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EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Handler On Embracing Singledom and Using Tinder to Hook Up: 'I'm on All Those Apps'
By Leena Tailor 4:35 PM PDT, April 11, 2017
Chelsea Handler is getting candid about her dating life, admitting that she uses Tinder to find hookups when she’s on the road!
“Oh, I'm on all those apps,” the comedian told ET’s Nischelle Turner while promoting season two of her talk show, Chelsea, which premieres on Netflix on Friday. “I like to hook up, so when I go to London or New York or if I'm out of town and I want, I'll do that … I'm on Tinder [and] all that stuff. I’m a regular person.”
WATCH: Chelsea Handler on Her Date With Bobby Flay and Getting Drunk With Florence Henderson
Handler added that she tends to swipe right for partners, who are in a “seven-mile radius,” and that she is also a member of the private, exclusive dating app Raya.
Such apps are a natural option for meeting men, given that Handler says she rarely gets asked out.
“That's another reason I'm single -- no one asks me out,” she shared. “I don't know [why,] but there's something about women having bold personalities that excludes a certain portion of the male population from wanting to go out with you. I know a lot of men are scared to go out with me because they think I'm going to talk about them on TV after [we] break up and they're not wrong -- I've done that in the past, so I have to accept responsibility. If that means I remain single for the rest of my life, than maybe I wasn't supposed to meet anybody.”
Not that the 42-year-old star has a problem with being single!
In fact, she loves her freedom, doing “whatever I want,” and encourages other women to embrace not having a significant other.
“I think it's really important to embrace your singledom when you are single because most of us aren't going to be single forever,” Handler said. “People are always worried about the thing that they don't have or the opposite of the situation that they are in, so when you are single, I would encourage women to really have fun with it and not always worry about when you're going to meet a guy or try so hard because they are everywhere.”
WATCH: Chelsea Handler Slams Angelina Jolie With Brad Pitt ‘Emancipation’ Diss
As for her own hopes for the future, Handler insists her personal dreams are not pinned on finding a partner and that a guy would need to be “pretty spectacular” for her to consider giving up her single status.
“I have high expectations and I expect a lot in return, so if I met someone who is absolutely fantastic, yes, I would be like, ‘Great, let's get the party started,’” she said. “I don't have any fear of commitment or anything -- I just have a very high value for my freedom and my professional life.”
“I really like my life, so he'd have to be pretty spectacular,” she added. “I don't spend a lot of time thinking about boys. Once in a while I’ll have a fling here and there and that's fun. I think the older you get, the better your decision-making gets with men, so the longer you wait, the longer it will probably last.”
Speaking of lasting longer, Handler’s show, Chelsea, was extended from 30 minutes to a full hour for season two, meaning she was able to delve into deep and meaningfuls with her guests and include segments from her travels, including taking a Bollywood dance class and attending an Indian wedding.
Upcoming episodes also feature Handler’s popular dinner party segment, but she noted there’s certain people who will never score an invite.
“Anyone with the last name Trump,” she said. “First of all, I don't like them. Second of all, they don't drink, so what fun would that be?”
WATCH: Chelsea Handler Blames the Kardashians for Donald Trump’s Election Win
And, who’s top of her wish list?
“Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are a great couple,” Handler said. “They are always cool [and] fun to be around.”
See more on one of Handler’s dating adventures below.
Chelsea Handler Talks Not-So-Great Date With Bobby Flay and Getting Drunk With Florence Henderson
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News Release 20-May-2019
Anxious people quicker to flee danger
New study shows that individuals with anxiety escape non-imminent threats of danger sooner
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Fear and anxiety are both responses to danger but differ in timing. Fear strikes when something is an imminent threat: a tiger jumps over a fence, lunging at you. Anxiety, on the other hand, occurs when you have a moment to consider a threat: you spot a tiger in the distance and have time to think about whether to run or hide.
New research from Caltech assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience Dean Mobbs, appearing online May 20 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, shows for the first time how the brains of anxious individuals react to both fast (fear-based) and slow (anxiety-based) attacking threats. The results indicate that most individuals, whether anxious or not, respond to fast threats in the same way. Basically, they run. But when it comes to slow threats, a person's level of anxiety makes a difference: the more anxious they are, the sooner they will flee a dangerous situation.
"If you tell an anxious person that there is a tiger in the building, then they will want to get out fast," says Dean Mobbs. "We can see this in the brain--anxious individuals show faster and stronger activity in the anxiety circuits of their brains when presented with slow attacking threats."
The study builds upon previous work by Mobbs and colleagues that teased apart fear and anxiety circuits in the human brain. In the study, participants were asked to play a "virtual predator" video game while inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine that measures brain activity. The participants' goal was to escape attack from the virtual predator. The longer they waited out an impending attack, the more money they earned; if they waited too long and were caught, they received an electrical shock to the hand.
That research showed that the fast threats led to reactions in the fear circuit, located in the central part of the brain, which consists of connections between two structures known as the periaqueductal gray and the midcingulate cortex. Slow threats, in contrast, led to responses closer to the front of the brain, in the anxiety circuit, which consists of the hippocampus, the posterior cingulate cortex (both involved in memory and thinking about the future) and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (an area of the brain responsible for assessing risk and making decisions).
In the new study, these same tests were performed on individuals previously rated with varying levels of anxiety. The results showed that people with higher anxiety traits escaped the virtual attackers sooner than those with lower anxiety, but only in the slow-threat scenarios.
"That anxiety only manifests during relatively prolonged negative situations, the slow threats, seems sensible, but this is the first evidence we have for this in an ecological setting," says study lead author Bowen Fung, a postdoctoral scholar in computational affective neuroscience at Caltech. "One thing I find particularly interesting is it gives some support to the idea that 'getting it over with' is a strategy to avoid feelings of anxiety--whether it's the physical pain of tearing off Band-Aids, or the emotional burden of admitting guilt."
"Even though trait-anxious subjects didn't earn as much money in the task, they escaped more frequently. So evolutionarily, it seems important to strike a balance between rewards earned by boldness and survival because of an anxious appraisal of possible risks," says Song Qi, a Caltech graduate student and co-author on the paper.
Anxiety results from having a time lag before danger, Mobbs explains, because it gives us time to imagine future scenarios and plan accordingly.
"Anxiety is part of a prediction strategy, which leads to prevention," he says, "But anxiety is not necessarily built for the modern world. Today, we can imagine dangerous scenarios that may never happen. The more we can learn about how this works in the brain, the more we can figure out how this process breaks down in anxiety disorders."
The study, titled, "Slow escape decisions are swayed by trait anxiety," is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience.
Whitney Calvin
wclavin@caltech.edu
@caltech
http://www.caltech.edu
Nature Human Behaviour
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience
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Ko Chen-tung (born June 18, 1991), also known as Kai Ko, is a Taiwanese actor and singer. Ko won Best New Actor at the 48th Golden Horse Awards and the 12th Chinese Film Media Awards for his starring role in the film You Are the Apple of My Eye, also his film debut. In November 2011, Ko released his debut studio album Be Yourself.
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John S. Tanner
The following message for the Easter weekend (and, simultaneously, for the weekend of the annual general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) was sent to all members of the Brigham Young University faculty on the evening of Friday, 2 April 2010. We reproduce it here with the kind permission of Professor Tanner.
Treasure in Earthen Vessels
A couple weeks ago I was invited to sustain a new bishop—a long-time neighbor and home teacher. Tomorrow we will be privileged to sustain the General Authorities of the Church. When I engage in this time-honored practice of sustaining Church officers, whether a bishop or the Brethren, I often recall a scripture from Second Corinthians: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us” (4:7).
“Treasures in earthen vessels.” This image acknowledges what the Lord’s servants have always acknowledged: namely, that they are mortals like the rest of us, with normal human flaws and limitations. As King Benjamin said to his people when he gathered them for the equivalent of an ancient general conference: “I have not commanded you to come up hither . . . that you should think that I am of myself more than a mortal man. But I am like as yourselves, subject to all manner of infirmities in body and mind” (Mosiah 2: 10-11).
We do not worship or idolize our leaders. We sustain them, which means “hold up.” We are instructed to uphold them with our “confidence, faith, and prayer” (D&C 107:22), “in their weakness” (D&C 1:24). I sometimes think of Joshua holding up Moses’ arms during the battle as I raise my arm to the square.
At the same time, these earthen vessels are the oracles of God for us. The Lord proclaims his gospel by “the weak and the simple” (D&C 1:23). He entrusts this treasure to earthen vessels “that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”
This principle of earthen vessels reminds me of a story from the life of Karl G. Maeser recounted many years ago at BYU by President Packer. As one who likes to hike, I have often recounted this story to my family when we have made our way across a mountain track, guided only by cairns.
On one occasion he [Karl G. Maeser] was leading a party of young missionaries across the Alps. As they slowly ascended the steep slope, he looked back and saw a row of sticks thrust into the glacial snow to mark the one safe path across the otherwise treacherous mountains.
Something about those sticks impressed him, and halting the company of missionaries he gestured toward them and said, “Brethren, there stands the priesthood. They are just common sticks like the rest of us—some of them may even seem to be a little crooked, but the position they hold makes them what they are. If we step aside from the path they mark, we are lost.” (“Follow the Brethren” Boyd K. Packer, BYU, March 23, 1965)
The Brethren are not the only earthen vessels through whom we receive the treasures of heaven. This Easter weekend we remember the treasure we have received from one who chose to “dwell in a tabernacle of clay,” that he might “suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death” (Mosiah 3:5,7). Many in Jesus’ own day dismissed him as a mere man. After all, they knew his brothers and sisters. They knew his carpenter father and his inconsequential hometown of Nazareth. He was easy to dismiss. For as Isaiah predicted, Jesus “hath no form nor comeliness . . . there is no beauty that we should desire him.” Hence he was “despised and rejected of men” (Is. 53:2-3).
Yet through this lowly, humble, earthen vessel, the world received an inestimable treasure. How blessed we are that the Savior condescended to take “upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Phil 2:7-8). This weekend, I am grateful to sustain, and be sustained by, the many treasures God has given us in earthen vessels.
John S. Tanner has served as Academic Vice President of Brigham Young University since June 1, 2004. Prior to this, he served as Associate Academic Vice President in two previous BYU administrations, as well as chair of the English Department, the largest department on campus. In these assignments he has drafted foundational documents and policies for the university, such as “The Aims of a BYU Education” and the “Statement on Academic Freedom at BYU.” He has also led the university in a number of initiatives. These have resulted in significant improvements in teaching, learning, and scholarship at BYU while containing costs.
Professor Tanner received a BA in English from Brigham Young University in 1974 (magna cum laude and Highest Honors), and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. He was an assistant professor at The Florida State University before coming to BYU, where he holds the rank of Professor of English. He has also been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil.
Professor Tanner’s first professional love is teaching. He is the recipient of several teaching awards, along with other academic honors. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in literature, composition, religion, and the history of civilization.
As a scholar, Dr. Tanner specializes in Early Modern English literature, with an emphasis on religious writers of the period, particularly John Milton. His book Anxiety in Eden (Oxford University Press) was named best work of the year by the Milton Society of America in 1992. Dr. Tanner has also published numerous scholarly articles on religion and literature. His literary scholarship ranges from theological reflections on the problem of evil in the Book of Job to philosophical analyses of freedom in the works of Kierkegaard and of C. S. Lewis. In addition, Dr. Tanner has published scholarly articles on LDS topics and has edited an academic journal in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Dr. Tanner is also the author of many personal essays on educational and devotional topics. In addition, he has published poetry, including hymn texts. One of his hymns appears in the LDS hymnal. More recently, he has been involved in several media productions, both radio and film.
John Tanner was raised in Southern California, one of a large and happy family of thirteen children. He served an LDS mission to Brazil and subsequently has served in many church callings. He is married to Susan Winder Tanner, the former Young Women General President for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They are the parents of five children and grandparents of twelve.
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3 Stocks That Have Been Cut in Half This Year
Here's why it has been a brutal six months to be a shareholder of AmTrust Financial Services, Nabors Industries, and Rite Aid.
Brian Feroldi
(TMFTypeoh)
Jul 3, 2017 at 9:01AM
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While the S&P 500 is in positive territory year-to-date, not every stock has benefited from the prosperity. In fact, shares of AmTrust Financial Services (NASDAQ:AFSI), Nabors Industries (NYSE:NBR), and Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) have all been cut in half in 2017. Here's a look back at why the markets have thrashed these stocks this year.
AmTrust Financial Services -- Down 46%
AmTrust's troubles kicked off in February when the company said that it needed more time to file its annual report. Management said the delay was caused by inaccuracies and weaknesses in its internal controls. What's more, the company said it would making corrections to its filings in prior years, too.
If that wasn't troubling enough, just two months later suspicions were raised about the company's accounting practices in The Wall Street Journal. The report was published by a whistle-blowing auditor and famed forensic accountant Harry Markopolos. That group believed that the company's accounting issues could have overstated operating income by as much as $277 million, which, if true, is troubling news.
AmTrust didn't do itself any favors when it released its first-quarter earnings report, either. The results badly missed the mark as EPS of $0.32 per share were about half of $0.60 that Wall Street wanted to see.
While AmTrust has made a number of moves recently to address its troubles head on, it isn't hard to figure out why investors have lost faith in this business.
Nabors Industries -- Down 51%
A series of poorly received earnings reports have caused Nabors' stock to head in reverse throughout 2017.
The company kicked off the year with a tough fourth-quarter report that featured a $245 million charge related to asset impairments. While the charge caused net income to plunge, the company's results absent those one-time costs were mixed. Nabors' active rig count rose but those gains were offset by margin declines. Investors were less than thrilled with the news.
The company followed up that report with disappointing results in the first quarter, too. While demand for drilling activity is rising -- which in theory should be good for Nabors -- the company has been forced to spend heavily to reactivate its fleet. Those start-up costs are putting even more pressure on margins, so Nabors is still producing heavy losses.
On the plus side, the uptick in demand for drilling activity is likely to be a net-positive for the company once its fleet is fully up and running. Of course, the company is likely to continue setting fire to cash until that time, so this is a stock that investors should probably approach with caution.
Rite Aid -- Down 53%
Shareholders of retail pharmacy chain Rite Aid would be forgiven for assuming that 2017 was going to be a blissful year. Many thought that the company's pending takeover by Walgreens Boots Alliance's (NASDAQ:WBA) would finally close, which would reward long-term investors with a $9 share price for their patience.
That proved to be wishful thinking. Walgreens and Rite Aid wound up amending their agreement in late January to account for the store divestitures that would needed to be performed in order to appease regulators. The new takeover price would occur between $6.50 and $7 per share, depending on how many stores had to be let go. Understandably, this news didn't sit well with traders.
Things went from bad to worse over the next few months. An article was published in the New York Post stating that regulators were reaching out to Walgreen's vendors and competitors in an effort to gathering information that could potentially be used in a lawsuit to block the takeover deal. A few weeks later an article surfaced on Reuters stating that the Federal Trade Commission's staff was going to recommend to stop the deal in its tracks.
All of this added uncertainty has heavily impacted the company's share price. Shares are currently trading under $4 each, which represents a sharp discount to the $6.50 minimum buyout price. That hints that Wall Street has no faith in this deal ever going through. If that turns out to be true then Rite Aid will likely have a hard time continuing to compete on its own. That's why this Fool isn't interested in buying shares, even at today's discounted price.
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EDGE RPG now available for Palm devices
By Matt Miller 10.28.2005 :: 9:20AM EDT 10.28.2005
i have been seeing a lot of news regarding a new rpg game called edge (extreme dungeon game experience), and i see that it is now available for palm devices for us$24.95; you can also play it on windows mobile devices with styletap installed. the feedback i read from beta testers includes a lot of excitement for the game, and the screenshots do look great. check out this excellent and detailed pda 24/7 review of edge. i am downloading the trial now to try on my tungsten t3 and treo 650 since i do enjoy some rpg games. edge also supports rumble effects on the now discontinued tapwave zodiac device.
user comments 5 comment(s)
cool !!!!!!!!!!!! (10:40am est fri oct 28 2005)
i love this thing oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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rpg (10:41am est fri oct 28 2005)
i love all rpg games you got t chack itout. – by jakue1555
yessssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (10:51am est fri oct 28 2005)
it rox my joxs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – by who?
good game (3:09pm est fri oct 28 2005)
i just dowloaded and tried the demo, its pretty fun to play, easy to learn. think i'll max out the demo then buy it. its no elder scrolls but its a great game for my pda. – by qwijybo
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It's On(line): 'The Elder Scrolls Online' Release Date Announced
The latest challenger to World of Warcraft's dominance in the fantasy MMO space, Bethesda Softworks' The Elder Scrolls Online, will be released on April 4, 2014, developer Zenimax Online Studios has announced. Conversions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will follow in June.
Along with the announcement, Bethesda released a new trailer, titled "War in Cyrodiil", showing off the multiplayer combat (and epic themes) of the game:
In a blog post, director Matt Firor announced the release date and gave some more detail on the progress of the game's beta test:
We’ve had approximately 4 million people sign up for beta and that number continues to grow. We hope that just about every one of you who have signed up for beta will get an invitation to play sometime between now and the weeks before launch. These tests are very important, not only for gameplay feedback, but also to test our infrastructure. Beta tests can sometimes be a little rough when we are testing some systems for the first time with large numbers of players. So thank you to all who have participated for your understanding and support. It is very much appreciated.
In the most recent load-balancing test in November, 300,000 people played over a 48 hour period.
Recent attempts by major gaming companies to go up against World of Warcraft have had mixed results, with Age of Conan and Star Wars: The Old Republic both converting to largely free-to-play models despite strong brands. Like The Old Republic, The Elder Scrolls Online will be set in the relative past of the action of the current, single-player Elder Scrolls role-playing games.
Bethesda Softworks has the advantage with The Elder Scrolls not only of a loyal fanbase grown over nearly 20 years - The Elder Scrolls: Arena was released in 1994 and rereleased as a free download to celebrate the franchise's tenth anniversary - but also a reputation for building huge, beautifully constructed open worlds not only in Elder Scrolls games such as Oblivion and Skyrim but also the revival of the Fallout franchise.
However, even a relatively niche MMO, such as CCP Games' Eve Online with 500,000 players to World of Warcraft's 7.6 million is able to generate solid revenues from monthly subscriptions. The Elder Scrolls Online will have ambitions for a larger userbase: time will tell if it can get it without succumbing to the need for a free-to-play element of some kind.
Despite a recent hoax, the long-hoped-for Fallout Online remains unannounced after Zenimax recovered full rights to the Fallout name and IP in January 2012. The Elder Scrolls Online, with five years' development already under its belt, is now, it seems, in the launch bay. Arrows to the knee notwithstanding.
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First Impressions: Recollections of Peter G. Davies
Submitted by mark.harvey / Mon, 20/01/2014 - 12:19
The following article was written by Peter G. Davies and was first published in the August 2011 issue of the FoSCL Journal.
My admiration for the Settle and Carlisle line extends back to 1958 when I first took a journey over the line from Carlisle to Leeds on the ‘Waverley’ express from Edinburgh to Leeds. We arrived in Carlisle behind a Class A3 Pacific, 60079 Bayardo. Engines were changed and two locomotives came on the front of the train, a class 5 4-6-0, and a Jubilee 45562 Alberta. We left Carlisle and soon we were heading south along the Eden Valley. Mountains came into view on both sides of the train and I became very excited. I had my head out of the train most of the way until I received my Settle and Carlisle baptism (literally!) on the water troughs at Garsdale.
From that time onwards, I began to appreciate the engineering works and the wonderful mountain scenery through which the line passed. I made several journeys over the line, travelling to and from Scotland, for a number of years. I then joined the Yorkshire Dales National Park as a Warden and led walks from the specially chartered Dales Rail trains.
It was, of course, not until 1982 that I became aware of the plans by British Rail to close the line. I became incensed by this and I duly joined the Friends in order to help save the line from closure. I became involved in the campaign helping with surveys and issuing objection forms to passengers. I also attended several of the public hearings and I addressed the North East and North West Transport Users Consultative Committees in both Carlisle and Leeds.
I then took a keen interest in the work of the Friends and I am Membership Secretary. The work of the Friends has continued since the reprieve of the line in 1989, and I am very proud to be a volunteer and to help in any way I can.
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Cosmopolitan magazine backs Shaheen over Brown
Cosmopolitan magazine backs Shaheen over former centerfold Brown
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Cosmopolitan magazine, which featured nude photos of Republican Scott Brown as a young law student, is backing his Democratic opponent in New Hampshire's U.S. Senate race, saying Brown's policy positons "just aren't as solid as his abs were in the '80s."
The magazine endorsed Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on Tuesday, calling her one of the nation's most vocal and active leaders on reproductive freedom and other women's rights issues. A former governor, Shaheen is running for re-election against Brown, a former Massachusetts senator who moved to New Hampshire last year.
Brown did a nude centerfold for Cosmopolitan in 1982 after winning the magazine's "America's Sexiest Man" contest. He was a 22-year-old law student at the time.
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Svindal beaten by teammate Jansrud in his final race
AP Feb 9, 2019 at 1:47p ET
ARE, Sweden (AP) — Aksel Lund Svindal stretched out his arms and looked to the snow-filled sky, soaking in a big skiing atmosphere one last time as thousands of flag-waving Norwegians cheered their idol at the finish area.
Didn’t matter that he’d been beaten to gold — by 0.02 seconds, no less — by teammate Kjetil Jansrud in the final race of his illustrious, medal-filled, 17-year career.
Silver, gold, whatever; he was simply going to savor the moment.
“Two-hundredths this way or two-hundredths that way,” Svindal said, “let’s just enjoy this.”
Svindal, who is retiring at age 36 following persistent knee injuries, was beaming as he shared the top step of the podium with Jansrud — his close friend and training partner for two decades — after the downhill at the world championships on Saturday.
Vincent Kriechmayr, the bronze medalist from Austria, was happy to leave the stage, clearly feeling like an imposter on a day which turned out pretty much perfect for the legions of Norwegians who crossed the Swedish border to see Svindal’s last race. Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit were among them.
“It was a little poetic in that we’ve shared so many hours of training together,” Jansrud said. “With all the previous wins we’ve had and to be able to be on the podium together one last time, it’s like a fairytale.”
The bromance continued in the medal ceremony hours later, Jansrud proffering Svindal forward to take the acclaim of spectators in the plaza in the middle of Are.
In many ways, this was a shared victory.
After the start was delayed because of fog and heavy snowfall, Jansrud — racing with two broken bones in his hand after a fall in training 2 1/2 weeks ago — went out at No. 6 and set a fierce pace on a shortened course, taking 0.65 seconds off the time of Matthias Mayer.
Svindal, the two-time Olympic champion and five-time world champion, came down three racers later and admitted to being nervous. He was 0.08 seconds ahead at the first checkpoint, 0.02 behind at the second, and then 0.10 adrift as he came round the final few bends of his skiing career. He soared down the hill and over the line, to almost deafening roars.
“Aksel you are my hero,” read one sign held aloft in the grandstand.
Svindal playfully pointed at Jansrud, who was sitting in the leader’s throne, after acknowledging the crowd. They both knew they’d posted times that would be hard to beat, and that proved to be the case.
“They are really good at finding the fast lines quickly,” said Bryce Bennett, the top U.S. finisher at No. 9. “Today is pretty cool to be a part of, that he (Svindal) was on the podium in his last race.”
While Svindal just missed out on a chance to become the first man to win the downhill world title three times, he still joined Kjetil Andre Aamodt and Marc Girardelli as the only skiers to collect a medal at six world championships.
Already an Olympic champion in super-G at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, this is Jansrud’s first world title, adding to his two silvers at worlds. A big Liverpool soccer fan, he compared the feeling of skiing into the atmospheric finish area at Are to how he envisaged it would be like scoring a goal at Anfield.
“It is one of the biggest come-to-the-finish moments of my career,” Jansrud said. “I got a little taste of how a soccer player feels every weekend.”
Following his fall in training in Kitzbuehel, Austria, Jansrud was told by doctors to sit out for six weeks. He couldn’t pass up the chance of racing at a worlds so close to home, though.
“They said (the injury) is not going to be good enough for Are,” Jansrud said. “But somehow you get this singular focus to make it happen.”
“This was something that I missed up until now,” Jansrud added about his missed opportunities in previous worlds. “So that makes it bigger.”
Beat Feuz of Switzerland, the previous downhill champion, finished fourth and Mayer, the former Olympic downhill champion from Austria, came fifth. They were mere footnotes on an afternoon that was as much about Svindal as the guy who won gold.
“They were so close, but this silver is like gold for us,” said Anders Holm, a 39-year-old from Trondheim, Norway, who was at the race with his wife and two children.
Svindal bowed to the roaring crowd during the flower ceremony and again when collecting his medal.
“This is more than I expected, to be honest,” Svindal said. “I knew I was fast enough to win or take a medal, but to make it happen on the one day it counts is something else.
“When I wake up tomorrow morning, I’ll still be happy with this decision. It’s time to kick back and enjoy this from the spectators’ side of everything.”
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The Hanford Nuclear Site
Less than three hours east of Seattle, WA is the most contaminated site in the United States--The Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Hanford stores 56 million gallons of radioactive waste in old, leaky underground tanks just a few miles from the Columbia River. There is a plan to clean up this 56 million gallons of waste. But after more than 20 years, none of the worst waste has been cleaned up.
Cleaning up Hanford is a huge undertaking. Cleaning up Hanford costs $2.4 billion dollars a year, and requires technologies and engineering solutions never used before. And it must be done safely. Because, a really bad day at Hanford, could be a really bad day for a 3-state area.
Hanford Background Information
Hanford is located in Southeastern Washington state and is 586 square miles, or almost half the size of Walla Walla County. Today, the Department of Energy, a federal agency, owns the Hanford Site. And although it owns the site and controls major cleanup decisions and priorities, the DOE doesn’t actually do any cleanup. Instead, it hires private contractors—like Bechtel, AECOM, and CH2MHill—to do all of the actual cleanup.
Along the river, there are nine old nuclear reactors, most of which have been cocooned. Cocooned basically means that they put a building over the core of the reactor, which is hot from radioactive materials, and let the radioactivity inside naturally decay to a more manageable level before workers enter to finish cleaning them up.
The Central Plateau, located in the center of the site, is where the tank farms and the worst of the waste is located. The Central Plateau is also where the Waste Treatment Plant is located. This plant is designed to turn the liquid waste in the tanks into a solid glass (a process called vitrification), which will then be buried in a deep geological repository. This plant has been in the news a lot because of the high costs, missed deadlines, and design flaws. For example, the plant was originally supposed to cost a little over $4 billion dollars and start making glass in 2008, but the latest estimate for treating dangerous waste is 2036 and will cost more than $16.8 billion dollars.
Brief Hanford History
Hanford was originally part of the larger Manhattan Project to produce the world’s first nuclear weapons. Thousands of people showed up from all across the nation to work on a top secret project. Many of them had no idea what they were all working towards for many years. Secrecy was a top priority.
Hanford’s main role in the Manhattan Project was to produce the plutonium for US nuclear weapons. The plutonium produced at Hanford was used in the first nuclear bomb tested at the Trinity Site in New Mexico and used in “Fat Man”, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945.
Plutonium production at Hanford created a lot of waste. Hanford produced plutonium so fast that they started ‘disposing’ of hazardous wastes through a variety of means. This included discharges directly into the air, directly into the Columbia River, directly into unlined trenches, and for many years, waste was poured directly into the soil—a total of 450 billion gallons of nuclear and chemical waste. That’s the equivalent of more than 680,000 Olympic size swimming pools. However, Hanford did eventually build 177 tanks to hold the most dangerous waste at Hanford.
Hanford’s Dangerous Wastes
The tanks at Hanford currently store 56 million gallons of high-level waste. And over 1 million gallons has leaked into the soil. Most of the tanks are single-shell steel tanks, which were built between 1943 and 1964. The tanks were built to last 40 years, so the tanks are now well passed their design life.
Each Hanford tank is the size of a four-story apartment building. Yet the waste inside these tanks is harmful in microscopic quantities.
More than 1800 chemicals have been identified in the tank waste. Of these, about 1,500 are present in the headspace of the tanks, which is the space between the top of the waste and the roof of the tank. These chemicals in the headspace must be vented to prevent an explosion in the tanks.
Plutonium-239, which is found in the tanks and other locations onsite, has a half life of 24,100 years. And it takes 10 half-lives before it is considered to cease its radioactivity. This waste will be dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years.
Hanford continued to produce plutonium throughout WWII and up until the end of the Cold War. All in all, Hanford made 74 tons of plutonium, which is 2/3 of the United States total stockpile.
Transition to Cleanup
The Department of Energy signed a cleanup agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Washington on May 15, 1989, called The Tri-Party Agreement. The goal of the Tri-Party Agreement is to reach compliance with federal environmental laws. Under the Tri-Party Agreement, the cleanup was expected to take 30 years. However, Hanford is not going to be cleaned up next year, but instead cleanup is expected to take another 75 years.
Currently, there are approximately 9,000 people working on Hanford cleanup and even though cleanup has been slow, there has been a lot of progress. Workers have moved 7.5 million gallons of waste from the oldest and most leaky tanks to newer and more robust double shell tanks. Keeping more waste from reaching the soil and groundwater. And workers have treated over 18 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater, keeping more contamination from reaching the Columbia River. With all of the negativity around Hanford cleanup, it is really important to recognize that the workers have done a lot of great work and that there has been a lot of progress.
Hanford Challenge
As more and more concerns about the cleanup arose and some workers were even being fired after publicly raising safety concerns, a nonprofit, Hanford Challenge, was created to advocate for workers at the site in 2007.
Hanford Challenge focuses on building relationships with workers and listening to their concerns. We get a lot of our information from insiders doing the actual cleanup—engineers, health physics technicians, construction workers, inspectors, and government officials. Our hope is that by protecting every workers’ ability to raise concerns, it will create a robust safety culture that will make the cleanup safer for workers, the public, and the environment. Read more about our work, here.
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Tenth Gerd Bucerius Lecture
Germany in Europe: Twenty Years After Unification
March 12, 2009 - 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Speaker Kurt Biedenkopf
Kurt Biedenkopf (© Chester Simpson)
The Tenth Gerd Bucerius Lecture was delivered by Kurt Biedenkopf, chairman of the board of the Hertie School of Governance and former Minister President of Saxony (1990-2002), who spoke on the topic "Germany in Europe: Twenty Years After Unification." Biedenkopf was introduced by Hartmut Berghoff, Director of the GHI, and Tatiana Matthiesen as the representative of the ZEIT Foundation, which sponsors the Bucerius Lecture Series.
In the first part of his lecture, Professor Biedenkopf argued that German reunification was in many ways a "missed opportunity" to reform the whole of Germany, which was already facing a number of serious problems in 1990. Chief among these problems were: first, the demographic challenge of an aging society, which will necessitate a major reform of the social insurance and pension system; second, the transition from a production-based to a primarily science-based economy, which demands important educational reforms; and third, the ecological challenge of how to protect a threatened natural environment. The postponement of efforts to solve these problems, he noted, has only made them harder to solve.
Biedenkopf also argued that, somewhat paradoxically, German reunification was not experienced as the reunification of a nation because, due to the Nazis’ abuse of the concept of the nation, Germans still had a very ambivalent attitude to national identity. In the years since unification, this ambivalence has receded somewhat as German, especially the younger generation, have developed a more normal type of national identity, which is, however, firmly rooted in European integration. Reunification, Biedenkopf concluded, was a "success story" because the East German population successfully adapted to West German ways of doing things, participated in the transformation of their society and economy, and came to recognize their own contribution to this process.
In the second part of his lecture, Biedenkopf commented on the role of Germany in Europe and the world, with special emphasis on the current international economic crisis. In his analysis of the crisis, Biedenkopf stressed that since the true causes of the financial crisis are not yet fully understood, it is extremely difficult to decide on the proper remedies – very much like having to prescribe "therapy without a diagnosis." Given this uncertainty regarding both causes and remedies, Biedenkopf insisted that it was all for the good if different countries tried different policies. While there is an international consensus on the need for more financial regulation, there is substantial disagreement – especially between the United States and Europe – on the wisdom of government stimulus legislation along the lines just enacted by the U.S. The very real danger that the stimulus approach presents, Biedenkopf argued, is the risk of a bubble of state deficits that could eventually endanger the government’s role as lender of last resort.
In conclusion, Biedenkopf reminded the audience that beyond the current economic crisis Germany and Europe still face the pressing long-term issues whose solution has been put off too long: How to maintain growth and prosperity in an aging society? How to foster the transition to a science-driven economy with an aging population? And finally, how to manage the distribution of limited natural resources in a world whose population is still growing at a rapid pace.
Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)
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Lecture at the The Fairfax at Embassy Row
5:00 pm - Dessert reception
5:30 pm - Lecture
Professor Kurt Biedenkopf is chairman of the board, Hertie School of Governance and former Minister President of the Free State of Saxony, 1990–2002.
The Gerd Bucerius Lecture series is an initiative of the Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius ZEIT Foundation.
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The inevitable advance of technology in engineering
by Paul Fitzsimons, GIBB Power and Energy Sector
South Africa will have to adopt global engineering and construction standards and technologies to compete on the world stage.
While some industries such as the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), automotive and financial have been innovating for years, other industries such as engineering must accelerate their efforts to keep abreast of global trends.
In the past, change in the engineering industry was more evolutionary than disruptive, and the sector has been slow to adopt new technologies. It is only in recent times that disruptive technologies and processes have caused inflexion points in how the industry operates.
Now engineering firms are rapidly adopting more advanced digitised practices and recognising the need to become more agile. Only by adopting new technologies quickly, training their people, getting new processes up and running and adjusting their pricing to market, will engineering firms be able to remain competitive in an increasingly volatile space.
For many years, the engineering industry followed specific, largely paper-driven processes to deliver solutions. For example, the building of a transport, powerline or pipeline route requires an initial feasibility study of the proposed route by the engineer. Traditionally, this initial data gathering stage required “boots on the ground” and could take months to complete.
In the past few years, however, the engineering field has witnessed significant changes in terms of technological innovation. Today, the presentation of alternative routes can be delivered to a high degree of accuracy using satellite or drone technology. This can now happen in a matter of days.
A current innovation that is transforming the engineering industry is building information modelling (BIM), originally a collaborative digital process used to design buildings using a coherent system of computer models rather than separate sets of drawings. This results in better co-ordinated and more consistent information, which creates efficiencies throughout the project’s lifecycle.
Today, BIM is fast becoming the international standard for the design, construction and operation of buildings, roads and rail, utilities, process plants, oil platforms, ships, factories and mines, among others.
It begins with the creation of an intelligent 3D design model. The model is then used to facilitate co-ordination, simulation and visualisation, as well as to help owners and service providers improve how a facility is planned, designed, built, operated, maintained and finally decommissioned. Ultimately, BIM is the marriage of technology with a set of work processes, where everyone involved must work together as a true multi-disciplinary team.
BIM allows critical information to be shared with workers on a construction site as well as from one site to the next. That 3D model will tell builders if they are standing in the right place, where to knock the peg in and, after the building is completed, produce as-built drawings. After the building is completed, BIM allows for owners or service providers to walk through a building with a tablet, scan a piece of equipment and get the part number, characteristics, last-serviced date, and all other data needed to keep the equipment running.
Taking the digital process a step further, a 3D model can be imported into a 3D printer to produce building components.
Digital data capture will be used increasingly in the engineering process. Drones will be used to inspect sites and capture data and robots will be used to build off a 3D BIM-style design. The role of engineers will be to design and oversee the process, and to consider whether something makes engineering sense and what standards the computer must design to.
BIM will bring the engineering industry forward and organisations will be compelled to adapt. Internationally, such approaches are increasingly being integrated into public sector development standards. By way of example, a law passed in the United Kingdom in 2010 requires that every government project commencing after 2016 be BIM level 2 compliant, with energy reduction as the main driving force.
Ultimately, South Africa must develop a sustainable approach to such issues regarding adopting global engineering and construction standards. Large multinational companies wanting to invest in facilities on South African shores may well expect companies competing for the engineering and building business to meet such global standards. Failure to do so could well decrease local productivity and competitiveness.
Corporate Communications, Countries, Market Sectors, South Africa
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Check Out Photos From The Traditional Wedding Of Oyo State Governor's Daughter, Jibola (Photos)
Published 3 years ago by: Victor A. Ofoma
xsucces at 09:51 PM, 22/08/2015 (3 years ago)
Jibola, daughter of Oyo state governor, Abiola Ajimobi had her traditional wedding to Ayo in Ibadan today August 22nd. Guest at the wedding included Osun state governor Rauf Aregbesola, Lagos state governor Akinwunmi Ambode, Ogun state governor Ibikunle Amosun and other dignitaries. More photos after the cut...
dareper at 09:58 PM, 22/08/2015 (3 years ago)
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Congratulations to the Newly Weds...
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beneno at 11:11 PM, 22/08/2015 (3 years ago)
ooooooooh
chealseafc at 01:23 AM, 23/08/2015 (3 years ago)
sponsored with state fund.
winace at 06:10 AM, 23/08/2015 (3 years ago)
Congrats to d couple.
So now millions go don sink enter dis wedding but d state governor said he can't pay his citizens children waec fees. Ok o GOD dey watch u.
PoliticxGuru at 06:41 AM, 23/08/2015 (3 years ago)
looters of D highest level
Fashoney at 07:26 AM, 23/08/2015 (3 years ago)
Barluty at 07:48 AM, 23/08/2015 (3 years ago)
Useless set of people
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Dis na state wedding so...
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Misguided individuals
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Congrat to them...
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How A Massive Effort To Sequence Genomes Of 1.5 Million Species Could Help Preserve Life On Earth
Kristen V. Brown
In what will undoubtedly be the largest genomic sequencing effort of all time, an international consortium of researchers is organising a massive effort to collect and sequence the DNA of Earth's 1.5 million known eukaryotes, the domain of organisms that includes animals, plants, and fungi.
It is a historically ambitious undertaking, akin to the Human Genome Project, the 13-year effort that began in 1990 to identify and map all of the genes that make up human DNA. In sequencing more than a million of Earth's species, researchers hope that the project, dubbed the Earth BioGenome Project, can help to save endangered species around the world.
The plans were announced earlier this year at the World Economic Forum, but this week the plan is detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Increasing our understanding of Earth's biodiversity and responsibly stewarding its resources are among the most crucial scientific and social challenges of the new millennium," the researchers wrote. "These challenges require fundamental new knowledge of the organisation, evolution, functions, and interactions among millions of the planet's organisms."
As of last fall, the sequenced genomes of only 2,534 unique eukaryotic species appeared in the National Center for Biotechnology Information. There are 1.5 million known species of eukaryotes on Earth. That means that so far, we've sequence less than 0.2 per cent of our planet's known complex life. To boot, it is estimated that there are somewhere between 10 and 15 million more unknown unique eukaryotes on Earth.
Genomic sequencing technologies have improved vastly since the days of the Human Genome project. According to the National Human Genome Research Institute, which tracks the costs of sequencing, in 2001 the cost of sequencing a whole human genome was somewhere around $US100,000. Today it's about $US1,000.
Sequencing the first human genome cost about $US2.7 billion. Now, sequencing the DNA of a new species for the first time costs an average of about $US30,000.
Researchers estimate that the Earth BioGenome Project will take 10 years and cost $US4.7 billion to sequence all 1.5 million organisms. The central goal of the project is to understand the evolution and organisation of life on our plant by sequencing all known complex species. It also hopes to unearth some of those millions of unknown species of eukaryotes, most of which are single-cell organisms, insects, and small ocean animals.
The estimated 1 billion gigabytes of data that the project produces will be made freely available. It will inform many of the major issues facing our planet, including characterising the impact of climate change on biodiversity. Goals of the project also include using the information gathered to develop new therapies for disease, new biofuels, and new biomaterials that could benefit humans.
Currently, scientists estimate that Earth is on track to lose more than half of all species by the end of the century. So let's hope that hidden in all those gigabytes of DNA, there are some hints on how to save them.
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Black Internationalists: It’s About Time for the U.S. to Exit Syria and Afghanistan
By Black Alliance for Peace
Black Alliance For Peace
Region: Middle East & North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, USA
Theme: US NATO War Agenda
A real panic among the militarists and flunkeys of the military-industrial complex: They are concerned the U.S. president has gone completely off the ruling-class imperialist script. We find that hard to believe, since a move away from militarism and violence would indicate a fundamental departure from the very essence of the methods and strategy that created the United States. We are on land violently stolen from Indigenous peoples that was then used to execute a brutal super-exploitation of enslaved African labor to amass imperialist wealth. That wealth was used to elevate the United States to a world power after the second imperialist war in 1945.
But with Trump announcing U.S. troops will be pulled out of Syria and troop strength will be reduced in the never-ending war in Afghanistan, the ruling-class propagandists pretending to be journalists at CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the rest, have sounded the alarm of pending doom for the empire. These hacks feign concern that the president is abandoning the bipartisan commitment to international gangsterism.
We in the Black Alliance for Peace don’t praise a U.S. president for ending the illegal subversion, invasion and occupation of a sovereign state that should have never been allowed in the first place by the theoretical representatives of the people who now sit in the U.S. Congress. If the Trump administration is serious about the “full and rapid” withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria, we say it’s about time. We demand a full withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Syria, including the mercenary components referred to as “contractors.” We also say troop reduction is not enough—end the war in Afghanistan with a complete and total withdrawal of U.S. forces.
We denounce those elements in the corporate press, the establishment voices in the duopoly, and liberal and left acolytes of the warmongering ruling class who have taken upon themselves to confuse and manipulate the public into believing that permanent war is both rational and inevitable. The $6 trillion of public resources transferred from the pockets of the people to the military-industrial complex over the last two decades to execute wars and occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, have also caused the destruction of ancient cities, unspeakable misery for millions of people that includes but is not limited to the displacement of millions of people and the so-called “refugee crisis”—not to mention the millions of lives that have been eliminated by U.S. bombs, missiles, chemicals and bullets. All who have remained silent or have given direct or even indirect support to these bipartisan war policies are morally culpable.
We are extremely skeptical about the administration’s announcement—we know from painful experience and from our understanding of the history of this state, that the United States has never voluntarily withdrawn from one of its imperialist adventures. Therefore, the Black Alliance for Peace will continue to demand that the United States withdraw from Syria until every U.S. asset is out of the country.
The final resolution of the U.S.-led war in Syria must be determined by Syrians themselves. All foreign forces must recognize and respect the sovereignty of the Syrian people and their legal representatives.
If peace is a real possibility for the people of Syria, it is only the most cynical who would undermine that possibility for partisan political purposes. But we know that the lives of people of color mean nothing for some of the loudest critics of Trump’s decision. Many of those same critics don’t see any contradiction in condemning Putin and the Russians while embracing Netanyahu and the Israeli apartheid state that fires live ammunition into the bodies of unarmed Palestinians.
But in the tradition of our ancestors who understood the infinite connection of all of humanity and who resisted systematic degradation, the Black Alliance for Peace will continue to raise our voice in support of peace. Yet, we know that without justice there can be no peace. We must struggle to obtain justice.
U.S. out of Syria!
U.S. out of Africa!
Shut down AFRICOM and all NATO bases!
Reallocate the people’s resources from funding war to realizing the human rights of all people, not just the 1 percent!
The original source of this article is Black Alliance For Peace
Copyright © Black Alliance for Peace, Black Alliance For Peace, 2018
Articles by: Black Alliance for Peace
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Documentary: ‘The Lobby – USA’. America’s “Special Relationship with Israel”
By Robert Fantina
https://www.globalresearch.ca/documentary-the-lobby-usa-americas-special-relationship-with-israel/5663445
Imagine, for a moment, a foreign government spying on U.S. citizens, using the most sophisticated cyber-intelligence software available. This government particularly targets students and, through the use of fake Facebook accounts and other means, smears those that criticize its policies. Consider a government that, in addition to these activities, provides U.S. members of Congress with elaborate, all-expenses-paid trips to beautiful resorts, in addition to very generously funding their election and re-election campaigns. It then writes legislation favorable to it, that these members of Congress introduce and vote on.
Currently, Washington, D.C. is all agog over allegations that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election that brought the incompetent, unstable and erratic Donald Trump to the White House. The investigation into possible collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign makes almost daily headlines. Politicians of all stripes invoke it in one way or another to get favorable sound bytes on the evening news.
Yet no one is investigating, or even talking about, the other country whose government is spying on U.S. citizens, and which is, for all intents and purposes, buying member of Congress and writing U.S. legislation. That country, of course, is Israel.
For years, the U.S. has had a ‘special’ relationship with Israel. This includes providing Israel, a wealthy, prosperous, First World nation, with more foreign aid than it gives to all other nations combines. It means vetoing in the United Nations any resolution criticizing Israel for its many war crimes and crimes against humanity. It means basing U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, not on what is best for the U.S., but what is best for the Israel.
Although the nature of this ‘special’, albeit dysfunctional relationship has long been known, a documentary recently made by Al-Jazeera clearly exposes it.
In ‘The Lobby’, a pro-Palestinian Jewish man goes undercover as a pro-Israeli lobbyist. He is able to gain the trust and confidence of some of the key players in the pro-Israel lobby network. Among the things exposed by this film are the following:
Pro-Israel lobbies work to counter the growing BDS movement on campus through lies, distortions and half-truths;
AIPAC (American Israel Political Affairs Committee) has a very close relationship with the editorial board of the influential Washington Post;
There is a structured method used by pro-Israel lobbies to get journalists to ask the questions the lobbyists want asked;
Intimidation of BDS activists includes threats of assassination;
Information on BDS activists and activities is collected and used against them, if possible.
What, one wonders, would the reaction be if Russia, for example, was working closely with a prominent U.S. newspaper to assure that its point of view was reflected? How would members of Congress react if the government of Iran were found to be spying on U.S. students? Yet, due to the ‘special relationship’ that the U.S. has with Israel, violation of U.S. laws are overlooked; the privacy of U.S. citizens can be illegally invaded, they can be threatened with bodily harm by representatives of a foreign government, and the U.S. government will simply look the other way.
It would be one thing if some ragtag groups attempted, even successfully, to commit the crimes against U.S. citizens that Israel commits. But these organizations are well-financed and are affiliated with, and have the complete support of, the Israeli government.
In the movie, the director-general of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs discusses Israel’s close association with the so-called ‘Foundation for Defense of Democracies’, a Washington, D.C.-based neo-conservative think tank. Sima Vaknin-Gil says this, when discussing Israel’s efforts to track BDS activists: “Data gathering, information analysis, working on activist organizations, money trail. This is something that only a country, with its resources, can do the best. We have FDD. We have others working on this.” Included in FDD’s very pro-Israel bias are frequent criticisms of Iran’s charitable organization EIKO, ‘Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order’, whose mission is to increase the number of schools and other services to the people of Iran.
Why is this allowed? Why does the U.S. allow a foreign government to spy on its citizens for the sole purpose of discrediting them, influence its newspapers and otherwise interfere in its workings? It is certainly a cyclical pattern.
Pro-Israel lobbies ‘donate’ to the campaigns of members of Congress, who, in turn rely on those very generous donations. In order to keep them flowing in future campaigns, the Congress men and women must then do their master’s bidding. As they do so, the rewards, in the form of contributions and ‘fact-finding’ or ‘educational’ trips, for themselves and their spouses to exclusive Israeli resorts, are provided. With these contributions, the Congress members are re-elected, and they, in turn, reward their benefactors. Any close look at those benefactors’ illegal activities in the U.S., or internationally, simply won’t do.
As a result, apartheid is supported, since any nation with separate laws depending on the ethnicity of the citizen must be considered apartheid. Genocide is also supported and financed, every time Israel bombs the Gaza Strip. Violations of international law are condoned with each new illegal settlement.
The maneuverings of pro-Israeli lobbies which operate far outside of U.S. laws are exposed in this documentary. The way money is laundered, campaign contribution laws are violated, and all the attending corruption are on clear view, often vocalized by the very people committing these crimes.
‘The Lobby – USA’ is an amazing and important film, one that has been marginalized by the U.S. media, much like ‘My Name is Rachel’, the story of Rachel Corrie, a young woman from the U.S. who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer, was repressed short years ago. But the Internet now is far stronger and more ubiquitous then it was when Rachel Corrie’s movie was made. Israel is learning that it can’t hide forever, and ‘The Lobby – USA’ is an important tool in exposing its crimes in the U.S. Its international crimes are well-known, in part due to social media (despite Facebook’s censorship of much information about Israel’s crimes). It is a multi-part film, and is available on Youtube.
It is vitally important for anyone who believes in democracy and justice, and sees those hallmarks of society being violated. A major violator of them on the international stage is Israel. ‘The Lobby – USA’ points this out, with clear, irrefutable facts.
Copyright © Robert Fantina, Global Research, 2018
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Global Warming Censored: How the Major Networks Silence the Debate on Climate Change
By Julia A. Seymour and Dan Gainor
Global Research, April 09, 2008
businessandmedia.org/ 9 April 2008
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-warming-censored-how-the-major-networks-silence-the-debate-on-climate-change/8621
So much for that job requirement of balance and objectivity. When it came to global warming the media clearly left out dissent in favor of hype, cute penguins and disastrous predictions.
“They [penguins] are charismatic, endearing and in serious trouble,” warned NBC’s Anne Thompson on the Dec. 12, 2007, “Nightly News.” Thompson didn’t include any disagreement.
While the networks had plenty of time to worry about the future of birds, most network news shows didn’t take much time to include any other point of view even though hundreds of scientists have expressed skepticism of manmade climate change theory.
Another NBC reporter, Kerry Sanders, hyped the threat of warming to polar bears and walruses on Dec. 9, 2007, “a world scientists say may melt away by 2050.” Sanders didn’t include any scientists who disagreed with that claim.
The lack of balance on the issue prompted one network journalist, John Stossel of ABC, to do a story on the media’s one-sidedness on “20/20” Oct. 19, 2007.
“You’ve heard the reports. The globe is warming. And it’s our fault. And the consequences will be terrible. But you should know there is another side to this story,” teased Stossel as he began his “Give me a Break” segment.
There is another side to the issue. In one story, Stossel interviewed four scientists critical of the so-called “consensus” on global warming. That’s four more dissenting scientists than CBS put on its network in six entire months.
To better assess network behavior on this key topic, the Business & Media Institute examined 205 stories from ABC, CBS and NBC that mentioned “global warming” or “climate change” between July 1, 2007, and Dec. 31, 2007.
BMI found skepticism was shut out of a vast majority of reports. Overall, a measly 20 percent had any dissent at all referenced by a journalist or guest.
Skeptical voices were suppressed by the networks, outnumbered by nearly a 7-to-1 ratio by those promoting fear of climate change or being used by the network for the same purpose. CBS had an even worse record: nearly 38 proponents to one skeptic.
