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US will reunite and release over 50 immigrant children
July 10, 2018 10:04:23 AM
SAN DIEGO -- More than 50 immigrant children under age 5 will be reunited with their parents by Tuesday's court-ordered deadline for action by Trump administration, a government attorney said Monday. The families will be released after they are reunited.
That's only about half of the 100 or so infants and toddlers covered by the order.
At a court hearing, Justice Department lawyer Sarah Fabian acknowledged the government wouldn't meet the deadline for all the children, citing a variety of reasons, including that the parents of some of the youngsters have already been deported.
Fabian said that 54 children will be joined with their parents by the end of Tuesday at locations across the country and that an additional five were undergoing final background checks.
It was the first time the government indicated whether the parents and children would be released or detained together. They will be set free in the U.S. pending the outcome of their immigration cases, which can take several years.
Fabian didn't say why they were being released, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has little space to hold families.
ICE has three family detention centers with room for about 3,000 people in all, and the places are already at or near capacity. The Trump administration is trying to line up thousands more beds at military bases.
American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt told reporters he was "both pleased and disappointed" with the government's progress toward meeting the deadline.
"Tomorrow there will hopefully be more than 50 babies and toddlers reunited with their parents, and that is obviously an enormous victory," he said. But he said those who remain split from their parents are "in for a long process."
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw ordered both sides back in court on Tuesday to give another update and for him rule on differences over protocols to follow when reuniting children.
The two sides revealed in a filing late Monday that they are far apart on protocols for reunification, with the government arguing its practices are necessary under federal law to ensure child safety and the ACLU contending that many are too cumbersome under the circumstances. One area of disagreement is DNA testing on parents and children, with the government saying it should be the general rule and the ACLU saying it should be done only when no other evidence is available to prove parentage.
Other areas of disagreement include whether fingerprint checks should be run on other adult members of the household and parent participation a legal orientation program should be required before release.
More than 2,000 children in all were separated from their parents by U.S. immigration authorities at the border this spring before President Donald Trump reversed course on June 20 amid an international outcry and said families should remain together.
Late last month, Sabraw, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, set a 14-day deadline to reunite children under 5 with their parents and a 30-day deadline for older children. The 30-day deadline is up July 26.
Monday's hearing set the stage for a dramatic day of reunifications on Tuesday across the country, though they are likely to occur largely outside public view. Fabian did not disclose where the reunions would take place.
As for most of the rest of the under-5 children who have yet to reunited with their families, Fabian said that their parents have already been released into the U.S., have been deported, or are behind bars on criminal charges.
One child has not been matched with a parent, Fabian said. The ACLU identified him as a 3-year-old boy.
The hearing followed a feverish weekend of talks between the administration and the ACLU after the judge refused on Friday to grant a blanket extension to the deadline, saying instead that he would only consider certain exceptions.
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Foreign markets boost WSP profit to £8.8m
Support services group WSP said this week that it was doing well because of strong performances in the USA and Sweden.
Pre-tax profit rose by one-third to £8.8m in the six months to 30 June, on a turnover of £169m, an increase of 12%.
Chief executive Chris Cole said: “We are delivering improved results in a market that is relatively unchanged so we must be doing something right.”
In the UK WSP is pitching for bigger projects as lead consultant and three months ago was appointed on the £350m Birmingham New Street station redevelopment, a mixed-use scheme in the city centre. It is working as leading masterplanner with John McAslan + Partners and Chapman Taylor as retail architects.
WSP is working on the redesign of the Freedom Tower in New York and the Shard of Glass tower at London Bridge.
The results did not come as a surprise to the market because WSP had issued an upbeat trading statement in July, in which it said performance would be better than expected.
As a result shares were little affected when the figures were announced on Monday, falling by less than half a per cent to 343.5p.
The company has been one of the best performers of 2005 so far, and shares have been rising steadily over the past two years.
WSP confident of new year prospects
Engineering consultant says firm will continue to grow in 2006 as commercial property market strengthens.
WSP profit rises by 28%
Construction group's results ahead of expecations as turnover increases by £71m to £374m for 2005.
Profit leaps 33% at WSP
Consultant reports £12.1m pre-tax profit and record order book of £625m in interim results
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Giles Bettison
Giles Bettison, a graduate of Australia's Canberra School ofArt, is known for both artistic and technical innovation. While still a student, he applied an ancient Venetian glassworking technique – the fusing of bundled glass cane cut into patterned slices called murrine – to a new material: an American-made colored sheet glass. By using strips of sheet glass instead of cane, Bettison was able to achieve the appearance of woven textiles. He has applied this technique to a variety of forms, from traditional vessels to sculptural blocks mounted on steel.
Bettison has received a number of prestigious awards, including the Best New Talent award from UrbanGlass in New York (1999) and the Bavarian State Prize Gold Medal in Germany (2001). Bettison was also the recipient of the Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp prize for design from the Canberra School of Art (1996).
My work is an exploration of my movement through life, expressed in colors, patterns and forms. The light and color in rural and outback Australia are part of my experience of connecting to place and people. I use abstract representations of these and other places to explore my feelings; I want to include some essence of what these places mean to me. - Giles Bettison
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Everett Raymond Kinstler - Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross, 2008
Oil on canvas, 53 x 47 inches
Gift of Kara and Stephen M. Ross (BBA '62)
Born in New York, Kinstler started drawing at a young age. He first began with comic books and paper back covers. It was not long until he came into the genre that he would become most known for; portraits. Kinstler has painted for over forty years, creating over 1200 portraits. Many of these include famous actors and politicians including six presidents.
Stephen M. Ross, BBA ’62, is chairman, CEO and founder of The Related Companies. He formed Related in 1972 to develop, finance and manage government-assisted rental apartments. Today, the company includes more than 2,000 professionals who oversee a real estate portfolio valued in excess of $15 billion.
Based on a substantial gift in 2004, the University of Michigan renamed its business school the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
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After years of wasting time in meetings, 3 former Googlers decided to do things differently at their new startup
Mark Abadi
Beeswax's chief technical officer, Ram Rengaswamy, Beeswax's chief technical officer, Ari Paparo, its CEO, and Shamim Samadi, its chief product officer.
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Pointless meetings are killers for productivity and can annoy employees in an office.
The executives of the startup Beeswax, all former Google execs, say they've learned how to keep meetings streamlined and efficient.
Experts agree that keeping meetings short and small are critical to keeping them on track.
A pointless, never-ending meeting is a great way to kill productivity in the workplace.
The three founders of the ad-tech startup Beeswax seem to get that. The trio, all former Google ad executives, say their approach to meetings is a little different from how it was at their former company.
"We're all thoughtful about not having a proliferation of meetings, because one thing we all felt in our previous careers is that there can be lots of redundant meetings," Shamim Samadi, Beeswax's chief product officer, told Business Insider.
"So we try to have folks do the thinking and write things out prior to the meeting if they can, and then have a real focus, a discussion with a clear objective that we want to get to at the end of the meeting. We only hold meetings when we sort of have those things in place."
For the executives, founding Beeswax in 2015 was their first time running a startup. The Manhattan-based company makes software that helps marketers bid for ads in real time, and in three years it has grown to 55 employees.
Managing a team that size has forced the executives to adapt quickly, Beeswax's chief technical officer, Ram Rengaswamy, told Business Insider.
"We've done this long enough that there are certain things that we understand about the business well enough that we can make decisions faster," Rengaswamy said. "That's one thing that I've noticed in our meetings: They're very focused and drive towards an outcome. So that's something that I've seen myself improve on."
Experts everywhere preach the same approach to meetings as Beeswax.
The Harvard Business Review reported in 2015 that bigger meetings tended to be less effective than smaller ones. One expert told the publication that meetings needed to be limited to as few as four or five people to ensure everyone got a chance to speak in a 60-minute session.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had a similar approach: His "two pizza" rule says you should never hold a meeting where two pizzas couldn't feed the entire group.
And Annette Catino, the former CEO of QualCare Alliance Networks, told The New York Times that setting a clear agenda for meetings was the critical element to avoid wasting employees' time.
"If I don't have an agenda in front of me, I walk out," Catino said. "Give me an agenda or else I'm not going to sit there, because if I don't know why we're in the meeting, and you don't know why we're there, then there's no reason for a meeting."
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Is Melania Trump At The First Debate? Donald Trump's Wife Hasn't Been On The Campaign Trail Lately
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One of the most high-profile events of the election is creeping up on us: the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The two candidates will meet on stage for the first time in the campaign on Monday at Hofstra University, and it's anybody's guess as to what will unfold once they do. But what will their spouses be doing that night? Will Melania Trump be at the first debate?
Nobody knows, save perhaps Melania and Donald, because the campaign hasn't yet released any information about what Melania will be doing Monday night. Bustle reached out to the campaign for a response, but has not heard back.
That said, it wouldn't be terribly surprising if she was there. In 2012, Ann Romney attended the first debate between her husband and President Obama, and Obama even gave a shout-out to the first lady, who was also in the audience. Both also showed up for the second debate, so it wouldn't be at all unusual for Melania to come support Donald during his very first presidential debate.
The bigger mystery is what exactly will unfold once the two candidates take the stage. The reporting so far suggests that Clinton is preparing extensively for the debates, and that Donald basically isn't preparing much at all. This is very ironic, if true. Clinton has been on the debate stage more than 40 times over the course of her career, and has proved herself a capable debater. Trump has never participated in a presidential debate against just one opponent, as he'd never been a candidate for office until last year.
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This has resulted in an asymmetric situation, wherein Clinton's debate style is well-known, but Donald's is a complete mystery. According to CBS, Clinton is preparing to confront two possible versions of Donald: the tempered, moderate Trump we glimpse from time to time, and the offensive one we see the other 90 percent of the time.
Donald said recently that he plans to "be nice" and "very respectful" of Clinton at the forum. However, it bears noting that it's in Trump's interest to keep Clinton in the dark as to which form he'll take, so this ought to be taken with a very large grain of salt.
Clinton and Donald will be the only two candidates at the first debate, which will be moderated by Lester Holt. The topics, as decided upon by the Commission on Presidential Debates, will be "America's Direction," "Achieving Prosperity," and "Securing America."
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Who Plays Hannah's New Redhead Classmate on 'Girls'? Peter Mark Kendall Is Making Things Tough in Iowa
By Rosie Narasaki
Get ready to head to Iowa this week on Girls: The premiere episode may have ended with Hannah in the backseat, embarking on a cross-country road trip (with plenty of Fig Newtons to eat on the way, of course), but we haven't really gotten a glimpse of what's soon to be a large part of the show's new universe: the ever-prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop. Hannah will have some high-profile classmates, including Marin Ireland (who I will forever remember as *SPOILER ALERT* the terrorist lady from Homeland who committed suicide with a pair of reading glasses), but alongside Ireland is another of Hannah's new classmates, played by Peter Mark Kendall.
So we know Kendall's playing one of her classmates, but what kind? A rival? A suitor? Someone who despises her and mocks her relentlessly? All of the above? We can't be sure, but he appears in the Girls Season 4 promo in which Hannah is getting a talking-to from her classmates and, thanks to a Lena Dunham interview with TV Guide, we do know that Hannah's about to get a lot of pushback regarding her signature navel-gazing writing style. It would seem safe to assume that we can probably expect a little of that pushback from him.
It's hard to know too terribly much about the character this early (getting to know him is half the fun, right?), but the actor is an open book. Kendall's a relative newcomer to the scene, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have some serious experience under his belt...
He's Classically Trained
He has an MFA from the prestigious Brown/Trinity Rep program (he graduated last year), which is a notoriously hard to get into program (they only accept a small handful of MFA candidates out of thousands of applicants), so it sets the bar pretty high.
He's Done a Lot of Regional Shakespeare
A partial list of his Shakespeare credits include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, andThe Taming of the Shrew. Pretty cool, eh?
And a Lot of Workshops in New York
His resume is peppered with appearances in quite the handful of high-profile workshop productions.
You Might Have Seen Him on Your Favorite TV Show
He guest starred on an episode of the critically-acclaimed The Leftovers, and he's got upcoming appearances on the Victoria Justice-helmed serial killer drama Eye Candy , and FX hit The Americans. If television isn't your game, you may also have seen him on the big screen, because...
He Snagged a Supporting Role in Time Out of Mind
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He appeared in the high-profile indie film alongside names like Richard Gere and Jena Malone (not to mention Danielle Brooks — another Girls alumni).
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Ronald M.
Diagnosed with anal cancer
Ron M. is a cancer survivor who describes himself as a man with “advocacy running through his veins.” Born and raised in Washington, D.C., from an early age Ron exhibited a passion for helping others, going straight into the nonprofit field after high school through a job at the National Association for Home Health Care. “It was there that I really discovered my need to help people,” Ron shares.
After being diagnosed with HIV in 1984, Ron dedicated himself even more to advocating for issues affecting his life and community including home health care, homelessness, and crucial health issues facing the black community. “And then in 2009 I was diagnosed with cancer,” Ron recounts. “That was a big problem. This was after 30-something years of surviving living with HIV, and now I had to deal with having anal cancer on top of that. That really threw me for a loop.
“During the time of my cancer diagnosis, my health wasn’t doing very good due to my HIV. My oncologist told me my body couldn’t handle the cancer treatments I needed because my immune system wasn’t working right. So he boosted my immune system and after a few weeks I was ready for surgery. So we had the operation. I stayed in the hospital two months with a colostomy, and that changed my life. It was just so sad for me to go through that.”
Ron stayed in D.C. having surgery after surgery, and then moved to New York to begin treatment at Mt. Sinai. “I was at my doctor’s office [in New York City] one day telling him about my need of trying to connect with survivors of cancer, because I didn’t really have anybody to talk to like that…no guidance whatsoever…I had an illness and thought I was just going to live with it and make the best of it, but that wasn’t really getting me anywhere. And I couldn’t understand cancer; I was really kind of lost.
“So my doctor told me about this organization called CancerCare that happened to be in the same building as my doctor’s office. So I called CancerCare and spoke with someone and they immediately put me in the system and gave me some great information. I remember asking [my social worker], ‘Do you need my Medicare card number?’ and she said ‘Nope, no need, because all of our services are free.’ She invited me to get into a support group and I didn’t even have to give it any thought before saying yes. I was told to come to the group and I met my social worker and the other members of the group. It’s been absolutely helpful to me.”
Ron joined a support group for men coping with cancer led by an oncology social worker, where he found other men in a similar situation. “What I like about the support group at CancerCare is that these guys are so knowledgeable that when they discuss their treatment or whatever they’re going through, they actually give information on medication, coping skills, switching doctors, everything. If I ran into somebody who needed the ‘CancerCare connection,’ they would certainly get it from me.”
“My mother and brother died of cancer, and neither of them went to a support group or anything like that. I am fortunate that I was told to come to CancerCare and it’s been a big lift off my shoulders in terms of managing stress. Managing my cancer and managing my care has been absolutely wonderful thanks to CancerCare.”
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“I am fortunate that I was told to come to CancerCare and it’s been a big lift off my shoulders in terms of managing stress.”
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Supreme Court Blocks Judges’ Order for new Elections in GOP-Led North Carolina
Ken Klukowski
10 Jan 2017 Washington, DC
The Supreme Court has stayed an order by a lower federal court which had directed North Carolina’s government to hold new state elections.
The top court’s decision on Tuesday will allow it to decide whether to hear arguments in a racially charged voting rights case, which may result in the Supreme Court limiting the states’ authority to decide legislators’ constituencies and to schedule state elections.
The federal Constitution requires that every ten years the United States must conduct a nationwide census. State legislatures redraw congressional and state legislative district lines after the census is complete, drawing those lines to make the number of persons in each district close to equal, taking into account other factors such trying to keep communities intact for purposes of representation.
After North Carolina’s most recent redistricting, several North Carolina voters sued, arguing that nine of North Carolina’s Senate districts and 19 of its House districts were unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. Previously, the Supreme Court has declared that it violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause for lawmakers to draw legislative districts in such a way that they deliberately minimize the number of minority voters.
This new challenge in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina was assigned to a three-judge federal trial court, consisting of one judge from the federal court of appeals and two federal district judges. Federal law provides that parties may request such a three-judge court whenever suing over the constitutionality of statewide districting plans.
The federal court decided that some of the state’s districts were in fact unconstitutional gerrymanders, and ordered that new elections be held in 2017 to elect new lawmakers. The court said that “while special elections have costs, those costs pale in comparison to the injury caused by allowing citizens to continue to be represented by legislators elected pursuant to a racial gerrymander.”
In its Nov. 29, 2016 order, the trial court also claimed “The Court has the authority to shorten the terms of existing legislators, order special elections, and alter the residency requirements for those elections.”
“The Court concludes that March 15, 2017, is a reasonable deadline for allowing the State the opportunity to draw new districts,” it added.
North Carolina hired an experienced Supreme Court litigators—former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement—to represent the Tar Heel State. Clement appealed the three-judge panel’s decision directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The justices on January 10 issued a stay—meaning put on hold the district court’s order—until the High Court could decide whether to take the case for oral argument. Clement’s brief arguing why the case deserves the Supreme Court’s full consideration should be filed sometime in February.
So the first major election case since the historic 2016 election is underway, a case that likely would be heard this fall.
The Supreme Court caption is North Carolina v. Covington.
Ken Klukowski is senior legal editor for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski.
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From the Summer 2016 edition of The Bretton Woods Observer
NGOs urge the European Investment Bank not to finance the Southern Gas Corridor
World Bank set to finance criticised mega gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Europe
29 June 2016 | Guest analysis
by Xavier Sol
World Bank set to fund Azerbaijan and Turkey part of Southern Gas Corridor to Europe
Concerns raised over significant risks due to geopolitical context, fossil fuel dependency
Defined as “the biggest infrastructure project of our times” by the European Commission and a priority for the European Union, the Southern Gas Corridor was always going to attract the attention of the World Bank. As part of Turkey‘s Country Partnership Strategy (CPS), the Bank has announced its intention to finance the project through a double loan to Azerbaijan and Turkey. In addition, in June the World Bank’s Azerbaijan office announced possible loan guarantees for the construction of the Trans-Anatolian section of the corridor (TANAP) through the Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.
Tapping gas from the Shaz Deniz II field in Azerbaijan, TANAP stretches for 1,820 km from Georgia to Greece and will cross Turkey. TANAP is expected to bring 16 billion cubic metres of gas per year to Turkey by 2018, subsequently increasing capacity with the construction of the western section of the Southern Gas Corridor, running to Italy through Greece and Albania.
The Southern Gas Corridor is a priority for the European institutions as part of their Energy Union strategy to secure alternatives to gas imports from Russia. According to press reports by Reuters, the World Bank loans – scheduled for approval in 2017 – would amount to $500 million for Azerbaijan and $1 billion for Turkey and would help cover the overall $45 billion project cost. Other funders include the European Investment Bank. The World Bank’s principal proposed development objective is the enhancement of Azerbaijan’s gas exports up to three times the current volumes and the improvement of “the security and diversity of Turkey’s and Europe’s energy supply.“
It is concerning that the World Bank risks ruining its reputation for a project that will contravene the Bank’s safeguard standards, while harming the environment and supporting controversial regimes.
The wide range of risks and consequences associated with the construction of this megapipeline has provoked a heated debate. Concerned about the support that such a controversial project has received from public international financial institutions, civil society across Europe has mobilised to raise awareness among citizens and decision makers about the project‘s environmental and geopolitical implications and to prevent its funding, arguing that the project contradicts with the climate goals that the World Bank and the European public banks committed to in Paris last December. By considering financing the Southern Gas Corridor, yet another mega fossil fuel project, the World Bank is contradicting its commitment to integrate climate risks and opportunities into all of its development work and is disregarding the agreed upon urgency to shift to a different energy model based on renewables and energy efficiency. Furthermore, it means that the Bank is ignoring calls by the scientific community to leave the majority of remaining fossil fuels reserves in the ground. As the world’s leading development finance institution and self-professed advocate of environmental sustainability, it should set an example and stop supporting such emblematic fossil fuel projects.
The geopolitical context surrounding the Southern Gas Corridor is just as worrisome. Neither the autocratic regime of Ilham Aliyev in Azerbaijan nor the increasingly repressive rule of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey are ideal partners for such an enormous project. Ilham Aliyev, who has ruled the country for decades, has attracted international attention following a severe crackdown on dissent in 2014 that resulted in mass jailings of journalists, intellectuals, human rights activists and lawyers. The unacceptable human rights situation in Azerbaijan has been repeatedly denounced by governments and media worldwide. This led to offical warnings by the European Parliament, the Organisation for Cooperation and Security in Europe and the Council of Europe throughout autumn 2015, all overtly discouraging Europe from directly financing the regime, let alone sealing a historic business deal worth billions of dollars.
Moreover, this project would not bring major development improvements to Azerbaijan. Heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, the Azeri economy has recently faced a deep crisis due to the fall in oil prices which led to the devaluation of the national currency. Instead of diversifying the sources of revenue in Azerbaijan and promoting its sustainable development, the Southern Gas Corridor would exacerbate this dependence, consolidating the hold of the existing ruling elite while bringing little or no benefit to the Azeri people.
The World Bank can also not turn a blind eye to the current situation in Turkey. While Erdoğan’s control of the press increasingly limits citizens‘ freedom of speech and opinion, the pipeline would cross Kurdish regions that are currently affected by an escalation of violence following the breakdown of peace talks in July 2015.
Civil society organisations have highlighted these concerns and challenged the public financing of the Southern Gas Corridor. It is concerning that the World Bank risks ruining its reputation for a project that will contravene the Bank’s safeguard standards, while harming the environment and supporting controversial regimes. If the Bank does not want to bear this responsibility, it should not be part of the Southern Gas Corridor deal.
Guest analysis by Xavier Sol, Counter Balance
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Biel Semexant, Former Sunrise, Florida Business Owner, Arrested for Tax Fraud
Biel Semexant, a former Sunrise, Florida business owner, was arrested Tuesday after he was accused of defrauding the government out of an excess of $130,000 in taxes, news sources indicate. The alleged fraud occurred in connection to Semexant’s two South Florida businesses. Semexant, 41, was booked into the Broward County Jail on charges of theft from state fund, filing a fraudulent return, and failing to file six consecutive returns. It is unclear whether he has qualified for bail. It is also not yet known whether he has hired an attorney.
Reports say Semexant is the former owner of two South Florida car dealerships: Smart Carz, LLC, located off Southwest 27th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, and Auction Access USA, located off North Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. Both businesses reportedly specialized in the buying and selling of used cars. Records show that both businesses are no longer open, but it is unclear whether this recent arrest played a role in their closure.
According to reports, Semexant, like most business owners, charged people who purchased items and vehicles at his shop tax as mandated by law. However, detectives say that not all the tax money he collected was sent to the state. Instead, Semexant allegedly kept the funds for his personal use. Investigators also allege that Semexant failed to file tax return documents at his businesses. According to investigators, Semexant continued to withhold taxes and neglect filing returns for a period of six years (2006 and 2012).
In other news, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released a warrant for the arrest of Dorrell Maxwell Webb of Riverview, Florida, who allegedly harassed a woman, destroyed her property, and injured her dog, reports indicate. The warrant lists charges of domestic violence, stalking, and animal cruelty, sources say. So far, Webb has remained on the lam and it is not clear whether detectives have any leads on his location.
Reports say the alleged incident occurred on November 5th in an unspecified location, perhaps at Webb or the woman’s residence. Webb reportedly became physically violent towards an unidentified woman with whom he had some sort of relationship. According to reports, the two began to argue about their issues when Webb lost his temper. Reports say the victim attempted to leave the area, but Webb stopped her by allegedly snapping her car key off inside the ignition and opening the vehicle’s hood, blocking visibility from the driver’s seat. The victim also alleges that Webb took her cell phone and shattered it on the ground, sources say.
Webb then allegedly threatened the woman’s pet dog, purportedly saying he would snap its neck. He then reportedly grabbed the dog and hurled it to the ground, causing fractures on two portions of it legs. The dog’s breed is not specified in news reports. It is not clear whether the animal required medical treatment for its injuries.
Detectives say the man returned to the woman’s residence a number of times following the alleged incident and entered her home without being invited to do so. An investigation into the alleged battery is ongoing.
Biel Semexant, a former Sunrise, Florida business owner, was arrested Tuesday after he was accused of defrauding the government out of an excess of $130,000 in taxes, news sources indicate. The alleged fraud occurred in connection to Semexant’s two South Florida businesses. Semexant, 41, was booked into the Broward County Jail on charges of theft from state fund, filing a fraudulent return, and failing to file sex consecutive returns. It is unclear whether he has qualified for bail. It is also not yet known whether he has hired an attorney.
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Salinas and Tasca III race to victories at NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals
NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals
Fri, Jun 14 - Sun, Jun 16, 2019
Mike Salinas and Bob Tasca III, both runner-up finishers in their respective classes at historic Bristol Dragway one year ago, were able to flip the script Sunday and score emotional victories at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.
Salinas claimed his second Top Fuel victory of the season in his Scrappers Racing dragster and officially declared himself a championship contender in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series.
After powering past first round opponent Scott Palmer, the California racer marched through a murderer's row of rivals - Antron Brown, top qualifier Doug Kalitta and defending champ Steve Torrence - to earn the coveted NHRA Wally trophy.
"This weekend we just focused on having fun," Salinas said. "Alan [Johnson, crew chief] knows what he's doing. It's amazing to be in the seat with these guys."
Salinas said defeating Brown, Kalitta and Torrence in consecutive order was a full day's work. In the final round he ended Torrence's amazing five-race winning streak. Salinas covered the distance in 3.836 seconds at 325.69 mph to edge Torrence's dragster at the finish line, which trailed with a 3.892 at 287.60 in his white Capco Contractors dragster.
"I had never won against Antron or Steve," Salinas said. "Doug Kalitta is a great opponent and his lights are amazing. Those three guys are going to run for the championship. I am learning how to get to that level and I will get there. You have to have some luck in this deal. I think today we had a little luck and we ran decent and you have Alan Johnson and his experience and that's how we did it."
Salinas moved to third in the points with the win and with highly decorated crew chief Johnson calling the shots, feels like he is one to watch the rest of the season.
"We are going to do one race at a time," Salinas said. "Sometimes when you talk you get yourself in trouble. We let our talking happen on the track. [Steve] is the champ. You have to step back and look at how long it took him to get to where they are. They worked their butts off. Steve Torrence is why I came back to racing. I owe that family a lot. We are going to do this a lot more. None of us show up to lose. We are going to show our stuff on the track and this has the potential to be a great rivalry."
In Funny Car, Tasca avenged his loss here last year to Ron Capps and advanced to the final where he denied NHRA icon John Force his 150th career victory. The Rhode Island driver took his fifth win of the season and first since Dallas in 2012 by outrunning Jim Campbell, Robert Hight and Capps in earlier rounds.
In the final, he defeated Force by powering his 11,000-horsepower machine to a final round performance of 4.008 seconds at 316.23 mph, while top qualifier Force trailed with a 4.155 at 287.05. Force, who was determined all weekend to grab his much sought-after milestone victory, and double the fun with it being Father's Day, had problems getting his Chevy Camaro staged in the final.
"I knew it would be a slugfest against Force," Tasca said. "I didn't know what was going on up there. I thought maybe he was trying to run me out of nitro out there. I guess he had some problems putting it in forward and reverse. I love racing John. I said getting out of the car it's one of the biggest career wins for me."
Tasca, who ran a limited schedule from 2015-2017, posted a semifinal finish at Phoenix but felt like his team really turned a corner in recent races.
"Last year was a tough year," Tasca said. "We started from scratch. We didn't have the consistency. Then we started to catch our stride coming out of Richmond. To be able to deliver this win, and it's only one, but trust me it's a big win for this team. You have to take notice of how the car is running."
Tasca said adding former John Force Racing crew chief Jon Schaffer to his braintrust has really made a difference.
"The only thing that's the same in this race car is me," Tasca said. "We flushed everything. Eric [Lane, crew chief] checked his ego at the door and he has worked well with Schaffer. Trust me, this isn't going to be the last time you hear from this Ford."
Tasca said finally getting a victory at Bristol Dragway, with all of the history here, is really satisfying.
"I remember walking into this place for the first time and saw a photo of my grandfather hanging in the tower and it's such a beautiful facility," Tasca said. "I've always wanted to win one here and I'm glad to get it done today.
"It's a lot of fun. To see my guys work as hard as they've been working to put us in position and then close the deal. It's really hard to win out here."
Force said he was disappointed he didn't finish off the day with his fifth Bristol win, but he is encouraged by the gains made by his team this weekend.
"No Father's Day for me, didn't get that win," Force said. "I feel a lot better about my race car being competitive. We've moved up to No. 2 in the points, that's some good news. I've got confidence, not just in my car, my car has always been good, (crew chiefs) Brian Corradi and Danny Hood and (car chief) Tim Fabrisi, but I have confidence in me. We had an issue up there and that happens, but I've had to make a lot of changes myself. I've found out a lot of stuff. Not just with the car. I've been going to doctors, got special glasses, working on eating habits, got to get off that sugar, it drops ya. I've said it before, I'm in the game. That win is coming."
Other winners included Jose Gonzalez in Pro Mod, who defeated Bob Rahaim in the final round; Tii Tharpe scored his second straight win of the season and at Bristol in Top Fuel Harley by outrunning Bob Malloy; and Todd Hoerner took the victory in Mountain Motor Pro Stock exhibition by holding off Frank Gugliotta.
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Sedative-hypnotic drug
Sedative-hypnotic drug, chemical substance used to reduce tension and anxiety and induce calm (sedative effect) or to induce sleep (hypnotic effect). Most such drugs exert a quieting or calming effect at low doses and a sleep-inducing effect in larger doses. Sedative-hypnotic drugs tend to depress the central nervous system. Since these actions can be obtained with other drugs, such as opiates, the distinctive characteristic of sedative-hypnotics is their selective ability to achieve their effects without affecting mood or reducing sensitivity to pain.
For centuries alcohol and opium were the only drugs available that had sedative-hypnotic effects. The first substance introduced specifically as a sedative and as a hypnotic was a liquid solution of bromide salts, which came into use in the 1800s. Chloral hydrate, a derivative of ethyl alcohol, was introduced in 1869 as a synthetic sedative-hypnotic; it was used notoriously as “knock-out” drops. Paraldehyde was introduced into clinical medicine in the 1880s and was followed by the synthesis of barbital in 1903. Phenobarbital became available in 1912 and was followed, during the next 20 years, by a long series of other barbiturates. In the mid-20th century new types of sedative-hypnotic drugs were synthesized, chief among them the benzodiazepines (the so-called minor tranquilizers).
Barbiturates were extensively used as “sleeping pills” throughout the first half of the 20th century. They also were used to reduce voluntary inhibition during psychiatric examinations (for which they have sometimes been dubbed “truth serums”). Among the most commonly prescribed kinds were phenobarbital, secobarbital (marketed under Seconal and other trade names), amobarbital (Amytal), and pentobarbital (Nembutal). When taken in high-enough doses, these drugs are capable of producing a deep unconsciousness that makes them useful as general anesthetics. In still higher doses, however, they depress the central nervous and respiratory systems to the point of coma, respiratory failure, and death. Additionally, the prolonged use of barbiturates for relief of insomnia leads to tolerance, in which the user requires amounts of the drug much in excess of the initial therapeutic dose, and to addiction, in which denial of the drug precipitates withdrawal, as indicated by such symptoms as restlessness, anxiety, weakness, insomnia, nausea, and convulsions. Analysis of electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns during barbiturate-induced sleep has further revealed that the use of some of these drugs produces sleep disruption.
The use of barbiturates declined after the development in the 1950s of the benzodiazepines. The latter are more effective in relieving anxiety than in inducing sleep, but they are superior to barbiturates because of the reduced dangers they present of tolerance and addiction and because they are much less likely to injuriously depress the central nervous system when used at high doses. They also require a much smaller dosage than barbiturates to achieve their effects. The benzodiazepines include chlordiazepoxide (Librium), diazepam (Valium), alprazolam (Xanax), oxazepam (Serax), and triazolam (Halcion). They are, however, intended only for short- or medium-term use, since the body does develop a tolerance to them and withdrawal symptoms (anxiety, restlessness, and so on) develop even in those who have used the drugs for only four to six weeks. The benzodiazepines are thought to accomplish their effect within the brain by facilitating the action of the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid, which is known to inhibit anxiety.
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Antipsychotic drugs (major tranquilizers), tricyclic antidepressants, and antihistamines can also induce drowsiness, though this is not their primary function. Most over-the-counter sleeping aids use antihistamines as their active ingredient.
Alcoholic beverages in particular are only of modest benefit in inducing sleep. On frequent exposure to alcohol, the nervous system adapts to the drug, and this results in early-morning awakening.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Kara Rogers, Senior Editor.
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Operation Breadbasket, program begun in 1962 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) that aimed at improving the economic status of African Americans through a boycott of white-owned and white-operated businesses that refused to employ African Americans or to buy products sold by African American-owned businesses. After initial successes, the program gradually increased in scope until the early 1970s.
Leon Sullivan, pastor of Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, is often credited with developing the strategy at the centre of Operation Breadbasket. After witnessing a boycott Sullivan led in Philadelphia in 1958, the SCLC asked him to organize a similar campaign in Atlanta. The campaign there, which began in 1962 and represented the start of Operation Breadbasket, won promises of 5,000 jobs at local companies. In the wake of that success, the SCLC established similar campaigns in other Southern cities. It also targeted Chicago, placing the civil rights activist Jesse Jackson in charge of its efforts in that city in 1966. Jackson led a campaign that focused on white-owned grocery, soft drink, and dairy companies that made large profits in African American neighbourhoods. Jackson also advocated support of African American banks as a route to economic development for black communities. At those banks, he argued, African American business owners would be less likely to face discrimination when applying for loans.
The strategy pursued in each Operation Breadbasket campaign followed a similar pattern. SCLC leaders began by sending letters to companies so as to gather information about employment categories and numbers, as well as the numbers of African Americans employed. They usually found that African Americans were either excluded from employment entirely or relegated to the lowest-paying jobs. Leaders then attempted to educate companies about the effects of employment discrimination and low wages on African American families, such as poverty and inadequate housing. Companies that refused to change their hiring practices were targeted for a boycott.
Operation Breadbasket also included Black Christmas and Black Easter campaigns, which urged African Americans to do their holiday shopping at stores owned by blacks. Those campaigns drew substantial attention to the program’s overall goals. In addition, leaders called for middle-class and wealthy blacks to invite lower-income African Americans into their holiday celebrations, and they organized parades celebrating African American heritage. Operation Breadbasket expanded further in scope in 1967 when Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the SCLC, appointed Jackson to be the program’s national director. It subsequently incorporated efforts such as the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C., and organized support for political candidates.
After King was assassinated in 1968, however, tensions escalated between Jackson and the new SCLC president, Ralph Abernathy, who argued about control of the SCLC and power in the civil rights movement. Abernathy tried unsuccessfully to move Jackson and the Operation Breadbasket staff from Chicago to Atlanta, the headquarters for the SCLC. Finally, in 1971, Jackson left the SCLC to found Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity). The SCLC retained the Operation Breadbasket program, but it became far less active than it had been in previous years.
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Mr Chuck ROBBINS
Chief Executive Officer, Cisco
On May 1, 2015, Chuck Robbins was elected Chief Executive Officer by Cisco's Board of Directors, effective July 26, 2015. He became a member of the Board effective May 1, 2015. In his previous role as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Cisco, Robbins led the company's Worldwide Sales Organization and Worldwide Partner Organization.
As a member of the Operating Committee, he helped drive and execute many of the company's investment areas and strategy shifts. He also sponsored the security and collaboration businesses at the executive level, and was a key sponsor for the Sourcefire and Meraki acquisitions. Robbins has more than 20 years of leadership experience. Prior to leading Worldwide Field Operations, he was Senior Vice President of The Americas, Cisco's largest geographic region, where he led more than 8,500 employees in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Prior to leading The Americas, Robbins was Senior Vice President of U.S. Enterprise, Commercial and Canada, and from 2007 to 2009, he led the U.S. Commercial sales organization, one of the largest growth segments in the company.
From 2003 to 2007, Robbins led the U.S. and Canada channel organization, where he was instrumental in helping build the industry's most powerful partner program, now worth more than $40B in revenue to the company each year. He was recognized in CRN Magazine as one of the top Channel Chiefs in 2008, and VARBusiness named him one of the Top 100 Channel Executives in both 2005 and 2006. Robbins joined Cisco in 1997 as an account manager and quickly advanced to the roles of regional manager and operations director. Prior to joining Cisco, he held management positions at Bay Networks and Ascend Communications.
Outside of Cisco, Robbins serves on the board for the MS Society of Northern California, and the Georgia Tech Advisory Board for the President of Georgia Tech Robbins holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a computer science concentration from the University of North Carolina.
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Tracey Moffatt (Australian, born 1960). Laudanum, 1998. Photogravure, sheet: 30 1/8 x 22 3/4 in. (76.5 x 57.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Alfred T. White Fund, 1999.80.15. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1999.80.15_PS1.jpg)
Laudanum
PORTFOLIO/SERIES From the portfolio titled: "Laudanum"
ARTIST Tracey Moffatt, Australian, born 1960
MEDIUM Photogravure
DIMENSIONS sheet: 30 1/8 x 22 3/4 in. (76.5 x 57.8 cm) image: 11 3/4 x 19 in. (29.8 x 48.3 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE Signed and dated lower right in graphite: "Tracey Moffatt '98"
INSCRIPTIONS Each print is inscribed lower center in graphite: "Laudanum"
COLLECTIONS Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 1999.80.15
EDITION Edition: 29/60
CREDIT LINE Alfred T. White Fund
RIGHTS STATEMENT © Tracey Moffat. Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
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CAPTION Tracey Moffatt (Australian, born 1960). Laudanum, 1998. Photogravure, sheet: 30 1/8 x 22 3/4 in. (76.5 x 57.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Alfred T. White Fund, 1999.80.15. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1999.80.15_PS1.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 1999.80.15_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009
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Long-distance woes continue for phone giant
AT&T says pro forma fourth-quarter earnings and revenue were in line with already lowered expectations, but its long-distance business continues to sag.
AT&T said Monday its pro forma fourth-quarter earnings and revenue were in line with already lowered expectations, but its long-distance business continued to sag.
AT&T also gave growth projections for its individual units, with the outlook brightest for the wireless and broadband divisions.
AT&T, which is planning to split into four businesses, reported pro forma fourth-quarter earnings of 26 cents a share on sales of $16.9 billion. Revenue for the three months ended Dec. 31 was up 3 percent from a year ago, but earnings fell 51 percent from a year ago. The results matched First Call consensus estimates.
The New York-based telecommunications titan said the decrease stemmed from the acquisition of MediaOne and losses at Excite@Home. For the year, earnings were down 22 percent to $1.63 a share.
Including charges, AT&T reported a loss of 45 cents a share, or $1.7 billion. The loss was largely attributed to Excite@Home, which wrote down $4.6 billion of goodwill and other acquisition-related intangible assets. AT&T also took a $1.6 billion charge to account for its investment in Excite@Home.
Despite the gloomy results, AT&T did have a few bright spots. AT&T Wireless, which trades as a tracking stock and will be completely spun off in mid-2001, reported revenue growth of 39 percent in the fourth quarter to $3 billion. AT&T Broadband, the company's cable unit, showed revenue growth of 11.8 percent to $2.5 billion for the quarter. For the year, AT&T's wireless and broadband units grew sales 37 percent and 10.4 percent respectively.
But AT&T's business unit posted sluggish revenue growth for the fourth quarter, up just 0.7 percent to $7.1 billion. And AT&T's consumer business was plagued by declining long-distance revenue. AT&T's consumer business saw its sales decline 14.7 percent to $4.3 billion in the fourth quarter. The consumer business was also hurt by AT&T WorldNet. Revenue fell 4.4 percent for WorldNet given tough competition among Internet service providers.
To separate its growth businesses from struggling units such as its long-distance division, AT&T announced a broad restructuring plan in October. "We came in below expectations on long distance, but our growth businesses did well," chief executive C. Michael Armstrong said on an analyst conference call.
Armstrong said long-distance sales were down because of lower 800-number traffic because of the economic slowdown, migration to lower-priced calling plans and a transition to new technologies such as wireless.
Since it is planning to split up, AT&T was mum on its outlook for 2001. Revenue growth for the first quarter is expected to be similar to the fourth-quarter results. First-quarter earnings, excluding one-time items, will be in the range of 17 cents a share to 20 cents a share. Those projections are in line with previous projections.
Here is AT&T's forecast by business unit with restructuring targets:
AT&T Wireless is expected to grow sales at the high end of the 30 percent to 35 percent range in 2001. EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) are expected to grow in the mid-60 percent range. AT&T also said it will begin a share exchange offer in March.
Following that offer, AT&T will distribute AT&T Wireless to AT&T shareholders. AT&T Wireless will be spun off in mid-2001, but the exact timing has not yet been determined, the company said.
AT&T Broadband's revenue growth will accelerate to the mid-teens for 2001, the company said. The company said it will continue to add new subscribers and services at a rapid clip and improve profit margins by 3 percent in 2001. "You can expect these improvements to start out slowly and build over the year," chief financial officer Chuck Noski said.
AT&T Broadband is planning for an initial public offering in the fall.
AT&T Consumer will continue to see revenue declining, the company said. Revenue is expected to fall by the mid- to high-teens for full-year 2001. "We're managing the business for returns, but are investing in the future," said Armstrong, who noted that the consumer business will incur costs to launch DSL (digital subscriber line) service and battle Baby Bells, which are entering the long-distance market.
Profit margins before interest and taxes are expected to fall by between 6 percentage points and 8 percentage points in 2001 from the 37.5 percent in 2000. Most of the decline is expected to come in the first quarter. AT&T said a tracking stock will be distributed for AT&T Consumer in the third quarter of 2001.
AT&T Business sees a revenue dip in the first quarter largely because of long-distance competition. Profit margins before interest and taxes are expected to fall by between 6 percentage points and 8 percentage points in 2001 from 23.3 percent in 2000.
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Property News - On behalf of the joint LPA Receivers, JE Cookson and HJP Dunger, Colliers International has been appointed to sell Derby city centre leisure scheme, Derby Riverlights.
Colliers International is seeking offers in excess of £23,000,000 for the 200,000 sq ft scheme, comprising two hotels trading as Holiday Inn and Hampton by Hilton, Genting Club casino, five restaurant units and a convenience store. The five-storey scheme also includes Derby City’s Bus Station, let to Derby City Council on a 150 year lease and serving 12 million passengers per annum.
Tim Meakes, Director at Colliers International, said, “Derby was ranked second out of all UK cities for employment growth, making it one of the UK’s prime economic hotspots. The scheme is a modern mixed use gateway development which will also benefit from Derby’s new leisure hub, which is to be constructed adjacent to an Olympic size swimming pool as part of the Council’s £50m leisure strategy.”
