colony of Roanoke." Don't worry: Unlike the English settlers in 1580s North Carolina, Wall returned to her "island" the next day.
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It Takes a Village, and Sometimes Jody’s Office, to Tell The Dare Stone Story
When temperatures on the Brenau Gainesville campus smolder into the 90s, it can mean only one thing: It is time to film the latest installment in the continuing saga of Brenau’s famous Dare Stones. Although this year’s version is not as big a production as last year’s, which aired nationwide in the fall as a two-hour special on the cable network History, essentially the same core crew showed up again this week to begin work on a segment that is planned for possible fall broadcast. We can’t tell you a lot about it at this time because it is secret. We will say, however, that it features the university’s plans to pick up on some earlier historical, geological and architectural research into the origins of the original Dare Stone.
Schrader on camera in his office explains to the Vieira brothers the geological nature of the first stone which he says should drive future inquiries.
For those not in the know, the original stone, purportedly containing a hand-carved message from colonist Eleanor Dare, surfaced in the late 1930s bearing possible chiseled-in-stone evidence regarding the fate of the so-called “Lost Colony” that disappeared from Roanoke Island on the North Carolina coast in the later 1580s.
The story last year – which included actors in 1930s attire, some arriving and departing in vintage automobiles, filmed on the hottest day of the year – focused in docudrama style on how Brenau came to own the first stone and its companions of dubious value and authenticity. It was a huge production. The front campus looked like a film set because it was. The final production you can see at https://www.brenau.edu/darestones/.
Let’s do the science: Schrader and the company in a geology lab at the University of North Carolina in Asheville prepare for the real work of determining the origin of the initial stone.
That program, along with some extreme advances in geology and other research, convinced Brenau President Ed Schrader that the time could be ripe for the university to move beyond housing rocks valuable only as periodic cable TV curiosities and to lay out a plan for some serious and beneficial scientific and academic research. Schrader, who is a geologist-turned-university president, suggested something of a Mayo Clinic-type approach – bringing in people from a wide variety of academic, scientific and research disciplines to investigate the stones collaboratively rather than in one-off inquiries in their own fields of interest. The idea, as Schrader pointed out in an article in The Wall Street Journal earlier this year, is to keep the focus as much as possible on real science- and fact-based research instead of chasing diverse bits of unconnected “evidence” related to the host of myths and conjecture that have emerged.
However, TV’s still interested. Indeed, just as the History-sanctioned crew was scheduled to arrive on campus, we received a call from a producer of yet another program on another network who is interested in the Dare Stones as well.
The History production crew spent virtually the whole day Monday, June 20, in and around the president’s office. As the photos here suggest, you may have noticed. In addition to camera, sound, lighting and location personnel, we had a couple of producer/directors and the on-air “talent,” including the Massachusetts-based stone-cutting brothers Jim and Bill Vieira who were featured in last year’s program. Then, the next day the whole bunch – including Schrader and some of the stones – decamped for Asheville, North Carolina, for some pretty full days of shooting on Tuesday and Wednesday as the scientific analysis of the stones commenced.
We will provide details on the broadcast schedule, probably in mid to late fall, as we can.
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Carol Stories, week 3
December 18, 2014 utphallChristmas Truce 1914, indigenous favorites, Malawi, names, peace, Silent Night, That Boy-Child of Mary, Tom Colvin, World War I Leave a comment
That Boy-Child of Mary (ELW #293, 1, 2, & 4)
We’re going to end our carol stories for the year with perhaps the most beloved and familiar carol. With my mostly-German background, that one feels like part of me, the way some of you Norvegian-types respond to Jeg er sa glad. Among our collection, there’s also Polish (Infant Holy, Infant Lowly), plenty of English, as we’ve heard, including some specifically Wesleyan for the Methodist contingent, Danish (Your Little Ones, Dear Lord are We), French (Angels We Have Heard on High), truly American (Away in a Manger) and truly, actually real American (‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime). We could go on in claiming our indigenous favorites.
But now we’re going to one that won’t strike probably any of us in that way of matching our own heritage. That Boy-Child of Mary is one of only three we haven’t sung in these midweek services, and that’s probably because it’s not very familiar or intimate or dear to us. So far.
This one comes to us (with a technicality) separate from European heritage. Now, that doesn’t exclude it automatically from being dear. Go Tell it on the Mountain is often a favorite, even though most of us aren’t of African American background. Last week we ended by singing #297, Jesus, What a Wonderful Child, which is getting to be a fun favorite here. And #280 is a Chinese one I really like, but try not to make you sing too much.
That Boy-Child of Mary comes from Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa, surrounded by Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Tanzania, which I’m letting you know just because they’re fun names to say. Similarly, I could tell you it’s not so near to Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, or farmer Tony in the city of Brazzaville, Congo.
Tom Colvin, who wrote this and also #708 Jesu, Jesu Fill Us with Your Love, was a missionary from Scotland. You can determine for yourself whether that technicality infects its African heritage with more of a global flair. He and his wife lived in Africa for 20 years, mostly in Malawi, and continued to return often in work for the World Council of Churches. His ministry especially focused on community development and refugee resettlement, but he also had a special concern that African Christians be able to use their own musical heritage, so that’s why he used a traditional tune for this carol.
In the words, the focus on giving the name is important for that culture, where a name given to a child expresses hopes or aspirations for what she or he would become. Eight days after a child is born (just like we’ll hear for Jesus in the Bible reading), it’s a big ceremony, with a fancy meal. Family members submit possible names and the father announces them and their meaning. At the end, the name is revealed, and everyone gets to hold the baby. So this is a baby-naming song for Jesus, and our gathering is also a chance to hold him and hope in him. Let’s sing.
Silent Night, Holy Night (ELW #281, German & stanza 1)
Something a little different. This will officially be the 3rd time we’ve done Silent Night during these midweek services. But it is the 1st time that I’ve shown you a video instead of blathering on and…well mostly instead of that.
I’m still going to say a few words after. To start, just a bit of introduction. We’re going to watch a new three minute commercial, which portrays a historical event (or, since they’re Brits in the video, “an historical” event) that actually happened 100 years ago, during the first Christmas during World War I, and it’s an important part of this carol’s history. Listen for Silent Night near the start, both in German and English. You’ll also hear Hymn #774 put to good use.
I’ve said each week that what makes carols and hymns worthwhile is that they become part of our own stories. Well, if this hadn’t happened there’s even a chance we wouldn’t be singing Silent Night. Those German soldiers helped introduce it to English speakers, and also to spread the popularity of Christmas trees. Imagine Christmas without this carol and with no Christmas trees.
Now, I don’t really like that this amazing piece of history is getting used for marketing, for consumerism, for trying to get you to buy stuff. Imagine Christmas without ads and manipulation and commodification.
And, while you’re imagining, imagine Christmas with no war. I know this sounds John Lennon-y, of “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” and all, but that’s actually part of this carol’s history. That truce that had 100,000 enemy soldiers celebrating Christmas together was almost contagious in its spread. And once you’ve played soccer with someone and traded hats and looked at photos of their loved ones and sung Silent Night, you’re less likely to shoot them the next day. It’s called fraternizing, literally meaning “becoming brothers.” So it almost meant the end of that battle, and maybe of war. Instead, commanding officers issued orders to squash it, and quickly, to get the men to be enemies again. The manipulation isn’t just from stores trying to profit, but from whatever it is that drives nations to violence.
And yet, here is this carol, that almost ended war, that brought opponents together, all because of baby Jesus. This is what he does: makes us all sisters and brothers. And sometimes we really get it. Sleep in heavenly peace, indeed! For a sense of it, let’s sing, letting our voices mingle in German and English.
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Ethnotourism at Blouberg in the Limpopo Province: a quest for sustainability
Fourie, Marike
Limpopo (South Africa)
Blouberg is situated in the Limpopo Province, west of the Soutpansberg, in the Republic of South Africa. The majestic Blouberg Mountain is a 2000-meter high prominence inhabited by a Sotho-speaking community whom live in relative isolation. The area is rich with a diverse range of natural elements: tree species, birds, animals and geographic features as well as cultural heritage. The camp, which is located on top of Blouberg, is a prime example of government-initiated community development. This tourist camp was established on the mountain with the objective that the local community would manage it for their own benefit. The community on Blouberg has strong cultural beliefs and heritage resources, which proves to have immense potential for ethnotourism development. However, cultural heritage and natural resources are also extremely vulnerable to over-exploitation and over-development, which consequently creates a need for sustainable management. The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic analysis of sustainable ethnotourism on Blouberg in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. It acknowledges the multidisciplinary limitations and challenges that sustainable ethnotourism development presents, especially in rural communities such as the Hananwa at Blouberg. With regard to contemporary tourism development in the Limpopo Province, there seems to be a sense of expectation amongst local communities. This study investigates whether the full potential of the Blouberg camp is being achieved and whether the need for sustainable management exists. A sustainable management plan requires accurate research, evaluation of resources and the analysis of potential opportunities. Although there is limited information available regarding the opportunities, threats, impacts and effects of ethnotourism in South Africa, it is possible to integrate existing literature with principles of sustainable development to create a valuable framework to evaluate ethnotourism on Blouberg.
Prof. G. Verhoef
ETDs Ethnotourism at Blouberg in the Limpopo Province: a quest for sustainability
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Ugandan Gay Activist Killed in Cold Blood: Were Christians Accomplices in His Murder?
Kampala, Uganda – Prominent defender of Gay Rights in Uganda, David Kato, was murdered in his home by two blows with a hammer this Wednesday. Kato, 40-something at the time of his slaughter, was a well-known voice around the world for human rights, and an outspoken leader protesting Draconian legislation in his home country which would make consensual same-sex activity punishable by law, perhaps even requiring the state to execute convicted homosexuals. What responsibility does the Christian Church bear for the outrageous murder of David Kato? Many in Uganda, including leading church officials, priests, missionaries, and ministers, fervently believe in a sort of “gay conspiracy”on the part of same-sex loving men whom they say will infect their children with the “virus of homosexuality.” Friday, Kato’s funeral was marred by the homophobic outburst of an Anglican priest, Fr. Thomas Musoke, who loudly invoked dire comparisons with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah until mourners wrenched a microphone out of his hands, according to 365 Gay. The Ugandan Anglican Church, active in encouraging resistance among conservative Episcopalians to the elevation of gays and lesbians as bishops in the United States in recent years, is well-known for opposing LGBTQ rights in the Central African nation. Christian evangelical missionaries and so-called “experts” on homosexual sin from the United States, such as the notorious Watchman on the Walls Scott Lively, have preached the judgment of God on the Ugandan people if gays and lesbians are allowed to live and love openly in society. U.S. evangelicals exerting influence in Uganda teach that gays and lesbians could be changed to heterosexuality by prayer and counseling if they had enough faith. According to masslive.com, Lively, part of a 2009 evangelical mission to Uganda preaching anti-gay messages to officials and churchmen (Lively even spoke before the Ugandan Parliament during the tour), now says that it is “too early to call Kato’s murder a hate crime,” since the police have rushed to claim that the murder was the consequence of a simple robbery. In rebuttal, Val Kalende, chairwoman of an LGBT human rights group in Uganda said to the New York Times, “David’s death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by U.S. evangelicals in 2009. The Ugandan government and the so-called U.S. evangelicals must take responsibility for David’s blood.” Indeed, well-funded groups such as the shadowy Washington C Street evangelical organization, “The Family,” have sent funds and encouragement for the “Kill The Gays” legislations still making its way through the Ugandan Parliament. M.P. David Bahati, primary sponsor of anti-gay legislation in Uganda, is affiliated with “The Family.” NPR host, Michel Martin, explored the culpability of Christians for Kato’s murder with guests on her weekday broadcast, “Tell Me More,” this Friday. Martin interviewed Jeffery Gettleman, East Africa Bureau chief for the New York Times, asking him directly, “This has also been a big story in the United States, of course, because of the participation of a group of American evangelicals whom we also interviewed on this program. One in particular named Scott Lively, who many human rights activists have said helped to create this context of intolerance. Do you think that that’s true? Do you think the American evangelicals’ visit there was really that influential?” Gettleman replied, “I do think it was influential. I think a lot of people in Uganda and the part of Africa where I live, in Kenya and most of this continent and probably most of this world, there’s many people who are homophobic. But it didn’t take a violent form. It was – people thought that, in Uganda, people thought gay people were strange, that they were outliers, but they weren’t really fired up to do anything about it.” Gettleman continued, “It was only after the visits by these Americans who billed themselves as experts in dealing with homosexual issues that the Ugandan politicians and church groups got really angry about it and suggested killing gay people.” Religious hate speech, whether “soft” in its rhetoric (“Love the Sinner/Hate the Sin”), or blatantly hostile (“Gays and Lesbians are an Abomination in God’s Sight, and Deserve to Die”) has consequences for the safety of LGBTQ people wherever they live. This is certainly true, in our opinion, in Central Africa. David Kato was deservedly called “the father of the Uganda gay rights movement.” In the wave of hostility in tabloid media toward LGBTQ people following the 2009 U.S. evangelical tour of Uganda, Kato’s lynching was suggested in the press. When Christian leaders justify the demonization of LGBTQ people for their sexual orientation or gender presentation, either by selectively quoting scripture and subsequently distorting its life-giving meaning, or by reading their own homophobia back into church teaching to claim that “Gays and Lesbians are sinners,” these clerics are not only exposing a vulnerable minority to religious, political, and social persecution. They are also exposing their own theology and ethics as woefully bankrupt and void of spiritual integrity. Clerics in Uganda and the United States who stoke hatred against LGBTQ people are no longer messengers of God. They have become a mob of theological thugs. Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Capetown, Desmond Tutu, is one of the few courageous voices of Christian integrity in Africa willing to speak out against religious intolerance and hate speech. In the Washington Post last March, Archbishop Tutu appealed for the church to own up to its role in fomenting hatred against gays and lesbians, and instead to commit its resources for repentance and reconciliation for all people. He said, in part, “Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity — or because of their sexual orientation.” Tutu continued, “Our lesbian and gay brothers and sisters across Africa are living in fear. And they are living in hiding — away from care, away from the protection the state should offer to every citizen and away from health care in the AIDS era, when all of us, especially Africans, need access to essential HIV services. That this pandering to intolerance is being done by politicians looking for scapegoats for their failures is not surprising. But it is a great wrong. An even larger offense is that it is being done in the name of God. Show me where Christ said ‘Love thy fellow man, except for the gay ones.’ Gay people, too, are made in my God’s image. I would never worship a homophobic God.” Amen, Archbishop! Tutu must be joined by a world-wide chorus of Christian voices denouncing the murder of David Kato, the terrorization of his LGBTQ brothers and sisters, and renouncing the use of religion to incite bigotry and fear. Unless the world Christian community repents of its role in murder and mayhem like that in Uganda and Central Africa, Christian theology itself will continue to collapse from “heart-failure”–failing to discern and apply the heart of the message of Jesus Christ which was never bad tidings of fear, but Good News of mercy and justice for everyone.
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By Daniel Van Moll
Around 400 people, about the half of them children, are forced to work illegally on one of the biggest garbage dumps of Delhi, India earning just a few cents everyday for sorting the garbage of one of the biggest cities in India.
Trekking the Annapurna Circuit
Annapurna Massif
By Noe Falk Nielsen
Every year around 50,000 trekkers trek around the Annapurna Massif making it one of the more popular treks in the world. Despite the number of trekkers introducing tourism as a stable source of income in the region, some of the inhabitants are still going about their business as they have done for hundreds of years. This collection is a visual journey following the Annapurna Circuit from Buhlebuhle to the world highest pass, the Thorong La Pass (5416 meters above sea level) and down to Muktinah on the other side depicting the scenery, while pausing to explore the life of the local inhabitants as they navigate in an ever changing world.
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Two children are carrying grass to sell in a local market.
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Old Nepalese woman carding wool on the main street of Muktinath (3800 meters altitude) 121 kilometres into the trek. As with Manang Muktinath is the main hub coming down from the pass and as such largely dependent on tourism.
Grandmother and grandchild at the former's shop in Muktinath (3800 meters altitude) 121 kilometres into the trek on 24 March 2015. With 50,000 tourists passing through Muktinath every year money has made Muktinath into a somewhat prosperous town and most inhabitants are in one way or another engaged in the tourists industry.
Child Labor In Bangladesh
Child labor in Bangladesh is common, with 4.7 million or 12.6% of children aged below 14 in the work force. Out of the child laborers engaged in the work force, 83% are employed in rural areas and 17% are employed in urban areas. Employment ranges from brick fields, garbage collecting, street hawker, different factories etc. In 2006, Bangladesh passed a Labor Law setting the minimum legal age for employment as 14. Nevertheless, the enforcement of such labor laws is virtually impossible in Bangladesh because 93% of child laborers are employed at this moment. The main reason is poverty. Due to poverty most of the parents can’t afford to send their children to school. Resulting, children are adopting child labor to contribute to their family and for their future as well.
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Thorong La Pass. 5416 meters above sea level and 111 kilometres into the trek on 23 March 2015. Highest point on the Annapurna Circuit and highest pass in the world.
Thorong la pass
The track to Thorang La Pass having passed 5,000 meters altitude on 23 March 2015.
A boy is working in a brick field.
Thorang Phedi
The entrance to the village of Thorang Phedi at 4450 meters altitude 105 kilometres into the trek on 22 March 2015. The region had received more snow than in the preceding 30 years and the access to Thorang La Pass, the highest pass in the world, had been blocked until a few days before.
Manang
A cow on the slope of the Annapurna Massif after Manang at 3540 meters altitude 90 kilometres into the trek on 20 March 2015. Cows/Yaks still provide the people in the mountains with milk, cheese, meat, and wool. From Manang and onwards it is mostly just inhabited in the tourist season as the snow stops other activities most of the year.
The view from the village of Gunsang (3,700 meters altitude) of the peak of Gangapurna Himal on 20 March 2015.
Yak Kharta
The village of Yak Kharta at 4,050 meters 99 kilometres into the trek at night. Without light pollution the stars are highly visible in the sky.
Further up from Manang (3540 meters altitude) a woman is selling beads and religious figures to trekkers passing by flanked by a prayer wheel on 20 March 2015. Local production and sale of merchandise is another way to tap into the market generated by increasing tourism.
The village of Manang at 3540 meters altitude 90 kilometres into the hike. Manang is the main hub when heading for Thorong La Pass and as such packed with tea houses and restaurants. A bad snow storm killed at least 43 people in October 2014, and with heavy snowfall in the region in March 2015 the Nepalese authorities chose to close down the pass for a number of days in March until it was deemed safe to continue.
Bhraka
The village of Braga (3450 meters altitude) with the peaks of Annapurna III (7555 meters) and Gangapurna Himal (7454 meters) in the background on 19 March 2015.
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Collapsing Houses in Bangladesh
A two story house made of bamboo and tin collapsed at Hjipara Jheel, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 15, 2015 at 3:30 PM (local time). There were 14 rooms on each floor, and each room was inhabited by an entire family. The rooms were rented for BDT.3, 500 ($44) per month.
The location of the building on a polluted, swampy wetland meant that it was very difficult for people inside the building to survive, as the rubble from the building pushed into the water.
Casualty rates are currently 12 dead and 100 missing.
Locals claim that the main reason of the collapse was lack of a proper foundation. Add to this the fact that the building owner built an additional floor on the building 5 months ago with the aim of increasing profits. Survivors of the collapse said the building began vibrating and shaking in bizarre ways after the second floor was added.
The collapse highlights the problem of shoddy housing in Bangladesh’s heavily impoverished areas. There was no government oversight or intervention to monitor and prevent the construction and habitation of such a poorly constructed building. The collapse spurred protests from the Bangladesh Communist Party calling on the government to step up regulations on building safety and exploitation of the poor.
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The Bangladesh Communist Party holds a protest after the housing collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 April 2015.
Relatives of people missing in the house collapse wait at Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 April 2015.
Samia and her mom shortly after being rescued safely from the wreckage of the housing complex April 16, 2015.
A survivor of the housing collapse in his new house. April 16, 2015.
A man still waiting for his missing family members at a temporary house near the collapsed building in Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 16, 2015.
A picture floats in the swampy wreckage of the collapsed housing complex April 16, 2015.
A man waits for his missing family members at a temporary house near the collapse housing complex in Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh. April 16, 2015.
Firefighters try to rescue the missing people from the collapsed, two story house inHajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The collapse of the house, which was built on swampy ground killed 12 people and more than 100 people are still missing.
A remaining tin shed over the Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh, after the collapse of a two storied tin and bamboo housing structure.
Najrul Islam waits at a temporary shelter for missing family members still trapped inside the collapsed housing structure.
4 year Samia girl was rescued from the rubble of the collapsed housing complex.
A man waits for his missing family members after the collapse of two storied tin-shed house in Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 16, 2015.
Families gather goods salvaged from the wreckage of the building complex at a temporary shelter.
Two women wait at a temporary shelter for their family members still trapped in the wreckage of the collapsed house.
Survivors living in a temporary shelter after the house collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 16, 2015.
Shefali Begum wails as she mourns the loss of her young son Saiful, who was killed in the housing collapse.
A man is showing his stitched hand after he was injured in the housing collapse.
Sisters Rubina & Asha lost everything in the bulding collapse. Now they wonder how they will start all over again.
Remaining tin sheds over the Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 April 2015 after the collapse of two storied tin and bamboo housing structure.
Survivors of the building collapse take refuge in makeshift shelters as the rescue and salvage mission continues.
Khalil (L) and Arif (R) in disbelief after the death of Saiful, a young boy in their family.
A rescued goat stands on some bricks after being salvaged from the wreckage of the collapsed housing project.
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Somali security forces kill seven al-Shabaab militants after they attacked the Ministry of Higher Education in Mogadishu. A car laden with explosives rammed the wall surrounding the compound and exploded, after which gunmen stormed the building, killing eight bystanders and two officials.
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Posted on September 22, 2017 October 9, 2017 by Linda McKenzie
The Carnage of the film, Carnage: Part One
“This is the story of how people became compassionate, and how meat became people.” From this point, five minutes into the BBC mockumentary, Carnage: Swallowing the Past, I’m bracing myself for the worst.
Simon Amstell, writer and director, is widely quoted as making another statement that serves as fair warning that if we’re expecting Carnage to be anything other than a disappointment as a film about veganism, we would be in error: “I have written and directed a film about veganism. I’m sorry.” It turns out that Amstell should be sorry, not because he made a film about veganism, but because he made such a bad film about veganism. Ethical veganism is about justice, not compassion. And animals, as distinct from meat, are nonhuman persons, not people. To refer to nonhuman persons as “meat,” even if intended as a “joke,” is inexcusable. It’s this objectification of animals that is the whole basis of speciesism and the associated horrific violence and injustice committed against them—and there’s nothing funny about that. It doesn’t get any better from here.
Carnage is set in 2067 in the UK, where the consumption of meat, dairy and eggs has been illegal since the passage of the 2035 Bill of Animal Rights. This law “criminalised the enslavement, breeding and killing of all animals, as well as the manipulation or consumption of anything coming out of one.” Young people struggle to understand how their parents and grandparents could ever have eaten the bodies and secretions of innocent animals, with all its abominable cruelty. “For these youngsters, the idea that human beings like them were once complicit in a bloodbath of unnecessary suffering is too absurd to imagine.” Meanwhile older generations are suffering the guilt of their animal-consuming past.
Carnage is really one of the silliest, most cringe-worthy films I’ve ever watched. Much of the “humour” is at the expense of vegans. A 1976 Vegan Society film was used to gently mock early vegans as boring and unhip; their vegan cuisine was “brown food and fruit.” Featuring a family with the surname, “Bland,” we’re shown just how bland these early vegans were. If only they’d been a bit cooler and a bit sexier they might have been able to get some interest in veganism happening. It’s true that, while these people were genuine trailblazers, they do come across as rather woodenly reciting a script in a production was probably never going to set the world on fire. But Amstell goes beyond this, with vegans repeatedly portrayed as, and actually labelled, “ridiculous.” Minority groups are always easy targets for cheap laughs, and poking fun at vegans, in contrast to other minority groups, remains socially acceptable.
For me, as a comedy Carnage falls completely flat and I found it embarrassing and tasteless that anyone would even try to make this kind of supposed comedy about the tragedy of animal exploitation. This is not to say that a serious documentary is the only possible film vehicle for a vegan message. It’s quite conceivable that someone could make a bitingly satirical film on the subject that would be both darkly funny as well as instructive. The endless absurd excuses of non-vegans, and the deep hypocrisy and venality of the bloated animal welfare corporations that help to grease the wheels of animal exploitation definitely provide plenty of potential material. But that’s not what Carnage is. Good satire would require taking aim at the moral wrong of systemic animal exploitation, not those who are opposing exploitation.
I think the basic idea of a futuristic scenario where the world has freed itself of the moral stain of animal exploitation and people are now disturbed by this dark history is an inspired one. It could have resulted in something very worthwhile in terms of being provocative and educational. But this potential was missed by a mile. It’s like Amstell could not decide whether he was making a comedy or a serious, educational film and failed at both. His main concern seemed to be to ingratiate himself with the non-vegan viewing public. Hence the jibes at vegans—incongruous and jarring in a film that ostensibly has some serious intent to educate about the need to go vegan for reasons of animal ethics, health and the environment. Unfortunately, the way Amstell goes about this is to bend over backwards to avoid saying anything of consequence and to maintain a tone of triviality. The result is timid, juvenile and a pointless waste of time.
All the while I was watching the familiar faces of the well-known British actors, I was aware that they were almost certainly not vegan and so for them this was just another job, after which they would go home to chow down on animals and their secretions. Let’s hope appearing in Carnage has got them thinking about going vegan. But watching a bunch of non-vegans (aside from rap musician, JME), in a film about veganism is a weird experience and definitely creates a level of inauthenticity that’s hard to put aside.
The best way to describe the content of Carnage is as if Amstell took every possible form of confusion that exists around the issue of animal ethics, blended it up and poured it out as a hopelessly murky mess. We had vegetarianism as a morally better option; veganism conflated with vegetarianism, with weight loss regimes and humiliating people about their weight; welfare reform as moving things forward for animals; the implication that factory farming and that it’s the way animals are treated rather than the fact that they are used as resources that’s the problem, via repeated graphic images of animal cruelty; television “happy exploitation” chefs as heroes; the idea that “higher quality” meat is better for health, and that “happy” meat tastes better and is ethically better; the assertion that eggs are a chicken’s period (actually, no, they are a chicken’s ovulation, but that doesn’t fit so well with playing on sexist aversion to female bodily functions); vegans judging people; vegans as “attention-seeking loons”; vegans heartlessly letting their cats starve because they supposedly can’t feed them meat. Among this welter of idiocy we had the legitimate concerns of pandemics caused by zoonotic diseases; species extinction; health crises and climate change.
In all of this, there was nothing about justice for animals; no discussion of the immorality of all animal use; certainly nothing about veganism as a moral imperative. Veganism is represented as a matter of “compassion.” No attempt was made to put forward a moral argument at all—that is, that if we regard animals as more than just things, we cannot use them as things, and that all animal use is morally wrong, regardless of treatment. This is of a piece with Amstell saying he was concerned about his popularity at parties and did not want Carnage to be “preachy or annoying,” as though to engage in any discussion of moral issues relating to animals is to be a sanctimonious bore. Talk about reinforcing anti-vegan propaganda. And heaven forbid we should take morality seriously. What a colossal downer that would be. What we need is to be endlessly entertained.
The influence of Melanie Joy is obvious—repeated references to “carnism” and “carnists,” as well as portraying those who formerly consumed animal products as victims of a “cycle of abuse” who had absolutely no idea of what they were doing, presumably because they were under the sway of Joy’s touted “invisible ideology” of carnism. These older people are now tormented by guilt and shame, being helped by celebrated psychotherapist, Dr. Yasmine Vondenburg, to release their painful emotions and come to terms with their demons as a legacy of consuming animal products.
Amstell’s narrative misses the point that people do know exactly what they are doing, but that it’s legitimised by the speciesist ideology of new welfarism, an ideology which Joy promotes. This is the ideology that says that “animals don’t matter as much as humans and that it’s alright for humans to use animals as resources as long as we do so in a ‘humane’ way.” Far from being invisible, this ideology is completely visible, explicit and out in the open. But when we say it’s “invisible” then we don’t have to challenge it, which keeps the status quo of animal exploitation chugging along nicely. According to the carnism theory, we are all victims of this invisible ideology. In line with this, Amstell keeps the focus firmly on humans as the ones traumatised by animal exploitation, with much mawkish and heavy-handed treatment of this theme. The actual victims, the animals, are relegated to a footnote by comparison. The false idea of vegan advocacy as being about blaming people—rather than educating about an important social justice issue—is reinforced by the claim that “Nobody’s to blame. We were all victims.” “People ate meat because they thought that was all they deserved.”
Pop psychology clichés abound. Human moral responsibility is conveniently evaded, trivializing the enormity of the injustice perpetrated against animals.
Linda McKenzie
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Beef & Boards Theatre
I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard at a play in years.
I had the chance to see The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Beef & Boards Theatre last night, thanks to Patricia Rettig, the PR director at Beef & Boards.
This was the 2011 season opener for the Beef & Boards, even if it was a couple days early, and the owners always like to kick the season off with something a little different from the usual musical theatre fare they present throughout the rest of the year.
When Patricia told me it was rated PG-13 for some “immodest humor,” I knew they had departed rather widely from their usual fare. And I knew I was in for a treat.
“Bee” is about six overachieving young tweens who face the pressures of competing in the Putnam County Spelling Bee, trying to overcome their own fears and insecurities.
The great thing about Bee, which I have never seen, is that they draw four audience members into the play as competitors. The idea is that they are meant to go out in the first half of the show with difficult spelling words. My friend, Elizabeth Musgrave, was one of the people asked to go up, as was Dustin, a 15-year-old high school kid who was sitting next to me.
The four audience members performed admirably, especially Elizabeth and Dustin, who also performed in a couple of the musical numbers (turns out Dustin is an actor in his high school theater), after the other two audience members went out on rather easy words.
My favorite dialogue happened between Vice Principal Panch, the pronouncer (the person who reads the words for the spellers), and Dustin’s first word.
“Your word is cow,” said Panch.
“Can I have a definition?” said the contestant.
“It’s a cow.”
“Can you use it in a sentence?”
“Please spell ‘cow.’”
But there was more to Dustin than met the eye too. Later, the word that was supposed to knock him out was “catterjune.” (I had to look it up.)
Dustin spelled it correctly (turns out Dustin was in the Spell Bowl in the 8th grade), and you could tell by the look of disgust on Panch’s face that he wasn’t supposed to. Panch grabbed a huge dictionary, picked a really hard word, and then dinged the bell when Dustin said his first wrong letter. The moment was priceless and one of my favorites in the whole show.
The other favorite moment was the song, “My Unfortunate Erection.” I have never been in a musical that used words like “erection” or. . . other, similar words, so this one immediately became one of my favorites.
While there are only a couple of moments where someone who has never ever heard people talk about puberty-related issues could be offended, the play is overall fairly clean and family friendly. But be warned: with that one song, “Bee” earned its PG-13 rating, and it is something you need to consider before you bring your kids. But if you’re an adult and can laugh about it, then it’s a play you need to see.
The show runs December 29, 30, and 31, and January 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. Tickets run anywhere from $36 – $59, and can be purchased by calling the box office at (317) 872-9664.
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THE ABOLITIONISTS
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[144] Another long word, children; but as very likely your own grandfather was an abolitionist himself in those days, you will want to know what the word means.
We are now close upon the terrible war which was brought about by this disagreement between the North and the South, The Abolitionists—that is, the people who believed in doing away with slavery—had come to be quite large in number. The North had all these years believed that slavery was not right; and while they had done away with it in their own States, they had not pushed very hard in the matter against the South. But now the Abolitionists had come. They not only believed that slavery was wrong, but they were determined it should be abolished.
The Southerners hated and feared these Abolitionists. "What if they should come here among our slaves and teach them about liberty and freedom!" said they.
The first Abolitionist of the times was Benjamin Lunday, one of the good old Pennsylvania Quakers. He began talking up this matter with everybody he met, till at last his name and his sayings began to be talked about in the newspapers; other newspapers took it up, and others, and others,—some praising the good Quaker, others condemning him. But whether they praised or condemned, they set people all over the country to thinking, and many [145] a one who had never given it a thought before, began now to wonder in their own minds if the Quaker wasn't right, after all.
Benjamin Lunday came to Boston at length; and there he found William Lloyd Garrison, who was as full of the desire to see the slaves free as he was himself.
And such talk and such excitement as these two men did stir up in good old Boston! There had been nothing like it since the old Revolutionary times. Garrison went to work and published a newspaper called the "Liberator," in which he set forth freely his opinions on the slavery question. The whole country was set boiling by this paper. His very life was in danger. In one State, five thousand dollars were offered for his head.
The people of Boston itself threatened to tar and feather him if he did not hold his peace. "I am right, and I will speak!" was his answer. At last he was seized by a mob, and dragged about the streets by a rope. I don't know what would have become of him had not the mayor of the city come to his rescue. He was put in jail that he might be safe from the mob.
Out in Illinois, another newspaper editor was doing the same sort of work. He, too, was mobbed, his presses destroyed, and he himself killed in the fray.
All this time the little party of men and women who called themselves Abolitionists were growing stronger and [146] stronger. And now when the news of this murder reached the ears of the Boston Abolitionists, a meeting was called in the old "Cradle of Liberty."
And it was at this meeting that Wendell Phillips, the silver-tongued orator, first came into notice. He was young, and rich, and educated, belonging to the very best families in Massachusetts, having everything in his favor whereby to make for himself a high place in the world. But all this he threw aside, and came and joined the little band of despised Abolitionists, joining with William Lloyd Garrison as a leader in the cause of freedom for the negroes.
At the same time, our dear old Quaker poet, as he is called now, joined the ranks. He was young then, and was just beginning to come into notice among the people of the land, He, too, had a life of ease and glory before him if only he had not taken up the slavery question; but when he began to plead for the poor negro of the South through his beautiful verses, just as Wendell Phillips was pleading for them from the platform, then the people turned against him as they had turned against Wendell Phillips; and for thirty years this poet whom now we all love so much, and regard with such tender reverence, was looked upon with contempt, and was insulted and scoffed at by the people. Dear, tender-hearted Whittier! Are not you glad, children, that he has lived to see the day when his countrymen do love him as he deserved? What do you [148] suppose the people in those Abolition days would have said if some one had told them that in less than thirty years John G. Whittier's verses would be in all our books, and better still, in all our hearts; and that the children all over the country would be celebrating this self-same Whittier's birthdays in their school-rooms, reading and speaking and singing of the "gentle Quaker poet?"
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Home > Education > ADA Elder Care Symposium
The Elder Care Symposium was presented by the ADA Practice Institute on Friday, June 28, 2019.
Symposium presentations are now available for download (below) and will remain available until Sept. 15, 2019.
This symposium was designed to boost awareness of elder care and oral health, highlight the relationship between oral health and systemic health of this highly vulnerable population, and present reliable and credible information and practical solutions to help dentists succeed in improving the oral health, and overall health, of the senior population.
Symposium Learning Objectives
Understand the importance of serving older patients and the growing population of patients that need care
Understand how oral health issues change with age
Understand the relationship between oral health and systemic health of this vulnerable population
Understand how silver diamine fluoride works and applications of it when treating senior populations
6.0 Continuing Education (CE) Hours
Recognition Statement
The ADA is a CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.
Conference Details and Presentation Downloads
Registration and Breakfast
Dr. Mike Medovic, chair, National Elder Care Advisory Committee, ADA Council on Dental Practice
Keynote Address: Challenges in elder care
Dr. Marsha Pyle, Dean, School of Dentistry, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Chronic Disease, Polypharmacy and Senior Oral Health
Dr. Leonard Brennan, Co-Director, Dental Geriatric Fellowship Program, Harvard University
Navigating Difficult Treatment Planning with our Geriatric Patients
Dr. Gretchen Gibson, Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System of the Ozarks
Dr. Greg Folse, Clinical Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University School of Dentistry
12 noon LUNCH
Collaborating with Medical Doctors
Dr. Paul Mulhausen, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Telligen
Successful Dentures for Geriatric Patients
Multiple Uses of Silver Diamine Fluoride in Seniors
Dr. Janet Yellowitz, Director, Geriatric Dentistry, University of Maryland Baltimore College of Dental Surgery
Dr. Michael Helgeson, CEO, AppleTree Dental
Oral Health Literacy for an Aging Population
Dr. Mark Wolff, Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
Leonard Brennan, DMD
Dr. Leonard Brennan has practiced general dentistry in Portland, Maine for more than 35 years. He is the co-director of the Harvard University Dental Geriatric Fellowship Program and a clinical instructor in their Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology. He is the geriatric lead for Harvard’s HRSA “Equitable Care for Elders Grant,” and mentor and geriatric specialist for the interprofessional model of care, “Nurse Practitioner — Dental Model for Total Healthcare.” Dr. Brennan attended Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and completed a Harvard University Geriatric Dental Research and Teaching Fellowship Program. He was recognized for his postdoctoral work at Harvard as the recipient of the Dr. James Dunning Award for excellence in biomedical research and teaching. He is also a pilot member for the MOTIVATE Oral Health Project in Maine, is involved in many community dental and medical organizations, and serves as a volunteer in the Dental Lifeline Network, for which he was nationally recognized by CNN Money with the 2014 Hero Award for his work with the elderly and other fragile individuals.
Greg Folse, DDS
Dr. Greg Folse has a mobile geriatric dental practice in Louisiana treating vulnerable, medically compromised elders. He is a recognized international speaker on geriatric dentistry, dentistry for patients with special needs, oral health advocacy and denture care. Dr. Folse graduated from Louisiana State University Dental School in 1989 and completed the Geriatric Dental Fellowship Program at Baylor in 1999. He has served as a consultant to the ADA Council on Access, Prevention, and Inter-Professional Relations (CAPIR) and is a founding member of the ADA National Elder Care Advisory Committee (NECAC).
Gretchen Gibson, DDS, MPH
Dr. Gretchen Gibson is located at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Fayetteville, Ark. She received her DDS from Louisiana State University. Dr. Gibson completed a general practice residency and geriatric fellowship through VA programs, as well as a dental public health residency. A diplomat of Special Care Dentistry, Dr. Gibson is also on faculty at University of Arkansas in the Department of Geriatrics. Her lectures, research and publications focus on geriatric dental care, salivary dysfunction, the oral health of homeless veterans, dental quality measures, and fluoride use for adult patients.
Michael Helgeson, DDS
Dr. Michael Helgeson is one of the founders of Apple Tree Dental, an innovative non-profit organization that operates seven centers for dental health, and delivers on-site care in collaboration with more than 145 urban and rural organizations, including Head Start Centers, schools, group homes, and nursing facilities. He serves as Apple Tree’s chief executive officer, managing a professional staff of about 200 and an organization that delivered more than $29 million worth of dental care during 2018. Apple Tree’s community collaborative practice model has been replicated in North Carolina, Louisiana and California, and has received recognition from the Surgeon General, the ADA, the California Dental Association, Oral Health America, and the Robert Wood Johnson and Kellogg Foundations. Dr. Helgeson completed a two-year post graduate program in geriatric dentistry, and is a past president of the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry and the Special Care Dentistry Association. He serves as a member of the ADA National Eldercare Advisory Committee. In 2017, he was included in a list of the 32 most influential people in dentistry published by Incisal Edge.
Paul Mulhausen, MD
Dr. Mulhausen is the chief medical officer at Telligen, a health management firm serving a wide range of clients. He is a widely recognized expert in the care of the elderly and other vulnerable populations. Dr. Mulhausen is an accomplished clinician, medical educator and advocate for high-quality geriatric care. He received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota and completed his postgraduate medical education at the Duke University School of Medicine. He is a fellow in the American College of Physicians and the American Geriatrics Society. He has been a member of the ADA National Elder Care Advisory Committee since 2010 and currently serves on the American Geriatrics Society Board of Directors.
Marsha A. Pyle, DDS, MEd
Dr. Marsha Pyle is dean of the University of Missouri — Kansas City (UKMC) School of Dentistry. Prior to joining UMKC, she was Vice Dean of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Pyle completed a general practice residency and a two-year fellowship in geriatric dentistry in Cleveland, Ohio. She is active in the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and the ADA, having served as chair of the ADEA annual session planning committee, chair of the curriculum project for older adults and the Macy curriculum project. She has also chaired the Joint Commission on National Dental Board Examinations. While at CWRU she led the planning and implementation of a curriculum innovation project that received national recognition through an ADEAGies Award in 2009. She continues work in curriculum innovation and leadership with focus on the future of the profession.
Mark S. Wolff, DDS, PhD
Dr. Mark Wolff is the Morton Amsterdam Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and a professor in the Department of Preventative and Restorative Dentistry. Prior to joining Penn Dental Medicine, he was professor and chair of cariology and comprehensive care at the College of Dentistry at New York University (NYU) and also the college’s senior associate dean for development and alumni relations. Dr. Wolff has completed numerous international research and oral health assessment programs and has been a lifelong advocate and dental provider for individuals with physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities of all ages. He has served as the principal or co-principal investigator on multiple benchtop and clinical research projects, investigating dental caries, novel remineralizing agents, dental erosion, periodontal disease, dental materials, and dentinal hypersensitivity, and has published more than 100 scientific papers and text chapters, and has edited multiple textbooks. Dr. Wolff lectures worldwide and is a frequent consultant to the industry. He has been principal or co-investigator on nearly $7.5 million in industrial and National Institute of Health-funded research.
Janet Yellowitz, DMD, MPH
Dr. Janet Yellowitz is the Director of Special Care and Geriatric Dental Programs at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry. In this role, she provides didactic and clinical training to dental and dental hygiene students in the areas of Special Care Dentistry as well as Geriatric Dentistry and Gerontology. She began her career as a dental hygienist, graduating from Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists. After earning an MPH with a specialty in gerontology and geriatrics at the University of Minnesota, she completed her dental training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Society of Geriatric Dentistry, and a diplomate of the American Board of Special Care Dentistry. Dr. Yellowitz began working with older adults as a faculty member at Forsyth, where she developed collaborative programs with local dental schools to provide oral health services to local long term care facilities. Dr. Yellowitz has been actively involved in the Geriatrics and Gerontology Section of the ADEA and the Geriatric Oral Research Group of the American and International Association of Dental Research. In addition, she is a member of the National Elder Care Advisory Committee, the Center for Dental Practice, and the ADA. She has presented at national and international meetings on the topics of caring for people with special needs and frail elders. Her research interests and publications focus on the knowledge, opinions and practices of health professionals regarding oral cancer, older adults, and the training of health professionals to provide oral health assessments. She is a past-president of the Special Care Dentistry Association, and serves on the Maryland State Dental Association Foundation and the Maryland Dental Care for People with Disabilities Program.
Presentation downloads
Symposium presentations will remain available until Sept. 15, 2019. Download the speaker presentations in PDF format:
Challenges in Elder Care - Marsha A. Pyle, DDS, MEd
Chronic Disease, Polypharmacy and Oral Problems in Seniors - Leonard Brennan DMD
Navigating Difficult Treatment Planning with our Geriatric Patients - Greg Folse, DDS, and Gretchen Gibson, DDS, MPH
Collaborating with Physicians: Making Interprofessional Care Work - Paul Mulhausen, MD
Difficult Denture Patients: Real World Solutions - Greg Folse, DDS
Multiple Uses of Silver Diamine Fluoride Changing the Practice Paradigm - Janet Yellowitz, DMD, MPH
Silver Diamine Fluoride: Implementing SDF in Dental Practice - Michael Helgeson, DDS
Oral Health Literacy for an Aging Population? - Mark S. Wolff, DDS, PhD
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The Manitoba Investment Pool Authority Act
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If you need an official copy, use the bilingual (PDF) version.
This version is current as of July 15, 2019.
It has been in effect since June 3, 2019.
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C.C.S.M. c. I100
Table of Contents Bilingual (PDF)
(Assented to October 22, 1996)
1 In this Act,
"authority" means the Manitoba Investment Pool Authority established under this Act; (« Office »)
"board" means the board of directors of the authority; (« conseil »)
"consolidated fund" means the Consolidated Fund as defined in The Financial Administration Act; (« Trésor »)
"health facility" means a hospital, personal care home, health district, health and social services district, or other related entity, that is funded, directly or indirectly, out of the consolidated fund; (« établissement de santé »)
"minister" means the minister charged by the Lieutenant Governor in Council with the administration of The Financial Administration Act; (« ministre »)
"municipality" means, except in clauses 17(3)(c) and (d), a corporation comprising the inhabitants of an area in the province who are incorporated and continued under the authority of The Municipal Act, The Local Government Districts Act or any other Act of the Legislature and includes a rural municipality, an incorporated city, town or village, a local government district and the City of Winnipeg; (« municipalité »)
"pooled investment fund" means a fund established under section 17 in which money received by the authority from a public body may be combined in common for the purpose of investment in the manner and to the extent referred to in that section and in agreements made under subsection 17 (1); (« fonds commun de placement »)
"public body" means, except in section 18,
(a) a municipality,
(b) a health facility,
(c) a school board under The Public Schools Act,
(d) The University of Manitoba, The University of Winnipeg or Brandon University,
(d.1) University College of the North,
(d.2) Université de Saint-Boniface,
(e) a college as defined in section 1 of The Advanced Education Administration Act,
(f) an organization representing any of the above, and
(g) any other organization or entity designated as a public body by regulation hereunder; (« organisme public »)
"securities" means bonds, debentures, promissory notes, treasury bills, commercial paper or other documents evidencing debt, and includes documents commonly known as securities. (« titres »)
S.M. 1998, c. 51, s. 7; S.M. 2004, c. 16, s. 39; S.M. 2011, c. 16, s. 41; S.M. 2015, c. 11, s. 51; S.M. 2019, c. 5, s. 16.
2 The "Manitoba Investment Pool Authority" to consist of the persons who are from time to time the members of the board is hereby established as a body corporate and politic.
Acts not to apply
3 The Corporations Act and The Securities Act do not apply to the authority.
Capacity of natural person
4 The authority has the capacity and, subject to this Act, all the rights, powers and privileges of a natural person.
Object of the authority
5 The object of the authority is to provide investment opportunities for public bodies by the establishment and operation of pooled investment funds under this Act.
6 The head office of the authority shall be in such place in the province as the authority shall decide.
7 The affairs of the authority shall be managed and administered by the board consisting of not fewer than seven and not more than nine persons as the board may from time to time determine, appointed by the Association of Manitoba Municipalities.
Terms of office
8 Each member of the board shall hold office for a term of three years or until the member's successor is appointed, unless the member sooner dies, resigns or is removed from office.
Re-appointment
9 A member of the board who has resigned or whose term of office has expired may be re-appointed.
10 The members of the board shall elect one of their number as chairperson and another as vice-chairperson and may appoint such other officers of the authority as the board deems necessary from time to time.
11 The authority may provide for the payment of remuneration to the members of the board and for the payment of additional remuneration to the chairperson, and any member of the board is entitled to be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred in the business of the authority specifically authorized by the board.
12 A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the purpose of holding any meeting of the board and the transaction of business thereat.
13 The board
(a) may make rules for its own procedure;
(b) has all the powers of the authority and may make by-laws for the purpose of exercising those powers.
14 The fiscal year of the authority shall commence on January 1 in each year and shall end on December 31 of that year.
15 Annually and no later than March 31 of each year, the authority shall make a report of its affairs and activities for the immediately preceding fiscal year of the authority, and the report shall be in such form and shall contain
(a) the pooled investment funds established;
(b) public bodies investing in each fund;
(c) the volume of transactions made in respect of each fund;
(d) the investment performance and compliance of each manager with any applicable stated mandate;
and such other information as the minister may require and a copy of such report shall be delivered to each public body that has entered into an agreement referred to in subsection 17(1).
Records of authority
16 The authority shall keep and maintain or cause to be kept and maintained proper books and records of its affairs.
Agreements to be entered into
17(1) Prior to receiving money from a public body, the authority shall enter into an agreement with that public body, setting out the terms and conditions under which the authority, in its own name or otherwise, holds and invests money received from the public body for the purpose of investment in pooled investment funds as permitted under this Act.
Establish investment policies
17(2) The authority has the power to provide for the creation and management of pooled investment funds for the purposes of subsection (1) and without limiting the generality of this subsection shall establish investment policies, objectives and guidelines.
Authorized investments
17(3) The authority may invest money received for investment in a pooled investment fund in
(a) securities issued by or the repayment of principal of which is guaranteed by
(i) the Government of Canada or an agency of the Government of Canada, or
(ii) the government of a province or an agency of the government of a province;
(b) securities the payment of which is a charge on the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the government of Canada or a province of Canada;
(c) securities of a municipality in Canada;
(d) securities of a Canadian municipal participation corporation that is a corporation or entity in which all the members or shareholders are municipalities and which is controlled by the municipalities;
(e) securities issued or guaranteed by a bank, credit union, or trust corporation in Canada;
(f) securities issued by a company incorporated under the laws of Canada or of a province which are rated investment grade by at least two recognized rating agencies;
(g) any other investments authorized by regulation; and
(h) units in pooled funds of all or any of the investments described in clauses (a) to (g).
Board a trustee
17(4) The board is trustee of all money received for or invested in pooled investment funds.
Municipal body
18 The authority, for the purposes of this Act and the object of the authority, is a municipal or public body performing a function of government in Canada.
Enabling authority of public bodies
19 Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any Act of the Legislature or in any regulation, rule or by-law made under any such Act, any public body may invest any part of its money in a pooled investment fund established under section 17 of this Act.
20 The minister may make regulations that he or she considers necessary in connection with his or her authority under this Act, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, regulations
(a) prescribing the form and content of any agreement used under this Act;
(b) designating an organization or entity as a public body; and
(c) designating investments in which a pooled investment fund may invest.
C.C.S.M. reference
21 This Act may be referred to as chapter I100 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba.
22 This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.
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Weightlifting to be granted full inclusion at Paris 2024 once full deal signed with ITA
By Liam Morgan at the Palace Hotel in Lausanne
Weightlifting will be granted full inclusion on the programme for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris once the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has handed over its entire anti-doping operation to the International Testing Agency (ITA), it was announced here today.
The decision from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board effectively guarantees the sport's place at Paris 2024.
IOC sports director Kit McConnell warned, however, that they would continue to monitor the IWF's implementation of the conditions outlined for weightlifting to remain on the programme.
McConnell said the second part of the IWF's agreement with the ITA is expected to be finalised in the coming days.
He added that the lifting of the conditional status of weightlifting at Paris 2024, which has been in place for around 18 months, would be automatic.
"Once that is agreed and implemented, then the decision of the IOC Executive Board is automatically enforced, which does mean the full inclusion in the programme for Paris 2024 and the lifting of the provisional inclusion," McConnell said here.
"There will be a very close monitoring in place, not only of the situation but the ongoing implementation of the programmes and the commitments in place by the IWF but also the whole weightlifting family.
"If anything does come up, it will automatically be reported to the IOC Executive Board for further consideration."
IOC sports director Kit McConnell warned they would continue to monitor the progress of the IWF ©Getty Images
The IWF signed an agreement with the ITA, a new umbrella drugs-testing body which became fully operational last year, in November and it came into force in January.
It mainly focused on the IWF's out-of-competition testing but also included detailed risk assessment, test distribution planning and management, Therapeutic Use Exemption management, and support with regard to the IWF’s education initiatives.
The IWF has not yet transferred its entire anti-doping programme over to the ITA and still needs to cede control of in-competition testing and results management.
Today's announcement marks a positive result for the IWF, whose place on the programme for Paris 2024 has been hanging in the balance owing to continued concerns with the sport's doping record.
The IOC Executive Board praised the "comprehensive work" carried out by the IWF, including the governing body establishing a qualification criteria for Tokyo 2020 which punishes nations with multiple positive drugs tests by restricting the amount of athletes they can send to the Olympic Games.
The IOC Executive Board also said it had taken note of Thailand agreeing to ban itself from this year's IWF World Championships, which the country is still hosting, and next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo after eight of the nation's team at last year's event in Ashgabat, tested positive, including three women who won gold medals there.
The so-called Tbilisi decision, where nine countries were suspended for a year by the IWF after having had three or more Olympic positives in the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 retests, was also highlighted as a success by the IOC.
A total of 55 weightlifters representing 12 countries have been banned following retests after these two Olympic Games.
"The IWF’s commitment to clean competition has transformed our sport," said IWF President Tamás Aján.
"We see weightlifters competing in new bodyweight categories for new world records and from a wider variety of countries than ever before.
"Weightlifting is the only sport that specifically rewards countries that have a track record of clean competition with chances to compete at the Olympic Games thanks to our Tokyo 2020 qualifying system.
"And our commitment to culture change has seen the universal implementation of a widespread set of education programmes.
"With elements of our anti-doping programme already having been successfully transferred, I have no doubt that we will soon be able to fully establish our partnership with the ITA to the IOC’s complete satisfaction."
March 2019: Kazakhstan drops legal challenge against International Weightlifting Federation Olympic qualification system
March 2019: Romanian becomes 55th weightlifting positive in IOC retests from Beijing 2008 and London 2012
March 2019: Thailand keeps weightlifting World Championships despite self-imposed Olympic Games ban
February 2019: "No way cheats can make it to Tokyo 2020" says IWF director general as weightlifting focus turns to Olympic qualifying
February 2019: All three of Thailand’s weightlifting world champions suspended after new doping cases are revealed
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Abortion Pill Use a Factor in Drop in U.S. Abortion Rate
The Supreme Court decision on the landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion in America on January 22, 1973. That year, the legal abortion rate was 16.3 abortions per 1,000 women in the U.S. Since then, the abortion rate has fluctuated to as high as 19.4 in 2008 and to the current all-time low of 14.6 based on most recent data from 2014. While the exact reasons why the U.S. Abortion Rate Dropped 25% in Six Years have not yet been established, Support Circle has identified a number of contributing factors evidenced by recent data including: Less Teen Intercourse, The Work of Pregnancy Centers, the Trend of Delayed Childbirth, and State Abortion Law Restrictions. The fifth factor is the rising popularity of the abortion pill. Ironically, the growing prominence of the abortion pill has led to a burgeoning black market online for its illegal sale. This black market artificially masks the true U.S. abortion rate, as only legally obtained abortions count in the statistic.
There are two categories of abortion: surgical and medical. Medical abortions are facilitated through the abortion pill. More women seeking first trimester abortions are opting for medical abortions. According to Reuters research, medical abortions accounted for 43% of terminations at Planned Parenthood clinics in 2014, up from 35% from 2010. Medical abortions were performed more than surgical abortions in Michigan (55%) and Iowa (64%), states with few abortion restrictions.
California is another state with few abortion restrictions and where Medi-Cal pays abortion costs. For some women throughout the country, obtaining any type of abortion may not be as easy. Because of the barriers they face (i.e. state restrictions, limited abortion providers, living in remote locations, lack of finances, etc.) oftentimes, women may turn to online providers for the abortion pill.
