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Why Bryce in pinstripes makes so much sense
Hard to fathom Yanks passing on superstar over money
By Mike Lupica
This is as good a place as any to start a conversation about Bryce Harper and whether he might end up with the Yankees: I'll believe he's not going to end up with the Yanks when he signs with somebody else.We keep hearing about how Hal Steinbrenner wants to keep
This is as good a place as any to start a conversation about Bryce Harper and whether he might end up with the Yankees: I'll believe he's not going to end up with the Yanks when he signs with somebody else.
We keep hearing about how Hal Steinbrenner wants to keep the Yankees' payroll under the luxury tax threshold. We keep hearing that the Yanks can't sign Harper for 10 years or 12 years, or whatever it's going to take, because they traded for Giancarlo Stanton last year and, if Stanton doesn't opt out of his deal after the 2020 season (why in the world would he?), the Yankees are committed to Stanton for nine more years and around $250 million.
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But you have to understand something: If the Yankees think they can spend their way past the Boston Red Sox, they are going to do that.
If the Yankees ever could find a trade partner for Stanton, I believe they would move him, even if they had to eat some of original contract with the Marlins. There was a time 14 years ago, when the Rangers were so intent on trading Alex Rodriguez that they were willing to pay the Yanks $67 million of the $179 million left on Rodriguez's original $252 million contract. It doesn't mean the Yankees don't love Stanton after only having him for one year. They just have to know that they would love Harper more.
Now this doesn't mean that Harper will sign with the Yankees. It doesn't mean that they will give him a contract even longer than the one Stanton has, and they know the day when they're going to have to start paying big money to their other big guy, Aaron Judge, isn't all that far off. It also doesn't change the fact that the Yanks' outfield would get more crowded than the 4 train at rush hour if they can get Harper into pinstripes.
I just keep thinking that signing Harper as a free agent makes as much sense as signing Reggie Jackson did over 40 years ago. George Steinbrenner brought Reggie to New York City -- "I'm bringing my star with me," Reggie said -- and the Yankees promptly won their first World Series in 16 years. Harper might help them win their first World Series title in a decade, and only their second since 2000.
And you cannot overstate New York's current obsession with Boston, the same kind of obsession in this century that the Red Sox had about the Yankees in the last one. After the Yanks won their Subway Series against the Mets in 2000, the Sox won two Series before the Yankees won another one, in 2009. Now Boston has won two more since '09.
The Yankees have one true must-see, must-watch star on their roster. It is Judge, despite the home run numbers that Stanton has put into the books before the age of 30. Harper would be just as big a young star at the Stadium. I honestly believe that if general manager Brian Cashman hadn't made the trade for Stanton -- after the Yanks never really got into the game with Shohei Ohtani -- that Harper might have been a Yankee by Thanksgiving. And he still might be one by Christmas.
I talked to somebody the other day who has always had great sources within the Yankees organization, and he dismissed the idea that they were going to throw money at either Harper or Manny Machado, who would fill a more pressing and immediate need at shortstop, because Didi Gregorius is out for the 2019 season after Tommy John surgery.
"Not happening," he said.
There are all those reasons why the Yankees, starting with the financial ones, may ultimately decide not to get into the game with Harper. Whatever Cashman says, there has to be at least some buyer's remorse on Stanton, despite the fact that he hit 38 home runs and knocked in 100 in his first season as a Yankee. Or maybe in the end, Cashman and Steinbrenner will decide that the chance to put Harper in the same batting order with Judge and Stanton would give the Yanks the most dangerous batting order in their history.
The other day, Cashman was on MLB Network Radio talking about the possibility, floated by Harper's agent, Scott Boras, of his client becoming a first baseman in New York.
"People have talked about Bryce Harper being able to play first base, I don't know if he can or can't," Cashman said. "I know he's very athletic, but that's not necessarily a bet I would recommend placing with the amount of money he's expected to get."
The number that still matters most with Harper isn't $400 million, or whatever it will take some team to sign him. The number that still matters the most is that Harper didn't turn 26 until October. Do the Yankees ("There's money, and then there's Yankee money," another owner once said) really let him go play baseball somewhere else over the next decade because of money?
Harper is the kind of star the Yankees have always gone for, all the way back to Babe Ruth. He is made for them and they are made for him. One last time: I'll believe the Yanks pass on Harper when they actually do.
Mike Lupica is a columnist for MLB.com.
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Art in Bloom 2013
Montclair Art Museum’s biennial celebration, Art in Bloom, brings together artists, philanthropists, community leaders, and friends of MAM. In 2013, over 30 floral designers from New Jersey and New York joined us for a remarkable collaboration of art and floral arrangements inspired by...
The Bloomfield Avenue Hotline
The Bloomfield Avenue Hotline was the winner of the first annual Bloomfield Avenue Prize, a joint initiative of the Montclair Art Museum and Bloomfield College. Named after the street that connects the two institutions, the Prize was awarded through a juried open call competition for...
Works by Lee Arnold
April 2, 2013 - September 14, 2013
Arnold explores the nature of time and perception using a variety of media, including film, animation, video, photography, drawing, and sound. Both of the videos on view at MAM, The Wanderer and The Swim (both 2012), were created during a summer sojourn in Maine. Arnold, who...
The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913
The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913 celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the famous and controversial 1913 Armory Show with a major exhibition that opened exactly 100 years to the day from the original. The New Spirit was the first exhibition to focus...
Oscar Bluemner’s America: Picturing Paterson, New Jersey
Selections from the Vera Kouba Bluemner Collection, Stetson University, De Land, Florida.
This exhibition focused on Oscar Bluemner’s representations of Paterson, New Jersey, a once-thriving manufacturing center that became a center of social, political, and...
Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land
This exhibition, originated by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, revealed the little-known breadth of Georgia O’Keeffe’s interest in northern New Mexico and more particularly illuminated her keen sensitivity and deep respect for the Native American and Hispano cultures of the region. From 1931 to...
Saya Woolfalk: The Empathics
Saya Woolfalk: The Empathics was the first solo museum exhibition by the acclaimed multimedia artist and the second in MAM’s New Directions series of contemporary art exhibitions. Blending fantasy, humor, and play, Woolfalk’s art draws on anthropology, mythology, and fashion to present...
New Media: New Forms, New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts 2012
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Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections
This exhibition featured 39 works by 20th- and 21st-century artists who have extended the boundaries of art making. Drawn from area private collections, the exhibition offered a rare opportunity to view works that are seldom exhibited in public and showcased the art of early and midcentury...
Patterns, Systems, Structures: Abstraction in American Art
December 3, 2011 - October 19, 2013
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George Inness: Private Treasures
November 5, 2011 - March 31, 2012
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Stacy Pearsall: Selections from Baqubah, Iraq
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There was no admission charge for this exhibition. Moreover,...
Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies, and Others
September 16, 2011 - March 31, 2012
This was the inaugural exhibition in the Montclair Art Museum's New Directions series. Curated by Alexandra Schwartz, MAM's first curator of contemporary art, the exhibition marked the world premiere of Zurkow's series Friends and Enemies, and comprised 16 works on paper and five...
Warhol and Cars: American Icons
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Will Barnet: A Centennial Celebration
February 3, 2011 - August 20, 2011
Barnet's highly original recent work builds upon the foundation of his Indian Space work of the 1950s, which is based upon the Native American–inspired integration of organic and geometric pictograph forms within a flat, seamless space. These works were begun in 2003 and were exhibited at the...
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Moran & Company closes core-plus deal in the Denver Tech Center
Englewood, CO – Jackson Square Properties, a San Francisco Bay area based investment firm, has acquired The Rail at Inverness, a 219-unit garden-style community from a joint venture comprised of Holland Partner Group and an affiliate of Heitman LLC. David Martin, Pamela Koster, and Mike Grippi of Moran & Company, represented the seller in the transaction.
The Rail at Inverness is a well-designed garden-style apartment community built in 2007, with nine floorplans ranging from 640 to 1,101 square feet. The property consists of 9 rental buildings situated across 7.63-acres. Located at 10001 E. Dry Creek Dr. in the epicenter of the Denver Tech Center, the site boasts convenient access to a diverse industry base and major employment centers, a robust retail market, exceptional transit connectivity at the Dry Creek Station, and access to the highly desirable Cherry Creek School District.
Moran & Company’s David Martin notes that “Given the property’s highly desirable location in the Denver Tech Center, and within the Cherry Creek school district, it is already very well positioned for future rent growth and value creation. The Rail at Inverness can easily be positioned to generate additional cash flow as a unique core-plus investment opportunity through completed renovations.”
About Jackson Square Properties: Jackson Square Properties is a private Real Estate investment company located in the San Francisco Bay Area that specializes solely in the purchase and ownership of Multi-Family apartment communities. Founded in 2004 Jackson Square Properties has expanded over the years to own a diverse pool of multi-family assets totaling over 70 communities with 20,000 units in 9 states and a value over 3.8 billion dollars.
About Moran & Co: Moran & Co. (www.moranandco.com) is a Chicago-based transaction services firm specializing in the sale of institutional-quality multifamily properties including Class A and value-add opportunities. Moran has offices in Irvine, Calif., Dallas, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Washington D.C. and Atlanta.
Derrek Osterzyzek named to Real Estate Forum’s 2017 50 Under 40
Having recently transitioned to brokerage after spending eight years on the principal side for Invesco Real Estate, where he closed $600 million in acquisitions, Derrek Ostrzyzek has made an immediate impact. As a director covering Southern California, he’s part of a team that within the past 18 months has completed 30 transactions...
© 2016 Moran & Company.
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North American Bancard Receives Corp! Magazine’s Michigan Economic Bright Spot Award
TROY, Mich., June 30, 2015 – North American Bancard (NAB), an industry leader in credit card processing and provider of the PayAnywhere Storefront and mobile point-of-sale solutions, has been named one of Corp! Magazine’s Michigan’s Economic Bright Spots for 2015. The award is presented annually to those standout Michigan-based companies that find themselves thriving even in difficult economic circumstances, and that best exemplify the innovation and entrepreneurial spirit that make Michigan a great place for businesses. Corp! Magazine recently presented NAB and the other honorees with their awards during a breakfast event at the VisTaTech Center on the campus of Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Mich.
Corp! Magazine chose NAB as a Michigan Economic Bright Spot for its flexibility and innovation within the payments industry, particularly with PayAnywhere, as well as its decision to stay in Michigan during the recent economic downturn, a choice that has provided NAB with a strong foundation to cultivate and sustain growth. NAB’s three most recent acquisitions, Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX), Argus Payments and Rapid Capital Funding, have enabled the company to boost its business and continue to thrive.
“Leaving Michigan during the economic downturn was never a consideration,” said Marc Gardner, founder, president and CEO of North American Bancard. “I founded North American Bancard in Troy in 1992 and we’ve been here ever since. Over the years we’ve implemented strategies that have helped us to not just survive, but thrive. Today we’re better than ever. We’re always looking at innovative new products and technologies, like PayAnywhere Storefront and mobile, that further enhance our position in the payments industry. Plus we continue to employ some of the best minds in the payments and credit card processing industries, and are always looking to hire those who will help make NAB one of the best companies not only in Michigan, but in the industry, as well.”
Gardner believes that the acquisitions NAB made last year have positioned the company to become stronger and experience even more growth. “The acquisition of EPX has allowed NAB to become an end-to-end processor, which significantly decreased our operating costs and the merchant’s cost of doing business with us,” Gardner said. “Our other acquisitions, Argus Payments and Rapid Capital Funding, have given us more flexibility to tailor solutions to our customers’ needs.”
About North American Bancard
Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, award-winning North American Bancard is an industry leader in credit card processing, providing a variety of merchant services that help client companies of all sizes develop solutions for payment processing, including credit, debit, EBT, check conversion and guarantee, gift & loyalty cards and more. As an MSP/ISO since 1992, North American Bancard is dedicated to offering the highest service levels, exceptionally competitive pricing, and the latest technology to its client companies, including Pay Anywhere, its proprietary point-of-sale (POS) solution. With over $34 billion worth of payments processed for more than 250,000 businesses every year, North American Bancard is determined to help American businesses prosper. For more information, visit http://www.nabancard.com.
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Amazon introduces ‘Snowmobile’ to transfer petabytes of data faster than ever
December 2, 2016 December 2, 2016 by Jan Willem Aldershoff
Amazon has revealed a new service to transfer hundreds of petabytes of data as soon as possible to the cloud. The transfer is far from regular, the data doesn’t go over the usual DSL, cable or fiber connection, neither is it wirelessly transmitted. Amazon’s solution exists of specially equipped trucks which the company has named Snowmobiles.
The company already offered special hardware to ship data safely to the cloud through a special external storage device called Snowball. This allowed users to physically move 80 terabytes of data, in one time, to the cloud.
With the new Snowmobiles the amount of storage that can be transferred is greatly increased, a single truck can transfer up to 100 petabytes.
Amazon developed the solution as uploading so much data takes way too much time. “It will take 26 years to move an exabyte to the cloud over a 10Gbps connection”, according to Andy Jassy, CEO Of Amazon Web Services. The Snowmobile can be filled up with data in 10 days when it’s offered with a maximum speed of 1 terabyte per second, which is possible through several 40Gbps glass fiber connections with the truck.
Data on the Snowmobile is protected by multiple layers of security. This includes dedicated security personnel, GPS tracking, alarm monitoring, 24/7 video surveillance, and an optional escort security vehicle while in transit. Besides that, all data is encrypted with 256-bit encryption keys.
Snowmobile pricing is based on the amount of data stored on the truck per month (Amazon lists an indicative price of $0.005/GB per month for provisioned capacity) and the service is only available in the United States.
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#CWC19
Arjuna wants ICC inquiry on World Cup pitches
In an explosive statement, World Cup winning Captain Minister Arjuna Ranatunga has claimed that Minister of Sports Harin Fernando should write to the International Cricket Council and call for an independent inquiry into the alleged mistreatment of Sri Lankan players and pitches given to the team during the ongoing 2019 Cricket World Cup.
Speaking to media in Attanagalla, Minister Ranatunga said the Sport Minister should take the lead to address the concerns raised by Manager of the Sri Lanka National Cricket Team Ashantha De Mel.
Complaining of step-motherly treatment meted out to them in the ongoing World Cup, Manager De Mel expressed dissatisfaction at the types of pitches provided, inadequate training and transport facilities apart from below-par accommodation.
Sri Lanka team manager Ashantha de Mel has written to the ICC, stating that Sri Lanka were made to play on two green decks in Cardiff, where they lost to New Zealand before defeating Afghanistan, whereas other teams who played on same venue were provided high-scoring pitches.
World Cup winning Captain Minister Arjuna Ranatunga said the Cricket Board and the government should address such concerns in order for the team to be competitive at World events.
The Minister also expressed his views pertaining to yesterday’s encounter against Australia.
https://www.newsradio.lk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1800-Arjuna-Ranatunga-16th.mp3
Bangladesh series tickets now online
Match Day Tickets for the upcoming three-game ODI series between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are now available for sale online.
Concussion subs in international cricket soon
Concussion substitutes are likely to be introduced to international cricket in time for the men's Ashes Test series next month.
ICC finally responds to overthrow controversy
The ICC has refused to be drawn into the furore surrounding the overthrows rule and whether England were incorrectly awarded
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Home >> Our Kōrero >> News >> Tuhoe in the News >> 2017 Ted McCoy Award for Education
2017 Ted McCoy Award for Education
The 2017 Ted McCoy Award for Education at the New Zealand Architecture Awards was conferred to Tennent Brown Architects for Te Wharehou o Waikaremoana.
The building amidst its natural setting, nestled right next to the shores of Lake Waikaremoana. Image: Andy Spain
Te Wharehou o Waikaremoana is the product of a holistic process in which sensitive design and considered siting are complemented by a thoroughgoing commitment to sustainable principles. The building is an impressive expression of Ngāi Tūhoe’s identification with their land and its history and an excellent medium for the transmission of knowledge about a place and its people to visitors from around the world.
“For me, so much about the experience of visiting Te Wharehou o Waikaremoana wasn’t even about the building – which I guess is a strange thing to say within the scope of an architectural competition – and the building does have a strong form and yet, on approach, you could barely see it against the backdrop of the bush behind it,” explains Louise Wright.
“The building is almost functionless,” adds Lance Herbst. “It’s really just a space, a hall that could be anything or it could be everything. Even Ngāi Tūhoe are unsure of how they will use it. Programme-wise, it really is undefined, so its success lies in its response to this culture and in the way it sits within this impossibly sensitive environment.”
Te Wharehou’s success “lies in its response to Tūhoe culture and in the way it sits within this impossibly sensitive environment.”
“And yet, despite this ambiguity around use,” says Wright, “the building somehow seemed that it would be ready for when Tūhoe did decide how best to use it.”
“There is a lot of intention around where everything is placed – including the siting of the building itself – and it really does respond very well to the landscape. Everything in the design has a story and is totally significant to the history of the land and its people,” says Jack McKinney.
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Trade Coverage
Tim Bozon traded to Panthers from Canadiens
Forward two seasons removed from near-fatal meningitis diagnosis
NHL.com @NHLdotcom
Forward Tim Bozon was traded to the Florida Panthers by the Montreal Canadiens for defenseman Jonathan Racine on Saturday.
Bozon, 22, was diagnosed with Neisseria meningitis in March 2014, a rare and potentially fatal bacterial form of the disease. He spent two weeks in a coma in a hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and recovered to play 57 games in 2014-15 with Kootenay of the Western Hockey League.
Last season, his first as a professional, Bozon had five goals and eight points in 41 games with St. John's of the American Hockey League. The Canadiens selected Bozon in the third-round (No. 64) of the 2012 NHL Draft.
Racine, 23, had one goal and nine points in 69 games with Portland of the American Hockey League last season. A third-round pick (No. 87) in the 2011 NHL Draft, he played one NHL game with the Panthers during the 2013-14 season.
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Ms X and Kildare County Council
Whether the Council was justified in its decision to refuse access in part to copies of successful tenders for legal services under sections 26, 27 and 31 of the FOI Act
Conducted in accordance with section 34(2) of the FOI Act, by Stephen Rafferty, Senior Investigator, who is authorised by the Information Commissioner to conduct this review
On 27 November 2013, the applicant submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Council for access to records relating to a tendering process for legal services by it in 2012. On 15 January 2014, the Council issued its decision, granting access to relevant records, subject to certain redactions.
The applicant sought an internal review of this decision by way of letter dated 12 February 2014. The Council's internal reviewer issued his decision on 5 March 2014, upholding the initial decision. On 21 July 2014, the applicant sought a review by this Office of the Council's decision.
I note that, in correspondence with the applicant, Mr. Niall Mulligan of this Office set out his view in relation to the exemptions claimed. The applicant offered no further submissions or correspondence to this Office. I therefore consider that the review should now be brought to a close by the issue of a formal, binding decision.
In conducting my review, I have had regard to the Council's decision on the matter and its communications with this Office, as well as the applicant's communications with this Office and the Council. I have also had regard to the provisions of the FOI Act and to the records in question, a copy of which have been provided to this office for the purpose of this review.
In the interests of clarity, I should point out that this review was carried out under the provisions of the FOI Acts 1997-2003, notwithstanding the fact that the FOI Act 2014 has now been enacted. The transitional provisions in section 55 of the 2014 Act provide that any action commenced under the 1997 Act but not completed before the commencement of the 2014 Act shall continue to be performed and shall be completed as if the 1997 Act had not been repealed.
In the course of this review, by way of email dated 24 September 2014, the applicant, in correspondence with Mr Mulligan, agreed to limit the scope of the review to those parts of the records relating to the breakdown of tender fees.
Therefore, this review is concerned solely with the question of whether the Council was justified in refusing access under sections 26(1)(a), 27(1)(b) and 31(1)(c) of the FOI Act to information contained Appendix H of each tender document which sets out a detailed breakdown of the individual pricing elements involved in each tender.
Section 27(1) of the FOI Act provides:-
"Subject to subsection (2), a head shall refuse to grant a request under section 7 if the record concerned contains...
(b) financial, commercial, scientific or technical or other information whose disclosure could reasonably be expected to result in a material financial loss or gain to the person to whom the information relates, or could prejudice the competitive position of that person in the conduct of his or her profession or business or otherwise in his or her occupation"
In Henry Ford & Sons Ltd, Nissan Ireland and Motor Distributors Ltd and The Office of Public Works (Cases 98049, 98056, 98057), the Commissioner held that:-
"[T]he essence of the test in section 27(1)(b) is not the nature of the information but the nature of the harm which might be occasioned by its release. The subsection protects information whose disclosure might reasonably be expected to result in a material financial loss or gain to the person to whom the information relates or could prejudice the competitive position of that person in the conduct of his or her profession or business or otherwise in his or her occupation."
The standard of proof in relation to section 27(1)(b) is not a particularly onerous one. All that is required is that the Council demonstrates the possibility of prejudice to the competitive position of the person in the conduct of their profession or business. The Council has made submissions setting out the apprehended effects of the release of the record. In particular, the Council states that the release of the information could give "service providers' competitors an unfair competitive advantage in future competitions", and would thus prejudice the competitive position of the parties concerned. I am satisfied that the threshold has been met and that the Council has demonstrated a potential prejudice to his competitive position of third party service providers.
Section 27(2) goes on to set out five specific sets of circumstances in which section 27(1) will not apply, none of which appear to me to be relevant to this case.
Section 27(3) provides that the exemption contained at 27(1) will be subject to a public interest test, in the following terms:-
"... subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a case in which, in the opinion of the head concerned, the public interest would, on balance, be better served by granting than by refusing to grant the request under section 7 concerned."
The Council submitted that the public interest would not be better served by the release of detailed pricing information contained in successful tender documents, as it may have various detrimental effects on the ability of public bodies to tender effectively, for instance by deterring providers from offering preferential hourly rates in circumstances where other clients may become aware of the fact and through disrupting the level of competitiveness by allowing other firms to have regard to the make up of successful tenders in future competitions.
The applicant submitted that the decision of the previous Commissioner in Case 99183 (McKeever Rowan Solicitors and the Department of Finance) supports the release of the tender information in its entirety. However, it is important to note that, in that case, the former Commissioner found that the "fee information at issue [was] historic and ... admittedly out of date." The former Commissioner went on to state that, " I consider that any potential client or competitor is likely to understand that the firm's rates have changed."
In this case, I am satisfied that the information at issue is not historic. It relates to a tender competition which took place in mid-2013 and refers to the rates currently being charged by contractors to the Council. In my view, this represents a crucial distinction between the circumstances of this case and those operating in Case 99183.
The applicant also cited the public interest factors set out in the case of Case 080284 (ABC Ltd & Roscommon County Council) in submissions. It should be noted that this case pre-dates the judgment of the Supreme Court in The Governors and Guardians of the Hospital for the Relief of Poor Lying-In Women v. The Information Commissioner [2011] IESC 26. In that case, Macken J commented that "any "public interest" would, in my view, require to be a true public interest recognised by means of a well known and established policy, adopted by the Oireachtas, or by law".
In Case 080284, the former Commissioner identified various public interest factors tending to favour the release of tender information. I am satisfied that these factors may be are elements of the recognised public interest in openness, transparency and accountability of public bodies, particularly as regards the expenditure of public funds. I note that the Council has released the overall tender figure for the successful tenders. I am satisfied that the public interest favoured the release of that information.
The applicant submitted that the former Commissioner in Case 98188 (Mark Henry and the Office of Public Works) had found that the, "successful tender information lost confidentiality with respect to the fee rates and other details necessary to understand the nature of the services contracted for". In fact, the finding in question was contained in the Commissioner's decision in Case 99183 (McKeever Rowan Solicitors and the Department of Finance). Disclosure of the information at issue in this case would disclose more than simply an agreed fee rate. It would also disclose the pricing strategy of the successful tenderers.
The price score for each tenderer was calculated based on an indicative number of cases/transactions/person hours for the various activities as described under the categories of services in the Invitation to Tender documents. It provided details of the total calculated price for each identified successful tenderer under each identified category. It seems to me that the public interest in openness, transparency and accountability of the Council in relation to the tender process in question has been served to some extent by the release of that information. While I accept that the release of the pricing schedules would further serve that public interest, I must balance that consideration against the public interest in companies being able to protect their competitive position and not be unduly disadvantaged through participation in a public tender process.
Having carefully considered the matter, I am not satisfied, on balance, that the public interest would be be better served by granting than by refusing to grant the request in relation to the detailed breakdown of pricing figures contained at Appendix H of the tender documents. I therefore find that section 27(3) of the FOI Act does not apply to this information.
The applicant also made a number of arguments relating to the exemption for confidential information under section 26 of the FOI Act, placing particular reliance on Case 99183. As I have found that the information at issue is exempt under section 27 of the FOI Act, it is not necessary for me to consider the other exemptions raised by the Council in its decision, being section 26 and 31 of the FOI Act.
Having carried out a review under section 34(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 1997, as amended, I hereby affirm the decision of the Council to refuse access to the pricing information contained at Appendices H of each tender document, except for the overall amount of the tender, pursuant to section 27(1)(b) of the FOI Act.
A party to a review, or any other person affected by a decision of the Information Commissioner following a review, may appeal to the High Court on a point of law arising from the decision. Such an appeal must be initiated not later than eight weeks from the date on which notice of the decision was given to the person bringing the appeal.
Stephen Rafferty
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Ms X and Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin
Whether the Hospital was justified in its decision to charge a fee of €320 for the cost of search and retrieval of records sought by the applicant relating to the funding of posts at the Hospital between 2013 and 2015
Conducted in accordance with section 22(2) of the FOI Act by Stephen Rafferty, Senior Investigator, who is authorised by the Information Commissioner to conduct this review
The applicant submitted a request to the Hospital on 12 January 2016 for records relating to funding received by the Hospital from pharmaceutical companies or medical device companies since 2013, posts/hours in the Hospital funded or part funded by pharmaceutical companies or medical device companies since 2013, and the names of external organisations or charities that have provided grants which were used to fill posts in the Hospital since 2013.
On 18 January 2016 the Hospital informed the applicant that it had estimated the cost of processing her request to be €500, on the basis that the fulfilment of her request would involve one member of staff working for 25 hours, and it sought a deposit of €100. It also offered the applicant the opportunity to explore the amendment of her request in order to reduce or eliminate the deposit and search and retrieval fees.
On 20 January 2016 sought clarification as to why 25 hours would be needed and sought to appeal the Hospital's decision to charge the fee, if that remained its decision. In response, the Hospital informed the applicant that it had reduced its estimate of the time required to process the request to 16 hours with the result that the estimated search and retrieval fee was now €320, with an associated deposit of €64. On 28 January 2016, the applicant sought a review of the Hospital's decision to charge a fee of €320. In its internal review decision dated 10 February 2016, the Hospital affirmed its decision to charge a fee of €320. The applicant sought a review by this Office of the Hospital's decision to charge a fee on 10 February 2016.
I note that Mr Art Foley of this Office wrote to the applicant on 22 April 2016 providing details of the basis on which the Hospital had estimated that 16 hours would be required to process the request, and outlining his view that the Hospital's decision to charge a fee of €320 was justified. He invited the applicant to make a further submission on the matter. As no response has been received, I consider that this review should now be brought to a close by the issue of a formal, binding decision.
In conducting this review, I have had regard to the correspondence between the Hospital and the applicant as outlined above and to communications between this Office and both the applicant and the Hospital on the matter.
This review is solely concerned with whether the Hospital was justified in its decision to charge a fee of €320 for the search and retrieval and copying of records coming within the scope of the applicant's request.
Section 27 of the FOI Act requires a body to charge a fee for the estimated cost of searching for, retrieving, and copying records in respect of the grant of an FOI request. The section provides as follows:
(1) Such amount as may be appropriate having regard to the provisions of this section shall be charged by the FOI body concerned under this subsection and paid by the requester concerned to the body in respect of the grant of an FOI request. The amount of a charge under this subsection shall be equal to the estimated cost of the search for and retrieval and copying of the record concerned by the FOI body concerned for the requester.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) "search for and retrieval" includes time spent by the FOI body in-
(a) determining whether it holds the information requested,
(b) locating the information or documents containing the information,
(c) retrieving such information or documents,
(d) extracting the information from the files, documents, electronic or other information sources containing both it and other material not relevant to the request, and
(e) preparing a schedule specifying the records for consideration for release."
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1)-
(a) the amount of the cost of the search for and retrieval of a record shall be calculated at the rate of such amount per hour as stands prescribed for the time being in respect of the time that was spent, or ought, in the opinion of the head concerned, to have been spent, by each person concerned in carrying out the search and retrieval efficiently".
The rates referred to in section 27(3) are prescribed in the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Fees) (No.2) Regulations 2014 [Statutory Instrument No. 531/2014] at €20 per hour.
As I have outlined above, Mr Foley of this Office provided the applicant with a detailed breakdown of the basis on which the Hospital had estimated the time required to process the request at 16 hours. He also provided the applicant with details of the steps that would be required to search for and retrieve all relevant records. While I do not propose to repeat those details here, I confirm that I have had regard to them for the purposes of this review.
Where a public body gives reasons for its estimate which indicate that there was a reasonable basis for the calculation of the fee or deposit decided upon by it, this Office in not generally inclined to interfere with that decision. In this case, I am satisfied that the Hospital has provided a reasonable basis on which it calculated the search and retrieval fee at €320. Indeed, in correspondence with this Office, the Hospital confirmed that it had carried out the searches detailed in its submission, and that the search and retrieval had taken considerably longer than had been initially estimated.
In her submission to this Office, the applicant stated that she made a number of FOI requests in the same terms to other hospitals in the country, and that the Hospital was the only one to charge a fee. Nevertheless, it is important to note that the charging of search and retrieval fees in respect of the grant of requests is mandatory, provided the requirements of section 27 are met. As such, the fact that the other hospitals may not have charged search and retrieval fees can play no part in my consideration of whether the Hospital was justified in charging a fee of €320 in this case.
Having regard to the information provided by the Hospital as to the basis on which it estimated the search and retrieval fee in this case, I find that the Hospital was justified in its decision to charge a search and retrieval fee of €320.
Having carried out a review under section 22(2) of the FOI Act, I hereby affirm the decision of the Hospital to charge a fee of €320 under section 27 of the FOI Act.
Section 24 of the FOI Act sets out detailed provisions for an appeal to the High Court by a party to a review, or any other person affected by the decision. In summary, such an appeal, normally on a point of law, must be initiated not later than four weeks after notice of the decision was given to the person bringing the appeal.
Stephen Rafferty,
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Mr X and The Department of Education and Skills
Whether the Department was justified in refusing access to certain records relating to the purchase of land and construction project for certain new school buildings on the basis that the records contained commercially sensitive information within the meaning of section 36(1)(b) of the FOI Act
Conducted in accordance with section 22(2) of the FOI Act by Elizabeth Dolan, Senior Investigator, who is authorised by the Information Commissioner to conduct this review
In a request dated 14 September 2016, the applicant sought access to records relating to the purchase of land and construction project for certain new school buildings from 1 January 2008 to the date of the request. In a decision dated 25 November 2016, the Department granted the request in part but also refused it in part on various grounds. On 21 December 2016, following the applicant's request for internal review, the Department affirmed its original decision. On 9 January 2017, the applicant applied to this Office for a review of the Department's decision.
I have now completed my review in accordance with section 22(2) of the FOI Act. In carrying out my review, I have had regard to the submissions made by the applicant, the Department, and the third party companies affected by this review. I have also examined the contents of the records concerned. I have decided to conclude this review by way of a formal, binding decision.
This case initially involved a large volume of records. However, during the course of the review, the applicant helpfully identified the particular records of interest to him using the schedules of records provided by the Department. Subsequently, in response to queries made by this Office, the Department reconsidered its decision and agreed to release many of the records concerned. The Department maintains that the remaining records sought contain commercially sensitive information and are exempt under section 36(1)(b) of the FOI Act. This review is concerned solely with the question of whether the Department was justified in refusing access to the following records remaining at issue:
Section 1, Appendix C, Part 1: records 1 to 38, (except record 13, which was granted);
Section 1, Appendix C, Part 2: records 18, 19, 49, 73, 77, 83, 85, 89, 93.
Section 22(12)(b) of the FOI Act provides that a decision to refuse to grant access to a record "shall be presumed not to have been justified unless the head concerned shows to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that the decision was justified." It should also be noted that a review by this Office under section 22 of the FOI Act is de novo in that it is based on the circumstances and the law as they apply on the date of the decision.
Reconsideration by the Department
During the course of the review in this case, the Department reconsidered its position and withdrew its objection to the release of the records relevant to the applicant's request with the exception of those it regarded as affecting the commercial interests of the third party companies which formed the Design Team for the school building project. It concluded following contacts with this Office that the records were no longer exempt or should be released in the public interest or administratively. (Certain records were created by the Chief State Solicitor's Office and therefore were outside of the remit of the Act by virtue of section 42(f).) However, in order to protect the interests of the affected third party companies, the Department maintained its claim for exemption under section 36(1)(b) in relation to the records remaining at issue, which include tender, contract, and fee information.
Objections by the affected companies
The five companies concerned were therefore notified of the review by this Office and given an opportunity to make submissions. In response, one company, which will be referred to as Company X, stated that it did not have any objection to the release of the records at issue. Another company made no response at all. The other three companies objected to the release of the records on the basis that they contained commercially sensitive information that could be prejudicial to their interests if released. These companies will be referred to as Company A, Company B, and Company C, respectively.
Company A made only very general assertions but the other two companies, Company B and Company C, referred specifically to their fee arrangements. Company B stated that it has developed a "bespoke" fee structure which it uses successfully on an ongoing basis and that its disclosure would prejudice its competitive position, considerably undermine its ability to obtain suitable commissions in future, and result in a material financial loss to itself. Company C suggested that its fee arrangements with the Department were made at a discount in the "depths of the recession" and could now prejudice its competitive position in relation to private sector clients. The director of the Company C also suggested that he regards the fee information as "reasonably private" because of his relations in the area, and he argued that the release of the information would serve no useful public interest, particularly as his company was not involved in the decision-making process with respect to the school building project.
Section 36(1)(b)
Section 36(1)(b) of the FOI Act provides that a request shall be refused if the record concerned contains "financial, commercial, scientific or technical or other information whose disclosure could reasonably be expected to result in a material financial loss or gain to the person to whom the information relates, or could prejudice the competitive position of that person in the conduct of his or her profession or business or otherwise in his or her occupation". Section 36(1) does not apply if the public interest would, on balance, be better served by granting rather than by refusing the request (section 36(3) refers)
The essence of the test in section 36(1)(b) is not the nature of the information, but the nature of the harm which might be occasioned by its release. I note that the standard of proof is relatively low under section 36(1)(b) in that the mere possibility of prejudice to the competitive position of the person concerned is sufficient. However, in the High Court case of Westwood Club v The Information Commissioner [2014] IEHC 375, Cross J. held that it is not sufficient for a party relying on section 36(1)(b) to merely restate the provisions of the section, list the documents and say that they are commercially sensitive. A party opposing release should explain why disclosure of the particular records could prejudice its competitive position.
In this case, the records remaining at issue in this case date from October 2014 to February 2016 and consist of tender documents relating to Companies A, C and X, a standard conditions of engagement form relating to Company B, documents concerning "uplifts" or adjustments to the agreed fees relating to Companies A, B, C and X, and documents recording the consequent amendments to the fees received by the companies concerned (as well as the fees of the fifth company which neither sought an uplift nor responded to the invitation to make submissions in this case). Invoices regarding the payment of the fees are also included. It seems that the five companies formed a consortium or project team under the lead of Company A, with the records at issue referring to the fee proposals, uplifts of the fees, or other adjustments to the fee proposals that were sought and/or obtained by the companies in the consortium and the consortium as a whole. I note that hourly rates (or daily rates from which hourly rates could be deduced) are included in the tender documents (C.1 records 23, 25, 28, 34, 36), in a letter dated 19 November 2014 seeking an uplift of the overall fees sought by the consortium for the project (C.2 record 94), and also in some but not all of the individual uplift requests (C.1 records 10, 22, 24, 31, 32). (The amount of the uplift request itself from November 2014 and the reduced amount ultimately granted were disclosed by the Department, inadvertently or otherwise, upon the release of C.2 record 79; the decision to release this record was made in response to the applicant's original request.)
General fee information
As Company C appears to concede, the fees are now at least somewhat historic given the economic recovery that the construction industry has experienced. Moreover, it is apparent from the records that the logistics involved in the school building project were of an unusual nature; therefore, the general fee arrangements made for such a project are unlikely to be regarded as particularly relevant to any future building projects. In the circumstances, with the exception of the hourly or daily rates discussed below, it is difficult for me to accept that the records contain commercially sensitive information within the meaning of section 36(1)(b) of the Act.
In any event, it is well settled that there is a very strong public interest in ensuring openness and accountability with respect to the expenditure of public funds. Therefore, even accepting that the records concerned contain commercially sensitive information, I find that the information concerned, apart from the hourly or daily rates discussed below, should be released in the public interest.
Hourly or daily fee rates
However, in Case 98188 (Mr. Mark Henry and the Office of Public Works), available at www.oic.ie, which involved tender-related records, this Office accepted that details of a company's internal business as well as its understanding of and approach to a particular project are generally regarded as commercially sensitive and may be entitled to confidential treatment even following the award of a contract. Thus, this Office generally accepts that disclosure of a company's hourly or daily rates could be harmful to its competitive position because of the insight it would give competitors into the company's business affairs (see, e.g., Case 160276 (Mr X and An Garda Síochána)).
In this case, in a letter dated 19 November 2014, Company A provided a breakdown of the uplift of fees requested on behalf of the consortium for the overall project. None of the companies involved has raised any specific concerns about the competitive position of the consortium itself, however, and I note that the breakdown did not refer to any particular aspects of the project such that the respective hourly or daily fee rates of any one company could be discerned. In the circumstances, I find no basis for concluding that the details provided in support of the November 2014 uplift request qualify for exemption under section 36(1)(b) of the Act.
In contrast, the tender documents at issue and certain records provided in support of individual uplift requests include hourly or daily fee rates that are in many instances further broken down by grade of the staff member involved. I accept that such details would provide meaningful insight into the business affairs of the companies concerned and could possibly be used by competitors in an effort to undercut the companies in future tenders for other building projects. Although the construction industry has experienced an economic recovery that would render general fee information, such as "bottom line" fee proposals, less meaningful in future tenders for different building projects, I accept that hourly or daily fee rates, especially where broken down further by grade, could be adjusted for inflation in a manner that could be helpful to competitors in relation to future fee proposals. Therefore, subject to subsection (2), I accept that section 36(1) applies.
Section 36(2) of the FOI Act sets out certain circumstances in which 36(1) does not apply. Section 36(2)(a) of provides that access shall be granted where the person to whom the record concerned relates has consented to access being granted to the requester. Accordingly, I find that the records relating solely to Company X are not exempt. I am satisfied, however, that section 36(2) otherwise does not apply.
In considering the public interest under section 36(3), I note once again that there is a strong public interest in openness and accountability with respect to the expenditure of public funds. However, this public interest is served to some degree by the records already released by the Department and the records that fall to be released in accordance with my findings above. On the other hand, the provisions of section 36 itself reflect the public interest in protecting commercially sensitive information. The purpose of the public interest test is to strike a balance between competing interests insofar as they are relevant. As noted in previous decisions, the Commissioner takes the view that the FOI Act was designed to increase openness and accountability in the way in which public bodies conduct their operations; generally speaking, it was not designed as a means to open up the operations of private enterprises to scrutiny. Accordingly, I find that, on balance, the public interest would be better served by refusing access to the hourly and daily fee rates included in the following tender documents and individual uplift requests: C.1 records 10, 22, 23, 28, 31, 34, and 36.
"Reasonably private" information?
For the sake of completeness in relation to the claims made by Company C, I note that section 37(1) of the Act applies to personal information. Personal information, in turn, is defined in section 2 of the FOI Act as information about an identifiable individual that (a) would, in the ordinary course of events, be known only to the individual or their family or friends or, (b) is held by a public body on the understanding that it would be treated by it as confidential. The definition also lists 14 categories of information that constitute personal information. In this case, the records at issue concern a school building project and the business affairs of the companies involved in the consortium. I do not accept that the fees paid to any of companies are of a private nature or otherwise qualify as personal information about any individual involved in the consortium.
Having carried out a review under section 22(2) of the FOI Act, I hereby vary the decision of the Department in this case. I affirm its decision to refuse access to the hourly and daily fee rates included in the following tender documents and individual uplift requests: C.1 records 10, 22, 23, 28, 31, 34, and 36. I otherwise annul its decision to refuse access to the records at issue and direct that the records be released subject to the redaction of the hourly and daily fee rates found to be exempt.
Section 24 of the FOI Act sets out detailed provisions for an appeal to the High Court by a party to a review, or any other person affected by the decision. In summary, such an appeal, normally on a point of law, must be initiated by the applicant not later than eight weeks after notice of the decision was given, and by any other party not later than four weeks after notice of the decision was given.
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Jason Newsted
Celebrated for his music, Jason Newsted’s visual art boasts dynamic energy parallel to his heavy metal history. His inherent need for expression was awakened at an early age through creating images & music.
Newsted received his first bass guitar at age 14 in 1977. Shortly after, he traveled west from his family home in Michigan and landed in Arizona, where he worked tirelessly to realize his musical dreams. In the autumn of 1986, he arrived in San Francisco to join Metallica, with whom he recorded and performed as bassist and vocalist for 15 years in 50 countries, earning six Grammy Awards and his induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In 2005, as a result of three career-altering shoulder surgeries, Newsted turned his attention to visual arts. Challenged with the temporary immobility of his right arm, he learned to use the opposite hand in mark-making, and presently continues to execute all of his works ambidextrously.
In painting and drawing he found a new means of creative expression; The musician’s experience with conjuring images is joyful, filled with wonder, and possesses the freedom of a confident and experienced creative soul. Jason’s colorful efforts are a reflection of the evolution of a well-traveled, multi-faceted artist.
Newsted is an introspective and youthful artist who never stopped dreaming.
He is graced with gratitude for his past and a bright outlook for the future, evident through his unyielding work ethic. His images are made with intention and a careful consideration of aesthetics, relying heavily on instinct and a primal approach with any given medium, making these works uniquely his.
Newsted values his work in musical and visual art in like manner, and has selected the pieces for this show to represent a synergistic melding of the two; demonstrating his unique connections within these forms.
“The pictures look like the music sounds!” — anonymous Newsted collector
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The Politics of Sports
In a few short days, millions of spectators will fill the stands of the Olympic stadium in Beijing to witness the best display of athleticism that our international community has to offer. The inspiration to be garnered in the athletic setting is guaranteed, but can the games inspire us politically as well?
Earlier this month, President Bush decided that he would attend the opening ceremony of this year's Olympic games, despite strong criticism from John McCain, Barack Obama, and human rights advocates. The President has felt pressure to boycott the Olympics in protest of the brutal oppression of Tibetans by China; the country's support of the government of Sudan- it being Sudan's biggest trading partner; the censorship it imposes within the country; its efforts to block access to foreign journalists and diplomats; the eviction of residents to make room for Olympic stadiums; and the threat of violence against dissidents.
Both presidential hopefuls have stated that unlike Bush, they would have not attended the 2008 Olympic games. Barack Obama has reaffirmed that "in the absence of some sense of progress, in the absence of some sense from the Dalai Lama that there was progress, I would not have gone". McCain has also professed that "if Chinese policies and practices do not change, I would not attend the opening ceremonies. It does no service to the Chinese government, and certainly no service to the people of China, for the United States and other democracies to pretend that the suppression of rights in China does not concern us. It does, will and must concern us". We couldn't agree more. But, at the same time, we think that at a time of extraordinary rendition, the suspension of habeas corpus, open torture, abandoned survivors of disaster (many still displaced), growing hunger and homelessness, a sixth of the population without access to health care, and extreme inequality of wealth, democracies across the world have equal reason to be concerned with the state of human rights in the United States. And the presidential candidates have an even greater reason to be concerned, particularly since many of the violations have gone on under their watch while they were sitting United States Senators. Yet, both McCain and Obama have failed to take a stand on human rights at home.
If the United States is to regain credibility on the world stage, we must lead by example, and not through empty rhetoric or symbolic gestures. By failing to attack human rights abuses directly and forcefully within the United States, both candidates make the untenable claim that the international community must meet higher standards than the U.S. government. This attempt to apply a double standard is corrosive to both human rights at home and around the world. As both candidates have reminded us, this is the time for change. Protecting the full range of human rights, including economic and social rights, is essential to human dignity and the ability of communities to participate in a healthy democracy. That would be the change we can believe in. When world leaders come together in Beijing, we'd like to see a message of mutual accountability to human rights - here and around the world.
August 7, 2008 - 12:00am — Anonymous
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New Briefing Paper: Human Rights Principles for Financing Health Care
NESRI, National Health Law Program
In response to President Obama’s eight principles for health care reform, the Human Right to Health Program, run by the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and the National Health Law Program, has released ten human rights principles for financing health care. The ten principles set down markers for health care reformers to help them meet human rights standards. Taken together they provide a framework for realizing the goal of a healthy society in a financially sustainable way.
“Key to the financial sustainability of our health care system is that we treat health care as a public good,” said Anja Rudiger, director of the Human Right to Health Program. “Because public goods belong to all of us, we cannot allow for-profit companies such as insurers to restrict our access to care. According to human rights principles, health care should be publicly financed and administered rather than sold through insurance middlemen to those who can afford it.”
Human rights principles also require health care to be financed in a way that is accountable to the people and responsive to health needs, and that rewards quality, appropriate care and improved health outcomes. The principles stress that resources in the health care system must be used for the public purpose of protecting everyone’s health, leaving no one behind, and investing in communities whose health has not kept up with the rest of the population.
“We’re encouraged that President Obama recently confirmed that for-profit private companies are not the best choice for realizing a public purpose,” said Rudiger, referring to the president’s remarks on earmarks. “The president said that ‘Private companies differ from the public entities that Americans rely on every day –- schools, and police stations, and fire departments [where] there's some confidence that there's going to be a public purpose.’ For-profit corporations in the health care industry simply aren’t set up to fulfill such a public purpose; they exist to make a private profit,” Rudiger pointed out.
According to human rights standards, first articulated under U.S. leadership in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the human right to health care requires a system of health protection which ensures that everyone can get appropriate health care, where and when they need it, regardless of their ability to pay.
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Kotono Mitsuishi
Kotono Mitsuishi on Netflix
This is a regularly updated list with movies, series and documentaries with Kotono Mitsuishi on Netflix. The best rated item with Kotono Mitsuishi on Netflix is "Sailor Moon Crystal" and appeared on screen in 2014.
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Former President of Liberia
Industry: War Criminals
Residence: Arthington, Liberia
Country: Liberian
BirthDay: 28 January 1948
Sigh: Aquarius
Education: Bentley University
Charles Taylor was bornon 28 January 1948 in Arthington, Liberia, Liberian, is Former President of Liberia. Charles Taylor is a former politician from the country of Liberia, who is said to have adopted 'Ghankay' as his middle name to appease the natives of the country. He graduated from 'Bentley College' in U.S.A., and came back to Liberia to take part in a revolt against the President Tolbert. The young man began his career in the government led by Samel Doe, only to be charged with theft, three years into the job. He was arrested after escaping to the U.S., after which he fled from prison and settled in Libya. After getting trained by Libyan dictator Gaddafi, he returned to Liberia, overthrew Samuel Doe and soon became the President of his homeland. During his guerrilla career, he had allegedly helped cause the 'Sierra Leone Civil War', recruiting child soldiers, and killing many citizens. Meanwhile, as President, he was detested, and soon the 'Second Liberian Civil War' broke out. He was forced to resign from his post, and went into exile in Nigeria. However, he was found guilty of war crimes as well as several other charges. After being sentenced by the 'Special Court for Sierra Leone', to 50 years of imprisonment, he is now being detained in a prison in Netherlands.
After attending a series of court proceedings, he is currently being held in the Netherlands, where in 2012 he was sentenced to 50 years of imprisonment
Three years later, in 2006, the new President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, requested the Nigerian government to hand over custody of Charles
This politician has been adapted into a character in Russell Banks' novel 'The Darling', which was published in 2004
Bush urged Charles to resign, and the President of Liberia was forced to leave office on August 11, 2003
In 1999, an insurgent group by the name of 'Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy' ('LURD') began protesting against the ruling government, thus paving the way for the 'Second Liberian Civil War'
In 1997, general elections were held in Liberia, and Taylor was one of the presidential candidates
The war lasted for seven long years and finally came to an end in 1996
From Ivory Coast, the revolutionary led the 'First Liberian Civil War' in 1989, with the aim of ousting President Samuel Doe
The prisoner took the help of a few other convicts and fled from the jail on September 15, 1985
In 1983, he was removed from the post because he had stolen $1000000 from the government for personal use
Taylor took part in the uprising of April 12, 1980, under the leadership of Doe, against the President William R
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor was born to Nelson and his wife Bernice, on January 28, 1948, in the town of Arthington, Liberia
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International Student Programs
The small campus atmosphere of Notre Dame College is the main reason so many international students come here to study and develop as a person. We currently have 45 international students who hail from 10 different countries.
As an international student you will receive personal attention from faculty and staff that will help students build strong and lasting friendships at Notre Dame College. This is due to the small class sizes that we offer to our students and the supportive campus environment that we have built.
International Recruiter Carl Nolan is available to answer questions and provide assistance for both prospective and current Notre Dame College students. He can be reached by phone at 216.373.5384 or by e-mail at international@ndc.edu.
Information on our residence halls.
International students are those who legally reside in a country other than the United States. Notre Dame College requires the following credentials from each international student seeking admission:
Official academic transcripts of all secondary and post-secondary education (if the academic transcripts are in a language other than English, the original transcripts must be submitted along with notarized/certified English translations)
Competency in English – (see below-applicable only to non-native English speakers who graduated or will graduate from a secondary school outside the USA)
International Student Financial Aid Form: Select this link to access and print a PDF version of the form.
Verification of Country of Birth and Citizenship form: Verification of Country of Birth and Citizenship PDF version
Admissions Essay (recommended but not required).This document must be notarized and be accompanied by a copy of your passport photo page.
For Transfer Students ONLY:
Verification of F-1 Status form, and
College credit may be offered for completion of coursework, at a “C” level or better, equivalent to the NDC General Education requirements at a regionally accredited college or university.
All non-US college/university transcripts must be sent to an evaluation service such as WES (www.wes.org).
FULL ADMISSION – A student will be granted Full Admission when the following conditions have been met.
Competence in the English language as evidenced by, one of the following:
TOEFL (Test of English as a Second Language) minimum score of 550 PB (paper-based) / 213 CB (computer-based) (www.toefl.org)
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) minimum score of 6.0 (www.ielts.org).
CAE (Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English) minimum score of C (pass)
ELS Language Centers level 112 Proficiency Examination (www.els.com)
General Certificate of Education minimum score of C (pass) on either O (ordinary) or A (advanced) level. Scores must be no more than 2 years old.
2.5 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale (most recent academic work)
SAT 900 (Critical Reading/Math)
ADMISSION DENIED – A student who does not meet the College’s standards necessary for full admission will be denied admission to Notre Dame College. At the time that admission is denied, the dean of admissions will recommend an appropriate course of action for any student interested in pursuing a degree at Notre Dame College at a future date.
A Form I-20, Certificate of Eligibility for Non-immigrant F-1 Student Status, is issued by the Office of Admissions upon receipt of a signed Confirmation of Attendance form. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regulations require foreign students on a student visa to carry a full course of study during each term of enrollment at Notre Dame College in order to maintain F-1 Student Status while in the United States.
Notre Dame College provides financial aid to international students in the form of:
Athletic scholarships, and
Need-based scholarships (Student Loans and International Service Activity Grant)
International Student Financial Aid Application
In addition, please call or e-mail Carl Nolan at 216.373.5384 or international@ndc.edu for assistance or additional details on financial aid options.
Select this link for information on the College’s emergency preparedness plan and for links to outside resources.
Please fill out an Online Application or Information Request click here or on the link at left) to begin the application process.
Notre Dame College Title IX Statement on Non-Discrimination:
Notre Dame College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, or age in its programs and activities. This policy extends to employment with and admission to the College.
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Food Stamp Program Rewards Purchase Of Fruits And Veggies : Shots - Health News A federally funded experimental program is partnering with a Latino grocery chain to reward people who use their food stamps to put more fresh produce on their tables.