Colliers’ Licensed and Leisure team is also acting as joint letting agents the two remaining vacant units within the scheme, available on a new 15 year lease.
Derby Riverlights, which completed in 2010, is located adjacent to Westfield Derby shopping centre, the River Derwent, and the recently rejuvenated Riverside Gardens, as well as Derby’s council offices employing 3,000 staff. It is famously the home to the UK headquarters of Rolls-Royce with over 11,000 employees based in the city. The £100 million redevelopment of the City’s Castleward is also underway in the City to create 800 new homes and 34,500 sq ft of commercial space on a 30 acre site.
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The Nelson Rovers hockey team, seen here in 1911, was one of the first local high school teams to adopt a name. Photo courtesy Touchstones Museum
Kootenay high school rethinking wartime name for its sports teams
Nelson’s L.V. Rogers has used the name Bombers for its sports teams since at least the 1940s
Tyler Harper
Apr. 8, 2019 12:13 p.m.
A B.C. high school is considering jettisoning the wartime moniker used by its sports teams.
Early internal discussions about dropping the name of Nelson’s L.V. Rogers Bombers have begun, according to principal Tamara Malloff.
Malloff said staff feedback about proposed Bombers apparel led to talk about the name, which has been used by the high school since before the current LVR building opened in 1956.
“The sentiment is it is time,” said Malloff. “The world is changing, the impact of globalization and media and information and our understanding of how things are is changing. That was part of the impetus too, is looking at who is it we want to be and represent in the future. So it’s just at a starting point right now.”
Professional sports teams and schools changing sports names to reflect modern cultural values has become an increasingly common practice.
In November, students at McGill University in Montreal voted to change the name of the varsity sports teams from Redmen. In Major League Baseball, the Cleveland Indians are playing their first season since without the Chief Wahoo logo that was considered a racist caricature.
For the Bombers, Malloff said, the name made more sense in the 20th century than today.
“There was definitely the post-World War II connection where we didn’t look at [war] the same way,” she said.
“It was a different time. But I think the justification, just like any images for athletics for cultural appropriation for example, like the [NFL’s Washington] Redskins, it’s the same thing.”
It’s not entirely clear when or how the Bombers — and for a time the Bomberettes — name came to be adopted by Nelson high school sports teams.
Nelson High School, which held its first class in 1901, offered basketball as its first sport in 1903, followed by baseball and lacrosse.
But those teams were known by the school’s name. A boys hockey team called the Rovers in 1910-11 was the exception, but the name did not stick.
A picture of a basketball team called the Bombers dating from 1926 is listed in the Mountaineer, a 1956 high school yearbook.
An article dated May 3, 1940 in The Province refers to Nelson High School’s Blue Bombers and Bomberettes. The school appears to have dropped blue from the name by the following year, at least according to another Province article about the basketball teams dated Dec. 12, 1941.
This predated a key part of Nelson’s aerial history in the Second World War: parts for Boeing’s Catalina Bombers were built at the Civic Centre.
Nor was the name in homage to Nelson’s most famous pilot, Lt. Robert Hampton Gray, the last of the city’s soldiers killed during the war — well after the Bombers were already playing at the high school.
A 1947-48 high school bonspiel featured Nelson High School’s Bombers and Bomberettes, and most of the school’s teams used the name by the time the school moved from South Nelson to its Fairview location and became L.V. Rogers in 1956.
Prior to LVR’s opening, a school district maintenance supervisor told a Nelson Daily News reporter that the gymnasium, also known as The Hangar, “would be the safest place in Nelson in a bombing attack.”
More recently, the name has been associated with athletic excellence. LVR’s senior boys rugby won a provincial gold medal last year, the latest in a string of successes primarily in rugby and soccer.
Malloff reiterated it will take time to decide on a new name, and that students will also be consulted. She acknowledged some people may be resistant to leaving the Bombers in the past.
“We’re going to be very thoughtful and careful about that and keep that as part of the history and keep it as a visible presence somewhere in the building, but we need to rethink and say what does it mean to an athletic team as part of our culture in 2019.”
— With files from Greg Nesteroff
tyler.harper@nelsonstar.com
A picture of an L.V. Rogers Bomberettes team from 1954. The Nelson high school is considering replacing the name Bombers for its sports teams. Photo courtesy Touchstones Museum
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If Discrimination, Then Branch: Ann Hardy's Contributions to Computing
David Brock Mar 25, 2019 Curatorial Insight, Remarkable People
Ann Hardy pictured in the mid-1950s when she began her career in software.
In the realm of software, a “branch” is a computer instruction that causes a shift from the default pattern of activity to a different sequence of actions, a different way of moving ahead if you will. For Ann Hardy, a pioneer in timesharing software and business, her contributions to computing—detailed in her recent oral history with the Software History Center—were achieved through repeated, creative branching in the face of sexist discrimination. A serious challenge came in the early 1950s as an undergraduate: Despite her interest, she was not allowed to major in chemistry. That was for men only. Hardy branched. The physical therapy major allowed her to take all of the chemistry and technical classes she wanted.
In the mid-1950s, at the suggestion of a childhood friend and fellow mathematics lover, Hardy stopped by IBM’s offices at 57th and Madison Avenue in Manhattan and took a computer programming aptitude test. Passing with flying colors, she took a six-week course and aced the final exam. The top 10 percent of the class was promised a job in sales, the pinnacle of IBM, but upper management eventually decided this could not apply to women. Hardy branched. She became an IBM programmer instead, making important contributions to the software for the Stretch supercomputer. Stretch led to a job at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where Hardy first experienced the then novel timesharing approach to computing. Thrilled by the possibilities of interactive computing, in 1966 she convinced a pioneering startup in the field, Tymshare, to hire her to write their timesharing operating system. They did.
To learn about further branchings by Ann Hardy in her rise to an executive at Tymshare and then to a cofounder of a secure-computing firm, read her oral history on the CHM website or watch her oral history on our YouTube channel.
“If Discrimination, Then Branch: Ann Hardy's Contributions to Computing” was published in the Computer History Museum’s 2018 issue of Core magazine.
Oral History of Ann Hardy, Session 1
Oral History of Ann Hardy, Session 1, interviewed by David C. Brock, Hansen Hsu, and Marc Weber on February 20, 2018. Collection of the Computer History Museum, X7849.2017. Full transcript.
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Oral History of Ann Hardy, Session 2, interviewed by David C. Brock, Hansen Hsu, and Marc Weber on July 22, 2018. Collection of the Computer History Museum, X7849.2017. Full transcript.
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David C. Brock is an historian of technology, and Director of the Software History Center at the Computer History Museum. He focuses on histories of computing, electronics and instrumentation, as well as on oral history. Brock’s work in the history of semiconductor electronics includes Thackray, Brock and Jones, Moore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary (Basic Books, 2015); Lécuyer and Brock, Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor (MIT Press, 2010); and Brock (ed.) Understanding Moore’s Law (CHF, 2005). He has served as a writer and executive-producer for several recent documentary shorts and hour-long television documentaries, including Moore’s Law at 50; Scientists You Must Know; Gordon Moore; and Arnold O. Beckman. Brock is on Twitter @dcbrock
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Google to loosen grip on search algorithms
Partial opening planned, VP reveals in blog
Linda Rosencrance 25 May, 2008 22:00
After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google is opening up a little.
The search engine company has kept its search formula a closely guarded secret for two reasons: competition and to prevent abuse, says Udi Manber, Google's vice president of engineering, search quality. In post on Google's corporate blog, Manber says the move is the first part of a renewed effort at the company "to open up a bit more than we have in the past".
Manber said Google, like other companies, didn't want to share its secrets with competitors, nor did tit want to make its search ranking formulas too accessible, making it easier for people to "game the system".
"The details of the ranking algorithms are in many ways Google's crown jewels," Manber says. "We are very proud of them and very protective of them. But being completely secretive isn't ideal," he says.
Manber says the most famous part of Google's ranking algorithm is PageRank, an algorithm developed by Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. While PageRank is still in use, it is a "part of a much larger system," he says.
"Other parts include language models (the ability to handle phrases, synonyms, diacritics, spelling mistakes, and so on), query models (it's not just the language, it's how people use it today"), time models (some queries are best answered with a 30-minutes old page, and some are better answered with a page that stood the test of time), and personalised models (not all people want the same thing)," he says.
Given the scrutiny it faces in the market as the dominant search provider , Google may be feeling a need to make a greater effort to be more transparent, says Greg Sterling, an analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence.
Sterling says that because Google's position in search is relatively secure, at least in the near term, the company might feel it doesn't need to provide the same level of secrecy to its algorithm any longer.
Or, Google may be trying to address an image problem, says Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group in San Jose.
"I think the irony that what we've seen with Google is that as time goes on, even though it's positioned itself as the anti-Microsoft, it's kind of been reading out of Microsoft's playbook," Enderle says.
"In many ways, Google is much more proprietary than Microsoft is, and they actually used open source software to get there. So unlike Microsoft, which started off proprietary and has gradually been opening its stuff up, Google starts off getting other people's open stuff, turns it proprietary and then makes money off it. It kind of redefines 'pirate.' I think Google is feeling a little bit of the heat because people are starting to focus on that a bit."
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Ireland to play key roles on energy efficiency commission
Conor Trindle
An invitation to take up the role was made by the International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol
Taoiseach on Monday addressed the IEA's Global Conference on Energy Efficiency in Dublin Castle
Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton also addressed the conference
DUBLIN, Ireland - Taoiseach Loe Varadkar is to be appointed Honorary Patron of the International Energy Agency (IEA)'s new Global Commission for Urgent Action on Energy Efficiency.
An invitation to take up the role was made by the IAE Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol.
The Taoiseach on Monday addressed the International Energy Agency's Global Conference on Energy Efficiency which was held in Dublin Castle.
The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton also addressed the conference, which brought together a large international audience consisting of Ministers, CEOs, heads of international organisations and other senior leaders to advance global progress on energy efficiency.
In his address, Varadkar told attendees he would accept the Honorary Patron role and take part in the Commission.
Minister Bruton also confirmed that he too will participate on the Commission.
The purpose of the Commission is to examine how energy efficiency progress can be accelerated in the short term through new and stronger policy action. The focus will be on key policy actions that can be taken by countries across the globe. It will be a one year process leading to a concise list of clear, actionable recommendations. The IEA intends to invite a select group of political and business leaders and thinkers from around the world to also join the Commission.
"Ireland is ready and willing to play its part in the international drive for energy efficiency. In this regard, I was delighted to accept the IEA's invitation to act as the Honorary Patron of a new Global Commission on Energy Efficiency. This IEA-supported Commission provides a fantastic opportunity to identify policies that can be implemented in a short time frame that will boost activity on energy efficiency globally. International cooperation and collaboration on this matter facilitates shared learning and will help to put us on a more sustainable path to the future," the Taoiseach told the conference.
Minister Bruton added, "Last week I launched the Climate Action Plan, which will ensure Ireland meets our 2030 emissions targets and will put us on the right trajectory to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Decarbonising our energy supply is crucial to delivering on our ambitions and is critical to many of the actions laid out in the Plan. As we transition to electric vehicles for example, we need to make sure that our electricity supply comes from renewable sources. The Plan also includes a range of ambitious energy efficiency measures that will support the achievement of our targets. Given the scale of the challenge, international collaboration is crucial and Ireland's place on the Commission will be important in that regard."
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Home / CLIR Publications / CLIR Reports / Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation / Contents
Risk Management of Digital Information:
A File Format Investigation
Gregory W. Lawrence
William R. Kehoe
Oya Y. Rieger
William H. Walters
Anne R. Kenney
Copyright 2000 by the Council on Library and Information Resources. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transcribed in any form without permission of the publisher. Requests for reproduction should be submitted to the Director of Communications at the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Risk Management of Digital Information
Digital Preservation and Migration
Risk Assessment as a Migration Analysis Method
Risk Assessment of General Collections
Risk Assessment of File Formats
Assessing Risk in Conversion Software
Assessing Recurring Risk Inherent in a Large Heterogeneous File Collection
Assessing Risk Associated with the File Conversion Process
Identification of Metadata-Related Risk
Findings and Recommendations
Migration Risk Can be Quantified
Conversion Software
Access to Format Data
Public Access Archives of Format Information
Appendix A: Risk-Assessment Workbook
Appendix B: Documentation for Format Migration Test File, Lotus 1-2-3, Release 2.2
Appendix C: Documentation: Examiner and RiskEditor
Appendix D: Case Study for Image File Format
Appendix E: Case Study for Lotus 1-2-3 .wk1 Format
Supplemental Documentation
Appendixes F and G did not appear in the print version of Risk Management of Digital Information.
Appendix F: Migration Software Analysis, Software Assessment Sheet
Appendix G: Specifications for the Cornell Digital Library Format
Gregory W. Lawrence is government information librarian at Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Library. He has participated in numerous research and development projects concerning the implementation of the electronic library, and he speaks and writes on these topics. He has received the American Library Association (ALA) Best of L.R.T.S. Award, the ALA Blackwell North American Scholarship Award, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary’s Honor Award. Mr. Lawrence is a past chair of the Preservation Committee, Depository Library Council.
William R. Kehoe is programmer/analyst specialist in the Information Technology Services Department at Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Library. He wrote his first assembly language “Hello, World” program in 1978, and has used C, Perl, VisualBasic, and Java to develop business applications and digital library delivery systems. He is currently the system architect for a service that will deliver interactive maps over the Web from numeric data supplied by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. For his participation in the USDA Economics and Statistics System, he received the USDA Secretary’s Honor Award.
Oya Y. Rieger has been a librarian at Cornell University for eight years, where she has held positions as numeric files librarian, USDA Economics and Statistics System Project coordinator, and gateway manager for Cornell University Library’s Web-based information system. She has participated in several development projects related to electronic libraries and user support services and has written and spoken frequently on these topics. In her current position as coordinator of the Digital Imaging and Preservation Research Unit, she manages a range of digital imaging and preservation research, demonstration, and training projects. She is the coeditor of RLG DigiNews. Ms. Rieger and Anne Kenney have written a new monograph, Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, which was recently published by the Research Libraries Group (RLG).
William H. Walters was the social science bibliographer in the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University. Soon after the completion of this report, he accepted the position of collection development librarian at St. Lawrence University. A Ph.D. candidate in sociology (demography) at Brown University, Mr. Walters has conducted research in librarianship, demography, cartography, and economic sociology.
Anne R. Kenney is the associate director of the department of preservation and conservation and codirector of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections. Since 1989, she has been involved in a continuing series of research and production projects centering on the use of digital imaging for preservation reformatting and enhanced access. She has written and spoken widely on the topic of digital imaging and been involved in several intensive digital training programs, both at Cornell University and on behalf of RLG. She is the coauthor of the award-winning publication Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (1996) and is coeditor with Oya Y. Rieger of RLG DigiNews. She and Ms. Rieger have written a new monograph, Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, which was recently published by RLG. Ms. Kenney is a fellow and past president of the Society of American Archivists.
Given the right hardware and software, digital information is easy to create, copy, and disseminate; however, it is very hard to preserve. At present, it is impossible to guarantee the longevity and legibility of digital information for even one human generation.
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has sponsored work on possible solutions to this problem. One such solution, the development of emulators, would enable access to information created with software and hardware that has become obsolete. The merits of emulation are widely debated, and the approach has yet to be developed for broad, practical use. A more viable strategy, many argue, is migration, which the CPA/RLG Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information defines as “the periodic transfer of digital materials from one hardware/software configuration to another, or from one generation of computer technology to a subsequent generation.”
This report does not argue the merits of emulation or migration for longevity; rather, it addresses the practical aspects of migration in an operating library. Migration is, in essence, a translation. With migration, as with all translations, some information is lost, no matter how skilled the interpreter. In migration, it is usually the context, rather than the data, that drops out or is improperly reconstructed in the new code. This can be crippling in dynamic formats, in relational databases, and even in simple spreadsheets. Nonetheless, given how much information already exists in digital form and the brevity of its projected life span, institutions must act now to move information forward. They cannot afford to wait for the optimal solution.
In 1998, CLIR asked the Cornell University Library to undertake a risk assessment of migrating a handful of common file formats. This report is the fruit of their investigation. It is intended to be a practical guide to assessing the risks associated with the migration of various formats and to making sound preservation decisions on the basis of that assessment. The authors start from the premise that migration is prone to generating errors, and they provide practical tools to quantify the risks. They organize migration into a sequence of discrete steps and offer assessment tools to manage each of those steps. The process is presented in a workbook that can guide digital preservation specialists in their day-to-day operations. The authors also present two case studies-one for image files and another for numeric files-that demonstrate their approach.
The goal of any risk assessment is to identify, as unambiguously as possible, the risk of loss over time and the measures that can be taken to mitigate that loss. This is what the tools are designed to do. The difficulty, of course, is determining when risk is acceptable and when it is not. The authors underscore the importance of experience and judgment in practicing the art of preservation.
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North Korea has not taken steps to denuclearize, John Bolton says
By Felicia Sonmez
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Aug 07, 2018 | 11:24 AM
John Bolton, national security advisor, speaks during a White House press briefing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. (Zach Gibson / Bloomberg)
National security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that North Korea has not made progress toward denuclearization, in a dismal acknowledgment that comes nearly two months after President Donald Trump held a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.
"The United States has lived up to the Singapore declaration. It's just North Korea that has not taken the steps we feel are necessary to denuclearize," Bolton said in an interview on Fox News Channel on Tuesday morning.
He added that the United States will continue to apply pressure until Pyongyang produces results.
"The idea that we're going to relax the sanctions just on North Korea's say-so, I think, is something that just isn't under consideration," Bolton said. "We're going to continue to apply maximum pressure to North Korea until they denuclearize, just as we are to Iran."
The Trump administration has consistently sought to reassure critics that Kim will make good on his pledges to denuclearize. Last month, Trump tweeted that he had "confidence that Kim Jong Un will honor the contract we signed &, even more importantly, our handshake" in Singapore.
Yet the most tangible result of the June 12 summit so far has been last week's handover by North Korea of the remains of more than 50 service members killed in the Korean War. The question of denuclearization remains a separate one, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said, and U.S. and North Korean diplomats traded jabs on the issue at last weekend's annual conference of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
At that conference, which also took place in Singapore, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo handed to North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho a letter from Trump to Kim.
Bolton revealed Tuesday that the letter contained a proposal from Trump for Pompeo to make another visit to North Korea to meet with Kim.
"Secretary of State Pompeo is prepared to go back to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong Un. We've proposed that in our most recent letter from the president to Kim Jong Un," Bolton said.
"The president's prepared to meet at any point," he added. "But what we really need is not more rhetoric. What we need is performance from North Korea on denuclearization."
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Brexit Local News
Govt dismisses GSD’s ‘legally flawed, politically wrong’ analysis of Brexit deal
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The GSD’s analysis of the Gibraltar aspects of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement is “legally flawed, politically wrong and totally unsustainable”, the Gibraltar Government said yesterday.
In a hard-hitting statement, No.6 Convent Place said the GSD’s analysis was “a cheap and transparent” attempt to “confuse public opinion”.
No.6 Convent Place was reacting to the GSD’s position on the divorce deal, which the Opposition party said “allows Spain a voice in our domestic affairs and a measure of control over these”.
“The GSD’s criticisms of the negotiations that I have led on behalf of the Government of Gibraltar in the context of the Withdrawal Agreement are utterly pathetic,” said Chief Minister Fabian Picardo.
“For the last year the Government has negotiated a difficult deal for Gibraltar that does not require us to make any concessions on sovereignty, jurisdiction or control or that undermines our Constitution.”
“It has been achieved, whether the GSD or Mr Azopardi like it or not.”
“In particular, we have succeeded in ensuring that Gibraltar will be part of the Withdrawal Agreement and its transitional period, if there is one.”
“We have done so by negotiating reciprocal cooperation, not by granting concessions.”
“Mr Azopardi considers this to be an insignificant achievement.”
“Not only have we not given any concessions but Gibraltar’s inclusion in the transition period is no mean feat.”
“As has been stated by Sir Peter Caruana ‘no-one in Gibraltar should be under any illusion about how serious’ crashing out of the EU on 29 March 2019 would have been for Gibraltar, what he described as ‘the calamity of crashing out of Europe, out of the EU in isolation from Britain’.”
“This is what we have avoided and I am proud of this achievement.”
CITIZENS’ RIGHTS
In its analysis, the GSD had accused the Gibraltar Government of giving away “Gibraltar’s biggest bargaining” by allowing frontier workers to be protected beyond the transition period.
The GSD said the MoU on Citizens’ Rights protected Spanish frontier workers and would not lapse at the end of the transitional period.
But the government said this was “quite a remarkable failure of understanding” of the deal.
The government said one of the most prominent features of the Withdrawal Agreement was that it protected citizens’ rights on a permanent basis and that this applied not just to frontier workers but to all EU nationals living in the UK and to British nationals living in the EU at the end of the transition period.
That protection existed independently of the Gibraltar Protocol in the Withdrawal Agreement and the MoUs that stem from it.
“All that the MoU does is to institute a basis for cooperation in relation to Citizens’ Rights, notably by the creation of a Committee, nothing more,” No.6 Convent Place said in a statement.
“Mr Azopardi does not appear to have understood this fundamental aspect of the Withdrawal Agreement.”
“Therefore, the effect of the Withdrawal Agreement as a whole is to protect, indefinitely, those who are exercising EU rights today.”
“In his lazy analysis Mr Azopardi has failed to understand that this includes a huge number of Gibraltarians who own homes in Spain today.”
“In particular it protects the rights of those Gibraltarians who live in Spain and commute into Gibraltar every day.”
“Mr Azopardi has forgotten those Gibraltarians. He has neglected a large number of people who need or choose to live in Spain, whose rights are also indefinitely protected.”
The government said the GSD had also “overlooked” the fact that the recognition of citizens’ rights underlined the importance of freedom of movement, and that the EU had confirmed British citizens, including all Gibraltarians, would have the right of visa-free travel into the EU.
BILATERALISM
The GSD had also stated that the MoUs agreed as part of the divorce package had been concluded bilaterally between the UK and Spain, adding that this represented “an abandonment” of gains made by Sir Peter Caruana in the Cordoba Agreement of 2006.
But the government hit back and referred to an interview Sir Peter gave recently to GBC in which he had said the Brexit negotiations could not be compared to the trilateral negotiations and differed “in a very big-time way”.
In Sir Peter’s words, the Cordoba agreements and the trilateral forum they stemmed from were “…a purely political project, there was no sense of international treaty, there was no sense of a wider member-state context”.
Sir Peter had told GBC too that this applied to the MoUs “which are also part of the structure of this withdrawal agreement” and “will have been entered into pursuant to an obligation contained in an international treaty” and that he thought it would be “unrealistic for anybody here to think that [Spain] is going to do [trilateral agreements] in the context of the EU”.
The GSD’s analysis was thus “unrealistic”, the government said, adding that the party had also glossed over the importance of the Concordat entered into by the UK and Gibraltar governments.
This document, No.6 said, was a “fundamental” element of the overall architecture of the agreements reached in relation to Gibraltar.
“The Concordat highlights the importance of the definition of the United Kingdom in Article 3 of the Withdrawal Agreement, which, for the first time ever in an EU treaty, explicitly includes and integrates Gibraltar in the definition of the United Kingdom, and makes it absolutely clear that the implementation of the Gibraltar Protocol and the MoUs will fully respect the Gibraltar Constitution and that all rights and obligations will be enjoyed and performed by the Government of Gibraltar and its competent authorities,” NO.6 Convent Place said.
The Gibraltar Government also dismissed GSD claims that the Gibraltar Protocol envisaged UK/Spain committees to oversee implementation and that this gave Spain a say in Gibraltar’s domestic affairs.
No.6 Convent Place said the composition of the committees was set out in each of the MoUs, with the UK side made up of seven members.
Of those, one would be appointed by the UK Government, with the remainder appointed by the Gibraltar Government.
The Committee set up by the MoU on Police and Customs Cooperation, for example, will be composed of representatives of the Foreign Office, the Royal Gibraltar Police, HM Customs Gibraltar and the Borders and Coastguard Agency, “and it is clear from the MoU that the cooperation will be carried out by our competent authorities”.
The same applies to the MoU on Tobacco where the lead will be taken by HM Customs Gibraltar, No.6 said, while the Committee on the environment will be composed of the competent authorities, which on the British side means Gibraltar’s competent authorities.
“So, it is clear that we have not conceded anything, in any of the Memoranda, that usurps the rights of the Gibraltar Parliament or the Gibraltar Government who will be the ones who take the decisions in Gibraltar, about Gibraltar and about our affairs,” No.6 said.
“Even less, do any of the MoUs undermine any aspect of our Constitution.”
The government said it was “completely false” to suggest that the MoUs would allow Spain to encroach on Gibraltar’s domestic affairs.
It said the MoUs had been negotiated on the basis of reciprocity, adding that if Spain had was encroaching on Gibraltar’s affairs, “…then the Gibraltar Government has obtained a historic advancement since the MoUs impose reciprocal rights and obligations so we would be encroaching into the domestic affairs of Spain.”
Neither of those was true, the government said, adding that the MoUs had been concluded so as to establish cooperation in a geographical area defined as Gibraltar and the surrounding area in Spain.
On environmental matters, cooperation will cover air quality, water quality, projects that have transboundary effects, waste disposal. Cooperation will extend to all of these environmental concerns, wherever they occur.
On tobacco, cooperation will extend to examine illicit activities in the same geographical area.
The entire MoU on Police and Customs Cooperation is based on the objective of creating mechanisms that will allow law enforcement agencies on both sides of the border to cooperate with each other.
LONGTERM GAINS
The GSD had asserted that the Withdrawal Agreement had achieved no long term gains for Gibraltar.
But the government responded that the negotiation had been about leaving the EU and ensuring a transition period, not about the future relationship. It said the same position applied to both the UK and Gibraltar.
“The future will be dealt with in a separate agreement that will set out the future partnership between the United Kingdom, including Gibraltar, and the EU,” the government said.
“Again to quote Sir Peter Caruana: ‘The UK has no guarantees itself, has no assurances, about what deal it can get at the end of the transitional period… It's really unrealistic for Gibraltar to think that we could be in a better position than the UK and have some negotiated certainty about that for ourselves, when the UK doesn't have it for itself.’”
“That is correct. And that is the position.”
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Alma 10
Shiblon and later Helaman take possession of the sacred records—Many Nephites travel to the land northward—Hagoth builds ships, which sail forth in the west sea—Moronihah defeats the Lamanites in battle. About 56–52 B.C.
1 And it came to pass in the commencement of the thirty and sixth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi, that aShiblon took possession of those bsacred things which had been delivered unto Helaman by Alma.
2 And he was a just man, and he did walk uprightly before God; and he did observe to do good continually, to keep the commandments of the Lord his God; and also did his brother.
3 And it came to pass that aMoroni died also. And thus ended the thirty and sixth year of the reign of the judges.
4 And it came to pass that in the thirty and seventh year of the reign of the judges, there was a large company of men, even to the amount of five thousand and four hundred men, with their wives and their children, departed out of the land of Zarahemla into the land which was anorthward.
5 And it came to pass that Hagoth, he being an aexceedingly curious man, therefore he went forth and built him an exceedingly large ship, on the borders of the land bBountiful, by the land Desolation, and launched it forth into the west sea, by the cnarrow neck which led into the land northward.
6 And behold, there were many of the Nephites who did enter therein and did sail forth with much provisions, and also many women and children; and they took their course northward. And thus ended the thirty and seventh year.
7 And in the thirty and eighth year, this man built aother ships. And the first ship did also return, and many more people did enter into it; and they also took much provisions, and set out again to the land northward.
8 And it came to pass that they were never heard of more. And we suppose that they were drowned in the depths of the sea. And it came to pass that one other ship also did sail forth; and whither she did go we know not.
9 And it came to pass that in this year there were many people who went forth into the land anorthward. And thus ended the thirty and eighth year.
10 And it came to pass in the thirty and ninth year of the reign of the judges, aShiblon died also, and Corianton had gone forth to the land northward in a ship, to carry forth provisions unto the people who had gone forth into that land.
11 Therefore it became expedient for aShiblon to confer those sacred things, before his death, upon the son of bHelaman, who was called cHelaman, being called after the name of his father.
12 Now behold, all those aengravings which were in the possession of Helaman were written and sent forth among the children of men throughout all the land, save it were those parts which had been commanded by Alma should bnot go forth.
13 Nevertheless, these things were to be kept sacred, and ahanded down from one generation to another; therefore, in this year, they had been conferred upon Helaman, before the death of Shiblon.
14 And it came to pass also in this year that there were some dissenters who had gone forth unto the Lamanites; and they were astirred up again to anger against the Nephites.
15 And also in this same year they came down with a numerous army to war against the people of aMoronihah, or against the army of Moronihah, in the which they were beaten and driven back again to their own lands, suffering great loss.
16 And thus ended the thirty and ninth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
17 And thus ended the account of aAlma, and Helaman his son, and also Shiblon, who was his son.
Alma 38:1 (1–2); 49:30.
Mosiah 1:3; Alma 37:1 (1–12). TG Sacred.
See Alma 43–63 for his great contributions.
Alma 22:31; 46:17; Hel. 3:3.
Hel. 3:10 (10, 14).
Alma 53:3 (3–4); Hel. 1:23.
Alma 22:32; Morm. 2:29; Ether 10:20.
Hel. 3:10.
Hel. 3:12 (11–12); 6:6.
Alma 31:7.
See heading to the book of Helaman.
Alma 18:36; 3 Ne. 1:2.
Alma 51:9; Hel. 4:4.
Alma 62:43.
Alma 1:2 (1–2).
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S. Martinelli & Co. Introduces 1868 Hard Cider to Commemorate its 150th Anniversary
By Emily Kovach | September 10, 2018
Martinelli’s — you know, that company that makes the amazing foil-topped sparkling cider that you buy for your kids and then secretly steal sips of — is celebrating its 150th Anniversary, and it’s doing it in style. To commemorate this momentous occasion, its parent company, S. Martinelli & Company, is releasing 1868 Hard Cider! Believe it or not, hard cider was the first product made by Martinelli’s, which it stopped making once Prohibition laws went into effect in 1920, then started making again after it was repealed, but then retired for good in 1978.
Currently only available via limited distribution on the West Coast, this fresh-pressed hard cider is named after the year the company was founded.
“We are very excited about the launch of our 1868 Hard Cider. It’s a great way for us to celebrate Martinelli’s rich heritage, as most people don’t realize that we were founded as a hard cider company in 1868,” explained Gun Ruder, president of S. Martinelli & Company.
Martinelli’s crisp, tart-sweet apple juices come from a unique blend of premium apple varieties, including Newtown Pippin, Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith, Jonagold, Mutsu and Honeycrisp. According to tasting notes from the company, the 5.7% ABV cider has “a slightly sweet, crisp flavor, contains no added water, concentrate or preservatives, and is fermented with no additives of any kind.”
If you live on the West Coast, keep an eye out for Martinelli’s 1868 Hard Cider, and if you try it, let us know what you think!
Photos: S. Martinelli & Co.
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Clermont County man convicted of sex crimes against minors gets life sentence
Clermont County judge sentences man who was convicted in May on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition of minor girls.
Clermont County man convicted of sex crimes against minors gets life sentence Clermont County judge sentences man who was convicted in May on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition of minor girls. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/07/01/clermont-cty-man-convicted-sex-crimes-against-minors-sentenced/1620967001/
Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 3:21 p.m. ET July 1, 2019 | Updated 3:35 p.m. ET July 1, 2019
Joseph Addison (Photo: Provided)
A man who was convicted in May on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition of minor girls received a life sentence on Monday.
Joseph Addison, 40, of Union Township, was found guilty by a Clermont County Jury on four counts of rape and three counts of gross sexual imposition. Two of the rape convictions involved someone under 10.
On July 1, Judge Victor Haddad sentenced Addison to life in prison.
That's the maximum sentence he could get short of the death penalty, according to Clermont County Assistant Prosecutor Scott O'Reilly.
"He deserves every day of it," he said.
O'Reilly praised the victims for their strength in coming forward and standing up to their attacker.
The sentencing brings closure to a case that's been ongoing for two years.
Indictments against Addison on multiple counts of rape and gross sexual imposition were handed down by several Clermont County grand juries since 2017. In January 2018, a grand jury also indicted Addison on one count of conspiracy to commit murder and five counts of attempted aggravated murder.
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Scotiabank and Concacaf Agree to Early Renewal of Cornerstone Partnership
Strong alignment on competitions and development focus have keyed success for the partners over the first term of the deal, covering the range of Concacaf tournaments including the Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League
Miami (Tuesday April 24, 2018) – The Confederation of North, Central American and the Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and Scotiabank today announced the early renewal of their wide-ranging partnership agreement, covering the Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League and the Concacaf Gold Cup, among a range other championships and properties including development-focused youth tournaments and initiatives.
The parties arrived at an early renewal of the original deal, signed during a 2015 event at the Mexican Stock Exchange. The renewal includes all Concacaf properties and places emphasis on the Scotiabank Concacaf Championship League – the crown jewel of the region’s club competitions – and development tournaments including the innovative Scotiabank Concacaf Under-13 Champions League, set for its fourth edition later this year.
“We at Concacaf are proud that this important partnership will continue for many years ahead, and thank Scotiabank for their continued commitment and support of Concacaf’s mission to develop the game across the region, as well as the firm trust and belief in football across Concacaf embodied in this agreement,” said Concacaf President Victor Montagliani. “We know Scotiabank shares our vision for growth and inclusion within the game, and today we celebrate that common philosophy.”
“Scotiabank’s extension of our partnership with Concacaf demonstrates our continued commitment to the sport of fútbol and its fans,” said John Doig, Chief Marketing Officer, Scotiabank. “We recognize the passion that our customers have for the sport of fútbol in our markets of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean and are excited to continue to help players of all ages reach their infinite potential through the game they love.”
“Soccer is a passion we share with our employees and customers across the region. What is important to them is important to us as an organization. We will stay on the ground with our customers involved in what they enjoy, promoting organized sports to build teamwork and stronger communities”, added Ivan Lomeli, Deputy General Director for Scotiabank in Mexico.
The renewed deal will extend through 2022, and covers all Concacaf properties including the title sponsorship of the Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League, the Scotiabank Concacaf League, the Scotiabank Concacaf Under-13 Champions League, and the championship of the newly launched Concacaf Nations League, as well as this fall’s Concacaf Women’s Championship – the region’s pathway to the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Over the first three years of the partnership, the alliance has been a productive one for both Scotiabank and Concacaf. In the areas of both competitions and development, Concacaf has delivered enhanced competitions and programming thanks to the investment and support of Scotiabank, and Scotiabank has been able to leverage those properties for expanded reach of its services and messaging across North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
The partnership has accrued important commercial access and co-promotion benefits for Scotiabank built around Concacaf championships, including the annual trophy tours for the Champions League and the Concacaf League, top-class hospitality access across tournaments, and innovative on-site activations and social media initiatives which have delivered outstanding results in fan engagement and interaction.
On the competitions side, the title partnership of the Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League has bloomed as the tournament has solidified its place at the top of the region’s club competitions hierarchy. The “SCCL,” as it is known among football fans and the media, crowns a regional champion among leagues in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, and provides the sole path to the FIFA Club World Cup. Currently, Toronto FC of Major League Soccer and Chivas Guadalajara of Liga MX are locked in competition to raise the newly minted Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League trophy.
In addition to the Champions League, the Scotiabank Concacaf League was launched by the Confederation in 2017, greatly expanding the number of regional clubs participating in international play and widening the reach to the fan base exposed to Concacaf tournaments and the Scotiabank brand. The inaugural 2017 tournament was widely followed and exceeded expectations in television ratings, attendance and fan engagement across Central America and the Caribbean.
At the full national team level, Scotiabank’s involvement with the Concacaf Gold Cup -- the Confederation’s biennial national team championship – has provided exposure for Scotiabank’s investment banking business in the U.S. and beyond. The new deal adds partnership for the Nations League Championship, the championship finals of the newly launched Concacaf Nations League, with qualifying rounds kicking off later this year.
In addition to official competitions, football development continues to be a focus of the partnership. Scotiabank is a proud supporter of Concacaf’s array of youth championships, and the renewed deal includes women’s, men’s, girls’ and boys’ Concacaf championships at the Under-15, Under-17 and Under-20 levels. At the grassroots, Scotiabank has played a central role in launching the Scotiabank Concacaf Under-13 Champions League, which provides youth club teams from around the region the chance to compete in a tournament with international championship standards.
See also: Scotiabank Partnership
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Taxes Primer
The United States tax system is inefficient, overly complex and does not raise enough revenue to keep pace with federal spending. The gap between tax revenue and federal spending is projected to get worse in the coming years due to the effects of our aging population and rising health care costs pushing up the cost of spending programs. Whatever disagreements there may be about the appropriate size of the federal government, the “correct” level of revenue is that which adequately covers the cost of government spending.
How does the government raise revenue?
Revenue collected by the federal government falls into four general categories:
Individual income taxes, which are paid by individuals and certain businesses based on their income. Income taxes are progressive, meaning that higher-income individuals are meant to pay more, both in dollars and as a percentage of their total income, than those with lower incomes.
Corporate income taxes, which are paid by profitable businesses that don’t file under the individual income tax code.
Payroll taxes, which are paid by workers and their employers to fund Social Security and Medicare.
Other revenues, which include taxes paid on the estates of deceased individuals, customs duties, and excise taxes such as those on motor fuels, alcohol and tobacco.
More Indicators
Policymakers can increase government revenue by raising tax rates or broadening the base upon which the taxes are collected -- so that more income is subject to the income taxes, for example. This can often be done by reducing or eliminating “tax expenditures” that essentially subsidize certain activities and businesses. Another revenue-raising option is to create new taxes, such as instituting a tax on carbon emissions or a national sales tax.
Tax expenditures are special provisions in the tax code that favor some individuals or businesses because they engage in certain behaviors. These tax expenditures are essentially spending through the tax code, although they generally do not receive as much public attention and congressional scrutiny as direct government spending programs do. Policymakers often write these provisions into the tax code to achieve specific policy outcomes such as encouraging home ownership, supporting charitable organizations, financing post-secondary education, assisting a particular industry, or stimulating research and development.
While many of these goals are positive, it is important to understand the enormous impact that tax expenditures have on the federal budget and the U.S. economy. Tax expenditures regularly exceed a trillion dollars annually -- more than both Social Security and Medicare. These provisions can heavily influence financial decisions and economic behavior of businesses as well as individuals. Officials need to look carefully at whether these tax code provisions are working as planned and whether their continuation can be justified.
Eliminating tax expenditures is easier said than done, however. Many of the largest tax expenditures are generally popular and have strong support among the industries and groups of people who benefit from them. But many fiscal reform plans have called for reducing or eliminating tax expenditures to lower federal deficits and perhaps reduce overall tax rates. Tax plans that would neither raise or lower overall tax revenue are known as “revenue neutral.”
Benefits of Tax Reform
Effective tax reform -- notably by reducing or eliminating tax expenditures -- could play an important role in reducing annual deficits and reining in the growth of the federal debt.
This would also help reduce the complexity of the current tax code and address public concerns that Washington is favoring some individuals and businesses over others. Simplification would make the tax laws easier for taxpayers to follow and easier for the government to enforce.
All of this also has the potential to reduce the “tax gap,” which is the difference between taxes that are owed and the revenue that the government actually collects. The Internal Revenue Service estimates that shortfall amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars per year, which is lost revenue that could help lower federal deficits. Increasing the resources available to the IRS for assistance and enforcement could also help reduce the tax gap and federal borrowing.
Many elected officials, however, have focused on tax cuts, arguing in some cases that large, deficit-financed tax cuts will pay for themselves through rapid economic growth. History provides little evidence to support that claim and many economists and non-partisan experts are skeptical about it.
Federal policymakers should pursue far-sighted reforms that will simplify the tax code, make it more efficient, fair and growth-oriented, and better match federal revenues to federal spending.
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A puzzling number of men tied to the Ferguson protests have since died
By Jim Salter
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| FERGUSON, Mo.
In this Aug. 13, 2014, file photo Edward Crawford Jr., returns a tear gas canister fired by police who were trying to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Mo. Six young men with connections to the Ferguson protests, including Crawford, have died in the 4 1/2 years following the demonstrations. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose.
Six deaths, all involving men with connections to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, drew attention on social media and speculation in the activist community that something sinister was at play.
Police say there is no evidence the deaths have anything to do with the protests stemming from a white police officer's fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, and that only two were homicides with no known link to the protests.
But some activists say their concerns about a possible connection arise out of a culture of fear that persists in Ferguson 4 ½ years after Brown's death, citing threats — mostly anonymous — that protest leaders continue to receive.
The Rev. Darryl Gray said he found a box inside his car. When the bomb squad arrived, no explosives were found but a 6-foot python was inside.
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"Everybody is on pins and needles," Gray said of his fellow activists.
No arrests have been made in the two homicides. St. Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire said witnesses have simply refused to come forward, leaving detectives with no answers for why the men were targeted.
"We don't believe either one was connected to each other," McGuire said, but adding, "It's tough to come up with a motive without a suspect."
In this Nov. 24, 2014, photo, Ferguson activist Daren Seals, top center, awaits the decision by a grand jury on whether to indict Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown in front of the police station in Ferguson, Mo. Seals' bullet-riddled body was found inside a burning car in September 2016. (Robert Cohen / AP)
Ferguson erupted in protests in August 2014 after officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Brown during a street confrontation. Brown was unarmed, but Wilson said he fired in self-defense when the black teenager came at him menacingly.
A grand jury declined to charge Wilson in November 2014, prompting one of the most violent nights of demonstrations, and one of the first activist deaths.
Deandre Joshua's body was found inside a burned car blocks from the protest. The 20-year-old was shot in the head before the car was torched.
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Darren Seals, shown on video comforting Brown's mother that same night, met an almost identical fate two years later. The 29-year-old's bullet-riddled body was found inside a burning car in September 2016.
Four others also died, three of them ruled suicides.
— MarShawn McCarrel of Columbus, Ohio, shot himself in February 2016 outside the front door of the Ohio Statehouse, police said. He had been active in Ferguson.
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— Edward Crawford Jr., 27, fatally shot himself in May 2017 after telling acquaintances he had been distraught over personal issues, police said. A photo of Crawford firing a tear gas canister back at police during a Ferguson protest was part of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage.
— In October, 24-year-old Danye Jones was found hanging from a tree in the yard of his north St. Louis County home. His mother, Melissa McKinnies, was active in Ferguson and posted on Facebook after her son's death, "They lynched my baby." But the death was ruled a suicide.