Lengthy segments like Scott Pelley’s Oct. 21, 2007, “60 Minutes” story on “The Age of Megafires” certainly had time to include an alternative point of view to the notion that global warming is largely responsible for bigger, hotter fires in the American West. But Pelley skipped those voices – voices like a University of California Merced professor published on the Washington Spokesman-Review Web site about the California wildfires.
According to Alan Zarembo’s Oct. 24, 2007, story, “Scientists said it would be difficult to make that case, given the combustible mix of drought and wind that has plagued the region for centuries or more.”
Anthony Westerling, a UC-Merced professor and climate scientist, told Zarembo that the wildfires were the result of two “staples of the region’s climatic history,” meaning “strong Santa Ana winds” and “a drought that turned much of the hillsides to bone-dry kindling.”
“Neither can be attributed to climate change,” said Westerling.
The near blackout of skepticism on the networks didn’t come as much of a surprise, since reporters like Pelley have been much more than onlookers in the story of global warming. In many cases they have become advocates – even going “to the ends of the earth” “to find evidence of climate change.”
Ann Curry of NBC’s “Today” made that clear on Oct. 29, 2007: “[O]ur mission, of course, is to find evidence of climate change.”
When people with other views were mentioned, it sometimes came with a denigrating label like “deniers” or “cynics.” Such critics were also portrayed as flat-earthers by journalists and guests. One person skeptical of manmade climate change, a Kentucky state representative, managed to get on the air but was treated to an exceptionally hostile interview by ABC’s Bill Weir.
There were many other flaws in the reporting that created a very one-sided perspective. Journalists repeatedly phrased questions or made statements indicating human-caused warming was a fact, and they included opinions of politicians, movie stars, musicians and ordinary people like bankers instead of relying on scientists.
But according to Dr. Pat Michaels viewers would be better served by hearing both sides. “They would benefit from appreciating the true scientific diversity on the topic. The arguments against these gloom and doom global warming scenarios are much stronger than the arguments for them,” Michaels told BMI.
Voices of Dissent: Missing
According to NBC’s Brian Williams, “There’s no shortage of folks out there saying it’s [global warming is] not all that bad.” Williams was teasing a “Nightly News” story on August 15 that included two other voices: Dr. Pat Michaels, a research professor of environmental sciences, and Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Williams was certainly right – there are hundreds of scientists from around the world who question the global warming “consensus” – but in the news the latter half of 2007 you had to look hard to find them.
On the three networks, 80 percent of stories (167 out of 205) didn’t mention skepticism or anyone at all who dissented from global warming alarmism. CBS did the absolute worst job. Ninety-seven percent of its stories (34 out of 35) ignored other opinions. Williams’ own network, NBC, came in a close second with 85 percent (76 out of 89) excluding skepticism. ABC was the most balanced network, but still censored dissent from 64 percent of its stories (34 out of 53).
But dissent flourishes. The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee released a list on Dec. 20, 2007, of more than 400 skeptical scientists from different fields – astrophysics, geology, climatology, meteorology and others. The release didn’t even earn a news brief from one of the three networks as of Dec. 31, 2007.
Even when one show claimed it would represent a range of opinions on the issue, it didn’t. On Oct. 30, 2007, NBC “Today” co-host Matt Lauer teased the upcoming “Ends of the Earth” broadcasts saying to Meredith Vieira, “And you’re going to be interviewing all the experts talking about the issues of climate change.” (emphasis added)
Vieira replied, “Absolutely. Getting into a whole debate, too, because some people believe there’s an effect of climate change, others say not really. So we’re going to discuss all of it and give viewers at home real tips on what you can do.”
But on Nov. 5 and 6, 2007 as “Today” went to the “Ends of the Earth,” the only “experts” Vieira spoke to were former vice president Al Gore, Chip Giller of Grist.org – a left-wing environmental Web site – and Katherine Wroth, co-author of “Wake Up and Smell the Planet.”
Grist is an extreme publication. David Roberts of the environmentalist magazine called for “war crimes trials for these bastards ¬– some sort of climate Nuremberg,” referring to the climate change “denial industry.” (Roberts later retracted his comment, but not until it received a strongly negative response.)
The only skepticism of global warming “consensus” that came up was a brief mention by Vieira as she interviewed Gore. She asked Gore about John Christy, one scientist formerly with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who criticized Gore’s predictions in an op-ed printed in The Wall Street Journal. Gore shot back calling Christy an “outlier.”
Vieira didn’t question Gore’s remark or give Christy an opportunity to respond to the attack. Perhaps if she had, Christy would have echoed his remarks from the Nov. 1, 2007, Wall Street Journal:
“I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never ‘proof’) and the coincidence that change in carbon dioxide and global temperatures have loose similarity over time,” said Christy.
He continued, “We [dissenting scientists] discount the possibility that everything is caused by human actions, because everything we’ve seen the climate do has happened before. Sea levels rise and fall continually. The Arctic ice cap has shrunk before. One millennium there are hippos swimming in the Thames, and a geological blink later there is an ice bridge linking Asia and North America.”
‘Deniers,’ ‘Hired Guns’ and Hostile Interviews
Journalists practically drooled over Al Gore during Live Earth interviews and after he won the Nobel Peace Prize. In contrast, people with alternative views barely got face time on the networks. Instead, they received insults and hostile questions.
The ugliest treatment of a skeptic was by Bill Weir on Nov. 18, 2007, “Good Morning America.” He was interviewing Democratic state representative Bill Gooch from Kentucky.
Weir peppered Gooch with hardball questions and even attacked Gooch’s motives:
• “So what do you suspect these 4,000 or so scientists from 130 countries are up to? Do you accuse them [IPCC scientists] of lying? Do you think they’re just all wrong?”
• “I should point out that your family is in business with the coal industry. You opposed a bill that would’ve stopped coal mines from exploding the tops of mountains and dumping waste into rivers there. So shouldn’t you temper on your opinion on the environment?”
Gooch made it clear that he supported an open debate, saying, “[T]here is another side of the story. I think what we have is we have the problem of global warming about to become a political problem when lawmakers in Congress, when governors in states, when even the courts start to act in ways that are gonna affect the American people in severe ways.” Gooch then mentioned the possible $6-trillion cost of one bill to deal with global warming.
“And what I wanna make sure that we do is that if we act, we have the science right,” explained Gooch.
Weir wasn’t satisfied: “But, but according to all these scientists, the more handwringing we do, the more we dither on this, the worse it’s going to get. And what if you’re wrong? What if this is, in fact, a global catastrophe? Isn’t it a moral imperative as a public servant to err on the side of planetary survival and get something done?”
Instead of letting Gooch debate with someone who disagreed, Weir filled that role himself. He came across as a passionate advocate for “something” that would supposedly aid “survival,” ignoring the cost, accuracy, and his supposed objectivity.
Journalists also called skeptics “deniers,” conjuring images of Holocaust deniers, and cast them as flat-earthers – ironically forgetting that there was once a scientific consensus that the earth was flat.
When Gore attacked Dr. Christy [who was mentioned by Meredith Vieira] on “Today” Nov. 5, 2007, Gore specifically compared people critical of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming to people who think the Earth is flat.
“Well, he’s an outlier, he no longer belongs to the IPCC. And he is way outside the scientific consensus … There are still people who believe that the Earth is flat,” said Gore.
Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made the same disparaging comparison on July 16, 2007 “Early Show” on CBS. After co-host Harry Smith said, “[I] asked why some people still don’t believe we have a problem.”
“Well, I think that there is [sic] still a lot of people that still think that the world is flat,” said Schwarzenegger.
NBC’s chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson said, “He is proudly a denier,” of research professor and CATO senior fellow Dr. Pat Michaels.
Michaels told BMI, “She has no idea what she’s talking about. I have written and spoken repeatedly in the last 15 years that human beings are responsible for most of the warming in the past century.” What Michaels disagrees on is whether such warming will result in environmental catastrophe.
Recalling that NBC interview, Michaels continued, “The interview was great, but she pulled out one little piece and took it completely out of context. It was really, really disappointing. The interview was conducted in a very professional fashion, it was the editing that clearly did not reflect the tone and content of the overall interview.”
Thompson actually included two dissenting views in that Aug. 15, 2007, “Nightly News” but undermined both their opinions by implying they were not experts and were only making trouble: “Climate experts say whether hired guns or honest dissenters, deniers are confusing the issue and delaying solutions.”
A paltry 37 people expressing skepticism were included in six months of TV news coverage on the issue across three networks. That included all kinds of people like politicians or government employees, business representatives, celebrities, ordinary people and unidentified people. Only seven of them were scientists like Michaels.
CBS practically banned skeptics from its network, including only four and not a single scientist. The network seemed to adopt the mentality of CBS journalist Scott Pelley, who referred to global warming skeptics as “deniers” in March 2006 when he said, “If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?” Recent “60 Minutes” segments from Pelley indicated he hasn’t changed his mind about balanced journalism.
Those skeptical of the environmental impact of Gore’s Live Earth concerts on July 7, 2007 also earned scorn from the media – even those like Bob Geldof who weren’t questioning the science.
“[T]here have been cynics out there who question whether the artists are practicing what they preach,” said NBC’s Lester Holt on July 7, 2007 “Today.”
You Call Them Experts?
ABC’s Bill Weir claimed that “all the scientists” urge immediate action to stop global warming, but it wasn’t just scientists the three networks relied on to make that case. Far from it.
There were politicians and government workers. Musicians like Madonna and Dave Matthews. Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio. And quite possibly, your next-door neighbor.
What those celebrities said had little to do with science and everything to do with advocacy. Singer KT Tunstall, a Live Earth performer, was quoted by ABC on July 7, 2007.
“I think I am an environmentalist. I mean, I don’t have a car. I live in a small apartment,” said Tunstall.
Madonna urged Live Earth attendees, “If you wanna save the planet, let me see you jumping up and down.”
But it wasn’t just globe-trotting stars telling people the planet was in danger and crowding out any other perspective.
Politicians offered perhaps more substance, but certainly not much more science than the Hollywood types. In addition to fawning over Gore, networks interviewed Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R), California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Independent), among others.
Reporters also relied on ordinary voices to reinforce the idea that global warming was already a major threat impacting our daily lives.
Only 15 percent of the people used to support global warming positions were scientists – identified as a “scientist” or with a specialty like genetics, ecology, biology or oceanography. A total of 71 scientists were included in six months of coverage. But networks turned to ordinary, unidentified people nearly a third more often than the scientists (101 to 71.)
Networks turned to ordinary people like two Live Earth concertgoers and the unidentified female “consumer” quoted by ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” on Sept. 14, 2007.
“You know, I think everybody’s got to think about it. We’ve got to change,” said a woman in a story about carbon labeling of food products.
Those quotes were used to underline the points that reporters made. One story on “Today” Nov. 6, 2007, warned that melting ice could kill off polar bears. Reporter Kerry Sanders included three unidentified people talking about polar bears – supporting his remark that “Worst-case scenario: If the Arctic ice continues to melt, in the next 100 years, the U.S. Wildlife Service says the only place you’ll find a polar bear will be at the zoo.”
Worries over Arctic melt flooded global warming coverage in the latter half of 2007, but as columnist John Tierney wrote in the Jan. 1, 2008 New York Times: “When the Arctic sea ice last year [2007] hit the lowest level ever recorded by satellites, it was big news and heralded as a sign that the whole planet was warming. When the Antarctic sea ice last year reached the highest level ever recorded by satellites, it was pretty much ignored.”
No Need for Debate, Warming is ‘Fact’
To many in the news media, global warming and its reported cause were already established fact. It was clear by the way some journalists talked about warming that they had accepted Gore’s insistence that “the debate’s over.”
Just listen to CBS’s Harry Smith: “Before we do anything else, there is, in fact, global climate change. It really affects some climates much more than others and it’s really caused some real serious problems.” Those serious problems Smith was talking about were allergies during a segment on the Aug. 7, 2007 “Early Show.”
ABC’s Sam Champion seemed to agree. Champion called the fourth U.N. IPCC report “definitive” on Sept. 5, 2007 and said he had been “investigating the alarming numbers of animals that are disappearing due to global warming” in July.
But Dan Harris went the farthest on Dec. 2, 2007 in a story about security risk and global warming. The “World News Sunday” host told viewers to “Think about this scenario: global warming contributes to a severe drought and food shortage in a third-world country. The government collapses. Warlords take over. America is forced to intervene.”
Shockingly, Harris then claimed: “It’s already happened, Somalia, 1993, with disastrous consequences.”
Harris excluded expertise on the Somali situation or any context. Human Rights Watch, a liberal international organization, gave a very different perspective at the time of the crisis back in 1992:
“Somalia has historically been subject to famines, especially in the pastoral areas of the center and north … The current famine that threatens Mogadishu and south-central Somalia is radically different in origin and impact. Drought has played only a minor role, and the main victims are poor townspeople, farmers and rural laborers.”
The ABC correspondent didn’t include any statements about the way the war was thought to have contributed to the famine.
Journalists weren’t the only ones claiming that global warming was a fact, though. But the people journalists chose to interview also included Gore saying the “debate’s over” and didn’t dispute Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s incorrect statement that there was “zero dissent” on the issue, or Leonardo DiCaprio’s assertion of a “90-percent consensus.”
“Consensus” was rarely questioned by reporters at all, and ABC’s Bill Weir even used the concept of “these 4,000 or so scientists” to hammer at one person expressing a different view.
The media did a terrible job of actually explaining what the IPCC was. Atmospheric scientist Dr. John Christy told Earth & Sky Web site that the “IPCC would do well to define what each participant truly contributes to each product (i.e. Summary for Policy Makers vs. Full Text) so that the world would know that thousands of scientists never reached a ‘consensus’ on anything.”
“When the Full Text is developed, ‘consensus’ is a concept held by the chapters’ Lead Authors who often ignore or contradict positions offered by the Contributing Authors and Reviewers,” explained Christy.
David Henderson, a former chief economist of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), wrote a detailed criticism of the IPCC in the Oct. 11, 2007 Wall Street Journal. He called the process “flawed” and biased because “the Panel members and those who appoint them are of course identified with the policies of their governments And virtually all governments are formally committed … to the ‘stabilization of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere’.”
“[T]his puts in doubt the accepted basis of official climate policies,” concluded Henderson.
It Don’t Cost a Thing if It’s Got That Climate Swing
Not only did the networks censor skepticism from stories, but the cost of proposed solutions, small or large, was routinely omitted.
BMI found that 90 percent of the stories didn’t mention cost at all, even though the networks urged immediate action to stop the “climate crisis.”
“NBC Nightly News” ignored cost in a Dec. 18, 2007 report about the recent energy bill passed by Congress.
“What America drives could change dramatically under the energy bill,” said Anne Thompson before quoting David Hamilton of the left-wing environmentalist group Sierra Club.
Hamilton lauded parts of the bill during the “Fueling Change” segment: “This bill means that we will get all the same safety, all the same performance that we’ve ever gotten from our cars, but we’ll get it with more miles to the gallon.”
Thompson and Hamilton both ignored the obvious cost to auto manufacturers of designing vehicles that will be able to meet the new fuel efficiency requirements. Likely, those costs will be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher vehicles prices.
Other plans to curb greenhouse-gas emissions could cost trillions of dollars. One estimate by business consulting firm CRA International put a $4-trillion to $6-trillion price tag on the Lieberman-Warner bill, which would mandate scaling back emissions levels to 1990s levels by 2020. That would cost each American man, woman and child $494 a year.
Network reporters also didn’t focus on how much is already being spent. As the Business & Media Institute reported in its “Fire and Ice” study, more than 99.5 percent of American climate change funding comes from the government – taxpayers – and we spend $4 billion per year on climate change research.
The Kyoto treaty that was never ratified by the U.S. carried an estimated cost of $440 billion per year for America. The Senate voted 95 to 0 to reject it.
BMI examined all ABC, CBS and NBC news transcripts that included the terms “global warming” or “climate change” during the most recent six month period – from July 1, 2007, to Dec. 31, 2007. Only stories mentioning those terms were included in the study.
The stories were split into two categories: stories and casual mentions. Casual mentions encompassed anchor briefs shorter than 50 words and longer stories that only mentioned global warming or climate change incidentally (the story was not about that issue).
“Dissent,” for the purpose of this study, included any uncertainty [“I don’t know”], alternative opinions about warming, and caution against making climate change policy decisions without more information. It also included criticism of “solutions” to global warming and “awareness” campaigns like Live Earth ¬– even when the critic wasn’t disagreeing with manmade climate change, but just the usefulness of worldwide rock concerts.
People quoted in a story that supported climate change claims were placed in the proponent category because their comments were used by the network to support the manmade global warming viewpoint. There was one exception. In one story, scientist Bill Nye presented both positions on the issue in a balanced manner. He was counted as neutral in that story.
• Report the issue objectively: Reporters have a professional responsibility to remain objective and avoid inserting their own opinions into their reports. Many in the media have sorely missed that mark when it comes to reporting on global warming and climate change.
• Include skeptics: The Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics states journalists should “Support the open exchange of views, even views they find repugnant.” It is the media’s job to inform the public, not persuade them by leaving out alternative viewpoints. Particularly, networks should give skeptical scientists the opportunity to share their findings – just like they include scientists who say manmade global warming is negatively impacting the planet.
• Show Me the Money: If the U.S. government passes legislation to address global warming, it will carry a cost and American taxpayers have a right to know what it would be. The media need to do a much better job by asking about or including cost estimates of climate change “solutions.”
Fire and Ice: Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide ‘weather’ we face an ice age or warming.
Climate of Bias: BMI’s section dedicated to issues of climate change in the media
Skeptical Scientists: A list of hundreds of scientists who question the science surrounding global warming alarmism
Copyright © Julia A. Seymour and Dan Gainor, Global Research, 2008
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Inaugural education delivery partnership agreement signed with Sociedad Italiana de Beneficencia en Buenos Aires
June 19, 2019 10:00 ET | Source: SNOMED International
LONDON, June 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SNOMED International is excited to announce a groundbreaking milestone in the organization’s approach to SNOMED CT education delivery. This past May, SNOMED International signed an agreement with Sociedad Italiana de Beneficencia en Buenos Aires, commonly referred to as Hospital Italiano, to deliver SNOMED CT education on its behalf in Spanish within select Latin America countries.
Hospital Italiano has been engaged by SNOMED International to deliver mutually agreed upon SNOMED CT educational content to participants. As part of this agreement, Hospital Italiano will serve as an extension of the SNOMED International Education Program within Latin America and be empowered to issue course completion certificates and certifications as applicable.
Prior to the signing of this agreement, Hospital Italiano has provided terminology services to several healthcare organizations in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay using SNOMED CT as the foundation to build an interface terminology. Services have also included provision of a thesaurus tailored to the local needs of professionals interacting with the EHR, SNOMED CT cross maps to related classifications and standards as well as creation of various refsets according to the needs of an organization.
SNOMED International began delivery of education programming to support understanding, use and implementation of SNOMED CT in 2015. Since that time, and with demonstrated growth of the organization’s Member base and affiliates, SNOMED International has been exploring ways to broaden its ability to educate audiences interested in clinical terminology.
“Given the international nature of our organization and diverse Member make-up, we have been exploring different ways in which to share SNOMED CT’s education program with a wider audience, and where possible, in the first language of their choosing,” stated SNOMED International CEO, Don Sweete. Sweete went on to say, “As a Member focused organization, I hope that this is the first of many agreements of this nature.”
Dr Daniel Luna, CIO at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires says, “We have trusted in SNOMED CT as a reference terminology since the beginning of the development of our health information system, and work in the dissemination of the standard. Now, that we have SNOMED CT in our country and in the region, it is a great honor to be part of this education alliance, working together to further spread the benefits of this terminology."
This arrangement is in effect as of 19th May 2019. For more information on how to access SNOMED CT education, visit https://www.snomed.org/snomed-ct/education.
Contact info@snomed.org with any additional inquiries.
About SNOMED International
SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organization that owns and develops SNOMED CT, the world's most comprehensive healthcare terminology product. We play an essential role in improving the health of humankind by determining standards for a codified language that represents groups of clinical terms. This enables healthcare information to be exchanged globally for the benefit of patients and other stakeholders. We are committed to the rigorous evolution of our products and services, to deliver continuous innovation for the global healthcare community. SNOMED International is the trading name of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation.
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Jerry Lewis movies: 15 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include ‘The Nutty Professor,’ ‘The King of Comedy’
Zach Laws, Chris Beachum
Jerry Lewis would’ve celebrated his 93rd birthday on March 16, 2019. The comedic legend starred in dozens of films, remaining active until his death at 91 in 2017. But how many of those titles, many of which he also wrote and directed, remain classics? In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of his greatest movies, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1926, Lewis initially gained attention as one half of the team Martin and Lewis, opposite future Rat Packer Dean Martin. The combination of Martin as the lady-killing straight man and Lewis as the spastic goofball started as a night club act and a radio program. They appeared in 17 films together before their breakup in 1956.
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He went on to star in, direct, and write a series of slapstick comedies laced with hints of sentimentality. In titles such as “The Bellboy” (1960), “The Ladies Man” (1961), “The Nutty Professor” (1963), and “The Patsy” (1964), Lewis played a lovable, rubber-faced dork who won our hearts while grating on our nerves.
Despite his box office success, Lewis was never recognized at the Academy, although he did receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2009 for his philanthropy on behalf of muscular dystrophy research. Perhaps the closest he ever came to Oscar glory was with his BAFTA-nominated supporting turn in Martin Scorsese‘s “The King of Comedy” (1983), in which he played a successful late night host kidnapped by a delusional fan (Robert De Niro).
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Additionally, Lewis earned a Golden Globe nomination as Best Comedy/Musical Actor for “Boeing, Boeing” (1965) and an Emmy bid as Best Comedian in 1952 (shared with Martin). He received the TV Academy’s Governors Award in 2005.
Tour our photo gallery above of Lewis’s 15 greatest films, including a few classics that should’ve brought him Oscar consideration.
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Africa Mission Report: Missionaries Expelled from Rwanda
Jan 29, 2003 04:04 PM EST Comment
Rwanda -- A short-term mission team from Teen Missions International has been expelled from Rwanda. Teen Missions' Steve Peterson says 20 team members from Kenya, Uganda and Sudan were expelled because of mistaken identity. "When the team came in some people looked and saw the luggage, the cooking equipment, and started to spread rumors that perhaps the team might be part of a military group and eventually there was pressure put to bear on the team to leave the country. They were surrounded by armed soldiers and told to leave the country. All of their belongings were searched thoroughly at the border and they were sent out." Peterson believes that though the hearts of the nation are open to the Gospel, another fear of genocide lingers through the nation. "It's a barrier that anyone wishing to take the Gospel into Rwanda has to overcome. It's just the distrust and the fear that is still gripping people's hearts. We need to pray that even as the Lord has opened people's hearts to the Gospel that there will be enough stability in the country that outreach will be able to continue."
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H.R. 1424 (110th): Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Mar 9, 2007: Introduced Mar 4, 2008: Reported by House Committee Mar 5, 2008: Passed the House Mar 7, 2008: Placed on Calendar in the Senate Oct 2, 2008: Passed the Senate with an Amendment Oct 3, 2008: Passed Congress
(Select Other Version) Mar 4, 2008: Reported by House Committee Mar 5, 2008: Passed the House Mar 7, 2008: Placed on Calendar in the Senate Oct 2, 2008: Passed the Senate with an Amendment Oct 3, 2008: Passed Congress
(Select Bill) H.R. 1367 Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 (IH) H.Res. 1525 Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 1424) to amend section ... (EH) H.R. 7202 Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2008 (IH) H.R. 7207 Spectrum Relocation Improvement Act of 2008 (IH) H.R. 6983 Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (EH) H.R. 493 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (ENR) H.Res. 1014 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1424) to amend section 712 of the Employee ... (EH) S. 558 Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 (RFH) S. 358 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 (RS) H.R. 6983 Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (RDS) S. 3322 Midwestern Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008 (IS) H.R. 6640 Fair Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008 (IH)
The text of the bill below is as of Mar 9, 2007 (Introduced).
We have a summary of this bill which will help you make sense of what you see below.
H. R. 1424
Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Mr. Ramstad, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Allen, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Arcuri, Mr. Baca, Mr. Bachus, Mr. Baird, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Barrow, Ms. Bean, Mr. Becerra, Ms. Berkley, Mr. Berman, Mr. Berry, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Bishop of New York, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Boren, Mr. Boswell, Mr. Boucher, Mr. Boyd of Florida, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Braley of Iowa, Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida, Mr. Butterfield, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Capuano, Mr. Cardoza, Mr. Carnahan, Mr. Carney, Ms. Carson, Ms. Castor, Mr. Chandler, Mrs. Christensen, Ms. Clarke, Mr. Clay, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Costa, Mr. Costello, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Crowley, Mrs. Cubin, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Davis of Alabama, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. Lincoln Davis of Tennessee, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Delahunt, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Dicks, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Ellsworth, Mr. Emanuel, Mrs. Emerson, Mr. Engel, Mr. English of Pennsylvania, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Etheridge, Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. Farr, Mr. Fattah, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Filner, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Frelinghuysen, Ms. Giffords, Mr. Gilchrest, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Gordon of Tennessee, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Hall of New York, Mr. Hare, Ms. Harman, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Ms. Herseth, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Hinojosa, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Hodes, Mr. Holden, Mr. Holt, Mr. Honda, Ms. Hooley, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Inslee, Mr. Israel, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mr. Jefferson, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mrs. Jones of Ohio, Mr. Kagen, Mr. Kanjorski, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Keller of Florida, Mr. Kildee, Ms. Kilpatrick, Mr. Kind, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Klein of Florida, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. LaHood, Mr. Lampson, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. LaTourette, Ms. Lee, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. Loebsack, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Lynch, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Markey, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Matheson, Ms. Matsui, Mrs. McCarthy of New York, Ms. McCollum of Minnesota, Mr. McDermott, Mr. McGovern, Mr. McHugh, Mr. McIntyre, Mr. McNerney, Mr. McNulty, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Meek of Florida, Mr. Meeks of New York, Mr. Mica, Mr. Michaud, Ms. Millender-McDonald, Mr. George Miller of California, Mr. Mollohan, Mr. Moore of Kansas, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Murphy of Connecticut, Mr. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, Mr. Murtha, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Neal of Massachusetts, Ms. Norton, Mr. Oberstar, Mr. Obey, Mr. Olver, Mr. Ortiz, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Pastor, Mr. Payne, Mr. Perlmutter, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Platts, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Rahall, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Renzi, Mr. Reyes, Mr. Rodriguez, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Ross, Mr. Rothman, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Ruppersberger, Mr. Rush, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Salazar, Ms. Linda T. Sánchez of California, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Saxton, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Mrs. Schmidt, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Schwartz, Mr. Scott of Georgia, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Sestak, Mr. Shays, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Sires, Mr. Skelton, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Snyder, Ms. Solis, Mr. Space, Mr. Spratt, Mr. Stark, Mr. Stupak, Mr. Sullivan, Ms. Sutton, Mr. Tanner, Mrs. Tauscher, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Towns, Mr. Udall of Colorado, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, Mr. Upton, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Velázquez, Mr. Visclosky, Mr. Walsh of New York, Mr. Walz of Minnesota, Mr. Wamp, Ms. Waters, Ms. Watson, Mr. Watt, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Welch of Vermont, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Wilson of Ohio, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Wu, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Yarmuth, and Mr. Young of Alaska) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
To amend section 712 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act, and section 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require equity in the provision of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under group health plans.
Short title; table of contents
This Act may be cited as the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 .
The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
Sec. 3. Amendments to the Public Health Service Act relating to the group market.
Sec. 5. Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Sec. 5. Government Accountability Office studies and reports.
Amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
Extension of parity to treatment limits and beneficiary financial requirements
Section 712 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1185a) is amended—
in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
Treatment limits
No treatment limit
If the plan or coverage does not include a treatment limit (as defined in subparagraph (D)) on substantially all medical and surgical benefits in any category of items or services, the plan or coverage may not impose any treatment limit on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits that are classified in the same category of items or services.
Treatment limit
If the plan or coverage includes a treatment limit on substantially all medical and surgical benefits in any category of items or services, the plan or coverage may not impose such a treatment limit on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits for items and services within such category that are more restrictive than the predominant treatment limit that is applicable to medical and surgical benefits for items and services within such category.
Categories of items and services for application of treatment limits and beneficiary financial requirements
For purposes of this paragraph and paragraph (4), there shall be the following four categories of items and services for benefits, whether medical and surgical benefits or mental health and substance-related disorder benefits, and all medical and surgical benefits and all mental health and substance related benefits shall be classified into one of the following categories:
Inpatient, in-network
Items and services furnished on an inpatient basis and within a network of providers established or recognized under such plan or coverage.
Inpatient, out-of-network
Items and services furnished on an inpatient basis and outside any network of providers established or recognized under such plan or coverage.
Outpatient, in-network
Items and services furnished on an outpatient basis and within a network of providers established or recognized under such plan or coverage.
Outpatient, out-of-network
Items and services furnished on an outpatient basis and outside any network of providers established or recognized under such plan or coverage.
Treatment limit defined
For purposes of this paragraph, the term treatment limit means, with respect to a plan or coverage, limitation on the frequency of treatment, number of visits or days of coverage, or other similar limit on the duration or scope of treatment under the plan or coverage.
Predominance
For purposes of this subsection, a treatment limit or financial requirement with respect to a category of items and services is considered to be predominant if it is the most common or frequent of such type of limit or requirement with respect to such category of items and services.
Beneficiary financial requirements
No beneficiary financial requirement
If the plan or coverage does not include a beneficiary financial requirement (as defined in subparagraph (C)) on substantially all medical and surgical benefits within a category of items and services (specified under paragraph (3)(C)), the plan or coverage may not impose such a beneficiary financial requirement on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits for items and services within such category.
Beneficiary financial requirement
Treatment of deductibles, out-of-pocket limits, and similar financial requirements
If the plan or coverage includes a deductible, a limitation on out-of-pocket expenses, or similar beneficiary financial requirement that does not apply separately to individual items and services on substantially all medical and surgical benefits within a category of items and services (as specified in paragraph (3)(C)), the plan or coverage shall apply such requirement (or, if there is more than one such requirement for such category of items and services, the predominant requirement for such category) both to medical and surgical benefits within such category and to mental health and substance-related disorder benefits within such category and shall not distinguish in the application of such requirement between such medical and surgical benefits and such mental health and substance-related disorder benefits.
Other financial requirements
If the plan or coverage includes a beneficiary financial requirement not described in clause (i) on substantially all medical and surgical benefits within a category of items and services, the plan or coverage may not impose such financial requirement on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits for items and services within such category in a way that is more costly to the participant or beneficiary than the predominant beneficiary financial requirement applicable to medical and surgical benefits for items and services within such category.
Beneficiary financial requirement defined
For purposes of this paragraph, the term beneficiary financial requirement includes, with respect to a plan or coverage, any deductible, coinsurance, co-payment, other cost sharing, and limitation on the total amount that may be paid by a participant or beneficiary with respect to benefits under the plan or coverage, but does not include the application of any aggregate lifetime limit or annual limit.
; and
in subsection (b)—
by striking construed— and all that follows through (1) as requiring and inserting construed as requiring ;
by striking ; or and inserting a period; and
by striking paragraph (2).
Expansion to substance-related disorder benefits and revision of definition
Such section is further amended—
by striking mental health benefits and inserting mental health and substance-related disorder benefits each place it appears; and
in paragraph (4) of subsection (e)—
by striking Mental health benefits and inserting Mental health and substance-related disorder benefits ;
by striking benefits with respect to mental health services and inserting benefits with respect to services for mental health conditions or substance-related disorders ; and
by striking , but does not include benefits with respect to treatment of substances abuse or chemical dependency .
Availability of plan information about criteria for medical necessity
Subsection (a) of such section, as amended by subsection (a)(1), is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
Availability of plan information
The criteria for medical necessity determinations made under the plan with respect to mental health and substance-related disorder benefits (or the health insurance coverage offered in connection with the plan with respect to such benefits) shall be made available by the plan administrator (or the health insurance issuer offering such coverage) to any current or potential participant, beneficiary, or contracting provider upon request. The reason for any denial under the plan (or coverage) of reimbursement or payment for services with respect to mental health and substance-related disorder benefits in the case of any participant or beneficiary shall, upon request, be made available by the plan administrator (or the health insurance issuer offering such coverage) to the participant or beneficiary.
Minimum benefit requirements
Subsection (a) of such section is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
Minimum scope of coverage and equity in out-of-network benefits
Minimum scope of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits
In the case of a group health plan (or health insurance coverage offered in connection with such a plan) that provides any mental health and substance-related disorder benefits, the plan or coverage shall include benefits for any mental health condition or substance-related disorder for which benefits are provided under the benefit plan option offered under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, with the highest average enrollment as of the beginning of the most recent year beginning on or before the beginning of the plan year involved.
Equity in coverage of out-of-network benefits
In the case of a plan or coverage that provides both medical and surgical benefits and mental health and substance-related disorder benefits, if medical and surgical benefits are provided for substantially all items and services in a category specified in clause (ii) furnished outside any network of providers established or recognized under such plan or coverage, the mental health and substance-related disorder benefits shall also be provided for items and services in such category furnished outside any network of providers established or recognized under such plan or coverage in accordance with the requirements of this section.
Categories of items and services
For purposes of clause (i), there shall be the following three categories of items and services for benefits, whether medical and surgical benefits or mental health and substance-related disorder benefits, and all medical and surgical benefits and all mental health and substance-related disorder benefits shall be classified into one of the following categories:
Items and services, whether furnished on an inpatient or outpatient basis, required for the treatment of an emergency medical condition (including an emergency condition relating to mental health and substance-related disorders).
Items and services not described in subclause (I) furnished on an inpatient basis.
Items and services not described in subclause (I) furnished on an outpatient basis.
Revision of increased cost exemption
Paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of such section is amended to read as follows:
Increased cost exemption
With respect to a group health plan (or health insurance coverage offered in connection with such a plan), if the application of this section to such plan (or coverage) results in an increase for the plan year involved of the actual total costs of coverage with respect to medical and surgical benefits and mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under the plan (as determined and certified under subparagraph (C)) by an amount that exceeds the applicable percentage described in subparagraph (B) of the actual total plan costs, the provisions of this section shall not apply to such plan (or coverage) during the following plan year, and such exemption shall apply to the plan (or coverage) for 1 plan year.
Applicable percentage
With respect to a plan (or coverage), the applicable percentage described in this paragraph shall be—
2 percent in the case of the first plan year which begins after the date of the enactment of the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007; and
1 percent in the case of each subsequent plan year.
Determinations by actuaries
Determinations as to increases in actual costs under a plan (or coverage) for purposes of this subsection shall be made by a qualified actuary who is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries. Such determinations shall be certified by the actuary and be made available to the general public.
6-month determinations
If a group health plan (or a health insurance issuer offering coverage in connection with such a plan) seeks an exemption under this paragraph, determinations under subparagraph (A) shall be made after such plan (or coverage) has complied with this section for the first 6 months of the plan year involved.
An election to modify coverage of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits as permitted under this paragraph shall be treated as a material modification in the terms of the plan as described in section 102(a)(1) and shall be subject to the applicable notice requirements under section 104(b)(1).
Change in exclusion for smallest employers
Subsection (c)(1)(B) of such section is amended—
by inserting (or 1 in the case of an employer residing in a State that permits small groups to include a single individual) after at least 2 the first place it appears; and
by striking and who employs at least 2 employees on the first day of the plan year .
Elimination of sunset provision
Such section is amended by striking out subsection (f).
Clarification regarding preemption
Such section is further amended by inserting after subsection (e) the following new subsection:
Preemption, Relation to State Laws
Nothing in this section shall be construed to preempt any State law that provides greater consumer protections, benefits, methods of access to benefits, rights or remedies that are greater than the protections, benefits, methods of access to benefits, rights or remedies provided under this section.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect or modify the provisions of section 514 with respect to group health plans.
Conforming amendments to heading
The heading of such section is amended to read as follows:
Clerical amendment
The table of contents in section 1 of such Act is amended by striking the item relating to section 712 and inserting the following new item:
Sec. 712. Equity in mental health and substance-related disorder benefits.
The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2008.
Amendments to the Public Health Service Act relating to the group market
Section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg–5) is amended—
If the plan or coverage does not include a treatment limit (as defined in subparagraph (D)) on substantially all medical and surgical benefits in any category of items or services (specified in subparagraph (C)), the plan or coverage may not impose any treatment limit on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits that are classified in the same category of items or services.
If the plan or coverage does not include a beneficiary financial requirement (as defined in subparagraph (C)) on substantially all medical and surgical benefits within a category of items and services (specified in paragraph (3)(C)), the plan or coverage may not impose such a beneficiary financial requirement on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits for items and services within such category.
If the plan or coverage includes a deductible, a limitation on out-of-pocket expenses, or similar beneficiary financial requirement that does not apply separately to individual items and services on substantially all medical and surgical benefits within a category of items and services, the plan or coverage shall apply such requirement (or, if there is more than one such requirement for such category of items and services, the predominant requirement for such category) both to medical and surgical benefits within such category and to mental health and substance-related disorder benefits within such category and shall not distinguish in the application of such requirement between such medical and surgical benefits and such mental health and substance-related disorder benefits.
A group health plan under this part shall comply with the notice requirement under section 712(c)(2)(E) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to the a modification of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits as permitted under this paragraph as if such section applied to such plan.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect or modify the provisions of section 2723 with respect to group health plans.
Conforming amendment to heading
Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
Section 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended—
If the plan does not include a treatment limit (as defined in subparagraph (D)) on substantially all medical and surgical benefits in any category of items or services (specified in subparagraph (C)), the plan may not impose any treatment limit on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits that are classified in the same category of items or services.
If the plan includes a treatment limit on substantially all medical and surgical benefits in any category of items or services, the plan may not impose such a treatment limit on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits for items and services within such category that are more restrictive than the predominant treatment limit that is applicable to medical and surgical benefits for items and services within such category.
For purposes of this paragraph, the term treatment limit means, with respect to a plan, limitation on the frequency of treatment, number of visits or days of coverage, or other similar limit on the duration or scope of treatment under the plan.
If the plan does not include a beneficiary financial requirement (as defined in subparagraph (C)) on substantially all medical and surgical benefits within a category of items and services (specified in paragraph (3)(C)), the plan may not impose such a beneficiary financial requirement on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits for items and services within such category.
If the plan includes a beneficiary financial requirement not described in clause (i) on substantially all medical and surgical benefits within a category of items and services, the plan may not impose such financial requirement on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits for items and services within such category in a way that is more costly to the participant or beneficiary than the predominant beneficiary financial requirement applicable to medical and surgical benefits for items and services within such category.
For purposes of this paragraph, the term beneficiary financial requirement includes, with respect to a plan, any deductible, coinsurance, co-payment, other cost sharing, and limitation on the total amount that may be paid by a participant or beneficiary with respect to benefits under the plan, but does not include the application of any aggregate lifetime limit or annual limit.
by striking Mental health benefits in the heading and inserting Mental health and substance-related disorder benefits ;
The criteria for medical necessity determinations made under the plan with respect to mental health and substance-related disorder benefits shall be made available by the plan administrator to any current or potential participant, beneficiary, or contracting provider upon request. The reason for any denial under the plan of reimbursement or payment for services with respect to mental health and substance-related disorder benefits in the case of any participant or beneficiary shall, upon request, be made available by the plan administrator to the participant or beneficiary.
In the case of a plan that provides both medical and surgical benefits and mental health and substance-related disorder benefits, if medical and surgical benefits are provided for substantially all items and services in a category specified in clause (ii) furnished outside any network of providers established or recognized under such plan or coverage, the mental health and substance-related disorder benefits shall also be provided for items and services in such category furnished outside any network of providers established or recognized under such plan in accordance with the requirements of this section.
With respect to a group health plan, if the application of this section to such plan results in an increase for the plan year involved of the actual total costs of coverage with respect to medical and surgical benefits and mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under the plan (as determined and certified under subparagraph (C)) by an amount that exceeds the applicable percentage described in subparagraph (B) of the actual total plan costs, the provisions of this section shall not apply to such plan during the following plan year, and such exemption shall apply to the plan for 1 plan year.
With respect to a plan, the applicable percentage described in this paragraph shall be—
Determinations as to increases in actual costs under a plan for purposes of this subsection shall be made by a qualified actuary who is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries. Such determinations shall be certified by the actuary and be made available to the general public.
If a group health plan seeks an exemption under this paragraph, determinations under subparagraph (A) shall be made after such plan has complied with this section for the first 6 months of the plan year involved.
Subsection (c)(1) of such section is amended to read as follows:
Small employer exemption
This section shall not apply to any group health plan for any plan year of a small employer.
For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term small employer means, with respect to a calendar year and a plan year, an employer who employed an average of at least 2 (or 1 in the case of an employer residing in a State that permits small groups to include a single individual) but not more than 50 employees on business days during the preceding calendar year. For purposes of the preceding sentence, all persons treated as a single employer under subsection (b), (c), (m), or (o) of section 414 shall be treated as 1 employer and rules similar to rules of subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section 4980D(d)(2) shall apply.
Such section is amended by striking subsection (f).
The table of sections for subchapter B of chapter 100 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking the item relating to section 9812 and inserting the following new item:
Sec. 9812. Equity in mental health and substance-related disorder benefits.
Government Accountability Office studies and reports
Implementation of Act
The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study that evaluates the effect of the implementation of the amendments made by this Act on—
the cost of health insurance coverage;
access to health insurance coverage (including the availability of in-network providers);
the quality of health care;
Medicare, Medicaid, and State and local mental health and substance abuse treatment spending;
the number of individuals with private insurance who received publicly funded health care for mental health and substance-related disorders;
spending on public services, such as the criminal justice system, special education, and income assistance programs;
the use of medical management of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits and medical necessity determinations by group health plans (and health insurance issuers offering health insurance coverage in connection with such plans) and timely access by participants and beneficiaries to clinically-indicated care for mental health and substance-use disorders; and
other matters as determined appropriate by the Comptroller General.
Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a report containing the results of the study conducted under paragraph (1).
Biannual report on obstacles in obtaining coverage
Every two years, the Comptroller General shall submit to each House of the Congress a report on obstacles that individuals face in obtaining mental health and substance-related disorder care under their health plans.
Uniform patient placement criteria
Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to each House of the Congress a report on availability of uniform patient placement criteria for mental health and substance-related disorders that could be used by group health plans and health insurance issuers to guide determinations of medical necessity and the extent to which health plans utilize such critiera. If such criteria do not exist, the report shall include recommendations on a process for developing such criteria.
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S. 3335 (110th)
S. 3335 (110th): Jobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief Act of 2008
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
Sponsor. Senator for Montana. Democrat.
“Cardin, o'malley, and ulman join forces to urge action on nation's energy crisis”
— Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD] on Sep 3, 2008
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 1424 (110th), possibly in lieu of similar activity on S. 3335 (110th).
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S. 3335 (110th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
GovTrack.us. (2019). S. 3335 — 110th Congress: Jobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief Act of 2008. Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/s3335
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H.R. 320 (114th): Rapid DNA Act of 2016
Jan 13, 2015: Introduced Dec 23, 2016: Reported by House Committee
Compare to a previous version to see how the bill has changed:
(Select Other Version) Jan 13, 2015: Introduced
(Select Bill) H.R. 5789 (113th) Rapid DNA Act of 2014 (IH) H.R. 510 (115th) Rapid DNA Act of 2017 (ENR) H.R. 510 (115th) Rapid DNA Act of 2017 (IH)
The text of the bill below is as of Dec 23, 2016 (Reported by House Committee).
Union Calendar No. 703
2d Session
H. R. 320
[Report No. 114–893]
Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself and Mr. Swalwell of California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
Additional sponsors: Mr. Chabot, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. Chaffetz, Ms. Speier, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Honda, Mr. Bishop of Michigan, Mr. Trott, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Carter of Texas, Ms. Jenkins of Kansas, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Ratcliffe, and Ms. Lofgren
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic
For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 13, 2015
To establish a system for integration of Rapid DNA instruments for use by law enforcement to reduce violent crime and reduce the current DNA analysis backlog.
This Act may be cited as the Rapid DNA Act of 2016 .
Rapid DNA instruments
Section 210303(a) of the DNA Identification Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14131(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
In addition to issuing standards as provided in paragraphs (1) through (4), the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall issue standards and procedures for the use of Rapid DNA instruments and resulting DNA analyses.
In this Act, the term Rapid DNA instruments means instrumentation that carries out a fully automated process to derive a DNA analysis from a DNA sample.
Paragraph (2) of section 210304(b) of the DNA Identification Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14132(b)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
laboratories that—
have been accredited by a nonprofit professional association of persons actively involved in forensic science that is nationally recognized within the forensic science community; and
undergo external audits, not less than once every 2 years, that demonstrate compliance with standards established by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or
criminal justice agencies using Rapid DNA instruments approved by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in compliance with the standards and procedures issued by the Director under section 210303(a)(5); and
Conforming amendments relating to collection of DNA identification information
From certain Federal offenders
Section 3 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135a) is amended—
in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following: The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may waive the requirements under this subsection if DNA samples are analyzed by means of Rapid DNA instruments and the results are included in CODIS. ; and
in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following:
The term Rapid DNA instruments means instrumentation that carries out a fully automated process to derive a DNA analysis from a DNA sample.
From certain District of Columbia offenders
Section 4 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135b) is amended—
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Isaac Adongo sues govt, NTHC over GH¢2bn GAT support
BY: Emmanuel Bruce
Gloria Akuffo is the Attorney General and Minister of Justice
The Member of Parliament of Bolgatanga Central, Mr Isaac Adongo has sued the government and the Ghana Amalgamated Trust (GAT) for using what he described as an illegal method to invest in five indigenous banks.
Added to the suit is the National Trust Holding Company (NTHC), the nominee shareholder of GAT, a special purpose vehicle that was incorporated in December 2018 to help the ADB Bank, the National Investment Bank (NIB) and three private banks to recapitalize to GH¢400 million.
In his suit, the Member of Parliament said the agreement that GAT has entered into with each of the banks contravened section 9(d) of the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions (BSDI) Act, 2016 (Act 930), which is the governing statute of the banking sector.
In a writ, a copy of which has been made available to Graphic Online, Mr Adongo is requesting the court to, therefore, declare the agreement as null and void.
He is also asking the court to declare that the purported approval of the request of the Minister of Finance for the issuance of a GH¢2 billion sovereign guarantee to support the borrowing of funds in the debt market by GAT to enable it purchase shares in the selected local banks was also an affront to the BSDI Act.
The Member of Parliament is, therefore calling for an injunction against GAT and the Ministry of Finance from executing the agreement.
For latest news in Ghana, visit Graphic Online news headlines page Ghana news page
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Montana attorney general releases substance abuse report
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox on Tuesday released an 87-page report on substance abuse in Montana, which he hopes will help establish a strategic plan to address rising drug-related crime.
Montana attorney general releases substance abuse report Montana Attorney General Tim Fox on Tuesday released an 87-page report on substance abuse in Montana, which he hopes will help establish a strategic plan to address rising drug-related crime. Check out this story on greatfallstribune.com: http://gftrib.com/2yc9EF6
Seaborn Larson, slarson@greatfallstribune.com Published 5:12 p.m. MT Sept. 19, 2017 | Updated 5:41 p.m. MT Sept. 19, 2017
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox(Photo: Courtesy)
The sooner local, state and federal agencies work collaboratively using research and evidence-based data, the sooner Montana can begin to recover from its substance abuse troubles, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox said at a Tuesday news conference.
The Attorney General's Office released an 87-page report (attached at the bottom of this story) on substance abuse in Montana, compiled by the Department of Justice's "Aid Montana" initiative, which launched April 19 to develop a comprehensive approach to addressing the state substance abuse problem.
Fox said much of the success of the future plan will hinge on different agencies, from law enforcement to health care to community members, working together.
"This collaborative approach to addressing substance abuse is a huge undertaking but it is worth our time and full attention," Fox said.
The opioid epidemic in the United States is responsible for an average of nearly 100 deaths per day from prescription opioids. Wotchit
"We've been so compartmentalized, everyone working in their sector on what they're doing. Very few of us are talking together and understanding what the other person is doing. That conversation will help us get a point where we can put a plan together for our legislators and governor to put together."
The report gathered data from agencies across the state and nation, including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Montana legislative committees, clinical research studies and more among three pages of references.
Approximately one in 10 Montanans abuses or is reliant on alcohol or drugs, the report states, while about 61 percent of high school students who drink alcohol drink in binge.
According to the report, the total charges for the nearly 110,000 emergency room and hospital visits with a primary or secondary diagnosis of substance use totaled $796 million from 2010 to 2014, and cost approximately $150 million each year.
More than 100 people die of drug overdoses each year, with opioids marked as the most deadly, accounting for 42 percent of all deaths in that category between 2013 and 2014, the report states.
Additionally, Montana's suicide rate, consistently twice that of the national rate according to the report, is reportedly fed by the alcohol and drug abuse in the state. Of the suicide victims in Montana reviewed by a suicide mortality team, 48 percent had alcohol in their system at the time of death, 21 percent had narcotic painkillers and 17 percent had marijuana.
Fox said several agencies throughout the state have been working individually to address substance abuse, but "the difference is that there hasn't been a comprehensive, collaborative approach to find out what's been effective and what hasn't been."
America is still fighting its meth habit. After a brief lull caused by a crackdown on domestic manufacturing techniques, the highly addictive stimulant is blooming across the country again, this time in the shadows of the opioid epidemic. Wochit
The report released exactly five months after the "Aid Montana" initiative launched does not include a strategic plan to eradicate the drug issue, but Fox said the information in the report should serve as a "starting point for discussions" between stakeholders, including state lawmakers, health care providers, law enforcement and communities.
For law enforcement, felony and misdemeanor drugs arrests in Montana have climbed since 2011, from 3,444 to 5,569, a 61 percent increase.
The report states that an important driver for the increase in arrests is probation and parole violations, as well as revocations and failures to appear at court hearings.
When it comes to jail populations, drug arrests are also putting pressure on an already burdened system. Between 2011 and 2013, the Montana jail population among western states, including Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Colorado and Nebraska, increased 67 percent. The next highest increase was seven percent, seen in North Dakota and Nebraska.
Fox said the community can also participate in addressing the drug abuse problem by acting with compassion, and noting that addiction is a disorder.
"There are many barriers to actually getting something done," he said. "We need to understand that people with substance abuse disorders are our family and friends ... We owe it to ourselves to have compassion and to work very hard to keep people from getting addicted."
The report released Tuesday may be a foundation for future statewide policy to come out of the 2019 legislature, Fox said, but in the meantime, he hopes to widen communications with different agencies and communities. He said hundreds of people gathered at drug abuse-central events in the last year to hear and gather information for the report. He also hopes to survey what other states and other communities are doing across the nation that have successfully made a dent in rising drug abuse.