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Food Stamp Program Makes Fresh Produce More Affordable
January 16, 20185:00 AM ET
Courtney Perkes
Rebeca Gonzalez says she can now afford to buy pomegranates for her family in Garden Grove, Calif., because of the extra money she receives through Más Fresco, a food stamp incentive program for purchasing produce. Courtney Perkes/Kaiser Health News hide caption
Courtney Perkes/Kaiser Health News
Rebeca Gonzalez says she can now afford to buy pomegranates for her family in Garden Grove, Calif., because of the extra money she receives through Más Fresco, a food stamp incentive program for purchasing produce.
Rebeca Gonzalez grew up eating artichokes from her grandmother's farm in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala. But for years after emigrating to the U.S., she did not feed them to her own kids because the spiky, fibrous vegetables were too expensive on this side of the border.
When she prepared meals at her family's home in Garden Grove, Calif., Gonzalez would also omit avocados, a staple of Mexican cuisine that are often costly here.
"I saw the prices and I said, 'No, never mind,' " says Gonzalez, a 47-year-old child care worker who receives about $500 a month in food stamps.
But those items are no longer out of reach for her family. Since enrolling last year in a program that rewards food stamp beneficiaries for buying more fresh produce, Gonzalez has regularly filled her shopping cart with the fruits and vegetables of her childhood — not only avocados and artichokes, but pomegranates, various types of squash and more.
How 'Double Bucks' For Food Stamps Conquered Capitol Hill
Participation in the program, called "Más Fresco" — "More Fresh" in English — gives Gonzalez an additional $40 a month to spend on produce, allowing her to broaden the palates of her three children, who were born in the U.S.
"The good thing is my family likes to try the new vegetables," she says. "Now I can buy them because I have the extra money."
The University of California, San Diego is administering Más Fresco and studying its results with a $3.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has funded similar efforts in other states, including Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and New Mexico. The dollars invested in those states have been aimed at inducing food stamp recipients to buy more produce at farmers markets or at mobile markets that visit low-income neighborhoods.
Más Fresco is open to Southern Californians in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties who are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — the official name for food stamp benefits.
The goal of the four-year program, like that of its counterparts in other states, is to improve diets and overall health by making fresh produce more affordable.
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"We know food insecurity and, unfortunately, chronic disease go hand in hand," says Joe Prickitt, a UCSD dietitian who is senior director of Más Fresco. "For SNAP participants, there's a real cost barrier to buying fruits and vegetables. They say they're just too expensive."
Since Más Fresco began in February 2017, it has enrolled 1,153 participants, who receive an average of $329 a month in food stamps and typically live in households of five or six people. Ninety percent of them are Latino, but adults from any ethnic background can join, provided they are willing to shop at a participating Northgate González Market — an Anaheim, Calif.-based Latino grocery chain that is Más Fresco's retail partner.
For every dollar's worth of food stamps enrollees spend on fresh produce in a given month, they receive a one-to-one match — up to $10, $20 or $40 — that they can spend only on more fruits and vegetables. The UC-San Diego researchers who are studying the program varied the maximum reward amounts and assigned them randomly to participants to help determine the optimal dollar level that changes people's dietary habits.
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The six participating Northgate stores — two in each of the three participating counties — use loyalty cards to tally produce purchases and distribute the credits. The amount of credit participants have earned and redeemed is itemized at the bottom of their receipts, and the credit carries over from month to month.
Research has shown that affordability is an obstacle to healthier eating for people of modest means. A 2013 study by researchers at Harvard and Brown universities estimated that a healthful diet costs about $550 a year more per person than an unhealthy one. "For many low-income families, this additional cost represents a genuine barrier to healthier eating," the authors concluded. "Yet, this daily price difference is trivial in comparison with the lifetime personal and societal financial burdens of diet-related chronic diseases."
A 2016 report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that food stamp recipients spend a smaller percentage of their grocery budgets on fruits and vegetables than other Americans do.
Financial incentives like the ones being tested in California can help narrow that gap.
A 2011 study of an incentive program in Massachusetts found that people on food stamps who got an extra 30 cents for every dollar they spent on fruits and vegetables consumed nearly a quarter-cup, or 26 percent, more fresh produce per day than recipients who did not get such an incentive.
Last week, Más Fresco began to enroll a second round of up to 2,000 people who will receive the incentive for one year. The current participants will continue in the program through June.
Prickitt says he hopes that even after their financial incentives end, participants will retain what they have learned about healthy eating and continue buying produce.
Food policy experts note that many other factors can influence a family's food choices, including lack of time.
"If parents are working more than one job or children are in more than one school or activity, how do you teach the skills of how you can prepare food, even on a busy weeknight?" says Dr. Dean Sidelinger, a pediatrician and child-health medical officer for San Diego County.
Some advocates for healthful diets have argued that the government should not only encourage people to buy healthier food, but also discourage unhealthful habits.
A 2014 Health Affairs study by Stanford University researchers showed that banning the purchase of soda with food stamps would reduce rates of obesity and diabetes, while a credit of 30 cents on the dollar for buying fresh produce alone would not.
In 2017, more than a dozen researchers from different universities urged SNAP to eliminate diet-related health disparities among programs for low-income people. They noted, for example, that the federal food-assistance program known as Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, excluded soda and candy, but that people could still buy those products with food stamps.
"There are generations of unhealthy people who are overweight with diabetes and hypertension," says Jim Floros, president and CEO of the San Diego Food Bank, which has advertised the Más Fresco program to its clients. "That's completely linked back to a poor diet, which is linked back to poverty."
Rebeca Gonzalez, who moved to the U.S. at age 18, decided to overhaul her family's eating habits after her husband, Javier Landeros, was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago. Instead of buying cookies, she now keeps chopped fruits and veggies in the fridge for snacks.
She says she wants to instill the same healthy habits her grandmother passed on to her.
"I know she gave us good food," Gonzalez says, "because she lived 105 years."
This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation. KHN is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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NRDC Petitions FDA: Agency’s Weak Attempt to Curb Antibiotic Abuse in the Livestock Industry is Failing
NRDC Calls on FDA to Stop Antibiotic Overuse in Meat Production
Karen Navarre, karen@thenumber29.com,
NEW YORK – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is failing to protect people from the rising health threat of antibiotic resistance, according to a petition filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and other groups. Sales of antibiotics to the livestock industry have grown in recent years, despite the FDA’s request for the industry to voluntarily reduce use. NRDC’s petition argues that the FDA’s voluntary policy shows no signs it will work and therefore the agency needs to eliminate the riskiest uses of antibiotics that threaten human health.
“If regulators wait for this problem to get any worse, controlling it may no longer be possible,” said Jonathan Kaplan, Director of the Food and Agriculture Program at NRDC. “Future generations are going to wonder why FDA didn’t take real action as these life-saving drugs slipped away from us.”
Today, more than 70 percent of medically important antibiotics in the United States are sold for use on livestock and poultry. And more than 96 percent of those drugs are distributed in feed or water—often to animals that are not sick to speed up growth (“growth promotion”) and help them survive crowded and unsanitary conditions on industrial farms (“disease prevention”). This practice contributes to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the growing crisis of drug-resistant infections in humans.
Due in part to a 2011 NRDC lawsuit seeking the withdrawal of certain antibiotic uses in livestock, FDA created a voluntary program in 2013 to curb the overuse of antibiotics given to farm animals. Despite lower court rulings in NRDC’s favor, a divided panel on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the FDA to pursue the voluntary program instead of immediately withdrawing the use of specific antibiotics.
According to FDA’s own data, the voluntary program, known as Guidance 213, is not working. The signals to the industry seem to have had no effect, with antibiotic use continuing to rise since the program’s launch. Indeed, the data suggest that increases in antibiotic use are outpacing increases in livestock production, and that, on average, producers are using more drugs per animal than they did just a few years ago.
Moreover, the voluntary program condones the use of antibiotics for “disease prevention,” which accounts for a substantial share of livestock antibiotic use. Use of antibiotics for growth promotion and disease prevention are very similar and share the same negative impacts. Use for either purpose involves low doses of antibiotics administered to entire herds or flocks over long periods of time, a practice that is more likely to give rise to drug-resistant bacteria. By the FDA’s own admission, growth promotion accounts for only 10-15 percent of use, leaving a significant percentage of livestock antibiotic use in place, even if growth-promotion uses are voluntarily discontinued. FDA’s announcement yesterday—that it may recommend that pharmaceutical companies put some limit on the duration of use for some antibiotic products—will likely have little to no effect. If FDA does make that recommendation, it will still be voluntary, and FDA will still be condoning disease-prevention use, potentially for extended periods of time (such as a broiler chicken’s lifetime). And the recommendation would not even affect many disease-prevention uses.
Leading medical experts warn that we must stop overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and animal agriculture, or else the life-saving drugs we rely on to treat common infections and enable medical procedures could stop working. Conservatively, at least 2 million Americans are infected with antibiotic-resistant infections every year, and at least 23,000 die as a direct result, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
NRDC is joined by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Earthjustice, Food Animal Concerns Trust, Public Citizen, CalPIRG, and U.S. PIRG in filing this petition.
The petition can be accessed here: https://www.nrdc.org/resources/nrdc-and-groups-petition-fda-stop-antibiotic-overuse-livestock.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the FDA itself, and many other groups have long recognized that antibiotic use in livestock is contributing to antibiotic resistance that affects human health. Prominent health institutions such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization, and many others have identified the routine use of low-dose antibiotics on animals that are not sick as a significant contributor to the rapid proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in both animals and humans and have called for an end to the practice.
As bacteria become resistant to the human antibiotics being overused on farms, the antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” can move from animals to humans through direct contact with livestock, environmental exposure, and through the consumption and handling of meat and poultry products -- which have frequently been found to be contaminated with multi-drug-resistant bacteria ranging from E. coli to Staph. Once transferred to humans, the superbugs can cause infections that are difficult or impossible to treat, which are more likely to be fatal, and can require longer and more expensive hospital stays. One 2009 study estimated that antibiotic-resistant infections may cost Americans an additional $26 billion per year in health care costs alone and more than $55 billion when lost productivity and wages are taken into account.
Denmark – the world’s largest pork exporter – has banned the routine use of antibiotics on animals that are not sick. Danish government and industry data collected since then show a sustained decrease both in overall antibiotic use and in the amount of antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in livestock and meat products, while livestock production has increased. Costs were estimated to be modest. Netherlands too has banned the routine use of antibiotics on animals that are not sick and has set strong targets for the reduction of antibiotic use. The Dutch report that they have met those targets, reducing livestock antibiotic use by nearly 60% without hurting farmers’ profits.
“If regulators wait for this problem to get worse, controlling it may no longer be possible”-@deskofjk on @NRDC petition to @US_FDA #saveabx
— NRDC Media Team (@NRDCnews) September 13, 2016
Petitioning Groups
California Public Interest Research Group, Inc. (CALPIRG) takes action when consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interests. Using the tools of investigative research, media exposés, grassroots organizing, advocacy, and litigation, CALPIRG protects consumers, encourages a fair, sustainable economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government. CALPIRG is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with members throughout California.
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a science-based nonprofit organization that focuses on nutrition and food safety issues. It is based in Washington, DC. CSPI is supported by about 610,000 American subscribers-members. For more than a decade, CSPI has published reports and articles about the risks of antibiotic use in farm animals.
Based in San Francisco, Earthjustice is the country’s largest nonprofit public interest environmental law organization and has represented more than 1,000 public interest clients since its founding in 1971. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnerships to protect people’s health, preserve wild places and wildlife, advance clean energy, and combat climate change, including seeking strategies to reduce the health, environmental, and climate harms from the production of our food and to promote a more environmentally sound agricultural system.
Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) is a national nonprofit organization located in Chicago, Illinois, that promotes the humane and safe production of meat, milk, and eggs. Eliminating the overuse of medically important antibiotics in livestock has been one of FACT’s top priorities for almost two decades.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 2 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our lawyers, scientists, and other environmental specialists have worked to protect the world's natural resources, public health, and the environment. NRDC has offices in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Chicago; Bozeman, Montana; and Beijing. Visit us at www.nrdc.org and follow us on Twitter @NRDC.
Founded in 1971, Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit, public interest organization, headquartered in Washington, DC, with members and supporters nationwide. Public Citizen works before Congress, regulatory agencies, and in the courts to advance consumer interests on a wide range of issues, including healthcare policy and drug safety.
U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), a federation of state PIRG organizations, stands up to special interests on behalf of the American public, working to win concrete results for the public’s health and well-being. With members throughout the country, U.S. PIRG is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works on issues such as product safety, public health, campaign finance reform, and consumer protection.
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NSB-03-86
APPROVED MINUTES1
PLENARY OPEN SESSION
374th MEETING
NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD
Warren M. Washington, Chair
Diana S. Natalicio, Vice Chair
Barry C. Barish
Delores M. Etter
Nina V. Fedoroff
Pamela A. Ferguson
Kenneth M. Ford
Daniel E. Hastings
Anita K. Jones
George M. Langford
Jane Lubchenco
Joseph A. Miller, Jr.
Douglas D. Randall
Robert C. Richardson
Maxine Savitz
Daniel Simberloff
Jo Anne Vasquez
John A. White, Jr.
Mark S. Wrighton
Rita R. Colwell, NSF Director
Consultants Absent:
Steven C. Beering
Ray M. Bowen
Elizabeth Hoffman
Members Absent:
Michael G. Rossmann
The National Science Board (NSB) convened in Open Session at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, 2003, with Dr. Warren M. Washington, Chair, presiding (Agenda NSB-03-44). In accordance with the Government in the Sunshine Act, this portion of the meeting was open to the public.
AGENDA ITEM 4: Board Meeting Calendar for 2004
Dr. Washington stated that the proposed calendar for Board meetings in 2004 was developed after looking at dates of other professional meetings and after polling Board members about their availability. The proposed calendar (NSB 03-68, Board Book Tab F) would give the highest potential attendance at Board meetings and would be consistent with recent annual calendars based on six meetings.
During discussion, it was proposed that the staff provide data on the number of members who have missed Board meetings throughout the past year and consider a method of minimizing the number of misses by any individual Board member.
Upon the recommendation of the Committee on Programs and Plans (CPP),
the Board APPROVED an offsite retreat to be held in February 2004 at the Louisiana LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) facility with involvement by Xavier University.
Dr. Anita Jones, chair of CPP, reported that the committee would develop a recommendation for the next offsite meeting in early FY 2005 or possibly in late FY 2004.
AGENDA ITEM 5: Board Task Force Guidelines
Dr. Nina Fedoroff presented a set of guidelines that Board members could use in developing a proposal to recommend that a full-scale Board study be undertaken. The objective would be to improve the Board’s ability to target, develop, and deliver various new policy activities. During discussion, it was noted that to address the guidelines some interim activities, such as workshops, might be needed to gather information. The Board agreed to apply the guidelines to future suggestions for Board studies.
AGENDA ITEM 6: NSF Strategic Plan 2003-2008
Dr. Rita Colwell, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director, provided a progress report on the updating of the NSF GPRA (Government Performance and Results Act) Strategic Plan, which must be submitted to Congress by September 2003. She noted that the schedule calls for considerable interaction with the Board, especially the Committee on Strategy and Budget. Following the Board’s review of the current draft, the document will be placed on the website for comment from NSF stakeholders. She described the rationale and context for developing the plan, including the set of legal requirements and the evolving long-term issues driving science and engineering research and education.
Dr. Colwell pointed out changes from the previous plan. Although the three strategic goals have been kept (people, ideas, tools), their descriptions have been refined. A fourth goal, organization excellence, has been added. Resource-linked output goals have been linked to each strategic goal; they are in turn tied to specific budget accounts and activities.
Dr. Colwell stated that the next steps are to produce a revised draft based on Board comments; post the revised draft on the website for public comment; and solicit comments from Congress, other Federal research and development agencies, past Board members, and leaders in the science and engineering community. A final plan will be brought to the Board for approval in August.
During discussion, Board members commented that professional societies are an important source of feedback, advice, and support; and that the Office of Management and Budget suggested only a few changes to NSF’s original draft document. Dr. Colwell noted that NSF was pursuing a “green” rating for outsourcing under the President’s Management Agenda. It already has green ratings for financial management and e-government.
AGENDA ITEM 7: Director’s Merit Review Report
Dr. Nathaniel Pitts, Director of the Office of Integrative Activities, summarized the Director’s annual Merit Review Report on NSF’s key business processes. In 2002 NSF received more than 35,000 proposals and funded approximately 10,000 of them. About $1 billion worth of the declined proposals (totaling $15 billion) had the same kind of reviewer scores as the ones awarded and represent unfunded excellent research that NSF could support. As awards increase in size and duration, if appropriated dollars do not accommodate those increases, the funding rate will decrease. Members of the community may be less willing to serve as reviewers if the funding rate decreases.
Dr. Pitts pointed out that 59 percent of program officers are visiting scientists, Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignees, rotators, and other temporary categories. NSF would prefer to have 40 percent temporary staff (funded from Research and Related Activities account) and 60 percent permanent staff (funded from Salaries and Expenses account), or a 50-50 balance. The Salaries and Expenses account has not grown, however, while the workload has increased, and the result has created an imbalance in staffing. Dr. Pitts stated that in September the Booz Allen Hamilton study would deliver a report on NSF’s human capital concerns and needs.
During discussion, Board members commented that that Board must ensure that the NSF has the professional staff to do the work that needs to be done; and that the report does not seem to include data from the customer survey that NSF conducted a couple of years ago. Dr. Pitts clarified that temporary staff usually have one- to three-year appointments; the average is 1.1 years.
AGENDA ITEM (unnumbered): Long-Range Planning Goals
Dr. Colwell presented the highlights of the Long-Range Planning Book. She pointed out that the NSF Authorization Act of 2002 authorizes $7.4 billion for FY 2005 and increases to $9.8 billion for FY 2007. NSF’s investment priorities are aimed at strengthening research and education, increasing capacity within the science and engineering research community, and preparing a capable and well-educated science and engineering workforce. Funding among the disciplines must be balanced, while paying attention to emerging and multidisciplinary research areas. An important challenge is to equip the next generation of science and engineering researchers and educators with the tools they need for exploration and discovery.
Dr. Colwell stated that when long-term needs are assessed, it is evident that even at the authorized funding level there must be tradeoffs. She gave the example of increasing the size and duration of the average annual research grant. NSF’s long-term goal is to increase the average award to $250,000 per year for five years. The FY 2004 request is for an average annual award of $128,000 for three years. Each $5,000 increase in grant size costs $100 million if all other factors remain constant. A $50,000 increase for one year for all current grants would cost $1 billion. NSF must determine the appropriate balance among award size and duration, award funding rates, and infrastructure funding.
For the strategic goal of Tools, there are tradeoffs among large projects supported by the Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) Account, facility operations and upgrades funded through the Research and Related Activities Account, and other infrastructure such as digital libraries, science research statistics, and Antarctic logistics. The recent Board report on infrastructure recommends that funding for infrastructure be at the higher end of 22 to 27 percent of the NSF budget. The FY 2004 proportion is 25 percent.
As part of the Organizational Excellence goal included in the new strategic plan, emphasis on Administration and Management (A&M) remains a priority. Program directors’ portfolios are growing in size and complexity. The trend has been for A&M to represent 5 percent of NSF’s budget. If NSF does not receive an appropriation at the authorization level, the share devoted to A&M may need to increase.
Dr. Maxine Savitz, chair of the Committee on Strategy and Budget, reported that the committee had received an in-depth presentation on the long-range planning document. Discussion focused on the priorities of A&M funding, given the workload increase; the tradeoffs related to increasing the size and duration of grants, and the impact on graduate students; and the importance of having seed money readily available for serendipitous opportunities.
AGENDA ITEM 8: Executive Committee Annual Report
Dr. Colwell, chair of the Executive Committee, presented the annual report of the committee’s activities (NSB/EC-03-06, Board Book Tab H), covering the period April 2002 through April 2003.
Dr. Colwell reported that the Executive Committee took action at the October 2002 Board meeting because of a lack of Board quorum. On behalf of the Board, the committee authorized supplements to Cooperative Agreements with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California, San Diego, and the Mellon Pitt Carnegie Corporation for an Extensible Terascale Facility that included hardware and operations for a combined amount not to exceed $42.5 million for 12 months.
AGENDA ITEM 9: Report of the NWP Task Force
Dr. George Langford, chair of the Education and Human Resources Committee (EHR), brought to the Board the committee’s recommendation that the draft report of the Task Force on National Workforce Policies for Science and Engineering be posted on the website for 30 days for public comment, with outreach to selected stakeholders.
Dr. Joseph Miller, chair of the task force, summarized the group’s charge and the process used to develop the report, including data gathering, workshops, commissioned reports, and a comprehensive literature review. He noted the complexity of workforce issues and the lack of a model to judge influences and cause and effect. Because of global competition and domestic demographics, there was a national policy imperative: The Federal Government must step forward to ensure the adequacy of this workforce and all stakeholders must mobilize and initiate efforts to increase the number of U.S. students pursuing science and engineering studies and careers. Dr. Miller itemized the latest changes in the Executive Summary as representative of changes in the draft report. He thanked Dr. Karolyn Eisenstein, executive secretary, and Ms. Jean Pomeroy of the Board Office for their assistance to the task force.
During discussion, it was agreed that the draft report should recommend the strengthening of U.S. research universities so that they can continue to attract internationally competitive faculty and students.
Upon the recommendation of the EHR Committee,
the Board APPROVED the draft report of the NSB EHR Task Force on National Workforce Policies for Science and Engineering for public comment. Dr. Washington thanked Dr. Pitts and Dr. Norman Bradburn, Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, for their participation on the task force.
AGENDA ITEM 10: OIG Semi-Annual Report
Dr. Mark Wrighton, chair of the Audit and Oversight Committee, reported that the committee had reviewed the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG’s) Semiannual Report to the Congress covering the period October 1, 2002 through March 31, 2003, and the Management Response, and recommended approval of the draft transmittal letter to the Honorable Richard Cheney.
The Board APPROVED the transmittal letter for the OIG’s Semiannual Report to the Congress and the Management Response.
AGENDA ITEM 11: Minutes of the March 2003 Meeting
The Board APPROVED the minutes of the March 2003 meeting
(NSB-03-58, Board Book Tab I).
AGENDA ITEM 12: Closed Session Items for August 2003
The Board APPROVED the Closed Session items for the August 2003 Board Meeting (NSB-03-48, Board Book Tab J).
AGENDA ITEM 13: Chairman’s Report
a. Swearing in of New Board Members
Dr. Washington stated that he had sworn in six new Board members on May 21: Drs. Barry Barish, Delores Etter, Kenneth Ford, Daniel Hastings, Douglas Randall, and Jo Anne Vasquez.
b. Results of NSB Election
Dr. Washington reported that the Board elected Dr. Robert Richardson and Dr. Etter to two-year terms as members of the Executive Committee.
c. Annual Awards Dinner
Dr. Washington reported that at the Board’s annual Awards Dinner, held on May 21 at the Department of State, Dr. John Marburger, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, read a greeting from the President and administered the oath of office to six newly confirmed Board members. Honorary awards were presented. Dr. Richard Atkinson, president of the University of California, received the Vannevar Bush Award.
Dr. Angelika Amon, Assistant Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received the Alan T. Waterman Award for her work in cell cycle control. Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of the Center for Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio, received the individual Public Service Award. The group Public Service Award was given to the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, and the Earth and Sky radio series. Dr. Washington thanked Ms. Susan Fannoney, awards coordinator in the Board Office, for planning the event.
d. Discharge of Committees
Dr. Washington discharged two committees that had completed their work: the Vannevar Bush Award Committee, chaired by Dr. Langford, with members Drs. Miller, Michael Rossmann, and Savitz; and the Committee on NSB Nominations, chaired by Dr. Wrighton, with members Drs. Miller, Diana Natalicio, Richardson, and John White.
e. Movement toward a Paperless Way of Doing Business
Dr. Washington stated that he has asked the Board staff to work with Dr. George Strawn, NSF Chief Information Officer, to explore the possibility of moving toward a paperless way of doing Board business, modeled on the FastLane system.
AGENDA ITEM 14: Director’s Report
a. Personnel Changes
Dr. Colwell announced several staff appointments: Dr. John Brighton, Assistant Director for Engineering; Mr. Anthony Arnolli, Director of the Office of Information Systems; Dr. Barbara Olds, Director of Research Evaluation and Communications and EHR Director.
Dr. Colwell also introduced Dr. Mark Coles, soon to become the Deputy for Large Facility Projects.
b. Congressional Update
Dr. Colwell provided an update on congressional actions since the March Board meeting. On May 1 the Senate passed Senate Bill 196, the Digital Wireless Network Technology Program Act of 2003, with would authorize $250 million a year for five years to improve educational instruction in digital and wireless technologies and improve technology infrastructure at eligible institutions. NSF has established an advisory council on the best approaches for involving eligible institutions in supporting activities. On May 7 the House passed House Bill 766, the Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2003. NSF would be the lead agency.
Several hearings were held. On April 3, the Senate VA, HUD and Independent Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee heard testimony on NSF’s FY 2004 budget request. In addition to testimony from Drs. Washington and Colwell, Dr. Marburger, the President’s science adviser, also testified. Members expressed concern over the low funding levels requested for research as compared to the FY 2003 appropriated levels. On April 10, the House VA, HUD and Independent Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee held hearings on NSF’s FY 2004 budget request. On May 8 the House Science Committee, Subcommittee on Research, held a hearing on the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program;
Dr. Priscilla Nelson, senior adviser for the Directorate on Engineering, submitted written testimony for NSF. On May 15 the House Science Committee held a hearing on the Cybersecurity Research and Development Act of 2002, signed into law in November 2002. The committee was interested in how each agency planned to carry out the legislation.
The House and Senate passed a budget resolution containing spending limits for FY 2004, but allocations to the appropriations subcommittees have not yet been made.
AGENDA ITEM 15: Committee Reports
a. Audit and Oversight (A&O)
Dr. Mark Wrighton, chair, reported that the A&O Committee received a presentation on the work of the General Accounting Office (GAO) from Ms. Robin Nazarro, Director of Natural Resources and Environment at GAO. She complimented NSF on implementation of GPRA and said that NSF was a model for other agencies in the recent GAO study, “An Evaluation of Culture and Collaborative Partnerships Help Build Agency Capacity.” Dr. Montgomery Fisher, Senior Counsel to the Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, reported the final results and settlement from a case involving NYSER Net, an NSF awardee. Dr. Strawn explained efforts to improve security management for NSF’s information technology systems. Mr. Donald McCrory, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, described the government’s challenging attempt to close the FY 2003 books by November 15, 2003. NSF has been selected by the Department of the Treasury as a testbed for the new closing procedure. Dr. Gerald Barkdoll of the National Academy of Public Administration briefed the committee on a review of NSF that he will lead. A draft report is due by January 15, 2004. One of the key items to be reviewed is the role of the Board.
In a closed session, the committee received a briefing from Dr. Christine Boesz, NSF Inspector General, on the results of a recent audit, the status of an active investigation of an NSF awardee, and the results of an investigation of a hacking incident in Antarctica.
b. Committee on Programs and Plans (CPP)
In the absence of Dr. Anita Jones, chair, Dr. Daniel Simberloff reported that Dr. Joseph Bordogna, NSF Deputy Director, reviewed NSF’s FY 2004 budget request and the MREFC account. He identified some of the impacts of the FY 2003 appropriation on the FY 2004 request and reviewed the non-prioritized discussion list of future MREFC projects. Dr. John White, chair of the CPP Task Force on Science and Engineering Infrastructure, reported on the dissemination plan for the infrastructure report, which is being printed.
c. CPP Subcommittee on Polar Issues
Dr. White, chair, reported that Dr. Scott Borg is the new head of the Antarctic Science Section. The Office of Polar Programs (OPP) is planning to initiate a Polar post-doctoral program and, with the Directorate of Education and Human Resources, is entertaining proposals for a successor activity to Teachers in the Arctic. The subcommittee received briefings on the safety and security audit conducted at the South Pole, the information technology security breach, and the need to refurbish or replace icebreakers if McMurdo Station and the South Pole Station are to be occupied year round.
d. Education and Human Resources Committee (EHR)
Dr. Langford, chair, reported that the committee received several reports: Dr. Miller presented the draft report of the Task Force on National Workforce Policies for Science and Engineering, which the committee agreed to recommend to the Board. The three working groups (K-12, undergraduate, and graduate programs) provided updates, as did the Science and Engineering Indicators Subcommittee. Dr. Penelope Firth, Acting Deputy Division Director for Environmental Biology, gave a presentation on nurturing discovery in the biological sciences, addressing the recent NRC report Bio 2010, which calls for transforming the biology curriculum. Dr. Bradburn updated the committee on activities related to diversity and education in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate. The EHR Advisory Committee provided an update on new programs related to teacher preparation and math and science partnerships.
Dr. Langford encouraged Board members to attend the Broadening Participation Workshop on August 12. The workshop will look at diversity, improvements already made, and issues for the future.
e. EHR Subcommittee on Science and Engineering Indicators
In the absence of Dr. Richardson, chair, Dr. Simberloff reported that the subcommittee discussed five draft chapters and part of another. Three of the draft chapters will be revised by staff and included in the Orange Book. The subcommittee will review revised drafts of the chapters on the science and engineering workforce, and higher education. It is anticipated that the Orange Book will be ready for Board review in July.
g. Committee on Strategy and Budget
Dr. Savitz, chair, reported that the committee discussed the Board’s new responsibility under Section 22 of the NSF Authorization Act of 2002. The Board must prepare a report to Congress, due in December 2003, to address (1) how increased funding for NSF would be used, (2) the impact of NSF budget increases on the workforce, (3) how expanded NSF-supported programs would allow institutions of higher education to expand their participation, (4) infrastructure concerns, and (5) size and duration of NSF grants. The committee discussed inviting the entire Board to the committee’s August meeting to discuss issues to be addressed in the Section 22 report. The Board will be asked to approve the draft report in November. Dr. Langford suggested that the committee also discuss how the under-funding of NSF affects the marketplace. In a closed session, the committee discussed strategies and budget areas related to NSF’s FY 2005 budget.
Dr. Washington adjourned the Open Session at 3:30 p.m.
1The minutes of the 374th meeting were approved by the Board at the August 14, 2003 meeting.
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September 16, 2015 September 17, 2015 Sarah Crean Environment
After Con-Ed Accident, Final Extent of Oil Leaked Into Bronx River Is Unknown
Almost 2,000 gallons of transformer oil, which recently leaked from an underground Con-Edison cable pipe in Yonkers, may have ended up in the Bronx River.
The oil leak was discovered a week ago, and originated at the intersection of Mile Square Road and Lincoln Avenue in Yonkers, roughly three blocks west of the Bronx River. According to the Bronx River Alliance, the contents of the ruptured cable pipe flowed into the river through an outfall pipe.
Con-Edison says it is still quantifying how much oil was actually released into the river.
It is also unclear whether the cable pipe contained other contaminants in addition to oil. News reports have referred to both oil and dielectric fluid. Con-Edison told NYER that the pipe only contained mineral oil, a type of dielectric fluid, which served as a coolant for its underground cable network.
The 23-mile Bronx River, which originates in Westchester, is the only river within New York City that is both freshwater and tidal. The river’s ongoing recovery from decades of industrial contamination, particularly in the South Bronx, is the subject of a really interesting short video produced by the American Museum of Natural History.
On Sunday, at least one oil sheen was clearly visible in the North Bronx section of the river, several miles downstream from Yonkers. I was not even aware the spill had taken place but saw the sheen while walking alongside the river in Bronx River Park. By coincidence, a New York City Parks Department employee called out to me soon after that, asking if I had seen any oil in the river.
The amount of oil released into the river has not yet been confirmed, Con-Ed spokesman Sidney Alvarez told NYER. The size of the leak from the pipe itself was approximately 1900 gallons, he said. The Bronx River Alliance asserts a higher number, 2,200 gallons.
The oil “does not pose a risk to the river” and does not contain PCB’s, Alvarez stated.
I contacted the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to confirm this information, and am awaiting their response. The City’s Parks Department, which manages Bronx River Park, is referring all media questions about the spill to the state DEC.
Oil sheen in the Bronx River, visible at roughly 210th Street this past Sunday. Photo: Sarah Crean
Con-Edison was also unable to confirm to what extent the spill has been cleaned up. But booming locations in most areas of the Bronx River have been removed based on approval from the DEC, Alvarez said.
Booms are temporary floating barriers which contain a spill and help to concentrate oil in thicker surface layers so that skimmers or other collection methods can be used more effectively.
Booming and skimming locations are still being maintained at the oil’s entry point into the Bronx River in Yonkers, and at the southern-most point of the New York Botanical Garden at East Fordham Road, Alvarez noted.
A recovering river- with many challenges ahead
One thing that struck me as I walked along the river this past Sunday was how low it is. I walked much of the length of Bronx River Park, between 210th and 231st streets.
Because the North Bronx section of the river is so low -as many freshwater rivers in the Northeast currently are- it was easier to see the trash and debris that have been dumped there over the years.
Section of the Bronx River -in the North Bronx- showing low water levels this past Sunday. Photo: Sarah Crean
While the Bronx River no longer experiences large-scale industrial dumping as it did in the past, there are other pollution sources. Four combined sewer “outflow points” release untreated sewage and stormwater directly into the river when rainfall overwhelms area sewer mains and sewage treatment plants.
New York State has required the City to develop a long-term plan to reduce CSO releases into the Bronx River and other local waterbodies. The City reported last year that it had invested $26 million in order to reduce CSO releases into the Bronx River from over a billion gallons a year to a still daunting 592 million gallons annually.
Community organizations, local elected officials, scientific institutions and city agencies have collaborated on a wide variety of projects to bring the river back to good health, such as salt marsh restoration and the re-introduction of oysters.
Michael Abegg, with the New York Harbor School, and a student, Luis Negron, in background, putting oysters into a reef in the Bronx River. Photo: Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times
The river remains home to a remarkable array of species, from ducks and turtles to great blue herons and tree frogs.
Great Heron at the Bronx River. Photo: American Museum of Natural History
And as the Bronx River Alliance notes, “people are returning to the Bronx River, drawn back to a place that has remained true to itself in a region where much else has changed.”
Canoeing on the Bronx River. Photo: Bronx River Alliance
Hopefully, events such as the recent accidental release of hundreds of gallons of oil into the river will not prove to be a setback for the ecological recovery that is taking place there.
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Archives|Anthony Newley, Film and Stage Showman, Dies at 67
Anthony Newley, Film and Stage Showman, Dies at 67
By STEPHEN HOLDEN APRIL 16, 1999
Anthony Newley, the versatile British entertainer who achieved international stardom in 1961 with the musical ''Stop the World -- I Want to Get Off,'' died on Wednesday at his home in Jensen Beach, Fla. He was 67.
The cause was cancer, said his former wife, Dareth Newley Dunn.
A latter-day British Al Jolson, Mr. Newley was one of the last major entertainers to embody an extravagant heart-on-the-sleeve kind of showmanship associated with British music hall performance. ''Stop the World,'' for which he was the director, star and co-author (with his longtime collaborator, Leslie Bricusse), was his greatest showcase. After opening on Broadway in 1962, it ran for 555 performances.
An allegory about acquiring fame and power but ending up disillusioned, ''Stop the World'' was a tour de force for the star, who portrayed a symbolic Everyman named Littlechap. The score gave Mr. Newley two of his signature songs, the ballads ''What Kind of Fool Am I? (a hit for Sammy Davis Jr.) and ''Once in a Lifetime.'' With his sobbing bray of a voice and mimelike body language that some compared to Marcel Marceau (although Mr. Newley never studied mime), he embodied the tragic clown whose heart is broken when his dreams turn to ashes.
Three years after ''Stop the World'' opened in New York, Mr. Newley returned to Broadway with the ''The Roar of the Greasepaint -- the Smell of the Crowd,'' a similar, more grandiose allegory (again written with Mr. Bricusse), which he also directed and starred in. The show yielded another popular standard with the pleading ballad ''Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)'' (addressed to God in the show), which became a hit for Tony Bennett and later for Dionne Warwick.
With Mr. Bricusse, Mr. Newley also collaborated on the score for the 1971 movie ''Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,'' an ingenious children's fantasy written by Roald Dahl and starring Gene Wilder, that earned comparisons to ''The Wizard of Oz.'' From the score of that movie came ''The Candy Man,'' Sammy Davis Jr.'s last and biggest hit.
Mr. Newley's other major hit song was the theme from the 1964 James Bond movie, ''Goldfinger'' (popularized by Shirley Bassey), which he wrote with Mr. Bricusse and the film's soundtrack composer, John Barry.
Born on Sept. 24, 1931, in Hackney, a working-class section of London, the young Mr. Newley was evacuated to the British countryside during the German bombing of London. For a time, he stayed with George Pescud, a retired music hall performer whom he later credited with inspiring his freedom of self-expression. After the war, he studied acting and was discovered by Geoffrey de Barkus, a British film director, who cast him in the title role of his movie, ''The Adventures of Dusty Baker.''
Mr. Newley made several more adventure films, but it was his portrayal of the Artful Dodger in David Lean's adaptation of ''Oliver Twist'' (1948) that brought him his first popular recognition. A series of undistinguished films followed.
While he was making movies, Mr. Newley became increasingly involved with the theater. He appeared in a hit London revue, ''Cranks,'' which flopped when it came to New York. In 1959, he made his film singing debut in ''Idols on Parade,'' playing a conscripted rock-and-roll singer. He went on to record a string of minor rock-and-roll hits that would exert a strong influence on David Bowie.
In 1961, he teamed with Mr. Bricusse to write songs for a show the pair described as ''a simple, lighthearted satirical life cycle of the seven ages of man.'' The project, which evolved into ''Stop the World,'' opened in London that July and was a huge hit despite mixed reviews. When it opened in New York, critical response was again mixed, but the show became a popular hit. ''The Roar of the Greasepaint'' was not as successful, running 232 performances. When it closed, Mr. Newley declared he was finished writing for the theater and would concentrate on film.
In 1967, he was a co-star with Rex Harrison in the screen musical ''Doctor Dolittle'' (with a score by Mr. Bricusse), an expensive failure that nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox. Two years later, his original screen musical, ''Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?,'' which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in (opposite Joan Collins, who was then his wife), was a legendary failure.
Moving to the United States in the 1970's, Mr. Newley spent the next two decades working in nightclubs and appearing in occasional films and on television. In 1983, he returned to the theater with his original musical, ''Chaplin,'' a biography of the silent clown and director that opened in Los Angeles to scathing reviews. A planned Broadway opening was canceled after the production lost $4 million on the road.
Mr. Newley's three marriages ended in divorce. He is survived by his mother and four children.
In 1996, he made a rare nightclub appearance in New York at Rainbow and Stars, where the emotive force of his singing was undiminished. Summing up the previous two decades, he remarked from the stage: ''I went to Vegas for 22 years, married some absolutely charming women and gave them all my money. That's why I'm here.''
A version of this obituary; biography appears in print on April 16, 1999, on Page A00023 of the National edition with the headline: Anthony Newley, Film and Stage Showman, Dies at 67. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Politics|Government Shutdown Cost U.S. Economy $11 Billion, C.B.O. Says
Government Shutdown Cost U.S. Economy $11 Billion, C.B.O. Says
Federal employees lined up in Washington for free meals during the shutdown.CreditCreditTom Brenner for The New York Times
By Alan Rappeport and Binyamin Appelbaum
WASHINGTON — The five-week federal government shutdown took a significant economic toll, costing the United States economy $11 billion, with nearly a quarter of that total permanently lost, the Congressional Budget Office said on Monday.
The figures are the first official projection of the economic effects of the longest federal shutdown in history, and they show that its cost was nearly double the $5.7 billion request by President Trump for a border wall that fueled the impasse. That is enough to reduce first-quarter growth by about 0.4 percentage points.
Much of that spending was simply delayed, and will flow back into the economy as workers get back pay. But the report makes clear that not all the economic damage will be undone and that the effects of the shutdown will linger. With the federal government funded for just three weeks and Mr. Trump threatening to shutter the government again if his demands for a wall are not met, many workers say they are planning to spend less of their income and increase rainy-day savings.
Kelly Spencer, a federal contractor at the Justice Department, was planning to buy her first home this spring, but as she returned to work on Monday, she said she was shelving those plans.
Ms. Spencer was not paid during the five-week shutdown of the federal government, and as a contractor, she is among the thousands of workers who will not receive back pay. But she said the problem is not just the lost money. She is no longer confident she could make a mortgage payment every month.
“This job was supposed to be stable and secure,” she said. While she had worked hard to pay off her debt and clean up her credit to qualify for a mortgage, she was forced to run up credit card debt again during the shutdown.
Buying a home, she said, “is no longer in the foreseeable future.”
Even those who are getting back pay say they will not return to their previous spending habits, given that another shutdown could happen in a few weeks.
“I don’t feel comfortable going back to the spending levels I had before,” said Tamara Brown, a State Department employee. She received half of her missing pay on Monday, and said she expected the rest later this week. Still, she said, “I’m going to be very conservative until I’m sure this is all over.”
On the chopping block: restaurant lunches and trips to Target.
The report by the nonpartisan budget office said the shutdown, which started in late December and ended Friday, reduced gross domestic product by $3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018, and by $8 billion in the first quarter of 2019.
The damage caused by the shutdown comes against a gloomy fiscal backdrop. Economic growth already was expected to slow this year. The budget office projected on Monday that real gross domestic product would slow to 2.3 percent in 2019, down from 3.1 percent last year, and that the federal budget deficit would hit $900 billion.
Over the next decade, federal debt held by the public is expected to climb from $16.6 trillion to $28.7 trillion. By 2029 it is expected to reach its highest level as a percentage of gross domestic product since the end of World War II.
The Federal Reserve, which meets this week, has indicated that it plans to pause and take the measure of the economy before considering any additional increases in its benchmark interest rate.
The budget office said growth in subsequent quarters would increase as delayed spending filtered through the economy. However, it estimates that $3 billion will never be recovered. The figure is basically an estimate of the value of the government work that was not performed during the shutdown.
The budget office also said the economy suffered “more indirect negative effects,” which are harder to quantify but stemmed from businesses being unable to obtain permits and certifications and reduced access to federal-backed loans. “Such factors were probably beginning to lead firms to postpone investment and hiring decisions,” the office said.
Morgan Stanley estimated Friday that the shutdown would reduce first-quarter output by 0.5 percentage points, a slightly larger reduction than the budget office projection, although it also predicted most of the loss would be recouped.
Larry Kudlow, the director of Mr. Trump’s National Economic Council, dismissed the C.B.O. report, noting that the budget office regularly has a more pessimistic view of the economy than the White House.
“I won’t acknowledge any of that right now,” Mr. Kudlow said on Monday. “Let’s see how it rolls out.”
Mr. Kudlow argued that it was difficult to make precise projections when analyzing a $20 trillion economy. He said that the stories of individual hardship were problematic, but that the macroeconomic effects of the shutdown would be minimal.
Democrats seized on the report, saying the economic damage should persuade Mr. Trump not to shut down the government again.
“As the dust settles from the Trump shutdown, it is clear as day that the president’s temper tantrum caused serious and lasting damage to our nation’s economy,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said on Monday that he did not want to go through another shutdown.
“I think a shutdown is a bad idea, remains a bad idea, and I’m optimistic we will not be in that position yet again,” Mr. McConnell said.
Laura Dodson, an agricultural economist at the Agriculture Department, said the shutdown was particularly stressful because she had just $1,000 in her bank accounts when her paychecks stopped coming. Her rent was coming due, and she needed money to pay for her ovarian cancer treatments.
“The big concern I have is speaking from the standpoint of a millennial, someone in their 20s, is the fear and insecurity,” said Ms. Dodson, 26. “I thought I had a good job with good health insurance and was in a stable spot, but I guess not.”
Ms. Dodson said she planned to more aggressively pay off her credit card debt and loans and make sure that she had a larger cash reserve in case another shutdown came.
“I am pretty worried that if it goes to a second shutdown, it could go on for months,” Ms. Dodson said.
Even with the government open for business on Monday, federal workers who had yet to be paid lined up patiently along Pennsylvania Avenue for free lunches at World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit run by the restaurateur José Andrés that usually serves free meals in communities struck by natural disasters.
Mark Stevens, 37, works at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, which is funded by the federal government. He said he was furloughed and then called back to work, but he hasn’t been paid in more than a month.
He said he was grateful for the free meal “because I still don’t have any money.”
Mr. Stevens said he had about two months of salary in savings when the government shut down, and his landlord helped out by postponing a rent payment. Even so, he said he had a pile of bills to tackle as soon as he got paid.
Going forward, Mr. Stevens said he intended to sock away six months of salary.
“No more fast food,” said Mr. Stevens, who lives in suburban Maryland. “Less entertainment. No more taking the kids out everywhere.”
A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Shutdown Dented Economic Growth, And Workers’ Faith. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Canada|Landscaper Pleads Guilty in Murders That Shook Toronto’s Gay Community
Landscaper Pleads Guilty in Murders That Shook Toronto’s Gay Community
By Ian Austen
OTTAWA — A Toronto landscaper pleaded guilty to eight murders on Tuesday in a case that traumatized the gay community in Canada’s largest city.
The landscaper, Bruce McArthur, 67, was arrested a year ago and initially charged with killing six men, dismembering them and hiding the pieces in planters on the property of a client who allowed him to store tools there.
Additional remains were later uncovered in a ravine behind the house where he had transformed planters into graves.
A limited amount of new information about the killings was presented in court on Tuesday. Michael Cantlon, a prosecutor, said Mr. McArthur planned all of the murders, held some of his victims captive and killed others while also sexually assaulting them.
Mr. McArthur kept pieces of his victims’ property, like jewelry and diaries, as souvenirs after killing them.
Speaking outside the downtown Toronto courthouse after the court hearing, the police involved in the investigation declined to speak about the killer’s motive.
“I don’t know if we’ll ever know why,” Det. David Dickinson of the homicide squad told reporters.
Mr. McArthur’s case opened a rift between Toronto’s police force and many members of the city’s gay community.
For about eight years, activists say, the police were uninterested in vigorously pursuing missing persons cases involving gay men or members of minority groups in and around a strip of Church Street lined with business catering to gays, and dismissed fears that a serial killer was at work.
Six of the victims were of South Asian or Middle Eastern descent.
A retired judge is now examining how the Toronto police handle missing persons reports, although she is not reviewing the actions of the police in the McArthur investigation.
The ill will has brought relations between Toronto’s gay community and the police to a low not seen since 1981, when the force staged raids of four bathhouses and arrested more than 300 men, then the largest mass arrest in the city’s history.
Most of the people charged then were subjected to taunts by police officers about their sexuality.
Ultimately, a majority of the people charged were acquitted. Large protests followed the raids, and the incident has come to be seen as a pivotal moment in Canada’s gay rights movement.
Bruce McArthur, a 67-year-old freelance landscaper, now a convicted serial killer.CreditReuters
Mr. McArthur pleaded guilty to the first-degree murders of Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, Andrew Kinsman, Majeed Kayhan, Soroush Mahmudi, Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Dean Lisowick and Selim Esen.
All of his victims vanished between 2010 and 2017.
Mr. McArthur’s sentencing was scheduled for Feb. 4. At least two dozen people are expected to read statements about how their lives have been affected by the killings.
Under Canadian law, the maximum sentence for first-degree murder is life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Accounting for time served while awaiting trial, Justice John McMahon of the Ontario Superior Court told Mr. McArthur that he would be at least 91 years old before he could apply for parole.
Since 2011, judges have been allowed to impose consecutive sentences in mass murder cases. In Mr. McArthur’s case, that would mean he would certainly die in prison, since he could not apply for parole for 200 years.
Haran Vijayanathan, executive director of the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention, said after attending the hearing that he was relieved that Mr. McArthur had spared the victims’ family members and friends from having to endure what would have most likely been a long trial.
And while he praised the efforts of investigators who finally tracked down Mr. McArthur, he said it now has become important to determine why it took so long.
“We want to figure out where the ball was dropped in this investigation,” he said. “I think there certainly is an awareness happening within the police about their shortcomings.”
In the 1990s, Mr. McArthur, a married father of two, left his wife in Oshawa, Ontario, and moved to Toronto, where he became a figure on the Church Street scene.
In 2003, Mr. McArthur was given a conditional sentence for attacking a man with a metal pipe. He was then barred by the court from the Church Street area.
Karen Fraser, whose planters were used by Mr. McArthur to cover up his killings, told reporters after the hearing that since the arrest, she and her partner, Ron Smith, had come to think of the killer as two people: “Bruce A and Bruce B.”
She described the A version as a man filled with enthusiasm who was devoted to his children and grandchildren. “Bruce B, who was that?” she asked. “I don’t know.”
She added, “I’m told he’s not mentally ill, but to me he’s evil.”
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Toronto Man Pleads Guilty To 8 Murders In Gay District. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Killings in Toronto’s Gay Community Expose ‘an Open Wound’ With Police
Toronto Landscaper Killed at Least 5 Men, Police Say
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Whilst the holiday has a strong grounding in the story of the birth of Jesus, many of the traditions we associate with Christmas have evolved from pre-Christian beliefs and certainly, the traditions have evolved beyond purely a Christian holiday to have a wider secular significance.
The celebration of Christmas in late December is certainly as a result of pre-existing celebrations happening at that time, marking the Winter Solstice.
Most notable of these is Yule (meaning 'Feast'), a winter pagan festival that was originally celebrated by Germanic people. The exact date of Yule depends on the lunar cycle but it falls from late December to early January. In some Northern Europe countries, the local word for Christmas has a closer linguistic tie to 'Yule' than 'Christmas', and it is still a term that may be used for Christmas in some English-speaking countries. Several Yule traditions are familiar to the modern celebration of Christmas, such as Yule Log, the custom of burning a large wooden log on the fire at Christmas; or indeed carol singing, which is surprisingly a very ancient tradition.
Under the Julian calendar, the winter solstice was fixed on December 25, and this date was also the day of the popular Roman holiday of Saturnalia, in honour of Saturn, the god of agriculture; which was later superseded by Sol Invictus, a day that bundled up the celebration of several sun based gods into one easy to manage festival.
As Christianity began to take hold across the Roman empire and beyond, the date of when to celebrate the birth of Christ became a bit of an issue, with several different dates proposed.
It wasn't until 350 AD, when the then Bishop of Rome, Pope Julius I, fixed the official Christmas day on December 25. Unfortunately, Julius, I didn't show his working out on how he reached this date; some scholars later suggested that it was calculated as nine months after the Annunciation (March 25), when the angel Gabriel is said to have appeared to Mary and told her she would bear the son of God. Whatever the reasoning, it is clear that, just as key pagan sites were being chosen for new churches, so too the date was chosen with the intention to catapult Christmas into becoming a major festival by placing it over the pre-existing pagan festivals.
Kissing someone who happens to be stood under a sprig of mistletoe is seen as a tradition popularised in Victorian England. However even this relatively modern tradition has much more ancient echoes in that Mistletoe bears its fruit around the time of the Winter Solstice, and its supposed mythical ability to heal and increase fertility.
In Norse mythology, an arrow made from mistletoe killed Balder, who was a brother of Thor. Frigga, Balder's mother brought him back to life shedding tears that changed the red berries on mistletoe to white. Frigga then blessed the mistletoe and promised a kiss to anyone who passed beneath it.
A hint of Mistletoe' s integration from pagan ceremonies into Christmas tradition is said that the mistletoe plant used to be a tree, and its wood was used to make the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. After the Crucifixion, the plant shrivelled to became the parasitic vine we know today.
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As mentioned earlier, the tradition of singing of songs can be traced back to the pagan festivals before the advent of Christmas. Indeed, the word carol is derived from the Greek word choraulein, which meant "an ancient circle dance performed to flute music."
As carols were already an established custom, early Christians made the shrewd decision to integrate Christian songs into the tradition rather than ban the singing.
Most new Christian Carols were written in Latin, which was by the middle ages, a language only used by the church, thus reducing the popularity of the custom.
However, carols received an injection of popularity when St. Francis of Assisi started his Nativity Plays in Italy in 1223, which included songs written in the local people's language.
The tradition of 'Modern' Carol singing flourished in England. Known as Wassailing, it was a chance for peasants to get some much-needed charity from their feudal lords. This singing for money developed in a custom involving travelling musicians who would visit wealthy homes, singing in the hope of receiving money food or gifts in return.
There was a short interruption in 1647 when the Puritans come to power after the English Civil War. The Puritans, under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell, disapproved of the celebration of Christmas. There was even a fine of up to five shillings for anyone caught singing Christmas carols. When King Charles II came back to the throne in 1660, the public singing of Christmas carols was permitted again.
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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented in 1938 by a department store, Montgomery Ward, as a marketing gimmick to get kids to buy holiday coloring books.