FDA Regulations
Women who are less than 10 weeks pregnant may have a choice between a surgical abortion (D&C) performed in a licensed medical clinic or hospital, or a medical abortion which can be completed at home or outside a medical facility. The abortion pill is a two-drug regimen consisting of Mifepristone and Mifeprex, that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA-approved abortion pill process stipulates an ultrasound to date the pregnancy and confirm that it is not an ectopic pregnancy, obtaining the abortion pill regimen through a prescription from a medical provider, and a follow-up visit 7-14 days later to ensure the contents of the uterus were safely expunged. The FDA has approved this process for the safety of women’s health.
Black Market Skirts These Regulations
Abortion pills obtained on the internet without a prescription are illegal and potentially dangerous. The allure is that they may be offered at a lower cost than local pharmacies and can be obtained in states with abortion laws restricting access to the abortion pill. Only legally obtained medical abortions are included in the official U.S. abortion rate, so, without regulation of online sales, it is difficult to gauge how much higher the abortion rate would be when taking into account black market abortion pills.
Disturbingly, black market abortion pills disregard the safety of women. Without regulation, the pills may not be exactly what the woman believes she ordered, ineffective, or cause adverse side effects. Abortion pills obtained online also bypass important safeguards including the ultrasound to verify and date the pregnancy as well as the follow-up visit to verify the contents of the uterus cleared completely.
Ultrasounds are important because the abortion pill does not work on ectopic pregnancies and the FDA has not approved the abortion pill for safe use after 10 weeks gestation. Support Circle provides ultrasounds at no cost to our clients to officially verify and date pregnancies.
Without any data on how many abortion pills are sold online to women in America, it is impossible to make an accurate accounting of how many total abortions are performed each year. This means the U.S. abortion rate is most likely higher than assumed based on 2014 findings. But how much higher, we can’t know. Regardless, the general consensus is that the abortion rate has declined due to several concurrent factors, and the masking effect of the abortion pill black market does not negate this overall decline.
US Abortion Rate Dropped 25% in Six Years
Factor One: Less Teen Intercourse
Factors Two and Three: Pregnancy Centers and Delayed Abortion
Factor Four: State Abortion Law Restrictions
FDA-Approved regimen to end early pregnancy
Reuters. Abortion by Prescription Rivals Surgery for U.S. Women. 2016
Cosmopolitan Magazine. Are abortion pills online safe?
January 21, 2018 /by Simone Frederick
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State Abortion Law Restrictions a Factor in Drop in U.S. Abortion Rate
In our ongoing series on the factors behind why the US Abortion Rate Dropped 25% in Six Years, we have explored Factor One: Less Teen Intercourse, and Factors Two and Three: Pregnancy Centers and Delayed Childbearing. This article explores Factor Four: State Abortion Law Restrictions.
Since the Supreme Court passed Roe v. Wade in 1973, recognizing abortion as a woman’s constitutional right, thousands of laws have been brought before state and federal courts by each side of the abortion debate, either restricting abortions or permitting greater access to abortions. Restrictions vary from gestational limits, public and private insurance funding, provider refusal, counseling mandates, waiting periods, parental involvement, etc.
In recent years, there has been a steep increase in the number of abortion restrictions passed. A total of 231 new abortion restrictions were passed in the U.S. in the years 2011 to 2014. During this four-year period, state abortion restrictions were adopted at a faster rate than during the whole previous decade from 2001 to 2010 when a total of 189 restrictions were adopted.
The increase in state abortion restrictions does not appear to be slowing down. The Center for Reproductive Rights, which monitored over 2100 legislative proposals from 2010 to mid-2017, estimates that in 2016 alone, there were more than 500 abortion restrictions introduced by Republican state legislatures. Of those, 60 new restrictions passed in 19 states.
State abortion restrictions appear to have a clear correlation on the drop in the U.S. abortion rate. In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported 652,639 legal abortions which is significantly less than the 730,322 legal abortions in 2011. This represents a faster four-year decrease in U.S. abortions than the previous decade from 2001 (853,485 abortions) to 2010 (765,651 abortions).
Although there has been a huge increase in state restrictions across the country, contributing to the drop in national abortion numbers, that is NOT the case here in California. California has not had as many abortion restrictions as other states. Interestingly, California’s abortion rate has not seen the same sharp decrease witnessed by the rest of the country, either. According to the Guttmacher Institute, which polls each abortion clinic in California every three years, California saw a slight decrease in 2014 with 157,350 legal abortions, from 181,730 legal abortions in 2011. During the previous decade from 2001 to 2010, California’s abortion rate ranged from 236,060 abortions in 2000 (closest year to 2001 data collected) to 191,550 abortions in 2010.
It will be interesting in the years ahead to see if there is a divergence between the California abortion rate and the overall U.S. abortion rate as California continues to experience all the other effects of the trends we have been talking about, including the work of pregnancy centers while abortion clinics are closing, less teen intercourse and delayed childbearing but NOT state restrictions. In fact, California has gone in the opposite direction of other states and passed laws to reduce restrictions on abortions.
There are multiple factors contributing to the decline in the U.S. abortion rate occurring concurrently. California is an instance where we can observe one factor in play while another is not. Going forward it will be interesting to see if the change in the California abortion rate has a noticeable difference compared to the other states since it has all the other factors in play but not the state abortion restrictions.
Guttmacher Institute. State Policy Overview of Abortion Laws. 1/18
Abortion Stats 2001 – 2014 CDC numbers do not include NH, CA, and at least one other state.
Abortion bills by Congress
Johnston Archive. California Abortion Historical Data
Guttmacher Institute. Laws Governing Reproductive Health and Rights 2014 State Policy
Center for Reproductive Rights. Evaluating Priorities Report v2. 8/17
National Right to Life. Reported Annual Abortions 1973-2014 Guttmacher vs. CDC
Californians for Life. California Abortion Facts
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Pregnancy Centers and Delayed Childbirth Are Factors in US Abortion Rate Decline
The U.S. abortion rate is now at an all-time historic low, due to a 25% drop in the last six years. At 14.6 abortions per 1,000, the abortion rate is lower than it was in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was passed (16.3 per 1,000 women), according to three independent surveys (two by the federal government and one by the Guttmacher Institute). This article is Part Two of a multi-part series exploring the factors behind this massive decline in the U.S. abortion rate.
In Part One of our series, we discussed the first factor behind the abortion rate decline: less teen intercourse. Rates of teen sexual intercourse are on the decline, reducing teen pregnancy rates and factoring into the lower rate of abortion. In this article, we explore Factors Two and Three: the work of pregnancy centers around the country, and also the trend of more women delaying childbearing.
The Work of Pregnancy Centers Nationwide
Thousands of pregnancy centers exist nationwide to help women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy. These centers are mostly operated independently, and thus share some similarities but also have many differences. As an independent organization, Support Circle can only speak to our ministry vision as a community that goes the distance with women and the services we provide. We do not speak for or represent other pregnancy centers, which each have unique visions and ministry approaches of their own. However, it is helpful to comment on the impact of pregnancy centers as a whole, as they provide support to women in unplanned pregnancies to varying degrees, and this has opened up options for many women that were not available to them and contributes to the overall drop in the abortion rate.
In 2016, Heartbeat International counted 2,573 total pregnancy center locations, including 1,145 that offer medical services such as ultrasounds and testing and/or treatment for sexually transmitted infections. The number of pregnancy centers is closer to 4,000 when including centers that are not registered with national affiliations like Heartbeat or Care Net and are independently operated such as those operated by local churches.
Pregnancy centers are predominantly privately funded. Care Net estimates its affiliates save tax payers over $56 million annually by offering free pregnancy tests, baby and maternal supplies and educational programs. This figure does not take into account the uncompensated volunteer hours. Since women in the U.S. primarily cite financial concerns as reasons for considering abortion, the provision of free medical services and material assistance helps to address those concerns.
Trend of Delayed Childbearing
A third factor behind the decline in the US abortion rate is the trend of delayed childbearing. The pregnancy rate for women over 40 is at an all-time high, confirming more women are choosing to delay childbearing. Career-focused women ages 25 – 45 reported that they are intentional about family planning and optimistic about delaying child bearing according to a new study by Yale University researchers. This is in spite of the known decline in fertility after age 30. Three-fourths of the career-focused women in the study cited pregnancy planning as being important. Of those, 90% were less concerned about fertility issues because they felt assisted reproductive technology (ART), including in-vitro fertilization (IVF), would give them a good chance of conceiving after age 30. ART rates confirm this trend. According to the CDC, the number of live-birth deliveries with the use of ART was almost one and half times higher in 2015 (59,348) than just nine years earlier in 2006 (41,343). The researchers found women who do not place as much importance on career success also place less importance on pregnancy planning. It can be deduced that with less intentional family planning, these women are more likely to face unintended pregnancies.
At Support Circle’s three licensed medical clinics and counseling centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, we are dedicated to providing time, space and support to women in unintended pregnancies. Women are offered a safe place to make an informed decision about their pregnancy. Registered nurses perform pregnancy tests and ultrasounds and can provide symptom relief, discuss the effect of existing health concerns, and nutrition. Our team of patient advocates provide informed non-judgmental emotional support and access to community resources before and after the pregnancy decision. Support Circle is unique in that we offer women emotional support for up to one year after her pregnancy decision, regardless of what that decision is. This opens space for a woman to address the root causes that were making her conflicted about her pregnancy in the first place, and work on issues that may be relevant such as domestic violence, anxiety, depression and substance abuse.
We offer an unpressured environment and honor women as decision makers. Our services are free of charge. These services are made possible by financial donations from local residents and other friends who believe that women should have a safe place to go that doesn’t profit from either outcome of their pregnancy decision.
Less Teen Intercourse A Factor in Drop in US Abortion Rate
US Abortion Rate Drops 25% in Six Years
Washington Post. Oct 19 2017 US Abortion Rate Fell 25%
Vox.com Abortion Rate Lowest Ever
Department of Health and Human Services. Teen Pregnancy and Childbearing Trends
Yale Sept 6 2017 Career Women Delayed Childbearing
Oxford Academic Oct 2017 Women’s…Attitudes Toward Family Planning
IVF Rates – ART 2015 National Summary Report
Politifact.com May 17 2017
Care Net Report Snapshot of Pregnancy Centers
December 14, 2017 /by Simone Frederick
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The abortion rate in the U.S. has seen a 25% drop in the last six years. This is the first article in a multi-part series exploring the factors behind this massive drop. At 14.6 abortions per 1,000, the abortion rate is now lower than it was in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was passed (16.3 per 1,000 women), according to three independent surveys (two by the federal government and one by the Guttmacher Institute). Lower abortion rates are encouraging but what are the reasons for the decline?
While the exact reasons for the decrease in abortions has not yet been established, Support Circle has identified a number of contributing factors evidenced by recent data. One encouraging factor is that young people, consisting of teens and young Millennials (aged 20-24) are having less premarital intercourse which is resulting in lower pregnancy rates in this age group.
Teenagers and young Millennials report the lowest rates of premarital intercourse in decades. The reduction in intercourse has been attributed to the reduction in teen pregnancies, abortions and births. In fact, CDC data indicates that the portion of high school students in 2014 who have had sex fell to 41 percent from 54 percent in 1991.
According to the Guttmacher Institute and the Archives of Sexual Behavior journal by researchers from three U.S. universities, less young people are having sexual intercourse and more report having no sexual partner. This goes against the popular belief that young people are more sexually active due to dating apps and a hook up culture. Dating or “hook up” apps, such as Tinder, may actually be making it more difficult for young adults to engage in sexual activity because of the emphasis on physical appearance and physical perfection.
In a 2016 Washington Post article, a few experts noted concern that some young people are having difficulty “forming deep romantic connections… (and) cite other reasons for putting off sex, including pressure to succeed, social lives increasingly conducted on-screen… and wariness over date rape.” Another upside of “young people putting off sex and taking it slower could lead to better first marriages and slower divorce rates,” according to Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University in an interview with the Post.
In discussing reduced sexual intercourse, it is important to note that young people in the 60’s or 70’s were more likely to consider oral sex as sex. Whereas teens and Millennials find a distinction between oral sex and intercourse and are less likely to include oral sex when reporting on their sexual activity. This distinction might explain why rates of intercourse among young people is down but the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in their age group has increased.
Along with the decline in abortion rates and sexual intercourse, teen pregnancy rates have seen a steady decline. Teen pregnancy rates include pregnancies that end in abortion, miscarriage and live births. Data from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey “shows sharp declines in sexual activity among high school students from 2013 to 2015.” The declining teen pregnancy rates have been attributed to less sexual intercourse, use of more effective contraception and teens receiving more information about pregnancy prevention.
Reality TV has been attributed to a reduction in teen pregnancies. A “2014 Brookings report found that MTV programs 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, reality TV shows that follow the struggles of teen mothers, may have contributed to up to a third of the decline in teen births from June 2009, when they began airing, through the end of 2010.” At the time, critics thought the shows would glorify teen pregnancy and result in an increase in teen pregnancies.
Less teen intercourse is only one of the many factors that are helping the abortion rate to decline. Stay tuned as we explore those other factors throughout this series. Support Circle is a licensed medical clinic dedicated to providing time, space and support to women in unintended pregnancies. We offer women a safe place to make an informed decision about their pregnancy. Our team of professional nurses and caring patient advocates listen and provide non-judgmental emotional support and access to community resources before and after the pregnancy decision. Clients love our relational approach built on respect, trust and confidentiality.
Our services include pregnancy testing and verification, ultrasounds, patient advocates, community referrals, health insurance information, symptom relief, nutrition and patient education. Support Circle provides pregnancy dating and information about pregnancy and abortion to aid clients in decision making. We do not perform or refer for any medical procedure or dispense medication for the final pregnancy decision, whether labor/delivery or abortion. Women may receive our services for up to one year after their decision, regardless of what her decision is. All services are offered at no cost to our clients.
US Abortion Rate Drops 25% in 6 Years
American Journal of Public Health
Washington Post. October 19, 2017
Pew Research
CDC Vital Services, National Health.
November 20, 2017 /by Simone Frederick
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Three independent studies (two by the federal government and one by the Guttmacher Institute) found that the number of abortions for women ages 15 to 44 dropped from 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women in 2008 to 14.6 in 2014. That means there are 1 in 4 less abortions in the United States! Furthermore, the overall abortion rate is LOWER than it was in 1973, when Roe v. Wade was decided and when the abortion rate was 16.3 per 1,000 women.
For the first time, the drop is representative of the greatest decline in the abortion rate among the poorest women in America. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the abortion rate of women earning at or below the poverty level decreased by 26% during the same time period. It is important to note that, at 36.6 abortions per 1,000 women, the low-income group still represent the highest proportion of American women obtaining abortions.
Thorough data on the reasons for the decline in the abortion rate is not yet available. However, in the coming weeks, we will be featuring factors we believe to be causing this decline.
Factors Contributing to the Drop in the U.S. Abortion Rate:
October 31, 2017 /by Simone Frederick
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5 Reasons Why You Should Invest in Medical Clinics for Unplanned Pregnancies
All of Support Circle’s services are provided free of charge to our clients thanks to the generous donations of our supporters. So why should supporters invest in medical clinics for unplanned pregnancies?
Reason #1: Half of Pregnancies are Unplanned
Half of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned. Half! That’s a lot of women that did not intend to get pregnant or did not intend to get pregnant at this time. While we all know a woman or man that has or will face an unintended pregnancy, we are not all equipped to provide the tangible assistance needed. To meet the demand for pregnancy clinics, Support Circle has three state licensed Bay Area medical clinics where registered nurses and professional counselors can provide a safe place, at no cost to her, to discuss an unexpected pregnancy and to work through issues that may be causing emotional pain.
Reason #2: Underlying Issues
One in four women in an unintended pregnancy is unsure of what to do. The reason they are unsure is that they are conflicted and the source of the conflict comes from underlying issues which include financial fears, the relationship with the father, feeling a lack of support, and worries concerning career, school and health. Support Circle provides the rare environment that enables a woman to address underlying issues like these. Our professional counselors facilitate an ongoing counseling relationship for up to one year after her decision so she can address underlying issues.
Reason #3: A Safe Place
Women need a safe place that does not pressure them. Everyone around her has really strong opinions about what she should do. Many times, those strong opinions turn into pressure. But she has to live with her decision so shouldn’t she be well-informed about it and not coerced? Women need a third-party place that has their best interest in mind as a person, enabling her to sort through her feelings and provide nonjudgmental support while she works through her most pressing needs and reconnects with her core values. Support Circle provides a trained, ethnically diverse team of professional counselors who offer nonjudgmental support and assistance with community resources. The atmosphere in our clinics is always relaxing and calm. We do not profit directly from the outcome of her pregnancy decision.
Reason #4: Our Laws Are Not Enough
Our laws simply fall short in this social area. What makes this issue so difficult is that it deals with pregnancy which is a very unique life stage, unlike anything else. It is unique in that you have a woman and a fetus that are intertwined. The debate rages over whether it is one person who needs to be able to exercise autonomy over her body, or whether it is a woman and a baby who are two distinct beings with rights. Our laws fall short because pregnancy cannot be neatly and easily categorized as one or the other, and people fight over that categorization. Support Circle values both the woman and the baby and what we need are not just laws. What we need is a proactive place in society where women can come and sort through all of their issues while they are making their pregnancy decision and have their top needs addressed. That’s what is missing and that is what Support Circle provides.
Reason #5: Finances
Financial worries dominate the minds of women and men facing unexpected pregnancies. It is their number one fear. Financial lack and fear of it can cause all of the people involved to be pitted against each other. This is a great tragedy for society. By investing in a medical clinic that addresses these issues, you help to create an environment where they are not pitted against each other. And Support Circle counselors can facilitate community resources that might not be known otherwise, as well as key relationships that can change the financial equation drastically for clients.
Your support of Support Circle’s pregnancy clinics provides women, men and children facing unplanned pregnancies with the immediate assistance they need. It is a compassionate response to a daily tragedy in our society. Thank you for making the women, men and children we serve a priority in your life!
Supporter Newsletters
March 1, 2017 /by Simone Frederick
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I was alone and found help
I was alone and I found a lot of help
“I would like to thank all the people that supported us because if it wasn’t for them, I don’t know if I would be here right now. All the help that I got made a difference, a huge difference. I was alone and I found a lot of help.” – Serena
Thank you for helping our client, Serena. After four pregnancy tests taken at home, Serena and Brian finally came to Support Circle and her pregnancy was confirmed by a registered nurse. With the help of our patient advocates, the underlying issues that caused her denial and great stress was addressed.
Click to view the video of Serena and Brian’s candid video.
At Support Circle, we offer first line care to women facing unplanned pregnancies. We hear their stories and are committed to helping with emotional and medical support. With face-to-face professional services and access to community resources, women and men are encouraged to grapple with life’s adversity and take steps out of it. No judgment, just compassionate service.
Please join us in providing profound support to women and men at our three licensed Bay Area medical offices.
Help us raise $240,000 by September 30 and your gifts will be DOUBLED by a few of our benevolent friends. Your generosity is a significant blessing to our clients.
Albert K. Lee
September 15, 2016 /by Simone Frederick
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Support in the Field
While tensions pump through our airwaves, isn’t it nice to know a place that runs on respect and treats people with dignity? The atmosphere across America is tense right now over racial tensions, gun control, terrorism, and immigration. Pregnancy is in the spotlight too with the Zika virus health concerns. And, with the presidential election always comes renewed activity regarding abortion laws. But in the midst of all this, Support Circle is a safe place for women and men facing an unplanned pregnancy, where they can focus on their thoughts, on their feelings, and on overcoming the challenges in their lives. Isn’t a safe and civil place refreshing when we’ve become so accustomed to the media’s endless diet of fear and acrimony?
We are profoundly changing lives together. Deferentially providing women with a safe and civil place so they can address their underlying issues is quietly enabling life transformation! You can see it in the faces of Serena, Brian and Emma in these beautiful photos.
She Matters. And He Does Too. These have been rallying cries at Support Circle. Women and men who are conflicted about their unplanned pregnancies need real help and support. They don’t need vitriol. Women need immediate and accurate medical information. They want to be able to sit down and sort through their thoughts and emotions. And they need to lay out their concerns and develop a plan. In America, there are too many arm chair commentators, but how many players are actually on the field, providing direct services and helping women? How many of those people profit from her decision? At Support Circle, we bypass the political fighting, social media trolls, and naysayers by helping women and men face-to-face in our medical clinics.
One particular client, “Lily,” who was in an abusive relationship comes to mind. At Support Circle, Lily received immediate practical assistance in several areas such as food and transportation. Her Support Circle counselor provided Lily the resources to develop a safety plan and self refer to a domestic violence shelter. While internet trolls were busy flaming each other online, our counselor drove Lily and her daughter to the shelter, which was in another county for their safety. Lily had only a car seat, a stroller, and one bag. The counselor knew the shelter would be able to move Lily and her daughter to a safe house, which was priority number one. And she knew that Lily would be connected to other essential resources through the shelter to deal with the emergency such as legal services. The Support Circle counselor gave Lily a phone card so that she could add money to her cell phone and stay in communication with each other. After her immediate safety was secured, Lily resumed counseling sessions at Support Circle. Through these actions, our counselor was embodying Support Circle’s three powerful and unique care promises:
Time, space and support.
Emotional support for the coming year no matter what you choose.
A safe and civil place.
We honor women as decision-makers and do not pressure or manipulate clients. We do not perform or refer for abortion. Our way of operating honors the inherent dignity of all women, men and children. We provide the face-to-face professional services and access to community resources that enable women and men to grapple with their life adversity and take steps of ownership to rise out of it.
Thank you for making a difference in real lives and real families! Our clients are facing hurdles that need to be addressed in a caring, loving and supportive environment. They are not statistics or nameless, faceless numbers. They are real people with real problems and real concerns. In addition to dealing with unintended pregnancies, our clients may also need help addressing things like depression, anxiety, substance abuse, trauma, domestic violence and may need information on how pregnancy might affect existing health conditions. They come to us because they are pregnant or think they may be pregnant but, many times, they stay with us after their decision because they need help addressing the underlying issues they face.
Support Circle is unique in that we provide counseling for the male partner as well. According to a recent Public Opinion Strategies poll, the unique and central factor for a woman undecided about an unplanned pregnancy is the relationship with the father of the baby. By including her male partner in the counseling process, we are better able to help her address her underlying issues and help them to communicate better. Over 70% of the men have been actively involved in the counseling process with our clients! What a breathtaking statistic that shatters stereotypes. Brian and Serena, featured in the photos of this letter, greatly benefited from counseling at Support Circle, and we are excited to share more of their story in our
upcoming communications.
We are aware of the tension-charged climate in America and the San Francisco Bay Area. Instead of fueling those tensions, we prefer our on the field approach. We want to continue to provide the practical, first line help women and men facing unintended pregnancies need; services such as no cost pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, pregnancy verifications, consultations with a registered nurse, and professional counseling.
Please fund these services which are quietly enabling life transformation. We need to raise a minimum of $240,000 by the end of September to provide these services. I’m delighted to tell you that our matching campaign is live and doubles all gifts until September 30! So far we have over $125,000 in matching funds committed by a group of supporters who want to encourage many new and existing supporters to joyfully and strongly fund Support Circle’s work. Will you help us with a gift today, which will be doubled through the match? Your gifts will be a profound blessing to our clients.
August 17, 2016 /by Simone Frederick
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Meet a Supporter: Lily Arbulich
John & Lily Arbulich
Support Circle interviewed Lily Arbulich to learn more about her and why she supports the organization.
SC: What a great-looking couple! How long have you been married?
Lily: Thanks. You’re very kind. John and I have been married for 42 years as of this August. We have two sons, ages 36 and 34.
SC: How did you and John meet?
Lily: We met 45 years ago at a Baskin Robbins counter. John was buying his favorite ice cream. Baseball Nut. I was only 14-1/2 years old. We were both attending my church’s young people’s outing.
SC: What is your favorite flavor of ice cream, Lily?
Lily: Almond Fudge.
SC: What do you and John do for fun?
Lily: We enjoy taking a ride to Santa Cruz, Napa and other wine country locations on a beautiful sunny day with the top down to visit wineries. We love to travel to John’s native homeland, Croatia, where Mom and many relatives still live.
John and Lily
SC: Would you like to share your occupations with our readers?
Lily: For the past 15 years, I have been a caregiver for the elderly and families in need. For the past 35 years, John has been responsible for the engineers at his work in various companies in Silicon Valley.
SC: How long have you been supporters of Support Circle?
Lily: Hmmm… At least 10 plus years.
SC: What drew you to Support Circle?
Lily: We were drawn to Support Circle because it is a safe haven for women who are confused, frightened and unsure of what to do if they find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy. At Support Circle, women will receive grace, kindness and sincere concern for their present state from counselors, nurses and staff that will stand beside them and support them throughout their decision-making. We highly recommend giving your donation to Support Circle.
SC: Thank you for your time and support, Lily.
Lily: God bless you!
What I love about Support Circle – Nancy Cecconi
April 8, 2016 /by Simone Frederick
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A safe, civil place in the midst of fear
Dear Supporters,
So much talk in the media is driven by fear. Many of our clients, before meeting us, are driven by fear. She fears judgment, the future of her relationship, how her family and friends will react. She has financial fear, fear about keeping her job, fear about not being able to finish school. She has fear about where she will live, fear about the unknown. Her fears are as unique as she is.
Support Circle offers tangible help by providing a safe, civil place where she can come to address her most pressing needs and fears when facing an unplanned pregnancy. A place where people are not jumping all over her, demanding that she make one decision or another. But rather, a place that gives her deference so she can sort out her own thoughts and feelings to make a well-informed choice that she can own. Your financial support helps Support Circle provide a safe, civil place for her.
The Client Process at Support Circle provides enough structure that she experiences a non-pressured environment but also provides enough flexibility to address her specific needs. Her well-being is the priority during her appointments. Our friendly and professional staff at Support Circle’s three licensed medical clinics provide clients with a genuine opportunity to receive critical medical information and process their thoughts and feelings. And our counseling staff provides long-term, relational support for the coming year.
You can provide the strong, civil voice that’s needed: Women and men facing the fear of an unplanned pregnancy need a strong, civil voice. They don’t need more voices from society that are motivated by fear.
You can help provide that strong, civil voice today through Support Circle. I have made it the top priority in this organization to strengthen our voice and outreach, beginning first online, and then secondly in the community. This spring we will not be holding our annual Benefit Dinner to enable our team to continue building our online presence and outreach. We look forward to 2017 when our premiere fundraising event will return. In the meantime, we still need your financial support without attending the physical event. We launched our spring fundraising efforts with the “Support the Circle” campaign. Your contributions complete the circle of supportive services around our clients, and provide the resources needed to bring a strong, civil voice to women and men facing the fear of unplanned pregnancy.
Would you give generously to this campaign so that together we can be that strong voice? We are encouraging our regular banquet guests to give online and via mail what they would have given at the annual event. Please “Support the Circle” today, and your contributions will go towards direct services in our medical clinics and our outreach efforts!
Together we can replace fear with support, which leads to hope and lasting change!
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Tag / conspiracy theory
August 5, 2018 by Brujo
Mr. President: The Late Marilyn Monroe
Icons, Influential Figures
celebrity death, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, JFK, john f kennedy, marilyn monroe, mysterious death, Robert Kennedy
Peter Lawford introduced Marilyn Monroe before her performance of her birthday song for President John F. Kennedy in 1962. Because she was a few seconds late onto the stage, and Lawford had to stall with a few lines, when she did run onstage and join Lawford, he put his arms around her and said, “Mr. President: The late Marilyn Monroe.”
I started this article as a vehicle to debunk a few rumors and do a little light teasing about the various quotes that have been attributed to her over the years, and even published in some “reputable” press as fact, proving without a doubt that the writers of those pieces had done only the lightest of search-engine based “research” in order to present listsicles or round ups of “legendary women” and what they can “tell us about ourselves.” Frankly, all those fake quotes can tell us is that the author is a lazy researcher, and a lazy thinker to allow unsourced trickles to feed into their pieces.
But on the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, it became apparent that there is no way to tackle this issue in a light manner if we’re to be honest about it. The projections made onto Marilyn via these quotes, and “conventional wisdom” borne of false rumors about her, reflect the state of our problem with women both during Marilyn’s lifetime, and still today. We keep treading the same ground with our women legends. They’re difficult. They’re bad. They’re created around sex, and only exist for it. They’re tragic, but only after they’ve been wrung out and cast aside, slut-shamed and lied about. And even after they die, the tragic tales are only embraced insofar as it allows our society to treat them as some sort of morality tale – that women can only have a tragic end if they aren’t good, and pure – but not too good and pure, mind you – and that they definitely should have known it was coming and wised up.
These difficult women, these crazy ex-girlfriends, these grown women unable to cope with their overwhelming attachment to men who had to get on with their lives and away from them. We see them again and again. We see them still. We hear their stories every day, yet we fail to see the patterns of how the fuck we treat women in light of the abuse and/or hardships they endure.
In wading through these fake quotes, I found a very real one from Marilyn that addressed this very thing in regard to celebrities:
“This is wrong, because when I was a little girl I read signed stories in fan magazines and I believed every word of them. Then I tried to model my life after the lives of the stars I read about. If I’m going to have that kind of influence, I want to be sure it’s because of something I’ve actually said or written.”
In that spirit, we’ll dig into some quotes, but before we really begin the dismantling of outlandish rumors, let me start with something rather important, that goes to character assassination and that I want to make clear at the outset, as it’s among the more disturbing rumors:
“There were rumors that she had multiple abortions, but she never had one. She had two miscarriages, and an ectopic pregnancy requiring emergency termination, but no abortion.” -Dr. Leon Krohn, Marilyn Monroe’s gynecologist, speaking to biographer Donald Spoto
That should really be the last word on that.
So, what about these fake quotes?
1. “To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one. It’s society who’s ugly.”
Size zero didn’t exist during Marilyn’s lifetime. Additionally, the common myth that she was a size 14 (or even 16) is misguided. She wore an Italian 1960s size 14 top. It was a little large on her, as photos show. However, her measurements as shown on her modeling card were 36-24-34. She was her heaviest in 1959, and that year, she wore a dress that was made for her, tailored to her body, to an event honoring her then-husband Arthur Miller. This dress is in a collection and the waist measures at 28.5″. The following year, she shed the extra weight, and by 1962, after she’d had two surgeries (more about that below), she wore an acid green Emilio Pucci top that was later auctioned off at Christie’s. The size shows 14, but it’s a 1962 Italian size 14. Today, it’s displayed on a size 6-8 dress form.
Remember when Elizabeth Hurley said this in 2000?
“I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat. I went to see her clothes in the exhibition and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. (laughs) She was very big.”
First of all, gross. She decided to form her mouth around a disgusting attack one of the most beautiful women that ever lived, in addition to fat-shaming normal-sized women today, and saying she would kill herself if she was (that) fat – wow – but she was also wrong. Even giving this trash take the benefit of the doubt, if she saw one of the two garments below, she is too much of a simpleton to have considered how they fit Marilyn at the time. One is a maternity dress that was baggy on her, and the other was a wide-cut overcoat – with a belled bottom that clearly flared out like a swing coat.
(Big ups to The Marilyn Monroe Collection for this size info and videos.)
Anyway, had Marilyn been a size 14 as we see them today, society would have been very different in a lot of ways. But she wasn’t. This quote may speak some truth, but it wasn’t Marilyn’s truth.
2. “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
I mean, sure. But she didn’t say that. Dr. Timothy Leary did. Yes, that Timothy Leary.
3. “Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.”
Wow. That sounds practically tailor-made for Marilyn. She really didn’t say it?
Nope. But it was tailor-made for her. Silent film star Clara Bow said it about Marilyn just after Marilyn’s death in 1962. (Clara herself didn’t die until 1965.)
4. “Give a girl the right shoes and she will conquer the world.”
This is a twist on this quote: “Give a girl the correct footwear and she can conquer the world,” which is actually attributed to Bette Midler in a newspaper article from 1985.
5. “Well behaved women seldom make history.”
This was actually a quote from a paper by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a historian writing about Puritan funeral practices in 1976. This was so misquoted so regularly that Ulrich wrote a book in 2008 with the entire quote as the title, which examines the stories of women who “challenged the way history was written.” But still, prints with this quote and attribution to Marilyn persist.
6. “I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”
This one is a little harder to source, but the best info I could find was that it was said by Bessie Coleman. Now, this may seem a dubious quote from Bessie Coleman too, given that she was actually famous for being the first black woman to earn a pilot’s license, and the first American of any race or gender to be awarded pilot credentials from the Federation Aeronitique Internationale in France, which required a very high level of skill with maneuvers. (She’d only trained for ten months in total.) However, when she returned, she received a silver cup as a kind gift to recognize her achievement. It was from the cast of Shuffle Along, a musical which featured Josephine Baker in one of her earliest roles. From then on, the two spent time together frequently, reportedly living the high life in the flapper era. Josephine was so influenced by her that she went on to earn her pilot’s license in 1933, and Bessie absolutely embraced the feminine dress of her day. In fact, she was a licensed manicurist and beautician before she ever got to sit in a plane. Could she have said it? Maybe. But Marilyn definitely did not.
7. “We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.”
This is when it starts getting gross. This is the vaseline lens take on what she actually said, which was in response to a party invitation that she was turning down: “Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”
Oh, you didn’t know she was physically involved in civil rights protests? Because some asshole turned that strong, clear message into a pithy meme and everybody ran with it.
8. “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can be put together.”
During Marilyn’s lifetime, film, audio tape and print were well-employed to archive even the most arcane details of a celebrity’s life. Certainly we don’t have complaints of lost Marilyn interviews or footage like we do of stars of the silent film era. Archiving was in full swing. Yet there is no record of this being spoken or written by Marilyn anywhere. Also, this is out of character. She remained trusting, and optimistic, even as depression was taking her over. She had eternal hope for the possibility of love. Which leads us to the next fake quote.
9. “A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love. Listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.”
Again, no source. It appears in no known interview. But it was out of character. She didn’t reduce herself to simply “wanting a man,” but she did not give up on love. She was simply not this cynical, even in her final year. Or month.
10. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
Holy shit. Even a cursory read of her earliest childhood would tell you that she never, ever fetishized “madness.” In fact, she was terrified of it in her mother, whose mental illness issues created a very difficult situation for Marilyn as a child, but also of it in herself. Though it’s public speculation that Marilyn’s “madness” was inevitable and possibly genetic, there is no evidence to support that. Her mental health issues can be directly traced to events in her life, more than genetic profiles. Regardless, this idea of the genius of madness wasn’t normalized for women. Men could be mad geniuses, but there was no way a woman would be seen in a positive light, and this quote is out of character AND career-damaging if she’d said it.
Furthermore, the idea of imperfection being beautiful to her is laughable. It’s well documented how careful and deliberate Marilyn was at applying makeup and dressing herself. She would agonize over details of her makeup until they were perfect. She was absolutely a perfectionist in terms of her appearance, and her acting. We may wish to read this quote as permission to be imperfect, and a little weird, and to let ourselves off the hook a little bit with our standards, but Marilyn would never have done this for herself. Never.
11. “Nothing lasts forever, so live it up, drink it down, laugh it off, avoid the drama, take chances and never have regrets because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted.”
You probably understand by now why this is out of character, far too cynical and YOLO for Marilyn, and no way she said this. But “avoid the drama” wasn’t even a phrase at any point in her life in this context. The only way she would have said “avoid the drama” is if she were speaking about taking a comedy script over a dramatic one (which is another thing she likely would not have done).
Arguably the most famous fake quote attributed to Marilyn Monroe?
12. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at time hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.”
This has been traced back to someone’s OK Cupid bio from 2009, but no attribution before that, and no interview with or written piece by Marilyn Monroe exists with this quotation. This might sound great, but it’s more Carrie Bradshaw than Marilyn Monroe. It also deals with the projection of Marilyn that we’re dealing with in popular culture rather than the real woman.
Marilyn was not selfish. Not ever. Not even the men that hated her for whatever reasons would assert that she was. She had a huge capacity for compassion, and she demonstrated care for others above herself throughout her entire life. She didn’t consistently let people take advantage of her, but she absolutely picked others over herself when she could “afford” to do so, emotionally and financially. This is borne out in her devotion to her stepchildren from her marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller both – all children would consistently talk about how wonderful she was to them.
It’s also evident in the way that she used her position to call attention to injustice, to champion individuals in asserting their rights, or opening opportunities for them, and also in the fact that she took financial care of everyone connected with her past that had helped her, or that was related to her by blood or family bond. She also, in her will, left 25% of her estate to former psychiatrist, Dr. Marianne Kris, “to be used for the furtherance of the work of such psychiatric institutions or groups as she shall elect.” Knowing Marilyn’s enormous love for children, Kris chose the Anna Freud Children’s Clinic of London. (Big ups again to The Marilyn Monroe Collection for the direct quote from her will.)
A detail often omitted from her famous trip to entertain and visit with the troops in Korea was that she visited wounded soldiers in hospital, and when she came across a soldier who had been suspended facing the floor in order to alleviate his pain and allow for healing, she laid herself down in her fur coat and spoke to him from her position flat on the floor.
But still, she had this… reputation.
A difficult woman.
Despite her best efforts to be a professional at the top of her game, her endless, lifelong quest to improve her craft (including intense acting training from four acting coaches, even up to her last year of life), she could not fully overcome physical ailments that took their toll on her mental health. She was chronically ill and was particularly susceptible to ENT issues – sinusitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, cold and flu – and suffered with insomnia that prolonged these illnesses and zapped her immune system, leaving her exhausted. She was prescribed barbiturates to sleep, and amphetamines to wake up – a familiar cocktail in those days, and one that claimed Judy Garland among countless others, before the effects of this rollercoaster of chemicals were fully understood and, even when they were, exceptions were made for the rich and famous.
Among her personal effects, collected and catalogued, were a prescription bottle for phenergan, used to treat allergy symptoms (also, motion sickness, nausea, vomiting or pain, and as a sleep aid – think diphenhydramine plus), and prescription eye drops, and not one, but two custom tissue box covers. She consistently had the sniffles, and it wasn’t for the usual “Hollywood reasons.”
Her visit to the troops in Korea, which she later described as “the highlight” of her life, resulted in pneumonia, which took her down for days after her return home. During the filming of A Ticket to Tomahawk, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Bus Stop, she got walloped with bronchitis or the flu, depending on the year, and had to take time off of filming. After the famous updraft skirt scene in The Seven Year Itch (which took three hours standing barelegged being blown with cold air to film) she caught a chill. Her final film, Something’s Got To Give, started filming a week late because of an acute sinus infection and a fever. She was able to turn up for one day on the set when her doctor advised her that she needed to be in bed for at least a week. (In fact, she would be seriously ill for the following six weeks.)
Marilyn in the famous updraft shot publicity event for The Seven Year Itch
Marilyn in Korea, with American soldiers
In most instances, studio execs and some colleagues cast doubt on her illnesses, suggesting that she was just drunk, or high, and lazy, and unprofessional. She was famously fired from the production of Something’s Got To Give, and shooting was shut down, and in that case, the studio went further, stating outright what was only buzzed about before. In fact, she actually gave a quote at the time: “Executives can get a cold and stay home and phone in, but the actor? How dare you get a cold or a virus! I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection!”
By the time Marilyn’s dependency on barbiturates really took hold, she already had a reputation for being difficult because of her chronic illnesses. Further, director Billy Wilder’s exasperation with her during the shooting of Some Like It Hot did indeed stem from her frequent late starts (noon) and her early departures from the set. What he didn’t know at the time was that she was pregnant, and her then-husband Arthur Miller didn’t want her to work at all – he gave her “permission” to work a few hours, after which she would become exhausted. This was an already precarious pregnancy – one which she very much wanted to succeed – and when she miscarried three months in, it was devastating and she was racked with guilt because, as she told friends, she thought she caused it by taking her prescribed pills “on an empty stomach”. Her physicians knew she was pregnant. She would have had no clear way to learn the real risks of barbiturates in pregnancy, nor alcohol. (She said she took sherry during her pregnancy.)
Marilyn miscarried twice and lost one pregnancy (ectopic – the pregnancy was outside of the fallopian tube and therefore not viable, and lethal to continue) three years in a row from 1956, 1957 and 1958. The films she completed in the following two years, Let’s Make Love and The Misfits didn’t do well at the box office, and during the filming of The Misfits, she was in the hospital for a week. This was her last completed film, written by Arthur Miller – from whom she divorced in January of 1961 – and the film is not her usual lighthearted fare. It’s a bleak, tense film with the most genuine acting of her career, and perhaps one of the best lines she’s ever embodied in its delivery. Addressing the men in the room: “You are only happy when you can see something die. Why don’t you kill yourselves, and be happy?”
Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits
1961 was a terrible year for Marilyn, not just because of depression one would think of as normal when one’s career is suffering the fickleness of the public and the media who preferred the dumb blonde they could wolf-whistle over without all these emotions and shit, and not just because of signing her marriage’s death warrant. She suffered immensely from endometriosis – a condition still not fully understood for what it is – a condition which presents with excruciating pain and usually the loss of fertility among those who suffer it. It was, perhaps, a previously undiagnosed contributor to her miscarriages, and likely caused her to suffer elevated menstrual pain every month. She finally had surgery to address it in this year, and then also had her gall bladder removed. She spent weeks in the hospital, and checked herself in for psychiatric care to address her depression. When she got out, she left Manhattan and returned to LA. This is when she was to begin shooting Something’s Got To Give, and when she caught the sinusitis which felled her for six weeks. Multiple doctors confirmed the illness, but she was publicly mocked for faking it by her studio and the press ate it up.
She returned to work (after a quick stop to sing Happy Birthday to JFK at Madison Square Garden) and resumed filming when she had a relapse and couldn’t shoot. Fox fired her, then sued her for breach of contract. (Dean Martin refused to reshoot the film with Lee Remick, who’d been called in to replace Marilyn, and the studio sued him too and then folded the production entirely.)
The studio went into full on defamation mode, claiming that Marilyn’s drug addiction and “lack of professionalism” and – they really said this – “mental disturbance” were to blame for their failure to heed the advice of physicians to postpone the start of filming. Despite this, she made several attempts to drag herself onto the set, and keep up with public appearances, and unsurprisingly, relapsed. After this relentless mudslinging by Fox, Marilyn did a series of interviews in the magazines with the highest profiles of their day – Life, Cosmo and Vogue. She made enough headway to renegotiate her contract with Fox, and planned to return to shoot Something’s Got To Give in September of 1962. She also had plans for a new film, and a Jean Harlow biopic.
Unfortunately, she died in the first week of August of 1962, before any of these plans were realized.
But despite Fox giving her a new contract and agreeing to resume shooting the very film she was fired from for allegedly never showing up except when she was high or drunk, only to leave abruptly, their ugly, and very public accusations were accepted as fact. It was only finally debunked by the unreleased footage she had shot being made public in 1990. It proved that she had been on set, she was far from incoherent, and had shot several scenes. Interestingly, it was Henry (not Harvey) Weinstein that made the truth known: the head executive of Fox, Peter Levathes, was inexperienced and the studio had severe financial troubles they could not surmount, and had used Monroe’s illnesses as an excuse to first cut costs by replacing her big paycheck with a smaller one for Lee Remick, and then killing the film altogether.
Will you look at this? There she is, on the set, acting, and also visibly ill.
Marilyn Monroe on the Set of Something’s Got To Give
Marilyn Monroe on the Set of Something’s Got To Give. Her actual illness is clearly visible, but was chalked up to her being “high” and “drunk” despite the film footage showing her lucid and performing her scenes normally.
So, we know Fox Studios was a trashfire and that she fought to regain her position and reputation from them. Still, rumors assuming the worst of her never really went away, even as she’s turned into a tragic figure. Part two of this article gets deep into tinfoil country. Get your hats ready.
This amazing photos is by Jeff Hall
Part Two –>
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Diego Sepúlveda Adobe
Location of Diego Sepúlveda Adobe in California
33°40′23″N 117°56′13″W / 33.67306°N 117.93694°W / 33.67306; -117.93694Coordinates: 33°40′23″N 117°56′13″W / 33.67306°N 117.93694°W / 33.67306; -117.93694
Name as founded
Estancia de la Misión San Juan Capistrano
Station of Mission San Juan Capistrano
Native tribe(s)
Spanish name(s)
Tongva
Gabrieliño [1]
Native place name(s)
Lukup [1]
City of Costa Mesa
Current use
California Historical Landmark
http://www.costamesahistory.org/adobe.htm
The Diego Sepúlveda Adobe (sometimes known as the Costa Mesa Estancia or the Santa Ana Estancia) is an adobe structure in Costa Mesa, Orange County, California. [2] [3]
2 Present day
Historical plaque at the adobe
The adobe was built between 1817 and 1823 to house the mayordomo and herdsmen who tended the cattle and horses from Mission San Juan Capistrano to the south, in Alta California; the way-station was strategically situated on the banks of the Santa Ana River, some six leguas (Spanish Leagues) north of the parent mission, and also served as a lookout post when the French privateer Hippolyte de Bouchard attacked San Juan Capistrano on December 14, 1818.[3] By 1820 the building and its surrounding lands became an official estancia (mission station), where padres from the mission would visit regularly to bring "spiritual food" to the faithful.[4]
After the Mexican secularization act of 1833 the church lost the land and building to the originally Spanish, later Mexican-recognized land grant Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana; the adobe and its surrounding property, a portion of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, were deeded by the U.S. government to Diego Sepúlveda around 1868. He was a former alcalde of the Mexican era Pueblo of Los Angeles.[3]
Present day[edit]
The adobe, which has been restored to its original style using original construction methods, is the second oldest building still standing in Orange County. [2] The Mission San Juan Capistrano "Serra's Chapel" is the oldest.
The building then became a local history museum, operated by the Costa Mesa Historical Society. [2][3]
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USNS Mission Santa Ana (AO-137) — a Mission Buenaventura Class fleet oiler built during World War II.
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^ a b c d Earl, John (June 2007). "History You Want to Repeat: The Diego Sepulveda Estancia of Costa Mesa". The Orange Coast Voice. Duane J. Roberts (9): 5–6.
^ Engelhardt, Zephyrin, O.F.M. (1922). San Juan Capistrano Mission. Standard Printing Co., Los Angeles, CA. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link); p. 114
Kroeber, Alfred L. (1925). Handbook of the Indians of California. Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY.
Meadows, Don (June 1965). "Ghost Among the Tumbleweeds". Tumbleweeds to Roses. Archived from the original on October 8, 2007. Retrieved June 23, 2007.
Official Costa Mesa Historical Society website
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San Diego de Alcalá (1769)
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San Antonio de Padua (1771)
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Santa Clara de Asís (1777)
San Buenaventura (1782)
Santa Barbara (1786)
La Purísima Concepción (1787)
Santa Cruz (1791)
Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1791)
San José (1797)
San Juan Bautista (1797)
San Miguel Arcángel (1797)
San Fernando Rey de España (1797)
San Luis Rey de Francia (1798)
Santa Inés (1804)
San Rafael Arcángel (1817)
San Francisco Solano (1823)
Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles (1784)
San Pedro y San Pablo (1786)
Santa Margarita de Cortona (1787)
Santa Gertrudis Asistencia
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Santa Ysabel (1818)
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Hippolyte Bouchard
Hippolyte Bouchard, or Hipólito Bouchard, was a French Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina and Peru. During his first campaign as an Argentine corsair he attacked the Spanish colonies of Chile and Peru, under the command of the Irish-Argentine Admiral William Brown, he was the first Argentine to circumnavigate the world. During his voyage around the globe he blockaded the port of Manila. In Hawaii, he recovered an Argentine privateer, seized by mutineers, he met the local ruler, King Kamehameha I. His forces occupied Monterey, California a Spanish colony, raised the Argentine flag and held the town for six days. After raiding Monterey, he plundered Mission San Juan Capistrano in Southern California. Toward the end of the voyage Bouchard raided Spanish ports in Central America, his second homeland remembers him as a patriot. Bouchard was born in a small village close to Saint-Tropez, Bormes-les-Mimosas, in 1780 The son of André Louis Bouchard and Thérèse Brunet was baptized as André Paul but went by the name Hippolyte.
He worked in the French merchant fleet served in the French Navy in their campaigns against the English, thus starting his life at sea. After many campaigns in Egypt and the Saint-Domingue expedition, disillusioned with the direction of the French Revolution, Bouchard went to Argentina in 1809 and, to aid the May Revolution, became a part of the National Argentine Fleet, led by Azopardo. On 2 March 1811 he fought for the first time under the Argentine Flag when the Spanish Captain Jacinto de Romarate defeated the first Argentine flotilla at San Nicolás de los Arroyos, in July and August of that year he played a major role in defending the City of Buenos Aires from a Spanish blockade. In March 1812 Bouchard joined the Mounted Grenadiers Regiment led by José de San Martín and took part in the Battle of San Lorenzo in 1813, where he captured a Spanish flag and therefore was granted Argentine citizenship; some months he married Norberta Merlo. In 1815 Bouchard started a naval campaign under the command of Admiral William Brown, wherein he attacked the fortress of El Callao and the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil.
On 12 September 1815 he was granted a corsair license to fight the Spanish aboard the French-built corvette Halcón, bought for the Argentine State by Vicente Anastacio Echeverría. Most of the officers were French, except for the second commander, the Englishman Robert Jones, Ramón Freire. Before weighing anchor a conflict between Bouchard and his superiors arose when the expedition's agent, Severino Prudant, promoted several sailors. Echevarría settled the conflict; the campaign fleet was composed of the frigate Hercules under the command of William Brown, the Santísima Trinidad under the command of his brother, Miguel Brown, the schooner Constitución under the command of Oliverio Russell, the Halcón. The Hércules and Santísima Trinidad set sail from Montevideo on 24 October; the plan was for all four ships to rendezvous at Mocha Island where they would establish a plan of operation. The Brown brothers arrived at the island on 28 December, with the Halcón arriving the following day. Upon arrival Bouchard announced that while circumnavigating Cape Horn his ship was exposed to fourteen days of severe weather, it was on that basis that he had concluded that the Constitución had sunk.
On 31 December Brown and Bouchard agreed to operate together during the first hundred days of 1816. Any plunder would be divided as follows: two parts to Brown, as the commander-in-chief, one-and-a-half parts each for the Santísima Trinidad and the Halcón. Bouchard and Miguel Brown subsequently set course for the Peruvian coast, while the Hércules sailed to the Juan Fernández Islands in order to free a number of patriots that were being held prisoner there. On 10 January 1816 the three vessels met again near the fortress of El Callao; the ships bombarded Guayaquil and its nearby fortification. The following day the group seized the brigantine San Pablo, used to transport sick and injured sailors as well as the liberated prisoners. On the 13th the frigate Gobernadora was captured, Lt. Colonel Vicente Banegas, officer of the Republican Army of Nueva Granada, joined the fleet. Four more ships were commandeered on the 18th, including the schooner Carmen and the brig Místico along with two other ships, one of, sacked and sunk.
On 21 January the Argentine fleet again attacked the fortress, sinking the frigate Fuente Hermosa in the process. Seven days two more vessels were captured, the frigates Candelaria and Consecuencia; the next day the expanded fleet sailed north in search of the Guayas River. On 7 February the Argentine contingent arrived near Guayaquil; as they arrived, William Brown ordered Bouchard and his brother to stay close to the seven ships they had captured. Brown took the command of the Santísima Trinidad; the next day his attack demolished the fort of Punta de Piedras, located some five leagues from Guayaquil. However, on 9 February Brown failed in his attempt to take the castle of San Carlos, was instead captured by the royalist forces. After a long negotiation, the Argentine corsairs traded Brown for the Candelaria, three brigantines and five correspondence chests, taken from the Consecuencia. After three days, Bouchard informed Brown that his ship was close to sinking and that the officers wished to return to Buenos Aires.
He asked for a division of the booty, received the Consecuencia, the Carmen, 3,475 pesos as compensation (he had t
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans known as American Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States, except Hawaii. There are over 500 federally recognized tribes within the US, about half of which are associated with Indian reservations; the term "American Indian" excludes Native Hawaiians and some Alaska Natives, while Native Americans are American Indians, plus Alaska Natives of all ethnicities. Native Hawaiians are not counted as Native Americans by the US Census, instead being included in the Census grouping of "Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander"; the ancestors of modern Native Americans arrived in what is now the United States at least 15,000 years ago much earlier, from Asia via Beringia. A vast variety of peoples and cultures subsequently developed. Native Americans were affected by the European colonization of the Americas, which began in 1492, their population declined precipitously due to introduced diseases as well as warfare, territorial confiscation and slavery.
After the founding of the United States, many Native American peoples were subjected to warfare and one-sided treaties, they continued to suffer from discriminatory government policies into the 20th century. Since the 1960s, Native American self-determination movements have resulted in changes to the lives of Native Americans, though there are still many contemporary issues faced by Native Americans. Today, there are over five million Native Americans in the United States, 78% of whom live outside reservations; when the United States was created, established Native American tribes were considered semi-independent nations, as they lived in communities separate from British settlers. The federal government signed treaties at a government-to-government level until the Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 ended recognition of independent native nations, started treating them as "domestic dependent nations" subject to federal law; this law did preserve the rights and privileges agreed to under the treaties, including a large degree of tribal sovereignty.
For this reason, many Native American reservations are still independent of state law and actions of tribal citizens on these reservations are subject only to tribal courts and federal law. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 granted U. S. citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States. This emptied the "Indians not taxed" category established by the United States Constitution, allowed natives to vote in state and federal elections, extended the Fourteenth Amendment protections granted to people "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. However, some states continued to deny Native Americans voting rights for several decades. Bill of Rights protections do not apply to tribal governments, except for those mandated by the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968. Since the end of the 15th century, the migration of Europeans to the Americas has led to centuries of population and agricultural transfer and adjustment between Old and New World societies, a process known as the Columbian exchange.
As most Native American groups had preserved their histories by oral traditions and artwork, the first written sources of the conflict were written by Europeans. Ethnographers classify the indigenous peoples of North America into ten geographical regions with shared cultural traits, called cultural areas; some scholars combine the Plateau and Great Basin regions into the Intermontane West, some separate Prairie peoples from Great Plains peoples, while some separate Great Lakes tribes from the Northeastern Woodlands. The ten cultural areas are as follows: Arctic, including Aleut and Yupik peoples Subarctic Northeastern Woodlands Southeastern Woodlands Great Plains Great Basin Northwest Plateau Northwest Coast California Southwest At the time of the first contact, the indigenous cultures were quite different from those of the proto-industrial and Christian immigrants; some Northeastern and Southwestern cultures, in particular, were matrilineal and operated on a more collective basis than that with which Europeans were familiar.
The majority of Indigenous American tribes maintained their hunting grounds and agricultural lands for use of the entire tribe. Europeans at that time had patriarchal cultures and had developed concepts of individual property rights with respect to land that were different; the differences in cultures between the established Native Americans and immigrant Europeans, as well as shifting alliances among different nations in times of war, caused extensive political tension, ethnic violence, social disruption. Before the European settlement of what is now the United States, Native Americans suffered high fatalities from contact with new European diseases, to which they had not yet acquired immunity. Smallpox epidemics are thought to have caused the greatest loss of life for indigenous populations. William M Denevan, noted author and Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said on this subject in his essay "The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492".