"There's a lot of information and work yet to be done before we can create our strategic plan," he said.
In response to a question as to why he believes drug use has increased so aggressively in recent years, Fox said many factors play into the rise in drugs. Meth, specifically, has reportedly increased as Mexican cartels changed their "marketing plan, if you will," by moving away from marijuana as a recreational industry grew in the U.S., and directing their efforts toward cooking large quantities of meth with higher purity.
"That's just one example of how this is a moving target," Fox said, "and why we need to secure our borders, in respect to the influx of drugs."
The 2017 legislature did, in fact, staff the Montana Highway Patrol with seven more full-time positions for a criminal investigation team that will eventually contribute to the strategic plan. Montana Highway Patrol Col. Tom Butler said that team has been working with the numerous drug task forces located around the state, and he expects the statistics from this year to be congruent with the rising trend.
"We'll probably find some staggering numbers once we're done here," he said. "All that will roll into a tremendous amount of work for our partner agencies.
"From the trafficking to intervention side, this is going to be a great deal. But we're not going to jail our way out of this."
In the way of prevention efforts already underway, Fox lauded the 24/7 Sobriety Program, in which offenders can be ordered by a judge to take twice-daily alcohol breath tests as a condition of their release from jail, and is now located in 95 percent of Montana's counties. The program has had some notable success at keeping individuals accountable, he said.
Chief Deputy Attorney General Jon Bennion and Department of Justice Chief of Staff Mile Milburn were also at the event. No official at the press conference was bashful about the work ahead.
"We have to continue doing the things that we're doing while we approach a more thoughtful, strategic plan that will hopefully get us ahead of the curve and save lives," Fox said.
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Home » English language
English language for study at Greene’s
All tuition at Greene’s is in English. You may need support in developing your English language skills for successful academic study and to achieve the the IELTS certification level required by your prospective university course. IELTS English language certification is universally accepted by universities around the world as a measure of English language proficiency.
Today, most internationally recognised English language tests base their assessment on the “four skills” of Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking of which IELTS was a pioneer. There are three Greene’s English language courses designed to take students from an IELTS score of 4.5 to 7.5.
Progression to the next course is by internal assessment. To progress from the foundation year to the first year of A level study or the Geoscience Diploma you should achieve an IELTS score of at least 5.5 in each of the four skills.
The average student advances by one IELTS score band per year. This means that if your assessment shows you to have a score band of 4.5 you will be studying English for one year before you are likely to reach a score of 5.5 when you can start your A level course or the Geoscience Diploma. However, if you work hard and follow the Greene’s English Language learning method this can be shorter.
When studying English at Greene’s you not only improve your general English to raise your IELTS score but you also learn academic English – especially the vocabulary and terminology that you need for study in your chosen subjects. This means that working with Greene’s you can progress faster towards both your English language goals and your academic goals.
To register for the EFL course, you must take an initial assessment test to establish your CEFR English language level against which your future performance will be measured. CEFR is the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and is the recognised benchmark against which nearly all language qualifications are measured.
The Greene’s English language courses offer the following:
Practice: daily practice in groups combined with supplementary individual tuition where required.
Fluency: timed exercises to increase your speed and accuracy helping you to meet the listening, reading speaking and writing requirements of EFL examinations.
Breadth: the grammar, vocabulary and terminology needed for successful academic study.
Testing: the course begins with a diagnostic test followed by regular testing to measure progress towards your IELTS target level.
Each course involve a mix of group and individual tuition. Typically one group tutorial per day – five per week – plus two individual tutorials per week. The courses include a range of material that concentrates on and provides practice in all four skills: Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. New grammar and vocabulary is introduced with the aim of improving interpretation of spoken and written work more effectively and employing more accurate and varied grammatical and sentence forms.
Homework and regular testing is an integral part of each course. There are regular online tests that are timed and which should be completed before the next class session. As these tests cover work recently completed, students are expected to score at least 80% in each of these tests. You should allow at least one hour of homework for each course hour. Supplementary individual tuition and/or additional homework may be required to help get you back on track if you achieve lower scores.
Other homework assignments include language based exercises and extensive reading.
The structure of the Greene’s English language programme consists of an initial diagnostic assessment and three courses arranged as shown below.
Greene's English language courses
Initial diagnostic Starting point
Intermediate EFL Pre-sixth form study
(Foundation year) IELTS band 4.5-5.5
Advanced EFL level I First year of sixth form study
(A levels, Geoscience diploma) IELTS band 5.5-6.5
Advanced EFL level 2 Second year of sixth form study
The initial diagnostic assessment will determine which course you should start with. If your starting point is IELTS 5.5 or above you may also enrol in the Greene’s A level or Geoscience Diploma programmes.
At the end of each course there is an internal assessment and if you reach the required IELTS score you may proceed to the next higher course. If you do not, you may need to repeat the course before progressing or have some additional tuition.
Meet some of our tutors ...
Jamie – Economics, History, Government & Politics
Jamie is an Economist and Historian holding postgraduate qualifications in these subjects from the Universities of St. Andrews and Durham in the UK. He specialised in a wide range of historical periods but especially Scottish History from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries.
Jenny – Classics & Classical Civilisation
Jenny has postgraduate qualifications from both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. From Oxford Jenny was awarded her Masters degree in Classics (Latin and Ancient Greek) and from Cambridge a post-graduate teaching qualification. Jenny has almost 30 years of experience teaching Latin and Ancient Greek in range of top schools in the UK.
Julian – Physics
Julian has a Master’s Degree in Engineering and a Post-graduate qualification in Education from the University of Oxford. Since then he has taught Physics at a range of top independent schools in the UK and has been tutoring at Greene’s for the last three years. Julian is an experimental Physicist who strongly believes in learning [...]
Alex – Geography & Sociology
Geography, Sociology Alex holds a PhD in Geological Sciences from University College London (UCL), UK after which he completed a Post-graduate training in teaching and has 20 years of tutoring experience in Geography, Environmental Science, Marine Science, Geology and Sociology. He continues to work as a lecturer for the MSc course in Applied and Exploration [...]
Anne – Physics & Mathematics
Anne completed her joint honours postgraduate qualification in Physics and Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1995. Since then she has been tutoring at a range of colleges in different places and has been at Greene’s for the last three years tutoring Physics and Mathematics. Anne is a highly experienced professional tutor [...]
Angus – English Literature
Angus lectures in English Literature at the University of Oxford, UK from where he was also awarded his D.Phil. for his work on James Joyce. Angus has numerous publications to his name covering a wide spectrum of English Literature. He has also written on comparative literature specialising in the works of Marcel Proust. Angus achieved [...]
Kieran – EFL, English Language, Theatre Studies & Communication Studies
An extremely accomplished actor and a graduate of the University of London, Kieran is an extremely experienced English Language teacher. He specialises in all aspects of English Language tuition including IELTS preparation and holds the prestigious CELTA qualification for teaching English Language. After an extensive career in television, film and theatre, Kieran has taught English [...]
Cressida – Classics, Classical Civilisation & Ancient History
Cressida has a post graduate Master’s qualification in Classics (Latin and Ancient Greek) from the University of Cambridge, UK that was followed by a PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK on the literature of Sophocles. Cressida is currently a lecturer in Classics at the University of Oxford, UK and has a long list of [...]
Saif – Sciences
Saif tutors Biology and Chemistry and has been running Biology A level practicals at Greene’s for the last two years. He is a passionate tutor and keen scientific researcher – even building his own artificial coral reef. Saif has a First Class Honours degree in Biochemistry from the University of Manchester, UK and a doctorate [...]
Matthew – Mathematics
Matthew has a Masters degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil in Mathematics from the University of Oxford. Since he was awarded his DPhil in 2011, Matthew has been tutoring Mathematics at all levels for Greene’s. Mathew’s DPhil was on Graph Theory, the title being ‘Cycles in edge-coloured graphs and sub-graphs [...]
Anders – Geography & Psychology
Anders holds a PhD from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, USA in Psychology and is also a specialist in Environmental Science – his first degree from the University of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Anders’ specialist area is Sports Psychology – training athletes to achieve effective and healthy mental approaches to achieve peak performance. In 1996 [...]
John – Psychology & EFL
John is a graduate of Cornell University in the USA. During his time at Cornell John also found time to row for the USA in three consecutive world championships. Now in Oxford, John rowed for the university and completed his University of Oxford, Master’s Degree in Sociology. John specialises in Psychology and Sociology tuition and [...]
Rowena – Sciences
Rowena is a chemist and after having received First Class Honours in Chemistry at the University of Oxford she went on to complete a PhD at the University of Birmingham on “Zeolites and other molecular sieves for chromate remediation”. Rowena has been tutoring in Chemistry for the last 10 years and during that time was [...]
Matthew – Sciences, Mathematics & U.S. Admissions tests
Matthew is a tutor in Science and Mathematics and holds a Pre-Medical Certificate from San Francisco University, USA. He is also a linguist with degrees in modern languages and comparative literature – English, French, Spanish and Italian – from Columbia University, USA and the University of Oxford, UK. Matthew has been a full-time tutor for [...]
Brian – English Literature, English Language and Government & Politics
Brian teaches English Literature and Government & Politics. He did his undergradaute, masters and doctorate degrees at Oxford and his academic research specialism is the Old Icelandic language. Brian frequently acts as an examiner for several of the major examination board and is passionate about education and the tutorial method of learning. Brian is also [...]
Patrick – Mathematics
Patrick is Greene’s Head of Mathematics (the Senior Mathematician). He is a graduate of the University of Oxford where he was awarded a master’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics. He also completed a post-graduate qualification in Mathematics Education at the Department of Education, University of Oxford.
Agnieszka – Government & Politics and Law
Agnieszka teaches both Government & Politics and Law. She holds an MA and LLM in law as well as a PhD from Oxford Brookes where she was a univesity lecturer. Agnieszka is passionate about tutoring and runs the College’s debating society.
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The Players Can Be Proud - Paul Hurst
TOWN boss Paul Hurst was disappointed to exit the FA Cup to a late, late strike tonight, but he says that his players can be proud of themselves.
He said: “Ultimately we've gone down to a quality strike, which has ended up being the difference over two games. The lads can be very proud of themselves. The supporters have seen a very good performance from us, and the longer the game went on, I felt that we got on top of it for large parts.
“"They set the standard and I was proud of them.
"It was a difficult one though, because there was certainly a bit more than a tinge of disappointment that we've gone out after a performance like that."
And Paul confirmed that Jon-Paul Pittman's injury might keep him out for some time.
Paul said: He dislocated his shoulder. I'm going to see exactly what's wrong but it certainly wouldn't be a massive surprise if he's out for a couple of months. That seems to be the luck that the lad has.”
Looking ahead to Saturday's National League clash with Dover . . .
He concluded: It will be a tough enough game as it is any way. They've had a free midweek, we put in hell of a lot of effort, so it is important that we recover properly.”
Click here to listen to the full post match interview.
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Lazard Emerging Markets - a look at the past year
Kate Marshall | Mon 30 April 2018
Low exposure to Chinese technology companies held back performance
The support of a well-resourced team could help over the longer term
The fund does not currently feature on the Wealth 150+
The emerging markets cover a vast number of countries and companies. There's plenty of opportunity on offer, but the sheer scale makes it difficult for the everyday investor to sift through every company and identify the very best.
In such a diverse market, if often makes sense to invest in a fund with the support of a well-resourced team of fund managers and analysts. We believe the Lazard Emerging Markets Fund has a good team behind it. The team is headed by James Donald – he has run this fund for over 20 years and plenty of experience.
We believe the team use a sensible approach to investing in these markets. They have served investors relatively well, but it hasn't all been plain sailing. Investing in emerging markets is higher risk and the fund has underperformed its benchmark significantly at times, as we have seen over the past year. Past performance is not a guide to the future.
The fund does not feature on the Wealth 150+ list of our favourite funds for new investments. We currently favour other funds for broad exposure to the emerging markets, which are also available at a lower ongoing fund charge.
Mar 2013 -
Mar 2014 Mar 2014 -
Lazard Emerging Markets -10.4% 6.1% -9.3% 42.3% 3.6%
FTSE Emerging -10.8% 16.3% -8.9% 35.6% 8.8%
Past performance is not a guide to the future. Source: Lipper IM to 31/03/2018.
Technology was the best-performing emerging markets sector over the past year, though only a handful of companies contributed significantly to the market's returns. Chinese internet companies JD.com, Alibaba, Naspers and Tencent all benefited from the shift to online retail, the popularity of online gaming, and their ability to make profits from advertising.
Funds with large investments in these companies were given a boost to performance, while funds without tended to be weaker. Lazard Emerging Markets doesn’t invest in these companies, so it missed out on the gains made.
James Donald believes the share prices of these companies are too expensive and aren’t justified by high enough levels of profit potential. Instead he favours companies whose shares can be bought at a price below their true worth, and have the potential to grow and be supported by higher future profits.
Investments in Russia also held back the fund's recent performance. A volatile oil price led to weak returns in the early part of 2017, and more recently the Russian ruble's weakness against sterling has been a headwind for UK investors. The Russian market remains out of favour with a lot of investors, but James Donald believes this means there's a lot of value on offer and performance could improve once sentiment turns.
It's not all bad news and a number of other investments helped performance. NetEase, which provides online services including mobile games, delivered strong returns after it announced an upbeat outlook for its pipeline of games in 2018. And despite Russia having a tougher time, shares in Russian bank Sberbank rose on the back of strong company results – the bank has seen greater demand for loans and increased cash deposits, while a dividend increase is also expected.
The shorter-term risks to emerging stock markets should not be overlooked. For example, some companies borrow money in US dollars, so if interest rates in the US rise too quickly it could make debts more expensive to pay back. US President Donald Trump has also introduced policies, such as trade tariffs on Chinese imports, which could create some uncertainty.
James Donald expects longer-term forces will drive growth across the developing world. The rate of innovation and technological development is gathering pace and this could help companies grow faster than their competitors in the West. Company earnings are also recovering – this could help keep businesses in good financial health and support share prices over the longer term, though there are no guarantees.
Find out more about this fund, including charges and how to invest
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Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship Program is an Important Step Toward Ending AIDS in New York State by 2020
Jason Cianciotto
Contact: Jason Cianciotto I 347-703-3865 I jcianciotto@harlemunited.org
New York, NY — Today Governor Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled his groundbreaking Excelsior Scholarship program, which would make college tuition-free at all New York City and State University two- and four-year programs for an estimated 940,000 households with college-age children.
“Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship program is a critical step toward increasing access to higher education and improving the earning potential and lives of thousands of New Yorkers,” said Jacquelyn Kilmer, CEO of Harlem United. “We know that lack of education and poverty are two structural drivers of many chronic health conditions, including HIV and AIDS. This innovative program will help break the cycle of poverty and will be an important step toward achieving Governor Cuomo’s goal of ending the AIDS epidemic in New York State by 2020.”
According to the CDC, men who have sex with men (MSM) who have at least some college education are far less likely to be HIV positive and far more likely to know their HIV status.* Additional research has found that MSM living with HIV who attend college are also more likely to achieve the viral suppression necessary to keep them healthy and to prevent them from passing the virus to others.**
*Data on HIV among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Educational Achievement
(CDC HIV Surveillance Special Report 15, January 2016)
**More information about educational achievement and viral suppression is available at https://www.aidsmap.com/page/3087887/.
ABOUT HARLEM UNITED
Founded in 1988, Harlem United is a nationally recognized human services organization that provides full access to integrated health care and social services for individuals experiencing multiple and complex issues, including HIV and AIDS, social stigma, mental illness, chronic substance and alcohol use, homelessness, and extreme poverty — regardless of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression. www.harlemunited.org
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Testimonial: I should have bought a water softener 20 years ago
“I wish I had bought one 20 years ago”
Jean Hoare is an energetic 82-year-old who still enjoys going to the gym.
“The gym is one of my hobbies as I like to keep fit,” says Jean. “I also love gardening, although I do have someone to help with my garden now as I can’t keep it quite as I would like and therefore need a little bit of extra help.” “And I particularly like lavender which I have growing under my bay windows,” she adds. Jean, who is a widow with a grown-up son and two grandchildren in their 20s, lives in a cottage near Wallingford in Oxfordshire where the water is very hard. Less product, more lather “I should have bought a water softener 20 years ago when I first moved here as the water is so hard,” explains Jean. “I was sick of buying descaler for the kettle, and having to constantly purchase shampoo and washing-up liquid, which was often gone after a week. Now I have a water softener, I use much less of everything and it all lasts so much longer. When I wash up, I only need a drop of washing-up liquid in the bowl not a squeeze – it’s quite amazing!” Jean and her family and friends have also noticed how different it feels on their skin. “It’s so much more pleasant on your hands,” says Jean. “I grew up in a soft water area – Lincolnshire – and I remember that feeling, and my mum saying how much lather there was when she was washing my hair. It’s the same again now.” Her daughter-in-law also felt the difference when washing up, and when her friends from Australia visited they commented that they nearly drowned in soap suds! “I must remember to tell people I have soft water!” User friendly Salt is necessary to keep a water softener running and the water soft. Unlike traditional bags of salt, the Harvey Water Softener salt blocks are designed to be compact and user friendly, making them easy to store and replace. Jean has found them to be very easy to use and is surprised at how long they last. “The salt blocks are ideal,” she says. “It’s a really good system which is easy to manage: I simply swivel them around to replace them, it only takes a couple of minutes, and they last well over a month – nearer six weeks.” Jean is happy to recommend Harvey Water Softeners, and is planning on treating her son and daughter-in-law in the not too distant future. “My son is looking into having a new kitchen, and I have offered to pay for them to have a Harvey Water Softener. As a company, I thought they were fantastic: very polite, very efficient, and a pleasure to deal with from the beginning.” The personal touch Jean was also pleased with the personal service they offered. “I was impressed with their advert, and when I called, impressed when I heard a real voice at the other end of the line. It gave me confidence and I’m very pleased with the service and my water softener.”
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Firm offers weather help to farmers
The Associated Press LEAWOOD - Farmers may not be able to change increasingly wild weather swings, but a data-crunching company with an office in eastern Kansas says it can help them predict and adapt to them. Climate Corp., which recently was purchased by St. Louis-based agricultural giant Monsanto for $1 billion, uses massive amounts of data to develop hyper-local weather forecasts to insure crops and advise farmers, The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1etX7Or) reported. Started six years ago by a pair of Google Inc. veterans, Climate Corp. - which has an office in the Kansas City suburb of Leawood - produces forecasts from weather readings at 10 million locations that are matched with 40 years of national crop-yield statistics. Its forecasts include rain, soil conditions and wind speed. "We're moving into a period of very unstable weather, and that's what producers need to be prepared for," said Jerry Hatfield, lab director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment. The topic of climate change has plenty of skeptics, including many in an industry as tradition-bound as farming. Some farmers not only question the concept of global warming, they're also leery of new forecasting methods. Ted Guetterman, who farms about 100,000 acres in southern Johnson County and northern Miami County with his dad and three brothers, said he is willing to look at high-tech farming methods, but he insists he's the best judge of what needs to be done. "Nobody knows my land better than I do," Guetterman said. "I've been farming it all my life." Guetterman, 45, said he would take some advice from a consultant, but "I'm not going to do my whole farm that way." Monsanto sees a $20 billion market for using massive amounts of data to pair field-specific weather forecasting with advice tailed to individual plots of land, calling it agriculture's "next major growth frontier." "Farmers still face a tough battle out there every year. Hopefully this helps them," said Jim Ethington, vice president of product for Climate Corp. "It's by no means a silver bullet." In a report this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture warned of increasing fluctuation in weather patterns and the effect on crops. The report cautioned that changing environmental conditions pose "unprecedented challenges" in the long run. The USDA estimates wheat production across the Great Plains will drop 6 percent by 2050, and corn yields will fall 4 percent because of extreme weather conditions caused by warming temperatures. Agricultural economists and climatologists see a shift in where major crops are being grown. A recent study indicated the center of the wheat production belt in the United States has migrated 173 miles northwest in the last 50 years. A similar trend has been seen for corn, which has moved 100 miles in roughly the same direction. Few in Kansas and Missouri believe climate change is going to push wheat or corn out of either state, but they acknowledge it could make growing more risky. "The variability from year to year is going be greater than it has been in the past," said Charles Rice, professor of soil microbiology at Kansas State University. "The producer is going to have to have money in the bank to pay for those poor years."
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Viktor Noring joins Jambos
Swedish goalkeeper Viktor Noring signs two-year deal.
Hearts have today completed the signing of goalkeeper Viktor Noring, who joins the club on a two-year deal.
The Swedish goalkeeper moves to Tynecastle following the expiration of his contract with Danish side Lyngby BK.
The 25-year old has previously enjoyed spells with the likes of Malmo FF and Heerenveen. This will be his second stint in Scottish football, having previously joined Celtic on loan in 2013.
Viktor has one full Swedish international cap to his name and has also made numerous appearances for Sweden U21s.
Speaking to heartsfc.co.uk about the deal, Viktor said:
"It feels amazing to have signed here. It's a good opportunity for me to come here and try to get the number one spot, so I'm very happy.
"I've been on trial here for a bit and I like the style of football the team is trying to play, it's similar to what I'm used to.
"I was at Tynecastle for the game against Infonet and the atmosphere was great. I can't wait to experience it as a player."
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Metalworking and deliveries in mechanical engineering – this is the core business of MESgroup Czech, a company engaged in manufacturing and trading. Since the end of 2015 the HELIOS Orange information system by Asseco Solutions has been supporting its activities, which are demanding as regards achieving preciseness and meeting customer requests fully.
The system has been running in full operation here since December 2015. In the previous period the company had naturally used an information system too – but just a relatively simple economic system. However, it came to be unable to cover newly emerged needs, concretely production management, which arose from the expansion of the company´s activities from trading to both trading and manufacturing.
The implementation was carried out in the scheduled term on the understanding that the trainings of the users of the Capacity Planning and Controlling modules are being planned for the period to come.
When asked what benefits he perceives in the implementation of the new system, Miroslav Kadlček, MESgroup Executive Director, answers: "I consider the variability of the system to be the greatest one. Another significant virtue lies in the possibility of interconnecting more charts in the database and thus in creating your own statement. Financial benefits cannot be evaluated yet because of a short full-operation period," adds Mr. Kadlček.
The following modules and functionalities have been implemented at MESgroup:
Accounting, Billing, Goods Flow, Production Management, Capacity Planning, Intrastat, Ekokom, Wages, Human Resources, Cash, Bank, Controlling, Technical Preparation of Production, General Imports, Terminal for Submission of Operations, Customization Tools and Assets.
"The acquisition of the General Imports module was beneficial for us. We use it predominantly for importing ordinary cards and offer statements," says Mr. Kadlček in conclusion.
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The company helps its customers to carry out deliveries in the sphere of mechanical engineering and it concentrates on milled, turned, ground and precision-machined parts and on any metal processing and metalwork. It also provides additional services such as customer consultations, temporary storage of products, quality control, assembly of units and comprehensive logistics. Its team consists of professionals in the fields of engineering, project management, logistics, quality control and trade. A new feature is represented by a newly built assembly shop, where customers can order assembling, ranging from simple pieces to complicated electromechanical sets.
The company provides not only the production of parts required – both thanks to its own production technologies and by cooperation – but also assembly of units, temporary storage of products in its own warehouse and transportation by proven carriers. The pool of MESgroup Czech clients comprises companies from a wide range of industries, ranging from bookbinding through health care to timber industry.
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Louis Notari, the pioneer of Monegasque literature
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Photo courtesy of "Mairie de Monaco-Médiathèque communale".
HelloMonaco continues its series on Monaco celebrities, revealing the stars that live amongst us, how they came to be and the legacy they created throughout their life. It comes as no surprise that the Principality of Monaco is home to many influencers, business men and world class entrepreneurs but also some celebrities, each with varying levels of fame that you might not know even lived here. This time we will look into the life of Louis Notari, the pioneer of Monegasque literature that holds an important place in the history of Monte-Carlo.
Louis Notari was born in Monaco in 1879 and was a writer who published books in both French and the traditional national language, Monegasque. He was born into one of the oldest Monegasque families in history. After studying literature and science he went on to become an engineer-architect for about 30 years, following in his family’s footsteps, working on many developments around the Principality. During this time, he also played an impressive political role in Monaco, serving as councillor, then adjoint to the mayor and finally State Counselor.
Photo courtesy of “Mairie de Monaco-Médiathèque communale”.
Notari was always a passionate defender of the Monegasque language, fighting for its continued presence in the Principality of Monaco – he is considered to be the ‘Father of Monegasque literature’. This is largely due to him being the first person to ever write a novel in the country’s specific dialect in 1927, a book called La Legenda de Santa Devota that became the piece that marked his career as a writer and for which he will always be remembered.
The book told the mythical story of Saint Devote…
What made it so particular was that it was written in Monegasque… no other books written in the dialect had existed previously.
Impressively, he was also the creator of the Monaco National Anthem, making the language accessible and cementing it in the cultural identity of the country for generations to come. In addition to this, he wrote the lyrics for Campanin de San Nicolau, a song that was enthusiastically admired by Prince Rainier III of Monaco for many years. He wrote three other books including Bülüghe Munegasche and Quelques notes sur les traditions de Monaco, with some of his work inspired by the fauna and flora that exists across the Mediterranean coast. Interestingly, Notari had a particular admiration for the Fascist Italian government and also wrote a few poems celebrating Benito Mussolini!
He rightfully received a great deal of merit for his efforts to protect the national language and add to the richness of the Monegasque culture. He was made Grande Officier de l’Ordre de Saint Charles and immortalised in the areas around Monaco named after him in his honour, so that his contribution to Monegasque society is never forgotten.
Photo courtesy of “Mairie de Monaco-Médiathèque communale”. 1931
Notari’s writing in Monegasque has led to a veritable flowering of literature published in the language. The grammar book of Monegasque was created in 1960 by author Louis Frolla, as well as many other books in the dialect produced by Monegasque authors including lexicographer Louis Barral and Robert Buisson. All these figures contributed to a renaissance of the language that had been threatened with extinction in the 20th century, allowing Monaco’s national dialect to take its visible and permanent place among the other Romance languages. However, it is interesting to note that although a substantial proportion of Notari’s work was religious in inspiration, Monegasque is among the few Romance languages that does not possess a Bible translation.
He died in Monaco in 1961 but there is no doubt that Louis Notari left behind an important legacy that is still ever-present in the Principality. The decision by the late Prince Rainier III to sponsor Monegasque teachers in local schools is largely thanks to the groundwork laid by Louis Notari and others in promoting the language. Notari was also noted for his work on Monaco’s renowned Jardin Exotique, which annually hosts large numbers of visitors from many countries. A street in the Condamine is named after him, as well as a library, Bibliothèque Louis Notari, which serves as the national copyright library for Monaco.
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Catch the Vision: Roots of the Reformed Recovery (Murray)
Evangelical Press
It is the belief of the author that a significant change came about in the history of the church in the United Kingdom in the middle decades of the 20th century. It was by and large a recovery of something that had been a reality in the church in past generations.
Step by step men were led to see what was missing in the type of Christianity that prevailed for the first half of the century and began to direct their minds back to the glories of past eras.It is instructive to trace the various strands which were woven together in the providence of God to bring about the recovery.In most cases it was the discovery of some treasure of Christian literature from a spiritually-favoured age that set the person on the course he took.
We find in the unfolding of history how the flame that burned in the heart of a man of God at one time is years later re-kindled in another — as happened in the case of George Whitefield being directed to Scougal’s Life of God in the Soul of Man, and in the life of the young C. H. Spurgeon to the writings of the Puritans.The purpose of this work is to trace these providential links in the men and in the books that set in motion a recovery of the vision — looking at figures such as W. J. Grier, A. W. Pink and E. J. Poole-Connor. The central place is given to the influences that shaped the message and ministry of the leading figure in the recovery, Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
"Catch the Vision is a fascinating read about D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Geoffrey Williams, J.I. Packer, Iain Murray, John Murray and other notable leaders who were used mightily by God to revive Reformed, Puritan, experiential truth in the mid-twentieth century United Kingdom, which in turn, had far-reaching ramifications for much of the English-speaking world and beyond. With profound insight and warm zeal, John J. Murray writes of this Spirit-anointed movement as an intimate participant, a quiet leader and astute observer. This is a must read for all who are concerned about the revival and maintenance of true religion in our days of ungodly compromise with, and complacency about, scriptural truth." - Joel R. Beeke
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✎ About Subramanian Swamy
Birth Day: September 15, 1939
Birth Place: India
Birth Sign: Virgo
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Subramanian Swamy net worth and salary: Subramanian Swamy is a Politician who has a net worth of $2.1 Billion. Subramanian Swamy was born in in September 15, 1939. Best known as the President of India's Janata (People's) Party (from 1990 to 2013), he led the merging of his political organization with the Bharatiya Janata Party. An expert on economics, he also served as Chairman of his country's Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade.
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Net worth: $2.1 Billion (Updated at 15 March 2019)
Best known as the President of India's Janata (People's) Party (from 1990 to 2013), he led the merging of his political organization with the Bharatiya Janata Party. An expert on economics, he also served as Chairman of his country's Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade.
After graduating from Hindu College, University of Delhi with a degree in mathematics, he studied at the Indian Statistical Institute and went on to earn a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
His numerous publications include Terrorism in India: A Strategy of Deterrence for India's National Security and Financial Architecture and Economic Development in China and India.
His marriage to Roxna Parsi Swamy resulted in two daughters: Gitanjali Swamy and Suhasini Haider.
He was recommended by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen for a professorship at the Delhi School of Economics. He also taught at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and at Harvard University.
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IIChE maintains close association with various professional bodies at home and abroad. It has regular collaborations with two of the leading global Institutes in the field of Chemical Engineering, namely, the Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), USA.
As part of its collaboration with IChemE, every alternate year, IIChE and IChemE organize students’ exchange programmes. With AIChE, the Institute holds joint sessions during CHEMCON every year. AIChE also offers dual membership to IIChE members at a concessional rate.
IIChE is also a member of the Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering, Australia and a corresponding member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Germany. The Institute is a permanent invitee to DECHEMA, Germany. It became the first organization from the developing countries to join the Executive Committee of the World Chemical Engineering Council, which was formed in Melbourne in 2001. During 2003 - 2004, the Institute had collaboration with InnoCentive Inc., a US-based organization, offering a wide platform to the international scientific community to work on complex scientific problems and find their solutions.
At home, in 2002, IIChE joined Engineering Council of India (ECI) as a member of its Board of Governors. IIChE is working with ECI for enlisting chemical engineers in National Registers for Professional Engineers. The ECI is the apex body of professional and consulting engineers in India, representing various engineering disciplines. IIChE is also represented at various committees/sub-committees of Bureau of Indian Standards.
Of late, IIChE is working on developing a wide platform to collaborate with FICCI.
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City hires York as its communications director
Garden City hires Dan York as a full-time communications director
City hires York as its communications director Garden City hires Dan York as a full-time communications director Check out this story on HometownLife.com: http://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/garden-city/2015/05/07/garden-city-hire-dan-york-communications-director/70881184/
Sue Buck, hometownlife.com Published 12:08 a.m. ET May 7, 2015
Dan York will become the Communications Director for Garden City on July 1.(Photo: submitted)
After 30 years working for Garden City, Dan York has landed a full-time job as the city’s communications director.
“It is similar to the DDA Director and past city managers,” York said. “The contract begins on July 1. I’m still wrapping up contracted work with outside clients until then.”
As his contract goes from part-time to full time, so will his pay. He currently earns $58,338 with no fringe benefits. As the new communications director, he will be paid $74,000 a year. The contract provides for paid holidays, 35 combined time-off days in lieu of sick, vacation, personal and administrative time off, health insurance while working and life insurance.
The city agreed to pay an amount equivalent to a flat 12 percent of his base salary per year to be distributed on a monthly basis. He has discretion to determine into which 401(a) plan, Section 457 deferred compensation plan, or IRA he uses.
It was acknowledged in 2009 that York’s duties had grown since he began writing press releases for the City in 1983. At the time, then City Manager David Harvey said the change was “due to the loss of city personnel.” The city council agreed to increase his compensation to $58,338. He did not receive fringe benefits.
“My current contract was approved in the spring of 2009,” York said. “Since that time, the actual role that I provide for the City has changed dramatically. Many of the changes have been organic in nature based on the advent of social media and the shift of video to Internet platforms, not just cable television, while some are a result of the changes within the city’s administrative structure.”
“I have believed for quite some time now that these changes to my responsibilities should be addressed, but I waited until a permanent city manager was hired to address them,” he said.
Changes in job
York presented three proposals last year City Manager Robert Muery. The contract approved by the City Council on Monday, April 27 was negotiated by York and Muery and was based on recommendations in those proposals.
York said that his new salary is not an apple-to-apple comparison. He patterned his proposals as a department head position.
“The previous contract called for specific responsibilities and results,” York said. “The employment agreement is far broader and encompasses far more responsibility, including social media, multiple media platforms and essentially anything involved with communicating with the public.”
His contract doesn’t place any restrictions on any outside work although it is his intention to phase out the majority of his non-Garden City television production work over the next few months. Upcoming projects include a video message board in front of City Hall paid for by the DDA, an intensive re-build of the city’s website and the development of a social media plan/policy.
“I’ve spent most of my life in Garden City and want to see it succeed,” York said. “I’m humbled that the City Council saw fit to offer me this employment agreement.”
The council voted 6-0 with Mayor Randy Walker excused.
Muery called York a Jack of all trades, serving as the head of the electronic communications division as well as being the guy who runs camera cables, sets up lights and sweeps floors in the studio.
Variety of factors
Muery said that York’s salary was the result of a variety of factors, including his time as a contractor for the city, his knowledge of the city and the equipment, his overall experience and expertise in electronic communications and comparing what other cities were paying someone in a similar position.
But, the public can’t look forward to more meetings being televised.
“This change will not necessarily result in the televising of more meetings,” Muery said. “All regular meetings are already televised. Workshops have historically not been televised. The workshops in the past were often held in satellite locations like the Maplewood Center.”
Some members of the public had repeatedly asked that budget meetings be televised. They were told then that York had other commitments and couldn’t do it.
Now that York will work 40 hours a week for the city, he said that it will be up to the mayor and council to determine which additional meetings they want televised.
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Law & Crime • Opinion • Politics & Protest
Beijing’s servants in Hong Kong: is collaborators too strong a word?
Tim Hamlett
Many years ago I was intrigued for a while by a French writer, Roger Peyrefitte. Mr Peyrefitte is now remembered mainly for his defiant and indeed celebratory account of his own homosexual tastes, although his preferred partners seem to have been rather young by current standards.
But I was too young and innocent for this so it rather passed me by. The thing which interested me in his biographical work was the exploration of a topic rarely explored, the feelings and motivations of those who worked for the Vichy regime which ran France on the Germans’ behalf from 1940 to 1945.
There was a personal explanation for his interest in this. Mr Peyrefitte joined the French diplomatic service after leaving the relevant Ecole as the top scorer of his year, and spent a happy eight years in the Athens Embassy.
This happiness was enhanced by the fact that the Greeks were very relaxed about homosexuality, which was then still illegal in France. Unfortunately, Mr Peyrefitte got into habits which were regarded as scandalous when he returned to work in the HQ in Paris. So he was persuaded to resign from the service in 1940.
In 1943 the Vichy regime invited him back, an invitation which he accepted. As a result in 1945 when that regime was overthrown and replaced he was drummed out again. This did him no serious harm; he devoted the rest of his life to literary pursuits with some success. The French are broad-minded about their literary lions.
Still, he was well placed to attempt an answer to the question: why were people willing to work for a regime which had been imposed by an invading army, was handing dissident fellow-citizens over to the Gestapo, and was sending large numbers of other fellow-citizens on train journeys to concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Poland from which they did not return.
Polish priests and civilians, 9 September 1939. Photo: Wikicommons.
He wheeled out the usual suspects. Some people wanted to continue their careers. Some had diplomatic or legal skills for which one’s own country’s government is the only plausible customer. Some, perhaps, genuinely wanted to serve the people, and believed that engagement rather than confrontation would get a better deal from the German occupiers.
After all, services had to be kept up. Nobody blamed train drivers or postmen for continuing with their usual duties.
On the other hand being a government minister in an unsavoury regime still offered the same rewards in prestige and money which had attended pre-war ministers. Power can be addictive and, as Henry Kissinger observed, aphrodisiac.
This was a live issue when I first encountered Mr Peyrefitte. The Germans had invaded a wide variety of countries and rarely had any difficulty (if they tried) in finding locals who would fill government posts and do their bidding. It was suspected that this would have been true of England too if it had come to it.
After the war, the individuals who had “collaborated” were disgraced and, often, shot. The plea that somebody had to keep the machinery working was rarely accepted. They should have known better.
No doubt there were arguments on both sides, and those of us who have never faced a dilemma of this kind should be wary of jumping to the conclusion that we would have identified what now seems with hindsight the right thing to do. But this issue, long forgotten in Europe, has now become an interesting question in Hong Kong, where some people now do face a choice of this kind.
In the 90s and noughties, it was customary for people to explain their willingness to participate in joint activities with the Chinese government as a contribution to progress and an encouragement to the gradual transformation of a one-party dictatorship into something more tolerant and pluralistic.
Under ‘one country two systems’ Hong Kong was not required to import the well-known toxic features of public administration on the mainland, and its leaders were not to blame for abuses of power committed north of the boundary.
Unfortunately, this will no longer wash. It is quite clear that the current regime in Beijing has no interest in progressing in the direction of tolerance and pluralism, still less freedom and democracy. And ‘one country two systems’ has proven a poor protection for local traditions.
Photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP.
So what do these people who cooperate on our behalf with the local representatives of despotism tell themselves about what they are doing? Is it possible to disregard the disappearances, the kidnappings, the shootings, the concentration camps, the censorship, the personality cult?
I understand the argument that patriotism requires citizens to support the government, whatever form that government takes, but this is a serious error. “My country right or wrong”, as G.K. Chesterton pointed out, is no better than “my mother, drunk or sober”.
No doubt many of the People’s puppets in Hong Kong are too stupid or ambitious to worry about this, and many of the others prefer not to think about it. Certainly it is not much discussed.
Enter, the other week, Mr Bernard Chan. Mr Chan is the convenor of the Executive Council, a senior post once held by C.Y. Leung. He is, though, rather a contrast with his predecessor.
Mr Chan was born with a gold chopstick in his mouth (granddad founded the Bangkok Bank) and got a real degree from an expensive but otherwise splendid liberal arts college in California. He majored in Studio Arts, an interesting choice for someone who must already have suspected that he would be expected to inherit the family insurance business.
As he did, becoming in due course the insurance industry’s Legco representative and graduating from there to the National People’s Congress and more government advisory bodies than you can shake a stick at.
Bernard Chan. Photo: RTHK screenshot.
Mr Chan is clearly regarded by our colonial masters as a dependable cog in the imperial machinery. Yet he shares none of the objectionable features so common among his fellow-travellers. His public utterances are rare, but neither stupid nor venomous. He has a column in The Standard, an admirable hobby, but it is not devoted to political matters. It is mostly concerned with cultural activities and things you can do with your family at weekends.
Mr Chan appears to share the view expressed by Nigel Lawson in his monumental (or if you prefer grossly over-long) memoir of his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer: a man who writes about politics is missing out all the important things in life.
So it was nice of him to agree to a TV interview which, according to The Standard’s reporter, strayed into political territory. “Defending criticism that President Xi Jinping has concentrated power in his hands, Chan said it is not easy for a Beijing leader to manage a country of 1.3 billion people.”
And so “If you let all Chinese people behave the way they want to behave, I think China would be a very different place today. So I do think you need some sort of top-down approach. For now, it’s probably the best way for China, to assert their control or a certain direction from the top.”
Happily, Mr Chan did not wish to see this extended to Hong Kong. But this, of course, raises the question: if allowing Chinese people in other places “to behave the way they want to behave” does not lead to dire consequences, why should it be a bad thing in China?
Mr Chan seems to have been lucky that his explanation did not attract as much attention as a rather similar remark from Jackie Chan a few years ago. It is not for me to protest on Chinese people’s behalf, but quite a lot of them were offended by the implication that they suffered from some genetic quirk which made them unfit for self-rule.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Xi Jinping in Hong Kong. Photo: GovHK.
Clearly, apologists for the Xi regime need a high degree of proficiency in the art of euphemism. There are a variety of ways of describing the brutal and authoritarian way in which China is governed, and “a certain direction from the top” doesn’t really capture the flavour fully.
But you have to wonder whether this really works inside the head of the person concerned. Are there moments of doubt at night, as in this song?
This is not an issue for the civil service in general. It really concerns those at some high level, though the responsibility Plimsoll Line comes, I fear, well below the Exco level.
Civil servants further down the pyramid of power can comfort themselves with the thought that after all the trains still have to be driven, the post has to be delivered, and those who fulfil such practical needs are genuinely serving the people. Which some of them do very well.
My last official encounter with the civil service followed a minor accident on a hiking trail last year. I was passed with much kindness and efficiency from the Agriculture and Fisheries Department (country park rangers) to the Fire Services (ambulance) who delivered me to the Medical and Health people (Nethersole Hospital).
I know some people have had bad experiences in our over-burdened public hospitals but mine was entirely comparable with the highest international standards. See doctor, have X-ray, see doctor with specialist, painful but quick procedure (I had dislocated a finger), X-ray to see if procedure had worked and final discussion of same with doctor took about two hours and cost nothing.
There is usually a small charge for Accident and Emergency visits in Hong Kong but the hospital’s alert computer spotted that as the spouse of a retired civil servant I was entitled to a freebie, which surprised both of us.
So I think those who heal the sick, teach the young, sweep the streets and do other useful things have no need to be ashamed of the fact that somewhere up in the administrative stratosphere their bosses are taking orders from the Liaison Office.
The China Liaison Office. File photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP.
What, on the other hand, are we to make of, for example, Carrie Lam’s insistence that Hong Kong’s lack of an extradition agreement with China has nothing to do with the fact that confidence in the mainland’s legal system (if you believe it has anything worth calling a legal system) is not high?
Is there an alternative explanation? Was it down to a moment of absent-mindedness, a translation glitch in the Joint Liaison Committee, a misprint? “I said China, not Ghana, you fool. Oh, never mind, It’s too late to change it now…”
Why do they keep telling us that ‘one country, two systems’ has been implemented “flawlessly”? After all, even people who think that on the whole things have not gone badly would hardly put it so strongly.
It may be that this is trotted out simply on the parrot basis that it is the Beijing Foreign Office spokesman’s “line to take”.
But I suspect there is a deeper motive. If Hong Kong is still separate then those who roost in the legislative loft can still claim that what happens here has nothing to do with what happens there, and vice versa. Concentration camps? Nothing to do with us.
Which for the time being is probably OK. One must hope, though, that these people are giving some thought to where their limits are. The future is, to misquote Shakespeare, an “undiscovered country from which no traveller returns”. We do not know what is in store for us.
A depiction of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam (L) is displayed as protesters take part in the annual New Year’s Day pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong on January 1, 2018. Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP.
So it is a good idea to work out where your limits are, before you find you have been dragged over them without noticing it.
If you are still in the government’s team, we must suppose you are OK with tear gas. What about live rounds? Dissidents jailed on antique legal charges? Well, they’re criminals. Similar people spirited across the border to star on Confessiontube? What are you going to do if there’s blood on the street? Keep calm and Carrie on?
I felt a frisson of unease at a report in the Hong Kong Standard the other day about an accident in which a box of teargas fell out of the back of a Police Emergency Unit van. The newspaper reported that the van also contained sundry crowd control implements in case of need, including submachine guns. Machine guns?
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Tim Hamlett came to Hong Kong in 1980 to work for the Hong Kong Standard and has contributed to, or worked for, most of Hong Kong's English-language media outlets, notably as the editor of the Standard's award-winning investigative team, as a columnist in the SCMP and as a presenter of RTHK's Mediawatch. In 1988 he became a full-time journalism teacher. Since officially retiring nine years ago, he has concentrated on music, dance, blogging and a very time-consuming dog.
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Hotel Alert
Where to Stay in Manhattan
Three new and refreshed properties beckon visitors to the Big Apple.
By Scott Vogel 2/22/2019 at 7:00am
The Merrion Row: An oasis of calm in Manhattan's Midtown
Image: Merrion Row Hotel
It’s the eternal question, or one of them anyway: where to stay now in New York City. For Houstonians keen on spending long weekends (or more) in Gotham, there’s never been a shortage of properties from which to choose, areas of town to stay in, or price points large and small. Here are three new—or refreshed—places to consider, all just steps from some of NYC’s greatest attractions.
For the Theatergoer
Times Square is a deliberate and relentless assault on the senses—loud, garish, chaotic, cornball, and yes, irresistible. Often, however, the same is true of Times Square hotels, which makes them less than ideal places for rest and repose after a busy day of sightseeing. An intriguing exception is the Merrion Row Hotel and Public House, which just opened in December. The site, a former hostel, has been wonderfully transformed into an Irish-themed, 28-room boutique hotel named for a popular pub-crawling spot in Dublin. The property has been beautifully appointed with lots of tasteful Gallic touches—plaid drapes and the like—but its greatest achievement may be the preternatural calm with which it greets every traveler.
Although occupying the busiest of blocks (45th St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves.), the Merrion Row somehow manages to be an oasis of serenity, an effect it achieves in part by offering a welcome pint to every guest. Upstairs, the rooms are quiet, stately but not stuffy, and the same is true of the first floor bar and restaurant, which features a cozy patio with a retractable roof. Not surprisingly, the eatery specializes in comfort foods, and there are few foods more comfortable than the Public House’s seafood chowder, a creamy mélange of lardons and meaty chunks of local shellfish served with generous tranches of Irish brown bread. Public House also does a mean fish and chips, and offers a few inspired cocktails, including a Merrion mule and a cucumber spritz enlivened by mint vodka. At the end of a long day, either is a perfect way to celebrate surviving Manhattan’s madness before trading it altogether for the plaid-draped serenity upstairs.
Merrion Row Hotel and Public House, 119 W. 45th St. Rooms start at $299 per night.
For the classic New York experience
It wasn’t until we discovered Maria Shriver sitting just one table over from us—recognized yet unacknowledged by the crowd in the Club Lounge—that the appeal of the Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park became obvious. The hotel, which is indeed elegantly ensconced on the south flank of one of the world’s great urban greenspaces, has long provided a home away from home for guests who value pampered privacy. It still does, and thanks to a still-in-progress renovation (or “reawakening” in hotel parlance), the RC now sports a spiffed-up handsomeness to boot. There are few hotel experiences as breathtaking as the views from its rooms and suites, many of which offer million-dollar glimpses of the park from just above the treetops.
The Club Lounge at the Ritz-Carlton Central Park: Elegance and unstuffy atmosphere
Image: Ritz-Carlton Central Park
And while the Club Lounge sits on the hotel’s second floor, it too offers views of the park, as well as glimpses of a world far removed from the one in which most of us inhabit. The RC’s Club Lounges have always been de facto hotels-within-hotels, but Manhattan’s Club somehow feels even more exclusive. Think elegant wood paneling and hushed conversations, leather armchairs and Carrera marble touches. A dedicated concierge is there to greet visitors on their way to the hotel’s imaginative (and extensive) breakfast buffet, but also during lunchtime, the cocktail hour and beyond. The rest of the staff, meanwhile, is stocked with lots of only-in-New York types that guests will find as entertaining as the Club’s fare, if not more so.
If right now it’s the Club that’s garnering much of the attention at the new RC, that’s in part because the lobby and adjacent lounge areas are still undergoing their own reawakening. A new restaurant and bar area is promised for later this spring, as is a mezzanine-level fitness center, further proof that the Ritz-Carlton is committed to maintaining its relevance in a crowded luxury hotel market.
The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park, 50 Central Park South. Rooms start at around $845 a night.
The view from the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar at the Moxy Hotel in Times Square
Image: Moxy Hotel
For the Millennial
Like the Merrion Row, the Moxy Times Square, which occupies a purgatory space between Penn Station and Times Square, is worlds away from its surroundings, not to mention worlds away from most hotels period. There is no formal lobby, for one, and most of the property’s 612 rooms, while not large, are ingeniously appointed (think tables and chairs that folds up and hang on the wall when not in use) and well-wired for state-of-the-art experiences. There is a second floor bar with a vibe cool enough to attract nearby Garment District types after work, as well as an eatery called Legasea that serves up respectable seafood during lunch and dinner.
But it’s a little place called Magic Hour—which sits on the roof of the Moxy—that has garnered the most attention, and for good reason. In addition to providing jaw-dropping, 360-degree views of the Empire State Building and environs, Magic Hour goes all in on its carnivalesque theme, boasting a circle of banquettes that sit atop a working carousel, provocative topiary, a few holes of miniature golf, and more. It’s an experience unlike any you’ll find at most hotels, and one New Yorkers are themselves enamored by (although hotel guests receive priority access).
On Feb. 14, the Moxy NYC Chelsea, another property in the nascent chain, opened its doors, and while we haven’t yet stayed there, the management did indeed stoke our interest with a hardhat tour last fall. The hotel’s 349 rooms sit squarely in Manhattan’s Flower District, and the property’s entrance—in keeping with the Moxy’s whimsical aesthetic—is via an actual flower shop. Elsewhere, 35 stories of new construction are complemented by a glass-enclosed rooftop bar, four restaurants and lots of witty, fun touches throughout.
Moxy Times Square, 485 Seventh Ave. Rooms start at around $149 a night. Moxy NYC Chelsea, 105 W. 28th St. Rooms start at $159 a night.
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How to Remove Facebook from Your Life (And Why That’s Nearly Impossible)
Harry Guinness @HarryGuinness
April 14, 2018, 6:40am EDT
The #DeleteFacebook campaign is a pretty clear call to action, but most people saying they want to delete their account never do. Why? Because Facebook is really hard to get rid of. If you want to rid yourself of Facebook, I’m going to tell you how, but you probably won’t do it.
How to Delete Your Facebook Account
Deleting your Facebook account is technically simple. Head to the account deletion page, click the “Delete My Account” button, enter your password and a captcha, and boom, it’s done.
Okay, not quite. There’s a 14 day cooling down period where you can log into your account and stop the deletion process. Don’t log in for two weeks and it’s gone for real. All your account data will be deleted from Facebook’s servers (although it can take up to 90 days to be fully removed) so it’s probably a good idea to grab a backup first.
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But deleting Facebook is really only one part of getting rid of Facebook. The hardest bit is replacing the things you actually use Facebook for.
Keeping Up to Date With Friends and Family
During Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before the US Senate, he repeatedly denied that Facebook was a monopoly. He couldn’t, however, name a single largest competitor. While Instagram (a Facebook property), Twitter (the mad ramblings of people who shouldn’t be let near keyboards), and Snapchat (a digital playground for teens that Facebook is slowly strangling to death) are all technically social networks, they don’t fill the same roll.