— Bassem Masri, a 31-year-old Palestinian American who frequently livestreamed video of Ferguson demonstrations, was found unresponsive on a bus in November and couldn't be revived. Toxicology results released in February showed he died of an overdose of fentanyl.
In this Oct. 5, 2017, photo, Darryl Gray, a pastor who serves as a mentor to the unofficial leaders of the so-called Frontline protest movement, poses for a photo in St. Louis. Gray said that after the Ferguson protests, he found a box inside his car. When the bomb squad arrived, no explosives were found but a 6-foot python was inside. (Jim Salter / AP)
The Ferguson protests added momentum to the national Black Lives Matter movement, but they also generated resentment from people angered by TV footage of protesters hurling rocks and insults at police. Amid lingering anger, activists and observers say that while they see no clear connection between the deaths and the protests, they can't help but wonder about the thoroughness of the investigations.
"These protesters and their deaths may not be a high priority for (police) since there is this antagonistic relationship," Washington University sociologist Odis Johnson said. "I think there is a need for them to have a greater sense of urgency."
Activists say that in the years since the protests, they have been targeted in dangerous ways.
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"Something is happening," said Cori Bush, a frequent leader of the Ferguson protests. "I've been vocal about the things that I've experienced and still experience — the harassment, the intimidation, the death threats, the death attempts."
Bush said her car has been run off the road, her home has been vandalized, and in 2014 someone shot a bullet into her car, narrowly missing her daughter, who was 13 at the time.
She suspects white supremacists or police sympathizers. Living under constant threat is exhausting, she said, but she won't give in.
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"They shut us up and they win," Bush said.
In this Sept. 17, 2017, photo, Cori Bush speaks on a bullhorn to protesters outside the St. Louis Police Department headquarters in St. Louis. Bush said her car has been run off the road, her home has been vandalized, and in 2014 someone shot a bullet into her car, narrowly missing her daughter, who was 13 at the time. (Jeff Roberson / AP)
It's unclear if residual stress from the protests or harassment contributed to the suicides, but Johnson said many activists feel a sense of hopelessness.
"This has to have a big impact on their mental health," Johnson said. "For many, law enforcement is not a recourse. Many times law enforcement is not on their side."
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Experts say the deaths also are indicative of a concern at the core of the protests — the underlying difficulty of life for young people of color. Five of the men who died were blacks in their 20s.
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Black St. Louis County residents are three times more likely than whites to be poor, often meaning they lack adequate health insurance that could allow them to better address not only physical ailments but mental health issues like depression and anxiety.
They also tend to live in areas with higher crime rates. The 2010 U.S. census showed that while people who live in wealthy and mostly white western St. Louis County can expect to live well into their 80s, life expectancy in parts of mostly black north St. Louis County reaches only into the 60s. Life expectancy in Kinloch, a few miles from Ferguson, is 56.
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Forty-five of the county's 60 homicide victims last year were black in a county where less than a quarter of the population is black, according to police statistics.
"Here in St. Louis, unfortunately, we have allowed the culture of crime and violence to morph into dimensions that anybody's at risk any day, any time," said James Clark of the nonprofit Better Family Life.
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Kapler won't take fall for Phillies' recent woes
The Phillies skipper got a vote of confidence from his boss on Monday.
Kapler won't take fall for Phillies' recent woes The Phillies skipper got a vote of confidence from his boss on Monday. Check out this story on courierpostonline.com: https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/sports/2019/06/24/kapler-wont-take-fall-phillies-recent-woes/1547059001/
Tom McGurk, Cherry Hill Courier-Post Published 5:41 p.m. ET June 24, 2019
Jun 9, 2019; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Phillies manager Gabe Kapler (19) before game against the Cincinnati Reds at Citizens Bank Park. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports (Photo: Eric Hartline, Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports)
PHILADELPHIA - Phillies fans can put away the pitchforks.
Gabe Kapler isn’t going anywhere.
The Phillies second-year manager maintained his office inside Citizens Bank Park on Monday.
And whatever the outcome against the New York Mets in the series opener, he’ll will be there again on Tuesday and every day for the remainder of the season.
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Phillies general manager Matt Klentak said that the coaching staff, including his skipper, is safe and that plan isn’t going to change during the summer.
“Gabe Kapler is our manager, our staff is our staff,” Klentak said. “My view right now is that the wrong thing to do is point a finger at someone and say you are the reason why this is happening.”
“We’ve had a tough time hitting the baseball, we’ve had a tough time keeping the ball in the ballpark and we’ve had a tough time with guys getting injured. What I believe is the best thing we can do is rally together.
“Let’s face it, this is the same team that was in first place two weeks ago, this is the same team that was a juggernaut in the first two weeks of the season. To lose faith in our players, to lose faith in our staff would be the wrong thing to do.”
Even if he didn't get a vote of confidence from his boss on Monday, Kapler deserves a shot at pulling this team out of this awful funk, one that has quickly tarnished what was supposed to end not with a mediocre finish, but instead with the team's first playoff berth since 2011.
The Phillies entered Monday’s game against the Mets riding a season-worst, seven-game losing streak. The rough stretch has resulted in a 10-game swing in the standings over the last two weeks, tumbling out of first place in the National League East Division to a distant second place behind the Atlanta Braves.
Fans also point to the team that endured one of the franchise’s worst stretches on Kapler’s watch when the club went 16-34 over the final two months of last season.
Kapler says he’s heard some of the fan base call for his dismissal, and he likes the heat that goes along with his job
“It doesn’t bother me. I knew coming to the city of Philadelphia and being a coach or a manager in this town comes with a high demands, a high bar, a lot of expectations and I appreciate it.
“I love the concept that I’ll be judged on how our team Is performing, I think that’s the right way to judge any leader. I take responsibility for our club and our performance.”
Kapler can’t swing the bats. Nor can he pitch the seventh or eighth innings.
However, the manager can set the tone for his ballclub. He can give this team a bolt of energy when it desperately needs it. He can get his players to play with a sensible level of urgency.
If he can’t, that’s a major concern and could be Kapler’s downfall.
That’s been the biggest problem with this team. If they aren’t hitting home runs, they’re just not exciting to watch.
Maybe the cord won't be long for hitting coach John Mallee and his assistant Pedro Guerrero. It’s probably shorter than one for the curveball pitching machine that is expected to cure the hitter's recent woes.
The Phillies offense has gone ice cold just has hittin’ season is starting to heat up.
The club has batted .222 with a .295 on-base percentage over the last 22 games, averaging 3.7 runs over the stretch. Those numbers are even worse than ones the offense put up over last year’s historical collapse over the final two months (.227/.302 and 3.8).
The loss of Andrew McCutchen to injury has certainly hurt the lineup, but the other All-Stars who were brought in are also slumping. Guys that were shipped out like Carlos Santana, who boasts a slash line of .293/.416/.541) and J.P. Crawford (.300/.377/.450) are producing better than they did last year with the Phillies.
And if you think the Phillies will be major dealers at the trade deadline, Klentak certainly didn’t give off that vibe.
“I don’t think we should be focused on re-enforcements from the outside,” Klentak said. “If this group of 25 guys plays well, we will be a playoff team. If this group of 25 guys doesn’t play well, we won’t be.”
Maybe Klentak was just showing off his best poker face. If so, maybe Kapler should be worried.
Tom McGurk is a regional sports reporter for the Courier-Post and The Daily Journal, covering South Jersey sports for over 30 years. If you have a sports story that needs to be told, contact him at (856) 486-2420 or email tmcgurk@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @McGurkSports. Help support local journalism with a Courier Post subscription.
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Call for children’s citizenship charge to be lowered
Sue Mullins is caling for the charge on registering children as UK citizens to be lowered
Karen Dunn, local democracy reporter
Published: 17:35 Monday 16 July 2018
West Sussex County Council has been asked to write to the government to call for the cost of registering a child as a UK citizen to be lowered.
Sue Mullins (Lab, Northgate & West Green) has tabled a notice of motion, which will be considered at County Hall on Friday (July 20).
The Home Office was criticised in February after it was revealed it had made £800m in six years from nationality services – a cost it said was fair and used to fund the wider immigration system.
It costs £1,012 to apply for a child to be registered as a UK citizen, and a judicial review, brought by the Project for Registration of Children as British Citizens and Amnesty International UK, revealed that the administrative cost was only £372, a difference of £640.
The notice tabled by Mrs Mullins said there were ‘significant numbers’ of children in the UK who had the right to register as British citizens but had not done so.
Mrs Mullins said: “Many of these children were born in the UK, and others have lived here from a young age, been raised here, educated here, and have never known any other home.
“Without access to their citizenship rights, children may find themselves denied opportunities extended to their peers, such as the chance to participate in a school trip, or to be eligible for funding, so they can undertake higher education.”
She added: “No child should be denied their citizenship rights by reason of a fee.
“There is no substitute for citizenship, which is vital to future security and sense of belonging.”
When it came to children in care, Mrs Mullins pointed out that the cost of registering a child would fall on the county council, as corporate parent.
She said: “The fee puts councils in the unacceptable position of having to weigh the benefits of citizenship to a child in their care against the cost to the council of assisting a child in claiming that right.”
As well as asking the council to write to Caroline Nokes MP, minister of immigration, demanding a reduction in the fee, Mrs Mullins also called for looked after children to be exempt from the fee, and for the council to ensure all children in care were aware of their citizenship rights.
A briefing note from Kim Curry, executive director children, adults, families, health and education, said the council had no written policy on the issue but was ‘committed to the welfare of children in its care’, which included paying for citizenship applications where necessary.
The meeting will be held in County Hall, West Street, Chichester, at 10.30am on Friday.
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The Far Left in Australia since 1945
Jon Piccini, Evan Smith, Matthew Worley
Series: Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
July 11, 2018 by Routledge
The far left in Australia had significant effects on post-war politics, culture and society. The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) ended World War II with some 20,000 members, and despite the harsh and vitriolic Cold War climate of the 1950s, seeded or provided impetus for the re-emergence of other movements. Radicals subscribing to ideologies beyond the Soviet orbit – Maoists, Trotskyists, anarchists and others – also created parties and organisations and led movements. All of these different far left parties and movements changed and shifted during time, responding to one political crisis or another, but they remained steadfastly devoted to a better world.
This collection, bringing together 14 chapters from leading and emerging figures in the Australian and international historical profession, for the first time charts some of these significant moments and interventions, revealing the Australian far left’s often forgotten contribution to the nation’s history.
Introduction: The history of the far left in Australia since 1945 – Jon Piccini, Evan Smith and Matthew Worley Part 1: Organisational Histories. 2. Australian Communism in Crisis: 1956 – Phillip Deery. 3. The Current of Maoism in the Australian Far Left – Drew Cottle and Angela Keys. 4. Breaking with Moscow: the Communist Party of Australia's new road to socialism – David McKnight, 5. ‘The "White Australia" policy must go’: The Communist Party of Australia and immigration restriction – Jon Piccini and Evan Smith Part 2: The 1950s and 1960s – In and out of the Cold War. 6. The Far Left and the Fight For Aboriginal Rights: The Formation of the Council for Aboriginal Rights (CAR), 1951 – Jennifer Clark, 7. How far left? Negotiating radicalism in Australian anti-nuclear politics in the 1960s – Kyle Harvey, 8. "1968" in Australia: The Student Movement and the New Left – Russell Marks Part 3: The 1960s and 1970s – The valences of Liberation. 9. Changing Consciousness, Changing Lifestyles: Australia’s Women Liberation, the Left and the Politics of ‘Personal Solutions’ – Isobelle Barrett Meyering, 10. Black Power and White solidarity: The Action Conference on Racism and Education, Brisbane 1972 – Lewis d’Avigdor, 11. The Australian Left and Gay Liberation: From 1945 to 2000s – Liz Ross, 12. Beating BHP: The Wollongong Jobs for Women Campaign 1980 – 1991 – Diana Covell Part 4: Mainstreaming the far left. 13. Halcyon Days? The Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union and the Accord – Elizabeth Humphrys, 14. Reading and Contesting Germaine Greer and Dennis Altman: the 1970s and Beyond – Jon Piccini and Ana Stevenson, 15. The Cultural Front: Left Cultural Activism in the Post-War Era – Lisa Milner
Jon Piccini, University of Queensland, Australia.
Evan Smith, Flinders University, Australia.
Matthew Worley, University of Reading, UK.
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Home Football Work to be done in battle of cricket v football in India
Work to be done in battle of cricket v football in India
Kashinath Bhattacharjee
Football is gaining ground in India ahead of the U-17 FIFA World Cup in October, but cricket still reigns supreme in the ratings leaving work to be done
India has a population of 1.311 billion and the Indian Premier League (IPL) – the dominant domestic cricket league of the country – had a television viewership around 500-600 million for the 60 matches in 2017.
With the overwhelming popularity of cricket in India, that half of the nation would be glued to their television screen is quite natural. Football, in comparison, has a lot to do to catch up to these amazing figures.
Yes, the viewers for the city-based franchise football league, the Indian Super League (ISL), are growing every year. In its third year since inception in 2014, ISL had no less than 216 million viewers for 59 matches in the 2016 edition. Compared to the FIFA World Cup 2014 where only around 70 million people watched live coverage of the matches, ISL had, by far, been the second most watched tournament in India.
Can we conclude that the popularity of football in India is increasing by the day?
Welcome the weekend with open arms, just like @simao20sabrosa! #LetsFootball #FridayFeeling pic.twitter.com/b1YmC2UdOR
— Indian Super League (@IndSuperLeague) June 30, 2017
The numbers are definitely increasing as far as the ISL is concerned but overall, the scenario is gloomy. For the forthcoming FIFA Under-17 World Cup, to be held in India from October 6-28, ticket sales are not at all encouraging.
Only two among six of the host cities, Kolkata and Guwahati, had all their Phase 1 tickets sold so far. Football is immensely popular in West Bengal and Kolkata is said to be the Mecca of Indian Football. That the tickets for the Phase 1 were sold out in less than twenty-four hours for the ten matches in Kolkata was not surprising at all.
Similarly, football is followed passionately in the North-East region of the country now. Aizawl FC, a club from Mizoram, were crowned champions in the I league in 2017, the number one club-based league in India while there were at least four footballers from the North-East in each of the eight ISL franchises. Guwahati picked up sales a little late, but it was expected from the football-fans of the North-East to grab the tickets for the first and the most coveted FIFA event in India.
The other four centres for the U-17 premier event – Mumbai, Kochi, Delhi and Goa – though, had a pathetic run so far. Initially, India was scheduled to play their group league matches in Mumbai which had to be shifted to the capital New Delhi following a request from the local organisers. The Chilean tournament director, Javier Ceppi, was reportedly happy after the ticket sales grew in Delhi after the decision to hold India’s matches at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017: All you need to know about India U17 Team https://t.co/Tf24aWT6CR pic.twitter.com/B6aL1rydGz
— Goal India (@Goal_India) July 1, 2017
But the most shocking news came from Goa where Football is considered to be the most popular sport even now after Kolkata and North-East. The indifferent attitude towards the I League by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) had compelled the traditional giants in Indian football like Dempo, Salgaocar, Sporting Clube de Goa to stay away from the I league in 2017.
FC Goa, too, failed to impress under the coaching of the legendary Brazilian, Zico, in the third ISL. The only region in India where Portuguese was the official language once, trying to stay away from the football bonanza now, is definitely shocking.
In India, European club football leagues, mostly the English Premier League and the Spanish La Liga, are followed with much enthusiasm. Because of Indians’ affinity to the English language and the convenient telecasting time of the EPL, matches involving English giants are widely followed.
FC Barcelona and Real Madrid had more followers (around 8.2 millions each) in India than any other Asian country, says the TV-viewership records. Naturally, the matches involving either of these two attracts more viewers. German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A and Dutch Eredivisie are shown live regularly but the TRPs are far less compared to the EPL, La Liga and even the UEFA Champions League matches, despite the midnight timings.
#ManchesterUnited fans! Look who's here! Juan Mata is in #India and is here for the next few days. Catch a glimpse of him in #Mumbai! #MUFC pic.twitter.com/Z5paOnlTOK
— Khel Now (@KhelNow) June 19, 2017
Roam around the metro cities and North-East, you can easily found supporters proudly wearing their favoured team-shirts. Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Chelsea and Manchester United shirts will be seen more often rather than those of Dempo, East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Bengaluru FC or the official Blue jersey of the Indian football team.
Of late, a few of the Atletico de Kolkata and Aizawl FC shirts can be seen too. But if you go out of the metro cities, the numbers are relatively poor, reflecting the fact that the popularity of these teams are mainly because of the increasing social media hype. The official broadcasters of the FIFA U17 World Cup in India are hoping to attract around 50 million viewers for the 23-day tournament in October. Optimistic, they are!
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Chart Mondays
Critic Jonni
Music Video Reviews and More
22 July Critic Jonni 0 Comments
As you may be aware of (if you've read any of my other posts), I have known about Britney ever since she released her first single: "...Baby One More Time". And I have to admit, this music video is probably one of my favourite yet. She has had lots of critical responses and a lot of difficulty in her life, but it definitely looks like she's taking control of it, which is really great.
This marks Britney's third single from her fifth studio album: Femme Fatale. And is probably the best single to describe her whole album, although, the album is quite a mixture of everything, and together it is blissfully one of Britney's best albums. I think this song is probably my 2nd favourite song from the album, and I really hope that her next single will be "How I Roll", but if it isn't I don't mind much since I really like this song. As for charting, it is currently climbing up the top 200 in the UK chart, however it is officially released next week, so hopefully the single will make an impact (I'm hoping for No.1 since the last time she was there was with "Everytime" and that was in 2004). As for her albums, she has never ever had a No.1 album, which really surprised me when I found out, I just hope that in the near future she'll get a No.1 album.
This song was written by Max Martin, Shellback and Savan Kotcha (Max Martin and Shellback helped Avril Lavigne write her whole album, and they also helped with Britney's latest album so it shows how interesting their songs can be). This song again hits out at the paparazzi, although many have complained that she is attacking them again. But in my opinion, they're the ones attacking her, did anyone not see the video footage of them following her all over the news? If she is constantly followed how can she have a life? The paparazzi are to blame for many deaths from Princess Diana to Amy Winehouse (possibly, this is all what I think and I could be completely wrong). So if everyone decided never to read a newspaper or magazine ever again, if everyone decided to never tune into the news, either on the radio or on the TV, would people (famous or not so famous) still be alive today? I personally think so.
The music video is AMAZING! It is one of the best Britney videos for a long time, and I really like the funny side of things. I love how Britney is styled, people say she reminds them of Avril Lavigne, especially with her different coloured hair extentions, however she reminds me of when she was younger and just starting in the music industry, I really like her looking this way and you really wouldn't expect her to do the things she does in the music video, which is what they wanted the impact to be like. Also, I think she looks really well, compared to her music videos when she was a little off her head and not quite right, she looks well on track and it's really nice to see her this way.
I love the start, it is a similar take on the old film: Half Baked, and it's really funny when she says "you're cool", it makes me laugh every time. I also like the t-shirt she is wearing, which is a cropped t-shirt of Mickey Mouse, which relates to when she was in "The New Mickey Mouse Club" which I never watched. I cannot believe the journalists would ask those sort of questions either and to be honest what sort of questions are they actually asking? Who would ask anything so stupid? So she walks out wearing studded combat boots (that I didn't think Britney would ever actually wear, but I really like them), and signs her album and grabs the guys ass, I like how he is so happy that he jumps in the air, to be honest I think anyone would be happy.
I like how she blows a kiss to a baby who's whistling along to the track, and then the amazing bit when she flashes for the policeman, only the whole street sees, and I love the shocked faces, especially the ginger kid as if he's never seen anything like that in real life hahahahahahaha. The policeman, who looks like Britney's Ex-Husband Kevin Federline, then decides to search Britney up and down her legs while she's bent over a car, then we get a flash and we see Britney walking away spinning handcuffs on her finger, while the policeman is buttoning up his shirt (I wonder what they've been up to..... And surely not in the street! That kid would have a heart attack!)
She is then surrounded by paparazzi, which must relate to her everyday life, which is kind of surprising as there is quite a few of them snapping photos without her permission (and yes I know that if you are a celebrity you're bound to have the paparazzi following you and taking pictures, but still...). So she smashes one camera, which I think is good for her, and then she runs away and climbs up onto a yellow taxi. Which is a little dramatic but then again.... And she swings her mike around and hits the paparazzi, which is obviously done by using special effects on the computer, but it is done well, and I can't help but watch again and again. I really like the idea of the cinema behind, which is showing "Crossroads 2: Cross Harder" which is such a good idea, and represents Britney's first debut film, "Crossroads". I like how it is similar to "Die Hard 2: Die Harder" which has to be the best sequel name ever. But does this suggest what everyone is thinking? Will there be a sequel to Crossroads? I sure hope so, I loved that film and have probably watched it too many times by now, but will there be a sequel? If they do decide to, then it's not too late, it could mark the decade anniversary of her first film debut......
I like how there's a link with "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", with the paparazzi creeping back up showing that they are robots and are prepared to get every shot possible. This is a super nice twist and sort of explains the paparazzi to people, it shows they don't care about anyone and so will do their best in their interests and not anyone else's. Then guess who comes along.... It's Guillermo Díaz, who starred in "Half Baked". He drives alongside Britney and tells her to jump in, to help her escape the paparazzi, she is then dressed in a pink bikini top, and dances while standing up (if you look into the background you can tell that they are in front of a "blue/green screen". While Guillermo drives he decides to pour milk over his head. THIS I DO NOT UNDERSTAND! Why do such a thing? If someone could help me I'd be happy to know the answer. Anyway.... Britney is a little turned on that he does such a thing, and then sparks fly from his chest and she realises he is a robot too.
I like the ending particularly, you are taken back to the interview with the journalists screaming at her, and so she thinks she has been day-dreaming. Then Guillermo says "no more questions" and Britney tells him about her dream, and he pretends to be stupid, and then, in a link to Michael Jackson's "Thriller", as Britney is lead away, he turns around and his eyes glowers red, and he laughs hard....... It is a brilliant ending, to go with one of Britney's most iconic music videos.
Overall I cannot fault this music video, except for the milk bit which I do not understand at all. This music video will probably be remembered again and again, and I can definitely see the music channels using this loads more times in the future. I hope you all agree that my rating is fair, and this music video definitely does deserve it!
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Last Night: MGMT, Tame Impala at the House of Blues
Kelly Dearmore
Kelly Dearmore | June 9, 2010 | 10:01am
MGMT, Tame Impala
Better than: Hearing these songs yet again in a movie trailer, commercial or clothing store.
For anyone keeping track of MGMT these days, this most likely won't come as a shock: The band's sold-out show last night at the House of Blues in Dallas proved to be a study in extremes--and perhaps even a battle of wills between the audience and headliner.
As has been widely reported, and perhaps over-exaggerated, MGMT's latest release, Congratulations, is a stylistic and philosophical departure from their smash debut, Oracular Spectacular; the psychedelic whimsy of the latest album contrasts with the tightly produced dance-pop of Oracular--to the point where it is clearly tough for the ass-shaking fans of the first record to fully embrace the tripped-out, vintage vibe of the recent release.
It was obvious how the crowd felt about the two releases: The royal, rambunctious welcome the audience offered numbers from the first album provided quite the contrast to the nonchalance that the diligently rendered newer songs received.
It didn't take long for this dichotomy to take hold: The band, led by the shaggy-haired, guitar-playing Andrew Van Wyngarden and the bespectacled Ben Goldwater, had already knocked out a couple of songs, including an urgent, rousing rendition of "Flash Delirium" from Congratulations, when, far as much of the crowd was concerned, the show began in earnest; the dance rhythm of "Electric Feel" bounced off the stage to tremendous approval.
At that point, many a glow-in-the-dark headbands and necklaces whipped and swung throughout the packed house. It wasn't too long before some of those idiotic wastes of plastic found their way onto the stage, forcing band members to duck and bob out of harm's way at various points of the evening.
While it surely isn't unheard of for a band to rush through their hits, in order to focus on the newer material, MGMT played it pretty fair when it came to putting forth their best effort for their entire catalog.
But there were concerns: Another division that formed during the evening was between the varying degrees of effectiveness of Van Wyngarden's vocals. On songs such as "The Youth," he would fly into a delicate, airy register and relinquish the power that he ably proffered during "Brian Eno," when he was able to really belt out from his gut to a satisfying degree.
As for the older songs: "Weekend Wars" retained its percussive fervor (Will Berman on drums pumped some serious pulse into much of the set) and the acoustic-tinged "Pieces of What" was directed perfectly into an alt-country number that morphed into a porch-stomper that showed the group can get creative with their own arrangements; "Time to Pretend," meanwhile, with its crunchy synth, was dutifully replicated and displayed evidence of this band's legitimacy as a pop-powered steamroller.
As for the new stuff: The songs sprinkled into the set not only showed the band's significant growth, but provided the highlights of the night for anyone not looking to dry-hump during "Electric Feel."
"It's Working" took the crowd on a psychedelic tide of surf-rock, complete with some righteous bongos that came across pristinely, while "I Found a Whistle" and "Congratulations," which closed out the regular set, both benefited from a bit of added muscle--especially "Whistle", where the tune crescendoed with great bombast.
The smallest surprise of the year might be that MGMT didn't even have to play their instruments during the encore of "Kids" to elicit the loudest, most joyful cheers of the night.
The band walked around the stage, singing to the track. And, hey, since it's one of their older songs, everyone was happy.
Critic's Notebook
Personal Bias: Sure, I like Oracular Spectacular. But of the two, Congratulations will most likely be the MGMT album I reach for when I need a fix of the band. MGMT has publicly said that they wanted this to be a more mature album, and to that end, they absolutely succeeded.
Random Note: Opening band Tame Impala from Australia looked as though they were fresh out of Zounds Sounds. But their brand of spacey, stoner, prog-rock was pretty epic, regardless. Their inclusion on the bill seemed to be another method for MGMT to show us how very psychedelic they have become. Black light posters were also available for sale at the merch table.
By The Way: There was an impressive range of ages on display in the packed audience. MGMT seems to be the band that 15-year-olds and their 65-year-old grand parents can agree upon.
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Blockbuster's Financials Worse Than Expected. But It Does Get Debt Repayment Extension.
Robert Wilonsky | August 13, 2010 | 9:00am
Now we know why Blockbuster put off announcing its second-quarter financials last night: Says the downtown-based video-and-game-rental giant (well, once), it was getting its noteholders to sign off on a deal allows the company to keep $42.4 mil in debt payments for another few weeks. That's what Blockbuster owes -- and has since July 1, the day the New York Stock Exchange delisted Blockbuster's stock (now worth 18 whole cents). That same evening, Blockbuster announced that the noteholders had agreed to let Blockbuster keep that $42.4 mil -- good thing, since the company only has about $100 mil cash in hand, as opposed to $1 billion in debt. Today's announcement is just more of the same -- the money's due on September 30 now. Till it's not, as the new Forbearance Agreement does allow for even more extensions down the road if necessary.
Blockbuster says it needs that money to buy time to "engage in productive discussions with certain of these noteholders and other strategic parties regarding various recapitalization opportunities."
Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes was supposed to announce a recapitalization plan at its June 24 shareholders meeting downtown -- that's the reason it pushed back the meeting from its original May date. But it didn't reveal anything: "This is a complicated process," Keyes told Unfair Park after the meeting. "The more parties that have to agree, the more complicated the negotiations become. Good news is we're making progress. We're discussing actively terms and negotiations with debt holders and strategic partners."
He wouldn't say who those partners were then; he isn't saying now -- though there have been hints that, maybe, Comcast is in the mix somewhere, somehow.
"We appreciate the continued cooperation of our senior secured noteholders and the other parties involved in our ongoing recapitalization efforts," Keyes says in this morning's release. "While making progress, this extension allows additional time to complete these complex, multiparty negotiations. To take advantage of its unique multi-channel model and revitalize its global brand, Blockbuster will require an improved capital structure. Our objective is to complete a recapitalization solution as soon as possible so we are better positioned to focus our attention and resources on the strategic opportunities to continue our business transformation."
And maybe there's another reason Blockbuster put off announcing its second-quarters: The numbers took a steeper drop than analysts had been predicting in recent weeks:
Total revenues for the second quarter of 2010 were $788 million, compared to total revenues of $982 million for the same period one year ago.
Net loss for the second quarter of 2010 was $69 million, or $0.32 per share, compared to a net loss of $37 million, or $0.21 per share, in the second quarter of 2009. Net loss for the second quarter was affected by the closure of company-operated stores, the decline in same-store sales, and liquidity issues including costs associated with recapitalization initiatives and lease termination costs.
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Coppell Murder-Suicide: Watching the Tough-on-Crime Go Soft on One of Their Own
Jim Schutze
Jim Schutze | July 21, 2010 | 2:30pm
Tell you what. I will agree to leave the Coppell mayor murder-suicide story alone and stop stirring the pot just as soon as everybody else does. But today I have yet another pot-stirring by somebody else to deal with.
Mark Davis, the conservative talk-show guy who writes op-ed pieces for The Dallas Morning News -- usually tough as nails on law-breakers -- this morning offers yet another in a series of gooey elegies offered on the pages of our city's only daily newspaper for the kid-killer.
Of the woman who murdered her own 19-year-old daughter and then shot herself to death, Davis says this: "Jayne Peters was a remarkable woman, with a successful business career before she was elected mayor of one of North Texas' most desirable addresses. She naturally cultivated a long list of friends and family whose pain is equaled only by their despair over how she reached such a breaking point."
He goes on to explain why she killed her kid: "Peters' turmoils were the kind that we can all identify with -- her husband's death from cancer, financial hardship, fear of the loneliness she would face in the emptiest of nests."
First off, I don't remember seeing any reporting anywhere to show that the late mayor was a business success. She has been described as some kind of computer programmer. If she was such a success, one would assume she would have used that record of success to get a job instead of living off her church and stealing money from the suburb of which she was mayor. If she had so many friends, why didn't she talk to any of them about the fact that she was economically and spiritually busted?
But more to the point: People don't murder their kids because they're afraid of being empty nesters. That just isn't how the world works. Even if you layer this story with a thick sugar-icing of ersatz psychology, depression and peer pressure are not motives for killing your own kid.
Murder comes from meanness. It's the ultimate act of brutality -- stopping a life that is not your own. Why can't people like Davis concede that a person of their own class and ethnicity is capable of being a brutal monster?
Davis posits that Peters killed her own kid because she didn't want her daughter to go off to college and leave Peters all alone in the house. Just for grins, let me posit a different scenario. The mother, who has told the daughter she has been helicoptering all of her college apps for her, knows that no applications for admission have actually been made. There is no money for college. The kid ain't going.
But the mother has engaged in an elaborate deception -- renting a car and telling the daughter it's a high school graduation gift, telling her she has been admitted to UT -- because she loves her daughter and wants her to be happy. In other words, mom is nuts.
Mom is also deeply depressed. She is confused. She wants out but can't find an exit. She is plotting suicide. She has already borrowed the gun.
The girl has attempted to drive to Austin for college orientation on previous occasions, but Mom has always found ways to stall her. Now this is the last day for orientation. The girl willfully loads her stuff into the new car and prepares to drive to Austin.
Mom unloads the car and unloads the truth. No Austin. No UT. No car. No money. We're losing the house. I did it all for you, because I love you.
At this point the girl does not play the part as Mom had hopes she would. She is supposed to say, "Oh, Mom, I love you, too, and it's O.K., and we'll survive this together."
Wouldn't it be great of 19-year-olds really said stuff like that anywhere but in the movies? Back here on Planet Earth, the 19-year-old throws a holy house-shaking shit-fit. She calls her mother every name in the book and says she can never face her friends again and she wishes she were dead.
Wrong thing to say.
This is where the murder moment clicks in, in my imaginary scenario. A mother who was not a kid-killer would tell her daughter something typically stupid and parental like, "Oh, shut up."
But Murderer Mom doesn't think that way. She decides, "Oh, so you want to be dead too? Well, guess what, you ungrateful brat. I have the means of accommodating that wish."
So do I know this is what happened? Of course not. But I think my scenario is more probable and more reasonable than Mark Davis' scene, in which Mom says, "Oh, Honey, I'm going to miss you so much if you leave me, I think I'll just put your lights out instead."
Murder is an act of savagery. It's not morally appropriate to condone murder out of hand, before we even know what happened. I think we ought to hesitate long and hard before we make excuses for murderers. Frankly, the ease with which we condone killing in this country is part of the problem of killing. A big part.
Murderers deserve our detestation and opprobrium, just like absent fathers, drug dealers and pyramid-scheme scammers. Worse.
It's a funny thing about the middle-class law-and-order crowd: All that tough-on-crime stuff goes right out the window when they're the ones who get stopped for drunk driving, when it's their buddy who gets nabbed for non-payment, when it's somebody who looks like them who kills her own kid.
Jim Schutze has been the city columnist for the Dallas Observer since 1998. He has been a recipient of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ national award for best commentary and Lincoln University’s national Unity Award for writing on civil rights and racial issues. In 2011 he was admitted to the Texas Institute of Letters.
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Letters Are Beautiful
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By Karl Cole, posted on Oct 13, 2016
I learned long ago how venerated calligraphy is in some cultures, and we speak of that in many of our Davis books. A short while ago as I was reading about contemporary Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar, whose art form is whole gallery rooms covered in Kufic calligraphy, I began to ponder (as art historians will) how we Westerners perceive writing.
It’s unfortunate that many no longer know how to write cursively, but what do we say when we see the writing of somebody who still does? Do we say/think “Oh what beautiful art!” or “Oh, you have beautiful handwriting!”? At first I was, like, well, in the West, most people view handwriting as they would a chair or plate, as a utilitarian form of expression.
As I looked through our images, however, I realized that throughout history there have always been examples of fine art that also happen to be legible writing. Ah ha moment. If we currently consider furniture and ceramics fine art, then I’m proposing to do the same with handwriting. You decide!
Ancient Egypt, relief of Lady Wadjkaues, 1971–1926 BCE, from Tomb 3 at Deir el-Bersha. Painted limestone, 14 1/2" x 23 1/4" x 1 3/4" (37 x 59 x 4.5 cm). © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (MFAB-707)
There is such a beautiful elegance to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. They are basically pictographs that were codified into a written language around the same time (ca. 3000 BCE) that Egyptians established the formulas for depicting the human figure and objects. Since hieroglyphics were closely related to the Egyptian religion and funerary ritual, hieroglyphics and art were connected intimately, as well. Many of the symbols used in hieroglyphics actually represent the word for what they depict, and were taken from the codified forms seen in reliefs and paintings. This relief defines Wadjkaues as the mother of Sep, the scribe of royal monuments, and the wife of Amenemhat, the “governor” of the Upper Egypt Hare Nome (province).
Ancient Guatemala, Mayan, Stele 3 from the Great Plaza, Tikal, ca. 600–900 CE. Image © 2016 Davis Art Images. (8S-21030)
Tikal was the second largest city of the Classic Period (ca. 600–900 CE) in central Americas. European “scholars” have dubbed the Mayan glyph writing system “hieroglyphics” because all they could think of to compare it to was the ancient Egyptian writing system. Most of the monuments and stelae on the Great Plaza date from the 700s CE. The stelae on the plaza represent rulers on one side with glyphs on the other. The Mayan glyph system can be traced back to extant examples from the 200s BCE. The glyphs are read in columns two glyphs wide from top to bottom then back to the top of the next column. The stela sculpture of Tikal was intricately painted. The earliest known dynastic monument stele displaying Tikal's emblem glyph dates from 279 CE.
Britain, Page with a decorated initial D from the Book of Hours of Salisbury Cathedral, ca. 1390. Ink and tempera on paper, 7 11/16" x 5 7/8" (19.5 x 14.9 cm). © Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. (AK-1915)
From the collapse of the western Roman Empire in Western Europe during the 500s CE until the late 1300s, manuscript illustration and decoration (i.e. illumination) was the primary form of painting. In the early Middle Ages (ca. 500s to 1000s), most books were copied in monasteries or convents exclusively for religious use. When secular people started patronizing copies of sacred books, they demanded more lavish editions, including pictures. This moved book copying from the religious to the lay realm. The establishment of guilds for artists between the 1100s and mid-1200s effectively eliminated the need for priestly copyists. Professional calligraphers copied the books, so there is a wide variety of styles in the way they copied the Latin. The book of hours was an exclusive domain of the wealthy, a book of prayers to be said throughout the day. Lavishly decorated initial letters such as this mark the beginning of a prayer or gospel. Ironically, another “wow” development—moveable type—in the 1450s spelled the death knell for the genre of lavishly painted (and expensive) illuminated manuscripts.
Iran, Title page from a copy of the Shahnama (“Book of Kings”), 1536. Ink on paper, 15 7/8" x 9 13/16" (40.3 x 25 cm). © Brooklyn Museum. (BMA-2893)
Paper was introduced to Islamic lands during the mid- to late 700s CE by the Chinese. This made the copying of books a lot easier than using animal skin, and cheaper. It also opened up the possibility for wider dissemination of books to the general public. Aside from the Qur’an (which was never illustrated with pictures), a variety of books began to be illustrated starting in the 1000s. This included scientific treatises, epic poetry, histories, and scholarly studies. This is a frontispiece from a Book of Kings, the epic poem about Persian rulers from ancient times to the time of Muhammad by the Iranian poet Abul-Qasim Firdawsi (940–1020). Arabic calligraphy is so gorgeous. I can’t tell if this is Thuluth or Towqi’ script, but it sure is elegant.
James Tissot(1836–1902, France), Capital Letter Z, from the Appendix to the portfolio The Life of Our Savior Jesus Christ, 1886–1894. Ink on paper mounted on board, 4 11/16" x 4 11/16" (11.8 x 11.9 cm). © Brooklyn Museum. (BMA-2556)
James Tissot was a society painter of scenes of middle class life during the 1870s and 1880s with little or no connection to Impressionism other than an interest in fashionable urban life. He began producing more religious subjects after he traveled to Egypt and the Middle East. Subsequent to his trip and scads of studies of indigenous costume, architecture, and even flora, he produced a portfolio of 350 watercolors on the Life of Christ. The book, entitled The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ also for some reason included three pages of decorated letters like this. They’re each lovely, although I didn’t know Tissot was also a graphic artist. This is from page 354 of an appendix called Pen and Ink Drawings, which included hundreds of figure studies from the Middle East.
Robert Indiana (born 1928, US), LOVE, 1967. Screenprint on paper, 34" x 34" (86.3 x 86.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, © 2016 Robert Indiana / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (MOMA-P3147inars)
Since Pop Art elevated Campbell’s Soup and comic books to the status of fine art, it’s only fitting that beautiful lettering (in Clarendon Black font) also be accorded the same honor. Everyday lettering was part and parcel of Pop Art. Although Indiana initially was drawn to color field painting of Abstract Expressionism, he was drawn to the early 20th-century movement of Precisionism, which examined aspects of American culture in extreme close-up.
Indiana’s gift to Pop Art came from his main inspirations of traffic signs, commercial signage and stencil lettering. Unlike most of the Pop artists, however, his LOVE works were social commentary, aimed with irony at the hollow usage of the word by the hippies, and as an obvious counter to the Vietnam War (1959–1975).
John Baldessari (born 1931, US), I will not make any more boring art., 1971. Lithograph on paper, 22 3/8" x 29 9/16" (56.8 x 75.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, © 2016 John Baldessari. (MOMA-P1033)
If ever writing was elevated to an art form in Western art, it was as part of the Conceptualist movement. It is little wonder that, in a period when the nature of art was under serious reevaluation in the 1960s, that the movement of Conceptualism evolved. It was the logical end result of several movements that questioned the status quo in the art world: Pop Art, New Realism, Performance, and Minimalism.
Conceptualism incorporates Pop's use of language combined with Minimalism's emphasis on process rather than object. Conceptual artists consider the idea to be the work of art. Already in 1967 the Minimalist Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) had expressed the belief that the planning and decisions around an idea were superior to execution of a work. As it was for many Pop artworks, the Dada movement is considered the ancestor of the concept of idea as art. I’m not sure which 1960s movement Baldessari’s statement references.
Edward Fella (born 1938, US), Dead End, poster advertising graphic design exhibition at the Pasadena Art Center, 1995. Lithograph on paper, 17" x 11" (43.2 x 28 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, © 2016 Edward Fella. (MOMA-P1207)
I bet you didn’t know that the first font developed that did not imitate handwriting was Garamond in 1490! That paved the way for the development of hundreds of fonts through the 2000s. Edward Fella is a graphic design artist whose work has also had a major impact on the world of typography. His earliest works for clients were humorous combinations of drawing and lettering. He ultimately designed unique, personal fonts by cutting and pasting parts of various fonts in startling combinations. His unique style developed during the Postmodern and Deconstructivist periods, when traditional perceptions of design and beauty were under reevaluation. Ironically, what started out as unique works of art in his hand-drawn type and inkblot icons are now part of Emigré® font sets.
Glenn Ligon (born 1960, US), Untitled (Rage) #2, 2002. Mixed-media on canvas, 74 7/8" x 82 5/8" (190.2 x 209.9 cm). Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. (AK-141)
The work of African American artist Glenn Ligon is proof how words not only act as works of art, but have particular power when they do so. Ligon’s use of language has a power that far outdistances works of Conceptual art. Born in Brooklyn, he took art classes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a period when he witnessed not only racism, but discrimination against other minorities, as well. His rage (fittingly part of this title) at discrimination is channeled through long discourses, which he carefully presents as a two-dimensional work of art.
This particular work begins with “The rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless, but it is also absolutely inevitable; this rage, so generally discounted, so little understood even among the people whose daily bread it is, one of the things that makes history.” It is a quote by the African American writer James Baldwin (1924–1987), whose rage was directed at the perception that, in the US, only white people were thought of as “human.” (from the essay in Harper’s Magazine, "Stranger in the Village," 1953).
Son Man-jin (born 1964, South Korea), Calligraphy, 2005. Ink and color on paper mounted as a hanging scroll, 29" x 19 ¾" (73.7 x 50.2 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art. © 2016 Son Man-jin. (PMA-3633)
I’m particularly in awe of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean calligraphy, especially since this beautiful art form is produced with a brush similar to that used for painting. The influence of Chinese characters and calligraphy swept through Korea in the 100s and 200s CE (probably) and Japan between the 400s and 700s CE. For hundreds of years after 1350, Korean calligraphy followed the style of a great Chinese calligrapher Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322). This style remained the underpinning of Korean calligraphy until after World War II (1939–1945) when the Korean governments in both North and South pushed for the use of a native Korean alphabet (Hangul, which emerged in the 1440s).
Son Man-jin’s work demonstrates the new direction taken in contemporary Korean calligraphy. He has taken Chinese characters as his starting point and adds little drawings, color, and extraneous, fluid lines to create a complex, personal calligraphy style. This poem, by the Korean poet Shin Hum (1566–1628), expresses the poet’s observations on the awesome nature of life.