Old World diseases were the primary killer. In many regions the tropical lowlands, populations fell by 90 percent or more in the first century after the contact. "Estimates of the pre-Columbian population of what today constitutes the U. S. vary ranging from William M Denevan's 3.8 million in his 1992 w
French people
The French are an ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France. This connection may be ethnic, historical, or cultural; the heritage of the French people is of Celtic and Germanic origin, descending from the ancient and medieval populations of Gauls, Ligures, Iberians, Franks and Norsemen. France has long been a patchwork of local customs and regional differences, while most French people still speak the French language as their mother tongue, languages like Norman, Catalan, Corsican, French Flemish, Lorraine Franconian and Breton remain spoken in their respective regions. Arabic is widely spoken, arguably the largest minority language in France as of the 21st century. Modern French society is a melting pot. From the middle of the 19th century, it experienced a high rate of inward migration consisting of Arab-Berbers, Sub-Saharan Africans and other peoples from Africa, the Middle East and East Asia, the government, defining France as an inclusive nation with universal values, advocated assimilation through which immigrants were expected to adhere to French values and cultural norms.
Nowadays, while the government has let newcomers retain their distinctive cultures since the mid-1980s and requires from them a mere integration, French citizens still equate their nationality with citizenship as does French law. In addition to mainland France, French people and people of French descent can be found internationally, in overseas departments and territories of France such as the French West Indies, in foreign countries with significant French-speaking population groups or not, such as Switzerland, the United States, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. To be French, according to the first article of the French Constitution, is to be a citizen of France, regardless of one's origin, race, or religion. According to its principles, France has devoted itself to the destiny of a proposition nation, a generic territory where people are bounded only by the French language and the assumed willingness to live together, as defined by Ernest Renan's "plébiscite de tous les jours" on the willingness to live together, in Renan's 1882 essay "Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?").
The debate concerning the integration of this view with the principles underlying the European Community remains open. A large number of foreigners have traditionally been permitted to live in France and succeeded in doing so. Indeed, the country has long valued its openness and the quality of services available. Application for French citizenship is interpreted as a renunciation of previous state allegiance unless a dual citizenship agreement exists between the two countries; the European treaties have formally permitted movement and European citizens enjoy formal rights to employment in the state sector. Seeing itself as an inclusive nation with universal values, France has always valued and advocated assimilation. However, the success of such assimilation has been called into question. There is increasing dissatisfaction with, within, growing ethno-cultural enclaves; the 2005 French riots in some troubled and impoverished suburbs were an example of such tensions. However they should not be interpreted as ethnic conflicts but as social conflicts born out of socioeconomic problems endangering proper integration.
French people are the descendants of Gauls and Romans, western European Celtic and Italic peoples, as well as Bretons, Aquitanians and Germanic people arriving at the beginning of the Frankish Empire such as the Franks, the Visigoths, the Suebi, the Saxons, the Allemanni and the Burgundians, Germanic groups such as the Vikings, who settled in Normandy and to a lesser extent in Brittany in the 9th century. The name "France" etymologically derives from the territory of the Franks; the Franks were a Germanic tribe. In the pre-Roman era, all of Gaul was inhabited by a variety of peoples who were known collectively as the Gaulish tribes, their ancestors were Celts who came from Central Europe in the 7th century BCE, non-Celtic peoples including the Ligures, Aquitanians in Aquitaine. Some in the northern and eastern areas, may have had Germanic admixture. Gaul was militarily conquered in 58–51 BCE by the Roman legions under the command of General Julius Caesar. Over the next six centuries, the two cultures intermingled, creating a hybridized Gallo-Roman culture.
In the late Roman era, in addition to colonists from elsewhere in the Empire and Gaulish natives, Gallia became home to some in-migrating populations of Germanic and Scythian origin, such as Alans. The Gaulish language is thought to have survived into the 6th century in France, despite considerable Romanizat
California Historical Landmarks are buildings, sites, or places in the U. S. state of California that have been determined to have statewide historical landmark significance. Historical significance is determined by meeting at least one of the criteria listed below: The first, only, or most significant of its type in the state or within a large geographic region. California Historical Landmarks of number 770 and above are automatically listed in the California Register of Historical Resources. By contrast, a site, feature, or event, of local significance may be designated as a California Point of Historical Interest. List of California Historical Landmarks by county National Historic Sites National Register of Historic Places listings in California Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks Johnson, Marael. Why Stop? A Guide to California Roadside Historical Markers. Houston, TX: Gulf Publishing Company. P. 213. ISBN 9780884159230. OCLC 32168093. Official OHP—California Office of Historic Preservation website OHP: California Historical Sites searchpage — links to lists by county
Mission Santa Clara de Asís
Mission Santa Clara de Asís is a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order in the present-day city of Santa Clara, California. The mission, the eighth in California, was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Saint Clare of Assisi, the foundress of the order of the Poor Clares, it is the namesake of both the city and county of Santa Clara, as well as Santa Clara University, built around the mission. This was the first California mission to be named in honor of a woman and the only mission to now be on the grounds of a university campus. Although ruined and rebuilt six times, the settlement was never abandoned, today it functions as the university chapel for Santa Clara University; the outpost was established as La Misión Santa Clara de Thamien at the Indian village of So-co-is-u-ka January 12, 1777. There the Franciscan brothers erected a cross and shelter for worship to bring Christianity to the Ohlone and Costanoan peoples. Floods and earthquakes damaged many of the early structures and forced relocation to higher ground.
The second site is known as Mission Santa Clara de Asís. A subsequent site of the mission dating from 1784 to 1819 is located several hundred yards west of the De La Cruz overpass of the Caltrain track; the current site, home to the first college in Alta California, dates back to 1828. There was tension between the people of the mission and those in the nearby Pueblo de San Jose over disputed ownership rights of land and water; the tension was relieved when a road, the Alameda, was built by two hundred Indians to link the communities together. On Sundays, people from San Jose would come to the mission for services, until the building of St. Joseph's Church in 1803. In that year, the mission of Santa Clara reported an Indian population of 1,271. In the same tabular report, its resident priest estimated that 10,000 cattle, 9,500 sheep, 730 horses, 35 mules, 55 swine were on mission lands, while about 3,000 fanegas of grain had been harvested. After the Mexican secularization act of 1833 most of the mission's land and livestock was sold off by Mexico.
Most of the buildings continued to be used as a parish church, unlike the other missions in California. In 1850, California became a state, with that change priests of the Jesuit Order took over the Mission Santa Clara de Asís in 1851 from the Franciscans. Father John Nobili, S. J. was put in charge of the mission. He began a college on the mission site in 1851. Throughout the history of the mission, the bells have rung faithfully every evening, a promise made to King Charles III of Spain when he sent the original bells to the mission in 1777, he asked that the bells be rung each evening at 8:30 in memory of those who had died, although the actual bells have since been replaced by a recording. In 1861, a new wooden façade with two bell towers was attached over the old adobe front of the building; the interior was widened in 1885 to increase the seating capacity by removing the original adobe nave walls. A fire in 1925 destroyed the structure, including the surrounding wall; the church's parochial functions were transferred to the Saint Clare Parish west of the campus.
A rebuilt and restored Mission Santa Clara was consecrated in 1929, when it assumed its primary modern function as chapel and centerpiece of the university campus. It is open to visitors every day; the original mission cemetery, still used, is located on nearby Lincoln Street. Spanish missions in California USNS Mission Santa Clara – a Buenaventura Class fleet oiler built during World War II. Forbes, Alexander. California: A History of Upper and Lower California. Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill, London. Giglio, Gary, C. et al. Environmental Impact Report for the General Plan Amendment and Development of a Portion of FMC Corporation's Coleman Avenue Facility, Earth Metrics Inc. September 1988, published by the City of Santa Clara, California. Jones, Terry L. and Kathryn A. Klar. California Prehistory: Colonization and Complexity. Altimira Press, Landham, MD. ISBN 0-7591-0872-2. CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list Leffingwell, Randy. California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions.
Voyageur Press, Inc. Stillwater, MN. ISBN 0-89658-492-5. Levy, Richard.. William C. sturrent, Robert F. Heizer, ed. Handbook of North American Indians. 8. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. p. 486. ISBN 0-87474-188-2. Milliken, Randall. A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769–1910. Ballena Press Publication, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-87919-132-5. Paddison, Joshua. A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA. ISBN 1-890771-13-9. CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list Ruscin, Terry. Mission Memoirs. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA. ISBN 0-932653-30-8. Yenne, Bill; the Missions of California. Advantage Publishers Group, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1-59223-319-8. Early photographs, sketches of Mission Santa Clara de Asís, via Calisphere, California Digital Library Howser, Huell. "California Missions". California Missions. Chapman University Huell Howser Archive
Mission Santa Cruz
Mission Santa Cruz was a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order in present-day Santa Cruz, California. The mission was founded in 1791 and named for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, adopting the name given to a nearby creek by the missionary priest Juan Crespi, who accompanied the explorer Gaspar de Portolá when he camped on the banks of the San Lorenzo River on October 17, 1769; as with the other California missions, Mission Santa Cruz served as a site for ecclesiastical conversion of natives, first the Amah Mutsun people, the original inhabitants of the region renamed the “Ohlone” by the Spaniards, the Yokuts from the east. The settlement was the site of the first autopsy in Alta California; the current Holy Cross Church was built on the site of the original mission church in 1889, it remains an active parish of the Diocese of Monterey. A section of stone foundation wall from one of the mission buildings and a few old headstones from the mission cemetery can be found directly behind the present Holy Cross Church.
A reduced-scale "replica" chapel was built near the mission site in the 1930s and functions as a chapel of Holy Cross Church. Today's Plaza Park occupies the same location as the original plaza, at the center of the former mission complex; the complex at one time included as many as 32 buildings. The only surviving mission building, a dormitory for native acolytes, has been restored to its original appearance and functions as a museum of the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park; the Santa Cruz mission was consecrated by Padre Fermin Lasuen on August 28, 1791, on the San Lorenzo river's flood plain. It was one of the smaller missions, in the fourth military district under protection of the Presidio of San Francisco; the mission was flooded. Over the next three years, the padres rebuilt the mission on the hill overlooking the river. In 1797, the secular pueblo of Branciforte was founded across the San Lorenzo River to the east of Mission Santa Cruz; the mission padres did not welcome the location of the pueblo so close to the mission, accused the Branciforte settlers of gambling and tempting the native acolytes to desert the mission.
On October 12, 1812, Father Andrés Quintana was strangled to death by mission neophytes, angry over his use of a metal-tipped whip in the punishment of laborers. In 1818, the Mission received advance warning of an attack by the Argentine corsair Hipólito Bouchard and was evacuated; the citizens of Branciforte, several of whom were retired soldiers, were asked to protect the Mission's valuables. One of the only surviving first-person descriptions by a native Californian of life in a mission was given in an interview by Lorenzo Asisara in 1877. Asisara was born at Mission Santa Cruz in 1819, his father was one of the neophytes involved in the Quintana killing, Asisara repeated the story his father had told him about those events. The earliest surviving first-person writings by a native Californian of life in a mission is by Pablo Tac, a Luiseño from Mission San Luis Rey de Francia. Christian Clifford, author of Meet Pablo Tac, wrote "On January 15, 1834, Father Peyrí, Agapito left San Fernando College and in February boarded a ship for Europe.
They travelled via New York and France, arriving in Barcelona, Spain, on June 21. The'New' World was coming to meet the'Old' World." Tac arrived in Rome in September 1834 and was enrolled in the College of the Propaganda, studying Latin grammar. He went on to study rhetoric and philosophy in preparation for missionary work, it was while at the College that he created Luiseño written language and wrote the "Conversion of the San Luiseños of Alta California." The front wall of the adobe mission, built in 1794, was destroyed by the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake. A wooden facade was added and the structure converted to other uses. A new wooden church was built next door in 1858. In 1889, the current Gothic Revival-style Holy Cross Church was built on the original site in the same orientation, facing the original plaza. At the same time, the mission cemetery was excavated and the remains moved to a mass grave at Old Holy Cross Cemetery, a few miles to the east. In recent years, a group of local volunteers have been working to restore the old cemetery, to identify the mission gravesite and those whose remains were moved there.
A memorial was dedicated in 2016. The only original Mission building left is a long multi-room building which at one time housed local Yokut and Ohlone Indian families; the original building can be toured during operating hours. There is a protected remnant of the mission church foundation wall behind the current Holy Cross Church; the parish address is 126 High Street. The road leading to the mission from the west is called Mission Street, part of California State Route 1. In 1931, Gladys Sullivan Doyle proposed to construct a reduced-size replica of the original chapel, she contributed all of the construction costs, on the condition that she be allowed to be buried inside. Her grave can be viewed in a small side room. Since there were no surviving photographs or drawings of the original structure, design of the replica chapel was adapted from an 1876 painting by the French painter Léon Trousset; the original painting hangs in the nave of the chapel. The concrete construction was done by parishioner Tranquilino Costella, an Italian immigrant, whose contractor stamp is still seen in the si
Mission San Juan Capistrano was a Spanish mission in colonial Las Californias. It is located in Orange County, southern California; the mission was founded by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Named for Giovanni de Capistrano, a 15th-century theologian and "warrior priest" who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782. Known alternately as "Serra's Chapel" and "Father Serra's Church," it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that Junipero Serra celebrated Mass. One of the best known missions in Alta California, one of the few missions to have been founded twice—others being Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and Mission La Purísima Concepción; the site was consecrated on October 30, 1775, by Fermín Lasuén, but was abandoned due to unrest among the indigenous population in San Diego. The success of the settlement's population is evident in its historical records.
Prior to the arrival of the missionaries, some 550 indigenous Acjachemen peoples lived in this area of their homeland. By 1790, the number of Indian reductions had grown to 700 Mission Indians, just six years nearly 1,000 "neophytes" lived in or around the Mission compound. 1,649 baptisms were conducted that year alone, out of the none total 4,639 people converted between 1776 and 1847. More than 69 former inhabitants; the remains of St. John O'Sullivan, who recognized the property's historic value and working tirelessly to conserve and rebuild its structures, are buried at the entrance to the cemetery on west side of the property, a statue raised in his honor stands at the head of the crypt; the surviving chapel serves as the final resting place of three priests who passed on while serving at the Mission: José Barona, Vicente Fustér, Vicente Pascual Oliva are all entombed beneath the sanctuary floor. The Criolla or "Mission grape," was first planted at San Juan Capistrano in 1779, in 1783 the first wine produced in Alta California was from the Mission's winery.
The Mission entered a long period of gradual decline after Mexican government secularization in 1833. After 1850 U. S. statehood, numerous efforts were made over the latter 19th century to restore the Mission to its former state, but none achieved much success until the arrival of O'Sullivan in 1910. Restoration efforts continue, "Serra's Chapel" is still used for religious services. Over 500,000 visitors, including 80,000 school children, come to the Mission each year, and while the ruins of "The Great Stone Church" are a renowned architectural wonder, the Mission is best known for the annual "Return of the Swallows", traditionally observed every March 19. Mission San Juan Capistrano has served as a favorite subject for many notable artists, has been immortalized in literature and on film numerous times more than any other mission. In 1984, a modern church complex was constructed just north and west of the Mission compound and is now known as Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano. Today, the mission compound serves as a museum, with the Serra Chapel within the compound serving as a chapel for the mission parish.
The natives ate acorns that they turned into soups and bread. The former Spanish settlement at Sajavit lies within that area occupied during the late Paleoindian period and continuing on into the present day by the Native American society known as the Juaneño. Many contemporary Juaneño, who identify themselves as descendents of the indigenous society living in the local San Juan and San Mateo Creek drainage areas, have adopted the indigenous term Acjachemen, their language was related to the Luiseño language spoken by the nearby Luiseño tribe. The Acjachemen territory extended from Las Pulgas Creek in northern San Diego County up into the San Joaquin Hills along Orange County's central coast, inland from the Pacific Ocean up into the Santa Ana Mountains; the bulk of the population occupied the outlets of two large creeks, San Juan Creek and San Mateo Creek. The highest concentration of villages was along the lower San Juan, where Mission San Juan Capistrano was situated and is preserved today.
The Acjachemen resided in seasonal camps. Village populations ranged from between 35 and 300 inhabitants, consisting of a single lineage in the smaller villages, of a dominant clan joined with other families in the larger settlements; each clan was "politically" independent. The elite class, a middle class, people of disconnected or wandering families and captives of war comprised the three hierarchical social classes. Native leadership consisted of the Nota, or clan chief, who conducted community rites and regulated ceremonial life in conjunction with the council of elders, made up of lineage heads and ceremonial specialists in their own right; this body decided upon matters of the community, which were carried out by the Nota and his underlings. While the placement of residential huts in a village was not regulated, the ceremonial enclo
Spanish missions in California [videos]
The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in today's U.S. State of California. Founded by Catholic priests of the Franciscan order to evangelize the Native Americans, the missions led to the creation of the New Spain …
A drawing of Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo prepared by Captain George Vancouver depicts the grounds as they appeared in November 1792. From A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World.
An illustration depicts the death of the Rev. Luís Jayme by angry natives at Mission San Diego de Alcalá, November 4, 1775. The independence uprising was the first of a dozen similar incidents that took place in Alta California during the Mission Period; however, most rebellions tended to be localized and short-lived due to the Spaniards' superior weaponry (native resistance more often took the form of non-cooperation (in forced labor), return to their homelands (desertion of forced relocation), and raids on mission livestock).
Native Americans in the United States [videos]
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States, except Hawaii. There are over 500 federally recognized tribes within the US, about half of which are associated with Indian reservations. The term "American …
Discovery of the Mississippi by William Henry Powell (1823–1879) is a Romantic depiction of Spanish explorer de Soto's seeing the Mississippi River for the first time. It hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda.
1882 studio portrait of the (then) last surviving Six Nations warriors who fought with the British in the War of 1812
The Treaty of Penn with the Indians by Benjamin West, painted in 1771
Yamacraw Creek Native Americans meet with the Trustee of the colony of Georgia in England, July 1734. The painting shows a Native American boy (in a blue coat) and woman (in a red dress) in European clothing.
California Historical Landmark [videos]
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The California State Capitol, one of the state's most visited Historical Landmarks
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Adobe [videos]
Adobe is a building material made from earth and organic materials. Adobe is Spanish for mudbrick, but in some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, the term is used to refer to any kind of earth construction. Most …
Adobe wall (detail) in Bahillo, Palencia, Spain.
Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico
Shiraz, Iran. Its urban gardens are separated by adobe walls.
Church at San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Mission San Juan Capistrano [videos]
Mission San Juan Capistrano was a Spanish mission in colonial Las Californias. It is located in present-day San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, southern California. — Introduction — The mission was founded in 1776, by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Named for Giovanni de Capistrano, a …
Pre-contact Acjachemen built cone-shaped huts made of willow branches covered with brush or mats made of tule leaves. Known as Kiichas (or wikiups), the temporary shelters were utilized for sleeping or as refuge in cases of inclement weather. When a dwelling reached the end of its practical life it was simply burned, and a replacement erected in its place in about a day's time.
A plan view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano complex (including the footprint of the "Great Stone Church") prepared by architectural historian Rexford Newcomb in 1916.
Artist Rexford Newcomb's conception of Mission San Juan Capistrano in its heyday. The intact "Great Stone Church" is depicted at the far right. No contemporary drawing or painting of the Mission was ever completed.
A close-up view of the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's "Great Stone Church," dubbed by architects the "American Acropolis" in reference to its classical Greco-Roman style. "The most important and pretentious building of the whole Mission period ..." was modeled after the Byzantine cathedrals scattered throughout Europe and Western Asia.
Santa Ana River [videos]
The Santa Ana River is the largest river entirely within Southern California in the United States. It rises in the San Bernardino Mountains and flows for most of its length through San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, before cutting through the northern Santa Ana Mountains via Santa Ana Canyon …
The Santa Ana River as seen from a small bluff overlooking the water.
Mill Creek (pictured) is one of the main headwaters tributaries of the Santa Ana River.
The Transverse Ranges were formed by uplift along the San Andreas Fault. Santa Ana Canyon is between the first and second ridges and Big Bear Lake is in the background.
The Santa Ana River near Riverside
French people [videos]
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Louis XIV of France "The Sun-King"
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix
French people in Paris, August 1944
Alfred-Amédée Dodds, a mixed-race French general and colonial administrator born in Senegal
Privateer [videos]
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. The commission, also known as a letter of marque, empowers the person to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war, including attacking foreign vessels during wartime …
Boarding of the Triton (a British East Indiaman) by the French corsair Hasard.
CSS Savannah, a Confederate privateer.
Bermuda Gazette of 12 November 1796, calling for privateering against Spain and its allies during the 1796 to 1808 Anglo-Spanish War, and with advertisements for crew for two privateer vessels.
A Bermuda sloop engaged as a privateer.
Hippolyte Bouchard [videos]
Hippolyte Bouchard, or Hipólito Bouchard, was a French Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru. — During his first campaign as an Argentine corsair he attacked the Spanish colonies of Chile and Peru, under the command of the …
Hippolyte Bouchard, oil on canvas by José Gil de Castro
Before arriving in the Philippines, Bouchard and his crew passed through the Sunda Strait.
The main gate at Fort Santiago in Manila.
South Monterey Bay, California.
Orange County, California [videos]
Orange County is a county in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 3,010,232, making it the third-most populous county in California, the sixth-most populous in the United States, and more populous than 21 U.S. states. Its …
One of the few remaining farms near the ocean, 1975. Photo by Charles O'Rear.
South Coast Metro area in central Orange County
View of Newport Center and the Santa Ana Mountains from Newport Harbor
Three Arch Bay in Laguna Beach is considered Southern Orange County
Museum [videos]
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may …
The Louvre in Paris.
The Uffizi Gallery, the most visited museum in Italy. View of the Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence.
The British Museum in London.
The State Historical Museum in Moscow.
Mission San Antonio de Padua [videos]
Mission San Antonio de Padua is a Spanish mission established by the Franciscan order in present-day Monterey County, California, near the present-day town of Jolon. It was founded on July 14, 1771, and was the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra. The …
The reconstructed Mission San Antonio de Padua as it appears today. The baked brick Campanario is unique among the Missions.
Mission San Antonio de Padua in 1898
1970s view of the mission
Aerial view of San Antonio de padua
Mission San Francisco de Asís [videos]
Mission San Francisco de Asís, or Mission Dolores, is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the sixth religious settlement established as part of the California chain of missions. The Mission was founded on October 9, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Francisco Palóu (a …
The original adobe Mission structure is the smaller building at left, while the larger structure is a basilica completed in 1918 (the architectural style was influenced by designs exhibited at San Diego's Panama-California Exposition in 1915).
Mission Dolores, 1856
Mission San Francisco de Asís around 1910. The wooden addition has been removed and a portion of the brick Gothic Revival church is visible at right. The large stone church was severely damaged in the 1906 earthquake.
Father Junipero Serra by Arthur Putnam
Mission San Buenaventura [videos]
Mission San Buenaventura is a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscans in present-day Ventura, California. Founded on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California and the last to be established by Father Junípero Serra. The mission was named after Saint Bonaventure …
An exterior view of the restored chapel at Mission San Buenaventura in July, 2005.
Mission San Buenaventura circa 1900. Note the thickness of the chapel side wall and the massive buttresses supporting it.
Image: Mission San Buenaventura courtyard and fountain
Image: Olive press, Mission San Buenaventura
Mission Santa Barbara [videos]
Mission Santa Barbara, also known as Santa Barbara Mission, is a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order near present-day Santa Barbara, California. It was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén on December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, as the tenth mission for the religious conversion …
The capilla (chapel) at Mission Santa Barbara.
The Mission in 1876, photograph by Carleton Watkins
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Image: Mission sb lavanderia
Mission Santa Cruz [videos]
Mission Santa Cruz was a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order in present-day Santa Cruz, California. The mission was founded in 1791 and named for the feast of the …
The Mission Santa Cruz chapel replica
Inside the mission chapel replica
Holy Cross Church (circa 1900)
Image: Neary Rodriguez Adobe
Mission San José (California) [videos]
Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California. It was founded on June 11, 1797, by the Franciscan order and was the fourteenth Spanish mission established in California. The mission is the namesake of the Mission San José district of Fremont, which was …
Mission San José as it appeared in April of 2011. ...........
The main façade of the Mission San José capilla (chapel) in March, 2004.
The chapel interior at Mission San José.
Mission San Juan Bautista [videos]
Mission San Juan Bautista is a Spanish mission in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California. Founded on June 24, 1797 by Fermín Lasuén of the Franciscan order, the mission was the fifteenth of the Spanish missions established in present-day California. Named for Saint John the Baptist, the …
A view of the Mission San Juan Bautista and its three-bell campanario ("bell wall"). Two of the bells were salvaged by Father Nick Senf in 2009 from the original chime, which was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The church chancel with Easter decoration
A photograph of Mission San Juan Bautista taken between 1880 and 1910. The steeple (far right), constructed after the mission was secularized, was subsequently destroyed in a fire.
Aerial view of Mission San Juan Bautista
Mission San Miguel Arcángel [videos]
Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California. It was established on July 25, 1797 by the Franciscan order, on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to …
Mission San Miguel Arcangel around 1906
Image: Mission San Miguel Arches
Image: Mission San Miguel Plaza 2008
Image: Ojo
Mission San Fernando Rey de España [videos]
Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills the district of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on September 8, 1797, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California. Named for Saint Ferdinand, the mission is …
An exterior view of the Convento
Image: Carleton Watkins (American (Mission, San Fernando Rey) Google Art Project
Image: Corridor at Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana
Image: San Fernando Rey de Espana circa 1900 Keystone Mast
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia [videos]
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is a former Spanish mission in San Luis Rey, a neighborhood of Oceanside, California. The mission was founded on June 13, 1798 by Padre Fermín Lasuén, and was the eighteenth of the Spanish missions established in California. Named for Saint Louis, the mission lent …
Today, Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is well maintained. This Mission is architecturally distinctive due to the combination of Spanish Renaissance, Moorish—Mudéjar, and Spanish Colonial architecture styles.
The courtyard of the mission
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia as it appeared in 1986. In 1841, French explorer Eugene Duflot de Mofras produced a sketch of the Mission that depicted a second campanario, thereby supporting the theory that two bell towers were planned, but never completed; the lone tower was also used as a lookout post.
Image: Mission San Luis Rey de Francia courtyard
Mission Santa Inés [videos]
Mission Santa Inés was a Spanish mission in the present-day city of Solvang, California, and named after St. Agnes of Rome. Founded on September 17, 1804 by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission …
Mission Santa Inés in 2005
Joseph John Chapman and his wife Guadalupe Ortega, circa 1847.
Mexican soldiers advancing toward La Purísima Concepción Mission during the Chumash Revolt of 1824. Painting by Alexander Harmer.
Mission Santa Inés in about 1912. The mission's original three-bell campanario, erected in 1817, collapsed in a storm in 1911 and was subsequently replaced by this concrete four-bell version, which also had openings on the side. This tower was replaced in 1948 to restore the original three-niched appearance. It has been compared by architectural historian Rexford Newcomb to the one that originally abutted the façade of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.
San Antonio de Pala Asistencia [videos]
The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, or the "Pala Mission", was founded on June 13, 1816 as an asistencia to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, some twenty miles inland upstream from the latter mission on the San Luis Rey River. Pala Mission was part of the Spanish missions …
Pala Asistencia, with its original bell tower, circa 1875. The structure is loosely styled after a similar one at the Mission of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe located in Juárez, Mexico.
Pala Mission around 1903, falling into ruins
Pala's replica bell tower.
Pala Mission's "Centre Garden."
Mission San Diego de Alcalá [videos]
Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá was the first Franciscan mission in The Californias, a province of New Spain. Located in present-day San Diego, California, it was founded on July 16, 1769, by Spanish friar Junípero Serra in an area long inhabited by the Kumeyaay people. The mission and the …
The church façade of Mission San Diego de Alcalá
Plaque of the Mission San Diego de Alcala
A painting of Mission San Diego de Alcalá as it appeared in 1848 depicts the original campanario ("bell tower"), before it was reduced to rubble. The painting also shows the enclosed front portico.
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo [videos]
Mission San Carlos Borromeo del río Carmelo or Misión de San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, first built in 1797, is one of the most authentically restored Roman Catholic mission churches in California. Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, it is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a …
The façade of the capilla (chapel) at Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo.
The mission in ruins circa 1883. Photo by Carleton Watkins
Junípero Serra's grave inside the church
Tongva [videos]
The Tongva are Native Americans who inhabited the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately 4,000 square miles. The Tongva are also known as the Gabrieleño and Fernandeño, names derived from the Spanish missions built on their …
Aliso Creek (Orange County) which traditionally marked the boundary between the Tongva and the Juaneño.
Replica of a Tongva ki
Image: Tongva woman
Pueblo de Los Ángeles [videos]
See also History of Los Angeles — El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles was the Spanish civilian pueblo founded in 1781, which by the 20th century became the American metropolis of Los Angeles. — Official settlements in Alta California were …
La Plaza, as seen from the Pico House, c.1869. The "Old Plaza Church" is to the left, the brick reservoir on the right, and in the center of the plaza, was the original terminus of the Zanja Madre.
Monument commemorating origin of Pueblo de Los Angeles
People gather in the original Plaza in front of the "Old Plaza Church", circa 1890-1900.
Mission Santa Clara de Asís [videos]
Mission Santa Clara de Asís is a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order in the present-day city of Santa Clara, California. The mission, the eighth in California, was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Saint Clare of Assisi, the foundress of the order of the Poor Clares. It is the …
Mission Santa Clara de Asís circa 1910.
A view toward the altar of the exquisitely ornate Mission Santa Clara de Asís chapel, circa 1897.
Mission San Francisco Solano (California) [videos]
Mission San Francisco Solano was the 21st, last, and northernmost mission in Alta California. It was the only mission built in Alta California after Mexico gained independence from Spain. The difficulty of its beginning demonstrates the confusion resulting from that change in governance. The …
The Mission today
Image: Mission San Francisco Solano. Sonoma State Historic Park
Image: Mission San Francisco Solano Fanega Measure
Las Flores Estancia [videos]
The Las Flores Estancia was established in 1823 as an estancia. It was part of the Spanish missions, asistencias, and estancias system in Las Californias—Alta California. Las Flores Estancia was situated approximately halfway between Mission San …
Las Flores' "San Pedro Chapel" as it appeared around 1850. The structure, along with its adjoining buildings, were constructed in 1823.
Las Flores' Capilla de San Pedro in ruins, circa 1900.
The first recorded baptisms in Alta California were performed in "The Canyon of the Little Christians."
Costa Mesa, California [videos]
Costa Mesa is a city in Orange County, California. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to a primarily suburban and edge city with an economy based on retail, commerce, and light manufacturing. The population was 109,960 at the 2010 …
Newport Boulevard, 1950s
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel [videos]
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. The settlement was founded by Spaniards of the Franciscan order on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary," September 8, 1771, as the …
A streetcar of the Pacific Electric Railway makes a stop at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel c. 1905.
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La Purisima Mission [videos]
Mission La Purisima Concepción, or La Purisima Mission is a Spanish mission in Lompoc, California. It was established on December 8, 1787 (the …
La Purisima Mission
The altar inside La Purisima Mission.
Mission San Rafael Arcángel [videos]
Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in 1817 as a medical asistencia of Mission San Francisco de Asís. It was a hospital to treat sick Native Americans, making it Alta California's first sanitarium. The weather was much better than in San Francisco, which helped the ill get …
The reconstructed capilla (chapel) of Mission San Rafael Arcángel is to the right of Saint Raphael's Church.
Interior of the capilla (chapel) at Mission San Rafael Arcángel taken in 1974.
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Jean Cocteau – Le sang d’un poete AKA The Blood of a Poet (1930)
in 1921-1930, Arthouse, Drama, France, Jean Cocteau November 21, 2014 1 Comment 569 Views
A poet creates a drawing of a living mouth, which transfers to his hand when he tries to wipe it from the canvas. Later, when he touches a statue with his afflicted hand, the statue comes to life. As a punishment, the poet is condemned to walk the corridor of the Hotel of Dramatic Follies, where he spies on various tableaux directed by the statue.
The Blood of a Poet begins with a shot of a chimney beginning to collapse followed by a series of statements proclaiming that poetry should be deciphered in the same way that the work of the greatest painters — Pisanello, Paolo Uccello and Andrea del Castagno, the “painters of enigma” — has been. (1) The film insists on such acts of decipherment, with the ultimate ‘enigma’ of the film being revealed as Cocteau himself. (Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century: a film director, poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer and actor). In keeping with this, The Blood of a Poet is suggestively biographical, reflecting upon either events that took place in Cocteau’s life, his own private mythology on the world of the imagination, or the people who influenced him in the most profound and intimate way.
The Blood of a Poet, Cocteau’s first film, looks more like an animated cartoon then a true live-action film. It is surreal and uninhibited in its handling of visual imagery. What can be loosely defined as a story-line begins with a young man, a poet, attempting to draw a series of faces. Suddenly, the mouth of one of these ‘faces’ rubs off in his hand and starts smiling. Terrified, the poet accidentally smears off the mouth of the statue he was working on previously. The statue comes to life and, in return, forcefully sends the young man through the mirror to another, imaginary locale at a mysterious hotel. (2)
For Cocteau, poetry was the foundation of all the arts: he published his first volume of poetry at the age of 19, and remained consistently faithful to writing poetry throughout most of his life. Essentially, Cocteau created a visual poem with this film, a tribute to the artistic process and the pain and self-reflecting doubt it causes. The young poet’s journey to a mysterious hotel becomes an exploration of the artistic process. In the hotel, the young poet voyeuristically witnesses — while looking through a keyhole — a serious of shocking, uncomfortable scenes involving a child being whipped by her mother in something resembling a strangely orchestrated, sadistic ritual. Both the mother and child play a wicked game with each other resulting in the child levitating up under the ceiling while the threatening mother pursues her with a whip.
Cocteau presents artistic effort as a dangerous, dark, self-inflicting act of suffering, while suicide or violent death are also recurring motifs in the film. In one scene, the film shows a group of schoolboys, violent young brats, throwing snowballs at each other. Accidentally, one of the boys gets killed by a snowball; he falls down and bleeds in theatrical, stagy fashion. Later in the film, the poet transforms into a high society figure who plays a game of cards, loses, and shoots himself in the head. These motifs of suicide and suffering are most likely not inconsequential: Cocteau’s father committed suicide when he was nine or ten. Cocteau admitted that his father’s suicide left an indelible mark, making him reflect on human weaknesses and the frailty of existence throughout his work.
Cocteau was born into a wealthy family in 1889 in a small town near Paris. He was sent to a private school, from which he was quickly expelled. Cocteau subsequently ran away to Marseilles where he lived in the ‘red light district’ under a false name, instigating a relationship with a woman 13 years his senior. Later in life, he formed several very close and influential relationships with theatrical tragedians, and openly revealed himself as homosexual.
In 1908, Cocteau befriended Edouard de Max, a famous tragedian of the Paris stage. In the following year Cocteau met the Russian impresario Sergey Diaghilev, one of the most revolutionary choreographers of his time, and who ran the Ballets Russes. The influence of the theatre and stage is evident throughout Cocteau’s film: much of the movement in The Blood of a Poet is evocative of a ballet, or even the exaggerated theatricality of pantomime. The poet’s facial expressions, physical gyrations and general bodily movements are all very theatrical and dramatic, especially when he is being subjected to mental suffering or torture at the mysterious hotel.
Soon after WWI Cocteau met the future poet and novelist Raymond Radiguet, whose premature death of typhoid fever led the artist to a severe opium addiction. Cocteau was even hospitalized for opium poison in 1929, after which followed a period of cure. Cocteau’s addiction can be linked to a series of symbolic dream-like sequences in the film. The Blood of a Poet’s use of imagery, non-linear development of events, exploration of the world of imagination and psychological irrationality, as well as its ruminations on the subjects of death, love and lust, among many other themes, lead to it being commonly compared to two of Luis Buñuel’s most scandalous films — Un chien andalou (with Salvador Dali, 1928) and L’Âge d’or (1930). Although Buñuel’s images are more shocking, offensive and forceful, carrying a more frenetic charge than Cocteau’s dreamy, unhurried images, the work of both filmmakers provides many vivid examples of Surrealist filmmaking, a cinematic tradition that should be less analyzed for its meaning and more appreciated for the sheer experience of its images.
Julia Levin, Senses of Cinema, July 2003
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/E6EC42FFAB96D66/Jean_Cocteau_-_%281930%29_The_Blood_of_a_Poet.mkv
Language(s):French
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African Mammal Hall
Permanent event at The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, United States
African Mammal Hall. Courtesy of Natural History Museum
The habitat halls were an integral part of the expansion of the Museum (then the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art) in the early 1920s. They provided visitors with a close-up view of the natural environments in which the animals were found. This was a particularly important aspect of the Museum's mission because, even then, many of the larger mammals were becoming rare due to human encroachment into their preferred habitats.
In 1920 the Hon. R. F. McLellan, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County, organized an expedition to Alaska to secure specimens for the new Museum exhibits. These and other specimens were incorporated into the first new wing of the Museum, which opened on November 27, 1925 and featured North American habitats on the main floor. The new extension was proudly announced as the world’s first large museum building in which permanent display groups were lighted only and entirely by artificial light. The bison exhibit, comprising animals that had been collected from Antelope Island in Utah’s Great Salt Lake but displayed in a setting depicting the Platte River of Nebraska, was at that time the world’s largest permanent group display of a single species of mammal.
The African Mammal Hall opened in 1930 and was made possible by the generous offer of Mr. Leslie Simson to provide, at his own expense, examples of a comprehensive suite of large African mammals. The North American Mammal Hall on the second floor was open by the time of the 1932 Olympics, when it was described as a hall of marine, avian and mammalian habitat groups. The mammal mounts in all three halls utilized state-of-the-art techniques and the backgrounds were painted by well-known artists.
In the ensuing years, new species have been added to the dioramas of all three halls and some of the scenes have been changed. For example, the geographic setting of the bison herd is now Wyoming. However, because the depicted habitats were meticulously researched, they have continued to provide an accurate record of the environments in which the large mammals of Africa and North America may still be found. All the dioramas in the main floor African and North American Mammal Halls were refurbished and re-lamped in January 2006. The second floor North American Hall was refurbished in May 2007. New birds, reptiles and insects continue to be added to the dioramas.
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A contrite Riley wishes he’d done more to keep Wade in Miami
Miami Heat President Pat Riley
MIAMI (AP) — A contrite Pat Riley revealed Saturday that he blames himself for Dwyane Wade’s decision to leave the Miami Heat, adding that he wishes he could have done more to keep the three-time champion.
Riley, the Heat’s president, said if he had the chance, he would have handled Wade’s free agency differently. Wade signed a $47 million, two-year deal with the Chicago Bulls earlier this month, leaving Miami without its franchise leader in several categories and sparking a rebuilding project for a franchise that was in the NBA Finals just two years ago.
“I didn’t make it happen. Dwyane left and so the buck really stops here,” Riley said. “I’m not trying to fall on the sword for anybody. I have great regret that I didn’t put myself in the middle of it and immerse myself totally in the middle of it, get in a canoe and paddle to the Mediterranean if I had to.”
Riley wasn’t in New York when the Heat last met with Wade on July 6, only a few hours before the 12-time NBA All-Star announced that he was picking Chicago. That last meeting was handled by Heat managing general partner Micky Arison and CEO Nick Arison, and in that session, the team’s offer of a $40 million, two-year deal was raised slightly — though not to the level of what Chicago was able to pay.
Riley said he believes Wade’s decision wasn’t fueled by money, but rather something else.
“That is where we both failed … I more than he, because he’s the asset, he’s the star, he’s the face of the franchise,” Riley said. “I should have done everything that I could have verbally in trying to change his mindset to mine, a big picture, a better picture, or one that I thought would help him.”
Riley (cont'd): "There will always be a key under the mat (for Dwyane), I just hope it doesn't get too rusty. We will miss him."
— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) July 16, 2016
Whether that would have worked is unknown, and irrelevant now anyway. Wade went home to Chicago, and for the Heat it’s now time for the aftermath that follows whenever there’s a superstar-level goodbye. Riley has been through it plenty of times before in Miami, whether it was Alonzo Mourning or LeBron James or Shaquille O’Neal or Brian Grant or Eddie Jones.
This, Riley said, is different.
“We’ve had a tough summer,” he said.
Riley said he hasn’t spoken with Wade since he decided to leave the Heat. Riley has been working on an email to send Wade at some point, and he expects that when they see each other again, a warm embrace will be involved. Wade indicated the same when he spoke in Miami on July 9, not hiding that there were some hurt feelings but insisting that he will not speak ill of his experiences with Riley.
“My thoughts were always to try to make the team better and at the same time try to make sure that Dwyane, over the course of the three, four, five years that he had left in his career, that he was going to get his money,” Riley said. “He would get it — but not at the expense of paralyzing our ability to win. If there’s anything I could have done better, I would have done it. But right now, there’s no do-overs in this thing.”
Riley spoke for nearly an hour, addressing both the past and the future. The Heat still don’t know if Chris Bosh — whose last two seasons were cut short at the All-Star break by the formation of blood clots — will be able to play again. Bosh is working out and has told the team he intends to play, but that’s hardly a guarantee he will actually be cleared and ready when training camp starts in late September.
The Heat have been unable to give detailed updates on Bosh’s medical status since February. Riley said he can envision a number of scenarios eventually being considered, including ones where Bosh may have a lesser workload in terms of the rigors of travel.
Before any of that, though, Bosh needs to be cleared and deemed able to play.
“It’s a positive environment right now with Chris,” Riley said. “I think his doctors and our doctors are constantly, or moreso now than ever, communicating. I know what Chris wants. I know he wants to play. And obviously we would be open to that, but this is still a very fluid situation.”
So now the Heat move on with a young core.
Hassan Whiteside signed for four years and $98 million, Justise Winslow is targeted as a starting small forward and Miami believes it turned the No. 40 pick in last year’s draft, guard Josh Richardson, into an absolute steal. Riley thinks the Heat can compete for a playoff spot, though that will largely hinge on Bosh’s status.
“One of the only things you can count on in life that’s permanent — it’s one of my favorite sayings — is change,” Riley said. “And when change raises its beautiful or ugly face, you’ve got to deal with it. You’ve got to adapt and move on.”
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On This Day In F1 - Mark Webber Backflipped Into A Swimming Pool
A look back at what happened on 16 May in Formula 1 history
by Dan Thorn 16th May 2019
1976 Belgian Grand Prix
Niki Lauda took the only Grand Chelem of his career, leading home Clay Regazzoni at Zolder as Ferrari utterly dominated the weekend. Jacques Laffite finished third as James Hunt retired with gearbox failure, while Emerson Fittipaldi, driving for his own team, failed to even qualify for the race for the first time in his career.
1999 Monaco Grand Prix
Michael Schumacher became Ferrari’s most successful driver in terms of wins as he dominated at Monaco from start to finish after beating pole-man Mika Hakkinen off the line. Hakkinen ran second but then went off on oil at Ste Devote and dropped to third, allowing Eddie Irvine to complete a Ferrari one-two.
Mark Webber won for the second race in a row, leading home Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica, who drove brilliantly all weekend to keep his Renault in contention. Fernando Alonso drove excellently to finish sixth after starting from the pit lane - a gain of 18 positions - though it was his own fault that he had to do it after a crash in FP3 caused him to miss qualifying.
This was a time when Webber and Vettel still got on well with each other and they and team celebrated on top of Red Bull’s ‘floaterhome’ and in the harbour, making for some amazing scenes.
(c) Red Bull Content Pool
Michael Schumacher also had an interesting incident. The race finished under safety car conditions but, under F1 rules, the safety car peels into the pits on the final lap to allow the winning driver to be the car to cross the line first. However, for 2010 a new rule had been introduced which said that when the safety car pulled in, drivers would be allowed to overtake at the first safety car line, not the start-finish line as before. In Monaco, this is situated between the last two corners and Schumacher, thinking he had that one moment to overtake before the finish, took the opportunity to superbly sneak past Alonso.
However, stewards deemed the overtake illegal and issued him a 20-second penalty which dropped him to 12th. Mercedes attempted to appeal the decision but was unable, though the stewards admitted that the ruling was a bit of a grey area and didn’t make clear that although the safety car had pulled in, if it does so on the last lap then the race is still technically under safety car conditions. In that regard, Schumacher’s penalty does seem quite harsh (the driver steward that weekend was former rival Damon Hill…) but it showed that although he may have lost some speed in his comeback, Schumacher was still completely switched on.
Luigi Villoresi (born 1909) raced in F1 from 1950 to 1956, mostly for Ferrari, and enjoyed some decent success. Between 1951 and 1953 he finished on the podium eight times but never quite managed a victory as his teammate Alberto Ascari - who Villoresi mentored - did the lion’s share of the winning.
Top image (c) Red Bull Content Pool
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Phil Emer
The Friday Institute at NC State University, Director of Technology and Planning Policy
Phil Emer has spent over 25 years working at the intersections of information technology, research, academia and business – splitting time between the public and private sectors. In the private sector Phil worked as an engineer with IBM, as a technology executive with venture-backed Carolina Broadband and on the leadership team with not-for-profit MCNC. In the public sector Phil directed voice, video, and data communications at NC State University and served as Director of Technology with the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. He is currently Director of Technology Planning and Policy at the Friday Institute, where he has been a leader on the School Connectivity Initiative, the NC Education Cloud, the NC Digital Learning Plan, and School Business Systems Modernization. Phil focuses on the planning, implementation and design of complex infrastructure systems and the processes and organizations needed to sustain them.
Phil has served on the NC eLearning Commission, the advisory board of the Institute for Next Generation IT Systems, the Governor’s Innovation Council, and the architecture review board of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. Currently, he serves on the Board of the Wireless Research Center of NC.
Phil earned a B.S. in electrical engineering at Virginia Tech and an M.S. in computer engineering at NC State University.
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Huawei Mate 10 Lite: More to See, More Reasons to Smile
Huawei Mate 10 Lite has an upgraded version of face detection.
In February 2018, HUAWEI will launch the Mate 10 lite’s upgraded software with face detection and AR camera, delivering the same experience as Apple’s Face ID to Android.
In 2017, Apple launched a new generation of full screen devices and a new unlocking method - Face ID on iPhone X - setting a new trend in the smartphone industry. HUAWEI Mate 10 lite, which is popular in the global mobile phone market, will have an upgraded version of face detection, a full screen and four cameras to deliver this important technology to its customer.
Advanced Face Unlock Feature
HUAWEI Mate 10 lite users can unlock the phone through the device’s face recognition feature, which collects information on facial features from photographs taken by the user. The HUAWEI Mate 10 lite can quickly identify facial features, whether front face, side face, high angle or low angle, quickly and completely capturing facial details and unlocking the screen within milliseconds. Users can look at the screen and unlock it even when their hands are wet or dirty.
There are slight differences in the face unlocking feature between HUAWEI and Apple. The iPhone X requires users to slide the screen after recognizing the user’s face. The HUAWEI Mate 10 lite is more user-friendly; users can choose their unlock mode, either by direct unlock or slide-to-unlock. Also, the HUAWEI Mate 10 lite provides intelligent display lock screen notification options, displaying notification information such as SMS, Whatsapp and Facebook. Only authorized users can see the specific content of the notification, hiding the detailed content to others to protect the user’s privacy. Each user can choose their preference according to their habits.
Face unlock features are simple and convenient, but many people are worried about the security of this information. The HUAWEI Mate 10 lite face recognition comes with three security measures:
The first is storage security. The face information is stored in the TEE area of Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU which provides chip-level security.
The second measure is to identify the algorithm is safe; the algorithm collects more than 1000 points of facial data to make sure your mobile phone only recognizes your face.
The third is to prevent someone else from unlocking the mobile phone while the phone owner is sleeping. The HUAWEI Mate 10 lite is not only easy to use, but also more secure.
Full screen brings a whole new experience
The Huawei Mate 10 lite has a giant 5.9-inch display, making it the industry's first full-screen product in the same price range. It has 83% screen-to-body ratio, which is 10% more than traditional 5.5-inch display (73% screen-to-body ratio).
In addition, traditional giant display phones usually use FHD resolution. When the screen size increases with same resolution, the pixel becomes larger, resulting in the picture becoming unclear. The HUAWEI Mate 10 lite has Full HD and FullView display (2160 * 1080) with a high PPI, so the display is much clearer.
With the FHD resolution, the HUAWEI Mate 10 lite display size has a perfect ratio of 18:9. The system interface allows for optimization and adaptation, which ensures the experience of operation and visuals.
The screen sizes of HUAWEI Mate 10 lite and Samsung Galaxy S8 are very similar.
156.2*75.2*7.5 mm
148.9 x 68.1 x 8mm
However, the size of HUAWEI Mate 10 lite is slightly larger than S8. However, thanks to the slender body design of the 18: 9 the Mate 10 lite is easy to use with one hand. It is about 0.5mm thinner than the S8, which gives users a better grip on the phone. For the screen size, the HUAWEI Mate 10 lite is 5.9 inches - ahead of the S8 5.8 inches – and also has 83% screen-to-body ratio. Therefore, the visual display doesn’t disappoint.
HUAWEI Mate 10 lite Galaxy S8
In addition, the S8 uses a hyperboloid screen; which means that the border is almost hidden. It has a better view than the 2.5D screen, with the casing looking thinner. The edge of the hyperboloid screen is not very sensitive, also increasing accidental touches. The curved screen cannot protect the screen protector very well and - most importantly - it’s expensive.
HUAWEI Mate 10 lite combines the benefits of Apple's most popular face recognition feature and Samsung's full screen - and the price of HUAWEI Mate 10 lite is only half of both.
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July 12, 2019 Albumism Staff
“Hercules” is the second single to be unveiled from Common’s forthcoming album ‘Let Love,’ which arrives August 30th.
In NEW MUSIC Tags Common, Swizz Beatz
“Now That You Need Me” is the lead single lifted from McFerrin’s forthcoming album ‘Love’s Last Chance,’ which arrives August 16th.
In NEW MUSIC Tags Taylor McFerrin
“These Walls” is the second single to be revealed from the Heavies’ forthcoming album ‘TBNH,’ due in stores September 6th.
In NEW MUSIC Tags The Brand New Heavies, N'Dea Davenport, Mark Ronson, Kendrick Lamar
July 9, 2019 Albumism Staff
“Child of the Wind” is the second single to be unveiled from the ascendant singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album ‘Desert Dove,’ which arrives September 27th.
In NEW MUSIC Tags Michaela Anne
Photo: Aaron Rapoport
“Glory To The Veins” is the second track to be unveiled from Saadiq’s forthcoming album ‘Jimmy Lee,’ which arrives August 23rd.
In NEW MUSIC Tags Raphael Saadiq
Madonna’s “God Control” Is a Powerful Clarion Call for Our Shell-Shocked Society
June 28, 2019 Mark J. Marraccini
One of the most intricately constructed offerings on Madonna’s new album ‘Madame X,’ “God Control” is definitely the most challenging of the LP’s music videos to watch so far.
In NEW MUSIC Tags Madonna
NEW MUSIC WE LOVE: Hannah Jane Lewis’ “Is It Even You?”
June 21, 2019 Albumism Staff
“‘Is It Even You?’ is definitely the most honest song I’ve ever written and released,” Lewis explains. “It’s about feeling like you’ve lost a friend who’s standing right beside you.”
In NEW MUSIC Tags Hannah Jane Lewis
NEW MUSIC WE LOVE: Sharon Van Etten’s “No One’s Easy To Love”
“No One’s Easy To Love” is the latest track lifted from Van Etten’s fifth studio album ‘Remind Me Tomorrow,’ in stores now.
In NEW MUSIC Tags Sharon Van Etten
NEW MUSIC WE LOVE: Robyn’s “Ever Again”
“Ever Again” is the fifth single to be lifted from Robyn’s eighth studio album ‘Honey.’
In NEW MUSIC Tags Robyn
NEW MUSIC WE LOVE: Taylor Swift’s “You Need To Calm Down”
“You Need To Calm Down” is the second single to be unveiled from Swift’s forthcoming seventh studio album ‘Lover,’ which arrives August 23rd.
In NEW MUSIC Tags Taylor Swift
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New York Just Became the First City to Directly Fund Abortions
Elizabeth King
Everything You Need to Know About the FDA's Sunscreen Ingredient Regulations
Jessica Chia
A Black Girl’s Guide to Protecting Your Hair and Skin From the Sun
Jihan Forbes
Research Says You Can Safely Induce Your Own Abortion
Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy
A new study is showing that abortion medication prescribed through telemedicine results in successful abortions with low rates of adverse effects. So, yes, the abortion pill — a term that usually refers to both mifepristone and misoprostol, which are taken together to induce non-surgical abortion — works. And abortion drugs work without a woman seeing a doctor in person to use them.
The study, published this week in The BMJ, analyzed the self-reported outcomes of 1,000 women in Ireland and Northern Ireland after they induced their own abortions with medication from the organization Women on Web (WoW). (WoW provides access to medical abortion in areas where safe abortion is inaccessible or, as it is in Ireland and Northern Ireland, illegal.) In addition to assessing the success of the women's abortions and any undesirable experiences they reported, researchers also looked at their ability to recognize symptoms that indicated a potentially serious complication and when to seek further medical attention for those symptoms.
What they found was that 95 percent of these self-sourced and self-managed medical abortions were successful, meaning they didn't require any surgical intervention afterward. Of the 1,000 women, 93 experienced a symptom that might have been indicative of a serious complication. The vast majority of these, 95 percent, sought care (the five who didn't seek care also didn't report experiencing any adverse outcome) — so, yes, women are smart, sentient beings who can follow directions, take medication as prescribed, and seek care when needed.
Medical abortion has been shown before to be incredibly safe. According to Planned Parenthood, serious complications of the procedure are rare, and research indicates that it leads to serious side effects in fewer than one percent of cases. The drug mifepristone first gained FDA approval for use in in 2000. By 2012, a fifth of all abortions performed in the U.S. were medical abortions — and that's not counting abortions performed outside the official medical system: “In the case of the United States, we already know women are self-sourcing, so there is a public health duty to help make it as safe and supported as possible," lead author Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Policy at the University of Texas-Austin, said in a statement.
More on reproductive health and rights:
Birth Control: A Letter to the Young Women of 2017
Trump’s Federal Family Planning Program Director Is an Anti-Choice Crusader Who Thinks Contraception “Doesn’t Work”
These Hospitals Didn’t Give Rape Victims Emergency Contraception
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Category Archives: Biography
All men shall be sailors…
Posted on January 9, 2018 by Johna Till Johnson | 18 comments
Sailing and freedom
By Johna Till Johnson
Photo by Vladimir Brezina
“All men shall be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them…” — Leonard Cohen, “Suzanne”
I’ve been listening to a lot of the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen lately. I’m not alone in this; he’s experiencing an (in my mind deserved) groundswell of popularity in the 14 months since he died.
His themes are universal and serious: the inevitability of loss, imperfectability of human nature, the ephemeral transcendence of love.
His fundamental stance is religious, but while it’s rooted in his native Jewish tradition (he remained devout all his life), it draws from a broad set of perspectives, with a pragmatic bent. He once told the New Yorker: “Anything, Roman Catholicism, Buddhism, LSD, I’m for anything that works.”