Sure, some people might announce their engagement or new baby on Instagram, but they’re much more likely to do it on Facebook. It’s how I told my extended circle of friends that my granny had died—it was the simplest way to reach them all.
There is nothing out there right now that replaces this, short of just ringing around all your friends and family and asking them, “What’s up?” I travel for most of the year, so Facebook is how I keep tabs on what’s going on at home. It’s just not realistic to keep in constant contact with other people leading their own lives 3000 miles away.
And yes, it’s true that things like Google+ still exist, but for a social network to be useful, the people with whom you want to communicate need to participate. And most of them aren’t going to switch to using something else just because you want to delete Facebook from your life.
Now don’t get me wrong, Facebook’s News Feed is far from perfect. In fact, their algorithm is pretty broken—though you can make it less annoying. The thing is, for most people, the positives outweigh the negatives.
Oh, and good luck remembering birthdays.
Messaging Your Friends and Family
Facebook Messenger is an incredibly popular messaging service. It—alongside WhatsApp (another Facebook-owned service)—are how billions of people communicate every day. Huge numbers of my friends don’t have any other contact details for me, not even my email address.
While your situation might not be quite as extreme, there’s a good chance that some of the people you communicate with almost exclusively use Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp.
iMessage is a great alternative if everyone you’re chatting with has an iPhone, but SMS is a pretty poor option. Those texts can also get quite expensive if you’re sending them internationally.
There are other messaging apps like Telegram, but good luck getting your entire family to sign up.
Managing Teams and Clubs
Facebook Groups have become the de facto way for a lot of teams, clubs, and societies to interact with their members. Since everyone has Facebook, why would they not use it?
Again, there are alternatives like Teamer and Teamstuff, but the problem is getting people to use them. Having a Teamer account doesn’t do you much good if everyone else is organizing things in a Facebook Group. If you’re the one responsible for setting things up, you might be able to force it. But if you’re joining an existing club, all I can do is wish you good luck in your foolish endeavors to convert them.
An Easy and Secure Way to Log In
Passwords suck. Breaches of large companies are an increasingly regular event and, because people are absolutely terrible about using the same passwords for multiple services, those passwords often can be used to log in to other accounts. We’re big fans of password managers here at How-To Geek, but they can be awkward to get started with.
The Log In With Facebook button is a great way to instantly have a more secure account on a website. When 150 million MyFitnessPal login details were leaked last month, the people who had logged in with Facebook were much better protected.
You could set up a private Facebook account with only the barest of your personal details—or possibly an anonymous Twitter account—but that defeats the purpose of getting rid of Facebook. They can still track your activity around the web if you’re logged in to your account.
Shouting Into the Void
This one’s a bit petty, but it’s absolutely true. Sometimes when you’ve had a terrible day (or an amazing day) you just want to tell everyone you can. It’s as cathartic as it is narcissistic. I’ve been using Facebook’s On This Day to purge some of the more embarrassing instances from my past but I can’t pretend I didn’t feel better for posting them at the time.
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Plus, call Likes “fake internet points” all you like, but when something happens, they are still a tangible reminder that people you know and like have seen it, and care enough to show you that they care.
Maybe you’re so big on privacy that you’ve never posted a single thing on Facebook, but I doubt it. And I highly doubt you’ve never posted a comment you thought was witty or a picture you were proud of, and then checked back 20 mins later to see how many likes it had. It’s okay, it’s only human.
Everyone loves to hate Facebook, but very few people actually go without. Feel free to delete it, but good luck putting up with all the nagging from your friends and family to rejoin. And if you do go, remember that it’s tradition to post a long Facebook post announcing it. It doesn’t count if you don’t. And it’s not nearly as funny when you come back.
Harry Guinness
Harry Guinness is a photography expert and writer with nearly a decade of experience. His work has been published in newspapers like The New York Times and on a variety of other websites, from Lifehacker to Popular Science and Medium's OneZero.
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'Film Camera Review - A quick look at the Minolta XG-M 35mm SLR camera, a model often overlooked by Minolta SLR film camera photo enthusiasts'
While interest in the X-series 35mm SLR film cameras from Minolta, namely the X-700, X-500 (X-570 in the US), and X-300 (X-370 in the US) continues unabated among film camera enthusiasts, one tends to overlook that Minolta also produces a lightweight and easy-to-use AE SLR series under the XG nomenclature.
Built to the same standard and robustness as a precedent to later X-series cameras, the XG's (which are available at much lower cost than the X-series) is fitted with an electronically governed shutter speed range from 1 to 1/1000 second in AE mode and stepped from 1 to 1/1000 second in manual mode.
The series, produced between 1977 and 1984, ranges from the XG-7 / XG-E / XG2 (1977), XG-1 (1978), XG-SE (1978), XG9 / XG-S (1979), XG-A (1981), XG-M (1981), X70 (1981), X-7 (1980, 1982), and XG-1n (1982). All XG-series models are also fitted with a ±2 EV exposure compensation mode dial.
Key features common to all XG bodies includes an over-sized mirror which eliminates telephoto cut-off, an electronic shutter release with a touch-switch shutter button that turned on the LED metering display (i.e. at a touch of a finger), a shutter release socket which accepted both electronic release or traditional cable releases, and an electronic self-timer.
Minolta XG-M | Top Of The Range Camera.
Minolta XG-M 35mm Analog Film SLR. From rant to LOVE.
The XG bodies are just as capable with its many many features which will meed all the needs of an average photographer. Even the lowliest XG-A is capable of capturing stunning photographs while staying a true companion to your photographic adventures. The ease of use of the XG Series is an excellent choice not only for the beginner but for the advanced enthusiast as well.
The top model of the XG-series was the XG-M (X-70 in Japan). Released in 1981, the M denotes a 3.5fps motor drive mounting capability. The metering remains active when the camera is in manual mode, and there is a depth of field preview button. Shutter speed and aperture information are displayed in the viewfinder via a series of LED display for shutter speed and an aperture readout window.
Minolta XG-M 35mm SLR Film Camera
The Minolta XG-M is an Aperture-Priority AE 35mm SLR film camera with an electronically controlled horizontal-traverse focal-plane shutter capable of a stepless speed range from 1 to 1/1000 second in AE mode, stepped 1 to 1/1000 second in manual mode, and B. Flash synchronization is at 1/60 second.
Camera operation is switch controlled, the shutter release is two-step electromagnetic, metering is full-aperture TTL (Through the Lens) center-weighted average, and film ISO speed range is from 25 to 1600. The camera is also equipped with a switch selectable 10-second delay self-timer and a ±2 EV exposure compensation capability.
Standard focusing screen is Fresnel-field with a central split-image/microprism rangefinder with 93% screen coverage. Metering is powered by 2xSR44 of LR44 button cells. Camera body weight is 515 grams without lens or battery.
A handsome lass no less, the XG-M is only available in chrome.
The front plane of the camera is a plain affair with only the action grip and the self-timer/battery check LED on the left front panel of the camera body. The self-timer switch and X-sync terminal are located on the left vertical of the lens mount housing, while on the right vertical, arranged top down, are the lens release button, shutter release socket, and the stop-down button.
On the left of the top plate is the film rewind crank, which is also the pull-up film back latch, integrated with the pull-up and turn film ISO speed selector, and the button-control exposure compensation dial. A hot-shoe sits on top of the pentaprism.
On the right of the top plate pentaprism is the combination button-controlled AE mode/shutter speed dial, the electromagnetic shutter release, and Camera On/Off switch lever, film advance crank, film frame counter, and a small elongated film safe-load indicator window.
The back of the camera is plain except for the viewfinder eyepiece, and the film tab holder located in the middle hinge-type interchangeable film back.
The bottom plate of the camera carries the film rewind release, battery chamber cover, tripod socket, motor-drive / auto-winder coupler, winder guide pin slots, and electrical contacts.
The viewfinder readout of the XG-M is a simple display of shutter speed numerical located vertically on the right, and a small aperture readout located midway on the bottom frame of the focusing screen.
Both metered or manually set shutter speed are indicated by red LEDs next to the numerical, speeds are in between when two LEDs are lighted in 'A' mode. Over- and under-exposures are indicated by LED arrowheads at the top and bottom of the vertical bar. A and flash-ready sign is indicated by a blinking LED when the shutter speed is set to 1/60 second for a compatible flash unit.
A Gradual Transition
A great learning curve for the new enthusiast is a gradual transition between aperture priority and fully manual shooting modes and advances in using the exposure compensation method for images with extreme lighting situation. You do not have to go far here, the XG-M will do you fine as it is fitted with an excellent metering system that will give you spot-on exposures in AUTO mode as well as an equally effortless and convenient 'match needle' metering in manual mode.
For manual mode exposures, which can be done in shutter-priority style, you first set the shutter speed to the speed you want to shoot in, and after framing and focusing the image or composition, adjusts the aperture of the lens to bring the metered speed LED indicator to match the blinking LED which indicates the shutter speed the camera was set to.
Doing it in aperture-priority means that you first pre-set the aperture opening of the lens to the one you want to shoot in, and adjusts the shutter speed setting to get to the correct exposure setting. The XG-M is equally up to the task here as both the shutter speed and aperture setting are shown in the viewfinder.
Another feature available on the XG-M is the DoF (Depth of Preview) button, a feature much sought after by photo enthusiasts who are into close-ups or portrait photography. On the later X-series cameras, the DoF preview is only available on the X-500 (X-570 in the US) and the 'MPS' X-700 model.
The XG-M requires a pair of SR44 or LR44 button cells for its operation and metering system, and will not work if the batteries are depleted or exhausted. Convenient enough, these cells are as easily available.
Affordable, Fun, and Easy to Use
Often over-looked by Minolta enthusiasts, the Minolta XG-series, at price points far below the later X-series on the auction sites, is a 35mm SLR camera with as many features as the average photographer needs, and of course, they take all Minolta manual focus lenses.
A final plus for the elegant and almost regal XG-M is, of course, ease of use. With such a light bodyweight, the XG-M is highly recommended not only for new or beginner users but also for the advanced enthusiast who prefers the challenges of fully-manual scripts and DoF studies.
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Anna Greenberg, Interim President and CEO
In November 2018, Anna was appointed by the Board to serve as Health Quality Ontario’s interim president and CEO. Anna’s permanent role is HQO’s VP, Health System Performance.
As VP of Health System Performance, Anna oversaw the expansion of tailored reports to individual clinicians in family practice, long-term care and specialty care to support local improvement in patient care. She also expanded Health Quality Ontario’s routine public reporting of complex information on how well the health system is performing.
Previously, Anna was Director, Strategic Policy at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in Ontario. She also spent over a decade in leadership roles in the cancer system where she spearheaded Ontario’s first publicly-reported system performance measurement cancer tool and led cancer system planning, policy development and knowledge management at Cancer Care Ontario, Princess Margaret Hospital/ University Health Network, and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.
Anna holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University.
Irfan Dhalla, Vice President, Evidence Development and Standards
Irfan is a general internal medicine physician who has been with Health Quality Ontario since 2013.
As VP, Evidence Development and Standards Irfan has led the development and execution of a provincial strategy to change the way Health Quality Ontario makes recommendations about funding and standards of care.
Under his leadership, HQO’s health technology assessment program has been revitalized and now serves as the main source of recommendations (through the Ontario Health Technology Assessment Committee) for decisions about which health care services and medical devices should be publicly funded in Ontario.
With colleagues across Health Quality Ontario, he also has led the development of HQO’s quality standards program, and he also provides oversight of HQO’s clinical efficiency and payment modernization program.
Prior to joining Health Quality Ontario, Irfan held a variety of roles at St. Michael’s Hospital, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Women’s College Hospital and the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre. He continues to practice general internal medicine at Unity Health Toronto and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
Irfan holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia, a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Science in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics. He is nearing completion of a Master in Health Care Management from Harvard University.
Lee Fairclough, Vice President, Quality Improvement
Lee joined Health Quality Ontario in 2014 as VP, Quality Improvement. In this capacity she has:
Led the design and implementation of Health Quality Ontario’s quality improvement programs (18) that establish goals for improvement, support implementation, and ensure the accelerated spread of proven models of care. Programs involve all sectors of the health system including hospital, primary care, long-term care, mental health services and home care.
Since October 2018, she has provided executive leadership for Health Quality Ontario’s digital programs and platforms.
And, she participates in many external advisory committees including as member of the Executive Oversight of the Ontario Palliative Care Network and Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Clinicians Digital Council.
She is the former VP, Strategy, Knowledge Management and Delivery at the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and member of the inaugural executive team that established the national organization responsible for improving cancer control in Canada. Lee also held a variety of roles at Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network and was Director of the Toronto Regional Cancer program when it was first established.
Lee holds an undergraduate degree in Biology and Mathematics from McMaster University and was trained as a Medical Radiation Technologist through Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Waterloo. For four years, she sat as a member of the CIHR Institute Advisory Board for Health Services Policy Research and is currently an Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.
David Kaplan, Chief, Clinical Quality
David is the Chief, Clinical Quality at Health Quality Ontario. Prior, David held the position of Provincial Primary Care Quality Lead at Health Quality Ontario which he maintains. He is a family physician who practices comprehensive family medicine.
As Chief, Clinical Quality, he provides leadership and oversight to a team of local clinical quality leads and disease-specific clinical quality leads. For example, he chairs the Provincial Quality Implementation Committee that brings together Provincial and Regional Clinical Leads for quality, establishing direction and promoting quality and quality improvement across Ontario. He also assists in developing strategic clinical partnerships in support of Health Quality Ontario’s mandate and supporting the government’s agenda. He also identified opportunities to support a provincial quality agenda with input and participation among a robust provincial network of clinicians.
Additionally, David provides expert clinical leadership to Health Quality Ontario’s focus on primary care quality and quality improvement. He chairs the Primary Care Quality Advisory Committee, a group of experts and leaders in Ontario that advises on the direction of Health Quality Ontario’s primary care strategy. This includes establishing a comprehensive approach to supporting and motivating quality improvement and change management in primary care on a large scale, leveraging existing networks and key foundations already established within the sector.
David was Family Physician-in-Chief (Interim) and Medical Program Director at North York General Hospital from 2006-2008. He has held regional primary care leadership roles in the Central Local Health Integration Network, both as Primary Care Physician LHIN Lead and Primary Care Lead for Diabetes and Chronic Disease Management and Prevention. David holds both a medical degree and a Master’s Degree in Health Policy, Management and Evaluation from the University of Toronto where he is now an Associate Professor.
Michelle Rossi, Director, Policy and Strategy
Michelle joined Health Quality Ontario in 2013. While at Health Quality Ontario, she has influenced policy and legislative change in Ontario’s health system via:
The review of the Quality of Care Information Protection Act to improve the identification and investigation of critical incidents
Design of an Ontario Patient Safety Learning System
Design of the diagnostic imaging peer review program
Modernization of Ontario’s Radiation Protection Legislation report
Review of the Independent Health Facilities Act
Michelle is the former Director of Policy to the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care where she led a team responsible for providing strategic advice to the minister to ensure policy initiatives aligned with the goals and mandate of the government. She oversaw the movement of all policy items through an approvals process into successful implementation. She also fine-tuned her skills in developing and managing relationships with stakeholders to ensure policy initiatives aligned with the goals and mandate of the government.
Michelle holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Carleton University.
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Established Health Quality Ontario’s patient partnering program to build the capacity of health care professionals, patients and caregivers across the system to effectively partner with each other to improve health care quality
Jennifer is a former Senior VP of a North American public relations agency (Environics Communications) where she led the Health Sciences Practice and provided oversight to the Government Relations practice. She served a diversity of clients including government agencies, hospitals, home care organizations, long-term care homes, patient groups, professional associations and others on prominent health and health system issues. Before joining Environics, and for close to 10 years, she was the Director of Public Relations for a Canadian hospital and academic health science centre.
Jennifer holds a Master of Arts from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University. She is also accredited with the International Association of Business Communicators and has sat on boards and board committees for several non-profit organizations in health, community service and the arts.
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A food bank, a food truck and tax office associates partner to feed the hungry
October 12, 2017 : Sharita Hutton
As food trucks continue to grow in popularity, a special group out of Manteca, California have found an interesting way to use that popularity to help others.
Second Harvest, a nonprofit organization, has launched a mobile food truck with a unique twist. Mobile Fresh is a food truck that operates like a pop-up business, showing up in various locations for just two hours at a time and handing out fresh produce, milk, cereal and other food items to those that may not otherwise be able to afford it. But, just like many nonprofits, in order for Mobile Fresh to keep up with demand they must rely on volunteers.
That is where Sara Riddle stepped in.
Back in 2016, Riddle and the Manteca-area H&R Block offices she manages first partnered with Second Harvest. At that time, her team also decided it wanted to help others by assisting the nonprofit’s goal to feed 200 families over the Thanksgiving holiday.
But the giving did not stop there.
In September, Riddle and a team of nearly 20 H&R Block associates and their family members decided to do even more for the community in Lodi, California. Pairing up with the Mobile Fresh food truck once again, associates gave their time to hand out produce and food to those in need.
“What an honor to be able to serve our community with the support that is needed,” said Riddle. “Being a part of the community, understanding needs and partnering solutions is something we do every day. Sometimes those in need do not come to us, so it is awesome that we can go to them.”
The giving continues as Riddle and dozens of others plan to hit the streets again on Friday, October 13 in neighboring Modesto, California. Riddle will join forces with colleague Sohrab Bashiri, to give to those in need.
“Providing those in the community with fresh fruits and vegetables is another way to build a strong future with both health and financial wellness,” said Riddle.
Additional coverage from ABC10 in Sacramento, California: Trendy “pop up’s” turn idea into one to feed the homeless in Lodi
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Learn how H&R Block helped fundraise for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. H&R Block’s team participated in the St. Jude 5k to raise more than $55,000 for childhood cancer.
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H&R Block reports tax season volume with growth in U.S. tax returns through April 19; Fiscal 2019 results to be announced on June 11, 2019
H&R Block's preliminary U.S. tax results reflect an increase in overall tax return volume of 1.5 percent to 20.2 million.
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Learn how Melissa Rodriguez, an H&R Block office manager, responded to news reports of kids getting hurt in her town by organizing a child safety fair.
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Sharita Hutton started at H&R Block for tax season 2013 and serves as lead anchor for the H&R Block newsroom. Before joining H&R Block, Hutton was a local broadcast reporter and anchor for several of Kansas City’s news channels. A former college basketball player, Hutton loves spending time coaching her two children in all of their athletic endeavors.
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Trudeau Dishing 'A Lot Of Baloney' With Claim On Tax Cheats
"They're prone to exaggerating a bit."
Jordan Press, Canadian Press
Chris Wattie / Reuters
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during question period in the House of Commons on Oct. 31, 2017.
OTTAWA — "Our investments have already yielded results. We are on track to recuperate $25 billion from our efforts against tax avoidance and tax evasion." — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
There are two certainties in life, and one of them the government doesn't want you cheating on.
The depth of Canada's tax evasion and avoidance problem erupted in overwhelming detail last week with the release of a trove of documents about offshore accounts and trusts, dubbed the Paradise Papers, that delivered a broadside to the prime minister's oft-repeated mantra of creating a fairer tax system for the middle class and its hard-working aspirants.
Trudeau responded with a haymaker of his own: The government had identified and was on track to collect $25 billion in unpaid taxes over the last two years. His intended message was clear: Canada won't turn a blind eye to those who cheat on — or otherwise go to extreme lengths to avoid paying — their taxes.
But did the government cheat on its numbers?
Spoiler alert: The Canadian Press Baloney Meter is a dispassionate examination of political statements culminating in a ranking of accuracy on a scale of "no baloney" to "full of baloney" (complete methodology below).
This one earns a rating of "a lot of baloney." Here's why.
The prime minister made two statements on Nov. 6, the first day that the fallout from the Paradise Papers hit the House of Commons. During question period, Trudeau first said the government had "identified $25 billion in unreported income." A few minutes later, he said the government was "on track to recuperate $25 billion from our efforts against tax avoidance and tax evasion."
In the 2016-17 fiscal year, which ended March 31, the agency targeted $8 billion in forgone taxes from large businesses, including about $1.8 billion flagged as stemming from tax avoidance or evasion. There was also $2.6 billion identified as unpaid GST and HST, and a further $1.6 billion in possible unpaid taxes from small businesses.
The combined value was $12.2 billion. The agency's annual report from the previous fiscal year noted virtually identical figures in each category, and a similar total: $12.2 billion, for a two-year total of $24.4 billion — nearly all of the $25 billion cited by Trudeau.
The figure represents the extra revenue the government should have collected, said Ted Gallivan, assistant commissioner of international, large businesses, and criminal investigations branch. It usually crosses multiple tax years and can be calculated upon existing taxpayer balances, he said.
For really high-value balances, the CRA may make accommodations to collect the balance over time so a business doesn't go bankrupt, meaning the debt lasts for a while, Gallivan added.
The figures for the last two fiscal years are not out of line with the preceding two-year period. Agency reports show auditors identified $20.5 billion in unreported tax between April 2013 and March 2015.
In their 2016 budget, the Liberals gave the Canada Revenue Agency $444.4 million over five years to go after tax cheats, expecting it to result in the collection of $2.6 billion in previously unpaid taxes. This year's budget added $523.9 million over five years, aimed at recouping $2.5 billion in revenues.
The net result: the government expected to come out of all that spending $4.13 billion ahead.
When the government cites the $25-billion figure, they're referring to how much auditors have identified as problematic — not how much officials will collect in the end, said Dennis Howlett, CEO of the advocacy group Canadians for Tax Fairness.
It includes years of unpaid taxes that were only recently identified. What's more, the final figure can change, since the government can settle out of court and discount any penalties without making the details public.
Hussein Warsame, an accounting professor and the CPA Fellow in Taxation at the University of Calgary, said the government will likely collect about half of what it expects, or even less once the cost of employee time, legal fees and other expenses are factored in.
"That $25 billion is not what the government is going to get," Warsame said.
Well over 90 per cent of the approximately 80,000 appeals of Canada Revenue Agency audits filed each year are settled before they ever go to court, said Geoffrey Loomer, a tax law professor from Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Most of the $25 billion in question would likely be wrapped up in those appeals, he said. Of that amount, overseas tax evaders are a small percentage; most are people like restaurant owners who neglect to collect GST, or contractors who fudge their income on their tax returns, Loomer said
The government is no doubt recouping some of its losses from tax cheats and avoiders who hide their money offshore. But are they going to collect all $25 billion? Unlikely, say experts.
"There is definitely some truth to what they're claiming, but they're prone to exaggerating a bit and they are fuzzy about different terms," Howlett said.
That's why this statement receives a rating of "a lot of baloney" — the $25-billion number might be accurate, but the chances the government will recoup all of it are remote at best, contrary to Trudeau's claim the government is "on track" to recover all of it.
The prime minister was largely correct when he characterized the $25 billion as "unreported income," but he overreached moments later by declaring the government was planning to recover the same sum.
The Baloney Meter is a project of The Canadian Press that examines the level of accuracy in statements made by politicians. Each claim is researched and assigned a rating based on the following scale:
No baloney — the statement is completely accurate
A little baloney — the statement is mostly accurate but more information is required
Some baloney — the statement is partly accurate but important details are missing
A lot of baloney — the statement is mostly inaccurate but contains elements of truth
Full of baloney — the statement is completely inaccurate
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Govt to launch National Data Repository on June 28
PTI: June 23, 2017
New Delhi: The government will next week launch India's maiden National Data Repository (NDR) that will assimilate, preserve and upkeep country's vast sedimentary data for future use in oil and gas exploration and production.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will on June 28 launch the NDR, which will aid India to switch over to an open acreage licensing regime where companies can choose areas they want to explore.
At present, the government selects and demarcates areas it feels can be offered for bidding in an exploration licensing round.
Under the open acreage licensing (OAL), companies can visit NDR and look at vast seismic data of currently producing fields and explored areas as also those of unexplored areas, official sources said.
From the areas that are not under any licensee, they can then carve out an area suitable to them and evince interest in doing exploration and production.
Once an area is selected, the government will put it up for bidding and any firm offering the maximum share of oil or gas produced from the area would be awarded the block.
Sources said already a vast amount of data has been populated - over 9.3 lakh line kilometres of 2D seismic, 2.8 lakh square km of 3D seismic and 1,717 well data.
The NDR will be wholly funded by the government of India and housed with the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH).
It will have the ability to store data online, near line and offline, and provide independent web-based access.
The DGH, they said, has already begun sale of geophysical data of speculative surveys in east and west coast of India in 2005 and 2008.
The mammoth volume of data collected by E&P companies and other agencies over more than six decades of activities was hitherto lying scattered at different work centres of ONGC, Oil India and DGH or held by the operating companies.
This necessitated an establishment of a system at national level that could assimilate, preserve and upkeep the vast amount of data which could be organised and regulated for use in future exploration and development, besides use by R&D and other educational Institutes.
With this objective, the government initiated the establishment of the NDR.
The NDR is a government sponsored project with state-of- the-art facilities and infrastructure to create E&P data bank for preservation, upkeep and dissemination of data so as to enable its systematic use for future exploration and development.
The DGH being the agency of the central government will be responsible for creation, setting up and operation of the NDR.
Sources said the OAL will be beginning of a new era in oil and gas exploration and production.
Till now, the government has awarded 254 exploration blocks under nine rounds of bidding between 2000 and 2012.
Prior to that, 29 discovered fields were awarded to private and foreign companies.
Of the 254 blocks awarded under the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) between 2000 and 2012, 156 have already been relinquished due to poor prospectivity.
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Why is Tennessee a Hotbed for Manufacturing?
Aggressive incentives and a focus on workforce training, leadership and innovation help position the state for continued manufacturing growth.
Adrienne.Selko | Jun 18, 2012
A lot of big-name companies are flocking to Tennessee. Within the past year, Volkswagen AG (IW 1000/10) opened a $1 billion plant in Chattanooga, and Nissan Motor Co. (IW 1000/29) announced it will be building Mercedes-Benz engines for the first time in the United States. Meanwhile, Whirlpool Corp.'s (IW 500/59) new plant is pursuing LEED Gold certification and Bridgestone Metalpha U.S.A. Inc. expanded to enable a 10% daily output increase.
They join fellow manufacturers Johnson Controls Inc. (IW 500/34), Dana Holding Corp. (IW 500/146), Procter & Gamble Co. (IW 500/10) and others.
The auto sector remains dominant. In fact, Tennessee sits at the No. 8 spot in auto production, and the industry accounts for 34% of manufacturing jobs with 105,000 employees. Adding up OEMs, suppliers and ancillary manufacturers, there are 864 auto-related companies in Tennessee.
Strengthening U.S. Base
At the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, production continues to increase, resulting in the addition of 800 more employees in March 2012.
Photo Volkswagen
Tennessee seems to be cashing in on the trend of non-U.S.-based companies to produce locally for the huge U.S. consumer market. Explaining Volkswagen's decision to locate in Tennessee, back in 2008, Stefan Jacoby, CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, said: "Today's decision is a fundamental part of our new strategic direction in the U.S."
Whirlpool echoed that sentiment last year. "Our $120 million investment in Cleveland, Tenn., is the largest single investment we've ever made anywhere in the world and reinforces our commitment to the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing," said Jeff Fettig, CEO of Whirlpool Corp.
Supporting Existing Operations
Nissan chose to build upon its past success in the state. "There's no better plant to rise to the challenge than our top-quality manufacturing operations in Smyrna," said Bill Krueger, vice chairman, Nissan Americas.
A contributing factor to the high quality of manufacturing is the level of workforce skills. "My top priority is for Tennessee to be the No. 1 location in the Southeast for high-quality jobs," said Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam. "Our Jobs4TN plan is a blueprint for doing just that. By leveraging our existing assets in each region, we will be able to attract new businesses to the state while helping our existing businesses expand and remain competitive. We will also be making significant investments in innovation to position Tennessee as a national leader well into the future."
Part of the investment includes a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to boost the state's energy-related research and education efforts. A coalition of scientists, faculty and students from 11 public and private universities in Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be grouped together into "network nodes" for conducting research, mentorship and outreach.
Clean energy is one of the sectors that Memphis is looking to expand."In addition to servicing our current manufacturing areas from an economic gardening perspective, we will look to recruit new manufacturing operations in pharmaceutical, diagnostics and clean energy," said Ted Townsend, ECD regional director for the Greater Memphis Region.
Other education initiatives are directed at the leadership side, which has been getting a push from Chuck Parke, executive director, Center for Executive Education, University of Tennessee, and a veteran of TRW, Maytag and Whirlpool. "One of the reasons that manufacturing is finding success in Tennessee is the concerted decision by the community at large to create and support good leadership."
As always, cooperation between private and public enterprises is essential to both attracting and keeping companies."We need to be competitive, prepared for growth and have the incentive packages ready to bring to the table. Fortunately, we have business and government leaders in this community who understand this," explains James Chavez, CEO of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Economic Development Council.
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Tucker: Psychiatric Drugs, Social Alienation, Broken Families, War On Men More Relevant Than Gun Control
Tucker Carlson said Thursday on Fox News that psychiatric drugs, social alienation, the destruction of the nuclear family and the war on men are far more relevant topics to discuss than gun control if our goal is to stop mass shootings.
This man is the number one voice of reason on TV.
From Fox News:
In the wake of the Florida school shooting, many on the left have renewed their calls for stricter gun control legislation.
Tucker Carlson suggested the attack on the Second Amendment isn't about protecting American citizens, and it's actually "a kind of class war."
He said it's important for our country to get to the bottom of what is actually causing the mass shooting epidemic, but that's not happening.
"That vital conversation has been drowned out and made impossible by mindless screeching about gun control, led by blustery charlatans in the media ... and in Congress, whose only real agenda is moral preening," Carlson said. "They aren't trying to solve the problem. Their aims are darker."
He argued that many liberals want a landmark gun control bill like the one Australia passed in 1996, which amounted to "gun confiscation."
He said the liberals' goals are gun seizures, ammunition regulation and disarming the American population, resulting in a country where only the people in charge have guns, and everyone else obeys.
"The calls you're hearing today for gun control have nothing to do with protecting Americans from violence. What you're witnessing is a kind of class war," Carlson said. "The left hates rural America, red America, gun-owning America, the America that elected Donald Trump."
"They call it 'gun control.' It's not. It's people control. For the left, voters who can't be controlled can't be trusted."
In contrast to Tucker's comments, this is the advice that's coming out of the left:
Let's take a look at how America has changed since the 1960s.
Demographics have shifted dramatically since the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
Violent crime rates have skyrocketed and despite falling since the 1990's they're more than double what they were in 1960.
Out of wedlock births are skyrocketing.
Economic gains are mostly being concentrated in the hands of a tiny globalist elite.
Debt levels across the board have skyrocketed.
The US went from a creditor nation to a debtor nation.
Deaths of despair among the white working-class are surging (and this is being cheered by the left).
White women are now drinking themselves to death at record rates.
Women's happiness is falling despite feminist "liberation."
One in four women are now on psychiatric drugs.
Divorce rates are also way up.
Might it be possible that these issues have a bit more impact on our society than gun ownership?
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INSIGHTS > New Articles > CURRENT AFFAIRS > Insights Daily Current Affairs, 14 June 2018
Insights Daily Current Affairs, 14 June 2018
Category: CURRENT AFFAIRS CURRENT EVENTS
Paper 1:
Topic: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.
Sanchi Stupa of India and Pho Minh Pagoda of Viet Nam
Context: Cabinet approves MoU between India and Viet Nam on Joint issue of postage stamp. Joint Issue depicts Sanchi Stupa of India and Pho Minh Pagoda of Viet Nam.
About Sanchi Stupa:
When was it built: Commissioned in 3rd century BCE, Expansion/ additions/restoration works/ made in different periods.
Who built it: Commissioned by Emperor Ashoka of the Maurya Dynasty.
Where is it located: Located 46 km north-east of Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh, India.
Architectural Style: Buddhist Art and Architecture.
Other facts: It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
About Pho Minh Pagoda:
The pagoda was originally built during the Ly Dynasty and later expanded in 1262 during the Tran Dynasty.
It was a place for high-ranking mandarins and the aristocracy of the Tran Royal Court to worship and lead their religious life.
What’s important?
For Prelims: Sanchi Stupa- features and significance, Pho Minh Pagoda- location and its significance.
For Mains: Development of Art and Architecture during Mauryan period.
Sources: pib.
Context: The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for withdrawal of Nalanda University (Amendment) Bill, 2013 pending in the Rajya Sabha.
The Nalanda University was established on the basis of a Joint Press Statement at the 4th East Asia Summit held in Thailand in October, 2009, which supported its establishment as a non-state, non-profit, secular and self-governing international institution. Subsequently, the Nalanda University Act, 2010 was passed by the Parliament and came into effect from 25thNovember 2010.
Highlights of Nalanda University (Amendment) Bill, 2013:
It establishes Nalanda University in Bihar as a result of decisions taken at the East Asia Summits.
Under the Act, the University is a non-profit public-private partnership, supported by each member country as well as other sources. The Bill amends the Act to provide for the Government of India to meet the university’s capital and recurring expenditure to the extent required.
The powers of the University are amended to include the power to set up a consortium of international partners to meet the objectives of the University, and appoint persons working in any other University or academic institution, including those located outside India, as faculty of the University.
The size of the Governing Board of the University is being increased to include two persons of eminence and two members from the academic faculty of the University. The Bill also makes provision for the appointment of Deans and Provosts.
Nalanda stands out as the most ancient university of the Indian Subcontinent. It engaged in the organized transmission of knowledge over an uninterrupted period of 800 years.
The historical development of the site testifies to the development of Buddhism into a religion and the flourishing of monastic and educational traditions.
It was a major Mahavihara or a large Buddhist monastery that also doubled up as an important centre of learning from the 5th to 1200 AD in the erstwhile kingdom of Magadh.
The construction of Nalanda university began in 5th century AD and flourished under the Gupta rulers. It came to an end in the 12th century when it was destroyed in 1193 AD by the invading Turkish army led by its commander Bakhtiar Khilji.
UNESCO has declared Bihar’s much awaited ancient site – the ruins of Nalanda Mahavihara – a World Heritage Site.
For Prelims and Mains: Nalanda Mahavihara- Historical importance, Highlights of the Bill.
Topic: Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies.
North Eastern Council
Context: The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) for the nomination of the Union Home Minister as ex-officio Chairman of North Eastern Council (NEC). The Cabinet has also approved that Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of DoNER would serve as Vice Chairman of the Council.
Under the new arrangement, Home Minister shall be the Chairman and Minister of DoNER as Vice Chairman, NEC and all the Governors and Chief Ministers of North Eastern States will be Members.
This would provide a forum for discussing inter-state matters more comprehensively and also consider common approaches to be taken in future.
NEC can now also perform the tasks undertaken by the various Zonal Councils to discuss such inter-State issues as drug trafficking, smuggling of arms and ammunition, boundary disputes etc.
This repositioning of NEC will help it to become a more effective body for the North Eastern Region. The Council shall, from time to time, review the implementation of the projects/schemes included in the project; recommend effective measures for coordination among the state Governments for these projects etc.
About NEC:
NEC was established under the North Eastern Council Act, 1971 as an apex level body for securing balanced and coordinated development and facilitating coordination with the States.
Subsequent to the Amendment of 2002, NEC has been mandated to function as a regional planning body for the North Eastern Area and while formulating a regional plan for this area, shall give priority to the schemes and projects benefiting two or more states provided that in the case of Sikkim, the Council shall formulate specific projects and schemes for that State.
For Prelims: NEC, its functions and composition.
For Mains: Significance of North Eastern region of the country and efforts by government for the development of the region.
Topic: Issues related to education.
New norms for College teachers
Context: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has brought out a new set of regulations to alter the conditions for recruitment and promotion of college and university teachers, so as to make universities more focussed on research and colleges on the teaching-learning process.
New norms:
Research will no longer be mandatory for college teachers for promotion. However, university promotions will offer weightage to research done. College teachers will be graded on teaching rather than research. College teachers can still do research and earn higher grades for it.
Other than research, college teachers can earn grades for other activities too — like social work, helping in adoption of a village, helping students in extra-curricular activities, contributing teaching material to Swayam, the MOOCS platform for online material.
College teachers can become professors now. Till now, a college teacher could not rise above the rank of associate professor, the professor post being limited to university departments.
To become an assistant professor in a college, the requirement remains the same: Ph.D or NET plus a master’s degree. However, for promotion to the post of associate professor, a Ph.D will be mandatory even at the college level.
Indians who had been awarded a doctoral degree from any of the top 500 global universities would be eligible to teach in Indian universities without the requirement of any equivalence certificate or NET as soon as the regulations are notified.
University Grants Commission (UGC):
The University Grants Commission of India (UGC India) is a statutory body set up in accordance to the UGC Act 1956 under Ministry of Human Resource Development.
It is charged with coordination, determination, and maintenance of standards of higher education. It provides recognition to universities in India and disburses funds to such recognized universities and colleges.
Sources: the hindu.
Topic: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate.
Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis
Context: India is hosting the 10th meeting of Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis. India has highest burden of Lymphatic Filariasis and there is need of taking leadership role to Eliminate lymphatic filariasis.
Theme: Celebrating progress towards elimination: Voices from the field on overcoming programme challenges.
About Lymphatic Filariasis:
LF or commonly known as Elephantiasis is one of the oldest and most debilitating neglected disease, which is currently endemic in 73 countries of the world, including India.
LF is a devastating parasitic infection spread by mosquitoes. The parasites are thread-like worms (filariae) that develop in and then damage the human lymphatic system and associated tissues.
It is usually contracted in childhood, often before the age of five. The lymphatic system is a network of vessels and specialised tissues that are essential to the maintaining the overall fluid balance and health of organs and limbs and importantly are a major component of the body’s immune defence system.
The damage caused by the filaria or adult worms living in the lymphatic system upset this delicate fluid balance and fluid remains in the tissues causing chronic swelling usually of the lower limbs.
The disease affects the poorest population in society, particularly those living in areas with poor water, sanitation and hygiene. LF does not kill the affected people, but may cause permanent disfigurement, reduced productivity and social stigma.
About GAELF:
It is an alliance of partners from 72 LF endemic national country programmes, NGOs, private sectors, academic and research institutes and international development agencies that assists WHO’s Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis.
For Prelims: About Elephantiasis and GAELF.
For Mains: Global disease burden and the need for coordinated efforts in this regard.
Topic: Disaster management.
Dam Safety Bill, 2018
Context: The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for introduction of Dam Safety Bill, 2018 in the Parliament.
Highlights of the Bill:
The Bill provides for proper surveillance, inspection, operation and maintenance of all specified dams in the country to ensure their safe functioning.
The Bill provides for constitution of a National Committee on Dam Safety which shall evolve dam safety policies and recommend necessary regulations as may be required for the purpose.
The Bill provides for establishment of National Dam Safety Authority as a regulatory body which shall discharge functions to implement the policy, guidelines and standards for dam safety in the country.
The Bill provides for constitution of a State Committee on Dam Safety by State Government.
Functions of the National Dam Safety Authority:
It shall maintain liaison with the State Dam Safety Organisations and the owners of dams for standardisation of dam safety related data and practices.
It shall provide the technical and managerial assistance to the States and State Dam Safety Organisations.
It shall maintain a national level data-base of all dams in the country and the records of major dam failures.
It shall examine the cause of any major dam failure.
It shall publish and update the standard guidelines and check-lists for the routine inspection and detailed investigations of dams and appurtenances.
It shall accord recognition or accreditations to the organisations that can be entrusted with the works of investigation, design or construction of new dams.
It will also look into unresolved points of issue between the State Dam Safety Organisation of two states, or between the State Dam Safety Organisation of a State and the owner of a dam in that State, for proper solution.
Further, in certain cases, such as dams of one State falling under the territory of another State, the National Authority shall also perform the role of State Dam Safety Organization thereby eliminating potential causes for inter-state conflicts.
It will help all the States and Union Territories of India to adopt uniform dam safety procedures which shall ensure safety of dams and safeguard benefits from such dams. This shall also help in safeguarding human life, livestock and property.
The Dam Safety Bill, 2018 address all issues concerning dam safety including regular inspection of dams, Emergency Action Plan, comprehensive dam safety review, adequate repair and maintenance funds for dam safety, Instrumentation and Safety Manuals. It lays onus of dam safety on the dam owner and provides for penal provisions for commission and omission of certain acts.
Need for a legislation:
There are over 5200 large dams in India and about 450 are under construction. Plus there are thousands of medium and small dams. Due to lack of legal and institutional architecture for dam safety in India, dam safety is an issue of concern. Unsafe dams are a hazard and dam break may cause disasters, leading to huge loss of life and property.
For Prelims and Mains: Highlights of the Bill and key functions of the National Dam Safety Authority.
Topic: Conservation related topic.
Water Management Index
Context: NITI Aayog is planning to launch a Composite Water Management Index.
Benefits of the Index:
The index can be utilised to formulate and implement suitable strategies for better management of water resources.
The index would provide useful information for the States and also for the concerned Central Ministries/Departments enabling them to formulate and implement suitable strategies for better management of water resources.
Significance of the index:
This index is an attempt to inspire States and UTs towards efficient and optimal utilization of water, and recycling thereof with a sense of urgency. It will be a useful tool to assess and improve the performance in efficient management of water resources.
Facts for Prelims:
Nikkei Asia Prize:
Context: Noted social reformer and founder of Sulabh International Bindeshwar Pathak was recently honored with Japan’s prestigious ‘Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture and Community’. The award was given to him for his significant work in tackling poor hygiene and discrimination.
Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture and Community:
The Nikkei Asia Prize is an award which recognizes the achievements of people and organizations that have improved the lives of people throughout Asia.
The awards were created and presented by Nikkei Inc, one of the largest media corporations in Japan.
Launched in 1996, the program honors people in Asia who have made significant contributions in one of the three areas: regional growth; science, technology and innovation; and culture.
Former PM Manmohan Singh and Infosys Chairman Narayan Murti are among the few Indians who have won the prize in the past.
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7 Things About Hamburg That May Surprise You
By: Tamie Arietta
Moin, Moin von Hamburg!
It's not too much of a surprise that Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and arguably the most beautiful. Hamburg has something to offer everyone; you'll discover plenty of surprising and unusual hidden gems along the way. For starters, did you know that Hamburg has more bridges inside its city limits than any other city in the world? There are approximately 2,500 bridges in Hamburg. That's more than Amsterdam, London, and Venice combined.
Continue reading to learn more about my top seven picks for things that may surprise you about this incredible city.
Let's start with a little bonus. We'll call this number 0: The Deutsche Post (Glücksatlas) has rated the Hamburg Metropolitan Region as one of the happiest regions in Germany. The Hamburg MR continues to top the chart as the happiest people in Germany. Sorry Hamburgers, unless the Glückatlas was calculated during the summer months, I disagree. People here are standard-offish and hard to get to know at first. Don't let the distant nature of the Hamburgers steer you away from this bustling city. For centuries, people from around the world have made their way to this seaport area, making it culturally diverse. Each of the seven districts (104 quarters) have a very distinct and vibrant charm. From family neighborhoods to entertainment districts, the culture and vibe throughout the city will make you fall in love with it.
1. Welcome to Hamburg
Hamburg is Germany's largest seaport (3rd largest in Europe) and is named the country's Gateway to the World (Tor zur Welt). In Wedel, lies the Willkomm-Höft (welcome point) for ships arriving at, or leaving the port of Hamburg. On a daily basis, more than 50 ships pass through this point. There are six welcoming captains that man the welcome point. They play the national anthem of the country where the vessel is registered or bid farewell by hoisting the signal flag UW to wish departing ships a bon voyage. The captains have a wide selection of 152 national anthems and recorded greetings in the language of every seafaring country in the world. How about that for a welcome? The captain will even share information about the passing ships to onlookers watching nearby.
2. Schwanenvater
In 1164, swans of the Alster received special protection by the Hamburg council; since then, it is prohibited to hurt, kill or even insult them. That's right, don't insult the Alster swans. In fact, in the 11th century, Hamburg created the unique public position of swan father (Schwanenvater). The swan father is part of the official Hamburg swan authority which only has one government employee. The Schwnanenvater takes care of the swans year round.
Herbertstraße in the St. Pauli district may or may not be well-known. It is Hamburg’s shortest street and the city’s most notorious street. It has been Hamburg’s red light district since the 19th century. Just off the Reeperbahn strip, near the police station, you'll find this street blocked from view by barriers on both ends with signs that say: Entry for Men; under 18 and women prohibited.
4. Old Elbe Tunnel
About a 15-20 minute walk from Herbertstraße is the protected monument called the Old Elbe Tunnel as known as the St. Pauli Elbe Tunnel. It opened in 1911 and became an essential part of the growth of the city because it connected the north and south side. Numerous film teams have shot on location, and it can even be rented for events. While open 24/7 to pedestrians and cyclist, motor vehicles can only access the tunnel during operating hours. There are large elevators with guards; you can drive, walk, or bring your bike down to the bottom and out the other side. Be sure to check out the views of Hamburg from the south side.
5. Krameramtsstuben (Grocers' Apartments)
Nestled in a small alleyway near the St. Michael Church are historic buildings with some of the oldest surviving residential buildings in central Hamburg. It used to be homes for widows of members of the Grocers’ Institute. Built around 1620, now you'll find a few small shops and a restaurant. One of the old apartments has been preserved as a museum.
6. The Music Scene
Doesn't matter what type of music you listen to, from rock to pop to metal to jazz, Hamburg has countless music festivals throughout the year.
The Beatles got their big break while playing in various Hamburg clubs between 1960 and 1962. A plaza called: Beatles-Platz was built to commemorate the role Hamburg played in The Beatles' history.
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg has changed the city's skyline with its odd-shaped glassy Opera house that sits on top of an old warehouse building. Sound isolation prevents noise from the outside including horns of the passing ships, which typically can be heard from a few miles away. For music lovers and architecture aficionados, this is a must-see. It’s free (ticket required) to go up to the observation deck to admire the 360-degree view of the port area.
Jimi Hendrix - On the island of Fehmarn less than 2 hours outside of Hamburg, was where Jimi Hendrix performed his last concert. In September 1970, a few days before his death, he performed at the Love and Peace Festival. There's a memorial stone to honor his memory on the Flügge beach.
7. Weekly Markets
Hamburg has more weekly markets than any other European city. Over a million people visit one of more than 100 weekly markets (Wochenmärkte). You'll find everything from food markets with fresh produce and flowers to flea markets selling antiques. Probably one of the most popular weekly markets would be the Fischmarkt, established 1703.
Every week there are around 70,000 visitors. Be warned, it opens at the crack of dawn on Sundays and once the bell strikes 9:30 am, it closes - nothing else can be sold. Why so early? The odd hours date back to the when it began. The market would have conflicted with religious services, so the city found a compromise allowing the market to open at 5am, but required it to close before church.
Another bonus, for those of you who need a break from the city, you'll find plenty of sandy beaches, medieval towns, nature parks, and beautiful castles all within a 1 to 2-hour drive. Hop on a bus or train and explore for the day or maybe spend a weekend away.
Here are some places outside of Hamburg worth checking out.
Altes Land (Old Country): There are approximately 13 million apple trees and few million cherry trees in this area. No wonder it is Germany’s largest fruit growing area. Come during the springtime when the apple blossoms bloom. In the fall, pick some of your favorite fruits. If you drive through the town, try to spot a 'Bridal' door. The timber-framed houses in this region are stunning, but many stand out for having beautiful crafted bridal doors. These doors could only be opened from the inside on two occasions: when the groom would carry his bride through the threshold and whenever a family member passed away in the home.
Lüneburg: A thousand years of history here. The production of salt brought wealth and prosperity to this medieval town.
Lübeck: The old part of Lübeck is on an island. The town stands out for it's Brick Gothic architecture but is best known for its marzipan.
Schwerin: The town might be small, but the majestic Schwerin Palace is an absolute must
Stade: First mentioned in records back in 934 and is just outside of Hamburg. Spend the day exploring the cobblestone streets lined with half-timbered houses.
Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park: The Wadden Sea is the world's largest contiguous system of inter-tidal sand and mud flats. Stretching over 500 km along the coastline of three countries: the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. Enjoy walks through the salt marshes, take a swim in the sea or take a trip to seal banks. Thanks to the tide, this area is rich in plants and wildlife. Would you believe the seal population is around 25,000-27,000? In 2018, seal puppies were estimated to be around 9,285.
See for yourself what Hamburg has to offer; you'll fall in love and feel right at home in this charming city.
As Heidi Kabel's song goes: In Hamburg sagt man Tschüss, das heißt auf Wiedersehen.
A true nomad at heart from San Diego, Tamie has explored most of the United States but had never been abroad until given the opportunity thanks to a massive layoff from the corporate world. After almost a year of traveling, volunteering, and studying around the world, she found a way to combine her passion for traveling, helping others, and teaching, in Hamburg, Germany. Read more about Tamie.
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J.B. Maverick
17+ years of experience as an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst
10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor, specializing in subjects that include forex trading, finance and business
Novelist, scriptwriter, and author of psychological thriller “A Cross of Hearts”
J.B. Maverick has over 17 years of experience as an active trader. He is a former commodity futures broker and stock market analyst. His career took a turn in 2007 when he began writing about is forex trading and, since then, he has written extensively on trading, finance and business.
J.B. has published hundreds of articles on the stock, futures, and forex markets, a book on futures trading, and he has also penned a psychological thriller called "A Cross of Hearts." Other areas where J.B. expounds are political, social and religious commentary. One project is a film script for a movie about the life of legendary trader Jesse Livermore.
J.B. has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology.
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Retirement Savings Accounts
Retirement Planning Estate Planning
Reviewed by Julia Kagan
What (Who) Is Next of Kin?
Next of kin refers to a person's closest living blood relative. The next-of-kin relationship is important in determining inheritance rights if a person dies without a will and has no spouse and/or children. The next of kin may also have responsibilities during and after their relative's life.They might have to make medical decisions if the person becomes incapacitated or take responsibility for their funeral/burial arrangements and financial affairs after their relative dies.
Next of Kin vs. Will vs. Spouse
Identifying a next of kin is less important, at least legally, if the person who died (the "decedent") left a will or is (or was) married.
A will usually takes precedence over next-of-kin inheritance rights, and 401(k)s and IRAs go directly to the beneficiaries designated by the deceased, regardless of what the will says.
A legally and properly executed will covering inheritable property usually takes precedence over next-of-kin inheritance rights. If the deceased person left no will, though, their inheritance automatically passes to a surviving spouse in nearly all states. If the couple is divorced, postnuptial agreements might have terminated or altered these rights. If a surviving spouse remarries, that generally does not affect their inheritance rights.
In the absence of a surviving spouse, the next of kin inherits the estate. The line of inheritance begins with direct offspring: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on. The legal status of stepchildren and children who are adopted varies by jurisdiction.
If the deceased had no offspring, the line of inheritance moves upward to their parents. If the parents are no longer alive, collateral heirs—brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews—are next in line.