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Don’t trust doctors, just read Proverbs September 18, 2017 Fred Clark
It was right around this time last year that my wife began experiencing a sharp pain in her left wrist. Lifting anything with that hand or turning it in the wrong position produced a spasm that felt like someone was jamming a fork into her elbow. She took ibuprofen and hoped it would get better. It didn’t.
Readers of this blog will remember what the doctors eventually concluded: that she had a form of tennis elbow, with a series of small tears in the tendons of the arm. That’s a serious injury that requires treatment, but the good news is that doctors know how to treat it. They put her in a cast to immobilize that wrist for several weeks to give the tendons a chance to heal without aggravation. (Thank you, again, to everyone who generously contributed to the fundraiser here that enabled us to pay the bills while she was unable to work during that time.) That treatment worked, meaning she escaped the more extreme step of corrective surgery on her arm. After a month in that cast, she began sessions with a trained physical therapist and, after a couple of months, was able to return to work. These days, her arm is as good as ever.
I mention this because at no point did anyone ever suggest to my wife or I that our reliance on modern, “secular” medicine to restore her arm was sinful. No one — not even the fundiest of fundamentalists — would have argued that turning to medical doctors for the treatment of her wrist was somehow “unbiblical” or a “total and utter mockery of God’s word.” No one insisted that we rely only, instead, on “biblical therapy” because “the Bible, and the Bible alone, is a sufficient and an authoritative guide to” medicine.
No one tried to twist our reliance on medical doctors into an accusation that we lacked faith in the sufficiency of such “biblical therapy,” telling us that “In this therapeutic age, it is really important that we think as Christians … that we employ authentically Christian thinking, biblical thinking, to human life, and that we do this in a way that, without apology, confronts and critiques the wisdom of the age and seeks the wisdom that can come only from God and God’s word.”
Biblical counselors know that Phineas Gage suffered from a spiritual ailment and not, as secular, therapeutic “doctors” claimed, from having a 3-foot iron rod pass through his skull.
That would seem laughably absurd, wouldn’t it? It would seem like a hostile caricature of fundamentalist Christianity, an exaggerated mockery of the self-glorification-by-proxy they practice by constantly glorifying the supposed all-sufficiency of the inerrant, infallible Bible. You might say, Come on, be fair. Those fundies may reject evolution, but even the most rigidly brittle young-Earth creationists aren’t going around condemning medical science.
Except they are. Not when it comes to lateral epicondylitis, perhaps, not yet.
But this is absolutely what they’re doing when it comes to mental illness and psychological trauma. John Fea provides a helpful overview of the latest clash between so-called “biblical counseling” and medical science. It involves our old friends at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where a long-time professor of pastoral care has just been pushed out following harsh criticism by one of his fellow professors — a “biblical counseling” advocate named Heath Lambert. All but one of the phrases in quotation marks above are things that Lambert has actually said about psychology, which he rejects completely.
The other quotation is from his boss, Southern Seminary’s president, Al Mohler, who shares Lambert’s claim that anything beyond Bible-only counseling involves a rejection of “the wisdom that can come only from God and God’s word.” (When Mohler first led the fundamentalist transformation at Southern, his faculty purge got rid of most of the school’s pastoral care, counseling and social work professors. I always assumed this was mostly because they were among the few women and people of color at the school. Apparently, that was just an added bonus.)
Warren Throckmorton is a psychology professor. He’s also a solidly evangelical fellow who teaches at the solidly evangelical Geneva College. He’s accustomed to some Christians being uneasy about his discipline. “Representing different ways of approaching knowledge, religion depends on revelation and scientifically informed psychology depends on research,” he writes. “For me as a psychology professor at a Christian college, the tension is just another day at work.”
Dr. Throckmorton addresses this “tension” with commendable patience:
One way that tension shows up is in the practice and teaching of counseling. Some counselors insist that the Bible is all that should be used in counseling whereas other Christians believe that psychological research should inform selection of techniques. A skirmish in that conflict appears to be taking place at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
… My primary interest in this matter isn’t about a personnel matter at the seminary. Those details will probably remain private. Rather, I want to focus on the conflict between so-called biblical counselors and Christian psychology. While I don’t know what Mr. Lambert’s role was in Johnson’s situation, it does seem clear that Lambert sees himself as a reformer of counseling conducted by Christians.
In the spirit of the Reformation, Lambert recently released “95 Theses for an Authentically Christian Commitment to Counseling.” In this document, Lambert offers a challenge to “secular therapy” for the “purpose of debate.”
I plan to take Lambert up on his offer. While I agree with Lambert that the topic is timely and important, I disagree with his general approach. In future posts, I will outline why I believe that his key claims are incorrect and if followed to the letter could be harmful.
I look forward to reading Throckmorton’s ongoing discussion of this. I hope his irenic, charitable, professional engagement with Lambert’s ideological rejection of science bears fruit.
I also wonder, though, if it’s necessary, appropriate, or ultimately helpful to engage Lambert’s garbage as some kind of legitimate, good-faith effort. His grandiose “95 Theses”* suggests that what science calls mental illness or trauma is merely the need for “the wisdom needed to deal with life’s problems,” which he says can only come from “the contents of the Bible” and “the very same issues that God writes about in his Word.”
(Yeah, he really thinks God wrote the Bible. This is not true. Nor is it what the Bible itself claims or what the Bible allows others to claim about it. But, like his boss Mohler, Lambert holds such a “high view” of scripture that he refuses to be bound by what it actually says.)
Throckmorton’s concern that this “could be harmful” understates the problem. Teaching people that mental illness is merely a function of a lack of “wisdom” is a nasty, venomous bit of trash. This is nonsense that gets people killed.
It’s also a racket — a potentially lucrative side angle that serves to bolster the longer con. By suggesting that their “biblical counseling” model is the only legitimate approach, they are also suggesting that Southern Seminary is thus the only legitimate place to pay for certification. That’s a scam along the lines of Trump University. This shtick also allows them to sell some books and milk the speaking circuit, but that’s just a bit of gravy.
The main function of this is its role in delegitimizing every source of truth, authority and expertise other than themselves. Fundamentalists, like all abusers, need to isolate their victims in order to control them. This is what “biblical counseling” attempts to do — to prevent any of their followers from turning to any other counsel, any other source of assistance, than them. Here, as always, the claim of the all-sufficient authority of “God and God’s word” is nothing more than the claim of their own all-sufficient authority as the exclusive legitimate arbiters of what “God and God’s word” say and mean.
Some might say that it’s overly cynical to regard this “biblical counseling movement” as nothing more than such a naked power play. We have an obligation to presume good faith, they say.
But I’ve been watching these folks do this dirty work for decades. It really isn’t possible to be overly cynical about them. Be as cynical as you can manage, then double that, and you’re still not going to match the cynicism that drives them and everything they do.
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* The attempt there to appropriate the mantle of Martin Luther is morbidly hilarious. Luther himself suffered from what was probably depression and he recognized it was not an exclusively spiritual or biblical condition requiring an exclusively biblical remedy. His counsel for enduring such “melancholy and dejection,” for himself and for others, involved practical advice that often had more to do with clinical care than with anything like the scam of “biblical counseling.”
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All America has been touched by the horrific events that have rocked our nation recently. I am referring particularly to the bombings surrounding the Boston Marathon, and the explosions in a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Our thoughts and prayers are focused most on those immediately involved who suffered even deeper wounds, physical and emotional � some will be dealing with for the rest of their lives.
Seeing all the horror played out on television, reading about it in the newspapers, hearing first-hand experiences, neither the carnage nor the search for answers were the things that struck me most in either of these two events. Feeling helpless except to pray, I have found other things have stayed with me, and made deeper impressions. For one, the responses of the people present at the time of these tragic events.
In both Boston and West, explosions with enough force to do tremendous damage, killed and maimed many, and shattered lives. In the case of West one explosion had such power that it registered as an earthquake. Yet, following those explosions you can see on tape, or hear first hand accounts, that many of the people who dispersed following the blasts returned quickly to check on those left behind.
I heard one man share how he had just crossed the finish line in Boston as a bomb exploded. He said, �I continued to run, and then I stopped and went back to help.� This man said he had no idea what he would do, but he just had to go back. When he got there he saw people all around him without limbs, and other people holding their heads, blood everywhere, people screaming and crying. He had never seen anything like it, and he knew he had been right in that he didn�t know what to do, he had no training for such a thing, but he could be present, he could be at the side of those suffering, giving hope that people cared, that he cared.
In West the firefighters were engaged in fighting a fire when there was an explosion in which many were killed. To think that these first responders in West were volunteers, as were those who followed, townspeople responding to a need in spite of the threat facing them, shows an element of the human spirit beyond my ability to write in words.
Jesus tells us, � in St. John�s Gospel 15:12-13., �This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, than a man lay down his life for his friends.� Who are our friends? Well. We are called to be friends to all people, for Christ�s sake. Those who responded by being present, by engaging with those suffering in Boston and West, those who entered the fray, answered the highest calling �to love your neighbor,� showing and sharing the greatest gift God gives us to bless one another, the gift that �casts out fear, �love.� Many were probably not Christian, or did not react because they thought they ought too, but acted from the heart, to be present for those in need, in crisis. Their reaction showed not the truth of a creed, or the strength of dogma, but the power of love, which comes from God. What a powerful witness. May that same power of love work in us the manifestation of God�s glory, not just in times of crisis and emergency, but in every interaction we have with others � that we may truly be friends for Christ�s sake.
The Rev. Walter Van Zandt Windsor is rector at Trinity Episcopal Church.
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BELGIUM: Police arrest 21, Paris fugitive still…
BELGIUM: Police arrest 21, Paris fugitive still at large
A Belgian Army soldier patrols outside a coffee shop in the center of Brussels on Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. The Belgian capital Brussels has entered its third day of lockdown, with schools and underground transport shut and more than 1,000 security personnel deployed across the country.
By Lorne Cook and Sylvie Corbet | Press-Enterprise
BRUSSELS — Belgian police launched more raids in Brussels and beyond early Monday, detaining five more people as they continued their hunt for a fugitive suspect in the Paris attacks.
In Paris, British Prime Minister David Cameron said he will ask for parliamentary approval for the U.K. to join airstrikes against Islamic State extremists in Syria.
The raids began late Sunday, capping a tense weekend that saw hundreds of troops patrolling and authorities hunting for one or more suspected extremists including Salah Abdeslam, a fugitive since being named a suspect in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks. Between Sunday night and midday Monday, 21 people were detained
The Belgian government kept the capital on the highest state of alert in the face of what it described as a “serious and imminent” threat, preventing a return to normal in the city that is also host to the European Union’s main institutions.
Federal prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt said 19 raids were carried out Sunday in Molenbeek, home to many of the Paris attackers, and other boroughs of Brussels, and three raids were carried out in Charleroi. Abdeslam was not among those arrested. Van Der Sypt said no firearms or explosives were found.
Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon told the RTL network that Abdeslam “must have a lot of support on our territory. That’s why all these searches being conducted at the moment are important.”
Police fired two shots at a car that approached them as they searched a snack bar in Molenbeek, Van Der Sypt said. The vehicle escaped but was stopped later in Brussels, and a wounded person inside was arrested. It was not immediately known if the person was linked to the investigation into the Paris attacks.
Cameron and French President Francois Hollande, meeting in Paris, paid a quiet visit to the Bataclan concert venue, which saw the worst of the carnage in Paris. Hollande plans to meet later this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkeld and then U.S. President Barack Obama in pursuit of a unified strategy in Syria.
Britain has been carrying out airstrikes in Iraq, but Cameron has long wished for an expanded mandate to include targets in Syria. But having lost a vote once two years ago, his government had been reluctant to even suggest a vote until it could be certain it would win.
Belgian authorities said more raids Monday in Brussels and eastern Liege yielded five more detentions.
The federal prosecutor said in a statement that a BMW sighting near Liege that had been rumored to contain Abdeslam had no links with the ongoing investigation.
Several of the Paris attackers had lived in Brussels, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the plot’s orchestrator who was killed Wednesday in a standoff with French police. Police issued a new public appeal for help in identifying the third attacker who was killed in the assault at the national stadium. They posted a photo of the man on Twitter, asking the public for information.
France has intensified its aerial bombing in Syria and Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, which has been sent to the Mediterranean, will be “operational” from Monday and “ready to act.”
France has extended a state of emergency which allows police raids, searches and house arrest without permission from a judge, for three months. On Saturday, it also extended a ban on demonstrations and other gatherings through Nov. 30, when a U.N. climate conference with more than 100 heads of state is scheduled to start.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more; the suicide bombings in Beirut that killed 43 people and injured more than 200; and the downing of the Russian jetliner carrying 224 people in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. All happened within the past month.
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Hutton to reveal plans to force incapacity benefit claimants to work
By Mike Berry on 16 Jan 2006 in Disability, Equality & diversity, Latest News
Work and pensions secretary John Hutton is set to push plans to compel incapacity benefit claimants to work.
Pilots of the government’s Pathways to Work programme have focused on supporting people with disabilities who want to find jobs with financial incentives and advice.
In a keynote speech to the Work Foundation in London, Hutton will say that the scale of the challenge is such that “a greater level of compulsion” will be needed.
“The largely voluntary approach of Pathways has been a success, but it is not enough on its own to reach our goal,” he will say.
The speech comes ahead of a Green Paper setting out proposals for change, due next month. Tough measures have been floated as ways to cut the number of claimants by about a million.
These include means-testing, setting a time-limit on eligibility, and paying part of the benefit in vouchers which could only be redeemed in return for undertaking training programmes.
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Who Is Atreus In Norse Mythology
He said: “Actually like having Atreus be an expert in Norse language and mythology is awesome because you can do a whole other set of design based on what Atreus is an expert in, that Kratos is sort.
Jun 12, 2017. God of War – Be A Warrior: PS4 Gameplay Trailer | E3 2017. signature brutal hack-and-slash combat to a new Norse mythology setting. hint at the nature of the game's narrative, the new trailer ended with Kratos and Atreus.
it will be very silent and everyone will talk in old Norse, so that you won’t understand anything anybody’s saying,’ commented Barlog. In addition, Rob Davis, the game’s lead level designer, revealed.
Jan 10, 2018 · Atreus in Greek Mythology. Atreus means fearless and he was the King of Mycenae in the Greek Mythology. He is the son of Pelops and Hippodamia. While Pelops himself does not seem to be similar to Kratos, it will be interesting to see how Kratos’ past is reflected through Atreus.
God of War shifted the entire franchise by introducing Norse mythology to its narrative. Shifting away from Greek mythology,
Apr 9, 2018. Sony Santa Monica has confirmed to finder that God of War 5 will continue Kratos and Atreus's Norse adventures.
Brokkr and Eitri the dwarves that created three precious objects for the Gods. In a bet with, the trickster Loki, he bet that the dwarf brothers Brokkr and Eitri, that they could not make anything as fine as the gifts, as another group of dwarfs had already made for the Gods, which was a golden headpiece, a ship, and a spear.Eitri and his brother Brokkr, then crafted Gullinbursti “Golden.
I keep connecting the dots and the kid has to be Ullr. Ulr mother is Sif. Sif had a baby by a man with a uknown name before she was with Thor. All of Ullr godly traits are similar is "Atreaus". What if Atreus was just his Greek name given to him by Kratos but in the norse lands he is known as Ullr.
There has also been debate as to whether Atreus’s neck tattoo means "fishnet mind" or "calm mind" (interestingly, fishing is associated with the god Loki in Norse mythology). Atreus’s runes currently.
The Banner Saga isn’t so much about Norse mythology, as it is heavily based on it. The game takes place in a fantasy world heavily inspired by Norse and Viking legend, although adapted for its own.
The game is looking to be more narrative-focused, it trades Greek mythology for Norse mythology, and it will be the longest. he is joined by his son Atreus. In all the footage we’ve seen of the new.
The only reason the series is handling Norse mythology now is because Kratos helped destroy the world at the end of God of War 3, causing a new mythology to run in. I doubt Kratos would cause the end of the world at the end of God of War 4, so it’s only natural that.
Feb 8, 2018. Demigod and psychopath Kratos finds himself trying to raise his son Atreus in the world of Norse mythology, while his past role in the.
Loki, in Norse mythology, a cunning trickster who had the ability to change his shape and sex. Although his father was the giant Fárbauti, he was included among the Aesir (a tribe of gods). Loki was represented as the companion of the great gods Odin and Thor, helping them with his clever plans but sometimes causing embarrassment.
Norse Mythology opens up so many opportunities for you creatively. any opportunity for really feeling the spectrum of emotions and stamping it down. So, having his son, Atreus, was critical to me.
Instead of picking up where God of War 3 left off, this new vision of God of War rested on the shoulders of an older, wiser Kratos journeying through Norse mythology. Kratos was joined by his young.
The protagonists of the game are Kratos (voiced by Christopher Judge) and his young son Atreus (Sunny Suljic). Kratos is a warrior originally from Sparta who became.
Norse mythology comprises the pre-Christian beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian peoples including those who settled on Iceland where most of the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled.
If you’re familiar with the past installments, this time around Kratos has ended his time with Greek mythology and has since.
Jan 10, 2018 · In this piece, we have tried to explain everything you need to know about Atreus, his origins in mythology, and some exciting tidbits about this new character in God of War 4. Atreus.
Their family hike is a perilous one. Kratos and Atreus encounter many beasts, characters, and even gods from the Norse pantheon, becoming entangled in their drama along the way. They meet Freya, the.
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Dec 17, 2018 · Definition. Thor was one of the most important and famous gods in Norse mythology. He was the son of Odin and Fyorgyn, the earth goddess. Thor was considered the storm-weather god of sky and thunder and also a fertility god. His wife was Sif, a goddess also linked to fertility. He had a red beard and eyes, he was huge in size,
It might seem silly to say this now — now that “God of War” has emerged from nearly a decade of slumber to rapturous acclaim — but when Kratos and Atreus. Norse texts who teaches at the University.
Greek mythology has been traded out in favour of Norse lore, bringing with it all new threats and. Like, it’s really important to us to put Kratos and Atreus on the front and centre of everything.
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Origin and Meaning. Old Norse name meaning 'the dangerous hitter', which allows natural-mythological interpretation in the sense of 'lightning' or 'storm'.
Pallas In Greek Mythology The complete A-Z index of Greek Gods, Goddesses, spirits, demons, legendary monsters and other characters names from Greek mythology in alphabetical order. parallels to which can be found in Greek mythology in the behaviour of the Bacchantes. – (2) Early civilisations. Civilisation and State are men’s make, both being rooted in hunting and warfare (see.
Hel the Queen of the Underworld in Norse Mythology Einherjar 2018-08-01T06:05:12+00:00 Hel: The Queen of Helheim Hel is a giantess and the daughter of Loki the.
The son of Odin and husband to the golden-haired goddess Sif, Thor was famous for relentlessly pursuing his foes. These foes were jötnar, ambiguous beings who in Norse mythology may be friends, enemies or even relatives of the gods.
2 days ago. Although many are hoping to see Kratos return to Norse mythology (probably with a fight. God of War shows Kratos and Atreus killing Baldur.
Farbauti. In Norse mythology Farbauti is Loki’s father, which makes sense now that it’s been revealed that Atreus was going to be called Loki. The Jotunheim murals even explain why Fey called Kratos.
As a god slaying monsters and fellow gods, Kratos fits right in with other Norse mythology. The game does not directly make its case in these terms, but provides a specific explanation for humanity’s.
The first major action in God of War arrives pretty early on, as Kratos and Atreus’ peace is interrupted by the. Baldur is described in Norse mythology as being loved by all the gods, goddesses,
Magni and Modi: Magna and Modi aren’t exactly the most popular gods in Norse mythology, but they’re the sons of Thor, and the appear in the game to help Baldur hunt down Kratos and Atreus. Loki: This.
Brokk and Eitri are two minor but still fairly important characters in Norse Mythology, as they are the two dwarves. will be on-hand to help diversify the combat skills of Kratos and Atreus, so you.
But it would be a perfect fit for the rustic old Norse mythology land he lives in during the events. To do so you’ll take on the roles of characters like Kratos, Atreus, Mimir, and Freya to fight.
Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the.
Jan 29, 2018 · It’s been a while since we last looked as some Norse Mythology. So today we can take a look at another child of Loki, Jormungand and his bitter rivalry with Thor. Support the Channel -.
Pelops. Pelops was the king of the city of Pisa in Peloponnesus, in Greek mythology. His father was Tantalus, the founder of the dynasty of the Atreides, while his mother may have been Dione, Euryanassa or Eurythemista. Pelops ‘ father, Tantalus, wanted to make an offering to the gods, and decided to kill his son; he cut Pelops into pieces,
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Kratos Son (Greek name) "Atreus" (Norse name) "Ullr". You’re browsing the GameFAQs Message Boards as a guest. Sign Up for free (or Log In if you already have an account) to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts. I keep connecting the dots and the kid has to be Ullr.
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Norse Tales of the Fae There are three primary groups of fae folk in Nordic Mythology: Elves, Dwarves, and Giants. Elves are mentioned but don’t seem to play a role in any of the mythos. Dwarves and Giants are vital characters in most of the myths. Dwarves are the master-smiths who create great magical treasures for the Gods and are obsessed with gold, beautiful women, and power.
moving from Greek Mythology to Norse in the best way possible. The game starts with Kratos and his son Atreus gathering up wood to build a pyre for his wife. Kratos is visibly older and a lot more.
Apr 24, 2018. Killing Norse gods, vanquishing ice giants and learning to be a better father are. Now, Kratos and his son Atreus must trek the treacherous.
Sep 29, 2017. "We had exhausted Greek mythology and kind of started to set up Kratos to. Suljic was cast as Kratos' son Atreus very early on in the game's.
The story leaves Greek mythology behind in favor of Norse mythology, populating the landscape with. accompanied by his young son Atreus. Well, maybe not that kind and gentle; the dude is still a.
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Writing by Numbers: A Review of Venom
8th October 2018 James Ashworth
Image Credit: Sony
You probably know the story by now. Sony, after the box office failure of The Amazing Spiderman 2, sent their webbed hero over to Marvel Studios, where he’s currently enjoying being part of the Avengers, stopping villains, and also “not feeling so good”. However, Sony still maintains the rights to both Spiderman and a wide array of other characters from his comics, including, as you may have guessed, his antagonist Venom, last seen in Spiderman 3 back in 2007. Cashing in on Spiderman’s profile as part of the MCU, they have commissioned a slate of films including other characters, such as Silver Sable or Morbius the Living Vampire, in order to create Sony’s version of the Marvel universe. As with other non-Marvel cinematic universes, this attempt has not gone well.
One theme that runs throughout Venom is that of the gene. And not just the technobabble about symbiosis, delivered through some of the most blatant exposition I have ever witnessed. It’s probably more prevalent as part of the first word I would use to describe it, GENEric. The film goes through and ticks all the standard superhero boxes. Dramatic opening? Check! Foreshadowing of future conflict? Present. Extended CGI fight scenes? Of course. The film spends a lot of time, particularly at the beginning, just plodding through the motions, aiming to make all the right noises in a not very convincing way. Once it gets past this, however, and Eddie begins to interact with Venom, a promise of what the film could’ve been rears its head. Arguably, this makes it worse, as it shows you something that it has no intention of delivering on. A potential exploration of the concepts of good, evil, and what really separates them via Eddie/Venom is not in the offing, and so after a pleasing middle third we return to a CGI smorgasbord.
Another word I would use to describe Venom is shoddy. The film is peppered by characters and situations that are unbelievable. I’ll admit, as a dyed in the wool sci-fi fan that I often believe in Alice’s “impossible things before breakfast”. I’ll let the power of a lightning bolt send Marty McFly back in time, I’ll let Cooper communicate the secret of gravity to his daughter from inside a wormhole, because the films have built up enough goodwill to allow it. But this is not the case in Venom. Eddie Brock’s initial attempts at bringing down Carlton Drake are the epitome of bad journalism, despite him supposedly being “the best investigative journalist in town”. Carlton Drake himself is such an obvious, over the top facsimile of Elon Musk that there was no real need to change the name. The fact that a rocket launch site can be built just past the Golden Gate Bridge is just the cherry on the proverbial cake. There have been rumours of changes being made to the film, with Tom Hardy saying that “30 to 40 minutes’ worth” of his favourite footage was cut, though an executive producer, Matt Tolmach, has denied cuts to allow the film a PG-13 rating. Whatever the case, the film could definitely have done with a few more drafts before coming to the screen.
As for the acting, this is probably the film’s strong suit. Both Tom Hardy (Eddie Brock/Venom) and Riz Ahmed (Carlton Drake/Riot), who have shown their skills elsewhere, persevere with some ridiculous lines, which sound as if they were placeholders for replacements that never arrived. It’s also a bit of a mystery why Michelle Williams (Anne Weying) features in the top billing-she certainly does her best, but with so few appearances it’s difficult to make her character anything other than ‘the love interest’. Arguably Jenny Slate should’ve got higher billing, with her character of Dr Dora Skirth giving much more to the plot, and being a far more interesting character, than Weying.
In all, I would describe Venom as a film with moments. Occasionally, when Eddie and Venom interact, there are flashes of a film that could be anything from body horror, exploration of the human condition, or dark comedy. These are normally quickly deluged by a tide of nonsense. All I can say is, I’m quite glad that when I went to see Venom it was with two for one tickets.
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When the former deputy director of the CIA talks about Syria, it’s time to listen up.
John McLaughlin is the former deputy director of the CIA. He writes a regular column on OZY called “Global Eye: Foreign Affairs Through an Intelligence Lens,” and teaches at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
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John McLaughlin spent 32 years at the CIA focusing on counter-terrorism, serving as Deputy Director and Acting Director. He retired in 2004 and now spends his time teaching, traveling and advising governments on terrorist threats. McLaughlin will be a regular contributor to OZY. Here’s what he has to say about the conflict in Syria, and the near-term consequences for the region and the world.
1. Spillover Effect: Just like Afghanistan in the 1980s or Iraq in the last decade, foreign fighters have flowed into Syria and are likely to return home and wreak havoc when the Syrian conflict eventually ends. They come from as far away as Australia, Bangladesh and Britain and as close as Jordan, Iraq and North Africa. Estimates of their numbers vary, but they could comprise as much as 8-10 percent of the rebel force. These fighters are getting field experience and training in all the classic techniques of insurgency and terrorism. Moreover, they will be especially skilled in urban warfare, and with urbanization rapidly increasing in the many of their homelands, this has to be a top concern.
2. Middle East Explosion? Compounding the concern, these foreign fighters will be returning to particularly vulnerable spots, with “new” governments and continuing ethnic and religious strife. They won’t be going back to static environments like Mubarak’s Egypt, Qaddafi’s Libya or Ben Ali’s Tunisia; instead, they will be heading to countries in transition or turmoil, likely to be stressed in the coming years by burgeoning populations demanding services. They will have ample opportunity to link up with like-minded extremists and attempt to push those societies in more extreme directions.
The Syria conflict, if not resolved, could also create conditions leading to a redrawing of borders in the Middle East. It’s worth recalling that with only a few exceptions, such as Egypt and Iran, most of the countries in the region are post-WWI creations that tumbled out of collapsing empires. Moreover, if borders are to be adjusted, this will not be handled by colonial diplomats, as in the past; it will probably be a matter of armed dispute involving many of the factions now fighting in Syria.
3. Syria Is Also At Risk: Even if the conflict does not spill over Syria’s borders, don’t expect a smooth transition to another form of government if Assad falls. The Syrian government is staffed by the hated Alawite minority, and administration will not simply continue under different rulers like it did to a certain degree in the East European transformations of the 1990s, or even, more recently, Iraq. More likely, sectarian war would continue with a large risk of a bloodbath focused on the Alawites, who will have every incentive to head for the exits.
4. Al-Qaeda Putting Down Roots: Al-Qaeda’s hopes of securing its own patch of territory one day have probably been furthered by the Syrian troubles. In a sectarian-war-continues scenario, the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra will have a strong incentive to sink roots into whatever territory it can grab – something that already appears to be happening in Raqqa province in Northern Syria. That can rapidly become a safe haven for operational planning and training for future operations in the region and beyond – a goal the AQ leadership has ardently pursued since the U.S. kicked it out of Afghanistan a dozen years ago.
Meanwhile, various reports suggest that Jabhat al-Nusra and other Al Qaeda affiliates have begun absorbing lessons from their past failures to win over populations where they temporarily held sway. They are starting to give higher priority to providing needed social services, ranging from food to trash collection. If this becomes a trend, they will be harder to root out when they gain influence over territory in places like Syria or North Africa.
5. Putin Left Holding the Bag?: The Russia chemical weapons deal may not be as bad for Obama as some have portrayed it. To be sure, Putin got the jump on us and seized the initiative to pull Washington and Moscow together behind a plan for getting rid of Assad’s CW. But the President and Secretary Kerry have rightly kept the threat of military action on the table over Putin’s objections. And Putin now “owns” a plan to disarm Assad and will have to accept a large chunk of the blame if that falls apart – either because of its inherent difficulty or because of obstacles that Russia itself throws onto the path.
The first major sign of whether any of this will work should come this weekend or early next week when Syria submits a “declaration” that is supposed to detail the magnitude and location of its CW facilities and stockpile. This is usually the most contentious early phase of any arms control effort; it’s the first sign of whether you can trust the other side to be truthful and accurate.
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Packers Insider: Thumbs up to punter JK Scott, down to running game
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Packers Insider: Thumbs up to punter JK Scott, down to running game A capsule look at Packers vs. Vikings Check out this story on packersnews.com: https://pck.rs/2xoDnvZ
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Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Jets fly over the crowd before the Packers game against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.The game ended in a 29 to 29 tie. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The game ended in a 29 to 29 tie. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
The Green Bay Packers Green Bay Packers defensive back Jermaine Whitehead chases Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The game ended in a 29 to 29 tie. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers fans show their nerves late in the game againt the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers fans watch a flyover after the national anthem before the game against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) throws in the first quarter against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) runs the offense in the first half during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) throws a pass in the first quarter against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams (17) is tackled by Minnesota Vikings defensive back Xavier Rhodes (29) in the first half during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams (17) scores a touchdown in the second quarter against Minnesota Vikings defensive back Xavier Rhodes (29) during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) carries the ball late in game against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) runs off the field during the first half against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings kicker Daniel Carlson (7) reacts as he misses a field goal in the first half against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers tight end Jimmy Graham (80) can't hold on to a pass on the goal line against triple coverage by the Minnesota Vikings in the second half at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) scrambles out of the pocket against the Minnesota Vikings in the fourth quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams (17) argues for a pass interference call against Minnesota Vikings linebacker Eric Kendricks (54) in the end zone in the second half at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings defensive back Xavier Rhodes (29) breaks up a pass intended for Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams (17) in the fourth quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers linebacker Reggie Gilbert (93) reacts as the Minnesota Vikings missed a field goal in overtime at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson (96) reacts as Minnesota Vikings kicker Daniel Carlson (7) missed a field goal as time expired in overtime at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) talks to Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy during the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews (52) rushes quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) and was called for roughing the passer on the play against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) waves to the crowd after a 29-29 tie against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) spins away from Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Mike Daniels (76) in the third quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers linebacker Reggie Gilbert (93) hits Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) in the third quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams (17) attempts to break a tackle by Minnesota Vikings cornerback Mackensie Alexander (20) in the fourth quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings linebacker Eric Kendricks (54) rolls over in the fourth quarter against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers defensive back Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (21) runs the ball back after an interception in the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews (52) hits Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) in the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews (52) reacts after being flagged in the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Geronimo Allison (81) is hit by Minnesota Vikings cornerback Trae Waynes (26) after a catch in the fourth quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) recovers his fumble in overtime against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is pressured in the fourth qaurter by Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The game ended in a 29 to 29 tie. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby reacts after missing a late fourth quarter fieldgoal against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The game ended in a 29 to 29 tie. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers' Jaire Alexander reacts to a missed field goal by Minnesota Vikings kicker Daniel Carlson in overtime during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The game ended in a 29 to 29 tie. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers' Geronimo Allison catches a pass in front 0f Minnesota Vikings' Trae Waynes during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The game ended in a 29 to 29 tie. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen (19) scores a touchdown against Green Bay Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander (23) late in the fourth quarter during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The Vikings scored a two point conversion to tie the game. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen (19) celebrates scoring a touchdown against Green Bay Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander (23) late in the fourth quarter during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The Vikings scored a two point conversion to tie the game. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs (14) scores a two-point conversion to tie the game late in the fourth quarter aginst the Green Bay Packers during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs (14) celebrates scoring a two-point conversion to tie the game late in the fourth quarter with running back Dalvin Cook (33) against the Green Bay Packers during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy leaves the field after a 29-29 tie against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers punter JK Scott (6) kicks from his end zone in the first half at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby (2) reacts after missing a field goal as Minnesota Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr (55) celebrates in the fourth quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) walks off the field during the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
A Green Bay Packers fan watches during overtime against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) walks off the field after a tie against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb (18) catches a pass against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) is sacked by defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson (93) against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers linebacker Reggie Gilbert (93) runs down quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers linebacker Reggie Gilbert (93) pressures quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) gets helped up by defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson (93) after being sacked against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings' Adam Thielen scores a late fourth quarter touchdown during against the defense of Green Bay Packers' Jaire Alexander and Kentrell Brice during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The game ended in a 29 to 29 tie. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings' Adam Thielen scores a late fourth quarter touchdown during against the Green Bay Packersduring their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The game ended in a 29 to 29 tie. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs (14) pulls down a touchdown reception against the Green Bay Packers in the third quarter during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs (14) dives into the end zone for a touchdown reception against the Green Bay Packers in the third quarter during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) hands off to running back Jamaal Williams (30) in the third quarter against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) is flushed out of the pocket in the third quarter againt the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby (2) misses a field goal late in the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby (2) reacts after missing a field goal late in the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The game went into overtime. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings’ Stefon Diggs hauls in a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter with Green Bay Packers cornerback Davon House in pursuit during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings' Stefon Diggs on the recieving end of a catch and run tuchdown inthe fourth quarter against Green Bay Packers' Davon House during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers nose tackle Kenny Clark (97) sacks Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) in the third quarter during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers tight end Jimmy Graham (80) breaks away on a long reception against Minnesota Vikings defensive back Andrew Sendejo (34) and cornerback Mackensie Alexander (20) in the third quarter during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers' Jamaal Williams catches a pass in the flats in front of the defense of Minnesota Vikings' Harrison Smith during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers' Jamaal Williams against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers' Ty Montgomery against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings' Laquon Treadwell cross the goal line in the first quarter against the Green Bay Packers during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers' Davante Adams crosses the goal line in the first half against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams (17) makes a catch along the sidelines against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) scrambles in the first quarter against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Ty Montgomery (88) rushes against Minnesota Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr (55) in the second quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Mike Daniels (76) tackles Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook (33) in the second quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers tight end Jimmy Graham (80) can't make a catch against Minnesota Vikings linebacker Ben Gedeon (42) in the second quarter during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander (23) reacts to a missed field goal attempt by the Minnesota Vikings late in the second quarter during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
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Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen (97) celebrates after sacking Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) in the first quarter during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Ty Montgomery (88) makes a catch against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
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Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams (17) scores a touchdown in the second quarter against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams (17) celebrates a touchdown with a Lambeau Leap in the second quarter against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Laquon Treadwell (11) scores a touchdon against Green Bay Packers cornerback Kevin King (20) during their football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers cornerback Josh Jackson (37) scores a touchdown off a blocked punt by wide receiver Geronimo Allison (81) in the first quarter against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers cornerback Josh Jackson (37) recovers a blocked punt for a touchdown in the first quarter against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson (96) celebrates a tackle for loss with linebacker Korey Toomer (56) against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson (96) sacks wide receiver Stefon Diggs (14) as cornerback Jaire Alexander (23) and linebacker Korey Toomer (56) assist against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Geronimo Allison (81) blocks a punt for a touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings punter Matt Wile (6) Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) throws in the first quarter against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) puts his helmet on before kickoff at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) gets up after being sacked in the first quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings defensive back Xavier Rhodes (29) breaks up a pass intended for Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams (17) in the first quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen (97) sacks Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) in the first quarter at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) warms up against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams (17) gets ready pregame for the game against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers quarterback DeShone Kizer (9) warms up on the field before the game against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, September 16, 2018 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WIs. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander warms up before Sunday's game against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Packers and Vikings fans tailgate outside Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Bart Boyden runs a packer flag up a flag pole attached to his Packer themed Cadillac while tailgating bwefore the Green Bay Packers host the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Neighbors Jake Imig and Lily Sota read a book together while helping to park cars on Wildwood Ln. before the Green Bay Packers host the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Craig Mickelson of Mahtomedi, MN, and his daughter Zoey, 6, have fun tailgating before the Green Bay Packers play against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
David "Sir Gunnar" Gunderson of Minneapolis is fired up before the Green Bay Packers play against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Scott Schwartz, left, of Pulaski, WI, and Amber Reynolds of Minneapolis, MN, hang out prior to the Green Bay Packers playing against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers punter JK Scott (6) kicks from his end zone in the first half at Lambeau Field on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis.(Photo: Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis)
When you blow an eight-point lead with less than 2 minutes remaining, at home against your main NFC North challenger, it feels like a loss. The Packers did receive the consolation prize of Vikings kicker Daniel Carlson missing two overtime field-goal attempts, allowing them to escape with a 29-29 tie. But rather than being able to bask in the storyline of an exhilarating victory engineered by a gimpy-kneed quarterback whose playing status still was in question when the day began, the Packers now must endure an entire season with a troubling tie staining their record and potentially blurring their path to the playoffs. And when these teams meet again, it will be on the Vikings' home turf: Nov. 25 at U.S. Bank Stadium.
Packers beat writers Pete Dougherty and Tom Silverstein discuss Aaron Rodgers' performance and other key elements from Sunday's game. USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
The Packers seemed to have taken command of this game at several points in the fourth quarter. They took a 23-14 lead with just over 7 minutes left, only to have the Vikings answer two plays later with a 75-yard bomb from Kirk Cousins to Stefon Diggs. After a Mason Crosby field goal boosted the lead back up to 26-21 with 2:17 left, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix returned an interception of Cousins to the Minnesota 13. But Green Bay settled for a field goal and an eight-point lead, and with 1:49 remaining and two of their timeouts, the Vikings managed to march 75 yards for a TD and two-point conversion to tie it at 29. Crosby missed from 52 yards out as time expired on what would've been his sixth field goal of the day, and the Packers were lucky to salvage a tie after being outplayed in overtime.
It's becoming clear that Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst made a wise decision investing a fifth-round draft pick in punter JK Scott. The rookie from Alabama boomed five punts for a 51.8-yard average (45.2 net) that allowed the Vikings only one return for 13 yards. Gutekunst wanted a punter who could "flip the field," and that's exactly what Scott did when, from the Packers' 18 midway through the second quarter, he unloaded a 63-yard punt into the wind with more than 5 seconds of hang time that pushed the Vikings all the way back to their own 19. Another punt later in that quarter from the Packers' 8 traveled 59 yards to the Vikings' 33. Good field position still matters, and Scott promises to provide it frequently.
Green Bay Packers' Jamaal Williams against the Minnesota Vikings during their football game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. (Photo: Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis)
Aaron Rodgers does it all for the Packers' offense and, given the struggles of the Green Bay running game, he needs to. With Aaron Jones serving the second of a two-game suspension, the Packers got only 90 yards rushing in total from Jamaal Williams and Ty Montgomery. Each produced a run or two that made you think they might provide some balance to the offense, but neither could follow up with any consistency.
5 Takeaways
» Costly penalty: The Packers fell victim to the new rules protecting hits on the quarterback, costing Mike Daniels a sack and, perhaps, the team a victory in regulation when Clay Matthews was flagged for unnecessarily roughing Kirk Cousins in the fourth quarter. Early in the game, Daniels didn’t take Cousins down, thinking he had gotten rid of the ball, only to see the quarterback scamper away. It wasn’t costly, as the Packers forced a punt. But near the end of regulation, Matthews hit Cousins in the midsection and drove him to the ground. The ball wound up in Jaire Alexander’s hands. While the team celebrated an apparent clinching interception, a flag was thrown. Unlike last week when Matthews was flagged for roughing late against Chicago, the Vikings took advantage and moved 60 yards downfield for a touchdown and two-point conversion to force overtime.
» Missed opportunity: Ha Ha Clinton-Dix intercepted Cousins and returned it 21 yards to the Vikings’ 13-yard line with 2:05 to go. After a Williams run for no gain took it down to 2 minutes, the Packers tossed an incompletion (6 seconds), took a delay of game and threw another incompletion (5 seconds). While the Packers did kick a field goal to go up 29-21, they didn’t force Minnesota to burn its remaining timeouts, which the Vikings used on their ensuing game-tying drive.
» Protection, secondary wear down: It was unlikely the Packers were going to keep the Vikings from hitting Rodgers on Sunday, but they were able to prevent that until the game lengthened on a hot afternoon. Minnesota finally dented the protection a bit in the second half with some QB hits and there were inopportune penalties on Bryan Bulaga and David Bakhtiari, but they held up against a strong Vikings front through regulation. But, in overtime, with a chance to get into field goal range and win the game Everson Griffen sacked Rodgers to force a punt. The Packers' secondary, when healthy and together, allowed one touchdown. But after Kevin King went out with a groin injury, Davon House was picked on for a 75-yard touchdown in the second half. Cousins had just 132 passing yards in the first half; he finished with 425 as he found more free runners in the secondary.
» Rodgers was (almost) Rodgers: Aside from the bulky brace on his left leg, there were subtle hints that Rodgers was affected by his injury. Namely, the mere inches he was off on some throws that slid off the fingertips of Davante Adams, Randall Cobb and Jimmy Graham. But that just shows how perfect Rodgers is, that such throws are generally expected to be completed. Had they been converted, those would have been some of the longer throws in the air and perhaps led to more points. Rodgers averaged just 6.7 yards per attempt. He also lost the handle on a play fake in overtime on 2nd-and-4.
» Special teams up and down: The Packers' special teams unit scored a touchdown on a blocked punt and Scott flipped field position with booming punts of 63 and 59 yards early in the game. And while Mason Crosby was perfect when called upon the first five times in regulation, he missed his sixth attempt — a 52-yarder that would have won the game at the buzzer. Scott hit a great punt in overtime that landed around the Vikings’ 3, but the coverage unit did not get down in time to down it, and it tumbled into the end zone to give Cousins more breathing room. The extra yards gave the Vikings time to attempt another game-winning field goal in overtime. Luckily for the Packers, it sailed wide right.
More Packers-Vikings coverage:
Box score | NFL scoreboard | Standings
DOUGHERTY: Many to blame as Packers blow chance to get leg up on rivals
SILVERSTEIN: Rodgers OK, but Packers' offense still 'a work in progress'
Defense couldn’t stem tide against Vikings in second half
Matthews left frustrated, bewildered by roughing the passer penalty
NOTES: Final FG attempt fails to cooperate for Mason Crosby
INSIDER: Thumbs up to punter JK Scott, down to running game
5 TAKEAWAYS: Packers 29, Vikings 29
SUBMIT QUESTIONS: Monday post-game chat with Ryan Wood
REPLAY: Tom Silverstein's live game blog
Packers make clear what they expect from Aaron Jones
Expect Rodgers to bounce back, but backup QB a mystery
Preston Smith can make Washington sorry he got away
Buzz: Does Wilkerson still make sense for Packers?
Packers could see Manning or Giants rookie QB
LaFleur's mentor the X-factor in Packers' matchup vs. 49ers
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Here we take a look at how Port Vale’s loanees got on over the weekend for their respective clubs.
Goalkeeper Chris Neal made his eighth Bury appearance of the season in their 3-1 loss at home to Millwall.
Chris Taylor scored twice and Steve Morison bagged the other while Ryan Lowe netted for the Shakers in the defeat.
Colin Daniel played 84 minutes as Mansfield drew 1-1 with Barnet. The Stags could have gone ninth with a win but had to settle for a share of the spoils instead.
They are now unable to reach the play-offs with an eight point gap between them and seventh-placed AFC Wimbledon.
Sam Johnson kept his second consecutive clean sheet as Halifax picked up three vital points in their hunt for survival.
Shaq McDonald scored the only goal of the game against Forest Green to ensure the Shaymen climbed out of the relegation zone with just one game to go.
Ryan Lloyd played the full 90 minutes as Chester beat Grimsby 2-1 at Blundell Park.
John Rooney and Ryan Astles got the goals as the away side climbed to 17th place in the table and secured their National League status for at least another season.
Nathan Smith didn’t play as Torquay United drew 2-2 at home to Barrow. The defender was on hand to pick up the club’s Player and Young Player of the Year awards before the game, however.
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Manny Oyeleke feels the fans support as he talks about he adapted to life at Vale
Max McLellan
@McLellanMax
Midfielder Manny Oyeleke signed for the Vale back in May very much under the radar with few knowing about his arrival at Vale Park. A fans and players player of the season at Aldershot, Manny has so far performed at a level which could send him well on his way to earning that sort of title at Vale Park.
Many underestimate the toll a big move can have on a football player, and for Manny Oyeleke it's been no different. Making the move up to Stoke from London alongside his wife, Manny has had to adapt to not only to a new team but a new environment as well. It's safe to say however, he's certainly taken everything in his stride and let his feet do the talking on the pitch.
His start to life at Vale Park was a frustrating one. A stop start few weeks due to injury meant he saw very little action over pre season, but The Beast as he's known amongst some fans, has not let this affect his excellent start to the season, and Manny is delighted with how things are going so far.
"I can't complain. I'm enjoying the transition here, I enjoy living in Stoke and I'm happy the team are doing well too. We won a big game on Saturday too which was important for all of us. The morale is high, everyone's happy and we're just hoping we can continue that for us and the fans.
"One of the major things I've been quite annoyed about so far this season is that I've had a few injuries and I didn't have a full pre season, came back and got injured again during the season.
"I'm hoping now it's the end of my injury problems now. I want to hit the ground running and play as many games as I can. I demand a lot from myself as does the gaffer... I'm looking to improve every single week, I don't want to just rest on past performances I want to continue to improve."
It's safe to say Manny has been improving week in week out and has proved to be one of the most valuable members of the squad since his arrival.
His robust and calm performances in the middle of the park has solidified Vale's midfield and the past two games he has formed quite a partnership alongside fellow new arrival Tom Conlon. Neil Aspin opted to pair up the two players for the past two games in the midfield, and it's definitely paid off.
A favourite amongst the fans, Manny is happy to be able to repay the fans faith in him with the recent performances and hopes it continues. Manny is also focused on making Vale Park a tough place for opponents to come to.
"We feel like the fans are really enjoying how we're playing and they're right behind us every game. We want to repay that faith as well with good performances and wins.
"I think it's a good thing we've got two home games back to back and then we can obviously focus on the away game next week. I think with any successful team, their home form has to be good.
"That's something that you know we have had, we obviously lost one here but I generally think we've played well at home and that's something we'll look to continue to do. We know that any given week that anyone can beat anyone in this league. We're not afraid of anybody despite their form."
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Five nabbed for small-holding robberies, rape and murder
Rustenburg/ Kroondal – The wave of crime in Rustenburg, especially the gruesome and aggravating nature thereof, is cause for serious concern.
After the numerous reported incidents extending over the past three weeks, the Rustenburg Cluster Task Team assembled their strengths and successfully arrested five Zimbabwean nationals, Sergeant Ofentse Mokgadi, police spokesperson, said.
The five, aged between 23 and 37, were arrested in the Ikemeleng (Matebeleng) informal settlement near Kroondal in the early hours of Friday, 3 February 2017.
They were arrested for rape, murder and house robbery.
The arrest emanated after a spate of rape, murder and robberies were reported within a four-day period in the Kroondal and surrounding vicinity.
As reported in the previous edition of the Platinum Weekly newspaper, an elderly couple residing in Waterfall Village, Rustenburg, was fast asleep on Sunday evening, 29 January 2017 at approximately 22h20 when they woke up to the sound of dogs barking.
The husband went outside to investigate.
The elderly lady became more wary as her husband did not return, so she also went out. She came across her husband wrestling with two assailants. “He was fighting for his life,” Captain Augoustides, police spokesperson, said. The woman screamed for help and ran inside the house. The attackers soon followed but had to break through the dining room window to gain entry.
They dragged the elderly man inside the house... The elderly woman soon realised her husband had been killed.
She was pistol-whipped [the assailants used a handgun as a blunt weapon] before the assailants raped the elderly lady.
They then demanded jewellery and cash. They also forced her to open the safe.
The elderly couple were robbed of TV sets, DVD players, clothes, a wrist watch, jewellery, cell phones and a firearm.
The suspects fled the scene on foot.
When the five assailants were arrested, two pistols with live rounds of ammunition, one belonging to the elderly couple, and jewellery items were recovered. The other items have apparently been sold.
The five suspects were expected to appear in the Rustenburg Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 6 February 2017, facing charges of murder, rape, house robbery, possession of suspected stolen goods and the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
At this stage, preliminary investigations indicate that the five suspects are very likely linked to other reported crimes in the area.
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Administrator-in-Charge
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Paxton School
What is Watch D.O.G.S?
Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students) is an innovative father involvement, educational initiative of the National Center For Fathering. There are two primary goals of the WATCH D.O.G.S. program.
1) To provide positive male role models for the students, demonstrating by their presence that education is important.
2) To provide extra sets of eyes and ears to enhance school security and reduce bullying.
WATCH D.O.G.S. began in 1998 in a single school in Springdale, Arkansas and has since grown into a national recognized program that has brought hundreds of thousands of fathers and father figures into the school classrooms and hallways across the country, creating millions of hours of “in school” volunteer time and having a tremendously positive impact on the educational process. Today more than 4,049 schools in 46 states plus DC participate in WATCH D.O.G.S. Currently, there are WATCH D.O.G.S. programs in China, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Barbados.
Who Are Watch D.O.G.S.?
Watch D.O.G.S. are fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and other father-figures who volunteer for at least one day each year at an official WATCH D.O.G.S. school. During the day, Watch DOGS may read and work on flash cards with students, play at recess, eat lunch with students, watch the school entrances and hallways, assist with traffic flow and any other assigned activities where they actively engage with not only their own students, but other students as well. If you would like more information about the program, contact Vanessa Deis, Special Education teacher phone #816-858-2167 or at deisv@platteco.k12.mo.us.
Please sign up for Watch Dogs!
Call the Rising Star office at 816-858-2167 and mention that you interested in volunteering to be a WatchDog! You will be contacted to set up a time to volunteer. It's that easy!
Where Do You Order a T-shirt?
The website to order your official Watch Dog t-shirt is http://dogstore2.fathers.com/.
What about lunch for the day?
There are two options for lunch:
bring your lunch and store it in the refrigerator in the teacher's lounge
school lunch may be purchased for $2.25 (Dads won't be able to charge lunch to their child's account)
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Opinion: My remarkably 'unremarkable' father
By Tom Purcell
My dad turns 86 next month. He never thought he'd live so long - or see as many Father's Days as he has - because his parents both died far too young.
A stroke claimed his mother when she was 69 - the same night Pittsburgh Pirates great Roberto Clemente's hurricane-relief plane went missing.
It was the first time I'd ever heard my father sob.
My dad's father was only 34 when he died in 1937. My father, then just 3, lost half of his universe. His dad had a great job as an accountant for the Mellon family. His early death greatly altered my father's future.
My dad's mother had to work full-time to make ends meet, leaving him to fend for himself on city streets.
Often unsupervised, he got into some trouble - once, a stone he set on the tracks nearly derailed a trolley car - but sports saved him.
His high school football coach shaped him into a championship running back - while serving as the father figure he ached for.
And then, after a baseball game he'd played, my father met my mother.
When their eyes met on that afternoon 68 years ago, it was lights out for him.
Their 1950s courtship was not unlike those in the 1970s sitcom "Happy Days."
When football scholarship offers rolled in, my father couldn't bear the thought of four long years away from my mother.
Not even Chuck Noll, then captain of the University of Dayton football team - who'd coach the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl wins - could persuade my dad to leave her behind.
My dad never desired great fortune or fame. He didn't need to be a corporate executive or public figure. All he wanted was to be with my mother, start a family with her and build a life.
He worked hard for Bell Telephone for nearly 40 years. He and my mother would be blessed with six children, 17 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren - and counting! - amid the many ups and downs that a long marriage and a large, extended family bring.
He'd tell you his life is unremarkable - that lots of men made the choices he made. But I disagree.
Never a man big on words, his actions always have spoken loudly.
He worked long hours to support us, but never kept more than $5 a week for himself - to buy a couple of cups of coffee.