Correlations to Davis programs: Explorations in Art Grade 2: 4.24; Explorations in Art Grade 3: 3.18; Explorations in Art Grade 5: 5.26; Explorations in Art Grade 6: 5.28; A Personal Journey: 4.2; Exploring Visual Design: 1; The Visual Experience: 3.4
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From Joe Echo to INXS
Sun tan, songwriting and Sydney beaches: Ciaran Gribbin is enjoying life as a bona fide rock star
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Ciaran Gribbin has experienced months of touring and coping with jet-lag – he's just flown in from Australia via New York – but the Castledawson-born musician says he's never felt healthier or happier. He looks it too, with a sun-tan and lean physique he attributes to living beside Northern Beach in Sydney, where he has re-located with wife Donna and baby son James.
'I've been spending a lot of time training there,' he says. 'The last few years before I joined INXS were spent cooped up in a dark studio. The weather in Sydney makes all the difference. I'm eating better, taking more exercise. I just feel fitter generally. But the shows we've been doing are pretty energetic, so I have to be in better shape.'
Since joining the Australian rock outfit eight months ago, Gribbin says he's been asked many times if he's undergone an image overhaul. 'God no,' he laughs. 'I don't have a stylist. I did get my hair cut though, if that counts?'
While relishing his role as lead singer of INXS, Gribbin is adamant that he will never fill the shoes of the late Michael Hutchence. And he admits he knew it wasn't going to be an 'easy gig' when he agreed to join the band last year.
'I grew up listening to the songs of INXS and I remember when I was about 14 or 15 trying to learn all of their songs,' he says. 'Every night now when I go out to perform as part of INXS I talk to the fans about Michael and tell them what a huge fan I was. They're not just words either, I'm being totally genuine. I had such great respect for the man.
'I always say that I hope he is listening and smiling down on me. I'd like to think that I'm doing him proud. But there'll only ever be one Michael Hutchence. He was a sex god, a rock star, an inspiration and amazing song-writer.
'I went into this with my eyes wide open, I knew it was never going to be an easy gig. But the fans have been brilliant. It's been the most wonderful year of my life.'
The Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter previously performed under the moniker Joe Echo. He was invited to join INXS after meeting keyboard player and main composer, Andrew Farriss, through mutual friends at a party in Sydney around two years ago.
At the time, Fariss wasn't looking for a frontman — a number of replacement singers had stepped in over the years to replace Hutchence, the charismatic lead who had died in his hotel room in 1997. But when Fariss heard Gribbin sing one of the band's hits 'Mystify', he was intrigued and the pair later met up to co-write new material. After composing a few songs together, Fariss made the call.
'He rang me up and asked me if I'd like to join INXS as their singer,' Gribbin recalls. 'That phone-call has changed my life in so many ways. The last eight months have been crazy, just unbelievable. I've played in three continents, performed to crowds of around 30,000 people, played in some amazing venues. It's been everything that I'd hoped for and more.'
His first gigs as frontman were in Peru and Buenos Aires, nerve-wracking experiences for a musician used to playing to a packed Duke of York pub in Belfast. The real test for Gribbin, however, was playing INXS's home ground.
'Playing those first few gigs in Australia was really emotional for me,' he says. 'I had no idea how the audience would react to me. But so far, so good. The Australian press and the fans have been really supportive of me.'
The adulation of his admirers is still something of a novelty for Gribbin. In Perth, one female fan was particularly enthusiastic.
'We were playing a gig in Perth and there were all these girls in the front row,' he says. 'We were doing the encore when suddenly this girl cleared the bannister and came diving towards me, screaming. It was like something out of a karate movie. I've never seen anything like it before.The security men managed to grab hold of her before she got hold of me. Donna just looked at me in amazement and we both burst out laughing.'
Gribbin is back home in Northern Ireland now for a few days, catching up with friends and family after taking part in Tuesday night's Great Northern Songbook gig at the Ulster Hall.
En route home, he stopped off in New York to visit his younger brother John. The 26-year-old is following in Gribbin's footsteps and Gribbin is immensely proud. 'He performs under the name Building Pictures and is doing really well at the moment. Who knows, maybe some day we'll get him to open for INXS. That would be amazing.'
INXS are currently working on new material and Farriss credits Gribbin with reigniting the band's creative spark. 'There are two things I really want to do with this band – release a new album and bring them to Belfast. If it all goes belly up after that, at least I will have achieved those ambitions.'
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2019: I will emerge APC candidate, comfortable with any mode of primaries – Nwosu
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Chief of Staff to the Imo State Governor, Ugwumba Uche Nwosu, has expressed confidence that he will clinch the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 general elections.
He also said that he is comfortable with any mode of primary – direct, indirect or consensus – adopted by the party to select its candidates, noting that with his growing acceptability and preparedness, he stands a better chance to win the general election.
Nwosu, who spoke with newsmen in Owerri yesterday dispelled speculations that he is dropping his ambition, Damian described it as “a lie from the pit of hell”, peddled by those that are intimidated by his rising profile.
The chief of staff also dismissed as unfounded and baseless rumours that the Secretary to the State Government, Sir George Eche, who was rumoured to have bought governorship nomination form, was prompted by Governor Rochas Okorocha to replace him.
Nwosu noted that Eche’s decision was personal and which he is entitled to, “democracy is all about people and interest, anybody can aspire to be governor, member of House of Reps or Senator, what matters is that at the end of the day, the people will make their choice. If the Secretary to the State Government decides to run for governor, for Christ’s sake it is a free world, you don’t stop anybody in a democracy. Anybody who wants to run for governor is free but the party officials will choose the party’s candidate, while the people will choose who emerges as the governor”.
He said, “People are scared that Ugwunmba Uche Nwosu is the preferred choice. The state governor, Rochas Okorocha has made is intention known that I am the preferred choice for the office of the governor of Imo state and people are afraid and now they are saying that I am no more running”.
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The IGP also ordered the regularization and standardization of police personnel deployed to political and public office holders.
He said in view of the current security challenges in the country, “It has become expedient for the Police to streamline the deployment of its personnel attached to political and public office holders, aimed at enhancing effective and efficient policing of the country.”
He added that, “To this effect, a memo will be forwarded to the President for approval which will serve as a guideline or template for deployment to VIP, Political and Public office holders in the country.”
“Accordingly, a directive for withdrawal of all police officers deployed to VIPs, political and public office holders, with immediate effect, is hereby given.
He said, “This directive includes business entrepreneurs, Multi-National companies as well as corporate individuals.”
Idris added that, “a Task Force has been constituted at the Force Headquarters under the Command of ACP Mohammad Adamu Dankwara to ensure compliance to this directive while CPs are to replicate same at their various Commands.”
He said, “Business entrepreneurs, multi-national organizations, corporate individuals and entities that require such services and are found to be worthy will be considered for the Special Protection Unit (SPU) of the NPF on application for re-validation through the states CPs where they are resident or domiciled.”
He said the CPs are to profile and recommend if such applicants merit the services for approval.
He said, “I am charging the CPs with the responsibility of supervising such official deployment and thereby holding them accountable.”
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Apple, Accustomed to Profits and Praise, Faces Outcry for Labor Practices at Chinese Factories
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award-winning staff reporter for the New York Times. He helped break this story about the human costs of Apple products for workers in China.
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"In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad." By Charles Duhigg and David Barboza. (New York Times, Jan. 25, 2012)
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Protesters visited a half-dozen Apple stores around the world to deliver petitions calling for reforms in the working conditions at factories run by Apple’s suppliers in China. The protests come on the heels of recent revelations of harsh conditions and onerous work environments at Apple’s controversial Chinese supplier Foxconn, where more than a dozen employees have committed suicide. We’re joined by New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg, who helped break the story about the human costs of Apple products for workers in China. We’re also joined by Mike Daisey, whose acclaimed one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” is based partly on his visits to Apple’s Chinese factories and his interviews with the workers there. “I want Apple to take real responsibility,” Daisey says. “They have the resources to change this overnight.” [includes rush transcript]
[On March 16, the public radio program This American Life retracted the program that included excerpts from Mike Daisey’s monologue, “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” saying, “we learned that many of Mike Daisey’s experiences in China were fabricated.” The transcript of the hour long retraction is available here. Daisey’s response can be found on his blog, where he says, “I stand by my work. My show is a theatrical piece…”]
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JUAN GONZALEZ: In consumer news, we turn now to iPhones, iPads and iPods—not what they do, but how they are manufactured. Yesterday, protesters visited a half-dozen Apple stores around the world to deliver petitions calling for reforms in the working conditions at factories run by Apple’s suppliers in China. A demonstration at Apple’s Grand Central Terminal store in New York City drew a dozen people, who peacefully handed over a petition with 250,000 signatures to an Apple store manager. Shelby Knox, the director for Change.org, led the effort to collect the signatures.
SHELBY KNOX: We’re asking Apple to make an ethical iPhone. Factories in China and the countries that they’re made suffer horrible labor conditions. And so, we’re asking them to live up to their ethical supplier agreement, make sure that they are under good working conditions, that they’re not using toxins that harm them neurologically, and that they take care of those people as well as they would want their customers to be taken care of.
AMY GOODMAN: The protests come on the heels of a recent New York Times investigation into the harsh conditions, onerous work environments at Apple’s controversial Chinese supplier, Foxconn. According to the reports, workers assembling electronic devices often work seven days a week, live in crowded dorms. Some say they’re forced to stand so long their legs swell until they can hardly walk. The reports also claim under-age workers have helped build Apple’s products, and some workers have suffered deaths from explosions and maimings. Over a dozen Foxconn employees have committed suicide. According to the New York Times, the company’s suppliers also have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records.
This is what one Foxconn worker told reporters about her experience. She prefered to remain anonymous, so as not to lose her job.
FOXCONN WORKER: [translated] It’s so boring. I can’t bear it anymore. Every day was like, I get off from work, and I go to bed. I get up in the morning, and I go to work. It became my daily routine, and I almost felt like I was some kind of animal.
AMY GOODMAN: That was a Chinese worker at Foxconn, Apple’s controversial Chinese supplier. Meanwhile, Foxconn is battling to contain a security breach after hackers joined the mounting protest over iPhone factory conditions by leaking the login details of its entire staff.
JUAN GONZALEZ: We invited Apple to join us on our show, but they declined. The company did, however, send us this official statement: “We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. We insist that our suppliers provide safe working conditions, treat workers with dignity and respect, and use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes wherever Apple products are made. Our suppliers must live up to these requirements if they want to keep doing business with Apple. Every year Apple inspects more factories, going deeper into the supply chain and raising the bar for our suppliers.”
AMY GOODMAN: Well, for more, we’re joined by Charles Duhigg, who helped break this story about the human costs of Apple products for workers in China. He’s an award-winning staff reporter for the New York Times.
We’re also joined by Mike Daisey, who performs a one-man show called The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. The show is now at the Public Theater in New York. He has visited factories in China that make Apple products and interviewed the workers.
Charles Duhigg, Mike Daisey, welcome to Democracy Now! Charles, let’s start with you, your findings, if you could expand on what prompted you to write this and what you were most surprised by in your research.
CHARLES DUHIGG: Actually, we started a series on focusing on Apple as a lens by which to look at how temporary economics, and particularly American economics, are working now about a year ago. And an important part of that, as we were talking to people who worked with Apple, was the reason why Apple can manufacture these amazing devices now, that appear almost as quickly as their dreamed up, is because manufacturing has been located in—relocated in Asia. And the scale and capacity of manufacturing there is amazing. You can send over plans for an idea and, literally, within weeks have that idea become real.
AMY GOODMAN: You begin one of your pieces by President Obama meeting with Steve Jobs in a group of people. And talk about what Obama asked Jobs.
CHARLES DUHIGG: Well, one of the things that President Obama asked was, is it ever possible to bring back those jobs to the United States, to make iPhones in the U.S.? And what Steve Jobs said was—I think accurately—those jobs are never coming back. And the reason why isn’t just because workers are cheaper in China, although that—they are cheaper in China; it’s because China has established a huge competitive advantage over the U.S. There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can’t replicate. And there’s a system of labor there that allows factories to hire 3,000 people overnight or, as Mike can speak to, create facilities that house 250,000 workers and change them in a couple of hours or a couple of days from one product to another. It’s an amazing, amazing manufacturing capacity that’s grown up overseas—with harsh costs associated with it, but that makes it possible for us to get a brand new iPhone every single year.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, and I wanted to ask you about that capacity, because we hear a lot about the post-industrial society, but in reality, when you’re talking about these plants that have 100,000 workers, they dwarf anything that the old classic River Rouge plant of Henry Ford had created.
CHARLES DUHIGG: That’s exactly right. America lives—might live in a post-industrial society, but we do so because other countries are entering their industrial society, and they’re entering it at a scale, at a speed, at a perfection of production, that was completely undreamed of in the United States in the past. And I’m sure many of your audience, many people, they carry an iPhone in your pocket. It’s a wonderful device. It’s an amazing device. And it exists only really because there is this nation that can produce it so quickly and so efficiently.
AMY GOODMAN: Michael Daisey, first of all, congratulations on your one-man show. I saw it last night. It is shocking and stunning.
MIKE DAISEY: Thank you.
AMY GOODMAN: You went to China.
MIKE DAISEY: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: You talked to these workers. Describe the breadth of the place and what you found when you talked to these workers.
MIKE DAISEY: Well, I think this conversation is fantastic. I think that it does feel like we’re in a post-industrial society, so this place is all the engines we need to run everything we make. The scale is really staggering. You’re talking about rooms that hold 20,000, 25,000, 30,000 workers, in enormous rooms where people work silently. I think one of the things we don’t think about a lot is that—when things are made by hand. When the cost of labor is unbelievably cheap, the most effective way to exploit that is to assemble by hand. So, despite the fact that our devices are so advanced, once the parts of that device are made, they’re assembled by hand. So these things that seem so advanced—and are so advanced—the supply chain that’s evolved has a component in it that involves many, many small hands putting your devices together in a row, one after another, despite the fact that your Apple product looks so pristine. In fact, one of the last steps is to put a sticker over it that makes it look as though no human has ever touched your Apple product.
JUAN GONZALEZ: The reason why so many American factories left the United States—as the industrial workers became unionized, they were able to increase the pay and better their working conditions. What—when you started talking to the Chinese workers there, what about the labor unions? What about the ability of the workers to organize in these huge plants? Why has that not occurred at a more rapid and a more developed pace?
MIKE DAISEY: Well, I mean, there’s a really simple explanation. Labor organization in China is illegal. If you organize a union in China that is separate from the Communist Party, and those are largely fronts, in terms of working conditions, you go to prison if you’re caught by the government. So, that largely shuts down any sort of serious effort at labor organization. I think that’s part and parcel of the landscape. I mean, there’s a reason why this environment works so well for the needs of creating a hyperinflated, hyper-growing industrial revolution, and that’s that you have a base of workers who live under an authoritarian government and can be controlled. The circumstances are very controlled. And so, I think that’s part of the equation that we don’t like to look at.
AMY GOODMAN: How the company deals with the suicides, and what actually is happening? What are Chinese workers doing?
MIKE DAISEY: Well, there was a series of suicides at Foxconn where, month after month, workers would go up to the roofs of the buildings and throw themselves off the buildings, in a very public manner. The thing about this is that the number of suicides is not the issue so much as the cluster. The fact that people were choosing to kill themselves in an incredibly public manner is really relevant and has to do, I think, with pressures of the production line. It’s a very intense environment. And the people who come into those jobs are often in a very blessed position. They’ve come from the rural areas, and they’re making a new life for themselves. But they have to send money back to many, many dependents back where they come from. So they’re in a perfect position to be exploited, like they don’t feel, in some cases, like they can leave. And it can be very tough.
AMY GOODMAN: And how the company dealt with the suicides?
MIKE DAISEY: Well, Foxconn chose to deal with the suicides, in the period when I was visiting—what they had done, after month after month of suicides, was put up nets.
AMY GOODMAN: Nets.
AMY GOODMAN: To catch the bodies.
JUAN GONZALEZ: I wanted to ask Charles Duhigg about Foxconn, because one of the abilities of American companies now is to have these foreign suppliers, so that they have this wall, supposedly, between their own employees and employment conditions and these contractors. Who is Foxconn? Who owns it? How did it arise? And what is its importance today in China?
CHARLES DUHIGG: Foxconn is hugely important not only in China—it’s the largest employer in China—Foxconn is important around the world. So, Foxconn—and in some ways, it’s a remarkable story. It started—it’s owned by a Taiwanese gentleman named Terry Gou, who started in Taiwan rebuilding circuit boards in, essentially, a—one little sort of storefront with a couple of other people, very, very low-level labor. And he’s built that now into the largest electronics manufacturer in the world. Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn. He employs about 1.2 million people in China, so he’s among the largest employers.
And more importantly, the psychological impact of Foxconn is tremendous throughout Asia, because, as Terry Gou has become one of the richest people in the world, he’s shown that there is this path towards enormous wealth creation by taking very, very simple tasks, automating them with humans, and then going and competing for contracts.
And so, one person I talked to, who was a former Apple employee, had told me that basically Apple helped make Foxconn real. You know, they were a large supporter of the company, and have been for many years, because they need Foxconn. Without Foxconn—and there’s only really one or two other companies that can do what Foxconn does—you can’t produce 300 million iPhones. You need a partner like this that you can give designs to, and they can start it rolling out a week later. And Foxconn does it amazingly. Now, conditions inside the plants are fairly harsh, as Mike so eloquently describes. But it is—it’s a new type of company that really we haven’t seen in history.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to Apple’s statement on labor and human rights posted on its website. It says, quote, “Apple prohibits practices that threaten the rights of workers — even when local laws and customs permit such practices. We’ve taken action toward ending excessive recruitment fees, preventing the hiring of underage workers, and prohibiting discriminatory policies at our suppliers. As the first technology company to be admitted to the Fair Labor Association, Apple is setting a new standard in transparency and oversight.” Charles Duhigg, your response?
CHARLES DUHIGG: Well, I think—I think that’s all true. I mean, Apple is enormously well-meaning. I’ve spoken to a number of people who currently work at Apple and who have previously worked at Apple on supplier responsibility. And what everyone—
AMY GOODMAN: Under-age workers?
CHARLES DUHIGG: Pardon?
CHARLES DUHIGG: Well, what everyone has said is—I’m sorry, executives, not worker—not the under-age workers.
AMY GOODMAN: No, no. I didn’t mean “have you talked to under-age workers,” but I know, Michael Daisey, you have, what about this issue of saying—
CHARLES DUHIGG: How do you reconcile, right, that—
AMY GOODMAN: —we do not hire—we don’t hire under-age workers?
CHARLES DUHIGG: How do you reconcile that conditions on the ground seem so different from what they’re saying? And when I talk to executives, what they tell me is this: Apple is serious about this. Apple has the largest auditing program in the electronics industry. They have some of the toughest rules. But that there’s a conflict within Apple, which is that when enforcing those rules, when getting really, really tough with suppliers, conflicts with creating the best products possible, with turning out those products as fast as possible, with maintaining relationships with very important suppliers like Foxconn, then the discipline around that, the dedication breaks down. And that’s, for instance—a lot of what we know about under-age workers, a lot of what we know about bonded labor, we only know because Apple went into the factories and told us.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Michael Daisey has told us a lot, right, by going there. Michael, talk about, first—I mean, you talk about this in your play at the Public Theater. You thought no one would talk to you, that people would be terrified. And you went there with a translator.
MIKE DAISEY: Yeah. Well, I mean, when I arrived, it was May and June of 2010, and so it was a very intense time. It was right when the suicides were happening a lot. And because I am not a journalist, because I work as a monologist, I have the ability, when people ask why I’m asking these questions, this strange American who’s appeared out of nowhere and is just standing around, I’m able to say—
AMY GOODMAN: In a Hawaiian shirt.
MIKE DAISEY: And in a Hawaiian shirt. I’m able to say very honestly that I’m a storyteller, and I just want to hear their stories. And I would ask them to show me what they do every day, like I’d ask them to pantomime the motions that they make when they’re working on the line. And, you know, you’d find people who would talk to you, because people, when you ask them about the steps of their day, will sometimes open up and tell you about their jobs.
AMY GOODMAN: And what did they tell you?
MIKE DAISEY: And what they told me is that the image that happens inside of Foxconn, versus the official story of Foxconn—and, I think, a lens through Apple—they don’t line up. And a lot of it is because there is a strong vested interest in Foxconn to not audit cleanly. Like, one of the things that was told to me is that, when—at the time that I visited, when there is going to be an inspection, an outside inspection, that Foxconn always knows that there’s going to be an inspection. And before the inspection, everything is turned over. Absolutely everything is gone over completely. And they take the precaution, at that time, of pulling everyone from that production line and then putting the oldest-looking workers they have on that line, which tells me that they aren’t even completely confident of their internal processes, at least when I was there.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, Charles Duhigg, following up on that, you reported that the hundreds of audits that Apple has done every year, even with this preparation by Foxconn, apparently, still is able to document repeated violations of their own standards.
CHARLES DUHIGG: Absolutely.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Yet they don’t act. So they do know, and they just are refusing to act, no matter what they say that they would like to have better working conditions at their plants.
CHARLES DUHIGG: Yeah, what Apple says—and you have to take Apple at their word, because this is a major corporation, they usually don’t lie about stuff like this—is that they say every single time they find a violation inside a supplier, that they mandate that a change is made and a management system is put in place in order to prevent that from occurring again. The difficulty is, when you look at the aggregate statistics that Apple publishes every year, we see the same violations occurring again and again and again. There is not enough information in the data for us to say, this one facility seems to be breaking your rule again and again and again. Perhaps everyone is improving, but the pool of inspected facilities is growing, and that’s hiding the upward trend in the improvements.
MIKE DAISEY: It should be said that one of the reasons—
AMY GOODMAN: Michael Daisey.
MIKE DAISEY: One of the reasons we don’t know, like we can’t do analysis on that data, is that Apple has released its list of suppliers, which was wonderful, and I had called for that, but they neglected to connect specific suppliers to violations that they discovered, which makes it very difficult for anyone else to check any of the work that’s happening. There’s a lot of that, where Apple makes a gesture and says a lot about how well-meaning it is, but I do not see the follow-through where the transparency would exist, because Apple, as a company, sort of thrives on a lack of transparency.
AMY GOODMAN: Last night, Michael, in your monologue, you talked about the man with the claw.
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about this worker.
MIKE DAISEY: This is a worker I spoke with whose hand had been maimed in a metal press. And he said he had not received any medical treatment, and his hand healed this way. And then he had been too slow when he came back to work, and he was fired for being too slow, and then, now worked at a woodworking plant. And he had been working on the line building iPads. And I spoke with—when he told me this, I showed him my iPad, which had just come out right before I went to Shenzhen. And I showed him the iPad, and it was the first time he had seen an iPad in its completed state, because the people on the production line are often very carved off. Each step is very, very minute. The devices are very expensive, of course, and so they’re closely monitored. And so, no one has an opportunity to even handle them, in a way, really, outside of your individual step. And so, I turned it on for him and showed it to him, this thing that he had actually been maimed building. And it was his first time moving the icons back and forth. And he had a very human reaction, which is, he thought it was beautiful, you know? Which I think is understandable, because Apple does make beautiful devices.
JUAN GONZALEZ: And Charles Duhigg, the actual working conditions at these plants, the hours that the workers work, the salaries that they make?
CHARLES DUHIGG: It, by American standards, would be almost unconscionable. So, most workers inside the large plants—small plants are usually worse than large plants—but inside the large plants, they’re usually inside the factory for at least 12 hours a day. There’s some breaks in there. The shifts themselves are about 10 hours. But very often—and Foxconn says this isn’t accurate, so I need to caveat that, but our reporting indicates that it is—very often, people are asked to work two shifts in a row. So it’s not uncommon for someone to spend an entire day within a Foxconn plant.
The amount that they earn, it’s a hard number to give, because the Chinese government keeps the currency of China low, so that it sounds—so that it sounds lower than what they’re earning. And it is a good wage. There’s a lot of—there’s a lot of people who migrate from villages into cities. They work for 10 years. They earn enough money that they can go back to their village and open up a small store or some other type of company. But by American standards, it’s $17 a day to $21 a day. And by American standards, it’s an enormously, enormously low amount of money. It is not a quality of life that we’ve become accustomed to. And it’s not a working condition that Americans would tolerate or that would be legal inside this country.
AMY GOODMAN: The Indypendent reporter Arun Gupta had just had a piece published on AlterNet, says, “Researchers with the Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) say [that] legions of vocational and university students, [some] as young as 16, are forced to take months’-long 'internships' in Foxconn’s mainland China factories assembling Apple products. The details of the internship program paint a far more disturbing picture,” that he puts out, “than the Times does of how Foxconn” works. He says—talks about “'the Chinese hell factory,' treats its workers, relying on public humiliation, military discipline, forced labor and physical abuse as management tools to hold down costs and extract maximum profits for Apple.” Charles?
CHARLES DUHIGG: Yeah, we don’t refer to any place as a “hell factory.” But the point—
AMY GOODMAN: No, no, he was talking about—
CHARLES DUHIGG: But the point that he makes is a fair one. Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn, you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again. A number of the factories have morning military drills, where you have to line up in formation and remain very still or do calisthenics. It is not a good working environment. It is not a working environment that, by American standards, anyone would tolerate.
And the point that you brought up of the internships, this is a real problem. China is this incredibly developing country right now, right? Over the last 10 years, it’s a nation that has literally completely transformed itself. And what is going on is that, as capitalism becomes more of the norm, the abuses of capitalism, that we’ve managed to ameliorate throughout the West and the United States, are very, very much in place in China. And as a result, there are people suffering.
AMY GOODMAN: We just have 30 seconds, but Michael Daisey, a sheet is given out at the end of your play about what people should do. You have performed this hundreds of times, your play, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. What do you want to see happen?
MIKE DAISEY: I want Apple to take real responsibility. Apple is one of the most innovative companies in the world. They have an incredible supply chain. I think Charles is right about exactly what’s wrong at Apple. I think people are well-meaning. But the people in charge of supplier responsibility, if it ever conflicts in any way with profit for Apple, in any real way, they are not given the resources they need. Apple has $100 billion — that’s with a “b” — in the bank right now. They have the resources to change this overnight.
AMY GOODMAN: Apple surpassed Exxon as the company with the highest profits. For a few days, they had more money than the U.S. government?
MIKE DAISEY: Yes, in the bank right now. Liquid, yes.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you, Michael Daisey. Mike Daisey, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, is his one-man show at the Public Theater in New York. And Charles Duhigg, award-winning staff reporter for the New York Times who helped break the story about the human costs of Apple products for workers in China.
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» Start » Projects & Publications » Publications » Journal Articles » Estimation of Apolipoprotein E genotype-specific relative mortality risks from the distribution of genotypes in centenarians and middle-aged men: Apolipoprotein E gene is a "frailty gene", not a "longevity gene"
Estimation of Apolipoprotein E genotype-specific relative mortality risks from the distribution of genotypes in centenarians and middle-aged men: Apolipoprotein E gene is a "frailty gene", not a "longevity gene"
Gerdes, L. U., Jeune, B., Andersen-Ranberg, K., Nybo, H., Vaupel, J. W.
Genetic Epidemiology, 19:3, 202-210 (2000)
We developed a method to estimate genotype-specific average relative mortality risk, R, from genotype distributions in cross-sectional studies of people belonging to different age-groups, and applied the method to new data from a study of apolipoprotein E genotypes (apoE) in 177 Danish centenarians and data from a study of 40-year-old Danish men. Twenty-one percent of the centenarians were 2-carriers (genotypes 22 and 32) and 15% were 4-carriers (genotypes 44 and 43) compared to 13 and 29%, respectively, of the young men. The R-values were 0.95 (95% CI 0.88 to 1.02) for 2-carriers and 1.13 (95% CI 1.05 to 1.22) for 4-carriers, using 33- and 42 genotypes as reference. Corresponding values for 4-carriers were obtained by using published data from a French and a Finnish study of centenarians, whereas the values for 2-carriers were about 0.90 with these data. The method to estimate mortality risk and the results associate with the view that the apoE gene is a frailty gene. On the other hand, if odds ratios are used to summarize data from studies of this kind, they are more impressive and may propagate the misconception that apoE is a longevity gene. Genet. Epidemiol. 19:202-210, 2000. (© 2000 WILEY-LISS, INC.)
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Texas Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit receives science award
The Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Texas Tech has been honored with a 2015 'Excellence in Science' Award from the U.S. Geological Survey, officials announced on Monday (Mar. 2). The unit is a partnership between Texas Tech, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, U.S. Geological Survey, The Wildlife Management Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Officials noted that the unit celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2014 and continues to be, "a model for student-focused collaboration and cooperation. The Texas unit is exceptional in every aspect of research, graduate education, and technical assistance to cooperators."
"This is one of the highest awards for overall scientific productivity and relevance that a Cooperative Research Unit can receive from the U.S. Geological Survey and we are truly honored by this recognition," said Reynaldo Patino, a professor with Texas Tech's Department of Natural Resources Management with a joint appointment at the U.S. Geological Survey.
Patino has been with the unit and Tech's Department of Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences since 1989. He's a member of the adjunct faculty of the Department of Environmental Toxicology. His research interests broadly include aquatic sciences and impacts of environmental change on fisheries resources.
In the past two years, Patino has published 15 papers in peer-reviewed journals and received the Texas Chapter of American Fisheries Society's Education Award, while Assistant Unit Leader for Wildlife Clint Boal published 18 papers and served as president of the Raptor Research Foundation. Assistant Unit Leader for Fisheries Tim Grabowski, who joined the group in 2011, published 11 papers during the same period and has already supported nine graduate students.
The Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit was established at Tech by the U.S. Congress in 1988 and was first staffed in 1989. It is part of the National Cooperative Research Units Program that resides within the U.S. Geological Survey, and its mission is to conduct and facilitate research and education activities related to natural resource management and conservation.
Specific fields of interest include fisheries and wildlife management, aquatic and wildlife ecology, community ecology, ecophysiology, ecotoxicology, reproductive biology, and fish culture. These research and educational efforts are based on the technical expertise of unit scientists and university cooperators.
Written by Norman Martin
CONTACT: Reynaldo Patino, unit leader and professor, Department of Natural Resources Management, Texas Tech University and U.S. Geological Survey "" Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, (806) 834-6483 or reynaldo.patino@ttu.edu
0305NM15 / PHOTOS: (top to bottom) Tim Grabowski, Clint Boal and Reynaldo Patino
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What you need to know about Tennessee's battle over who can officiate weddings
Should lawmakers be allowed to limit the rise of online ordination?
By Kelsey Dallas @kelsey_dallas
Published: July 13, 2019 10:00 pm
Mark Humphrey, Associated Press
State Sen. Ken Yager, R-Kingston, standing right, sponsored Tennessee's bill outlawing online ordination, which was signed into law in May. The new policy was put on hold by a judge earlier this month.
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SALT LAKE CITY — In May, Tennessee became the first state in the nation to explicitly outlaw online ordination for wedding officiants.
This month, it became the first state to have such a law put on hold by a judge.
Despite these firsts, the battle is familiar. For centuries, couples, families and community leaders have argued about the right way to get married.
Kate Rocheford lived this reality as she planned her June wedding to her now-husband, Evan. The couple wanted a nontraditional wedding outside near a campground in Indiana, but some of their loved ones worried the ceremony would feel too informal.
"Some people were worried that it wouldn't be serious enough. They wondered if it would really be a wedding," she said.
" If you give the government the authority to define what is a permissible religious marriage and what's not, then they have that power across all religions and all contexts. "
Carolyn Homer, an expert on the First Amendment's religious freedom protections
The couple eased some of the tension by selecting Adam, Kate's brother, as their officiant. He'd offered to get ordained online, and family members thought his nearly 10 years of marriage experience made him well-qualified to lead the service.
"Everyone knows and trusts and loves him. Once we'd chosen him, the planning was actually pretty easy," said Rocheford, who lives in Indianapolis.
If the Tennessee law stands, a resolution like that wouldn't be possible for couples in the state unless their chosen officiant attended seminary or some other in-person training. Legislators argued that officiants should be required to do more to prepare for their wedding-related duties than fill out an online form.
But even if you agree, you should be wary of the state's new law, according to Carolyn Homer, an expert on the First Amendment's religious freedom protections. Allowing government officials to interfere with ordination opens the door to other intrusions.
"If you give the government the authority to define what is a permissible religious marriage and what's not, then they have that power across all religions and all contexts," Homer said.
Marriage regulations
Although Tennessee's law is unique, it's not new for states to regulate when and how people can get married. Officials create barriers to entry into wedded bliss, since it triggers a variety of legal consequences.
"Governments want to make sure that marriages are entered into with significant seriousness," said Homer, who works for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Each state has slightly different marriage regulations, but most limit who can perform the ceremony to government officials and ordained ministers. It wasn't until the invention of the internet and rise of groups like Universal Life Church Ministries, a popular online ordination service, that ordained minister status became so easy to achieve.
Tennessee lawmakers who support the ban on online ordination claim it violates the state's pre-existing requirement that officiants be ordained in a "deliberate and responsible" manner. Rather than a legal shift, they characterize the new law as a common sense policy.
"We have right now in Tennessee a situation where people are going online and getting an online ordination in order to marry friends and family members," said House Judiciary Chairman Michael Curcio, R-Dickson, during deliberations over HB213, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. "Right now we don't know under the eyes of the law whether those are legal marriages. So we desperately need clarification."
" Being judgmental about other people's personal lives isn't something we should bake into the law. "
However, Homer and others believe the legislators' effort to resolve legal confusion overstepped their authority. The Constitution aims to prevent officials from interfering with religious practices, which would include determining the right way to ordain a religious officiant.
It violates the First Amendment when "governmental bodies define what is sufficiently religious," Homer said.
Universal Life Church Ministries filed a lawsuit last month challenging Tennessee's new law. Its leaders argue that government officials don't have a right to say their ordination process is too informal, said Ian Smith, a staff attorney for Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
"The complaint basically says that the law is written specifically to disfavor" Universal Life Church Ministries, he said.
In an initial hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw seemed sympathetic to this view, The Tennessean reported. He said the state hadn't offered a convincing justification for its policy change.
"If their concern is that people should understand their legal responsibilities better, then they should train them, not block a particular religion from" ordaining new officiants, Smith said.
Governments should get a say in how you report your marriage to them, not how the wedding takes place, Homer said.
"Being judgmental about other people's personal lives isn't something we should bake into the law," she said.
However, that doesn't mean we should simply accept the rise of online ordinations and other contemporary wedding trends and move on. Couples have more freedom than ever before to plan a unique ceremony, and that can sometimes be a bad thing, said Catherine Parks, author of "A Christ-Centered Wedding."
"There's a lot of pressure to make (your wedding) perfect because it feels like the one day you have to show everyone who you are and what your love is like," she said.
In this environment, couples sometimes spend their time agonizing over unique decorations or researching trendy vows instead of building a valuable support system. They're so focused on what's best for them that they miss opportunities to draw on the wisdom of others.
"We're losing the commonality of marriage," Parks said.
" There's a lot of pressure to make (your wedding) perfect because it feels like the one day you have to show everyone who you are and what your love is like. "
Catharine Parks, author of 'A Christ-Centered Wedding'
We're also losing its religious underpinnings, as couples choose friends who were ordained online over pastors and parks over churches. Only 22 percent of weddings in 2017 took place in religious spaces, The Knot reported last year.
Additionally, fewer than half of U.S. adults today are at least "moderately likely" to consult with religious leaders about marriage, divorce or relationships, according to a May survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
If these findings are slightly horrifying to you, it's OK to express that to your family and friends, like some of Rocheford's loved ones did. But when state leaders try to define what an appropriate religious ordination process looks like, that weakens religious freedom protections for us all, said Nick Little, vice president and general counsel for The Center for Inquiry, an organization that is pushing states across the country to allow secular officiants.
"As long as the paperwork gets filed, the state shouldn't care if you're married in Vegas by an Elvis impersonator or at your local church by a Presbyterian minister or in the woods by a Wiccan or in a local park by your friend," he said.
Although Little and others expect Universal Life Church Ministries to win its lawsuit in Tennessee, they say the debate is far from over. As America becomes less religious, it won't just be families struggling to embrace new marriage norms.
"This isn't an issue that's going away. More and more people will be willing to stand up and say, 'I'm not religious and I want to have the wedding that I want,'" Little said.
Kelsey Dallas Kelsey Dallas is the faith writer for Deseret News InDepth.
@kelsey_dallas
kdallas@deseretnews.com
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Iowa man, convicted of killing one child, confessed to fracturing another child's skull but won't be charged
Calvin White is already in prison for killing his baby daughter, but the statute of limitations for the other crime has expired.
Iowa man, convicted of killing one child, confessed to fracturing another child's skull but won't be charged Calvin White is already in prison for killing his baby daughter, but the statute of limitations for the other crime has expired. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://dmreg.co/2Jzq6o9
Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register Published 3:58 p.m. CT July 18, 2018
Melisa White reads her victim impact statement after Calvin White plead guilty to child endangerment leading to the death of their child Selena White Rodney White, rodwhite@dmreg.com
Calvin Curtis White, 30, of Nevada, rises to leave after his sentencing Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa.(Photo: Rodney White/The Register)Buy Photo
An Iowa man who admitted on video to killing his baby daughter and fracturing another child's skull won't be charged for injuring the second child he mentioned because the statute of limitations has expired.
Calvin White, 30, of Nevada was sentenced Monday to 50 years in prison for causing the death of his 2-month-old daughter, Selena.
White admitted to throwing pillows on Selena in an attempt to get her to stop crying.
The confession came in a video recorded in January just after Selena's death. The video was filed as a court exhibit in Selena's case.
Also in the video, White admitted to injuring another child of his from a previous relationship.
"I gave that kid that skull fracture," he said in the video.
But White will not face charges for injuring the child several years ago, police say.
Geoff Huff, a spokesman for the Ames Police Department, said in an email that officers did not have enough evidence to charge White in 2010 and the statute of limitations has since expired.
White previously claimed the child fractured his skull after he fell out of a swing.
Photos: Sentencing of Calvin White in death of infant daughter Selena
Melisa White hugs a family member of Calvin Curtis White after Calvin was sentenced Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa, for the endangerment of their daughter Selena, leading to her death. Rodney White/The Register
Melisa White, mother of Selena White, walks by Calvin Curtis White, 30, of Nevada, before reading her victim's impact statement during sentencing Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa. Rodney White/The Register
Melisa White, mother of Selena White, wears a tattoo for her deceased daughter during the sentencing of Calvin Curtis White, 30, of Nevada, Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa. Rodney White/The Register
Melisa White, mother of Selena White, looks at Calvin Curtis White, 30, of Nevada, while reading her victim's impact statement during sentencing Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa. Rodney White/The Register
Melisa White's family members wait in court for the sentencing of Calvin Curtis White, 30, of Nevada, who plead guilty to child endangerment causing death after hisÊdaughter, Selena, was found not breathing Jan. 29 and later died, police said. White was sentenced Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa. Rodney White/The Register
Calvin Curtis White, 30, of Nevada, rises to leave after his sentencing Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa. Rodney White/The Register
Calvin Curtis White, 30, of Nevada, with his attorney Michelle Wolf, rises to leave after his sentencing Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa. Rodney White/The Register
Calvin Curtis White, 30, of Nevada, with his attorney Michelle Wolf, makes a statement during his sentencing Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa. Rodney White/The Register
Calvin Curtis White, 30, of Nevada makes a statement during his sentencing Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa. Rodney White/The Register
After recording the video, White threw himself in front of a train in an attempt to kill himself. Methamphetamine was found in his system.
In the video, White says "I'm the reason she's dead" and says of his two young children: "I was just killing them slowly."
White's wife, Melisa White said in court Monday that she believes Calvin slowly strangled or suffocated their two children, causing them to develop respiratory problems. All the while, she said, he played the part of a loving father: cooking, cleaning and caring for her and the children.
In court on Monday, White apologized for Selena's death.
"I want everybody to know that my remorse for what happened is genuine," he said to the court. "When I realized what happened I threw myself in front of a train, and now there’s nothing I can do to bring Selena back."
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Legally Adequate Consent
Publication Code: CS1
In general, adults with disabilities have the right to control their own lives and make their own decisions. They must give consent to have limitations placed on their activities, or to participate in events that involve risk. For example, consent is necessary for medical operations or in order to participate in a program or activity.
On the other hand, a minor child (under the age of 18 years) usually cannot legally give his or her own consent. Therefore, the child’s parent or guardian must consent for her. For example, parent’s consent may be needed before a minor child can participate in a school outing.
But once a child becomes an adult, the law presumes that she is able to give her own consent when it is needed. This presumption applies to all adults, including those with an intellectual developmental disability, mental illness, and other disabilities. It does not matter whether an adult is actually able to make good decisions or not. Unless state law provides otherwise, an adult will have the legal right to make all of her own decisions until a judge rules that the adult is not able to give her own consent and appoints a guardian. If there is no guardian and no special state law granting someone other than a guardian the right to give consent, and the person with a disability is unable to give consent, no one will be able to consent on behalf of the person with a disability.
Several state laws, address situations where there is no guardian, consent to major medical or dental treatment is needed, and the person with a disability is unable to consent. These laws, which address consent to medical procedures for adult residents of Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded (ICFs-MR), nursing homes and hospital patients, are summarized on the last page.
The purpose of this handout is to explain:
The requirements of legally adequate consent under state law;
When legally adequate consent is necessary; and
Who is authorized to give the needed consent for a person with a disability.
The Requirements of “Legally Adequate Consent”
There are three general requirements for legally adequate consent: (a) Legal Capacity, (b) Information and Understanding, and (c) Voluntariness.
A. Legal Capacity
The person giving the consent must have Legal Capacity in order for the consent to be valid. A person has legal capacity to give consent if she:
Is over the minimum legal age (usually, age 18) AND
has not had a guardian appointed by a court to handle her personal affairs or no previous guardianship is in effect.
B. Information and Understanding
In order for the consent to be valid, the person giving the consent MUST BE TOLD and MUST UNDERSTAND:
the nature, purpose, consequences, risks, benefits of, and alternatives to the procedure for which legally adequate consent is needed; AND
that refusing or taking away the consent will not risk future care and services.
Note that a person who does not speak English will be unable to give legally adequate consent unless the above information is provided in her native language.
C. Voluntariness
The last requirement of legally adequate consent is that the consent be given VOLUNTARILY. This means that the person gives her consent freely, and not because she is forced or pressured into it.
Note that a person does not need to be able to talk, read, or write to give legally adequate consent, so long as the above requirements are met and the person can communicate her consent.
When “Legally Adequate Consent” Is Required
Persons with an intellectual developmental disability formerly known as mental retardation, mental illness, or any other disability have the same fundamental rights as others. Therefore, they must consent in all cases where consent would be required of a person who does not have a disability. State law gives some specifics about when a person with a disability must consent to services.