Jurisdiction over Next of Kin
The specifics of determining next of kin, and inheritance, vary by jurisdiction. In countries such as the United Kingdom, matters involving inheritance are handled in accordance with various succession laws. In other countries, next-of-kin laws are in place for settling the estates of people who die intestate.
In the U.S., the right of a relative to inherit or receive property by inheritance exists through the operation of laws and legislative action. State law establishes next-of-kin relationships and inheritance priorities. The legislature of a state has plenary power—complete authority—over distribution of property within the borders of the state.The deceased's estate becomes state property if no legal heir can be identified.
What if someone dies in one state and owns assets in another? With personal property, the law of the state where the decedent resides generally supersedes the laws of other states.
Insurance and Retirement Assets
The recipient(s) of proceeds from a decedent's life insurance policy—or the balance from their retirement accounts—are designated in a different way than with other assets. Even if there's a will that includes these instruments, including 401(k)s and individual retirement accounts (IRAs), the proceeds from them go to the beneficiaries listed by the decedent on these policies themselves, regardless of what the will states. By law, the primary beneficiary for these assets has to be the decedent's spouse. If the spouse is also deceased, and there are no other living listed beneficiaries, those assets may flow to the deceased's next of kin, depending on state law.
Certain rules apply to individuals who receive inherited retirement plan assets. If the original account owner was under age 70½, for example, a next-of-kin or non-spouse inheritor would have to make required minimum distributions (RMDs) based on the decedent's age. A surviving spouse under the age of 70½ , however, would not need to make RMDs, until he or she reaches that age.
As the next of kin, you may also inherit some of your relative's digital assets and obligations. For example, Microsoft provides the next of kin of a deceased subscriber with a DVD of the decedent’s entire Outlook account so the relative can assume paying bills, notify business contacts, and close the account.
Income in Respect of a Decedent (IRD)
Income in respect of a decedent (IRD) is untaxed income that a decedent earned or was meant to receive before death.
What Are Per Stirpes?
Per stirpes is a stipulation that, should a beneficiary predecease the testator, the beneficiary's share of the inheritance will go to his or her heirs.
Estate planning is the preparation of tasks that serve to manage an individual's asset base in the event of their incapacitation or death.
Intestate
Intestate refers to dying without a legal will. When a person dies in intestacy, determining the distribution of the deceased's assets then becomes the responsibility of a probate court.
What Is a Probate?
A probate is the legal process in which a will is reviewed to determine whether it is valid and authentic.
Heir
An heir is someone who is legally entitled to inherit some or all of the estate of another person who has died without legal will and testament.
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The School of Education and the School of Agriculture integrate from its inception the Polytechnic Institute of Beja. Although its creation were dating from 1979 and the start of the first courses were planned for 1980 and 1984, respectively, the appointment of its committees in 1985 only Installation.
The top level training needs in the areas of technology and management, felt with greater accuracy in certain regions of the country, and the claims of economic and business community, justify the bottom of the enlargement of the area of activity of the Polytechnic Institute of Beja to other scientific and technological fields and the creation of the school of technology and management.
In 1995, he was appointed the Director of this School.
Finally, in 2002, the school of nursing (currently School of health) was also integrated in the Polytechnic Institute of Beja.
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enet secures €12 million investment from EIB
February 21, 2015 February 25, 2015 The Editor 1793 Views
The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide an initial investment of EUR 12 million to support expansion of next generation fibre optic telecom infrastructure across Ireland by enet, an open access network operator owned by Granahan McCourt Capital and partners.
The European Investment Bank’s agreement with enet represents its first engagement in Ireland under a new programme, Innovfin, aimed at streamlining lending for innovation.
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The European Investment Bank support will allow enet to develop next generation telecoms infrastructure over the coming years. This builds on enet’s current investment programme for the delivery of ‘Fibre to the Business’ (FTTB) networks in a number of Irish towns and cities, including Claremorris, Loughrea, Ardee and Kilkenny. Since the acquisition of enet by specialist telecommunications and media investment firm Granahan McCourt Capital in September 2013, the company has expanded its geographical reach and operations by investing its own funds in telecom infrastructure that complement the Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) which it already manages on behalf of the Irish State.
Mr. Alex White T.D., Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, commented: “I am encouraged by the EIB’s support for enet and its acknowledgement of the importance of fast reliable broadband. Since being appointed to operate the 94 MANs on behalf of the State, enet has helped to support job creation and investment throughout Ireland by creating a carrier-neutral network. The company has also shown real commitment to developing broadband for businesses through its recent projects in Claremorris, Loughrea, Ardee and Kilkenny. Delivering high quality broadband to every home and business in Ireland is a key priority for Government and this commercial investment will complement existing assets owned by the State, as well as providing competitive high quality offerings in the areas it serves.”
Jonathan Taylor, European Investment Bank Vice President, added: “Fast and reliable internet access is essential for modern business needs, communications and entertainment. The European Investment Bank is committed to supporting long-term investment in communications infrastructure across Europe and we are pleased to help enet expand their open access networks to towns across Ireland. This marks the first use of new, dedicated finance for innovation in Ireland under the Innovfin programme and we look forward to similar strong proposals in the future.”
David C. McCourt, Chairman and CEO of Granahan McCourt Capital, as well as enet Chairman, says the EIB will be an excellent strategic partner for the company going forward: “This new loan is a significant validation in enet from the European Investment Bank. We are pleased to be the first company in Ireland to benefit from the EIB’s new Innovfin programme which in itself, demonstrates enet’s considerable potential to expand further within Ireland. It also acknowledges that enet is a well-positioned, well managed and high growth company with a clear focus on delivering high quality telecommunications services to organisations in every city, town and county in Ireland. The European Investment Bank also understands long-term infrastructure projects, which is critical for enet as it embarks on this important expansion journey in Ireland.”
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Jimmy Armfield obituary: From the pitch to the airwaves
Former England captain is marked for greatness by legacy as player, manager, broadcaster and ambassador
Mon, Jan 22, 2018, 11:07
Jimmy Armfield with his Special Merit Award 2008. Former England captain Armfield has died at the age of 82, former club Blackpool have announced. Photo: PA/PA Wire
Few footballers can claim to have conquered quite so many aspects of the sport as Jimmy Armfield, the former England captain who is marked for greatness by his legacy as player, manager, broadcaster and ambassador for the game he loved.
Armfield’s imprint is a formidable one, a local boy and one-club man who spent 17 years at Blackpool, where he developed the blueprint for the modern overlapping right-back.
At international level he was Bobby Moore’s predecessor as Three Lions skipper, leading the nation at the 1962 World Cup and earning a winner’s medal for 1966 — albeit 43 years later, when Fifa belatedly recognised non-playing squad members.
By then ‘Gentleman Jim’ was three decades into his career as a journalist and summariser, a calling for which he showed unusual aptitude as he became one of the nation’s most respected and welcome radio personalities.
That anyone who managed a team in the European Cup final, as Armfield did with Leeds in 1975, should find that entry among their career footnotes seems unfeasible nowadays, but that stands as testament to Armfield’s remarkable body of work.
By his own estimation, though, one of Armfield’s most treasured performances came when he played the Wurlitzer at Blackpook Tower — which he did at a dinner dance, aged 80, in front of a handful of unwitting guests.
The Jimmy Armfield statue outside Bloomfield Road. Photo: Mike Egerton/PA Wire
Born in Denton, Tameside, on September 21st, 1935, he grew up during the Second World War and emerged with a good education from Revoe Primary and Arnold School. The latter is due to reopen named the Armfield Academy, in his honour.
There was an offer to study economics at Liverpool University, where an entirely different world would have opened up in front of him.
England World Cup winner Jimmy Armfield dies aged 82
Instead, the first chapter of his lifelong association with Blackpool began. Armfield was a self-styled “street footballer”, always kicking a ball on the roads or beach front. Yet he had never played on a proper pitch before being steered towards a Tangerines trial match by his PE teacher.
He seized the moment emphatically, scoring all his side’s goals in a 4-1 win, setting in motion a professional career which spanned all the way from 1954 to 1971.
Right full-back was his chosen position and the presence of the great Stanley Mathews on the same flank offered him an unusual opportunity for the era — bundles of space as opposition sides double-teamed the winger.
So he raced ahead, attacked the gaps and, initially at least, earned an earful from manager Joe Smith. Recalling an early outing against Wolves for the National Football Museum, he recalled Smith saying “If I wanted you to be a right-winger you’d have a number seven on your back, not a number two.”
The game quickly learned to love Armfield’s adventurousness, a skill that defines his latter day successors.
Armfield managed a record 627 appearances for Blackpool, though there was a conspicuous lack of silverware as his own pedigree often outstripped that of his hometown club.
Instead, he reached the heights in England colours. He debuted in the Maracana in 1959, was handed the armband by Walter Winterbottom and kept it under Alf Ramsey.
He led the nation to Chile in 1962, where he made the team of the tournament, but injury and the emergence of George Cohen led to his support role in the glorious home campaign four years later.
Moving into management on the advice of none other than Matt Busby, he spent four years at Bolton before replacing Brian Clough at Leeds. The highlight of four years at Elland Road was the European Cup final in Paris, though Armfield’s side were beaten 2-0 by Bayern Munich.
Jimmy Armfield during Blackpool training. PPhoto: PA/PA Wire
He never scaled those heights again but, though he did not return to the dugout after 1978, he was the Football Association’s de facto headhunter when they appointed Terry Venables and Glenn Hoddle as England boss.
By then he had already pivoted into another of football’s many avenues, starting with a writing job at the Daily Express, before the BBC offered some commentary shifts in 1979.
He went from part-time broadcaster to permanent fixture on the nation’s airwaves, a perfect platform for his geniality, enthusiasm and insight.
Few in his line are as universally liked and respected by those on the other end of the dial. The same was true within the game.
After being treated for non-hodgkin’s lymphoma of the throat in 2007, he returned to the work the following year for a match at Bolton. Waiting for him on arrival was a welcome back note, signed by Alex Ferguson and Bobby Charlton with the words “we have missed you”.
Wife Anne and son John, a lower league goalkeeper in his own playing days, are the ones who will miss him most now but their mourning will be shared far and wide in footballing circles.
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"I was good at it at a young age," Kemeny said. "I liked to work hard, and it was something I always enjoyed doing and I had success at it."
He excelled in the backstroke and the 400-meter individual medley, winning meets and setting records on the club level, in high school and at Western Kentucky University.
"My big thing with swimming was, what I put in, I got (success) out of it," Kemeny said. "The harder I worked, the more successful I was. And I could control that. It was up to me to make myself successful."
Kemeny, who is 35, also was able to parlay his passion into a profession. He and his wife, Summer, moved to Hilton Head Island in 2000 when Kemeny took a job as the director of aquatics at the Island Recreation Center on Hilton Head.
"We loved it right when we moved down and decided to stay," said Kemeny, whose family now includes children, ages 14, 10 and 1. "I had to leave coaching (in Michigan), which was a hard decision since I coached at a club level, but thing have worked out really well."
Kemeny rejoined the coaching ranks three years later with the Hilton Head Aquatics club, working with the island swimmers until 2006. That's when his break came in Bluffton.
Kemeny was named coach of the Bluffton High School swim team and almost simultaneously started Fins. The year-round club team is affiliated with USA Swimming, which is the national governing body of competitive swimming in the United States.
He credits Kathy Levey, the longtime coach of the Bluffton swim school, for getting the Fins off the ground. The two have worked closely throughout the years and have formed a partnership.
When the club was organized, there was one coach for 13 members in three skill groups. Swimmers practiced different times five days a week. Today, there are five coaches for 110 members, who make up six skill groups. Swimmers use the pool six days a week, often creating crowded lanes.
The high school team had 15 swimmers and now has 47.
The swimmers also are gaining recognition on the state level as the boys finished fifth and the girls finished seventh at the most recent state club championships in Greenville.
"Eighty-five percent of his (Kemeny's) life is taken up in swimming," Levey said. "He's a very easy-going young man and very easy to get along with. When he has to get tough, he's tough, Other than that, he has a nice, even-keeled personality."
And he's also a content person, although like all coaches, Kemeny strives for improvements among his swimmers.
"I'm not going anywhere," said Kemeny, when asked about his future plans. "(In five years), I'll still be doing what I'm doing now, with some team championships."
09/19/12 Delayna Earley, Staff Photo -- Eric Kemeny stands for a portrait at the Bluffton Indoor Community Pool during swim practice on Wednesday afternoon. Kemeny is a well-known swim coach in Bluffton and is the current coach for the FINS swim team in Bluffton. Delayna Earley The Bluffton Pack
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Welcome to Benbecula
Benbecula in Gaelic is Beinn na Faoghla which means Mountain of the Ford. This is a very apt name for the island and it's solitary hill, Rueval, which is in fact a stepping stone between North and South Uist. The islands are connected by a series of causeways but once upon a time crossing to the Uists would mean fording the dangerous stretches of tidal sands.
Balivanich is also known by it's Gaelic name, Baile a' Mhanaich which means 'town of the monks'. This refers back to the 6th century when there was a monastery here and the ruins of Columba's Church can be found just south of the village. Balivanich is the main administrative centre on the island and here can be found a Post Office, hospital, primary school and several shops and cafes. The hamlet of Lionacleit is the home of the Uists' main secondary school, which also doubles as a community centre containing a swimming pool, cafeteria, sports facilities, a small museum and a library.
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Benbecula has a long military history An airfield to the north, built during World War II, became the control centre for the Hebrides rocket range, established during the Cold War and is now Benbecula Airport, An army base was established here in 1958 and is one of the main employers on the island as it is the headquarters for those who service the South Uist missile testing range. The airport was upgraded during 2001 and early 2002 in preparation for the Eurofighter Typhoon test programme. During the tests in April 2002, the £16 billion aircraft fired an Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile on the Hebrides test range, the first of this type of missile to be fired from a Eurofighter.
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SIR,-The papers by Dr. Cassie on "Bond Resistance of High Strength and Vibrated Concrete," and Dr. Evans on "Stresses in the Steel Reinforcement of Reinforced Structures," may properly be discussed together, as they both deal with the allied phenomena of adhesion and creep. Elsewhere I have tried to show that these phenomena depend on the fundamental properties of colloid gels, of which hydrated Portland cement-in its early stages-is an example; that creep is due to the expulsion of colloid water, which has since been largely confirmed by Davis's experiments; and that bond is due to adhesion-not friction-and bond resistance depends on the initial shrinkage in the concrete. The following remarks spring largely from these theses; and it is hoped that they may give rise to some of that acute disagreement which generally leads to an interesting discussion.
Design and Construction of an All-Welded Multiple-Storey Steel Structure. Discussion on Mr. R.W. Mac
Mr. MACBRIDE, having presented the paper, exhibited a cinematograph film showing some of the details of the welded joints and of the structure generally, and the actual process of welding. He commented upon the extreme simplicity of the floor beams, and upon the fact that the connections were welded very quickly.
Some Bridge and Foundation Problems. Discussion on Mr. Leslie Turner's Paper
Mr. C. J. JACKAMAN, A.M.Inst.C.E. (Member of Council), proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Turner for his very instructive and interesting paper. Mr. Jackaman confessed that he was almost envious of Mr. Turner’s experience, which must be unique in its character, because he had been dealing with very heavy structures built on strata such as we could not visualise in this country; and he was to be congratulated most heartily on the success which had attended his efforts.
Some Recent Engineering Works Carried Out in the City of Coventry
BRIDGES. A REMARKABLE feature of post-war engineering in this country has been theimprovement of the road system and one of the most urgent needs in road improvement is the replacement, or widening and strengthening, of old-fashioned or inadequate bridges. The worst of these are frequently found across canals. As Canal companies are under no obligation to improve them, this work must be carried out by Municipal or Precepting Authorities. In Coventry, Red Lane Bridge over the Coventry Canal is now in course of replacement and the replacement of Tusses Bridge over the Oxford Canal will shortly be commenced. A.L. Percy
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The Control of Building by Public Authorities. Discussion on Mr. A.N. C. Shelley's Paper (Continued)
Has it occurred to you that some one or other of the professional advisory bodies of the building industry might act as a clearing house for codes, etc., affecting structural work and that it would be well if all building organisations interested were to make up their minds as to which body they would use for this purpose and stand by their decision.
The Strengthening of Weak Bridges
In spite of the great activity in bridge building which has continued in this country, as in others, since the war, it is still true to say that most bridges now existing were originally built for loads much below those they now have to bear. Many are adequate owing either to extraneous aids, such as the consolidation and cohesion of filling round them, or to their original factor of safety having been high enough to cover the effects of modern loading; but more, perhaps, need either strengthening or complete reconstruction. C.S. Chettoe
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A Note on the Computer Analysis of Foundation Rafts Resting on Plastic Soils: a Technical Note
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The paper discusses the problem of design of rafts resting on soft subgrades in which long-term deformations lead to a redistribution of reactions. Design moments and shears are calculated by assuming a uniform upthrust, and it is usual to analyse an inverted raft on column supports subjected to a uniformly distributed loading. Errors inherent in such an approach are discussed and an alternative method is suggested. This assumes an elastic subgrade composed of very soft springs giving prominence to raft stiffness and ensuring uniform distribution upthrust. The method automatically satisfies local and overall equilibrium. A comparison of the two approaches on a raft analysed by the author for consulting engineers demonstrates the differences in design moments predicted by the two methods. F. Sawko
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13th Drury Medal Competition 1971
As announced in the March 1971 issue of The Structural Engineer (page 112) the Council awarded the 1971 Drury Medal to Mr. Peter Ellis, an Associate-Memberaged 24. The design submitted by Mr. Ellis was for an elevated tank for supplying water to an exhibition site. As well as the Drury Medal, Mr. Ellis receives a premium of £100.
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The Erskine Bridge
Erskine Bridge, over the Clyde estuary, is a multispan road bridge with the dual two-lane carriageways, footpaths and cycle tracks carried on a continuous high yield steel box girder of trapezoidal cross-section. The main span, of 350m (1000 ft), is stayed by single cables over centre towers above the main Piers and anchored in the median. The bridge is notable for the economy of material: steelwork in the superstructure weighs only 298 kg/m2 (61 lb/ft2) of deck area and steelwork plus mastic road surfacing 393 kg/m2 (80 lblft2). The cost of the bridge has been correspondingly attractive: £124 per m2 (£11.5 per ft2) of deck area. O.A. Kerensky, W. Henderson and W.C. Brown
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Correspondence Notes on a Failure; Wood-wooI Slabs used as Permanent Formwork by T.R. Hall
In the January issue of The Structural Engineer, p. 28, there was a report on the damage to a 7-storey office block in Belfast caused by a bomb attack. This report has been interpreted by some engineers as an indictment against permanent wood-wool formwork, which is unfortunate.
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"I was interested in photography at a young age, as a child I always had a camera in my hand, it was my prized possession. Now photography is my passion! I capture things as they are, imperfect and unadorned, yet stunning, revealing quiet beauty that may not be evident. Making the ordinary into extraordinary."
I find photographic opportunities anywhere, my subject matter ranges from intimate landscapes and still life to architectural elements. The majority of my works are numbered and signed limited editions and have been accepted into numerous juried exhibits. My photography has been featured in Serendipity Magazine and numerous publications. And is held in private collections across the United States and Internationally."
Julie DiBiase attended the Propersi Institute of Art, graduating first in her class and received the Alpha Beta Kappa Honor Society award for excellence and personal integrity. She has continued her studies at the Silvermine School of Art and the Rowayton Arts Center.
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U.S. measles count up to 555, most reported cases since 2014
While 20 states have reported cases, New York has been the epicenter.
Author: MIKE STOBBE , AP Medical Writer
U.S. measles cases have surged again, and are on pace to set a record for most illnesses in 25 years.
Health officials on Monday said 555 measles cases have been confirmed so far this year, up from 465 as of a week ago.
While 20 states have reported cases, New York has been the epicenter. Nearly two-thirds of all cases have been in New York, and 85% of the latest week's cases came from the state. Most of the New York cases have been unvaccinated people in Orthodox Jewish communities.
The 2019 tally is already the most since 2014, when 667 were reported. The most before that was 963 cases in 1994.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all children get two doses of measles vaccine, which is 97% effective.
Other states reporting measles cases this year include Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas and Washington. After the CDC issued its report Monday morning, Iowa officials said they too had seen a case.
Also on Monday, the World Health Organization reported that globally there are four times as many measles cases so far this year as there were at the same time last year.
Over the last year, the largest numbers have been in Ukraine, Madagascar and India, with each reporting more than 60,000 cases.
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RKH Qitarat, composed of RATP Dev, Keolis and Hamad Group, opened Doha Metro Red Line South
On 8 May 2019, RKH Qitarat, the joint venture consisting of RATP Dev, Keolis and Hamad Group, opened the first section of the Doha metro to the public. This follows the award in December 2017 by Qatar Rail of a contract to operate and maintain Qatar’s first urban rail transport network for a period of 20 years. The network includes three automated metro lines in Doha, the Qatari capital, and four tram lines located in the city of Lusail.
- Published on 05/09/2019
Keolis opens the third section of the Hyderabad metro in India, connecting the city from east to west
On 20 March 2019, Keolis launched the penultimate section of the Hyderabad automated metro adding 10 km of lines to the existing 46km network. The metro now connects the city from east to west and crosses Hitec City , a major business district which attracts a large number of companies and new residents to Hyderabad each year. Since the launch of the network in November 2017, Keolis has provided 50 million passenger journeys. Once completed, the network is expected to carry 1.5 million passengers per day.
Keolis opens its first tram network in China
Following thorough preparations and testing, Keolis, through its Chinese joint-venture, successfully opened its first section of the Songjiang tram line on 26 December 2018 and welcomed its first passengers.
The open section is 13.9 km-long, with 20 stations and connects into Shanghai’s existing metro Line 9.
This important milestone reached by Keolis, reinforces its presence in China and its position as a world leading operator and integrator of shared mobility to better support urban mobility needs in China. Keolis pioneered the first automated metro line in Shanghai and will soon add to this, with the launch of an automated metro service at Shanghai International Airport.
Keolis opens a new section of the Hyderabad automated metro (India)
24-09-2018 On Monday 24 September, 2018 Keolis opened a new section of the automated metro line 1 in Hyderabad, adding 16 km of track to the existing 30 km. With this new section, the network is now 46 km long and is expected to carry more than 150,000 passengers per day. This achievement paves the way for the final phase of the network and confirms Keolis’ leadership in automated metro systems
Keolis is awarded its first tram contract in China
Keolis, through its Chinese joint-venture Shanghai Keolis, has been awarded its first tram contract in China by Songjiang Tramway. The five-year contract covers the operations and maintenance of the tram network in the Songjiang District of Shanghai. The network, which connects to Shanghai’s existing metro Line 9, will open in two phases: the first one on 25 December 2018, and the second in mid-2019.
Keolis, which recently opened the first automated driverless metro line in Shanghai and won the contract to operate the automated metro at Shanghai International Airport, reinforces its presence in China and enhances its reputation as a pioneer and world leader in multimodal expertise.
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KEOLIS, A PIONEER AND WORLD LEADER IN AUTOMATED DRIVERLESS METROS
With over 330 million passengers transported in 2016 and six networks currently in operation worldwide, Keolis is the world leader in automated driverless metros.
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Keolis is a pioneer in automated metros, and launched the world’s first driverless network in Lille, France, in 1983. Whether they run on rubber tyres, rails or shafts, Keolis’ automated metros meet the specific mobility needs of cities thanks to their high passenger capacity and limited environmental footprint (zero CO2 emissions). A centralised control system means operators can adapt the frequency and number of trains in real-time, providing passengers with a fast, safe and reliable mode of transport.
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Qatar embraces shared mobility
Together with our French (RATP Dev) and Qatari (Hamad Group) partners, we have been awarded a contract to operate the future automated, driverless Doha metro and the tram network in Lusail, a town currently being constructed north of the capital.
“Since we won the tender at the end of 2017, work has been progressing at a good pace,”
confirms Thierry Couderc, CEO and Managing Director of the RKH Qitarat joint venture that combines the three entities.
“We open the first metro line in May 2019. The entire metro and light rail network will be up and running by 2020. The metro alone should carry 650,000 passengers a day. Qatar wants to make the city of Doha more attractive for visitors and facilitate the population’s daily journeys as the country prepares for the post-fuel extraction era. Its ambition is to be a model for smart cities.”
For the public transport authority, the project has been cause for satisfaction,
“We are very pleased to be working with RKH Qitarat and in particular with Keolis, benefitting from their global expertise in operations and maintenance of metro and tram networks,” comments Abdulla Al-Sulaiti, Director at Qatar Rail.
KEOLIS, THE WORLD’S LEADING OPERATOR OF AUTOMATED METROS
"Ageing networks require operational overperformance," said the authors of a study carried out in 2017 by the consultancy Wavestone. Keolis’ teams have been perfectly delivering this requirement for a long time, as illustrated by the same study benchmarking 25 automatic metro lines around the world. The research concluded that out of the 25 lines reviewed, four lines operated by Keolis were the most efficient in terms of reliability and quality of service (lines 1 and 2 of Lille, the Docklands Light Railway in London and Line D in Lyon). It’s worth remembering that Line 1 of Lille’s automated metro is the oldest in the world (1983), while those in London and Lyon are 30 years old and 26 years old respectively. This impressive list shows that Keolis' expertise in asset management is key in making the Group a world leader in automated metros.
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Introducing KDChi President & the Newest, Youngest TX State Rep.
Category: Alumnae
“Part of making a difference is really about personal sacrifice.”
Serving Home: Mary Gonzalez by Eric Baca for Latino Leaders Magazine Jul-Aug 2012
The fire had destroyed everything. The remnants of her life — all 10 long years of it — were consumed as if they never existed. Extinguished. Gone.
Mary Gonzalez at the TX State Capitol
From this destruction, Mary Gonzalez learned what a community could be. Homeless, Gonzalez and family were taken in by her El Paso neighbors, preventing her from knowing hunger or the sting of not having a present to open on Christmas. For the next year, El Paso — its people, its schools — helped to raise young Mary, who, at 28, recently became the newest and youngest member of the Texas House of Representatives.
About the incident and her hometown, of course, she’s sentimental, but she’s also responsible. She grew up a doer, or for Mary, the family business. Dad served on the school board for a decade; mom was CEO of home life. Managing and raising 11 children — and their schedules — meant mom went to school and community gatherings almost as much as her kids. No wonder Mary never learned the term, “free time.” She was too busy learning about service.So when her hometown needed a leader, Mary, now a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin, came home.
“I think when something like that happens, you feel indebted to a community that helped shape you so much,” she said. “Having been from El Paso, I knew there were issues like education equality. I knew there were issues like access to water. I knew there were other issues like some communities not having roads. I knew I could use my skills to really make a difference.”
Hardly a month has passed since Mary beat out her more senior Democratic opponents, but the results of her decisive May victory continue to echo. The waves of phone calls and emails of congratulations haven’t subsided, nor have the media interviews and post-election coverage. Outlets tend to notice when an under-30 woman of color cracks the establishment’s code earlier than she’s supposed to.To many, she’s the new kid, with emphasis on the kid. When she enters the House in January, she’ll be the youngest representative, entering two years above the State of Texas’ mandatory age requirement of 26. Mary shrugs off any doubters and views her campaign as a historic one for what it suggests for the future of politics around the country.
“My campaign has been labeled the new face of the party or the new face of politics,” she said. “That seems to have been a very common theme that has been attached to my campaign. I think it speaks to the next generation of leadership — a lot of energy, a lot of diversity, a lot of progressive ideas.” Those progressive ideas will soon be coming from Texas’ most diverse rep. As a woman, she joins a collective of congresswomen who comprise around 20 percent of the elected in the House, not to mention District 75’s first woman.
As a Latino, Mary will be entering a Texas Legislature that boasts more than 30 Latinos, not quite in proportion to Texas’ near-40 percent Latino population. For El Paso County, it’s more than 80 percent.
But what makes Mary arguably the most unique congresswoman entering the 83rd session is that she will be the only LBGT-identified elected official, a reality that, upon announcing her candidacy, had many national outlets following a state election. Not only was she in the race, she quickly became the frontrunner and by default, and by choice, became a face of promise for Latinos and “LGBT folk” across the country.
“I think that the dynamics of identity made this a national race,” she said. “It created a lot of symbolism. Could we elect an out Latino on the border? If we could do it there, then ideally then we can do it anywhere. My fear was if I lost, then people would feel hopeless. We had everything in our favor — we had the most money, we had 28 endorsements. I felt like the most qualified candidate.”
Mary said that when she started the campaign, she had made a promise to her staff.She wanted to run such an honest race that she could recount the entire story to her siblings without secrets or embellishments. She wanted to be known for how she won as much as winning. It’s why being open about everything about who she is was imperative, not simply as a precautionary measure, but as a requirement for sincerity and building trust with her community. She wanted El Paso to elect her, not just the parts she shared with them. She quickly showed her would-be constituents what she meant, even if it meant shocking her staff.
“That’s part of the reason I decided to be out and to be open and honest about everything,” she said. “I remember I went to the Police Union endorsement meeting, and they asked me what my biggest skeleton in my closet was. I told them, ‘I have lot of speeding tickets.’ And my campaign manager asked me, ‘Why did you tell them that?’ I said, ‘Look, they are going to find out anyways. I might as well tell them now.’”
She gained their endorsement and 27 others with this seemingly radical approach. With each speech and presentation, she learned how to effectively deliver a message without relying on large amounts of time to adequately convey her point. It was a lesson for the young professor, who quickly learned to curtail her speeches, many which were better suited for her college students than a diverse community looking to hang on to a central, defining message.
“As a professor, I tend to be a little long-winded,” she said. “In politics, it’s all about bumper-sticker statements. I learned how to message myself in an authentic way, but to do so in a way that people could listen and understand.”
Mary laments stories from young people frustrated about politics, a system that rewards a politician’s ability to massage truths to justify a specific end. That’s not service or leadership, she said. The reverberations of her victory continue to cause ripples among the various communities she represents. Some are familiar voices of families and friends, while others are from young people thanking her for example.
Gonzalez and her younger sister after voting
“I can’t even tell you how many messages I’ve received from people (around the country). Whether it’s young Latinas or some young LGBT folks, it’s just an overwhelming amount of support and just shows how this race has impacted their possibilities.” Her win could be a preview into what many feel is a changing landscape of leadership. Mary credits young leaders’ focus on inclusiveness and placing a high value on diversity as a necessity for life and for decision-making.“I think inevitably we’re going to see a diversification of leadership,” she said. “We are going to see more women get elected; we’re going to see more LGBT get elected; more people of color get elected. Because the truth is that this country is diversifying at very rapid speeds. I think we are going to see the diversity in the leadership. It’s just what’s happening around the country.”
But trends don’t always lead to reality. Mary said that Latino population numbers, while making for great headlines, don’t simply beget more Latino leaders. That, she said, requires institutional and dedicated support — mentorship, financial and strategic.Mary specifically sites one that helped her campaign and offered her an early boost in her campaign. The most significant was Annie’s List, which has worked for nearly years to increase the number Democratic women in the state of Texas. It’s not enough to hope for it, Mary says. Goals must be set, and strategies must be developed to meet them. Anything else is just talk.
“I couldn’t have done this by myself,” she said. “Even though I have all the skills to be a state representative, I needed the institutional structural support. I think if the Latino community wants to see more Latino leaders, then the Latino community needs to continue to develop infrastructure and institutions that support the development of Latino leaders. So if Annie’s List said they wanted to have more women, and then they found the infrastructure to do that, that’s why we have seen an increase in elected women officials.”
Leadership Is A Process. Not An Inheritance
With a large family in El Paso, Mary learned how to work with others early on. Dad and Mom were active community leaders, and Mary saw the radial impact an individual could have on many.As she began high school, she also began her own leadership story, joining 11 organizations and serving as president of six of them. That continued in college, where she served on the Latino Leadership Council and was active in Kappa Delta Chi, a national sorority that she now leads as its National President. They had long-term effects and provided the institutional foundation Mary recommends for leadership formation.
“What high school and college organizations allowed me to is they brought me a micro reality to the macro,” she said. “They were learning laboratories — I was developing leadership schools. I was developing effective tools of mobilization and ways to see what really created change. Then I took the skills that I learned in the micro situations, and now I am going to use them on the macro level — as a state representative, as national president, as a professor. These roles are going to be using the skills I used at the micro level.”
She plans on continuing her role as a professor and complete her Ph.D., hoping to inspire students to ask the right questions and spur innovation in their approach to serving their community. Partially, she admits, that requires a pretty big departure from the norm. It holds true as an educator or an elected official.“As a professor,” she said, “I always used to tell my students that the current dialogue for young people is finish high school, go to college, get a job and make good money. I am always trying to shift that conversation with somebody who works with young people — and a young person myself — to say it’s not always about yourself or making money. Part of the conversation should be, ‘How do my actions and work make a difference?’” It really does take one to know one: “Part of making a difference is really about personal sacrifice,” she said. “I don’t think we talk enough about personal sacrifice when it comes to leadership.”
KDChi President Mary Gonzalez front and center with KDChi National Administrative Council and the Four Founders on the top row
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Facebook opens data center in Los Lunas
Associated Press, Brittany Costello
LOS LUNAS, N.M.- The Facebook data center has opened its doors in Los Lunas.
A grand opening was held Thursday morning.
The data center includes six buildings for data storage. Each are roughly the size of four football fields with "data halls" storing rows of towering servers.
Facebook on Thursday marked the opening of two of those halls in one of the data center's buildings.
Construction that began more than two years ago at the site remains underway.
Once finished, the data center is expected to employ at least 150 people.
"We are committed to playing a very positive role and impact in the community we are in," said Rachel Peterson, vice president of data center strategy.
Facebook received incentives to build the facility in Los Lunas. With an agreement to invest, the deal includes $10 million in economic development funding and more than $1 million in gross receipts tax reimbursements.
"We've seen a lot of retail expansion," Ralph I. Mims, Village of Los Lunas economic development manager. "We've seen hotels that are looking at our community. We see residential development"
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Chinese film festival pushes for end to gender inequality
Posted: 12:31 AM, Sep 21, 2016
Mark Schiefelbein
<p>In this Sept. 17, 2016 photo, festival chairman Li Dan, left, speaks as international coordinator Cyrielle Nifle, right, listens during the opening ceremony of the China Women's Film Festival in Beijing. Campaigners are highlighting gender inequality in film at the China Women's Film Festival that runs until Sunday, Sept. 25 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)</p>
BEIJING (AP) — In films, women and girls are much more likely to take off their clothes than male actors and to be scantily clad in the first place, studies show. Less than a third of speaking characters are female and men outnumber women behind the camera by a ratio of five to one.
Campaigners are highlighting this gender inequality in film at the China Women's Film Festival that runs until Sunday in Beijing, arguing that the phenomenon distorts views of women and the world, and that the male-dominated film industry repeats the same mistakes out of habit.
The nine-day festival features more than 30 Chinese and international films about women's rights, women's achievements and gay women, which are then slated to be shown in more than 10 cities across China.
Festival chairman Li Dan said the aim was to increase the representation of women in film at a time when Chinese audiences have apparently accepted gender inequality in movies.
"Usually people and audiences have the idea that female characters should be pretty, be looking for a good marriage or a rich man or a Mr. Right, and if the movie follows that path it will have a good box office," said Li, who works for Crossroads Center Beijing, a nonprofit working with marginalized groups and the festival organizer. "Very few movies have strong female roles and characters."
Hollywood actresses have also spoken out about a lack of good roles for women and the gender pay gap, among them Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep, who starred in the festival's opening film "Suffragette," about British women's fight for the vote in the early 20th century.
In the last three years, a campaign has gradually been gaining ground to raise awareness of the unequal representation of men and women in movies based on the Bechdel Wallace test, which started out as a joke in a 1986 comic book. To pass the test, a film must have two female characters with names who talk to each other in the film about something other than men. Films that fail the test include "Avatar," ''Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Jungle Book."
Li said that at the end of the festival they plan to write an open letter signed by at least 50 celebrities to major Chinese film producers and cinema companies calling on them to use the test in the hope that it will affect the type of films that are produced and raise awareness of gender inequality in film and society. He also hopes to attract tens of thousands of signatures from the public.
The sponsors of the festival, which runs until Sunday, include the embassies of Holland, Norway, France, Sweden and Britain, and the European Union delegation.
Other independent film festivals have run into trouble from Chinese authorities, but Li said they did not choose films with politically sensitive topics, such as the recently loosened one-child policy. Although China's constitution enshrines gender equality, some nongovernmental groups promoting women's rights have been closed over the last 18 months amid a more general crackdown on political activism.
Ellen Tejle, who runs an arthouse cinema in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, launched the "A-rate" campaign three years ago to encourage producers, cinemas and the public to submit a film to the Bechdel Wallace gender bias test.
At the China Women's Film Festival, Tejle said that internationally, 7 percent of directors are women and women have 30 percent of the speaking roles — and this hasn't changed since the 1940s.
Even Disney characters Mulan and Pocahontas, who are the protagonists of their respective films, speak for less than a quarter of the speaking time of all the characters, Tejle said. Women's characters are often limited to mothers, wives, girlfriends and princesses and shown without jobs, while male roles are funny, strong and heroic, affecting the dreams that children have for their own lives, she said.
In China, movies tended to portray the ruling Communist Party's ideal of gender equality up until the 1990s, when the film industry went commercial with a view to making money. "Since then, the proportion of female roles has gone down, and sometimes if you remove their roles it wouldn't affect the overall movie," said Li.
Debunking the idea that films with women in the lead role aren't bankable, a study by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in Los Angeles found that they outgrossed films with a male lead: Among the top 100 grossing non-animated films in North America of 2015, movies with female leads made on average $90 million, while those with male leads made $76 million.
Other research has found that in the 11 countries with the biggest box office, a quarter of actresses are shown partially or fully naked as opposed to just over a tenth of male actors. That study, sponsored by the Geena Davis Institute and carried out by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, also found that female teens were just as likely to be sexualized — shown in sexy attire or partially naked— in films as women aged 21 to 39.
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KARLSRUHE, city in Germany, formerly capital of *Baden. Jews settled there shortly after its foundation in 1715. By 1725 the community had a synagogue, bathhouse, infirmary, and cemetery. Nathan Uri Kahn served as rabbi of Karlsruhe from 1720 until his death in 1749. According to the 1752 Jewry ordinance Jews were forbidden to leave the city on Sundays and Christian holidays, or to go out of their houses during church services; but they were exempted from service by court summonses on Sabbaths. They could sell wine only in inns owned by Jews and graze their cattle, not on the commons, but on the wayside only. Business records had to be kept in German. The community officials, including two to three unmarried teachers, were exempted from tax. They exercised civic jurisdiction and could commit members of the community to the municipal prison for Jews. A ḥevra kaddisha was founded in 1726; the cemetery, also used by Jews of other towns, was enlarged in 1756 and 1794. There were nine Jewish families living in Karlsruhe in 1720, 50 in 1733, 80 in 1770, and 502 persons in 1802. Nethanel *Weil, who became chief rabbi of the two Baden margravates (1750–69), was succeeded by his son Jedidiah (Tiah) Weil (1770–1815).
Nethanel Weil's commentary on Asheri, Korban Netanel (on tractates Mo'ed and Nashim), was printed in 1755 in Karlsruhe by L.J. Held, a successor to old and well-known Augsburg printers. His successors, F.W. Lotter and M. Macklott, continued publishing Hebrew works, including some by Jonathan *Eybeschuetz (printed 1762–82) and the Torat Shabbat of Jacob *Weil (1839). The firm continued printing until 1899, mainly liturgical items, Judeo-German circulars, and popular stories. D.R. Marx, licensed in 1814, printed in 1836 a Hebrew Bible (18452), edited on behalf of the Jewish authorities (Oberrat) by a group of rabbis, among them Jacob *Ettlinger. Altogether some 60 Hebrew books were printed in Karlsruhe.
Karlsruhe was the seat of the central council (Oberrat) of Baden Jewry, according to the articles of the 1809 edict which granted them partial emancipation. Asher Loew, a participant in the Paris *Sanhedrin, was appointed rabbi of Baden and Karlsruhe in 1809; he was succeeded in 1837 by Elias Willstaedter. A new synagogue with organ was consecrated in 1875; the Orthodox faction seceded in 1878 and built its own synagogue in 1881.
From the 1820s Jews were permitted to practice law and medicine. After attaining complete emancipation in 1862, Jews were elected to the city council and the Baden parliament, and from 1890 were appointed judges.
The Jewish population numbered 670 in 1815, 1,080 in 1862 (3.6% of the total), 2,200 in 1892, 3,058 in 1913 (2.73%), 3,386 in 1925 (2.37%), 3,199 in June 1933 (2.01%), and 1,368 in May 1939. The Jews in Karlsruhe suffered from persecution during the *Hep! Hep! riots in 1819. Anti-Jewish demonstrations took place in 1843 and 1848, and in the 1880s the antisemitic movement of Adolf *Stoecker had its repercussions in Karlsruhe. The community maintained a variety of cultural and educational institutions. A Lehrhaus (school for adults) was founded in 1928.
During the first years of the Nazi regime the community continued to function and particularly to prepare Jews for emigration. An agricultural training school was founded and a biweekly newspaper (founded as a bulletin in 1840) was published. On Oct. 22, 1938, all male Polish Jews living in Karlsruhe were deported to Poland. The synagogues were destroyed on Kristallnacht, November 1938; most of the men were arrested and sent to *Dachau concentration camp, but were released after they had furnished proof that they intended to emigrate. In October 1940, 895 Jews were expelled and interned by the French Vichy authorities in *Gurs in southern France, most of whom were deported from there to *Auschwitzin November 1942. The 429 remaining Jews and non-Aryans were deported to the east between 1941 and 1944. There were 90 Jews living in Karlsruhe in May 1945, 63 in 1946, and 246 in 1968. An organized community was formed in 1945, and the Baden Central Jewish Council was reorganized in 1948. A new synagogue was consecrated in 1971. The Jewish community numbered 323 in 1989 and around 800 in 2004 after the immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union.
E. Biberfeld, in: ZHB, 1 (1896/97), 90–96, 148–52; 2 (1897), 28–33, 60–64, 101–4, 129–31, 176–81; 3 (1899), 25–29, 50–53; S. Seeligman, ibid., 5 (1901), 61–64, 90–92; E. Biberfeld, Die hebraeischen Druckereien zu Karlsruhe i. B. (1898); L. Loewenstein, Nathaniel Weil, Oberlandesrabbiner in Karlsruhe (1898); A. Lewin, Geschichte der badischen Juden (1909), 1–10, 76ff., 264–7, and passim; B. Rosenthal, Heimatgeschichte der badischen Juden (1927); idem, in: MGWJ, 71 (1927), 207–220; Gedenkbuch zum hundertfuenfunzwanzigjaehrigen Bestehen des Oberrats der Israeliten Badens (1934); N. Stein, in: YLBI, 1 (1955), 177–90; H. Maor, Ueber den Wiederaufbau der juedischen Gemeinden in Deutschland seit 1945 (1961), 29, 59, 99; K. Schilling (ed.), Monumenta Judaica-Handbuch (1963), index; P. Sauer, Dokumente ueber die Verfolgung der juedischen Buerger in Baden-Wuerttemberg, 2 vols., (1966), index; H. Schnee, Die Hoffinanz und der moderne Staat, 4 (1963), 43–85; G. Taddey and F. Hundsnurscher, Die juedischen Gemeinden in Baden (1968); E. Kotlowsky, in: Zeitschrift fuer Geschichte der Juden, 6 (1969), 44–53. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: J.Stude, Geschichte der Juden im Landkreis Karlsruhe (1990); J. Werner, Hakenkreuz und Judenstern. Das Schicksal der Karlsruher Juden im Dritten Reich, Veroeffentlichungen des Karlsruher Stadtarchivs, vol. 9 (19902); H. Schmitt, (ed.), Juden in Karlsruhe. Beitraege zu ihrer Geschichte bis zur nationalsozialistischen Machtergreifung, Veroeffentlichungen des Karlsruher Stadtarchivs, vol. 8 (19902); J. Paulus, "Die juedische Gemeinde Karlsruhe," in: Juden in Baden 1809–1984. 175 Jahre Oberrat der Israeliten Badens (1984), 227–33. WEBSITE: http://jg-karlsruhe.bei.t-online.de/.
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Relief Camps During The Great Depression
RELIEF CAMPS & ON-TO-OTTAWA TREK. The UNEMPLOYED •During the Great Depression, there were many unemployed men (est. 70,000 in 1932) because of factory slow downs and the Dust Bowl (farmers) •Young, single men migrated to the cities (riding.
Apr 23, 2009. Economic depression again appeared in the late 1880s and by. In 1888 the number of men on special unemployment relief works reached 727. to provide employment with camp accommodation, mainly for single. During the war period, 1939–45, unemployment disappeared as a significant problem.
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Chat with someone who lived during the Great Depression of. memorabilia from many of the camps. Call 684-3430 for information. Crews at Camp Conner worked on a myriad of conservation projects and.
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Sep 16, 2015. Some measures such as $20 million in unemployment relief after taking office. and establish military-run relief camps throughout Canada where. Indeed, during the Great Depression, due to Bennett's reluctance that.
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DETAILS: The society will present a talk by National Park Service ranger Kevin Oldenberg on the Civilian Conservation Corps, the work relief program that gave employment to millions of young men.
In Chapter Twenty-One of John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, Jim Rawley is the manager of a federal relief camp set up to help travelers during the Great Depression. The Joad family stop at.
But, however great there difference in capitals where, middle and upper class citizens still had a yearning, to an extent, for the governmental administration to some how end the depression which the masses where suffering through.The relief camps which where run by the Canadian federal government during the sass’s in no way served to better the fallen economical state so much as it served to further.
Children growing up during the Great Depression faced many challenges which. actions after the November election being to return all men from relief camps.
Sunday, 22 November 2015 13:00 During the summer of 1985, John Jordan published a pamphlet that listed 102 of Bishop Koyle’s prophecies, as he and others understood them to be.
The Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The economy of the. Congress, many emergency relief programs were created. Some of these. in tents and moved their camp to a warmer climate during the winter months. But, within the.
He preferred to camp in a friend’s automobile, parked at the curb, which he proceeded to do. The unemployment relief commission was a response by city hall to the devastation caused by the Depression.
the work relief program initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression. By doing the work in house, the DOT saved nearly $1.84 million. "Maintenance took on the challenge.
In this article, we will look at what happened statistically and practically during the years of 1934 – 1938. (see also page 5 from Regime Uncertainty: Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long and.
Cover: Strikers from unemployment relief camps en route to Eastern Canada during the. economic decline during the downswing than did Canada. From 1929.
Richard (R.B.) Bennett was a tough-talking millionaire whom Canadians turned to as a beacon of hope during the first years of the Great Depression. provinces $20 million for relief programs.
ears later one-fifth of all Californians were dependent upon public relief. Xenophobia and nativism experienced a resurgence during the Great. Lange took the above photograph in 1936 at a pea pickers' camp in Nipomo, on Highw.
Maptour: The Impact of the Great Depression, 1928-1940. Maptour Page 2. Work Camps. Try This: Open the interactive map "Unemployment Relief Work Camps.
CAMPS AND "MAINTAINING THE WORK. ETHIC". The Great Depression prompted the return of federal cost sharing of relief payments with the provinces.
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Mar 25, 2013. Canada was hit hard by The Great Depression, when the stock market. by setting relief camps for the poor and offering a small relief pack for.
Over the summer, I sat down and spoke with UNHCR Canada about the current refugee crisis and what I witnessed during the end of the Second World War when Europe was awash with refugees and what I have so far seen on my travels to visit the refugee hotspots of the world.
were reluctant to share the burden of relief and during 1930 most of them. and Impotence: Organizations for the Unemployed During the Great Depression', New. government decided to increase the number of relief camps in order to.
Its use as an unemployed relief camp during the 1930s links the location to Canada’s experiences during the Great Depression and its legacy of activism, protest and the resulting birth of national.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program that gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects during the Great Depression.
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While the capitalist West was suffering from economic depression, the Soviet Union was pursuing planned growth in basic manufacturing – for the sake of industry rather than public consumption.
What Provided Direct Relief During the Great Depression? President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced a sweeping collection of programs and projects known as the New Deal in an effort to restrict the economic bleeding resulting from the Great Depression.
On May 23, 1933, Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to, CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, AND TREASON. The petition for Articles of Impeachment was thereafter.
It will be a time to share photos and tell stories about life in the CCC camps in CT and other states. It targeted young men and veterans in relief families who had difficulty finding jobs during.
It was a public works project during the Great Depression designed to provide relief and employment to. the Green New Deal really began in the camps at Standing Rock, where Ocasio-Cortez.
Apr 16, 2018. Relief Stiff: An Artist's Letters from Depression-Era British Columbia. to his own records) 61 pictures during his time in the camps. Most of the men were young; some of the older ones were veterans of the Great War.
Dec 27, 2013 · The Relief Camp Workers’ Union (RCWU) was the union into which the inmates of the Canadian government relief camps were organized in the early 1930s. It was affiliated with the Workers’ Unity League, the trade union umbrella of the Communist Party of Canada.
relief money budget during the Great Depression.. In the relief camps Men worked 8 hours a day, 6 days a week building roads, digging ditches, and planting.
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), (1933–42), one of the earliest New Deal programs, established to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression by providing national conservation work primarily for young unmarried men. Projects included planting trees, building flood barriers, fighting forest fires, and maintaining forest roads and trails.
Unemployment Relief. The first twitches of the economic disaster that would become the Great Depression began in 1929, earlier in the agricultural economy, but the full force was not felt until after the Crash of 1929 in October, which burst the illusion of easy wealth that had sustained high consumption in an unsustainably high proportion.
INDIAN HEAD, Pa. – Nestled in the valley between Chestnut and Laurel ridges, this tiny village once included a state-funded relief camp for jobless men during the Great Depression; it housed, fed and.
SALT LAKE CITY — During his State of the State address last week. ad admissions” and all revenue from the tax went toward an emergency relief fund related to the Great Depression, the report stated.
Middle class and poor people during the great depression where so poor that. The relief camps which where run by the Canadian federal government during.
View Notes – Relief Camp quotes from HISTORY 2300 at York University. Our only shelters were tar paper shacks with no plumbing or heating. It was so cold on.
Jan 30, 2019. He helped organize the B.C. Relief Camp strike, and later. workers during the Great Depression, culminating in the relief camp strike on the.
Nov 15, 2012. Political Responses to the Great Depression Maurice DuplessisJ. Canadians A “Soup Kitchen” during the Depression were living off relief handouts. 1000 relief camp workers climbed aboard freight trains and headed for.
The trek was held at the height of the Great Depression to protest social. Strikers from unemployment relief camps en route to Eastern Canada during " March.