He made clear his devotion to our mother, and to us. He and my mother gave us a deep sense of security that he never had as a child.
His five daughters all married men with the same sort of character and integrity that still guide his existence, and their children have embraced these important traits, too.
My dad still pays his bills and his taxes on time. He never took a loan he didn't repay. He coached baseball and served his church.
And all along, he desired only his family's love and well-being - and a few ice-cold Pabst Blue Ribbons - as rewards.
Fathers like my father make magnificent contributions to their families and our world. Great civilizations are built on their shoulders.
Yet they see their selfless support, guidance and nurturing of their families as "unremarkable" - which makes them all the more extraordinary.
That's why, this Father's Day, I want my father to know just how remarkably "unremarkable" he is.
Tom Purcell is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist and is nationally syndicated exclusively by Cagle Cartoons Inc.
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"Live Top 13 Performances & Eliminations" Season 16 Episodes 18 & 19 "The Voice" Review
From 13 to 8! We discuss another round of The Voice- who went home, who stayed, and an interview with special guest Karly Moreno!#voiceresults #voicetop8 #karlymoreno #voicesaves #voicesaveskimcherry #voiceblinds #teamjohn #teamkelly #teamadam #teamblake #blindaudition Follow Our Hosts Here:Lindsay HoffmanYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindsaybhoffmanInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindsaybhoffmanTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindsaybhoffmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindsaybhoffmanBlog: http://www.doseofbliss.com Neema Skye Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/neemaskyeInstagram http://www.instagram.com/neemaskyeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/missneemaskyeWebsite: http://www.neemaskye.com Princess CarrollInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/princesscarrolltvFacebook.com: http://facebook.com/princesscarroll Tyra PrudeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/_tyraprudeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/tyraprudeRSS Feed: http://www.afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/the-voice-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ABOUT THE VOICE:The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find new singing talent (solo or duets) contested by aspiring singers, age 15 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The winners of the nine seasons have been: Javier Colon, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sawyer Fredericks and Jordan Smith.The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the coaching panel include Adam Levine (season 1-present), Blake Shelton (season 1-present), Christina Aguilera (season 1-3, 5, 8, 10), CeeLo Green (season 1-3, 5), Shakira (season 4, 6), Usher (season 4, 6), Gwen Stefani (season 7, 9), Pharrell Williams (season 7-10), Miley Cyrus (season 11) and Alicia Keys (season 11).Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV"Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTVBuy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/ This podcast is sponsored by Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet Podcast
00:41:32 5/7/2019
"Live Finale Parts 1 & 2" Season 16 Episodes 22 & 23 "The Voice" Review
The Finale is finally here! Team Legend wins with Maelyn Jarmon. The ladies and gentlemen of the cross battle season come back with a stellar performance! We talk about the performances of the night and so much more. Follow our Hosts:Princess CarrollInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/princesscarr...Facebook.com: http://facebook.com/princesscarrollLindsay HoffmanYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindsaybhoffmanInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindsaybhoffmanTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindsaybhoffmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindsaybhoffmanBlog: http://www.doseofbliss.comNeema Skye Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/neemaskyeInstagram http://www.instagram.com/neemaskyeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/missneemaskyeWebsite: http://www.neemaskye.comTyra PrudeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/_tyraprudeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/tyraprudeABOUT THE VOICE:The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find new singing talent (solo or duets) contested by aspiring singers, age 15 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The winners of the nine seasons have been: Javier Colon, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sawyer Fredericks and Jordan Smith.The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the coaching panel include Adam Levine (season 1-present), Blake Shelton (season 1-present), Christina Aguilera (season 1-3, 5, 8, 10), CeeLo Green (season 1-3, 5), Shakira (season 4, 6), Usher (season 4, 6), Gwen Stefani (season 7, 9), Pharrell Williams (season 7-10), Miley Cyrus (season 11) and Alicia Keys (season 11).Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV"Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTVBuy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/ This podcast is sponsored by Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet Podcast Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoice2/message
The Finale is finally here! Team Legend wins with Maelyn Jarmon. The ladies and gentlemen of the cross battle season come back with a stellar performance! We talk about the performances of the night and so much more. Follow our Hosts:Princess CarrollInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/princesscarr...Facebook.com: http://facebook.com/princesscarrollLindsay HoffmanYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindsaybhoffmanInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindsaybhoffmanTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindsaybhoffmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindsaybhoffmanBlog: http://www.doseofbliss.comNeema Skye Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/neemaskyeInstagram http://www.instagram.com/neemaskyeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/missneemaskyeWebsite: http://www.neemaskye.comTyra PrudeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/_tyraprudeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/tyraprudeABOUT THE VOICE:The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find new singing talent (solo or duets) contested by aspiring singers, age 15 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The winners of the nine seasons have been: Javier Colon, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sawyer Fredericks and Jordan Smith.The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the coaching panel include Adam Levine (season 1-present), Blake Shelton (season 1-present), Christina Aguilera (season 1-3, 5, 8, 10), CeeLo Green (season 1-3, 5), Shakira (season 4, 6), Usher (season 4, 6), Gwen Stefani (season 7, 9), Pharrell Williams (season 7-10), Miley Cyrus (season 11) and Alicia Keys (season 11).Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV"Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTVBuy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/ This podcast is sponsored by Anchor Voice Messages and Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet Podcast Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoice2/message
The Finale is finally here! Team Legend wins with Maelyn Jarmon. The ladies and gentlemen of the cross battle season come back with a stellar performance! We talk about the performances of the night and so much more. Follow our Hosts:Princess CarrollInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/princesscarr...Facebook.com: http://facebook.com/princesscarrollLindsay HoffmanYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindsaybhoffmanInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindsaybhoffmanTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindsaybhoffmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindsaybhoffmanBlog: http://www.doseofbliss.comNeema Skye Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/neemaskyeInstagram http://www.instagram.com/neemaskyeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/missneemaskyeWebsite: http://www.neemaskye.comTyra PrudeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/_tyraprudeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/tyraprudeABOUT THE VOICE:The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find new singing talent (solo or duets) contested by aspiring singers, age 15 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The winners of the nine seasons have been: Javier Colon, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sawyer Fredericks and Jordan Smith.The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the coaching panel include Adam Levine (season 1-present), Blake Shelton (season 1-present), Christina Aguilera (season 1-3, 5, 8, 10), CeeLo Green (season 1-3, 5), Shakira (season 4, 6), Usher (season 4, 6), Gwen Stefani (season 7, 9), Pharrell Williams (season 7-10), Miley Cyrus (season 11) and Alicia Keys (season 11).Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV"Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTVBuy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/
"Top 8 Semi-Final Performances & Results" Season 16 Episodes 20 & 21 "The Voice" Review
Presley Tennant is in the building giving us all the scope of her experience as a contestant, and so much more! The heat is up and we are down to the last four contestants. Tune in as we recap some of the hottest and best performances of each nights show. #voiceblinds #teamjohn #teamkelly #teamadam #teamblake #blindaudition Follow Our Hosts Here:Lindsay HoffmanYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindsaybhoffmanInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindsaybhoffmanTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindsaybhoffmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindsaybhoffmanBlog: http://www.doseofbliss.com Neema Skye Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/neemaskyeInstagram http://www.instagram.com/neemaskyeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/missneemaskyeWebsite: http://www.neemaskye.com Princess CarrollInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/princesscarrolltvFacebook.com: http://facebook.com/princesscarroll Tyra PrudeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/_tyraprudeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/tyraprudeRSS Feed: http://www.afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/the-voice-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ABOUT THE VOICE:The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find new singing talent (solo or duets) contested by aspiring singers, age 15 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The winners of the nine seasons have been: Javier Colon, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sawyer Fredericks and Jordan Smith.The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the coaching panel include Adam Levine (season 1-present), Blake Shelton (season 1-present), Christina Aguilera (season 1-3, 5, 8, 10), CeeLo Green (season 1-3, 5), Shakira (season 4, 6), Usher (season 4, 6), Gwen Stefani (season 7, 9), Pharrell Williams (season 7-10), Miley Cyrus (season 11) and Alicia Keys (season 11).Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV"Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTVBuy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/ This podcast is sponsored by Anchor Voice Messages and Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet Podcast Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoice2/message
Presley Tennant is in the building giving us all the scope of her experience as a contestant, and so much more! The heat is up and we are down to the last four contestants. Tune in as we recap some of the hottest and best performances of each nights show. #voiceblinds #teamjohn #teamkelly #teamadam #teamblake #blindaudition Follow Our Hosts Here:Lindsay HoffmanYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindsaybhoffmanInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindsaybhoffmanTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindsaybhoffmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindsaybhoffmanBlog: http://www.doseofbliss.com Neema Skye Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/neemaskyeInstagram http://www.instagram.com/neemaskyeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/missneemaskyeWebsite: http://www.neemaskye.com Princess CarrollInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/princesscarrolltvFacebook.com: http://facebook.com/princesscarroll Tyra PrudeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/_tyraprudeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/tyraprudeRSS Feed: http://www.afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/the-voice-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ABOUT THE VOICE:The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find new singing talent (solo or duets) contested by aspiring singers, age 15 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The winners of the nine seasons have been: Javier Colon, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sawyer Fredericks and Jordan Smith.The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the coaching panel include Adam Levine (season 1-present), Blake Shelton (season 1-present), Christina Aguilera (season 1-3, 5, 8, 10), CeeLo Green (season 1-3, 5), Shakira (season 4, 6), Usher (season 4, 6), Gwen Stefani (season 7, 9), Pharrell Williams (season 7-10), Miley Cyrus (season 11) and Alicia Keys (season 11).Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV"Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTVBuy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/ This podcast is sponsored by Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet Podcast
Presley Tennant is in the building giving us all the scope of her experience as a contestant, and so much more! The heat is up and we are down to the last four contestants. Tune in as we recap some of the hottest and best performances of each nights show. #voiceblinds #teamjohn #teamkelly #teamadam #teamblake #blindaudition Follow Our Hosts Here:Lindsay HoffmanYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindsaybhoffmanInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindsaybhoffmanTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindsaybhoffmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindsaybhoffmanBlog: http://www.doseofbliss.com Neema Skye Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/neemaskyeInstagram http://www.instagram.com/neemaskyeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/missneemaskyeWebsite: http://www.neemaskye.com Princess CarrollInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/princesscarrolltvFacebook.com: http://facebook.com/princesscarroll Tyra PrudeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/_tyraprudeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/tyraprudeRSS Feed: http://www.afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/the-voice-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ABOUT THE VOICE:The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find new singing talent (solo or duets) contested by aspiring singers, age 15 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The winners of the nine seasons have been: Javier Colon, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sawyer Fredericks and Jordan Smith.The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the coaching panel include Adam Levine (season 1-present), Blake Shelton (season 1-present), Christina Aguilera (season 1-3, 5, 8, 10), CeeLo Green (season 1-3, 5), Shakira (season 4, 6), Usher (season 4, 6), Gwen Stefani (season 7, 9), Pharrell Williams (season 7-10), Miley Cyrus (season 11) and Alicia Keys (season 11).Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV"Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTVBuy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/
Presley Tennant is in the building giving us all the scope of her experience as a contestant, and so much more! The heat is up and we are down to the last four contestants. Tune in as we recap some of the hottest and best performances of each nights show. #voiceblinds #teamjohn #teamkelly #teamadam #teamblake #blindaudition Follow Our Hosts Here:Lindsay HoffmanYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindsaybhoffmanInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindsaybhoffmanTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindsaybhoffmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindsaybhoffmanBlog: http://www.doseofbliss.com Neema Skye Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/neemaskyeInstagram http://www.instagram.com/neemaskyeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/missneemaskyeWebsite: http://www.neemaskye.com Princess CarrollInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/princesscarrolltvFacebook.com: http://facebook.com/princesscarroll Tyra PrudeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/_tyraprudeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/tyraprudeRSS Feed: http://www.afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/the-voice-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ABOUT THE VOICE:The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find new singing talent (solo or duets) contested by aspiring singers, age 15 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The winners of the nine seasons have been: Javier Colon, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sawyer Fredericks and Jordan Smith.The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the coaching panel include Adam Levine (season 1-present), Blake Shelton (season 1-present), Christina Aguilera (season 1-3, 5, 8, 10), CeeLo Green (season 1-3, 5), Shakira (season 4, 6), Usher (season 4, 6), Gwen Stefani (season 7, 9), Pharrell Williams (season 7-10), Miley Cyrus (season 11) and Alicia Keys (season 11).Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV"Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTVBuy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/ This podcast is sponsored by Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet Podcast Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoice2/message
From 13 to 8! We discuss another round of The Voice- who went home, who stayed, and an interview with special guest Karly Moreno!#voiceresults #voicetop8 #karlymoreno #voicesaves #voicesaveskimcherry #voiceblinds #teamjohn #teamkelly #teamadam #teamblake #blindaudition Follow Our Hosts Here:Lindsay HoffmanYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindsaybhoffmanInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindsaybhoffmanTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindsaybhoffmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindsaybhoffmanBlog: http://www.doseofbliss.com Neema Skye Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/neemaskyeInstagram http://www.instagram.com/neemaskyeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/missneemaskyeWebsite: http://www.neemaskye.com Princess CarrollInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/princesscarrolltvFacebook.com: http://facebook.com/princesscarroll Tyra PrudeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/_tyraprudeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/tyraprudeRSS Feed: http://www.afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/the-voice-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ABOUT THE VOICE:The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find new singing talent (solo or duets) contested by aspiring singers, age 15 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The winners of the nine seasons have been: Javier Colon, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sawyer Fredericks and Jordan Smith.The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the coaching panel include Adam Levine (season 1-present), Blake Shelton (season 1-present), Christina Aguilera (season 1-3, 5, 8, 10), CeeLo Green (season 1-3, 5), Shakira (season 4, 6), Usher (season 4, 6), Gwen Stefani (season 7, 9), Pharrell Williams (season 7-10), Miley Cyrus (season 11) and Alicia Keys (season 11).Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV"Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTVBuy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/
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Trivedi Global CEO Alice Branton Featured on ABC Discussing No. 1 International Best Selling Vitamin D Book
Alice Branton, CEO of Trivedi Global, Inc. appeared on ABC in Phoenix, Florida, to share the top myths about Vitamin D deficiency. She has published thousands of scientific research papers on Life Force energy.
Alice Branton
PHOENIX (PRWEB) August 31, 2018
“Vitamin D is the Key: The Myth, the Reality and the Revolutionary Breakthrough!” by Alice Branton, CEO of Trivedi Effect, debuted as a hot new release in Vitamins and Supplements, Medical Atlases, Vitamins, Medical References, and was recognized as a No. 1 International Best Seller. She is currently on a media tour around the United States.
With all the medical advancements over the last hundred years, vitamin D deficiency is still a global pandemic. Vitamin D deficiency is a major public health problem worldwide irrespective of age, location, ethnicity, and gender. Even in those residing in countries with low latitude, where it was generally assumed that UV radiation was adequate enough to prevent this deficiency, and in industrialized countries, where vitamin D fortification has been implemented now for years. Over 75% population in the USA is deficient.
Vitamin D deficiency causes rickets in children and will precipitate and exacerbate osteopenia, osteoporosis, and fractures in adults. Vitamin D3 deficiency can result in obesity, diabetes, hypertension, depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and neuro-degenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease. Vitamin D deficiency may even contribute to the development of cancers, especially breast, prostate, and colon cancers.
Vitamin D, known as the sunshine vitamin, is produced endogenously by the human body in response to the skin being exposed to sunlight. Very few foods contain naturally occurring vitamin D, and foods that are fortified with vitamin D are often inadequate to satisfy our vitamin D requirement.
Vitamin D obtained from sun exposure, food, and supplements is biologically inert and must undergo two hydroxylations in the body for activation. The first occurs in the liver and converts vitamin D to 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], also known as calcidiol. The second occurs primarily in the kidney and forms the physiologically active 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D [1,25(OH)2D], also known as calcitriol.
People are losing the ability to harness the sun energy and synthesize Vitamin D in its active form in their bodies. Fortified foods and supplementation, while sound alternatives, in theory, have little to no impact in practice due to poor bioavailability of the products and consumers.
The only and real solution is to either find a way to boost humans’ ability to synthesize adequate amounts of vitamin D from sun energy or to bring to market food and supplement products that have high bioavailability to provide required levels of vitamin D in humans.
Alice Branton, CEO of Trivedi Global, Inc., is on a mission to champion the breakthrough of highly bioavailable food and supplement products to combat the vitamin D deficiency.
Alice Branton and Mahendra Trivedi, the founder of the Trivedi Effect, have the unique ability to harness and transmit Life Force and infuse it into living organisms and non-living materials to greatly enhance, potentize and alter their characteristics and behaviors through the transformation at the atomic, molecular and cellular levels.
The Trivedi Effect has been tested and validated in over 4,000 scientific experiments with world-renowned scientists and research institutes using the most sophisticated technologies available globally and has resulted in over 300 publications in major international peer-reviewed scientific journals with over 3100 citations. Research on the Trivedi Effect has been adopted in over 3000 universities internationally including the ivy league as well as the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In preclinical trials, the Trivedi Effect has seen subjects increase their vitamin D3 synthesis by over 120%, much higher than the daily requirement.
Alice herself, is a true living example of the power this breakthrough of the Trivedi Effect as the only real factor impacting quality of life, healthy aging and longevity. In May 2017 at forty-six years of age, a comprehensive full-body digital x-ray analysis revealed that Alice has no signs of degeneration and remarkably has a functioning growing cartilage as well as significant bone mineralization that is indicative of a healthy woman, twenty years of age.
Alice is committed to the advancement of the Trivedi Effect via thought leadership, public speaking and continued research and product development. To keep up the latest advances and get free early access to Alice Branton’s upcoming eBook covering Vitamin D myths, reality and breakthroughs, visit http://www.AliceBranton.com
Company Name: Trivedi Global Inc.
Contact Person: Alice Branton
Email: alice@alicebranton.com
Website: http://alicebranton.com
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Xoom Expands In Asia To Make It Easier To Send Money To Japan
Posted on January 4, 2017 January 3, 2017 3:34 pm
Xoom, a digital money transfer provider, announced Tuesday (Jan. 3) it is expanding its services in Asia as a way to make it easier for U.S. residents to quickly send money to Japan.
In a press release, Xoom said, by expanding to Asia, people can send money via a mobile phone, tablet or a computer. The money is directly deposited into the recipient’s bank account and can be accessed 24/7 throughout the year. In order to expand the service to Asia, Xoom said in the press release it is partnering with Queen Bee Capital Co., which is a provider of overseas transfer services, to offer customers a fast bank deposit service to major banks in Japan, including Mizuho Bank, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Japan Post Bank and Resona Bank, as well as others. Xoom said the service will allow Japanese immigrants in the U.S. to send money to bank accounts in Japan with their U.S. bank accounts, credit cards or debit cards.
“At Xoom, our goal is to make sending money around the world quick and easy. That’s why we’re excited to extend Xoom’s services into Japan,” said Helen Li, marketing manager for East Asia at Xoom, in the press release. “With Xoom, users can now send money from their mobile phones in a few clicks and deposit money into their loved one’s bank accounts in Japan. No more waiting in line at the bank to wire money; with just a few easy clicks, your transfer is immediately sent and in your loved one’s account within one business day.”
Xoom said customers can send $1,000 fee-free or pay $9.99 to send money below $1,000. Xoom pointed to data from the Migration Policy Institute, which found that, over the last five decades, the Japanese immigrant population has grown by over 200 percent in the U.S. and today there are approximately 340,000 immigrants from Japan living in the U.S.
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Max Weber on “Politics as a Vocation”
Max Weber was a German sociologist—his thoughts apply not just to politicians seeking government positions, but also to journalists and political activists.
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Max Weber was a German sociologist writing in the late 1800s and early 1900s. One of his essays is "Politics as a Vocation.” His thoughts apply not just to politicians seeking and holding a government position, but also to journalists and political activists.
In analyzing society, Weber used the concept of the "ideal type," a role that people play, aside from other roles. For example, “student” and “teacher” are ideal types. In economics, “worker,” “entrepreneur,” “landlord,” and “tenant” are ideal types. A teacher may also be a homeowner, a parent, a voter, and a tennis player, but these other roles are set aside in analyzing the role purely as a teacher.
Weber had interesting thoughts on economics as well. For example, he wrote about the “rentier,” the economic role or ideal type of receiving land rent. “He is a man who receives completely unearned income.” Weber stated that “the rentier is dispensable.” Landlords, purely as owners of lands rented out, do not contribute anything to the economy. “He may be the territorial lord of the past or the large landowner and aristocrat of the present who receives ground rent.”
“[The rentier] is a man who receives completely unearned income. [He] is dispensable. He may be the territorial lord of the past or the large landowner and aristocrat of the present who receives ground rent.”
Of course the person who is a landlord often has other roles, as he is usually also an owner of capital goods, i.e. the buildings and other improvements, and is also an entrepreneur who selects properties to own and tenants to fill the units, and for those roles he is rightfully compensated. Thus the concept of the ideal type is useful in analyzing a specific social and economic role.
Politics in many countries is dominated by lawyers. Entrepreneurs need to attend to their enterprises, a role not easily shifted to agents, and so, being indispensable, an entrepreneur will usually not want to leave his business in order to do politics. Likewise, the ideal type of “doctor” is not dispensable; the doctor will not enter politics unless he sacrifices his medical practice. However, says Weber, “it easier for the lawyer to be dispensable.” Therefore, “the lawyer has played an incomparably greater, and often a dominant, role as a professional politician.” Lawyers are also more skilled at understanding and crafting legislation, but they would not dominate unless they could rather easily suspend their legal business.
Weber recognized the domination of special interests in politics. Beneath any philosophical differences among political parties is the financial benefits to party members who obtain government jobs and the economic interests which obtain subsidies. "The management of politics through parties simply means management through interest groups." Voters facilitate the special interests and major parties, because the typical “voter looks for the name of the notable familiar to him. He distrusts the man who is unknown to him.”
Speaking and writing just after the end of World War I, after the Communist Revolution, Weber was not fooled by Soviet propaganda. Despite their claim to have established a workers’ state, Weber saw that the Soviets had kept the same old military and workshop practices. The “Soviets have had to accept again absolutely all the things that Bolshevism had been fighting as bourgeois class institutions.”
Regarding Germany, Weber said that its “parliaments have been impotent.” Having been defeated in World War I, and with the peace treaty that blamed Germany and demanded reparation payments, “the peace shall be discredited, not the war.” Indeed, the Nazis later rose to power on the resentment of the imposed peace treaty. Weber foresaw that in Germany, despite their revolution that overthrew the emperor, “Not summer’s bloom lies ahead of us, but rather a polar night of icy darkness and hardness.”
As to government and politics, Weber cut to the essence. “The decisive means for politics is violence.” The state is a monopoly of what is considered the legitimate use of force. Thus, “he who lets himself in for politics, that is, for power and force as means, contracts with diabolical powers.”
Weber distinguished two views of morality: an ethic of ultimate ends, and an ethic of responsibility. These can be combined, but the politician should aim primarily for responsibility. Government officials commit harm if they only implement an ethic of ultimate ends, such as equalizing wealth. They best serve society with an ethic of responsibility, basing their actions on the likely consequences.
“Only he has a calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ‘In spite of all!’ has the calling for politics.”
Weber concludes his essay with the statement, “Only he has a calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ‘In spite of all!’ has the calling for politics.”
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Home » News » Benchmade Anti-Gun? We Ask Them to Explain
Benchmade Anti-Gun? We Ask Them to Explain
After the news that Benchmade helped the Oregon City Police Department cut some firearms down to fit into smaller boxes to be destroyed, there was understandable outrage from the Second Amendment community. It seemed that everywhere you looked on social media, there were posts that said something like “Benchmade Anti-Gun” or “Bitchmade” memes with little real information.
We covered the incident as thoroughly as possible at the time of publication, but even then there were some inaccuracies in the original post due to some missing information.
When the information was curated for our original coverage, unfortunately, Benchmade didn’t respond at that time. Since then they have done some investigating into the incident and responded to our request for comment with an invitation to interview Benchmade’s director of marketing, Matt Elliott, about not only the cutting of firearms to size but also the widely shared coverage of the company’s political donations.
RECOIL: Before we get into the interview, is there anything that you would like to say to the RECOIL readership and the Second Amendment community about a Benchmade employee cutting up firearms with Benchmade equipment?
MATT ELLIOTT: Yeah sure, I think the story, and the consistent story here is that while this particular event is as it’s come to light for all of us is we’ve realized it’s something that people take high amounts of offense to, especially from the symbolism of it.
In fact, especially with that post going out with no real context behind it, I can understand the strong reaction from the market on it. The fact of the matter is that we’ve supported law enforcement, people’s right to carry, be it knives or guns, and the Second Amendment.
We also have supported military from the beginning of the company until now, none of that’s going to change moving forward. We’re still going to work with law enforcement; we’re still going to support our local police department, the Oregon City PD. I also want people that know that moving forward we will not be engaging in helping the police with those activities [cutting firearms], especially now understanding the way that people feel about it.
R: There have been two main topics that have been the focus of comments on RECOIL’s original coverage of the incident. The conversation has become centered around political contributions, which we can get into in a bit, but more so the commitment of Benchmade to the Second Amendment and the Second Amendment community, which we imagine makes up a large part of your customer base. Can you share Benchmade’s stance on Second Amendment issues clearly for our readers?
ME: Benchmade from the beginning has been fully in support of Second Amendment rights. That’s not just a Benchmade thing as a brand; it’s a cultural thing as an organization. I can’t speak to every single person in the business but I myself, I’m a big supporter. I happen to be a life member of the NRA. I’m not alone in that at Benchmade, and moreover, I also think it’s important to make the point that it’s about carry for us and people’s right to carry state to state. And that isn’t just about guns for us. At the end of the day, we’re a knife company.
I think it’s important for us to be authentically who we are, and we’re a knife manufacturer. Now we are also the knife manufacturer that has really spearheaded and led the charge for as long as I’ve been working here, which is more than a decade. Long before that with the manufacturer of automatic knives and helping to break down doors around antiquated or outdated legislation that has been very restrictive.
When I started at Benchmade, I believe there were really only three states that allowed for carry of automatic [knives], and to date, that number has grown to 30 plus. I can’t speak to the exact numbers because I’m not an expert on the laws in every state. I’ve watched that number grow and grow primarily over the course of the last five to six years right.
R: After the video statement from your CEO, Les de Asis was uploaded to YouTube yesterday, it appears that someone turned the comments off shortly after it was published and some negative comments were left. Commenting remained off for approximately 15 hours before the comments were turned back on. Why was this decision made and was the person that made the decision authorized to do so?
ME: The video was originally intended to be shared via Facebook and Instagram only, with YouTube serving for an unlisted hosting for internal resources to view it. After realizing the IG length allowed became an issue, the link was shared on that platform. The comment toggling was simply an omission in the hustle to get the full video up and out, with the team heading home after a long day once it was posted.
It was not done as a response to anything. Once Benchmade became aware that the comments were turned off, they were immediately turned back on. There never was an intention to reduce the ability for the community to share their thoughts, but was just an oversight in the efforts to figure out how to cross post the content.
R: How does Benchmade show their Second Amendment support?
ME: You can see through our participation and memberships in national organizations that advocate for gun rights, to the tune of millions. These are pro-Second Amendment organizations that support our industry, host the biggest gun and knife and hunting equipment show in the world, and actively advocate for the rights that we believe in.
We have had co-branded products that have directly funded their efforts to fight for Second Amendment rights, we attend shows that support this cause, we sponsor athletes that promote and engage in advocacy. This is an organization full of American workers who support the liberties granted to us and it is ingrained into who we are.
R: Can you expand on how Benchmade supports organizations like the NRA?
ME: We have been members of organizations, the NRA included, for decades and are very proud of that fact. We will continue to support their efforts to support gun owners rights and the Second Amendment. We participate in programs that give discounts to members of these organization along with our long-running history of financial support, along with the other actions we have taken through our direct relationships with them and the community.
R: Can you explain the political contributions listed on OpenSecrets.org that have been circulating social media?
ME: Oregon is a hotbed of knife makers, but also is a heavily Democrat-leaning state making most of the politicians with an interest in introducing legislation that is pro-knife often Democratic. When the donations were made to pro-knife politicians, it was about knife rights.
Gun owners are protected when traveling through states by the Firearm Owners Protection act; knife owners don’t enjoy that kind of protection. The Interstate Transport Act was a very important piece of legislation that Benchmade has been working to get passed for over five years, alongside the American Knife and Tool Institute.
This bill had co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle. The effort requires bi-partisan support and we need to ensure we are reaching across the aisle and bringing both parties to the table. I don’t think most people are aware of how serious the penalties can be for certain types of knives in certain states, though less now than in the past, and it is the knife companies that have to carry the torch, as these issues generally have very low visibility.
R: Was this the first time that the Oregon City Police Department has asked Benchmade for this type of assistance?
ME: No, they have asked Benchmade two or three times a year over the last few years to assist them in cutting the firearms to be destroyed according to their policy to the correct size for the special destruction box. Since Benchmade has assisted law enforcement since day one, we agreed to render assistance in the past.
R: What will be the answer to the Oregon City Police Department if they ask Benchmade to assist in cutting firearms into smaller pieces that fit inside of an incineration box?
ME: Benchmade now has a policy to politely decline to assist Law Enforcement in the cutting up of firearms regardless of reason. If the local law enforcement request assistance with other matters, we will be happy to accommodate them as long as doesn’t involve cutting firearms.
R: Was it known that the police department was taking photos of the firearms being cut up by a Benchmade employee?
ME: The police department was given permission to take the photos even though the Benchmade policy is that there is no photographs allowed in the facility. We have launched an investigation internally to ensure that this type of incident never happens again.
R: Can you comment on whether or not the Benchmade employees that were photographed cutting up the firearms are facing disciplinary actions?
ME: I am not able to say anything in regards to the status of those. What I can share is that Benchmade is currently investigating the incident and will take the proper actions to prevent a similar incident from occurring when that investigation comes to a conclusion.
R: How long was the post live on the Oregon City Police Facebook page before Benchmade was aware of it?
ME: We were made aware of the post within minutes of it going up on the police department’s Facebook page. When the post was made, I was flying back to Atlanta and personally wasn’t aware of it until the plane landed and my phone was turned back on. The post was not approved by us and we did not know it was going to be made.
R: What was Benchmade’s reaction after learning about the post?
ME: It surprised us, to say the least. The post was not sanctioned by Benchmade in any way. It was not approved by the company and wasn’t a planned post. We didn’t expect that they would post a photo of the activity, but they did and we have to own it. And owning it means changing our behaviors in this area.
R: Does Benchmade have any thoughts about the internal OCPD policy that mandated that firearms which were unable to be returned to their owner for whatever reason, be it legal or otherwise?
ME: Since OCPD’s post went viral we have conducted an investigation into the entire event. We are hoping this can be an opportunity to have a more open discussion about the intricacies of such an important subject. We have learned a lot and as I said earlier, we will not be allowing this practice to happen in our facilities again.
R: Is there anything that we didn’t cover in the original article or this interview that you feel is important to address?
ME: I just want to take a moment to reiterate that Benchmade has heard the feedback from our community and will be changing its stance on the cutting of firearms. We always will support individual rights, whether that is gun ownership, keeping and carrying knives as well as supporting the law enforcement community.
We have to lead the charge on breaking down restrictive, antiquated and significant laws with regards to knives. We hope that this situation can bring awareness to the ITA. I hope that this provides some visibility to the issues surrounding knife rights as they are just as important to us as firearm rights.
We appreciate the opportunity to directly address our community as we know this has been a confusing few days that have upset quite a few people. We know this is the most critical issue for many of the readers and public in general that support Second Amendment rights. This was never our intention and we hope this can bring clarity to areas of question about our beliefs and what we stand for.
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Hal Ketchum, the country singer who had hits in the 1990s with "Small Town Saturday Night" and "Sure Love," has retired from touring after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
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Singer-songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member Hal Ketchum, who had numerous hits throughout the Nineties including “Small Town Saturday Night,” “Hearts Are Gonna Roll” and “Sure Love,” has retired from performing after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
In a Facebook post from the musician’s wife Andrea, she noted, “He has been battling this for some time now, but because of his love for his fans, he continued performing as long as it was possible… Dementia is an exhausting and confusing illness and now it’s time for Hal to stay home with loved ones.”
On April 9th, 1998, on his 45th birthday, Ketchum was diagnosed with acute transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder related to multiple sclerosis, which causes an enlargement of the base of the spinal cord. After months of physical therapy, Ketchum was once again able to walk, play guitar and perform live. His most recent album, I’m the Troubadour, was released in 2014.
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A native of Greenwich, New York, Ketchum, then billed as Hal Michael Ketchum, moved to Austin, Texas, in 1981, where he would record his first LP, Threadbare Alibis, which led to a publishing deal and a move to Nashville. Ketchum’s 1991 debut LP for Curb Records, Past the Point of Rescue, sold in excess of 600,000 copies, earning him a gold record. All four singles released from it reached country’s Top 20, including a cover of the Vogues’ 1965 hit “Five O’Clock World,” written by Nashville songwriter-producer Allen Reynolds. The 1992 follow-up album, Sure Love, scored three Top Tens, including the Number Two single “Mama Knows the Highway.” This was followed two years later by the critically lauded Every Little Word, with the Top Ten ballad “Stay Forever.”
Ketchum, now 66, relocated to Texas after the release of his final Curb album, Father Time, in 2008. In October 2018, he made his final live concert appearance at the legendary Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, where he often performed.
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Free Western eBooks by Owen Wister
Owen Wister was born in Pennsylvania in 1860. His father, a wealthy physician, sent him to school in Switzerland and Britain for a short time. He graduated from Harvard in 1882. He returned to Europe to study music, but after a year, his father ordered him home to work in the banking industry.
Wister began writing short stories in 1891. In 1895 his first volume of short stories was published. Two years later, his first novel was published. Wister was fascinated with western culture and the lore of the west and spent several summers in Wyoming. His visit to Yellowstone in 1893 helped establish his natural inclination toward western fiction.
He died of a stroke in 1938.
Plot Summary from Wikipedia
The novel begins with an unnamed narrator's arrival in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, from back East and his encounter with an impressively tall and handsome stranger. The stranger proves adept at roping horses, as well as facing down a gambler, Trampas, who calls him a son of a bitch. (At the time, the word was an unacceptable insult in any society, except between joking friends.) The stranger lays a pistol on the table and gently threatens "When you call me that, smile!". Known only as the Virginian, the stranger turns out to be the narrator's escort to Judge Henry's ranch in Sunk Creek, Wyoming. As the two travel the 263 miles to the ranch, the narrator, nicknamed the "tenderfoot" and the Virginian begin to come to know one another as the Tenderfoot slowly begins to understand the nature of life in the West, which is very different from what he expected. This meeting is the beginning of a lifelong friendship and the starting point of the narrator's recounting of key episodes in the life of the Virginian.
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Members of the Rotary Club of Three Creeks are giving, hard workers. But we have fun too!
The Rotary Club of Three Creeks was chartered by Rotary International on October 7, 2016. We are a part of Rotary District 5100.
The Rotary Club of Three Creeks is the newest club in Clark County. It is the eighth Rotary Club in the county. We are continually and actively differentiating ourselves from the standard "perception" of Rotary, and are the club that proudly tries new things!
Our club is committed to community service, and "hands on" service projects are a big part of our DNA. More than half of our membership is young professionals who want to make an impact. And, driven by their passion, that's exactly what we do.
Since receiving our charter in October 2016, we have already impacted numerous lives - both locally and internationally. Here's how:
In November 2016, we partnered with the Vancouver Metro Sunset club to help fund a "water buffalo project" in Africa, that would help provide milk to children. The Rotary Club of Three Creeks passed the hat during a meeting and raised nearly $300.
In December 2016, the club conducted a toy drive at one of its meetings and more than filled a 55-gallon drum with toys for the Clark County Sheriff's Office Santa's Posse program, providing gifts for needy families.
In March 2017, Three Creeks partnered with Clark County Fire & Rescue to install smoke detectors in floating homes at the Ridgefield Marina.
In May 2017, more than half of our members (along with family members) participated in Rotarians At Work Day, doing spring cleanup landscaping, painting and light construction at Silver Buckle Ranch, a therapeutic horse farm in Brush Prairie.
In June 2017, members of the Rotary Club of Three Creeks assisted with plantings and maintenance at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center's new Healing Garden.
In September 2017, 11 members participated in Clark County Connects Volunteer Day, completing trail rehabilitation at Whipple Creek Hollow Natural Area in Ridgefield.
We make no apologies for being ambitious, energetic and exciting.
Give us a try. Attend a meeting as our guest. We would love to show you just how fun - and impactful - Rotary truly is.
What is expected?
Oftentimes people think they don't have time to be involved in Rotary. In the Rotary Club of Three Creeks, we just hope you'll be involved.
Our hope is that members will "participate in two Rotary interactions per month", which could be club meetings, hands on events, fundraisers, committee meetings, or even visiting another club.
To us, it's more important to Make an Impact than to fill seats in a meeting. If that matches your expectations of Service Above Self, then we might be for you.
Rotary is expensive, isn't it?
Again, to the Rotary Club of Three Creeks, it's more important to find business people who are interested in giving back to the community, than it is to build a huge treasury funded by members.
Our membership dues are kept low, and without the added assessments and required fees that some clubs charge. We don't provide meals at our club meetings - which raises the cost, yet we meet in a place where you can purchase food, coffee, beer & wine if you choose to do so during our meetings.
All of that to keep our costs to members low.
We even provide for the ability to make payment arrangements making it even easier for our members.
Rotarians around the world are asked to contribute a minimum of $100 per year to The Rotary Foundation - which is responsible for turning that philanthropy into near-eradication of polio around the world. That, too, can be done in payments as small as $10 per month.
With the encouragement and guidance of Past District 5100 Governor Barb Crozier, Past Assistant Governor Sue Coates, and Assistant Governor Danette LaChapelle, Susanne Cox and Nelson Holmberg took on the job of creating a new club to serve the Salmon Creek/Hazel Dell/Felida/Ridgefield area of North Clark County that has long been known as a "Rotary Desert". The work began in early 2016, and the proposed club began meeting in March.
In September of 2016, the club had commitments from 21 Charter Members, an a new club application was submitted to Rotary International and District 5100. By October 7, the new club was officially chartered.
The Rotary Club of Three Creeks celebrated its inception with its Inaugural Charter Night on March 27 at Summit Grove Lodge in Ridgefield. One hundred guests attended the sold-out event, including Rotarians from across the district, local elected officials, and dignitaries including more District Governors than had been in one place in recent memory.
The club has worked hard to be innovative and on the cutting edge. It bills itself as "Not your grandfather's Rotary", highlighting the differences between this club and the perception of what Rotary is.
This club is built from the ground up with a diverse range of individuals - with an impressive age range from mid 30s to mid 80s. The club is also very active with social media, digital presence, and has its own mobile app.
Our Meeting Time and Place
CREED COFFEE CO.
Beginning on January 3, 2019, the Rotary Club of Three Creeks will call the Creed Coffee Company its home.
With exceptions when we have off-site meetings or club socials in different locations, the club will meet here on all first and third Thursdays, unless participating in a noticed offsite meeting.
Creed Coffee Co. is located at 10718 NW Lakeshore Ave., Vancouver, WA 98685.
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Last Year Was a Record-Breaking Year for High-Tide Flooding. 2019 Probably Will Be, Too.
High-tide flooding, also referred to as "nuisance" flooding, occurs during high tide events, even in the absence of storms. Shutterstock
By Kate Elizabeth Queram,
Staff Correspondent
By Kate Elizabeth Queram
The East Coast suffered most from high-tide flooding, which can occur even on calm, sunny days, according to new data from the federal government.
Coastal communities across the country saw increased high-tide flooding last year and will likely see more this year, thanks to rising sea levels due to climate change and an active El Nino weather pattern, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“Coastal residents are increasingly wading through ankle deep water to get to their cars, driving longer routes to avoid flooded roads and seeing crucial infrastructure like septic tanks and stormwater systems impacted by floods,” says the report, which details high-tide flooding in 2018 and provides an outlook for 2019. (The report focuses on meteorological years, which run from May to April.)
High-tide flooding, also referred to as “nuisance” flooding, is an inundation of water on the coast at high tide, when water levels measured at 98 NOAA tide gauges exceed heights associated with minor impacts. It can occur even on calm, sunny days, flooding shorelines, streets and basements and affecting tourism and infrastructure, including septic and stormwater systems.
According to NOAA data, the national annual frequency of high-tide flooding reached five days in 2018, tying the record set in 2015. All but three locations included in the report met or exceeded flood predictions in last year’s report, and scientists identified 40 locations with accelerating flood trends, most of them on the east coast. Those trends suggest that “coastal impacts will soon become chronic rather than sporadic,” the report says.
“In essence, the future is already here in terms of sea level rise impacts,” said William Sweet, the report’s lead author and an oceanographer with NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services. “The current trajectory suggests a floodier future.”
The Northeast Atlantic coast experienced the most flooding from May 2018 to April 2019, the result of rising water levels combined with significant storms and heavy rainfall. Locations along the eastern seaboard broke or tied their flood-day records last year, including 22 days of flooding in Washington, D.C.; 14 in Wilmington, N.C. and 12 in Baltimore and Annapolis.
Those trends are likely to continue. Locations across the Northeast can expect a 140 percent increase in flood days throughout 2019 compared to what was typical in 2000. Across the country, high-tide flooding could average seven to 15 days per year by 2030 and 25 to 75 days per year by 2050. Rates will be higher in communities along the East and Gulf coasts, Sweet said.
“To put that in perspective, by the time any 30-year mortgage is paid off, the New York City region will experience somewhere between 55 and 125 days of high-tide flooding on average,” he said. “Norfolk, Virginia had 10 days last year and is likely to have 65 to 170 days per year by 2050. The Galveston/Houston area had 13 days and is likely to have 100 to 215 days per year on average.”
The impacts are already tangible, Sweet continued. Last year in Annapolis, rising water levels reduced the number of available parking spaces and closed stores, while septic tank systems were degraded by water intrusion in Florida.
“We cannot wait to act,” said Nicole LeBouef, acting director of NOAA’s Ocean Service. “This issue gets only more urgent and complex with each passing day.”
Kate Elizabeth Queram is a Staff Correspondent for Route Fifty and is based in Washington, D.C.
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Big Interview: Jo Jackson, Chief Creative Officer, Made.com
Jo Jackson talks to Retail Gazette about what it's like to be the chief creative officer at homeware retailer Made.com, as well as working with Lady Gaga's stylist on Diesel campaigns.
Sahar Nazir
With over 10 years worth of experience in branding and marketing, Jo Jackson has experienced her fair share of challenges as a young designer.
Since joining Made.com as chief creative officer in September 2017, she not only leads the homeware and furniture retailer from its London head office, she has had to find ways to ensure the brand remained relevant in today’s tough retail market.
Made.com, which designs and retails homewares and furniture online, expanded its 3229.17sq ft showroom in London to 11840.3sq ft in February this year. It was done for simple reasons: it had too many visitors, and with that rise in demand it found it hard to fit more products in the showroom.
“By the end of this year we’re going to have 7000 different products on site,” Jackson told Retail Gazette.
“It’s about 2500 unique products and then we’ve got our custom made stuff which adds up to 7000 really quickly.”
“I started out my first design business when I graduated, I managed to get a pop-up shop, I was in that wave of when pop-up shops first started”
Born and bred in London, Jackson gained extensive knowledge on digital marketing, fashion, and marketing communications before joining Made.com. She also started out as an independent designer once she graduated from Central Saint Martins.
“I’m a local, I was born around the corner in Marble Arch, so this is actually like my neighbourhood,” she said.
“I started out my first design business when I graduated. I managed to get a pop-up shop – I was in that wave of when pop-up shops first started, and I set up a brand called Beyond the Valley.”
Her Soho-based fashion label and boutique, set up in 2004, was a platform for Jackson to help launch over 300 designers into the fashion, art and design sectors. It went on to win various awards – although it wasn’t all smooth sailing.
“We scouted graduating designers and helped them sell their stuff,” Jackson recalled.
“Emerging designers, product designers’ furniture, artwork, jewellery, fashion – we sold their stuff from our store of off Carnaby Street.
“We also had our own design range which we sold at Milan Design Fair.
“It was very ambitious – but also a real struggle.”
Jackson left the retail business she started and joined creative agency i-am beyond in 2008 as founder and marketing director, where she consulted for brands such as Vera Moda. And by 2012, she joined UK agency Protein in 2012 as managing director.
“I’ve worked with amazing brands – Adidas, Nike, Ted Baker, Converse and PepsiCo”
“That was really about trend insights, millennial consumer behaviour, and that’s really where I got all of my learning of what this generation wants,” she said.
“I used to consult for Gap and explain to Gap millennials’ design attitudes to denim, to working with Microsoft about the internet of things.
“I’ve worked with amazing brands – Adidas, Nike, Ted Baker, Converse and PepsiCo.”
Jackson also spent time working at Italian fashion house Diesel, when she was appointed as global head of content and creative services in 2015.
“It was a really awesome time of my life, I was living between Italy and London, and we also shot a lot of the campaigns in New York,” she recounted.
During this time, Jackson had the opportunity to work directly with Diesel’s artistic director Nicola Formichetti, who’s best known for being Lady Gaga’s stylist and designing the notorious meat dress for the 2010 MTV music video awards. She also organised the catwalk shows at New York Fashion Week.
“I was [Formichett’s] right hand woman,” Jackson reminisced.
“He was coming up with the creative vision of the products, and I was coming up with the advertising and marketing campaigns and then delivering those.”
Since her move to Made.com, Jackson believes she has delivered “considerable changes” for the retailer.
“We’ve got through quite a lot in 18 months, we’ve done a whole brand refresh, so if you look on the site, everything is quite straightforward,” she said.
“We gain 1500 followers a day on Instagram”
“The website looks entirely different now, it’s about making sure it’s more relevant, visually more editorial-led.
“We’re already doing home tours, which is going inside people’s houses and getting inspiration but we’ve really super-charged that.
“This London showroom is significant, it’s the biggest space we’ve got. Paris is the second largest.”
On the advertising side of things, Made.com has both TV and London Underground ads, which Jackson believes works well for the brand.
“Our awareness is at its greatest in London, and of course we also advertise online. We gain 1500 followers a day on Instagram,” she said.
Made.com is also not shy of collaborations. Jackson boasts that there will be an upcoming collaboration with Danish outerwear and waterproof label Rains.
“Collaborations are an essential part of staying relevant”
“We also have a bicycle collaboration coming soon,” she hinted.
“Collaborations are an essential part of staying relevant and just getting outside of our comfort zone.”
Staying relevant can be a challenge for many retailers, especially as the sector is facing a decline and is seeking new ways in connecting with its consumers. Jackson believes Made.com’s entire business model is about being relevant for this generation.
“It’s digital first – it’s a starting point. It’s a huge issue for a lot of the high street in the way that they’re thinking,” she reflected.
“Us being digital-first to producing in small batches, looking at what people are looking at, what they’re clicking on, from liking on Instagram, to trying it on in the showroom to buying – we can be very reactive with what we’re producing.
“If people aren’t buying a new product within the first eight weeks, we won’t produce it again. If they are buying it we’ll keep producing it, so it’s very much reactive to current trends.
“In terms of fundamentals as a business model, it’s always going to be reactive and it’s always going to be relevant because we’re listening to what people want first.”
Jackson said many of Made.com’s products are produced in the same places as some high-end designers, but because they work directly with them, it can cut all those middle-man prices out, hence why products appear cheaper for the value they hold.
“It’s also down to our stock model as well,” Jackson explained.
“The way that we buy is in small batches, and we do quick-repeat orders, so rather than pre-ordering tons of sofas to sit in a warehouse, which depreciates it in value and then you get a loss, we basically buy small, and we sell as and when it’s made.
“It’s reduced the number of warehouses. We don’t have any problems with stock because everything’s cycling through. So a normal retailer would have quite a lot of losses along the way, we just cut them out.
“Some big fashion brands don’t even have people on the ground, so sometimes they don’t even know where their stuff is being made”
“In terms of the actual model itself, it’s a really intelligent one and it’s the way most businesses should follow. It’s a much more responsible way to retail. Me as a consumer, it just makes more sense to be conscientious about it.”
Jackson prides herself on being able to talk about where products come from, and talk about the factories, factory workers, and sustainability and transparency as a retailer.
“I was proud of where we’re at when I first joined,” she said.
“The thing that I’m most excited about – which we’ve started – is around our mission on being a responsible retailer.
“This campaign is really the starting point where we talk about that: the steps that we’re making with our production, how we make things, we want to tell our customers who we make our things with, and wherever they’re made, and that their working conditions are acceptable.
“Some big fashion brands don’t even have people on the ground, so sometimes they don’t even know where their stuff is being made, and that’s really quite concerning.”
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Germany to ban exports of side-arms to non-allies
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will ban exports of small side arms to most countries outside NATO and the European Union, government sources told Reuters on Monday, confirming an earlier report from the Funke media group.
A small number of traditional allies - Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Switzerland - will be exempt from the ban, the government’s latest attempt to implement the tightened arms export rules it promised in last year’s coalition agreements.
Earlier restrictions on exporting weapons systems to countries involved in the Yemen war prompted howls of protest from Britain and France, since the presence of German components in many joint projects risked harming lucrative export deals with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
But this ban, which is much smaller in scale, is expected to have fewer international repercussions, since pistol, gun and rifle manufacture tends not to be transnational in nature.
While German side-arm manufacturers, including companies like Mauser and Walther, are major suppliers to armed forces and police around the world, the government expects the financial implications of the ban to be limited: export licenses were issued to a value of 39 million euros last year.
The Funke media group also reported that the government was also planning on introducing tougher rules on technology transfer, since small arms are often built under license in the country in which they are to be sold.
(This story has been refiled to restore words cut from final paragraph)
Reporting by Tassilo Hummel and Andreas Rinke, Writing by Michelle Martin, editing by Thomas Escritt, William Maclean
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Trump says U.S. in 'very strong' negotiations in Afghanistan
Roberta Rampton
PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States was “in very strong” peace negotiations in Afghanistan but he did not known whether they would be successful.
“I really think the people of Afghanistan ... are tired of fighting,” Trump told reporters after delivering a Thanksgiving holiday message to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, scene of one of America’s longest-ever wars.
“We are talking about peace and we’ll see if that happens ... We have negotiations going on. I don’t know that they are going to be successful, probably they’re not. Who knows? They might be, they might not be.”
Trump was speaking after Taliban leaders met with U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad at their political headquarters in Qatar last week for the second time in the past month.
Khalilzad said on Sunday he hoped to reach a peace deal by April 20, a deadline that coincides with the date set for presidential elections in Afghanistan.
However, the Taliban said their three-day meeting with Khalilzad to pave the way for peace talks ended with no agreement on any issue and they had not accepted any deadline set by the United States to wrap up talks.
Khalilzad’s public statement that the Taliban believe they will “not win militarily” apparently angered senior members of the group, who warned U.S. officials against mixed messages that could muddle the peace process.
U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan in 2001 as part of a campaign to topple the Taliban following the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. Some 14,000 U.S. personnel are still there.
The Taliban have strengthened their grip over the past three years, with the government in Kabul controlling just 56 percent of Afghanistan, down from 72 percent in 2015, a U.S. government report showed this month.
Two senior U.S. officials confirmed this week that a second round of peace talks ended last week and the Taliban expected Khalilzad to visit Qatar for a meeting before the end of 2018.
Trump hinted he may go to Afghanistan, a country he has yet to visit almost two years into his presidency, even though previous U.S. commanders-in-chief have routinely visited troops in active war zones.
Trump told troops in the teleconference that while they were fighting, he was taking tough action to secure the southern borders of the United States from illegal immigration.
“You are doing it over there; we are doing it over here,” he said.
“We have a very powerful border now ... We took old broken wall and we wrapped it with barbed wire plus ... nobody is getting through these walls and we’re going to make sure they’re the right people because that’s what you and your family want,” he said.
“That’s why we’re all fighting – you know, we’re fighting for borders, we’re fighting for our country.”
Reporting by David Brunnstrom and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Sandra Maler
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Big Las Vegas real estate deals have materialized in December
The holidays are normally a time to slow down. But in recent years, real estate investors have squeezed in big, last-minute transactions in Las Vegas before the calendar flips to Jan. 1.