A. For Persons with Mental Retardation
The Texas Persons with Mental Retardation Act (MRPA) requires that consent be obtained in a number of specific situations.
Legally adequate consent is required before a person with an intellectual developmental disability may participate in a program or activity where consent would be required for a person who does not have an intellectual developmental disability (for example, an alcohol or drug abuse program, or a program of behavior treatment employing aversive procedures).
Legally adequate consent is required before a person with an intellectual developmental disability is admitted voluntarily for 24 hour residential care at a state supported living center , state center, or community mental health and mental retardation (MHMR) center. If consent cannot be obtained, the individual will have to be court committed.
Legally adequate consent is required before (1) a person with an intellectual developmental disability may receive a determination of an intellectual developmental disability, or (2) admitted voluntarily to nonresidential mental retardation services (such as a self help skills program, a sheltered workshop program, or a money management program) at a state supported living center , state center, or community MHMR center. However, if the Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) or a community MHMR center has made and documented all reasonable efforts to obtain legally adequate consent and cannot secure consent, both the determination of an intellectual developmental disability and nonresidential intellectual developmental disability services can be provided without legally adequate consent. Although the law is not yet clear on this point, it seems that a state supported living center or community center could also apply this provision and arrange for contract services (for example, through an ICF MR or surrogate family home) to be provided to a person with an intellectual developmental disability who could not consent.
Legally adequate consent is required before a voluntary resident of a state supported living center , state center, or a community MHMR center may receive non emergency medical or dental treatment. However, if medical treatment is needed by a resident of a DADS facility and the parent of a minor or the guardian cannot be reached or fails to respond, DADS can order the needed medical treatment upon the advice and consent of three (3) physicians. Dental services can be ordered upon the advice and consent of one dentist and two (2) physicians.
Legally adequate consent is required before a court committed client in a state supported living center, state center, or community MHMR center receives surgery. The MRPA authorizes medical care for clients in residential care facilities (which includes state supported living center , state centers, and community center operated facilities, but does not include privately operated ICF MR or other facilities) without the need for obtaining consent, except for surgical procedures. This means that a state school, state center, or community MHMR center facility may provide medical care and treatment of a person with an intellectual developmental disability even if that person or her parent (if a minor) or guardian objects to the medical care and treatment. However, surgical procedures may only be performed with consent. If the person who must consent cannot be located or fails to respond to a request for consent, clients of DADS may be provided consent under the advice and permission of three (3) physicians or a dentist and two (2) physicians as discussed in Paragraph 4. A state school or community center that wishes to perform surgery against the wishes of a guardian must obtain a specific court order authorizing the surgery.
Legally adequate consent is required before the contents of the records of the identity, diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment of the person with an intellectual developmental disability may be shown to other persons.
B. For Persons with Mental Illness
The Texas Mental Health Code requires that consent be obtained in the following specific situations:
when a person applies for voluntary admission to a state hospital (note that a guardian cannot give this consent);
before mental health records which directly or indirectly identify a patient can be disclosed;
before a person can be part of any research program; and
in order to waive the right to jury trial and to other procedural rights in involuntary commitment proceeding.
Under state law and court decisions, consent is also required before a person receives medications or medical treatment, except in an emergency situation or when a surrogate decision-maker is authorized by state statute.
Under state law, a person can now write down instructions for her mental health treatment–including medication, ECT, and emergency care–which generally must be followed by her doctors and other mental health providers if she becomes incapacitated. There is particular language that must be used to make an effective Declaration for Mental Health Treatment, also called an advance directive. Please see Disability Rights Texas’s handout, How to Make an Advance Directive. To make an advance directive, a person must be capable of making mental health decisions but does not need to be capable of handling all matters, such as finances. An advance directive is effective from the time a person becomes incapacitated until she becomes competent again. The advance directive states the consumer’s specific instructions for the treatment or medication which she prefers or wishes to avoid.
The directive must be followed by doctors and mental health providers except in certain emergency situations. No other person needs to act on behalf of the consumer and no one has discretion about the consumer’s treatment or medication. An advance directive cannot be revoked while the person who made the directive is incapacitated. This irrevocability during incapacitation is intended to afford a competent person an opportunity to prevent herself from making bad decisions while she is incapacitated.
Who is Authorized to give “Legally Adequate Consent” for a Person with an Intellectual Developmental Disability or Mental Illness
A. Minors Without Court Appointed Guardians
If the person with an intellectual developmental disabilityy or mental illness is a minor (most people under age 18) and does not have a guardian, then the child’s parent or conservator is the person authorized to give the consent. (In cases where the parents are divorced, the question of who can give consent is controlled by the court’s order and the law in the State of Texas concerning divorces and custody of children. You should contact your lawyer if you have any questions about this.) The parent can give consent because, under the law, a parent is the natural guardian of a minor child.
B. Minors with Guardians
Few minors have court appointed guardians. But if a court has granted a minor a full guardian to handle her personal affairs which is still effective, then the guardian is the person authorized to give the consent.
C. Minors with State Conservatorship
If a minor is a ward of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS), the caseworker assigned to the minor by TDFPS is authorized to give the consent, in most cases. Caseworkers cannot consent to sterilization, withholding of life-sustaining treatment, and other procedures that involve serious deprivation of rights.
D. Adults With Guardians
If a court has given a guardian full authority to handle the personal affairs of an adult with an intellectual developmental disability or mental illness, and the guardianship is still effective, then the guardian is the person authorized to give the required consent.
If the adult has a guardian with limited authority, you must be sure to check the court order appointing the limited guardian to see if the limited guardian is specifically granted the power to give the kind of consent that is needed. If the limited guardian is not specifically granted the authority to consent to what is needed, then the person with an intellectual developmental disability or mental illness is the person who is authorized to give her own consent. If the limited guardian does not have authority to consent and the adult is, as a factual matter, unable to give the required consent because of lack of understanding, then the limited guardian must go to court and obtain additional powers so that she will be authorized to give the required consent.
E. Adults with An Intellectual Developmental Disability Who Do Not Have Guardians
Under the MRPA, the law presumes that an adult with an intellectual developmental disability is competent and fully capable of giving her own consent when it is needed. This means that the person with an intellectual developmental disability is the only person who can give the required consent, unless she cannot meet the requirements of giving legally adequate consent.
If, as a factual matter, an adult is unable to give the required consent because of a lack of understanding, several options are possible:
A guardianship can be obtained so that the guardian can give the required consent for the person with an intellectual developmental disability.
DADS or a community MHMR center, after making and documenting all reasonable efforts to obtain legally adequate consent and not being able to obtain consent, can provide nonresidential mental retardation services and make a determination of an intellectual developmental disability.
In some cases where intellectual developmental disability services are needed and the person with an intellectual developmental disability cannot give consent, court orders can be obtained to authorize the service (for example, with juvenile offenders or persons with IDD who are under the jurisdiction of a family court).
Sometimes the person can get emergency services for up to six (6) days with the assistance of TDFPS personnel under the Adult Protective Services statutes. This last option usually will not be done unless the person’s health or safety is threatened if she does not get the services. The person must meet the requirements of state law to get these services.
If the adult is a resident of an ICF-MR, nursing home or patient in a hospital, and she cannot give needed consent to major medical or dental treatment, it is possible that a surrogate decision-maker or committee may be able to give consent to the treatment. See section H below.
F. Adults with Mental Illness Who Do Not Have Guardians
Under the Texas Mental Health Code, the law presumes that an adult with mental illness is competent and fully capable of giving her own consent when it is needed. This means that the person with mental illness is the only person who can give the required consent.
In non-emergency situations, if the person, as a factual matter, is unable to give the required consent because of a lack of understanding, the only option available is to obtain a guardianship so that the guardian can give the required consent.
Emergency medical procedures can generally be performed without consent. Some hospitals utilize a three doctor rule requiring three doctors to review the client and agree that the emergency procedure is medically necessary and must be performed if consent cannot be obtained.
If the adult person with mental illness is a patient in a hospital or resident of an ICF-MR or nursing home, a surrogate decision-maker or committee may be able to consent to needed medical or dental services for her. See Section H below.
G. Exceptions to These Rules—Sterilization and Similar Procedures
Neither the parent of a minor child nor the guardian of an adult may consent to sterilization in the State of Texas. Furthermore, in Texas, not even a court can order or authorize sterilization. However, a person with a disability, including an IDD or mental illness, who has given legally adequate consent can be sterilized. Thus, only the person with the disability herself can consent.
Furthermore, under the law, DADS may not perform unusual or hazardous treatment procedures, experimental research, organ transplantation, or non-therapeutic surgery for experimental research. Before any other service providers may do any of these things, the person must have been told and understood the method to be used in the procedure, and the person herself must have consented to it.
Finally, a guardian cannot consent to inpatient psychiatric treatment in Texas; only the person with the disability herself may consent. If consent cannot be obtained, court commitment is the only option.
H. Special Provisions for Obtaining Consent From Residents Of ICFs-MR And Nursing Homes, and from Hospital Patients
In 1993, the Texas Legislature passed a special law that allows for surrogate decision-makers for some residents of Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded (ICF-MR), nursing homes, and hospitals. Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. § 597.041 et seq. (Vernon Supp. 2000). If the ICF-MR determines that a resident of a community-based ICF-MR lacks the capacity to make a major medical or dental treatment decision, and is an adult who has no guardian or is under age 18 and has no parent, guardian, or managing or possessory conservator, an adult surrogate may consent on behalf of the resident. The surrogate decision-maker must have decision-making capacity and be willing to consent on behalf of the client. Consent given by the surrogate is valid and competent to the same extent as if it were given by the person with a disability herself. The surrogate must be chosen from the following list, in order of descending preference:
an actively involved spouse;
an actively involved adult child who has the waiver and consent of all other actively involved adult children of the client to act as the sole decision-maker;
an actively involved parent or stepparent;
an actively involved adult sibling who has the waiver and consent of all other actively involved adult siblings of the client to act as the sole decision-maker;
any other actively involved adult relative who has the waiver and consent of all other actively involved adult relatives of the client to act as the sole-decision-maker.
Surrogate decision-makers may not consent to experimental research, abortion, sterilization, electroconvulsive treatment, or management of client finances. If no guardian or surrogate decision-maker is available, the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) must establish and maintain a list of individuals qualified to serve on a surrogate consent committee, to consist of three (3) to five (5) members. This committee (like the surrogate) may consent to major medical or dental treatment, psychoactive medication, or a highly restrictive procedure. Consent is based upon consensus of the committee members. Detailed requirements govern how the committee is established and how the committee functions. The committee’s decision may be appealed to court. Similar criteria are followed for the selection of a surrogate decision maker for an adult patient in a hospital or nursing home who is comatose, who lacks the ability to understand and appreciate the nature and consequences of a treatment decision or who is otherwise mentally or physically incapable of communication. This surrogate decision-maker may consent, on behalf of the patient, to medical treatment except for voluntary inpatient mental health services, electroconvulsive treatment, or a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment. Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. § 313.001 et seq. (Vernon Supp. 2000).
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Skills and jobs drive a decade of recovery in Scotland – PwC’s Good Growth for Cities Index
Posted: 1st November 2018
● Decade of data shows Glasgow and Edinburgh growth outpacing UK city average
● Data for 2015-17 sees Aberdeen return to top 10 alongside Edinburgh
Edinburgh and Aberdeen are among the UK’s Top-10 UK cities in which to live and work, according to the latest Demos-PwC Good Growth for Cities Index.
New businesses, job creation, skills development and work-life balance have been the key long-term drivers of growth in Scotland’s largest cities since the financial crisis, while Glasgow, 25th on the 2018 Index, boasts job-creation, skills and work-life balance as above average as compared to the rest of the 42 UK cities in the index.
This year’s index shows a continuing gap between the highest performing cities of Oxford and Reading and the lowest ranking, Swansea and Sunderland. However, even the cities towards the bottom of the Index have improved significantly with Swansea, for example, demonstrating the greatest improvements in employment and environmental factors.
Published today, the seventh annual Good Growth for Cities 2018 index sets out to show that there’s more to life, work and general well-being than just measuring GDP. The index measures the performance of 42 of the UK’s largest cities, England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and the nine Combined Authorities, against a basket of ten indicators based on the views of the public as to what is key to economic success and wellbeing.
These include employment, health, income and skills – the most important factors as judged by the public – while housing affordability, commuting times, environmental factors and income inequality are also included, as is the number of new business start-ups.
The Granite City is sixth on the list of top-performing cities, helping it climb from 11 to nine in the overall rankings. Glasgow has also moved up the table of 42 UK cities, however it remains in the bottom half of the list, climbing two places to 25.
Edinburgh has slipped from fourth to sixth as housing affordability becomes more challenging for residents of the nation’s Capital.
Once again, Scotland’s poorest performing variable is health, with all cities at or below the UK average. However there has been an improvement in work-life balance, as defined by the percentage working more than 45 hours per week, and a strong performance in skills improvements across all Scottish cities.
Nevertheless, the latest edition shows that all three main Scottish cities are outperforming the UK in terms of jobs, skills, income and environment – four of the ten economic and social factors which combine to make the Good Growth for Cities Index.
Commenting on the index, David Brown, Head of Government & Public Sector for PwC in Scotland, said:
“Scotland’s cities are in a stronger position today than prior to the financial downturn, and that is thanks to the country having continued to invest in jobs and skills. This leaves our cities better-placed to benefit from the increases in large-scale investment as Scottish and UK government initiatives, such as City Deals, continue to roll out across the country.
“There remain challenges in our cities, however. There is a widening gap between earnings and house prices, which keeps owner occupier rates down. And Scotland continues to score either at or below average when it comes to health. These indicators are a reminder that to enjoy ‘good growth’ we need to focus on alleviating long-terms sickness as well as job creation and new business formation.
“To secure further growth, the public sector, business and the higher education institutions must collaborate effectively, to ensure our cities are ‘investor ready’, while focusing on achieving good and inclusive growth.”
A decade of good growth
Now with 10 years of data to draw upon, Good Growth for Cities Index can chart a decade of changes across Scotland’s cities since the global economic downturn.
Across the UK, overall employment levels have merely returned to their pre-crash levels – despite a recent torrent of new job creation. The main drivers of good growth are skills – specifically amongst 16-24 year-olds, new business formation and environmental improvements
The index suggests that improving skills and new business formation have been long-term drivers of city growth, with the average UK city significantly improving its good growth score over 10 years to 2015-17, and has now more than recovered from the downturn triggered by the global financial crisis.
John Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC, commented:
“Almost all UK cities have seen improved good growth scores in recent years, driven primarily by cyclical falls in unemployment rates that have now rippled out from the South East of England to regions like the North East that were previously lagging behind.
“But the more interesting perspective is provided when we look at the whole decade from 2005-7 to 2015-17, which covers a full economic cycle and therefore allows us to identify deeper structural trends. The good news here is that successive cohorts of young workers have higher average skill levels, which is pushing up index scores together with rising rates of new business creation in most cities.
“But the flip side of this success has been worsening housing affordability and consequent falls in home ownership rates precisely for those young people who have invested in acquiring new skills. As they are pushed further from city centres to afford a place to buy or even rent, average commuting times have also risen. Having largely recovered from the financial crisis, addressing the housing and infrastructure supply constraints that drive these negative trends will be key challenges for the next decade for both central and local government, looking beyond the immediate issues around Brexit.”
Edinburgh and Glasgow have increased their index scores by 0.31 and 0.45 respectively since 2005-07, well ahead of the UK average increase of 0.29. This has been driven by an improvement in skills among 25-64 year olds. Glasgow has seen a strong improvement in the new businesses variable (1.11 compared to the index average of 0.89), alongside improvements in jobs and health (risks of 0.32 and 1.13 respectively). Edinburgh has also seen a large improvement in new businesses compared with 2005-07, however the city has seen a widening of the gap between house prices and earnings.
Lindsay Gardiner, regional chairman, PwC Scotland, said:
“Edinburgh remains one of the best cities in the UK in which to live and do business. The recent announcement of the £1.3 billion City Deal for the region will only help the city futureproof itself in a world being rapidly altered by technology.
“While Edinburgh continues to perform above average in fields like jobs, income and skills, this year’s Good Growth for Cities Index highlights some challenges, not least of which is housing affordability. This provides evidence that Edinburgh is paying the price of its success.”
Kevin Reynard, office senior partner for PwC in Aberdeen, said:
“There has been much talk about Aberdeen’s recovery from the downturn in the oil and gas industry, which began in 2014, and this year’s Good Growth for Cities Index reinforces that this recovery is gaining momentum.
“In our Aberdeen office we’ve seen an increased appetite for deals in the city and expect this to continue as we are now beginning to see the positive effects of the higher range of oil prices.
“What is even more encouraging is to see Aberdeen return to the top ten cities in the UK. With the city the best performing in Scotland in six of 12 measures used in the Good Growth index, it is clear Aberdeen is a fantastic city with much to offer.”
Kenny Wilson, office senior partner, Glasgow, at PwC, said:
“Glasgow has made enormous strides over the last decade and is viewed as a progressive, modern European city. That is evident in this year’s Good Growth for Cities index, which shows the city performing above average in jobs and skills, but also in work-life balance.
“The creation of new businesses has been integral to this progress, however there is always more work to be done in harnessing the entrepreneurial spirit of Glaswegians and making the most of the great opportunities for new businesses in the city.
“Glasgow’s main challenge remains in reducing the number of people economically inactive due to long-term sickness, while the city also scores below average on owner occupancy in the housing market.”
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC Office of Legal Counsel staff members wrote the following informal discussion letter in response to an inquiry from a member of the public. This letter is intended to provide an informal discussion of the noted issue and does not constitute an official opinion of the Commission.
ADA & GINA: CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENTS
Dear ____:
This is in response to your April 13, 2011, letter to Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien asking for guidance on whether maintaining an employee�s personal health information and occupational health information1 in a single Electronic Medical Record (EMR) violates the requirements of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). You believe that neither the employer nor the occupational medicine physicians and nurses who diagnose and treat work-related injuries and illnesses should have access to personal health information without the consent of the employee. Although you do not recommend maintaining personal and occupational health information in totally separate systems, you suggest that personal health information protected under the ADA and GINA should be appropriately �walled off� from view in the broader EMR.
Your letter appears to raise two issues: 1) whether an employer or its agent should have access to an employee�s personal health information without the employee�s consent; and 2) the manner in which employers must safeguard employees� medical information.
Accessing Personal Health Information of Applicants and Employees
Title I of the ADA and Title II of GINA limit employer access to medical information. Regardless of whether an employer or an occupational health provider maintains information in paper or electronic files, it must ensure that personal health information about applicants or employees cannot be accessed, except under the circumstances and to the extent outlined below.
An employer�s right to access personal health information is governed by the provisions of the ADA that limit an employer�s right to make disability-related inquiries and conduct medical examinations of applicants and employees. See 42 U.S.C. � 12112(d); 29 C.F.R. �� 1630.13 and 1630.14. The Commission has not explicitly addressed whether accessing personal health information stored in the same EMR as occupational health information would constitute a disability-related inquiry. However, there seems to be no basis for distinguishing between this situation and others that the Commission clearly has said would be disability-related inquiries, such as where an employer asks an employee or an employee�s doctor to provide documentation about a disability or searches through an employee�s belongings for the purpose of uncovering information about a disability. See Enforcement Guidance on Disability-Related Inquiries and Medical Examinations of Employees Under the Americans with Disabilities Act at Q. 1 & n.20 (July 27, 2000), http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/guidance-inquiries.html.
Title I of the ADA limits when an employer may obtain medical information and how that information can be used at three stages: before extending a job offer, after an offer is made but before an individual starts working, and once a person is on the job. Prior to extending a job offer, an employer generally may not ask any disability-related questions and may not require medical examinations of applicants. See 29 C.F.R. �1630.13(a). After extending an offer of employment but before an individual begins work, an employer may make disability-related inquiries or require medical examinations, regardless of whether they are related to the job, as long as it does so for all entering employees in the same job category. Id. at �1630.14(b). This could include requesting an individual�s consent to access his personal health information. However, because the ADA prohibits an employer from withdrawing a job offer from an individual with a disability or making other discriminatory decisions based on a person�s actual or perceived medical conditions, an employer should be careful not to obtain more information than is necessary to determine whether a person can do a job, even at the post-offer stage.2
Once an individual begins working, an employer may only ask disability-related questions or require medical examinations that are job related and consistent with business necessity. 29 C.F.R. at �1630.14(c). Generally, this means that an employer may only obtain medical information where it reasonably believes that an employee will be unable to perform the job or will pose a direct threat due to a medical condition. Medical information also may be obtained to determine whether an employee with a non-obvious disability is entitled to a requested reasonable accommodation or satisfies the criteria for using certain types of leave, such as leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or under the employer�s own sick leave policy. In all of these instances, however, the information sought must be limited in scope. For example, an employer cannot ask for, or view, an employee�s complete medical record because it is likely to contain information unrelated to the need to make an employment-related decision. Of course, an employer may not obtain medical information about an employee or view an employee�s personal health information unless the employee has executed an appropriate release. See, e.g., Revised Enforcement Guidance on Reasonable Accommodation and Undue Hardship Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (Oct. 17, 2002) at Q. 6 & n.28, http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/accommodation.html.
GINA places additional constraints on an employer�s ability to obtain personal health information. With limited exceptions, GINA prohibits employers from requesting, requiring, or purchasing genetic information (e.g., information about an individual�s genetic tests, genetic tests of a family member, or family medical history) about job applicants and employees or their family members at any time, including during the post-offer stage of employment. 29 C.F.R. �1635.8(a)-(b). Accessing an individual�s medical records directly is no different from asking an individual for information about current health status, which the Commission considers a request for genetic information where it is likely to result in the acquisition of such information, particularly family medical history. Id. at � 1635.8(a), (b)(1)(i). Employers, therefore, should be careful about asking individuals to sign an authorization for release of their EMRs because it is likely that these records will contain genetic information. We recommend that if an employer lawfully requests access to an applicant�s or employee�s medical records (e.g., at the post-offer stage if all entering employees are asked for access to their medical records or during employment where the request for information is job related and consistent with business necessity), the employer include warning language like that provided for in EEOC�s regulations implementing Title II of GINA on any release to ensure that acquisition of any genetic information in response to the request will be considered inadvertent. Id. at �1635.8(b)(1)(i)(B).
Neither the ADA nor GINA specifically addresses the need for encryption, password authorization, and other security safeguards for electronic records maintained by employers. However, we do not interpret either statute�s confidentiality provisions as applying only to paper records. Therefore, if an employer maintains medical information and genetic information electronically, it must ensure that it is kept confidential, and disclosed only to the extent permitted by the ADA and GINA.
Title I of the ADA provides that information obtained by an employer regarding the medical condition or history of an applicant or employee must be collected on separate forms, kept in separate medical files, and be treated as a �confidential medical record.� 29 C.F.R. �1630.14(b)(1). Similarly, if an employer has genetic information obtained under one of GINA�s limited exceptions, it must also keep this information separate from personnel files and treat it as a confidential medical record. This information may be maintained in the same file as medical information obtained under the ADA. 29 C.F.R. �1635.9. Although both the ADA�s and GINA�s confidentiality provisions provide limited exceptions under which information may be disclosed, none of these exceptions specifically authorize an employer to allow access to medical information related to employment by individuals providing health services unrelated to employment. For example, the ADA and GINA would not permit a health professional treating an employee at the hospital where she works to view medical information provided in support of a request for reasonable accommodation.
An employer�s right to access personal health information about applicants and employees and to allow access to occupational health information by individuals providing health services unrelated to employment is strictly limited under both the ADA and GINA. Therefore, maintaining personal health information and occupational health information in a single EMR, particularly one that allows someone with access to the EMR to view any information contained therein, presents a real possibility that the ADA, GINA, or both will be violated.
We hope this information is helpful. This letter is an informal discussion of the issues you raised and should not be considered an official opinion of the EEOC.
/s/
Peggy R. Mastroianni
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1 We assume that the term �personal health information,� as used in your letter, refers to information obtained in the course of diagnosis and treatment and that the term �occupational health information� refers to medical information concerning an employee�s ability to work (e.g., medical information gathered after a job offer has been made, or information concerning an injured employee�s ability to return to work).
2 As a result of the ADA Amendments Act, withdrawing a job offer based on an impairment will result in an individual being regarded as having a disability, unless the offer was withdrawn based on an impairment that was both transitory and minor. See 42 U.S.C. � 12102; see also 29 C.F.R. �1630.2(l).
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EEOC Sues Hunter Auto & Wrecker Service for Sexual Harassment
Female Employee Forced to Resign Due To Repeated Harassment Federal Agency Charges
CHARLOTTE - Hunter Auto & Wrecker Service, Inc., a Charlotte, North Carolina headquartered corporation, violated federal law when it subjected a female employee to a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit, Sharon McInnis worked in a Hunter Auto & Wrecker Service office from February 2018 to August 2018. About March 2018, male employees made unwelcome sexual comments or engaged in sexually offensive conduct toward McInnis almost daily. When McInnis complained, management told her to ignore it. McInnis quit her job because Hunter Auto & Wrecker Service took no action to stop the harassment.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits employers from allowing sexual harassment to exist in the workplace. The EEOC filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Charlotte Division (EEOC v. Hunter & Auto Wrecker Service, Inc., Civil Action No. 3:19-cv-00295) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its voluntary conciliation process.
The EEOC seeks back pay, compensatory damages and punitive damages, as well as injunctive relief.
"Employers must take reasonable steps to stop employees' inappropriate sexual comments and behavior in the workplace," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney of EEOC's Charlotte District Office. "The EEOC will continue to prosecute cases where employees are harassed in violation of federal law, and the company fails to stop the harassment."
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Home EJIL Analysis The Restoration of a Classic Text: Andrew Clapham’s New Edition of Brierly
The Restoration of a Classic Text: Andrew Clapham’s New Edition of Brierly
Published on May 23, 2013 Author: Guy Goodwin-Gill
Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill is Senior Research Fellow, at All Souls College, Oxford and practises as a barrister from Blackstone Chambers, London.
The seventh edition of Brierly’s Law of Nations: An Introduction to the Role of International Law in International Relations , (and here on google books) now edited by Professor Andrew Clapham, was published by Oxford University Press last year. It is now fifty years since Sir Humphrey Waldock’s sixth edition of Brierly was published, but it has been well worth the wait. In my view, no one who reads Andrew Clapham’s new edition can fail to embrace the law of nations, to go on to study it in yet greater detail, and to be excited and enthused by the prospects ever and always being thrown up by the quest for order over chaos. What is more, Brierly will still just about fit in your pocket.
I first came to Brierly, in the sixth edition edited by Humphrey Waldock, in 1967. It was among the first readings set by my Oxford college tutor, Ian Brownlie, whose first edition of Principles of International Law had just appeared the year before. Together, these two works must certainly take a lot of the credit for setting me off on the road to international law.
Like many classic texts, Brierly has lasting appeal; it is highly readable, almost conversational, essentially an essay in nine parts, a curriculum of essentials, of bases. But it is certainly not conservative or hidebound by tradition, or old-fashioned, or the product of blinkered vision or boxed-in thinking. Brierly himself saw his book as an ‘introduction’, something to supplement the text books – rather a subversive thought, if you think about it.
For Brierly, perhaps surprisingly, is often radical, if carefully so. We see this in his approach to international law, already in 1928, as also comprising individuals among its subjects, as encompassing a sense of community, drawing on ‘a sense of solidarity across traditional borders’ (Clapham, Preface, xvi).
A great strength of the present edition, additional to its remarkable modernising, is the way in which Andrew Clapham has managed to put yet more Brierly into Brierly. He carefully and astutely draws on Brierly’s other writings to explain, to elaborate, and sometimes even to rescue ideas which Brierly often set out before their time. And how sharp were his perceptions! Consider his views on Vattel’s acceptance of the state of nature as an analogy appropriate to describe relations between States: ‘Thus the doctrine of the equality of states, a misleading deduction from unsound premises, was introduced into the theory of international law’ (36; also 146f). And later, ‘By cutting the frail moorings which bound international law to any sound principle of obligation, [Vattel] did it an injury which has not yet been repaired’ (39).
Brierly’s critique of sovereignty and his analysis of the basis of obligation in international law are as relevant today as when they were first set down – as, indeed, is the truth he identified in our being constrained, in so far as we are reasonable beings, ‘to believe that order and not chaos is the governing principle of the world’ in which we have to live (53).
Not surprisingly, Andrew Clapham has retained these and other gems, but elsewhere he has taken Brierly firmly into the twenty-first century. Sometimes it is by the omission of a single word: ‘the class of treaties…’, rather than ‘the only class of treaties which it is admissible to treat as a source of general law…’ (55). Sometimes it is by additional paragraphs succinctly noting the latest international jurisprudence or doctrinal developments, for example, on custom or international law in domestic courts. At other times, it is by the use of new and to us now obvious headings: law-making by international organisations, unilateral declarations, ‘soft law…’, and so on.
An especially valuable addition is that on the judicial function in Chapter III, and welcome too is the greater emphasis on the United Nations. Also very usefully updated to twenty-first century relevance is the section on the territory of States, which combines essential history, removes the inessential (no matter how incidentally interesting the phenomenon of trust territories may be…), and recalls current areas of interest, concern and action, such as uti possedetis, the continental shelf, and the deep sea bed, with its potential for meeting Brierly-style goals, including co-operation and community (199).
Jurisdiction receives similar treatment, with the editor flagging the ways and the expanding extent to which other rules of international law (human rights, considerations of humanity…) increasingly circumscribe States’ ‘freedom’ of action, increasingly call in question exaggerated claims of immunity, among others.
It is good, too, that some of the caution displayed by Waldock in the sixth edition, particularly as to the impact of the UN on human rights violations, has been substituted with stronger language and, dare one say it, greater optimism even in the face of recurring tragedy (295f, 240-1).
It is helpful, too, to be reminded of Brierly’s work in 1950 as the International Law Commission’s Special Rapporteur on the Law of Treaties (303, 317), but no less important is Andrew Clapham’s more detailed elaboration, on the basis of later research and writing, of standard historical examples, such as the Alabama arbitration or the Dogger Bank dispute (414).
And like Brierly, his new editor is wise to the existence of difference, highlighting the challenges facing this generation of international lawyers as they wrestle with self-defence yet again, and its applicability to, among others, non-State actors; or as they deal in practice with the question of combatant status (477, 496).
And then there’s the hint of mystery… In footnote 89 on page 239, Andrew Clapham refers to ‘the bodies’ that have been found at the OAS, the Council of Europe, the African Union… Where were they buried? How did they get there? Who dunnit? We should be told…
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Guy Goodwin-Gill
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College Professor Guy S. Goodwin Gill is also Professor of International Refugee Law, was formerly Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam, and served as a Legal Adviser in the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1976-1988. He practises as a Barrister from Blackstone Chambers, London, and he has written extensively on refugees, migration, international organizations, elections, democratization, and child soldiers. Read Full
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Blog Kiosk: 8/20/2015 - Dodger Links - Puig, Zaidi and Rollins
Jimmy Rollins seems happy to have his former teammate in LA. Watch what he said about it in the clubhouse yesterday from SportsNet LA, here. Photo above from @SportsNetLA on twitter. Via Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, "Rollins likes idea of reunion with Utley."
"I think it would be a lot of fun," Rollins said. "One, he loved this team, went to school at UCLA, plays well at Dodger Stadium, actually beats up the Dodgers. If everything goes through and he's here, it would be nice to see him play home games in a place he's comfortable playing.
"He can add a lot. Hopefully, No. 1 first and foremost, if he's healthy and in a good place. That being the case, the way he's swung the bat, the way he's been playing, we can use it, anybody can. He's a tough guy. More than anything, there will be some new excitement in the clubhouse. He'll have the chance to play meaningful baseball late in the year. It's what we all want."
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ICYMI: The two Dodger prospects sent to Philadelp[hia as a part of the Chase Utley trade are infielder/outfielder Darnell Sweeney and minor league pitcher John Richy. Per a Dodger press release:
Sweeney was hitting .271 with nine homers, 30 doubles, 32 stolen bases and 49 RBI in 116 games this year for Triple-A Oklahoma City this season. The 24-year-old was the Dodgers’ 13th-round selection out of the University of Central Florida in 2012.
Richy, the Dodgers’ third-round draft selection out of UNLV in 2014, was 10-5 with a 4.20 ERA in 22 games (18 starts) for Single-A Rancho Cucamonga this season. The right-hander pitched for Rookie-level Ogden and Single-A Great Lakes in 2014.
BTW, to make room for Utley on the Dodgers roster they have DFA's Alberto Callaspo, via Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider.
Jon also shares a whole bunch of quotes from Dodger GM Farhan Zaidi about the trade and the "State of the Dodgers," here.
On why they targeted Utley: “It’s everything. Beyond the numbers, he’s always been a very good defensive second baseman … he’s shown that range (since he came back from the disabled list). His quality of at-bats has been near the top of the league. We made it a point to stack our lineup with players who have quality at-bats. He’s always hit well at Dodger Stadium.
“I think we have all the elements of a really good team. We got out of the gates really strong, and we’ve had stretches in other parts of the season where we did certain things well and struggled in other areas. I think we still have talent to bookend our season with a stretch … where we’re firing on all cylinders. We think we have the ingredients of a really good team, and it’s going to come down to execution.”
Via Mark Saxon at ESPN, "Yasiel Puig has mild hamstring strain." He should be ready to go on Friday.
"It was pretty good news today, it feels like," Mattingly said. "This is way less than last time, it seems like. At this point, he's calling it, 'very mild,' and the MRI is not showing a whole lot and Yasiel looks good."
Panini has released some more preview pic for their upcoming 2015 Immaculate Baseball set; including the Yasiel Puig jumbo relic card on the right. Go here to check out a bunch of great pics.
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Soldier Missing From Korean War Accounted For (Massey)
Release No: 15-008 March 9, 2015
Pfc. Anthony Massey, Jr.
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Pfc. Anthony Massey, Jr., 22, of Mayfield, Ky., will be buried March 14, in Mayfield, Ky. In November 1950, Massey was a member of Company C, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (ID), when Chinese forces conducted a major offensive attack against elements of the 25th ID and Eighth U.S. Army in northwest Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. During this battle of the Chongchon River, Massey was listed as missing in action.
After the war, returning U.S. prisoners of war reported that Massey had been captured by the Chinese during that battle and died from malnutrition in 1951, in prisoner of war Camp 5, near Pyoktong, North Korea. In 1954, United Nations and Communist Forces exchanged the remains of war dead in what came to be called “Operation Glory.” All remains recovered in Operation Glory were turned over to the Army Central Identification Unit (CIU) in Kokura, Japan, for analysis. The unidentified remains were interred as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, known as the “Punchbowl.”
In 2014, with advances in technology, DPAA re-examined the records from the CIU and concluded that it was possible to identify the remains. The remains were exhumed and analyzed.
To identify Massey’s remains, scientists from the DPAA used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including radiographs, which matched his records.
Today, 7,853 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War. Using modern technology, identifications continue to be made from remains that were previously turned over by North Korean officials or recovered by American teams.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call (703) 699-1169.
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Industrial issuers of €26 billion in green bonds pledge to double down on green financing
Geplaatst op 11 december 2017
On the occasion of the Paris 2017 Climate Finance Day, nine of Europe’s largest industrial emitters of green bonds (EDF, Enel, ENGIE, Iberdrola, Icade, Paprec, SNCF Réseau, SSE and TenneT) publicly announce their pledge to further develop one of the most dynamic segments of sustainable finance today, the green bond market.
These companies have joined forces to voice their commitment to the green bond market as part of their strategy, financing policy and their active engagement in the reporting debate and dialogue with investors. The pledge also calls upon other industrial corporates to consider issuing green bonds.
The signatories of today’s pledge commit to a long-term presence in the market, that green bonds will be at the heart of their (project) financing and business lines, and that they will implement stringent reporting procedures.
This announcement, on the morning of Climate Finance Day and the day before the One Planet Summit in Paris, is a clear signal that green bonds are and will continue to play a significant role in finance and reaching the goals set at the Paris Agreement two years ago.
Ten years after the first green bond issuance, this market, has turned into an exciting place in particular, thanks to companies committed to tackling climate change, to a growing awareness to environmental protection, low-carbon transport and buildings as well as energy efficiency. So far, all nine companies have issued a total of €26 billion in green bonds which accounts for over 10% of total outstanding green bonds.
Together the signatories draw on their experience to call upon other industrial companies to consider issuing green bonds, which will further strengthen this market and enhance its interest from the growing share of climate-minded investors.
Xavier Girre, Group Senior Executive Vice President, Group Finance, at EDF said: “Since EDF’s first issuance in 2013, Green Bonds have become central in financing the Group’s strong ambitions in renewables. Through this pledge, EDF reiterates its commitment as a frequent issuer aiming for the highest standards and an active corporate contributor to shaping sustainable finance solutions.”
Alberto De Paoli, Chief Financial Officer at Enel said: “Enel’s position as one of the leaders of the energy transition is based in large part on the way in which sustainability and innovation form the basis of all aspects of the Group’s industrial plan, including its financial strategy. Green bonds are a powerful instrument for promoting and supporting the transition towards a low carbon economy, and Enel will continue to play a prominent role in their ongoing growth and development in the global capital markets.”
Judith Hartmann, Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President of ENGIE said: “With €5.25bn of green bonds issued since 2014, ENGIE confirms its commitment to lead the energy transition and to drive actively the development of sustainable finance. By matching the company´s long-term view and investors´ sustainability goals, ENGIE considers green bonds as a critical lever to shape tomorrow´s low carbon and socially responsible energy world.”
José Sainz Armada, Chief Financial Officer of Iberdrola, said: “Ever since incorporating Sustainable Development Goals to the company’s strategy, Iberdrola has become the largest European issuer of green bonds, the perfect source of long-term finance for projects making an environmental difference. Through independent certification, private investors guided by ethical principles ensure their funds are managed with a sustainable perspective and the strictest social criteria.”
Victoire Aubry, Chief Financial Officer of Icade, declared: “As a player involved in environmental transition, Icade aims to be at the forefront of sustainable real estate. In this context, beginning of September, Icade has issued successfully, its first green bond for a total of € 600 million. This green bond is fully in line with the proactive CSR policy pursued at all levels of the organisation. It will support Icade’s ambition to be a leading player in CSR among Real Estate Investment companies”
Charles-Antoine Blanc, Chief Financial Officer of Paprec Group declared: “As a company fully dedicated to environmental services and more specifically waste recycling, we have started to issue green bonds by 2015 for an aggregate amount of 705 million euros. Those green bonds have allowed us to develop the company significantly since then with respect to our CSR policy but also Green Bond Principles.”
Hugues de Nicolay, Deputy CEO – Finance & Purchasing – SNCF Réseau said: “In order to reach the objectives set by the Paris Climate Agreement and to foster a transition towards low carbon transportation, SNCF Réseau has decided to place Green Bonds at the heart of its financing strategy. Our objective is to become a leading player on this market not only in terms of volume – in less than 12 months, we launched three Green Bonds for a total amount of 2.65 billion euros – but also in terms of high-level standards.”
Gregor Alexander, Finance Director of SSE, said: “We are pleased our issuance earlier this year shows our commitment to SSE’s sustainability and responsibility principles. It sends out a clear and unequivocal message to stakeholders, that SSE supports the transition to a low carbon energy system and wants to see a sustainable economy in the UK and Ireland in the long term.”
Otto Jager, Chief Financial Officer of TenneT: “Issuing green bonds related to certain activities or projects is a first important step by an enterprise in taking responsibility for its social and environmental impact. I expect that in the future the ESG record of a company as a whole will become just as an important factor for investors as its financial performance.”
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The Baby Singing "Gorgeous" In Taylor Swift's Instagram Has Fans So Confused
By Billy Lorusso
OH. MY. GOD. YOU GUYS. We are less than a month away from the release of Taylor Swift's sixth studio album, Reputation, and, with each passing day, the anticipation builds. In an effort to hype us up even more (and potentially send us flying into cardiac arrest), Queen Swift just released a clip for a new track called "Gorgeous," which features an upbeat sound and a baby singing the word "Gorgeous". Like her previously released singles off the forthcoming Reputation, "Look What You Made Me Do" and "...Ready For It?," "Gorgeous" is a unique sound for Swift, and the baby singing certainly has Swifties worldwide a bit confused.
That aside, though, the eight-second clip confirms we're in for a totally new era in Swiftian history and I, for one, am ready for it. As for who the lucky (read: already richer than me) baby featured on "Gorgeous" is, that's a mystery that already has fans talking. Since Tay loves to keep secret details about her music cryptic, who knows if we'll ever find out. One way or the other, two things are for sure: The old Taylor is seriously dead and "Gorgeous" is going to be a bop.
Lately, in typical T. Swift pre-album fashion, Swift has been holding "secret sessions" for lucky fans across the world to listen to Reputation before it's released next month. Of course, this means some Swifties have already heard "Gorgeous" and *seem* to know who the baby featured is.
That hasn't stopped the rest of us from wondering, though. Perhaps she'll let us in on the secret once the song/album is released, but, knowing Swift, I'm not holding my breath. For now, though, we can just rejoice in knowing that new Swift sounds will be entering the universe sooner rather than later.
After a lengthy hiatus, Swift announced her return to the public eye in late August. In a dramatic and extravagant campaign, the singer wiped her social channels #clean before uploading several videos to Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, all of which come together to depict a slithering snake (aka the new Taylor).
Since then, the country-star-turned-pop-queen has released two singles that show off her new, drastically different sound and prove she did not come to play. The first single — "Look What You Made Me Do" — in particular, has had fans and the media speculating for almost two months about who the lyrics and video might be referencing. With Swift's aptness for writing songs that reflect her personal experiences, it's no surprise Reputation is already slated to be filled with diss tracks a la 1989's "Bad Blood."
Indeed, a Swift source recently revealed to Us Weekly that Reputation "chronicles [Swift's] feuds" with major A-listers like Katy Perry, Calvin Harris, and, of course, Kanye West. "It will be across multiple songs, somewhat cryptically," says the source, before adding, "but also obvious.”
It certainly sounds like, despite the old Taylor being dead, Ms. Swift is up to her usual tricks with this album.
This era of Swift's, though brand new, hasn't been without its criticism. The singer has caught slack from the media for what many have interpreted as her mocking Kim Kardashian's robbery in her "Look What You Made Me Do" video, meanwhile some have slammed Swift's "new sound," saying it is noticeably similar to some of Kanye West's older songs.
Others, still, claim Swift's "LWYMMD" video copies Beyoncé's iconic "Formation" video in obvious ways.
Whether or not any of these similarities are intentional or coincidental is a mystery, but something tells me nothing is ever an accident when it comes to Swift. I guess now all that's left to do is see who "Gorgeous" might be about.