Hard times The rock crossings are tied to the drought and Great Depression. relief. Rather than providing only handouts, the U.S. government devised a system to give a hand up to those in need. In.
America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal. Barracks at the Gunflint Civilian Conservation Corps camp in winter, north of Grand Marais, Minnesota.
The prices of meat did not fall as much, and the prices of cheese and butter rose during the Great Depression, from 1,654,000 cwt in 1929 to 2,635,000cwt in 1933. This rise in price in butter and due to the prices of wool falling, butter became New Zealand’s largest export during the Great Depression (11).
The Great Depression In Canada During 1920s History Essay. 1728 words (7 pages) essay in History. and many other countries in great despair. When the Depression hit, all parts of Canada suffered. However, the hardest hit region was the West. relief unions, along with churches. The conservative party of Bennett set up relief camps to.
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Fleming ‘Holly Jolly Fall Fest’ is Saturday
Sara Waite / Sterling Journal-Advocate
A four-wheel bike makes its way down the parade route at the 2017 Fleming Fall Festival. This year’s festival will be Saturday, Sept. 8.
By Sterling Journal-Advocate | journaladvocate@dfmdev.com |
PUBLISHED: September 7, 2018 at 9:29 am | UPDATED: May 8, 2019 at 12:51 pm
The town of Fleming will celebrate Christmas early with its “Holly Jolly Fall Fest” Saturday.
Activities start at 7 a.m. with the Fleming FFA Breakfast at the school, which runs until 9 a.m. Also at 7 a.m. will be a color run. Registration for the run will take place outside of Bully’s or you can call Sam Wolever Jr. at 970-520-9802.
Parade registration and line up begins at 9 a.m. at the baseball diamond, with judging at 9:30 a.m. and the parade starting at 10 a.m. This year’s parade will feature Grand Marshals Larry and Joyce Schaefer.
Following the parade, there will be a kids tractor pull at 10:30 a.m. in the bus lane at the school and at 11 a.m. there will be kids street games in the school parking lot. The softball tournament will also start at 11 a.m. at the ball field. Call Monty at 970-370-3782 to register.
A bounce house will open at 11:30 a.m. and there will be an ugly sweater contest at that time too.
Fireman’s Lunch will be served up from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the North Park.
Afternoon activities will include an FFA Mud Bog from 1 to 3 p.m. by the fire hall; a fishing derby from 2 to 4 p.m. at Jeff’s Pond, with a special memorial unveiling; bingo from 2 to 5 p.m. in the school cafeteria, with white elephant gifts; and a dark trap shoot from 2 to 5 p.m. at the west edge of Fleming.
From 5 to 7 p.m. the Fleming High School Class of 2020 will be serving dinner in the school cafeteria and the day will wrap up with a family-friendly movie in the North Park starting at 7 p.m.
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Texas Congressman Al Green introduces articles of impeachment against Trump
Basebrawl: Parents fight at little league game over 13-year-old umpire’s call
by: NBC News
Posted: Jun 19, 2019 / 06:08 PM CDT / Updated: Jun 19, 2019 / 06:08 PM CDT
LAKEWOOD, CO (KXAN) — A brawl started between parents and coaches at a seven-year-old youth baseball game because a 13-year-old umpire made a questionable call, according to police.
Authorities say as many as 20 adults were involved in the fight last week in Lakewood, Colorado.
“When we got there at least 15 to 20 adults were fighting. This all stemmed from a 7-year-old youth baseball game. A debate over a baseball ruling,” John Romero from the Lakewood Police Department.
Several people were injured in the fight, including one person who was seriously hurt.
“There is at least one suspect who sucker punches another person. He is wearing the white shirt and teal pants. And we want justice for those folks. We want to send a message that this is not OK,” Romero said.
Four people were cited with disorderly conduct and police are looking for more.
“There are little kids involved. There are seven-year-old kids who are watching their coaches and their parents. People that they are suppose to look up to. People that they are suppose to learn from and this is what they are seeing,” Romero said.
by Associated Press / Jul 17, 2019
(AP) — Texas Rep. Al Green has introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, potentially forcing a vote this week on whether to remove the president from office.
The vote would come too soon for most Democrats, as a majority of the caucus appears to oppose impeachment, for now. But Green is seeking to capitalize on a growing sentiment for impeachment in the wake of Trump's racist tweets over the weekend.
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Matthew advises our English-speaking students from the United States, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. He grew up in Peach Tree, Georgia, in the United States and completed his master's degree in Germany.
He holds a master's degree in American studies from Universität Heidelberg and a bachelor's degree in history and English (with a minor in German) from Emory University in Atlanta.
Camila Onodera email Camila »
Student advisor (Portuguese, Japanese, English)
Camila advises our Portuguese-, Japanese- and English-speaking students. Her mom´s family is Japanese and her dad´s family is Italian. She is Brazilian, grew up in São Paulo and loves learning new languages: she studied Japanese, Italian, German and Spanish.
She holds a master's degree in fashion management from University of São Paulo and a bachelor's degree in advertising and marketing from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Before joining Language International, she worked as Community Manager and Customer Care for Procter & Gamble and as Art Director for Editora Abril in Brazil.
Iliana Pistoli email Iliana »
Student advisor (French, Greek, Turkish, English)
Iliana advises our French-, Greek-, and Turkish-speaking students. She grew up in Athens and is a native Greek speaker. She lived in Paris for 4 years and studied Turkish for 6 years, so she speaks French and Turkish fluently.
She holds a bachelor's degree in Turkish from the Kapodistrian University of Athens and a master's degree in international relations and Turkish from Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales-Langues O’ in Paris. She previously worked for MyToys, Migreurop, Greek Council for Refugees, and Amnesty International.
Katharina Silberg email Katja »
Student advisor (German, Russian, Spanish, English)
Katharina (or Katja) advises our German-, Russian-, and Spanish-speaking students. She grew up in Germany but lived in Playa del Carmen, for nearly a year. She speaks German, fluent Russian and Spanish, advanced French and intermediate Italian.
She holds a bachelor's degree in Romance languages and literatures from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Before joining Language International, she was a dance teacher at the Happy Dance Ballet School in Mönchengladbach and a language teacher (Russian, English, German) at Playalingua del Caribe in Playa del Carmen.
Our marketing team
School relationship manager
Matthew manages relationships with our network of language schools around the world. He grew up in Peach Tree, Georgia, in the United States and completed his master's degree in Germany.
Our finance and accounting team
Marcis Bokmanis
Junior finance manager
Marcis manages Language International's accounts payable and receivable. He grew up in Riga, Latvia and recently moved to Berlin, Germany. He speaks English, Latvian, Russian, and also a little German.
In 2007, Marcis graduated from University of Latvia in Riga with a bachelor's degree in economics. Before joining Language International, he was a reporting analyst at AS DNB Banka in Riga and an accountant at Reverta, a distressed asset management company in Riga. In his spare time, Marcis enjoys long-distance running.
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The Latest: ‘Unique’ method needed to salvage sunken boat
Posted: May 31, 2019 / 10:36 AM HST / Updated: May 31, 2019 / 08:03 PM HST
Kang Kyung-wha, center, foreign minister of South Korea, together with her Hungarian counterpart, Peter Szijjarto, right, visits the bank of the Danube River close to Margit Bridge where a sightseeing boat capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, May 31, 2019. Hungarian police have detained the captain of a cruise ship that collided with the sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists, causing it to sink quickly in the river in Budapest, as loved ones of the missing and dead were expected to arrive Friday in Hungary. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Latest on rescue efforts following the capsizing of a boat in Budapest (all times local):
Hungary’s interior ministry says experts believe a “unique” method is needed to salvage the sunken tour boat from the Danube River, or rescue any bodies trapped inside.
The ministry said Friday that the adverse conditions, including zero visibility underwater and the fast-flowing river’s rising water level, don’t allow for the use of any traditional methods.
Divers have been unable to even approach the wreckage of the 27-meter-long (88.5-foot-long) Hableany (Mermaid), which sits in over 6 meters (20 feet) of water, near Hungary’s neo-Gothic Parliament building.
The ministry said 60 engineers, bridge builders and others are experimenting with theoretical models and test dives to find a solution.
Of the 35 people on board, mostly South Korean tourists, 21 are still missing after Wednesday’s collision with a cruise ship. Seven people have been confirmed dead and there are seven survivors.
Hungarian prosecutors say they have asked a Budapest court to arrest the captain of a river cruise ship that collided with a smaller tour boat carrying South Korean tourists.
Only seven of the 35 people onboard — 33 South Koreans and a two-man Hungarian crew — are known to have survived Wednesday night’s collision on the Danube River.
The Ukrainian captain of the cruise ship was detained by police on Thursday, but prosecutors said Friday that arresting the 64-year-old man is the only way to ensure his presence during the proceedings.
Prosecutors said an investigative judge at the Capital City Court is expected to make a decision about the arrest on Saturday.
2: 10 p.m.
South Korea’s foreign minister says an investigation into the collision that sank a sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists includes studying all communication records seized from a cruise ship that was involved in the accident.
Kang Kyung-wha said Friday at a joint news conference with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto that a South Korean rescue team will soon join the search for the 21 still missing after Wednesday’s collision on the Danube River.
Kang says “we shared our firm resolve not to abandon” the search for survivors.
The captain of the cruise ship has been detained. There are seven confirmed dead. Seven others have survived.
The South Korean foreign minister says the cruise ship that collided with a sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists, causing it to sink quickly in the Danube River, has been released and is on its way to Germany.
The captain of the cruise ship has been detained. He is a Ukrainian national suspected of endangering water transport leading to a deadly mass accident. There are seven confirmed dead and 21 more people missing. Seven others have survived.
Kang Kyung-wha, the South Korean foreign minister, said Friday at a joint press conference with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto that the owner of ship has promised to fully cooperate with the investigation into the Wednesday evening collision.
Kang said, “we have seen the footage of a larger vessel ramming into a small boat in bad weather, causing the boat to sink.” She added that “if the investigation finds the ship’s owner responsible, there will be a thorough legal response over its fault.”
Hungary’s foreign minister says underwater visibility at the site in the Danube River where the sunken tour boat is located is “practically zero,” complicating efforts to salvage the wreck.
Peter Szijjarto said Friday after meeting his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, that the wreckage is more than 6 meters (20 feet) under water, with the Danube expected to keep rising because of rainfall.
Twenty-one people, including 19 South Koreans, are still missing after Wednesday’s collision. Seven people were rescued and seven are confirmed dead.
Szijjarto and Kang visited the site of the mishap, near the Hungarian parliament, before holding talks at the Foreign Ministry.
One of the bodies recovered was found nearly 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) downstream, nearly 2-½ hours after the collision.
Hungarian police have detained the captain of a cruise ship that collided with a sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists, causing it to sink quickly in the Danube River.
That development came as loved ones of the South Korean people who are missing and dead were expected to arrive Friday in Budapest.
Seven people are confirmed dead and seven have been rescued, while 21 people remain missing in the waters.
A South Korean group on a package tour of Europe — including 30 tourists, two guides and a photographer— were on an hour-long sightseeing tour of Budapest when their boat collided with a Viking cruise ship during a downpour Wednesday evening.
Nineteen South Koreans and two Hungarian crew members — the captain and his assistant — remain missing.
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23-year-old from Kauai among victims in deadly crash
by: Nikki Schenfeld
Jordan Tehero was born on Maui, his family moved to Kauai when he was two years old.
Tehero was a man of faith and loved seeking new adventures.
The 23-year-old was just getting his life started and decided he wanted to be a skydiving videographer.
“We couldn’t get him to stop skydiving,” said his dad, Garret. “We tried, he loved the outdoors, and he just loved people.”
Tehero was on Oahu doing jumps, so he could earn his skydiving certificate.
Jordan’s mom Colleen called him around 4 p.m. Friday and asked him when he was coming back home to Kauai.
“He said, ‘I’m going to do a sunset jump and then I’ll be home,’” she explained.
“I said, ‘Okay son pray now,’ and he said, ‘Okay mom,’ and I said, “I love you,’ and he said he loved me too.”
They heard about the crash moments after it happened, but they didn’t think anything of it at the time.
“I just felt so sorry for whoever was in that accident not knowing anything, not a single thing,” his dad Garret said.
They tried calling Jordan around 9 p.m., but he didn’t answer.
Garret explains that his sister called him and told him which company was involved. He said he called the company and told him his name.
“They said they couldn’t give me any information, and they would call me back, and I already knew in my heart something might be up because why wouldn’t they tell me it wasn’t my son,” Garret said.
Shortly after, his parents received a call around 9:45 p.m.
“As soon as he said the words ‘I’m sorry,’ it just broke us apart as a family,” he said.
“My youngest son, a guy full of life, he just bought a new truck, and he was so excited about his future in skydiving.”
The Tehero’s received another call on Saturday night from the medical examiner who gave them full confirmation.
However, the family said they felt blessed in a way because their son was identifiable.
“At first we thought one of us was going to have to go identify our son,” Garret explained.
“We got a phone call last night and the medical examiner said that our son was totally recognizable, the only one out of 11 the only one and I don’t mean that in a way where it’s just us, I’m saddened by the whole situation but it was kind of a blessing to hear because I dreaded having to go there and have to identify my son,” Garret said while in tears.
“He had his fingerprint, it was totally there, a perfect match,” Jordan’s mom said.
They say the medical examiner also told them that Jordan was the only passenger wearing a helmet on the plane.
“His face was saved, and we can see our son,” Garret said.
“It’s sad but it was comforting in the same way just knowing I’ll be able to see my boy I can see him again, I just wanted that, I just to see my son and touch him that’s all I ask and not having to go identify his body, I can see my son whole,” Jordan’s dad said while crying.
“We can have an open casket for our son.”
“We’re just blessed to have had him for 23 years,” his mother said.
“We want to send our prayers and condolences to the family to the people who were on that flight,” the family said.
The family has a GoFundMe page for funeral expenses.
The Navy also confirmed one of their sailors was on board the flight but will not release the name until 24 hours after the family has been notified.
The medical examiner has completed all 11 autopsies, with the cause of death for all listed as multiple blunt force injuries due to a plane crash.
The medical examiner may start to release the victims’ identities on Monday.
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There is evidence from the diaries of King Edward’s Horse members that at least some of the Regiment continued to wear their old King’s Colonials Squadron headdress and collar badges through into the Great War. Lieutenant Allan Wettenhall Lade writes in aletter to his mother on the 13th December 1914, ‘I have just bought one of my own a very smart affair riding breeches and now have collar badges of Australian birth…the Kangaroo. Every man in our troop has the distinctive badge of his Colony – India an Elephant, Africa an Ostrich, Canada a beaver and so on.’ Corporal Brian (Frederick) Wade, King Edward’s Horse writes: ‘For some time I have been trying to obtain a cap-badge to complete the set, and tonight I am posting to you a set of three; cap, collar and shoulder badges (Brian Wade. Peace, War & Afterwards (1914-1919). Halifax: Sentinel Projects, 1996). The largest is worn on the front of the cap, the smallest on the collar-lapel, and the numerals on the shoulder- badge mean “King Edward’s Horse = “Kings Overseas Dominions Regiment”. The collar badges are, I think, the most interesting, the ostrich with a background of ‘koppies’ and mountains backed by the sun which is so typically South Africa.’
The photograph in Figure 365 of Trooper Godfrey John Buckland, King Edward’s Horse shows the ‘C’ Squadron (Australian) kangaroo collar badges being worn with a King Edward’s Horse headdress badge. The ‘C’ Squadron (Australian) collar badges are also shown on the King Edward’s Horse tunic in Figure 96. The original King’s Colonials Squadron collar badges were still favoured by some members of King Edward’s Horse up until at least 1915.
Figure 365: Photograph of Private Godfrey John Buckland (Regimental number 583) of King Edward’s Horse in Service Dress uniform circa 1914 with 1903-pattern, Mounted Infantry leather 50 round .303 bandolier and King Edward’s Horse Regimental headdress badge and ‘C’ Squadron (Australian) collar badges. Private Buckland was born in Charters Towers in Queensland on the 30th January 1893 and enlisted on 26th August 1914 in England. He was killed by a German rifle grenade on 7th August 1915 after seeing action at Ploegsteert Wood in July 1915 (Peter Nemaric collection).
Collar badges were generally not worn by Other Ranks of the King Edward’s Horse from 1915 onwards (Figure 366).
Figure 366: Sergeant Tiplady (seated centre of the second row) and his Troop of ‘A’ Squadron of King Edward’s Horse at Canterbury in August 1914 without collar badges (The King Edward’s Horse Senior and Junior Comrades Association Annual Bulletin. Number 20: 13, 1953).
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NewsProblem Solvers
City of Henryetta working to help man with overgrown property next to his house
By: Cori Duke
HENRYETTA, Okla. -- A Henryetta man is frantic at the thought of losing his home lived in by three generations of his family.
He said the overgrown lot next door is causing many unwanted critters, while also posing a safety risk. When he couldn't get answers, he called 2 Works for You Problem Solvers.
"I didn't know what else to do,” Pete Niewinsky, the homeowner said.
Niewinsky said he’s had trouble for the past two years.
"This is all I got, it ain't much but I don't want to lose it,” he said of his home.
The lot next door has gone neglected. The owner passed away years ago and the City has had no response when they send citations to next of kin.
Grasses and vines climb boundary fences, invading on Niewinsky’s immaculate property.
"It's got so big there's snakes that come in the yard, rats, mice, a rat got in the yard and got under the hood of my car and ate all the wires up,” he said.
He also adds that the issue of critters doesn't compare to that of safety.
“I'm afraid of fires,” Niewinsky said. “I hear about all these fires around Tulsa and the little towns around Tulsa, and I'm afraid if it catches on fire, it'll burn both my houses up and I won't have nothing."
The home is a piece of Niewinsky family history.
"My grandpa and grandma lived here and I was born in here,” he said. “I lived here since I was about three years old. My mom and dad lived here until they all passed away."
Niewinsky said it's the importance of his home that's pushed him to ask the City to clear the pasture by his home.
"Every time I go to town to get groceries or something, I drive by there and see if anybody is there you know?"
He said at one point he understood something could be done.
"[The code enforcer] keeps saying he's going to have somebody cut that pasture and he's going to put poison on it so it won't come back,” Niewinsky said.
But after two years, he said that never happened, so 2 Works for You Problem Solvers went to City Hall.
We spoke to the code enforcer and public works director, who said they weren't aware of the situation, but aim to put public safety first.
The next day, City officials, along with the Mayor, went to the property to survey what could be done. The Mayor said there is some legal work to be done to determine whose property it belongs to, but said she is willing to do what it takes to ease Mr. Niewinsky’s frustration.
If you find yourself in a position that could involve the City, try going to a City Council meeting and requesting to speak about your problem in an open forum.
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Death toll in Japan earthquake rises to 37
Posted: 8:41 AM, Sep 09, 2018
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Carl Court
<p>Rescue workers search through the rubble of buildings that were destroyed by a landslide caused by an earthquake, on September 7, 2018 in Atsuma near Sapporo, Japan. Thirty-seven people are now known to have been killed with many still missing and hundreds injured after a powerful 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido in the early hours of Thursday triggering landslides and widespread disruption. </p>
The death toll in the magnitude 6.7 earthquake that struck Japan on Thursday has risen to 37, the country's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.
Two people remain missing, and at least 401 people were injured, the agency said Sunday. Evacuation centers are still holding 5,788 people.
The quake is the latest in a string of natural disasters that have hit Japan recently, including deadly floods, typhoons, earthquakes, landslides and heatwaves.
The number of confirmed dead and injured in the quake on the northern island of Hokkaido has risen steadily from the nine reported Friday.
Lasting almost a minute, powerful tremors jolted people from their beds early Thursday, collapsing roads and causing landslides that buried homes and other buildings.
Near the epicenter, landslides wiped out houses in the tiny town of Atsuma, home to 40 residents.
Almost 3 million households lost power initially, the Hokkaido Electric Power Company said. Almost half had power restored Friday.
Photos from Sapporo, Hokkaido's main city on the western part of the island, showed huge cracks in the street and buried houses.
As many as 40,000 people, including 22,000 troops from the country's Self Defense Forces, have been involved in the rescue efforts.
Thursday's earthquake comes as much of Japan is still dealing with the effects of Typhoon Jebi, the strongest such storm to hit the Japanese mainland in 25 years.
High winds smashed a tanker into a bridge, forcing one of the country's largest airports to close and leaving at least 10 people dead.
On Japan's main island of Honshu, nine cities and towns issued compulsory evacuation orders. A further 53 issued non-compulsory evacuation orders.
Before it made landfall, the storm had sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour (87 mph) and gusts of 165 kilometers per hour (102 mph), the equivalent of a Category 1 Atlantic hurricane.
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Title 7. AGRICULTURE
Chapter 1. COMMODITY EXCHANGES
Section 1a. Definitions
7 U.S. Code § 1a. Definitions
Authorities (CFR)
As used in this chapter:
(1) Alternative trading systemThe term “alternative trading system” means an organization, association, or group of persons that—
is registered as a broker or dealer pursuant to section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [15 U.S.C. 78o(b)] (except paragraph (11) thereof);
performs the functions commonly performed by an exchange (as defined in section 3(a)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(1)]);
(C) does not—
set rules governing the conduct of subscribers other than the conduct of such subscribers’ trading on the alternative trading system; or
discipline subscribers other than by exclusion from trading; and
is exempt from the definition of the term “exchange” under such section 3(a)(1) [15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(1)] by rule or regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission on terms that require compliance with regulations of its trading functions.
(2) Appropriate Federal banking agencyThe term “appropriate Federal banking agency”—
has the meaning given the term in section 1813 of title 12;
means the Board in the case of a noninsured State bank; and
is the Farm Credit Administration for farm credit system institutions.
(3) Associated person of a security-based swap dealer or major security-based swap participant
The term “associated person of a security-based swap dealer or major security-based swap participant” has the meaning given the term in section 3(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)).
(4) Associated person of a swap dealer or major swap participant
(A) In generalThe term “associated person of a swap dealer or major swap participant” means a person who is associated with a swap dealer or major swap participant as a partner, officer, employee, or agent (or any person occupying a similar status or performing similar functions), in any capacity that involves—
the solicitation or acceptance of swaps; or
the supervision of any person or persons so engaged.
(B) Exclusion
Other than for purposes of section 6s(b)(6) of this title, the term “associated person of a swap dealer or major swap participant” does not include any person associated with a swap dealer or major swap participant the functions of which are solely clerical or ministerial.
(5) Board
The term “Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
(6) Board of trade
The term “board of trade” means any organized exchange or other trading facility.
(7) Cleared swap
The term “cleared swap” means any swap that is, directly or indirectly, submitted to and cleared by a derivatives clearing organization registered with the Commission.
(8) Commission
The term “Commission” means the Commodity Futures Trading Commission established under section 2(a)(2) of this title.
(9) Commodity
The term “commodity” means wheat, cotton, rice, corn, oats, barley, rye, flaxseed, grain sorghums, mill feeds, butter, eggs, Solanum tuberosum (Irish potatoes), wool, wool tops, fats and oils (including lard, tallow, cottonseed oil, peanut oil, soybean oil, and all other fats and oils), cottonseed meal, cottonseed, peanuts, soybeans, soybean meal, livestock, livestock products, and frozen concentrated orange juice, and all other goods and articles, except onions (as provided by section 13–1 of this title) and motion picture box office receipts (or any index, measure, value, or data related to such receipts), and all services, rights, and interests (except motion picture box office receipts, or any index, measure, value or data related to such receipts) in which contracts for future delivery are presently or in the future dealt in.
(10) Commodity pool
(A) In generalThe term “commodity pool” means any investment trust, syndicate, or similar form of enterprise operated for the purpose of trading in commodity interests, including any—
commodity for future delivery, security futures product, or swap;
agreement, contract, or transaction described in section 2(c)(2)(C)(i) of this title or section 2(c)(2)(D)(i) of this title;
commodity option authorized under section 6c of this title; or
leverage transaction authorized under section 23 of this title.
(B) Further definition
The Commission, by rule or regulation, may include within, or exclude from, the term “commodity pool” any investment trust, syndicate, or similar form of enterprise if the Commission determines that the rule or regulation will effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
(11) Commodity pool operator
(A) In generalThe term “commodity pool operator” means any person—
(i) engaged in a business that is of the nature of a commodity pool, investment trust, syndicate, or similar form of enterprise, and who, in connection therewith, solicits, accepts, or receives from others, funds, securities, or property, either directly or through capital contributions, the sale of stock or other forms of securities, or otherwise, for the purpose of trading in commodity interests, including any—
leverage transaction authorized under section 23 of this title; or
who is registered with the Commission as a commodity pool operator.
The Commission, by rule or regulation, may include within, or exclude from, the term “commodity pool operator” any person engaged in a business that is of the nature of a commodity pool, investment trust, syndicate, or similar form of enterprise if the Commission determines that the rule or regulation will effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
(12) Commodity trading advisor
(A) In generalExcept as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the term “commodity trading advisor” means any person who—
(i) for compensation or profit, engages in the business of advising others, either directly or through publications, writings, or electronic media, as to the value of or the advisability of trading in—
any contract of sale of a commodity for future delivery,security futures product, or swap;
any agreement, contract, or transaction described in section 2(c)(2)(C)(i) of this title or section 2(c)(2)(D)(i) of this title [1]
any commodity option authorized under section 6c of this title; or
any leverage transaction authorized under section 23 of this title;
for compensation or profit, and as part of a regular business, issues or promulgates analyses or reports concerning any of the activities referred to in clause (i);
is registered with the Commission as a commodity trading advisor; or
the Commission, by rule or regulation, may include if the Commission determines that the rule or regulation will effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
(B) ExclusionsSubject to subparagraph (C), the term “commodity trading advisor” does not include—
any bank or trust company or any person acting as an employee thereof;
any news reporter, news columnist, or news editor of the print or electronic media, or any lawyer, accountant, or teacher;
any floor broker or futures commission merchant;
the publisher or producer of any print or electronic data of general and regular dissemination, including its employees;
the fiduciary of any defined benefit plan that is subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.);
(vi)
any contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility; and
(vii)
such other persons not within the intent of this paragraph as the Commission may specify by rule, regulation, or order.
(C) Incidental services
Subparagraph (B) shall apply only if the furnishing of such services by persons referred to in subparagraph (B) is solely incidental to the conduct of their business or profession.
(D) Advisors
The Commission, by rule or regulation, may include within the term “commodity trading advisor”, any person advising as to the value of commodities or issuing reports or analyses concerning commodities if the Commission determines that the rule or regulation will effectuate the purposes of this paragraph.
(13) Contract of sale
The term “contract of sale” includes sales, agreements of sale, and agreements to sell.
(14) Cooperative association of producers
The term “cooperative association of producers” means any cooperative association, corporate, or otherwise, not less than 75 percent in good faith owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by producers of agricultural products and otherwise complying with sections 291 and 292 of this title, including any organization acting for a group of such associations and owned or controlled by such associations, except that business done for or with the United States, or any agency thereof, shall not be considered either member or nonmember business in determining the compliance of any such association with this chapter.
(15) Derivatives clearing organization
(A) In generalThe term “derivatives clearing organization” means a clearinghouse, clearing association, clearing corporation, or similar entity, facility, system, or organization that, with respect to an agreement, contract, or transaction—
enables each party to the agreement, contract, or transaction to substitute, through novation or otherwise, the credit of the derivatives clearing organization for the credit of the parties;
arranges or provides, on a multilateral basis, for the settlement or netting of obligations resulting from such agreements, contracts, or transactions executed by participants in the derivatives clearing organization; or
otherwise provides clearing services or arrangements that mutualize or transfer among participants in the derivatives clearing organization the credit risk arising from such agreements, contracts, or transactions executed by the participants.
(B) ExclusionsThe term “derivatives clearing organization” does not include an entity, facility, system, or organization solely because it arranges or provides for—
settlement, netting, or novation of obligations resulting from agreements, contracts, or transactions, on a bilateral basis and without a central counterparty;
settlement or netting of cash payments through an interbank payment system; or
settlement, netting, or novation of obligations resulting from a sale of a commodity in a transaction in the spot market for the commodity.
(16) Electronic trading facilityThe term “electronic trading facility” means a trading facility that—
operates by means of an electronic or telecommunications network; and
maintains an automated audit trail of bids, offers, and the matching of orders or the execution of transactions on the facility.
(17) Eligible commercial entityThe term “eligible commercial entity” means, with respect to an agreement, contract or transaction in a commodity—
(A) an eligible contract participant described in clause (i), (ii), (v), (vii), (viii), or (ix) of paragraph (18)(A) that, in connection with its business—
has a demonstrable ability, directly or through separate contractual arrangements, to make or take delivery of the underlying commodity;
incurs risks, in addition to price risk, related to the commodity; or
is a dealer that regularly provides risk management or hedging services to, or engages in market-making activities with, the foregoing entities involving transactions to purchase or sell the commodity or derivative agreements, contracts, or transactions in the commodity;
(B) an eligible contract participant, other than a natural person or an instrumentality, department, or agency of a State or local governmental entity, that—
regularly enters into transactions to purchase or sell the commodity or derivative agreements, contracts, or transactions in the commodity; and
(ii) either—
(I) in the case of a collective investment vehicle whose participants include persons other than—
qualified eligible persons, as defined in Commission rule 4.7(a) (17 CFR 4.7(a));
accredited investors, as defined in Regulation D of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933 [15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.] (17 CFR 230.501(a)), with total assets of $2,000,000; or
qualified purchasers, as defined in section 2(a)(51)(A) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [15 U.S.C. 80a–2(a)(51)(A)];
in each case as in effect on December 21, 2000, has, or is one of a group of vehicles under common control or management having in the aggregate, $1,000,000,000 in total assets; or
in the case of other persons, has, or is one of a group of persons under common control or management having in the aggregate, $100,000,000 in total assets; or
such other persons as the Commission shall determine appropriate and shall designate by rule, regulation, or order.
(18) Eligible contract participantThe term “eligible contract participant” means—
(A) acting for its own account—
a financial institution;
an insurance company that is regulated by a State, or that is regulated by a foreign government and is subject to comparable regulation as determined by the Commission, including a regulated subsidiary or affiliate of such an insurance company;
an investment company subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–1 et seq.) or a foreign person performing a similar role or function subject as such to foreign regulation (regardless of whether each investor in the investment company or the foreign person is itself an eligible contract participant);
(iv) a commodity pool that—
has total assets exceeding $5,000,000; and
is formed and operated by a person subject to regulation under this chapter or a foreign person performing a similar role or function subject as such to foreign regulation (regardless of whether each investor in the commodity pool or the foreign person is itself an eligible contract participant) provided, however, that for purposes of section 2(c)(2)(B)(vi) of this title and section 2(c)(2)(C)(vii) of this title, the term “eligible contract participant” shall not include a commodity pool in which any participant is not otherwise an eligible contract participant;
(v) a corporation, partnership, proprietorship, organization, trust, or other entity—
that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000;
the obligations of which under an agreement, contract, or transaction are guaranteed or otherwise supported by a letter of credit or keepwell, support, or other agreement by an entity described in subclause (I), in clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (vii), or in subparagraph (C); or
(III) that—
has a net worth exceeding $1,000,000; and
enters into an agreement, contract, or transaction in connection with the conduct of the entity’s business or to manage the risk associated with an asset or liability owned or incurred or reasonably likely to be owned or incurred by the entity in the conduct of the entity’s business;
(vi) an employee benefit plan subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), a governmental employee benefit plan, or a foreign person performing a similar role or function subject as such to foreign regulation—
that has total assets exceeding $5,000,000; or
(II) the investment decisions of which are made by—
an investment adviser or commodity trading advisor subject to regulation under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80b–1 et seq.) or this chapter;
a foreign person performing a similar role or function subject as such to foreign regulation;
a financial institution; or
(dd)
an insurance company described in clause (ii), or a regulated subsidiary or affiliate of such an insurance company;
a governmental entity (including the United States, a State, or a foreign government) or political subdivision of a governmental entity;
a multinational or supranational government entity; or
an instrumentality, agency, or department of an entity described in subclause (I) or (II);
except that such term does not include an entity, instrumentality, agency, or department referred to in subclause (I) or (III) of this clause unless (aa) the entity, instrumentality, agency, or department is a person described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of paragraph (17)(A); (bb) the entity, instrumentality, agency, or department owns and invests on a discretionary basis $50,000,000 or more in investments; or (cc) the agreement, contract, or transaction is offered by, and entered into with, an entity that is listed in any of subclauses (I) through (VI) of section 2(c)(2)(B)(ii) of this title;
(viii)
a broker or dealer subject to regulation under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.) or a foreign person performing a similar role or function subject as such to foreign regulation, except that, if the broker or dealer or foreign person is a natural person or proprietorship, the broker or dealer or foreign person shall not be considered to be an eligible contract participant unless the broker or dealer or foreign person also meets the requirements of clause (v) or (xi);
an associated person of a registered broker or dealer concerning the financial or securities activities of which the registered person makes and keeps records under section 15C(b) or 17(h) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78o–5(b), 78q(h));
an investment bank holding company (as defined in section 17(i) [2] of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78q(i)); [3]
(ix)
a futures commission merchant subject to regulation under this chapter or a foreign person performing a similar role or function subject as such to foreign regulation, except that, if the futures commission merchant or foreign person is a natural person or proprietorship, the futures commission merchant or foreign person shall not be considered to be an eligible contract participant unless the futures commission merchant or foreign person also meets the requirements of clause (v) or (xi);
a floor broker or floor trader subject to regulation under this chapter in connection with any transaction that takes place on or through the facilities of a registered entity (other than an electronic trading facility with respect to a significant price discovery contract) or an exempt board of trade, or any affiliate thereof, on which such person regularly trades; or
(xi) an individual who has amounts invested on a discretionary basis, the aggregate of which is in excess of—
$10,000,000; or
$5,000,000 and who enters into the agreement, contract, or transaction in order to manage the risk associated with an asset owned or liability incurred, or reasonably likely to be owned or incurred, by the individual;
a person described in clause (i), (ii), (iv), (v), (viii), (ix), or (x) of subparagraph (A) or in subparagraph (C), acting as broker or performing an equivalent agency function on behalf of another person described in subparagraph (A) or (C); or
an investment adviser subject to regulation under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 [15 U.S.C. 80b–1 et seq.], a commodity trading advisor subject to regulation under this chapter, a foreign person performing a similar role or function subject as such to foreign regulation, or a person described in clause (i), (ii), (iv), (v), (viii), (ix), or (x) of subparagraph (A) or in subparagraph (C), in any such case acting as investment manager or fiduciary (but excluding a person acting as broker or performing an equivalent agency function) for another person described in subparagraph (A) or (C) and who is authorized by such person to commit such person to the transaction; or
any other person that the Commission determines to be eligible in light of the financial or other qualifications of the person.
(19) Excluded commodityThe term “excluded commodity” means—
an interest rate, exchange rate, currency, security, security index, credit risk or measure, debt or equity instrument, index or measure of inflation, or other macroeconomic index or measure;
(ii) any other rate, differential, index, or measure of economic or commercial risk, return, or value that is—
not based in substantial part on the value of a narrow group of commodities not described in clause (i); or
based solely on one or more commodities that have no cash market;
any economic or commercial index based on prices, rates, values, or levels that are not within the control of any party to the relevant contract, agreement, or transaction; or
(iv) an occurrence, extent of an occurrence, or contingency (other than a change in the price, rate, value, or level of a commodity not described in clause (i)) that is—
beyond the control of the parties to the relevant contract, agreement, or transaction; and
associated with a financial, commercial, or economic consequence.
(20) Exempt commodity
The term “exempt commodity” means a commodity that is not an excluded commodity or an agricultural commodity.
(21) Financial institutionThe term “financial institution” means—
a corporation operating under the fifth undesignated paragraph of section 25 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 603), commonly known as “an agreement corporation”;
a corporation organized under section 25A of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 611 et seq.), commonly known as an “Edge Act corporation”;
an institution that is regulated by the Farm Credit Administration;
a Federal credit union or State credit union (as defined in section 1752 of title 12);
a depository institution (as defined in section 1813 of title 12);
a foreign bank or a branch or agency of a foreign bank (each as defined in section 3101 of title 12);
any financial holding company (as defined in section 1841 of title 12);
a trust company; or
a similarly regulated subsidiary or affiliate of an entity described in any of subparagraphs (A) through (H).
(22) Floor broker
(A) In generalThe term “floor broker” means any person—
(i) who, in or surrounding any pit, ring, post, or other place provided by a contract market for the meeting of persons similarly engaged, shall purchase or sell for any other person—
any commodity for future delivery, security futures product, or swap; or
who is registered with the Commission as a floor broker.
The Commission, by rule or regulation, may include within, or exclude from, the term “floor broker” any person in or surrounding any pit, ring, post, or other place provided by a contract market for the meeting of persons similarly engaged who trades for any other person if the Commission determines that the rule or regulation will effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
(23) Floor trader
(A) In generalThe term “floor trader” means any person—
(i) who, in or surrounding any pit, ring, post, or other place provided by a contract market for the meeting of persons similarly engaged, purchases, or sells solely for such person’s own account—
who is registered with the Commission as a floor trader.
The Commission, by rule or regulation, may include within, or exclude from, the term “floor trader” any person in or surrounding any pit, ring, post, or other place provided by a contract market for the meeting of persons similarly engaged who trades solely for such person’s own account if the Commission determines that the rule or regulation will effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
(24) Foreign exchange forward
The term “foreign exchange forward” means a transaction that solely involves the exchange of 2 different currencies on a specific future date at a fixed rate agreed upon on the inception of the contract covering the exchange.
(25) Foreign exchange swapThe term “foreign exchange swap” means a transaction that solely involves—
an exchange of 2 different currencies on a specific date at a fixed rate that is agreed upon on the inception of the contract covering the exchange; and
a reverse exchange of the 2 currencies described in subparagraph (A) at a later date and at a fixed rate that is agreed upon on the inception of the contract covering the exchange.
(26) Foreign futures authority
The term “foreign futures authority” means any foreign government, or any department, agency, governmental body, or regulatory organization empowered by a foreign government to administer or enforce a law, rule, or regulation as it relates to a futures or options matter, or any department or agency of a political subdivision of a foreign government empowered to administer or enforce a law, rule, or regulation as it relates to a futures or options matter.
(27) Future delivery
The term “future delivery” does not include any sale of any cash commodity for deferred shipment or delivery.
(28) Futures commission merchant
(A) In generalThe term “futures commission merchant” means an individual, association, partnership, corporation, or trust—
(i) that—
(I) is—
(aa) engaged in soliciting or in accepting orders for—
the purchase or sale of a commodity for future delivery;
a security futures product;
a swap;
any agreement, contract, or transaction described in section 2(c)(2)(C)(i) of this title or section 2(c)(2)(D)(i) of this title;
(EE)
(FF)
any leverage transaction authorized under section 23 of this title; or
acting as a counterparty in any agreement, contract, or transaction described in section 2(c)(2)(C)(i) of this title or section 2(c)(2)(D)(i) of this title; and
in or in connection with the activities described in items (aa) or (bb) of subclause (I), accepts any money, securities, or property (or extends credit in lieu thereof) to margin, guarantee, or secure any trades or contracts that result or may result therefrom; or
that is registered with the Commission as a futures commission merchant.
The Commission, by rule or regulation, may include within, or exclude from, the term “futures commission merchant” any person who engages in soliciting or accepting orders for, or acting as a counterparty in, any agreement, contract, or transaction subject to this chapter, and who accepts any money, securities, or property (or extends credit in lieu thereof) to margin, guarantee, or secure any trades or contracts that result or may result therefrom, if the Commission determines that the rule or regulation will effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
(29) Hybrid instrument
The term “hybrid instrument” means a security having one or more payments indexed to the value, level, or rate of, or providing for the delivery of, one or more commodities.
(30) Interstate commerceThe term “interstate commerce” means commerce—
between any State, territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; or
between points within the same State, territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof, or within any territory or possession, or the District of Columbia.
(31) Introducing broker
(A) In generalThe term “introducing broker” means any person (except an individual who elects to be and is registered as an associated person of a futures commission merchant)—
(i) who—
(I) is engaged in soliciting or in accepting orders for—
the purchase or sale of any commodity for future delivery, security futures product, or swap;
any leverage transaction authorized under section 23 of this title; and
does not accept any money, securities, or property (or extend credit in lieu thereof) to margin, guarantee, or secure any trades or contracts that result or may result therefrom; or
who is registered with the Commission as an introducing broker.
The Commission, by rule or regulation, may include within, or exclude from, the term “introducing broker” any person who engages in soliciting or accepting orders for any agreement, contract, or transaction subject to this chapter, and who does not accept any money, securities, or property (or extend credit in lieu thereof) to margin, guarantee, or secure any trades or contracts that result or may result therefrom, if the Commission determines that the rule or regulation will effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
(32) Major security-based swap participant
The term “major security-based swap participant” has the meaning given the term in section 3(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)).
(33) Major swap participant
(A) In generalThe term “major swap participant” means any person who is not a swap dealer, and—
(i) maintains a substantial position in swaps for any of the major swap categories as determined by the Commission, excluding—
positions held for hedging or mitigating commercial risk; and
positions maintained by any employee benefit plan (or any contract held by such a plan) as defined in paragraphs (3) and (32) of section 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1002) for the primary purpose of hedging or mitigating any risk directly associated with the operation of the plan;
whose outstanding swaps create substantial counterparty exposure that could have serious adverse effects on the financial stability of the United States banking system or financial markets; or
is a financial entity that is highly leveraged relative to the amount of capital it holds and that is not subject to capital requirements established by an appropriate Federal banking agency; and
maintains a substantial position in outstanding swaps in any major swap category as determined by the Commission.
(B) Definition of substantial position
For purposes of subparagraph (A), the Commission shall define by rule or regulation the term “substantial position” at the threshold that the Commission determines to be prudent for the effective monitoring, management, and oversight of entities that are systemically important or can significantly impact the financial system of the United States. In setting the definition under this subparagraph, the Commission shall consider the person’s relative position in uncleared as opposed to cleared swaps and may take into consideration the value and quality of collateral held against counterparty exposures.
(C) Scope of designation
For purposes of subparagraph (A), a person may be designated as a major swap participant for 1 or more categories of swaps without being classified as a major swap participant for all classes of swaps.
(D) Exclusions
The definition under this paragraph shall not include an entity whose primary business is providing financing, and uses derivatives for the purpose of hedging underlying commercial risks related to interest rate and foreign currency exposures, 90 percent or more of which arise from financing that facilitates the purchase or lease of products, 90 percent or more of which are manufactured by the parent company or another subsidiary of the parent company.
(34) Member of a registered entity; member of a derivatives transaction execution facilityThe term “member” means, with respect to a registered entity or derivatives transaction execution facility, an individual, association, partnership, corporation, or trust—
owning or holding membership in, or admitted to membership representation on, the registered entity or derivatives transaction execution facility; or
having trading privileges on the registered entity or derivatives transaction execution facility.
A participant in an alternative trading system that is designated as a contract market pursuant to section 7b–1 of this title is deemed a member of the contract market for purposes of transactions in security futures products through the contract market.
(35) Narrow-based security index
(A) The term “narrow-based security index” means an index—
that has 9 or fewer component securities;
in which a component security comprises more than 30 percent of the index’s weighting;
in which the five highest weighted component securities in the aggregate comprise more than 60 percent of the index’s weighting; or
in which the lowest weighted component securities comprising, in the aggregate, 25 percent of the index’s weighting have an aggregate dollar value of average daily trading volume of less than $50,000,000 (or in the case of an index with 15 or more component securities, $30,000,000), except that if there are two or more securities with equal weighting that could be included in the calculation of the lowest weighted component securities comprising, in the aggregate, 25 percent of the index’s weighting, such securities shall be ranked from lowest to highest dollar value of average daily trading volume and shall be included in the calculation based on their ranking starting with the lowest ranked security.
(B) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), an index is not a narrow-based security index if—
it has at least 9 component securities;
no component security comprises more than 30 percent of the index’s weighting; and
(III) each component security is—
registered pursuant to section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [15 U.S.C. 78l];
one of 750 securities with the largest market capitalization; and
one of 675 securities with the largest dollar value of average daily trading volume;
a board of trade was designated as a contract market by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with respect to a contract of sale for future delivery on the index, before December 21, 2000;
a contract of sale for future delivery on the index traded on a designated contract market or registered derivatives transaction execution facility for at least 30 days as a contract of sale for future delivery on an index that was not a narrow-based security index; and
it has been a narrow-based security index for no more than 45 business days over 3 consecutive calendar months;
a contract of sale for future delivery on the index is traded on or subject to the rules of a foreign board of trade and meets such requirements as are jointly established by rule or regulation by the Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission;
(v) no more than 18 months have passed since December 21, 2000, and—
it is traded on or subject to the rules of a foreign board of trade;
the offer and sale in the United States of a contract of sale for future delivery on the index was authorized before December 21, 2000; and
the conditions of such authorization continue to be met; or
a contract of sale for future delivery on the index is traded on or subject to the rules of a board of trade and meets such requirements as are jointly established by rule, regulation, or order by the Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Within 1 year after December 21, 2000, the Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission jointly shall adopt rules or regulations that set forth the requirements under subparagraph (B)(iv).
An index that is a narrow-based security index solely because it was a narrow-based security index for more than 45 business days over 3 consecutive calendar months pursuant to clause (iii) of subparagraph (B) shall not be a narrow-based security index for the 3 following calendar months.
(E) For purposes of subparagraphs (A) and (B)—
the dollar value of average daily trading volume and the market capitalization shall be calculated as of the preceding 6 full calendar months; and
the Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission shall, by rule or regulation, jointly specify the method to be used to determine market capitalization and dollar value of average daily trading volume.
(36) Option
The term “option” means an agreement, contract, or transaction that is of the character of, or is commonly known to the trade as, an “option”, “privilege”, “indemnity”, “bid”, “offer”, “put”, “call”, “advance guaranty”, or “decline guaranty”.
(37) Organized exchangeThe term “organized exchange” means a trading facility that—
(A) permits trading—
by or on behalf of a person that is not an eligible contract participant; or
by persons other than on a principal-to-principal basis; or
(B) has adopted (directly or through another nongovernmental entity) rules that—
govern the conduct of participants, other than rules that govern the submission of orders or execution of transactions on the trading facility; and
include disciplinary sanctions other than the exclusion of participants from trading.
(38) Person
The term “person” imports the plural or singular, and includes individuals, associations, partnerships, corporations, and trusts.
(39) Prudential regulatorThe term “prudential regulator” means—
(A) the Board in the case of a swap dealer, major swap participant, security-based swap dealer, or major security-based swap participant that is—
a State-chartered bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System;
a State-chartered branch or agency of a foreign bank;
any foreign bank which does not operate an insured branch;
any organization operating under section 25A of the Federal Reserve Act [12 U.S.C. 611 et seq.] or having an agreement with the Board under section 225 of the Federal Reserve Act [4];
any bank holding company (as defined in section 2 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1965 4 (12 U.S.C. 1841)), any foreign bank (as defined in section 3101(7) of title 12) that is treated as a bank holding company under section 3106(a) of title 12, and any subsidiary of such a company or foreign bank (other than a subsidiary that is described in subparagraph (A) or (B) or that is required to be registered with the Commission as a swap dealer or major swap participant under this chapter or with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a security-based swap dealer or major security-based swap participant);
after the transfer date (as defined in section 311 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act [12 U.S.C. 5411]), any savings and loan holding company (as defined in section 1467a of title 12) and any subsidiary of such company (other than a subsidiary that is described in subparagraph (A) or (B) or that is required to be registered as a swap dealer or major swap participant with the Commission under this chapter or with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a security-based swap dealer or major security-based swap participant); or
any organization operating under section 25A of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 611 et seq.) or having an agreement with the Board under section 25 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
(B) the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the case of a swap dealer, major swap participant, security-based swap dealer, or major security-based swap participant that is—
a national bank;
a federally chartered branch or agency of a foreign bank; or
any Federal savings association;
(C) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the case of a swap dealer, major swap participant, security-based swap dealer, or major security-based swap participant that is—
a State-chartered bank that is not a member of the Federal Reserve System; or
any State savings association;
the Farm Credit Administration, in the case of a swap dealer, major swap participant, security-based swap dealer, or major security-based swap participant that is an institution chartered under the Farm Credit Act of 1971 (12 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.); and
the Federal Housing Finance Agency in the case of a swap dealer, major swap participant, security-based swap dealer, or major security-based swap participant that is a regulated entity (as such term is defined in section 4502 of title 12).
(40) Registered entityThe term “registered entity” means—
a board of trade designated as a contract market under section 7 of this title;
a derivatives clearing organization registered under section 7a–1 of this title;
a board of trade designated as a contract market under section 7b–1 of this title;
a swap execution facility registered under section 7b–3 of this title;
a swap data repository registered under section 24a of this title; and
with respect to a contract that the Commission determines is a significant price discovery contract, any electronic trading facility on which the contract is executed or traded.
(41) Security
The term “security” means a security as defined in section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77b(a)(1)) or section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(10)).
(42) Security-based swap
The term “security-based swap” has the meaning given the term in section 3(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)).
(43) Security-based swap dealer
The term “security-based swap dealer” has the meaning given the term in section 3(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)).
(44) Security future
The term “security future” means a contract of sale for future delivery of a single security or of a narrow-based security index, including any interest therein or based on the value thereof, except an exempted security under section 3(a)(12) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(12)] as in effect on January 11, 1983 (other than any municipal security as defined in section 3(a)(29) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(29)] as in effect on January 11, 1983). The term “security future” does not include any agreement, contract, or transaction excluded from this chapter under section 2(c), 2(d), 2(f), or 2(g) of this title (as in effect on December 21, 2000) or sections 27 to 27f of this title.
(45) Security futures product
The term “security futures product” means a security future or any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege on any security future.
(46) Significant price discovery contract
The term “significant price discovery contract” means an agreement, contract, or transaction subject to section 2(h)(5) of this title.