He wasn’t joking. Over the years, he studied Scientology, became an ordained Buddhist monk, and studied at an Indian ashram—along with pursuing various intoxicants (from acid to alcohol) and ascetic practices (particularly fasting). His goal was less the abstract pursuit of enlightenment than to ameliorate the bouts of depression that struck him throughout much of his life.
Sylvie Simmons wrote a wonderful biography of Cohen in 2012, “I’m Your Man,” One of the interesting paradoxes of Cohen’s life is that although he was deeply embedded in the contemporary cultural matrix to a degree that’s almost Zelig-like, his essential formality was fundamentally out of step with the “anything goes” ethos of the times.
The Jewish magazine Forward has an insightful obituary that highlights this: “The “absence of the casual” may well be one of the singular characteristics setting Cohen’s work apart from his so-called contemporaries,” writes Seth Rogovoy.
And it paid off in the long run—Cohen is one of the rare artists who pursued his craft with intensity and diligence all his life, and peaked as a performer in his 70s.
In a surprising twist that serves as a hopeful beacon to us late bloomers, after his business manager embezzled his money and left him broke early in the 2000s, he decided to go on tour to support his ex-wife and children. Although he had previously hated performing, he put together a stellar backup band and collaborated with them to develop innovative arrangements of his work.
The result was almost a decade of some of the best live performances in popular music history (you can find many of them in YouTube). Cohen not only accomplished his goal of earning back a fortune, he left a shining legacy that touches millions.
That “absence of the casual” is perhaps the most appropriate response to the inevitable tragedies of life, which may be one of the reasons Cohen’s work is experiencing a renaissance.
The lines above (“until the sea shall free them”) particularly resonated with me because the sea has always been associated in my mind with freedom. Towards the end of his life, my father (who was a naval officer) turned to me and said, “The open ocean is closer than they led us to believe.”
He was referring, of course, to his imminent death, but what struck me was that he associated it with the open ocean—and freedom.
Posted in Biography, Book Reviews, Culture, Life, Music, New York City
Tagged Leonard Cohen, New York City, Sailing, sailors, Sea, Seth Rogovoy, Silvie Simmons
All Roads Lead Home
Posted on December 24, 2017 by Johna Till Johnson | 11 comments
Wooden house in North Carolina
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong…
It was almost as if my apps were in collusion to bring me home.
It started when I turned on the Pandora station in the car last spring.
The trip ahead was long: 1200 miles, from New York to Florida, where I hoped to pick up my boat and spend a few days camping and paddling. Music would keep me from getting bored.
The Pandora algorithm isn’t complex—in fact, I could probably write the code myself. The app starts by playing the music you’ve asked for (a particular artist or genre). Then for maybe 10% of the songs, it gradually inserts other artists that are “sort of like” the artist you selected. As you indicate your likes and dislikes of the material by clicking the thumbs up/thumbs down button, it adjusts the selection it plays.
So after a while, the station reflects your favorites.
I’d expected that.
What I hadn’t expected was the way the algorithm had mixed favorites from all different times of my life, creating a kaleidoscope of memories as I drove.
While the endless gray-and-green strips of landscape unfurled outside the car, references and long-forgotten images flashed through my brain.
There was the song I played repeatedly when I went out running on the hot autumn nights in Texas when my father lay dying.
Then there was the song I associated with falling in love with Vlad. And the song that comforted me in the shattered weeks after his death.
But there were songs from earlier times, as well.
Songs from the time, years past, that I played on the car radio during my late-night and early-morning commute between New York and Connecticut to my job as a hotshot technology executive at an engineering company…
Songs from my arrival in New York, years earlier, with ripped jeans and a meager budget, in the time when I still skateboarded in Union Square, and a female skateboarder was still a novelty: “Look! It’s a chick skater!” someone yelled once…
And songs from the years before that, in Florida. As the wife of a young professor, a freelance writer, and a new homeowner, I lived out a kind of delayed adolescence, hanging out with a group of bright underachieving perennial undergraduates at punk clubs and science fiction conventions…
There were the songs I listened to at those clubs, and also the songs I played on my headphones in those years as I ran, lithe and tan, near my house on the trail through the green-and-grey Florida woods (since paved over for a shopping mall).
And farther back still, during my college and graduate school years, the songs I listened to on an aging boom box, songs that were simultaneously upbeat and cynical, or preternaturally moody and depressed.
Yes, I was prepared for the mix of favorites—but I wasn’t quite prepared for the memories they’d summon.
And it wasn’t just Pandora. Google Maps appeared to be in on the plot, because for some reason, it ingeniously routed me past nearly every place I’d ever lived in the continental US.
Yes, it helps that many of the places I’d lived were along the I-95 corridor. But Google went out of its way to take me right by former homes. Instead of zooming down the relatively straight line between Baltimore (where I’d lived for my college years) and Richmond, for instance, it took me on the spur towards Annapolis, where I’d lived between the years of eight and 11.
And then past the suburban Maryland enclave, where a few years later, I’d spent time as a surly, sullen adolescent. (Apparently my parents didn’t understand me. What a surprise! )
There was also the Virginia suburb where I lived as a very young child, and the exit where my then-husband and I had lived for one of the summers he worked at NASA.
Over the hours, I realized again and again how many places I called “home”.
It got to be almost a joke: I’d get out of the car somewhere—say the rest stop just outside Baltimore where I’d stopped on trips to, from, and past that city—breathe deeply, and say out loud: “I’m home!”
And I really meant it. I was home. These were all the places I’d lived, to which my memories were attached.
Those of us—like me and like Vlad—who have lived in many places don’t have the same experience of those who have grown up in a single place, imbued and invested with all our emotions and memories.
Yes, Vlad spoke of his home in Prague—which I visited (sadly, solo) the year before his death.
But he’d left there at the age of ten, and between then and when I’d met him in New York, “home” for him had been Libya, Iraq, Scotland, London, Heidelberg, San Diego, and Los Angeles.
Just as for me there had been California, South Carolina, Hawaii, Virginia, Maryland, Rochester, New Jersey, Florida, and New York City—not to mention Norway and Italy.
I can close my eyes and summon all the “homes” where I’ve lived: The garden in Naples. The terrace in Rome. The dark trees by the house in Oslo. The majestic four-story white house on the grounds of the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
And on this trip, it seemed like the Universe was working to visit almost all of them, through memory and proximity.
The place I was traveling to—St Petersburg, Florida—was also home. Although I’ve never lived there, one of my boats now does. And it had served as the center of my kayaking existence outside New York for nearly a decade.
It was there that, much to my surprise, I managed to pass the challenging British Canoe Union (BCU) test to become a three-star paddler, as part of the Sweetwater Kayak symposium.
And it was there that served as the launch point for the Everglades Challenge Vlad and I completed in 2014, and for which we conducted multiple “shakedown” (practice) trips. Not by pure coincidence, it was also there that my company had elected to hold its annual conference for the past several years.
So when I arrived at long last at Fort De Soto campground, I stepped out of the car, took a deep breath and said (once again): “Ahh. I’m home!”
And then I had to smile at the number of times I’d said that on this trip.
Posted in Biography, Kayaking, Life, Music, Society, Travel
Tagged Baltimore, Everglades Challenge, New York City, Prague, St. Petersburg Florida, Sweetwater Kayaks
Immortal Beauty
Posted on March 28, 2015 by Johna Till Johnson | 62 comments
Maria Radner, 1981-Eternity
Among the victims of Germanwings Flight 9525 was Maria Radner, a German opera singer. She was a 33-year old contralto who specialized in Wagner. I hadn’t heard of her before—no surprise since I’m new to opera, and have yet to warm to Wagner’s music.
But a commentator on one of the news stories posted the video below. Maria Radner sings “Urlicht” (“Primeval Light”) from Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the Resurrection Symphony.
It’s just under five minutes. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything quite so lovely. Looking into her serene blue-gray eyes and insouciant half smile, and listening to that soaring voice, all I can think of is that although a deranged man was able to take away her life, the beauty she brought into this world is immortal.
The lyrics translate as follows:
I am from God and want to return to God!
The loving God will give me a little of the light,
will illuminate me into the eternal blessed life!
She got that wish.
I only wish that it hadn’t happened quite so soon.
Posted in Biography, Culture, Life, Music
Tagged Germanwings, Gustav Mahler, Maria Radner, Opera, Plane crash, Urlicht
The Power of Art
Posted on February 18, 2015 by Johna Till Johnson | 45 comments
“It is so beautiful I must show you how it looks,” wrote Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother. In the margin of the letter, he scribbled a quick sketch of what was so beautiful: a streetlamp at twilight.
I’ve never considered myself much of an artist. In fact, I’ve gone so far as to say I don’t understand the artistic impulse: I don’t know where it comes from, or how artists know what to create, even though I respect and admire the life-changing power of art.
But one of my favorite explanations is from a book written in 1938: “Art is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something… in a direct, simple, passionate, and true way you try to show this beauty in things to others.”
That’s exactly what I felt walking home through Washington Square Park a few nights ago. As twilight fell, and the streetlights cast their rosy glow over the snow, the quote above popped into my head. It was so beautiful I had to share it. With Vlad’s editing assistance, I was able to capture and convey some of the magic.
That unexpected surge of artistic sentiment made me remember how much I loved the book, and its author. The book is If You Want to Write, by Brenda Ueland.
When I first read it, many years ago, I found it inspirational, but a bit cloying. I have to admit that my perception was colored by “time bias”—that sneaking suspicion that everything in the past was quainter and less sophisticated than today. I mean, 1938? They didn’t even have iPhones! What could someone from that distant era have to say that’s meaningful about art in the 21st century?
And I’ll also admit that I found the persona of the author a bit, well, twee: A little-old-lady writing teacher out in Minnesota. (Never mind that in 1938 she was a vibrant and passionate woman of 47—the photo on the book jacket was a spry, but wizened lady in 1983, so that’s how I imagined her.)
Really, weren’t all women in 1938 conventional, domestic, and limited? Not the sort of person who truly understood the bold, transformative, and terrifying power of art.
Boy, did I get that wrong! If anyone understood life, and art, it was Brenda Ueland. She lived in Greenwhich Village for many years, married, divorced (back when one “didn’t do that”), and moved back to Minnesota to raise her daughter. She supported them both with her writing, which included journalism and essays. As her Wikipedia entry says, “She lived by two rules: To tell the truth, and to not do anything she didn’t want to.”
She was a paragon of physical fitness: well into what people would call her old age, she was turning handstands, climbing mountains, and swimming long distances. (And as for that “out in Minnesota”—it’s not only intellectually vibrant but physically challenging. )
Ueland’s personal life was bold and unconventional as well. The Wikipedia entry politely notes: “By her own account, Ueland had many lovers.”
That doesn’t even begin to tell the half of it. The love of her life was Norwegian adventurer and Nobel laureate Fridtjof Nansen, with whom she had a passionate affair in the late 1920s.
The affair came to light a few years back when Eric Utne (her grandson and the founder of the Utne Reader) published Nansen’s letters to Ueland in the form of a book called Brenda My Darling. Her letters to him have been lost, but his to her were surprisingly poetic.
Nansen writes:
“Here from my window in my tower, I see the maidenly birches in their bridal veils against the dark pine wood — there is nothing like the birch in the spring. I do not exactly know why, but it is like you, to me you have the same maidenliness – and the sun is laughing, and the fjord out there is glittering, and existence is beauty!”
And that’s not all. He also sent his maiden several tasteful, but explicit, nude photographs of himself. The photographs turned the book into a minor sensation, with some—including Utne himself—questioning the decision to publish them. The deciding opinion, as Utne relates, was the Norwegian publisher of the book, Ole Rikard Høisæther, who wrote to him that “Norwegians insist on the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
That book thoroughly exploded any delusions I’d held. Ueland was clearly no quaint, conventional lady writer—she was a strong, powerful artist in her own right. And forget the notion that age necessarily means decrepitude—Nansen was one hot guy even in his late 60s!
Moreover, though he was known for exploration and adventure, that same sentiment enabled him to write beautifully. My takeaway from all this: Art is powerful and inspiring. Showing the beauty in things can be transformative.
And as I’ve written before, there’s a strong connection between the desire to explore and the artistic sentiment: Both have life-changing power—both for the artist/explorer, and for everyone who encounters their work.
That power is available to all of us, if we only stop and listen to that inner voice calling out: “It’s so beautiful that I must show you how it looks.”
Posted in Art, Biography, Book Reviews, Culture, Life, Literature, New York City
Tagged Brenda Ueland, Fridtjof Nansen, Manhattan, New York City, Vincent Van Gogh, Washington Square Park
Two MacArthur Geniuses
Posted on September 17, 2014 by Johna Till Johnson | 19 comments
I don’t normally pay a lot of attention to the MacArthur Genius awards. The name alone annoys me, because it’s simultaneously elitist and undefined. What makes artist X a “genius” while her peers are merely “talented”? And how can we be sure that out of all the talented people in the universe, the committee has miraculously selected the 12, or 20, that are talented enough to be considered geniuses?
But I do like the notion of awarding creative people a big chunk of change—this year, it was $625,000 over a period of five years—with no constraints. And I also think it’s cool that the awards are so broad-ranging. They go to poets, activists, artists, musicians… and even the occasional scientist, mathematician, or engineer.
Which brings me to this year’s awards. I was overjoyed to see the award given to two people in particular. One was Craig Gentry, a cryptography researcher at IBM’s T. J. Watson research center, who’s done groundbreaking work in the area of homomorphic encryption.
Craig Gentry
Homomorphic encryption is, in some respects, the holy grail of encryption, because it enables machines to process encrypted data without ever decrypting it. That doesn’t sound like much, but consider: Today, if your email is stored on Google’s servers, it’s fully accessible to Google (which has been known to turn it over to the NSA).
It’s fully accessible because you need Google to do useful things for you (like sort the mail into folders). With homomorphic encryption, you could keep your mail entirely encrypted without giving up any of the functionality (such as folder-sorting). But Google would have no idea what you named your folders, or what was in your email—and the NSA couldn’t read it, either.
Now imagine that instead of ordinary email, we’re talking about medical or financial records—and you can see the benefit.
The issue at the moment is that the computational horsepower required to make homomorphic encryption is immense, so only starting to become practical in real-world applications. But Craig was among the first to show it was theoretically possible. And he did it incredibly elegantly, using a Zeno’s-paradox-like approach that started with “somewhat homomorphic” encryption that iteratively refined itself to become “fully homomorphic”.
And there’s one other thing I like about Craig: He writes really, really well. His Stanford University PhD thesis, which you can find here, is a joy to read. I don’t mind ploughing through dense scientific papers—but I really appreciate it when someone writes gracefully and well.
Yitang Zhang
Another one of this year’s “geniuses” is Yitang Zhang, who is a number theorist at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Yitang (who I’ve read goes by “Tom”) recently proved the “bounded gaps” conjecture about prime numbers.
Slate’s Jordan Ellenberg (who’s a mathematics professor at the University of Wisconsin) does a much better job explaining what this is and why it matters than I could do. I urge you to read his writeup here.
Suffice it to say that Tom cracked a really, really hard problem in one of the most demanding areas of mathematics. And he’s apparently a really nice, funny, down-to-earth guy, as described in this University of New Hampshire Magazine article.
But that’s not all: Tom is 57—and has done much of his most creative work in the past 10 years (ie from his late 40s onwards).
Mathematics is a field as notorious as gymnastics or ballet for having a youthful peak–the joke among mathematicians is that anyone over 30 is washed up. Gauss, one of the most famous mathematicians ever, did his most significant work by the age of 22—a fact pointed out by my overly gleeful number theory professor when I was 21 or so.
So it’s great to see someone not only doing great things, but doing them at the relatively “advanced” age of 57.
I’m sure the other 19 MacArthur Fellows have done equally great work in their fields. But seeing the awards go to these two made me happy—and I wanted to share my joy with you!
Posted in Biography, Culture, Science and Technology, Society, The Virtual World
Tagged Craig Gentry, Cryptography, Homomorphic Encryption, MacArthur Genius Awards, Mathematics, Number Theory, Twin Prime Number Theorem, Yitang Zhang
Halsey: The Unstoppable
Posted on June 23, 2014 by Johna Till Johnson | 23 comments
Admiral Halsey in a WWII poster (from Naval History & Heritage Command)
There are no extraordinary men, just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
—Admiral William (“Bull”) Frederick Halsey, Jr.
This sketch is one of several inspired by the book, The Admirals: The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea, by Walter R. Borneman. It’s about Admirals Halsey, Nimitz, King, and Leahy, each of whom played critical roles in World War II, and were the only admirals to earn five stars in all of American history. (For the other sketches in the series, see Triptych: Three Admirals.)
More than that, the book is about leadership, character, and how a flawed individual can rise to greatness—not in spite of, but often even precisely because of, those flaws.
Halsey was a pugnacious fighter, wisecracking and hotheaded, whose passion was winning the game (or battle). His courage and determination helped re-energize and inspire a Navy demoralized and depleted by the hideous surprise of Pearl Harbor. Yet his appetite for the fight paradoxically cost him participation in some of the defining battles of the Pacific, and could have cost the war. But anything he did, he did wholeheartedly—and there was never any question of stopping him.
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Tagged Admiral, Admiral Halsey, Biography, Book Review, Navy, United States Navy, Walter Borneman, World War II
Triptych: Three Admirals
Sailors preparing for the funeral, May 2014 (photo provided by Steve Hannifin)
Medicine, the ministry, and the military. Those were the “three Ms” that—according to my mother—defined the callings of our family, dating back to before the American Revolution. Each is characterized by a commitment to a greater good than self, or even family: Healing, God, country.
That sense of commitment is likely one reason my mother came to marry my father, a naval officer, and it permeated my life growing up.
When we uprooted ourselves to move across the country or around the world for the fifth (or the seventeenth) time, it wasn’t for personal gain. It was because the Navy needed us there to protect our country. That’s what my parents said, and that’s what we believed. When our country called, we came—particularly my father, who spent years underwater in a nuclear submarine.
Some day I’ll write about my father. But meantime, this is enough to explain how I came to spend a recent Friday in Annapolis, at the Naval Academy cemetery, where the ashes of my father’s former commanding officer, Vice Admiral Patrick J. Hannifin, were laid to rest.
It was an uncharacteristically gray, cold, and drizzly day in late spring. I’d gotten up at 3:30 AM to make the four-hour drive to Annapolis. I arrived an hour and a half early, giving me plenty of time to think, and to remember.
As I sat in the white marble open-air “columbarium” overlooking the gray-green water of College Creek, the memories came flooding back. I’d spent three years living on the Naval Academy grounds from ages 8 to 11, while my father was head of the division of Math and Science.
Like many children, I was oblivious to the weight of history. To me, the Academy was a delightful, safe, and well-tended park. I never thought about the fact that the green torpedoes I loved to play on (just the size for an 8-year-old to ride!) were taken from Japan during World War II. Or that I practiced gymnastics, fencing, and swimming in MacDonough Hall (named after a remote ancestor on my mother’s side, Admiral Thomas MacDonough). Though from time to time I passed by Nimitz Library, the Halsey Field House, and the King Hall dining facility, these were all just names to me.
Nimitz Library from the air (photo by United States Naval Academy)
Even this May, as I looked out at the flowing water and the campus beyond, I didn’t think about history. I thought about my father, who died in 2008. I thought about Admiral Hannifin. I thought about all the men I’d known who shared my father’s commitment—and what they had exemplified as leaders, and as human beings.
Maybe that’s why, walking through an airport on a business trip a few days later, I was inspired to pick up a book called “The Admirals”, by Walter R. Borneman.
It’s subtitled, “The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea”, which pretty much says it all. It’s about Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, King, and Leahy, each of whom played critical roles in World War II (and who were the only admirals to earn five stars in all of American history).
The book is fantastic. It’s about more than just the people, or the events. It’s about leadership. And it’s about character, and how a flawed individual can rise to greatness—not in spite of, but often even precisely because of, those flaws.
Of the four men profiled by Borneman, three really resonated with me: Nimitz, Halsey, and King.
Nimitz was even-tempered and genial, a consummate engineer who threw himself into every project that was handed to him, and whose supreme satisfaction was a job well done. Halsey was a pugnacious fighter, wisecracking and hotheaded, whose passion was winning the game (or battle). And King was a brilliant careerist, convinced (usually correctly) that he was smarter than anyone else, and determined to win the accolades to which he felt entitled.
Their individual responses to learning of the war’s end sum each up perfectly. In each case, an aide burst into the Admiral’s office with the news that the goal of four years’ uncompromising and exhausting effort had been achieved: the Japanese had surrendered unconditionally.
Halsey’s response was to leap to his feet and begin pounding the aide’s shoulders in joy.
King reportedly looked stricken, and said, “But what am I going to do now?”
And Nimitz? He said nothing, just allowed himself a small, perfectly satisfied smile.
In three following posts, I will post a short sketch of each of these unique leaders, drawn largely from Borneman’s book (which again, I highly recommend) with some additional research:
Nimitz: The Unflappable
King: The Impossible
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Remembering John Dingell
A personal remembrance from Katie Murtha, who serves as vice president of federal government affairs for U.S. PIRG and Environment America, both members of The Public Interest Network. Katie was formerly chief of staff for U.S. Rep. John Dingell, who passed away Thursday.
Despite all John Dingell did for our country in Congress, if you asked him what was his favorite job, without skipping a beat he’d tell you it was during his college years when he spent summers as a ranger in Rocky Mountain National Park. He loved the outdoors and it was that love that led him to help create some of our nation’s most important environmental laws.
John Dingell was either the author or at the center of efforts to pass the National Environmental Policy Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the list goes on. He used to say that he was chairman of a "little committee called the Merchant Marine Fisheries Committee that nobody cared about or paid attention to that allowed the freedom to do some really big things." He was a true conservationist in the best sense of the word. As a member of Congress, he served on the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission from 1969-2014. It was from this perch that he worked with members of both parties to purchase land for the National Wildlife Refuge System and increase funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. He also followed through on enforcement of these laws, for example, by working to ensure that the Clean Water Act protected all of the nation’s streams and wetlands.
He was a master of congressional oversight. It mattered not who was in the White House, John Dingell chased down waste, fraud and abuse with passion. He found that the Pentagon was purchasing $600 toilet seats, a practice that was stopped immediately. In 1982, he found that the EPA had mishandled $1.6 billion in Superfund dollars. When EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch refused to hand over relevant documents, she became the first agency head to be cited for contempt of Congress. She eventually resigned.
He was also known for his passionate belief that healthcare is a right. Every Congress, he would introduce a bill to establish a national healthcare system. This was a bill his father, John Dingell Sr., wrote when he was in Congress. He sat in the chair of the House during its consideration of the Affordable Care Act and gaveled that vote closed. While he was writing his recent book, which is about many things but begins and ends with healthcare, people would ask "Hey Chief, when is that book going to be done?" He would answer, "I don't know, they keep changing the damned ending!”
All in all, John Dingell was always on the right side of history. He was an early supporter of the civil rights movement, despite representing a district that was skeptical of its aims. He always said that he was most proud of his vote for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, where, as a young congressman he attended the signing ceremony. When the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in 1999, he stood on the floor of the House arguing it was wrongheaded and would create a class of banks that will be "too big to fail." He voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, but, as with so many others in Congress, he realized it was a mistake and became a cosponsor of legislation to repeal it.
He was known for his tremendous constituent service, recognizing that it was arguably the most important part of his job. When his position on an issue differed from groups of constituents, he was always willing to sit down and talk. Everybody in his district respected that and would leave forums saying, "I might not agree with him, but his position is well-thought-out and rational."
John Dingell used to say "compromise is not a dirty word" and was known for reaching across the aisle as often as possible. In fact, he always instructed his staff to "work with them when you can and fight them when you have to."
After he retired, he spent much of his time brushing up on his Twitter skills, which were unmatched in their honesty, humor and commentary on our too often broken government and, of course, on his beloved Detroit Tigers and University of Michigan Wolverines. He earned the title "King of Twitter."
Forever a believer in the great experiment that is America, we would be wise to look back at his deeds, his commitment to his country, his thoughtfulness, his core belief in right and wrong. For if there were more like John Dingell, our country would be in a better place with less partisanship, less anger, more collegiality and a more widely shared desire to find a path forward together. The loss of John Dingell is a loss for our nation. But if, as he did, we see the glass as half full, we will find a way forward. That would be a legacy he would cherish.
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Bebe Rexha Thought She Was Collaborating With Little Big Town, Not Florida Georgia Line
Courtney Carr
Awkward! It seems that pop singer Bebe Rexha got her country groups confused when it was time to collaborate on the popular song “Meant to Be.”
The singer originally thought she would be working with Little Big Town -- not Florida Georgia Line's Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley. Rexha explained the country group mix up to CMT’s Cody Alan, saying “I can’t lie, I had met Little Big Town at one of the awards [shows]. When I walked in the studio, I saw Tyler there, and I said ‘Where are the other band members?’ I told Tyler and he started laughing.”
Thankfully the FGL boys were good sports about the whole thing. Together, Rexha and the superstar country duo went on to record "Meant to Be," which became the longest-leading No. 1 single by a woman on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. This chart achievement is a personal record for pop star Rexha, and breaks the previous run at No. 1 by a song with female lead vocals, which, ironically enough, was set by Little Big Town's "Girl Crush," after 13 weeks at No. 1 in 2015.
The track, which appears on Rexha's All Your Fault: Pt. 2 EP, had previously edged out Taylor Swift's 10-week chart-topping run with "We Are Never Getting Back Together" in 2010. "Meant to Be" gave Rexha her first career appearance at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, while making cross-genre history on the pop charts as well.
It wasn't the first time Florida Georgia Line has experienced cross-genre success. The duo spent 24 weeks at No. 1 in 2012 with their single "Cruise," which featured rapper Nelly. This kicked off a series of hit country/pop collaborations with acts such as the Backstreet Boys, Hailee Steinfeld and Allesso, and the Chainsmokers, among others.
Unforgettable Florida Georgia Line Moments
NEXT: Top 5 Florida Georgia Line Songs
Source: Bebe Rexha Thought She Was Collaborating With Little Big Town, Not Florida Georgia Line
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Tag Archives: Brazilian popular music
100 ESSENTIAL BRAZILIAN SONGS YOU MUST HEAR Part 7: The 2000-2010s
Posted in Travel & Leisure by woman2womenblog
Contemporary music –in Brazil, France and elsewhere- has been greatly influenced by social media, video sharing and music streaming, all trademarks of the 2000s and beyond. Specifically for Brazilian music, this globalizing phenomena has had positive, as well as deleterious consequences: increased foreign songs topping the charts on one side, but also Brazilian mainstream music massively available to the rest of the world. The proof: songs like Mc Fioti’s “Bum Bum TamTam” with more than 1 billion! views on YouTube, and Michel Teló’s “Ai Se Eu Te Pego” with over 800 million views…
Despite globalization, Brazil internal music market has seen a meteoric increase in popularity of regional rhythms during this period, mainly sertanejo. Actually, sertanejo is Brazilian audiences‘ preferred music genre .
No one can deny that Brazil is a country with a powerful musical history. Going through all its music repertoire while preparing this series of articles, I can’t help but admire even more its distinct and perennial beauty. Are things changing though? Is Brazilian music going through a phase of decadence? This is an ongoing debate in the country nowadays… Many music critics are definite: today’s consumer society –they believe- leads to “consumable music”; moreover, they blame the universal predominance of sertanejo as responsible for the lack of musical diversification nowadays. “We always had good music and bad music in Brazil -says one critic- but there was a balance. At this time, at least 90% of what record companies release is totally disposable”. Some go even further and state that pagoda, sertanejo and electronic forró are “a tsunami of musical trash unprecedented in the history of Brazilian music”. Other critics are more optimistic. Véronique Mortaigne, writing an article in The Guardian, states that: “Brazil is surfing a musical new wave that is now reaching Europe”, making emphasis on the quality of certain musicians’ work “not afraid to mix the old and the new, irritating a few purists along the way”.
The debate could go on forever. What is certain is that there are still many bright examples of fine Brazilian music. Check out my list with some of the most remarkable songs of the 2000-2010s, go ahead and “Brazilify” your playlist!
87) Bebel Gilberto – “Samba da Bênção” (2000)
Bebel Gilberto is an extremely talented bossa nova singer, and it couldn’t be otherwise: she is the daughter of Joao Gilberto and Miucha, and the niece of Chico Buarque…
She became worldwide known after the release of her amazing album Tanto Tempo. This particular song was written by Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell; it was featured in the movie Eat, Pray, Love. Read more here.
88) Pato Fu – “Ando meio desligado” (2001)
This psychedelic anthem was composed by the iconic band Os Mutantes in 1970; it was listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as the 50th greatest Brazilian song.
Of the many re-recordings the song has had, I like this one, by the Belo Horizonte band Pato Fu.
89) Gabriel o Pensador – “Até Quando?” (2001)
Known for his intellectual and controversial lyrics, rapper Gabriel o Pensador (“Gabriel the Thinker”) stepped into the limelight with his provocative composition “Tô Feliz (Matei o Presidente)” [I’m Happy (I killed the President)]. He has had a highly successful career since then, topping often the charts with his gold or platinum-certified albums.
Até Quando? (“Until when?”) was released in the album Seja Você Mesmo (mas não Seja sempre o Mesmo) (“Be Yourself (but not always the same”). Its compelling lyrics address the issue of conformism. It was highly praised by most critics and received an award at Brazil’s MTV Video Music Awards.
90) Cássia Eller & Nando Reis – “Relicário” (2001)
Cássia Eller is one of the most successful pop singers/composers in Brazil. Owner of a distinctive contralto voice, she was rated as the 18th greatest vocalist by Rolling Stone Brasil.
This beautiful song was composed by Nando Reis and was included in the live album Acústico MTV, where she sings it together with Reis; it is Cássia’s final album before her death on December 29, 2001 at 39 years old.
91) Tribalistas – “Velha Infancia ” (2002)
Tribalistas is a Brazilian musical supergroup consisting of Arnaldo Antunes (ex-Titãs), Marisa Monte and Carlinhos Brown (Timbalada). Their debut collaboration resulted in the popular album Tribalistas, which attained considerable popularity in Brazil and Europe. The curious thing with this popular group is that, despite their great success, they have rarely performed together, deciding to go on a world tour just now in 2018.
Among their most popular songs are “Já Sei Namorar” (included on the video game FIFA Football 2004), “Passe em Casa“, “É Você” and “Velha Infância“, played on the Brazilian soap opera Mulheres Apaixonadas.
92) Paulinho da Viola & Marisa Monte – “Carinhoso” (2003)
Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Jr. was not yet Pixinguinha when he began to be called a prodigy, enchanting with his unusual musicality and facility for instruments and improvisations. Considered till nowadays a musical genius, Pixinguinha is regarded as one of the greatest Brazilian composers of popular music, particularly within the genre choro. “Carinhoso“, was recorded in 1928 and has remained as one of the most famous melodies of Brazilian popular music. Incredibly enough, he received heavy negative criticism at that time, with complaints that it was “too Americanized.”
From Marisa Monte to Elizeth Cardoso, from Paulinho da Viola to Francisco Alves, from Elis Regina to Marcelo Camelo, dozens of artists made their impassioned interpretations of “Carinhoso”; one of my favorites is this one, by Marisa Monte and Paulinho da Viola.
93) Zeca Pagodinho – “Deixa A Vida Me Levar” (2004)
Zeca Pagodinho is a singer and songwriter considered a great name of the genre samba and pagode. He has recorded more than 20 albums and has become immensely popular, not only due to his irreverence and jocosity, bur mostly due to his rare talent, praised by critics and consecrated artists.
This song gives name to his 2004 album Deixa A Vida Me Levar (“Let life take me”), it was extremely successful, becoming double-platinum certified.
94) Sergio Mendes feat. Stevie Wonder & Gracinha Leporace – “Berimbau / Consolação ” (2006)
The berimbau is a single-string percussion instrument. Originally from Africa, it was eventually incorporated into the practice of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira. The instrument became worldwide known for being the subject matter of this song, which belongs to Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes.
Maybe one of the most famous versions of “Berimbau / Consolação ” is the one performed by Toquinho and Maria Creuza in 1970; nevertheless I love this version, featured in Sergio Mendes’ 2006 Album Timeless, with the participation of his wife, Gracinha Leporace and iconic American artist Stevie Wonder.
95) Vanessa Da Mata & Ben Harper – “Boa Sorte/Good Luck ” (2007)
Award-winning, chart-topping singer, composer, and novelist, Vanessa da Mata got her start writing songs for artists such as Maria Bethania and Daniela Mercury. Despite the strength of her voice, it took her several years until she finally decided to record her own material, releasing her self-titled debut in 2002. It was her next album, Essa Boneca Tem Manuel, however, that really pushed her into the limelight, aided by the strength of the single “Ai Ai Ai“. Three years later her third album, Sim, was released. Sim spawned the hit single “Boa Sorte/Good Luck“, a duet with Ben Harper, which peaked at number one in both Brazil and Portugal and was the most played song in Brazilian radio stations in 2008.
96) Criolo – “Subirusdoistiozin” (2011)
Criolo is a rapper and soul singer. With a career starting in 1989, he originally got a reputation as one of São Paulo most important rappers. After the release of his second album, “Nó na Orelha” (Knot in the ear), he saw his popularity grow beyond São Paulo to all Brazil and abroad, leading to a successful worldwide tour. He has been characterized as “ the most interesting and unruly representative of the Brazilian new wave”.
“Nó na Orelha” mixes rap, afrobeat, hip hop, reggae, samba and brega. It received positive reviews and was considered the best national album of 2011 by the magazine Rolling Stone. From this album, “Subirusdoistiozin” (Two-Old-Guys-Died) is the most popular track; it describes the general waywardness of favela street culture.
97) Marisa Monte – “Ainda Bem” (2011)
Multi-awarded singer, composer, instrumentalist, and producer, Marisa Monte is considered one of Brazil’s greatest singers; in fact, Rolling Stone Brasil listed Monte as the second greatest singer of all time after Elis Regina. She also has two records (MM and Verde, Anil, Amarelo, Cor-de-Rosa e Carvão) among the 100 best albums of Brazilian music.
Ainda Bem (“Just as well”) belongs to her highly praised eighth record O Que Você Quer Saber de Verdade (“What do you really want to know”), was considered by Billboard Brasil the best album of 2011. Originally, “Ainda Bem” was composed by Marisa for Italian singer Mina, who included it in her 2011 album Piccolino.
98) Dominguinhos & Arthur Maia – “Lamento Sertanejo ” (2014)
An emblematic representative of the forro music genre, Dominguinhos has had success as a musician, both solo and as a sideman for consecrated artists like Luís Gonzaga, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethânia. But also as a composer, he has produced hits recorded for some of the most important Brazilian artists; he has also written cinema soundtracks and has won four Prêmio Sharp Awards.
This is one of his biggest hits, composed in 1941. Initially instrumental, it was later re-recorded by Gilberto Gil, who wrote its lyrics. The song has received countless recordings and has been included in the soundtrack of several films and soap operas. The original version is beautiful; this version though, by Dominguinhos himself together with the great Brazilian bassist Arthur Maia, it’s just beguiling.
99) Adriana Calcanhotto – “Felicidade” (2015)
Adriana Calcanhotto is an MPB (Brazil popular music) singer and composer revealed in 1990, who has had great success in Brazil and helped bring MPB back to the hit parade after the 1980s’ Brazilian rock period.
Felicidade (“Happiness”) was written in 1947 by the great samba-canção composer Lupicínio Rodrigues; it was re-presented to Brazil by Caetano Veloso in 1974 who made it widely popular. Calcanhotto included it in her fourth live album Loucura (“Madness”), which is a tribute to Lupicínio Rodrigues.
100) Tiago Iorc & Milton Nascimento – “Mais Bonito Não Há” (2017)
Tiago Iorc is one of Brazil’s new talents. Singer-songwriter and record producer, with his debut album Let Yourself In, he gained notoriety after several of Tiago’s songs were featured on major Brazilian primetime soap operas, TV ads and films. Let Yourself In was also released in Japan with great success and in South Korea, where the public granted Tiago a Best Foreign Artist Award.
In 2017, he partnered with the incomparable Milton Nascimento (who declared being Tiago’s fan) and recorded some songs for the purpose of a national tour. This exquisite song (“Nothing more beautiful”) is the result of this partnership.
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100 ESSENTIAL BRAZILIAN SONGS YOU MUST HEAR Part 6: The 1990s
If there is one word can define the 1990s, that is globalization. With Brazil’s growing openness to the globalized nineties’ culture, greatest influence of foreign musical trends was unavoidable. The youth of that period would increasingly enjoy dancing -in night clubs- to the new electronic rhythms, such as techno, trance and house.
On the other hand, Brazilians revalorized their own historical roots. The great originality and variety of the nation’s music is observed in the creative fusion of diverse influences such as samba, sertaneja, Brazilian rock, samba-reggae, baião, forró, lambada, axé, electronic music, among many others.
Globalization also made easy for Brazilian music to gain worldwide recognition. After pioneers like Carmen Miranda, many other names gave Brazilian popular music international publicity during that decade.
In the 90s, other styles like funk carioca and hip hop became popular among young people of the country’s Southeast, whereas the brega style “resisted” and was renewed, remaining popular especially in the North and Northeast regions.
These are the songs I chose from this period:
74) João Gilberto – “Eu Sambo Mesmo ” (1991)
One of bossa nova’s fathers, João Gilberto is a consummated artist since the fifties, with enormous international recognition since then.
His 1991 album João, with orchestrations by Clare Fischer, featured songs in English, French, Italian, and Spanish, plus old sambas and his version of Caetano Veloso’s “Sampa”. This song (“I Really Samba”) is the opening track of this wonderful album.
75) Sergio Mendes – “Magalenha” (1992)
Sergio Mendes doesn’t need much introduction. Superstar from the 60’s, with a prolific career and enormous international success, he is “indelibly identified with the pop side of the bossa nova boom”.
“Magalenha” was composed by musician Carlinhos Brown and is the second track of Sergio Mendes studio album Brasileiro. The energetic vocals by Carlinhos and the explosive rhythm of the Bahian percussionists are just electrifying … I dare you not to dance when you listen to it!
“Magalenha” appears in the soundtrack of the 1998 film Dance with Me .
76) Daniela Mercury – “O Canto da Cidade” (1992)
“The Queen of Axé” Daniela Mercury is well known for popularizing axé music, not only throughout Brazil, but also internationally. As a matter of fact, she enjoys a goddess-like worship in Salvador da Bahia.
Her second album, O Canto da Cidade (1993) was a national phenomenon, establishing her as the most popular Brazilian performer of the early ’90s. The title track of this album (“The tune of the city”), a celebration of her native Salvador, became a sensation and topped the charts. Not only was O Canto da Cidade the first Brazilian album to top a million in sales, but it remains her best-selling album to date, with millions of copies sold -and it continues to sell today.
77) Timbalada- “Beija Flor” (1993)
In the late 1980s the talented drummer Carlinhos Brown started to form percussion ensembles in his hometown Salvador; he simply gathered people in the streets and taught them basic percussion patterns. Eventually these gatherings grew into a band called Timbalada. Timbalada is credited with the revival of the timbal (a kind of drum used in candomblé), which had been nearly extinct before they began featuring it. Moreover, the band melted the rhythms of Bahia with those of Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean origin, such as samba reggae and axé and added some pop elements; the result is an interesting, extremely prototype sound. The band’s aesthetics also has a distinctive character: the vocalists make heavy use of body painting, which provides a tribal touch and adds to their originality. Timbalada is also well known for its regular participation in Salvador de Bahia’s Carnival.
Due to their innovative music and particular aesthetics, it didn’t take long until the band caught the attention of Brazilians -and the entire world, gaining deserved, huge popularity. Their first album, released in 1993, has one of their major hits, Beija-flor (“Hummingbird”).
78) Ivan Lins – “Madalena” (1993)
Songwriter, vocalist, and pianist, Ivan Lins came to fame in Brazil in 1970 when Elis Regina recorded his song “Madalena” and made it a hit. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz since then, with numerous of his compostions recorded by remarkable Brazilian and foreign and artists, such as George Benson, Michael Bublé, Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones, Sarah Vaughan, Sting and Barbra Streisand.
He did release his own version of “Madalena” in his 1993 Minha História; in here though I include this marvellous, live version with Elis Regina, featured in the album Elis Regina e Ivan Lins – Juntos (Ao Vivo).
79) Chico Science & Nação Zumbi – “Da Lama Ao Caos” (1994)
From the mud flats of his natal Recife, Chico Science began to experiment with music, blending maracatu with reggae, funk, rap, and rock. The mixture of ancient folkloric Northeastern rhythms with world pop and electronic music would become referred as mangue beat (“mud beat”). Mangue beat eventually grew into a musical movement, one of the most characteristics of Brazil’s musical scene of the 90s.
After being recognized in his region, Chico Science joined Nação Zumbi; their first collaborative album, Da Lama Ao Caos, was released in 1994, from which the eponymous track was a major hit.
80) Mamonas Assassinas – “Pelados em Santos” (1995)
Characterized as a satirical rock band, Mamonas Assassinas‘s sound consisted of a mixture of pop rock with influences of popular genres such as sertanejo, brega, pagode, forró, and vira. The only studio album recorded by the band, Mamonas Assassinas, with the hits Pelados em Santos“, “Vira-Vira” and “Robocop Gay” had a meteoric success, rapidly becoming diamond-certified.
Unfortunately, their career was tragically interrupted in March 2, 1996, when the group was the victim of a plane crash which caused the death of all its members, and a great national commotion. In spite of their brief success, the band continues influencing the national musical scene and being celebrated even now, more than two decades after its end.
81) Carlinhos Brown – “A Namorada” (1996)
Not only a talented percussionist, Carlinhos Brown is also a greatly praised composer and vocalist. After his success with Timbalada (see above), he decided to display all his musical virtues in his solo album Alfagamabetizado. For the album’s release, Carlinhos Brown performed many shows throughout Brazil, The United Status, Japan and Europe. The track “A Namorada” was the biggest success, even being included on the soundtrack of the film Speed 2, where he also made a cameo appearance performing the song.
82) Skank- “Garota Nacional” (1996)
Belo Horizonte band Skank became one of the most popular bands in Brazil in the ’90s. Mixing influences of pop music, reggae, ska and rock & roll, Skank reached the market with their first eponymous album. Their 1996 album O Samba Poconé includes one of their greatest hits, Garota Nacional. Although “Garota Nacional” literally translates to “national girl”, the song is not about the women of Brazil, as usually believed: it refers to the “girls of Bar Nacional”, a bar and nightclub in Belo Horizonte famous in the early 1990s for its beautiful female patrons.
83) Simone and Martinho da Vila – “Ex-Amor” (1996)
One of the greatest Brazilian female artists of all time, Simone is a sensuous singer with a signature low, mellow voice. Although having a more activist repertory in her beginnings, she later abandoned it in favor of more mainstream, romantic songs, with which she has enjoyed international success.
In this song she unites her voice with that of another iconic MPB and samba singer/composer: Martinho da Vila.
84) Chitãozinho e Xororó – “Luar Do Sertão” (1996)
With a 30 year-career, 30 released albums and the impressive 30,000,000 sold copies, Chitãozinho e Xororó are a real phenomenon in Brazil. The two singers were the first artists to successfully promote the fusion of “redneck music” (caipira) with urban pop, opening the field for a millionaire craze which would become known as sertanejo romântico, a genre that ultimately took all regions of Brazil -and many other countries. Indeed, Chitãozinho e Xororó have performed with artists such as Billy Ray Cyrus, Reba McEntire and the Bee Gees.
This song, Luar do Sertão (Hinterlands Moonlight in English) is a popular, old Brazilian song, one of the most recorded Brazilian songs of all time. Its simple verses praise the life in sertão (English: hinterlands or countryside). It appears in their album Classicos Sertanejos and counts with the participation of Simone.
85) Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum – “A Felicidade” (1999)
A felicidade (“Happiness”) was composed in 1958 by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes for the film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). The theme of this mesmerizing bossa nova song is the fragility of happiness: “Tristeza não tem fim. Felicidade sim” (“Sadness has no ending. Happiness does”).
“A felicidade” has had many re-recordings throughout the years; I love this one by the Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum, which features Antonio Carlos Jobim’s son, guitarist/vocalist Paulo Jobim, and his grandson, pianist/vocalist Daniel Jobim, along with cellist Jacques Morelenbaum and his wife, vocalist Paula Morelenbaum. With the exception of Daniel, all of the group’s members were members of Jobim’s final band before his death in 1994.
86) Ney Matogrosso – “Poema” (1999)
Famous for his singular countertenor voice, but mostly for his provocative stage costumes, make-up and daring movements, Ney Matogrosso has always been regarded as a controversial character. What nobody can deny is that Ney is an extremely talented artist. In fact, he was ranked by Rolling Stone as the third greatest Brazilian singer of all time.
He is best known as a member of the glam rock group Secos & Molhados, a phenomenon band during the 1970s. After the band split up, Ney pursued a successful solo career in Brazil and abroad, obtaining several Gold and Platinum records.
This song (“Poem”) belongs was released in Olhos de Farol, an album that celebrated 25 years of Ney’s solo career.
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With the end of Brazil’s dictatorship, a renewed feeling of freedom invaded the youth of the 80s. This generation of artists, free to openly portray their feelings and desires, gives rise to what would be called BRock, or Brazilian rock. Emblematic bands of this decade are Blitz, Paralamas do Sucesso, Titãs, Ultraje a Rigor and Legião Urbana. Irreverent and uncompromised, they would be frequently accused of being superficial, banal and alienated; their songs though demonstrated they were nothing like that: they would often criticize the 80s social reality, particularly consumerism and the influence of television.
The year 1985 is certainly engraved in the memory of rock lovers: the colossal festival Rock in Rio takes place. Rock in Rio counted with the presence of the world’s greatest rock artists such as Queen, Rod Stewart, AC/DC and Yes; it remains in history as the largest Rock Festival of all time, with an audience of nearly 1.5 million people.
Although rock and pop were the predominant genres in Brazil during the 80s, other musical styles would gain increasing popularity by the end of the decade, such as sertanejo, pagode, afro and axé music.
This is my list of great Brazilian songs of the 1980s:
63) Rita Lee – “Lança Perfume” (1980)
For the Brazilians, Rita Lee is one of their dearest artists. With an impressive record of 55 million albums sold –Brazil’s highest grossing female artist of all time- the “Queen of Brazilian Rock” is a not only a singer, but also a talented songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, writer and activist.
Former member of the influential group Os Mutantes, Lee has participated in major revolutions in the world of music and society. Her songs, often with an acid or feminist tone, have become ubiquitous in the charts throughout the latest 50 years.
Lança perfume is one of her most popular songs; it makes reference to an aromatic spray often used as a recreational drug, very popular in Brazil.
64) Gal Costa – “Festa do Interior” (1981)
Essential Brazilian artist, one of the most amazing voices, Gal Costa is known for her perfect pitch and incredibly high notes. Timeless and always relevant, Gal is constantly reinventing herself: she went from a Tropicalia icon in the 60s, a hippie muse in the 70s to a more pop repertoire in the 80s and nowadays, in her latest albums, she has been even exploring electronic music.
This song (English “Countryside Party”) from her 1981 double album Fantasia became her biggest ever hit, going multi-platinum by the end of the year.
65) Djavan – “Samurai” (1982)
Djavan is a singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist, highly praised not only in Brazil, but internationally: his songs have been recorded by Al Jarreau, Carmen McRae, the Manhattan Transfer, and many other fundamental Brazilian artists.
Djavan combines traditional Brazilian rhythms with popular music drawn from the Americas, Europe and Africa; his songs are known for their “colors”: refined and poetic, but utterly simple at the same time.
In 1982, he recorded the universally acclaimed album Luz, which has been described as a “pop explosion (…) a succession of hits with exquisite use of the technological resources of the time”. From this album comes the song Samurai, in which Stevie Wonder is a guest star.
66) Gonzaguinha – “O que é, O que é?” (1982)
A major pop star in Brazil in the ‘70s and ‘80s, Gonzaguinha was the son of the famous baião artist Luiz Gonzaga. Although he decided to follow his father’s footsteps, he was a great singer in his own right, adopting a completely different style. Being born and raised in a poor Rio de Janeiro favela (shanty town) made him quite adept at writing about the social and political conditions of Brazil’s poor; his aggressive and unappealing lyrics in the eyes of the media earned him the nickname “Cantor rancor” (Grudge singer). With the beginning of the political opening in the second half of the 1970s, he began to modify the discourse and composed songs of more pleasant tone; his fame skyrocketed. He was at the peak of this popularity when, in 1991 he died in a car crash.
This is one of his most recognizable songs, it was released in the album Caminhos do Coração.
67) Lulu Santos – “Como Uma Onda (Zen Surfismo)” (1983)
Brazilian superstar with high-selling discography, Lulu Santos is one of the most emblematic figures of the 80s, a synonym with Brazilian pop music.
This song (English “Like a wave”) was created by Lulu himself together with journalist and writer Nelson Motta, especially for the soundtrack of the movie Garota Dourada. Its lyrics describe the pleasures of an idealized beach culture, ultimately becoming a reflection on the contradictions of a youth oscillating between grandiose delusions and bohemian escapism. It was a smash hit. According to Rolling Stone Brazil, this song is the proof … “of Lulu’s indisputable dominance in the art of creating the Perfect pop”.
68) Lobão e os Ronaldos – “Me Chama” (1984)
Multi-talented Lobão (“Big Wolf“, in reference to the Disney’s Big Bad Wolf character), is a singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, writer, publisher, television host and media personality. Aside from his talent as musician, he has a reputation for having little inhibition in expressing his opinions and for publicly criticising fellow musicians, which led to a notable number of controversies and enmities.
With the album Ronaldo Foi pra Guerra, the only album he released accompanied by the band Os Ronaldos, Lobão had the biggest success of his career, the super hit “Me Chama” (“Call Me”).
69) Ultraje a Rigor – “Inútil” (1985)
Ultraje a Rigor is one of the most important Brazilian rock bands. With their simple and danceable melodies, and the irreverent tone Roger Moreira’s voice gave to the ironic lyrics, the band had all the ingredients to reach the Brazilian youth of the 80s.
Their first LP, Nós Vamos Invadir sua Praia (We’re going to invade his beach) was a massive success: it was the first Brazilian rock LP to receive gold and platinum status. From this album comes Inútil (“Useless”), one of the most important protest songs of Brazilian rock, a compendium of the frustrations common to all Brazilian at the time.
70) Paralamas do Sucesso – “Alagados” (1986)
Paralamas do Sucesso is the most successful Brazilian rock band, with a long-lasting career since 1977, always with the same line-up: Herbert Vianna, Bi Ribeiro and João Barone. Their success has surpassed the Brazilian borders, making then a recognizable band in Latin America and Europe; furthermore, they have been many times awarded at the Latin Grammy, MTV Brasil and Multishow awards.
Alagados (“Flooded”) gives an account of the harsh life in Brazilian favelas during the period of intense socioeconomic crisis that hit the country in the 1980s. The song make particularly reference to Rio de Janeiro: “…the city with open arms in the postcards, but closed fists in real life”
71) Titãs – “Comida” (1987)
Another emblematic Brazilian rock band that blossomed in the ’80s, Titãs (“The Titans”) became known for their intelligent lyrics, with poetic references and social criticism. The group eventually became mainstream, adopting a more pop approach and enjoying massive recognition.
Jesus não Tem Dentes no País dos Banguelas (“Jesus has no teeth in the land of the toothless”) is Titãs’ most important album; it was a huge commercial success (double platinum certified), but also highly acclaimed by the critics. One of the best tracks of this album is Comida (“Food”). Its lyrics affirm that people’s needs go beyond their own material existence -represented by food- requiring cultural and existential necessities, such as fun and art. Comida frequently served as the motto for student protests, which increased even more the band’s reputation.
72) Legião Urbana – “Que país é esse? ” (1987)
Legião Urbana was formed during Brazil’s economic crisis of the ’80s, when corruption became deeply rooted in the country’s politics. This was Renato Russo’s motivation to create his band “Urban Legion”. Russo’s incandescent lyrics, portraying the frustrations of an entire generation, gave voice to a multitude of desperate people and became a phenomenon of popularity throughout Brazil.
The band’s success was cemented in 1987, with Que País É Este (“What Country Is This”). They developed a devoted following, and the band came to carry the nickname “Religião Urbana” (meaning “Urban Religion”).
While they disbanded officially in 1996 after Russo’s death due to AIDS complications, Legião Urbana is still one of Brazil’s most famous rock bands.
73) Cazuza – “Ideologia” (1988)
Vocalist of the first Brazilian rock band Barão Vermelho and highly popular as a solo artist, Cazuza left his personal mark on Brazilian music through his songs, which continue to be constantly recorded by other artists, in spite of his early death in 1992 due to AIDS complications, at 32 years old.
Ideologia (“Ideology”) is the title track of Cazuza’s third album, which was composed in partnership with Roberto Frejat. It is one of the singer’s most successful songs; its beautiful, compelling lyrics were written by Cazuza after discovering he was HIV positive: “…My pleasure now is life-threatening, my sex and drugs have not rock ’n’ roll…”
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Brazil’s music transition into the 70s was marked by the consolidation of MPB (Música Popular Brasileira, Brazilian Popular Music) which now incorporates into its repertoire different rhythms, not only from Brazil’s different regions (such as the northeastern baião), but also from foreign countries (like Jamaican reggae). Standout artists of the 70s MPB are, among others, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque, Gal Costa, Simone, Elis Regina, Rita Lee and Maria Bethânia.
The Jovem Guarda had already made its appearance in the 60s and was still very popular in the beginning of the 70s. Nevertheless, Brazil was under military dictatorship at that time, and the cultural elites accused these artists of being “alienated” from the country’s social and political problems; as a result, the movement soon lost its strength.
Without the presence of the nonchalant Jovem Guarda, a different genre of popular romantic music emerged, which would gain the pejorative epithet “cafona“, then replaced by “brega” (both words meaning “tacky”). Once the name got accepted by its fans, brega music became a trend and won a wide audience. Many artists belong to this genre, although its fame was consolidated by Waldick Soriano. Since the end of the Jovem Guarda, Roberto Carlos also approached a more romantic, brega style; nevertheless, he managed to establish his position as the country’s most popular singer.
The decade of the 70s, together with the 60s, gave some of the most beautiful and timeless songs of Brazil’s cultural legacy. I really had a hard time to choose just a few among the many great songs of this period. This is the list I finally put together:
32) Maria Creuza, Toquinho and Vinicius de Moraes – “Eu sei que vou te amar” (1970)
This incredibly beautiful song (English: “I know I will love you“) was composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes. Although initially recorded by Maysa, it would become a classic when performed live in Buenos Aires by Vinícius de Moraes, together with two iconic artists of Brazil’s music stage of the 70s: Vinicius’s favourite vocalist Maria Creuza and his long-time partner, singer and guitarist Toquinho. He would later include it on his 1970 album En ‘la Fusa’ con Maria Creuza y Toquinho (also known as “Grabado en Buenos Aires con Maria Creuza y Toquinho”). The amazing melody by Tom Jobim, and Vinicius’ impassioned lyrics on the immortality of love would establish “Eu sei que vou te amar” as one of Brazil’s quintessential songs. Indeed, it was voted the best Brazilian song of all times in a survey organized by Revista Bula.