By Eli Segall / Las Vegas Review-Journal
Updated November 30, 2018 - 5:56 pm
Veer Towers, the yellow, 37-story leaning twin tower condominiums, located within CityCenter on the Strip in Las Vegas on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. Murphy/Jahn Architects of Chicago designed the towers. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
The Ogden Condominiums in downtown Las Vegas on Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
The site of the never-built Alon casino-resort, seen at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Fashion Show Drive in Las Vegas, Thursday, June 22, 2017. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @gabriellaangojo
IKEA in Las Vegas, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. Erik Verduzco Las Vegas Review-Journal @Erik_Verduzco
We’ll find out soon enough whether someone pulls it off again. Here’s a look at some past year-end deals, as outlined in property records, news releases and media reports.
Dec. 20, 2012: Veer Towers
New York investment firm Ladder Capital and Florida-based Pordes Residential bought 427 condos in Veer Towers for $119 million.
With two 37-story towers that lean at five-degree angles, Veer is part of the CityCenter project on the Strip. The bulk sale came at a time when Las Vegas’ economy was limping out of the Great Recession, and real estate was selling cheap.
Since then, the Veer buyers have sold all but one of their condos. Jim Navarro, vice president of sales and managing broker for Pordes, said Friday that the group has closed 426 sales for about $210 million combined.
Dec. 24, 2013: The Ogden and others
KRE Capital, Dune Real Estate Partners and Northcap teamed up to acquire almost 1,300 units in five Las Vegas condo projects for $237 million.
The portfolio — The Ogden, Juhl, Loft 5, One Las Vegas and Spanish Palms — had a reported history of foreclosures, litigation and canceled condo sales. Moreover, Chicago-based Corus Bank, which helped finance construction of the properties, collapsed during the recession.
The investors have sold condos to individual buyers and rented to tenants, but they also unloaded a few hundred in a bulk deal.
Weili Dai and Sehat Sutardja, the ousted founders of Silicon Valley company Marvell Technology Group, bought 241 units in Loft 5, several miles south of the Strip, for $51.5 million in fall 2016.
Dec. 22, 2014: Ikea land
Ikea, the Swedish furniture dealer and meatball slinger, bought 26 acres of land at Durango Drive and Sunset Road, in the southwest valley, for around $21.3 million.
The sale amounted to more than $820,000 per acre — a hefty price for suburban land today, let alone four years ago, when the economy was a lot shakier.
Ikea opened its 351,000-square-foot store there — its first in Nevada — in May 2016.
Dec. 30, 2015: IGT campus
Panattoni Development Co. bought slot-machine maker International Game Technology’s campus at Buffalo Drive and Post Road, in the southwest valley, for $75 million.
Less than a year later, Panattoni flipped part of the campus to Griffin Capital Corp. for $66.5 million.
Dec. 13, 2017: Alon site
In a late-night news release, Wynn Resorts announced it was acquiring around 38 acres just north of Fashion Show mall for $336 million. The purchase, which largely comprised the failed Alon Las Vegas project site on the Strip, closed early this year.
In an earnings call Jan. 22, then-Chairman and CEO Steve Wynn outlined plans for a 2,000- to 3,000-room hotel there, but the billionaire casino developer resigned from his namesake company Feb. 6 amid accusations of sexual misconduct, which he has denied.
Wynn Resorts’ new chief executive, Matt Maddox, told analysts Nov. 7 that the company is “just beginning the design and development” of the 38-acre site, according to a transcript of the call.
Contact Eli Segall at esegall@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0342. Follow @eli_segall on Twitter.
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Las Vegas Strip drug stores worth big money
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State lawmakers approved a bill in 2015 — a decade after Las Vegas’ wild building spree — that raised barriers to pursuing lawsuits alleging shoddyconstruction.
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Despite the shifts, it’s not a buyer’s market yet, analysts say, though house hunters are in a better position now than they were a year ago.
Lucky Dragon sold for $107M less than developer’s estimate
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Eclipse Theaters site in Las Vegas was eyed for luxury condo tower
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During the mid-2000s bubble, a developer set out to build a luxury condo tower where Eclipse Theaters now stands — and if he had followed through, it could have been a financial disaster.
Wynn, Crown failed buyout latest in Aussie’s Las Vegas Strip deals
More than a year after buying Crown Resorts’ land on the Las Vegas Strip, Wynn Resorts Ltd. has nixed a deal to buy the whole company.
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City eyes new $3.5M home for sanitation to accommodate Savannah arena development
Eric Curl @EricCurlSMN
Apr 9, 2019 at 5:30 PM Apr 10, 2019 at 8:02 AM
The city is considering purchasing property for almost $3.5 million as part of a plan to relocate multiple departments now housed on the arena development site west of Savannah’s Downtown Historic District.
The Savannah City Council on Thursday will consider the proposal to purchase the property at 1809 W. U.S. 80, which will serve as a staging area for waste hauling vehicles, according to city officials.
The property is owned by Waste Management and consists of about 34 acres, with about 14 acres for development. Two buildings are on the site, which are being used for the parking and service of garbage trucks.
Sanitation Director Gene Prevatt said the city had planned on building a facility by the city’s landfill on Dean Forest Road, but that project would have cost about $10 million. Moving to the Waste Management property should be relatively seamless, Prevatt said.
“It's a fortuitous find,” he said. “It’s purpose built for hauling operations and we saved about $5 [million] to $6 million.”
Due diligence and renovations costs are expected to amount to an additional $500,000.
The proposed purchase comes almost two years after the City Council had approved a $1.7 million design contract in June 2017 as part of a plan to relocate the departments from the arena site to city-owned property off Interchange Court. Located about a mile west of the arena site, the Interchange property was purchased in 2009 using $496,000 in sales tax revenue.
The proposed facilities on the 13-acre site include an administration and operations building, a renovated warehouse, equipment parking, outdoor employee pavilion, storage sheds and bays, vehicle refueling, employee and customer parking, security lighting, fencing and guardhouse, and water and sewer infrastructure.
The move was expected to include the relocation of about 500 employees from various departments and about 300 vehicles, including the city’s street sweepers.
However, there is not enough room at the Interchange site to accommodate the waste hauling operations, and the sanitation department was never part of the design contract, Prevatt said.
“We have known for some time that we would need to develop an alternative site for our hauling operations,” he said.
Last year, the arena master plan was amended and the arena’s location was shifted farther north to where a parking lot had previously been proposed so the city didn’t have to wait for the departments to be relocated to begin construction. Mixed-use buildings, a parking garage and hotel were also proposed as possibilities for the area between the arena and the historic water works building on the site's south end.
The city anticipates breaking ground for the $160 million arena in September.
On Thursday, the City Council will also consider what is described as a part of a “phased contract” that will also include the future operations and management of the new arena.
Alderman Van Johnson said he had some questions he wanted addressed about the proposed $87,500 contract for design assistance with Oak View Group Facilities, before he could approve what ultimately could prove to be a lucrative deal for the company.
“Essentially, what you're doing is you're selecting an operator,” Johnson said.
Any future contracts for design, operations, and management services related to the arena would still require additional City Council approval, according to the staff report.
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Surprised by his sudden departure...
Flemish singer song writer Luc De Vos, died suddenly at the age of 52. Family, friends and fans wished him farewell at a public ceremony in Ghent on Saturday, December 6. Family said that people should celebrate his life rather than mourn his death – the service was followed by a “huge party” in the city center. Farewell Luc, we’ll miss you!
Sint-Pietersplein - Gent, Belgium.
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Red Steagall first concert of Ruidoso Downs racing season
The iconic country music and Texas swing music star Red Steagall will perform on Sunday, May 27 in the auditorium of the Ruidoso Horse Sale
Red Steagall first concert of Ruidoso Downs racing season The iconic country music and Texas swing music star Red Steagall will perform on Sunday, May 27 in the auditorium of the Ruidoso Horse Sale Check out this story on ruidosonews.com: https://www.ruidosonews.com/story/news/local/community/2018/05/15/ruidoso-downs-concert-season-off-shotgun-start-red-steagall/611675002/
Ty Wyant, Special to the Ruidoso News Published 10:53 a.m. MT May 15, 2018
Concert is fundraiser for newly formed All American Ruidoso Downs Foundation
Red Steagall performs May 27.(Photo: Courtesy Photo/Ruidoso Downs Race Track)
Ticket prices start at $75
The iconic country music and Texas swing music star Red Steagall will perform on Sunday, May 27 in the auditorium of the Ruidoso Horse Sale, the same day that trials to the Ruidoso Derby are contested at Ruidoso Downs.
The special concert is a fund raiser for the newly formed All American Ruidoso Downs Foundation. The mission of the AARDF is preserve history and educate through the Ruidoso Downs Racehorse Hall of Fame, the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium and to provide educational opportunities through scholarships.
The event begins with cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres at 6 p.m., and the concert follows at 7 p.m.
More than 200 of Steagall's compositions were recorded by him and other artists. He has recorded 26 consecutive singles that tracked on the national charts and released a total of 22 albums
Although Steagall is best known for his Texas swing dance music and such songs as "Here We Go Again," "Party Dolls and Wine," "Freckles Brown" and "Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music," he also is beloved by Texas cowboys for the quiet times they have spent with him around chuck wagon campfires. In their opinion, the public has never heard Red Steagall’s best music. If you ask Steagall where his favorite place to play music is, he might say The White House, some famous stage in Nashville, California, Spain, or Germany, or he might say at some lonesome cow camp in West Texas.
Steagall was named the 2006 poet laureate of Texas; he is a member of the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City; was given the Boss of the Plains Award from The National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas; was named by the Fort Worth Farm and Ranch Club as the 2015 recipient of the W. A. "Bill" King Award for Excellence in Agriculture; and is a member of the Western Music Hall of Fame.
In the spring of 2005, the Grammy awards were handed out for 2004. Several were awarded for Ray Charles’ album, "Genius Loves Company." One of the songs on that album, "Here We Go Again," co-written by Steagall, won record of the year. Charles and Norah Jones were rewarded for vocal collaboration in the pop category and the album was recognized as album of the year. The album has sold more than three million copies.
Tickets for the Steagall concert start at $75, and reserved seats are $150. For more information, go to www.raceruidoso.com or call 575.378.4140.
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Frank John Clifford
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Private Frank John Clifford from Oakham enlisted in the 2/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment on 10 November 1916. He went to France on 28 June 1917, and took part in the Battle of Cambrai, and in the retreat during the Second Battle of the Somme. He was reported missing on 3 April. The British Red Cross Society tried to find out what had happened to him and described the chaos as the German onslaught continued: "Our reports show that in the fourth week of March 1918, the 2/4th Royal Berks. were on the St. Quentin front and took part in the general retirement caused by the great German offensive which began on March 21st. Their first fighting seems to have been near Fresnoy, Maissenny, and Marteville, just north-west of St. Quentin, but at the end of a fortnight they had withdrawn almost to Amiens. We cannot trace the march of each day with any certainty, but the following statements, by men who were in the prolonged retreat, gives some idea of the desperate fighting, and explain why the lists were not made up for so many days. A great number of prisoners were afterwards reported from Germany." "We were defending Spooner's Redoubt in front of Holnon Wood, west of St. Quentin on the morning of March 21st. The Germans were coming up all round. We made an attack but retreated. About 6 a.m. we had been outflanked by the Germans and were retiring. We had to pass through a gap in our wire and some of our men were caught and taken prisoners. On March 22nd, about midday, in front of Beauvois on the St. Quentin front, the Germans were heavily attacking us and we had to retire. We lost the ground about 2 p.m. On March 28th we were about four kilos in front of Villers Bretonneux, which is east of Amiens. We were attacking in waves from Marcelcave to Lamotte and held the ground some time. We had to retire in the evening further than we started from because the German attack was so rapid. All our dead and wounded had to be left behind; the firing was so thick and the enemy right on top of us. We had to retire quickly and they got the ground I saw one of our officers killed by a sniper's bullet in the open on April 4th near Hangard Wood, south of Villers. We had to retire, and his body was left on the field." But Frank's body was subsequently found and he is now buried in nearby Vadencourt British Cemetery, grave III.C.40. He is also remembered on Oakham's war memorial. His Commonwealth War Graves' details say his parents moved to Hampshire, while he also had a wife, originally from the United States.
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STATEMENT BY THE SADC CHAIRPERSON, HIS EXCELLENCY DR. HAGE G. GEINGOB, ON THE EFFECTS OF CYCLONE IDAI IN THE SADC REGION
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) notes with great sadness the devastation caused by the recent tropical Cyclone Idai in the SADC region, in particular in the Republics of Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The economic cost and social impact of the Cyclone to the affected countries, and indeed the entire region, is immeasurable.
The Cyclone, which killed hundreds of people and displaced thousands others, left a trail of destruction to land and infrastructure affecting accessibility and provision of health care and welfare to the affected communities. SADC expresses heartfelt condolences to the people and Governments of the three countries, and indeed to the bereaved families.
SADC appreciates the overwhelming support extended to the communities by some Member States, cooperating partners, and most importantly by citizens of the three countries who combined efforts to assist their fellow nationals. SADC stands in solidarity with the three countries as they recover from the tragedy. In this regard, SADC has contributed a total of US$500,000 as follows; US$200,000 to Mozambique; US$150,000 to Malawi; and US$150,000 to Zimbabwe. We call upon all our partners, within and beyond the region, to continue supporting the rescue operations, and in providing the needed humanitarian assistance.
In view of the increased occurrence of climate-related catastrophes, such as cyclones, floods and droughts, around the world and especially in the SADC region, SADC reiterates its call for joint global efforts to reduce global warming and the impacts of climate change and variability, while stepping up efforts to enhance adaptive capacities of developing countries in line with the spirit of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) and Article 8(4) of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
I call upon SADC Member States to re-double their efforts to strengthen disaster risk management capacities, as emphasized in the SADC Disaster Preparedness and Response Strategy adopted in 2016, and to fully operationalise the necessary collaborative mechanisms to ensure rapid joint and concerted responses to disasters.
Dr. Hage G. Geingob
President of the Republic of Namibia, and Chairperson of SADC
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A plan for Forest Society to save Carey Cottage
Robert Thoresen
I have been following the most recent saga regarding the Carey Cottage and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests now seeking a permit to demolish the historic cottage at Creek Farm, which the Society has owned since 2000.
As background, both Sue (my wife) and I have been members of the Forest Society since the mid-1970s and have contributed to their capital campaigns for land purchase. Sue served as a trustee of the Forest Society for 11 years, and both of us later served as consultants to the Society on the adaptive reuse of some historic buildings on Lake Winnipesaukee that a donor had proposed giving to the Society.
In the Winnipesaukee case, the Society was given 60 acres of forest land by a donor. Additionally, they were also to receive a smaller lakefront parcel from the same donor upon his death. After our study of the potential uses and costs, the Society rightfully determined that it was imprudent to keep the lakefront property with four historic structures on it. Therefore, after the land was transferred, the Society sold the property to a long-time tenant and used the proceeds to save more open land.
We are well aware of the Society�s mission and admire their long distinguished work (since 1901) on land conservation and protection. But we both know from our experience with them, that the Society has often struggled with how to deal with the buildings that sometimes come with the open lands they wish to preserve. Their record in dealing with these structures is mixed at best.
Their purchase of Creek Farm is a prime example of the problems that can emerge when they purchase a property on which a historically significant structure is located. They have made many decisions that I think were and continue to be misguided, including layering on restrictions that make building use very difficult, if not impossible.
Now that no entity has come forward with a proposal that fits their criteria, they want to destroy the cottage, ignoring its historic, cultural and architectural significance. It is one of the last grand 19th century summer cottages that was part of a summer colony of intellectual and artistic elites, and served as an important venue where delegates from both Russia and Japan were entertained as part of the Russo-Japanese peace treaty negotiations.
It is important to note the Forest Society did not need to purchase Creek Farm to protect it from development. The land was already protected from development by a conservation easement granted to the state in August 1997 by Chet and Lillian �Billie� Noel. In fact, one has to wonder why the Society wanted to purchase a property already protected from development if they were not committed to preserving one of its primary assets, the historic Carey Cottage.
Since the Forest Society staff met with the N.H. Division of Historic Resources in the summer of 2000 (according to NHDHR records) before they purchased the property, they knew or should have known they were about to purchase an architecturally, culturally and historically significant structure. Despite concerns raised by the Historic Resources office and offers to help find a solution that would allow the Carey Cottage to remain, they proceeded with the purchase intending to pursue demolition.
The Carey family built, summered and continued to own the cottage for 70 years (1887-1957), when it was sold to Chet and Billie Noel. The Noels converted the large home into 11 apartments and lived in it for 43 years (1957-2000) when it was purchased by the Forest Society with a life estate for Billie until she died in 2004.
In negotiating the purchase, a provision was added to the deed that required the house to be �razed� within two years of Billie�s death. The Forest Society claims that was the donor�s intent. But there is evidence in a letter from Billie to the Society in 2001 that she had misgivings about the demolition requirement and encouraged them to try to work out a way to save the structure. Furthermore, at least one neighbor and friend, one of her tenants, and some family members indicated she did not want the house demolished, but was concerned about it falling into disrepair.
After the purchase by the Society, when the historic preservation community and broader public became aware of the demolition requirement, there was a widespread effort to save the house. As a result of this concern, the Society and Billie Noel agreed in April 2002 to a deed of release, which removed the demolition requirement. Thus, the �donor intent� to demolish the house was removed. The agreement also required the Society to find a suitable partner within two years of Billie Noel�s death (2004).
In 2006, the Forest Society agreed to lease the property to Cornell University. The lease called for an initial four-year term and a 50-year extension with a three-year termination provision in the 50-year renewal. In July 2010, the 50-year extension was executed and in 2014 Cornell gave notice of its intent to cancel the lease. Even though Cornell was obligated to undertake extensive renovations, such renovations were never done. The Society apparently chose not to pursue the breach of the lease terms.
Since the cancellation, the Forest Society has sought to find other suitable partners to lease the main house. They claim none have been found that meet the restrictions they and a successor trustee to Billie Noel�s Trust have crafted to make certain that the Society bears no financial obligation for the structure and to require that any use will be �compatible� to other uses of the reservation.
As someone who has spent years advising clients on the reuse potential of historic properties and doing adaptive reuse projects myself, one of the factors in determining a project�s viability is the type of restrictions that a lessor/owner puts on the property.
The Society�s board established the current leasing guidance in 2014 as follows: 1) The Society will not under any circumstances bear financial or operational responsibility for the house, 2) A financially and operationally strong partner must bear these responsibilities, 3) The house must be maintained and operated to specifications established by SPNHF, with sensitivity to the building�s historic character, 4) The use(s) of the house, out building and dock must be compatible with and, preferably, complementary to the public uses of the reservation, 5) The use(s) of the house, outbuilding and the dock must be in compliance with all ordinances of the city of Portsmouth, and 6) It had lease deadline dates (no longer applicable).
Additionally, the Society board also listed these possible uses for the main house deemed compatible with the original intended use of the reservation: 1) A research program focusing on natural resource issues such as the study of exotic invasive plants or the study of estuarine ecology, 2) A higher education academic program, 3) A K-12 academic center for natural science field trips, 4) A natural science retreat center, 5) A natural science seminar center, 6) Office space for natural resource nonprofit organizations, 7) Meeting space for natural resource nonprofit organizations, 8) Office space for natural resource related public agencies, and 9) Meeting space for natural resource related public agencies.
The Society listed non-compatible uses of the main house: 1) An apartment building, 2) A hotel, inn or bed and breakfast, 3) A private residence, 4) Any use that would create substantial quantities of waste materials or hazardous materials in need of disposal, and 5) Any for-profit, commercial use.
These uses must not only meet with the board�s approval, they must also be approved by Billie Noel Trust�s successor trustee, in his sole discretion, adding yet another layer of complexity to an already overly burdensome restrictive process.
The irony of these use restrictions is that most of the Society�s compatible uses are not even permitted in the city�s zoning ordinance in which the property is located (a rural district). Furthermore, a single-family residence is one of only a few permitted uses by right in the zoning ordinance, but that is deemed as a non-compatible use, according to the Forest Society.
In light of the fact the house was built as a private residence and served as such for 70 years and then was converted to 11 apartments for another 43 years, one has to question the appropriateness of the compatible use restrictions. The least intensive use of the property is for a single-family residence.
I submit the leasing guidelines adopted by the Forest Society and the list of acceptable uses (not legally required in the deed) is so restrictive that potential users have found it almost impossible to develop a program that meets the restrictions and is financially viable. Not surprisingly, no viable tenant has come forward. That has led the Society to seek a demolition permit, a decidedly inappropriate solution.
In my opinion, it appears almost as if the Forest Society by its restrictions wants to make certain no entity can make a plausible case for reuse. Thus, the Society can then justify the demolition, which it had intended to do since 2000.
There is a case to be made for a solution that will allow the Carey Cottage to remain intact on the site and to have viable uses. But it will require a fundamental rewriting of the restrictions and a willingness on the Forest Society�s part to think more expansively about the possibilities and to view the main house as an asset rather than a liability.
There are �best practice� examples around the region and nationally where important historic structures have been integrated successfully into open space reservations. Sometimes these best practices involve transferring the property to an entity that can invest in it while complying with reasonable preservation restrictions.
I recommend the following:
First, the Society should stop denying it has an obligation to maintain the house. The reality is they have been maintaining it for almost 19 years. They should raise money, if needed, to continue their maintenance of the structure until a partner is found. See the challenge below.
Second, the Society withdraw the demolition permit as a gesture of good faith that the Forest Society is willing to work toward a solution that keeps Carey Cottage as an important part of the reservation and of the city�s history.
Third, the Society convene a task force that has members with expertise in historic preservation, in adaptive reuse of historic structures, in development and construction, as well as land conservation. Charge that group with: 1) making recommendations for changing the compatible and non-compatible use criteria, 2) formulating a broader campaign, if needed, to find a suitable reuse partner, 3) finding a way to transfer the structure to another entity (it is allowed under the various legal provisions already in existence) that would be capable of maintaining and operating the structure, and 4) coming up with a comprehensive plan within a reasonable period of time.
Fourth, the city should consider creating a Little Harbor Historic District for the peninsula to protect the historic resources and setting of that area and give the Historic District Commission jurisdiction over the development decisions within the district.
Finally, a small group of citizens offers a challenge to the Forest Society. We are willing to provide a challenge grant of up to $50,000 to mothball the building until a suitable transferee is found. The challenge is conditioned on: 1) the funds must be used to repair any weather and other intrusions and to secure the building from further deterioration, 2) the Society withdrawing the demolition permit for a period of three years, 3) the Society changing the use restrictions and 4) the expenditures be approved by a designee of the donor group.
If the Society continues its current path of demolition, their decision will be a disaster for a very important historic building. I also believe it will do long-term damage to the Society�s credibility as a land conservation organization that should be able and willing to embrace the preservation of historic structures as one of its corollary basic tenets. I urge the Society to once again reconsider their decision to demolish this historically and architecturally important building and work with the community to find a lasting solution.
Robert Thoresen, an award-winning preservationist from Portsmouth, served as city planner from 1971 to 1977 and planned and implemented the revitalization of Market Square. He has served on numerous city and community nonprofit boards.
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Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan halts streetcar expansion project as costs jump past $200M
Originally published March 30, 2018 at 3:05 pm Updated April 2, 2018 at 9:08 am
An initial review of Seattle’s streetcar expansion project found that costs have ballooned by $23 million. Mayor Jenny Durkan ordered an immediate stop to the project on Friday.
David Gutman
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has stopped all work on the city’s downtown streetcar expansion and will join with the city attorney to investigate the management of the project.
A preliminary review of the streetcar project, which Durkan requested last week, found that costs have risen once again. What several years ago was a $150 million project became a $177 million project and is now estimated to be more than $200 million.
“There are too many questions about the true costs of this project and the risks to taxpayers, which is why we must put the brakes on this project,” Durkan said in a statement.
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Seattle underestimates by millions the cost to run its new streetcar line, Metro says
The streetcar expansion along First Avenue is now facing a potential shortfall of more than $23 million, according to the mayor’s office.
“The mayor has directed an immediate ‘stop work’ order for this project,” Senior Deputy Mayor Mike Fong wrote to the City Council on Friday. “With millions of dollars expected to be spent in the upcoming weeks, this means that we will not move forward with any new contracts and will exercise our options to stop work on contracts that have already been executed.”
He said work would remain stopped until the investigation is complete, cost issues are resolved and “we collectively determine that the project still makes sense.”
Fong attributed the rising costs to both design and construction expenses as well as errors in estimating the cost of new streetcars.
The city signed a $52 million contract last fall for 10 new streetcar vehicles.
The only exception to the work stoppage, Fong wrote, is replacing a water main in Pioneer Square that is seismically vulnerable and would be beneath the new streetcar line.
Durkan’s actions follow a Seattle Times report earlier this month that the annual cost to operate the new, expanded streetcar system could be 50 percent higher than what the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) had publicly stated.
The full, independent review of the streetcar’s finances that Durkan ordered last week is expected to be complete by mid-June.
Initial cost estimates increased last year by about $25 million to include public utility work necessary for the expansion. That utility work began late last year along First Avenue in Pioneer Square.
In total, the city has signed contracts worth at least $90 million, although with options to cancel work not already performed.
The project has received $50 million in federal funding, and the city had been expecting an additional $25 million. The rest of the cost is funded with local taxes and utility bills.
Durkan’s office said it continues to “communicate closely with federal partners on the project.”
The federal money would likely have to be returned if the streetcar line is permanently canceled, a process that could damage the city’s credibility when it applies for funding for other projects.
City Councilmember Mike O’Brien, the chair of the council’s Transportation Committee and a longtime supporter of the streetcar project, said he agreed with Durkan’s decision.
“I have serious concerns about the recent revelations regarding anticipated operating and capital costs,” O’Brien said in a statement. “I commit to only allowing this project to proceed if there is compelling evidence that it makes financial sense to move forward.”
Councilmember Sally Bagshaw, chair of the Finance Committee, also released a statement in support, saying the public deserves “clarity and transparency” on the project.
The mayor’s office will also work with the city attorney on an investigation of the project’s management to date.
“We need to understand how the project evolved to the point including timelines and availability of information about escalating operational and capital costs, information flow and the validity of information provided to federal officials,” Fong wrote.
SDOT submitted documents last year — to both the City Council and the Federal Transit Administration — estimating the cost of operating the new streetcar at $16 million a year. But King County Metro, which runs the city’s streetcars under a contract with SDOT, estimated those costs at $24 million a year.
Internal documents and emails show SDOT officials brushing aside Metro’s advice and concerns.
The 1.2-mile streetcar line would run along First Avenue, largely in its own lane, connecting the city’s two existing but separate streetcar lines on First Hill and in South Lake Union.
The South Lake Union line — which was pushed for by Paul Allen’s Vulcan development firm and half funded by area property owners — opened in 2007. The First Hill line opened in 2016, a Sound Transit-funded consolation prize after a planned First Hill light-rail stop was scrapped.
SDOT officials projected ridership, which has failed to meet expectations, to grow exponentially when the new line opens in 2020.
Councilmember Lisa Herbold, the streetcar’s most ardent foe on the council, thanked Durkan for pausing the project.
“I remain concerned about potential unsustainable operations shortfalls, which could be millions annually,” Herbold said in a statement.
David Gutman: 206-464-2926 or dgutman@seattletimes.com. On Twitter @davidlgutman
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Welcome to Shoosmiths > Client resources > Legal updates > Possible refunds of VAT and SDLT - Transfer of a business as a going concern
Possible refunds of VAT and SDLT - Transfer of a business as a going concern
Author: Niall Murphy
The First-tier Tribunal (tribunal) has held that VAT transfer as a going concern (TOGC) treatment was available where the appellant had to sell its interest in property by way of sub-lease, rather than assigning its interest in the head lease.
This is due to alienation restrictions in that head lease. The tribunal looked to the substance of the transaction, rather than its legal form, and found that the transferee could carry on the same letting business as the transferor without restriction. The asset in the case of Robinson Family Ltd v HMRC [2012] UK FTT 360 was the right to use the property in the same way, and to the same extent, as the transferor, notwithstanding that, technically, a new asset had been created rather than the existing one being transferred.
The decision overturns long-standing published Revenue practice. The Revenue has always taken the view that where a new asset is created (in this case, the grant of a lease) there cannot be a "transfer". The key question posed by the Tribunal was whether the transferee is effectively in the same position as the transferor in terms of the business that it carries out, regardless of the legal form of the interest held. What appears to be determinative is whether the transferee can do everything that the transferor does. The Tribunal considered that very small differences (such as the appellant's three-day reversionary interest in this case) would not be fatal, but it would be advisable for the transferee to ensure that its rights mimic those of the transferor as closely as possible. This decision should open up the possibility of TOGC treatment to those parties that are unable to replicate the technical, legal form of the transferor's interest in transferred property due to restrictions placed on alienation by the transferor by a person with a superior interest.
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Clearly, it will be advisable where possible, to continue following the Revenue's practice as regarding TOGCs. However, where it is not possible because, for example, of restrictions effecting the land interest consideration should be given to mimicing the existing land interest as closely as possible.
If you have been involved in similar circumstances within the last four years it may be worth putting in a VAT refund claim on the basis that no VAT due. If this is accepted it will also be worthwhile to put in a refund claim for overpaid SDLT.
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Philippa Gregory: What Are You Reading? The Standard of Woodville Reading One from The Lady of the Rivers introduction Chronological order of The Cousins' War books Alchemy Part 3: Philippa Gregory on Margaret Beaufort - The Red Queen Part 2: Philippa Gregory on Margaret Beaufort - The Red Queen Philippa Gregory on Margaret Beaufort - The Red Queen (part 1) Philippa Gregory Reads from The Red Queen The World of Philippa Gregory Philippa Gregory: Jasper's future -- from THE RED QUEEN Philippa Gregory reads from THE RED QUEEN (part 4) Philippa Gregory reads from THE RED QUEEN (part 3) Philippa Gregory reads from The Red Queen (part 2) THE RED QUEEN book trailer Tips on Writing from Philippa Gregory Philippa Gregory: Revealed
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The second book in Philippa's stunning new series, The Cousins War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - The White Queen - but who now takes centre stage in the bitter struggle of The War of the Roses. The Red Queen tells the story of the child-bride of Edmund Tudor, who, although widowed in her early teens, uses her determination of character and wily plotting to infiltrate the house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant, undermine the support for Richard III and ultimately ensure that her only son, Henry Tudor, triumphs as King of England. Through collaboration with the dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret agrees a betrothal between Henry and Elizabeth's daughter, thereby uniting the families and resolving the Cousins War once and for all by founding of the Tudor dynasty.
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This reading group guide for The Red Queen includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Philippa Gregory. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the ruler of England and she has a great destiny before her. Married to a man twice her age, quickly widowed, and a mother at fourteen, Margaret is determined to turn her lonely life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son of the throne of England regardless of the cost. As the political tides constantly shift, Margaret charts her way through two more loveless marriages, treacherous alliances, and secret plots. She masterminds one of the greatest rebellions of all time, knowing that her son has grown to manhood, recruited an army, and now waits for his opportunity to win the greatest prize.
1. In the beginning of The Red Queen, young Margaret Beaufort is an extremely pious young girl, happy to have “saints’ knees” when she kneels too long at her prayers. Discuss the role of religion throughout Margaret’s life. What does she see as God’s role for her?
2. As a pious young girl, Margaret wants to live a life of greatness like her heroine, Joan of Arc. However, her fate lies elsewhere, as her mother tells her, “the time has come to put aside silly stories and silly dreams and do your duty.” (Page 26). What is Margaret’s duty and how does she respond to her mother’s words?
2. At the tender age of twelve, Margaret is married to Edmund Tutor and fourteen months later she bears him the son who will be the heir to the royal Lancaster family line. During the excruciating hours of labor, Margaret learns a painful truth about her mother and the way she views Margaret. Discuss the implications of what Margaret learns from her mother, and what is “the price of being a woman.” (63)
3. How does Jasper Tudor aid Margaret in her plans for herself and her son, Henry? What does he sacrifice in order to keep Henry Tudor safe? In what ways are Jasper and Margaret alike?
4. After the death of Edmund Tudor, Margaret marries the wealthy Sir Henry Stafford. How is Stafford different from Edmund? Margaret laments that she is “starting to fear that my husband is worse than a coward” (p. 105). What are her reasons for this? Do you see any sense in Stafford’s careful diplomacy?
5. On Easter of 1461, violence breaks out between the armies of Lancaster and York. This time, Sir Henry Stafford goes out to fight for Lancaster, only to witness a terrible battle. What does he understand about war and politics and why are these truths so difficult for Margaret to grasp?
6. Ever since she was a young girl, Margaret believed she was destined for greatness. How does her pride in her destiny manifest itself throughout the story? Identify key moments where Margaret’s pride overwhelms her judgment.
7. In the spring of 1471, Stafford sides with York and supports Edward in his quest to take the throne of England once and for all. Do you understand Stafford’s reasons for doing this? Is Margaret’s rage at her husband’s decision understandable?
8. Sir Henry Stafford suffers a mortal wound in battle. After his death, Margaret decides she must be strategic in her next marriage and so she approaches Thomas, Lord Stanley, who Jasper describes as “a specialist of the final charge” (217). What does Jasper mean by this? How is Stanley different from Stafford and what does it mean for Margaret that she decides to unite her fortunes with this man?
9. In April 1483, Margaret tries to enlist Stanley in helping to get her son, Henry, and Jasper back on English shores. An argument ensues between the two of them, and the ever-shrewd Stanley confronts Margaret with his view of her true nature, much to her horror (236). Do you think Stanley’s assessment of her is correct? Why is this so significant?
10. Discuss Margaret’s feelings towards the White Queen, Elizabeth Woodville. Why does she cause her so much anger? How does Margaret’s view of Elizabeth change as she becomes her lady-in-waiting, and then as she actively plots with her—and against her—for the throne of England?
11. Once King Richard has installed himself on the throne, Margaret and Lord Stanley scheme to replace him with her son, Henry Tudor. Margaret must make the difficult decision about whether to sacrifice the two princes in the Tower for her own ambitions (271). Is there any way to justify Margaret’s actions? Do you sympathize with her plight?
12. In the winter of 1483-84, Margaret despairs when her plans fail miserably. Under house arrest by the king, she looks back on her schemes and declares, “the sin of ambition and greed darkened our enterprise” (305). Discuss Margaret’s conclusion about her behavior. Do you think she takes responsibility for her actions? What blame does she place on Elizabeth Woodville?
13. As the fortunes of England shift once again, Margaret finds herself playing host to the young Lady Elizabeth, the beautiful daughter of Elizabeth Woodville. Discuss the interaction between these two headstrong women. How does Lady Elizabeth treat Margaret and what does she say on page 344 that leaves Margaret stunned into silence?
14. Discuss the final battle scenes in The Red Queen. How does Henry Tudor, young and inexperienced, eventually gain the upper hand, and how does King Richard lose his throne, and his life?
15. By the end of the book, Margaret, now Margaret Regina, the King’s mother, has achieved all she wanted. Do you respect her and her ideals? Do you think her achievement justifies her actions?
Enhancing Your Book Club
Learn more about the War of the Roses, Richard III, and the fall of the house of York at the homepage of the Richard III Society: http://www.r3.org/
Conduct a mock investigation of the murder of the princes in the Tower. Review the suspects and determine motive and guilt. Resources can be found at http://www.castles.me.uk/princes-in-the-tower.htm and http://www.r3.org/bookcase/whodunit.html
Visit Philippa Gregory's website, www.philippagregory.com, to learn more about the author, view the Plantagenet family tree, and read background information on The Red Queen.
A Conversation with Philippa Gregory
Margaret Beaufort is a very different character than Elizabeth Woodville, star of The White Queen. Was it difficult for you to shift perspective and write in the voice of a woman, in this case The Red Queen, who is the enemy of the main character of your previous book?
One of the most difficult things I have ever done in writing was shift my own perspective so that after three years of thinking entirely from the point of view of Elizabeth Woodville and from the point of view of the house of York, I had to convert to the view of Margaret Beaufort and the house of Lancaster. I thought at the time that the only way to do it would be to find some sort of key to the girl that Margaret was, in order to understand her as a woman. There are three extant biographies of her and I read them all and then thought that the secret to Margaret is her genuine and deep faith. That led me to the picture of this very precocious and serious little girl and once I could imagine and love her – I could imagine the woman that her hard life and disappointments create.
Margaret’s mother tells her “since you were a girl you could only be the bridge to the next generation.” (59) Do you feel sympathy for Margaret and her thwarted ambition? What would her life have been like if she were born a man?
Of course I feel intense sympathy for Margaret who is used by her family, as so many women of this period were used – as a pawn in a game of dynasties. However, to be cheerful about it – if she had been a man she would almost certainly have been killed in a battle or in an attack – all the other heirs on the Lancaster side were killed and she sent her son away to keep him safe. Perhaps the greatest disappointment for Margaret was that she was not allowed a religious life. There is no doubt in my mind that she would have made a wonderful abbess both as a landlord and community leader and as a scholar.
Taken together, The White Queen and The Red Queen present very different portraits of marriage in the fifteenth century. Was either woman’s experience more indicative of the time?
Margaret has the more typical life of a woman of her class. Many of the noblewomen of this time were placed in arranged marriages for the advantage of their families, she was exceptionally young, but most noblewomen could expect to be married at sixteen. What is unusual about Margaret is that it seems likely that her third marriage was indeed arranged by herself, to position herself at the York court, and to give her son a stepfather of immense wealth and influence. In this she was very powerfully taking control of her own destiny, and this was unusual, even for widows. Elizabeth Woodville’s first marriage is also very typical of the time. Her marriage was arranged when she was about sixteen to the wealthy heir of a great estate in a neighbouring county. The Grey family gained the Woodville’s connections at court and the royal and noble connections of Elizabeth’s mother, and the Woodvilles got their daughter into a wealthy house. Elizabeth’s second marriage was, of course, unique. She was the first English commoner to marry a king of England, and the first queen married for love. They married in secret without the knowledge the king’s advisor and mentor. It was an extraordinary marriage.
Sir Henry Stafford is an interesting contrast to so many of the striving, power-hungry men and women in this novel. How much of his thoughts did you base on real life and how much was your own interpretation of his character?
Sir Henry, like so many men and women of his time has left little or no record of his thoughts, and only scanty records of his actions. I had to look at what we knew about him: his age, his decision not to ride out to battle in any of the many battles of the wars: except when he went out for Lancaster in 1561, and for York a decade later. Therefore I had to consider why a man would have fought in the sixth and the fifteenth battle: but no others; and why a man tied to the house of Lancaster by family and habit would change his mind so completely as to fight for York. That was all I had to go on: as well as my general reading about the feelings of so many men who were forced to take difficult decisions about their private and family hopes and fears at a time of constant challenge.
There are three pivotal women in this novel, Elizabeth Woodville, her daughter, Lady Elizabeth and Margaret Beaufort. Do you think they are able to rise above what was considered acceptable for women’s roles in their time?
I think what these women demonstrate in this novel is the range of responses that were possible for women; and that this range is probably wider than we as readers of the period might generally think. Because the history of the period has been mostly written by men (for two reasons: that until the 20th century almost all historians were men since only men attended universities, and that histories of war seems to attract mostly male historians) we have very scanty records of what women were feeling thinking and even doing. And those reports we have are often biased against women who seek power. Thus we simply don’t know the extent of the involvement of Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort in the Buckingham rebellion or the Tudor invasion, we can only deduce that they were deeply involved. But we do have very negative views of Elizabeth Woodville as a mother failing to protect her children, as a panic-stricken woman fleeing into sanctuary, and as a hard-hearted manipulator sending her daughters out to the uncle who may have killed her sons. That these views of her are exaggerated and indeed contradictory does not seem to trouble some historians whose view of her is determinedly negative. In contrast, the positive views taken of Margaret Beaufort emphasize her suffering and endurance and not her political skill and manipulation. In this book I suggest that Princess Elizabeth fell in love with King Richard her uncle. This is based on a letter which was seen by an historian but is now missing, and it would suggest that she also had the courage and passion to try to choose her own life. These are women of exceptional courage and determination, but I think they show that even in a society where women are powerfully repressed both legally and culturally, that there are still women who will find ways to express themselves.
How does history remember Margaret Beaufort? Do you feel that she is dealt with fairly by historians and writers?
There are two main opinions on Margaret Beaufort that have emerged for me from my reading. One, very positive, is based on the Tudor hagiography which sees her as the matriarch of the house and a woman who spent her life in the service of her son. It follows the sermon preached by Archbishop Fisher who stressed her suffering as a young woman, and her very early sense of destiny when she believed that she was advised by the saints to marry Edmund Tudor and thus have a Tudor heir to the Lancaster throne. This view sees her as a divinely inspired matriarch, to a family called by God, and was incorporated into the Tudor history of their own line. The other, more modern view of her, is less admiring of her as a spiritual woman but emphasizes her political ambitions and her powers of manipulation. In this view she is sometimes regarded critically as a woman of excessive ambition and greed and suggests that she dominated the household of her son, and influenced the upbringing of her grandsons.
Can you tell us a little about the next book in the series? Is Lady Elizabeth going to feature prominently?
The next book tells the story of Elizabeth Woodville’s mother who is glimpsed in this novel. She was Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married first to the great Englishman John Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's close friend and a Lancaster supporter – until the day that her daughter Elizabeth Woodville fell in love and married the rival king Edward IV. Of all the little-known but important women of the period, her dramatic story is the most neglected. With her links to Melusina, the founder of the house of Luxembourg and her reputation for making magic, she is a most haunting heroine. The story opens as her uncle, Louis of Luxembourg captures Joan of Arc and Jacquetta sees, for the first time, the dangers facing a girl who dares to be extraordinary.
Philippa Gregory is the author of many New York Times bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women’s history. Many of her works have been adapted for the screen including The Other Boleyn Girl. Her most recent novel, The Last Tudor, is now in production for a television series. She graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent. She holds honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and was awarded the 2016 Harrogate Festival Award for Contribution to Historical Fiction. She is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She founded Gardens for the Gambia, a charity to dig wells in poor rural schools in The Gambia, and has provided nearly 200 wells. She welcomes visitors to her website PhilippaGregory.com.
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Pavillon du Lac, Daoust Lestage
Set on a plot that slopes gently toward a lake, this pavilion is surrounded by the exceptional flora of an old growth forest. A guest house with two bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen and living area, the structure was built within narrow constraints: it was required to sit atop the footprint of an existing cabin, and to be integrated within the landscape while remaining under 115 m2.
To meet these demands, the design created a transparent glass volume, with a vegetated roof that appears continuous with the land above, and a floating floor slab, elevated to tread lightly on the earth below.
The completed pavilion is framed between floor and ceiling, both structures cantilevered out toward the water, highlighting the horizontality of the construction and magnifying the views of the lake and the forest. Reflective surfaces mirror the surrounding vegetation by day and become completely transparent at night. Every part of the pavilion is marked by precise detailing, from the clarity of the glazed exterior corners, to the expression of the floor and ceiling as single continuous planes.
The restrained landscape treatment includes a low wall of white concrete at the north and east of the pavilion with large slabs of slate on the ground to accommodate changes in grade. An elevated walkway allows access to the main entrance from the road, and a large but seemingly weightless staircase provides a route to descend from the terrace toward the lake.
Lightness pervades every element of the design. The all-steel structure that supports the roof consists of round columns chosen to minimize their visual presence. At night, the polished concrete floor surface reflects light back up to the ceiling, emphasizing the weightlessness of the roof. All mechanical and plumbing services are concealed within custom millwork that forms a pure wooden volume that also serves to separate the public and private spaces. This service block, covered on all sides with teak wood, is separated from the exterior envelope and from the ceiling, so that the roof appears to float continuously above the interior spaces without interruption.
Sustainability was fundamental to the project. The high-performance envelope includes sliding, triple-paned glazing, with motorized shades and screens to reduce energy consumption in the challenging Quebec climate and to allow for passive ventilation in the warmer months. Electrical and mechanical systems, including radiant concrete flooring that serves as thermal mass to regulate temperatures, were managed by a home automation system to maximize efficiency. The natural features of the site were left untouched, and new landscape components were carefully selected to minimize their impact – the flat roof was planted with the same native species found throughout the property.
The client, an architect herself, wanted to create a signature structure to host guests within what was already a magnificent environment. Through meaningful collaboration, an innovative solution was found to meet the stringent project requirements, creating a singular piece of architecture that still allows this incredible setting to speak for itself.
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Degrees of Uncool: Ranking the Narrative Films of Cameron Crowe
Posted on Friday, May 29th, 2015 by Germain Lussier
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” – Lester Bangs, Almost Famous
With that quote, writer director Cameron Crowe smashed through levels upon levels of truth. He’s talking about art, he’s talking about loss, he’s talking about individuality, basically he’s talking about everything. What we talk about among friends is what defines us and the films of Cameron Crowe have always been about that. They’ve been about more too, but they’ve always have been about the human experience. In the best cases, Crowe’s words, choice of music and actors have greatly enhanced that human experience too, making the uncool cool.
This week marks the release of Crowe’s eight narrative feature, Aloha. It’s a film fans have anticipated for sometime, mostly because we trust in the work of this iconic, wonderful filmmaker. To celebrate the occasion, we’ve ranked all eight of his narrative features films (he’s done two documentaries too, Pearl Jam Twenty and The Union, which we’ve omitted just to keep things focused). What’s number one? Below, read our rankings of the best Cameron Crowe movies
Degrees of Uncool: The Best Cameron Crowe Movies
8. Aloha (2015)
Aloha feels like every single Cameron Crowe movie shoved into one. That’s not a good thing. The film, which is kind of, but not really, about a military contractor torn between two loves, never knows what it wants to be. In one moment it’s poetic. The next it’s philosophical. Then it’s cool and sweet, followed by romantic. It always tries to be very nature-conscious and there’s a heavy dose of Hawaiian mythology thrown in for good measure. There are multiple love stories, not all of which make sense, scenes that explain what’s happening after they’ve already happened, the list goes on and on. Some Cameron Crowe charm still emerges thanks to the settings, performances and music, but unfortunately, Aloha never comes together like we know a Crowe film can.
7. Elizabethtown (2005)
The last fifteen minutes of Elizabethtown are as good as anything Cameron Crowe has ever made. There’s energy, there’s wonder, there’s that unique blend of music, visuals and nostalgia that the filmmaker has probably done better than anyone. However, the rest of the movie simply doesn’t hold up to its finale. The odd ball love story is packed full of fun characters and joyful moments. Even the story is original and offbeat. But the complexities of blending a tale of redemption, love, death, loss and more are always struggling with each other throughout the film. It’s underrated, but definitely a step below the rest of the films.
6. We Bought A Zoo (2011)
Where Aloha and Elizabethtown suffer a bit because they are too ambitious, We Bought a Zoo succeeds for being the opposite. In classic Crowe fashion, this family story about doing the dumbest thing in the world – buying a zoo – is unique and full of heart. From there, things don’t really go too far off the path. There’s great music, a nice love story and some solid performances from top to bottom. The result is a heartwarming, albeit it slightly forgettable film that does everything right, but nothing spectacular.
5. Vanilla Sky (2001)
Your appreciation for Vanilla Sky can likely be answered with a simple question. “Did you see this or the original version first?” If you saw this version first – like many of us did – you probably enjoy the film more than the others. Crowe didn’t change too, too much from the original film (1997’s Abre los ojos by Alejandro Amenábar) so depending on which you experienced first, this fascinating, brutal, but beautiful story probably worked best that way. There are stunning visuals in the movie, a wonderful lead performance and some of Crowe’s best musical choices. It’s a powerful, surprising film whose biggest flaw is that it’s a Cameron Crowe version of someone else’s movie.