You can buy and stream "Gorgeous" from T. Swift's upcoming album, Reputation, everywhere at 12 a.m. on Oct. 20.
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As frontiers of knowledge expanded during the Renaissance, new vessels made it possible for navigators to expand the limits of the known world. Medieval ships were small sailing vessels—some of them powered by oars—that had a limited range and were best suited for use along coastlines and in river mouths. There were very different shipbuilding traditions in northern and southern Europe. Squat and wide ships known as cogs were in use in the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, while in Genoa and other Mediterranean ports, rowed galleys and small sailing ships modeled on the Arab dhow were built.
In the late Middle Ages, these two ship types were combined in a hybrid model known as the carrack. This ship, also known in Spain as the nao, was built in many European ports in the fifteenth century. It employed a larger sail as well as a bowsprit, a mast extended from the front of the ship. Castles were raised in the bow and at the rear of the ship. The carrack used a rudder built into the stem post, rather than a rudder steered from the side of the ship, and adopted the square mainsail, which had powered the cog and the longship. From the Arabs shipbuilders borrowed a lateen (triangular) sail that was rigged to a rear mizzenmast. As ships and crews grew larger, a third mast was added as well as a second “topsail” on the main mast.
Smaller and more maneuverable ships known as caravels were the key to longrange exploration. They were first used by the Portuguese to navigate down the west coast of Africa, where reefs, tricky currents, strong desert winds, and superstition had limited exploration to Cape Bojador, beyond which sailors believed the world simply ended. The caravel was more maneuverable than the carrack. It was developed from the dhows of the Muslim world, with a long, sloping hull and high, wide poop deck aft (in the rear). The ship could sail close to the wind and was extremely buoyant. Caravels could be rigged with square or lateen sails, depending on the wind conditions, and they could navigate in rivers and shallow waters, which made them useful for coastal exploration. The caravel brought the Portuguese as far as the East Indies and Brazil, and was also used in the first expedition of Christopher Columbus to the Western Hemisphere.
The artillery aboard ships transformed naval warfare, forcing ships to fight longerrange battles of maneuver and tactics that replaced the old strategy of simply grappling an enemy ship and trying to board her for a hand-to-hand fight. The carrack was used as both cargo vessel and warship; its gun ports allowed iron and bronze cannon to be added to the traditional complement of infantry and archers. The caravel was not fast enough, however, for good use as a warship. To meet this purpose, in the sixteenth century Portuguese and Spanish shipwrights pioneered the galleon. The galleon was a carrack turned into a large gun platform. It was an imposing ship, with several decks of guns and cannon firing from the forecastle and aft castle decks. Most galleons had four masts with two lateen-rigged masts in the back. Strong hulls made the ship good for long-distance campaigns, such as the great fleet of galleons and smaller ships known as the Spanish Armada. The galleon had a narrower profile and a low forecastle, making it extremely stable, fast, and maneuverable. It was also less expensive to build than the carrack. Galleons remained in use for three centuries both as military and cargo vessels, and were the forerunners of the large square-rigged, long-distance clipper ships that came into use in the eighteenth century.
See Also: Columbus, Christopher; exploration; Henry the Navigator; trade
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Codes of Conduct - Code Switching and the Everyday Performance of Identity - K. Merinda Simmons
Aaron W. Hughes [+-]
Aaron W. Hughes is the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Rochester. His research and publications focus on both Jewish philosophy and Islamic Studies. He has authored numerous books, including Situating Islam: The Past and Future of an Academic Discipline (Equinox, 2007); Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction (Equinox, 2012); Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam (Columbia, 2012); and Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History (Oxford, 2012). He currently serves as the editor of the journal Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.
In its formative years, the discourse of “code switching” was largely linguistic in nature with a political bent toward debates regarding “proper” English and its alternatives and/or concerns over “linguistic difference” and issues of access and what has been dubbed for many years as closing the “achievement gap.” It is within this linguistic context that the term was adopted as a proxy for “variety” and “difference” more generally. Attention and focus was directed towards dialects, registers, and styles of speech patterns often assumed to “depart” from the normative (or “proper”) linguistic code or understanding within a normative context. More recently “Code Switching” has become a popular scholarly and general public concept taken up by a wide variety of sectors, fields and areas of study often used to reference the actions of a particular person/group that is assumed to break from their own “natural” practices to perform codes “not their own” for the purposes of fitting in, acquiring social capital, and accessing spaces that often perceive the “native” practices of the switcher as illegitimate or illegible. Whether distinguished and notable for judicial victories or to prove the inherent “linguistic” or “cultural” biases of measures such as standardized tests – it’s quite often the case that discourse on “code switching” is not only overly racialized but also assumes a learned ability for certain individuals and groups to shift/switch with a particular purpose in mind and the social actors doing the switching are almost always considered “marginal. The papers in this volume argue against the usual interpretation, contending that such focus on the switches of the “marginal” often assumes that the very thing that marginal groups – or certain “strategic” actors are shifting towards (the dominant group) is itself uncoded – or untethered from ideology. Thus, such encounters unduly leave power unchallenged without acknowledging or recognizing that we’re all shifting, switching – that variety is just prevalent in standard English as it is Ebonics – or “African American Language.” Furthermore, traditional approaches imply that shifting requires expertise, a claim that maintains and reproduces cleavages among the very marginal groups said to shift. Contributors to this volume challenge such interpretations by asking “When is a shift to an alternate mode of performance not a switch?” “How is it that some acquire the ‘skill’ to switch and others don’t? “Whose switch counts as a switch?”
Hughes, Aaron. Conclusion. Codes of Conduct - Code Switching and the Everyday Performance of Identity. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. Sep 2019. ISBN 9781781791844. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=24871. Date accessed: 17 Jul 2019 doi: 10.1558/equinox.24871. Sep 2019
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8. Morality
Identity and the Sacred - A Sketch for a Social-Scientific Theory of Religion - Hans Mol
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Hans Mol (1922-2017) was Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Canada and an important figure in the sociology of religion during the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
Identity and the Sacred is the most influential work of the late Hans Mol, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University. In this volume, Mol broke new ground in the sociology of religion by borrowing from ethology, developmental psychology, and even symbolic interactionism to argue that personal identity was central to the religious enterprise. In doing so, he became one of the first (if not the first) sociologists to utilise the concept of identity as a means of discussing the persistence and socio-cultural role of religion in contemporary life. Giving identity pride of place within a new theoretical framework was not only unique but perceptive, as scholarly interest in issues of identity has only increased since the late 70s. Mol’s identity theory dissolved the hard line previously drawn between individual agents and social structures, introduced serious doubt into debates over hard secularisation, and suggested that religion was a dynamic process involving irrational commitment and vigorous defence rather than a static cultural object of reasoned belief. The significance of such a theory for the twenty-first century cannot be overstated – it is largely due to our available hindsight that sociologists and other scholars can now recognise the novelty of Mol’s approach and its usefulness for contemporary topics such as religious extremism/violence, Brexit, the alt-right, and so-called ‘postsecularism’. This new edition of Identity and the Sacred includes a substantive Foreword that argues for the enduring significance of Mol’s ideas but also includes never-before-seen content from the archived Hans Mol Papers of the National Library of Australia. This volume will be of interest to both postgraduates and academics from the fields of Religious Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Theology who are interested in social-scientific theories of religion and identity.
Mol, Hans. 8. Morality. Identity and the Sacred - A Sketch for a Social-Scientific Theory of Religion. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. Jan 2021. ISBN 9781781799215. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=38731. Date accessed: 17 Jul 2019 doi: 10.1558/equinox.38731. Jan 2021
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Etisalat Misr partners with Ericsson to evolve its network in Egypt
Etisalat Misr has signed a four-year contract with Ericsson to transform its core network and business support systems in Egypt
The project will enable Etisalat Misr to provide more flexible and personalized services to its subscribers
Ericsson’s experience and expertise will help Etisalat Misr capture the growth in 4G as well as pave the way for 5G and Internet of Things
Press release | Oct 05, 2017 | 07:00 (GMT +00:00)
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Etisalat Misr has signed a four-year contract with Ericsson to modernize and expand its core network and business support systems, which will help the operator capitalize on the growth in 4G and pave the way for 5G and Internet of Things. The partnership will play an important role in further developing the services offered by Etisalat Misr, one of Ericsson’s largest customers for business support systems.
The project will be a significant milestone for Etisalat Misr, allowing shorter time to market, commercial innovation, and improved user experience. It will also have a positive impact on the capital and operational expenditure. The subscribers will be able to enjoy highly flexible and personalized offerings, including cross-bundling and add-on services. They will also have access to shared data plans and family offerings, which will provide them with a single bill and a consolidated spending view.
Furthermore, the 4G technology will enable efficient means of communication and opportunities for global collaboration and innovation. For example, the project will accelerate the introduction of IMS Voice over LTE, Voice over WiFi, Service Aware Policy Control and Unified Communications.
Hazem Metwally, Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Misr, says: “We are pleased to be working with Ericsson again on a new project that addresses the evolving requirements of our organization. It will double the capacity of our business support systems, which will allow us to provide more innovation to our customers, resulting in more traffic passing through our network. Ericsson is our trusted partner and has provided valuable support since we launched our services.”
Amr Fathy, IT Vice President, Etisalat Misr, says: “We have enjoyed a long and successful partnership with Ericsson and this new cooperation will further bolster our services for our customers. As we work towards a smart future, we continue to innovate in ways that will empower our valued customers to meet all of their personal and business goals. Introducing Egypt to 4G and 5G is the future of technology and we look forward to being at the forefront of this introduction.”
Rafiah Ibrahim, Head of Ericsson Region Middle East and Africa, says: “This agreement will enable Etisalat Misr to respond very quickly and in a flexible way with new offers to the ever increasing needs of their subscribers. The current massive diversity of applications, services and bundles, that both consumers and business customers wish to use on their multiple devices, requires more flexible provisioning and real-time charging based on advanced systems and solutions, such as our state-of-the-art Business Support System.”
Ericsson is shaping the future of Mobile and Broadband Internet communications through its continued efforts as a technology leader, and through partnering with new organizations.
Ericsson is a world leader in communications technology and services with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Our organization consists of more than 111,000 experts who provide customers in 180 countries with innovative solutions and services. Together we are building a more connected future where anyone and any industry is empowered to reach their full potential. Net sales in 2016 were SEK 222.6 billion (USD 24.5 billion). The Ericsson stock is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and on NASDAQ in New York. Read more on www.ericsson.com.
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Woods, Nordegren divorce; will share parenting
Tiger Woods, wife officially divorce
Tiger Woods and his Swedish-born wife officially divorced Monday, nine months after his middle-of-the night car crash outside their home set off shocking revelations that the world's most famous athlete had been cheating on her through multiple affairs.
"We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future," Woods and Elin Nordegren said in a joint statement released by their lawyers.
The divorce was granted in Bay County Circuit Court in Panama City, Fla., about 375 miles away from their Isleworth home outside Orlando. The couple married in October 2004 in Barbados and have a 3-year-old daughter, Sam, and a 19-month-old son, Charlie.
The marriage was described in court documents as "irretrievably broken" with no point in trying to reconcile. Terms of the divorce were not disclosed, except that they will "share parenting" of their two children.
"We love Elin, and we are so proud of the grace and strength she has shown during this difficult time," said Nordegren's father, Thomas Nordegren, a talk show host at national broadcaster Swedish Radio. "We know that she will come out of this even stronger and has a bright future in front of her."
The divorce was finalized by Bay County Circuit Judge Judy Pittman Biebel during a brief hearing in a conference room in her chambers, according to Biebel's judicial assistant Kim Gibson. The hearing lasted no more than 10 minutes. Woods and Nordegren were present, along with their lawyers, Gibson said.
"I don't comment on active cases," Thomas J. Sasser, Woods' divorce attorney, said. When asked why they chose to file in Panama City, Sasser said it was a joint decision by the lawyers.
Nordegren's attorneys -- which included her twin sister, London-based Josefin Lonnborg -- referred all questions to the statement.
Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, declined comment when asked if the couple had a prenuptial agreement or terms of the settlement. "We're not commenting beyond what was in the release," he said.
Nordegren's mother, Barbro Holmberg, also declined comment.
Nordegren, who once worked as a nanny for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik, asked to have her maiden name restored as Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren.
The couple signed a marital settlement agreement on July 3 and July 4, the weekend of the AT&T National outside Philadelphia, where Woods failed to break par in a PGA Tour event for the first time in 11 years.
The sordid sex scandal cost Woods three major corporate sponsors -- Accenture, AT&T and Gatorade -- worth millions of dollars, and he lost his image as the gold standard in sports endorsements. A month after the scandal became public, Woods spent two months in therapy at a Mississippi clinic with hopes of saving his marriage.
"While we are no longer married, we are the parents of two wonderful children and their happiness has been, and will always be, of paramount importance to both of us," they said in the statement. ... "The weeks and months ahead will not be easy for them as we adjust to a new family situation, which is why our privacy must be a principal concern."
According to court documents, Woods completed the American Safety Institute's four-hour course on "Parent Education and Family Stablization" on July 10, the day before he left to play the British Open at St. Andrews. Woods, who had won the previous two times at St. Andrews by a combined 13 shots, tied for 23rd.
Nordegren completed her four-hour class through FloridaParentingClass.com on Aug. 16, the day after Woods tied for 28th in the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
Documents also show the two children lived at their primary home at Isleworth until November 2009 -- Woods crashed his SUV over the fire hydrant and into a tree on Nov. 27 -- and that Nordegren had moved out to a nearby residence since then.
Woods is to play this week at The Barclays, where he needs a good performance to extend his PGA Tour season and try to show he is worth picking for the Ryder Cup. It will be his first tournament as a single man since he finished ninth in a World Golf Championship in Ireland in October 2004.
Since returning to golf at the Masters, Woods has not come close to winning a tournament. He tied for fourth in the Masters and in the U.S. Open, both times taking himself out of contention early in the final round.
One example of how the impending divorce has affected him came last month when he played in a charity pro-am in Ireland, which ended on Tuesday. Instead of staying overseas to practice on links courses, Woods flew home to Florida for six days to see his children, then returned to Scotland for the British Open.
Woods has won 82 times worldwide -- 36 times and six majors while married -- in his professional career. His last victory came at the Australian Masters on Nov. 15, his last trip before his serial infidelity was uncovered.
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Could ex-Falcon Vick join Raiders after release from prison?
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick watches the defense against the Washington Redskins during an NFL football game in this Dec. 3, 2006 file photo, in Landover, Md.Vick was ordered by commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday, July 23, 2007 to stay away from the Falcons' training camp until the league reviews the dogfighting charges against him.
By Steve Corkran | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: November 1, 2008 at 10:09 pm | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 5:56 pm
JaMarcus Russell is in the shotgun formation, barking out the signals. To his right stands second-year running back Darren McFadden. To his left is a man who once roamed the NFL landscape, someone who accomplished things no other has done in the history of the game.
Could it be? No, it can’t be. Russell shakes his head, blinks his eyes, does a double-take. Are you kidding me? In a Raiders uniform? Yes, it’s possible.
Raiders fans who hoped to see Michael Vick playing for the Atlanta Falcons today at the Coliseum won’t get their wish. However, several of Vick’s former teammates embrace the prospect of Vick’s joining the Raiders after his release from Leavenworth State Prison in Kansas.
“You can just imagine what it would be like,” said Raiders fullback Justin Griffith, a teammate of Vick’s from 2003-06. “But until he gets out, and we actually get him up in here, and we see how he is as a player, it’s all up to Mike, and it’s all up to Mr. Davis (Raiders managing general partner Al Davis).
“Would we like to see it? Yes. Would it add a whole lot to your offense? Yes, it would, man, but until it happens, you just imagine how it (would be).”
Vick starred at quarterback for the Falcons from 2001-06. He directed the Falcons to an upset playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in 2002, to the NFC Championship game two seasons later and set an NFL record for a quarterback by rushing for more than 1,000 yards in 2006.
He owned Atlanta, figuratively if not literally. No. 7 Vick jerseys were seen everywhere around town. Games sold out week after week. Yet, the cat-quick quarterback wasn’t quite as elusive as everyone thought, or, perhaps, he thought.
In July 2007, Virginia authorities did what so many defenders failed to do. They sacked Vick. He and three others were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of sponsoring a dog-fighting operation.
Vick and his cohorts ultimately were charged with competitive dog-fighting, procuring and training pit bulls for fighting and conducting the enterprise across state lines. The dogs that belonged to “Bad News Kennels,” according to the indictment, were housed, trained and fought at a property owned by Vick.
The Falcons suspended Vick on July 24, 2007, for training camp. The NFL trumped that by suspending Vick indefinitely without pay on Aug. 24, the day Vick announced he would plead guilty to a federal dogfighting charge on Aug. 27.
On Dec. 10, Vick received a 23-month sentence in Leavenworth and three years’ probation. He is scheduled for early release in July, though he could be admitted to a halfway house as early as January.
So the time is nearing when Vick will be out of prison and in search of NFL employment. That is, provided NFL commissioner Roger Goodell approves Vick’s expected application for reinstatement, and the Falcons resolve Vick’s contract situation. Falcons owner Arthur Blank said in a recent interview that he is supportive of Vick’s returning to the NFL, just not with the Falcons. Vick remains under contract to the Falcons.
“Michael Vick was indefinitely suspended after he pleaded guilty,” said Greg Aiello, the NFL senior vice president of public relations. “If he applies for reinstatement following his release from jail, the commissioner would review all the facts and make a decision.”
Vick did not respond to written and oral requests for an interview for this story.
Raiders wide receiver Ashley Lelie said there’s only one place for Vick to go. He, cornerback DeAngelo Hall and Griffith said Vick would be content to back up Russell and fit in whichever way the Raiders deem best.
“You have to sign him, if you’re the Raiders,” Lelie said. “Trust me, I’ve played against him before. You don’t want him on the other team. I’ve seen what he can do.”
Lelie said it boggles the mind to imagine the wrinkles the Raiders could install in their offense with Russell, Vick and McFadden on the field at the same time.
Lelie, Griffith and Hall once called Vick a teammate. They still consider him a close friend.
To a man, they say, they are so convinced of Vick’s character, work ethic, dedication and repentance over his transgression that they would put up their lucrative contracts as collateral in case Vick ran afoul of the law again, were the Raiders to sign him.
“Oh, yeah, definitely,” Hall said. “I wouldn’t have any second thought about doing it. I’ll put in my contract the same stipulations or whatever, man. I know anytime something like that happens, you wake up and you smell the roses.
“After talking to Mike, he definitely knows what’s happening. He has a family, kids, fiancée. He definitely wised up and got those riff-raffs away from him. He knows who his true friends are. He’ll move on and go from there.”
Raiders coaches and front-office employees aren’t allowed to comment about the prospect of Vick’s joining the Raiders.
Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Knapp worked closely with Vick in the same capacity for the Falcons from 2004-06. He said Vick is caring, loyal and a hard worker.
“I love the way he had fun playing the game,” Knapp said. “He was a hard worker, was on the path of understanding what it takes to be a quarterback in this league. So, he was making great progress when this unfortunate thing happened.
“I know the perception based on the issue that he had makes it tough to believe, but on a daily basis, I really enjoyed working with the guy because he came to work, did everything we asked of him and is a caring guy.”
By all accounts, Vick is in shape, accountable for his actions and taking steps toward making amends for his past. Given that, Griffith said, the Raiders would be foolish to pass on a shot at signing him.
“If you look around the league right now, you don’t see a whole lot of Mike Vicks out there,” Griffith said. “You see good football players, but the things that he did when he was active in the league, it makes you shake your head, man, like, ‘Wow.’ “… I just hope that we get a chance to get him.”
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UFU consults members on future of RHI
Published: 08:10 Saturday 18 August 2018
The Ulster Farmers’ Union are consulting with members on the future of Northern Ireland’s non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme.
UFU deputy president, Victor Chestnutt, says a sub-group of the UFU’s rural enterprise committee has been specifically convened to address the consultation and to formulate a response. “In addition, we have sought the views of the UFU poultry committee, many of whom are boiler owners, who have been directly impacted by the reduced tariffs and have concerns about any future changes in the scheme,” he said.
Mr Chestnutt added: “The outcome of this consultation will have consequences for the large number of farmers who invested in boilers for their farm businesses. We want to ensure that we achieve the best possible outcome for the sector. Since the reduced tariffs were introduced on 1 April 2017, many of our members have been under severe pressure, both financially and mentally.”
The UFU’s rural enterprise committee will meet next week to discuss the consultation and recommendations put forward by the sub-group and UFU poultry committee with the aim of agreeing a position to put forward to the UFU’s Executive committee for final approval. The UFU has also written to the Department of the Economy to highlight concerns regarding key elements of the consultation.
“We would also urge our members to consider submitting their own individual responses to the consultation. Affected members will receive an update from the UFU on the matter shortly,” said the UFU deputy president.
Closing date for the consultation is 6 September 2018.
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Cannabis improves symptoms of Crohn's disease despite having no effect on gut inflammation
Cannabis oil has been shown to significantly improve the symptoms of Crohn's disease and the quality of life of sufferers but, contrary to previous medical thinking, has no effect on gut inflammation
Spink Health
(Vienna, October 22, 2018) In the first study of its kind, cannabis oil has been shown to significantly improve the symptoms of Crohn's disease and the quality of life of sufferers but, contrary to previous medical thinking, has no effect on gut inflammation.
In a randomised, placebo-controlled study, researchers from Israel have shown that cannabis can produce clinical remission in up to 65% of individuals after 8 weeks of treatment, but that this improvement does not appear to result from a dampening down of the underlying inflammatory process.
Speaking at UEG Week 2018 in Vienna, lead researcher, Dr Timna Naftali explained, "Cannabis has been used for centuries to treat a wide range of medical conditions, and studies have shown that many people with Crohn's disease use cannabis regularly to relieve their symptoms. It has always been thought that this improvement was related to a reduction in inflammation in the gut and the aim of this study was to investigate this."
The Israeli team recruited 46 people with moderately severe Crohn's disease, and randomized them to receive 8 weeks of treatment with either cannabis oil containing 15% cannabidiol and 4% tetrahydrocannabinol or placebo. Symptom severity and quality of life were measured before, during, and after treatment using validated research instruments. Inflammation in the gut was assessed endoscopically and by measuring inflammatory markers in blood and stool samples.
After 8 weeks of treatment, the group receiving the cannabis oil had a significant reduction in their Crohn's disease symptoms compared with the placebo group, and 65%met strict criteria for clinical remission (versus 35% of the placebo recipients). The cannabis group also had significant improvements in their quality of life compared with the placebo group.
"We have previously demonstrated that cannabis can produce measurable improvements in Crohn's disease symptoms but, to our surprise, we saw no statistically significant improvements in endoscopic scores or in the inflammatory markers we measured in the cannabis oil group compared with the placebo group," said Dr Naftali. "We know that cannabinoids can have profound anti-inflammatory effects but this study indicates that the improvement in symptoms may not be related to these anti-inflammatory properties."
Looking ahead, the research group plans to explore further the potential anti-inflammatory properties of cannabis in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. "There are very good grounds to believe that the endocannabinoid system is a potential therapeutic target in Crohn's disease and other gastrointestinal diseases," said Dr Naftali. "For now, however, we can only consider medicinal cannabis as an alternative or additional intervention that provides temporary symptom relief for some people with Crohn's disease.'
For further information, or to arrange an interview with Dr Tinma Naftali, please contact Luke Paskins on +44 (0)1444 811099 or media@ueg.eu
About Dr Timna Naftali
Dr Timna Naftali is an MD Specialist in Gastroenterology at Meir Hospital and Kupat Holim Clinic, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
About UEG Week
UEG Week is the largest and most prestigious gastroenterology meeting in Europe and has developed into a global congress. It attracts over 14,000 participants each year, from more than 120 countries, and numbers are steadily rising. UEG Week provides a forum for basic and clinical scientists from across the globe to present their latest research in digestive and liver diseases, and also features a two-day postgraduate course that brings together top lecturers in their fields for a weekend of interactive learning.
About UEG
UEG, or United European Gastroenterology, is a professional non-profit organisation combining all the leading European medical specialist and national societies focusing on digestive health. Together, its member societies represent over 30,000 specialists, working across medicine, surgery, paediatrics, gastrointestinal oncology and endoscopy. This makes UEG the most comprehensive organisation of its kind in the world, and a unique platform for collaboration and the exchange of knowledge. To advance the standards of gastroenterological care and knowledge across the world and to reduce the burden of digestive diseases, UEG offers numerous activities and initiatives, including:
UEG Education, the universal source of knowledge in gastroenterology, providing online and classroom courses, a huge online library and delivering the latest GI news, fostering debate and discussion
Activity Grants, promoting and funding educational projects in the field of digestive health to advance and harmonise the training and continuing education of professionals
UEG Journal, covering translational and clinical studies from all areas of gastroenterology
Public Affairs, promoting research, prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of digestive diseases, and helping develop an effective health policy for Europe
Quality of Care, European-based and English clinical practice guidelines, clinical standards, consensus, position papers and standard protocols in the field of digestive health, are available in the repository
Find out more about UEG's work by visiting http://www.ueg.eu or contact: Luke Paskins on +44 (0)1444 811099 or media@ueg.eu
1. Naftali T, Bar-Lev Schlieder L, Konikoff F, et al. Cannabis induces clinical response but no endoscopic response in Crohn's disease patients. Presented at UEG Week Vienna 2018, October 22, 2018.
2. Lal S, Prasad N, Ryan M, et al. Cannabis use amongst patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2011;23(10):891-6.
3. Weiss A, Friedenberg F. Patterns of cannabis use in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A population based analysis. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015;156:84-89.
4. Naftali T, Bar-Lev Schleider L, Dotan I, et al. Cannabis induces a clinical response in patients with Crohn's disease: a prospective placebo-controlled study. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013;11(10):1276-1280.e1.
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Seymour B. Everett III
Location: Orange County, California
E-mail: severett@everettdorey.com
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Seymour “Sy” Everett, III is a founding partner of Everett Dorey, LLP. Mr. Everett is a leading litigator in California and is routinely retained as trial counsel in complex and challenging cases throughout the state. He represents corporations, non-profits, cities, public agencies, special districts, school districts, police officers and individuals in all aspects of litigation. Cases include catastrophic injuries, asbestos, toxic tort, habitability, mold, general liability, wildland fires, business interference, libel, slander, environmental and administrative compliance. Mr. Everett is an elected member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (“ABOTA”), a highly respected national advocacy group dedicated to the preservation of the right to trial by jury. He serves as National Counsel for a major product manufacturer and supplier. Mr. Everett also holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriting (CPCU) designation and is a regular speaker at legal seminars for fortune 500 Companies, Public Entities and Insurance Carriers and is a former adjunct professor at USC School of Law. He is admitted to practice in all courts in California, including United States Federal District Courts. Mr. Everett has argued before numerous Appellate Courts in the State of California and has multiple published decisions.
Recent jury trials include: Chen v. The Irvine Company, et al., Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, April 2018); Mobley v. The Irvine Company, et al., Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, December 2017); Demolay v. Millard Group, et al., Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, August 2017); Reynolds v. Ventura County Fairgrounds et al., Ventura County Superior Court (Plaintiff Verdict, July 2017); Ducoing v. Winston & Associates Insurance Brokers et al., Orange County Superior Court (Hung Jury, July 2016); Lorenzana v. City of Buena Park et al. Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, June 2016); Reumont v. Gordon, Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, March 2015); Institute of Medical Education, Inc. v. Western Association of Schools and Colleges (Defense Verdict, May 2015); and Wilson v. Grieder, Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, July 2015).
California State Courts
U.S. District Court - Central District of CA
U.S. District Court - Southern District of CA
U.S. District Court - Northern District of CA
U.S. Bankruptcy Court - Central District of CA
Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
Elected Official, Director, “EOCWD” - East Orange County Water District (2014 - 2018)
Camp Fire USA Orange County, Member – Board of Directors
Orangewood Children’s Foundation Volunteer
Seton Hall University School of Law
Combined Claims Conference – Presenter, “Big Brother is Watching – Surveillance Cameras and Video Footage to Manage Risk, Protect Property and Defend Litigation”, March 2019.
CASBO – Speaker/Presenter, “Safe Schools: Identifying & Eliminating Exposure to Hazardous and Toxic Substances on School Campuses.”, January 2019.
Perrin Conferences - Speaker/Presenter, “Asbestos Talc Mock Trial and Jury Deliberation”, October 2018.
CLM Continuing Education Conference for Catholic Mutual Group, “Advanced Strategies for Success in Mediation”, August 2018
All Industry Day, CPCU Society, Orange Empire, "Talc, Fibromyalgia, PTSD & Other, Emerging Risks and Litigation Trends, Impacting the Insurance Industry", October 2017.
League of Cities, New Laws & Elections Annual Seminar, “Subpoenas – We’ve Been Served! Now What?” December 2016
Public Entities and the Claim Presentation Statute – Accept, Reject, Provide Notice or Do Nothing? Orange County Lawyer, July 2016
Government Claims Act, Alliance of Schools for Cooperative Insurance Programs, May 11, 2016, Carl Warren and Co., April 19, 2016.
Insurance Professionals of Los Angeles, Region VIII Conference, Keynote Speaker – “Drones: The Impact on Insurance and What You Need to Know to Navigate the Insurance Market Place”, March 5, 2016
Southern California City Clerk Association, Annual Meeting, Keynote Speaker – “Claims, Lawsuits, Subpoenas and Summons”, January 21, 2016
Spying in the Skies—Drones, the New Frontier: Impact on international and Domestic Insurance and Liability, October 5, 2015
Trivial Defect doctrine and other Defenses Available to Public Entities, Public Agency Risk Management Association, February 10, 2015
Don’t Let Them Bite! – Cutting Edge Risk, Management and Litigation Strategies for Responding to Bed Bug Infestation Claims, CLM Retail, Restaurant & Hospitality Conference, February 5, 2015
International Directors and Officers Professional Liability Coverage, CPCU Society Annual Meeting, September 21, 2014
Broker Risk Management: Navigating and Dealing with the Pitfalls of Potential Litigation, Insurance Professionals of Los Angeles, August 20, 2014
A Complex Web of Loyalties: The Tri-Partite Relationship and Cumis Counsel, Orange County Lawyer February 2012
California Asbestos Litigation 2010 Review; The Nuts and Bolts of Litigation: What You or Your Customer Should Expect if Involved in a Lawsuit. National CPCU Society, February 2009
Introduction to Specialty and Complex Claims: Toxic Mold, Construction Defect, Environmental, Chemical Exposure and Asbestos. Insurance Educational Association, September 2008
Evaluating and Attacking Benzene Workplace Exposure Claims, April 2006 & 2007
Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California Law School, ADR Topics: Negotiation & Mediation Course
Attacking Occupational Exposure Claims, November 2006
Course Instructor, Insurance Education Association, CPCU 530, The Legal Environment of Insurance
National counsel for a manufacturer and wholesale product distributor. Handles the trials and strategic management of their asbestos litigation in numerous states. He represents numerous product defendants and premises defendants. Product defendants include manufacturers, retailers and suppliers of asbestos containing products.
Defense of clients in hazardous waste, groundwater and soil contamination litigation and governmental administrative actions.
Benzene/Mold/Carbon Monoxide/Chemical Exposure/Toxic Tort
Defense of clients in actions involving interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, acute myelogenous leukemia and related injuries from alleged chronic and acute chemical exposures, including, but not limited to, benzene. Clients include manufacturers, suppliers and premises owners.
Extensive experience defending premises owners and contractors in personal injury litigation resulting from alleged mold exposure. Clients include property managers, developers, commercial and residential building owners and remediation companies.
Extensive experience in the defense of claims alleging bodily injuries as a result of exposure to carbon monoxide, lead, silica and fiberglass.
Public Entity/Government Liability
Represent Cities, Public Agencies, School Districts, Police Officers, Public Works and Governmental Agencies in all aspects of litigation. Cases include libel, slander, personal injury and wrongful death actions and administrative compliance. Work closely with Superintendents and Schools Boards on resolving and defending student and third party personal injury claims. Defense of Wildland Fire Claims involving public utilities related to catastrophic property damage, wrongful death, personal injury, environmental, wetlands mitigation and subrogation matters.
Defense of insurance agents and brokers, real estate agents and brokers and other professionals. An emphasis on standard of care, reporting issues and fiduciary obligations. Clients include independent and direct agents and brokers. Insurance clients include large and small agencies and brokerage firms involved in all lines of property and casualty insurance, including but not limited to, commercial general liability, inland marine, commercial and residential property, farm and crime coverage.
Education/Accreditation
Significant experience representing K-12 school districts, community colleges and universities in all aspects of pre-litigation and litigation, including, personal injury, property damage and construction claims. Work closely with schools in crisis management and escalated response programs. Routinely retained as advisor or consultant in drafting and reviewing proposed contractual language and MOUs, as well as representing districts in fact finding investigations, mediations and settlement conferences. Extensive “Accreditation” experience as litigation counsel and general counsel, including, but not limited to, reviewing, updating and drafting by-laws, conducting investigations, assist with accreditation and compliance investigations, preparation of show cause letters and responding to appeals. Evaluation and investigation of foreign education programs seeking accreditation.
Righeimer v. Costa Mesa Police Association, G050188 (Cal.App 4 Dist)
Ryan v. Lustre-Cal; 2014 WL 7384613 (Cal.App. 2 Dist.)
Farzan v. Wescom Credit Union et al., in Cal.Rptr 2 District, B247479
Ducoing Enterprises, Inc. v. Winston & Associates Insurance Brokers, Inc., in Cal.Rptr.3d, 2013 WL 4782809, Cal.App. 4 Dist.
Galicinao v. McMaster-Carr Supply Co., in Cal.Rptr.3d, 2011 WL 5079530, (Cal.App. 2 Dist)
Munoz v. MacMillan 2011 WL 1817842 (Cal.App. 4 Dist.)
Pacific Coast Warehouse v. Leslie’s Poolmart, Inc., San Bernardino County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, May 2019)
Chen v. The Irvine Company, et al., Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, April 2018)
Mobley v. The Irvine Company, et al., Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, December 2017)
Demolay v. Millard Group, et al., Orange County Superior Court, Catastrophic Injury (Defense Verdict, August 2017)
Reynolds v. Ventura County Fairgrounds, et al., Ventura County Superior Court, Public Entity, Catastrophic Injury (Plaintiff Verdict/Cross-Complaint Indemnity Settlement, July 2017)
Lorenzana v. City of Buena Park, Orange County Superior Court, Public Entity/Trip and Fall (Defense Verdict, June 2016)
Reumont v. Gordon, Orange County Superior Court, Free Speech/Personal Injury (Defense Verdict, March 2015)
IME v. Western Association of Schools & Colleges ACS, Santa Clara County Superior Court, Professional Liability (Defense Verdict, May 2015)
Wilson v. Grieder, Orange County Superior Court, Construction/Business Litigation (Defense Verdict, July 2015)
Samantha E. Dorey
Location: Orange County, California; Northern California
E-mail: sdorey@everettdorey.com
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Samantha E. Dorey is a founding partner of Everett Dorey LLP. She specializes in complex civil litigation with an emphasis in catastrophic injury, public entity defense, mass tort, asbestos litigation and environmental law. Ms. Dorey represents property owners, property managers, cities, and corporations in all aspects of litigation. She also regularly advises clients on non-litigated matters, including development of risk management protocols and procedures related to property management and environmental issues. She has authored numerous published articles, including “A Complex Web of Loyalties: The Tri-Partite Relationship and Cumis Counsel” (Orange County Lawyer, February 2012) and “Public Entities and the Claim Presentation Statute—Accept, Reject, Provide Notice or Do Nothing?” (Orange County Lawyer, July 2016).
Ms. Dorey is an Adjunct Professor at Chapman University School of Law where she teaches a course on litigation strategy and civil procedure in California and federal courts. During law school, Samantha externed for the Honorable Kathleen O'Leary at the California Court of Appeal.
Ms. Dorey serves as co-chair of the Public Law Center Advocates, which provides advocacy, fundraising, volunteerism, and marketing for the Public Law Center’s pro bono legal services.
Recent jury trials include: Chen v The Irvine Company, et al., Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, April 2018); Mobley v. The Irvine Company, et al., Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, December 2017); Demolay v. Millard Group, et al., Orange County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, August 2017).
U.S. District Court of California, Central District
Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Dean’s Advisory Board
J Serra Catholic High School, Mock Trial Coach
Public Law Center Advocates, Co-Chair
OC Lavender Bar Association, Board Member
Commercial Real Estate Women, Orange County Chapter
National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Member
WTS International, Member
Chapman University School of Law
Juris Doctor, cum laude
Emphasis in Advocacy & Dispute Resolution
University of California at Santa Barbara
Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude
UCI School of Law & Chapman University School of Law Diversity Week, Moderator: “The Lavender Bar Panel: LGBTQIA+ & Lawyering”, February 2019
All Industry Day, CPCU Society, Orange Empire, "Talc, Fibromyalgia, PTSD & Other, Emerging Risks and Litigation Trends, Impacting the Insurance Industry", October 2017
Ashley Anderson
E-mail: aanderson@everettdorey.com
aanderson@everettdorey.com
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Ashley C. Anderson is an associate in the Orange County office of Everett Dorey LLP. Ms. Anderson graduated magna cum laude from Chapman University Fowler School of Law, where she served as an articles editor of the Chapman Law Review. During law school, Ms. Anderson was an extern to the Honorable Richard D. Fybel, Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal. She also participated in the Constitutional Jurisprudence Clinic, drafting amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, for which she received the Clinical Legal Education Association’s Outstanding Student Award. Ms. Anderson received numerous other honors while in law school, including attaining the highest grade in Legal Research and Writing II and Constitutional Law and the Golden Gavel Award for Oral Advocacy. She was also an active member of the law school community and served as president of the St. Thomas More Society.
Before law school, Ms. Anderson graduated cum laude from Gonzaga University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Latin American Studies and Spanish.
Chapman Law Alumni Association
Chapman University Fowler School of Law
Juris Doctor, magna cum laude
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude
Jonathan W. Cayton
E-mail: jcayton@everettdorey.com
jcayton@everettdorey.com
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Jonathan Cayton is an associate in the Orange County office of Everett Dorey. Jonathan previously worked as a City Attorney in the litigation department for one of the largest municipalities in California. He has significant experience as a trial attorney prosecuting cases on behalf of public entities. In addition, Jonathan has extensive experience representing private entities in litigated and pre-litigation matters. Jonathan specializes in public entity, general liability, asbestos, chemical exposure and mass tort litigation.
Jonathan is an Adjunct Professor at Chapman University School of Law where he instructs Mock Trial, Moot Court, and Alternative Dispute Resolution teams. During law school, he clerked with the Orange County District Attorney. Prior to law school he served in the United States Marine Corps.
Central District of California
Orange County Bar Association - Veterans Committee Member
Johnny B. Delashaw
E-mail: jdelashaw@everettdorey.com
jdelashaw@everettdorey.com
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Johnny B. Delashaw is an attorney at Everett Dorey LLP’s Orange County office, where he specializes in defending clients in complex legal matters, including personal injury claims, construction, mass tort, product liability, toxic tort and business litigation. Mr. Delashaw has represented corporations, non-profits, property owners, public entities, municipalities, and individuals in all aspects of litigation.
Mr. Delashaw graduatedfrom the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. During law school, he was an extern to the Honorable Judge Debre K. Weintraub at the Los Angeles Superior Court. Mr. Delashaw completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oregon, where he served as the Student Body Vice-President and received the Dean’s Award for Service in recognition of distinguished service to the university and to the community.
California State Court
Alaska State Courts
Association of Southern California Defense Counsel
Jeffrey J. Gillard
E-mail: jgillard@everettdorey.com
jgillard@everettdorey.com
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Jeffrey Gillard is a seasoned litigator who has extensive civil litigation experience defending private and public entities in the areas of product liability, premises liability, commercial litigation, catastrophic injury, toxic torts, and general liability matters in state and federal courts. His clients have included corporations, public agencies, school districts, cities as well as property owners, property managers, and manufacturers, suppliers and retailers of various products including sporting goods, construction equipment, bicycles, automobiles, tires, medical devices, industrial machinery, recreational vehicles, firearms, fitness facilities and fitness equipment. Mr. Gillard's practice experience has included service as in-house counsel, which has given him the unique ability to see things from his clients' perspectives. He is recognized for his ability to genuinely and effectively communicate with witnesses, parties, and counsel to resolve cases expeditiously or streamline them for trial when settlement is not an option.
Orange County Bar Association
Kevin J. Hernandez
E-mail: khernandez@everettdorey.com
Kevin Hernandez
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Kevin Hernandez is an associate in the Orange County office of Everett Dorey and a member of the General Liability Practice. He specializes in defending corporate clients in general liability matters, including personal injury claims and landlord-tenant disputes. He also handles and provides advice and counsel on school-accreditation matters. Kevin also has experience representing clients in special education matters. Kevin attended UCLA School of Law as a recipient of the Simon Endowment Fund Scholarship. During law school, he clerked with Orange County Counsel and the Los Angeles Community College District and gained experience with juvenile dependency and education law.
Prior to attending law school, Kevin was a general and special education teacher. He has taught in underserved public charter schools in New York City with Teach For America and a private school in Orange County. Kevin earned his Masters of Science in General and Special Education at Bank Street College of Education in New York City while teaching full time.
Kevin enjoys spending his free time with his family. He also volunteers as a board member of TEACH Public Schools in Los Angeles, California.
Bank Street College of Education
Bachelors of Arts
Te'Aira Law
E-mail: tlaw@everettdorey.com
tlaw@everettdorey.com
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Te’Aira Law is a senior associate in Everett Dorey’s Orange County office, where her practice is focused on general liability, toxic tort, asbestos, environmental and product liability matters, with a specialty in complex tort litigation. She is skilled in all aspects of litigation, including law and motion practice, mediation, arbitration, and trial practice. Te’Aira is a skilled litigator having completed the rigorous LACBA Trial Advocacy Project and the CAALA Trial Lawyer Skills Seminar. Prior to joining the firm, Te’Aira’s practice focused on general civil litigation and catastrophic injuries.
Te’Aira received her law degree from the University of Southern California, where she received numerous honors including the prestigious Hale Moot Court Brief. In law school, she was involved in a variety of student organizations and community outreach, including the Black Law Students Association and served as the 3L Advisor and Community Outreach Coordinator. She graduated from Pepperdine University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies and Spanish.