33) Wilson Simonal – “País Tropical” (1970)
“Tropical Country” was composed by Jorge Ben Jor, but it became a hit when singer Wilson Simonal released it on his 1970 Album, Simonal.
Over the years, the song would be increasingly credited to its author, overshadowing the success of the first version by Simonal. It has also been adapted by many composers and singers like Sergio Mendes, Ivete Sangalo, or even Shakira, but also by Jorge Ben Jor himelf, on his album Tropical in 1976.
34) Paulinho da Viola – “Foi um Rio que Passou em Minha Vida” (1970)
“It was a river that passed in my life” is the song that gives the name to the second album of carioca sambista (samba composer) Paulinho da Viola.
The song was a huge success, being sung by the masses during Rio’s carnival, and became Brazil’s biggest hit of the 1970, projecting Paulinho nationally.
35) Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho – “Tarde em Itapoã ” (1970)
This is another fruit of Toquinho’s long partnership with Vinicius de Moraes, which would last until Vinicius death in 1980. Composer and performer with 50 years of sucessful career, Toquinho has to date 84 records released, over 450 compositions and about 8,500 shows in Brazil and abroad.
This song (“Afternoon in Itapoã”) immortalizes Itapuã as a serene, romantic and exuberant place, located 20 km from the center of Salvador de Bahia. Unfortunately, spending an afternoon in Itapuã is no longer the quiet program Vinícius and Toquinho described: the neighborhood became Salvador’s noisiest and one of the most polluted.
36) Chico Buarque – “Construção” (1971)
Brazil in the early 1970s was a land of paradoxes: under military government, the so-called “Brazilian Miracle” promised record economic growth; as a result, construction was booming. Workers though, would spend endless hours at the constructions and earned very little.
This was also a period when censorship hampered artistic freedom of expression. Fearing persecution, Chico Buarque spent a brief period of exile in Italy; but longing his beloved Brazil, he returned determined to show his disagreement with the situation. And he managed to create a masterpiece.
“Construction” is the chronicle of the life and death of a construction worker. The character of the song leaves the house, kisses his wife and children and goes to work. There he works “as if he were a machine”. Finally, he falls from the scaffolding in the middle of the street “like a package, disrupting the traffic”.
The lyrics are truly brilliant, written in dodecasyllable verses with each sentence ending with a proparoxytone word (that is, stressed on the antepenultimate syllable). The stanzas are repeated three times, with some keywords being changed position; these changes make the understanding of the lyrics ambiguous as it is not clear whether the worker dies as a result of the bad working conditions or he commits suicide, desperate in the face of his scant life prospect.
“Construction” would not be so overwhelming without the symphonic, imposing arrangement conceived by Rogério Duprat, who uses the orchestra as a sinister component, emulating the chaotic noises of the metropolis, its horns and buildings under construction.
The song is a strong critic of workers’ alienation in a modern, urban capitalist society; it is still a reference song to understand a thorny period of Brazil’s history. Deservedly, “Construção” was selected by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest Brazilian song of all times.
37) Maria Creuza – “Você Abusou ” (1971)
The Baianos Antônio Carlos and Jocáfi composed and first sung this beautiful song (“You abused”), which was successful with the sultry voice of Maria Creuza -who later married Antônio Carlos.
It became an international hit, particularly in France, where it was later adapted by Michel Fugain with the name “Fais comme l’oiseau”; other famous versions are those by Celia Cruz and Stevie Wonder.
38) Nara Leão – “Insensatez” (1971)
“How foolish” is a bossa nova song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. The song resembles Chopin’s prelude in E minor.
It has been re-recorded many times by Brazilian and foreign artists such as Olivia Newton-John, Liberace, Iggy Pop, and Pat Metheny. Nevertheless, I love this version, performed by “the muse of bossa nova”, Nara Leão.
39) Roberto Carlos – “Detalhes” (1971)
Latin pop superstar Roberto Carlos is a major figure in Brazil – and worldwide: his popularity as romantic ballad singer is perhaps rivalled only by Julio Iglesias.
During the 60s he initiated a major revolution; in a period when the Beatles were taking over the world, Carlos became their Brazilian counterpart as the leader of the Jovem Guarda. Initially a TV show, this “Young Guard” soon became not only a musical style, but also a behavioral, fashion and language influence to an entire generation. With his light music and simple lyrics, he was a deep contrast to “serious”, “somber” MPB. Managing to pursue a successful career throughout the years, Roberto Carlos is arguably the most successful romantic artist in Brazil, gaining the title of “The King”.
Together with his longtime partner Erasmo Carlos, he composed this timeless ballad whose lyrics are, according to Rolling Stone Brazil: “…among the most beautiful in the history of music, in any of the five continents”.
40) Gal Costa – “Vapor Barato” (1971)
Arguably one of Brazil’s most amazing voices, a representative figure of the Tropicália movement, an indisputable timeless icon. Gal Costa is a star that keeps shining for over 5 decades.
Back in the 70s, things were not easy for Gal. While all her friends had gone away, exiled by the dictatorship, she decided to stay in Brazil, as part of the “resistance”. And she managed to become the muse of Tropicália with the show Gal a Todo Vapor. Directed by Wally Solomon, the show was recorded in her outstanding double album Fa-Tal.
“Vapor Barato”, included in Fa-Tal is about the disenchantment of the post-1968 years, of course expressed in a very poetical, metaphorical way so as to remain under the radar of censorship. Although now considered a timeless song, it had been almost forgotten until filmmaker Walter Salles “rescued” it by including it in the soundtrack of the film Terra Estrangeira (Foreign land).
41) Jorge Ben – “Filho Maravilha” (1972)
Brazilians’ passion for football (soccer) is not a secret; therefore, a song devoted to a football player comes to no surprise. “Filho Maravilha” is a song written by one of the most important Brazilian artists, singer and songwriter Jorge Ben (later renamed Jorge Ben Jor), and refers to Brazilian football player João Batista de Sales, better known as “Fio Maravilha”.
Always innovative and open-minded, Jorge Ben has been a member of most of the important movements of 20th Brazilian popular music. He is the author of two of the most legendary samba songs: “Mas Que Nada” and “País Tropical“.
42) Sérgio Sampaio – “Eu Quero é Botar Meu Bloco na Rua” (1972)
Sérgio Sampaio was not a mainstream artist. His elaborate lyrics, often with literary references (he was an admirer of Franz Kafka) did not enjoy much commercial success. Nevertheless, his enormous talent and his irreverent manners were invariably praised by critics and a selected public.
He did have one big hit, “Eu Quero é Botar Meu Bloco na Rua” (I want to throw my troops on the streets), a song that refers, as many songs of that period, to the military dictatorship and Sampaio’s wish that everybody goes out and express anything they had keep to themselves.
43) Milton Nascimento – “San Vicente” (1972)
Milton Nascimento is one of Brazil’s most talented and influential artists, with a sublime tenor voice “that often slips into an ethereal falsetto, (…) as that of an angel”, the New York Times once wrote.
San Vicente is one of his greatest classics; it has become an anthem, both in Brazil and other Latin America countries. Recorded in 1972 in the double collective album Clube da Esquina, it is, without any doubt, one of the most beautiful songs of the Brazilian popular songbook. Milton has interpreted it with many other artists, of which those with the remarkable Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos and the Argentinian iconic singer Mercedes Sosa are just marvellous.
44) Airto Moreira – “Tombo In 7/4” (1973)
The most iconic percussionist of the 70s –and still one of the world’s greatest, Airto Moreira (or just Airto) helped make percussion an essential part of modern jazz; he has collaborated with the greatest names of jazz such as Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola and Chick Corea.
This song was part of his masterful 1973 album “Fingers”, and was composed together with Uruguayan artist Hugo Fattoruso. What Airto probably never imagined was that “Tombo In 7/4” would become a huge mainstream success, until German group Bellini sampled it in 1997 to create the super hit “Samba de Janeiro”.
45) Novos Baianos – “Samba da Minha Terra” (1973)
Os Novos Baianos is regarded as one of the most important and revolutionary groups in Brazilian music. They had a primordial role in the fusion of rock with Brazilian folklore rhythms, helping along the evolution of MPB. Formed in Salvador, Bahia in the late ’60s by Paulinho Boca de Cantor , Pepeu Gomes , Moraes Moreira, Baby Consuelo and Luiz Galvão.
This song belongs to their third record, Novos Baianos F. C.; it displays the enormous talent of the band, particularly through the voice and violão (acoustic guitar) of Moraes Moreira, and the electric guitar of virtuoso Pepeu Gomes.
46) Raul Seixas – “Metamorfose Ambulante” (1973)
Raul Seixas is without any doubt one of Brazil’s fundamental rock musicians. In spite of his premature death at 44 years old in 1989, “Raulzito” –his nickname- remains a strong influence to popular music and a timeless idol for Brazilian people.
His expressive and existentialist discography was heavily marked by his collaboration with the outstanding novelist Paulo Coelho. From his numerous hits I find this song (“Walking metamorphosis”) is one of the most beautiful; it was released in his acclaimed debut album Krig-ha, Bandolo!
47) Fagner – “Canteiros” (1973)
Raimundo Fagner (or just Fagner) is a singer, composer, musician, actor and music producer. He has managed to remain highly successful from the beginning of his career in the 70s till nowadays, not only in Brazil, but also abroad -particularly in Spanish-speaking countries.
During his long career he has recorded in several countries and collaborated with many international artists, leading to the release of -so far- 35 albums (the last one in 2014). This song belongs to his debut album, Manera Fru Fru, Manera.
48) Nelson Cavaquinho – “A Flor e o Espinho” (1973)
Nelson Cavaquinho is -together with Cartola- the most talented and prolific samba composer: he left 600 compositions that have been recorded by some of the greatest interpreters of Brazilian music.
Cavaquinho composed the tune for this beautiful samba and Guilherme de Brito wrote the lyrics, which are among the most heartbreaking of Brazilian music: “Get your smile out of the way, ‘cause I want to go by with my pain”. Its tone is typical of the pair, usually pessimistic about love and life.
49) Secos & Molhados – “Rosa de Hiroshima” (1973)
Formed in 1971 by Ney Matogrosso, Gerson Conrad and João Ricardo, Secos & Molhados is one of few bands who led Brazil from bossa nova through Tropicália and then to Brazilian rock. Much of the group’s success, apart from their masterful first eponymous album (one of the biggest selling phenomena of the 1970s), was their extravagant stage presence, with heavy use of makeup and dramatic elements, and of course Ney’s signature counter-tenor voice.
“Rosa de Hiroshima” was originally a poem by Vinicius de Moraes. Its very powerful lyrics are a criticism to war; the poetic tone managed to fool censorship and became a huge success during the seventies.
50) Os Originais do Samba – “Saudosa Maloca” (1973)
Appreciated for their particular blend of traditional samba and humor, Os Originais do Samba became a commercial success, achieving three gold records during their long-lasting career. Their fame in Brazil extended abroad: they were the first samba group to perform and record at the Olympia in Paris; they also performed in the USA.
This song (“Nostalgic Shed”) belongs to the great paulista composer Adoniran Barbosa; it has been performed by many artists including Adoniran himself, but this version by Os Originais do Samba is my favourite.
51) Benito De Paula – “Meu Amigo Charlie Brown” (1974)
With his fancy dressing and emotional interpretations, Benito di Paula became the father of a new samba style, which would be known as sambão-jóia, a romantic and commercial genre precursor of contemporary pagode romântico.
This was one of di Paula’s greatest hits; it was covered by artists like Two Man Sound and Sylvia Vrethammar.
52) Elis Regina and Tom Jobim – “Águas de Março” (1974)
“A a stick, a stone, it’s the end of the road”… “Águas de Março” describes the beginning of the rainy season in Brazil, the month of March, which also marks the end of the summer (in the Southern Hemisphere). The element of water is a metaphor for a rebirth, a promise of life. Both the lyrics and music have a constant downward progression much like the water torrent from the rain.
Tom Jobim wrote both the English and Portuguese lyrics. Although there were previous recordings, this is the version that many consider definitive; it was recorded by Elis Regina and Tom in the album Elis & Tom.
“Águas de Março” was named as the all-time best Brazilian song in a poll conducted by the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, and the second greatest Brazilian song by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone .
53) Tim Maia – “Imunização Racional (Que Beleza)” (1975)
Musician and songwriter known for his humorous and ironic musical style, Tim Maia is regarded as one of the biggest icons of Brazilian music. Mostly acknowledged for introducing soul into Brazil’s musical scene; he also contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, such as funk, bossa nova, disco, romantic ballads, pop, rock, jazz, baião and MPB.
This song belongs to his fifth album, Tim Maia Racional Vol. 1. Although not well received by the critics at that time, it is now regarded as one of the best albums of all times, ranking 17 in Rolling Stone’s list.
54) Clara Nunes – “Juízio Final” (1975)
“Queen of Samba” Clara Nunes is considered one of the greatest of her generation. She was the first female singer in Brazil to sell over 100,000 copies of a record, and at the peak of her career she would sell more than a million copies of each album she released. Nunes was researcher of the rhythms and folklore of Brazil and the roots of black music, she even converted to Umbanda in her later life. She died in 1983 at the age of 40 years old; nevertheless, she remains one of the most popular singers in Brazil.
This song (the title means “Last Judgment”) was written by Nelson Cavaquinho, and belongs to her album Claridade.
55) Cartola – “Preciso me Encontrar” (1976)
Cartola is one of the most wronged cases of Brazilian music: he became known only at advanced age, although his songs had been often recorded by other singers. Nevertheless, he is considered one of Brazil’s quintessential artists.
This particular song, sophisticated and delicate as most of his songs, was released in his masterful second disc Cartola II. It was included in the soundtrack of the highly acclaimed film Cidade de Deus (City of God), and lately in the TV series 3%.
56) Milton Nascimento and Chico Buarque – “O que Será (A Flor da Pele)” (1976)
O Que Será (What may it be?) was composed by Chico Buarque for the film “Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos”, based on the book by Jorge Amado.There are three versions of this song: “O que será? (Abertura)“, performed by Simone; “O que será? (À flor da terra)“, sung by Chico Buarque; and the mesmerizing “O que será? (À flor da pele)“, in which Buarque is accompanied by the incomparable Milton Nascimento. The song has a deeply passionate tone, although there are many interpretations of its lyrics.
57) Elis Regina and Milton Nascimento – “Caxangá” (1977)
Elis Regina is certainly one of the most talented singers to emerge from Brazil, often deemed the greatest Brazilian singer of all times. With her explosive personality and her sublime voice, she gained the respect not only of the Brazilian people, but also of the nation’s leading songwriters, who would line up to have one of their songs recorded by her. Elis’ death at the age of 36 shocked the whole country; nevertheless, she remains as popular after death as she was in life.
This beautiful song is interpreted together with Milton Nascimento, and belongs to her album Elis.
58) Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa – “Sonho Meu” (1978)
Maria Bethânia is one of Brazil’s biggest voices, with a long and successful career: she is among the 10 best-selling music artists in Brazil, having sold more than 26 million records. Talent seems to run in her family’s veins: Bethânia is the sister of the singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso and of writer-songwriter Mabel Velloso, as well as being aunt of the singers Belô Velloso and Jota Velloso.
From her album Alibi comes Sonho meu (“My dream”), where her unique voice blends with another, incredible one: Gal Costa’s.
59) Caetano Veloso – “Sampa” (1978)
It is curious that in a city with great musical representatives like Os Mutantes and Demônios da Garoa, no one could decipher São Paulo better than the baiano Caetano Veloso. “Sampa” (short for São Paulo) is Caetano’s tribute to the city of São Paulo, known for its characteristic drizzle and the large number of migrants, especially from the Northeast region of the country (pejoratively called “baianos”).
Pollution, the reception to migrants, the multiple cultures and the dreams of their inhabitants are pictured in the elegant lyrics, so intense to make the song an all-time classic and transform the intersection of Ipiranga and São João Avenues in one of the most famous spots of the city. In the song, from the album Muito (1978), Caetano is accompanied by the group Outra Banda da Terra.
60) João Bosco – “O Bêbado e a Equilibrista” (1979)
A civil engineer-turned-singer/songwriter, João Bosco would become one of Brazil’s most formidable songwriters, with songs recorded by the country’s greatest artists. During his early career, he supplied Elis Regina with some of her best material; since Elis’ death he started to perform his own songs, becoming an emblematic figure in Brazil’s musical scene.
This is his most personal protest song (English “The Drunkard and the Tightrope Walker”), which was selected as the theme song of Amnesty International. I love this version, sung by Bosco himself, although “O Bêbado” was made famous mostly by Elis Regina. Written during the last years of a military dictatorship, it is a deeply metaphoric, poetic song, not easy to understand on a first read. The drunk represents the artists, poets and musicians who dared to raise their voices against the dictatorship, the Equilibrist is the hope for democracy, which at every “event” that disturbed the military (marches, etc), saw its existence threatened.
61) Gilberto Gil – “Toda Menina Baiana” (1979)
Already a star from the 60’s, Gilberto Gil is known not only for his innovative musical style, but also for political and environmental activism.
This song (“Every girl from Bahia”) is a tribute to women from Bahia, and was reportedly inspired by Gil’s teenager daughter; it appeared in his album Realce.
62) Beth Carvalho – “Coisinha do Pai” (1979)
Beth Carvalho’s name is synonymous with samba, particularly the Mangueira Scola do Samba. Singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer, she began recording in the mid ‘60s; her interpretation of “Andança” earned her the third place at the III Festival Internacional da Canção and became a classic of MPB, re-recorded by many great singers like Maria Bethânia, Elis Regina, and Nana Caymmi.
Her 1979 album No Pagode is considered a masterpiece, and featured this song, her biggest hit of all time. In the late ‘90s, the song was even sent to outer space in the space probe Pathfinder!
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As the bossa nova movement evolves in the early 1960s, Brazil’s original aestheticism gives way to the introduction of political themes. The politicization of popular music would take shape under Brazil’s military dictatorship of 1964 leading to the so-called “protest song“, of which one of the most emblematic is Caminhando (“Walking”) by Geraldo Vandré. It is the time of great musical festivals, when a “university” generation of composers and singers appeared. Artists such as Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo would be idolized by intellectuals and were instrumental in the creation of Música Popular Brasileira (Brazilian Popular Music) or MPB, a movement initially linked to political engagement against dictatorship.
The Tropicália movement was also a form of protest song that appeared during the same period; it was characterized by the eclectic blend of pop culture elements -such as rock- with the elite culture -the modernist and concretist schools of visual arts- having a more erudite and experimental character. The Bahians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil were the main exponents of this movement.
The Iê-iê-iê style (Brazil’s rock’n’roll of the 60s, the equivalent of France’s yé-yé) was “softer” in Brazil than in the USA or UK, adopting a more romantic style. This movement came to be known as Jovem Guarda (Young Guard) and had huge commercial success. Its more representative artists were Roberto Carlos, Erasmo Carlos, Tim Maia and Wanderléa, among others.
These are some of the greatest songs of this period:
11) João Gilberto – “Corcovado” (1960)
“Corcovado” was written by Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1960 and refers to Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Corcovado mountain. An English version was later released with the title “Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars“.
This song was included in the album Brazil’s Brilliant João Gilberto, which was released in the United States in 1960. It was the record that introduced João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and bossa nova to the American audience, before Stan Getz scored a hit with “Desafinado”.
12) Carlos Lyra – “Minha Enamorada” (1960)
This song (“My beloved”) is the most successful fruit of Carlos Lyra’s partnership with “El poetinha” Vinicius de Moraes.
“Minha Namorada” was released during the bossa nova boom, but in terms of rhythm and melody it does not have much to do with it. It is a romantic, tender and sincere ballad; Lyra and Vinicius wrote other emblematic songs, but few were as perennial as this one.
13) Maysa – “O Barquinho” (1961)
One of Brazil’s most charismatic divas, known as “the Janis Joplin of Bossa Nova” due to her tumultuous personal life, Maysa would become influential for a whole generation of Brazilian artists.
This song (the title means “Little boat”) was reportedly composed by Roberto Menescal and Ronaldo Bôscoli while being with friends on a boat; suddenly the engine broke down, and the sound of the motor when they were trying to restart the boat made the tune for “O Barquinho”. It was re-recorded many times, but this is one of the most successful and beautiful versions.
14) João Gilberto and Stan Getz – “So Danço Samba” (1962)
“Só Danço Samba” was composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes; it was suggested that the song was part of a failed movement to invent a bossa nova dance.
Só Danço Samba became in instant classic with hundreds recordings over the decades. With English lyrics provided by Norman Gimbel, it gained immediate international popularity under the titles Jazz Samba, Jazz ‘n’ Samba or occasionally I Only Dance Samba (literal translation of the original Portuguese title).
15) Antônio Carlos Jobim – “Água De Beber” (1963)
“Drinking-Water” was composed by Brazil’s towering figure of bossa nova and one of the great songwriters of the century Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by another fundamental figure in Brazilian music, the co-father of bossa nova, Vinicius de Moraes.
This was reportedly the first song composed in the new Brazil capital, Brasilia, while it was still being constructed. It has had many re-recordings; some great versions are those by Astrud Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra.
16) Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz – “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964)
This is arguably Brazil’s most iconic song; the sound of an era in which bossa nova was the lingua franca of the country and this song its anthem.
Summer 1962, Rio de Janeiro. The story goes that Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes were sitting at a bar near Ipanema Beach in Rio, when they saw the most beautiful woman walking by, and they immediately wrote this song down on a bar napkin! (not quite exactly the truth, though, read more here). The original version, Garota de Ipanema was released in 1962. Nevertheless, while an Ipanema girl named Heloísa inspired the song, it was another Carioca who made it famous worldwide.
Astrud Gilberto was the wife of singing star João Gilberto, when she entered a New York studio in March 1963. João and Jobim were making a record of the song with tenor saxman Stan Getz. The idea of a verse in English came up, and Astrud was the only one of the Brazilians who spoke English. The song with the name “The Girl from Ipanema” was released and it rapidly became a huge worldwide hit. Indeed, it is the second most re-recorded song in history after The Beatles’ “Yesterday”.
17) Demônios da Garoa – “Trem das onze” (1964)
This song (English: “The 11 P.M. Train”) was composed by São Paulo singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa; it portrays, in a tragicomical way, the drama of a lover who lives in a distant suburb of São Paulo, and who cannot stay longer with his beloved woman because the last train will be departing soon, at 11 p.m, and his mother won’t sleep until he gets home. “Trem das Onze” is an example of both samba paulista (samba developed in São Paulo) and samba-de-breque (here).
It was released in 1964 and made famous that same year by the samba group Demônios da Garoa. It is one of the best known Brazilian popular songs and considered of the most representative cultural symbols of the city of São Paulo.
18) Moacir Santos – “Nanã – Coisa Número 5” (1965)
“Coisas” (“Things”) is the debut album by composer, maestro and multi-instrumentalist Moacir Santos. It was released in 1965; the ten tracks of the album were named as “Things” – numbered from 1 to 10. The LP was chosen by the Brazilian Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the 100 best Brazilian records of all time.
19) Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 – “Mas que nada ” (1966)
If you want to hear good, uplifting samba, this is the song! Mas que nada (the English translation would be “come on” or “yeah! Right”) was the first hit of an artist who would became a real school within Brazil’s popular music, Jorge Ben (later, Jorge Ben Jor). It was an impressive hit in 1963, and the beginning of Jorge Ben’s career.
But I have to say I love this version by another great artist, Sergio Mendes. With this song he managed to go beyond Brazil’s borders in 1966, and then again in 2006 when he re-recorded with The Black Eyed Peas…
20) Walter Wanderley Trio – “Samba de Verão” (1966)
“Summer Samba” (also known as “So Nice”) was first popularized by Walter Wanderley Trio in 1966 — the album Rain Forest on which it was issued reached platinum status in 1970. The song became an instant success, with radio stations playing it constantly. Also in 1966 the trio accompanied Astrud Gilberto on her A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness album, which features a beautiful, sung version of this song.
Although immortalized as an “easy listening” or “lounge music” artist, Wanderley music was at that time innovative and revolutionary. The percussive rhythms reminiscent of a Brazilian black tradition were not dear to many Brazilians; in fact most of his successful career took place in the United States.
21) Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes – “Canto de Ossanha” (1967)
In candomblé (an Afro-American religious tradition), there is no ceremony without the presence of Ossanha, the entity that holds the magic force – the axé – necessary in every ritual. Perhaps this is the reason why “Canto de Ossanha” is the opening track of Os Afro-Sambas, the third album emerged from the partnership between the music of Baden Powell and the lyrics of Vinicius de Moraes.
This syncretism of Brazil with Africa via Bahia, now so natural, was not taken for granted in the 60s. “Canto de Ossanha” helped the sound of Afro-Brazilian religions, systematically persecuted until two decades before, become an inextricable part of Brazil’s music and culture.
A great cover of this song was released in 2006 by Jurassic 5.
22) Caetano Veloso – “Alegria, Alegria” (1967)
“Happiness, Happiness” is a song written and performed by Caetano Veloso. Often referred to as “the Brazilian anthem of 1967”, it later appeared on his influential eponymous 1968 album.
This was the song that introduced the Tropicália movement to Brazil. The ideal exposed by the song lyrics was first presented at a memorable live performance in 1967, reinforced by the Argentine group Beat Boys, who added visual aesthetics. It was a hit at the time, and was often sung during public manifestations in favor of impeachment.
23) Wilson Simonal – “Nem Vem Que Não Tem” (1967)
An emblematic figure of Brazil’s popular music, Wilson Simonal was a singer with great success in the 1960s and 1970s, although he was relatively unknown outside of South America.
This is his biggest international hit (the title would be translated as “Don’t even think about it!”); it was adapted and recorded by French singer Zanini, who made a hit with the song “Tu veux ou tu veux pas”.
24) Edú Lobo and Marília Medalha – “Ponteio” (1967)
A singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, Edú Lobo is one of the driving forces behind the MPB movement. He has worked with the most important Brazilian artists and his songs were covered by big names of international music such as Sarah Vaughan and Earth, Wind & Fire.
This is one of his most famous songs, performed here with Marília Medalha; with this song they were the winners of the III Festival de Música Popular Brasileira/FMPB in 1967.
25) Chico Buarque and Mpb4- “Roda Viva” (1967)
Arguably one of Brazil’s most renowned songwriters and singers, Chico Buarque is an iconoclastic figure in post-bossa nova Brazilian music. With his distinctive voice, elegant phrasing, and considerable skill at lyric writing, Buarque became extremely popular in the 1960s –particularly among women, as he was very handsome. However, Buarque resented the role of pop star and chose to be seen as a serious artist.
Roda Viva (“The wheel of life”) is a song that Buarque wrote for the eponymous play; it was a criticism to the obsessive fan culture. During the play, the pop star protagonist was literally torn apart and his flesh consumed by his fans; the performers would also offer the audience pieces of the dead pop star’s flesh to eat (it was chicken meat). Needless to say, the military dictatorship in charge those years did not like the idea of the play and soldiers were sent out to disrupt the performances, destroy sets and assault performers; Chico Buarque himself was briefly jailed.
26) Os Mutantes – “Panis Et Circenses” (1968)
Os Mutantes (“The Mutants”) are one of the most talented and influential Brazilian psychedelic rock bands that were linked with the Tropicália movement. Their unique blend of psychedelic rock, bossa nova, tropicália and samba has inspired many contemporary American and European artists, who cite Os Mutantes as a major influence. With many changes from the original line-up featuring Rita Lee, Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias, the band has been active since then, with their last album being released in 2013.
The title of this song means “Bread and Circuses”, and it is an allusion to the classical poet Juvenal, who scorned ancient Romans for their easy and predictable manipulation through bread and circus. The song, in turn, is a satire of bourgeois conventions. In the lyrics, a first-person poetic voice tries desperately to alarm the family, to snap them out of their mental and physical stagnation; the attempt is futile. During these early years of military rule in Brazil, when economic liberalization brought quick financial boons to the complaisant and complicit upper middle class, expressions of rejection of these mores were frequent in Brazilian music.
27) Caetano Veloso – “Tropicália” (1968)
The opening track of the first tropicalista album by Caetano Veloso, “Alegria, Alegria”. It was very popular upon its release in Brazil, and the Brazilian press used the song title “Tropicália” to christen the larger artistic movement it represented “Tropicalismo”, to the disdain of Caetano himself. Later it was re-recorded by Gal Costa and inspired a homonymous song, released by the American Beck, declared lover of the movement.
Although Caetano has expressed displeasure with the album, it often shows up on lists of greatest Brazilian albums, and was inducted into the Latin Grammy Award Hall of Fame in 2001.
28) Geraldo Vandré – “Pra não dizer que não falei das flores” (1968)
Also known as “Caminhando” (“Walking”; or “Not to say that I haven’t spoken about the flowers”), it was composed by Geraldo Vandré and was presented at the III International Festival of Song of TV Globo in 1968 where it ranked second (the winner was “Sabiá”). It caused a great controversy at that time because the public, mostly students thirsting for protest songs, booed the jury’s decision and made the explosive “Pra Não Dizer…” a sort of anthem of a generation.
The song was considered by the dictatorship a mockery of the armed forces; public playing of the song was forbidden, all the registers of Vandré’s presentation at the festival were deleted, and Vandré became one of the most hunted persons in the country, forced eventually to flee the country. The song was finally released 11 years later, with the end of dictatorship.
Walking is still used to remember the situation the country was going through at the time and to keep alive the memories of those who were victims of the hard times of dictatorship. It has been re-recorded many times, of which one of the most iconic is the one by Simone; the latter was lately sampled by Reboot and Federico Scavo.
29) Gilberto Gil – “Domingo No Parque” (1968)
With this song (“Sunday at the park”) Gilberto Gil got the second place at the 1967 III Festival of Popular Music, accompanied by Os Mutantes; it was later released in the album Gilberto Gil (1968). Gil, together with Caetano Veloso, became the leader of Brazil’s Tropicalia movement. His musical style provided a more universal sound to the music played at that time, mixing electric guitar with traditional Bahian elements, such as the sound of the berimbau. He is undoubtedly one of Brazil’s, and the world’s most celebrated singer/songwriters, with a musical career that has successfully spanned six decades and hits in each one.
30) Noriel Vilela – “Dezesseis Toneladas” (1969)
With his signature deep bass voice, Noriel Vilela made a career first as a member of the samba vocal group Cantores de Ebano. His 1969 solo album “Eis o Ôme” is a succession of sambalanço songs with strong afro influence. This was Vilela’s greatest hits, which is a Portuguese version of the American classic “Sixteen Tons” by Ernie Ford and Merle Travis.
The latest years Vilela enjoys a cult revival among fans of sambalanço. In 2014 “Dezesseis Toneladas” was used for a famous beer commercial, and since then it has been re-recorded several times.
31) Erasmo Carlos – “Sentado à Beira do Caminho” (1969)
“Sitting at the Edge of the Road” was composed by the legendary duo Roberto Carlos & Erasmo Carlos and released by Erasmo Carlos.
The song describes the despair and hopelessness of a lover waiting for his beloved; it became an instant hit and was adapted in many languages, the most famous version being the Italian by Ornella Vanoni with title “L’appuntamento”. Vanoni’s version was included in the musical score of the film Ocean’s Twelve.
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100 ESSENTIAL BRAZILIAN SONGS YOU MUST HEAR Part 1: Overview
Music is one of the most powerful cultural expressions of a nation, a sort of thermometer which reflects the history and mood of the people at a certain time, whether they feel happy, troubled, or oppressed.
And this is certainly true for Brazil: throughout the years music has been drawing the face of the country, mirroring Brazilians’ joy, uncertainties and longings…
Whoever has been in Brazil has most likely realized that music is deeply rooted into Brazilians’ DNA. Music is everywhere, accompanying every single mundane activity: Brazilians have fun with music, travel with music, prepare feijoada with music. And they dance… When I first visited Brazil I was amazed to see that just by hearing samba in the street, everybody -kids and grown-ups alike- would start dancing, as something natural, without inhibitions of any kind…
I love Brazil, its beautiful nature, its people, culture and music… Thus, I decided to pay a tribute to Brazil’s music by choosing 100 among the most representative songs of all times… I believe that after listening to all these songs you will realize -like I did- how timeless Brazil’s music is…
This introductory post will help you understand Brazilian music history and styles. More posts will follow presenting 100 iconic Brazilian songs in chronological order.
I hope you enjoy it!
Música do Brasil – Overview
Brazilian music originated from the fusion of indigenous, European and African elements, the latter brought mainly by Portuguese colonizers and the African slaves.
Until the 19th century, Portugal (and Europe for that matter) is the main gateway to most rhythms that would built Brazilian music, both erudite and popular. With the passage of time, African melodic and rhythmic elements begin to exert increasing influence on popular music, which would thus acquire the characteristic Brazilian sound that consolidates in the twentieth century, mainly through the diffusion of the genres lundu, frevo, choro and samba (see below). The indigenous practically left no trace in mainstream music, except in some regional folkloric genres.
In the twentieth century there is an extraordinary flowering of Brazil’s music. It is the period when national music gains autonomy and identity, although it never ceases – rather increases – the blend with new foreign rhythms. The fundamental work of Heitor Villa Lobos is the first great landmark of erudite Brazilian music, later developed by many other composers. During the same period, popular music gains the respect of elites and consolidates genres that would become trademarks of Brazil, such as samba and bossa nova. Regional folk genres such as musica sertaneja, baião and forró also gain popularity and are heard throughout the entire country.
Brazilian music styles
We all know samba and bossa nova, but Brazilian music is extremely rich and diverse. This is a brief summary of Brazil’s most important music genres:
The First Music Styles
These were some of the first styles that appeared in Brazil:
Lundu: brought by African slaves, it is one of the genres that would later compose samba.
Frevo: included on UNESCO’s list of intangible heritage, it is the traditional music of Pernambuco’s Carnival. Its trademark is the colorful umbrellas, which would “hide” the forbidden at that time capoeira (Afro-Brazilian martial art and dancing).
Choro: (means “cry”) a music gender originated in Rio de Janeiro. It is considered the first characteristic rhythm of Brazilian popular music, and is still very popular nowadays. In spite of its name, it usually has a fast, happy rhythm. Representative artists: Waldir Acevedo, Dominguinhos, Joaquim Callado, Pixinguinha and Luis Gonzaga (the later represents a regional form of choro called baiāo).
Maxixe: it is a mix of lundu with Argentinian tango, Cuban habanera and polca. It was considered so scandalous that caught international attention and travelled to Europe, together with tango. Maxixe contributed, together with lundu, to the origins of samba.
Contemporary Brazilian Music
These musical styles are Brazil’s trademark and are all listened nowadays.
A music style that originated in Brazil’s countryside in the 1920s. It is the most popular music genre in Brazil, particularly throughout the southern/ southeastern and center/ western countryside. Sertanejo has seen a revival in the 90’s, regularly topping Brazilian music charts and earning a specific category at the Latin Grammy Awards. Representative artists: Sergio Reis, Chitãozinho & Xororó and Michel Teló.
When in 1945 the northeast musician Luiz Gonzaga recorded Dança Mariquinha, the genre forró was launched – a rhythm and type of dance typical of the Northeast of Brazil. Given the vagueness of the term, there is no consensus on the definition of forró as a musical style, the name being usually used as a generalization of various musical rhythms of Northeast region. Famous artists include Luiz Gonzaga, Wesley Safadão, and Solange Almeida.
The year 1916 is considered the official birth of samba, a mix of maxixe with Bahia folklore rhythms. Samba rapidly spread throughout Brazil dominating not only its iconic carnival, but also the whole world. Samba is the most famous Brazilian musical style, and has many other sub genres:
Samba-canção: Appears in the 1920s, with slow rhythms and sentimental lyrics. Example: Ai Ioiô by Luís Peixoto.
Carnival Samba: composed by samba marches – known as marchinhas – and made to be danced and sung in carnival events. Examples: Abre alas, Cabeleira do Zezé, among others.
Samba-exaltação: With patriotic lyrics highlighting the wonders of Brazil, with orchestral accompaniment. Example: Aquarela do Brasil (see here).
Samba de breque: (literally brake samba) This style has moments of quick stops, where the singer includes comments, usually with critical or humorous tone. One of the masters of this style is Moreira da Silva.
Samba de gafieira: It was created in 1940 and has orchestral accompaniment. Fast and strong in the instrumental part, it is widely used in ballroom dancing. K-Ximbinho is a famous artist of this genre.
Sambalanço: Emerging in the 50s in nightclubs in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, it received a strong influence from jazz. One of the most significant representatives of Sambalanço is Jorge Ben Jor, which mixes elements of other genres too. This style would set the grounds for bossa nova.
Pagode: Born in Rio de Janeiro in the 70s, it has a repetitive rhythm and uses percussion instruments and electronic sounds. It spread rapidly throughout Brazil and conquered radios and dance floors in the next decade thanks to its simple and romantic lyrics. Representative artists are Fundo de Quintal, Negritude Jr., Só para contrariar, Raça Negra and Zeca Pagodinho.
Bossa nova is a Brazilian popular music movement of the late 50s initiated by João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and other young singers and/or songwriters from Rio de Janeiro. The style was derived from samba, with a strong jazz influence. Initially, the term bossa nova (“new wave”) was used only to describe a new way of singing and playing samba.
The ground zero of bossa nova is the song Chega de Saudade (see here). Bossa nova gave a more sophisticated touch to the samba genre; over the years, it would become one of the most influential movements in the history of Brazilian music, and the song Girl from Ipanema would be its anthem.
This style went through many transformations that resulted in a new generation of composers; new artists appeared in the music scenario who were collectively named Sons of bossa nova. Artists such as Geraldo Vandré and Chico Buarque are among the Sons of bossa nova, although their style has little or nothing to do with bossa nova (see MPB).
Originated by the end of the 60s after bossa nova, Tropicália was the next musical movement and came at a time when Brazil was undergoing political upheaval due to a strict military dictatorship. The rebellious lyrics of Tropicalia songs bothered the government, who decided to exile the most influential Tropicália artists, such as Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil.
Música Popular Brasileira (MPB)
Appreciated mainly by Brazil’s urban middle classes, Brazilian popular music – known as MPB – emerged in the 1960s with the Sons of Bossa Nova. MPB was the merge of two previously divergent musical movements: bossa nova (representing musical sophistication) and folk music (which defended Brazil’s music roots). As a result of the 1964 dictatorship, the two movements became a broad cultural front against the military regime; this new genre presented at first a distinct nationalistic profile, but with time it comprised more diverse trends of Brazilian music.
MPB also includes other mixtures of rhythms such as samba and rock – giving rise to a new style known as samba-rock – or pop and samba, with famous artists like Gilberto Gil and Chico Buarque. By the end of the 1990s the mixture of Latin music together with reggae and samba gave space to a new genre known as samba-reggae.
Even though extensive, MPB should not be confused as comprising all music of Brazil; it is rather a specific music style.
Originated in the 80s in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the lyrics ususally describe favela life. In the 2000’s this genre would invade nightclubs, becoming a fashionable style across the country.
Although extremely successful, this genre is the target of strong criticism as performers use obscene and vulgar language, many times inciting to violence and drug consumption. See here for some of the most known funk artists.
Axé Music
Axé emerged in Bahia in the 80s during the Carnival of Salvador. It mixes frevo rhythms, reggae, merengue, forró, maracatu and other african-latino rhythms. The song Fricote by Luiz Caldas, is usually regarded as the starting point of this style.
The word “axé” is a religious greeting which means positive energy, used in Candomblé and Umbanda – religions with African origins which are commonly practiced in Bahia. It quickly spread throughout the country and still enjoyes great commercial success; its biggest names are Daniela Mercury, Ivete Sangalo, Claudia Leitte, Timbalada, among others.
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Dale E. Ferguson practices primarily in the areas of environmental and water law. He has made numerous appearances before the United States District Court for the District of Nevada in connection with litigation involving the Truckee, Carson and Walker Rivers. Mr. Ferguson currently represents the Walker River Irrigation District with respect to numerous issues recently raised by the United States of America, Walker River Paiute Tribe and Mineral County, Nevada concerning the waters of the Walker River. Mr. Ferguson has also represented Truckee Meadows Water Authority on numerous matters involving the waters of the Truckee River and its tributaries.
In addition to his water and environmental law practices, Mr. Ferguson practices in the areas of general civil litigation, real property and public utilities law in both state and federal courts and before administrative agencies. He has briefed and argued appeals in both the Nevada Supreme Court and before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Health Care Administration Qualifications
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Doctors, nurses and medical professionals must concentrate on medical diagnosis and treatment. However, their facilities must still deal with such information as billing, patient records, supplies and budgets. Health care administrators oversee these business details in hospitals, clinics, doctors’ offices and other medical establishments. They typically work full time, although they may be scheduled for evenings, weekends and holidays in facilities that are open 24 hours a day.
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As of May 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care administrative assistants earned a mean $32,430 per year, or $15.59 per hour. The lowest paid 10 percent earned under $21,410 yearly, or $10.29 hourly, while the highest-paid 10 percent made an annual $45,860, or $22.05 per hour. Their largest employers were doctors offices, general medical and surgical hospitals and dentists’ offices. For health care managers, mean wages were $96,030 per year, or $46.17 per hour, with an annual range under $52,730 to above $147,890, and an hourly range of under $25.35 to above $71.10. Their biggest employers were general medical and surgical hospitals, doctors’ offices and nursing care facilities.
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Locsin, Aurelio. "Health Care Administration Qualifications." Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/health-care-administration-qualifications-15959.html. Accessed 17 July 2019.
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With a background in taxation and financial consulting, Alia Nikolakopulos has over a decade of experience resolving tax and finance issues. She is an IRS Enrolled Agent and has been a writer for these topics since 2010. Nikolakopulos is pursuing Bachelor of Science in accounting at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Nikolakopulos, Alia. "Medical License Types." Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/medical-license-types-4761.html. Accessed 17 July 2019.
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Dietary assistants earned a mean of $29,200 per year, or $14.04 per hour, as of May 2011, states the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The lowest-earning 10 percent averaged $18,060 yearly, or $8.68 hourly, while the best-paid 10 percent made an annual $44,630, or $21.46 per hour. To earn these wages, assistants research food and nutrition, analyze menus or diets and prepare meals, following recipes created by nutritionists. They also educate their clients by selecting, scheduling and conducting nutrition orientations, and observe patients' eating practices to report their progress to dietitians.
Of the 23,490 total dietary assistants, 11,420 worked for general medical and surgical hospitals for a mean of $30,230 per year, or $14.53 per hour. The highest wages were in community food and housing, emergency and other relief services, averaging $36,770 annually, or $17.68 per hour. O*NET OnLine reports that a third of these workers had less than a high school diploma, another third had a high school diploma or equivalent, and 16 percent had a bachelor’s degree. Most are trained on the job by more experienced assistants, or by dietitians.
The state with the highest population, California, also had the greatest need for dietary assistants, showing jobs for 1,880 at a mean of $36,590 per year, or $17.59 per hour. Illinois ranked second with 1,780 positions averaging a yearly $26,130, or $12.56 hourly. Texas was third with 1,380 jobs and mean wages of $27,620 annually, or $13.28 per hour. For high pay, Missouri ranked first with yearly means of $41,120, and hourly averages of $19.77, but for only 410 jobs. Maryland was next, averaging $38,410 per year, or $18.47 per hour, for 1,120 positions. California ranked third for compensation.
The urban area with the most jobs for dietary assistants was Chicago, Joliet and Naperville, Illinois, with 1,020 techs earning a mean of $28,840 per year, or $13.87 per hour. Baltimore and Towson, Maryland, was next, with 750 jobs averaging $40,370 annually, or $19.41 hourly. Rounding out the top three was Boston, Cambride and Quincy, Massachusetts, where 660 workers made averages of $31,430 yearly, or $15.11 hourly. The metropolitan region with the best compensation was St. Louis, Missouri, with a mean of $51,220 per year, or $24.62 per hour, for only 240 positions. Following was San Francisco, San Mateo and Redwood City, California, averaging $47,150 annually, or $22.67 hourly for 110 positions. In third place was Oakland, Fremont and Hayward, California, with a mean of $43,000 yearly, or $20.67 hourly, for 360 assistants.
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Locsin, Aurelio. "The Pay Scale for a Dietary Assistant." Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/pay-scale-dietary-assistant-10388.html. Accessed 16 July 2019.
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As a hugely in-demand remixer, Don's portfolio includes the likes of Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Bastille, Madonna, Birdy, Chainsmokers, Coldplay, DJ Snake, Justin Bieber, Kygo and many more. Leading him to be named the #2 producer of 2017, behind Skrillex, by 1001 Tracklists. Besides this, he has also gone on to collaborate with and produce for artists such as Kelis, Alex Clare, Dragonette, Diplo and Tiësto to name just a few. A packed global tour schedule sees him play in excess of 250 live shows a year, taking to the main stage of renowned festivals Tomorrowland, EDC, Creamfields, Mysteryland, Lollapalooza and Ultra, whilst also selling out his Headline Artist shows in the UK, US & the rest of Europe.
Launched in 2015, Don's record label "HEXAGON" won Best New Label on Beatport with the most amount of Top 10 records in its first year and as a producer Don has also been credited as the "best selling House & Future House artist of all time" on Beatport. His HEXAGON Radio Show is currently broadcast in over 35 countries globally, holds a weekly Top 10 position in the iTunes podcast section every week reaching millions of people across the planet.
The talented Dutchman has also further demonstrated his creative flair through his huge passion for film & cinematography, which has led to him producing all of his own music videos and in 2017 he also scored the title song for an international Sci-Fi film called "Kill Switch." In the past Don's music has been used for series ranging from CSI to Teenwolf with Warner Brothers asking Don to create the worldwide theme song for the much acclaimed "Batman Arkham Origins" game. The track and accompanying video became an instant viral hit racking up millions of YouTube plays and global hype.
Several years in the making, the release of the 'Future LP' was without a doubt a career milestone for Don. FUTURE is an album that "radiates positivity and good vibes with 16 massive tracks" as mentioned by Billboard. Every song on the 16-track masterpiece, has its own story.
"FUTURE features sixteen tracks that all have their own story, both musically as well as lyrically. I wanted this to be a motivational record that sonically showcases new ideas on a production level, ranging from Future House to Future Pop and everything in between." - Don Diablo
Alongside the release of the 'FUTURE LP,' Don kicked off his Future Tour in the US. For the European leg of the tour - A Better Future - he joined forces with the KWF, Dutch Cancer Society. Not charging a fee at multiple shows throughout Europe and donating the ticket revenues to the cause. With the tour Don also showed his dedication to his fans, a legion of Hexagonians, making it possible for them to purchase a ticket for 10 EUR and an option to donate more to the KWF. Read more
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Dutch DJs Lucas & Steve joined forces in 2010 and quickly started to impress the scene with their productions. With music getting released on various labels (including Spinnin' Records and Armada Music), and recently being listed by Beatport in their Top 3 House Producers, their triumphal march through nowadays house music is getting more impressive by the day.
Their tunes received wide support from DJs like Tiësto, Chuckie, Fedde Le Grand, Axwell ^ Ingrosso, Oliver Heldens, Martin Garrix, Sander Van Doorn, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Pete Tong, Armin van Buuren, Avicii, Don Diablo, Afrojack, The Magician, MK, Roger Sanchez and many more.
The star of Lucas & Steve is getting brighter by the end of 2014, leading them to sign an exclusive deal with world famous label Spinnin' Records and MusicAllStars Management. It turns the duo into part of a new generation of fresh, aspiring house producers.
October 2015 sees Lucas & Steve release a much acclaimed remix of 'Eagle Eyes' by Felix Jaehn feat. Lost Frequencies & Linying. It's another straight up club hit, flying up the Beatport charts where it stays in the main Top 10 for over a month, getting played by house tastemakers like Robin Schulz, Sam Feldt, The Magician, EDX, and Bakermat. This is followed by their late 2015 release 'Love Is My Game', a remake of the classic Dr. Kucho! & Gregor Salto tune, which rises to the top of the charts just as fast. Read more
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Indonesian National History Museum, Central Jakarta
Oleh Bambang Aroengbinang. October 16, 2017
Accidentally I visited Museum Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (Indonesian National History Museum) in Monas (National Monument), Central Jakarta, after canceling going to the top of Monas due to a very long queue. Understandably it was Saturday, and while it was still relatively early in the morning, the time everyone thinks was less of visitors, but the opposite happened, as people had apparently the same thoughts.
The Indonesian National History Museum is located very close to the elevator that brings visitors to the top of Monas, or exactly at 3 meters beneath the surface of the National Monument area. The room is square-shaped 80 x 80 meters, with floors, walls and poles covered with marble. Upon entering to the museum I could see row of 48 dioramas. The diorama begins with pre-historic life, followed with the heyday of Sriwijaya and Majapahit, then the colonial period, the struggle to expel the colonialist, the national movement of Indonesia, the Japanese occupation, the war of independence, and the diorama of the New Order era.
The diorama about life of Indonesia Ancient people who lived between 3000 - 2000 BC could also be found at the Indonesian National History Museum. Cultural relics of the megalithic era are scattered throughout the archipelago, such as Cibalay Site, Gunung Padang, and in Pasemah, in the form of shale tools, menhir, Dolmen, sarcophagus, stone grave, terraces, and statues.
The diorama of busy Port Sriwijaya in the 8th - 13th century at the Indonesian National History Museum. Its seaports became main crossroads of the main trade routes of Indonesia - China - India which made Sriwijaya a center of trade and culture in Asia and brought prosperity to the people and the Syailendra Dynasty. Furthermore, the heyday of the old Javanese kingdom was marked by the founding of Borobudur Temple in 824 AD by King Samaratungga from the family of Syailendra. Borobudur becomes mirror of the universe. Its construction spent almost two thousand cubic feet of stone. Inside there are 504 statues of Buddha, as well as a number of 1555 small size stupas.
There is also a diorama of the Battle of Sunda Kelapa at the Indonesian National History Museum. In 1522 King Pajajaran signed an agreement with Henrique Leme who gave the right of the Portuguese to build a fortress in Sunda Kelapa. But Fatahillah troops stormed, defeating the Portuguese fleet on June 22, 1527 and renaming Sunda Kelapa to Jayakarta.
The depiction of the Palapa Oath occurrence made by Mapatih Gajah Mada from Majapahit Kingdom in 1331. Gajah Mada vowed not to eat Palapa (rice and its side dishes) before the archipelago was united under Majapahit. The oath precedes the idealism of Indonesian unity, fought by the pioneers of independence since 1908.
Then the construction of the 11th century Waringin Saptapada Dam by King Airlangga to control the flow of Brantas River which often overflowed, as well as for irrigation channels. There is also a diorama of Jawi Temple built in 1292 at the time of Kartanegara, the last king of Singasari, the Hindu kingdom near Pandakan, East Java. The depiction of Majapahit Kingdom War Armada in the 14th century is also interesting. After Majapahit, there is no longer a kingdom in Java that has a strong fleet of seas. Then the diorama of the arrival of Admiral Cheng Ho to Majapahit in 1405 during King Wirakramawardhana which influenced the establishment of Chinese temples in several places in Java.
Diorama in Indonesian National History Museum about the proclamation of independence. Preceded with Rengasdengklok Incident, on August 16, 1945 night until dawn August 17, 1945 there was a meeting on Jl Imam Bojol 1, Jakarta, to formulate the proclamation of independence manuscript . The building where the meeting is now Formulation of Proclamation Text Museum.
Then there is atmosphere of the Stovia Building diorama, when indigenous medical students held a meeting on May 8, 1908 and gave birth to Boedi Oetomo, the beginning of Indonesia's national movement. The consolidation was then carried out by conducting Congress on 4-5 Oktoner 1908 held in Yogyakarta. The STOVIA building has now become National Awakening Museum. Also diorama of the birth of ABRI on October 5, 1945, set in Borobudur Temple background. On August 22, 1945, the Preparatory Committee of Indonesian Independence established the People's Security Front to maintain security and public order in their respective territories. On 5 October 1945 came the government's decree on the establishment of the People's Security Army.
One of the dioramas of pre-independence political and social movement, namely the establishment of Muhammadiyah association on 18 November 1912 in Yogyakarta by Kyai Haji Ahmad Dahlan. Muhammadiyah became a tool for the development of the national psyche through educational, socio-cultural, and religious activities.
There is a diorama of the activities of Indonesische Vereeniging (Perhimpunan Indonesia, PI) which stood in the Netherlands in 1922. In 1927 they joined the Congress of the Anti-colonialism Movement in Brussels. Since then the PI started a movement demanding Indonesian independence, until the Dutch Government captured its leaders. But the court decided they were innocent. There is also a heroic battle event in Surabaya, which is then celebrated as Heroes Day. That thrilling story can be read on travel notes about Monumen Suryo. Mallaby, the British General whose deaths were the trigger of Allied attack to Surabaya, were buried in Jakarta War Cemetary.
Furthermore, diorama of Sovereignty Recognition ceremony in Jakarta led by Hamengku Buwono IX. Military and diplomatic struggle, forcing the Dutch to the negotiating table. On July 7, 1949 an agreement was reached on the implementation of the Round Table Conference. At the KMB in The Hague on December 27, 1949, the Netherlands recognized the sovereignty of Indonesia with the formation of the Republic of the United States of Indonesia.
Also the depiction of the atmosphere during the Asian-African Conference in Bandung on April 18-24, 1955. The conference discussed efforts to save the world from nuclear war disaster, and the establishment of a new world that is safe and peaceful, free of colonialism. The conference was attended by 30 countries from the continent of Asia and Africa. There are still many dioramas in the Indonesian National History Museum that have not been mentioned in this article, which you should visit and see for yourself to refresh the memory of the history of this nation. Hopefully you can also take the elevator to the observation deck of the National Monument to enjoy the view of the City of Jakarta.
Indonesian National History Museum
Address : Monumen Nasional, Jalan Silang Monas, Central Jakarta. Phone 021-344 7733, 3514333, 3842777. Fax. 021-344 7733. GPS Location : -6.175254, 106.826967, Waze ( smartphone Android dan iOS ). Open : every day 08.30 - 17.00. Open on holidays. Entrance ticket : Rp 2.500, Rp 7.500 (Peak Square). Students/Kids Rp 1.000, Rp 3.500 (Peak Square). Reference : Map of Jakarta, Destinations in Jakarta, Hotel in Central Jakarta.
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Doreen Lambert (far left) won the by-election for Ashcroft council held on Aug. 10.
Ashcroft elects new councillor
Doreen Lambert won the by-election on Aug. 10 to fill the Council seat vacated by Jackie Tegart.
Aug. 13, 2013 5:00 p.m.
Doreen Lambert has been returned as Councillor for the Village of Ashcroft, according to the final results of the by-election held on Aug. 10.
Lambert (144 votes) was one of three candidates for the position, which was left vacant when Jackie Tegart resigned following her provincial election win in May. The other two candidates were Jessica Clement (128) and Alf Trill (96).
“I’m feeling tired,” said Lambert, the day after her victory. “Yesterday was a long day. I’m looking forward to a new challenge, a new experience. I’ll need some guidance until I find my feet, though.”