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1. INDEPENDENT BUYING ADVICE FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS ICT REVIEWS IN THE CLASSROOM: How Office 365 Education helps students learn 6 great reasons to sign up today 16 PAGES OF ADVICE SPECIAL REPORT OFFICE 365 EDUCATION in association with
2. Spark. Your Office Now Includes Your Students. Put the power of Office365 in the hands of your educators, faculty and students. With cloud storage, collaboration tools, and IT flexibility, it’s easy to inspire new ideas. Experience it today. You purchase Microsoft Office for all your faculty and staff – now add office.com/education students at no additional cost1. Think about every faculty, staff and now student on campus having
3. Opinion Column Technology isn’t enough to improve learning, says Sarika Rao: attitudes need to change too While the advance of technology seems unstoppable, one question remains unanswered in the classroom: how equipped are we at handling the shifting attitudes of students and teachers alike? As I talk to educators and solution providers, it’s striking how changing attitudes demand a shift in the way we think about and incorporate technology in the classroom. It’s not enough to make the technology available, it must make a tangible difference to the way knowledge is delivered and consumed. Today, educators lead the way: they own the classroom and design their own student experience. They demand the freedom to adopt the tools and technology that help them innovate and create that uniqueness. So anyone who works in IT has their work cut out. Not only must they be flexible enough to empower educators with the right technology, they need to do so while staying compliant, to ensure data integrity, security and student privacy. It’s this tug of war that often results in classrooms with smart boards and even a laptop in front of each student but with no opportunity for collaboration, real communication or creativity. Instead, that freedom tends to happen outside the classroom, where everyone can use their own devices and connect with peers or friends across the globe. To collaborate both inside and outside the classroom, different factors need to fall into place. First is the flexibility to work across devices and browsers, which means productivity tools optimised for their devices so they work best wherever they happen to be. Second is the cloud – tools that are available on-demand, that roam with you and are always up-to-date. It means a service that is always logged in, giving you quick access to documents no matter where you are, and one that’s underpinned by robust security and guaranteed reliability. Third is the most pervasive factor when it comes to collaboration – the all-powerful social. That means bringing social networking capabilities into the classroom. Think newsfeeds, the ability to follow peers, plus instant access to shared documents or sites. It’s also the ability to host and participate in effective online discussions using video conferencing, document sharing and even real-time note taking. Finally, there is control: the ever important security and privacy needs, which grow in importance every day as we get more nimble with the cloud. IT www.pcpro.co.uk/education administrators care deeply about integrated checks and balances that warn you when policies are being violated when sending email with sensitive information. They value the ability to archive data at folder or individual user level. They look for robust support options with guaranteed uptime, tools to monitor the service health at any given time and rapid technical support they can count on for help. No technology or set of tools is cool enough if it’s hard to deploy or manage. Fast, automated updates including those for your apps shouldn’t be the dream of a user or IT administrator: they should be a right. As should ease of managing workloads, from email and calendar to team sites and conferencing tools. A cloud service armed with the best collaboration and communication tools, that allows you to work flexibly while guaranteeing peace of mind through world class security, privacy and reliability – now that’s a tall order, but then that’s why I’m so excited about Microsoft Office 365 Education. With IT budgets being increasingly constrained, the fact that Office 365 Education’s most basic plan A2 is offered free makes a huge difference. Office is not just about Word, PowerPoint, Excel anymore. It’s a family of products and integration with the cloud. But it’s not technology alone that make a service a winner but also the availability of a rich ecosystem of partners to help with complex deployments or just providing advice. When it comes to training and readiness, Microsoft’s IT Academy delivers comprehensive Office 365 readiness for all students, staff and IT professionals, with a single subscription covering the entire institution. Since its launch, Office 365 Education has been embraced by every type of education institution across the world. To make this even better, we at Microsoft are thrilled to offer the Student Advantage benefit (see page 7) to eligible institutions starting 1 December 2013. When you license Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus organisation-wide for all your faculty and staff, you now qualify for Office 365 ProPlus subscription licences at no additional cost! As you can tell, I’m genuinely excited about the impact Office 365 Education is having across classrooms. You only need to look at what’s already happening – see page 8 – to be inspired. The future will no doubt bring even more brilliant ideas, and I can’t wait to see them in action. Office is not just about Word, PowerPoint, Excel anymore. It’s a family of products and integration with the cloud Sarika Rao is Microsoft’s senior product marketing manager for Office 365 Education. If you’d like to get in touch, email sarikar@ microsoft.com OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT 3
4. Feature What schools need to know What schools need to know about Office 365 Education (and what you can get for free) Office 365 Education gives teachers and students everything they need to communicate and collaborate, and in doing so aid learning. Over these two pages, we aim to answer all the questions anyone involved in school IT needs to know – from what’s included to how it’s deployed and supported. Q A What is Office 365 Education? As the feature list on the opposite page shows, Office 365 encompasses many things, from a bundled version of Microsoft Office software (with certain plans) to email, document sharing and online video conferencing. The key idea is that you pay a subscription each month or year, and that entitles you to the various services in each plan. Office 365 Education is a special version targeted specifically at educational institutions, including schools. It integrates Exchange-based email, scheduling and contacts management, SharePoint for intranet-based collaboration, and instant messaging and voice and video conferencing and chat using Microsoft Lync. It also provides access to Microsoft’s Office Web Apps; streamlined online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that can be used to view, create and edit documents. Using SharePoint, you can use Office 365 to create a full learning environment where you can share information, manage projects and publish policies, schemes of work and announcements. Q A What can I get for free? All of the above, with 99.9% availability, 24/7 phone support, 25GB of SkyDrive Pro storage, 50GB of email storage space per user, configurable anti-spam and anti-malware protection, plus free Active Directory synchronisation for those schools with an existing Windows Server network. 4 OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT Q A Does it include Office 2013 for desktops? Microsoft partner and let them do all the behind-the-scenes work. Not on the free plan, but upgrade from the free Office 365 A2 plan to the Office 365 A3 plan and you get up to five installations of Office 2013 for Windows per user, or Office 2011 for Mac. Other bonus features include unlimited email storage and archiving, plus eDiscovery tools for SharePoint sites and Exchange mailboxes that tick your school’s compliance boxes. It’s £1.90 per student or £3.40 per staff member per month. How does it differ from other cloud-based services? Q A Office 365 Education is targeted at the needs of education. Emails and documents aren’t scanned or indexed to provide hooks for advertising; Microsoft takes privacy and security seriously. What’s more, Office 365 Education works with familiar Office and Windows tools and services, and across a wide range of PCs, laptops and mobile devices. It’s designed to get the latest emails, the most recent documents and the right information to every user, no matter what device they’re working with. How does Office 365 Education differ from the old Live@edu service? Q A It basically offers more to schools, including more email capacity per user, with 50GB rather than 10GB, the new Office Web Apps, stronger integration with Office 2010 and Office 2013, plus Enterprise-grade intranet and communications with SharePoint Online and Lync Online. Q A Will it work with tablets and smartphone? Q Obviously Office 365 Education works brilliantly with Windows Phone How complicated is it to use? Staff and students will find Office 365 Education very familiar. It works with existing Office 2010 and even Office 2007 applications, and the web-based Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps use the same user-interface as their Office 2013 equivalents, which is itself a natural development from Office 2010. Moving to Office 365 is a shift, but hardly a dramatic one. Office 365 isn’t much more difficult to manage, either. Everything from provisioning new accounts to managing school intranet and internet sites can be done using a simple, browser-based control panel, although there’s nothing to stop techies using PowerShell commands. It’s a whole lot easier than maintaining your own servers. And if you don’t want to handle setup yourself, you can work with a Office 365 Education works across almost every smartphone and tablet on the market, including Android phones as shown here. www.pcpro.co.uk/education
5. smartphones and Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets, including Microsoft Surface. You can draft a document on your tablet and then polish it up on your laptop, and work with other staff or students across the full range of Windows devices. However, Office 365 Education is also happy to work with Android and iOS tablets and smartphones. You can access your email and check your schedule on an iPhone or view documents using your Android tablet’s web browser. There are OneNote apps available for iOS and Android, and users of the Office 365 A3 and A4 plans can use the Office Mobile for Office 365 apps for iOS and Android to create and edit documents. You aren’t limited to Windows devices by any means. Is Office 365 Education safe, private and secure? Q A Microsoft has signed up to the EU Safe Harbour agreement, meaning the service complies with EU regulations on where your students’ personal data can be stored. You can requests through the admin portal for any less urgent requirements. We already have Office – do we need to upgrade? Q A easily find out where the datacentres your school uses are located, and get detailed information on who can access your data and when. All the data is held in 24-hour monitored data centres, and it’s encrypted both at rest on Microsoft’s servers and in-transit over the internet. Your data would arguably be less secure if held within your school. What about reliability and support? Office 365 has a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and every document, intranet site and email is being continuously backed-up, with full disaster recovery just part of the service. Microsoft provides 24/7 phone support for all IT issues, and you can make service With Office Web Apps, you can review documents and do lightweight editing from virtually anywhere and on any device with a browser. Will our school have to keep buying new versions? Q A No. One of the joys of Office 365 is that updates are included in the subscription. New and enhanced apps, features and services should be rolled out to every user as they appear. Does Office 365 Education replace the traditional desktop version of Office? Q A Office 365 Education: Versions Compared Plan A2 Plan A3 Plan A4 Price Free £1.90 per student/month, £3.40 per staff/ month £2.20 per student/month, £4.50 per staff/ month Cloud-based email, calendar and contacts ✔ ✔ ✔ Create SharePoint intranet sites for teams with up to 300 subsites ✔ ✔ ✔ Use your school’s own domain name ✔ ✔ ✔ Instant messaging, voice and video chat with Lync Online ✔ ✔ ✔ Online HD video-conferencing and screensharing ✔ ✔ ✔ Web-based viewing and editing of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files using Office Web apps ✔ ✔ ✔ 24/7 phone support ✔ ✔ ✔ 99.9% uptime SLA ✔ ✔ ✔ Full Office Professional Plus 2013 subscription ✘ ✔ ✔ 25GB of online storage via SkyDrive Pro ✔ ✔ ✔ 50GB of email storage per user ✔ ✔ ✔ Unlimited email storage ✘ ✔ ✔ Archiving ✘ ✔ ✔ eDiscovery tools ✘ ✔ ✔ Hosted voicemail support ✘ ✔ ✔ Enterprise-grade voice and voicemail services ✘ ✘ ✔ www.pcpro.co.uk/education Office 365 doesn’t require Office to run, but if you have Office already then it should work with your existing applications. It works with Office 2007 (with some limitations), Office 2010 and Office 2013, not to mention Office 2011 for Mac. Office 365’s Office Web Apps provides many students and some staff members with everything they need to work. However, when you need to handle serious quantities of email or create really slick, professional-looking documents and presentations, nothing works better than full-blown Office. That’s why Office 2013 Pro Plus comes included with the paid-for plans. If I want to try Office 365 Education, do I have to commit to it? Q A Office 365 Education is free in the basic A2 plan, but if you don’t want to commit you can try the service with a free trial. This gives you an idea of how administration and provisioning work before you set up a full system, not to mention a good grounding in how it looks and feels from staff and students’ perspectives. For simplicity, the trial needs to run on a trial domain. Can we still use our school’s existing domain name? Q A Once you sign up, definitely. Office 365 Education will work happily with an existing domain, allowing you to move to the new email, scheduling and SharePoint Online services while retaining your school’s existing online identity. OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT 5
6. Feature 6 great reasons to sign up Office 365 Education: 6 great reasons to sign up want worry-free IT you can outsource setup, management and support to a Microsoft partner. Office 365 doesn’t force you to use one specific piece of hardware, operating system, browser or application (although some requirements naturally apply). The choice is always yours. 3 1 You’ll never lose homework again Each staff and student account comes with 50GB of free storage for emails, documents, presentations and associated photos and media. That’s more than enough to last any student throughout their life at school. What’s more, this space is a repository for all their vital files, always available, always online. Saving to the cloud is just as easy as saving to a local hard disk. As the account is accessible from laptops and PCs at home and school – not to mention tablets and smartphones on the move – both staff and students can work wherever and on whatever they like. Students can start a document from school and finish it at home, or vice versa, and the latest version is always within easy reach. There’s no reason to mess around with USB memory sticks or emailed attachments, and no excuse for not bringing homework into class. Frankly, you don’t even have to think about it. 2 a new all-signing, all-dancing Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), then that’s great too. If you want all your data in the cloud, then Office 365 is safe, secure and reliable. If you feel more comfortable with local email and storage systems, then Office 365 Education supports a hybrid approach, synchronising local and cloud-based data and giving you the best of both worlds. Office 365 is simple enough to manage within the school, but if you Collaboration within and without the school Collaboration is part and parcel of Office 365. Using just the Office Web Apps, teams of students can work on a single version of an online Word, Excel or PowerPoint document, viewing and making edits simultaneously with all changes synchronised. Teachers and students can also work on the same document at the same time, enabling new styles of teaching and learning. SharePoint Online, meanwhile, provides an ideal platform for group activities and larger projects. Yet Office 365 Education takes collaboration even further. With Lync Online, it’s easy to set up real-time video chats, instant messaging and screen-sharing with students across classrooms, schools and even around the world. Teachers can use it to foster relationships between different Worry-free IT to suit your school Office 365 is incredibly flexible, and how your school uses it is up to you. If you simply want free email with a 50GB inbox, then that’s fine. If you want to make SharePoint Online the platform for 6 OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT www.pcpro.co.uk/education
7. Take advantage of Student Advantage Microsoft has just announced Student Advantage, a new benefit to qualifying institutions that will make it easy for students to use the latest and best version of full Office at their education institution and at home. So what does this mean? From 1 December 2013, any institutions that license Office for staff and faculty can provide access to Office 365 ProPlus – which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and offers the ability for these to be schools and communities, or call in experts without needing to physically bring them into school. Office 365 Education helps staff and students work together – and bring in the wider world. 4 Office 365 Education works on anything Office 365 Education is the perfect fit for Windows, whether you’re running Windows 8 or Windows 7, and whether you’re using PCs, laptops or tablets. Yet it’s not in any way limited to Microsoft technology. Office 365 Education’s email will work perfectly well with Macs, iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones and tablets. The Office Web Apps will run in a browser on Mac OSX, Linux and Chrome OS PCs and laptops, and you can view and edit documents on a wide variety of devices, either using native apps like those for iOS and Android, or in the browser. Even when schools want to centralise on Windows as an OS across all devices, Office 365 Education is ready to embrace a diverse ecosystem, covering just about every computer and device staff and students come into contact with, whether at home or at school. It doesn’t shut anyone out. www.pcpro.co.uk/education 5 locally installed on up to five devices – for students at no additional cost. To put this into context, a white paper commissioned by Microsoft and released by IDC points out that top candidates for current and future jobs will be measured by capabilities and competencies, with 20 distinct skills bubbling up to the top in millions of high-growth, high-paying job postings. The study provides insight into the skills students need for It can inspire new ways of learning With the power of the cloud behind you, you can investigate new approaches to teaching and learning. Create team sites for staff and students. Manage cross-class projects with SharePoint Online and get everyone involved. Use video chat and instant messaging to let ideas develop and thoughts run wild. Harness Office Web Apps for collaborative activities that might involve teachers and teams of students. Plus, because Office 365 Education works just about everywhere and on almost everything, you can use it to engage students at school, at home and anywhere in-between. Carry learning outside of the classroom, and take full advantage of mobile technology, whether it the top 60 high-growth, high-wage occupations that will account for 11.5 million new hires and 28 percent of job growth by 2020. Out of those skills, Microsoft Office proficiency was at the top the list. With Student Advantage, students at schools across the globe will have access to the latest, most up-todate version of the world’s leading set of productivity tools in order to give them a competitive advantage when entering the workforce. belongs to the school or to your students. With a little imagination, Office 365 Education might just transform the way you teach. 6 It has the power of Microsoft Office behind it Some cloud-based services make you work with unfamiliar apps and tools. Not Office 365 Education. The Office Web Apps, covering Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and Excel, have the familiar look and feel of their desktop versions and many of the same features. Accessible on almost any laptop or PC with almost any browser, they enable students and staff to work anywhere, even if they don’t have an Office license or Office installed. Yet if you need more power, Office 365 Education works hand-inhand with the desktop Office applications. Staff and students can start projects using Office Web Apps then polish them in Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Teachers can set up documents in the desktop Office applications before handing them off to students to continue the work in the Web Apps. OneNote has become an invaluable tool for gathering ideas and information, and with Office 365 Education it works across PCs, tablets and smartphones, while Outlook remains the most efficient way of handling emails, calendars and contacts. With Office 365 Education, there’s no need to compromise on less familiar or less functional apps. OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT 7
8. Feature Education in the classroom Office 365 Education in the classroom: Helping students learn FORWARD-THINKING TEACHERS HAVE EMBRACED OFFICE 365 EDUCATION AND MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE TO THE WAY THEIR STUDENTS LEARN. HERE, WE DISCOVER HOW… It’s easy to make a case for Office 365 Education in terms of cost savings, efficiencies and all the other facts and figures that make budget holders happy, but ultimately the only thing that matters is what it brings to the classroom. Office 365 Education doesn’t just change the way ICT can be deployed in schools, but also the way it can help transform teaching and learning. Getting Organised Partly this comes down to the way Office 365 Education can help staff and 8 OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT students work more effectively, both on their own and together. And it can be as simple as sharing times and dates. “I’ve used Calendars massively” says Scott Wieprecht, Enrichment Coordinator for Mathematics at the pioneering Saltash Community School in Cornwall. “They’ve been around for quite a while in Outlook, but the Calendars in Office 365 – the fact that you can share your calendar and compare calendars really quickly – are quite incredible.” At Saltash, Scott and his colleagues use them for timetabling and homework scheduling, but also as a means of keeping staff and students in sync. For example, last year, when his Year 11 students went on study leave, Scott shared his calendar so they could see all his free and PPA slots, plus any evening sessions he had planned. If students needed help at this crucial time, they didn’t need to find out where and when Scott might be available; they could simply log in to Office 365 and schedule an appointment. This didn’t just benefit the one student, but also opened up the www.pcpro.co.uk/education
9. opportunity to others. As Scott explains, “everyone else in the class could see that, say, someone was coming in to talk through solving linear equations, and if they needed help on that, then they could just click and ask if they could join.” As an indication of success, Scott points to improved results in last year’s GCSE Maths grades. “I’m not going to say that Office 365 was the reason the results were better, but it certainly helped me organise my revision classes.” Team Projects and Collaboration SharePoint, meanwhile, is changing the ways staff and students work on team-based projects at the school. Scott explains that when students start on a new project they set up their own SharePoint Team Site, somewhere they can “chat and keep all the documents they’re working on together”. Not only does this give students a place where they can collaborate, it also guarantees that the team is only working on one version of a file at a time, with everyone adding and amending until the project is completed. “This makes a lot more sense than having one document each that they work on separately, then trying to mash it together bit by bit and line by line,” Scott explains. In fact, with Office 2013 and the Office Web Apps, students can work together in real-time, trying out edits to the live document while discussing them at the same time. This new way of working also changes how teachers get involved. In Scott’s case he monitors the work and takes part in team discussions, not going too hands-on but giving feedback as and when it’s useful. ‘I don’t make corrections to the document, but quite often I’ll say ‘have you looked at this?’” Scott says. “It’s brilliant for feedback. I don’t have to do it all in one big go at the end, it’s a live, continuous process.” SharePoint is also having an impact at Shireland Collegiate Academy, Smethwick, where the school has adopted a “1 pupil:1 device” policy and Office 365 is being used heavily as a teaching tool. “Our Class Sites are now the main driver of lessons,” says the Academy’s e-Learning Director, Kirsty Tonks. “It enables us as teachers to work in ways that we could not without them and students to interact with content and teacher’s interventions in a very natural manner. They are an extension of the physical classroom and help us extend learning opportunities beyond this physical boundary and the timeframes of the school day in a very organised and targeted way.” The college uses Team Sites to help with peer assessment through discussion forums, and in flipped learning strategies where pupils can learn the content and go through some initial testing before the actual lesson takes place. By carefully crafting interactive activities in and out of the classroom, the school gets students engaged across the class, and teachers can use the feedback to reshape lessons and tailor the material. Making Learning More Accessible One of the great advantages of Office 365 is its accessibility. Students can access their email, their documents, their SharePoint sites and their calendar at school and at home, at any time of day Students can access their email, documents, SharePoint sites and calendar at school and at home or night, and on almost any PC or tablet. “They can go on their iPads or whatever other device they have got at home, and still work with the documents,” says Scott. But this accessibility also has another meaning. By providing tools and resources that students can use on many different devices, Office 365 Education makes it easier for every student to reach their potential. All it takes is Office Web Apps and a device with a compatible browser. This, says Julia Adamson, Office 365 Education Pioneers Office 365 is shaking up how students and teachers work together all around the country, not just in Saltash and Shireland. At Ravensdale Junior School, Derby, staff set homework using the Office 365 Calendar and set up SharePoint workspaces where teachers can upload worksheets and students can upload their finished homework. Teachers even use the Team Site features to deliver lessons to students of differing abilities, using group discussions as a starter activity, and wiki pages to deliver differentiated learning resources. Meanwhile, at Oakwood Junior School, also in Derby, staff and students use Lync in and out of school to provide support for each other on homework, with Lync running in the background as they work. Cleverly, the status indicators usually used to mark availability are used to monitor progress. www.pcpro.co.uk/education If a student marks their status as red then they need assistance. Green means they know the answer and are prepared to help others. The school also uses Lync to connect classrooms, so that two separate Year 6 groups can work collaboratively on projects even though they’re located in different areas of the campus. Even Lync’s video-conferencing facilities get a look in, put to work on problem-solving activities and joint presentations. OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT 9
10. Feature Education in the classroom Teaching and Learning Consultant for South West Grid for Learning, is “removing the barriers at every stage, and taking advantage of the things that make learning exciting: technology, being online”. Where offline applications can be restrictive, she feels that Office 365 Education opens doors. “It’s available when they feel they want to engage with it, and everyone has access to the same level of resources. Office Web Apps are really important.” Kirsty Tonks agrees. “The cloudbased nature of Office 365 makes this the most inclusive solution that we have ever used, and increasingly the most accessible,” she says. Using SharePoint group sites has also helped less confident students: “the reluctant participator in the classroom suddenly finds a voice and is able to get involved from home”. Students at Ravensdale Junior School, Derby, can access their homework, and upload the finished work, wherever they happen to be thanks to SharePoint workspaces Communications Technology in the Classroom You might think that video conferencing and instant messaging have nothing to offer in the classroom, but Lync Online actually has huge potential. At Saltash, for example, it’s being used as a vehicle for cross-curricular activities. If, say, a PE teacher wants to talk through modal averages for lap times on the track with a group of students, they can use a tablet or laptop to Lync call through to someone in the Maths department and get an expert view. For the school’s Scott Wieprecht, the great thing about Office 365 is that it makes this kind of thing easy. “Being able to see staff availability - whether they’re in a lesson, or whether they’re online and available - and being able to call them and get an expert’s opinion is incredibly useful,” he explains. What’s more, Lync allows Scott to maintain a presence with students even when they’re split up and working on activities around the school – integrated learning projects, for example. “I can’t be everywhere at once, and if there are six different groups filming in different areas of the school then it’s hard for me to stay on top of what’s going on. If they Lync back to me, though, and I have Lync conversations going on, I can easily see where they are and what they are up to. I know they’re safe, and I can make sure that they’re all behaving themselves.” South West Grid for Learning’s Julia Adamson believes Lync Online – and its easy interaction with Skype – is a really promising technology. “We’re trying to encourage schools to think about the Sharing Ideas with PiL The great thing about Office 365 Education is that your school doesn’t have to go it alone. Microsoft’s Partners in Learning network provides teachers and IT staff with a place where they can exchange ideas and find tips for making the most of SharePoint, Office Web Apps and Lync, along 10 OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT with other Microsoft technologies, in the classroom. There are discussion forums, tutorial videos and learning activities, and if you find something that works, you can share it with the wider Partners in Learning community. Join the network at www.pil-network.com. way they might use Lync to present lessons differently, or use expertise in different schools. The whole ‘Skype in the Classroom’ approach is really exciting.” She proposes scenarios that include pulling experts in through audio or video conferences to share their knowledge and experience with the class, or schools in federations using Lync to provide expert teaching in every school without teachers having to drive everywhere. Lync can also be a great way to get classes in one area of the country working with classes in another area, or even with classes halfway around the world. None of this has to mean video, says Julia: “I always say that, if video is a step too far forward for you, then try an audio conference because it’s what you say that’s really important.” Shireland Collegiate Academy already uses blogs, Skype, Twitter and live chat, but is exploring the idea of using Lync across the board. The school’s behavioural and pastoral teams are starting to explore Lync as a medium for staff-student dialogue, and the school plans to use it as part of its student mentoring programme. It may even be used for training new staff, so that they can fully utilise the school’s Lync allows teachers to maintain a presence with students even they’re split up around the school technology – and help students make the most of it too. A Social Network for the School Ask Saltash Community School’s students what they consider to be Office 365’s killer feature and they’ll tell you that it’s Newsfeed. Think of it as the equivalent of Twitter or Facebook, but restricted to specific groups of the school’s Office 365 userbase, and monitored and controlled by the staff. Scott Wieprecht agrees. He uses Newsfeed to spread information, send reminders and keep in touch with his classes, using a system of Twitter-like www.pcpro.co.uk
11. hashtags to ensure that students stay updated with the most relevant stuff. In effect, it’s using the tools of social networking in a secure, educationfocused way. “It’s a much safer environment, and I feel more comfortable,” Scott says. “I did have a Facebook page for my Maths classes, but they’re much happier logging in to Office 365.” Scott has also found the cloudstorage features of SkyDrive Pro invaluable. “After a lesson all the slides I’ve used – all the worksheets, anything else that I’ve used in that lesson – goes on there. After I’ve marked their work all the answers for the homework and the classwork goes on there as well.” These resources benefit the whole class, but also help those students who, for whatever reason, have been absent from school. Even SharePoint’s survey functions come in for good use at Saltash. Scott uses them to provide immediate feedback at the end of every lesson, with multiple choice questions that recap the lesson’s key points. “I get immediate results about the students and what they got right - it’s like an American pop quiz”, he explains, with the additional benefit that it makes it easier for him to isolate students who need more help with a concept in the next lesson. For Scott, the value of the survey functions are that they make this process so simple: “It’s a very quick way to run a survey. I can knock one out in a couple of minutes.” Shireland Collegiate Academy also uses surveys as a means of testing. Kirsty Tonks describes how they’re used as part of the school’s flipped classroom strategy. For example, one teacher has embedded a video of a scene from Macbeth, which the students watched before answering a series of cleverly crafted closed questions. “The teacher then looked at the results of the survey and their responses and proposed a hypothesis which the students then had to debate the next day,” she explains. At Saltash the real strength of Office 365 has been that it’s not something pushed on the pupils by the staff, but something they’re leading themselves. “They love it,” says Scott. “There are quite a few things that I do in the classroom where I’m really passionate but I have to work to get the kids enthused. With Office 365 I’ve found that it’s the young people who are enthused about it, and that rubs off on me.” www.pcpro.co.uk Ask the OffPerts The Saltash Community School’s student “OffPerts” have a passion for new technology, and their tutorial videos have helped staff and students around the country get to grips with Office 365 Education. We caught up with five of them – two Georges, two Jacks and Max – to find out how they make the most of it. Q What has Office 365 Education done for you, in and out of the classroom? It’s given us a chance to be more organised in lessons, and made it easier for us to learn and contribute. It’s technology-based and modern, which we prefer… it’s more interesting doing things on Office 365 than it is on pen and paper. A Q Is it changing the way you work together and with your teachers? The thing that made us think it was brilliant was that we could actually talk to each other, and it’s perfect for making a space where you can upload your homework. We also don’t have to wait a whole day or a A whole lesson or even a whole hour for Mr Wieprecht to reply to a request. We can just log on and ask him questions if we need help, or if we’re doing group work we can log on and chat with our friends. If you’re doing tasks and you’re doing the same work you can communicate between classes as well, if you needed to. It makes loads of different bridges that you wouldn’t usually have. Q Do you make much use of the Office Web Apps? On the iPad at home. It’s always on, so you just press the home button and then go into Office 365. If you want to go into something quickly you don’t have to go to a computer. A Q What’s the best feature of Office 365 Education other people might not know? Newsfeed is really cool. You know what everyone is getting up to, and you can be all over the place, in the middle of all these conversations. It’s a bit like Facebook, really. You can see what everyone is up to. You can see if they’re online, and see if they’re doing homework at the same time as you. A Q What would you say to anyone thinking of taking on Office 365 Education? There’s nothing else like it. You literally can’t buy anything else like it. It’s that good. It’s all there for you. You’ve got everything you need. You’ve got email. You’ve got social sites. You’ve got things to help you with your homework, and it’s all incredibly useful. A OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT 11
12. Feature A Question of Support A Question of Support IT’S ALMOST INEVITABLE THAT HITCHES AND GLITCHES WILL OCCUR WHEN SWITCHING TO ANY NEW IT SERVICE, BUT THERE’S FREE SUPPORT ON OFFER EVERY STEP OF THE WAY gives you all the detail you could wish for. You get clear indications of any parts of the Office 365 service undergoing maintenance or updates, while another page warns you of any scheduled maintenance coming up. Despite all this online support, Office 365 Education still comes with free phone support – and that extends to schools that use the free A2 plan. Phone support is available 24/7 for critical issues that prevent the service running, and during business hours for noncritical issues that still affect access to the service. Critical issues will get a response within one hour while less critical issues will be next business day. Moving a school to a new cloud-based service for email, productivity and collaboration is no trivial undertaking, and while Office 365 Education is extremely reliable and surprisingly easy to manage, even expert IT staff and IT-literate teachers may find themselves flummoxed occasionally. What’s more, there’s always a fear that – with the free A2 plan – you may be left high and dry when it comes to support. Luckily, that’s not the case. Microsoft backs up schools that make the move with proper business-grade support, whichever plan they choose, and that’s without considering a wide range of other resources. Whatever your question and whatever your problem, you’re never far away from an answer. Support Within the Portal The Office 365 Portal, where admins setup and manage accounts and services, is your first stop for help. Here you’ll find a Support link on the main dashboard. You can type in a question to get help from experts in the Office 365 community, or browse FAQs covering the most common issues or requirements. 12 OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT If you need advice on something more specific, the troubleshooting tool helps you drill down to the right topic, as you first isolate the part of the service that’s affected then focus on the issue in hand. With just a little information, the troubleshooter can direct you to the more relevant knowledgebase article. The advantage of using a service that’s being used by so many schools and businesses is that, if you have a problem or a question, it’s likely that someone will have had it before. . Yet sometimes that’s not possible. For more hands-on help you can submit a service request, which goes direct to a support representative who will usually make contact by email within a few hours. The New Service Request wizard handles the initial contact, while reminding you to provide as much information as possible, plus any relevant notes or files. Support requests in progress can be viewed and edited, so you can ask for additional information or add notes or log files if need be. If you need to check on the health and running of the Office 365 service itself, then the Service Health screen Online Support Informal Microsoft resources such as the UK Schools Blog (http://blogs.msdn. com/b/ukschools/) are a goldmine of information on Office 365 Education. Outside the portal, you’ll find plenty of other resources for support online, whether you need help with deployment and setting up accounts, or whether you want to push further into more advanced features or setting up a hybrid onpremises/cloud-based Office 365 solution. If you like to get your own hands dirty, there’s plenty of expert advice to help you out. For example, the Office 365 Support Page on support.microsoft.com (http:// support.microsoft.com/ph/15834/ www.pcpro.co.uk/education
13. en-gb) can lead you to a range of FAQs, installation guides, quickstart guides and walkthroughs, including useful information for those wanting to set up active directory synchronisation and/or single sign-on. The Office 365 Community Site (http://community.office365.com/ en-us/default.aspx) can also be invaluable, with FAQs and Wikis covering common Office 365 procedures and potential pitfalls. While not specific to the Education version of Office 365, these resources can still provide schools with information to make setup and management easier. Webcasts cover the trickier points of using SharePoint, there are links to guides covering mail flow or domains in Office 365 or how best to configure the school’s PCs, and there are some great forums where you can post about any challenges you’re facing. It’s also a great place to find out about any changes to Office 365 before they happen. And while it’s more applicable to business than education, Microsoft’s fastrack.office.com website still incudes a wealth of knowledge in easily followed steps that can help novice Office 365 Education admins trial Office 365 then deploy it across their school. Of course, there’s more to support than simply setting up the nuts and bolts. Staff and students may need basic training and an introduction to the features of the service. Here the support section of the office.microsoft.com website can be particularly useful. As well as free training on the Office 2013 desktop applications, there are basic tutorials on using the Office Web Apps to collaborate, on using mobile devices to work with SharePoint Online, and on using Lync to set up virtual meetings and video chats or use instant messaging. Education, not to mention using other Microsoft technologies in schools. For example, it has tips and tutorials on using the service and its applications both inside and outside the classroom, plus some easy-to-follow walkthroughs and inspiring posts on schools and teachers that are already using Office 365 to change the way they teach. The Microsoft in Education (www. microsoft.com/education/) UK website can also be a powerful resource, with webcasts covering Office 365 deployment and implementation, links to useful tools and access to an extensive library of SlideShare presentations covering Office 365 Education and a whole lot more. However, the education community extends beyond national boundaries, which is where Microsoft’s Partners in Learning programme comes in. Partners in Learning is a global community of innovative, enthusiastic IT-literate educators, sharing ideas and best practice about harnessing ICT for education. At www.pil-network.com/ you’ll find tutorials across a wide range of topics that could help both staff and students, whether it’s adding and editing contacts in the Outlook Web App, using Lync in school or best practices for managing student email. You’ll also find descriptions of learning activities that make the most of Office 365 Education, and discussions on everything related to ICT and education, including Office 365. What’s more, Partners in Learning is a Making More of Office 365 Education Beyond setup, management and configuration, there are also educationspecific online resources that can help your school make the most of Office 365. Microsoft is working hard to reach out to the education community, and its UK Education Cloud Blog (http://blogs. msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/) provides insight into the key topics that affect schools – everything from privacy to efficiency, with plenty of information about Office 365 too. The UK Schools Blog (http://blogs. msdn.com/b/ukschools/) is another goldmine of information on Office 365 www.pcpro.co.uk/education great place to go if you need to build your Office 365 Education skills, or simply find out how others are using the service. The Teaching with Technology curriculum provides courses that help teachers get to grips with technology in the classroom and use it to support their teaching, and there are useful webinars on using Office 365 and other Microsoft products in schools. The IT Academy In short, there’s no shortage of help available for schools running Office 365 Education, whichever plan you use. Yet there are also opportunities to foster a higher level of in-house expertise, while developing skills in cloud computing that will benefit both staff and students in their long term goals. The secret is to sign up to Microsoft’s IT Academy Programme Partners in Learning is a great place to go if you need to build your Office 365 Education skills A more formal way to boost your school’s IT skills is to sign up to Microsoft’s IT Academy Programme, with a subscription covering teachers, your IT team and your students. (www.microsoft.com/education/ itacademy). A relatively inexpensive subscription covers every teacher, ever member of the school IT team and every student for a year, and includes a rich curriculum of over 250 Microsoft e-learning courses and a huge selection of instructor resources, including lesson plans and schemes of work. Schools with an IT Academy subscription can access Office 365 training material, while staff can both build their knowledge and gain Microsoft certification. With courses covering deployment and administration, they’ll be able to deploy Office 365 more efficiently and handle any issues that arise during setup, management or migration. For large schools or schools sharing resources across a federation it’s a fantastic investment. Meanwhile, teachers, staff and students can take courses on Office 365’s collaboration and communication features. These won’t simply help them get more out of their ICT in class, but also help them develop expertise that will help them in later studies and work. After all, the cloud is the future of IT, and it makes sense to get a head start. These courses lead to Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exams, preparing students for future employment and giving teachers tangible development rewards. Throw in regular webinars and a strong community, plus free software for staff and students, and joining the IT Academy is a great way to get the most from Office 365 Education. OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT 13
14. Feature Choosing a partner Office 365 Education: How, When and Why to Choose a Partner IT’S TEMPTING TO DIVE STRAIGHT INTO OFFICE 365 AND DO EVERYTHING YOURSELF, BUT PARTNERS BRING VALUABLE EXPERIENCE THAT CAN SAVE TIME AND MONEY If your school wants to deploy Office 365 Education, there’s no reason why you can’t do it on your own. The setup process isn’t beyond anyone with a modicum of administration experience, and if your school has staff with experience of Microsoft Exchange and Windows Server, then they’ll probably find it a breeze. Setting up Exchange Online, Lync Online and SharePoint Online services involves a few steps, but nothing an experienced IT admin will find too taxing, and nor should configuring and maintaining user accounts cause any nightmares. If you want to dip a toe into the water, kicking off with a free trial will cost you nothing bar a little time and effort, and you can convert that free trial into a live production installation when the time is right. However, partners can help. Their experience can speed up the process, while a school with more advanced deployments involving identity federation and single sign-on will certainly benefit from partner assistance. They can get it up and running with add-on services, make it interoperate with existing services or throw in pre-configured templates that reflect the specific needs of primary, secondary schools and further/higher education institutions. Vitally, a good partner is a source of advice and support – the kind of advice and support that saves you time and money. How Partners Help This, says Julia Adamson, Teaching and Learning Consultant for the South West Grid for Learning (SWGFL), is one of the most important things a partner can provide. “It’s about having someone there to ask ‘how should we go about this?’ and ‘what’s the most successful way of implementing this solution?’.” A 14 OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT partner can help a school work out what they’re trying to achieve and how best to go about it. “A lot of time the school just wants to understand what’s possible, and will use our knowledge and experience,” Adamson notes. A not for profit trust, funded by 15 local authorities across the South West of England, SWGFL works with schools to provide them with broadband A not for profit trust, South West Grid for Learning has proved an excellent technology partner for schools in the South West of England. connectivity and online learning resources and services, with an emphasis on child safety and security. After years of success with a SharePoint product, Merlin, it’s now moving many of its schools to a custom version of Office 365 Education. Part of the trust’s work is in helping schools understand the compliance and regulatory issues. “Schools need to understand what it is that they’re required to do,” Adamson notes, “and we’ve been a point of contact for them there. They can come to us and ask ‘can I use this? What do you advise?’ It is on people’s minds.” Matt Brunton is Operations Director for IAM Cloud, a consultancy and cloud-services company providing Windows Azure-hosted Identity and Federation services for Office 365. For him, support is a crucial part of what partners can offer. “[Office 365 is] new to them and they might not understand how some of the processes work. There are areas where, even if you can do it yourself, you’d be quite wise to hook up www.pcpro.co.uk/education
15. with an experienced Office 365 partner who can provide you with support.” This goes beyond having someone on the end of the phone who can fix a glitch, to having someone who can tell you how to get the basic things done. “That’s where a partner can add real value,” Brunton says. “They can even remote desktop in and show you how.” Nuts and Bolts Partners can also help with the more advanced forms of an Office 365 Education deployment, particularly migration from on-premises email and calendar services, single sign-on and Lync Online configuration. Hybrid solutions, where in-house servers synchronise with services running in the cloud, are a key option for schools that would prefer to keep specific data in-house, but still want to take advantage of the email, collaboration and calendar services of Office 365. Having a single sign-on for a whole range of services can also be a must. “Having a single user name and password that can authenticate users into all these services is a bit dull and a bit techy,” explains SWGFL’s Julia Adamson, “but actually it makes a huge difference. If you have a seven-year-old with four different passwords for four different accounts, it’s far better to have a single username and password that takes them everywhere they need to get to, safely. There’s also so much less administration on the teacher.” SWGFL has been working on a tailored Office 365 Education service that links in with existing schools information services to populate and update the Office 365 accounts automatically. Matt Brunton agrees. Creating accounts manually for every student and member of staff is perfectly possible, but involves a certain amount of labour. “If you’re getting anywhere above 100 users, then doing it manually becomes impractical.” Using Active Directory Federation Services with IAM Cloud’s solution, which provides authentication and single sign-on without on-premises servers, simplifies things dramatically. “It’s making the whole Office 365 process a no-brainer, really. You don’t have to think too hard about it. It just happens.” Partners can handle this nuts and bolts work. “For a school or college to enable single sign-on,” says Brunton, “they either need to do some quite complicated stuff in-house or pay some high consultancy fees. Alternatively, they www.pcpro.co.uk/education can take on a software-as-a -service product like we have, which works right out of the box. With other partners who are doing things with Lync Online and SharePoint Online it’s much the same story.” Yet partners can do more. They can also help share best practice, spread ideas on how to make the most of Office 365 Education, and help schools implement new strategies for ICT-based teaching and learning. They can also get schools moving with add-ons and templates that are built specifically to cover the needs of schools or colleges. SWGFL, for example, provides resources on how to use Office 365 in and out of class, along with ready-made SharePoint Online site templates with staff, governor, parent and student areas, all linked through with newsfeeds and calendars, and customisable with the school’s own colours and logos. It also provides training where needed. Brunton explains, “but in theory a partner can do absolutely everything. It can be a completely managed service.” Choosing a Partner With so many companies now climbing onto the cloud-services bandwagon, you won’t suffer from a lack of choice. In some areas, organisations such as SWGFL can act as a partner or make connections between schools and third-party partners. In others, schools may be left more to their own devices. Many large education IT vendors, When and whether schools need a partner will depend a lot on the school and what it’s trying to achieve When to find a Partner When and whether schools need a partner will depend a lot on the size of the school and what it’s trying to achieve. There’s nothing to stop a school taking the DIY approach and deploying Office 365 Education direct from Microsoft, but the right partner can add great value both quickly and efficiently. For example, your school might simply need a partner to help with the initial setup and provide occasional support and advice while the school handles day-to-day administration. It is, however, entirely up to you. Office 365 Education allows a whole gamut of approaches, from a complete DIY deployment to an IT-as-a-service model where the partner handles all aspects of setup, management and administration. “It depends on what the school is trying to get rid of in terms of workload,” Find the right partner for your school, college or university by heading to Microsoft Pinpoint: http:// pinpoint.microsoft. com including Viglen, Capita, BFC Networks, Novotronix, Shaping Cloud and RM, now provide cloud-based IT services based on Office 365, but with additional products or services integrated. Otherwise, a range of consultancies can provide expertise in Office 365 migration and deployment, although it’s vital to find one with experience in both Office 365 and education. And the latter is important. Many consultancies might have experience in the small business enterprise market, but might not be aware of the differing needs of education. “It isn’t going to not work,” says Matt Brunton, pointing out that the back end is the same. “But there are a whole heap of nuances around the education sector in general, and the nuances around schools are different from the nuances around colleges. In reality, it makes a lot more sense to go for a company that actually has experience of working in the education sector.” Julia Adamson agrees. “It is different. We know the systems schools have got in place now, and being tailored for education is an important feature of the way we work with Office 365.” Luckily, help is at hand. Microsoft can provide interested schools with details of partners who have relevant experience, or schools can look themselves using Microsoft Pinpoint (http://pinpoint. microsoft.com). In short, Office 365 Education is brilliant if you go it alone, but even better if you find the right partner. Microsoft and Pinpoint can help you make the right choice. OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT 15
16. QA Ask the Expert Office 365 Education Ask the Expert ALEX PEARCE IS FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF BFC NETWORKS, AND A SHAREPOINT MVP SPECIALISING IN THE USE OF MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION. HERE, ALEX ANSWERS SOME OF THE MOST COMMON QUESTIONS SCHOOLS HAVE ABOUT OFFICE 365 EDUCATION. Is it simple to add or remove students and teachers to and from the system? Q applications, or SharePoint Online, Exchange Online or Lync Online. A If we use Office 365, are we still OK with UK laws and regulations? Both teachers and students can be added to the system very easily. The Office 365 Education Portal is easily laid out, allowing you to create teachers and students and give them email or access to SharePoint Online. Remember that you want to be able to identify between teachers and students when in SharePoint Online to allow them to see only the data that is relevant to them. You don’t want students seeing staff documents within the staff area, for example. Q How easy is Office 365 to deploy? Is it something the average school can do? A Implementing Office 365 Education can be as simple as you want it to be, and you can get a Microsoft Partner to do it for you. It depends on how you want to use it. You can have something simple, using services such as Exchange Online and Lync Online, and then add SharePointbased solutions which are tailored for schools and academies. But why not give SharePoint a go anyway, creating sites for staff and students to collaborate together? How much time does it take to manage once it’s up and running? Q A The Office 365 Education Portal screen is very easy to navigate and manage for creating users, adding them to groups and resetting passwords. A Microsoft Partner could always help you to enable Single Sign On to your school or academy’s log-on system, so your staff and students only have to log in once to their computer to reach all the great features of Office 365. 16 OFFICE 365 SPECIAL REPORT Are we stuck if our school internet connection goes down? Q A No. Office 365 Education offers much more offline capabilities than its rivals. There’s the offline mode of Office Web Access, synchronisation of documents to local PCs or your network thanks to SkyDrive Pro and SharePoint Online, plus Outlook’s ability to cache email. But that’s not to ignore how important it is to ensure that you have a good support mechanism for your schools’ internet line, or access to a backup line. When you talk to your ISP or your local council or supplier, you need to ensure that you’re getting good bandwidth and high uptime guaranteed. Don’t be afraid to invest in a good internet connection. It’s worth every penny. Can I mix and match Office 365 plans if staff need desktop applications? Q A Yes, you can. You could have some staff just using Exchange Online Plan 1, then have a mix-andmatch between A2, A3 and A4 where you have assigned the staff the licences according to the features they require. Some may need the desktop Q A The UK Government has set out a requirement for cloud services, which Office 365 matches and exceeds. Datacentres are based in Europe and are amongst the most secure you’ll find anywhere. Microsoft is always working hard to reach the next level of regulation to demonstrate that Office 365 is safe and can be used in education, government, health and other public services. Office 365 has been accredited IL2, which is part of the UK’s G-Cloud cloud framework. Not all rival services can say the same. What happens if we leave Office 365 later? Is all our data lost? Q A If you decide to leave Office 365 Education you need to plan the removal of the data the same way you would if you decided to deploy your data to the cloud service. As part of your plan you may want to remove and safeguard your files, but there are ways to do this to ensure that you get everything correctly. The trick is to plan the migration before you leave – not that you’ll find any reason to once you’re up and running. Do the Office Web Apps have the features our students need to get their homework and coursework done? Q A Absolutely. The Office Web Apps are great and even better when being used in Office 365. You’ll get no more excuses on the lines of “I have an Apple Mac at home and I can’t open Word” or “I don’t have Office installed on my computers or tablet.” Office Web Apps can be used across the board. www.pcpro.co.uk/education
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Striker Nathan Burns says the Caltex Socceroos have had 29 March, 2016 marked in their diaries ever since Jordan humbled the Aussies 2-0 in Amman last year.
The Socceroos' loss – the only points they've dropped on their road to Russia 2018 - stunned Ange Postecoglou's men and has them itching for Tuesday night's return leg.
With Jordan and Australia both registering comprehensive wins on Thursday night - the Aussies putting seven past Tajikistan, Jordan eight against Bangladesh - top place in the group is at stake.
“I think we're going to be really hungry for this game. Obviously we want to get revenge for the last game,” Burns told reporters on Friday.
“We were very disappointed we lost that game so we're going to go there [to Sydney] with an attacking intent.
“We've been waiting for this game since we lost there. I think everyone is fired up and it's going to be a good game.
“They're obviously going to come here and try to get the points as well because they want to be top of the group so it'll probably be the game of the round.”
Burns bagged a brace in Thursday night's comprehensive 7-0 win over Tajikistan taking his career tally in the national colours to three.
While the former Adelaide United flyer was proud to give South Australia's football fans something to cheer about he acknowledged the Socceroos will have to be more efficient in their conversion rate against Harry Redknapp's Jordan.
“It's never enough. I always want to score as many goals as I can but at the same time two goals is still two goals for the national team,” he said.
“Every moment I get to wear the badge is a great achievement and a great honour for me so I 'm just looking forward to the next game now.
“I had a few chances and I want to score with every chance I get. The important thing was not to go into my shell and just keep backing myself and eventually I know one will go in.”
Burns, who was guilty of giving the ball away in Jordan which helped Jordan open the scoring shortly after the interval in Amman, assured fans the Aussies would look to maintain a high tempo game at Allianz Stadium.
Having been frustrated by Jordan's delaying tactics last October, the FC Tokyo striker said the Socceroos will be searching for an early goal to take charge of the clash.
“Towards the end of the game they really slowed the game down and killed it off so we were really frustrated,” said Burns.
“We just have to keep the tempo up, keep the ball movement really fast.
“We can't really control what they do but we can just play our game and stay focused and if we can get an early goal they're going to have to come out after us.
“That's the main focus, to have a good start and put them under pressure from the outset.”
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Galekovic considers Europe
Adelaide United goalkeeper Eugene Galekovic believes he is in the best form of his career and admits a move to Europe is possible.
Adelaide United goalkeeper Eugene Galekovic believes he is in the best form of his career and hopes it translates onto the international stage.
The 31-year-old shot-stopper is part of Australia's squad for the upcoming East Asian Cup qualifying tournament, which starts in Hong Kong on Saturday.
The Reds have conceded just five goals in eight matches and top the A-League ladder, prompting national coach Holger Osieck to reward Galekovic with the call-up.
"I think the last three or four years have probably been the best part of my career and hopefully I can keep going," Galekovic said.
"Look at Mark Schwarzer, he's 40 and he's still playing some good football."
Australia have always had a rich pool of goalkeeping talent and Galekovic knows that Schwarzer, who plays in the English Premier League for Fulham, remains the first choice.
"I think it's great for the country," Galekovic said.
"There are so many good keepers out there, it just makes you work and push that little bit harder."
Galekovic has the opportunity to push Schwarzer for that number one position, but feels a move overseas might be his best chance at claiming the jersey long-term.
"I still think if you're in Europe, you're a better chance because of the level," he said.
"It does make it tough on goalkeepers back in Australia."
"You want to play at the highest level possible, if that's in Europe or Asia I'd have to have a look at it."
Galekovic did have a short stint in Portugal for Beira-Mar back in 2004, but he was 24 at the time and spent most of his time there on the bench.
"It was the season between the National Soccer League and the A-League and there was no competition in Australia at the time, so it was good to find something in Portugal," Galekovic said.
"It's a good league and just training with the team and getting used to an overseas lifestyle probably helped me a little bit."
Galekovic has one season left at Adelaide and will be hoping to attract some foreign interest during next month's international tournament.
Behich: Caltex Socceroos can ‘make a statement in Asia’ on the road to Qatar
Aziz Behich has vowed the Caltex Socceroos are ready to ?make a statement in Asia? during their FIFA World Cup 2022 qualifying campaign. The group stage of the second round of Asian Football Confederation qualifiers was drawn on Wednesday night and pitted Australia up against
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The Problem Real Madrid Has With Ronaldo’s Wage Demands
by David on September 4, 2012
Jorge Mendes has confirmed his lack of surprise for and total support of Cristiano Ronaldo’s statements claiming he was sad at Real Madrid.
Mendes, who is also Jose Mourinho’s agent, was reported in some sections of the press to have been caught off guard by his client’s words, but through a statement released yesterday afternoon via his company’s website, the agent has responded.
“Regarding the reports published today that claimed that I was surprised and felt uncomfortable by the statements uttered by Cristiano Ronaldo, I would like to clarify,” began the posting.
“Cristiano Ronaldo’s statements are based on reasons that are of my knowledge, it is the sole discretion of Cristiano Ronaldo to disclose those reasons or not.
“These statements are not a surprise nor a discomfort to me. Whoever knows the relationship I have with Cristiano Ronaldo will also know that he will always have my full support.”
Don’t be fooled by all the noise that Ronaldo does not feel loved and respected by his team mates, the club and the fans. This s ultimately about money.
Ronaldo wants to be the highest paid player in the world, and with just under three years left on his current deal, this is the time that contract negotiations begin. Ronaldo’s statement is the first move in that negotiation.
Ronaldo signed a six year deal with Real Madrid when he moved from Manchester United that pays him £9.6m which is the same as Kaka. That translates to about £7.2m net after tax.
Since he signed that deal, Samuel Eto’o, Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie, Carlos Tevez, Yaya Toure and Zlatan Ibrahimovic have all signed bigger deals than Ronaldo’s.
Reports out of Spain say that Ronaldo wants a pay increase to £12m net a year. Even under existing Spanish tax rules, that would mean £14.5m a year gross wages. Which is not unreasonable.
The problem for Real Madrid is that, in two years’ time, the “Beckham tax loophole” ends, which means that Ronaldo’s tax rate will jump from 24% to 52% per cent.
So to get to the same £12m after tax wages, Real Madrid will have to pay Ronaldo almost £25m a year, or £480,000 a WEEK. I am not sure that even a club as wealthy as Real Madrid can pay a player that kind of money, especially with Uefa’s Financial Fair Rules coming into effect.
And this is not just a Ronaldo/Real Madrid issue. Barcelona are getting ready to start to negotiate a new deal with Lionel Messi, and they will face the same issue. In two years, Lionel Messi’s wages will more than double due to the increase in the tax rate before they work out how to pay him more. Can Barcelona afford to pay Messi almost £25m a year? I am not so sure they can either. Which means that the contract talks for the two best players in the world will be very interesting to watch as the ramifications are huge if they cannot afford to meet their wage demands.
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Nuclear power has a significant part to play in maintaining a balanced energy policy. It currently contributes to 29% of the UKs electricity generation and a great deal more in countries like France and Germany. Nuclear power generation does not contribute to air pollution and can therefore help to reduce acid rain and global warming.
Nuclear power generation uses the fuel uranium to produce electricity. Uranium is a highly concentrated energy source that is available throughout the world in large quantities. 1 tonne of uranium can produce as much electricity as 2000 tonnes of coal. Once uranium has been used, it can be reprocessed and recycled to make more fuel. During the reprocessing, plutonium is given off as a by-product. The plutonium can then be used to generate power in fast reactors.
Electricity is generated in a nuclear power plant when an extra neutron is added to the nucleus of a uranium atom. This causes it to split apart and release heat energy. As the nucleus splits apart, several neutrons are released, which can then collide with another nucleus and cause further fission of uranium atoms. This leads to a chain of reactions. The heat produced during fission converts water to steam, which then turns a turbine and generates electricity. In a power station, the amount of energy release is controlled to provide an even heat supply.
Unfortunately, waste generated by the nuclear industry is radioactive and must therefore be disposed of with extreme care. The waste must be managed to present no hazard to humans or the environment. The radioactivity of waste however, will decay over time.
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Under-18s' run ended by Eagles
It was back down to earth with a bump for the Under-18s as Wednesday went down 5-1 in the capital to Crystal Palace on Saturday morning.
The Owls went into the league clash on an inspired run of resistance but a dismal first half laid the foundations for defeat.
The contest started well enough, though, with Wednesday taking an early lead through Warren Clarke – his fifth goal in as many games – but Palace hit back in style, scoring four goals to take an unassailable lead into the interval.
The Eagles registered again in the second half to run out comfortable winners.
Coach Steven Haslam said: “It was a case of coming back down to earth with a bump.
“The lads have played so well recently but football has a habit of kicking you in the teeth and that’s what happened today.
“We just weren’t really at it and the standards were below those that have been set this season.
“When I look around for which players performed well, I am scratching my head.
“We did not live up to the standards we have set and we will look for a reaction in training next week.
“The only positive I can take is Jordan Linchar, who’s in our Under-16 group. He came on for the last 20 minutes and that appearance will hopefully do him the world of good.”
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St. George Crashes: Costs, insurance and otherwise, on the rise
ST. GEORGE — Car crashes impact more than just car insurance rates, and the financial aftermath affects every driver in St. George, the state and people across the nation. The highest price that is paid is loss of life but society bears the brunt of numerous other costs associated with car crashes; 2017 may ring in more than just a new year for many drivers as those costs continue to climb.
Nearly 40,000 people die on U.S. roadways each year. The public accepts that incomprehensible number without a lot of public outcry.
On the flip side, the topic of traffic congestion is frequently brought up in public conversation, so policymakers tend to focus on congestion relief as opposed to traffic safety, according to a 2009 report comparing the economic cost of congestion to the costs of crashes.
The report showed that the cost of crashes exceeded the cost of safety at a rate of more than 2 to 1.
File photo altered for feature series illustration shows a June 2015 crash in St. George, Utah. St. George News
In this Part II of a St. George News series, “St. George crashes,” we asked people and a few officials about their experiences with crashes and their impacts. Click the play arrow at the top of this report to see what they had to say.
Following are some hard facts.
Total cost of crash-related deaths in Utah in 2014: $268 million.
Average cost of a two-car crash: with no injuries, more than $6,000; with injuries, nearly $22,000.
Those are only the costs directly associated with damage and injuries involved. They don’t include the costs associated with responders, such as police, firefighters, paramedics and ambulance.
In 2015 there were 2,166 crashes in St. George, or 180 crashes per month on average, Sgt. Craig Harding, traffic supervisor for St. George Police Department, said. Using hourly data, those numbers amount to more than 5,400 hours of officer time over the entire year. This is equivalent to one officer working 24 hours a day for 225 straight days.
This year, the total number of crashes in St. George is already up by 10 percent, Harding said, so costs will be even higher.
To show the financial impact on troopers statewide, Utah Highway Patrol public information officer Sgt. Todd Royce provided an estimated cost breakdown for the time troopers spent at a crash site, in crash investigations and in reporting.
In 2015, UHP troopers spent more than 39,000 hours at crash sites and followups, Royce’s estimates show. This includes crashes that called additional troopers to the scene. The estimated cost was nearly $900,000 for that year. That cost is equivalent to four troopers spending more than 12 straight months working 24 hours a day dealing with crashes only.