(47) Swap
(A) In generalExcept as provided in subparagraph (B), the term “swap” means any agreement, contract, or transaction—
that is a put, call, cap, floor, collar, or similar option of any kind that is for the purchase or sale, or based on the value, of 1 or more interest or other rates, currencies, commodities, securities, instruments of indebtedness, indices, quantitative measures, or other financial or economic interests or property of any kind;
that provides for any purchase, sale, payment, or delivery (other than a dividend on an equity security) that is dependent on the occurrence, nonoccurrence, or the extent of the occurrence of an event or contingency associated with a potential financial, economic, or commercial consequence;
(iii) that provides on an executory basis for the exchange, on a fixed or contingent basis, of 1 or more payments based on the value or level of 1 or more interest or other rates, currencies, commodities, securities, instruments of indebtedness, indices, quantitative measures, or other financial or economic interests or property of any kind, or any interest therein or based on the value thereof, and that transfers, as between the parties to the transaction, in whole or in part, the financial risk associated with a future change in any such value or level without also conveying a current or future direct or indirect ownership interest in an asset (including any enterprise or investment pool) or liability that incorporates the financial risk so transferred, including any agreement, contract, or transaction commonly known as—
an interest rate swap;
a rate floor;
a rate cap;
a rate collar;
a cross-currency rate swap;
a basis swap;
a currency swap;
a foreign exchange swap;
a total return swap;
an equity index swap;
(XI)
an equity swap;
(XII)
a debt index swap;
(XIII)
a debt swap;
(XIV)
a credit spread;
(XV)
a credit default swap;
(XVI)
a credit swap;
(XVII)
a weather swap;
(XVIII)
an energy swap;
(XIX)
a metal swap;
(XX)
an agricultural swap;
(XXI)
an emissions swap; and
(XXII)
a commodity swap;
that is an agreement, contract, or transaction that is, or in the future becomes, commonly known to the trade as a swap;
including any security-based swap agreement which meets the definition of “swap agreement” as defined in section 206A of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. 78c note) of which a material term is based on the price, yield, value, or volatility of any security or any group or index of securities, or any interest therein; or
that is any combination or permutation of, or option on, any agreement, contract, or transaction described in any of clauses (i) through (v).
(B) ExclusionsThe term “swap” does not include—
any contract of sale of a commodity for future delivery (or option on such a contract), leverage contract authorized under section 23 of this title, security futures product, or agreement, contract, or transaction described in section 2(c)(2)(C)(i) of this title or section 2(c)(2)(D)(i) of this title;
any sale of a nonfinancial commodity or security for deferred shipment or delivery, so long as the transaction is intended to be physically settled;
(iii) any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege on any security, certificate of deposit, or group or index of securities, including any interest therein or based on the value thereof, that is subject to—
the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.); and
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.);
any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege relating to a foreign currency entered into on a national securities exchange registered pursuant to section 6(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78f(a));
(v) any agreement, contract, or transaction providing for the purchase or sale of 1 or more securities on a fixed basis that is subject to—
any agreement, contract, or transaction providing for the purchase or sale of 1 or more securities on a contingent basis that is subject to the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.) and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.), unless the agreement, contract, or transaction predicates the purchase or sale on the occurrence of a bona fide contingency that might reasonably be expected to affect or be affected by the creditworthiness of a party other than a party to the agreement, contract, or transaction;
any note, bond, or evidence of indebtedness that is a security, as defined in section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77b(a)(1));
(viii) any agreement, contract, or transaction that is—
based on a security; and
entered into directly or through an underwriter (as defined in section 2(a)(11) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77b(a)(11)) [5] by the issuer of such security for the purposes of raising capital, unless the agreement, contract, or transaction is entered into to manage a risk associated with capital raising;
any agreement, contract, or transaction a counterparty of which is a Federal Reserve bank, the Federal Government, or a Federal agency that is expressly backed by the full faith and credit of the United States; and
any security-based swap, other than a security-based swap as described in subparagraph (D).
(C) Rule of construction regarding master agreements
(i) In general
Except as provided in clause (ii), the term “swap” includes a master agreement that provides for an agreement, contract, or transaction that is a swap under subparagraph (A), together with each supplement to any master agreement, without regard to whether the master agreement contains an agreement, contract, or transaction that is not a swap pursuant to subparagraph (A).
(ii) Exception
For purposes of clause (i), the master agreement shall be considered to be a swap only with respect to each agreement, contract, or transaction covered by the master agreement that is a swap pursuant to subparagraph (A).
(D) Mixed swap
The term “security-based swap” includes any agreement, contract, or transaction that is as described in section 3(a)(68)(A) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(68)(A)) and also is based on the value of 1 or more interest or other rates, currencies, commodities, instruments of indebtedness, indices, quantitative measures, other financial or economic interest or property of any kind (other than a single security or a narrow-based security index), or the occurrence, non-occurrence, or the extent of the occurrence of an event or contingency associated with a potential financial, economic, or commercial consequence (other than an event described in subparagraph (A)(iii)).
(E) Treatment of foreign exchange swaps and forwards
(i) In generalForeign exchange swaps and foreign exchange forwards shall be considered swaps under this paragraph unless the Secretary makes a written determination under section 1b of this title that either foreign exchange swaps or foreign exchange forwards or both—
should be not be regulated as swaps under this chapter; and
are not structured to evade the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in violation of any rule promulgated by the Commission pursuant to section 721(c) of that Act [15 U.S.C. 8321(b)].
(ii) Congressional notice; effectiveness
The Secretary shall submit any written determination under clause (i) to the appropriate committees of Congress, including the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives. Any such written determination by the Secretary shall not be effective until it is submitted to the appropriate committees of Congress.
(iii) Reporting
Notwithstanding a written determination by the Secretary under clause (i), all foreign exchange swaps and foreign exchange forwards shall be reported to either a swap data repository, or, if there is no swap data repository that would accept such swaps or forwards, to the Commission pursuant to section 6r of this title within such time period as the Commission may by rule or regulation prescribe.
(iv) Business standards
Notwithstanding a written determination by the Secretary pursuant to clause (i), any party to a foreign exchange swap or forward that is a swap dealer or major swap participant shall conform to the business conduct standards contained in section 6s(h) of this title.
(v) Secretary
For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Treasury.
(F) Exception for certain foreign exchange swaps and forwards
(i) Registered entities
Any foreign exchange swap and any foreign exchange forward that is listed and traded on or subject to the rules of a designated contract market or a swap execution facility, or that is cleared by a derivatives clearing organization, shall not be exempt from any provision of this chapter or amendments made by the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010 prohibiting fraud or manipulation.
(ii) Retail transactions
Nothing in subparagraph (E) shall affect, or be construed to affect, the applicability of this chapter or the jurisdiction of the Commission with respect to agreements, contracts, or transactions in foreign currency pursuant to section 2(c)(2) of this title.
(48) Swap data repository
The term “swap data repository” means any person that collects and maintains information or records with respect to transactions or positions in, or the terms and conditions of, swaps entered into by third parties for the purpose of providing a centralized recordkeeping facility for swaps.
(49) Swap dealer
(A) In generalThe term “swap dealer” means any person who—
holds itself out as a dealer in swaps;
makes a market in swaps;
regularly enters into swaps with counterparties as an ordinary course of business for its own account; or
engages in any activity causing the person to be commonly known in the trade as a dealer or market maker in swaps,
provided however, in no event shall an insured depository institution be considered to be a swap dealer to the extent it offers to enter into a swap with a customer in connection with originating a loan with that customer.
(B) Inclusion
A person may be designated as a swap dealer for a single type or single class or category of swap or activities and considered not to be a swap dealer for other types, classes, or categories of swaps or activities.
(C) Exception
The term “swap dealer” does not include a person that enters into swaps for such person’s own account, either individually or in a fiduciary capacity, but not as a part of a regular business.
(D) De minimis exception
The Commission shall exempt from designation as a swap dealer an entity that engages in a de minimis quantity of swap dealing in connection with transactions with or on behalf of its customers. The Commission shall promulgate regulations to establish factors with respect to the making of this determination to exempt.
(50) Swap execution facilityThe term “swap execution facility” means a trading system or platform in which multiple participants have the ability to execute or trade swaps by accepting bids and offers made by multiple participants in the facility or system, through any means of interstate commerce, including any trading facility, that—
facilitates the execution of swaps between persons; and
is not a designated contract market.
(51) Trading facility
(A) In generalThe term “trading facility” means a person or group of persons that constitutes, maintains, or provides a physical or electronic facility or system in which multiple participants have the ability to execute or trade agreements, contracts, or transactions—
by accepting bids or offers made by other participants that are open to multiple participants in the facility or system; or
through the interaction of multiple bids or multiple offers within a system with a pre-determined non-discretionary automated trade matching and execution algorithm.
(B) ExclusionsThe term “trading facility” does not include—
a person or group of persons solely because the person or group of persons constitutes, maintains, or provides an electronic facility or system that enables participants to negotiate the terms of and enter into bilateral transactions as a result of communications exchanged by the parties and not from interaction of multiple bids and multiple offers within a predetermined, nondiscretionary automated trade matching and execution algorithm;
a government securities dealer or government securities broker, to the extent that the dealer or broker executes or trades agreements, contracts, or transactions in government securities, or assists persons in communicating about, negotiating, entering into, executing, or trading an agreement, contract, or transaction in government securities (as the terms “government securities dealer”, “government securities broker”, and “government securities” are defined in section 3(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a))); or
facilities on which bids and offers, and acceptances of bids and offers effected on the facility, are not binding.
Any person, group of persons, dealer, broker, or facility described in clause (i) or (ii) is excluded from the meaning of the term “trading facility” for the purposes of this chapter without any prior specific approval, certification, or other action by the Commission.
(C) Special rule
A person or group of persons that would not otherwise constitute a trading facility shall not be considered to be a trading facility solely as a result of the submission to a derivatives clearing organization of transactions executed on or through the person or group of persons.
(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 1a, as added Pub. L. 102–546, title IV, § 404(a), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3625; amended Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, §§ 101, 123(a)(1)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–366, 2763A–405; Pub. L. 110–234, title XIII, §§ 13105(j), 13201(a), 13203(a), (b), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1435, 1439; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XIII, §§ 13105(j), 13201(a), 13203(a), (b), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2197, 2201; Pub. L. 111–203, title VII, §§ 721(a), 741(b)(10), July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1658, 1732.)
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, referred to in pars. (12)(B)(v) and (18)(A)(vi), is Pub. L. 93–406, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 829, which is classified principally to chapter 18 (§ 1001 et seq.) of Title 29, Labor. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1001 of Title 29 and Tables.
The Securities Act of 1933, referred to in pars. (17)(B)(ii)(I)(bb) and (47)(B)(iii)(I), (v)(I), (vi), is title I of act May 27, 1933, ch. 38, 48 Stat. 74, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 77a et seq.) of chapter 2A of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 77a of Title 15 and Tables.
The Investment Company Act of 1940, referred to in par. (18)(A)(iii), is title I of act Aug. 22, 1940, ch. 686, 54 Stat. 789, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 80a–1 et seq.) of chapter 2D of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 80a–51 of Title 15 and Tables.
The Investment Advisers Act of 1940, referred to in par. (18)(A)(vi)(II)(aa), (B)(ii), is title II of act Aug. 22, 1940, ch. 686, 54 Stat. 847, which is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 80b–1 et seq.) of chapter 2D of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 80b–20 of Title 15 and Tables.
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, referred to in pars. (18)(A)(viii)(I) and (47)(B)(iii)(II), (v)(II), (vi), is act June 6, 1934, ch. 404, 48 Stat. 881, which is classified principally to chapter 2B (§ 78a et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 78a of Title 15 and Tables.
Subsec. (i) of section 17 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, referred to in par. (18)(A)(viii)(III), was struck out and subsec. (j) was redesignated (i) by Pub. L. 111–203, title VI, § 617(a), July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1616.
Section 25A of the Federal Reserve Act, referred to in pars. (21)(B) and (39)(A)(iv), (vii), popularly known as the Edge Act, is classified to subchapter II (§ 611 et seq.) of chapter 6 of Title 12, Banks and Banking. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 611 of Title 12 and Tables.
Section 225 of the Federal Reserve Act, referred to in par. (39)(A)(iv), probably should be a reference to section 25 of the Federal Reserve Act, which is classified to subchapter I (§ 601 et seq.) of chapter 6 of Title 12, Banks and Banking.
Section 2 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1965, referred to in par. (39)(A)(v), probably should be a reference to section 2 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, act May 9, 1956, ch. 240, 70 Stat. 133, which is classified to section 1841 of Title 12, Banks and Banking.
Section 25 of the Federal Reserve Act, referred to in par. (39)(A)(vii), is classified to subchapter I (§ 601 et seq.) of chapter 6 of Title 12, Banks and Banking.
The Farm Credit Act of 1971, referred to in par. (39)(D), is Pub. L. 92–181, Dec. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 583, which is classified principally to chapter 23 (§ 2001 et seq.) of Title 12, Banks and Banking. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2001 of Title 12 and Tables.
Section 206A of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, referred to in par. (47)(A)(v), is section 206A of Pub. L. 106–102 which is set out as a note under section 78c of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, referred to in par. (47)(E)(i)(II), is Pub. L. 111–203, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1376, which enacted chapter 53 (§ 5301 et seq.) of Title 12, Banks and Banking, and chapters 108 (§ 8201 et seq.) and 109 (§ 8301 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, and enacted, amended, and repealed numerous other sections and notes in the Code. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5301 of Title 12 and Tables.
The Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010, referred to in par. (47)(F)(i), is title VII of Pub. L. 111–203, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1641, which enacted chapter 109 (§ 8301 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, and enacted and amended numerous other sections and notes in the Code. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 8301 of Title 15 and Tables.
Codification
Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.
2010—Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(1), redesignated pars. (2), (3), and (4), (5) to (17), (18) to (23), (24) to (28), (29), (30), (31) to (33), and (34) as (6), (8), and (9), (11) to (23), (26) to (31), (34) to (38), (40), (41), (44) to (46), and (51), respectively.
Pars. (2), (3). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(2), added pars. (2) and (3). Former pars. (2) and (3) redesignated (6) and (8), respectively.
Par. (4). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(4), which directed amendment of par. (9), as redesignated by Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(1), by substituting “except onions (as provided by section 13–1 of this title) and motion picture box office receipts (or any index, measure, value, or data related to such receipts), and all services, rights, and interests (except motion picture box office receipts, or any index, measure, value or data related to such receipts) in which contracts for future delivery are presently or in the future dealt in.” for “except onions as provided in section 13–1 of this title, and all services, rights, and interests in which contracts for future delivery are presently or in the future dealt in.”, was executed by making the substitution in par. (4). Amendment was executed before amendment by Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(1), to reflect the probable intent of Congress, notwithstanding effective date provisions in sections 721(f) and 754 of Pub. L. 111–203. See Effective Date of 2010 Amendment notes below.
Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(2), added par. (4). Former par. (4) redesignated (9).
Par. (5). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(2), added par. (5). Former par. (5) redesignated (11).
Par. (10). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(5), added par. (10). Former par. (10) redesignated (16).
Par. (11). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(6), added par. (11) and struck out former par. (11). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The term ‘commodity pool operator’ means any person engaged in a business that is of the nature of an investment trust, syndicate, or similar form of enterprise, and who, in connection therewith, solicits, accepts, or receives from others, funds, securities, or property, either directly or through capital contributions, the sale of stock or other forms of securities, or otherwise, for the purpose of trading in any commodity for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility, except that the term does not include such persons not within the intent of the definition of the term as the Commission may specify by rule, regulation, or order.”
Par. (12)(A)(i)(I). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(7)(A)(i), substituted “, security futures product, or swap” for “made or to be made on or subject to the rules of a contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility”.
Par. (12)(A)(i)(II) to (IV). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(7)(A)(ii), (iii), added subcl. (II) and redesignated former subcls. (II) and (III) as (III) and (IV), respectively.
Par. (12)(A)(iii), (iv). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(7)(A)(iv), (B), (C), added cls. (iii) and (iv).
Par. (17)(A). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(8), substituted “paragraph (18)(A)” for “paragraph (12)(A)” in introductory provisions.
Par. (18)(A)(iv)(II). Pub. L. 111–203, § 741(b)(10), which directed amendment of par. (19)(A)(iv)(II) by inserting before semicolon at end “provided, however, that for purposes of section 2(c)(2)(B)(vi) of this title and section 2(c)(2)(C)(vii) of this title, the term ‘eligible contract participant’ shall not include a commodity pool in which any participant is not otherwise an eligible contract participant”, was executed by making the insertion in par. (18)(A)(iv)(II) to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
Par. (18)(A)(vii). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(9)(A)(i), substituted “paragraph (17)(A)” for “paragraph (11)(A)” and “$50,000,000” for “$25,000,000” in concluding provisions.
Par. (18)(A)(xi). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(9)(A)(ii), substituted “amounts invested on a discretionary basis, the aggregate of which is” for “total assets in an amount” in introductory provisions.
Par. (22). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(10), added par. (22) and struck out former par. (22). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The term ‘floor broker’ means any person who, in or surrounding any pit, ring, post, or other place provided by a contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility for the meeting of persons similarly engaged, shall purchase or sell for any other person any commodity for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility.”
Par. (23). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(11), added par. (23) and struck out former par. (23). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The term ‘floor trader’ means any person who, in or surrounding any pit, ring, post, or other place provided by a contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility for the meeting of persons similarly engaged, purchases, or sells solely for such person’s own account, any commodity for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility.”
Pars. (24), (25). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(12), added pars. (24) and (25). Former pars. (24) and (25) redesignated (34) and (35), respectively.
Par. (28). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(13), added par. (28) and struck out former par. (28) which defined “futures commission merchant”.
Par. (30)(B). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(14), substituted “State” for “state”.
Par. (31). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(15), added par. (31) and struck out former par. (31). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The term ‘introducing broker’ means any person (except an individual who elects to be and is registered as an associated person of a futures commission merchant) engaged in soliciting or in accepting orders for the purchase or sale of any commodity for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility who does not accept any money, securities, or property (or extend credit in lieu thereof) to margin, guarantee, or secure any trades or contracts that result or may result therefrom.”
Par. (39). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(17), added par. (39).
Par. (40)(B) to (F). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(18), added subpars. (D) and (E), redesignated former subpars. (C), (D), and (E) as (B), (C), and (F), respectively, and struck out former subpar. (B) which read as follows: “a derivatives transaction execution facility registered under section 7a of this title;”.
Pars. (42), (43). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(19), added pars. (42) and (43).
Par. (46). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(20), substituted “subject to section 2(h)(5) of this title” for “subject to section 2(h)(7) of this title”.
Pars. (47) to (50). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(21), added pars. (47) to (50).
Par. (51)(A)(i). Pub. L. 111–203, § 721(a)(22), substituted “participants” for “partipants”.
2008—Par. (12)(A)(x). Pub. L. 110–246, § 13203(a), inserted “(other than an electronic trading facility with respect to a significant price discovery contract)” after “registered entity”.
Par. (29)(E). Pub. L. 110–246, § 13203(b), added subpar. (E).
Par. (33). Pub. L. 110–246, § 13201(a), added par. (33). Former par. (33) redesignated (34).
Par. (33)(A). Pub. L. 110–246, § 13105(j), substituted “transactions—” for “transactions by accepting bids and offers made by other participants that are open to multiple participants in the facility or system.” in introductory provisions and added cls. (i) and (ii).
Par. (34). Pub. L. 110–246, § 13201(a)(1), redesignated par. (33) as (34).
2000—Par. (1). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(2)], added par. (1). Former par. (1) redesignated (2).
Par. (2). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(3)], added par. (2) and struck out heading and text of former par. (2). Text read as follows: “The term ‘board of trade’ means any exchange or association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, of persons who are engaged in the business of buying or selling any commodity or receiving the same for sale on consignment.”
Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(1)], redesignated par. (1) as (2). Former par. (2) redesignated (3).
Pars. (3), (4). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(1)], redesignated pars. (2) and (3) as (3) and (4), respectively. Former par. (4) redesignated (5).
Par. (5). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(1)(A)], inserted “or derivatives transaction execution facility” after “contract market”.
Par. (6). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(1)(A)], inserted “or derivatives transaction execution facility” after “contract market” in subpars. (A)(i)(I) and (B)(vi).
Pars. (7), (8). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(1)], redesignated pars. (6) and (7) as (7) and (8), respectively. Former par. (8) redesignated (16).
Pars. (9) to (15). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(4)], added pars. (9) to (15). Former pars. (9) to (12) and (13) to (15) redesignated (17) to (20) and (22) to (24), respectively.
Par. (16). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(1)(A)], inserted “or derivatives transaction execution facility” after “contract market” in two places.
Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(1)], redesignated par. (8) as (16). Former par. (16) redesignated (28).
Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(1)], redesignated par. (9) as (17).
Pars. (18), (19). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(1)], redesignated pars. (10) and (11) as (18) and (19), respectively.
Par. (20). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(1)], redesignated par. (12) as (20).
Par. (20)(A). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(1)(A)], inserted “or derivatives transaction execution facility” after “contract market”.
Par. (21). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(5)], added par. (21).
Par. (23). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(1)(A)], inserted “or derivatives transaction execution facility” after “contract market”.
Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(1)], redesignated par. (14) as (23).
Par. (24). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(1)(B)], substituted “registered entity” for “contract market” wherever appearing in heading and text and inserted concluding provisions.
Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(6)], added par. (24) and struck out heading and text of former par. (24). Text read as follows: “The term ‘member of a contract market’ means an individual, association, partnership, corporation, or trust owning or holding membership in, or admitted to membership representation on, a contract market or given members’ trading privileges thereon.”
Pars. (25) to (27). Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 101(6)], added pars. (25) to (27).
Effective Date of 2010 Amendment
Pub. L. 111–203, title VII, § 721(f), July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1672, provided that:
“Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act [see Tables for classification], the amendments made by subsection (a)(4) [amending this section] shall take effect on June 1, 2010.”
Pub. L. 111–203, title VII, § 754, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1754, provided that:
“Unless otherwise provided in this title [see Tables for classification], the provisions of this subtitle [subtitle A (§§ 711–754) of title VII of Pub. L. 111–203, see Tables for classification] shall take effect on the later of 360 days after the date of the enactment of this subtitle [July 21, 2010] or, to the extent a provision of this subtitle requires a rulemaking, not less than 60 days after publication of the final rule or regulation implementing such provision of this subtitle.”
Amendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, except as otherwise provided, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an Effective Date note under section 8701 of this title.
Amendment by sections 13201(a) and 13203(a), (b) of Pub. L. 110–246 effective June 18, 2008, see section 13204(a) of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 2 of this title.
Pub. L. 102–546, title IV, § 403, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3625, provided that:
“Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act [enacting this section and section 12e of this title, amending sections 2, 2a, 4, 4a, 6 to 6c, 6e to 6g, 6j, 6p, 7 to 9a, 10a, 12, 12a, 12c, 13 to 13c, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, and 25 of this title, repealing section 26 of this title, enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 1a, 4a, 6c, 6e, 6j, 6p, 7a, 13, 16a, 21, and 22 of this title, and repealing provisions set out as a note under section 4a of this title], this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall become effective on the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 28, 1992].”
Other Authority
“Unless otherwise provided by the amendments made by this subtitle [subtitle A (§§ 711–754) of title VII of Pub. L. 111–203, see Tables for classification], the amendments made by this subtitle do not divest any appropriate Federal banking agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or other Federal or State agency of any authority derived from any other applicable law.”
[For definitions of “appropriate Federal banking agency” and “State” as used in section 743 of Pub. L. 111–203, set out above, see section 5301 of Title 12, Banks and Banking.]
[1] So in original. Probably should be followed by a semicolon.
[2] See References in Text note below.
[3] So in original. The semicolon probably should be preceded by an additional closing parenthesis.
[5] So in original. A third closing parenthesis probably should appear.
Title 17: Commodity and Securities Exchanges
17 CFR PART 1 - GENERAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT
17 CFR PART 3 - REGISTRATION
17 CFR PART 4 - COMMODITY POOL OPERATORS AND COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS
17 CFR PART 5 - OFF-EXCHANGE FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS
17 CFR PART 9 - RULES RELATING TO REVIEW OF EXCHANGE DISCIPLINARY, ACCESS DENIAL OR OTHER ADVERSE ACTIONS
17 CFR PART 20 - LARGE TRADER REPORTING FOR PHYSICAL COMMODITY SWAPS
17 CFR PART 21 - SPECIAL CALLS
17 CFR PART 22 - CLEARED SWAPS
17 CFR PART 23 - SWAP DEALERS AND MAJOR SWAP PARTICIPANTS
17 CFR PART 30 - FOREIGN FUTURES AND FOREIGN OPTIONS TRANSACTIONS
17 CFR PART 32 - REGULATION OF COMMODITY OPTION TRANSACTIONS
17 CFR PART 33 - REGULATION OF COMMODITY OPTION TRANSACTIONS THAT ARE OPTIONS ON CONTRACTS OF SALE OF A COMMODITY FOR FUTURE DELIVERY
17 CFR PART 37 - SWAP EXECUTION FACILITIES
17 CFR PART 38 - DESIGNATED CONTRACT MARKETS
17 CFR PART 40 - PROVISIONS COMMON TO REGISTERED ENTITIES
17 CFR PART 41 - SECURITY FUTURES PRODUCTS
17 CFR PART 42 - ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING, TERRORIST FINANCING
17 CFR PART 151 - POSITION LIMITS FOR FUTURES AND SWAPS
17 CFR PART 166 - CUSTOMER PROTECTION RULES
17 CFR PART 190 - BANKRUPTCY
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PLASA AGM Votes for Membership Restructure
UK - The 2007 AGM of the Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA) saw members vote in a major membership restructuring that will both simplify membership options and increase the choice to members of which PLASA services they wish to use.
The restructure, one of the key items on a packed agenda, was voted in on a show of hands by an overwhelming proportion of the record number of members who attended the AGM at the Hurlingham Club in London on 6 June.
The restructure, which is designed to ensure that PLASA represents the highest possible professional standards, will also provide a framework that better reflects the industry. As such, the existing nine categories of membership have been simplified to just four - Business, Educational, Individual and Affiliate.
PLASA is now working on the fine detail behind the restructure and the new scheme will be officially launched at PLASA07 at Earls Court in September (Sunday 9 - Wednesday 12 September).
The AGM’s agenda was introduced by new Chairman Robert Lingfield, who reminded the Association of five challenging promises made at the 2006 AGM.
PLASA had pledged to develop the Association’s influence and profile, extend members’ business opportunities, grow the membership, develop its internal structure and set standards for the industry.
Of those, Rob explained, the first is well under way through PLASA’s close involvement in the intense political lobbying over the ongoing fight against Ofcom’s RF spectrum sell-off proposals.
New members’ business opportunities, Rob added, will come courtesy of the new PLASA Events division, formed last September, which is looking to launch new events both in the UK and internationally, as well as expanded networking opportunities at the PLASA Show itself this year.
Membership growth efforts, meanwhile, are being tackled on numerous fronts, of which the forthcoming membership restructuring is expected to play a huge part in broadening the Association’s appeal.
Finally, internal restructuring is well underway following the move to new PLASA-owned offices on the outskirts of Eastbourne, providing a more efficient working environment.
PLASA Treasurer David Hopkins focused on the Association’s healthy financial development and its investments, particularly in the funding of political lobbying to ensure industry representation during Ofcom’s Digital Dividend Review and the establishment of both the National Rigging Certificate and NVQs for the Audio and AV sectors.
CEO Matthew Griffiths followed with a look at the year to come, headlined by the PLASA Show’s new layout and new features and other events planned by PLASA Events.
The after-lunch guest speaker was Tony Benn, former labour minister and cabinet member. He delivered a raptly devoured talk that ranged through his military service and political life. One of the few MPs to have truly earned the overused epithet ‘maverick’, his candid recollections of the corridors of power were neatly punctured by the aside that “some people ask me about how I see my political career - but I really don’t recall anything as organised as a career!”
The most fascinating part of the afternoon came when Benn threw open the floor for questions, which were answered with a directness, humour and energy that belied the statesman’s 82 years.
The Hurlingham Club confirmed its success as a venue for the AGM, its spacious halls and grounds the perfect setting for a midsummer gathering in the heart of west London.
Ruth Rossington, Executive Director, PLASA Ltd PLASA Association, Redoubt House, 1 Edward Road, Eastbourne, BN23 8AS, UK Tel: +44 (0)1323 524125 Fax: +44 (0)1323 524121
E-mail:ruth@plasa.org
Web Site:www.plasa.org
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Groom, TX Cremation Services
What to Expect from Cremation Services in Groom, TX
Cremation services in Groom, TX completely understand how you will be devastated by the loss of a loved one and will need help and assistance in arranging a cremation.
One of the main reasons that people regularly choose a cremation over a burial is linked to the cremation costs in Groom, TX. The final bill for cremating a person is usually far lower than the cost of arranging a burial because you do not have to pay for the land, its preparation and then the long-term upkeep.
Across all of America cremations are rapidly increasing as the most popular choice of interment and it is predicted that over 50% of people will choose cremation within the next 20 years or so. An exact and full price list will be passed to the person organizing the cremation so that you fully understand all of the cremation costs in Groom, TX.
Why Do People Choose Cremation in Groom, TX?
When you have experienced standing around a graveside as the body is lowered into the earth, it is an experience that many prefer to forget. The very different, and less dramatic experience of attending a cremation, focuses more on the person who has died rather than the events organized by Groom, TX cremation services.
Some religions will only accept a cremation as the only option for interment and this will be explained by cremation services in Groom, TX. In the past, other religions would not accept a cremation as an alternative, but in modern times, the majority of religions are completely accepting of the cremation method being used.
Were you to cast a survey, you would find that modern cemeteries are regarded as extremely sterile and lacking of great character and if you live in a colder area, a grave is a difficult place to visit because of the weather, especially the snow and even more so in a northern state. This explains why many people look at the Groom, TX cremation costs and choose it as their best option
In the majority of states, you can care for the deceased at your own home, but the majority of people will prefer that cremation services in Groom, TX will undertake the facility.
Groom, TX cremation services will explain that the body of the deceased is placed into a container which can be a coffin or casket, but a simple and suitable container is all that the law requires. At the crematorium, the employees will remove jewelry and medical devices, like pacemakers, to reduce the safety hazards for the cremation process. An efficient tagging system is used so that the individual can always be properly identified.
The individual will be cremated in the furnace at temperatures between 1400?F and 2000?F during the course of 2 to 3 hours, when the body will be reduced completely to fine powder, mostly a grey color. These are the ashes that are then returned to the nominated person as part of the cremation costs in Groom, TX.
All of the options related to the memorial service will be carefully discussed with Groom, TX cremation services.
The Groom, TX cremation costs will detail whether the crematorium will be supplying a standard urn to return the ashes to you or whether you have opted to purchase a model for display which you may decide to use for a number of years.
The individual is always cremated alone, so you can rest assured that the ashes being returned to you are always correct and all of the procedures will be explained in detail by Groom, TX cremation services.
Religious Questions in Groom, TX
Some religious groups will require for a cremation to be completed inside 24 hours after the death of the person. This will be arranged by the funeral director and included within the Groom, TX cremation costs, once all of the legal documentation is complete.
There are so many things that you need to think about after someone has died so you should not be worried about leaning heavily on the skills and experience offered by Groom, TX cremation services.
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Restaurant fire - Willesden
https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2018/july/restaurant-fire-willesden/
Six fire engines and 35 firefighters and officers were called to a fire at a restaurant with flats above in High Road, Willesden.
Part of the ground floor was alight and ducting from the ground floor to the roof were also alight.
Station Manager Steve Chesson, who was at the scene, said: "Crews were faced with a well developed fire when they arrived at the scene.
"They worked hard to bring the fire under control."
The Brigade's 999 Control Officers took 12 calls to the fire.
The Brigade was called at 1352 and the fire was under control at 1638. Fire crews from Willesden, West Hampstead, North Kensington, Park Royal and Clapham fire stations attended the scene.
Park Royal fire station, Wembley fire station, Willesden fire station. News and events from the borough of Brent.
Do you run a takeaways, cafes and restaurant?
If you are in the food business, here are fire safety the essentials you need to know. Fire safety for takeaways, cafes and restaurants overview.
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Love, Justine
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Loyalty in Sports
I almost died the other day, when my brother said something that made me lose faith in his loyalty to the Lakers. My dad wound up with Clippers tickets for the Christmas day game, instead of Lakers tickets like he usually does, and so a few of the boys were all going. I opted out, because I won’t be caught dead at Clippers game, unless the Lakers are playing the Clippers. I went once, but only because my friend was playing in the final rounds of a dodgeball tournament right after the Clippers game. I mean, it’s one thing to go just because there are tickets available, but when I jokingly called my brother a traitor, and he responded with, “What, I’m an L.A. fan,” like a generic L.A. fan, I thought oh dear Lord. You can't do that. Well, I can't anyways. I’m really devoted to my teams.
L.A. has two teams in several sports. You’ve got the Lakers and the Clippers, the Dodgers and the Angels, and the Kings and the Ducks. Although, the Angels and the Ducks technically count as the O.C., but whatever—close enough. I was raised a Lakers fan, a Dodgers fan, and Kings fan, and I stay very loyal to my teams. I don’t root for all L.A. teams, just so when one team is not doing so hot, hopefully the other one is. No, I think that’s bullocks. I think you pick your team and you support them win or lose. It really annoys me right now that some people are straddling both ships, just because the Clippers are doing well; and well, the Lakers are not having the greatest season. If you’ve always been a Clippers fan, then great. I’m happy for you that your team is doing well. For me though, going to a Clippers game would be like shopping knock-offs in the Valley—it just won’t happen.
BIG LOVE & HUGS
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Fourth of July celebrations have evolved in Illinois
By Tom Emery
Today in Illinois, the Fourth of July is a holiday for boating, barbecues and fireworks. In the state’s earliest days, the celebrations were more organized and formal — though the fireworks were a constant.
The first Fourth of July celebrations after Illinois was granted statehood in 1818, as elsewhere, often were loosely scripted. First on everyone’s minds was reverence for the Revolution, which had taken place less than 50 years earlier.
Dr. Samuel Wheeler, state historian of Illinois and director of research and collections at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, says, "Americans of the 1820s and 1830s were closer to the Revolution than we are to World War II. They understood how significant the Revolution was, and held the men and the leaders of that time in very high esteem."
A typical Fourth of July in the era began with the boom of a cannon or the crackling of gunfire, followed by a parade of the leaders of the town, including tradesmen, business owners and militia members, with musical accompaniment. Then the Declaration of Independence was normally read aloud before an array of patriotic speeches was delivered.
"Celebrations of the Fourth of July usually followed an agenda," said Wheeler. "There was a kind of order on how things were to be done."
Afterward, the men of the town gathered at a local tavern or hotel for dinner, complete with 13 formal toasts — one for each of the original colonies. The number 13 was a recurring theme in many July Fourth celebrations nationwide, and some towns featured the firing of 13 guns or cannons as part of the festivities.
"Today, the number 13 is considered unlucky," Wheeler said. "But in that era, everyone knew what 13 meant. That honored the colonies that had banded together and created this audacious new experiment in popular government."
The toasts, too, followed a script. One was for the heroes of the Revolution; another was for the sitting president; and a third was for George Washington. Even the number of cheers after each toast was planned ahead of time. The last of the 13 toasts usually was dedicated to women, who were rarely present at the dinner.
"Women in the 19th century weren’t going to be a part of that," said Wheeler. "Men and women lived in separate spheres in that era. But the women usually celebrated July Fourth in their own way." In one instance in the early 1840s, about 400 women in Springfield held their own outdoor celebration to mark the day.
Fireworks, though, were a mainstay of Independence Day celebrations. "Fireworks or some sort of aerial display were always a feature," Wheeler said. "That really hasn’t changed much in the decades since."
Revolutionary veterans were cherished members of early 19th century society in Illinois and elsewhere, especially on July Fourth.
"Now, our Greatest Generation includes the veterans of World War II, but in that era, it was the Revolutionary veterans," Wheeler said. "People of that time certainly appreciated what those men had done to ensure a new form of government that we continue to enjoy today."
Tom Emery is a freelance writer and historical researcher from Carlinville, Ill. He may be reached at 217-710-8392 or ilcivilwar@yahoo.com. This article was sponsored by Dispatch-Argus-QCOnline.com.
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Crazy, the debut radio single by Canadian Country Singer/Songwriter Danielle Todd, is one of those songs that will stop you in your tracks. Highlighted by passionate and compelling vocals, a universal message about the disarming nature of love, and a vibrant production that will please music lovers across many genres, Todd has seemingly solved the magical formula of how to meld the best elements of modern musical styles with a singer/songwriter’s touch for lyrical depth and literacy. Crazy is a masterstroke of composition that marks the emergence of a fresh, confident artist onto a much larger musical stage.
At its heart, Todd has poured her own experiences and those of many others into a charming, melody-rich song which speaks of the kind of the silly madness that deep, passionate love can evoke in all of us.
“I could write heartbreak songs for days, but I have been writing more upbeat and happier songs lately because that’s what I find fun and I find is needed these days. Crazy is fun; it’s one of those songs you bop along to when it comes on in the car,” said Todd, a native of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Crazy is a strong statement from an artist who is unafraid to be herself, to write music that is perhaps a little outside the country mainstream, but an artist that truly knows how to connect with an audience. It was penned alongside a couple of other up-and-coming writer/performers, Caitie Thompson and Bobbi Holliday, but imbued with Todd’s potently natural charm, enthusiasm and honesty.
After a decade of performing in venues across Ontario, Todd moved to Nashville three years ago, where she has dedicated herself to honing her chops as a writer, as well as becoming an in-demand performer on the competitive local club scene.
As a writer, she has learned from countless songwriting sessions across the breadth of musical genres, ending up with a classic country sound infused with the exceptionally well crafted, memorable pop sensibilities of her first musical inspirations.
As a youngster, Todd was first drawn to the powerhouse pop/soul performances of the likes of Whitney Houston and especially Mariah Carey – the later because she tended to write more of her own music.
“That’s when I fell in love with Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Martina McBride and Michelle Wright and I began to really love and appreciate country music. So, there was Mariah, and those wonderful female country artists, including Dolly Parton, but I also remember really loving the Wilson Philips album which taught me how to sing and write vocal harmony, which has become a huge part of my own sound,” she said.
Nashville is a welcoming city for new talent, but it can also eat you alive if you are not prepared for the hothouse mentality of the songwriting sessions, the round the clock production schedules and the endless gigging and showcasing – all of which is necessary to just make a living.
Danielle wasted no time once arriving in Nashville. She became a gigging musician right out of the gate, learning more than 250 cover songs, across a broad spectrum of genres, pulling in some backing musicians and began working the vibrant club scene along the main musical street in Nashville, Broadway.
In reality, Todd has two full time jobs. The first is as a songwriter and recording artist. The second is as a performer. The second sustains the first. And it’s the way one pays their dues in Music City USA.
“Its not unusual for me to gig five to seven days a week, and it’s not unusual for me to play 14 days in a row if I get asked to pick up some last-minute shows” she says. “On Broadway, every single bar has three or more floors and every floor has a band and there are four shifts seven days a week on every floor. And it never stops.”
“It’s the most insane place to work. But it’s fun, it’s high energy. I am meeting literally thousands of people a day. And I take what I learn and bring it into my songwriting sessions, which usually take place earlier in the day.”
While she pays her dues in Nashville, home is where her heart is and will always be, so Todd is thrilled to release her debut radio single in Canada followed by an international release in Australia shortly after. Crazy is the opening act to what promises to be an intriguing, fulsome and successful solo career of an exceptional performer who, will undoubtedly make audiences stop, look and listen whenever they hear one of her potently memorable songs.
For further information on Danielle Todd:
https://danielletoddmusic.ca
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David Moyes backs Jermaine Beckford to get Everton off to a flyer
DAVID MOYES is backing “hungry” new boy Jermaine Beckford to help Everton get their campaign off to a flying start.
James Pearce
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The Blues striker, who signed on a free transfer from Leeds this summer, is set to make his competitive debut for the club in this afternoon’s Premier League opener at Blackburn.
Beckford is expected to start on the bench with Louis Saha as a lone frontman, but after seeing the 26-year-old find the net three times in pre-season Moyes has been impressed.
“It’s a massive jump for Jermaine but he has settled in well,” Moyes said. “We’re giving him the chance to see how he does in the Premier League and one thing he can definitely do is score goals.
“If we give him the right supply I don’t think that will change.
“What will be different for him is other parts of his game which will be required in the Premier League. Can he link us up, hold the ball up and help us out in other situations?
“Jermaine has terrific movement in and around the box. He offers us something different. He is a hungry player.
“He has come from non-league to Leeds. You hope he retains that hunger and remembers where he was not too long ago and how far he has come. I hope he shows that in his performances.”
Moyes is in confident mood ahead of the trip to Ewood Park. It’s the start of his ninth full season with the Blues and he’s looking to secure an opening day win for only the third time during his tenure.
“I’m really happy with the squad and it’s great I am not talking about a lot of injuries,” he said.
“It’s been a pretty good summer. I’ve got lots of players who want to play and some who are more prepared than others.
“It’s important we get off to a good start. Blackburn had a great home record last season and we were one of only three teams to win there. Sam Allardyce’s teams are always hard to play against and it will be tough for us.”
Tim Cahill is a fitness doubt due to a knee injury, while Moyes must decide whether to draft in John Heitinga. The Holland defender has played no part in the friendlies due to his extended break following the World Cup final.
“Tim has a bit of patella tendonitis in his knee and we will see how he is on Saturday,” Moyes added. “He has some fluid at the front of his knee. We have to hope it’s something that isn’t going to get worse.
“We’ve got one or two with knocks and bruises but nearly all the midweek internationals seemed to be strolls with nothing that competitive. The big problem is some of the journeys they have had to make.
“John Heitinga will travel in the squad and I’ve got a few decisions to make.”
Meanwhile, Moyes revealed the bid Everton rejected from West Ham for Yakubu this week was only £5million.
The Hammers were expected to come back in with an offer of £7.5million for the Nigerian but bizarrely offered less than the £6million that was turned down last month.
Moyes has no desire to offload the striker and insisted: “Yak’s record in the Premier League is as good as anyone’s and while he’s still here I will certainly use him.”
l Steven Gerrard has revealed he would “love” Everton counterpart Mikel Arteta to come into the England fold.
Arteta, who is from the Basque Country and is Spanish by nationality, has never been capped by the reigning European and world champions.
He qualifies for England through the residency rule like his compatriot Manuel Almunia, the Arsenal goalkeeper.
And Liverpool skipper Gerrard admits he would welcome his Merseyside rival into the England camp.
He said: “I’d certainly love nothing better than to see Mikel Arteta available for England.
“You want to play with the best players, and if it makes the England squad better, of course I’d like to see it.”
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Artist Advisory Services
Louise Thomas
London-born Louise Thomas, currently living and working in Berlin, received her BA in Fine Art from the Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall in 2007, following a Diploma in Art Foundation from Kingston University, London in 2004. In addition to participating in Art Brussels with BISCHOFF/WEISS in 2009 and receiving the 2007 Ferdynand Zweig Scholarship, Thomas was shortlisted for the Celeste Painting Prize and 4 New Sensations, organised by the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4, both in 2007.
Recent solo exhibitions include GTA Tru Life at Other Projects, Berlin and Artifice of Paradise at BISCHOFF/WEISS, London (2013), while recent group exhibitions include SHOT at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2013), The Dark Rooms at the Passmore Edwards Institute, Helston (2013), and One Can Often be Thwarted by Some Antidisestablishmentarianism at Primo Alonso, London (2009).
Thomas was Artist-in-Residence at NES in Skagstrond, Iceland, in 2010 and at the Florence Trust, St Saviours Church, London in 2009. Thomas has been a Visiting Guest Lecturer at Falmouth University and Artist Speaker at both The Royal Academy and Serpentine Gallery, London.
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Back David Denby: Is it still possible to teach The Scarlet Letter in high school? Print
David Denby: Is it still possible to teach The Scarlet Letter in high school?
By David Denby
Five years ago, I set out to investigate a very practical question: How in the world do you get fifteen-year-olds, many of them immersed in screens, to read seriously? How do you excite them about literature? I chose fifteen-year-olds—tenth-graders—because they are running through a period in their lives when crucial issues of identity (college or military? what kind of work? straight or gay?) claim a lot of their attention. Yet, at fifteen, they can still be reached. Now, no one reading a Library of America blog post could be indifferent to what’s at stake in this straightforward pedagogic issue: Are we going to create three-dimensional men and women—and citizens—in this country? We will drown if we don’t. Getting students to read seriously lies at the heart of establishing judgment, critical thinking, empathy, and a future audience for literature—an active participation of readers and writers in the defining stories we tell one another.
Lit Up by David Denby (Henry Holt and Co., 2016)
At the moment, no one could be encouraged by the statistics on book-reading among teenagers. Yes, they are reading more words than ever before, but they are reading fragments on screens much of the time—parts of books, articles, texts (endless texts), bits of information from here, there, and nowhere—and not many books, particularly serious books of one sort or another. To answer my question, I “embedded” for an entire academic year in a single tenth-grade English class in a Manhattan public school—the Beacon School—and, later in my reporting, I repeatedly visited an inner-city school in New Haven, Connecticut, and an upper-middle class school in Mamaroneck, New York. I wrote up my observations as a narrative, and Holt published it, in February of this year, as Lit Up.
In the tenth-grade class at the Beacon School, taught by an inspired dynamo named Sean Leon, the students read Hawthorne’s difficult story, “The Minister’s Black Veil.” As they struggled, I couldn’t help wondering, What about The Scarlet Letter? The book, central to the American canon, had become notoriously hard to teach in high school. The Scarlet Letter is passionate, almost anguished, fantastical, shot through with intimations of the supernatural entering everyday life, but for American teenagers it is also stiff, awkward, and distant. As it happened, an eleventh-grade class at Beacon was taking up The Scarlet Letter at the same time as Mr. Leon’s tenth-grade class was reading “The Minister’s Black Veil.” So I had to find out. How do you teach this extraordinary book? What follows is a slightly expanded version of what appears in Lit Up.
At the beginning of her classes, Mary Whittemore, an attractive woman in her late thirties, with light brown hair and gray-green eyes, pushed the desks out to the far walls and lined up the abandoned chairs in rows. The class had become an auditorium. Suddenly, from the corner behind her, a student emerged from a supply closet. She was holding a bedraggled baby doll, and she was wearing on her chest a large A. The other students giggled and sighed. An instant of suspense: Would the A fall off? No, it was made of felt, and it had an adhesive back. She climbed onto a chair on a raised platform in front of the class, and everyone began hissing and jeering.
Thus the first scene of Hawthorne’s novel, in which Hester Prynne, the book’s magnificent heroine, emerges from a “beetle-browed and gloomy” jail and stands on a scaffold before a good part of seventeenth-century Boston. In her arms, she holds her illegitimate baby, Pearl. After this opening bit of classroom theater, Miss Whittemore handed out pages of script to different students who played the the principal characters—the handsome young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester’s former lover; the decrepit elderly doctor, Roger Chillingworth, her cuckolded and coldly enraged husband; the town officials and clergymen, the harpies and ordinary citizens. She chose still other students to read the narration. The script was the students’ first introduction to the novel. Reading aloud, they stumbled over words like “contumely,” and they laughed at the intentional period formality of Hawthorne’s prose—the “hithers” and “haths” were a problem.
Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood (detail), 1841. (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)
D. H. Lawrence, in Studies in Classic American Literature, teased Hawthorne as “a blue-eyed darling” who nevertheless “knew many disagreeable things.” Among the disagreeable things that Hawthorne knew: prurience, social cruelty, sadism masquerading as concern, moral weakness disguising itself as sanctity. Hester is an outcast, branded for her adultery, yet she has not, in her own eyes, done anything wrong; Dimmesdale, in his own eyes, has, and he suffers terribly from agitation, physical weakness, despair—all the symptoms of a man in psychological torment. But his sin is not so much lust as hypocrisy. When he stands before the community as a minister, he feels himself an imposter, and his torment is only increased when Chillingworth, who keeps his identity hidden, moves in with him under the guise of helping him and sticks the knife in and twists it. Nasty solicitude is perhaps the most disagreeable thing that Hawthorne knew.
Miss Whittemore’s students were an ethnically mixed group, white black, Latino, and Asian—a New York cohort from upper-middle-class, middle-class, and poor families (about a quarter of the school’s students fell below the poverty line). In a country as diverse as America, there are no “typical” schools, but this school was at least representative, and the students were baffled by the moral logic of the story. They had trouble understanding a society suffused with the presence of God, and still greater difficulty accepting extreme punishments dealt out by a godly people. One girl, exasperated, burst out: “I don’t get it. If she’s married, and she’s got a baby, what is the problem?” There speaks the twenty-first century! Her scorn produced a ripple of amusement. Listening to them, I thought to myself, the students were living in that part of America which had been emboldened by the loosening of sexual morals in the sixties. As John Updike once put it, a Freudian view had prevailed: Sexual health required pleasure, large doses of it. The students judged Hester by modern standards, and by those standards, in which sexual pleasure was a right for women as well as men, she was certainly not innocent, but she was not terribly guilty, either. In general, the students initially felt that the emotions of the story were overwrought in relation to what was actually at stake. Why was an entire community obsessed with an adulterous woman? Hawthorne’s own view, of course, was infinitely complicated and finally unknowable. He was a novelist, not a moralist; or not simply a moralist.
As she worked her way through the novel with her students (they read it home as well as in class), Mary Whittemore was calm, encouraging, friendly—her face mild, her eyes flashing when a student said something especially interesting. Yet she was extremely persistent, with hints of an underlying fire beneath the warmth and equanimity. The students responded to her, especially in those moments when she cast away mildness. For four weeks, she alternated an increasingly detailed discussion of character, atmosphere, and motive with additional performances in the reading theater. After a while, the idiom became more familiar, the difficulty of the prose easier to handle. When Miss Whittemore caught a student reading Dimmesdale weakly, she asked, “What does that mean? What did you just say? Do you know what you just did, Dimmesdale?”
“Let me think,” the reader said shyly. A few minutes later, when the conversation came back to him he said, “I just made a lot of excuses and contradicted myself,” which caught Dimmesdale’s confusion; the reader had fallen into the character without quite realizing it. So did the others. A tall, pale, intellectual boy, dry and earnest, with a bony nose and parchment voice, read Dimmesdale a few times and then seemed more like Dimmesdale every time he made a comment. A blustering boy lowered his voice to insinuation as Chillingworth. A girl who spoke a great deal, her words normally a thicket of “likes” and “sort ofs,” read Hester’s refusal to relinquish her child— “God gave her into my keeping. I will not give her up!” —with passionate anger, and, after that, her classroom comments became leaner, more to the point, less self-conscious. She was the first woman to give herself to what she was reading. The others followed. Some of the women began to speak angrily of what Hester had to put up with. Hester embroiders her A, flaunting it, and the girl who was so derisive about Hester’s situation earlier said, “Her spirit isn’t being beaten down with it. She’s fighting it.” Whatever the students’ resistance to the novel, Hawthorne’s defining strength cleared away their adolescent vagueness.
Hester Prynne at the stocks—engraved illustration from an 1878 edition.