She feels that she is more than a one-issue candidate. “The Village faces more issues than just the branding,” she said. “I think our biggest issue is that we need a council that listens, that doesn’t just pay lip service to people’s concerns.
“We’re working for the people, the taxpayers. We have to listen to them.”
A total of 369 votes were cast for the three candidates, representing approximately 27% of the Village’s registered voters. This contrasts with the last by-election for Village council, in 2003, when Councillor Peter Rolston passed away a year into his term. A total of 694 votes were cast on that occasion.
Turnout for the four advance voting days was strong, with more people voting during the advance polls (186) than on voting day itself (183). This contrasts with previous years, when advance voters accounted for as few as 10% of votes cast.
All three candidates were disappointed by the low turnout. Doreen Lambert would like to have seen more people voting, but added, “I’m grateful to all who came out, regardless of who they voted for.”
Jessica Clement was disappointed by the low numbers. “It was sad to see,” she said. “I don’t know if it was because it was summer, or because it was only for a one-year term, but it was too bad more people didn’t turn out.”
Alf Trill also felt that the timing of the election played a part in the low turnout. “It’s summer, people are busy,” he said, adding that other factors probably played a part. “It was a Saturday election, and the heat was probably an issue, and it was jut after the August long weekend. It was probably a bad week to have an election.”
This was Clement’s first time running for council, and she plans to stand again in next year’s election. “I’ll keep going to council meetings, see what’s going on, talk to people, and try again in 2014.” Trill – who served on council from 2005-8 – also plans to run again next year. In the meantime, he wishes the new councillor all the best. “She’ll do a good job. She put in the time and effort to get elected, so I know she’ll put in the time and effort as a councillor.”
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New park unlikely for Spences Bridge
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Senators Urge FCC, DOJ To Investigate T-Mobile/Sprint Merger
By John Anon October 06, 2017, 6:23pm
The suggestion that T-Mobile and Sprint may merge is one that has surfaced for quite some time. However the belief in such an outcome took on significantly more importance recently when a report emerged suggesting a deal was likely to take place. Since then multiple other reports have come through adding weight to the idea and very recently a report came though suggesting that not only is the deal incoming, but the final details are being ‘ironed out’ and an announcement could be made with a matter of weeks.
Due to this, and the seemingly inevitability of an incoming announcement, a number of U.S. senators have now jointly written a letter requesting the FCC and the DOJ to investigate the impact of a T-Mobile and Sprint merger. Although the letter authored by U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and signed by another 7 senators comes before a deal has been announced, the letter suggests that the speculation surrounding the likelihood of an announced deal, coupled with the potential impact of such a deal, is enough to justify the FCC and the DOJ start an investigation into the effects of the possible merger now. Suggesting that the impact of a merger of this caliber “could raise significant antitrust issues and could harm consumers.”
The letter goes on to add that by starting the investigation now this will allow the FCC and the DOJ to act more swiftly once an announcement is made, if and when one is. The letter also points out that some of the senators’ concerns over this merger is that consolidating the wireless market further will directly impact on some of the positive changes that have been seen recently. With the senators specifically noting how “competition among four major cell phone carriers has benefited consumers with lower prices, better service, and more innovation.” While further suggesting that this could lead to increased prices which would further impact specifically on low-income customers, or cause some to have to opt out of access to the internet in general. With the letter stating that “neither outcome is acceptable.” The letter highlights this point succinctly by noting how T-Mobile and Sprint are considered to be direct competitors within the market and therefore there are some additional add-on anti-competitive aspects in play here. Drawing on examples of how both companies have become leaders in the prepaid market, and pioneered ‘no credit check’ plans. Examples of innovation at the lower end of the market which might not continue as a result of a ‘horizontal merger’ such as this. The link below will assist those interested in reading the request in its entirety.
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
October 06, 2017, 6:23pm
Source: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Via: TmoNews
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Clarissa Study Guide
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Clarissa is an epistolary novel, or a narrative told through letters, and follows the heroine of the same name as she undergoes a series of misfortunes. At the beginning of this 18th-century novel, Clarissa is a virtuous and optimistic young woman whose family hopes to be granted an aristocratic title. When her parents scheme to force her into an unwanted marriage, Clarissa escapes with Lovelace, who soon proves to be cruel and morally corrupt. Despite all the hardships Clarissa undergoes, she remains true to her morals and beliefs until her tragic death.
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Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, dies at 102
Posted on April 30, 2008 by Doug Powell
Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.
I mention this because a lot of people come to barfblog because of this groovy LSD-inspired picture. And Amy and I watched a fairly heady documentary about psychedlics last week.
According to the obituary in the N.Y. Times:
Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance that became known to the 1960s counterculture as acid.
He then took LSD hundreds of times, but regarded it as a powerful and potentially dangerous psychotropic drug that demanded respect. More important to him than the pleasures of the psychedelic experience was the drug’s value as a revelatory aid for contemplating and understanding what he saw as humanity’s oneness with nature. That perception, of union, which came to Dr. Hofmann as almost a religious epiphany while still a child, directed much of his personal and professional life.
“It happened on a May morning — I have forgotten the year — but I can still point to the exact spot where it occurred, on a forest path on Martinsberg above Baden,” he wrote in “LSD: My Problem Child.” “As I strolled through the freshly greened woods filled with bird song and lit up by the morning sun, all at once everything appeared in an uncommonly clear light.
“It shone with the most beautiful radiance, speaking to the heart, as though it wanted to encompass me in its majesty. I was filled with an indescribable sensation of joy, oneness and blissful security.”
He earned his Ph.D. there in 1929, when he was just 23. He then took a job with Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, attracted by a program there that sought to synthesize pharmacological compounds from medicinally important plants.
It was during his work on the ergot fungus, which grows in rye kernels, that he stumbled on LSD, accidentally ingesting a trace of the compound one Friday afternoon in April 1943. Soon he experienced an altered state of consciousness similar to the one he had experienced as a child.
On the following Monday, he deliberately swallowed a dose of LSD and rode his bicycle home as the effects of the drug overwhelmed him. That day, April 19, later became memorialized by LSD enthusiasts as “bicycle day.”
This entry was posted in Wacky and Weird and tagged Albert Hofmann, Lsd by Doug Powell. Bookmark the permalink.
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Queen of Soul Food (Sylvia’s)
Sylvia's restaurant at 328 Lenox Avenue (127th Street) has become a Harlem institution. It was started in 1962 by Sylvia Woods (1926-2012). Sylvia's has used the trademarked slogan "The Queen of Soul Food."
Wikipedia: Sylvia Woods
Sylvia Woods (February 2, 1926 – July 19, 2012) was an American restaurateur who co-founded the landmark restaurant Sylvia's in Harlem on Lenox Avenue, New York City with her husband, Herbert Woods, in 1962. The soul food eatery is a popular gathering place for Harlem residents and tourists not far from the Apollo Theater.
Sylvia's Soul Food -- About Sylvia's
ABOUT SYLVIA'S
Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem, located at 328 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY, is owned by the Woods family which consists of Herbert and Sylvia Woods, their four children - Van, Bedelia, Kenneth, Crizette and a third generation of grandchildren.
The entire family and a great group of employees have worked together to make Sylvia's a world famous African-American owned business.
Sylvia's is where you can actually meet people of many nationalities and cultures from around the world.
Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem was established in 1962 with a seating capacity of 35 people. Today, Sylvia's occupies most of a city block with a seating capacity of 450 people.
The restaurant, catering and banquet facilities are managed by Herbert, Sylvia, Bedelia, Kenneth and Crizette, their faithful Manager and family friend, Clarence Cooper and a host of great staff some of whom have been with Sylvia's for man years.
Sylvia's son, Van Woods, has led the family on an aggressive expansion since the early 1980s with the acquisition and development of real estate for the expansion of Sylvia's Restaurant.
In 1992, Van launched a line of Sylvia's Soulfood products. The line consists of Sylvia's world famous all-purpose sauces, pre-seasoned vegetables, spices, syrup, cornbread and pancake mixes and several other items. Sylvia's packaged food is distributed nationally.
4 January 1984, New York (NY) Times, "Eating in Harlem: Places That Serve 'Down Home' Food" by Bryan Miller, pg. C1:
The undisputed star among them is Sylvia's "Queen of Soul Food" Restaurant at 328 Lenox Avenue, between 126th and 127th Streets. On a recent Friday night the two dining rooms were overflowing with customers from all over the city and beyond, most of them lured by Sylvia's reknowned barbecued pork ribs, which are served on Friday and Saturday. The reputation of this dish, served with semihot sauce, has lured such rib-craving luminaries as the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Nina Simone, James Brown, Walter Mondale and Pierre Cardin.
10 May 1985, New York (NY) Times, "Restaurants: Old and the New" by Bryan Miller, pg. C22:
Sylvia's, under Sylvia Woods, "The Queen of Soul Food," has garnered a reputation as the Lutece of the collard green set, This friendly and bustling Harlem landmark attracts devotees of Sylvia's braised short ribs, oxtail, cornbread and out-of-this-world sweet potato pie.
(Trademark)
Word Mark SYLVIA'S RESTAURANT QUEEN OF SOUL FOOD
Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC 029. US 046. G & S: seasonings and food preparations; namely, sauces and barbecue sauces. FIRST USE: 19920612. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19920612
(CANCELLED) IC 042. US 100. G & S: restaurant services. FIRST USE: 19620800. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19620800
Mark Drawing Code (3) DESIGN PLUS WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS
Design Search Code 020324 081105 090301 110101 260302 261120 270305
Serial Number 74300280
Filing Date July 30, 1992
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition October 18, 1994
Registration Number 1872642
Registration Date January 10, 1995
Owner (REGISTRANT) Sylvia Woods, Inc. CORPORATION NEW YORK 328 Lenox Avenue New York NEW YORK 10027
Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED
Attorney of Record Robert C. Faber
Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "RESTAURANT" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN
Type of Mark TRADEMARK. SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD
Cancellation Date January 19, 2002
Word Mark QUEEN OF SOUL FOOD
Goods and Services IC 030. US 046. G & S: seasonings and food preparations; namely, sauces and barbecue sauces. FIRST USE: 19920612. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19920612
IC 042. US 100. G & S: restaurant services. FIRST USE: 19620800. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19620800
Mark Drawing Code (5) WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED FORM
Filing Date August 14, 1992
Published for Opposition January 12, 1993
Registration Date April 6, 1993
(LAST LISTED OWNER) SYLVIA WOODS FOOD COMPANY, LLC LTD LIAB CO NEW YORK 332 LENOX AVE NEW YORK NEW YORK 10027
Attorney of Record RAYMOND A KURZ
Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20040624.
Renewal 1ST RENEWAL 20040624
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
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BC Food Processors Association Joins Provision Coalition
Working Towards Realistic Sustainable Practices in the Competitive Food Business
The BCFPA is excited to announce its’ partnership as the newest member of the Provision Coalition. “Through BCFPA's membership, our member companies will now have access to tools and programs that will help food and beverage manufacturers assess their sustainability challenges and then implement – and benefit from – sustainable solutions and practices,” says James Donaldson, CEO and Executive Director of the BC Food Processors Association.
“In BC, we’re really seeing an emergence of both early stage and larger companies desiring a more sustainable or purpose-led business model,” says Donaldson. “We’re excited about this partnership with the Provision Coalition, as they have tools and resources to help our members become more sustainable, and to do so in a way that grows their bottom line.”
The Provision Coalition is Canada's premier non‐profit food and beverage manufacturer sustainability organization. At Provision, the latest sustainability advances, resources and solutions are shared with food and beverage businesses across the country. With the organization's 15 provincial and national agri‐food association members, Provision has committed to reducing the food and beverage manufacturing sector's environmental footprint, improving employment culture and strengthening business competitiveness. Global challenges including the reduction of food loss and waste, climate change mitigation and responsible sourcing are Provision's priorities.
About Provision Coalition: Provision was created as a public policy collaboration group, with a unified voice speaking on behalf of the food and beverage manufacturing industry on matters relating to sustainability. Provision was formed in 2010 under Growing Forward, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative.
For more information: James Donaldson, TEL: 604-371-4245 james@bcfpa.ca
The BCFPA is a not-for-profit organization representing all segments of the food, beverage and nutraceutical processing industry, and to coordinate common industry activities and resources under one umbrella. The Association represents micro, small, medium, and large processing companies in BC, and has more than 450 member companies.
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Curbing drunken driving: States use tech to put brakes on repeat DUI offenders, road deaths
Ana B. Ibarra Kaiser Health News
On Jan. 1, California joined the majority of states that have laws requiring drivers with drunken-driving convictions to install breathalyzers in vehicles they own or operate.
Researchers, public health advocates and political leaders believe these laws are helping reduce alcohol-related road deaths.
The gadgets, known as ignition interlock devices, are mounted on the steering wheel of a vehicle and prevent it from starting if the driver’s blood-alcohol reading is above a predetermined level.
In California, the breathalyzers are mandatory only for repeat offenders. Five other states — Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Montana and Ohio — have similar laws. Thirty-two states and D.C. require the devices even for first-time offenders.
The advent of such laws across the United States in the past 15 years has been accompanied by some good news: Deaths involving drunken driving are only about half of what they were in the early 1980s, though they have ticked back up in recent years. The long-term decline is largely attributable to greater public awareness, stricter seat belt enforcement and the establishment in 2000 of a nationwide legal blood-alcohol threshold of 0.08 percent — far below the 0.15 percent standard commonly used before then.
State Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo), the author of the California law, said breathalyzers in cars will make roads safer than under the current law, which generally relies on license restrictions and suspensions.
“We’ve seen people on a suspended license continue to drive and continue to cause destruction,” said Hill, who lost his best friend to drunken driving in the 1980s.
There is some evidence that the breathalyzers have an impact. Nationally, from 2006 to 2016, ignition-locking breathalyzers prevented 2.3 million attempts to drive by people with a blood-alcohol level at or above 0.08 percent — the legal threshold for driving under the influence — according to a 2017 report by the advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Emma McGinty, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that laws requiring interlocks for all DUI offenders were associated with a 7 percent drop in the rate of fatal crashes caused by drunken drivers. Another study found that laws covering all offenders were associated with 15 percent fewer alcohol-related fatalities compared with states that have less stringent laws.
Federal data show that in some states the number of alcohol-related deaths was lower a few years after the implementation of ignition interlock laws. But the declines could have been caused by multiple factors. In other states, crash deaths were higher. And in some, the number has bounced up and down.
New Mexico was the first state to implement an interlock law that applied to all offenders, including first-timers. The state saw a significant drop in DUI-related deaths about three years after its law took effect in 2005. The biggest dip came seven years after the law took effect, but then the number started to creep up again.
Texas, which enacted an all-offender law in 2015, has seen drunken-driving fatalities rise since then — but that meshes with the national increase recorded in 2016 and 2017. Some researchers think the strength of the economy can influence fatality statistics. “One thing that is often speculated is that as the economy gets better, people drive more,” McGinty said. “By virtue of having more people on the road, [we’re] likely to see an uptick in crashes.”
Oregon enacted its interlock law in 2008, when the state recorded 137 DUI-related fatalities. Two years later, the number of alcohol-involved crash deaths had dropped by almost half, to 70. But by 2015, it had spiked back up to 154 deaths.
The new California law builds on a pilot program in four counties — Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Tulare — which have required interlock devices in the vehicles of all DUI offenders since 2010.
The statewide law requires installation of an interlock device for one year after the second DUI offense, and for six months after a first offense if somebody is injured. After a first DUI with no injury, the driver can choose to avoid license restrictions by installing a device in his car for six months.
Installation of the breathalyzers runs from $70 to $150, and they cost another $60 to $80 a month to maintain. But the law provides for a sliding scale based on people’s income, so low-income drivers would end up paying only a small percentage of the total cost.
Advocates of interlock laws say they would rather see a statewide California law targeting all DUI offenders, not just repeat offenders. McGinty’s research shows a much smaller decline in alcohol-related fatal crash rates associated with repeat-offender laws.
But even as is, “the law will make a difference,” said Frank Harris, director of state government affairs at Mothers Against Drunk Driving. “If a person gets a DUI, the next day they can get an ignition interlock device and drive, go to work, go to their kid’s soccer games. The trade-off for society is that those folks are driving sober.”
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Youth Football Participation Dropping Drastically
by Michael Gaio
You don't have to be a football fan to know that concussions have been in the news a lot lately. And if you're an AB reader, you know head injuries are unfortunately a topic we have to cover way too often. Just this week we've reported deaths of two youth football players who died following head injuries.
Naturally, parents are concerned. So it probably doesn't come as a big surprise that participation in youth football is declining.
According to ESPN's "Outside the Lines," Pop Warner, the nation's largest youth football program saw participation drop by 9.5 percent between 2010-12. From ESPN:
Pop Warner lost 23,612 players, thought to be the largest two-year decline since the organization began keeping statistics decades ago. Consistent annual growth led to a record 248,899 players participating in Pop Warner in 2010; that figure fell to 225,287 by the 2012 season.
Pop Warner officials said they believe several factors played a role in the decline, including the trend of youngsters focusing on one sport. But the organization's chief medical officer, Dr. Julian Bailes, cited concerns about head injuries as "the No. 1 cause."
Meanwhile, USA Football, a national governing body which is partially funded by the NFL, saw participation among players ages 6 to 14 fell from 3 million to 2.8 million in 2011, a 6.7 percent decline.
In 2012, Pop Warner took measures to increase safety. The organization cut back on the amount of tackling permitted during practice. This year, the organization teamed up with the NFL to endorse "Heads Up" football, designed to teach proper tackling technique and minimize head contact. Pop Warner is expected to introduce even more rule changes in the near future.
An "off campus" assistant coach at North Salinas (Calif.) High School has been arrested in connection to rapes that occurred in 2009 and 2015.
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A zoning board in Madison, Wis., voted unanimously Thursday to deny Edgewood High School the right to host games on a field it updated with synthetic turf in 2015.
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In what might be considered a trend, some high school football programs around the country are contracting their offerings citing low participation numbers.
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Two coaches at Tennyson (Calif.) High School have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, claiming that the facilities used primarily by female athletes are subpar compared to those used by boys.
How To Expand Your Programming Options
From the standard sports development and tumbling classes to more unique programs like intramural Quidditch and water pole dancing sessions, programming options are seemingly endless. The success and profitability of your organization relies on offering diverse user groups a wide range of programs to pique their interests. However, what's successful for one organization may be a flop in another, and that's why it's crucial to have a solid understanding of who your members are. By understanding their demographic characteristics, you can formulate a programming mix that fits the generational, cultural and family lifecycle make-up of your community, college or club. Knowing your members is one thing, but figuring out exactly what programs fit their needs and wants can be the hard part. Here are some tips to help you out:
High School Coach Resigns in Protest of AD's Ouster
The popular girls' basketball coach at North Salem High School in New York is resigning in protest over the ouster of the school's athletic director.
Entire HS Coaching Staff Fired for Drinking Incident
Parents and members of the Revere (Ohio) High School community gathered this week at a school board meeting to learn more about an incident that led to the dismissal of all nine members of the school’s football coaching staff.
Washington High School Ballfield Vandalized
Winlock (Wash.) High School’s baseball field was damaged to the tune of at least $1,000 over the weekend, with vandals leaving a trail of destruction including spray painted racial slurs, images of genitalia and lewd language.
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Mother Shipton, the Witch of York and Prophetic Insights
© Photograph by Andrii Afanasiev
Ed Simon
In 1488 during the reign of Henry VII, one year after the Dominican Heinrich Kramer wrote his notorious witch-finding manual ‘Malleus Maleficarum’, an adolescent girl named Agatha Soothtell gave birth in a cave among the dales and moors of Yorkshire to her daughter Ursula, supposedly conceived by the Devil himself.
Ironically it was there in “God’s Own Country” that young Agatha would raise her demonic charge, both of them forced to live in the cave where Ursula was born. The site that would be visited by pilgrims for centuries afterwards, making it arguably England’s first tourist attraction, was known as much for the strange calcifying waters of its subterranean whirlpool as for its medieval Satanic nativity.
Most sources claimed that Ursula died during the rule of Elizabeth I in 1561, but with eight decades separating her supposed death and the first appearance of her name in print, it is fair to assume a degree of invention in her biography. Despite her legendary ugliness (Ursula’s seventeenth-century biographer described her as “a thing so strange in an infant, that no age can parallel”), at the age of twenty-four she married a carpenter named Toby Shipton, and it is to posterity that she would come to be known as “Mother Shipton”. A less appropriate surname, because as “Smith” and “Taylor” indicate profession, so too did “Soothtell”.
Mother Shipton would become the most famed of soothe tellers in English history, renowned for her prophecies and used as a symbolic familiar in the art of divination for generations, the very constructed personage of the seer, a work of poetry unto herself. As scholar Darren Oldridge writes, “Unlike other ‘ancient prophets’ who were known by their words alone, Shipton emerged as a personality in her own right”.
It is likely at least some of Mother Shipton’s predictions were invented long after she lived, her prophetic couplets revised and edited to conform to later events, whether Cardinal Wolsey’s death, the Great Fire of London, or the Crimean War. Details of her biography, her writing, and her very countenance are uncertain. The prophetess herself may have been a later invention.
Yet Mother Shipton, England’s Nostradamus, the sixteenth-century Sibyl, the Yorkshire prophetess, the Knaresborough witch whose crooked face has stared out from prints hanging on occultist’s walls and in the names of country pubs since the initial printing of her predictions in 1641, should serve as a potent point of reflection for what exactly we talk about when we talk about prophecies.
Most of the major events in British history found expression in some pamphlet or compendium of Mother Shipton’s predictions, albeit backdated retrospectively with great convenience. There is Elizabeth I’s reformation: “A maiden Queen shall reign anon. The Papal power shall bear no sway, Rome’s creed shall hence be swept away.” Mother Shipton supposedly saw those broken ships of the Spanish Armada off the English and Irish coast: “The Western monarch’s wooden horses […] Shall be destroyed by Drake’s forces” (a rare case of a prediction specifically naming a historical figure, which a sceptic might use to question said prophecy’s authenticity). It was claimed that the witch had a vision of Mary, Queen of Scots’ execution: “a widowed Queen […] In England shall be headless seen”, as well as the punishment of Essex for his rebellion: “An Earl without a head be found”, and the ascension of the Scottish King James VI to the throne in Westminster: “Soon after shall the English Rose […] Unto a male her place dispose.” And then there’s the Great Fire of London in 1666, Mother Shipton having supposedly claimed that “it comes against London […] what a good city this was, none in the world comparable to it, and now there’s scare a house left,” which apparently led the diarist, raconteur, and naval secretary Samuel Pepys to write “Mother Shipton’s word is out”.
As mentioned, some scholars have argued that she is a complete fiction. There are those, however, that argue she was in some way an actual person, embellished through local tradition into a folk legend.
There is at least one clue earlier than the seventeenth century which indicates that the prophetess may be based in more than pure invention. In 1537, as Catholic rebels in Yorkshire rebelled against Henry VIII and his dissolution of the monasteries, the assailed king wrote a letter to the Duke of Norfolk in which he disdainfully refers to a “witch of York”.
It is perhaps the earliest reference to what may be the real Mother Shipton. As the anonymous author in an 1868 edition of Notes and Queries concluded, “Although the fact of the existence of Mother Shipton rests wholly upon Yorkshire tradition, she can scarcely be regarded as a myth.”
The British Library’s earliest listed publication about Mother Shipton is the anonymously penned 1641 The Prophesie of Mother Shipton in the raigne of King Henry the Eighth, foretelling the death of Cardinall Wolsey, etc., with fifteen subsequent texts in the seventeenth-century (including a play), and dozens more published in the intervening centuries.
One particular title was crucial to the embellishment of her myth, her biography as written by the Irish novelist Richard Head in 1667. Notes and Queries described Head as “the notorious Richard Head, author of several works of loose description.” His oeuvre included the erotic poetry of Venus Cabinet Unlock’d, the earliest slang dictionary ‘The Canting Academy’, a work of true crime about a notorious highwayman called Jackson’s Recantation, and, most significantly, a picaresque novel titled ‘The English Rogue’. That last title would become the first major fiction in English to be translated into a foreign tongue and would influence authors such as Daniel Defoe, who was inspired to write Moll Flanders based on Head’s example.
Head’s ‘The Life and Death of Mother Shipton’ was responsible for the majority of invented biographical details, building upon the bare narrative scaffolding of dozens of popular pamphlets.
From Head’s imagination came details such as Agatha’s demonic wedding feast with Satan, accounts of magical feats performed by Ursula in front of worthies such as Cardinal Wolsey, and, most enduringly, the graphics and purple description of Mother Shipton’s physical appearance, which occupies hundreds of words, describing her as “very morose and big-boned”, with “very great googling, but sharp and firey eyes; her nose of an incredible and unproportionable length”.
Head then goes on for several sentences describing said nose in magnificently baroque prose, its “many crooks and turnings,” and its adornment with “many strange pimples of divers colours, as red and blue mixed, which, like vapours of brimstone, gave such a lustre to the affrighted spectators in the dead time of the night, that one of them confessed several times, that her nurse needed no other light” to assist her in the birth of the prophetess. Head offers similarly purple descriptions of Mother Shipton’s cheeks, her teeth, her mouth, her neck, her shoulders, her legs, and her toes, telling us that it was as if “her body had been screwed together piece after piece, and not rightly placed”.
In short, Head rather cruelly makes clear what Mother Shipton looked like — a witch. Although not the origin of the Shipton myth, Head’s portrait is its most enduring instance, and it has almost single-handedly propelled Mother Shipton’s rise into full-on prophetic stardom.
“The prophet is, first and foremost, a media phenomenon”, writes historian Jonathan Green in ‘Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550’, and if Mother Shipton was anything, it was a veritable media phenomenon. A beneficiary of cheap print, her stock soared with the collapse of the licensing laws of the 1640s, which enabled a deluge of pamphlets ascribing to her any number of potentially contradictory predictions.
Pamphleteers during the years of the English Civil War took ample opportunity to enlist Mother Shipton as a convenient authority in propagandistic causes, both Parliamentarian and Royalist.
Scholar Harry Rusche, in the English Historical Review, writes that “Virtually all prophecies possessed a potential propaganda value that could be exploited by clever interpretation or a slight revision, and no prophetic utterance, ancient or recent, was so innocent that it could not be ingeniously twisted to bear upon contemporary religious and political issues.”
Such invoking of prophecies during times of crisis, writes historian Madeline Dodds, was “usually to demonstrate that some drastic change, either desired or already accomplished, had been foreseen by the sages of the past.” And this was often achieved by the retroactive backdating of prophecies, something certainly true for Head writing during the years of Restoration. Consider the explicitly Royalist gloss of the following, in which Mother Shipton “predicts” the regicide of Charles I, all via the pen of Head writing eighteen years after the actual event: “Then shall the Council great assemble, […] Who shall make great and small to tremble, […] The White King then (O grief to see!) […] By wicked hands shall murdered be.” Head informs his readers that Shipton saw the rule of Charles’ son, “predicted” in this pamphlet published seven years into his rule, for “fate to England shall restore […] A king to reign as heretofore.”
By contrast, the 1641 Mother Shipton pamphlet evidences Parliamentarian sympathies, presenting startlingly accurate predictions about the future rather than only backdating events that had already occurred. It is claimed that “Wars shall begin in the Spring, […] Much war to England it shall bring: […] Then shall the Ladies cry well-away, […] That ever we lived to see this day.”
Though written with a sense of melancholia, there is also a sentiment of inevitability and the accurate foresight of coming civil war (though written after the Bishop’s War had already seen Scotland and England at blows). Moving from verse to prose, Mother Shipton prophecies that despite the coming strife, ultimately “there shall never be warfare again, nor any more Kings or Queens,” a startlingly radical conclusion written some eight years before Charles I would place his neck on the block. Rusch notes, “Whether this was specifically meant as parliamentarian propaganda is difficult to say” and that 1641 “seems too early for this kind of speculation except in the most extreme factions.” Yet whether the pamphlet originated in those extreme factions (or was simply accurate divination!), Rusche does observe that the publication “came to be recognized as good material for the parliamentarians […] [and] was subsequently published by those opposed to the principles of monarchy.”
If, during the politically tumultuous 1640s, the use of Mother Shipton’s prophecies centred on justifying or rebelling against the rule, then later versions saw a different focus. Her most famous prophetic couplet, which claims that “The world to an end shall come, […] In eighteen hundred and eighty-one”, first appeared in an 1862 edition of her prophecies edited by Charles Hindley, a Victorian writer who was known for his compilations of vulgar speech, such as his omnibus Curiosities of Street Literature.
His edition of Mother Shipton’s predictions reinvigorated the legends about the Yorkshire oracle, and if Head’s biography is one node in her myth, then Hindley supplied the other. Clifford Musgrave writes in Life in Brighton, from the Earliest Times to the Present that Hindley’s ominous apocalyptic verse “had an extraordinary effect on the popular imagination, especially among the poorly educated and more credulous people all over the countryside.”
According to Musgrave, many of these people “deserted their homes and spent nights praying in the fields, churches and chapels.” So pervasive was the fear that the world would end in 1881 that the British Library employed William Henry Harrison (not to be confused with the US president) to write an exhaustive debunking of the legend titled Mother Shipton Investigated. Harrison quotes the editor of an 1873 edition of Notes and Queries who explained that “Mr. Charles Hindley, of Brighton, in a letter to us, has made a clean breast of having fabricated the Prophecy quoted”, thus demonstrating once and for all the complete fabrication that was the Sibyl’s most famous and frightening prediction.
It is not only fear that motivates allegiance to such prophecies; involved here also is a yearning for meaning and significance — the idea perhaps that our own lives could be of such importance that a Tudor oracle may have dreamt of us. As James Sharpe explains in ‘Instruments of Darkness’: Witchcraft in Early Modern England, prophecies “helped many people make sense of the world and cosmos in which they existed, and helped them deal with at least some of the problems they experienced”, even when such predictions were of apocalyptic bent.
Consider not just the concluding apocalyptic couplet, but the full prophecy presented by Hindley, where he has the Sibyl say that “Through hills man shall ride, […] And no horse be at his side. […] Underwater men shall walk, […] Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk. […] In the air men shall be seen, … Iron in the water shall float, […] As easily as a wooden boat.”
It is difficult to read her couplets and not imagine these prophecies rendered in such pleasing anaphora, repetition, and tricolon, to be eerily aligned to our own present, evoking cars or scuba diving, aeroplanes, or cruise ships. Perhaps Hindley had the telegraph in mind, but it is hard not to see a reflection of ourselves in the black mirror of our smartphones and laptops as you read that “Around the world thoughts shall fly / In the twinkling of an eye.”
Looking for such insight in ancient divinations betrays a poignant sentiment: that in past prophecies we hope not just for predictive power, but also for evidence of a connection with times long past — a sense that we are not so alone, cut-off and adrift in our particular age, but rather characters in a narrative penned long ago. More than being a simple prediction, prophecy seems a strange literary tense that confuses past, present, and future, and inserts those not yet born into the writings of antiquity. Green explains that “prophecy involves; above all, the claim, made by the prophet and understood by his or her followers, to be the middle participant in a two-part conversation.”
The scouring of prophecies, pamphlets, letters, marginalia, ephemera, and almanacks of those prophetic mages is driven by the desire for a radical, sweet empathy imparted to us by our long-dead ancestors. Reading Nostradamus, or those weird sisters the Sibylline oracles, or some other mystic, seer, or psychic is to wish that we could speak to the past, that our dialogues with the dead are not one-sided and that perhaps they cared about us.
While scholars have written extensively about more respectable (and verifiably real) astrologers and alchemists who mastered the necromantic arts, from John Dee in the sixteenth-century to Simon Forman and William Lilly in the seventeenth (the latter an author of a pamphlet about Mother Shipton), the “cunning-woman” of Yorkshire has remained the province of psychics and tarot card readers, hazily remembered as just another antique prophetess. Distinctions between those gentlemen with their grimoires, scrying mirrors, and alchemical tables and the hag of Yorkshire might not be as historically clear as could be assumed. Sharpe explains that a “distinction between witchcraft on the one hand and magic and sorcery on the other proves impossible”, and that “medieval and early modern commentators tended to jumble the terms [of witchcraft and magic] together happily enough.”
Certainly, there has been a rich and full investigation of witchcraft by social historians over the past half-century, yet Mother Shipton herself awaits her full due — a debt which may continue to be deferred so long as proof of her existence eludes us. Despite much (or even perhaps all) of her biography and her supposed fortunes being the result of a hoax, invention, conjecture, and fiction, there is a cracked truth in her example.
For even in her most famed, fake, and falsified predictions we are given the opportunity to contemplate this strange thing of prophecy, in both its propaganda and its poetry, while also perhaps encountering the witch of York on her own terms, seeing predictions for what they are: a weird type of participatory literature.
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After brutal tenure, Gettelfinger will let others judge his legacy
David Barkholz
David Barkholz covers IT and labor for Automotive News
One thing I've learned about Ron Gettelfinger in five years of covering the UAW is that the outgoing UAW president is an early riser and early to events.
So I arrived more than an hour before Gettelfinger was to address a luncheon crowd in Detroit on Thursday for a program arranged by the Automotive Press Association. The Detroit Athletic Club was still putting on linen table cloths when I set up shop.
Sure enough, Gettelfinger and spokeswoman Christine Moroski were among the first guests to arrive so that he could mix with reporters ahead of lunch. He acceded to a quick interview as a courtesy to my boss, Keith Crain.
Gettelfinger, 65, hesitated a little when I told him I would ask about his legacy. On June 16, a UAW constitutional convention in Detroit will elect his successor. That somebody will be UAW Vice President Bob King, who's in charge of the union's negotiations with Ford. Gettelfinger is retiring.
Gettelfinger is clearly uncomfortable talking about himself. Whether it's out of respect for the sacrifices made by members over the past four years, the 75 years that the UAW has fought for rights and benefits or God-honest humility, Gettelfinger said he'd leave his legacy for others to determine.
"I really don't think about it," Gettelfinger said. "This has always been about the people. Every day it is a privilege and opportunity to represent workers.
"And we just do the best job we can. I've never worried about that. I've tried to make decisions based on the facts in the best interest of the workers."
You would never know from Gettelfinger's upbeat demeanor how brutal his two terms as UAW president have been.
Since he took the helm of the union in 2002, UAW membership has dropped from about 676,000 to less than 400,000 today, probably closer to 350,000. Think back to 1980 when the union had nearly 1.5 million members and was instrumental in setting the political and social agenda for the country.
In contrast, Gettelfinger had no choice but to negotiate buyouts for tens of thousands of auto workers as the Detroit 3 shrank. He locked horns with former Delphi chief Steve Miller as Delphi gutted its U.S. presence in bankruptcy.
Then Gettelfinger accepted concessions in the 2007 master contracts. He suffered humiliation with Detroit 3 CEOs during 2008 Congressional hearings to plead for federal bailouts. Then he had to accept more concessions during the Chrysler and General Motors bankruptcies in 2009. His tenure culminated with the transfer of retiree health care from the Detroit 3 to a UAW-administered trust in 2010.
Through it all, Gettelfinger kept his temper, kept his humanity and fought on. I've heard Ron Gettelfinger express his gratitude for the opportunity to represent workers on enough occasions to know it's heartfelt.
Happy trails, Mr. President. Thank you.
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Nick Offerman on middle-aged sex and what people get wrong about Ron Swanson
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Nick Offerman may have landed in the public eye thanks to his portrayal of Parks And Recreation’s Ron Swanson, but there’s more to the mustache model than just a love of bacon and a keen sense of carpentry. He’s also a guy that loves his wife, Megan Mullally, and together, the two are touring their old Hollywood-style revue, Summer Of 69: No Apostrophe, which, as the name might suggest, is just as much about their sex life as it is about their love for entertaining. The tour hits Baltimore’s Hippodrome at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center tonight, before continuing on to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York, and other East Coast hot spots.
The A.V. Club talked to Offerman about what attendees can expect at these shows, as well as what he thinks about his face being slapped on countless pieces of pro-bacon paraphernalia.
The A.V. Club: What’s your message for America with this tour?
Nick Offerman: Get naked and put your parts on or in each other.
AVC: It’s not a G-rated tour. You guys say that as much, and the name of the tour pretty much gives that away, but it doesn’t seem that everybody that attends gets that. I read online that, in Virginia, a couple brought their baby to the show.
NO: That’s right.
AVC: Is that something that you encourage? Are you surprised that people don’t know that it’s dirty?
NO: We have not made love with a baby in our marriage, but I don’t want to get all judge-y.
It’s funny, you know. We try to be very open about the fact that it’s a filthy show about our sex life and our marriage. It’s called “Summer Of 69: No Apostrophe,” which is not that subtle. If you are familiar with simple arithmetic, it doesn’t take long to discern it’s a show about performing oral sex on one another.
The world of online reviews—and you probably know this much more than me because you work at The A.V. Club—has been really interesting. I’ve been aware of them the most since I started publishing books and performing as a touring humorist. Generally, people who love you—at least in my experience—don’t go online and say, “Oh my God, that book was great! I’m going to make sure I’m properly represented in Amazon reviews.” But the people who, in my experience, are often churchy—those are the people who we upset. We make prurient jokes in our show about people like Jesus and we use foul language. It’s not a very pure or holy show, as it were. And man, those people have a club that just goes and gives us bad reviews. It’s one of those things. I’ve always been interested in comedy and comedy pushes the boundaries of taste.
It’s funny. We played Oklahoma City and Atlanta, the Carolinas… different Bible Belt spots and we played all over Texas and we were nervous that we would get in trouble somehow or that someone would take a shot at us. And really, even communities that were very churchy, a few people would sometimes get up and leave, but most of the churchy people that we know would say, “Come on, it’s hilarious. Your show’s super funny.” If somebody can’t understand that you’re just being funny and not particularly sacrilegious, they need to loosen up. It’s not your problem. These people paid to come to a show called “Summer Of 69: No Apostrophe.” It’s not a church function or a TED Talk about morality.
AVC: There are always going to be those kinds of people, though. The ones that take their kids to an R-rated movie called Sausage Party and then complain when there are swears.
NO: “I thought it was just nice hot dogs and donuts.”
There’s a great Bertolt Brecht quote, but I can’t remember it. I’ll paraphrase. He said, “If you’re not offending a third of your audience, then you’re not making art.”
AVC: You guys are also pretty open about the fact that you’re two adults who have sex—and not, like, hot to trot 21-year-olds that have sex, but middle-aged adults who happen to love going at it.
NO: To be sincere and boring for a minute, that’s exactly what the show is about.
Look, I’m 46, Megan’s 57, and we have a happy marriage. We get it on with each other and we feel very celebratory about that. We don’t feel ostentatious. We don’t go make out in front of people at the mall but we will happily sing songs about it and trumpet the fact that we simply are happy in middle age as a loving couple, because I do think there’s a real ageism in our business where if you’re over 35 you’re not supposed to ever kiss anybody with tongue.
AVC: And you’re not supposed to be openly excited about being in love or being married. You guys have been married for more than 10 years, and you’re saying, “You can have a happy marriage.”
NO: That’s the Parks And Rec labor coming through, where in a time of great cynicism, it’s much safer to protect your insecurities by saying everything is not cool. Dipshits like us and Leslie Knope show up and say, “I don’t care! I’m excited about this!” Because it’s great. It’s purely great. And it’ll never go out of style.
AVC: Since you brought it up, let’s talk about Ron Swanson. He’s become this icon for so many things, most of which don’t really represent who Ron was as a whole. Yes, he liked woodworking and breakfast, but he was also emotional and loving and a complete person.
NO: You’re right. People definitely—and this is true of a lot of popular culture—but people like to put it in their social crucible and boil it down to then be used to make their own points. And so Ron Swanson, because of his simple rules for living, became a lot of peoples’ icon for their own aspirations of simple living. And so anybody from meat eaters to scotch drinkers to gun wielders to libertarians all hold Ron up as their champion, but he was much more complex than that. He was a very outspoken feminist. He was a man of few words and people mistook that for a man of few colors.
The thing that I appreciated the most about Ron and the way he was written by our brilliant writers—it wasn’t my idea—was that they made him a great supporter and celebrator of women. Traditionally, that character is more like Al Bundy or Archie Bunker, where they’re much more apt to be misogynists or, at best, dismissive of women. Ron was completely fair. Whoever had the skills or the passion or the decency, whether it was a man or a woman, he drew no line. He didn’t care about sex or race. All he cared about was sincerity and hard work and character.
AVC: What do you and Megan do on the road? Are you driving from venue to venue? And what would a dream tour be like for you?
NO: We hate taking airplanes because we’ve taken too many. We’ve taken enough airplanes for five lifetimes already. So we set up the tour so—for example, we flew to Charlotte. That was our first show, and now we’ll drive to 16 other cities along the East Coast. And that way, it becomes like we’re on a road trip vacation together and then we stop every night and make some people laugh. We’re super boring and small scale, so there’s no posse. It’s me and Megan and a poodle named Clover, who I’m walking right now, with a guitar and a ukulele and a couple of backpacks. That’s kind of our dream tour.
The only thing I think we would engineer into it would be the same amount of shows over twice the amount of days. Physically, as I’ve learned, it’s really fun touring, but you never get to actually really enjoy the places you go. You roll into town in time for sound check, hopefully. You do the show. And then we usually get on the road and put in a couple of hours toward tomorrow night’s city. Our dream tour, I think, would be, like, three shows a week, then we could enjoy a couple restaurants and get a back rub here and there.
AVC: Instead you just eat hummus and whatever’s backstage.
NO: We’re not kids, and when I started touring, Parks And Rec was still on. By and large, wherever I would go, they’d show up with 12 pounds of barbecue or some restaurant would show up and be like, “The chef has prepared you an omelet using 72 eggs and two whole pigs.” I understood the complimentary nature of that gesture, so I would do my best to return the compliment by consuming as much of it as I could. And then my cardiologist said, “Hey, you might want to check out a head of cabbage.” Now we only eat cabbage while touring.
AVC: You guys are well known for your love of puzzles. What do you like about doing puzzles?
NO: Well, if you’re asking that question, you’ve obviously never done a puzzle.
Our ideal getaway is sitting at our Offerman Woodshop slab dining table and putting together a 25,000-piece puzzle while listening to an audio book. I think, especially in this day and age when there are so many channels vying for your attention wherever you go, when you check into a puzzle—they’re like yesterday’s videogames. It’s a place to which you can escape and say, “Okay, nobody can reach me. I’m putting together this puzzle of naked Burt Reynolds and we’re listening to the latest George Saunders book.” It’s like heroin. We’ve been known to break the speeding limit getting home to work on our puzzles.
AVC: Do you save them? Or do you break them up after you’re done and put them back in the box?
NO: With great pleasure, we break them up as soon as we’re done, although we’ve gotten into the habit of doing a little photo shoot. That’s what ends up on Megan’s social media channels. But then we crumple it up and put it back in the box. It’s like theater. If you weren’t there, you didn’t see it.
My best friend had a great idea, which was to spray mount the puzzles to a hard board and get them framed—I love this idea, actually—it’s that Megan and I both sign the back of them and then get them framed and drop them off at a thrift store so that, perhaps, somewhere down the road, maybe some fan would discover that they had one of our puzzles. I said, “That’s a fun idea, but what you’ve just suggested is that we turn this into yet another project.” And the reason we do puzzles is to escape our projects.
AVC: Or that someone would find one, and then it would become the internet’s new obsession. They’d be on an Offerman/Mullally puzzle quest.
NO: Or nobody would give a shit and then we would be depressed. Lose-lose. “You guys, but—we signed them!”
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Women Play The Trump Card
2016 election, black women in 2016 election, Climbing Uphill, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Donna Brazile, gender in the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton, Joan Veneochi, Republican party, Trump vs Clinton
Think gender won’t play a role in the upcoming presidential election? Just wait and watch the media to see what they say about Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits or hair style. As journalist Joan Veneochi observes, Hillary will receive more scathing remarks than will Trump for his “paunch and orange comb-over.” (“Trump Vs. Clinton,” The Week, Mary 13, 2016, pg. 16.) Worse, she points out, women in the public eye are “routinely marginalized as too old or too young; too tough or too soft; too ugly or too sexy.” (Ibid pg 16.)
As a woman who was once in the public eye, I can testify the spotlight turned on women leaders is glaring in its gender bias. An inconvenient truth about our advanced nation is its backward thinking about the feminine gender. Women in leadership positions remain a novelty. Consider the following. Vermont, Delaware and Mississippi have never elected a woman to either the U. S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Iowa and Alaska have never had a woman in the House and 22 states have never had a female U. S. senator. (Ibid. pg. 16.)
Courtesy of editorialcartoonists.com
But the times they are a changin’. Given the Republican Party’s repeated efforts to roll back health care, deny welfare assistance to the poor, and its failure to address the minimum wage, women are drifting to the Democratic party and in particular, black women. A recent poll by Power of the Sister Vote found that 78% of black women identified as democrats, while 18 percent identified as independents and only 1 % identified as Republicans. (“Climbing Uphill,” by Donna Brazile, MS, Spring 2016, pg. 47)
As Donald Trump has a 70% unfavorable rating among women, the upcoming presidential election is likely to be the year when women ROAR. At least I hope so. The pundits are already forecasting that “women will cast a majority of votes in November.” (“Trump vs. Clinton, The Week, May 13, 2016, pg. 16)
If Mr. Trump knows what’s good for him, he’ll watch out for the women’s trump card.
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The Labor Movement: Darkest Hour Or Predawn?
Andrew McAfee, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, capitalism and the ballot box, Edward Luce, Erik Brynjolfsson, Labor, lost jobs to technology, Rise of the Robots, robotics, Thomas Piketty, Will Humans Go the Way of Horses?
Martin Ford’s new book, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future is likely to produce as many nightmares as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Reviewer Edward Luce in the Financial Times describes it as an apocalyptic warning for the coming decades when “more than half of American adults won’t be able to find employment.” (“Book of the Week,” The Week, June 26, 2015, pg. 22) Already, Ford’s argument seems to be coming to pass. China, for example, which has benefited from cheap labor, is plunging headlong into robotics. A heavy manufacturing center like Guangdong is replacing 6,000 jobs with robots and Foxcom, which makes products for Apple, Sony and Microsoft “will automate 70 percent of its factory work within three years” without creating a single new job. That, at least, is Ford’s prediction.
Looking to our own history, we know what happened to the horse after the combustible engine was invented. Between 1849-1900, 21 million horses and mules were part of the workforce. At last count, (1960) the horse population stood at 3 million, “a decline of 88 percent in just over half a century.” (“Will Humans Go the Way of Horses?” by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, Foreign Affairs, July/Aug. 2015, pg. 9) But, as authors Brynjolfsson and McAffee are quick to point out, humans aren’t horses. We have two attributes going for us. First humans “are a deeply social species, and the desire for human connection carries over to our economic lives (Ibid pg. 10). Second, “people can influence economic outcomes, such as wages and incomes, through the democratic process.” (Ibid pg. 12)
Without human intervention, however, democracy’s power and money will pool, like rain in a barrel, concentrated in one area while beyond its walls the ground grows parched. We see this imbalance in the growing gap between rich and poor.The imbalance means wealth must be readjusted or the jobs lost to the robot revolution will, as Thomas Piketty wrote in Capital in the Twenty-first Century, create a disastrous imbalance where, “… the least wealthy half of the populations own virtually nothing.” (Ibid pg. 12)
As a society, the question we face is how to distribute wealth as the demand for human workers declines. For the Labor movement this challenge may be its greatest opportunity. Rather than wait until unrest in the middle class foments into violence, such as we’ve seen in Greece, Labor leaders should be championing a social agenda that includes reforms in education, the social safety net, the infrastructure and above all, a revision of the tax code. Its demands should be relentless and unending until reforms are in place. Workers have faced this dark hour before, in the sweatshops at the beginning of the industrial age. They have the power to meet the challenges of the robotic age. Capitalism doesn’t promise equality, but the ballot box does.
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Baron D' Holbach
Baron d'Holbach
Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach (b. 1723 - d. 1789) was a French author, philosopher and encyclopedist. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, Germany. He is most famous as being one of the first outspoken atheists in Europe.
D'Holbach's mother (née Holbach) was the daughter of the Prince-Bishop's tax collector. His father, Johann Jakob Thiry, was a wine-grower. The young Paul-Henri's studies were financed by his uncle, Franz Adam Holbach, who had become a millionaire by speculating on the Paris stock-exchange. After inheriting two large fortunes the still young d'Holbach became very wealthy and would remain so for life.
D'Holbach had one of the more notable salons in Paris. It was one of the most important meeting places for contributors to the Encyclopédie. Meetings were held regularly twice a week from approximately 1750 - 1780. The tone of discussion among the visitors was highly civilized and it covered more diverse topics than that of other salons. This, along with other features including excellent food, expensive wine, and a library of over 3000 volumes, attracted many notable visitors. Among the regulars in attendance at the salon were: Diderot, Grimm, Jean-François Marmontel, D'Alembert, Helvétius, Ferdinando Galiani, and André Morellet. The salon was also well-frequented by British intellectuals: Adam Smith, David Hume, Horace Walpole, Edward Gibbon, amongst others. D'Holbach was owner of Heeze Castle, situated in the Duchy of Brabant, actually in the Netherlands.
For the Encyclopédie he authored and translated a large number of articles on topics such as politics, religion, chemistry and mineralogy. The translations he contributed were chiefly from German sources. He was better known, however, for his philosophical writings. These writings expressed a materialistic and atheistic position. His work is today categorised into the philosophical movement called "French materialism".
In 1761 Christianity unveiled (Christianisme dévoilé) appeared, in which he attacked Christianity and religion as counter to the moral advancement of humanity.
This was followed up by other works, and in 1770 by a still more open attack in his most famous book, The System of Nature (Le Système de la nature).
Denying the existence of a deity, and refusing to admit as evidence all a priori arguments, d'Holbach saw in the universe nothing save matter in motion. In this, he was influenced by John Toland. The foundation of morality is happiness: "It would be useless and almost unjust to insist upon a man's being virtuous if he cannot be so without being unhappy. So long as vice renders him happy, he should love vice." This theory of morality can be seen as a precursor to utilitarianism.
Le Système de la nature presented a core of radical ideas which many contemporaries found disturbing, thus prompting a strong reaction. The Catholic Church in France threatened the crown with a withdrawal of financial support unless it effectively suppressed the circulation of the book. The list of people writing refutations of the work was long. The Roman Catholic Church had its pre-eminent theologian Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier write a refutation of the Système titled Examen du matérialisme (Materialism examined). Voltaire hastily seized his pen to refute the philosophy of the Système in the article "Dieu" in his Dictionnaire philosophique, while Frederick the Great also drew up an answer to it. Its principles are summed up in a more popular form in Bon Sens, on idées naturelles opposees aux idées surnaturelles (Amsterdam, 1772), In the Système social (1773), the Politique naturelle (1773-1774) and the Morale universelle (1776) Holbach attempts to describe a system of morality in place of the one he had so fiercely attacked, but these later writings were not as popular or influential as his earlier work. Due to a fear of persecution, he published his books either anonymously or under pseudonyms. Additionally, the books were published outside of France, usually in Amsterdam. D'Holbach was strongly critical of abuses of power in France and abroad. Contrary to the revolutionary spirit of the time however, he called for the educated classes to reform the corrupt system of government and warned against revolution, democracy, and "mob rule".
It is thought that the virtuous atheist Wolmar in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse is based on d'Holbach. Many of the main points in d'Holbach's philosophy have now found increasing resonance among the scientifically literate.
"If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve its own interests."
List of atheists
Le christianisme dévoilé, ou Examen des principes et des effets de la religion chrétienne (Christianity unveiled: being an examination of the principles and effects of the Christian religion) published in Nancy, 1761
La Contagion sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la superstition, 1768
Lettres à Eugénie, ou Préservatif contre les préjugés, 1768
Théologie Portative, ou Dictionnaire abrégé de la religion chrétienne, 1768
Essai sur les préjugés, ou De l'influence des opinions sur les mœurs & le bonheur des hommes, 1770
Système de la nature ou des loix du monde physique & du monde moral (The System of Nature, or Laws of the Moral and Physical World), published 1770 in 2 volumes in French under the pseudonym of Mirabaud. vol.1 text, vol.2 text at Project Gutenberg, en français.
Histoire critique de Jésus-Christ, ou Analyse raisonnée des évangiles, 1770
Tableau des Saints, ou Examen de l'esprit, de la conduite, des maximes & du mérite des personnages que le christiannisme révère & propose pour modèles, 1770
Le Bon Sens, published 1772 (Good Sense: or, Natural Ideas Opposed to Supernatural). This was an abridged version of The System of Nature. It was published anonymously in Amsterdam in order to escape persecution, and has also been attributed to Jean Meslier. Project Gutenberg text
Politique Naturelle, ou Discours sur les vrais principes du Gouvernement, 1773
Système Social, ou Principes naturels de la morale et de la Politique, avec un examen de l'influence du gouvernement sur les mœurs 1773
Ethocratie, ou Le gouvernement fondé sur la morale (Ethocracy or Government Founded on Ethics) (Amsterdam, 1776)
La Morale Universelle, ou Les devoirs de l'homme fondés sur la Nature, 1776 en français, PDF file.
Eléments de morale universelle, ou Catéchisme de la Nature, 1790
Lettre à une dame d'un certain âge
The System Of Nature, Volume 1
By Baron D' Holbach
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Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles W. Chesnutt books and biography
Charles W. Chesnutt at the age of 40
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African American author and political activist best known for novels and short stories exploring racism and other social themes.
3 Selected works
Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Andrew Jackson and Ann Maria (Sampson) Chesnutt, both "free persons of color" from Fayetteville, North Carolina. His paternal grandfather was a white slaveholder. Issues of miscegenation, "passing", and racial identity would influence his writing throughout his career.
After the Civil War, the family returned to Fayetteville, where they ran a grocery store. Charles entered school at the age of eight, and at fourteen became a student-teacher to help support his family following his mother's death. He continued to study and teach, eventually becoming assistant principal of the normal school in Fayetteville.
In 1878, he married Susan Perry and moved to New York City, where he hoped to escape the prejudice and poverty of the South and pursue a literary career. After six months he moved back to Cleveland, where he studied for and passed the bar exam in 1887. He had also learned stenography as a young man in North Carolina, and he established a lucrative stenography business.
While living in Cleveland, he began writing stories, which appeared in various magazines, including Atlantic Monthly. His first book, The Conjure Woman, was published in 1899. He continued writing short stories, and a biography of Frederick Douglass. He also wrote several full-length novels and appeared on the lecture circuit.
Although his stories met with critical acclaim, poor sales of his novels doomed his literary career. He devoted himself to his business and, increasingly, to social and political activism. He served on the General Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Working side-by-side with W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, he became one of the era's most prominent activists and commentators. In 1928, he received the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his life's work.
Charles Waddell Chesnutt died in 1932 and was interred in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery.
Chesnutt's style and subject matter place him in the local color school of American writing, though various short stories (e.g., "The Wife of His Youth") border on realism. In its style, setting in the pre-war plantations of the South, and its use of dialect, The Conjure Woman is reminiscent of the works of Joel Chandler Harris, but differs in its pointed commentary on the institution of slavery. Set in a rapidly receding past, the stories were not calculated to challenge white readers' assumptions, especially since neither Chesnutt nor his publishers revealed his race.