This file photo shows a Toyota sedan and a GMC Sierra collided at River Road and Riverside Drive Monday morning, St. George, Utah, June 13, 2016 | Photo by Julie Applegate, St. George News
With more cars on the road, the numbers have been increasing over the last few years, he said; instead of taking a proactive stance to deal with it, the UHP is taking a reactive stance.
“With the increase in crashes we are dealing with them as they happen,” Royce said, “when we would rather spend more time preventing them through education and enforcement.” His expounding on this is included in the video top of this report.
In Utah, the estimated statewide economic loss in 2013 due to motor vehicle crashes exceeded $1.6 billion, according to a 2013 report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This is the equivalent of $534 for every man, woman and child living in the state.
These costs are not only paid through insurance claims or private parties. Motorists’ insurance pays approximately 50 percent of all motor vehicle crash costs, according to a report by the Insurance Information Institute, while individual crash victims pay a little more than 25 percent. The rest is picked up by charities, health care providers and government agencies. That means that nearly 75 percent of all crash costs are paid by those not directly involved in the crash.
The increase in accident numbers as well as the rising costs of medical care and repair costs can directly affect insurance rates. In 2015, fatalities were higher nationwide than they’ve been since 1966, and in 2016 those numbers are still climbing.
“In years past, the cost associated with car crashes continued to rise, as crash numbers continued to drop,” James Lynch, chief actuary for the Insurance Information Institute, said in an October statement, “but now they are both rising.”
As a result, insurance rates are rising.
“There has been an alarming increase in crashes and claims reported,” Lynch said in the Institute’s statement. “This, combined with the cost of the claims themselves, has led to a dramatic rise in the overall loss cost.”
One agent in St. George said that more than $1 billion in claims nationwide were paid by one insurance carrier in 2015 alone.
Even with those rate hikes, Utah isn’t paying as much as many other states. In a ranking of highest to lowest premium costs associated with the states, Utah ranks No. 38, according to an analysis conducted in 2013 by the Insurance Information Institute.
Fast facts on car crash costs:
Twenty-eight percent of all fatalities involve speeding, costing Americans more than $51 billion per year.
Crashes where speeding and drunk driving are involved account for 41 percent of all crashes, at a cost of nearly $60 billion.
In 2014 more than 163 billion text messages were sent all over the U.S. – every month.
It takes an average time of 5 seconds to send or read a text, which is the equivalent of driving the entire length of a football field blindfolded.
At any given daylight moment, more than 660,000 vehicles across the country are being driven by someone using a hand held cell phone.
Distracted driving accounts for 17 percent of all costs associated with crashes, costing Americans more than $45 billion in 2014.
Americans spend more than 1 million days per year in the hospital from car crashes.
For every 1 person killed in a car crash, 8 people are hospitalized and 100 are treated and released from hospital emergency departments. That isn’t counting those treated at the scene by paramedics and the like.
About the series, “St. George crashes”
“St. George crashes” is a St. George News series exploring vehicle crash causes and effects in the immediate region and to some extent statewide and beyond. See the rest of the reports in the series:
St. George crashes: How many are there and why?
The Impact of Crashes – 2009
Insurance Information Institute
Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths: Costly but Preventable
AAA’s 2015 American Driving Survey
U.S. Census Bureau 2015 Driving Statistics
July 4th deadliest day for motorists
2nd highest cause of collisions claims two more vehicles
Traffic Commission increases speed limits on Interstate 15, Washington County
Failure to yield factors in 2 accidents, same street, same day
Posted in Local, News, St. George Crashes Series, Story SeriesTagged Auto crash statistics, Car Accidents, car insurance, cedar city, Center for Disease Control, crashes, Higher premiums for Southern Utah, Insurance Information Institute, national Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Rate Hikes, Sgt. Craig Harding, Sgt. Todd Royce, southern utah, St. George, St. George Police, Utah Highway Patrol
.... November 3, 2016 at 9:03 am Log in to Reply
I don’t worry about the traffic my chauffeur has 2 deal with that. I’m busy with counseling politicians and dealing with legal issues facing the international community and global marketing.
Real Life November 3, 2016 at 3:36 pm Log in to Reply
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tcrider November 3, 2016 at 9:26 am Log in to Reply
It seems like there is very little or no law enforcement, maybe there are other much higher priorities, like drug enforcement and they don’t have the resources to enforce traffic laws, and its not just st george, its all the surrounding areas, but every time I drive I witness,
1 failing to yield, 2 speeding 3 tailgating, 4 no blinker, 5 aggressive drivers (including cdl drivers) , if law enforcement is not going to enforce the law, then st george will remain the city with the absolute worst drivers in this country, when you throw in the fact that there is a much larger than average percentage of drivers with no auto insurance and the dmv and law enforcement cannot work together to enforce auto insurance, then we have the situation that we have right now.
I also think two groups make up the majority of the uninsured drivers, polys and the underpaid ill-legal immigrants.
Henry November 4, 2016 at 8:23 am Log in to Reply
Excellent, thorough analysis. You nailed it on the cause-and-effect. Driving in St George isn’t that much different than driving in a Third World city; we’re just missing the beggars at the traffic lights.
darkgoddess November 4, 2016 at 5:28 am Log in to Reply
Don’t forget those that think the yellow light means go faster, and the red light means go not stop. Also, those who think they need to yap on their cell phones while driving, and worst of all, texting while driving. I swear if someone hits me while on their phone, if I’m not seriously injured or dead, I will grab their phone and destroy it, or better yet, shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
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US Isolated after JCPOA Withdrawal: Iran's Zarif
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US failure to gain support for its allegations against Iran at a Wednesday meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showed Washington's isolation in the world following its move to scrap the 2015 nuclear deal.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Zarif said that the US isolated itself on the world stage by withdrawing from the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), citing Washington's failure to gain support for its anti-Iran accusations at a Wednesday meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors.
"Under the current circumstances, the US feels it has been defeated both politically and operationally," he added.
"One of the reasons for the US' defeat is the (Iranian) people's resistance," he said, adding that "the wrong policies perused by the US and its regional allies" have only made the resistance movement stronger.
The top Iranian diplomat said that Americans made "wrong calculations" that Iran would "collapse under tough economic pressures, all calculations (made by) the West and Americans failed to work by relying on the Iranian people."
Elsewhere in his remarks, Zarif said the US needs to stop "economic terrorism" against the Iranian nation if it really seeks talks with the Islamic Republic.
"We do not hold negotiations with those who have waged economic terrorism against our people. This should stop."
"We never left the negotiating table....They (Americans) themselves decided to do so. They now make a false claim to deceive [the public] that 'we are ready to negotiate.' If they are ready for talks, negotiations are not in sync with terrorism," he said.
The IAEA held a special meeting on Wednesday at Washington's request to win the Board of Governors' support for its anti-Iran claims about the JCPOA.
The emergency meeting of the 35-member Board of Governors of the IAEA was held in Vienna to discuss Iran's nuclear program, which wrapped up with no conclusion.
The meeting came a few days after Iran increased the level of its uranium enrichment to 4.5%, which is beyond the limit set by the JCPOA. The move was part of the second phase of the country's May 8 decision to reduce its commitments under the multilateral 2015 nuclear deal in reaction to the US violations and Europe's inaction.
The emergency meeting was held at the request of US Ambassador to International Organizations Jackie Wolcott. Iran later criticized the US' request as a "sad irony" as Washington is the party that has violated the deal first by unilaterally pulling out of it and imposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
In May 2018, US President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the JCPOA.
Iran and the remaining parties launched talks to save the JCPOA after the US withdrawal, but the three EU parties to the deal (France, Britain, and Germany) have failed to ensure Iran's economic interests.
The EU's inaction forced Tehran to stop honoring certain commitments to the nuclear deal, including a rise in the stockpile of enriched uranium.
Iran maintains that the new measures are not designed to harm the JCPOA, but to save the accord by creating a balance in the commitments.
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History Rolls Into Hershey for RM’s Annual Pennsylvania Sale
Written by Auction News
RM Auctions returns to the Hershey Lodge on October 10-11 for its annual Hershey sale. Held during the celebrated AACA Eastern Regional Fall Meet (October 9-12), the auction attracts collectors from across the U.S. and around the world.
Leading a roster of 116 vehicles slated to cross RM’s Hershey auction podium is a highly sought-after 1933 Chrysler CL Imperial Convertible Roadster, chassis no. 7803565. One of only nine built and one of just six known to survive, this Chrysler is regarded by marque specialists as a correct, accurate, and superlative example of the Imperial model. Originally delivered new on February 25, 1933 in Chicago, the car made it into the hands of collectors by the early 1960s. The Chrysler passed through several respected collectors before making its way into the collection of Dr. Ed Rittenhouse, who commissioned Walt Johnsen of The Auto Shop in Bainbridge Island, Washington, to fully restore the automobile to the highest of concours standards. The result was, and still is, simply stunning, with the car finished in a highly attractive straw color with beige fenders, a beige leather interior, and a tan cloth top. After the work was completed in 2006, the car was debuted at the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, where it achieved the recognition of winning a class award at Pebble Beach, followed by being judged 100 points and winning the CCCA Warshawsky Award for Best of Show at a meet in January of 2008. In June of that year, the vehicle also won a Senior Award, followed by the Designer’s Choice Award and Class of 1933 Award at Meadow Brook Hall and a Best of Show Award at Forest Grove in 2009. Following its showing, it was re-acquired from Rittenhouse by a noted collector that owned it in the early 1990s. Retaining its original 135 hp, 384.8 cubic inch “Red Head” inline eight-cylinder engine, body, and chassis, this example is a pleasure to drive and is exceptionally restored (Est. $550,000 – $650,000).
RM Auctions is also honored to present a selection of 14 motor cars from the Estate of Jim Miller without reserve at its upcoming Hershey sale. Described as a man on a mission who loved the hunt, the offering spans 40 years of American automotive history ranging from a 1929 Pierce-Arrow to an all original 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W30, in addition to numerous woodie wagons. Highlights include a beautifully authentic 1947 Ford Super DeLuxe Sportsman, featuring an award-winning concours restoration (Est. $175,000 – $225,000); quite possibly the finest 1955 Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria in existence, boasting an incredible, high-point restoration and loaded with options, including factory air conditioning (Est. $60,000 – $75,000); a 1948 Plymouth Special Deluxe Six Station Wagon, showing less than 40,000 actual miles from new and considered the best, unrestored example in existence (Est. $45,000 – $60,000); and an all original, unrestored 1934 Packard Eight Phaeton, just two owners from new (Est. $80,000 – $100,000).
“RM has a strong track record of offering motor cars from prominent collections and cars steeped in history at its Hershey sale,” says Gord Duff, car specialist, RM Auctions. “This year’s event will be no exception as we present cars with not only significant American automotive history, but with genuine Pennsylvania history as well, a great match for the AACA meet that has been a tradition for collectors across the country for so many years”.
Also slated to cross the podium and perfectly matched to the Pennsylvania setting is a 1935 Packard Super Eight Convertible Sedan. A genuine piece of Philadelphia history, the unrestored and incredibly well-preserved Packard was owned and kept for 70 years by George Gordon Meade Easby, whose family descended from seven signers of the Declaration of Independence and whose great-grandfather and namesake, General George Meade, was a hero of the Civil War as the leader of the Battle of Gettysburg. Easby and the Packard made their home at the Baleroy Mansion on Mermaid Lane in Philadelphia’s affluent Chestnut Hill neighborhood, along with an enviable collection of antiquities including Napoleon’s furniture, Marie Antoinette’s clock and the mansion’s famously active ghosts. Easby believed in the ghosts, claiming he saw them regularly, and the Baleroy Mansion eventually became known as one of the most haunted homes in America. An 18-year-old Easby purchased the Packard Super Eight new on July 9, 1936 from Goldner Brothers, of Germantown, Pennsylvania. The vehicle was used regularly up until 1947 when it was put up on blocks in the carriage house at the Baleroy Mansion, where it remained until 2010. The car is still titled in the name of its original gentleman owner (Est. $120,000 – $150,000).
Additional notable sale highlights include the following:
A rare 1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Station Wagon presented in virtually “like new” condition. Originally delivered by an authorized dealer in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, this vehicle benefits from long-time, loving ownership by known Pennsylvania enthusiasts for virtually as long as the AACA has been meeting in Hershey. Owners include the late, long-time AACA and CCCA member Harold Zulick, who kept the car for an astonishing 55 years, treating it to a no-expense-spared restoration in the early 1990s, after which it was awarded Grand National honors in AACA competition (Est. $75,000 – $95,000).
A beautifully restored 1938 Packard Super Eight Convertible Coupe, reportedly originally owned by Paul “The Waiter” Ricca, an associate of Al Capone’s. Following Capone’s 1932 imprisonment for tax evasion, Ricca became the de facto head of the Chicago “outfit” and ruled for 40 years. Likely the finest model that survives today, the level of accuracy and detail to be found in this automobile is unmatched by any other contemporary eight-cylinder Packard (Est. $150,000 – $175,000).
One of the finest original and unrestored 190 SLs on the planet, this 1955 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL Roadster boasts just three owners and only 28,000 actual miles from new. Imported to Texas for the original owner, the car is said to be only the second 190 SL to arrive in the U.S. and is perfectly suited to luxurious cruising with its excellent road manners and stylish good looks (Est. $85,000 – $100,000).
In addition to the auction, RM returns as the presenting sponsor of this year’s Night at the Museum at the AACA Museum, October 9. A great kick start to Meet week festivities, Night at the Museum offers a venue to celebrate the motoring hobby with other enthusiasts while also raising important funds to support the AACA group of families and its mission to preserve automotive history. New this year, the AACA has introduced a Monte Carlo Night theme where guests can try their luck at a number of gaming tables and exchange their winnings for the chance to win a variety of fabulous prizes. For further details and ticket information, visit nightatthemuseum.org.
Full event details for RM’s Hershey auction, including the digital catalogue are available online at rmauctions.com or by calling toll free 1 800 211 4371 (+1 519 352 4575 outside North America).
RM Auctions Hershey – Event Details
Sale dates: October 10-11; auction commences each evening at 6:30 p.m. ET
Preview dates: October 10-11; doors open at 10 a.m. ET
Location: The Hershey Lodge, 325 University Drive, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033
Admission: Admission to the previews is complimentary for all guests. Entry to the auction is limited to registered bidders and consignors only. Bidder registration is $200 USD and includes an official auction catalogue and admission for two (2) to the preview and auction.
For those unable to attend the event in person, Internet, absentee, and phone bidding options are available and the auction will stream live at rmauctions.com to provide real-time coverage of the sale.
About RM Auctions
RM Auctions is the world’s largest auction house for investment-quality automobiles. With over three decades of experience in the collector car industry, RM’s vertically integrated range of services, from restoration to private treaty sales, auctions, estate planning, and financial services, coupled with an expert team of international car specialists at seven offices around the world, provide an unsurpassed level of service to the global collector car market. RM proudly holds five of the top ten all-time records for the most expensive motor cars sold at auction. RM’s restoration division has achieved unprecedented accolades, earning Best of Show honors at the world’s top concours events, including the prestigious Amelia Island and Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. For further information, visit rmauctions.com, find us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter @rmauctions.
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Social Sciences Population Studies
The Demographic and Development Divide in India
A District-Level Analyses
Editors: Mohanty, Sanjay K., Mishra, Udaya S., Chauhan, Rajesh K. (Eds.)
Is a ready reference for planners, researchers and students interested in development in India
Provides scientific analyses that depict the clustering of development parameters
Ranks 640 districts within and among states of India
The eBook version of this title will be available soon
Due: November 9, 2019
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This book is the first-ever volume which provides comprehensive information on demographic, health and development at the level of 640 districts in India. Central and state governments, developmental organizations, national and international NGOs and researchers require disaggregated data at the district level for many practical purposes. However, such information is not readily available for use. The editors, with a close-knit group of collaborators, have compiled data from reliable sources for each district of India and present the results in the form of composite indexes. The chapters rank districts within the state and vis-à-vis all districts of India to help readers understand intra-district and inter-district developmental disparities. They present spatial analyses that depict clustering of development. It is a ready reference for planners, researchers and students and provides scientific analyses that depict the clustering of development parameters at the district level.
This volume is meant for a wide readership interested in development in India, across population studies, sociology, economics, statistics, to regional development, and from academics, researchers, and planners to policy makers.
Sanjay K. Mohanty is a trained economist and demographer and Professor at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. Professor Mohanty has more than two decades of teaching and research experience and has guided several doctoral students in their maiden research work. He teaches courses on health economics and fertility measures at IIPS. His research interests include the economics of health and health care, economics of aging, multidimensional poverty and population dynamics. Prof. Mohanty has authored more than 80 research papers in international and national peer reviewed journals. Currently, he is associated with the “Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), which is a joint survey by the T.H. Chan School of Public Health of Harvard University, IIPS and The University of Southern California. Prof. Mohanty was Visiting Scientist at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health during 2014-15 and C. R. Parekh Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics during January-April 2010. He was given the K.B. Pathak award in 2009 by the Indian Association for Study of Population (IASP) and the P.N. Mari Bhat Award by the Xavier Institute for Management (XIMB), Bhubaneswar for his research.
Udaya S. Mishra is a statistician/demographer and Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala India. He is engaged in research and teaching on population and development issues and has a number of national and international publications to his credit. In recent times, he has served in various capacities in guiding scientific research in social sciences. During his two and a half decades of teaching and research experience, he has contributed research to the areas of ageing, health, nutrition as well as population policy and programme evaluation. His current research interest includes measurement issues in health, and equity focus in evaluation of outcomes. His scholastic distinctions include: (i) Takemi Fellow, in the Department of Population and International Health, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University during 2003-05 (ii) Associate member of Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, UK and (iii) Expert group member to review the draft handbook on `Designing of Household Sample Surveys’ at the United Nations Statistics Division, New York.
Rajesh K. Chauhan is Joint Director with Population Research Centre (PRC), Department of Economics, University of Lucknow, India. He has a PhD in demography from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and master's degrees in statistics and population studies. He has served at the Directorate of Economics and Statistics of the Planning Department of the Government of Uttar Pradesh, India. His primary interest lies in the area of mortality and public health analysis, large-scale sample surveys, data management and analysis, money-metric welfare and poverty measures with special emphasis on measurement methodologies. He has extensive experience in working with the main Indian sample survey datasets e.g. National Family Health Survey (NFHS), District Level Household Survey (DLHS) and National Sample Survey (NSS). He has good understanding of CS-Pro environment for the data entry. He has several publications in reputed international and national journals and contributions in edited books.
Sanjay K. Mohanty
Udaya S. Mishra
Rajesh K. Chauhan
Springer Singapore
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10.1007/978-981-13-5820-3
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hicks don't mix with politics...
You might remember that, a little while ago (on the 1st July), I wrote to my local MP. I didn't have all that much to say, but I felt I needed to say something to my elected representative in the wake ongoing shambles surrounding the referendum to leave the EU.
Technically, I think he's supposed to reply within a couple of weeks, but I've written to Ken before, and what he lacks in promptness, he more than makes up for in considered response. I'd far rather have a late response from someone who clearly read my original email than one who responds quickly with a boiler-plate answer.
Anyway, here's what he had to say:
Dear Mr Swisslet,
Thank you very much for your recent e-mail, after the disastrous result of the referendum. I am sorry for the extended delay in replying, I received literally hundreds of e-mails after the result of the referendum. I am glad to find that you and I have identical views on Britain's membership of the European Union. I also agree with you that the referendum campaign was quite nasty and not very informative, particularly on the Leave side but sometimes on the Remain side in the national reports in the media.
The referendum is not binding. I think that MPs should vote according to their judgement of the national interest and the interest of their constituents. Unfortunately, most MPs on all sides paid lip service to the supposedly democratic nature of the exercise and vowed that they would obey the expressed will of the people.
I am in a rather exceptional position in that I am a life-long pro-European. I publicly opposed the idea of a referendum and, as you mention, my constituents voted almost 60/40 in favour of remaining. I will probably vote against an Article 50 application ending our membership, but there may be only a few eccentrics in the House of Commons in that lobby.
More significantly, none of the Brexiteers at the moment have any clear idea of what they want to do next by way of actual change to our economy, trade, migration and other arrangements with the EU. A flood of legislation and regulations will probably have to be put before Parliament over the next few years, implementing changes. I do not see how any referendum on membership can be an instruction to any MP on how to vote on these practical consequences. I will certainly do my best to try to contribute to mitigating the disaster that this decision on the 23rd June might otherwise cause.
The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke, CH, QC, MP
I've never voted for him in the 17 years or so I've lived in his constituency, but at least we clearly see eye-to-eye on this one. It's a little dispiriting (albeit realistic) to see him accept that he would be an 'eccentric minority' voting against Article 50 in the House of Commons, but it's also comforting to see that he shares my frustration and will be doing everything he can to try to make things as good as they possibly can be. The irony of our current position, of course, is that we're likely to ultimately end up trying to negotiate our way towards what we already had.... and we'll be bloody lucky if we get anywhere close to it this time around.
I had long conversations about Brexit on Facebook with a friend of mine before the referendum - he was in favour of voting out. He's just come back to me today and said "I still believe this country will be bigger and better outside the EU....it's just a shame those trusted to sort it out are making a mess of things...". I don't want to criticise him for a vote honestly cast, and I'm not one of those people who thinks we should keep having referendums until I get the result I wanted, but at the same time, it's impossible not to think of something Obi Wan Kenobi once said: "Who's the more foolish: the fool or the fool who follows him?"
They don't make'em like Ken any more, more's the pity.
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Print ViewRyan D. Kayrell
Co-Managing Partner Client Services, Southern CA
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University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, 2005
Mr. Ryan Kayrell is a Co-Managing Partner of Client Services for Southern California in the Santa Ana office of Testan Law.
Ryan graduated from the University of Southern California in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a minor in Communications, Law, and Media Policy. While at USC, Ryan was an active member of the University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band. He then attended Whittier Law School, graduating cum laude in 2008. At Whittier, Ryan was a member of the Trial Advocacy Honors Board, where he began to develop the litigation skills which are the foundation of his practice.
Since becoming an attorney in 2008, Mr. Kayrell's practice has focused almost exclusively on workers' compensation defense. With this experience, he has developed trusting relationships with his clients. The cornerstone of these relationships is excellent communication which ultimately leads to better results. Mr. Kayrell is a skilled negotiator and takes pride at being able to resolve matters at or before deposition.
Mr. Kayrell is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, and is admitted to practice in all California jurisdictions. He is married with two adorable children.
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Who's who in Wolverhapmton's A View from the Bridge community cast
whos who in wolverhapmtons a view from the bridge community …
This week A View from the Bridge is on stage at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from 24 to 28 March. Recognise some of the faces in the show? Find out who's who in this week's community cast.
A View from the Bridge, produced by Touring Consortium Theatre Company, is currently touring the UK. Each stop of the tour, the show is joined by people from the local area as part of the ensemble cast. This week the show's in Wolverhampton, let's take a look at who'll be taking to the stage this week with some interesting facts about themselves...
Chloe Davis used to be a member of a local athletics club and entered cross country races. During a school event, she won, not only beating all the girls, but all the boys who entered too.
David Kinghorn once had lunch with Oscar winning animator, Nick Park!
Ram Rajinder is an avid collector, having previously collected old American Marvel Comics. He now collects first edition Arkham house horror books, fountain pens and Victorian stick pins
Joe Smallman as part of his college course, did work experience with a local theatre company, gaining an insight into how a theatre company works. He helped set up their website and social media.
Elle Madigan has been a vegetarian for almost two years!
Joe Eccleston volunteered for two weeks at a holiday park in Wales by helping out the entertainment team, and now has the pleasure of saying it's his job!
Craig Griffiths once taught break dancing to school kids with a theatre group. He was without any formal dance training and a general inability to dance. He has also done radio production and interviews, meeting various celebrities including Derren Brown, Tim Minchin and Mike Skinner from The Streets.
Debra Thomson has recently done a fire walk and an abseil down Kenilworth water tower for her son's charity. She loves worms and all that goes with compost bins! She has an allotment, eats chicken every day and has a tattoo ‘tree of life’ to mark her son's death recently.
Are you seeing the show in Wolverhampton? Do you know somebody in the community cast? Show your support using the hashtag #ViewBridge
A View from the Bridge opened at Theatre Royal, Nottingham, where it ran from 4 to 7 March 2015. It then toured to Cheltenham, Darlington, Wolverhampton, Bradford, Coventry and Edinburgh, where it concluded on 2 May.
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2018 World Watch List compiled by Open Doors of Top 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted.
Image courtesy of Open Doors
Refugee Organization Reports Fewer Persecuted Christians Admitted to U.S.
News, Church Worldwide
The number of Christian refugees coming to the United States from the countries where Christians are most persecuted has dropped dramatically under President Trump’s administration.
That comes despite the president’s pledge during his first week in office that helping persecuted Christians overseas would be a priority for his administration.
According to a new analysis by Matthew Soerens of World Relief, an evangelical Christian organization with a long history of resettling refugees, the number of Christian refugees admitted to the U.S. from countries noted for their persecution dropped nearly 79 percent between fiscal years 2016 and 2018.
A total of 1,215 Christian refugees were welcomed from those countries in fiscal 2018, Trump’s first full year in office, which ended Sept. 30. That’s a drop from 5,731 in fiscal 2016, former President Obama’s last full year in office, which Soerens said was a “uniquely high time for refugee resettlement.”
“This dynamic with persecuted Christians and religious minorities, in particular, does not fit the campaign rhetoric, and it’s not consistent with the focus on international religious freedom that I think is an admirable goal,” Soerens said.
Soerens based his analysis on numbers from the U.S. State Department’s Refugee Processing Center and the 11 countries where Open Doors USA reports Christians face the most persecution: North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, and India.
“The number of people who are coming from many of those countries is 20, 23, 26—to me, you could put them all on a small bus—compared to thousands who were coming in any given year of the previous administration or of the Bush administration,” Sorens said.
The total number of Christian refugees admitted since 2016 declined about 57 percent, according to the analysis.
Soerens also said the total number of Muslim refugees admitted in that time declined 91 percent, a development he called “incredibly troubling.”
The decline in Muslim refugees is no surprise, said Soerens, given that Trump pledged during the 2016 presidential campaign to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country and signed an executive order soon after taking office that impacted travel from countries with large Muslim populations. Many viewed the executive order as a Muslim ban.
Trump has set the refugee ceiling for the current fiscal year at 30,000 people—the lowest in the history of the U.S. refugee resettlement program, which started in the 1980s—despite calls from many people of faith to raise it to at least 75,000.
The president already cut that number dramatically when he set it at 45,000 his first year in office, a drop from 110,000 in Obama’s last year in office. The country has admitted less than half of that number in fiscal 2018: 22,491 refugees.
© 2018 Religion News Service
The Banner has a subscription to Religion News Service and occasionally re-publishes articles of wide Christian interest, according to the license.
Doug Vande Griend replied on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 12:53pm
What this article doesn't say (at least clearly) is that while official stats show US admission of Christian refugees is down, the ratio of Christians (to Muslims) is up. And this article criticizes Trump's admin for "breaking a promise" to specifically help Christians, it fails to mention that favoring Christians (the promise essentially claimed to have been made) is illegal (as Matt Soerens has clearly pointed out in other articles). Trump probably would have given preference to Christians. The pushback came from elsewhere.
Also, nothing is mentioned in this article about unlawful refugees, that is, those largely from south of the US who abuse the existing law by making suffiently worded expressions of fear after they cross the border to be released pending a hearing on their claim, when hearing resources are so backlogged that they are effectively admitted to the US for years (and then fail to show up for the hearing, remain in the US, then politically advocate for the right to remain, given that they and their children born in the US shouldn't be sent back given how long they've been here).
Bottom line is that these are we facto refugee admissions, even if unlawful and uncounted in official statistics. And if these de facto refugees were counted, their religious would probably dominantly be Chistian.
Yes, this gets more complicated than this article suggests.
All of which is to say we usually do badly when we present statistics in the context of intending to do political lobbying. Indeed, the CRC should get out of the political lobbying business.
The CRC has said, along with other organizations, that the federal government comprehensive immigration reform is needed. That's about all it can or should say without venturing into some very thick and tall weeds.
The CRC never repeats anymore it's message that comprehensive immigration reform is needed. Instead it has graduated to "taking political sides," which makes it part of that which increases the political divide that is the nation's greater problem. That is hurting rather than helping.
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Darlene Briggeman
El Mirage is part of a multi-city collaborative in the West Valley known as the Greater Maricopa Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ). The zone is a government-designated, 400-acre site at the City’s southern end where foreign and domestic goods may be stored, assembled, or exhibited for sale without being subjected to U.S. Customs duties and excise taxes. The FTZ is an integral part of future business development.
Retail expansion in El Mirage is also a significant economic driver due to its potential for generating tax revenues, creating jobs, and drawing new visitors and residents. In recent years, several new retailers – most representing national chains – have located to El Mirage including Valero, Auto Zone, and Aaron’s Rents. Family Dollar and Goodwill have also constructed new locations in the City. They will be completed in the fall of 2015.
Home construction has been a cornerstone of the City’s economic sustainability for many years, and this remains so today. Lennar Homes, a national home builder for more than 55 years, has built or is constructing 176 single-family homes in El Mirage. At an average sale price of $159,000 and 2,100 square feet in size, the homes are expected to add an estimated $20 million in property value to the City.
Public Safety and Recreation have been the focus of voter-approved bonds in recent years. As a result, a new fire station, a new police station, and a state-of-the art YMCA are among the City’s most ambitious projects completed to address the significant community needs spurred by the influx of new residents. In fact, the City’s population has more than quadrupled in the last decade, and leaders are committed to keep pace with such growth through fiscal stewardship and sound financial management.
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Coral Creek
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CORAL CREEK is a nationally acclaimed Colo-Caribbean Newgrazz band featuring the original music of Chris Thompson and Bill McKay (formerly of Leftover Salmon and Derek Trucks Band). Inspired by the islands and the mountains alike, CORAL CREEK conjures a unique vibe, delivering big sounds and high-energy shows that appeal to audiences across the newgrass, rock and jamband spectrum. Drawing influence from legends like John Coltrane, Jerry Garcia, Tony Rice, Professor Longhair and Dr. John, don’t be surprised when CORAL CREEK launches into a second line jam with tenor saxophone soaring over organ swells and a rolling banjo. Listen close and you might even hear some steel pan and coqie frogs.
CORAL CREEK launched into the heart of the Colorado music scene with the release of The Road Ahead (2010), produced by Bill Nershi of the String Cheese Incident. The addition of Bill McKay on keyboards and Nathan Peoples on saxophone solidified the unmistakable sound that is CORAL CREEK today, as captured on the eponymous album CORAL CREEK (2015) and FREE DOG (2018) – both produced by Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth. FREE DOG has all the lyrical imagery, tasteful harmonies and outstanding musicianship that you’ve come to expect from Colorado’s hottest up-and-coming band, once again transporting listeners from the heights of the Rockies to the sweet sands of the Caribbean Sea – hitting every honkytonk, bayou and beach bar along the way.
Since forming in 2015, CORAL CREEK has played campgrounds, beach bars, concert halls and festival stages across the US, Europe, UK and the Caribbean, sharing stages with music heroes like Peter Rowan, Sam Bush, Bill Nershi, Drew Emmitt, Tim Carbone, Andy Goessling, Vince Herman, Andy Hall, Roosevelt Collier, Jeff Austin and other heavy hitters in the newgrass / jamband scene. Find us online at www.CoralCreek.net and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/coral.creek.band/.
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Cookie is the latest Guide Dog named by Doncaster Lakeside Village customers
Demolition starts on law courts
Visitors to Rotherham saw progress being made around Forge Island this week.
Friday, 13 October, 2017, 15:39
Work to demolish the Law Courts started in July and is being carried out Rotherham based contractor G. Morley Ltd.
Over the summer, workers have been stripping the internal of the building and preparing the surrounding area for external demolition.
Forge Island is a key part in plans to regenerate the town centre, as part of the town centre Masterplan, and includes its use as a major leisure destination with a cinema, hotel, and eateries.
Rotherham Council is currently in the process of selecting a partner to work with the Council to deliver its plans, with a formal tender to go out in the coming weeks. Work on site is expected to start in 2019.
Rotherham Council’s Cabinet Member for Jobs and the Local Economy Cllr Denise Lelliott said a decision on the use of the former Law Courts was still to be made, but the site was central to redevelopment of the Forge Island area.
She said: “Forge Island is a major component of a reinvigorated town centre and will act as a catalyst for the regeneration of adjacent sites. Our ultimate aim is to have more people living, working and spending their leisure time in the town centre and development of the law courts site will enable us to move forward with those plans.”
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EU Commission Decides To Mock The Public; Insists Fears About EU Copyright Directive Are All Myths
German Politician Thinks Gmail Constituent Messages Are All Faked By Google
United States Gifted With 33rd National Emergency By President Who Says It's Not Really An Emergency
from the nation-forced-to-hold-breath-until-president-given-what-he-wants dept
Tue, Feb 19th 2019 6:07am — Tim Cushing
President Trump has declared a national emergency.
This is a thing presidents can do. And they've been doing it since 1979 when President Carter responded to a hostage situation in Iran by declaring a national emergency. We've spent four decades in perpetual emergency mode. With Trump's announcement, this makes American subject to 33 concurrent national emergencies, all of which grant the president a bunch of extra (and surprising!) powers, and encourage the government to start clawing back rights and privileges from the American people.
The declaration on the White House website is at least mostly coherent. It says there's a national security/humanitarian crisis at the southern border because, um, immigrants are still trying to migrate to the United States.
The current situation at the southern border presents a border security and humanitarian crisis that threatens core national security interests and constitutes a national emergency. The southern border is a major entry point for criminals, gang members, and illicit narcotics. The problem of large-scale unlawful migration through the southern border is long-standing, and despite the executive branch's exercise of existing statutory authorities, the situation has worsened in certain respects in recent years. In particular, recent years have seen sharp increases in the number of family units entering and seeking entry to the United States and an inability to provide detention space for many of these aliens while their removal proceedings are pending. If not detained, such aliens are often released into the country and are often difficult to remove from the United States because they fail to appear for hearings, do not comply with orders of removal, or are otherwise difficult to locate.
This statement may be coherent, but it's also mostly untrue. Southern border apprehensions are down to a quarter of the peak they reached in 2000. There have been increases in recent years of families seeking entry, but how that translates to a national security emergency is anyone's guess. The claim that immigrants blow off hearings is completely false. The DOJ's own data shows that 60-75% of non-detained immigrants show up for court appearances.
The other fudged claim -- somewhat muddied in the White House statement but somehow made more clear during the President's rambling press conference -- is the assertion that a porous border without The Wall/Fence is allowing drugs and trafficked humans to come pouring into the United States. The DEA has repeatedly stated that most drugs make their way into the US through legal points of entry. Why? Because it's way more efficient to move drugs with large vehicles, rather than a handful of mules walking through unguarded areas.
President Trump completely undercut his own national emergency declaration during his Rose Garden press conference. Trump said he didn't actually need to declare an emergency to secure border wall funds, but thought this would be faster than the usual appropriations process.
"I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster."
We are subject to a national emergency that isn't an emergency, based on assumptions made by a president who refuses to listen to the government agencies he's involving in his manufactured crisis. On top of that, this is only the second declared national emergency that actively involves the military. This should be of great concern to all Americans, including Trump supporters, as it involves the siphoning of resources usually deployed elsewhere in the world and directs them towards a domestic crisis that isn't actually a crisis.
The only other national emergency to involve the US military was the one George W. Bush issued three days after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. We've all witnessed the explosive expansion of government power flowing from this declaration and other Congressional responses to the terrorist attacks. Here we are with no attacks, living in an era of unprecedented safety, and the president of the country has just invoked expansive powers to deal with an immigration influx that has been trending downward for nearly two decades.
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Re: Re: Critical Thinking
There's not a mass of Canadians wanting to sneak into this country. If there was, I'd be for a National Emergency on the Northern border also.
Can't tell if this is a joke or not, but in reality, Canadians are one of the biggest problems for folks overstaying visas. Far more than Mexico. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Canadians-top-the-list-o f-visitors-overstaying-13150776.php
Choice quote:
"Contrary to popular belief and political rhetoric vilifying Mexicans and other communities as the culprit of most immigration violations and social ailments, when it comes to people who illegally overstay their visas, many of which become undocumented immigrants, the crown belongs to Canadians.
Canada, by far, is at the top of the list of countries whose nationals remain illegally in the U.S. after their permit expirations, with a total of 101,281 visitors doing so last year after coming with any or the nonmigrant visas. Mexico follows, but with almost half the number of Canadians for a total of 52,859. Although the rate of Canadian overstays is lower than Mexicans’ at 1.10 to 1.81 percent, respectively, the gross impact of Canadians on this kind of unauthorized population is much higher."
The only reason folks like Trump focus so much effort and money on Mexico vs Canada is pure racism.
made the First Word by Ninja
Stephen T. Stone (profile), 19 Feb 2019 @ 9:26am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: anyone's guess
We can start with Donald Trump.
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VMware sales up 37 per cent on continued demand
Licensing sales and services revenue now each count for about half of VMware's business
James Niccolai (IDG News Service)
VMware's fourth-quarter revenue jumped 37 per cent as businesses increased spending on its virtualization software, the company announced Monday.
Revenue for the three months to Dec. 31 was $US835.6 million, up from $608.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2009 and ahead of analysts' expectations, Thomson Reuters said.
Net income was $120 million, or $0.28 per share, up from $56 million and $0.14 per share in the same quarter last year, VMware said.
License sales were up 39 per cent while services revenue increased 36 per cent. Each now count for about half of VMware's total business.
"VMware clearly benefited in the fourth quarter from both an uptick in spending and the momentum of virtualization as the central technology for modernizing infrastructures," President and CEO Paul Maritz said in a statement.
The company expects revenue for the first quarter -- the one that ends March 31 -- to be between $800 million and $820 million, Chief Financial Officer Mark Peek said in a statement. That would be a jump of 26 per cent to 29 per cent from last year and above the current analyst estimate of $786 million.
Revenue for the full year was $2.9 billion, up 41 per cent from 2009, VMware said. Full-year net income was $357 million, up from $197 million for the year earlier.
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Obama's cybersecurity plan faces uncertainty with Trump
The Obama-backed commission has come up with a variety of recommendations to improve the country's cybersecurity problems
Michael Kan (IDG News Service)
U.S. consumers could one day see cybersecurity ratings on technology products, much like today's EnergyStar ratings, if the findings of a government-sponsored cybersecurity commission are heeded. Although like much in Washington right now, a lot depends on incoming U.S. President Donald Trump and his views on cybersecurity are far from clear.
The report, published on Friday by the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, also suggests usernames and passwords are replaced with something more secure and wants 150,000 cybersecurity experts trained over the next four years to help the U.S. defend against hacking threats.
The commission has the support of President Obama and began its work in February this year, with executives at Microsoft, IBM, Uber and former U.S. government officials. However, in releasing its findings, Obama acknowledged it’ll be up to the next president and U.S. Congress to more fully implement what the commission has recommended.
“As the Commission’s report counsels, we have the opportunity to change the balance further in our favor in cyberspace – but only if we take additional bold action to do so,” Obama said in a statement.
Among the recommendations include better collaboration between the government and the private sector on protecting the country’s network infrastructure, and designing better authentication systems for users.
“An ambitious but important goal for the next Administration should be to see no major breaches by 2021 in which identity -- especially the use of passwords -- is the primary vector of attack,” the commission said in its 100-page report.
The Internet of Things is also badly in need of better security standards, according to the commission. In October, easily hacked internet-connected cameras and DVRs were used to launch a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted internet access across the U.S. The commission is advising that U.S. government agencies explore whether manufacturers should be legally liable for any harm caused by poorly secured IoT devices.
“It’s an outstanding report,” said Keith Lowry, a former chief of staff with the U.S. Department of Defense. He generally agreed with the recommendations and called them a good starting point for the U.S. to tackle its cybersecurity issues.
The problem is that the U.S. government, especially Congress, isn’t known for taking swift action, he said. Many of the recommendations in the report also hope to be achieved in either two to five years, at a time when the tech industry is rapidly changing.
“In the digital world, two years is just too long,” said Lowry, who is a senior vice president at security provider Nuix. New hacking methods are constantly being invented, and as a result, the U.S. government is continually playing catch-up to stop them, he said.
It’s also unclear how Trump will approach cybersecurity issues. During this year’s presidential campaign, he didn't speak on the matter extensively, but he did call for the formation of a “cyber review team” to evaluate U.S. cyber defenses and provide recommendations.
On Monday, Trump’s transition team didn’t immediately respond for comment on the commission’s report. However, the new U.S. President will probably try to set himself apart from Obama administration, said Jim Reavis, CEO of the Cloud Security Alliance, a non-profit devoted to promoting the best security practices.
“There is just too much political capital to be lost by praising this report too much or following it too closely,” Reavis said.
Nevertheless, the commission’s report includes worthwhile recommendations, such as the need to train new cybersecurity experts, Reavis said. But he expects the private industry, and not the federal government, will be the ones taking the lead on improving the U.S.’s cybersecurity.
“A lot of the commission’s report are just starting points,” he said. “But it’s going to be that follow-through by the private sector that can make this successful.”
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from Ovum Media center
Analyst View: EU Data Protection Regulation is a necessary step, but practical implementation will still be problematic
Via Ovum Media center
It has been a long time coming, and finally the new EU Data Protection Regulation is set to see the light of day. Here are thoughts from Ovum’s Senior Analyst of Regulation, Luca Schiavoni :
It will still require a vote of the EU Parliament on the text agreed today at the end of the negotiations between European Commission, European Council, and Parliament; however, we can expect the agreed text to be adopted in the coming months. Today’s vote can be seen as a key milestone as it marks the passing of an unprecedented set of data protection rules – the first of the digital age, replacing a Directive which is now 20 years old and was conceived when the internet was barely taking its first steps. It was arguably needed, as the old rules inevitably failed to capture the evolution in technology and users’ behaviour; and it makes significant efforts to strengthen the protection of end users, which have shown to pay increasing attention to privacy issues, and are more and more often worried about the personal data they share online.
Businesses will face much tougher sanctions compared to the current framework – up to 4% of their annual worldwide turnover, which could in many cases amount to billions. However, they should be happy with the presence of the promised one-stop-shop mechanism, which should reduce the impact of compliance as companies will mainly need to liaise with one data protection authority for the whole EU.
Nonetheless, many aspects of the new rules remain difficult to put into practice. One such example is the issue of unambiguous consent, which policymakers fail to define clearly, and might be incredibly difficult to obtain in a few years’ time, when IoT applications will have become more widespread and will originate an almost uncontrolled flow of personal data. Other aspects will still require individual authorities in each country to enforce the rules in detail, effectively retaining some of the inconsistencies of the current framework. For example, the age limit to require parental consent for the use of “information society” services (i.e. social media and similar) will be set by each member state between 13 and 16 years old. This is likely to be disruptive for both online companies and young users.
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Interpol's new EP might be their strongest post-hiatus release yet
Album Review by Adam Turner-Heffer | 14 May 2019
Album title: A Fine Mess EP
Artist: Interpol
Label: Matador
Release date: 17 May
Interpol, the band who once, briefly, shone brightest during the New York post-punk revival of the early 2000s, are on something of a redemptive arc. After a real creative slump at the turn of the decade, the sad result of a drawn-out decline, the band went on hiatus after losing bass powerhouse Carlos Dengler and a desire to reassess what the band Interpol meant going forward.
They emerged out the other side as a trio with a renewed vigour for their craft; sure, nothing quite hit the heights of their first two-and-a-half records, but they were back to making stronger sounding material with 2014's El Pintor. Last year's Marauder continued the band's winning streak, solidifying their definitive sound. New EP A Fine Mess is the off-cuts from last year's full-length and – perhaps because of its short nature at just five tracks – possibly their best post-hiatus release yet.
Opener Fine Mess is the kind of simple motif the band have been missing for a while now, and Real Life is one of the band's catchiest efforts in some time. There is forever a nagging feeling with Interpol, however, that they have settled into their sound. While it's an improvement from their lowest ebbs, it will equally never match their highest peaks.
Listen to: Fine Mess, Real Life, The Weekend
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Yates claims first win on return from ban
Yates has his first win since returning from a four-month ban for a “non-intentional” failed drugs testKenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images
The day after his twin brother, Adam, finished a record-breaking fourth in the Tour de France, Simon Yates won a one-day race in Spain yesterday, his first win since returning from a four-month ban for a “non-intentional” failed drugs test.
Yates, 23, who was suspended after an administrative error led to him using an asthma inhaler without the required permission, won the Prueba Villafranca-Ordiziako Klasika in the Basque Country.
The Orica-BikeExchange rider from Bury said: “I am really happy with this win. It’s my first victory as a full professional and is very special.”
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St. Clair County Dispatch log for Wednesday, April 1
St. Clair County Central Dispatch log for Wednesday, April 1, 2015
St. Clair County Dispatch log for Wednesday, April 1 St. Clair County Central Dispatch log for Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: http://bwne.ws/1IUcnCX
Published 10:20 a.m. ET April 2, 2015
12:02 p.m., Assist Public, 800 block of St. Clair River Drive
8:28 p.m., Assist Public, 400 block of Clay St.
11:23 p.m., Domestic, 500 block of Henrietta
11:29 a.m., K9 SHERIFF, 1300 block of St. Clair Blvd
1:09 p.m., K9 SHERIFF, 200 block of Fruit
10:51 a.m., Malicious Destruction of Property, 100 block of Roselawn Drive
8:45 p.m., Traffic Stop, Libery // State
9:56 p.m., Traffic Stop, M-29 // Fruit
3:42 a.m., Motor Vehicle Violation, Miller Road // Belle River Road
10:04 p.m., Harassment, 7400 block of N Jordan Road
3:36 p.m., Burglar Alarm, 800 block of Kimball Drive
10:36 a.m., Animal, 8500 block of State Road
3:07 p.m., Disabled Vehicle, State // Norman
8:03 p.m., Malicious Destruction of Property - Vehicle, 6000 block of Central Blvd
9:23 p.m., Fire Alarm, 500 block of N Glassford St.
5:52 p.m., Assist Public, 100 block of E Church St.
11:05 p.m., Assist Public, 600 block of S Main St.
11:00 a.m., Traffic Stop, Main // Kempf Court
11:26 p.m., Breaking and Entering of a Building, 9000 block of Meisner Road
4:22 p.m., Fraud, 4200 block of S Mayer Road
9:08 p.m., Suspicious Vehicle, 4300 block of Lubahn Road
5:31 p.m., Traffic Stop, W I-94 // County Line
2:10 p.m., Assist Public, 4500 block of Indian Trail Road
10:57 p.m., Assist Public, 5400 block of St. Clair Hwy
11:38 a.m., Disabled Vehicle, Puttygut // King
1:36 p.m., K9 SHERIFF, 3500 block of King Road
7:03 p.m., Larceny, 6500 block of Springborn Road
4:17 p.m., Property-Damage Accident, Marine City Hwy // Marsh
4:17 p.m., Property-Damage Accident, Marsh Road // Marine City Hwy
1:07 p.m., Traffic Stop, Fred Moore // Wadhams
2:32 p.m., Traffic Stop, Fred Moore Hwy // King
3:09 p.m., Traffic Stop, Fred Moore Hwy // Mckinley
10:03 p.m., Traffic Stop, 2600 block of Pointe Tremble Road
10:18 p.m., Traffic Stop, Dyck // Anchor Bay Drive
5:22 p.m., 911 Hangup, 3000 block of Vincent Road
11:53 a.m., Animal, 5500 block of Mc Intyre Road
12:54 p.m., Animal, 3400 block of Timberline Drive
2:59 p.m., Disabled Vehicle, North // Cole
10:40 a.m., Suspicious Vehicle, Mclaine // Lapeer
8:55 a.m., Burglar Alarm, 8800 block of Gratiot Road
10:50 p.m., Suspicious Vehicle, 7700 block of Rattle Run Road
8:48 p.m., Threats, 900 block of Chartier Road
7:26 p.m., 911 Hangup, 1500 block of Meisner Road
6:54 p.m., Domestic, 500 block of Bree Road
7:31 p.m., Trespasser, 500 block of Bree Road
2:05 a.m., Burglar Alarm, 3800 block of Pinegrove Road
1:39 p.m., Alarm Test, 4800 block of Lakeshore Road
9:04 a.m., Animal, 1100 block of Watson Drive
12:03 p.m., Disabled Vehicle, Keewadhin // 24th Ave.
8:53 a.m., Fire other, 5100 block of Lakeshore Road
12:40 p.m., Fire other, 3700 block of Grant
2:04 p.m., Fraud, 3300 block of Sapphire Lane
8:56 a.m., Property-Damage Accident, 5100 block of Lakeshore Road
1:59 p.m., Retail Fraud, 4700 block of Twenty-fourth Ave.
12:29 a.m., Suspicious Person, 4100 block of Twenty-fourth Ave.
1:07 a.m., Traffic Stop, Keewahdin // State
1:42 a.m., Traffic Stop, Lakeshore // Norman
2:15 a.m., Traffic Stop, Metcalf // Montevista
2:36 a.m., Traffic Stop, Lakeshore // Brace
7:14 a.m., Traffic Stop, 3100 block of N River
3:53 p.m., Traffic Stop, Keewadhin // Parker
11:19 a.m., Animal, 9500 block of Jeddo Road
8:56 a.m., K9 SHERIFF, 6300 block of County Line Road
7:11 a.m., Traffic Stop, Lapeer // Fargo
7:34 a.m., Traffic Stop, M21 // Stapleton
9:23 a.m., Traffic Stop, Rynn // Kilgore
11:13 a.m., Traffic Stop, Lapeer // Castor
4:42 p.m., Assist Public, 6800 block of Ravenswood Road
7:00 p.m., Civil Post, 5400 block of Smiths Creek Road
5:17 p.m., Disabled Vehicle, W I-94 // Gratiot Road
5:20 p.m., Disabled Vehicle, N Range Road // Ravenswood Road
7:46 a.m., Property-Damage Accident, Range // Smithcreek
3:23 p.m., Property-Damage Accident, 2700 block of Wadhams Road
4:19 p.m., Property-Damage Accident, 4500 block of Gratiot Road
5:32 p.m., Reckless Driving, 4500 block of Eleventh
5:35 p.m., Stolen Vehicle, 5800 block of Dove Road
11:17 p.m., Suspicious Vehicle, 5600 block of Sleepy Hollow Lane
7:03 p.m., Threats, 5500 block of Lapeer Road
4:32 p.m., Traffic, Ravenswood // Richman
2:02 a.m., Traffic Stop, Wadhams // Smiths Creek
2:28 a.m., Traffic Stop, E I-94 // Smiths Creek Road
10:58 a.m., Traffic Stop, Lapeer // Wadhams
1:48 p.m., Traffic Stop, Lapeer // Taylor
11:51 a.m., Trespasser, Wadhams // Lapeer
3:14 p.m., Animal, 300 block of Westminster
7:11 a.m., Assist Public, 300 block of S Parker
3:10 p.m., Assist Public, 600 block of Broadway
7:44 p.m., Assist Public, 100 block of S Main
9:41 p.m., Larceny, 500 block of S Parker
2:25 p.m., Suspicious Incident, 6700 block of S River Road
10:36 p.m., Suspicious Incident, 400 block of S Third
12:20 p.m., Traffic, 6000 block of King Road
1:02 a.m., Burglar Alarm, 1200 block of Michigan Ave.
9:40 a.m., Burglar Alarm, 3200 block of Gratiot Blvd
8:58 a.m., Fire Alarm, 300 block of Kendall
5:31 p.m., Animal, Minnesota // Fifteenth
6:17 p.m., Breaking and Entering of a Building, 700 block of Alexandria
11:11 a.m., Reckless Driving, Gratiot // Range
3:51 a.m., Suspicious Incident, 1100 block of Gratiot Blvd
4:00 a.m., Suspicious Vehicle, 3100- Blk Gratiot
7:07 p.m., Traffic Stop, 80000 block of Main
5:35 p.m., Disorderly Person, 13000 block of Foley Road
10:35 a.m., Traffic Stop, Capac // I-69
11:21 a.m., Traffic Stop, Cade // Hull
noon, Traffic Stop, M-21 // Knoll
12:07 p.m., Traffic Stop, M-21 // Knoll
4:31 p.m., Weapons Complaint, 14000 block of Bryce Road
8:36 a.m., 911 Hangup, 700 block of Erie
4:03 p.m., 911 Hangup, 500 block of Tenth St.