Los Angeles County Bar Association
University Southern California
Christopher D. Lee
E-mail: clee@everettdorey.com
clee@everettdorey.com
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Christopher Lee has extensive litigation success in state and federal courts, mediations and arbitrations throughout California representing property owners, developers, businesses, insurance carriers and public entities. He has extensive experience in several complex areas of law, including professional liability, property management, product liability, personal injury and business litigation. Prior to joining Everett Dorey LLP, Chris represented some of the nation’s largest corporations in complex litigation at an Am Law 200 law firm. He received a merit scholarship and obtained his law degree from USC. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree and graduated with honors, magna cum laude, from UCLA. During law school, Chris served as a judicial extern in the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Central District of California and was a Senior Content Editor of the USC’s Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. Prior to beginning his career in the law, Chris worked as a project manager for a neuro-anatomy laboratory at UCLA and is an author on a scientific journal article published on his work. Chris believes that every client’s situation is unique and requires a dedicated and thoughtful advocate to achieve the most beneficial and cost-effective solution. He also believes that the legal industry is first and foremost a client-service industry and he continually strives to be attentive and responsive to each client’s specific needs.
California Federal Courts
California Young Lawyers Association
USC Law Alumni Association
Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude
Jesse Maxwell
E-mail: jmaxwell@everettdorey.com
jmaxwell@everettdorey.com
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Jesse Maxwell is an associate in Everett Dorey’s Orange County office. His practice focuses on the defense of business owners corporations in complex civil litigation with an emphasis on general liability, public entity, mass tort, and catastrophic injury. Mr. Maxwell received his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, with a concentration in corporate law. While at Loyola, he was a member of the Transactional Negotiation Team and finished as a semi-finalist in Loyola’s Negotiations Tournament. Mr. Maxwell attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Maxwell’s practice focused on complex commercial litigation. He also has experience in representing creditors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
U.S. District Court – Central District of CA
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U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of CA
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Eastern District of CA
Orange County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Bree A. Oswald
E-mail: boswald@everettdorey.com
boswald@everettdorey.com
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Bree is an associate in Everett Dorey’s Orange County office, where she focuses on complex civil litigation, including catastrophic injury, products liability, toxic torts, environmental law, mass torts, and public entity work. She also advises public and private entities on risk management and environmental regulatory issues.
Bree is a graduate from the University of California, Irvine School of Law. While in law school, Bree co-founded both the Veterans Advocacy Society and the Veterans Clinic. Bree also served as a staff editor of the UC Irvine Law Review and participated in the Environmental Law Clinic. She has completed over two hundred hours of pro bono legal service volunteering at numerous organizations, including at the U.S. Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton and through the VA Appeals Pro Bono Project at UCI Law. In her first year of law school, Bree was a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Arthur Alarcón of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Prior to law school, Bree graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Irvine, earning a bachelor's degree in Criminology, Law, and Society.
Recent jury trials include: Pacific Coast Warehouse v. Leslie’s Poolmart, Inc., San Bernardino County Superior Court (Defense Verdict, May 2019)
Lavender Bar Association
Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) Bar Association
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude
James C. Truxaw
E-mail: jtruxaw@everettdorey.com
jtruxaw@everettdorey.com
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James is an attorney at Everett Dorey’s Orange County office where his practice is focused on general liability and toxic tort matters. He specializes in the defense of developers, property owners and corporations in complex civil litigation. James graduated from University California Davis School of Law. During law school, James excelled in the classroom, receiving numerous awards, including the CEB Award, ranking number 1 for appellate brief writing and the prestigious Witkin Award for outstanding legal research and writing. While in law school, James was also an Executive Editor for the UC Davis Law Review.
James also gained valuable practical experience by participating in externships with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District and serving as a Law Clerk for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, Special Prosecutions Unit. Prior to law school, James graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy.
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University of California, Davis, Martin Luther King Jr. School of Law
Bachelor of Arts Philosophy
E-mail: lwilliams@everettdorey.com
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Laura Williams practices in a wide variety of complex civil litigation matters, including general liability, toxic torts, asbestos, mold, product liability, personal injury, habitability and catastrophic injury. Ms. Williams takes pride in fiercely representing her clients both in and out of court, and has experience in all aspects of litigation in state and federal courts.
During law school, Ms. Williams represented Pepperdine University at the 7th Annual International Chamber of Commerce International Commercial Mediation Competition in Paris, France, where her team placed in the top sixteen. While completing her undergraduate studies at UPENN she was the Captain of the Varsity Volleyball team and became the fourth player in program history to record over 1,000 career kills.
U.S. District Court of California, Central and Eastern Districts
Palmer Center Certificate in Law and Entrepreneurship
Speaker at ALFA’s 2016 Product Liability & Complex Torts Practice Group Seminar in Amelia Island, FL
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HomesportJordi Alba: I never had any problem with Luis Enrique
Jordi Alba: I never had any problem with Luis Enrique
james henry November 14, 2018
Barcelona defender Jordi Alba has spoken out on his issues with Spain coach Luis Enrique.
The defender who has been left out for most of the Spain match since the new coach arrival has reckons he’s never had a problem with Luis Enrique despite being left out of the Spain coach’s last two squads.
The Barcelona full-back has been deservedly recalled for this month’s games against Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and praised Lucho ahead of the matches.
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“I’ve never had a problem with Luis Enrique and his staff, he said.
“On the contrary, he helped me a lot at Barca. I never said a bad word about Luis Enrique. I don’t regret anything. I’ve always expressed my will to play but I don’t have to apologise to anyone and neither does the coach.
“He is a great coach. He is a modern coach, who is having a great career so far and he has won many titles. I think he is going to bring a lot of joy to the national team.”
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By John Legg Sep 20, 2018
Rehau supporting Scope
Home / News / Articles / 2018 / September
Rehau has pledged to raise thousands for its new chosen charity Scope, providing vital funds to support disabled people and their families.
The team at Rehau will be raising money for Scope until the end of 2019. The business chose to donate to this particular cause in late 2017, when the whole company was asked to nominate a charity. Scope was selected from four charities placed into a business-wide vote as the Rehau staff saw very clear connections between the values and principles of the two brands.
Scope aims to make this country a place where disabled people have the same opportunities as everyone else.
By 2022, Scope aims to directly reach more than two million disabled people and their families each year with information, advice and support, as well as campaigning for equality and fairness.
Now everyone at Rehau is getting behind the fundraising efforts, with national and local activities planned across the country to help meet its ambitious target of £12,000.
The variety of fundraisers will culminate later this year when more than 30 staff from across the UK complete the Three Peaks Challenge in September.
So far a number of events have already taken place including – in July – at Rehau’s office in Slough when it hosted a stand at the Langley Carnival with a penalty shoot-out competition to raise money, alongside a cake sale and face painting, raising £156. And on July 21st Rehau’s two production facilities in Blaenau and Amlwch held a charity football match in Bangor.
As well as the football, there was also a bouncy castle and face painter for children, stalls and refreshments, plus an auction to name the trophy. In the end it was named The Anthony McNally Trophy in memory of the former shift manager. All in all the event raised over £850.
The year’s big fundraiser was the Three Peaks Challenge, a gruelling challenge which involves climbing the three highest peaks of Scotland (Ben Nevis), England (Scafell Pike) and Wales (Snowdon) over a two-day period. Challengers will walk 23 miles across the three peaks with a total ascent of more than 3000m, so training and preparation in the months leading up to the event is essential.
Over 30 Rehau staff also took part in the Challenge from 7-9th September. They all come from different departments and locations from across the UK, Ireland and Italy, reflecting the company-wide commitment to raising money for Scope.
Other fundraising activities completed to date include dressing up for the royal wedding, a quiz, a Grand National sweepstake and a World Cup day in Slough.
Sergio Fonseca, HR director at Rehau, says: “Each year we support a charity as part of our CSR programme of activities, and this year our employees are going above and beyond with their fundraising efforts for Scope. Whether it’s taking on a huge personal challenge like the Three Peaks Challenge or making cakes for a bake sale, everyone is pulling together to achieve a common goal and there is a fantastic team spirit around the fundraising activities that is really special to be part of.
“We set ourselves a big target for Scope, and with the drive and enthusiasm of our employees from around the country, we should meet it by the end of the year which will be of huge benefit to the charity and its work.”
Katy Miller, partnerships director at disability charity Scope, said: “We’re thrilled that Rehau has chosen to raise money for Scope, and wish the teams the best of luck in their challenge. Scope can only do the amazing work that it does thanks to the generous support we get from our partners and donors. We’re working to drive change in society so that disabled people have equality and fairness, but to achieve that, we all need to work together.”
For more information visit www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Rehau-three-peaks
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We Play "Real Or Fake Spider-Man" With The Cast Of Into The Spider-Verse
We quizzed the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse cast and producers to see if they knew the difference between real Spider-Man variants from Marvel Comics and ones we made up! Test your knowledge as you watch the video.
By Dave Klein on December 12, 2018 at 3:13PM PST
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's release date on Friday, December 14 is almost here.
One of the first images on the screen at the start of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is an "Approved By The Comics Code Authority" stamp, trailing right behind a glitched out slideshow of different studio logos. It's a nod that comics history buffs will no doubt appreciate, both as a fun Easter egg, and as a perfect tone setting introduction. This is a comic book movie--not a movie based on characters from comic books. It is literally a comic book turned into a movie, and every single piece, from the character designs to the animation itself, has been designed from the ground up to make that possible. The result is visually stunning and completely unique.
Read our full Into the Spider-Verse review to find out exactly what we think of the movie--although you can probably already guess we think it's a winner. So we jumped at the chance to play a fun game with the movie's cast and creators. That's how we wound up inventing a bunch of fake multiverse Spider-Mans and testing actors Jake Johnson, Shameik Moore, Brian Tyree Henry, and Luna Lauren Velez, as well as producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, on whether they thought they were real or fake.
Watch the results above. Who do you think did the best? Let us know in the comments. Then check out some of our other Spider-Verse coverage, including our explanations of the various Spider-People (the real ones, in this case), our profile on one of the movie's villains, Prowler, and the Spider-Man PS4 Easter egg in Spider-Verse.
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Deadpool 2 will be "distilling the good stuff" from Cable's long and complex backstory
By Leon Hurley 2017-08-10T13:17:32.221Z News
The Deadpool 2 movie has finally revealed Josh Brolin as Cable and he looks amazing. But… that character is a mess when it comes to his backstory, so how is director David Leitch going to handle it?
"The character of Cable is complex," Leitch told me when we sat down to talk about his new action movie Atomic Blonde. That's a slight understatement - he's actually the future son of Cyclops and a clone of Jean Grey sent back to the present day, and that's the easy bit. "I think in the Deadpool franchise, the writers are really good at distilling the good stuff and applying that to the material in this universe," he says cryptically, adding, "we're doing the same stuff to Cable. His back story is complicated but we're finding one that's reverent and special also for our film. So I think it's going to be great."
As for the rest of the movie, Leitch explains: "Once again I'm approaching this as I would approach any other movie as a choreographer - the action has to define the character, and that character is really well established in the first one." Let's not forget either that 'that character' is played by Ryan Reynolds, who's almost borderline obsessed with Deadpool. "Ryan lives and breathes that character," says Leitch, "He's an incredible collaborator and I'm having a blast. He does know it inside and out."
Most importantly, though, he says he and Reynolds have a "really good rapport with what we want to do with the action to maintain the DNA of the original, but also maybe elevate it a little bit for this new chapter." Plus, he thinks, we might "learn a little bit more about Deadpool" along the way. Interesting...
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Lauren Shuler Donner keen on X-Men appearance in Avengers 2
And could Ms. Marvel be making an appearance?
The rumours surrounding Marvel’s Phase Two centrepiece, The Avengers 2 , continue to come thick and fast, with X-Men producer Lauren Shuler-Donner revealing she’d love to see the mutants line up alongside Cap, Hulk and co.
The X-Men are currently owned by Fox, but Shuler-Donner has acknowledged the success of Marvel’s first Avengers movie, hinting that a future tie-up might be possible.
"I would love it," she revealed. "I personally have close ties to Marvel because of Kevin Feige. Kevin worked for me. But to take our characters and mingle them in the way that they were written... yeah, absolutely."
Meanwhile, a story in The Daily Mail has suggested that Ms. Marvel may be introduced in Avengers 2 , with Emily Blunt and Ruth Wilson supposedly vying for the role. Marvel has made no comment on the story, which appears to have come from out of nowhere, although that’s not to say it won’t happen.
Set to be written and directed once more by Joss Whedon, The Avengers 2 opens in the UK on 1 May 2015. Possibly with the X-Men. Possibly with Ms. Marvel. Possibly with neither. Let the rumour-mongering commence!
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UFC | February 5, 2016
White can’t see McGregor beating Dos Anjos
UFC president Dana White believes that Conor McGregor will not be able to beat lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos at UFC 196 on March 5.
McGregor, the reigning UFC featherweight champion, will make history if he defeats Dos Anjos as he will become the first UFC fighter to hold two different belts at the same time.
However, White does not see that happening, especially as this will be McGregor’s first fight in the lightweight division. Furthermore, Dos Anjos has been in impressive form and is on five-fight winning streak, which includes victories over Anthony Pettis, who he beat to win the lightweight title, and Donald Cerrone, who he knocked out in just 66 seconds.
“I don’t see how he wins this fight,” White told At The Buzzer. “He’s the 145-pound champion. He can stay in his own lane.
“This guy is moving up to 155 to take on an animal, who destroyed Cowboy Cerrone, destroyed Anthony Pettis. And this isn’t boxing, where you move up two or three pounds. You move up 15 pounds!”
However, beating McGregor will be no easy feat for Dos Anjos as the Irishman is currently undefeated in the UFC and ended Jose Aldo’s five-year reign as featherweight champion in just 13 seconds in his most recent fight at UFC 194 on December 12.
Home Combat Sports UFC White can’t see McGregor beating Dos Anjos
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Leah C. Janus
Email: ljanus@fredlaw.com
Assistant: Catherine Haugen, 612.492.7825
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PRIMARY SERVICES
Banking & Financial Services Litigation
Shareholder & Partnership Disputes
Leah’s practice includes all areas of complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country.
Leah represents clients in complex commercial disputes including class action defense, shareholder disputes, banking and financial services litigation, contract disputes, mergers and acquisitions, business torts and malpractice defense.
Leah is the Co-Chair of the Business Litigation Department and serves on the firm’s Attorney Development Committee. She has been recognized as a Rising Star by Minnesota Super Lawyers. Prior to joining Fredrikson & Byron, Leah served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Richard H. Kyle of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Defended bank against fraud and breach of contract claims brought by former account holders, obtaining a favorable resolution for the bank after discovery and motion practice.
Defended public company in a putative class action alleging that a tender offer undervalued the company’s stock. After the Court denied the plaintiff’s motion for expedited discovery, the plaintiff’s claims were dismissed with prejudice.
Defended accounting firm against professional malpractice claims, obtaining dismissal of all claims on summary judgment.
Defended a Bank against breach of contract and fiduciary duty claims by a former customer associated with a participation agreement and complex loan transaction. The case was dismissed on summary judgment and the decision upheld at the court of appeals.
Represented the general partner of a limited partnership in a putative class action by the limited partners. The plaintiffs’ motion for class certification was denied, and the case was resolved on favorable terms.
Represented a mail/rebate-processing company against its former customer in a breach of contract action. Obtained a favorable award of damages after an arbitration of the matter.
Defended several public company clients in shareholder class actions lawsuits, including expedited pre-closing/merger proceedings.
Honors & Education
University of Minnesota, J.D., 2004, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
Carleton College, B.A., 1999, magna cum laude
United States District Court, District of Minnesota, 2005
Minnesota State Bar Association, North Star Lawyer, 2017
Minnesota Super Lawyers, Rising Star
Federal Bar Association – Minnesota Chapter
Minnesota State Bar Association
Judicial Clerkship, The Honorable Richard H. Kyle, United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2004-2006
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Marie Tharp and Mapping the Ocean Floor
October 17, 2013 By Rebecca MaxwellMaps and Cartography
More than seventy percent of the Earth is made up of oceans, yet these underwater places are the least known areas of the planet. Even now, the oceans are still largely unmapped. Scientists have estimated that only ten to fifteen percent of the ocean has actually been mapped in detail. One woman, however, made major strides in discovering more about the world’s oceans and mapping the entire ocean floor. Despite the barriers of being a woman in the scientific community of the twentieth century, Marie Tharp’s work led to revolutionary discoveries and her maps of the ocean still affect us today.
Born in Michigan in 1920, Marie Tharp was a geologist and cartographer during her lifetime. In partnership with her colleague Bruce Heezen, Tharp was the first to scientifically map the ocean floor. Tharp began her work in science as a geologist for Stanolind Oil in the 1940s. After completing a degree in mathematics, Tharp began working for the Lamont Geological Laboratory in 1948 at Columbia University in New York, which is now the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. It was there that she met Bruce Heezen, also a geologist, and two began working on a project to locate downed aircraft from World War II using photographic data. However, the majority of Tharp and Heezen’s work was a research project to map the topography of the ocean floor.
Up until that time, the ocean floor had previously been envisioned as a flat plain of mud. Tharp and Heezen wanted to map the ocean floor in order to understand its geology and hypothetically connect it to the continents. In order to this, Tharp and Heezen collaborated for many decades, from the 1950s into the 1970s, gathering information. Bruce Heezen went out on research vessels to sea and collected data. Much of the raw data came from soundings, or sonar measurements, of the ocean depths. The process involved the sending out of sound signals at regular intervals. The echo of those signals would be picked up by a microphone on a ship and then a stylus would make marks on a recording paper. The technological improvements of the time allowed for the continuous readings of sounding numbers.
Marie Tharp with Bruce Heezen.
Women at the time were not allowed to work aboard ocean vessels so Tharp used the data collected by Heezen to systematically map the ocean floor back at home. Working with only pens, ink, and rulers, Tharp took those thousands of sonar readings and literally drew the underwater details of the ocean floor, longitude degree by latitude degree. Tharp used what is known as the physiographic mapping technique, using light and texture for her diagrams instead of color. Tharp also integrated research data from other sources such as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and data from seismographs of underwater earthquakes.
Tharp and Heezen’s work was revolutionary for many reasons. First of all, before their efforts, the ocean floor was essentially empty. Tharp herself commented that she had a blank canvas to work with and that made it exciting. More importantly, Tharp and Heezen discovered that the ocean floor was not flat but covered with various kinds of geological features like canyons, ridges, and mountains, just like on the Earth’s above-ground continents. Oftentimes, these oceanic geological features were much larger and deeper than anything seen on the planet’s surface. Tharp’s maps and Heezen’s data demonstrated that the ocean floor was a vast world more complex than anything anyone had dared to imagine up until then.
Marie Tharp working in the early 1960s on the physiographic diagram of the Indian Ocean in Lamont’s Oceanography Building at Columbia University.
Tharp and Heezen made an even bigger contribution to science and the world when their maps revealed 40,000 miles of an underwater ridge that runs along the globe. In 1953, Tharp made another remarkable discovery in the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a chain of mountainous volcanoes that runs north to south through the ocean. She had observed a depression in the ridge that appeared to be a continuous crack along its length. Those observations led her to emphasize the theory of continental drift, or seafloor spreading, the idea that the continents move by spreading across the ocean bed. Although unpopular at first, the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics was widely accepted into the scientific community over the years that followed.
World Ocean Floor Panorama, 1977. The map was painted by Austrian painter Heinrich Berann.
Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen completed several maps of the ocean floor. Their first completed map of the North Atlantic came out in 1957 followed by maps of the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean in the early 1960s. After Heezen died in 1977, Tharp published a comprehensive map of the entire ocean that same year, called the World Ocean Floor Map. Tharp continued working for Columbia University until she passed away in August of 2006.
The impact of Marie Tharp and her mapping of the ocean floor is still with us today. Tharp and Heezen’s work has led to the widespread acceptance of the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics. Their work also led to the discovery of the oceanic ridges and the mapping of a previously unknown world. In any case, Marie Tharp has been popularly recognized for succeeding as woman in a field long dominated by men and as a pioneer in her science of oceanography.
Maria Tharp in 2001 with a globe of the ocean floor. Photo by Bruce Gilbert.
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“Marie Tharp: The Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hali-felt/marie-tharp-map-ocean_b_1826410.html
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Home > World Regions > Europe News > UK Home Office perm sec chosen as top security adviser to Theresa May
UK Home Office perm sec chosen as top security adviser to Theresa May
By Ben Willis on 01/03/2017
Mark Sedwill, recently appointed national security advisor to Theresa May
The permanent secretary of UK prime minister Theresa May’s previous department, the Home Office, has been appointed to the role of National Security Advisor.
Mark Sedwill becomes the latest official to move from the Home Office to enter May’s inner circle of advisers, joining a clutch of special advisers and officials who’ve already gone over to Number 10 and the Cabinet Office.
He replaces Sir Mark Lyall Grant, who is retiring on 13 April. Sedwill will himself be replaced at the Home Office by Philip Rutnam, currently the permanent secretary at the Department for Transport (DfT).
In his new position, Sedwill will chair the National Security Council and offer advice to the prime minister on national security issues.
Sedwill has been the permanent secretary at the Home Office since 2013, before which he held a number of senior jobs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. These included British ambassador to Afghanistan, deputy high commissioner to Pakistan, and private secretary to former British foreign secretaries Robin Cook and Jack Straw. He was also a UN weapons inspector in the 1990s.
In a statement on the appointment, May said: “Mark Sedwill’s experience means that he is ideally qualified to take up the critically important role of National Security Adviser. As well as his recent time in the Home Office, he has served in both Afghanistan and Pakistan and has wide-ranging experience of foreign and security policy issues.”
Sedwill joins a coterie of loyal advisers who have joined May following her transition from home secretary to prime minister. These include May’s two joint chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, who were her two main special advisers at the Home Office; and Peter Storr, Will Tanner and John Godfrey – all former Home Office policy or advisory staff and now in senior positions in Downing Street.
A Civil Service Commission-led competition has been launched to find a successor to Rutnam. Meanwhile Jonathan Moor, director general for resources and strategy at the DfT, will be acting permanent secretary.
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Ben Willis is a journalist and editor with a varied background reporting on topics including public policy, the environment, renewable energy and international development. His work has appeared in a variety of national newspapers including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Times, as well as numerous specialist business, policy and consumer publications.
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Many government organisations must gather and process large amounts of information – traditionally a labour-intensive job, resulting in periodical data reports. Artificial Intelligence and Process Automation can strip the legwork out of this process and provide real-time data management, giving public servants a much more detailed and accurate view of their sector. But adapting AI […]
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In a world where digital is powering transformations in almost every industry, government organizations are not far behind. While a small percentage of governments are well on their path to maturing digitally, most of them are still trying to play catch-up in this race. Irrespective of where the government organizations lie in their digital maturity, […]
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Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Will Soon Face a Moment of Reckoning
NuScale is bringing small nuclear alive. But will the concept survive?
Jason Deign May 14, 2018
Jason Deign
Jason is a contributing writer for GTM, focused on global trends in energy storage and wind. He is based in Barcelona, Spain.
NuScale's technology now has a viable pathway to market.
Last month’s first-ever small modular reactor design approval could usher in a new era for nuclear power, provided the technology can live up to the hype.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) phase 1 review approval of a small nuclear reactor (SMR) design from Portland, Oregon-based NuScale Power means the technology now has a realistic chance of being up and running within a decade.
In a press release, NuScale said its first operational products, for Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), could be hooked up to the grid “by the mid-2020s,” while Bloomberg reported that the company was aiming for commercial operations in 2026.
The reactor developer next has to get NRC design certification application approval and customer UAMPS needs a combined construction and operating license, NuScale’s director of communications, Mariam Nabizad, told GTM.
But Josh Freed, founder and leader of the clean energy program at center-left think tank Third Way, said NuScale has already changed the global SMR picture.
“Advanced nuclear had always been discussed in the context of being 10 years away from licensing,” he said. “Throughout the 1990s and early part of this century, it never got to that point."
“NuScale marks a significant change because they are building components, testing pieces of the new reactor and are engaged with the NRC in a very methodical process that is moving forward," said Freed. "They’ve got a site selected and a partner in UAMPS. This is a project that is tangible.”
When it goes live, the UAMPS plant could be the definitive test of whether nuclear has a future in many Western economies. In Europe and the U.S. the industry is on the wane, mounting a rearguard PR campaign to claw back fans and betting heavily on SMRs to regain credibility.
That means the UAMPS project, which is set to have a dozen 50-megawatt NuScale SMR modules, will have to buck recent nuclear new-build trends by coming in on time and on budget.
And, critically, it will have to be competitive with other generation sources being built eight years from now. Nabizad said that the estimated overnight cost for the UAMPS project was $2.9 billion, and its target levelized cost of energy was $65 per megawatt-hour.
For comparison, the International Renewable Energy Agency predicts that by 2020, more than half a decade ahead of the UAMPS project going live, onshore wind will be hitting an LCOE of $50 per megawatt-hour and solar will be at $60 per megawatt-hour.
Naturally, NuScale should be able to point to the fact that SMRs do not suffer from intermittency as a reason for paying a premium for nuclear energy.
The NuScale design, unlike traditional reactors, is also supposed to be capable of a certain amount of load-following, which could help it compete with gas plants.
The problem is that neither of these arguments is much of a deal-clincher at the moment, and it is unclear if they will be in eight years’ time.
Gas is beating nuclear not because of its load-following abilities, but because markets, particularly in the U.S., are not set up to fully reward the high-volume carbon emission reductions that reactors can deliver.
And with wind- or solar-tied storage plummeting in cost, it is unclear to what extent intermittency will be an issue for intermittent renewables eight years from now. All these factors could fuel concerns that SMRs may never be a viable technology.
Freed said NuScale and others in a growing cohort of would-be SMR developers are well aware of these challenges. “The fact that cost is such a big consideration is a substantial shift from the development of the early light-water reactors,” he said.
“They were entering into a market in the United States that was heavily regulated, and utilities had a monopoly," said Freed. "The business side of NuScale is being built with the recognition that we are, in the U.S. and in developed economies around the world, in a very different environment now.”
But even if NuScale and its brethren can reignite interest in nuclear across the U.S. and Europe, it may still face a threat from within its own industry.
While the NRC’s experience with NuScale is expected to streamline the permitting of other SMR designs, it will be at least a decade until U.S. SMRs start hitting the ground in any meaningful numbers. Meanwhile, Russians and Chinese are building SMRs today.
Everett Redmond, senior technical advisor for new reactor and advanced technology at the Nuclear Energy Institute, outlined the scale of the problem at a roundtable discussion for reporters last month.
“China is bringing online, this year, high-temperature gas pebble bed reactors, commercial ones,” he said. “By the time the United States has a high-temperature gas pebble bed reactor operating, the Chinese will have 10 years of operating experience behind them.”
This article was updated to clarify that customer UAMPS must seek a combined construction and operating license. NuScale is not responsible for obtaining that license.
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England’s Stokes issues WC rallying cry after Australia defeat
Ben Stokes
London: England’s Ben Stokes defiantly stated “This is our World Cup” after a thumping defeat by Australia cast doubt on the pre-tournament favourites’ hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals.
Set a target of 286 to beat the reigning champions, England were dismissed for 221, going down by 64 runs to their arch-rivals at Lord’s on Tuesday.
The reverse meant England had lost two straight pool matches -- their first back-to-back defeats in one-day internationals since January 2017 -- after also falling short in a run-chase in a 20-run defeat by Sri Lanka.
Stokes made 89 against Australia but, as with the all-rounder’s unbeaten 82 against Sri Lanka, it was not enough to secure victory, with England now having lost three pool matches in total following an earlier defeat by Pakistan.
“Look, everybody’s obviously disappointed in the last two games but, you know, this is our World Cup and we are going to go about it the way we know how we play best,” Stokes said
That way has been to bat aggressively but in their past two matches some ill-judged strokes have caused the downfall of their batsmen, with England slumping to 26-3 against Australia after left-arm quicks Jason Behrendorff (5-44) and Mitchell Starc (4-43) both struck telling early blows.
England may now have to beat both in-form India and New Zealand in their final two pool matches if they are to keep alive their hopes of winning the World Cup for the first time.
In common with Australia, they are teams England have not defeated at a World Cup since 1992.
Nevertheless, a defiant Stokes said: “That’s what’s made us so successful in the last four years. Two back-to-back losses can sometimes make you as a team think differently, but we are not going to go away from our method of playing.
“We just need to adjust to situations and then conditions, but we are not for one minute going to take a backward step, especially in these last two (group) games. “It’s one of the biggest times and greatest times to be a cricketer, which is to represent your country at a World Cup.”
'The political gangsters will have to find something new to talk about'
With a lot of hate statuses on Whatsapp and other social media about the India Pakistan match, the Indian populace only showed that they take personally the “cultivated” hatred towards Pakistan. And though your article is mild and bends towards making light of the matter, we know that there is much left unsaid.
Killing the thrill of tournament
As an ardent cricket lover I am dismayed with the ongoing World Cup. The assumption that the new round-robin format which has teams playing at least nine matches each would have fans glued to their TV sets, is not holding ground (“Warner makes hay to hit WC top score as Tigers fall short,” June 21, Gulf Today).
No easy opponent
It’s early day into the World Cup but Pakistan’s humbling of hosts England implies that nothing can be taken for granted (“Pakistan bounce back to stun England in nail-biter,” June 4, Gulf Today).
Don’t rein in humour
Rain leads the World Cup Cricket points table with eight points – that’s if we’re permitted to discard the stiff upper lip in Her Majesty’s Great Britain and smile away the cloudy blues. In fact, we should not sulk but sportingly give the rain gods credit for the bashing they are inflicting on some of the top-notch
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I don't 'blame' Orson Scott Card—I just make the consumer choice to avoid his work
I'm thrilled that the director and young stars of Enders Game are speaking out against Orson Scott Card's shocking ant-gay rhetoric….
'Ender's Game' stars answer gay rights questions [AP via Yahoo! News]
….but I do have to pushback against a new meme that is popping up around the film. Namely, the idea that "you can't blame a work for its author," a claim that young star Asa Butterfield makes in the above-linked AP story but that is the general tone that all of the film's defenders are using to support the work.
The fact of the matter is that every frame of that film springs, ultimately, from this same mind that said all of these truly crazy things about people like me and families like mine. That will always be so. Yes, this is a cinematic interpretation of the work, but the story and the characters and the plot all came from Mr. Card's mind. And let's not forget that he, a producer on this film, stands to greatly benefit if these films become the hit, Harry Potter–like franchise that Lionsgate certainly hopes they become.
So for me, it's not really about "blame." For me it's about the fact that I cannot, in good conscience, pay money for a cinematic vision that springs from the very same mind that calls my sexual orientation a "dysfunction" for which I must "repent." When a writer goes public, he begins a sort of trust exchange between himself and his readers. Orson Scott Card has forever blown any amount of trust we might have ever shared, and he has destroyed any bit of good will that I might have held toward his ideas. He, by his own volition, chose to put out public commentary that slurs my life, family, and very existence in ways that the unacquainted would find unimaginable (in fact I'm still not convinced the film's defenders have seen how far he has gone), so I, working from my own volitional place, will not support any more of Orson Scott Card's public enterprises. I just can't. Other people might be able to do so—I cannot.
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A Global Mission Project: Children helping Children
Feb 15, 2003 01:59 PM EST Comment
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - United Methodist teachers and children's leaders are receiving a packet of information designed to get kids more involved in supporting missions around the world.
The packet from the United Methodist Children's Fund for Christian Mission is about children helping children, said Mary Alice Gran, director of mission education with children at the United Methodist Board of Discipleship. The agency is cosponsoring the effort with the denomination's Board of Global Ministries.
The packet is a tool for mission education, and it includes information on how children can raise money to support mission projects that help other kids.
"When a congregation uses the packet consistently, year after year, the children of that congregation learn about children in other parts of the United States and the world as well as develop a habit of being mission-minded," Gran said. "When giving to others is fun as well as educational, the impact on the giving children can last a lifetime."
The Children's Fund for Christian Mission enables children to learn about and contribute to a select group of mission projects. The projects are chosen for their value in helping the children understand what it means to be in mission.
"The packet is a very important tool for congregations and the children," Gran said. "The exposure children can have to a wide variety of projects and places helps them to understand the needs of children everywhere. Children learn that children in other places may lead different lives but they have many things in common, too."
The fund raises about $200,000 for missions with children. The 2003 packet offers teachers and leaders of children examples of activities to raise money for the fund.
The Board of Global Ministries chooses six projects - three in the United States and three abroad - annually for support and study, and the Board of Discipleship prepares the teaching packet. The projects for 2003 are Ministry With Children in Namibia, South Africa; Wesley House Community Center in Knoxville, Tenn.; KIDTOWN! Grace United Methodist Church in Gary, Ind.; Community Outreach Program with Street Children in Mumbai, India; Wi'am Center: Trauma Healing Project in Bethlehem, West Bank, Israel; and Character Ministries: Culmore United Methodist Church in Falls Church, Va.
Each project receives an equal share of the money the fund receives, according to Gran.
Since there is no reporting number similar to those of the denomination's Advance Special projects, donors may send contributions directly to the United Methodist Children's Fund for Christian Mission, P.O. Box 340013, Nashville, TN 37203-0013. Include the name of the local church and address.
More information on the United Methodist Children's Fund for Christian Mission is available by visiting www.gbod.org/children; contacting Gran at (877) 899-2780, Ext. 7143, or [email protected]; or contacting Shirley Wu at the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries at (212) 870-3615 or [email protected]
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Europe: One House for All
By Bronisław Geremek
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Checkpoint Europe: The Return of Borders
Borders, EU Accession, Integration, Schengen
Professor Bronisław Geremek carried his dream of a free Poland in a reunited Europe from the Gdansk shipyards to the Polish national assembly, and then Foreign Ministry. As a Member of the European Parliament, he dedicated his mandate to “make Europe and Europeans” a daily reality. In December 2007, on the occasion of the accession to the Schengen area of nine of the ten new members states of the 2004 EU-enlargement, Geremek was invited to deliver a speech in Luxembourg to celebrate this historical moment. This is the written text from which he spoke.
The enlargement of the Schengen Area: a historic and moving moment
A few days ago, European Union member states signed a new treaty in Lisbon. Despite its opaque and obscure form, this treaty makes it possible to save the essential measures included in the defunct constitutional treaty for a “more democratic, transparent and efficient” European Union. It is clear that notwithstanding its constitutional crisis and the problem of resurgent national self-interest over the last decade, the EU has in fact managed to show its own citizens and its external partners that, despite everything, it still wants to continue down the road towards stronger political integration and construction of what might be considered a common destiny.
In a few days from now, 9 of the 10 countries that joined the European Union in 2004 will be included in “Schengen” in a practical and concrete way. But what is Schengen? It is a village and a commune in the south-east of Luxembourg, near the triple border between Germany, France and Luxembourg. This village became famous on 14th June 1985, when a treaty on the abolition of European border controls was signed there (symbolically, on a boat anchored on the River Moselle, which links the three countries). The Schengen Agreement abolishes identity controls at borders between signatory countries, among other measures.
The borderless territory thus created is widely known as the “Schengen Area”. This area, which will shortly grow by 60 million inhabitants and more than half a million km² (that is to say by 15% in area and 18% in population), is made up of the states that have adopted the “Schengen acquis” in full. These states:
Have removed their internal EU border controls.
Apply the Borders Code to external EU borders.
Provide visas that are valid for the Schengen Area.
Accept the validity of visas provided by other Schengen states for entry to their territory.
These signatory countries apply a common policy regarding visas and they have strengthened controls at borders with countries outside the area. All European Union citizens can come and go within this area without having to show their papers at any borders whatsoever.
One must appreciate what this moment means for millions of Europeans from countries that were previously under totalitarian Soviet domination. For them, and for us, for a long time travelling abroad was one of the most difficult things to do. Just 20 years ago freedom of movement was restricted and controlled by the government. It was the authorities who decided who could have a passport and who could not – and this passport had to be handed back on return. It was also rare for couples or families to be allowed to travel together, as this was a good way of ensuring that those who went abroad would return.
None of us had ever experienced what it is like to walk freely along the Baltic coast without knowing if you have already crossed over to Germany or if you are still in Poland, or to pass from Poland to Slovakia along the paths of the Bieszczady Mountains without even realising it. However, from 21st December, there will no longer be any distinction between the German and Polish areas of the beach, between the Austrian and Hungarian side of Lake Neusiedl. It has been announced that in the Tatra Mountains, the two local Polish and Slovakian mayors have decided to celebrate the event by jointly chopping down the barrier that used to symbolise the border between the two countries.
It is an important moment that marks the recognition of full European citizenship for all Europeans from Central and Eastern Europe. The Czech chronicler Adam Černý explains in Hospodarské Noviny on 6th December that “abolition of border controls has a symbolic value. Only when Czechs, Poles or Slovaks can go to Germany without any problem will they no longer feel like second-class EU citizens.”
What the Schengen Area is creating is a common space for everyone, a big European home, where everyone can move freely from one area to another.
A common home for all Europeans
If everything has been set up so that this expansion of the Schengen Area of free travel can take place before the Christmas and New Year holidays, this is no innocent coincidence. Indeed, this is precisely the time when everyone who is far away, everyone who has gone away to work far from their home towns and their families, come home to see their loved ones. For many people who are driving or travelling by bus or train this will be the first time that they do not have to stop to show their identity papers when they leave Germany, Austria or Italy to go home. For them it really won’t seem like they are leaving their home or returning to it. There will hardly be any difference between being “at home” or “abroad”.
What the Schengen Area is creating is a common space for everyone, a big European home, where everyone can move freely from one area to another. The Schengen Area is possible because the citizens of its member states feel entirely European.
Personal freedom of movement is one of the great promises of the project of European integration. The European project is certainly a plan for shared peace and prosperity. However, it is also a plan that is based on freedom: the Four Freedoms are freedom of movement for goods, services, capital and, first and foremost, people. There was a time when Europe was already seen as an area with freedom of movement by some Europeans – the networks of pilgrims, monks, merchants and students created a common area. For a small number of people, often belonging to religious, aristocratic, merchant or academic elites, Europe was a reality. It was an area where they could move around freely without having to deal with any obstacles other than distance, the elements, bandits or the dangers of the road. Now this reality, which originated in the Middle Ages, is being reborn. Europe is not just built by treaties and the work of the EU institutions. It is also built by people, by citizens, through the constant movement of students, teachers and professors, businessmen and representatives, national and international civil servants and workers. This includes all types of workers from Czech engineers to Polish plumbers, from Slovakian nurses to Estonian IT workers, and so on.
The principle of personal freedom of movement is fundamental to European integration. It has existed since the creation of the European Community in 1957. It was initially introduced for economic reasons, as this right was linked to the status of salaried workers and it was included in the broad framework of a new common market based on free circulation of capital, goods and services. However it was subsequently extended to freelancers and service providers. Family members also enjoyed the same right. Ultimately, this right was understood to apply for all categories of citizen.
Three European Commission directives, which were adopted in the 1990s, guarantee the right of residence for categories of people other than workers: retired people, students and those not in employment. In 1992 the Maastricht Treaty introduced the concept of European Union citizenship, giving all EU citizens the fundamental personal right to freedom of movement and residency regardless of economic activity. Then the Amsterdam Treaty, which was signed in 1997 and came into force in 1999, further strengthened the rights of European Union citizens, specifically including the Schengen Agreement.
This was not the first time in modern European history that an attempt had been made to reduce the borders between states. As early as 1944, for example, the Benelux countries decided to join their territories together by abolishing their internal borders. In 1954, the Scandinavian countries created a common passport for the Nordic Union, enabling all citizens of the three countries to move around freely within the common Nordic area (this area was later extended to include Iceland and Finland in 1965). These attempts to abolish borders and the creation of these free travel areas for citizens are valuable because they recognise a shared destiny and common belonging. They demonstrate that people feel they share a common territory, history and future. They also often demonstrate a shared identity. Certainly there are differences between people from Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, but by creating Benelux they declared that what unites them is stronger than what divides them. Certainly there are differences between people from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland, and sometimes their situations have been markedly different – these five countries have never shared membership of the European Union. However the Nordic Union and its free travel area show that they recognise a certain shared Scandinavian identity among the member countries.
During his two terms of office as head of the European Commission, from 1985 to 1995, Jacques Delors rightly focused his work and his efforts to build a united Europe on specific aspects of the “single market”: he developed a plan to build European identity, which often relied on the “Four Freedoms” and helped an emotional bond to grow. Indeed creating an area with freedom of movement is a strong affirmation and territorial confirmation that what unites the peoples in question is more significant that what divides them. If people can feel at home anywhere in Europe and travel there with no constraints other than distance, one can start to talk about a feeling of belonging in Europe, and ultimately about a European identity.
The borders of Europe – Schengen and the danger of a “fortress Europe”
The “European home” is growing. The enlargement of the Schengen Area, three and a half years after the great enlargement – the EU’s “big bang” – marks a new stage in the process of building a joint sense of belonging in Europe among all Europeans. However, this historical and moving event must necessarily pose some tough questions for the European Union, notably the question of borders.
This is because removing the internal borders in this large free travel area means strengthening the external borders of the Schengen Area. Seven countries on the eastern border of the EU have joined Schengen (the Czech Republic only has internal borders with the EU and Malta is an island, so the changes are less striking). This places pressure on their external borders from all those who want to enter the territory where the Four Freedoms apply. Removing internal borders clearly implies the need to strengthen external borders and apply a common policy for granting visas. This means that Poland and other countries must comply with this common policy and make changes to their visa policies with their neighbours. President Yushchenko has repeatedly voiced the strong sentiment increasingly in recent times that he thinks a wall will be built between his country and the European Union from the time of the Schengen extension. This sense of exclusion is felt very keenly along the length of the external border of the EU, from Ceuta and Melilla, where images of prospective immigrants storming fences in 2005 are still concerning, to Lvov or Grodno.
The feeling that there is a Fortress Europe is strongly held and borne out by the striking images mentioned above, even if the reality is sometimes less clear-cut. Studies show the extent to which Central European countries are also becoming targets for immigration: it is estimated that half a million Ukrainians work in Poland, and 100 – 200,000 in the Czech Republic. This means that the borders of the European Union are not so impervious.
Borders delimit territories, marking the line between them and us – they both create and highlight differences.
Security for the new external EU border poses a serious problem: a 97-kilometre stretch of the border separating Slovakia and Ukraine runs through the Carpathian Mountains. A number of undocumented immigrants who want to reach the EU via Eastern Europe choose this border crossing. Also, people across the region are increasingly sensitive to the fact that the new Schengen border does not just exclude undocumented immigrants but also neighbours from the east, with whom there is a long tradition of trade.
In some ways, this demand for impervious borders is the price of convincing the countries of Western Europe that the eastern border of the EU is not just an immense open door. For them not to worry about catching cold, they must be confident and they must receive assurances that the door will stay closed. A “new iron curtain” is a very strong expression that shows a certain level of ambivalence and mixed feelings about the expansion of the Schengen border. The question of European Union borders is still a hot topic. The debate about borders is a debate about the European area and territory – and it is also a debate about European identity. Let us not forget that removing internal borders in the EU clearly recognises that all citizens of the states in question belong to the same area and that they share a common identity. Borders delimit territories, marking the line between them and us – they both create and highlight differences.