Chesnutt's library at his Cleveland home
The Marrow of Tradition (1901), a fictionalized account of the Wilmington Race Riot, marked a turning point for Chesnutt's writing. He began to speak out more directly on political issues, and confronted uncomfortable topics like racial "passing", lynching, and miscegenation. Many reviewers condemned the novel's overt politics, and even Chesnutt supporters like William Dean Howells openly regretted its raw and "bitter" tone. Middle-class white readers who had been the core audience for Chesnutt's earlier works found the novel's content shocking and even offensive, and it sold poorly.
The Harlem Renaissance eclipsed much of Chesnutt's remaining literary reputation. Regarded as an old-fashioned writer who sometimes pandered to racial stereotypes, Chesnutt was relegated to minor status. A long process of critical discussion and re-evaluation starting in the 1960s revived his reputation. In particular, critics have focused on his complex narrative technique, subtlety, and use of irony. Several of his novels have been published posthumously. In 2001, the Library of America added a major collection of Chesnutt's fiction and non-fiction to its series of important American authors.
The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales (1899)
The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line (1899)
Frederick Douglass (1899)
The House Behind the Cedars (1900)
The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
The Colonel's Dream (1905)
Mandy Oxendine (written in the 1890s; first published in 1997)
Paul Marchand, F.M.C. (written in 1921; first published 1998)
Colonel's Dream
By Charles W. Chesnutt
Conjure Woman
Frederick Douglas A Biography
The Conjure Woman
The House Behind The Cedars
The Marrow Of Tradition
The Wife Of His Youth And Other Stories
Wife Of His Youth And Other Stories
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Contact Greenfield
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Greenfield Global is a leading producer and supplier of high-value, mission-critical raw materials, ingredients, and additives that are vital to businesses and integral to a lower-carbon economy. From start-ups to the largest brands in the world, customers trust Greenfield’s extensive portfolio of premium products, regulatory expertise, and industry-leading service to improve people’s lives and the health of the planet. We own and operate four distilleries, three specialty chemical manufacturing and packaging plants, and two next-generation biofuel and renewable energy R&D centers.
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About Greenfield Global
Greenfield Global is a leading producer and supplier of high-value, mission-critical raw materials, ingredients, and additives that are vital to businesses and integral to a lower-carbon economy. From start-ups to the largest brands in the world, customers trust Greenfield’s extensive portfolio of premium products, regulatory expertise, and industry-leading service to improve people’s lives and the health of the planet.
We own and operate four distilleries, three specialty chemical manufacturing and packaging plants, and two next-generation biofuel and renewable energy R&D centers. This integrated model enhances supply chain transparency, quality control, custom formulation development, and ultimately customer satisfaction.
Greenfield Global for Renewable Energy
Greenfield’s mission is to unlock the potential of people, partnerships and nature to accelerate sustainable solutions for the health of the planet.
Traditional energy sources like oil and natural gas are formed over hundreds of millions of years beneath the earth’s surface, and which release carbon into the atmosphere when burned. Greenfield believes in a world where our energy comes “from the ground up.” Renewable fuels like ethanol, bio-methane, and renewable natural gas are produced from materials on the surface of the earth, rather than beneath it — making them clean-burning and less harmful to the environment.
We invest in innovation because we know it works. Our dedicated team of scientists and research engineers are focused on developing the next generation of low-carbon renewable fuels. Our goal is to continually make our operations even more efficient and our products more sustainable — all while reducing our own carbon footprint.
Greenfield is Canada’s largest ethanol producer. Ethanol is a high-octane, economical, clean burning gasoline additive that reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Ethanol is blended at roughly 9% in all gasoline used in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec to reduce greenhouse gasses and improve engine performance, while supporting the agriculture economy.
Renewable Natural Gas (RNG)
In addition to its partnership in, and operating of, Quebec’s largest anaerobic digestion facility, Greenfield’s Engineering & Technology team has developed advanced anaerobic digestion technologies that accelerate the conversion of organic waste into RNG. Through other collaborations, we are commercializing the production of RNG from forestry waste. We believe in turning today’s waste into tomorrow’s fuels.
GreenField Global Believes in a Circular Economy
A good example is our collaboration with Truly Green Farms, a large tomato greenhouse grower located adjacent to our Chatham ethanol plant. By providing biogenic carbon dioxide released during fermentation, we are helping improve tomato crop yields. As well, a steady flow of waste heat from our ethanol plant is circulated through the greenhouses, eliminating the need for heat from natural gas-fired boilers. As a result, the Truly Green operation is among the most energy and cost efficient greenhouse operations in North America.
Examples of Current Projects
Here are examples of current projects!
SEMECS
In collaboration with municipal partners, we have developed a large-scale anaerobic digester adjacent to our Varennes ethanol plant to convert organic waste into biogas (methane and CO2).
The enterprise is known as Société d’économie mixte de l’est de la couronne sud (SEMECS).
This project will remove 40 000 metric tons of organic waste each year from local landfills.
The biogas is piped into Greenfield’s ethanol plant, thereby significantly lowering the carbon intensity of the ethanol produced.
Advanced Anaerobic Digestion Technology
In Chatham, Ontario, we are developing a new advanced anaerobic digestion (AD) technology that accelerates the process of turning waste into renewable natural gas and hydrogen.
Greenfield’s patented technology accelerates the AD process, and can handle a much higher organic loading rate than conventional anaerobic digestion systems, thereby producing bio-methane with less energy, and with a smaller footprint than traditional AD systems.
Read more on the Website of Greenfield Global!
Biogas Engineering and Consulting
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Sportsbook > NHL > Nashville Predators vs. Vegas Golden Knights NHL Hockey Odds
Nashville Predators vs. Vegas Golden Knights NHL Hockey Odds
Posted by: Charlie Smith Posted on: Tue, January 02nd, 2018 12:05 PM
The 2018 NHL game betting season is finally here which means that it’s time to roll up the sleeves and get to work on the rest of the NHL schedule. This evening, there will be a total of 12 different matchups for bettors to choose from. With this in mind, teaser sports betting players won’t have a problem finding an ideal betting line. One matchup to consider wagering on is this evening’s late-night Nashville Predators vs. Vegas Golden Knights pairing. Let’s take a look at what kind of action NHL bookmakers have put together for this matchup.
Nashville Predators vs. Vegas Golden Knights – Tuesday, Jan. 2nd
When: 10:00 pm ET
Where: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada
NHL Hockey Odds:
Nashville Predators +1 ½ (-240) 6 (EV) +120
Vegas Golden Knights -1 ½ (+200) 6 (-120) -140
TONIGHT: @GoldenKnights vs. @MapleLeafs.
🚪: 11:00AM
🏒: 12:35PM
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— T-Mobile Arena (@TMobileArena) December 31, 2017
The Predators slide into this Tuesday night matchup with a 23-10-5 record that ranks them 2nd in the Central Division. With that record, Nashville has accrued 51 points this season, which places them 1-point behind the division leading Winnipeg Jets. Furthermore, Nashville owns a slight 1-point lead over the 3rd place St. Louis Blues. Undoubtedly, the Preds will need to pull off a win this evening if they are to maintain such a high ranking in the Central Division. But things don’t look that great for the Predators, who are 2-4 in their last 6 matchups. Against a team as dominant as the Golden Knights, there’s no question that the NHL hockey odds should side against Nashville.
To help crush the home team in this evening’s Nashville Predators vs. Vegas Golden Knights matchup, the Preds will be turning to the team’s leading point earner. At the present moment, that honor belongs to Filip Forsberg. Forsberg has 34 points on the season, coming off of 15 goals and 19 assists. PK Subban has Forsberg beat in assists for Nashville however, as the captain is sitting on 20 on the year.
The Golden Knights, the NHL’s newest franchise, ride into this evening’s contest flashing a 26-9-2 record. That stellar record gives way to 54 points on the year – the 2nd highest tally of any team in the NHL. Furthermore, that tally gives Vegas a slight 3-point lead over the 2nd place Los Angeles Kings in the Pacific. However, it does give the Golden Knights a whopping 10-popint lead over the 3rd place San Jose Sharks. Despite having such a brilliant standing, Vegas will be looking to further solidify their standing at the top of the Pacific. Vegas enters this evening’s pairings riding a 7-game win streak that stretches all the way back to mid-December.
The NHL hockey odds are pegging Vegas as the slight favorite this evening, making a bet on the Golden Knights extremely lucrative this evening. Accounting for both team’s records as of late, it’s clear that Vegas has momentum on their side. Moreover, the Golden Knights have the advantage on the offensive side of the puck. At the present time, Vegas ranks 2nd overall in the league in goals per game while Nashville comes in at No. 7.
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Routine Maintenance Improves Reliability
Trees and other vegetation cause about 13% of all electric service interruptions. Preventive pruning around aerial power lines is vital to providing reliable electric service.
Our vegetation management crews are trained in proper arboricultural pruning techniques and take into account the species, growth rate and location of the tree in relation to overhead wires. Other factors such as the health of the tree, site conditions, and regulatory requirements also guide our assessment prior to any trimming project.
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Electric Distribution Right-of-Way Maintenance
BGE performs routine tree and vegetation maintenance in four-year cycles, and also performs some mid-cycle work where trees are especially fast growing, or where other problems may result in interruptions to electric service.
Electric utility pruning is often perceived differently from other types of pruning. Utility pruning in proximity to electric distribution equipment presents certain electrical hazards. Objectives, tools and methods used in common pruning projects are also used in electric utility pruning in urban and suburban environments. Utility arborists are expected to adhere to the same professional standards as other arborists.
BGE’s licensed and certified vegetation management (VM) professionals direct the work performed by our vegetation management field forces. Field forces are contractor personnel who perform the daily activities such as tree pruning and the mowing of low-growing vegetation. These personnel receive periodic training about safety and vegetation management practices and work under the daily oversight of qualified foresters, arborists, and tree experts so that work is performed according to BGE and industry standards, and in adherence with all laws and regulations. Many of our work crews have personnel with fluency in English and Spanish, ensuring that language is not a barrier to providing a quality work product.
The work is performed in accordance with American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard A300, Part 1: Tree, Shrub, and Other Woody Plant Maintenance – Standard Practices, Pruning.
BGE performs directional pruning to provide clearance from wires to promote safety and reliability. This method is designed to encourage the tree to grow away from the electric lines and has been adopted as a national standard (ANSI A300, Part 1) and the International Society of Arboriculture recognizes it as a Best Management Practice. Directional pruning allows BGE to consider the characteristics of each tree when determining the extent of pruning needed. The pruning clearances to which we hold our contractors are based on the growth rate and mature size and shape of each tree, the location of the tree in relation to the power line, the type of utility facility, and a cycle length of 4 years.
Pruning Technique
CORRECT: Directional pruning guides the growth of the tree away from the wires.
INCORRECT: The "topping" or "rounding over" of trees can cause a flush of fast growing sprouts that grow directly back into the wires. Find out further information about how to avoid tree and utility conflicts by visiting the International Society of Arboriculture's website. Additional information about reducing tree and utility conflicts is available on the Arbor Day Foundation website.
Electric Transmission Rights-of-Way Maintenance
Transmission Rights-of-Way
Powering lives begins with a journey that transports high-voltage electricity from power generation stations, to substations that “step down” the voltage to a level that can be distributed to your home. BGE maintains more than 540 miles of high-voltage transmission lines that range from 230kV to 500kV.
Transmission rights-of-way (ROW) are typically identified by large steel poles or tower structures that are used to transport high-voltage electricity across large distances. BGE owns or has express property rights to perform vegetation management in transmission corridors. BGE manages these rights of way through a variety of methods to ensure electric reliability and safety within a sustainable, biodiverse habitat. A sustainable habitat is comprised of native plants that will enhance environment for pollinators and other beneficial insects and animals.
Federal Mandates
Federal standards mandate that utilities have a transmission vegetation management program to prevent outages on the transmission system. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC.com) strictly enforces these standards. Failure to meet a vegetation-related, zero-outage mandate can lead to fines of up to $1 million per day for a utility. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has specific guidelines and requirements that electric utilities must meet. Visit the FERC website for more information.
Acceptable Vegetation
BGE does not allow planting within a transmission right-of-way and will not prune trees or vegetation to maintain their proper height. All such vegetation is removed.
Power outages on electric transmission lines can have far-reaching consequences, such as the loss of power to many thousands of customers, or even regional power blackouts affecting millions. In August 2003, more than 50 million people in the Midwest, Northeast and Ontario, Canada, were affected by a blackout that began when trees came in contact with transmission lines.
Contacting BGE is a required step before planting anything other than grass in an electric transmission right-of-way. BGE encourages the establishment of native [low-growing vegetation] prairie grasses and flowers in a ROW's Wire and Border Zones.
Herbicide usage is a valuable tool for managing vegetation that can compromise the safe and reliable operation of the gas and electric infrastructure. At BGE, EPA-registered herbicides are used to control growth and regrowth of vegetation that is incompatible with overhead and underground utility facilities. Tall-growing and non-native plants that could grow into underground pipes or wires are typically the targets for herbicide treatments. Herbicides used in a utility maintenance program can keep undesirable plants from re-growing and re-populating a location – something that tree or plant removal alone cannot accomplish. Herbicides help desirable plants, such as low-growing flowering plants to grow in a healthier environment versus trees or fast-growing invasive vegetation. Selectively applied, herbicides promote sustainable environments for pollinators and other desirable flora and fauna.
Tree Trimming Schedule
Check out our interactive map of where BGE is performing maintenance.
Emerald Ash Borer [PDF]
Background and program.
Summary Links
The International Society of Arboriculture
The National Arbor Day Foundation
University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service
Mid Atlantic Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture
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Ruins of ancient Thessalonica marketplace
Thessalonica (Thessaloniki) was founded around 315 B.C. by Macedon's King Cassander, on or near the ancient site of Therma. The king named the city after his wife Thessalonike, who was Alexander the Great's half-sister.
Thessalonica was an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Macedon until 168 B.C. when it became a city of the Roman Republic. It soon grew to be a critical trading hub for the Roman Empire by facilitating the exchange of goods between Europe and Asia.
Thessalonica eventually became the capital city of the Roman district it was located in. The city contained a amphitheater where entertainment in the form of gladiatorial shows were held for the local citizens and also a circus were exhibited for the amusement of the citizens, and a circus where games for the public took place.
What was Paul's thorn in the flesh?
When were the apostle's epistles written?
Paul mocks the wisdom in Corinth!
As part of his second missionary journey the Apostle Paul visits Thessalonica with Timothy and Silas. He visits one of the chief Jewish synagogues in the area and for three consecutive Sabbaths explains why Jesus is the Old Testament prophesied Savior (Acts 17:2 - 4). Although many believe what he says certain Jews, envious of the Gospel's success, form a mob and start a riot (Acts 17:4 - 5).
The riotous Thessalonica crowd go to the house of Jason (where he was staying) seeking him and Silas. When they are not found the crowd drags Jason and some brethren to the local civil magistrate and accuses them of wrongdoing. In a short time, however, Jason and the brethren are let go (Acts 17:1 - 9).
And after journeying through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And as was the custom with Paul, he went in to them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, Expounding and demonstrating that it was necessary for Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and testifying, "This Jesus, Whom I am proclaiming to you, is the Christ."
Now some of them were convinced, and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, including a great multitude of devout Greeks, and of the chief women not a few. But the unbelieving Jews became envious and took to them certain evil men of the baser sort; and when they had gathered a huge crowd, they set the city in an uproar; and they assaulted the house of Jason, looking for Paul and Silas, to bring them out to the people.
And when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the city magistrates, crying out, "Those who have set the whole world in confusion have come here also, Whom Jason has received; and these all do what is contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."
And they caused great agitation among the people and the city magistrates, who heard these things. But after taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go (Acts 17:1 - 8, HBFV).
Paul and Silas are soon sent by the brethren out of the city and to Berea.
Paul wrote, from the city of Corinth, his first letter to the church residing in Thessalonica in 50 A.D. He wrote a second letter to the area in 51 A.D. These two epistles are the first ones written by the apostle that are included in the New Testament. It is also interesting to note that the prevalence of Gentiles in Thessalonica was such that Paul's two letters do not use ANY quotations from the Old Testament.
Cities visited by Paul
Antioch - Assos
Athens - Berea
Caesarea - Corinth - Damascus
Ephesus - Malta - Miletus
Neapolis - Philippi
Rome - Sidon - Tarsus
Thessalonica - Troas - Tyre
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Scary resemblance
There’s an extremely scary resemblance here. Can you guess who this is ?
…It started when the government, in the midst of an economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist. Some, like Sefton Delmer – a London Daily Express reporter on the scene – say they certainly did not, while others, like William Shirer, suggest they did.)
But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation’s leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted.
He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn’t have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world.
His coarse use of language – reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state – and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he’d joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones.
Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn’t know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an aide brought him word that the nation’s most prestigious building was ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference.
“You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history,” he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. “This fire,” he said, his voice trembling with emotion, “is the beginning.” He used the occasion – “a sign from God,” he called it – to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion.
Two weeks later, the first detention center for terrorists was built in Oranianberg to hold the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the leader’s flag was everywhere, even printed large in newspapers suitable for window display.
Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation’s now-popular leader had pushed through legislation – in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it – that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into people’s homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism.
To get his patriotic “Decree on the Protection of People and State” passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained. Legislators would later say they hadn’t had time to read the bill before voting on it.
Immediately after passage of the anti-terrorism act, his federal police agencies stepped up their program of arresting suspicious persons and holding them without access to lawyers or courts. In the first year only a few hundred were interred, and those who objected were largely ignored by the mainstream press, which was afraid to offend and thus lose access to a leader with such high popularity ratings. Citizens who protested the leader in public – and there were many – quickly found themselves confronting the newly empowered police’s batons, gas, and jail cells, or fenced off in protest zones safely out of earshot of the leader’s public speeches. (In the meantime, he was taking almost daily lessons in public speaking, learning to control his tonality, gestures, and facial expressions. He became a very competent orator.)
Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. He wanted to stir a “racial pride” among his countrymen, so, instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as “The Homeland,” a phrase publicly promoted in the introduction to a 1934 speech recorded in Leni Riefenstahl’s famous propaganda movie “Triumph Of The Will.” As hoped, people’s hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was “the” homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands. We are the “true people,” he suggested, the only ones worthy of our nation’s concern; if bombs fall on others, or human rights are violated in other nations and it makes our lives better, it’s of little concern to us.
You should have guessed it by now : it’s about Adolf Hitler. But I can see the resemblances to another, more current world leader… even up to using the ‘Homeland’ monniker.
Credit where credit’s due : I found this on the web here who in turn found it here.
Here are some more links :
The Rise of Hitler.
The part of the text which refers to the above.
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When it comes to the MBTA’s commuter rail, privatization isn’t the problem
(Lane Turner/Globe Staff/File)
Would the Bay State’s commuter rail system really be better off if the MBTA took over its operation rather than paying a private company to run the trains?
Ask passengers sweating in 90-degree-plus temperatures waiting for overcrowded trains — or worse, trains that never come — and the answer might be an exasperated yes. It’s also the refrain of some Democratic politicians who have lately taken to holding up the commuter rail as a parable of the supposed dangers of privatization.
“I fundamentally don’t agree with a core public service like this that we should be privatizing it,” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Gonzalez said at a debate recently. His primary opponent, Bob Massie, expressed similar views.
But the idea is founded on a faulty understanding of the rail system’s history, and the experience of jurisdictions that have tried direct control suggests that it’s no silver bullet. The state can definitely do a better job with commuter rail after its current contract with Keolis expires in 2022. But the goal of better service, not adherence to ideological precepts, should guide the next governor.
Before entertaining calls for the MBTA to take over, a little history is in order. Commuter rail was never run directly by the T and thus was never “privatized.” Rather than taking back control, the T would be operating the commuter rail directly for the first time. As in many cities, Boston’s commuter lines began as private railroads.
The bottom fell out of passenger rail in the 1960s. Then, transit authorities, which earlier had taken over bus and subway lines from bankrupt private companies, started subsidizing commuter rail. Yet only some agencies, like Philadelphia’s, operated the trains themselves; others, like the T, continued to rely on outside firms experienced in rail operations.
In 1987, Amtrak began operating the commuter trains for the MBTA. That ended in 2003, when Amtrak decided against renewing the contract, and the newly formed MBCR picked it up. That company lost its renewal bid to Keolis, an American arm of a French-based company, in 2014. Barely a year into the $2.6 billion contract, total disaster hit with the snowmageddon of 2015. The eight-year contract is now at its midpoint.
The T doesn’t have — and never has had — the in-house ability to operate the commuter lines itself, and dumping the commuter rail system directly into an already overburdened agency risks disruption. It could also raise thorny union issues, probably raising labor costs.
And there’s no reason to expect running the commuter rail in-house would result in better service. The T commuter rail posts 89 percent of trains arriving on time, defined as within 5 minutes of schedule. It’s an improvement from 83 percent in 2015. Comparisons with other cities can by tricky, because agencies use different definitions of “on time,” but there’s no clear link between management structure and performance. Agency-operated New Jersey Transit claims 88 percent of trains arriving less than 6 minutes late, while the outsourced Maryland MARC tracks more broadly as “typically . . . between 87 and 93” percent.
That doesn’t mean current arrangements are perfect, but the choice doesn’t have to be between in-house management and another contract like the current one. Another option would be to offer the next contractor a longer-term deal, to better align the incentives of the contractor and the state and potentially bring in private-sector money for capital investments. The Baker administration says that option is on the table, pending the results of an ongoing planning process to define the commuter rail system’s long-term needs, and the Democratic candidates ought to consider it too.
Whoever is in charge in 2022, though, here’s a suggestion: Since in-house management is an idea that refuses to die, the state should ask the T to submit a plan showing what it would entail. If nothing else, that would clarify for the public the costs and benefits, and bring some specifics to what is now little more than a vague applause line for Democrats.
Doing so might help settle, once and for all, whether such a big change in the commuter rail’s management would actually serve the needs of communities and get passengers to work on time.
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Red Sox’ J.T. Watkins soldiering on in pursuit of dream
West Point grad dreams of being pressed into service with Sox
By Peter Abraham Globe Staff,March 21, 2015, 3:08 p.m.
J.T. Watkins, now 25, is out to become the first West Point graduate to make it to the major leagues.(Brian Blanco for The Boston Globe)
FORT MYERS, Fla. — When the Red Sox drafted J.T. Watkins three years ago, it wasn’t just as a favor for his father Danny, an amateur scout with the team since 2004. J.T. was an accomplished college catcher with a strong arm who twice led his team to a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
His school happened to be the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Understand that no West Point graduate has ever played in the major leagues. Seventeen Army players have been drafted over the years, 11 since 2005, but none have advanced beyond Triple A. Missing time because of a mandatory military commitment has so far been a hurdle impossible to overcome.
“We play a good brand of baseball here and I’m proud of what we’ve done. But West Point is producing officers, not baseball players,” coach Matt Reid said.
J.T. Watkins, now 25, is out to change that. Which is why an expert in field artillery tactics puts on a different uniform these days trying to convince the Red Sox their pick wasn’t wasted after he spent two years in the service away from the game.
“I’m not afraid of a challenge. If anything, I want to step into one to see what I’m made of,” Watkins said.
Watkins was an all-state high school player in Alabama who considered attending South Alabama or a junior college in Texas, before visiting the West Point campus. That changed the direction of his life.
“It’s not an easy decision and it’s not for everybody,” Watkins said. “I definitely didn’t take that decision lightly. But fortunately for me, I had a very supportive family. My mom and dad let me make that decision on my own.”
Danny Watkins, who travels through Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee in search of players — “Living the dream,” he said, his voice a bit muffled over the phone as he drove to another game with his radar gun and clipboard at the ready — had friends who attended West Point and the Naval Academy. In his son, he saw similar qualities and a sense of dedication.
“As a parent, you’re proud that he had that opportunity, but at the same time you know the commitment it takes and you have concern what could happen,” he said. “In the end it was his choice and I knew he would do the right thing. Heck, he’s smarter than I ever was.”
J.T. Watkins was a four-year starter for Army and twice named All-Patriot League.(COURTESY US Military Academy)
Academy life
Watkins entered West Point in 2008 and endured the rigors of being a plebe, or freshman. New cadets are subjected to physical and mental tests as part of the “Beast Barracks” basic training course.
“There’s good times and bad times, I’m not going to lie to you,” Watkins said. “You make the best of it and you get through it with your teammates. They say ‘cooperate and graduate’ there, and it couldn’t be more true.”
On the baseball field, Watkins was a standout. He was a four-year starter and twice named All-Patriot League. Army was 127-79 during his tenure and Watkins was a cocaptain his senior year. He is among Army’s all-time leaders in games, hits, and throwing out runners.
“A special player for us,” said Reid, an assistant when Watkins played. “J.T. stepped in as a freshman and you could see he knew the game and what needed to be done.”
In 2009, Army advanced to the final of the Austin Regional and led No. 1 seed Texas by four runs in the championship game before losing. Watkins was one of the best players on the field.
The Red Sox drafted J.T. Watkins in the 10th round.(COURTESY US Military Academy)
“I loved it. Baseball was the greatest part of the day, when you could go to the field and play the game,” he said. “I had no idea I would be a four-year starter. It was a tough go and it took a lot of learning on my part.”
The Red Sox took Watkins in the 10th round after his final season. Just prior to making the pick, scouting director Amiel Sawdaye called Danny Watkins at home with the news.
“Amiel said to me, ‘We’re going to take this Watkins kid out of Army. Think we can sign him?’ That was something I’ll never forget,” Danny Watkins said.
Sawdaye said the Red Sox were impressed with Watkins’s defensive skills and saw him as a player with potential.
“We had scouts at our games to see him,” Reid said. “He was an excellent catcher. He controlled the game, threw runners out. The leadership was everything you’d expect. He was so coachable.”
Danny Watkins laughed when asked to give a scouting report on his son.
“Can’t do it,” he said. “I’ve never been able to look at him that way. He’s my son, and when he’s playing I forget my stopwatch, and when he asks me what his time was to first base I have no idea. I know other scouts who have sons that play feel the same way. You can’t look at your boy as anything but that. He’s your son.”
Watkins played 17 games for Rookie League Lowell after he was drafted before returning to the Army. Commissioned a lieutenant after graduating, Watkins was assigned to Fort Sill in Oklahoma for artillery school. He then graduated from the rugged Ranger School at Fort Benning in Georgia before an assignment as a field artillery officer at Fort Stewart in Georgia.
Watkins was a fire support officer, which required the ability to coordinate mortars, close air support, and naval gunfire.
“You get to do a lot of fun stuff that not a lot of people get to do,” Watkins said.
J.T. Watkins is now in the Individual Ready Reserve.(Brian Blanco for The Boston Globe)
Doing his duty
West Point requires five years of active duty for graduates and three more in the reserves. Watkins is now in the Individual Ready Reserve, having been granted the opportunity to pursue his baseball career. That commitment will last at least six years and he could be called to active duty at any time.
“It’s a decision you can’t take lightly,” Watkins said. “Clearly for me, I always wanted to be a professional baseball player. But at the same time, I graduated from West Point. I was under the assumption that I would have to serve five years of active duty.
“There are a lot of people I know who are deployed, so it’s something I thought long and hard about.”
Watkins was able to keep his baseball skills somewhat sharp over the last two years, working out with former Army teammates or asking to practice with local college teams. He was always welcomed.
“You’d be surprised how much I was able to do,” he said. “I did miss a bunch of live at-bats but now I’m looking forward to competing for a job. First and foremost, I want to be a player. Until somebody pries the cleats off my feet, I want to play. If it gets to that point, I’d love to be around the game in some way possible.”
Watkins said there are surprising parallels in the two worlds he has straddled.
“The military is a higher calling, but baseball is a dedication to something bigger than yourself,” he said. “The Red Sox are bigger than any one of us. Being part of a team, being disciplined, there is a lot of common.”
J.T. Watkins is older than both of the catchers on the Red Sox 40-man roster.(Brian Blanco for The Boston Globe)
Watkins plays with a bearing that reflects his training and character. On Thursday, when he entered a game for Single A Greenville in the middle innings, he stopped to shake hands with the umpire. A visit to the mound ended with an authoritative thump on the pitcher’s chest with his mitt. He goes through every step of the day with purpose.
“He has a life experience no other kid can replicate,” Sawdaye said. “It’s impossible to quantify how that military experience helps.”
Still, Watkins faces long odds of ever making the majors. Two of the catchers on the 40-man roster, Blake Swihart and Christian Vazquez, are younger than he is. It’s uncertain whether the two years away can be overcome.
Mookie Betts, a teammate at Lowell in 2012 who was signed by Watkins’s father, made it to the big leagues as Watkins served his country.
“It’s not something we’ve ever encountered,” minor league director Ben Crockett said. “He was away and doing something noble. To come back and play baseball again speaks to his passion for the game. But that time away is going to add to the challenge he has.”
Watkins embraces the idea of again being tested. As before, he has the support of his parents, and now that of his wife, Holly.
“A lot of people here look at me like I have five heads when I tell them what I’ve been doing the last few years. But that’s OK,” he said.
Perspective helps. Baseball is now his job, but one he can put in its proper place.
“I have a greater appreciation for the game now than I ever did before,” he said. “But as much as I love it, I know what really is important.”
Peter Abraham can be reached at pabraham@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @PeteAbe.
Zuma vs. Zuma: In name dispute, court finds in favor of Faneuil Hall Tex-Mex joint
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Mobile Gaming Report – Thanks to Distimo
>Our friends at Distimo, a research company in Utrecht – The Netherlands, just released a 27 pages report about the mobile gaming market. These slides are the highlights, in my opinion.
The major findings are:
• Games are still the most popular downloads for Phones, whether paid or free
• The average selling price of games declined by 28% over the last year, while the revenue generated by the most successful freemium games increased tenfold during this period in the Apple App Store for iPhone.
• The presence of virtual currencies within games is one of the main reasons behind the popularity and monetization success of in-app purchases. 35% of the 300 most popular free games in June use some sort of virtual currencies to monetize in the Apple App Store for iPhone.
• Looking at the 300 most popular paid for applications, 72% of downloads are
generated by games while the remaining 28% of downloads are generated by
applications other than games in the Apple App Store for iPhone.
• The total revenue generated by top grossing games increased by 79% year-on-year in the Apple App Store for iPhone.
• A small number of publishers dominate total game downloads: ten publishers
account for more than half of all downloads among the 300 most popular paid
games in the Apple App Store for iPhone.
• Notwithstanding the popularity of games, the growth rate of the number of
applications other than games is higher than the growth rate of the number of
games in most stores. The number of games has increased faster than other apps only in the Apple App Store for iPhone, the Apple App Store for iPad and GetJar, but the growth rate for games in other stores is lower than for other applications.
It’s interesting to see that more and more games (and apps) are using the freemium model and use ‘micro-transactions / ingame-transactions’ (as described in my book ‘A Brand New Playground‘) to make money. It’s a trend that is apparently evident if you look at the data.
For more mobile research and consultancy, please visit Distimo’s website: http://www.distimo.com
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From the Winter 2015 edition of The Bretton Woods Observer
Arab uprisings and social justice: implications of IMF subsidy reform policies
Arab NGO Network for Development
IMF moved on from structural adjustment?
The Arab world’s subsidy nightmare: pondering alternatives
2 February 2015 | Guest comment
Worker in petrol station, Egypt. Credit: ANND
by Hassan Sherry
For decades, policies maintaining tight control of domestic energy prices have shaped the political and economic environment in most Arab countries. According to the IMF, expenditures on energy subsidies by governments of the region have accounted for about half of global energy subsidies, amounting to almost $240 billion in 2011, nearly 8.5 per cent of the region’s GDP. This is explained by the fact that redistributive commitments of Arab countries, largely through the reallocation of rents, have shaped the social contract since the independence years following World War II.
Many in the Arab world perceive energy subsidies as an important social safety net for the poor in a region where poverty is widespread. According to a 2012 UN Development Programme report, poverty levels range from 11 per cent in Jordan to 30 per cent in Morocco, 40 per cent in Egypt, and close to 60 per cent in Yemen. The report argues that subsidies are a form of public benefit which boosts industrial growth. Crucially they also enhance access to energy, an underlying condition for achieving the Millenium Development Goals, in a region where 65 million people had no access to electricity in 2002.
For the past three decades, however, the Arab region has embarked on a series of externally driven and designed structural adjustment programmes prescribed by the IMF, in which the unwinding of general subsidies, in particular energy subsidies, has been a core ingredient. Although these programmes have failed to prevent rising poverty and unemployment in the region, as well and induced further wage cuts and a shift from the productive manufacturing sector and to the service sector, the reform of energy subsidies remains among the core components of IMF policy advice to Arab countries. Civil society has argued that such reforms, which at no point were part of a comprehensive economic and social development plan, required fiscal retrenchment that has betrayed the social contract, thereby triggering the recent uprisings and socio-political transformations.
the IMF has overlooked the political context and social implications associated with its approach
The IMF has treated energy subsidies as a policy tool that is expensive, inefficient and regressive over the long-run, which reduces incentives for investment in renewable energy and diverts public spending away from key social programmes, such as health and education. While subsidies create budget pressure, the IMF has overlooked the political context and social implications associated with its approach. It has proposed mitigating measures to accompany the reform process, including expansion of social safety nets; targeted energy subsidies and/or cash transfers; and ‘universal programmes’, which involve the elimination of energy subsidies in favour of a system of universal and untargeted cash transfers.
The measures may sound practical, but face major constraints when considering under-developed social protection schemes in Arab countries, in addition to corruption and the absence of transparency mechanisms. Moreover, in a region where administrative capacities are inadequate and informal economies are large, targeted subsidies are infeasible. Evidence from Egypt suggests that safety nets are ineffective in cushioning the poor against price fluctuations and that the cash transfers measure implemented in 2012 has been inadequate and underfunded. Iran’s 2010 subsidy reform and the adoption of universal cash programmes was applauded by the IMF but resulted in a slowdown in economic activity, raised the inflation rate, and undermined political support for such a strategy.
While subsidy reform in the Arab region may be seen as a step with macroeconomic benefits, the determinants of the weak economic performance of Arab countries are rooted in their political economy as much as the productive structures and go beyond the reach of the IMF’s traditional austerity proposals. By calling for short- to medium-term phasing out of energy subsidies, the IMF is targeting the symptoms rather than the causes of the deep-rooted social and economic injustices that sparked the region’s uprisings. Reversing the underperformance of Arab countries will not be achieved without profound changes in the productive structures of their economies – by moving towards developmental states and building effective institutions that make economic and social development a priority objective.
Any choice of reform strategy, which should be a medium- to long-term endeavour, must be accompanied by an inclusive rights-based protection framework. It must also depend on the specific country context, taking into consideration the extent of existing levels of poverty within the reforming country, the status of social and economic development of the country, and its administrative capacity to implement social protection measures. By taking these factors into consideration, appropriate reforms to energy subsidies should be developed, in consultation with stakeholders including civil society organisations, which are more gradual and legitimate. As a result a more efficient and progressive fiscal framework, protecting vulnerable poorer people, can emerge.
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Irish writer
George Moore, in full George Augustus Moore, (born February 24, 1852, Ballyglass, County Mayo, Ireland—died January 21, 1933, London, England), Irish novelist and man of letters. Considered an innovator in fiction in his day, he no longer seems as important as he once did.
Moore came from a distinguished Catholic family of Irish landholders. When he was 21, he left Ireland for Paris to become a painter. Moore’s Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters (1906) vividly described the Café Nouvelle-Athènes and the circle of Impressionist painters who frequented it. Moore was particularly friendly with Édouard Manet, who sketched three portraits of him. Another account of the years in Paris, in which he introduced the younger generation in England to his version of fin de siècle decadence, was his first autobiography, Confessions of a Young Man (1888).
Deciding that he had no talent for painting, he returned to London in 1882 to write. His first novels, A Modern Lover (1883) and A Mummer’s Wife (1885), introduced a new note of French Naturalism into the English scene, and he later adopted the realistic techniques of Gustave Flaubert and Honoré de Balzac. Esther Waters (1894), his best novel, deals with the plight of a servant girl who has a baby out of wedlock; it is a story of hardship and humiliation illumined by the novelist’s compassion. It was an immediate success, and he followed it with works in a similar vein: Evelyn Innes (1898) and Sister Teresa (1901).
In 1901 Moore moved to Dublin, partly because of his loathing for the South African War, partly because of the Irish literary renaissance spearheaded by his friend, the poet William Butler Yeats. In Dublin he contributed notably to the planning of the Abbey Theatre. He also produced The Untilled Field (1903), a volume of fine short stories reminiscent of Ivan Turgenev’s writing that focuses on the drudgery of Irish rural life, and a short poetic novel, The Lake (1905). The real fruits of his life in Ireland, however, came with the trilogy Hail and Farewell (Ave, 1911; Salve, 1912; Vale, 1914). Discursive, affectionate, and satirical by turns, it reads like a sustained monologue that is both a carefully studied piece of self-revelation and an acute (though not always reliable) portrait gallery of his Irish acquaintance, which included Yeats, Æ, and Lady Gregory. Above all it is a perfectly modulated display of the comic spirit.
The increasing narrowness of the Irish mind, politics, and clericalism had sent Moore back to England in 1911. After Hail and Farewell he made another literary departure: aiming at epic effect he produced The Brook Kerith (1916), an elaborate and stylish retelling of the Gospel story that is surprisingly effective despite some dull patches. He continued his attempts to find a prose style worthy of epic theme in Héloïse and Abélard (1921). His other works included A Story-Teller’s Holiday (1918), a blend of autobiography, anecdote, Irish legend, and satire; Conversations in Ebury Street (1924), autobiography; The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe (1924); and Ulick and Soracha (1926), an Irish legendary romance.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen, Corrections Manager.
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Signs That Rob Kardashian & Blac Chyna Didn't Break Up, Let Alone "Months Ago"
By Jamie Primeau
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At this point, Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna might as well change their names to Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, considering the frequent speculation about their relationship status. OK, they're not as bad as Jelena, but it's getting close. Earlier this week, TMZ reported that Kardashian and Chyna broke up — and no, this isn't a recent occurrence. The site claims the split happened "months ago." Considering how lovey-dovey the pair has been in recent weeks, I'd beg to differ. I wouldn't be surprised if they got in a disagreement or two, but I doubt this is the end of ChyRo. Bustle has reached out to both Kardashian and Chyna's reps regarding their rumored breakup, but has yet to receive a response.
Sure, celebrity couples break up all the time, but there's something special about Kardashian and Chyna's dynamic that makes me believe they're in it for the long haul. They've already survived enough drama for a lifetime. These two are like the modern version of Romeo and Juliet. Given Chyna's rocky history with Kardashian's little sis, Kylie Jenner, and her BFF Amber Rose's beef with Khloé Kardashian, there was quite a lot to overcome. They're like the present-day Capulets and Montagues. Not only that, but they have a baby and a wedding on the way.
I'd hate to think that they survived so many obstacles for nothing, so here's a list of clues that Chyna and Kardashian may have not broken up after all. Because someone needs to still believe in true love around here.
1. Their Facebook Live Chat
To me, this video is the perfect example of evidence. Filmed in mid-August, this would shut down the idea that they broke up multiple months ago. They also seem too happy to be faking their relationship. Plus, Kardashian admitted he orders Chyna tons of food on Postmates. Sounds like true love to me.
2. Rob's Snapchats
On Wednesday night, Kardashian shared Snapchat videos featuring Chyna's pregnant stomach. It doesn't say "from Camera Roll" in the top corner (which appears if you post a pre-existing photo or video). This means he was hanging out with his fiancée after the breakup rumors.
3. His Recent Tweets
If playing devil's advocate, you could say that maybe he was just promoting their TV show in these tweets. But I'd like to think his comments are genuine. On Sept. 18, a fan asked what he loved most about Chyna. Here was his response:
Then, another fan asked him to tell Chyna how "amazing" she looks while pregnant. Kardashian was happy to oblige, meaning they're in regular communication.
Do those sound like the social media posts of someone who went through a major breakup months before? Nope.
4. Chyna's Date Night Instagram
How cute and happy do they look in this photo? Also, if you check the time stamp, Chyna posted it just two weeks ago in mid-September. She also referred to him as "bae."
5. This Isn't The First Time This Happened
Let's take a trip down memory lane. The first time there was speculation that Kardashian and Chyna split, it wound up being false. Instead, the dad-to-be explained they wanted to be more private with their relationship. That's totally reasonable.
There were also breakup rumors back in July, but those got squashed as well. Just because rumors keep happening, that doesn't mean they're true. If anything, it's further proof to not believe everything you read.
6. That Baby Shower Debacle
Why would Kardashian get so mad about Chyna not being invited to his baby shower if he wasn't dating her? She's clearly someone special in his life, and he had to care enough to go as far as leaking Kylie Jenner's phone number. I'm not condoning betraying his sister's privacy. Instead, I think it shows just how much he wanted to defend Chyna.
7. Kim K Downplayed The Situation
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When talking to Andy Cohen on Tuesday, Kim Kardashian alluded to a "little family drama" that went down on Monday night. She clearly meant the whole phone number and baby shower incident. Keep in mind that she used the word "little," which means it's probably not a big blow-up after all. If her brother and his fiancée actually split, she'd have way more to say on the matter.
8. Their Emotions Run High
Us Weekly on YouTube
These two fight (a lot), but that doesn't mean they're broken up. As seen on their show, they tend to argue, but quickly make amends. Even if they're not on the best terms at the moment, I'd like to think they'll get through it.
9. This Would Make Great TV
Maybe all of this drama is just building up for a future episode of Rob & Chyna . I bet it's only a matter of time before everybody watches this play out on their TV screens. They'll have a major "gotcha!" moment and reveal they were dating all along.
Personally, I'm hoping these clues really do mean they're still together. Team #ChyRo forever.
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International Herald Tribune Op-Ed Erases 20-Plus Years of Terror
Freelance writer Jonathan Cook claims that Palewtinians were nonviolent from 1967 until the first Intifadah.
Cooked Up Charges Against Israel
Jonathan Cook, a free-lance writer whose tendentious articles charging Israel with gross wrongdoing frequently appear in Egypt's Al-Ahram, in addition to other publications in the Muslim world, has received a pass from fact-checkers at the International Herald Tribune.
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DJ Calvin Harris Rings in 2014 at Hakkasan Nightclub Tonight
BroadwayWorld.com Dec. 31, 2013
Hakkasan Las Vegas, the five-level restaurant and nightlife mecca inside MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, today announced Calvin Harris as its highly anticipated New Year's Eve headlining artist who will take over the main room for an unrivaled evening tonight, Dec. 31.
The GRAMMY Award-winning superstarwill produce a show-stopping performance when he closes out 2013 with thousands of electronic music fans. Destined to be the hottest ticket in town, New Year's Eve will be another unforgettable evening for the nightlife destination that has been beloved by partygoers since its opening in April.
Tickets will be available for purchase Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 10 a.m. PST by visiting hakkasanlv.com. Guests must be 21 years of age or older.
The DJ, singer, songwriter and producer first hit the music scene in 2007, since then he has gained international recognition for his work in the electro-pop and house genres. He has received multiple awards including Best Electronic Dance Video for "Feel So Close," Video of the Year for "We Found Love" with Rihanna at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards in addition to Best Short Form Music Video at the 2013 GRAMMY Awards. Harris has worked in various capacities including headlining many of the world's largest festivals such as Ultra and EDC, among others. Adding to his list of accolades, Harris' latest album 18 Months broke records as it received the most Top 10 singles from one album, an honor previously held by the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. Keeping his momentum going, Harris will embark on his first sold out, headlining arena tour set to take place this December.
The nightclub at Hakkasan Las Vegas is the bold evolution of the prestigious global restaurant brand into an all-encompassing nightlife experience. A collaboration between celebrated international dining group Hakkasan Ltd. and leading entertainment and nightlife company Angel Management Group, the nightclub features creative partnerships with premier musical talent across various genres who have tailored their performances to suit the unique capabilities of the venue and compliment their own versatile styles. Hakkasan Nightclub offers a diverse nightlife experience with a variety of areas and atmospheres, cutting-edge technology and inspired design immersed in three levels of refined decadence.
Open Thursday through Sunday 10 p.m. until late. For reservations, visit hakkasanlv.com or call 702.891.3838. Guests must be 21 years of age or older. Cover charges and table reservations will vary.
About MGM Grand Hotel & Casino: MGM Grand, a AAA Four Diamond resort, provides the ultimate Vegas experience. A variety of newly remodeled luxurious suites and standard accommodations serve every need while guests discover signature dining by celebrity chefs including Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak, Michael Mina's PUB 1842, Wolfgang Puck's Bar & Grill and AAA Five Diamond and Michelin three star restaurant, Joël Robuchon; world-class entertainment at the Grand Garden Arena; the astonishing KÀ by Cirque du Soleil; Brad Garrett's Comedy Club; Hakkasan Las Vegas Restaurant and Nightclub, a new fine dining/nightlife concept; a pampering spa and salon; and an elaborate 380,000-square-foot, non-smoking conference center. MGM Grand is a wholly owned subsidiary of MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM). For more information and reservations, visit mgmgrand.com or call toll free at (877) 880-0880 or find us on Facebook and Twitter.
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ITALY: PROTECTING UNREGISTERED SIGNS IN OPPOSITION PROCEEDINGS
2 May 2016 15 February 2019
Author: Mauro Bronzini
The administrative opposition procedure for national trademark applications (introduced in 2011) provides two grounds for opposition.
This article first appeared in World Intellectual Property Review, published by Newton Media Ltd.
One is the conflict with an earlier registered trademark for identical or similar goods and services. There are plenty of decisions and a certain degree of predictability surrounding this ground.
The second ground, unexplored until now, is governed by article 8 of the Industrial Property Code (IPC). It allows oppositions on the basis of portraits (intended as the image of a person), personal names different from the name of the trademark applicant, and well-known signs. More specifically, the ground of opposition in these cases is the absence of the consent of the rights owner.
While there is apparently no record of oppositions based on portraits and personal names, there are a few cases in which the Italian Patent and Trademark Office (UIBM) has had to deal with well-known signs. In order to avoid misunderstandings, it is worth underlining that we are not talking about well-known trademarks contemplated by article 6bis of the Paris Convention, or trademarks with a “reputation”.
Instead, well-known signs eligible to constitute the basis for an opposition are personal names, signs used in art, literature, science, politics and sport, the names and acronyms of exhibitions and non-profit organisations, as well as their distinctive emblems.
Some decisions have underlined that the protection afforded to well-known signs is different from the typical protection reserved for trademarks. The latter is traditionally based on the distinctive character of the trademark and the existence of a risk of confusion concerning the origin of the goods/services.
Article 8 of the IPC aims at protecting rights owners against the parasitical exploitation of the commercial value incorporated by the sign. In other words, the distinctive function blurs compared to the exclusive protection granted to the rights owner against the unfair advantage sought by the trademark applicant.
Mixed results
Considering the small number of decisions adopted until now by the UIBM in this matter, some issues are still controversial.
For example, in one case the opposition was rejected because the signs were not exactly identical (‘Sanremodoc’/‘Sanremoinfiore’/‘Sanremolab’ versus ‘Sanremorock’). However, in another case the UIBM accepted an opposition based on the sign ‘Oxford’ against an application for the trademark ‘Oxford For Young Learners’ with device.
In some other issues the approach of the UIBM is more straightforward. An example is the interpretation of the well-known character of the opposing sign.
In a case concerning the sign ‘Il Mondo Dei Doppiatori’ (‘the world of dubbers’), the UIBM rejected the opposition, arguing that the evidence submitted by the opponent had not achieved the threshold necessary to substantiate a nationwide well-known character. The documents filed consisted mainly of extracts of the opponent’s website, some press articles, a Facebook page, and a couple of statements issued by organisations involved in dubbing exhibitions.
The UIBM’s decision was challenged before the Board of Appeal, which observed that the sign must be well-known in a specific sector, not necessarily in the whole national territory. Considering that the opponent had proved his attendance (with the sign ‘Il Mondo Dei Doppiatori’) at exhibitions and events specifically focused on the dubbing sector, the board recognised that the sign had achieved a degree of fame sufficient to comply with the requirements of the law, accepted the opposition and rejected the trademark application. This broader approach has been adopted in other decisions.
Summing up, the opposition proceeding in Italy offers a relatively broad protection to some unregistered signs, as contemplated by article 8 of the IPC. Although they are recognised by law, other signs, in particular unregistered trademarks, can be enforced only by means of judicial invalidity proceedings before courts, not in the UIBM’s administrative procedure.
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Burleson Recreation Center
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Open year round, will provide members a heated, modern place to lap swim, participate in Aqua Aerobic Programs, Learn-to-Swim Program, and Barracuda Swim Team.
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Open swim includes the playstructure, lazy river, vortex pool, a portion of the lap swim area (unless indicated otherwise on the schedule), and the slide.
The Burleson and Centennial High School swim teams utilize the indoor pool from 5 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. The lap swim area is shared with the Sigma Swim Team Tuesday - Friday from 3:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. There is limited lane space available from 3:30 – 7:30p.m. Open swim includes the playstructure, lazy river, vortex pool, a portion of the lap swim area (unless indicated otherwise on the schedule), and the slide on designated days.
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EILEEN FISHER, New Belgium Brewing, UncommonGoods, Zingerman’s, Ace Hardware stores owner and Other Business Leaders Meet with U.S. Secretary of Labor on Increasing the Minimum Wage
Strong Business Support For Minimum Wage Hike in Advance of State of the Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 23, 2014
Contact: Bob Keener, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.org, 617-610-6766
Washington DC – Business owners from across the country and a wide spectrum of industries met today with US Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez to discuss the need for an increased minimum wage. Business leaders from EILEEN FISHER, New Belgium Brewing (CO), Zingerman’s (MI), Ace Hardware stores (DC and MD), InterMedia Partners (NY) and 16 other companies and business organizations participated in the roundtable. The President has signaled that he will feature his support for increasing the minimum wage in his State of the Union address on January 28, and business leaders say it's time for Congress to act.
"We've grown since opening Zingerman's Delicatessen almost 32 years ago to eight businesses in Ann Arbor employing 625 permanent staff with revenues just under $50 million dollars," said co-owner Paul Saginaw. "Paying entry wages our employees can live on has contributed to our profitability and our annual compounded growth rate of 10 percent. Raising the minimum wage is long overdue."
“It’s not just workers who support an increase in the minimum wage,” said Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez. “What I heard from these men and women who run small businesses is that when you put more money in workers’ pockets, they stay on the job longer which reduces turnover and training costs. Additionally, those workers spend that extra income at local businesses in their communities which benefits the overall economy. It’s really that simple.”
Gina Schaefer, co-owner of nine Ace Hardware stores in Washington DC and Maryland, said, "We have nearly 200 employees and our starting wage for sales associates is $10 an hour. That helps us attract and retain employees who deliver the great service that draws large numbers of customers to our stores and enables us to stay competitive. Increasing the minimum wage will help promote a healthy, dedicated workforce and keep more dollars circulating in our local economy."
Amanda Rothschild, co-owner of Charmington's cafe in Baltimore City, said, "Our business is thriving, seeing about 25 percent revenue growth each year, and we believe it is largely due to the above-minimum wages and benefits we offer our 15 employees. We see much lower turnover, better employee performance and satisfied customers. The more responsibly I invest in my employees, the greater return I get from them. An increased minimum wage will help business and our economy."
Participants in the roundtable meeting included David Bolotsky, Founder and CEO, UncommonGoods (NY); David Borris, President and Co-Owner, Hel's Kitchen Catering (IL); Denise Bowyer, Vice President, American Income Life Insurance Company (TX); Brian England, President and Co-Owner, British American Auto Care (MD); Alan Gregerman, Owner and President, VENTURE WORKS, Inc. (MD); Amy Hall, Director of Social Consciousness, EILEEN FISHER; Leo Hindery Jr., Founder and Managing Partner, InterMedia Partners (NY); Jim Houser, Owner, Hawthorne Auto Clinic (OR); MaryAnne Howland, Owner, Ibis Communications (TN); Michael Kanter, President and Co-Owner, Cambridge Naturals (MA); Andrew Lemley, Director of Government Relations, New Belgium Brewing Company (CO); David Levine, CEO and Co-founder, American Sustainable Business Council (DC); Carmen Larsen, President, Aquas, Inc. (MD); Lewis Prince, CEO and Co-Owner, Vintage Vinyl (MO); Amanda Rothschild, Charmington’s (MD); Gina Schaefer, Co-owner of Ace Hardware stores (MD, DC); Stephen Shaff, Founding Executive Director, Chesapeake Sustainable Business Council (MD); John Shepley, Co-Owner, Emory Knoll Farms, Inc. (MD) and Holly Sklar, Director and Founder, Business For A Fair Minimum Wage (MA).
“Today's minimum wage is the same as 1950, adjusted for inflation,” said Holly Sklar, Director of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, which organized business participation in the meeting. “If lower wages were the solution, our economy would be thriving. In reality, we need to raise the abysmal minimum wage to revitalize our economy."
President Obama recently endorsed the Fair Minimum Wage Act introduced by Senator Tom Harkin (IA) and Rep. George Miller (CA), which would gradually raise the federal minimum wage in three steps to $10.10 and then provide for annual cost-of-living adjustments. The business leaders attending the Roundtable want Congress to pass the Fair Minimum Wage Act. They and hundreds of other business owners and executives across the country are signing an open petition, which can be found at: http://www.businessforafairminimumwage.org/Federal-Sign-On-Statement.
David Levine, CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council, which with its member organizations represents more than 200,000 businesses across the country, said, “The business case and the economic case for an increase in the minimum wage are very sound, and we see strong support continuing to build within the business community. Congress needs to give the economy a much-needed boost by giving our lowest-paid workers a raise.”
* Business owners available for interview in addition to those quoted. *
Business for a Fair Minimum Wage is a national network of business owners and executives who believe a fair minimum wage makes good business sense. www.businessforafairminimumwage.org
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Innovation Network
System Pioneer moves through the gears with University support
New staff anticipated
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Set up by Oldham-based entrepreneur Gary Cheetham, System Pioneer is a team of software developers who create innovative content management systems and websites for a range of businesses.
Gary needed specific IT and business analytics support to help bring a new online motorbike sales comparison website to market. The site is based around machine learning, a field of artificial intelligence that uses data and statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to ‘learn’ and improve performance around a task, without being specifically programmed.
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Karen Dudley, an innovation advisor at GC Business Growth Hub, introduced Gary to the Alliance Manchester Business School at Manchester University. The school is ranked sixth in the world by the global QS Ranking, and first in both Europe and the UK.
He began working on a six-month collaboration with University student Anna Komodromou, who was working towards an MSc Business Analytics and had been put forward by her tutors because of her expertise in the area.
Anna, who was able to use the research as part of her dissertation, led the work into the algorithm that allows the new website - MotorbikeValuation.com - to accurately predict the prices of used motorcycles.
“No other company in the industry has a system like this,” says Gary. “It just goes to show that Manchester is a great place to do business and somewhere where a world-class University can work with a small local business on a real-world business problem, and together create something as ground-breaking as this.”