5:37 p.m., 911 Hangup, 2100 block of Grant Pl
10:08 p.m., Burglar Alarm, 2700 block of Pinegrove Ave
2:36 a.m., Fire Alarm, 1700 block of Hancock
11:20 p.m., Alarm Panic, 3300 block of Avondale
9:14 a.m., Alarm Test, 1500 block of Tenth St.
8:01 a.m., Animal, 1500 block of Gillett
3:46 p.m., Animal, 1600 block of Francis
10:15 a.m., Assist Public, Huron // Stanton
2:33 p.m., Assist Public, 20th // Griswold
2:37 p.m., Assist Public, 2800 block of Vanness
3:28 p.m., Assist Public, 3100 block of Electric Ave.
6:06 p.m., Assist Public, 1100 block of Pearl
8:23 p.m., Breaking and Entering of a Building, 1600 block of Twentieth
9:41 a.m., Civil, 3100 block of Electric Ave.
11:54 a.m., Disorderly Person, 2900 block of Twelfth Ave.
7:32 p.m., Disorderly Person, 1300 block of Twenty-fourth
11:44 p.m., Disorderly Person, 3300 block of Military
8:44 a.m., Domestic, 3100 block of Electric Ave.
7:26 a.m., Fire other, 1200 block of Pinegrove Ave
9:07 p.m., Fire other, Division // Jay
9:56 p.m., Fire other, Gratiot // Garfield
2:54 p.m., Fraud, 100 block of Mc Morran Blvd
7:40 p.m., Fraud, 2700 block of Seventeenth Ave.
12:46 p.m., Neighbor Problem, 1100 block of Gillett
6:04 p.m., Neighbor Problem, 3100-blkmilitary
10:06 p.m., Neighbor Problem, 2300 block of Military
10:22 a.m., Property-Damage Accident, 1000 block of Water
12:13 p.m., Personal-Injury Accident, Stanton // 10th
9:10 p.m., Personal-Injury Accident, Harker // Pinegrove
9:10 p.m., Personal-Injury Accident, 2300 block of Pinegrove Ave
1:24 a.m., Property Check, 2200 block of Lapeer Ave.
7:57 p.m., Stalking, 2500 block of John L
12:48 a.m., Suspicious Person, 12th // Jenks
2:54 p.m., Suspicious Person, Stanton // Poplar
6:09 p.m., Suspicious Person, Moak // Electric
12:24 a.m., Suspicious Vehicle, 1000 block of Fourth
2:59 p.m., Threats, 1100 block of Water
6:55 p.m., Threats, 1000 block of Thirteenth St.
3:11 p.m., Traffic, 1200 block of Garfield
7:48 p.m., Traffic, 1300 block of Twenty-fourth
12:50 a.m., Traffic Stop, 24th // Court
2:01 a.m., Traffic Stop, Electric // 16th
3:21 a.m., Traffic Stop, 1200 block of Pinegrove Ave
3:23 a.m., Traffic Stop, 16th // Lapeer
4:27 a.m., Traffic Stop, 900 block of Court
7:58 a.m., Traffic Stop, Riverview // Pinegrove
8:29 a.m., Traffic Stop, 24th // Howard
1:17 p.m., Traffic Stop, Dove // 16th
2:05 p.m., Traffic Stop, 16th // Oak
3:56 p.m., Traffic Stop, 3500 block of Pinegrove Ave
4:54 p.m., Traffic Stop, Bancroft // 9th
5:32 p.m., Traffic Stop, 1200 block of Union
7:54 p.m., Traffic Stop, 10th Ave. // Lincoln
8:16 p.m., Traffic Stop, State // St. Clair
8:23 p.m., Traffic Stop, Water // Henry
8:39 p.m., Traffic Stop, Mcpherson // 10th Ave.
9:07 p.m., Traffic Stop, 2000 Blk Military
9:31 p.m., Traffic Stop, Krafft // Pinegrove
10:19 p.m., Trespasser, 1800 block of Sixteenth
12:57 p.m., Weapons Complaint, 100 block of Mc Morran Blvd
1:58 p.m., 911 Hangup, 800 block of Twenty-fourth
3:38 p.m., Burglar Alarm, 2000 block of Henry
7:19 p.m., Animal, 3700 block of Lapeer Road
1:24 a.m., Assist Public, 4400 block of Lapeer Road
8:03 a.m., Assist Public, 2800 block of Michigan Road
12:26 p.m., Assist Public, 1200 block of Minnesota Road
9:06 a.m., Civil, 1200 block of Minnesota Road
6:12 p.m., Civil, Griswold // Twenty-sixth
8:53 p.m., Domestic, 4300 block of Howard Road
1:25 p.m., Fire other, 3000 block of Strawberry Lane
1:26 p.m., Fire other, 1700 block of Twenty-fourth
11:49 a.m., Fraud, 1100 block of Michigan Road
12:10 p.m., Property-Damage Accident, 1200 block of Thirty-second
5:52 p.m., Personal-Injury Accident, Michigan // W Water
4:04 p.m., Stalking, 4400 block of Atkins Road
8:46 p.m., Suspicious Person, 2000 block of Water
9:31 a.m., Threats, 1000 block of Twenty-sixth
11:34 p.m., Traffic, Strawberry Lane // Oakwood
12:11 p.m., Vehicle in Ditch, W I-94 // W I-69
9:45 p.m., Structure Fire, 10th // Cedar
3:40 p.m., Personal-Injury Accident, Chestnut // 20th
8:31 a.m., Abandoned Vehicle, E I-69 // M-19
11:10 a.m., Suspicious Incident, 11000 block of Masters Road
1:31 p.m., Traffic Stop, M-19 // Smiths Creek
9:37 p.m., Assist Public, 900 block of Henry
2:22 p.m., Domestic, Carney // Clinton
11:39 p.m., Domestic, 900 block of Henry
11:11 a.m., Property-Damage Accident, Third // Vine
3:35 p.m., Property-Damage Accident, Vine // Third
5:58 p.m., Suspicious Incident, 500 block of N Riverside Ave.
11:19 p.m., Suspicious Incident, 1200 block of S Carney Drive
12:39 p.m., Traffic, Robinson // Vine
7:18 p.m., Traffic Stop, Fred Moore // Carney
9:57 p.m., Traffic Stop, King // St. Clair Hwy
St. Clair Twp
1:41 p.m., Animal, 10 block of Golfside Drive
3:40 p.m., Animal, 1500 block of Golden Gate Court
3:58 p.m., Animal, Pug // Violet
11:00 p.m., Assist Public, 4200 block of Neuman Road
1:24 p.m., Commercial Vehicle Inspection, E I-94 // Gratiot
2:15 p.m., K9 SHERIFF, E I-94 // Gratiot
1:15 a.m., Reckless Driving, 2100 block of Hurst
1:02 a.m., Traffic Stop, W I-94 // S Wadhams Road
12:47 p.m., Traffic Stop, I-94 // Wadhams
1:39 p.m., Traffic Stop, E I-94 // Gratiot
2:20 p.m., Traffic Stop, Wadhams // I-94
3:28 p.m., Traffic Stop, E I-94 // Wadhams
4:31 p.m., Traffic Stop, E I-94 // Pine River
4:24 p.m., Civil, 9400 block of Hill Road
3:29 p.m., Burglar Alarm, 300 block of N Main
3:30 p.m., Assist Public, 100 block of W Mechanic
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The Personal Is Political
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Where Did This Women's Movement Slogan Come From? What Does It Mean?
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by Linda Napikoski
Linda Napikoski is a writer and grassroots activist with a J.D. international law. Her editorial focus is on feminism and global human rights.
"The personal is political" was a frequently heard feminist rallying cry, especially during the late 1960s and 1970s. The exact origin of the phrase is unknown and sometimes debated. Many second-wave feminists used the phrase "the personal is political" or its underlying meaning in their writing, speeches, consciousness-raising, and other activities.
The meaning has sometimes been interpreted to mean that political and personal issues affect each other. It has also meant that the experience of women is the grounding of feminism, both personal and political. Some have seen it as a kind of practical model for creating feminist theory: begin with the small issues with which you have personal experience, and move from there to the larger systemic issues and dynamics which may explain and/or address those personal dynamics.
The Carol Hanisch Essay
Feminist and writer Carol Hanisch's essay titled "The Personal is Political" appeared in the anthology Notes From the Second Year: Women's Liberation in 1970. She is therefore often credited with creating the phrase. However, she wrote in an introduction to the 2006 republication of the essay that she did not come up with the title. She believed "The Personal Is Political" was selected by the editors of the anthology, Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt, who were both feminists involved with the group New York Radical Feminists.
Some feminist scholars have noted that by the time the anthology was published in 1970, "the personal is political" had already become a widely used part of the women's movement and was not a quote attributable to any one person.
The Political Meaning
Carol Hanisch's essay explains the idea behind the phrase "the personal is political." A common debate between "personal" and "political" questioned whether women's consciousness-raising groups were a useful part of the political women's movement. According to Hanisch, calling the groups "therapy" was a misnomer, as the groups were not intended to solve any women's personal problems. Instead, consciousness-raising was a form of political action to elicit discussion about such topics as women's relationships, their roles in marriage, and their feelings about childbearing.
The essay came in particular out of her experience in the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) and as part of the women's caucus of that organization, and out of her experience in the New York Radical Women and the Pro-Woman Line within that group.
Her essay "The Personal Is Political" said that coming to a personal realization of how "grim" the situation was for women was as important as doing political "action" such as protests. Hanisch noted that "political" refers to any power relationships, not just those of government or elected officials.
In 2006 Hanisch wrote about how the essay's original form came out of her experience of working in male-dominated civil rights, anti-Vietnam War and left (old and new) political groups. Lip service was given to women's equality, but beyond narrow economic equality, other women's issues were often dismissed. Hanisch was particularly concerned about the persistence of the idea that women's situation was women's own fault, and perhaps "all in their heads." She also wrote of her regret at not anticipating the ways in which both "The Personal Is Political" and the "Pro-Woman Line" would be misused and subject to revisionism.
Among the influential works cited as bases for "the personal is political" idea are C. Wright Mills' 1959 book The Sociological Imagination, which discusses the intersection of public issues and personal problems, and Claudia Jones' 1949 essay "An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women."
Another feminist sometimes said to have coined the phrase is Robin Morgan, who founded several feminist organizations and edited the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful, also published in 1970.
Gloria Steinem has said that it is impossible to know who first said "the personal is political" and that saying you coined the phrase "the personal is political" would be like saying you coined the phrase "World War II." Her 2012 book, Revolution from Within, has been cited as a later example of the use of the idea that political issues cannot be addressed separately from the personal.
Some have critiqued the focus on "the personal is political" because, they say, it has meant a focus more exclusively on personal issues such as family division of labor, and has ignored systemic sexism and political problems and solutions.
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How Simone de Beauvoir Inspired Second Wave Feminism
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Startling Microsoft document leaked: personal info they’ll share with police
An internal Microsoft document has been leaked to the Internet that’s causing a bit of a stir. The Global Criminal Compliance Handbook informs police and intelligence services just what sorts of information Microsoft collects on its users, and how the cops can access that information:
What is gathered and available about you is quite comprehensive, including your emails, detailed information about when you sign in and use the services, credit card information, and so on.
At first Microsoft tried to halt release of the data for copyright reasons, but has withdrawn that effort. But they’ve since withdrawn the request (the zipped document is available here).
People in IT have long known that all sorts of extremely personal information is available online. But it’s not often to have that belief confirmed in such a public way. Contents of emails, Messenger chats, credit card information, and more can be accessed.
It will be interesting to see if this causes bad press for Microsoft, or if it will fail to register among the public.
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08.11.10 State Scrutiny Scrutinising Government
Councils give inaccurate answers to FOI requests
Published November 8 2010
By Henry Richards
Local councils are providing inaccurate information in response to Freedom of Information requests.
The Bureau carried out a nine-month investigation into how local councils spend their money. At the core of this investigation were Freedom of Information requests (FOIs) sent to all 433 local authorities in the UK, on a range of topics, including staff perks, redundancy payouts and sick leave.
This comprehensive FOI trawl formed the basis of the Bureau’s stories, which were covered by Channel 4 News and the Daily Telegraph.
The Bureau checked each figure obtained with the councils before publication and discovered that nearly one in four responses to our survey proved inaccurate.
The Freedom of Information Act gives people the right to access official information held by public bodies. Its aim is to make public bodies more accountable. Under the Act public bodies are obliged to provide the information held without alteration. As a result, an FOI request stands as a test of the quality of records kept by councils.
The Bureau checked all information gained before publication. We contacted more than 90 councils to verify the data supplied by FOI officers. But 22 councils said the information provided through FOI was inaccurate.
In its response to our question on sick leave Caerphilly County Borough Council, for example, said the number of staff absent for six months or more was 145 in 2009/10. Asked to verify this data, the council said the figures supplied in response to our FOI had in fact been those for staff on sick leave for two weeks or more, and that the correct figures “would be significantly reduced, and without further detailed calculation, could be at least 50% less”.
Caerphilly Council declined to offer a corrected figure, despite making the following commitment to open government on its website:
“We are firmly committed to promoting openness and transparency in the way we conduct our affairs.”
Getting it wrong
They are not alone. When Lancashire County Council was contacted about the cost of living allowances provided to staff, including car business mileage, it initially replied that it spent £65m on such expenses in 2009/10. Once again though, when we asked for confirmation, that figure changed dramatically, in this case dropping to £10.16m, less than a fifth of the original response.
The council could offer no explanation for this discrepancy: “This figure is significantly less than the figure that was originally given to you and we are currently looking into this matter. We can only apologise for any inconvenience caused due to this error.”
Former Labour MP and Government minister Lord Wills is critical of the way some local authorities have implemented the Freedom of Information Act.
“Some councils, not all councils, but some councils are very poor at delivering their obligations under the Freedom of Information Act,” he said.
“I think some genuinely don’t understand it, they don’t treat it as a priority, which is a problem in itself, and they genuinely have not taken the time and trouble to understand how the Act works.
“Some, I’m afraid, inevitably use it to try and conceal information they would rather not come into the public domain. This is wrong and it needs to change.”
Missing deadlines
Accuracy is not the only area where councils fail to meet their obligations under the Freedom of Information Act.
Public bodies are required under the Act to provide information no later than 20 working days after the initial request was received.
However, many councils failed to reply to the Bureau’s requests within this time period. In the case of one typical request made by the Bureau, 29% of councils failed to meet the statutory deadline for answers. This pattern was repeated across many of the requests sent out to councils by the Bureau.
In some instances replies were received several months late. Nottingham City Council responded to a request for information on foreign trips made by council staff and members some five months after the initial request had been sent.
But North West Leicestershire District Council was an even worse offender, replying to a question concerning staff discipline a full six and a half months after the initial request was sent.
The Bureau’s investigation raised serious concerns on council spending in a time of serious budget cuts. Through laborious checking we were able to publish an accurate and detailed investigation. But the failings in the system discovered by the Bureau raise serious concerns about how FOI requests are handled by local councils and the information supplied.
Council spending: Millions lost on junkets, pay-offs and sickness
Henry Richards
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Kilpatrick Sep 14th, 2018
I did a foi request from my council .the information was inaccurate . Claimed loud radio music from my home .they did not see a radio or hear any music when the counil noise team arrived at my door they heard talking from an assumed radio .where do i stand
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Brexit be damned. In an effort to comply with European Union pollution regulations, London says that later this year it will begin levying a £10 (about $12.50) charge on older cars if they want to drive in the city's core.
Though not an outright ban on cars, the fee is a step toward creating the "toughest emission standard of any major city," said London mayor Sadiq Khan in a release issued to members of the media.
London plans to implement the new charge on October 23, 2017, the 14th anniversary of the city's first congestion fee. The city estimates that the fee will apply to about 10,000 vehicles driven into central London on weekdays.
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Du rififi chez les hommes - reading topotropically
1/ chronotope, chronotrope and topotrope
The heist in Du rififi chez le hommes (Jules Dassin 1955) - hereinafter Rififi - is the centre of the film, both chronologically - it takes place half way through - and topographically - the establishment they rob (Mappin and Webb) is the most central of the film's principal locations, close to the centre of the outward spiralling arrangement of arrondissements that is Paris:
As the notebook below indicates, the robbery is meticulously mapped and timed:
We have here a chronotope, both in a strict sense that spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one image, and in a looser sense of the term commonly derived from Bakhtin's writing on literature:
'In the literary artistic chronotope, spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought-out, concrete whole. Time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible; likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot, and history. This intersection of axes and fusion of indicators characterizes the artistic chronotope.
'The chronotope in literature has an intrinsic generic significance. It can even be said that it is precisely the chronotope that defines genre and generic distinctions, for in literature the primary category in the chronotope is time. The chronotope as a formally constitutive category determines to a significant degree the image of man in literature as well. The image of man is always intrinsically chronotopic.'
M.M. Bakhtin, ‘Forms of time and of the chronotope in the novel: notes toward a historical poetics’, in The Dialogic Imagination (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), pp.84-85.
Bakhtin’s chronotope is a simple enough concept that can become complicated in its applications. One unexpectedly fruitful complication is the occasional typographic error that replaces the chronotope with a chronotrope. The chronotrope, if it really were a tool available to us, would be a very useful thing to have. It would be a name for the reconfiguration of a temporal given, and would be particularly useful if we could establish a taxonomy of chronotropes.
But even more useful - for me at least - would be the complementary term topotrope, a name for the reconfiguration of a spatial given. (Establishing a taxonomy of topotropes is one of the longer term aims of the Cine-Tourist project.)
In heist films, the relation of planning to execution is the primary chronotope. A discrepancy between planning and execution can generate suspense and initiate the dénouement. When place and time are discrepant, as in the narration of Bob le Flambeur, for example, space is opened up for the primary chronotope to be troped upon (but I shan't be calling that a chronotopotrope). If it is time that is troped, as in the pre-enactment of the heist in Bob le Flambeur, this is called a chronotrope. If it is place that is troped, as in Bob's mapping of the casino layout in white paint on grass, that is a topotrope:
Bob le flambeur (J-P Melville 1956)
2/ the map in the film
A topotropic reading might compare Bob's close-to-scale map of the heist to the map in a notebook of Rififi, and find in the difference an expression of key differences - between the personalities of the mappers, for example, or between ways in which each film uses the heist as mise-en-abyme. It would find that the Rififi heist-map matches the meticulous organisation of the film's movements in and around Paris, as if planning a heist and planning a shoot were the same sort of thing:
When, as in the two examples above, the map-en-abyme is a map made in the film, there is a strong identification with filmmaking itself as a cartographic activity.
A pre-existing map, either scrutinised by characters or simply positioned within their framing décor, argues rather for an identification between character and spectator, for both of whom maps are a part of their real world. Here is the first of the three other places with maps in Rififi:
A place-centred reading might here bring out the film's thematics of national identity, with the regional Frenchness of the protagonist -Tony 'le Stéphanois' (i.e. he is from Saint Etienne) - set against a variety of names denoting foreignness: Le Suédois, Ferrati, Grutter, Teddy le Levantin, even Mappin & Webb. It could make something of director Jules Dassin's own complicated identity, an exiled American son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, with a French name, who in Rififi plays 'César le Milanais', an Italian who can't speak French but dies because he talked too much (Dassin appears as 'Perlo Vita' in the credits.) Such a reading would be interested in this early appearance of a map of France, even if the map principally serves to identify this as a café just like any other. Like this one, for example, in Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi (1954):
In the second place with maps, they are familiar street furniture, positioned at the entrance to Port Royal station, and there is a further map on the platform. This is the ligne de Sceaux, which would later become part of the RER:
Tony Le Stéphanois has no need to consult these maps, knowing exactly the direction to be taken by the person he is following. This journey out to the suburbs is economically presented: the two get on at Port Royal and two shots later get are shown leaving the station at Saint Rémy lès Chevreuse.
Here the film's own ability to read a map might be called into question, since the lights on the panel above the platform indicate that the arriving train - the one which the two men will take - is not going to Saint Rémy lès Chevreuse but, via the branch line, to Robinson. (My reading here is perhaps too close.)
The last maps in the film are at the entrance to La Chapelle station, on Ligne 2 of the métro (part of the elevated section to the North):
These maps are passed in the course of Tony's breakneck car journey back from St Rémy, and hardly attract our attention, given the intensity of this climactic sequence.
3/ the map of the film
For this over-close reader, at least, these unobserved maps stand for the unnoticed exactness in the plotting of that journey. Tony retrieves Tonio from a café in Versailles and delivers him to his mother in Ménilmontant. Though what we see is a rapid and fragmentary montage of views inside and from the car (seventy-four shots in two and a half minutes - an ASL of 2 seconds), every identifiable element of the ground covered is topographically correct. You can follow the journey stage by stage in the breakdown of exteriors below (see number 33), and here is a rudimentary tracing of it on a Google Map:
The map of a film's locations will take one of two basic forms: the tracing of an itinerary, as above, and the plotting of points, as below:
View Du rififi chez les hommes in a larger map
This map shows the distribution of all the film's locations across and around the city, but it doesn't differentiate between briefly visited places of minor importance and places where key actions are played out at length (i.e. it's not a chronotope.)
Such a map does give us a sense of the film's spread, and is especially informative when compared to the location maps of other films. We would, for example, be able to configure more exactly some key differences between Rififi and Bob le flambeur if we could compare their maps (I'm working on the Bob map as we speak).
Mappin and Webb - here the anglophone in me can't help but hear mapping (and even webbing) behind the choice of target for the heist, but we must let that pass - on the rue de la Paix is the topographic centre of the film, a real place documented in detail. Its counterpart is the L'Age d'or nightclub, a fictional place that centres the film generically, in the gangster milieu. Though the interiors, where most of the related action takes place, are studio creations (signed Trauner), the exterior of the club is real, at 59b rue Pigalle. The two brief shots of Tony in the street against a backdrop of neon briefly connect Rififi with other Pigalle-set crime films of the period, such as Bob le Flambeur or Le Long des trottoirs:
Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville 1956)
rue Pigalle, 9e ( at the junction with the rue de Douai)
Le Long des trottoirs (Léonid Moguy 1956)
The club in Pigalle is to the north of the map of the film. A little further north (on the other side of Montmartre), is the home of one of the robbers, Ferrati. Jo and his family live to the east, in Ménilmontant. We don't see where Tony lives, but the film opens with him at a café in the fifth arrondissement, to the south, where he is an habitué. With the kidnappers' villa to the west of Paris we might sense that the film is plotted to cover all points out from the central heist location, to the margins and beyond.
4/ Centres
My central figure needs qualifying. Narratively the heist is the film's core, and occurs topographically at the most central of the principal locations, but in relation to the actual city this is only relative. Though its arrangement of arrondissements from one to twenty spirals out to the city's edge, the point of departure cannot pretend to be the city's centre in anything but a numerical sense. The first arrondissement contains the Palais de Justice and Police Headquarters, the Louvre, the Palais Royal, the Tuileries, and the Halles centrales, but none of these can make an exclusive claim to be the heart of the city - Zola's 'ventre de Paris' , the Halles, is only its belly. The city's administrative centre and its cathedral are in the 4e, the country is governed from the 7e and 8e, and it is in the 8e that we find the city's omphalos, the obelisk in the middle of the place de la Concorde.
By contrast, when briefly Rififi goes to London - by means of back-projection - we are shown that city's indisputable centre, the still point of its turning world, Piccadilly Circus:
Dassin remembers here an earlier office overlooking Piccadilly Circus, from his preceding film Night and the City (1950):
As the protagonist's nemesis, Kristo is here centred both narratively and topographically.
Without covering as much territory as Rififi, Night and the City visits London like a determined cine-tourist - Saint Paul's, Covent Garden, Trafalgar Square, County Hall, the South Bank... ending up in the picturesque environs of Hammersmith Bridge:
Though it doesn't go there for its narrative climax, Rififi is similarly drawn to the river's edge. Many of its passing moments occur on or near bridges and banksides:
pont de Bir-Hakeim, 16e
Port de Javel, 15e
quai de la Rapée, 12e (the morgue)
viaduc d'Austerlitz, 12e
quai Saint Bernard, 5e
viaduc d'Auteuil (pont du Point-du-Jour), 16e
quai de Gesvres, 4e
pont de Saint Cloud
On a map, the river and its banks and bridges describe horizontal trajectories, but they often also serve to introduce motifs of verticality, of falling, above all. The end of Night and the City, when Fabian's body is thrown into the Thames, here rejoins a moment in Rififi:
5/ stairs
To dump Fabian's body into the river, Kristo's henchman had first to go up, via some stairs, to a place from which it could drop. This is the last of Night and the City's verticality-motifs, all figuring Fabian's fall.
Rififi shares this interest in verticality. Its first actualisation is the mechanical penguin that falls from a table:
The heist itself, drilling through to the jeweller's from the floor above (reached by lift) and dropping down through the hole, is the most obvious instance. Elsewhere the relation between planes is expressed diagonally, through inclines and staircases. (Rififi is a good candidate for an escalographic reading.)
Even if the protagonist's death comes as the endpoint of a largely horizontal trajectory, the car journey across Paris, that journey included inclines, first down towards the pont de Saint Cloud and then, at the end, up towards Ménilmontant. The last shot of the film shows the car awkwardly positioned at the angle of a zigzagging, sloping street (with his dead body still at the wheel):
More frequently, especially in interior scenes, staircases figure the relation between levels, often supplemented by the angled camera:
The complementarity of stairs and angled shots is most evident in the shootout, where characters reach different levels of the half-constructed house by staircases, while the angled camera connects those levels through its gaze:
Conclusion: identifications
I am concluding this piece with a more basic cine-touristic concern. This research began as an effort to identify all of the locations in Rififi, but two still elude me. One is the half-built house where the shooting takes place (taking up six and a half minutes of the film). I have no reason to doubt that it actually is near Saint Rémy lès Chevreuse, as the film states, but have not yet done the work to locate it exactly (I'll update this post when I have).
The other place to be identified is on screen for just one shot lasting ten seconds. It occurs in the montage sequence showing Tony in various locations as he seeks information to help find the kidnapped Tonio. Each shot in the sequence is emblematic of that quest, and the dissolves between them, signifying ellipsis, make each shot free standing, both chronologically and topographically. That said, of the four streets shown where Tony makes enquiries, three can be identified as in one specific area around what is now the parc de Belleville, which otherwise is not a topographic focus of the film (Jo le Suédois and family live a little to the south of these streets).
Each of the shots involves a camera movement that combines different views of the place filmed, most dramatically in the first, where the camera follows Tony as he turns the corner from a narrow impasse (the cour de la Métairie), past a café (from which he summons two acquaintances) and onto the rue de Belleville:
Here are the first and last views in the shot as they appear now:
The location of this first shot took some work to identify. The second posed no problem, since its two elements are among the most frequently photographed (and filmed) streets of the area. The shot begins looking down the passage Julien Lacroix, and the camera pans to look up towards the end of the rue Vilin, with its distinctive Y-shaped staircase:
I cannot show you what these streets look like now, since they were demolished in the 1980s when the parc de Belleville was created. Here, instead are two views by photographers: the passage Julien Lacroix (taken by Janine Niepce in 1957) and the escalier rue Vilin/rue Piat (by Willy Ronis in 1959):
The third place in this sequence I cannot track down. The camera pans from a conversation by a gateway to watch Tony going down a staircase. This staircase is in type like others in the Belleville-Ménilmontant area, but it corresponds to none that still exists, nor to any I have seen in the work of the area's photographers:
I have seen it once elsewhere, in this shot from Cavalcanti's Rien que les heures (1926), but in that film there are no clues as to where this might be:
The last shot (which comes after a brief scene at Jo's apartment that interrupts the sequence) like the second is of a place easy to identify from photographs and films. The camera pans from a café on the rue de la Mare to take in the famous, and still extant, footbridge that crosses the Petite Ceinture railway, with the spire of Notre Dame de la Croix in the background:
Here is this passerelle, photographed two years later by Janine Niepce:
And here it is, from the wonderful Paris Avant site (where every day an old postcard of Paris is posted next to a photograph of the same place today):
To return, in conclusion, to the problem of the third place:
One suggestion has been that if it's not Ménilmontant then it must be Montmartre, which would make of this sequence not the exploration of a specific locale but only the exploration of a motif - sloping streets and staircases. That motif, as we have seen, is strong in Rififi, connecting with a number of angled views of and from interior staircases, but it does seem strange that the film would here depart from its very strong impulse to be topographically consistent. Local historian Christian Wacrenier (author of the splendid Montmartre secret blog) doesn't think it looks like a Montmartrois stairway, but Guy Darol (creator of the brilliant Ménilmontant-devoted site Rue du Pressoir) doesn't recognise it as local to him.
For the moment I have no answer, but am left with a salutary reminder that the exact location of a place seen in a film is not the single key to the meaning of that place, or to the meaning of its place in a film. In both Rien que les heures and Rififi the camera has registered how the city organises its spaces, and each film has allowed that organisation to inform its own form. I doubt that our reading of what this place is will be very much changed when we know where it is.
(That said, if you know where it is, please let me know, here.)
See here for locations in Rififi so far identified.
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work June 18, 2018
In Fashion, Verbal Abuse Is Going Out of Style
By Amy Odell
Photo: Twentieth Century Fox
Mary Z. liked fashion when she started her career. She interned in the fashion department of Cosmopolitan, then under the editorship of Kate White, and went on to an editorial assistant role at the magazine First for Women. “Everyone was lovely,” she said.
Then, she took a job as an assistant in fashion PR.
The owner of one firm she worked at, she said, threw hardcover books at her and her colleagues. “He would throw things at us pretty often,” she said. “He would call us cunts.”
The mid-level employees at the company weren’t much better. “I saw the way girls there treated their assistants — they would berate them,” she said. “They would call them fat.”
After 15 years in fashion, sick of being subjected to and witnessing mistreatment, she moved to Washington D.C., where she now works happily at a software company run by people who “genuinely care about you and how you feel and how you think.”
To the average person, The Devil Wears Prada is a farce. But to those who have worked in fashion, the 2006 film can feel like a documentary. When the movie came out 12 years ago, pre–social media, assistants who had experienced emotional abuse were virtually powerless to do anything about it. But today, emboldened by the #MeToo movement that brought down powerful alleged sexual abusers in the industry like Terry Richardson and Mario Testino, they’re finding ways to organize and share their stories — and managers have noticed.
Assistants and former assistants interviewed for this story described working conditions that seem like fashion industry parodies. One former PR assistant said she was required to stand outside in 15-degree weather without a coat for hours to check people into a New York Fashion Week show. Assistants — who earned salaries in the low $40,000 range — were only allowed to wear black coats, and hers was the wrong color. “I couldn’t use the iPad because my fingers were so cold and so numb,” she said.
Another said her boss, furious that a certain shipment didn’t arrive to a designer’s appointment overseas on time, screamed at her and threatened to take the money to overnight the items out of her paycheck (they never did). During Fashion Week, she was expected to work until 3 a.m. and come back to the office at 6 a.m.
An assistant who is called fat on a daily basis by her manager is, understandably, less protected by the law than a sexual-assault victim. Unlike sexual or physical assault, emotional and verbal abuse aren’t illegal. “In the case of an actual assault, there might be some kind of criminal action,” said Susan Scafidi, the director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham. “The likelihood of that, unless you’re seriously injured by a flying stiletto, is small.”
Nonetheless, the balance of power in the fashion industry is undergoing a major shift. Models and other low-level workers have been organizing since 2012, when the Model Alliance formed to protect models from issues like sexual assault and non-payment. Also in 2012, a Harper’s Bazaar intern sued Hearst Corporation for violating labor laws by not paying her, though she was effectively full-time. (She lost in court the following year.) Unpaid interns also filed a buzzy class action lawsuit against Condé Nast in 2013; the company settled for $5.8 million.
Though Hearst’s interns lost, the company ultimately decided to start paying its interns — now called “fellows” — an hourly wage anyway. “Even a failed lawsuit has the effect of changing practices within the industry,” Scafidi said. Both lawsuits sent a powerful message to fashion’s lowest level office workers: as fungible as you are, you are not helpless. The explosive #MeToo movement has only reinforced that notion, said Scafidi: “I think what we’re seeing is the beginning of an overall sea change.”
As with the #MeToo movement, that change is beginning on social media. The @FashionAssistants Instagram account, which has more than 16,000 followers after starting in December, serves as a repository for assistants’ workplace horror stories.
The person behind the account, who works as an assistant in the industry and spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, said it didn’t start taking off until she began sharing anonymous confessions about abusers at the suggestion of a friend. Disturbingly common complaints on the account — which various sources echoed in interviews for this story — include bosses who yelled in front of crowds of people, fat-shamed assistants, and failed to pay. (Many assistants work on a freelance basis for individual stylists or photographers. They have no contracts and, therefore, virtually no protection, unless they want to pursue legal action in small claims court.)
The person behind the account said she has been careful not to portray assistant abuse as being part of #MeToo. “We never wanted to associate it with anything at all as serious as sexual assault because that’s a whole other level.”
Yet, she talks about what she’s created as though it’s the beginning of a movement. “I want it to turn into something,” she said. Already, she’s gotten advice from Model Alliance founder Sara Ziff about how to create an organization that can protect freelancers, and helped organize a recent panel discussion in conjunction with the London College of Fashion.
Yet even without a formal organization, she and other assistants get the sense that work environments are improving, if only because people are afraid to be called out on social media by former employees. One assistant told me a past abusive boss invited her to coffee to make amends after the @fashionassistants account starting attracting attention in the industry. “I had moved on [from the abuse], but it made me feel great that they acknowledged that what they had done was wrong. And they said they’re changing and they have grown up themselves and they’re in a less stressful position at work,” said this person, who knows other assistants who have had similar interactions with former bosses recently.
Both assistants and those who employ them agree that the fashion industry understands the power social media has to expose abusers, which the #MeToo movement has only reinforced. Right after his Golden Globe win, tweets emerged accusing James Franco of sexual misconduct, with an investigation by the LA Times into such behaviors following shortly thereafter. Freelancers already use social media to call out clients in the fashion industry for non-payment. “I do notice when you call out magazines or labels on social media, it’s the only way you get things resolved,” said London-based stylist Jamie-Maree Shipton. “We really have to fight for the things that we deserve.”
Formed in October, the Humans of Fashion Foundation aims to protect all fashion workers internationally, including assistants, from all forms of abuse. Founders Antoniette Costa, who studied fashion law at Fordham, and Kristina Romanova, a model, are developing an app that would allow the industry’s abuse victims to connect anonymously with mentors, therapists, and lawyers. Ultimately, they hope to create a code of conduct for fashion workplaces, which might receive something like a HOFF seal if they undergo training to adopt the code’s policies.
Costa, who meets constantly with people at all levels in the industry, said assistant abuse “can have an almost PTSD-type of effect on people.” She added, “I can tell you at least three people who I met with, who were assistants or who were assisting someone in the fashion industry — they said, I feel better just talking to you and joining your movement.”
Bridgette Sena, a director of sales for accessories companies with 18 years of experience, thinks such an app could be a valuable way to anonymously warn people about abusive employers. Though she loves what she does, she’s been both subjected to and witnessed egregious behavior over the course of her career. When she reached a director level, one particular boss treated her and her colleagues so horribly she couldn’t sleep and found herself in tears on a daily basis. She later learned many people were aware of his reputation and was shocked no one told her before she decided to go work for him. “You’re helpless, and HR, who was a woman, couldn’t do anything about it,” she said.
“You look at these assistants and interns, and the last thing you want is for them to experience this,” she added. “I’ve had my former assistant hysterically cry to me, and I’m just hugging and holding her. And you’re not even supposed to do that.”
The Insidious Effects of Verbal Abuse in the Workplace
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China warns students: Be careful if studying in the US
The Chinese Ministry of Education has warned students to be careful if studying in the United States — the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries.
In its first "study abroad alert" of the year, issued on Monday, the ministry said students and academics must "prepare accordingly" if they wanted to study in the US.
"It has been the case for a while that some Chinese students who want to study in the US have been encountering visa restrictions, prolonged review times, shortened time validity and a rising rate of visa rejections," the ministry statement said.
"(This) affects Chinese students' successful study in the US."
The ministry rarely issues alerts of this nature -- and when it does they often relate to one university rather than an entire country.
The hashtag for the alert has gone viral since it was announced late Monday local time, and has already been read more than 21 million times on Chinese social media site Weibo.
Ahead of the official statement, ministry International Cooperation and Exchange Department deputy chief Xu Yongji said education exchanges had become "increasingly complicated."
"The US and the federal government have been politicizing the normal exchanges between the countries and suppressing China in the name of the China threat and infiltration theory," he said.
In March, a group of Republican congressmen introduced a bill into the US Congress which would ban any individuals employed or sponsored by the Chinese military from receiving student or research visas to the US.
Relations between the US and China have deteriorated rapidly since hopes for a trade deal were dashed in early May, with each government blaming the other.
The Trump administration raised tariffs from 10% to 25% on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods on May 10, and later threatened technology giant Huawei with a potential export ban.
In response, China increased tariffs on $60 billion worth of US goods.
US President Donald Trump is expected to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the G20 in Japan in June, where some experts hope progress could be made towards restarting a trade deal.
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The Weinstein Company and BBC agree production deal on War and Peace
A production deal has been agreed between the BBC and The Weinstein Company on a new TV production of the epic Tolstoy novel War and Peace. First published in 1869, the book is set in early 19th Century Russia but is likely to be filmed on location in the UK.
War and Peace follows five aristocratic Russian families against a background of war and social turbulence that leads up to and encompasses Napoleon’s ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812. The BBC first announced the six-hour miniseries earlier this year, but the Weinstein deal marks the latest development.
Described as “one of the most ambitious event dramas ever produced for the BBC”, the series will be made by BBC Cymru Wales and Lookout Point. Lookout’s recent work includes high-end TV productions Ripper Street, Parade’s End and the Julian Fellowes-scripted miniseries Titanic.
“With BBC and Harvey [Weinstein] on board we are making a serious statement of intent and expect to attract the talent and in turn the audiences that truly befit Tolstoy's work,” said Simon Vaughan of Lookout Point: “Making War and Peace is no small undertaking and this partnership has the experience needed to tackle a work of this significance.”
“War and Peace is major event drama for the BBC, written by Andrew Davies and made by BBC Productions,” added Danny Cohen, Director of Television for the BBC: “It’s fantastic to be partnering with The Weinstein Company on this exciting project.”
Filming locations haven’t yet been confirmed, although it seems likely that the UK – and specifically Wales – will be used to double for 19th Century Russia.
War and Peace is major event drama for the BBC, written by Andrew Davies and made by BBC Productions. It’s fantastic to be partnering with the Weinstein Company on this exciting project.
Danny Cohen, Director of Television for BBC
Wales recently doubled for 15th Century Italy in David S Goyer’s Da Vinci’s Demons and the BBC now has additional, retrofitted studio space in Chepstow where sets were built for its fantasy drama Atlantis. The corporation also has its more established production facilities at Roath Lock Studios in Cardiff.
A year ago a period drama on the scale of War and Peace would most likely have had to film at least partly on location in Europe or elsewhere in the world, as was the case with the BBC’s recent period miniseries The White Queen (below), which recreated 15th Century England in Belgium.
Lookout Point has filmed the London-set Ripper Street in Dublin, Titanic in Hungary and the Kandahar-set Combat Hospital in Toronto, a city which offers one of the most competitive filming tax regimes in North America.
As a lavish costume drama, War and Peace will need a generous tax deal and is the sort of high-end production the UK government had in mind when it launched its TV tax credit earlier this year.
This will be the second time the BBC has filmed Tolstoy's epic. The first adaptation starred Anthony Hopkins and was screened in 1972.
(Main page image: Jvhertum; The White Queen photo: BBC)
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Wis. native films life of Cheeseheads
Amazed by Cheesehead enthusiasm a former Cameron man writes his brethren.
Wis. native films life of Cheeseheads Amazed by Cheesehead enthusiasm a former Cameron man writes his brethren. Check out this story on thenorthwestern.com: http://oshko.sh/1KC1Pu7
Taima Kern, Action Reporter Media Published 1:14 p.m. CT Sept. 26, 2015 | Updated 3:45 p.m. CT Sept. 30, 2015
Video courtesy of I AM Productions. A teaser for a Cheeseheads: The Documentary film by John Mitchell and I AM Productions.
"My love of (Wisconsin) was haunting me, because I had been in California too long."
Cheeseheads: The Documentary(Photo: Courtesy of John Mitchell)
"My love of (Wisconsin) was haunting me, because I had been in California too long," said John Mitchell, a film producer, who was born in Rice Lake, but grew up in Cameron.
Because of this, he started a travel blog when he visited for a family wedding in Stevens Point in 2010.
A year later, he attended the Rose Bowl to cheer on the Badgers, and found himself surrounded by his foam-hatted countrymen.
Amazed and amused by the Cheesehead enthusiasm, and since he had his film equipment with him, he shot some video clips of the tailgating and atmosphere at that event, which the Badgers would go on to win.
On a whim, he also purchased airplane tickets to attend the Super Bowl as well, and sure enough, the Packers took home that trophy as well. Again, Mitchell had his camera and again, he shot some footage of tailgating.
“As I’m flying back to California I’m like, ‘This is a movie.' I think there is something deeper than just the fan.”
John Mitchell, former Cameron man and film producer
"As I'm flying back to California I'm like, 'This is a movie.' I think there is something deeper than just the fan," said Mitchell. "And so the whole premise of the film is you see me tailgating at the events and I'm flying back and I say 'I had to go back to Wisconsin to see what the deeper meaning of being a 'Cheesehead' was…and to get more fresh cheese curds.'"
Five years, and a lot of humor, cheese, beer, sports, tours and sunsets later, Mitchell had — almost entirely by himself — filmed, cut and finished a feature-length documentary on the essence of a Cheesehead.
The title and tagline?
"Cheeseheads: The Documentary. We are so much more than a funny foam hat."
Evolution of the project
In its early stage, the piece was targeted towards the fandom of the Green Bay Packers.
"Originally the question was 'what do you think of the fans?' if I got a celebrity or a notorious person, and then eventually it was 'fans, what do you think of each-other?'" said Mitchell. "The film evolved well beyond the fans thing because we were more interested in 'this is a love-letter to Wisconsin,' and the Packers just happen to be a very important part of the culture, but not the only thing in the culture."
As the film grew, it began to center around three main abstracts: Philosophy, local pop culture and humor.
To convey those abstracts, Mitchell and his inflated cow buckle up and set out to travel the state.
"Me and a camera and a cow," said Mitchell. "And I'm not kidding, go look in the back seat, she's still there."
Why an inflated cow? Because the cow becomes an "everyman," glimpsed throughout the film; a stand-in for the viewer. And this is Wisconsin after all.
Mitchell spoke with local, state and national celebrities with a tie to Wisconsin, toured factories involved in Wisconsin's major exports, shot hours of sceneries from across the state, looked in to all of the attractions of Wisconsin and did some more tailgating. He recorded the footage both with a video camera and with his iPhone, and did all of the voice-over narration himself.
Lexxy the Inflatable Cow represents the viewer, touring Wisconsin and allowing the audience to see the state through her eyes. (Photo: Photo courtesy of John Mitchell)
"It's all done in a very fast-paced way…you are never bored. We don't hover on any topic for more than five minutes, and when we are on those (longer) topics, it's either on the beer or cheese, and who wouldn't stay for five minutes to watch that," said Mitchell. "I went for the stuff I love about Wisconsin, and I want to brag about it to the world."
It turned out that the stuff he loved about Wisconsin resulted in approximately 150 hours of video footage. He then pared it down to six hours, then two, then finally made the finished film one hour and 45 minutes long. Much of the footage, however, is available in brief clips on youtube.com/user/iamwords, or by searching "CHEESEHEADS The Documentary."
Final storyline
The documentary begins with a philosophical questioning of what it means to be a Cheesehead, laid over stunning shots of the northern lights, provided to him by Shawn Malone, of Lake Superior Photo, one of the many people he met on his journey. It then cuts to a flashback of Mitchell's childhood in Cameron, which he has since learned is a universal memory of those who grew up in rural Wisconsin.
He then goes to break down the history behind the word Cheesehead, to see if it has meaning beyond the Packer fandom connotation. For this, he went to the UW-Madison campus to talk to some gentlemen that he affectionately calls "Word Nerds."
"They take the word dead-serious," said Mitchell. "Doesn't matter what word it is."
John Mitchell, a producer from California, originally from Cameron Wis., filmed the majority of the documentary on his own, with his only steady companion being Lexxy, an inflatable cow. (Photo: Photo courtesy of John Mitchell)
From there, armed with his definition, the documentary flickers past everything Wisconsin. At the end of the day, Mitchell collected more than 300 releases from those who he spoke to so that he might use their footage in the final film.
Another unique thing about the documentary is that it is not only a presentation of facts and bits, but rather a continuous story, told through 36 short films. Mitchell said that he actively tried to create and preserve a literary experience for his viewers.
To say that any one city was more or less integral to the story than another would defeat the purpose of the story: To celebrate all of the interesting nooks, crannies and highlights of Wisconsin.
In the Oshkosh area, those highlights include EAA, naturally, and an interview Randall Davidson, of UW-Oshkosh, speaking to the history of Wisconsin Public Radio (with the interview shot in the campus radio station).
In regards to EAA, Mitchell interviewed EAA spokesperson Dick Knapinski, and EAA got its own scene in the final film, fitting for the world's biggest fly-in.
"Being a Wisconsin native myself, I can relate to the term 'cheesehead,'" said Knapinski. "Some might see it as derogatory, and some parts of it might be. But overall, I see the term cheesehead as meaning something much more positive. Wisconsinites overall are generally open, honest, happy folks. I know dozens of EAA visitors and media representatives have remarked to me over 24 years how friendly and open nearly everyone they meet in Wisconsin is, even during the busiest times of AirVenture."
Dick Knapinski, communications director of EAA was one of the many people that Mitchell spoke with while touring the state. Knapinski echoed Mitchell’s opinion of “cheeseheads” as being welcoming. (Photo: Photo courtesy of John Mitchell)
Knapinski was pleased to be included in the video, remarking: "EAA is an essential part of the conversation about Wisconsin, because it is one of crown jewels of Wisconsin tourism. It is a Wisconsin born and raised organization, which now brings visibility to Oshkosh and Wisconsin around the world."
In addition, some scenes of Ripon's Republican Museum and a mention of Rippin' Good Cookies made the final cut.
"It's a large state, and in less than two hours I had to cover all of it, so some towns, in the first six-hour draft were well represented, but in the 1:45 version they're a clip or two," said Mitchell. He went on to joke that most of the shots of his family were cut first.
"I know you," Mitchell told his family. "If I cut you, you won't be offended."
Mitchell's "day job" as a free-lance producer means that he has been involved in the film industry for many years, but has always worked as a subcontractor, doing projects along the lines of voice-overs and commercials, always for other people.
"I really wanted to go make my own (film) rather than being just the producer guy who sets schedules and pays bills. Producer may sound good at the Academy Awards, but it's a very tedious, managerial job," said Mitchell.
“Here, what I learned was: No, the people that I’m making it with and for are paramount. The end viewer is the person I care more about than the project itself. So if I don’t finish it, I’m letting down those people and if I don’t make it really good or at least really fun, I’m really letting down my friends, because now they’re all my friends and extended family.”
Mitchell believes that making this film has made him a better person. He notes that the film production scene in L.A. names the final product to be the paramount portion of the project.
"Here, what I learned was: No, the people that I'm making it with and for are paramount," said Mitchell. "The end viewer is the person I care more about than the project itself. So if I don't finish it, I'm letting down those people and if I don't make it really good or at least really fun, I'm really letting down my friends, because now they're all my friends and extended family."
"All my friends" is another portion of this project that Mitchell hadn't quite expected.
"On a personal level, I made friends…well, like the gentlemen whose house we're in," said Mitchell, motioning to Jeff Kahlow's (of Big Guy Hats, Fond du Lac) dining room, where he was interviewed for this story. "I can stay almost anywhere in this state because someone will help me, someone will put me up or give me their man cave or throw me on their couch, or whatever…or my friend Todd (Winkler), who is CEO of the hotel chain (Wisco Hotels)."
Another aspect of the documentary that Mitchell pushed for was the integrity of the project, in regards to sponsorships. Every penny of the production came from his own pocket.
"No one paid to be in this movie, and no one was paid to be in the movie," said Mitchell, suddenly drawing a line on the table. Mitchell smiles, and continues "Almost every brewery said 'how much' and I said 'nothing, I'm doing this out of my own pocket—this is a real documentary, not a pay for play.'"
The reply from the breweries?
"Oh yeah! Come on by! No problem! We'll give you a brewery tour!"
"I got the owners or CEOs every time," laughed Mitchell. "They gave me private tours every time," because, he said, they were excited that he wasn't charging them.
And Mitchell's Wisconsin nature wasn't lost on the people he interviewed.
John Mitchell, a producer from California, originally from Cameron Wis., filmed the majority of the documentary on his own. He poses here with his gear during a tour of Babcock Hall Dairy in Madison. (Photo: Photo courtesy of John Mitchell)
"Always good to see a 'Sconnie native go to California but love his home state so much he makes it a documentary project," said Eric Paulsen, a DJ with 99.1 The Mix in Milwaukee, co-host of Discover Wisconsin, owner of Wellstream Media and StateTrunkTour.com, Wisconsin native and one of Mitchell's interview-ees. "He seemed very genuine, and he's been fun to talk with about this project and very open to feedback. He's ensconced in California and Hollywood madness all the time, but he approached this with the Wisconsin humility and honestly that helps make our state special." Mitchell met with Paulsen to discuss the history of Wisconsin's roads, and the two worked together on a "Lake Express trip," which will be featured in the final film.
The next generation of Cheeseheads
Mitchell has much to say about his documentary, which is to be expected after something consumes several years of your life. He is also optimistic for it to be completed, regardless of whether or not it becomes famous.
After the DVD is made available to the public, Mitchell plans to make sure that every library in the state receives a copy, free of charge.
"That's important to me for the simple reason that, while not everyone may have expendable income to buy the film, and many don't, they should still have some kind of access to see it. Libraries are an obvious choice for that," said Mitchell.
Mitchell doesn't have an exact timeline for when that will happen however, because of the cost. He said that he likely won't be able to facilitate the donation until 2016, "unless a charitable someone or company steps in to help."
"While the film is quite entertaining, it's also an insightful observation on love of place, and some of the many wonders of Wisconsin and our beloved Cheesehead Culture, and I want as many people as possible to be able to share in that," said Mitchell.
John Mitchell, a producer from California, originally from Cameron Wis., filmed the majority of the documentary on his own. (Photo: Photo courtesy of Ryan Ellerbusch)
Screening tour
The documentary will go on a launch party tour in November, stopping in Green Bay, Fond du Lac, Milwaukee, Madison, Eau Claire and Cameron. In addition, Mitchell hopes to host DVD release parties in Appleton, Wausau and Sheboygan, among other locations. To find an event near you, watch for updates on iamacheesehead.com and facebook.com/iamacheesehead.
For more information, visit: iamacheesehead.com; facebook.com/iamacheesehead; pinterest.com/iamacheesehead; iamacheesehead.tumblr.com; google.com/+CHEESEHEADSTheDocumentary; youtube.com/c/CHEESEHEADSTheDocumentary and follow Mitchell on Twitter at @CheeseheadsDoc.
Taima Kern is the Community Content Specialist – Action Publications, and can be reached at tkern@gannett.com or 920-907-7819.
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Sting made an unexpected return to performance this week when he stepped in at the last moment to replace a sick cast member in his musical The Last Ship in his home city of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England.
The BBC report that the former Police frontman appeared onstage to sing the song ‘Underground River’ at Northern Stage, the same venue where he started his career as a bassist in the orchestra pit back in the 1970s. In The Last Ship, the song is normally delivered by Joe Caffrey, who plays lead character Billy Thompson. Caffrey is believed to have “lost his voice” ahead of the March 19 show. Actor Michael Blair played Billy for the rest of the performance.
“We spent all afternoon working hard to make sure the show went ahead”, said The Last Ship director Lorne Campbell, “and I’m pleased to say the brilliant Michael Blair stepped in to perform the role of Billy. Plus, audiences may have spotted a familiar face as Sting took to the stage to sing ‘Underground River.’”
“I didn’t wake up in the morning expecting I would be performing on the stage in the evening,” Sting said. “But when one of the cast goes down, it’s all hands on deck.”
The Last Ship was initially released as an album in 2013, but had always been planned for the theatre. It tells the story of shipyard closures in the industrial area of Wallsend, where Sting grew up. The show opened on Broadway in the US the following year. The Newcastle production, with a new and revised plot, opened on 12 March.
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