As the weeks went on, the students admitted that they were surprised by the power of the fable. Hawthorne suspended the three adults and Hester’s daughter, wicked little Pearl—a child associated with nature, amoral and irrepressible—in a physically vague but psychologically dense thicket of fear, guilt, pride, and vengeance. At first, the students thought Chillingworth might be sincere, even helpful in his advice to Dimmesdale. A worldly, knowledgeable man, plausible, sensitive to the nuances of personality—Chillingworth’s ruthless subtlety did not fit into their moral universe. Understanding what he was up to was an introduction, for many of them, into the nature of perversity, a stage in their moral education and their perception of character. The girls in the class, initially baffled by Hester’s situation, warmed to her power, her indifference to contempt. Hester becomes a repentant Christian woman, yet there’s something brewing in the fervency of her pride. “She was patient—a martyr, indeed—but she forebore to pray for her enemies; lest, in spite of her forgiving aspirations, the words of the blessing should stubbornly twist themselves into a curse.”
Mary Whittemore not only got the students to embody the characters as much as possible, she made them see the fable as shaped around certain choices, conditions, changes in character. She kept shifting the classroom routine, hitting the students with different exercises, challenges, contexts—rearranging the desks, for instance, for debates over Chillingworth’s character. In class, they turned toward one another and explicitly disagreed. Should Dimmesdale publicly confess his affair with Hester, as Chillingworth insists? The confession would end his public usefulness as a minister. On one occasion, Whitmore assigned a single page to each student, randomly chosen in class, and asked them to write a commentary on that page. Even if they had wanted to, they couldn’t have used an online study aide (the bane of all English teachers) to outsmart her. She kept the apparatus of reading constantly in motion, so the students could never settle or allow the book to fall away from them. She made the book possess them, so that, eventually, they would possess the book.
All along, they had been quizzed on the reading, and near the end of the unit there was a full-length test, followed by a final assignment: They wrote papers extending the narrative, in the voice of one or another of the characters. The tall, bony boy whose Dimmesdale was so effective wrote, of Hester, “Her hair was a beautiful black, like the night’s sky, that flowed down her face like rain, like the flow of water down a stream”—a lover of women wrapped in parchment and uncertain grammar. The girls were bolder, more in the spirit of Hester. One girl wrote about a young woman going back and forth between two lovers—Hester unleashed. Another wrote a utopian fantasy of old New England under the domination of women, with some of the gender roles reversed—Dimmesdale is a woman married to Chillingworth, and Mr. Hester Prynne is a man, with whom Dimmesdale has an affair. That sent my mind spinning.
In the final class on The Scarlet Letter, Mary Whittemore showed up wearing a twenty-dollar black Cher wig and holding a baby doll in her arms—the same baby doll that a student had held earlier. It was a return to the scaffold, where Hester had faced the jeering students. Miss Whittemore sat on a high stool. “The teacher Mary asked me to talk to you,” she said quietly. “She asked me to answer your questions for your test tomorrow. I will answer any of your questions about my behavior.” The students settled down and peppered her. They were with her, longing on her behalf for the happiness which, at the same time, they accepted she would never have. They all agreed, for instance, that Hester Prynne could not run away with Arthur Dimmesdale even if he had the strength to take her off. In the end, the moral complexities of The Scarlet Letter made sense to them. Taught aggressively and flexibly, with humor and dramatic power, Hawthorne’s difficult book still lives in high school.
Of course, this is only one class, and in one school. Surely Miss Whittemore’s way of teaching The Scarlet Letter cannot claim to be the only way. You might say it was a moral and thematic rather than a literary reading. An approach that emphasized structure, language, and metaphor would be a more difficult to pull off, but, perhaps, in the end, more satisfying. But remember that so many American teens are grudging readers. They must begin somewhere. These students had done a good first reading of a difficult American classic.
There is no royal road to heaven. But just as certainly, parts of what Miss Whittemore did could be highly useful—even galvanizing—with different students, living in different cities. They are as diverse as the forest, American students, but, to adapt the language of seventeenth-century Boston for a second, their souls all need to be saved.
(david-denby.com)
David Denby is a staff writer and former film critic for The New Yorker, and his reviews and essays have appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, and New York magazine, among other outlets. In addition to Lit Up, he is also the author of Great Books, an account of returning to college and reading the Western classics during the curriculum wars; American Sucker, Snark, and Do the Movies Have a Future? He lives in New York City with his wife, writer Susan Rieger.
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Not our mess
By Marketing Week 1 May 2003 12:00 am
The alcohol industry claims that it advertises responsibly, bound by codes of practice, and that it is not to blame if people choose to abuse its products. The health lobby, however, buoyed by its success in banning tobacco ads, looks likely to pick drink as its next target.
The alcohol industry, often accused of encouraging binge drinking and using inappropriate sexual and sporting imagery in its advertising campaigns, is taking steps to clean up its act as it tries to fend off legislation aimed at curbing its marketing activities.
Many in the industry fear that it could be next in line – after tobacco – to face an advertising ban. These fears have already prompted two major players to take radical steps towards promoting “responsible drinking”.
Diageo, which produces Guinness, Gordon’s Gin and Johnnie Walker, claims it will be the first drinks company to set up a social responsibility unit to ensure that its UK marketing adheres to internal and external ethical guidelines (MW last week), although rivals say that they have been promoting the sensible-drinking message for several years. Diageo is also considering adding a “responsible drinking” message to some or all of its UK marketing communications.
In a separate move, the two Glasgow football clubs, Rangers and Celtic, are to take the step of selling alternative versions of replica kits for children, with the name and logo of the teams’ main sponsor, Carling, removed (MW last week). The initiative follows changes in the code of practice of the alcohol industry’s self-regulatory body, the Portman Group. The code covers the naming, packaging and promotion of alcoholic drinks. It now specifies that alcohol brand names should not be carried on merchandise aimed at children. Replica kits are excepted – provided that an alternative kit, without the sponsor’s name, is also made available.
The moves come in the middle of Government consultation, conducted by the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and the Department of Health, to produce a national alcohol harmreduction strategy for England. The document is expected to explore the impact of alcohol advertising and the “objectives” of the advertisers who market these products.
It is likely that the Government will want manufacturers to label their bottles with detailed health warnings, just as the tobacco industry has been forced to under European Union and UK legislation.
‘Please don’t buy too much of our product’
Although the drinks industry claims that it is working closely with the Government to tackle the problems associated with alcohol misuse, it would not welcome the statutory introduction of any health warnings.
It fears that publication of the strategy document, due this summer, could trigger fresh demands for tighter restrictions on alcohol sales and advertising, and that this could eventually lead to an all-out ban on advertising, similar to that suffered by the tobacco industry.
A Scottish Courage spokesman says: “Lobby groups believe that they have won the war against tobacco, and inevitably the alcohol manufacturers are next in the firing line. The industry needs to behave responsibly. Our business is to sell alcohol, but if we do not market it in accordance with the existing codes of conduct, we shall be putting our own future in doubt.”
A marketer from a rival company adds that, by trying to monitor itself more effectively, the alcohol industry is hoping to send out the right signals to the Government and lobby groups: “The health lobby is convinced that, whatever regulations might exist, the alcohol market is not interested in promoting sensible drinking. There certainly are threats to advertisers, with the EU having signalled a crackdown on alcohol advertising. Eventually, it could go the way of tobacco advertising.”
Is ad-banning addictive?
In February this year, tobacco advertising on billboards and in newspapers and magazines was finally banned in the UK. The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act became law in December, extending the ban on TV advertising to text-based ads. Tobacco sponsorship of sport is also being phased out.
Carole Brigaudeau, communications and project manager of the Amsterdam Group, a European trade body for alcohol producers, admits that the European Commission is in talks with the industry about legislation to tackle under-age drinking and drink-driving. But she says: “Unlike tobacco, alcohol advertising is likely to remain self-regulated in the future.”
Allied Domecq director for group social and environmental policy Jan Buckingham maintains there are significant differences between the alcohol and tobacco industries. She says: “The alcohol industry has never pretended that over-use or misuse of the product cannot have dangerous consequences. This was not the case with tobacco manufacturers. Also, there is plenty of scientific research showing that drink in moderation is good for an individual’s health. I do not think that alcohol will ever have to face a blanket ban on its advertising and marketing.”
The EU has yet to introduce any restrictions on alcohol marketing, but countries such as Denmark and Finland have strict regulations banning virtually all advertising outside trade magazines, and Sweden is asking for a European embargo on all alcohol marketing. France has already banned TV ads for alcohol and the Republic of Ireland, Holland, Germany, Greece and Spain are all considering restrictions.
WHO says we’ve had enough
Pressure to introduce restrictions is likely to continue, from lobby groups as well as heavyweight organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), which has attacked alcohol marketing as “aggressive and ubiquitous” and has claimed that the excessive consumption of alcohol is one of the main causes of ill health.
In the UK, the drinks industry is subject to several sets of advertising regulations designed to prevent the targeting of teenagers and the use of sport and sexual imagery in advertising. The Independent Television Commission, a statutory body, regulates TV ads; the Radio Authority polices radio ads; and non-broadcast advertising is subject to a voluntary code of conduct, drawn up by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
In addition, the Portman Group, founded in 1989 by the alcohol industry, has drawn up its own marketing code which aims to promote responsible attitudes towards alcohol consumption and prevent under-age drinking.
But pressure groups such as Alcohol Concern, claiming that the Portman Group is ineffectual, are campaigning for an “impartial” body to be set up to govern all marketing of alcohol. An Alcohol Concern spokesman says: “The Portman Group is a toothless body. We would like to see an independent regulator for alcohol marketing.”
Cranking up the codes
Last month, the Portman Group tightened its marketing code in response to concerns that ready-to-drink (RTD) products are encouraging teenagers to develop a taste for alcohol and that the marketing of such drinks increases their appeal to that group. Portman Group director of corporate communications Jim Minton says: “This demonstrates the effectiveness of the existing code of conduct. We have the flexibility to make rapid changes in response to public concern. Any legislative measure would be unnecessary.”
The ITC also maintains that its existing restrictions on alcohol advertising work well. Last year, it upheld complaints against only one alcohol ad, Carling’s “licking the flat clean” execution, which attracted 69 complaints for having an inappropriate sexual theme. An ITC spokeswoman says: “The situation was exacerbated by the fact that the ad was transmitted during the World Cup, when children could be watching. The transmission of the ad was then restricted to after the watershed.”
On the basis of its own monitoring research, the ASA estimates that 98 per cent of alcohol ads comply with its advertising code of practice. But it has been quick to amend its code when problems have arisen. After lobby groups complained that Budweiser’s “frogs” ads were attractive to teenagers and children, the ASA introduced a new rule stating that “treatments that are likely to appeal to minors should not be used” when advertising alcohol.
One industry insider admits, however, that several loopholes exist for alcohol advertisers. For instance, both the ASA and ITC codes of practice preclude linking alcohol with sporting achievement. But the drinks industry is free to sponsor as many sporting events and teams as it likes, Carling’s three-year deal with Rangers and Celtic being an example. According to some, these conflicting messages from alcohol brands give ammunition to the industry’s critics.
And Hugh Burkitt, chief executive of the Marketing Society and a member of the Portman Group’s complaints panel, says that alcohol marketers tend to push their luck. He comments: “Many alcohol ads are in danger of straying too far from the rule book. They tend to go against the spirit of the rules laid down by the Portman Group, which is why I think alcohol advertising will come under a great deal of pressure in the near future.”
Heard this one before?
But Heineken marketing director Leslie Meredit argues that drinks brands do not deliberately flout the self-regulatory precepts of “truth and decency” when advertising their brands. She says the purpose of advertising is not to encourage excessive drinking, but to reinforce brands and steal market share: “As a marketer, I know that no advertising is so powerful as to convince people to do something they have never done before. Advertising can only make the brand relevant for consumers.”
Critics, however, point out that this argument is the same as that which was often used by the tobacco industry, and that it eventually carried little weight with the regulators.
Although it may not be the sole factor driving the increase in alcohol consumption, and thus leading to ill health, advertising by its very visibility becomes an obvious target for health campaigners.
And while self-regulation remains the preferred option for alcohol advertisers, the worry for the industry must be that the Government and the EU have acquired a taste for the regulation of marketing and advertising after their battle with the tobacco industry. Alcohol could find itself next on the menu.
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Dr. Melani Shaum is the director of the Gastrointestinal Tumor Program at The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute. Through this role, Dr. Shaum is instrumental in broadening access to clinical trial and research programs in gastrointestinal cancer for our patients. On a daily basis, she takes her commitment to gastrointestinal cancer research one step further by examining how research results translate into meaningful improvements in our patients’ lives. Dr. Shaum received her medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Shaum completed a fellowship in Hematology / Oncology at UCLA, where she was named Chief Resident in medicine. During her distinguished career, Dr. Shaum has served as the director of clinical hematology and oncology at Cedars-Sinai and as clinical faculty at the City of Hope Cancer Center. Dr. Shaum is entirely devoted to patient care. Her warmth, compassion, and commitment are features that have made her beloved by her patients. Dr. Shaum has been an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA Medical School since 1987. She has had the honor of being listed in The Best Doctors in America from 1996 to the present and was listed in The Essential Guide to L.A.'s Best Doctors. It was this devotion that led to the dedication of the new Medical Oncology and Surgical Oncology Units at Saint John's Health Center in her honor. She manages a wide variety of cases with special interests in breast and women’s cancers and has become one of the most important local consultants in this field. This expertise has led to important focus on women’s issues in colorectal cancer therapy. By joining The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, she has fulfilled her core desire to bring this expertise to the greater Los Angeles community.
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John McDonogh (1779-1850) was born in Baltimore but lived most of his adult life in New Orleans as a businessman, plantation owner, sometime-politician, Presbyterian, and a supporter of the American Colonization Society. When he died, he bequeathed approximately half of his enormous wealth to the city of New Orleans “for the establishment and support of Free Schools […] wherein the poor (and the poor only) of both sexes of all Classes and Castes of Color, shall have admittance, free of expense for the purpose of being instructed….” Baltimore City, however, already had an established public school system, so McDonogh directed that the other half of his wealth be used to establish “a School Farm on an Extensive scale, for the destitute, and the Poorest, of the Poor, Male Children and Youth.”
McDonogh School was founded on November 21, 1873, when 21 poor boys from Baltimore City arrived on the 835-acre campus, approximately 15 miles northwest of Baltimore's harbor, where they would live, work, and learn. The first principal of the school, Col. William Allan, organized the boys into a semi-military program, and the school became a military, boarding, farm school for poor boys for most of the next century.
Major milestones in McDonogh’s structure include the first pay students admitted in 1922 and the first day (non-boarding) students admitted in 1927. The first African-American student was admitted in 1959. The semi-military program was abolished in 1971, and the first female students enrolled in 1975.
Today, McDonogh is a PK-12, non-denominational, coeducational, college preparatory day school that also offers a five-day residential life option for Upper School students. John McDonogh’s Rules for Living, the McDonogh Character Compass, the school's diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the LifeReady Academic Plan guide current students to become resilient, lifelong learners of strong character.
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William McDonough » News & Events » Circular Economy » McDonough’s ICEhouse Celebrates its Third Year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
McDonough’s ICEhouse Celebrates its Third Year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
January 18, 2018 - Architecture + Urban Strategies, Business + Innovation, Circular Economy
William McDonough’s ICEhouse™ (Innovation for the Circular Economy house), which made its debut in January 2016, celebrates its third year as a meeting space for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Since its inception, the space has served as a central hub for global leaders and innovators attending the annual meeting. McDonough, a customary attendee for the event, has been leading sustainability and circular economy discussions at WEF for almost two decades. He served as the inaugural Chair of the Forum’s Meta-Council on the Circular Economy (2014-2016) and won the 2017 Fortune Award for Circular Economy Leadership during last year’s event. This year, he will be leading a historic conversation with industry leaders on carbon in the fourth industrial revolution, which will build on his commentary published in the scientific journal Nature: Carbon is not the enemy during COP22 in Marrakech, November 2016. McDonough aims to facilitate a momentous dialogue in moving beyond the circular economy in order to design for the next century.
“The ICEhouse represents the idea of creating intention for materials innovation in the circular economy,” said McDonough. “The materials serve a purpose, they come apart, and then serve other purposes. There is no waste. The conversations happening inside the ICEhouse are also significant in that we’ll be exploring tough challenges industries face, such as how to use carbon in the fourth industrial revolution. How can we safely recycle chemicals? How can we get beyond oil and deal with its remnants already designed here on Earth? What can we do with ocean plastics to make recycling nontoxic and material integrity far-reaching? How can we produce value without negative consequences? This is only the tip of the iceberg–together we will use the ICEhouse as a meeting ground for innovation for the circular economy and beyond.”
The ICEhouse is primarily made of four materials: aluminum (the structural frame), polymer, aerogel, and Nylon 6 carpet tiles from Shaw Floors. These four materials are assembled in ways that allow them to be easily disassembled and reused in another location. As defined technical nutrients, at the end of their use cycles they can be returned to industry and endlessly remanufactured into new products with no loss in material quality. They are all either Cradle to Cradle Certified™ or in the process of becoming certified.
ICEhouse also is an experiment in employing the WonderFrame™, McDonough’s broader vision for an open source, simple, flexible structural system that can be erected quickly and that can be made of locally available materials. The structure is comprised of simple elements connected using simple tools. This special Davos version uses aluminum for the frame material. The walls and roof structure were assembled on-site by a crew of four workers in just a few days; the entire structure will be completed in eleven days.
Working with Hub Culture, a global collaboration network, the ICEhouse was designed by William McDonough + Partners, Architects and built by WonderFrame, LLC. The project was supported by and is in close collaboration with SABIC. For more information about the ICEhouse, see here.
ICEhouse in the news:
ArchDaily: William McDonough Unveils ICEhouse™, The Next Step in the Circular Economy
Building Design + Construction: At Davos forum, a McDonough-designed meeting space showcases circular economy innovation
Composites Manufacturing: Thermoplastic ICEhouse Stands out at 2017 World Economic Forum
Inhabitat: ICEhouse designed for continuous reuse will be 100% Cradle to Cradle certified
Sustainable Brands: McDonough Unveils ICEhouse™, Designed to Illustrate Innovation for the Circular Economy, at Davos
The Architect’s Newspaper: William McDonough’s multi-use ICEhouse can be quickly assembled using local materials
Video: SABIC ICEhouse Story
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Axel Killian/plainpicture ALL the lonely people, where do they all come from? When The Beatles wrote Eleanor Rigby in 1966, they helped perpetuate the stereotype that loneliness is a problem of elderly and isolated people. Maybe it was true 50 years ago, but no longer. Loneliness can and does affect anybody. And yet we barely talk about it. If loneliness were just a social problem, it would be bad enough. But it is also a public health disaster, linked to a slew of chronic illnesses. Surveys suggest it is a routine feature of modern life. In the UK, for example, the Co-op and the British Red Cross found that more than 9 million adults are always or often lonely. Children and people with disabilities also report high levels of loneliness. It is not hard to find plausible reasons. More people live alone, and the number of single-parent households is rising. Education and work mean that many of us live far away from our families. At the same time, technology has changed the way we work, shop, socialise and entertain ourselves, largely serving to reduce the amount of face-to-face contact we get. This is exacerbated by an insidious “cult of busyness” that elevates productive work time above everything else. This adds up to an epidemic of loneliness – and that is not a word that is used casually. Chronic loneliness is dreadfully damaging to people’s mental and physical well-being. As a public health problem it is up there with smoking and obesity, yet it hardly registers in the public mind. For campaigners, it has proved a lonely furrow. This is not for lack of trying. In 2010, UK charity the Mental Health Foundation published a report called “The Lonely Society?”, which flagged up the mismatch between the seriousness of the problem and its relative neglect by health professions and obscurity in the collective consciousness. “We can’t stop social trends driving the epidemic, but our collective denial still needs to change” The report closed with a series of recommendations. The first was to increase awareness of loneliness, in part to tackle the stigma and shame attached to it. The second was for doctors and social workers to gain a better understanding of its potential consequences, and to educate them about the services that are available to deal with it. Those recommendations are as pressing now as they were at the time. If anything, the trends driving increased loneliness have become even more apparent, and our scientific understanding of its impact has become much clearer. We also know how to intervene, quite easily and cheaply. Curing loneliness might just be the most cost effective public health intervention available. There may not be much we can do about social trends driving the epidemic, but our collective denial of it still needs to change. There are welcome signs that this is happening. Before she was murdered in 2016, British MP Jo Cox was working to create a national commission on loneliness. That has now been realised posthumously, bringing together MPs and various campaigns to raise awareness. In her maiden speech to the House of Commons in 2015, Cox famously said “we have far more in common with each other than things that divide us”. One of the things we have in common is our propensity for loneliness and our unwillingness to talk about it. Until we change that, we will keep on asking ourselves “where do they all come from?”, as if loneliness is something that happens to other people. This article appeared in print under the headline “Oh, lonesome us” More on these topics:
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That may sound encouraging, but Lamas quickly issued a stern warning: “The rate of dying is statistically lower, but it’s still a risk of dying.”
Differences among Hispanics
What’s more, there are significant differences in mortality rates among the largest Hispanic subgroups — Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Cubans — making the study of the U.S. Hispanic population more challenging.
In a report published online in January in JAMA Cardiology, researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine found that Puerto Ricans and Mexicans — in comparison to Cubans and non-Hispanic whites — were younger at the time of death from cardiovascular disease. Yet, Cubans and Puerto Ricans had higher rates of ischemic stroke (a restriction in blood supply to tissues) and hypertensive heart disease. Because not all Hispanics face the same level of mortality risk, physicians are calling for more research.
“Findings from this study suggest that aggregation of Hispanics as a single group fails to capture important differences in [cardiovascular disease] outcomes for this increasingly important and growing segment of the population,” the Stanford researchers wrote. “Public health efforts should be geared toward culturally appropriate interventions to reduce the burden of [cardiovascular disease] risk factors in this diverse population.”
Death rate differences aside, cardiologists continue to warn of high rates of cardiovascular disease among Hispanics. While many risk factors can be controlled by changes in lifestyle — eating healthier and exercising — not everyone is willing to make those changes.
There is a higher concentration of carbs in the Hispanic diet.We do love our pastelitos.
Dr. Sandra Chaparro, director of the Heart Failure Clinic at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Martha Uribe, 34, was one person who did. The Pembroke Pines woman immediately changed her dietary choices after she was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle. She eventually received a pacemaker and then a heart transplant, and attributes her survival to both the medical care she received and her lifestyle transformation.
Yet, she says family members aren’t learning from her experience, though cardiomyopathy runs on her father’s side. “I know a lot of people, mostly Hispanics like my family, who just load up on the white rice,” Uribe said. “They don’t stay away from the salt either.”
One of her physicians, Dr. Sandra Chaparro, director of the Heart Failure Clinic at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said she is vigilant about informing patients that their choices play an important role.
“It’s important to let people know that how they manage their risk factors plays a big part in their health outcome,” Chaparro said. “It’s not just genetics. You can modify your diet, increase your exercise and pay attention to your numbers.”
At higher risk
Hispanics tend to have a higher incidence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Consider:
Overall, 12.8 percent of all Hispanics suffer from diabetes, compared with 7.6 percent of non-Hispanic whites. American Diabetes Association
▪ Diabetes. About 13 percent of Hispanic men and 11 percent of Hispanic women have been diagnosed with diabetes, but it’s estimated that an additional 7 percent and 5 percent, respectively, have the disease but don’t know it. Overall, 12.8 percent of all Hispanics suffer from the chronic disease, compared with 7.6 percent of non-Hispanic whites.
Diabetes is directly linked to cardiovascular problems. From 2009 to 2012, of all adults 18 years or older with diagnosed diabetes, 71 percent had high blood pressure and 65 percent had elevated cholesterol levels. In 2010, hospitalization rates for heart attacks were 1.8 times higher among adults with diagnosed diabetes than among adults without. Hospitalization rates for stroke were 1.5 times higher among diabetic adults, too.
▪ Obesity. More than 77 percent of Hispanic adults are overweight or obese, compared with 67.2 percent of non-Hispanic whites. And the numbers are more alarming among children. More than 38.9 percent of Latino children are overweight or obese, compared with 28.5 percent of non-Hispanic white children.
Physicians say there are many reasons for this disparity. “There is a higher concentration of carbs in the Hispanic diet,” Chaparro said. “We do love our pastelitos.”
The problem may be compounded, Chaparro added, because Hispanic families tend to favor fast food over more healthy alternatives. It’s a matter of both time and money.
Hispanics also tend to exercise less, certainly not the recommended 30 minutes daily.
“I’ve noticed, especially among the women, that they’re less likely to exercise than non-Hispanics,” said Dr. Natalie Regalado, an internal medicine practitioner with Baptist Health Primary Care.
She attributes this to several factors, from the fact that exercise may be less ingrained in the culture to women putting their needs last.
▪ Tobacco. While Hispanic adults have a lower prevalence of cigarette smoking and tobacco use than other ethnic groups, with the exception of Asian Americans, the rates vary among the subgroups. About 21 percent reported current use of a tobacco product in 2013, but that figure broke down as follows: 28 percent of Puerto Ricans, 19.8 percent of Cubans, 19.1 percent of Mexican Americans and 20 percent of other Central and South Americans.
The number of cigarettes smoked per day was highest among Cuban daily smokers — 50 percent of Cuban men and more than 35 percent of Cuban women reported smoking 20 or more cigarettes per day. Cigarette smoking leads not only to cardiovascular problems but also to cancer.
▪ Hypertension. Seventy-two percent of Hispanics had high blood pressure (hypertension), which is strongly linked to stroke, heart attack and heart failure, compared with 66 percent of non-Hispanic whites. Also, Hispanics, as well as African Americans, are less likely than whites to get their condition under control, according to research published in the American Heart Association journal. Part of the reason, researchers believe, is that Hispanics are less likely to receive drugs and/or intensive therapy for their condition.
To delve into Hispanic cardiovascular problems, local scientists continue to participate in research. UM , for example, is participating in The Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), a multi-center epidemiologic study that looks at the role of acculturation in the development of disease as well as the risk factors that play a harmful role. UM researchers also are taking part in studies of Smoking Cessation in Hispanic Construction Workers, Hispanic Secondary Stroke Prevention Initiative and one that explores left ventricular-assist devices in Hispanics.
Mount Sinai’s Lamas is recruiting patients for a research trial through the National Institutes of Health. Called TACT2 (for Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy), the trial examines the use of intravenous chelation therapy in combination with oral vitamins in the treatment of heart disease. TACT2 is a follow-up to a 10-year study that used chelation — a process by which a medication, in this case edetate disodium, grabs toxic metals within the body and helps their removal in the urine. The initial TACT showed a reduction in heart attack, stroke, death and other “heart events.”
Until these studies and others bear fruit, though, there is no replacement for clean living — and visits to the doctor.
Regalado, of Baptist Health, believes one key to improving compliance and treatment among Hispanics is for them to maintain a relationship with a primary care physician.
“Many people know they have to lose weight, exercise more and stop smoking and they don’t,” she said. “But I think that if they had continuing care and a long-term relationship with a primary care doctor who they trust, maybe the message would be easier to get across.”
Dr. Gervasio Lamas, chief of cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center, analyzes chelation therapy results at his office in Coral Gables. C.M. GUERRERO El Nuevo Herald file photo
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Who is Joaquin Castro? Texas Rep. says Russia probe may land Trump associates in jail
By Chris Sosa
Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas made headlines when he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in a televised interview that he was anticipating the incarceration of some Trump associates.
“I wouldn't be surprised after all of this is said and done that some people end up in jail,” Castro said, referencing the investigations into Trump’s ties to Russia.
Castro serves on the House intelligence committee and told Blitzer that he was unable to elaborate on his comment, but restated the premise: “My impression is that people will probably be charged, and I think that people will probably go to jail.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi walks with Rep. Joaquin Castro after a closed-door briefing with acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan.
Castro steps out of his brother’s shadow
Castro's twin brother Julian Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio and secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Barack Obama's administration, has been floated as a possible Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, but he’s mostly flown under the radar in the early days of the Trump administration.
Joaquin Castro has had a much quieter, albeit distinguished, political career. The Texas congressman was selected as a chief deputy whip for the Democratic Party in the 114th Congress. Castro currently sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Castro acted as a surrogate for Hillary Clinton.
Rep. Joaquin Castro addresses the Texas Democratic convention.
A quiet progressive with a history of nonprofit work
Castro’s public image has tended toward a focus on community-building and nonprofit work. His biography materials go out of their way to elaborate on his nonpartisan activities.
The following is a truncated excerpt from his Congressional page:
He created the Trailblazers College Tour, personally raising money to send underprivileged students on college visits, giving them exposure to some of the nation’s best institutions of higher education. He also founded SA READS, San Antonio’s largest literacy campaign and book drive. ... Joaquin created the annual Families Helping Families dinner and awards. ... Joaquin is active on several boards of education-related, non-profit organizations, including the National College Advising Corps, and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials’ Taskforce on Education.
Despite his evasion of politicizing his position, Castro is a clear liberal. The American Civil Liberties Union gave him a 94 percent rating in 2015 to 2016, and the Human Rights Campaign awarded him a perfect score, according to VoteSmart.
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Kraus-Anderson ‘offensive strategy’ finds pockets of growth in commercial construction
By Brad Allen | 08/20/2010
Courtesy of Kraus-Anderson Construction
A sketch of the FBI’s Minneapolis Division’s new five-story field office.
“It’s been a great breath of fresh air in otherwise troubling economic times.”
That’s how Alan A. Gerhardt, chief operating officer at Kraus-Anderson described the last two months, a period when the Minneapolis-based construction company booked $372 million in new projects, extending into 2012.
Kraus-Anderson’s revenue topped $800 million in 2006, but fell to $473 million last year, when the firm was ranked the 110th-largest construction firm in the United States, according to Engineering News Record.
The recent bookings represent nearly 80 percent of KA’s entire 2009 revenue and its largest two- month tally of business booked over the last two or three years, Gerhardt said. About 10 percent of the $372 million is related to federal stimulus funds, he noted.
The new business KA announced includes several projects:
Gundersen Lutheran Hospital, LaCrosse, Wis.
Open Systems International, corporate headquarters, Medina
Gustavus Adolphus College, academic building, St. Peter
GH Holdings First Avenue Development, student housing serving the University of Minnesota, Rochester,
Crow Creek Tribal School, K-12 school in Stephan, S.D.
Molasky Group of Companies’ new five-story field office for the FBI’s Minneapolis Division.
Gerhardt credits the firm’s resurgence to the “offensive strategy” it launched in late 2008 as the economy was tanking. “We certainly recognized we were headed into slightly uncharted waters,” he observed.
To prepare, the company consolidated offices and cut its employee count by nearly one-third, similar to other contractors in the area.
But the privately held firm resisted what he described as “a death spiral of size-to-fit.”
Instead, senior management began to “focus on what the new normal post-crisis environment would look like,” Gerhardt said. The firm’s market research and experience over the past several years led them to concentrate on projects in health care, education, government and senior housing.
“We believe those are the markets that will recede the least” during the recession, Gerhardt said. “Health care and education [construction spending] will probably be flat near term” until credit conditions improve, he added. The COO also sees pent-up demand in senior housing and predicts “a big slug will come up through the pipeline.”
The 30-year KA veteran looks at three key indicators in calibrating a possible upturn in commercial construction:
• The stock market is off its post-crash bottom and fighting to come back.
• Gross domestic product (GDP) growth returned in Q3 of last year.
• And he’s “starting to see more positive trends” in employment as it edges back.
Gerhardt’s “best guess” is that we’ll have to wait until mid-2011 before we see a significant, measurable, long-term non-residential construction market rebound.
Gerhardt proudly pointed out that KA remained profitable throughout the downturn. The 113-year old firm’s conservative approach to real estate investment positioned it with a healthy balance sheet heading into the downturn.
In contrast to Minneapolis-based Opus Corp., which developed speculative retail and office real estate projects that subsequently drove three subsidiaries into bankruptcy and resulted in on-going litigation, KA took a more conservative approach during the real estate boom earlier in the decade.
Recalling that the company has survived recessions and a depression, Gerhardt said: “We probably have been criticized for our conservative approach to the market. We weren’t the ones to take large land positions or do speculative building over the last 70 years. We didn’t hop on the latest trends … Maybe that cost us a few missed opportunities, but we’re feeling pretty good today.”
Recent industry data suggest that commercial construction has a long way to go.
The value of nonresidential constructiondeclined 14 percent July to July but rose 5 percent year-to-date, according to Reed Construction Data, a division of Reed Elsevier.
“Heavy starts were the highest in six months with a surge in highway and bridge projects in the first month,” Reed’s chief economist, Jim Haughey, said. “There were sizable July gains for developer-financed retail, hotel and warehouse (but not office) projects, which signals that this cyclically sensitive sector may be recovering,” he said.
“However, institutional building starts declined in July,” he added. “Federal stimulus funds cannot offset the collapse of state and local government finances.”
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Open Streets on Lake: From Somali dancers to vintage 45s and Bernie Sanders signs
By Jim Walsh | 08/03/2015
Since its launch five years ago, Open Streets Minneapolis has evolved from its first two streets, Lyndale and Nicollet in South Minneapolis, to Franklin Avenue (Aug. 16), Lowry Avenue North (Sept. 26), University Avenue (Sept. 12) and East Lake Street, which took place Sunday afternoon.
It was a gorgeous Sunday for the gathered congregation of bicyclists, walkers, runners, skateboarders, rollerbladers, dog walkers and all else who took to East Lake Street, which was closed off from S. Elliot Avenue to E. 42nd Street. In photos and words:
MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
Irene Brassil, Janet Harvey, Isabella Swanson, Minneapolis. “It’s a great thing; it lets all the little businesses show off to everybody going by on their bikes, or walking,” said Harvey. “I live half a block from here, and East Lake Street has needed some work and had a lot of empty storefronts, but it’s really starting to change now. This is just the push it needs.”
Rifat Yeasmin (and baby Ruhan), Minneapolis. “I am the owner of Lake Street Gifts and Oils. We have been here for 11 years. We have oils, and fragrances; 800 different types for both men and women. Anything you want or like, we have the largest and purest here. You always want to smell good, and you want your home to be smelling good. If you have some drops of oils, people would love you. If you smell good, they will praise you.”
Alex Reynolds, Minneapolis. “I grew up right in this neighborhood, I work at Northern Sun, and I’m a Bernie Sanders supporter. Absolutely. It’d be hard not to be. Personally, I really love the sense of community. It’s like living in a small town, but in a big city. I live in Longfellow, and I’ve always known all my neighbors’ first and last names. We have a lot of really great restaurants and gift shops that are not chains – like Northern Sun. What’s hot? We definitely have a lot of Bernie Sanders stuff in right now. Shirts, bumper stickers, pins, magnets, lawn signs, everything.”
Wally Hernandez, Minneapolis (right). “We’re representing the Mexican tradition and history. Today is an opportunity for Minnesota and for Latinos to open the minds for everybody.”
Emily Floyd, Zoey Melf, Harrison Bergman and Nathan, Jr. (seated), Minneapolis. “This is kind of the hub of south Minneapolis, the main vein of the southside of the city, in my opinion,” said Melf. “We live a couple blocks away; I’ve lived in Minneapolis for 20 years and I used to think of Lake Street as the more urban, less affluent chunk of south, but now it’s changed to being the hub, the kind of multicultural focal point of our south Minneapolis and we all love it. It’s the greatest.”
“I think it really is the cultural center of south Minneapolis,” said Floyd. “Heart of the Beast has been a huge anchor for 40 years now, and they are pulling all aspects of the community together to celebrate what we have here, which is business, it’s culture, it’s nature, it’s just our shared history. I think that’s a really big, cool thing. I think Midtown market is a great endeavor and has more potential. I think Powderhorn Park is a gem. This is a snapshot. What I want to imagine is that every vibrant city in the United States probably has a Lake Street equivalent and this is our big shining one. If you want to know what’s happening in Minneapolis, Lake Street.”
“But we want less driving on Lake Street,” added Melf. “Give up a lane, add some bikes, and we’d have way more pedestrian traffic and it’d be great for business. That’s the future. The more pedestrian and bicycle traffic we have in South, the better our quality of life is.”
Vanesa Torezani. “I actually live in White Bear Lake, but I worked for many years in the Minneapolis area and we love it here. I’m originally from Argentina. We’re selling frosted nuts; peanuts, walnuts and almonds. It’s a traditional recipe from Argentina. My dad is here, he does this for a living in Argentina and he’s teaching me. I want to put my spot in the Global Market. I lived here in Minneapolis for 15 years, and this was a way different place. It was a different world. Young families and a lot of different cultures are moving in here, and I think people are discovering that and I’m so excited about that.”
Khalid Dahir, Minneapolis. “I am part of the Somali Museum of Minnesota, and I’m a dancer in today’s presentation. We want to teach all who doesn’t know about our culture about Somali. How we eat, how we sleep. I’m saying to everyone, don’t leave your culture. If you don’t catch your culture, you will be in another world. For example, if we all leave Somali culture, there will not be Somali, it will just be American, or something else.”
Nick Bennett, Minneapolis. “I’m a deejay. I’ve seriously just found, like, 40 45s here [at Hymie’s Vintage Records, which was celebrating Open Streets by giving out free vinyl Sunday.] I just found the ‘Star Wars’ theme and a lot of good old Motown stuff and ‘50s rock and roll and all these wicked record labels you don’t see around anymore. A lot of these records are indestructible, so even if they’re beat up you can still play them and they’ll sound good. I live in Toronto now and I deejay at some bars there, that’s where I’ll play them.”
Andrew Tubesing, St. Paul. “This is my Minnesota Biking Ship. I got this hare-brained idea last spring. I built it out of an old canoe, and this summer I’ve been out in it a lot. It’s great at night, too, because it’s got lights and I’ve got a sound system and so it’s a rolling dance party. It’s not at all hard to go enjoy myself on it. Go to www.vikebike.com and you can see the picture story of me building it.”
Gini Redgrave and Sue Hunter Weir, Minneapolis. “Pioneers and Soldiers [Memorial Cemetery] is the oldest existing cemetery in Minneapolis. It has ties to the early anti-slavery movement, so it’s always had a very diverse background, and that’s unusual for something that dates to 1853,” said Hunter Weir. “It was the first cemetery in Minnesota, and [its graves include] the early African-American community, tons of immigrants; we have 22,000 burials and 10,000 are children under the age of 10. Vaccinate your kids is what that means.”
Kayla Tinklenberg and Connie Williams, St. Paul. “Today we’re just pushing out nutritional facts and things that people don’t know about McDonald’s. There’s a lot of education options that people don’t know about. We offer scholarships, and if you work as a manager, you get college credits, which is what I’m doing,” said Tinklenberg.
“I’ve been with McDonald’s for 30-plus years,” said Williams. “I started out as a crew person in Louisiana and I’ve stuck with it. McDonald’s is the best. It teaches you at a young age, first of all, how to be responsible, and that McDonald’s is a career. We’re here spreading the good word today that we have great value and healthy choices and weight management and about the good works of the Ronald McDonald House.”
Jim Walsh
Jim Walsh, a former City Pages music editor and award-winning columnist for the Pioneer Press, writes about music and local culture. He is the author of the oral history "The Replacements: All Over but the Shouting."
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Shropshire and Staffordshire The Snailbeach District Railways
The Snailbeach District Railways
Andy Cuckson, sb, size 27.5 x 21.5 , 218pp, contains 273 pictures and illustrations
Publishers Review, The Snailbeach District Railways was one of Britain’s lesser known public narrow gauge railways. Never carrying passengers, its history and workings have never before been fully explored but after many years research Andy Cuckson is able to reveal a fascinating story, not just about the railway but also about the mines and minerals the line supported and the people who built and worked it, including Henry Dennis, the entrepreneurial civil
engineer and mine manager. The book tells of the early railways in the area and the many plans to bring rail access to this part of Shropshire, and of the development and impact of the mines. Of the railway all aspects are described; a variety of steam locomotives, rolling stock, engineering, operation and
people. The rundown of the mines brought problems but despite all the line survived finding a new role hauling roadstone, and became part of the Colonel Stephens light railway empire. After all the steam locomotives were condemned an agricultural tractor kept traffic moving. After 82 years, from 1877, the line finally closed in 1959 but, surprisingly, the company still exists, on paper. As well as a great deal of work in archives and historic records Andy got to know many of the older residents of the area who told him much about how the railway worked and ran in its later years. Many photographs have never been published before and many of the maps and drawings have been specially commissioned. This is the fullest account possible of the
Snailbeach District Railways and will become the standard work on the line.
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Home News Recycling prices grow, rules get stricter
Recycling prices grow, rules get stricter
Contamination renders recyclables into garbage.
Brian Dowd
Members of the Edgartown board of selectmen listen to concerns raised about recycling bins approved for Main Street. - Brian Dowd
After approving the installation of five blue recycle bins in downtown Edgartown at their meeting last week, selectmen heard from Don Hatch, the manager of the Martha’s Vineyard Refuse Disposal and Resource Recovery District, who asked for the bins to be monitored due to the rising costs of recycling and stricter rules on what can be recycled.
Hatch said the cost of recycling increased on May 1 from $65 a ton to $100 a ton.
“It’s not a good situation,” Hatch said. “It’s getting stricter by the month.”
The issue is contamination. Hatch said one person throwing a soda can that wasn’t washed out properly into a recycling bin can contaminate all the other cans, which can then contaminate an entire container once it goes to the refuse district.
When garbage is collected, the refuse district sends it to Covanta Southeastern Massachusetts Resource Recovery Center (SEMASS) in Rochester. If recycling is contaminated it also goes to SEMASS to be converted into electricity through a shred-and-burn process. Hatch said it is cheaper to send the recycling to SEMASS at $64 a ton.
If the bins are installed, Hatch said, he wants to see how contamination could be mitigated.
“There’s going to be things put in there that shouldn’t be put in there, and how do you control that?” selectman Margaret Serpa said.
Selectmen said Hatch should discuss the blue recycling bins with Julia Celeste, whose family owns Rosewater Market and is paying for them.
In other business, the Edgartown Water Department was awarded a beyond-compliance award. The awards were given to the water department by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with recognition from the state Senate.
There are 1,649 water systems in Massachusetts, with Edgartown being in the top 49, according to Bill Chapman, water superintendent. “We’re proud to serve this community, and we’re proud to work in the caliber that we do,” Chapman said.
Bad Martha Farmer’s Brewery was granted an extension to its summer entertainment license. The popular brewery will now have entertainment four days a week in July and August.
The request was met with pushback from neighbors who said the music can be too loud, but selectmen agreed to extend the license, and if complaints came up, they would review them. Selectman Michael Donaroma, who leases the property to the brewery, did not participate in the discussion or vote.
After extensive interviews, selectmen selected Allan Debettencourt as the town’s new highway superintendent. Debettencourt has been serving as the interim superintendent after his predecessor Stuart Fuller left the job.
3D May 15, 2019 at 6:12 am
Getting too complicated and expensive….a lot more that could be recycled will just end up in trash.
dondondon12 May 15, 2019 at 9:04 am
come on people, It’s not rocket science to build a structure and put in a system of sorting out the bad stuff before it goes off island. Any kind of system could easily sort out the nickel deposit cans and bottles and likely pay for itself with just that revenue.
Jake May 15, 2019 at 1:31 pm
So it costs $100 a ton to recycle which isn’t working and it costs $64 a ton to make trash into electricity. Why are we trying to recycle?
andrew May 15, 2019 at 3:31 pm
Today, 1,654 landfills in 48 states take care of 54 percent of all the solid waste in the country. One-third of them are privately owned. The largest landfill, in Las Vegas, received 3.8 million tons during 2007 at fees within the national range of $24 to $70 per ton. Landfills are no longer a threat to the environment or public health. State-of-the-art landfills, with redundant clay, plastic liners, and leachate collection systems, have now replaced all of our previously unsafe dumps. More and more landfills are producing pipeline-quality natural gas. Waste Management plans to turn 60 of their waste sites into energy facilities by 2012. The new plants will capture methane gas from decomposing landfill waste, generating more than 700 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 700,000 homes. Holding all of America’s garbage for the next one hundred years would require a space only 250 feet high or deep and 10 miles on a side. Landfills welcome the business. Forty percent of what we recycle ends up there anyway. We are not running out of landfill space. It has been calculated that if Americans keep generating garbage at current rates for 1,000 years, and if all their garbage is put in a landfill 100 yards deep, by the year 3000 this national garbage heap will fill a square piece of land 35 miles on each side. This doesn’t seem a huge imposition in a country the size of America. The garbage would occupy only 5 percent of the area needed for the national array of solar panels proposed by environmentalists. The millennial landfill would fit on one-tenth of 1 percent of the range land now available for grazing in the continental United States. And if it still pains you to think of depriving posterity of that 35-mile square, remember that the loss will be only temporary. Eventually, like previous landfills, the mounds of trash will be covered with grass and become a minuscule addition to the nation’s 150,000 square miles of parkland.
viewfromhere May 15, 2019 at 4:57 pm
I’m not a math major, but why in the world would you send anything to recycling? send it all out to be burned, and save the money.
If your feelings are hurt because you cannot recycle. Bask in the warmth that your taxes will not go up because the town is spending money foolishly on something that is not cost effective.
dondondon12 May 15, 2019 at 8:10 pm
viewfromhere— it is not always the most economic thing that should be done– I have a $15,000 septic system that handles the septic waste from my house. I could have spent $150 on an outhouse. If you compare septic systems to out houses, it’s really really foolish to spend all that money.
Are the towns that have waste water treatment plants “foolish”? They could all have an outfall pipe 1/2 mile off shore, and that would be really cheap.
There are cost associated with “cost effective” solutions to long term environmental problems.
I am not a math major either, so why not just build a fire pit in your back yard, and skip the town all together ? You can even get matches for free in most vineyard markets.
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Home Arts & Entertainment Going solo
Shelagh Hackett tells her story in M.V. Playhouse’s Spring Solo Show.
Shelagh Hackett will perform her solo show "Kiss Me, I'm Irish" at the M.V. Playhouse on Friday, May 17, and Saturday, May 18, at 7:30 pm. — Gabrielle Mannino
What do Nancy Aronie, Joann Green Breuer, Molly Conole, Nicole Galland, Boaz Kirschenbaum, MJ Bruder Munafo, and Gerry Yukevich have in common? Playwright, actress, and singer Shelagh Hackett, that’s who.
In a theatrical version of “It takes a village,” Hackett recently related the serendipitous path she took in creating “Kiss Me, I’m Irish,” her new solo show premiering this Friday and Saturday at the M.V. Playhouse as part of its Spring Solo Shows.
I first saw — and admired — Hackett acting in a show at the playhouse directed by Joann Green Breuer, whose work I also admire, in the early 2000s. “As expressive in speech as she is in song,” Green reflects, “Shelagh’s a natural, graced with gentle humor and nuanced embrace of each character she inhabits.”
Hackett, an experienced actress who trained at the NYU Stella Adler Studio, and spent 15 years working in theater and cabaret in New York City, has written her first play, in which she also stars. Hackett grins and says, “It’s an hour and 15 minutes if people laugh, shorter if they don’t.”
Along with her time in NYC, and a yearlong “misguided adventure” to Portland, Ore., Hackett’s been a wash-ashore since 1995, having been a summer kid growing up. She is married to piano technician and tuner Boaz Kirschenbaum, and the couple’s combined family includes Hackett’s 16-year-old daughter Fiona and 11-year-old son Finn, plus Kirschenbaum’s son Cassidy, also 11. “I wouldn’t have been able to do this without my husband’s support,” Hackett said. That support, sure. But don’t forget having the inclination, energy, discipline, and time to devote to this kind of project, now that she’s retired from the Oak Bluffs School as an educational support professional.
Enter Nancy Aronie and her Chilmark Writing Workshop, which Hackett attended last year. “During Aronie’s workshop,” Hackett says, “I began thinking writing was as interesting as listening. I was fascinated by other people’s stories, and thought maybe I’d write mine down.” Aronie, who knows of what she speaks, was impressed with Hackett’s efforts in class: “Every time Shelagh finished reading, I saw her onstage. Plus, the room would break out in a rousing spontaneous applause. The woman is a great writer, a wonderful performer, and has the most important element for memoir — in my opinion, which is always right (I’m just kidding, but not really) — she’s courageous enough to be vulnerable. She is willing to say, ‘This is who I am.’”
Next we have Gerry Yukevich, the longtime M.V. Playhouse board member, actor, and doctor in his spare time. Yukevich, after hearing some of Hackett’s writing at Aronie’s workshop, told Hackett she should write a bunch of monologues and string them together as a show. This made sense to Hackett. She sat down and wrote 24 monologues in 21 days.
Sounds like divine intervention, and many artists talk about work pouring out quickly onto the paper, or piano, or what have you. But there’s technique involved too, and a lifetime of artistic exploration. In this play, Hackett is sharing her specific story, after years as an artist, partner in marriage, teacher, and mom, cogitating on what stays with you from age 23 to 55, and what morphs into something new.
Now Nicole Galland comes into the picture. She’s a novelist and co-director, along with Chelsea McCarthy, of the playhouse’s popular Shakespeare for the Masses, who attended an informal reading Hackett organized to share her new script. Galland, who lives in a world of the written word and theater, encouraged Hackett to continue. Early on, Galland worked with Hackett as an ad hoc dramaturg, exploring what was working and what might need revision.
Molly Conole, who had her own show in the Solo Shows series, is our next character in the Hackett writing adventure. After attending Hackett’s reading, Conole was impressed, and suggested to Hackett, who was unaware of the Solo Show series, that she submit the work to Munafo, M.V. Playhouse’s artistic and executive director, for consideration for the series.
Continuing Hackett’s journey, Munafo, who conceived and curated the Solo Shows series, and directed Molly Conole’s show, which took place last week, says, “I’ve known Shelagh for a very long time, and helping her shape and develop her solo show was a great chance to reconnect in a deeply personal and meaningful way. She is a terrific performer, with so much humor and heart. And she can write and tell stories and sing! It’s been my privilege to work with both Molly and Shelagh on their first-ever solo shows, and I’ve loved every minute.”
Conole and Hackett have essentially started at the same point — autobiographical one-woman shows. Conole’s version was conceived from the beginning as a musical. Hackett’s wasn’t, although she’s is an experienced singer, who studied with Barbra Streisand’s voice teacher Elizabeth Howell, and has an extensive background as a professional singer.
As Hackett was putting “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” on its feet, she thought adding some songs might work. Hackett relates, “In my early drafts of ‘Kiss me, I’m Irish,’ there was not much music, and I didn’t sing at all,” Hackett says, “But after working with MJ, I realized my story couldn’t be told without music or song. I added pieces of tunes that are milestones in my life and pivotal to my story.”
Hackett, even though she’s a first-time playwright, has a mature approach to the process, and has welcomed input from the “village” of colleagues. She believes if there’s a mutual trust, considering advice from other professionals is helpful, and found Munafo’s input as director inspirational. That said, the work is Hackett’s own, her own story, in her own voice.
“Kiss Me, I’m Irish,” written and performed by Shelagh Hackett, directed by MJ Bruder Munafo. Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, May 17 and 18, 7:30 pm. All tickets $30. 508-696-6300. mvplayhouse.org.
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