“This is the start of an on-going relationship between Gary and the University,” adds Karen. “As an organisation that continually innovates, keeping ahead of competitors by harnessing academic input into future projects will be key to business growth and maintaining a competitive advantage.”
As well as continuing to work on enhancing the new valuation software, Gary is also looking to start working with graduates from the University’s Computer Science faculty, as well as exploring the possibility of using a similar model in the car industry.
He is also set to take on two new members of staff, and is expecting the site to increase company turnover by 20%.
Anna said: “It was good to be given a chance to apply what I have learned at Manchester Business School as part of my dissertation and create a useful algorithm for a real company. It was very challenging for me to work and find an algorithm for accurately forecasting the price of used vehicles. The help of Gary and, of course, the guidance of my lecturers was invaluable in completing this innovative project.”
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Ex-Yahoo CEO: I would pay Jon Stewart $100 million per year to relaunch his show
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After news broke last night that Jon Stewart is leaving the Daily Show, former Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn went on Facebook and said that someone smart should give Stewart $100 million per year to re-launch his show as a "direct-to-consumer" product.
Here's Levinsohn's full note:
Jon Stewart stepping down as host of The Daily Show is paramount to Walter Cronkite stepping down from CBS News.
He is to a generation, the oracle of truth. While certainly left leaning, he always exposed fraud for fraud and called out those who needed it most, with a wry smile and raised eyebrow.
He is complicated — a genius and the best communicator of his generation and I for one will miss him nightly.
That said, he HAS to do a new version of his show for this generation the way it could and should be done -- direct to consumers. He could raise any amount of money to do it and it would be an historic movement, in the way Howard Stern moving to Sirius was a decade ago.
Stewart has the following to shape an industry and I sure hope he pushes the envelope. He's too big a talent to sit on the sidelines too long and he can make an industry change.
I'd pay him $100m a year to go direct and give him equity in his own version of what Viacom is today.
Anyone with me??
The direct-to-consumer works for media stars who are bigger brands than the networks. In 2011, comedian Louis CK sold access to an hour-long special for $5 and generated revenues of over $1 million in 12 days. Political commentator and author Glenn Beck quit Fox News and launched his own network, The Blaze. He reportedly generates revenues between $35 million and $45 million per year.
NOW WATCH: Watch Jon Stewart break it to his audience that he's leaving 'The Daily Show'
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The CEO of ADP, under attack from Bill Ackman, said the hedge fund billionaire is a 'spoiled brat'
Sam Forgione and Michael Flaherty,
Aug. 10, 2017, 11:53 AM
William 'Bill' Ackman, CEO and Portfolio Manager of Pershing Square Capital Management, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Automatic Data Processing chief executive and president, Carlos Rodriguez, told CNBC on Thursday that Pershing Square's William Ackman does not understand the company and has acted like a "spoiled brat" in his effort to get the company to extend its board nomination deadline.
Rodriguez said Ackman was relying on inaccurate information in his criticisms of the company, but said he was "willing to listen" to the investor and was in the process of scheduling a meeting with him in early September.
(Reporting by Sam Forgione and Michael Flaherty; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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The inspiring rags-to-riches career of 'Shark Tank' judge and internet-security guru Robert Herjavec
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Robert Herjavec is best known as one of the five investors on ABC's "Shark Tank." But he has quite a backstory.
Not only is he a millionaire thanks to some successful companies he has founded, he also maintains a fun social life with truly interesting hobbies.
Here are all the trials and tribulations that made him the brilliant and successful shark he is today.
Robert Herjavec was born on September 14, 1962, in Zbjeg, Croatia. When he was 8, he fled the communist regime with his family to live in Canada, Business News Daily reports. At the time he spoke no English.
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According to Herjavec, his family left Croatia with one suitcase and $20 in hand. They lived for 18 months in a friend's basement while they began rebuilding their new life in North America.
Herjavec's first jobs were as a newspaper deliveryman and a waiter. These early experiences in customer service taught him the ins and outs of being a successful businessman.
Herjavec graduated from the University of Toronto in 1984 with a bachelor's in English literature.
Before entering into entrepreneurship, however, he dabbled in other careers. They included retail, television, and even a stint as a collection agent.
After a bit, he got a job at the company Logiquest. His first role there was in sales, but he rose all the way up to become general manager. In 1990, he was fired from the company.
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In 1990 he launched his own internet security company, BRAK Systems, in his basement. According to Herjavec, he never thought he'd enter the world of entrepreneurship. His reason for founding BRAK: He needed to pay his mortgage somehow.
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The same year he found BRAK Systems he married Diane Plese. They have three children together — two daughters and a son.
After 10 years, BRAK Systems became Canada's largest internet security company.
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Herjavec began accumulating his wealth. He and Plese ended up buying a 50,000-square-foot mansion in Toronto.
BRAK Systems sold to AT&T for $30.2 million in cash in 2000, The Toronto Star reports.
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After the sale, Herjavec began working for AT&T and then took a job at the company RAMP Networks. He served as VP of sales at RAMP, helping the company sell to Nokia for $225 million. After this acquisition, Herjavec decided to retire for a few years to be with his three children.
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After three years, Herjavec got the entrepreneur bug again. So in 2003 he founded the internet security company The Herjavec Group.
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The Herjavec Group has become the fastest growing Canadian security company, earning tens of millions of dollars in revenue every year, according to The Branham Group.
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Even when running a business, Herjavec always had passions outside the office. For example, he loves to race cars. The Ferrari is his car of choice.
He has been known to compete in the Ferrari Challenge race.
He even won second place once.
He's also a frequent guest on television shows. In Canada, he appeared on six seasons of the reality show "Dragons' Den," whose format is similar to Shark Tank's.
But his highest-profile television appearance is on the American reality show "Shark Tank."
Since 2009 he's sat next to Kevin O'Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Daymond John, Lori Greiner, and Mark Cuban as desperate entrepreneurs vie for a venture-capital investment.
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He has also appeared on "Dancing with the Stars."
Last year Herjavec split with his wife. He told People magazine that the ordeal put him in a deep depression. To get through it, he worked in a homeless shelter in Seattle.
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But he got through this spell. According to US Magazine, he may have dated his "Dancing with the Stars" partner, Kym Johnson.
Whether he's dancing, investing, or driving, he's giving it his all and is always ready for the next adventure!
Now check out another investor with an awesome career:
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A look inside the insanely successful life of Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen >>
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The push to revive the controversial trade deal that Trump pulled the US out of is falling apart
Paul Colgan and Vernon Small, STUFF.CO.NZ,
Nov. 10, 2017, 11:36 PM
Canada's PM Trudeau speaks during a press conference where Alphabet Inc, the owner of Google, announced the project "Sidewalk Toronto", that will develop an area of Toronto's waterfront using new technologies to develop high-tech urban areas in Toronto
Talks to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the landmark free-trade agreement between 11 nations, fell apart Friday in Vietnam
Canada did not show up for the talks
The US pulled out of the agreement in January as one of President Donald Trump's first moves in office
Talks to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the landmark free-trade agreement between 11 nations in the Pacific Rim, have effectively collapsed after Canada pulled out this week.
The talks have been postponed indefinitely.
The US pulled out of the agreement on President Donald Trump's first day in office, in a move that many felt effectively killed the deal.
The remaining 11 nations in the TPP had attempted to salvage the deal, but New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the talks had collapsed in Vietnam Friday night, after it was revealed Canada had not shown up for the talks.
"It is true that Canada did not attend that meeting and those talks have now been postponed. We have no update on when they are likely to convene," Ardern said.
According to a Reuters report, Canadian Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said "a misunderstanding about the schedule" was to blame for the absence of Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
ABC reported that one official familiar with the situation said: "The Canadians screwed everybody", and that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had walked into the meeting after a delay to announce that the planned signing of the deal would not proceed.
Ardern said Canada had withdrawn.
"We walked into a meeting and they were the only one absent."
Discussions would not continue without Canada, she said.
Reuters later reported that the 11 nations participating have agreed on next steps to move ahead in a rescue deal scheduled to be announced on Saturday.
Ardern said she could not give a clear indication of Canada's final position because they were not at the table to explain it.
She could not say whether the postponement was for days or weeks or longer and could not say which part of the pact Canada had issues with.
Ardern has a one-on-one meeting scheduled with Trudeau at the East Asia Summit in Manila, in the Philippines, starting on Sunday.
It's understood Canada, the second largest economy in the TPP since the United States withdrew, had been in bilateral talks with Japan on role difference before Trudeau's no show at the meeting.
Asked if TPP was now finished and had lost momentum, Ardern said that would be guess work.
"It's difficult to say what position Canada will take from here. It's a significantly different deal without Canada in it."
She said New Zealand had gone into the talks to be constructive and had made some good gain and that it would be disappointing for New Zealand exporters.
"But we can't control the decisions of other countries. No-one at that table could."
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An extensive new report suggests that the missing MH370’s pilot was ‘clinically depressed’ and purposely killed all 239 on board
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 mysteriously vanished on March 8, 2014.
William Langewiesche in The Atlantic’s July cover story unearthed new evidence that points to “the most horrific theory” on why the plane disappeared.
The report suggests that Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the captain on Flight MH370, was mentally unstable.
It remains a mystery why Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014.
But a meticulous new report in The Atlantic by William Langewiesche gives credence to one of the more pervasive theories on the doomed flight – that Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the plane’s captain, deliberately crashed the plane, killing all 239 on board.
Read more: The mystery of MH370 remains 5 years later – here are all the theories, dead ends, and unanswered questions from the most bizarre airline disaster of the century
The Malaysian government has insisted that Shah was mentally stable, most recently in a 495-page report released in July 2018. But Langewiesche, a professional pilot and former national correspondent for The Atlantic, unearthed new information that suggests otherwise.
Shah’s friends told The Atlantic that the 53-year-old pilot “was often lonely and sad.” His marriage had dissolved, and his children were grown and out of the house. Shah also told friends he spent the days between flights pacing empty rooms alone in one of his two homes.
He spent a lot of time contacting young women on Facebook, according to The Atlantic’s report.
“He is known to have established a wistful relationship with a married woman and her three children, one of whom was disabled, and to have obsessed over two young internet models, whom he encountered on social media, and for whom he left Facebook comments that apparently did not elicit responses,” The Atlantic reported.
The report also details why other prevailing theories on the flight’s demise and disappearance don’t make sense.
MH370’s flight path.
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The Malaysian government and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau have theorized that an oxygen deficiency incapacitated the passengers and crew. Other theories suggest that an electrical fire brought down the plane or point to a potential hijacking from two passengers who had boarded the plane with stolen passports.
However, these theories don’t explain why the plane traveled for hours on autopilot, the commercial-airline pilot and author of the book “Cockpit Confidential” Patrick Smith previously told Business Insider. He said the nature of the debris also suggested that the plane was under control when it crashed.
“It is inconceivable that the known flight path, accompanied by radio and electronic silence, was caused by any combination of system failure and human error,” according to The Atlantic.
For those reasons, one lifelong friend of Shah said he surmised that the captain deliberately crashed the plane. Langewiesche wrote:
He too believed that Zaharie was guilty, a conclusion he had come to reluctantly. He described the mystery as a pyramid that is broad at the base and one man wide at the top, meaning that the inquiry might have begun with many possible explanations but ended up with a single one. He said, “It doesn’t make sense. It’s hard to reconcile with the man I knew. But it’s the necessary conclusion.”
Read the report in The Atlantic here »
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NewsFlash - Chinese Outbound Investment into U.S. Commercial Real Estate Reaches Record-high of US$3.676 Billion in H1 2015
Chinese Developers Display Strongest Demand for Bond Financing in H1 2015
CBRE Group, Inc. Closes Acquisition Of Global Workplace Solutions Business From Johnson Controls, Inc.
Hong Kong, September 2, 2015 – CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG) today announced that it has closed the acquisition of Johnson Controls, Inc.’s (NYSE:JCI) Global Workplace Solutions business. Global Workplace Solutions is a market-leading provider of enterprise facilities management solutions for global corporations and other large occupiers of commercial real estate. Global Workplace Solutions had revenue of more than US$3.0 billion in calendar year 2014.
“This is a very exciting step for CBRE,” said Bob Sulentic, the company’s president and chief executive officer. “It advances our strategy of delivering the highest quality, globally integrated services to major occupiers and builds our relationships with many of the world’s most prominent corporations. We are helping our clients to enhance their competitive position by aligning every aspect of how they lease, own, use and operate real estate.”
The advantages of outsourcing real estate services, coupled with the high quality of CBRE’s offering, have fueled long-term, double-digit revenue growth for its occupier outsourcing business line. The addition of Global Workplace Solutions’ expertise around the world in technical engineering, supply chain management, critical facilities and other capabilities adds significantly to CBRE’s already-robust service offering for occupiers.
Global Workplace Solutions is the largest provider of facilities management services outside the U.S., while CBRE’s facilities management services are weighted to the Americas. The combined service offering will provide clients with materially greater scale advantages in virtually every corner of the world.
Global Workplace Solutions has been merged with CBRE’s occupier outsourcing business line, and the new combined business has adopted the Global Workplace Solutions name. CBRE’s Global Workplace Solutions business line serves a blue-chip roster of large occupiers across a wide range of industries, particularly financial services, healthcare, industrial/manufacturing, life sciences, technology and telecommunications. CBRE will make available to these clients the full range of its occupier services, including property leasing and sales transactions, project management and construction services, technical engineering, consulting, and more.
CBRE’s new Global Workplace Solutions business line is led by Bill Concannon (CEO of CBRE’s occupier outsourcing business line prior to the acquisition) and John Murphy (formerly president of Global Workplace Solutions when it was part of JCI). Mr. Concannon serves as CEO, Global Workplace Solutions, and Mr. Murphy serves as COO, Global Workplace Solutions.
Mr. Concannon said, “We are thrilled that our new colleagues have joined CBRE. They are an enormously talented group and our combined capabilities create a value proposition that is truly unique in the marketplace.”
Mr. Murphy noted, “We are extremely excited to be part of the first-class team at CBRE. Together, we combine industry-leading intelligence across markets and asset types with superior execution to produce consistently exceptional outcomes for clients.”
In APAC, Global Workplace Solutions will be led by Phil Rowland as CEO supported by COO Mike Runicles who joins from JCI. Further regional and country leadership announcements will be made in due course.
CBRE now manages approximately 5 billion sq. ft. of commercial real estate and corporate facilities around the world, including 2.3 billion sq. ft. in the Americas, 1.3 billion sq. ft. in Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and 1.4 billion sq. ft. in Asia Pacific.
In addition, CBRE and Johnson Controls have forged a 10-year strategic relationship, as previously announced. CBRE will provide Johnson Controls with a full suite of integrated corporate real estate services (including facilities management, project management and transaction services) on more than 50 million sq. ft. of real estate. Johnson Controls has joined CBRE’s network of suppliers and partners, and will offer its lowest price option on HVAC, building automation, security, fire and related services to CBRE clients and CBRE-managed properties worldwide. The companies will also jointly fund a building innovation lab that will advance a new generation of workplace solutions to help clients attain their performance goals.
More information about CBRE’s Global Workplace Solutions business is available at www.cbre.com/WorkplacePerformance.
Neither CBRE nor its affiliated companies make any warranties or claims on the implied accuracy of the information contained herein.
About CBRE Group, Inc.
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2016 revenue). The company has more than 75,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate investors and occupiers through approximately 450 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers a broad range of integrated services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com.
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Brought back from the dead
Bringing the dead back to life has been a dream of humankind since the beginning of time. But could revival ever become reality? Our Cover Story is reported by Tracy Smith:
Joe Tiralosi, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has always been an optimist. He says life is good . . . especially now.
Five years ago, Tiralosi -- then 56 and in good health -- was at work as a driver in New York City one hot August day when he felt sick . . . really sick.
"I just suddenly didn't feel like myself," he recalled. "I didn't know what it was.
"So I called home and I spoke to my wife and I told her, 'I don't feel good. I think I want to just come home.' And that's when she said to me, 'Why don't you just go to the hospital?'"
He walked into New York Presbyterian on his own power -- and promptly dropped dead.
"It was like they shut the lights out and I just collapsed and fell on the floor. My heart stopped, and the nurse was -- I heard screaming. And that was it."
But that wasn't it.
Tiralosi was brought back from the dead. He says it was divine intervention, but it's also a testament to perseverance of his medical team, and the power of some bone-chilling cold.
Consider the scene from the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic": the big ship has gone down, and the icy water has apparently taken its toll on the 1,500 victims.
"Is there anyone alive out there?" yelled an officer of the RMS Carpathia.
As it turns out, there might have been.
"Now, the reality is we know that today if those people had been found, many of them could potentially have been saved," said Dr. Sam Parnia, "because by virtue of dying in ice cold water, their brain and their cells would've been preserved.
"People who had died could've been saved if they had died today, and if -- and I say this with a capital "I" -- if all the right care had been provided them."
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He told Smith the level of progress in resuscitation after people die has advanced enormously: "It's astonishing."
Dr. Parnia runs the resuscitation research program at New York's Stony Brook University Medical School, and in his new book, "Erasing Death," writes that death really isn't a moment, but a process that can be interrupted and often reversed, with the help of new techniques.
In the century since the Titanic, for instance, we've learned a few things about cold water.
In 1986, two-and-a-half-year-old Michelle Funk drowned in an icy stream in Utah. The little girl was submerged for more than an hour, and technically dead. But the cold water chilled her down to 66 degrees, enough to stave off brain damage. Little Michelle woke up and, as Susan Spencer reported, went on with her life.
Michelle doesn't remember anything about her ordeal, but Spencer said, "her doctors will never forget it."
Today, cooling devices do much the same thing as that icy stream: it chills people whose hearts have stopped and preserves their brains until doctors can figure out how to get their hearts going again.
Cooling, said Dr. Parnia, "buys us time. So, for example, if somebody were to suddenly collapse and die at home, what we could do is go into the freezer and take out our frozen peas, frozen vegetables, put them on the body, and try to do CPR at the same time, so we can slow down the rate by which they're getting brain damage."
But despite what we've learned, the chances of being brought back from the dead are still pretty small.
Last year in the U.S., just under 24 percent of those who had a cardiac arrest in a hospital survived the experience. Outside a hospital, the survival rate was less than 10 percent.
One of the reasons, Dr. Parnia says, is that emergency workers sometimes quit CPR too soon.
"It's harder than your tough workouts in the gym," he said. "And if you do this for a while it gets very, very tiring. People get out of breath. So imagine trying to do it for an hour."
Compression machines can carry on for an extended time, because longer is often better.
Dr. Sam Parnia demonstrates a compression machine for Tracy Smith. CBS News
"A lot of doctors will stop compressions after about 20 minutes," said Dr. Parnia. "But we know from research that if you go on for 40 minutes to an hour, your chances of bringing someone back to life is much, much higher."
In Joe Tiralosi's case, it was all by hand.
How many people gave Tiralosi compressions? "I don't know the number. Dozens, many, many people all taking turns."
And so, after about 4,500 chest compressions -- and nearly an hour in the cooling suit -- Joe Tiralosi's doctors brought him back: cold, fragile, but alive.
"What'd they give you that day?" asked Smith
"I heard there was quite a concoction of certain medications," he said.
"But I mean, bigger than that, what'd they give you?"
"Well, gave my life back; they gave me the chance to live again," Tiralosi said. "Sometimes people tell me, 'You know, being back, what's the best day that you can remember?' And honestly, every day is the best day to remember."
There is, of course, no way to measure what it all means to Joe's wife, Janet; son, Joey; or daughter, Christina.
When asked what it's like to have her father sitting there, Christina said, "It's awesome. It's amazing. You know, he's here every day. I'm so grateful and I'm so happy to be with him."
Life is even sweeter, it seems, when you've fought death -- and won.
Joe Tiralosi with his daughter, Christina. CBS News
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Primo Reggiani
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Primo Reggiani - a male celebrity - born on Saturday November 5th 1983, in Rome, Lazio, Italy,.
Primo Reggiani is a born leader, with extra-ordinary drive and determination. Insisting on his right to make up his own mind, he demands freedom of thought and action, and does not let anything or anyone stand in his way once he is committed to his goal.
Always seeking the forefront and the limelight, Primo needs to feel in command of important undertakings, and resists supportive roles. He can become irritated and even domineering when important things do not go his way. Reggiani can be impatient with his shortcomings and those of others.
Primo Reggiani is very concerned with his status and fosters the appearance of success and self-satisfaction. Interestingly, that very same need to appear well-off can be the fuel that propels Primo to strive for growth, success and the finer things of life.
Primo Reggiani assumes the responsibility to be the protector and provider for those he loves, but demands their respect and attention in return.
Exceptionally creative and original, Primo possesses a touch of the unusual. His approach to problems is unique and he has the courage to wander from the traditional templates of thoughts and deeds. More...
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Entrepreneurial and progressive, Primo Reggiani is ever-striving, heading for the top, and enjoying an enterprising, ambitious and determined personality to do things well, and an unyielding dedication to his plan until the goals are achieved.
He bounces back easily from setbacks and can overcome any adversities or obstacles thrown in his way.
There is danger, however that his trait of determination and dedication will shift to stubbornness, making Primo cling to ideas and projects well past their fruitious season. It is a good idea for him to keep fresh pipeline of ideas to make it easier to replace outdated plans by new and better ones.
Patient as he is towards his goals, Primo's flying, ravaging temper endangers his relationships with the very same people that will help him to accomplish those goals. He should use his strength of will to study and practice anger management.
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However, while wishing for an introvert day, distractions at work are testing Primo's patience. He must find ways and means to relax and avoid emotional confrontations.
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Jhadol
Seesvi - Udaipur
Seesvi Population - Udaipur, Rajasthan
Seesvi is a medium size village located in Jhadol Tehsil of Udaipur district, Rajasthan with total 97 families residing. The Seesvi village has population of 515 of which 262 are males while 253 are females as per Population Census 2011.
In Seesvi village population of children with age 0-6 is 110 which makes up 21.36 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Seesvi village is 966 which is higher than Rajasthan state average of 928. Child Sex Ratio for the Seesvi as per census is 897, higher than Rajasthan average of 888.
Seesvi village has lower literacy rate compared to Rajasthan. In 2011, literacy rate of Seesvi village was 54.57 % compared to 66.11 % of Rajasthan. In Seesvi Male literacy stands at 72.06 % while female literacy rate was 36.82 %.
As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Seesvi village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Seesvi village.
Seesvi Data
Total No. of Houses 97 - -
Population 515 262 253
Child (0-6) 110 58 52
Schedule Caste 0 0 0
Schedule Tribe 248 122 126
Literacy 54.57 % 72.06 % 36.82 %
Total Workers 301 152 149
Main Worker 171 - -
Marginal Worker 130 31 99
Caste Factor
In Seesvi village, most of the village population is from Schedule Tribe (ST). Schedule Tribe (ST) constitutes 48.16 % of total population in Seesvi village. There is no population of Schedule Caste (SC) in Seesvi village of Udaipur.
In Seesvi village out of total population, 301 were engaged in work activities. 56.81 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 43.19 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 301 workers engaged in Main Work, 71 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 63 were Agricultural labourer.
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Density / Km2
1 Delhi 11,320
2 Chandigarh 9,258
3 Puducherry 2,547
4 Daman and Diu 2,191
5 Lakshadweep 2,149
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Here’s What You Need to Know About the Man Claiming to Be Bill Clinton’s Illegitimate Child
Barri Segal
Former president Bill Clinton has been accused of a lot of things. He has faced multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment, and now he’s facing another serious accusation. Danney Lee Williams, a 32-year-old, biracial man from Little Rock, Arkansas, claims to be Clinton’s biological son. And he had something to say about Clinton showing sympathy for the migrant children being separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. Williams says Clinton has double standards because he abandoned “his own son,” according to The Sun.
Clinton alagedly fathered Williams when he was governor of Arkansas. | Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Images
Williams story goes like this: He says his mother, a former prostitute named Bobbie Ann, got pregnant with him after she met Clinton in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1984. According to his mother, she had a total of 13 trysts with Clinton at the time, who was then state governor. One problem: Clinton married Hillary in 1975.
Williams won’t let up
Williams demands that Clinton recognizes him as his son. | wellesenterprises/iStock/Getty Images
Williams, now a father of five, will not stop calling for Clinton to recognize him as his son. In 2016, he set up a Facebook page that was essentially a bid for Clinton to recognize him. On the page, he says that when Hillary found out about Bill’s illegitimate child she “banished” him and “slammed the door in [Danney’s aunt’s] face” when she took him — as a child — to the Clintons’ home. There are posts on the page disputing the accuracy of a reported 1999 DNA and Williams says there was a conspiracy to cover up the truth.
Williams Facebook page also contains pictures of him alongside images of Clinton as a young man. And many have commented that the photos certainly do bear a resemblance.
Recently, Williams tweeted a picture of Clinton with his quote that said, “On this Father’s Day I’m thinking of the thousands of children separated from their parents at the border. These children should not be a negotiating tool. And reuniting them with their families would reaffirm America’s belief in and support for all parents who love their children.”
Williams tweeted, “How can @BillClinton have the compassion to care so much about the immigrant children being separated from their families but lack the compassion to care for his own son he abandoned. #BillClintonSon.”
Williams also sent another tweet. “The same man that is sympathetic to the immigrant children, that he mentioned, to be used as a negotiating tool, is indeed the same man that sacrificed me, his own son, as a political pawn and ‘willing’ separated his existence from me when he became president. #BillClintonSon.”
Bill and Hillary Clinton haven’t commented on Williams’ accusations.| Steve Pope/Getty Images
But Williams didn’t stop there. He posted a picture of Hillary with her quote, “Jesus said, ‘Suffer the little children unto me’. He did not say, ‘Let the children suffer.’” And he commented on Hillary’s quote, too.
“@HillaryClinton can have the ‘compassion and decency to be outraged’ about the immigrant children being separated from their families, but she’s not outraged at the fact that she took a hand in separating me from my father. Just another political play. #BillClintonSon #Hypocrite,” wrote Williams.
Neither of the Clintons has responded to the messages so far.
Read more: Shocking Facts You Definitely Don’t Know About U.S. Presidents That Make Donald Trump Seem Tame
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Chelsea Clinton Could Run For President
Aramide Tinubu
Former first daughter and author Chelsea Clinton is no stranger to the spotlight. She spent her childhood in the governor’s mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was only 12, when her father, former President Bill Clinton, entered the White House. Clinton’s mother, Hillary Clinton, served in former president Barack Obama’s cabinet as Secretary of State, and she ran for president herself in 2016, only to lose to our current President Donald Trump.
Despite her mother’s loss, Chelsea Clinton has found her voice, one that is separate from her parents’ names and legacies, and one that continues to ring out during our current tumultuous times. The Stanford University alum has inherited her mother’s unnerving composure and class, and she’s refused to back down when it comes to discussing the issues that continue to plague citizens of the United States; women in particular.
The children’s book author has emerged as an outspoken voice for young and unheard people across this country. Perhaps its time for the former first daughter to consider running for president.
Nerves of steel
Chelsea Clinton | Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images
Chelsea Clinton doesn’t believe that insults and nasty language are productive
One major thing that presidential candidates and people in the public eye must contend with are all the naysayers and trolls digging into their background and exposing things about them. Obviously, we would eventually like someone in the White House who knows how to handle all of that with grace.
Having lived her entire life in the spotlight, Clinton is no stranger to exposure. In an interview with The Guardian she explained, “For me, maybe because I’ve had so much vitriol flung at me for as long as I can literally remember, people saying awful things to me even as a child, I’ve never found it productive, personally, to engage in that way. To retaliate with crass language or insult someone personally – I just don’t think I’m built that way.”
Next: Progress is possible
Determined to make a better path
Chelsea Clinton is a great public speaker. | Jason Kempin/Getty Images for City Harvest
Chelsea believes that we are all responsible for our nation’s progress
When we vote politicians into office, we desperately hope that they listen to our concerns, uphold the Constitution, and embark on a path that makes America a better place to live for ALL of its citizens. For Clinton, progress is not just possible; it’s something we are all responsible for.
She explained,” I think progress is possible and I think we should always feel a responsibility to that mandate in some ways, but that it’s not inevitable, and that it has to be both protected and advanced at every moment.”
Next: Speaking out is the American way
Among the people
Chelsea Clinton has addressed some important issues. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
For Chelsea, protesting is an American right
Clinton seems wholly approachable. Her father mastered this trait and it helped him get to the White House in 1992. But it’s something that her mother, Hillary Clinton, ultimately struggled with when she embarked on her own journey to the Oval Office. Chelsea Clinton has already shown she’s ready to get her hands dirty.
Clinton said, “I’ve been to multiple protests since the election. If I lived in Britain I would show up to protest, because I don’t agree with what he’s doing to degrade what it means to be an American.”
Next: Calling out unqualified leaders
Donald and Ivanka Trump | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Since Trump’s election, Clinton has not just been a critic of the president but also of his administration and those unqualified people he has placed in positions of power. Though he promised to “drain the swamp,” Trump has done the opposite.
He has placed his unqualified children in high positions in the White House and enlisted his billionaire friends to run departments that know nothing about. For Clinton, this type of behavior from anyone is power is highly problematic. The She Persisted Around The World author explained,
I think the president should be able to hire whoever he or she thinks are best qualified. I do not believe that many of the people that he has hired have been qualified to do the jobs. Not only do I want an administration that isn’t venal, corrupt and focused on making life harder for millions of Americans, I also want a competent administration. So for me, the larger question is the collision of cruelty and incompetence and corruption that we see across the administration.
Next: Why Clinton called out Ivanka Trump
Having her own voice
Left: Ivanka Trump | Alex Wong/Getty Images, Right: Chelsea Clinton | Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images
Chelsea has essentially told Ivanka to woman up
It seems shocking now, but Clinton and Ivanka Trump used to be very close. These days, Clinton has been consistent in calling out her former friend for her continued defense of President Trump. She even used her own opposition to her mother’s beliefs as an example.
While speaking with The Guardian, Clinton spoke about Ivanka Trump saying, “She’s an adult. She can make the choices for herself, I mean, she’s 36. I was really proud to support my mum—but I disagreed with her fundamentally on a few things, particularly her then opposition to equal marriage rights for LGBTQ Americans. I never defended that position, because it wasn’t what I believed was the right thing to do.”
Next: Getting to the root of the issues
Healing the country
Chelsea Clinton has characteristics that make her a good leader. | Monica Schipper/Getty Images for We Day
The 2016 election exposed the country’s rot
The 2016 presidential campaign and Trump’s election has exposed the many cracks in this country. A nation built on the backs of slaves and immigrants still has deep roots of racism, sexism, and everything in between. Many Americans have not yet learned to work together and see themselves in other people despite a difference in background, or socioeconomic status.
According to Clinton, we need to get to the root of our issues so that we can begin to heal. She explained to The Guardian,
I [once believed] all that mattered was the bottom line of the outcome, like, how many lives were improved, how many people were saved, how many more people got to go to school without debt, how many people had healthcare, how many women got to have paid maternity leave. I still believe that is what matters most.
But I also now believe that intentions and tone and decency matter, because I think the wreckage that we’re seeing at this moment is one that will, I hope, be repaired on the policy standpoint when we elect Democrats. But I think we will still then have work to do on repairing the tone in our country, the exposure of the real racist and sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic and antisemitic feeling which is on the rise in our country – a rot that has been exposed.
Next: Being clear about where she stands
Calling out the BS on both sides
Chelsea Clinton has supported Donald Trump’s son. | Chelsea Clinton via Instagram
Chelsea wants politicians on both sides to be better
Though Clinton is a Democrat, she has been quick to call out both parties on their political dung and awful behavior. When former Clinton campaign advisor Philippe Reines wrote a nasty and sexist tweet about Vanessa Trump, Clinton was quick to call his words vile.
Also, when President Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, became the source of media scrutiny, Clinton was not having it. In August 2017 tweeted, “It’s high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let him have the private childhood he deserves.”
We think we could all use a little more of Chelsea Clinton in American politics.
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Daily Life, first prize singles – Paula Bronstein
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American photojournalist Paula Bronstein first photographed Afghanistan while on assignment for Getty Images in 2001, after the so-called war on terror was launched. Ever since then, Paula has regularly revisited the country to photograph the daily effects of war on Afghan civilians. Her image, which won the World Press Photo Daily Life Singles category, depicts ‘The Silent Victims of a Forgotten War’ who rarely make headlines.
Paula pitched ‘The Silent Victims of a Forgotten War’ series to The Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting to shed light on Afghanistan’s war wounded. “The point of this was to highlight silent victims who don’t have any voice because no-one knows who they are,’ she recalls. “I felt very strongly that I could highlight these people, their stories and something about them that touched people’s hearts. That’s what we try do a lot in photojournalism, which is a kind of humanitarian work.”
Paula spent a month photographing in the emergency hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. In her award-winning image two-year-old Shabir is held by his aunt Najiba as his mother is burying his sister, who was killed in a bomb blast. The composition creates an almost biblical scene. “I knew that the way the light would come into certain parts of the hospital in the late afternoon, especially in the women and children’s ward, would create a whole other mood,” says Paula. “This is added to because of the way she’s holding the baby, his angelic face and his little hand peeking out.”
She continues: “I actually waited until the mother and the father came so I could meet them and give them my condolences – this was a terrible time for them. They have no idea that this photo won this award and I don’t have any way to explain it in a way that would make sense to them. You probably hear this from other photographers who shoot horrific things – how do the subjects of the photograph actually relate to photographic awards?”
Although Paula originally submitted the photo in the Contemporary Issues category, she was not surprised to see World Press Photo had awarded the image in the Daily Life category. “As far as daily life goes, in Afghanistan this is absolutely part of it.”
March 29, 2016, Kabul, Afghanistan – Najiba holds her nephew Shabir, who was injured in a bomb blast that killed his sister. The bomb exploded in a relatively peaceful part of Kabul while Shabir’s mother was walking the children to school. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III.
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"Know your client", says Alison Barto, HSBC's managing director for client network banking © Daniella Cesarei
HSBC's Alison Barto: From CPO to commercial leader
in Careers and skills, Procurement, Supplier relations, Supply chain
“You better learn your stuff or your suppliers will eat you alive.”
This comment drove Alison Barto to really know her markets and her people, earning her stakeholder respect at HSBC – and a seat at the top table
Supply Management is going to claim at least some credit for the stellar rise of Alison Barto (née Parker). For it was an article published in this very magazine – about Barto winning the CIPS Hart Medal for her dissertation essay on the potential disruption of the millennium on supply chains – that led to her being approached by global banking giant HSBC. Fast-forward 17 years and she is managing director for client network banking, a commercial role almost created for and around her, after she had spent six years as CPO.
“I’m a strong believer you can learn new stuff: embrace as much as you can and don’t be closed to anything,” Barto tells SM when we meet at HSBC’s London Canary Wharf HQ. This open-minded, positive attitude has served her well. A trained engineer, she chose a career in procurement after a graduate training scheme placement in the raw materials purchasing department of stainless steel producer Avesta Sheffield (now Finnish-owned Outokumpu).
“I loved the external contact, the commercial aspect, the negotiation and the contracts,” she recalls, on realising the procurement function was for her. She stayed at Avesta Sheffield throughout her CIPS training, joining HSBC to work in IT purchasing in 2000. Moving from raw materials to IT was, she admits, “a massive learning curve”.
“I remember sitting in a meeting with IBM and the HSBC people, and they were all speaking in complete jargon,” she recalls. “Everything was an acronym; my notebook was full of acronyms. One of my suppliers said to me: ‘You better learn your stuff or your suppliers will eat you alive.’”
So she immersed herself in the world of IT: spending time with suppliers, visiting sites and learning everything about their operations. She also got close to her internal stakeholders, sitting two days a week with IT and the other three days with her purchasing colleagues.
“Really understanding your stakeholders’ needs is essential,” she says. “You can’t go out and buy a nail when what they really need is a screw.”
Barto soon built up a reputation internally and after four years was transferred to Hong Kong to start an IT procurement team from scratch. HSBC has a presence in 70 countries and is listed on five stock exchanges (not for nothing did it once have the tagline ‘The world’s local bank’). Getting international experience is critical for anyone with leadership ambitions at the bank. But the move wasn’t easy at first.
“In my very first meeting with the head of IT operations for Asia Pacific, I was told: ‘We don’t need procurement here. We do our own thing. Get back on the plane and go home,’” Barto recalls. Yet after two and half years, during which time she built a team from the ground up of strong IT buyers from technology firms such as IBM and HP – and saved the local business “millions” – the same head of operations was begging her to stay longer. “I think that’s a sign of success,” she laughs.
How did she turn it around so dramatically? “It was about winning hearts and minds and building a relationship that said: ‘We are here to help you run your business, not challenge you.’ I sat with her team so she could see I knew my stuff and wasn’t just the ‘crazy procurement lady’. We put contracts in place and generated significant savings off the bottom line. When you start doing that, people listen.”
She then moved to the IT procurement team in the US, before running the EMEA IT purchasing operations, managing a remote team scattered over about 40 countries. “That was the point I changed from being a manager and ‘doing a lot of the doing’ to being a leader,” she says. Her leadership philosophy is simple, if time-intensive: get to know your different markets and get to know your people.
“Get out and see them all,” she advises. “Understand their markets and the political situations they are going through. You have to become more globally aware. I believe in going out to meet the people and made a point of going to visit every team. You need to know how old their kids are. Build that relationship. Demonstrate you are human and connect with people. When you are pushing people hard to make a number, you have to be able to motivate them.”
When she took on the CPO role in 2010 (acting at first, as the current CPO was on long-term sick leave), she would fly long-haul to visit teams in places as far afield as Brazil or Vancouver, often choosing to stay the weekend and spend time with them socially. “You find out a lot just from speaking to people,” she says. “It all becomes easier to manage when you really know people.”
In the wake of the global financial crisis, cost-saving was high on the agenda, giving procurement an opportunity to influence and add value fast. As CPO, Barto led a “soup to nuts” review of HSBC’s $14bn spend, looking at “where we had never reviewed contracts, where we were overspending – the usual good procurement practices”. As HSBC had grown fast via acquisition in multiple countries, inconsistency was rife. Driving it out meant building relationships with leaders in various markets and businesses (HSBC operates in four streams: global private banking, commercial banking, retail banking and wealth management and global banking and markets).
“One of the first things I did was sit down with the board and get sponsorship from Stuart Gulliver [the group CEO] to say: ‘We are going to do a full review. You need to be on board.’ Building those C-suite level relationships has been critical for success.” How do you do it well? “You have to be relevant. Demonstrate you understand the business. And it’s not just about understanding financial services; if you’re doing marketing or IT, you need to communicate in their language and understand their world.”
During a year-long cost-saving programme, Barto and her team took out $1bn. “We found [savings] all over the place: inefficiencies in processes, prices that hadn’t been reviewed for years, prices that had never been benchmarked…”
Procurement traditionally hadn’t had a great relationship with corporate real estate, so Barto made an effort to build that up. “Making sure we influenced and led RFPs for corporate real estate was a really big win for us,” she says. As a result, HSBC has had one global contract with Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), as its sole global outsourcing provider of integrated facilities management services, since 2013. “To do that,” Barto believes, “you have to know your stuff and be credible. That takes research and time to understand the different commodities you’re dealing in. Talk about numbers, their suppliers, strategy and business areas. If we are putting in a 10-year contract, it has to be fit for the future, not just the next six months.”
After such success in the CPO role, when Barto’s thoughts turned to her next challenge she found herself at a crossroads. “There are two options once you’ve hit CPO,” she says. “You either do another CPO role elsewhere, or stay in the organisation and almost retrain to fit into the business in other ways.”
Considering herself “a commercial person through and through” and wanting to stay at HSBC, she approached the head of commercial banking to see if her skills could be of use in a different area, and was given a role as head of strategic networks – one of the firm’s 10 strategic priorities. Like most large corporates, HSBC can be siloed across businesses, countries and functions. Barto’s role was to leverage the value of the bank’s global network and encourage collaboration. She worked with local CEOs and leaders to set targets for cross-country and cross-business collaboration, to help spot new opportunities for the firm.
Her current role was one such opportunity, and something for which her previous experience could hardly have prepared her better. Client network banking leverages HSBC’s network to offer banking services to companies throughout clients’ supply chains. As these suppliers are often small and medium-sized businesses, they would normally not be able to access such a high-end service for a competitive rate.
“It’s about delivering value to a client’s supplier network,” Barto explains. “I’m now dealing with my peers, CPOs in client businesses, talking to them about the key drivers of their supply chains. Is it risk management or CSR, for example? [Client network banking] is about supply chain finance, but it’s also more than that. It’s getting the buyers to help us understand their suppliers and whether we can provide better banking services into their supply networks.”
This offering reflects the move towards stronger supplier relationship management (SRM) more widely, she believes. “While there are some companies – we had conversations with a large retail group, for example – who are not bothered about building supplier relationships and are purely aggressive on cost, the majority of organisations understand SRM. It’s not procurement 101 anymore, where you are just banging on the table and reducing costs. You drive much more value by understanding the end-to-end cycle of what your suppliers are doing and how it fits into your operations.”
Barto’s team is now working as far down as tier two and three suppliers in some programmes, exploring areas such as building supply chain management linked to sustainability indices and mitigating against risk by offering advice on working capital or lending. It means she is playing a significant commercial role in winning HSBC business. “It’s helping us know our clients better, so we can have higher-quality conversations,” she says. “There are examples where we’ve helped a client’s suppliers and off the back of that they’ve invited us to RFPs on projects we typically wouldn’t have been invited to.”
Where the role “fits perfectly” with her procurement expertise, is the understanding of how supply chains work, an essential skill. “I had to learn and I am still learning about banking and financial services, but there are a key set of skills that have been transferable: understanding international markets, working with international teams, understanding key procurement trends. I can take what I knew previously and apply it.”
She still considers herself a procurement person, and has joined the CIPS board as a trustee to keep up to date with the industry. “What you learn in procurement can be applied in other parts of the business without a shadow of a doubt,” she believes, adding: “I’m a positive thinker and I think the world really is your oyster if you’re prepared to take on challenges and constantly learn. Acknowledge you will be constantly learning, and you can do anything.”
Procurement, she says, is seen as one of the most commercial functions within HSBC, so perhaps it should come as no surprise that a former CPO is now leading a commercial area. However, she admits not all businesses are lucky enough to have a commercially aware and mature procurement function: “It’s scary, but there are still companies out there who don’t fully understand their spend.”
Just as Barto has always strived to understand the external factors affecting the business, right from that award-winning dissertation essay on supply chain disruption, she feels other procurement professionals should do the same. “There will always be things happening in the world that will drive how you work,” she says, citing cybercrime, financial crime, digitisation and disruption (from the challenger banks in her industry specifically) as examples.
“I don’t think a buyer’s job is ever done because so much changes,” she adds. “Look at Brexit and trade. Where are you sourcing things from? Typically it’s procurement that the C-suite are going to ask the questions of.”
Overall, she believes the procurement profession is “raising its head significantly”. “Most organisations now understand the value of procurement and realise that the business case stacks up. I think most CEOs get it now and there has been a shift in the understanding of procurement and its influence in the organisation.”
And if the profession can get more CPOs like Barto breaking new ground, then the future looks very bright indeed.
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In a letter to members of the House of Lords, where the Growth and Infrastructure Bill (which includes the employee shareholder proposals) is currently at the Committee stage, Law Society president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff said that proposals to offer employee ownership to workers in return for the forfeiture of employment rights should be deleted from the Bill.
The government said the aim of the new status is to boost employee engagement and productivity and to remove the perceived barriers around the fear of being taken to employment tribunal, which the government says is deterring businesses from recruiting.
However the Law Society is concerned that small businesses, who are the prime target audience for this proposal, will be put off by the complex tax, company law requirements and extra costs.
Ms Scott-Moncrieff said:
“There is potential for costly litigation on a range of complex issues which are likely to arise when an employee shareholder leaves, which runs counter to the government’s stated aim of supporting small and medium sized enterprises through simpler regulation.”
There has been wide-spread criticism that the government only allowed a three week period in which to respond to its consultation on the complex employee shareholder proposals.
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Rich donated £3.75bn to charities in the last 12 months, says Sunday Times Giving List
A record £3.75bn has been donated to charity by the UK’s richest individuals, but the number of individuals donating more than 1 per cent of their wealth has decreased from 86 last year to 72, according to the Sunday Times.
The publication’s Giving List, published yesterday, revealed that some 330 philanthropists donated £3.75bn in the last 12 months, a 0.5 per cent increase on last year, when £3.207bn was donated to charitable causes.
Topping the list is Jonathan Ruffer, who donated £317.5m to various arts and social heritage charities.
Kenneth Townsley is the second largest giver, responsible for funding children and medical charities, with a sum of £63.7m.
The Giving List, which was produced in partnership with the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), also said that the trust, The Garfield Weston Foundation gave a total of £69m to 1,917 projects. This accounts for almost half of the assets in the Giving Lists. The majority of the grants it made were for less than £20,000 and the trust allocated most of its money to small charities.
Decline in giving
Meanwhile, the list noted a decline in the number of philanthropists donating more than 1 per cent of their salary.
This comes after the UK Giving 2019 report was published last week by CAF. It revealed a decline in regular giving from 69 per cent in 2016 to 65 per cent in 2018, while the total sum donated remained stable at £10.1bn.
Joanna Walker, head of private clients at CAF said: “I think the negative publicity around the third sector has affected the general public more than major donors, who tend to believe passionately in the causes to which they give huge sums of money and are often able to have a much closer relationship with the charity.”
She added that high net worth donors may be concerned about Brexit. “The uncertainty around Brexit makes some of our major donors nervous. Donor confidence is critical. While some are giving at similar levels to before, others are waiting to see how things pan out. Just as there was a two-year time lag between the 2008 crash and a big dip in charitable giving, so it might be 2021-22 before we see the full effects of the present political impasse.”
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Now That Scott Pruitt Is Out, This Coal Lobbyist Will Take His Place
It’s like “having a tobacco lobbyist heading up the American Lung Association.”
09 Jul, 2018 at 18:28 PM
The Senate is about to confirm the man who would take over the Environmental Protection Agency should Scott Pruitt step down. Andrew Wheeler, an energy lobbyist who has worked for the Senate’s biggest climate change denier, faces a confirmation vote for deputy administrator, the number two position at the agency, as soon as Tuesday.
Environmentalists say that having Wheeler in place would reassure the fossil fuel industry that it still has an “inside man” for the nation’s top environmental post should Pruitt finally succumb to his mounting ethics scandals.
“It would be similar to having a tobacco lobbyist heading up the American Lung Association,” Judith Enck, an Obama-era former EPA regional administrator, said in an email. “Wheeler would continue the polluting policies of Pruitt but perhaps have the good sense not to violate federal ethics rules.”
That’s because Wheeler has had decades of experience working for some of the biggest critics of environmental regulation, including Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who has distinguished himself as the most vocal climate change denier in Congress. As a lobbyist with the firm Faegre Baker Daniel, one of his major clients has been the nation’s largest private coal company, Murray Energy, whose CEO Bob Murray has been a generous Republican donor and Trump supporter. Among his other clients are the uranium mining company Energy Fuels Resources, the utility Xcel Energy, the biofuel firm Growth Energy, and the liquified natural gas company Bear Head LNG—all of which are regulated by the EPA.
Last fall, after months of speculation over who would fill the empty post, Trump nominated Wheeler. His hearing coincided with that for the Council of Environmental Quality nominee Kathleen Hartnett White, whose nomination was pulled after protests from Democrats. But Wheeler’s nomination proceeded, and after several lengthy delays, his confirmation vote advanced out of committee in February. Pruitt’s fortunes changed dramatically since then, and there is now the very real possibility he may soon exit EPA—leaving Wheeler to take over as acting administrator.
Bob Murray has been one of the most aggressive advocates for the EPA to review its endangerment finding. This finding, which forms the scientific basis for the EPA’s regulatory climate work, considers greenhouse gasses a public health threat. Shortly after Trump was inaugurated, Murray provided the administration a policy wish list in which rescinding the endangerment was a top priority. Wheeler admitted in his confirmation hearing that he was handed the same list (Wheeler was still lobbying on behalf of the company as recently as summer 2017).
Early in his career, Wheeler spent four years at the EPA during the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations. Afterward, he spent 14 years in the Senate working for Senator James Inhofe and his Environmental Public and Works Committee. (Inhofe is the author of a book on climate change entitled The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.) As Wheeler’s own biography states, he worked on “greenhouse gas emissions legislation, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the Clear Skies Act and the Clean Air Interstate Rule”—but he omits that Inhofe’s staff often worked to undermine greenhouse gas regulation. According to Huffington Post‘s Alexander C. Kaufman, Wheeler cultivated a reputation as a “bully” for peppering environmental regulators with what they said were politically motivated congressional probes.
Wheeler takes after his former bosses. In 2010, he wrote that a controversy where climate scientists’ emails were hacked proved that the EPA’s climate endangerment finding should be reconsidered. “While the [Obama] Administration and their allies have tried to downplay this fact over the last few weeks, the fact is that this undermines their legal position as the Endangerment Finding is challenged in the courts.” And when Wheeler appeared before the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee last fall, he misrepresented the scientific consensus about human contribution to climate change. “I believe that man has an impact on the climate, but what’s not completely understood is what the impact is,” he told the committee.
His congressional experience may mean Wheeler is more adept at navigating the controversies that have diminished Pruitt’s star in the Trump White House.
Bruce Buckheit, a consultant who was the EPA’s head of air pollution enforcement during the Clinton administration, explains that in contrast to Scott Pruitt, who was “an outsider located in Oklahoma City and new on the scene in the last few years,” Wheeler brings to the post more substantial “depth of knowledge and contacts in Washington.”
But Wheeler is still vulnerable, namely over the ties to his former clients. The Intercept recently reported that he held fundraising parties for Senators John Barasso (R-Wyo.) and Inhofe last May, after he was rumored to be tapped for EPA, breaching the wall between political fundraising and public service.
The deputy administrator is not a public face for the agency, but the position has significant power in implementing Trump’s vision of crippling environmental protection. “He would have a lot of opportunity to do long-term damage on the personnel front,” Buckheit says. Past deputies have been involved with everything from making staffing decisions, such as appointments to the EPA’s science advisory committees, overseeing operations, working with regional offices and state agencies—all of which are issues that can affect EPA staffers’ morale and work.
“The role of deputy is kind of an inside job, at least for most deputies,” said Wake Forest University’s Stan Meiburg, who served as acting deputy administrator in the Obama administration. “Our standing joke in the deputy community is we do anything the administrator doesn’t want to do.”
Under Trump’s ethics executive order issued last year, Wheeler would not be able to participate in matters involving issues he lobbied on for at least two years. However, the White House has freely handed out waivers to officials, such as the EPA chemicals officer Nancy Beck, a former lobbyist, which allows them to work on policy that otherwise would be seen as a conflict of interest. According to ethics experts, there’s little standing in the way of Wheeler advocating for issues that may overlap with his former clients.
“Our current government ethics rules do not prevent a professional lobbyist like Wheeler from taking a leadership position in the agency that he has been trying to influence from the outside,” Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University, St. Louis, said in an email. “Wheeler’s appointment to the EPA exemplifies the motto: ‘Personnel is Policy.'”
When the Senate first held his confirmation hearing, it was in a different climate. Wheeler was the man to carry out Pruitt’s deregulatory vision. Soon, he could find himself in a very different kind of role, which is why environmental groups sounded the alarm again last week on the upcoming vote.
“Circumstances have changed,” John Coequyt, Sierra Club’s senior director of federal policy, said in an email. “[The] swift and insufficient committee process that has brought Wheeler to this point must be revisited so Wheeler’s own record and dirty dealings can be scrutinized.”
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Europe should ‘consciously uncouple’
Published Tue, Jul 5 2016 1:22 AM EDT Updated Wed, Jul 6 2016 4:20 AM EDT
Nancy Hungerford@nancycnbc
Sitting in Gatwick airport's departure terminal on the afternoon of Friday June 24 felt a bit like leaving a car crash before the ambulance arrived.
Hours earlier I was standing in front of a plunging sterling-dollar chart reporting live that Sunderland voted leave by a much wider margin than expected. The journalist in me was anxious to stay in the U.K. and witness the reaction on the street, but before the morning rush hour set in, I was packing my bags for a weeklong trip across the continent.
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First stop Italy. The reaction was muted, barring some sensational newspaper headlines. A taxi driver in Rome said "for me, it is good news. For too long we've been giving too much money to the EU with nothing in return. " But when asked whether Italy would be next through the door, "no way" he insisted. A museum guide shared his sentiment. "We are fed up with the EU, but for Italy there is no going back."
The most passionate replies were heard in France. "It's funny for us," said a hotel receptionist in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence. "Nobody thought it would happen. But if they want to leave, they should hurry up."
A French taxi driver told me: "I'm very happy. Politicians have been wasting our money. They don't have proper jobs. I'd rather see a businessman like (Tesla CEO) Elon Musk in power. " But when asked if France would ever leave the EU, the driver laughed off the suggestion.
The overriding message: We are proud to be European but we are fed up with our leaders. The bemusement, at times admiration, expressed for the British rebellion, was a far cry from the outrage and indignation voiced in the official quarters in Brussels.
On the sidelines of the EU leaders meeting, I asked European Parliament President Martin Schulz whether Brussels shared any blame for not taking the Brexit risk seriously. He stared me down as if I had been planted by Nigel Farage. My question came in response to the shock I felt at the lack of humility on display.
At a time when Eurosceptic fever is running amok, I was stunned by an unwillingness of Messrs Schulz, Juncker and Tusk to take ownership for the failings of their institutions.
Even in the nastiest divorce, it's a normal part of the healing process for both parties to examine their own failings. There is no other woman in this divorce, the U.K. is not running away with the United States, not yet at least - which makes the call for introspection even more relevant.
The conclusion of the EU Council meeting in Brussels meant it was time to pack my bags for the VivaTechnology Conference in Paris. Nothing like "Pollyanna" techies to wake you from the post Brexit blues. But no joy. A host of Silicon Valley giants were in attendance to remind Europe where America stood on the debate.
Alphabet's Eric Schmidt stated: "We prefer for Europe to be one single market, fragmentation is bad for entrepreneurs. " Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales lamented the shift toward populism globally, while Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg appeared by video touting the benefits of a more open world without borders.
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It was the Publicis CEO, Maurice Levy, however, that lent a breath of fresh air to the discussion. "The fact that there are populists is not the problem, it's that nobody is listening to them," he said.
That line stuck with me. How is it possible that we live in the most connected, digitally aware period in history and people aren't being heard? It's human nature to gravitate to smaller circles. Look no further than the halls of Brussels, tech conferences and economic forums for evidence of elites building silos.
But we should expect more from the politicians who are elected with a mandate to serve the people who pay their way.
What's done is done. The U.K. is going to leave the EU. But if leaders sitting across the English Channel want to do what's best for the kids in this divorce, they should listen to their citizens and work toward a smarter, more accountable union.
Now that the most polarizing figures in the leave campaign have taken a bow from their party's top posts, it's time to work towards reconciliation.
The U.K. may have asked for this split, but the EU committed plenty of wrongs in the marriage along the way. Take a page out of Gwyneth Paltrow's textbook and "consciously uncouple."
Correction: This story has been updated to show that Martin Schulz is the president of the European Parliament.
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