In this context, Europe is currently split between the “geography of values” and the “value of geography”, as Dominique Moïsi so neatly put it. The theoretical debate about European borders and identity is further complicated pragmatically when one tries to define which borders are the most appropriate to ensure vital political and social cohesion within the EU and true external consistency in relations with the rest of the world. Indeed, it quickly becomes clear that the debate is in fact a debate about the European project. One reaches an impasse on this subject if one forgets the principles on which the project and identity of a united Europe are built: freedom and an open society.
The expansion of the Schengen Area is not finished – Cyprus and the countries on the Black Sea coast are yet to come, not to mention the British Isles, and finally the countries that will join the European Union over coming decades. However, the stage to be carried out on 21st December 2007 is a step of great historical significance and symbolic value, as it is one of the most tangible and significant successes of European integration, the value and scope of which can be experienced directly by all EU citizens in their daily lives. It is an important milestone on the road to a European identity.
The New Legend Surrounding National Borders Is A Fantasy Migration
By Juan Behrend
A shadow looms over Europe. Everywhere, new borders are sprouting up overnight like mushrooms.
“It’s the Politics, Stupid” Migration
By Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Tine Danckaers
The right to asylum is not a numbers game, it is a human right.
Looking Back and West: Lessons for Europe’s Future Future of EU
By Barry Eichengreen
Looking to historical and US-based examples offers a springboard to discuss European integration at a time of rising nationalism and populism.
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Tourists report ‘£20 to skip bag checks offer’ at Sharm el-Sheikh airport
Published: 12:20 Friday 06 November 2015
British holidaymakers have told how they have been offered the chance to pay up to £20 to skip queues and bag checks at Sharm el-Sheikh airport.
The Government suspended air links on Wednesday amid fears a bomb was used to down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt, killing 224 people.
Dale Parkyn, who visited the Red Sea resort with his wife earlier this year, said they were approached by a man in military uniform and asked if they would like to avoid the long queues.
The 47 year old said: “What we did is we discussed it and he then produced a £20 note and said, ‘Have you one of these’ and you can avoid the queue.
“We walked right through the security gates and security procedure, straight through the airport, avoided all the queues, and then he put the case on the conveyor belt and the girl checked us in. At no point did my luggage go through any scanner. When I think now, it was bizarre.
“At the time it was quite amusing that for us, for £20, we’d avoided all the queues.”
He said he realised the “gravity” of the situation after seeing news of the Government’s announcement.
Brendan De Garis said that razors were missed in one queue-jumper’s luggage.
He said: “David Cameron did the right thing. The airport’s not safe. The staff I saw were arrogant, complacent, and a danger to the public.
“Security was such a shambles I was relieved when we were turned round at the gate.”
Security has since been tightened at the airport following the suspension of flights, including a ban on carrying hold luggage.
Man jailed after urinating on Pinderfields Hospital floor and abusing NHS staff
Suspended Wakefield Conservatives deny claims they campaigned against party at European elections
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Trump is perfect Illuminati agent,
says anonymous contributor who is a Freemason.
(henrymakow.com)
Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu is carrying out the same Illuminati directives as Donald Trump, designed to lead to World War 3 and a one world, New World Illuminati Order, with its headquarters based in Jerusalem, as is the Oath and Swear when one becomes a Freemason, and which is reiterated over and over, time and time again, as one progresses and rises through the ranks of the Freemasons, and then on to the Illuminati which is the ultimate secret society within a secret society, at the top of the Freemasonic foodchain.
Open racism and discrimination are now de rigeur, and racial purity and ethnic cleansing have now been augmented and increased, without care or concern of the billions of people that will be exterminated or inconvenienced;
Jerusalem has now been declared to be the sovereign capital of Israel, which as everyone plugged into Freemasonry and Illuminati is aware, is not slated to be a Jewish state at all, but who are using proud and patriotic IDF-type Jews to clear the land, exterminate the "undesirable races/religions," so that a Third Temple of Luciferian (not Jewish) Illuminati can be built;
All around the world, various bloodthirsty dictators (murderers) are being touted as "tough," and "direct," for such blood-drenched acts as outright murder of their own people, under different pretexts, such as Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, whom Donald Trump also makes no secret of admiring and adoring;
As discussed above, arch-Illuminati eugenicist and racist Rupert Murdoch, another one of Donald Trump's idols, often gives him advice of everything under the sun, according to the book "Fire & Fury" by Michael Wolff;
The game plan is to eradicate any and all races, religions, creeds, and ideologies that stand in the way of "A to B" type global governance (i.e., global communist dictatorship/Luciferian monarchy) and are now on the fast track thanks to the concerted efforts of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, with the former's participation being due to his having been blackmailed/bought out by international central banker interests rather than by any brains or intelligence, while the latter, Mr. Netanyahu, is a full fledged, full blown 33rd Degree Freemason/Illuminati figure, loyal only to his ancient brethren secret society Illuminati brotherhood, as was the case all the way back to the founder and first prime minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion;
The war against Islam is not really ideological. Rather it is a "Luciferian" exercise of destroying the last people of any true faith in God left on this planet, after Christianity (and true Judaism) and other world religions have been either infiltrated or decimated by the Luciferian Illuminati who want to be the only "Gods" on earth, in their continued drive to fulfil the mantra of "Deus Meumque Jus," or "God is according to my own right;"
Because Donald Trump is easily blackmailed, lacks self-control or an internal moral compass of any kind, respects only strength/money/power, and is easily corruptible, he makes an absolutely perfect Illuminati President/Messenger because he will carry out their will without even flinching, as he has already done so far, and will speed up the global New World Order to lightning fast speeds, approaching final completion probably within the next few years.
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Home > Celebrities > Danielle Fishel Bra Size Height Weight
Danielle Fishel Bra Size Height Weight
By Courtney Pocock on April 16, 2015
Her Bra Size
She wears a 36 D.
Her Body Measurements
5 feet 1 inches or 155 centimeters
Current Weight
134.5 pounds or 61 kilograms
Boyfriends and Spouses
Lance Bass (1999 to 2000): Known for his work as a singer with N*Sync, Lance Bass began dating Danielle Fishel in 1999. They ended up breaking up in 2000. In 2006, news surfaced that Lance Bass was actually gay. Interestingly, this news did not surprise Danielle Fishel because she had learned this piece of information after they had been apart for a year.
Devon Sawa (2000 to 2001): After her relationship with Lance Bass, Danielle Fishel began dating the Canadian actor, Devon Sawa. They were only together for a few months in 2000 and 2001.
Tim Belusko (2009 to Current): In May of 2009, Danielle Fishel began dating Tim Belusko. At the time, she was his math tutor at CSUF. They began dating and became engaged in May of 2012. They ended up getting married on October 19 of 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
Danielle Fishel possesses a total net worth of $8 million from her various acting projects. Much of her income was earned due to the success of the series, Boy Meets World.
Her Name at Birth
At birth, Danielle’s given name was Danielle Christine Fishel.
Common Nicknames
She just goes by her first name, Danielle.
Age and Birth Date
Danielle was born on May 5 of 1981, so she is currently 33 years old. She will turn 34 years old in May of 2015.
Astrological Sun Sign
Her astrological sign is the Taurus.
Location of Her Birth
She was born in Mesa, Arizona.
Danielle Fishel is an American citizen.
As an adolescent, Danielle Fishel attended Calabasas High School in the city of Calabasas, California. After graduating in 1999, she began studying psychology at the California State University. She ended up graduating from their in 2013 with her bachelor’s degree.
Father: Rick Fishel
Mother: Jennifer Fishel
Brother: Christopher Fishel
She has a fairly voluptuous build and is one of Hollywood’s healthiest looking celebrities.
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Danielle Fishel is an actress and a television personality.
She has naturally light brown hair.
Fishel has vivid green eyes.
Fishel has a remarkably voluptuous figure and full lips.
Roughly half of her ancestry is Maltese.
Her religious affiliations are currently unknown.
Best Known For
By far, she is best known for playing the role of Topanga in Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000. In 2014, she did a reprisal of the character in the new show, Girl Meets World
Her First Television Show
The first time she appeared on film was in 2000. She played the leading role of Gloria in the teenage movie, Longshot.
Her First Film
Her first television role was actually in Full House. From 1992 to 1993, she played Jennifer P. in two episodes of the show.
Danielle Fishel’s Favorite Things
Favorite Cologne: Joop
Favorite Snack: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Favorite Subjects in School: Math and English
Favorite Brand: Bebe
Favorite Store: Nordstrom
Favorite Hobbies: Dancing and Sleeping
Danielle Fishel Facts
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Family, Carer and Supporter Guide
Mental Health Services: Family, Carer and Supporter Guide
The Guide which was launched on Mental Health Engagement Day on 22 May in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, is for family members, carers and supporters of people who use the mental health services. The Guide is also intended to help staff in the services in their interaction with family members or supporters in dealing with issues such as confidentiality obligations.
The purpose of the Guide is to outline for family members, carers and supporters of service users the care they can expect for their relatives or friends when they use the mental health services.
It also makes some suggestions as to how family members, carers and supporters can care for themselves when a relative or friend is unwell or feeling emotional distress.
The Guide also sets out for the benefit of service users, their families and supporters and service providers ways of dealing with the issue of confidentiality in a constructive manner that can hopefully be helpful to all.
How to use the Guide
The Guide is available in two formats: a longer booklet and a credit card style leaflet which is a shorter and handier version of the booklet.
While the Guide covers both the Primary and Secondary Care mental health services, much, but not all, of the details in the Guide relate to the Secondary Care services.
In the booklet format, there is a Table of Contents on pages 4 and 5 and a Note (Note 3 on pages 49 to 53) dealing with various support opportunities.
The easiest way to work through the booklet is to look at the Table of Contents to identify issues that may be particularly interesting to the reader in his or her own personal circumstances. That way, those parts of the Guide of most interest can be read straightaway.
Family, Carer and Supporter Guide PDF
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04/02/2014 03:07 pm ET Updated Apr 03, 2014
DEA Chief: Marijuana Legalization Just 'Makes Us Fight Harder'
By Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON -- Far from being discouraged by the shifts in public opinion, state laws and even within the Obama administration on the legalization of marijuana, federal drug agents are now driven to "fight harder," Drug Enforcement Administration chief Michele Leonhart said Wednesday.
Leonhart, who reportedly criticized President Barack Obama for comparing marijuana to alcohol during a closed-door meeting with a law enforcement organization, suggested during testimony Wednesday before a House Appropriations subcommittee that voters in Washington state and Colorado were duped into legalizing marijuana.
While several questions from Republican members of the committee referred to Obama's marijuana comments, as well as to Attorney General Eric Holder's decision in August to allow marijuana regulation to proceed largely unchallenged, Leonhart's answers tiptoed around any direct criticism of her bosses. But Leonhart did say that DEA's issues with the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado were "well known" within the Justice Department and the White House before DOJ made its decision. She noted that there was "a lot of confusion in that 296 days while they were reviewing it and deciding how to proceed."
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said he thought that the attorney general would come to regret his decision to allow legalization in Washington and Colorado to move forward. "This being a legacy for Eric Holder, when he looks back on it and sees the devastation it will have on this country, he will live to regret it," Wolf said. "He will wish he could get these years back." Wolf then asked Leonhart whether DEA agents have been feeling demoralized as a result of the legalization.
"Actually, it makes us fight harder," Leonhart replied.
Without referring specifically to Obama's comments, Leonhart said that pro-marijuana messages are stronger now than they have been in the past 30 years, and that DEA officials are very worried about the consequences for teens who are being "bombarded" by such messages.
"It's of great concern to us the messages we hear on television, in the radio, in songs -- and now, my fear is that kids are hearing it from their own parents," Leonhart said. "It's important to have the facts about marijuana put out there in ways that kids, teens, young adults, parents can look at it and see that what they've been sold -- that this is no big deal -- is not true."
Leonhart also implied that voters in Washington and Colorado had been misled about the benefits of legalizing marijuana.
"What was explained to the voters was how much money that they'd be raising. What was explained to the voters was that this was good for law enforcement, because then police could go after the real crimes. What was told to the voters is that this would collapse the Mexican drug cartels," she said.
Leonhart claimed that Mexican drug cartels are "setting up shop" in Washington and Colorado in anticipation of a black market. "Whatever the price will be set in Washington and Colorado, criminal organizations are ready to come in and sell cheaper," Leonhart said. She claimed that many marijuana shops get their supplies from growing operations controlled by cartels.
The DEA administrator also referred to efforts in the Netherlands to prevent foreign tourists from obtaining marijuana, saying that it showed the country was having second thoughts about its marijuana policies. That change, she said, should have served as a warning to the United States.
"We should've learned from that and never gone forward with what we've seen in this country," Leonhart said.
Dan Riffle, director of federal policies for the Marijuana Policy Project, said after the hearing that Leonhart was obstructing the Obama administration's policy and should be forced out.
"Publicly criticizing and questioning the competence of your supervisor would get anyone fired in the private sector," Riffle said in a statement. "It's frankly astounding to me that Ms. Leonhart is still employed and American taxpayers continue to foot her $165,000 salary to publicly campaign against the president's policies."
Leonhart declined to take questions from reporters after her testimony.
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1 Former President Bill Clinton
Bill "Didn't Inhale" Clinton has supported decriminalizing marijuana for more than a decade and more recently has spoken out against the war on drugs. “I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be," he said back in 2000 in an interview with Rolling Stone. "We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment.” He's since spoken about the issue of marijuana and drug prohibition a number of times. Last year, he appeared in the documentary, "Breaking the Taboo," where he argued that the war on drugs has been a failure.
2 Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
Paul exhibited his libertarian tendencies earlier this year when he explained that he'd favor reforming marijuana laws to either decriminalize or reduce penalties for possession. “I don't want to promote that but I also don't want to put people in jail who make a mistake," Paul said. "There are a lot of young people who do this and then later on in their twenties they grow up and get married and they quit doing things like this. I don't want to put them in jail and ruin their lives."
3 Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)
As a congressman, Paul took his opposition to marijuana and drug prohibition a step farther than his son has so far. He supported a number of bills that would have removed the plant from its current status as a Schedule I substance under federal law, where it is considered alongside heroin and PCP. Because his history on the topic is so expansive, just take a look at the video to the left for a selection of his comments.
4 Evangelist Pat Robertson
While the 83-year-old Robertson may say a lot of things that make him sound like a kooky old man, he's also made a few remarks to endear himself to marijuana advocates. "I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol," Robertson said in an interview with The New York Times in 2012. "I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn't succeeded." Robertson has made similar remarks on his "700 Club" show before, but the Times, like many others, perhaps felt they must have misheard him.
5 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
In a state of the city address earlier this year, Bloomberg made it clear that he supported a promise by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to push marijuana decriminalization. "I support Governor Cuomo's proposal to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a violation, rather than a misdemeanor, and we'll work to help him pass it." A similar effort specific to NYC has made some progress, but faces an unclear path forward with New York lawmakers.
6 Actor Bryan Cranston
Some may think of Cranston as more of a meth guy thanks to Walter White, his character on AMC's hit show "Breaking Bad," but in real life he's spoken out against current pot laws, suggesting that recreational marijuana use isn't a big deal -- and shouldn't be treated like it. “[T]o me, marijuana is no different than wine," he said in an interview with High Times. "It's a drug of choice. It's meant to alter your current state -- and that's not a bad thing. It's ridiculous that marijuana is still illegal. We're still fighting for it ... It comes down to individual decision-making. There are millions of people who smoke pot on a social basis and don't become criminals. So stop with that argument -- it doesn't work.” [H/T Marijuana Majority]
7 Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (R)
Unlike many politicians, Johnson, a Libertarian presidential candidate in 2012, has unabashedly admitted using marijuana. But beyond his personal history with pot, he's been an outspoken advocate for legalizing and taxing it. From his campaign platform: "By managing marijuana like alcohol and tobacco - regulating, taxing and enforcing its lawful use - America will be better off. The billions saved on marijuana interdiction, along with the billions captured as legal revenue, can be redirected against the individuals committing real crimes against society."
8 Author Stephen King
King hasn't been shy about advocating for a legal marijuana industry that could give easy access to recreational users and revenue to the states. “Marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry," he said in an interview with High Times. "My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores.” [H/T Marijuana Majority]
9 Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)
Rohrabacher was a co-sponsor of the 2013 "Respect State Marijuana Laws Act," which seeks to protect marijuana users or businesses acting legally according to state marijuana laws from being prosecuted under the federal Controlled Substances Act. While marijuana has been made legal for various uses in a number of states, the Obama administration continues to enforce federal laws across the nation. This has led to numerous raids of marijuana-based businesses, as well as prosecutions of growers and other people involved in pot.
10 Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)
Young was also a co-sponsor of the 2013 "Respect State Marijuana Laws Act."
11 Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.)
Amash was also a co-sponsor of the "Respect State Marijuana Laws Act."
12 Glenn Beck
Back in 2009, when Beck had a Fox News show, he suggested that marijuana legalization could be a worthwhile solution to raging drug violence on the nation's border with Mexico. "I think it's about time we legalize marijuana," he said. "We have to make a choice in this country. We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it, but this little game we're playing in the middle is not helping us, it is not helping Mexico and it is causing massive violence on our southern border."
13 Billionaire Richard Branson
From an op-ed by Branson arguing for an end to the war on drugs: "Decriminalization does not result in increased drug use. Portugal's 10 year experiment shows clearly that enough is enough. It is time to end the war on drugs worldwide. We must stop criminalising drug users. Health and treatment should be offered to drug users - not prison. Bad drugs policies affect literally hundreds of thousands of individuals and communities across the world. We need to provide medical help to those that have problematic use - not criminal retribution."
14 GOP Mega-Donor David Koch
Koch may have funneled countless dollars to conservative candidates who oppose reforming marijuana laws, but back in 1980, when he was the vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, he suggested that it was "ridiculous" to consider people who smoked pot "criminals."
15 Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R)
In 2010, Perry told Jon Stewart that he believed in a federalist approach to marijuana laws -- that is, to allow states to determine their own approach and to tell the federal government to butt out. He's since suggested he'd be willing to support decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana.
16 Comedy Central's Jon Stewart
Stewart has made a habit of taking down politicians who exhibit an uncompromising stance on marijuana prohibition. In 2012, Stewart took New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to task for vetoing a marijuana decriminalization bill. “Alright, as much as I disagree, I don’t think marijuana should be illegal, but it is illegal on the federal level," Stewart began. "Christie is a former prosecutor, a man of conviction, of principle, doesn’t believe that the state should supersede federal law." The praise in the second sentence is a good sign that Stewart is about to shred Christie. Watch the rest of his takedown above.
17 Actor Jack Nicholson
In an interview with the UK's Daily Mail in 2011, Nicholson said that he personally still used marijuana, before making the case for ending the prohibition on pot as well as other drugs. "I don't tend to say this publicly, but we can see it's a curative thing. The narcotics industry is also enormous. It funds terrorism and - this is a huge problem in America - fuels the foreign gangs," he said. "More than 85 percent of men incarcerated in America are on drug-related offences. It costs $40,000 a year for every prisoner. If they were really serious about the economy there would be a sensible discussion about legalization."
18 Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R)
In a 2013 American Conservative op-ed chock full of moderate Republican views, Huntsman snuck in a call to "applaud states that lead on reforming drug policy." While Obama and his administration have responded to state marijuana reforms by saying they must enforce federal laws against marijuana, the president has the power to reschedule the drug, which would allow federal authorities to shift resources away from a prohibitive approach.
19 Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R)
Palin spoke out on marijuana in 2010, saying she didn't support legalizing it but also calling it a "minimal problem" for the nation. "However, I think we need to prioritize our law enforcement efforts," Palin said. "If somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody any harm, then perhaps there are other things our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems we have in society." While Obama has spoken repeatedly about not being interested in prosecuting small-time marijuana users, he hasn't done anything to prevent them from being busted by law enforcement in states where the drug is still illegal.
20 Comedian Jimmy Kimmel
Kimmel notably took a shot at Obama while serving as host of the 2012 White House Correspondents Dinner, questioning a continued marijuana crackdown under the president's administration. He then went on to say that the issue of its continued illegality was a serious political concern for many Americans. (Check out the video above.)
21 Former President Jimmy Carter
Carter hasn't minced words in expressing his opposition to harsh marijuana and drug prohibition policies. In 2012, the former president said he was fine with state legalization efforts, though he himself doesn't necessary support legalizing the drug. “As president 35 years ago I called for decriminalizing -- but not legalizing -- the possession of marijuana,” Carter said. “Since then, U.S. drug policies have been very horrible to our own country because of an explosion in prison populations.”
22 Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli
A staunch conservative who failed in a run for the U.S. Senate last year, Cuccinelli suggested in 2013 that he was "evolving" on marijuana legalization, and that he supported the rights of states to determine their own pot laws. "I don't have a problem with states experimenting with this sort of thing I think that's the role of states," Cuccinelli said, according to Ryan Nobles of WWBT.
23 Columnist Dan Savage
Savage slammed Obama for perpetuating the war on drugs while on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" in 2009. “The proof will be in the policy. The war on drugs has gotten a really bad rap, when you ask people if they support the war on drugs they say no ... [Obama's] budget once again has the same old drug warrior policy ... I reject the assumption that everybody who is using drugs needs treatment or is an addict and needs to get arrested ... Not all drug use is abuse.” He's kept up the fight for drug policy reform since. [H/T Marijuana Majority]
24 MSNBC's Al Sharpton
Sharpton has repeatedly spoken out in favor of reforming drug laws. In 2011, he suggested that the nation had wasted trillions of dollars in an ill-fated effort that had weighed particularly heavily on the African American community. “We've been fighting the war on drugs since the '60s. And guess what? Trillions of dollars later, we are losing," Sharpton said during a segment on MSNBC. "When you look at the disparities in sentencing drug offenders, hasn't this kind of injustice undermined the legitimacy of our criminal justice system?” [H/T Marijuana Majority]
25 Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.)
Tancredo came out aggressively in favor of reforming marijuana laws in 2010, telling the Colorado Independent that the correct path forward was "Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it." Tancredo continued, “The arguments against marijuana today are the same as the arguments against liquor years ago.” Years later, the former congressman agreed to smoke pot on camera with a documentary filmmaker, a deal that he later backed out of.
Ryan J. Reilly
Senior Justice Reporter, HuffPost
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John Fitzgerald is Emeritus Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. Before joining Swinburne in 2013 John served five years as Representative of The Ford Foundation in Beijing where he directed the Foundation’s China operations. Prior to this he held various professorial positions at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne.
His research interests centre on Chinese politics and history; philanthropy and social investment in Australia, USA, China and Asia; and multiculturalism and Chinese diaspora in Australia.
John has held honorary positions in the Asian Studies Association of Australia, the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, the Melbourne China Study Group, and the Asia Education Foundation. He has also worked in an advisory capacity with National Library of Australia, the Australian Research Council and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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The Odd Couple: Quasars and Black Holes
A cosmic detective story
By Scott Tremaine · Published 2015
R. Genzel and S. Gillessen
The radio source Sagittarius A*, believed to coincide with the black hole at the galaxy center, is at the zero point of the coordinates. The width of the frame is 0.03 parsecs or 6700 times the Earth-Sun distance. The smallest orbit, called S2, has a period of 15.8 years, and its point of closest approach to Sagittarius A* is 120 times the Earth-Sun distance. Fitting the orbits requires that Sagittarius A* is associated with a mass of 4.3 million solar masses contained within about 100 times the Earth-Sun distance.
Black holes are among the strangest predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity: regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape. More precisely, a black hole is a singularity in spacetime surrounded by an event horizon, a surface that acts as a perfect one-way membrane: matter and radiation can enter the event horizon, but, once inside, can never escape. Remarkably, an isolated, uncharged black hole is completely characterized by only two parameters: its mass, and its spin or angular momentum.
Laboratory study of a macroscopic black hole is impossible with current or foreseeable technology, so the only way to test these predictions of Einstein’s theory is to find black holes in the heavens. Not surprisingly, isolated black holes are difficult to see. Not only are they black, they are also very small: a black hole with the mass of the Sun is only a few kilometers in diameter (this statement is deliberately vague: because black holes bend space, notions of “distance” close to a black hole are not unique). However, the prospects for detecting black holes in gas-rich environments are much better. The gas close to the black hole normally takes the form of a rotating disk, called an accretion disk: rather than falling directly into the black hole, the orbiting gas gradually spirals in toward the event horizon as its orbital energy is transformed into heat, which warms the gas until it glows. By the time the inward-spiraling gas disappears behind the event horizon a vast amount of radiation has been emitted from every kilogram of accreted gas.
In this process, the black hole can be thought of as a furnace: when provided with fuel (the gas) it produces energy (the outgoing radiation). Einstein’s iconic formula E=Mc2relates mass M and the speed of light c to an energy E called the rest-mass energy. Using this relation, there is a natural dimensionless measure of the efficiency of this or any other furnace: the ratio of the energy it produces to the rest-mass energy of the fuel that it consumes. For furnaces that burn fossil fuels the efficiency is extraordinarily small, about 5 x 10-10. For nuclear reactors using uranium fuel, the efficiency is much better, around 0.1 percent; and for the fusion reactions that power the Sun and stars, the efficiency can reach 0.3 percent.
Black-hole furnaces can have even higher efficiency than any of these: between 10 and 40 percent. In the unlikely event that we could domesticate black holes, the entire electrical energy consumption in the United States could be provided by a black-hole furnace consuming only a few kilograms of fuel per year (an additional benefit of black holes is that they can consume radioactive waste, rather than generating it!).
Despite the relatively low efficiency of fusion reactions, most of the light in the universe comes from stars. Most of these stars are organized in galaxies. Our own galaxy contains a few tens of billions of stars arranged in a disk; the nearest of these is about 1 parsec (3.26 light years) from us, and the distance to the center of our galaxy is about 8 kiloparsecs (about 26,000 light years). The diffuse light from distant stars in the galactic disk is what we observe as the Milky Way.
A small fraction of galaxies contain mysterious compact light sources near their centers, called active galactic nuclei. The brightest of these are the quasars; remarkably, quasars can emit up to 1013 times more light than the Sun, thereby outshining the entire galaxy that hosts them. Even though quasars are much more rare than galaxies, they are so bright that they contribute almost 10 percent of the light emitted in the universe.
Ironically, the extraordinary luminosity of quasars is what made them hard to discover. Except in a few cases, they are so bright that the host galaxy cannot be seen in the glare from the quasar, and so small that they look like stars (in fact, “quasar” is a contraction of “quasi-stellar object”). Thus, even the brightest quasars are usually indistinguishable from millions of stars of similar brightness. Fortunately, some quasars are also strong sources of radio emission, and in 1963 this clue enabled astronomers to identify a radio source called 3C 273 with a faint optical source that looked like an undistinguished star. With this identification in hand, Maarten Schmidt at Caltech was able to show that 3C 273’s spectral lines were redshifted—Doppler shifted by the cosmological expansion of the universe—to wavelengths 16 percent longer than laboratory spectra, and thus that 3C 273 was at a distance of eight hundred megaparsecs, ten million times further away than it would have been if it were a normal star.
By now we have discovered almost one hundred thousand quasars. Most were formed when the universe was 20–30 percent of its current age, and by now the population has declined from its peak by almost two orders of magnitude, presumably because the fuel supply for quasars is drying up as the universe expands at an accelerating rate.
How can quasars emit so much energy? The suggestion that they are black-hole furnaces was made soon after they were first discovered. But in the 1960s the black hole was a novel and exotic concept, and staggeringly massive black holes (roughly one hundred million solar masses) were required to explain quasar properties. Thus, most astronomers quite properly focused on more conservative models, such as supermassive stars, dense clusters of ordinary stars or neutron stars, and collapsing gas clouds. Over the next two decades, however, all of these models proved unable to explain the growing body of observations of quasars. Furthermore, other studies showed that the formation of massive black holes in the centers of galaxies is natural and perhaps even inevitable.
A number of indirect but compelling arguments also support the black-hole furnace hypothesis. For example, the luminous output of a bright quasar over its lifetime corresponds to a rest-mass energy of about one hundred million times the mass of the Sun. If this were produced by the fusion reactions that power stars with the efficiency of 0.3 percent given earlier, the required mass of fuel would be almost the total of all the stars in our galaxy. There is no plausible way to funnel this much mass into the tiny region close to the black hole. On the other hand, for a black-hole furnace the efficiency is 10 percent or more, so the required mass is less than 109 solar masses, and this much gas is not hard to find close to the center of many galaxies. Thus, the black-hole furnace is the only model that does not exhaust the host galaxy’s fuel budget.
A second argument concerns the size of quasars. Quasars vary irregularly in brightness on timescales as short as weeks. It proves quite difficult to construct any plausible model of a luminous astrophysical object that varies strongly on a timescale smaller than the light-travel time across the object: different parts of the object are not causally connected on this timescale, so they vary independently and their contributions tend to average out. Thus the size of the most rapidly varying quasars must be less than the distance light travels in a few weeks, around a few hundredths of a parsec or a few thousand times the Earth-Sun distance. Such distances are large by our standards but extremely small on galactic scales, a millionth of the size of the galaxy as a whole. A black hole of one hundred million solar masses and its surrounding accretion disk would fit comfortably inside this volume—its event horizon has a radius of about the Earth-Sun distance—but almost all of the alternative models for quasars fail to do so.
A third argument emerges because some quasars emit powerful jets of plasma that extend for up to a megaparsec (see Figure 1), probably collimated and accelerated by magnetic fields near the black hole. The production of these jets is not so remarkable: for example, various kinds of star also produce jets on a much smaller scale. However, quasar jets typically travel at close to the speed of light, and there is no plausible way to produce such high velocities except close to the event horizon of a black hole. Moreover, the jets are accurately straight, even though the innermost parts of the jet were emitted a million years after the material at the far end. Thus, whatever structure collimated the jet must maintain its alignment over several million years; this is easy if the jets are squirted out along the axis of a spinning black hole, but difficult or impossible in other quasar models.
National Radio Astronomy Observatory/R. Perley
The bright spot at the center of the image is the quasar, which is located in a galaxy 240 megaparsecs away. The long, thin jets emanating from the quasar terminate in bright “hotspots” when they impact the intergalactic gas that surrounds the galaxy. The hotspots are roughly 70 kiloparsecs (or 228,000 light years) from the quasar.
Based on these and other arguments, there is near-complete agreement that the power source for quasars is accretion of gas onto black holes of a hundred million solar masses or more. Accepting this model leads to a simple syllogism: if the number of quasars shining now is far smaller than when the universe was young, and quasars are black-hole furnaces, then many “normal” galaxies should still contain the black holes that used to power quasars at their centers, but are now dark. Can we find these “dead quasars” in nearby galaxies?
An important guidepost in this search came from the Polish astronomer Andrzej Sołtan. The universe is homogeneous, so on average the energy density in quasar light must be the same everywhere in the universe (here average means averaged over scales greater than about ten megaparsecs, which is still small compared to the overall “size” of the universe, a few thousand megaparsecs). We can measure this energy density by adding up the contributions from all the quasars found in surveys. If this energy were produced by black-hole furnaces with an efficiency of 10 percent, for example, then a mass M of material accreted by black holes would produce 0.1Mc2 in quasar light. Similarly, if the average mass density of dead quasars is ρ, then the energy density of quasar light must be 0.1ρc2.
Since we know the latter figure, we can invert the calculation to determine the mass density of dead quasars. The power of this argument is that it requires no assumptions about the masses or numbers of black holes; no knowledge of when, where, or how quasars formed; and no understanding of the physics of the quasar furnace except its efficiency. Sołtan’s argument tells us that the mass density of dead quasars should be a few hundred thousand solar masses per cubic megaparsec, compared to a density of large galaxies of about one per hundred cubic megaparsecs. What it does not tell us is how common or how massive individual dead quasars are: on average there could be, for example, one dead quasar of ten million solar masses in every galaxy, or one of one billion solar masses in 1 percent of galaxies.
Stars that come under the influence of the black hole’s gravitational field—typically those within a distance of a parsec or so—are accelerated to higher velocities. This acceleration leads to increased Doppler shifts, which broaden the spectral lines from the collective stellar population. The search for this effect in the centers of nearby galaxies began around 1980 and yielded evidence for black holes—or, at least, for massive dark objects—in a handful of cases. These results were tantalizing, but incomplete: the problem was that the angular resolution of ground-based telescopes is limited by blurring caused by the atmosphere, so the effects of a black hole could be detected only in the closest galaxies. This problem was one of the motivations for constructing the Hubble Space Telescope, which at the time of its launch in 1990 had roughly ten times the angular resolution of the best ground-based telescopes. Since then the Hubble Telescope has devoted thousands of hours to the hunt for black holes at the centers of galaxies, and this search has confirmed the early ground-based detections in nearby galaxies and produced firm evidence for massive dark objects in several dozen more distant ones. We believe that the massive dark objects observed by Hubble are black holes because the alternatives (for example, a dense cluster of low-luminosity stars) are far less plausible. In recent years the search for dead quasars has been resumed by ground-based telescopes, now using adaptive optics that corrects for atmospheric blurring in real time, providing angular resolutions that equal or exceed Hubble’s.
Our own galaxy also contains a black hole. Very close to the center of the Milky Way is a compact source of strong radio emission known as Sagittarius A*. High-resolution infrared observations reveal a handful of bright stars within a few hundredths of a parsec from Sagittarius A*. The positions and velocities of these stars have been tracked, some for as long as two decades; in particular, the star S2 has an orbital period of only 15.8 years and now has been tracked through more than one complete orbit (Figure 2). Using first-year mechanics, we can deduce from this orbit that the star is orbiting a body that is located at Sagittarius A*, that this body has a mass of 4.3 million solar masses, and that the size of this body is less than only one hundred times the Earth-Sun distance. This extreme concentration of mass is incompatible with any known long-lived astrophysical system other than a black hole.
What have we learned more broadly about the relation between black holes and galaxies? First, black holes seem to be present in most galaxies. Second, in most cases the black-hole mass is about 0.2 percent of the mass of the stars in the galaxy. But are the black holes that we are finding really dead quasars? From galaxy surveys we can determine the average mass density in stars in the local universe, and since black-hole masses are typically 0.2 percent of the stellar mass in a galaxy, we can estimate the average mass density of black holes. Sołtan’s argument, described earlier, gives the average mass density of dead quasars from completely different data. The two estimates agree to within a factor of about two—well within the uncertainties—so there is little doubt that the black holes we have found are indeed the ash from quasars. Thus quasars—one of the most remarkable components of the extragalactic universe—turn out to be black holes—one of the most exotic predictions of twentieth-century theoretical physics.
One of the most profound unanswered questions about these objects is the relation between black holes and galaxy formation. Although black holes make up only a fraction of a percent of the mass of the stars in galaxies, the energy released in forming them is hundreds of times larger than the energy released in forming the rest of the galaxy. If even a small fraction of this energy were fed back to the surrounding gas and stars, it would have a dramatic influence on the galaxy formation process, perhaps blowing the gas out of the galaxy and thereby quenching the formation of new stars. Are black holes and quasars an interesting by-product of galaxy formation that has no influence on the formation process, or do they play a central role in regulating it? More succinctly, do galaxies determine the properties of quasars or vice versa?
A second profound question is whether these black holes can serve as physics laboratories. All of the tests of Einstein’s theory so far—which it has passed with flying colors—have been conducted in weak gravitational fields, such as those on Earth or in the solar system. Thus we have no direct evidence that the theory works in strong gravitational fields. Many naturally occurring processes near black holes in galaxy centers, such as swallowing of stars and black-hole mergers, may potentially be measured with the next generation of astronomical observatories. Can we understand these processes well enough to test the predictions of general relativity in strong gravitational fields, and will Einstein turn out to be right?
Scott Tremaine is the Richard Black Professor in the School of Natural Sciences. This is an excerpt of a longer article that appeared in Daedalus, 143:4 (Fall 2014) 103–113. © 2014 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Published by the MIT Press.
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Lois Lane Actress Margot Kidder Dies at 69
By James Grebey
Filed Under Entertainment, DC Movies, Death & Superheroes
Margot Kidder, the actress who memorably played Lois Lane in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, died at her home in Montana on Sunday. She was 69. TMZ reports that the actress’s cause of death has yet to be determined.
Although Kidder is most famous for playing Lois Lane, a whip-smart and dogged journalist who won’t allow Superman to outshine her, Kidder played several other notable roles over the course of her career. Prior to her true breakout role in the 1978 Superman movie, she played conjoined twins in the critically acclaimed psychological horror film Sisters and had a big part in the cult classic slasher flick Black Christmas. In 1979 she landed another major horror role, this time playing one of the leads in the original, sublimely creepy Amityville Horror.
Kidder was born in Canada on October 17, 1948 but became a naturalized US citizen in 2005. Her acting career stalled in the ‘90s after suffering a mental breakdown as a result of a manic episode. Kidder, who was bipolar, disappeared for four days after her computer crashed and she lost three years worth of drafts for an autobiography she had been working on.
Kidder was able to get medical help and recovered, going on to become an advocate for mental health. She returned to acting as well, appearing on Broadway in The Vagina Monologues in the early ‘00s, and in 2015 she won an Emmy award for Outstanding Performer in Children’s Programming for her performance in R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour.
Although she famously played Lois Lane in Superman and Superman II (making cameos in III and IV), that wasn’t her only role in the Superman franchise. In 2004 she appeared in several episodes of the TV show Smallville, playing Bridgette Crosby, an associate of a scientist played by her former co-star Christopher Reeve.
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Sunken remains of 400-year-old ship found off Portuguese coast
Bronze cannon and Chinese porcelain among remains of ship that sailed spice route
Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 09:13
Sam Jones
Portuguese archaeologists described the discovery of a centuries-old shipwreck off the coast of Cascais, near Lisbon, as the country's "discovery of the decade," on Monday (September 24) at a news conference in the coastal city.
Divers with the centuries-old shipwreck off the coast of Cascais, Portugal. Photograph: Augusto Salgado/Cascais City Hall/Handout via Reuters
Details of the shipwreck off the coast of Cascais, Portugal. Photograph: Augusto Salgado/Cascais City Hall/Handout via Reuters
Divers with the shipwreck off the coast of Cascais, Portugal. Photograph: Augusto Salgado/Cascais City Hall/Handout via Reuters
Porcelain shards at the shipwreck off the coast of Cascais, Portugal. Photograph: Augusto Salgado/Cascais City Hall/Handout via Reuters
Archaeologists in Portugal have discovered peppercorns, fragments of Chinese porcelain and bronze cannon among the sunken remains of a 400-year-old ship that once sailed the spice route between Europe and India.
The wreck of the still-unidentified vessel was found at the beginning of September by a team of experts surveying the area around the town of Cascais, about 26km west of Lisbon.
The wreck site, which sits about 12 metres below the surface, is about 100 metres long and 50 metres wide.
The teams say the discovery will shed light on both Portugal’s trading past and Cascais’s place within it. “We found the ship on 4 September, using a geophysical survey and divers, and spent four days working on the site,” said Jorge Freire, a maritime archaeologist and scientific director of the underwater archeological survey.
He said divers had also come across cowrie shells, which were used in the slave trade.
“We don’t know the name of the ship, but it’s a Portuguese ship from the late 16th or early 17th century,” he said, adding that the team had been able to put a rough date on the wreck as the cannon bore the Portuguese coat of arms and the porcelain belonged to the Wanli period (1573-1619).
“It tells us a great deal about Cascais’s maritime history and identity,” said Freire. “It’s like we’ve been telling the local people here: this is a great discovery and its greatness lies in what it – and the artefacts – can tell is about the cultural landscape.”
The pieces will now be examined by the Portuguese government’s directorate-general for cultural heritage.
The mayor of Cascais, Carlos Carreiras, described the discovery as one of the most significant archaeological finds of the past decade. He said that although the cargo ship had yet to be identified, it could prove significant to the town.
“It’s an extraordinary discovery that allows us to know more about our history, reinforcing our collective identity and shared values,” said Mr Carreiras. “That, in turn, will certainly make us more attractive and competitive.”
The discovery comes 24 years after experts found the wreck of the Nossa Senhora dos Martires (Our Lady of the Martyrs), which also sailed the spice route and sank off Lisbon in 1606.
According to the survey team, who have been mapping the areas since 2009, the latest wreck is in better structural shape than the Nossa Senhora dos Martires. – Guardian
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2017 ADI Home Instead Family Carer of the Year Award
Simone Martini of Milan, Italy, was recently named the 2017 recipient of the ADI-Home Instead Family Carer of the Year Award. He is being recognized for the meaningful and positive impact he has made on the lives of those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or other dementias and their families with his AL(z)–CINEMA initiative, the first film-event to raise social awareness ever made in Italy.
The ADI-Home Instead Family Carer of the Year Award recognizes the work of unpaid family carers who help improve the quality of life for the people they care for and the greater community. This is the fourth consecutive year Home Instead Senior Care, the world’s leading provider of in-home care services for seniors, has sponsored the Award with ADI.
"Simone’s ingenuity in raising awareness of this critical issue through such a publicly accessible medium is deserving of international recognition," said Jeff Huber, president and CEO of Home Instead, Inc. "We are proud to join ADI in honoring him for his impressive work and success. It is through initiatives such as these that we can help families across the globe erase the stigma associated with the disease and educate a greater cross-section of the community about its unpredictable nature."
For the last six years Simone Martini has provided care for his aging parents, Giuseppe, 78, and Anna Maria, 77. In late 2011, Anna Maria was diagnosed with an early-moderate form of dementia, causing Simone to come face-to-face with a disease that would slowly take his mother away from him. Though this diagnosis was and remains difficult, he continues to find ways to make the most of the time they have together.
Four years in to his caring journey, Simone learned of training sessions for carers offered by the Federazione Alzheimer Italia, an organization designed to improve understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. After attending a course, he joined their efforts to combat the stigma of the disease and raise awareness for its impact on families. Here he was inspired and created the concept of AL(z)–CINEMA, or "the wrong movie." The concept: show Italian moviegoers a few minutes of a different film than they paid to see, before switching over to the correct one, providing a momentary peek into the confusion the more than one million Italians who live with the disease experience every day. The program has been a great success, with more than 150,000 moviegoers in 400 theaters experiencing AL(z)–CINEMA to date.
"The work that I’m able to do for Alzheimer’s (disease and dementia) is an indirect, but concrete way for me to help my mother," said Martini. "This award serves as a tremendous reminder of how far we have come and how far we have yet to go."
Martini was presented the award at the 32nd International Conference on ADI in Kyoto, April 26-29. The conference brought together the world’s leading researchers, healthcare professionals and experts from more than 100 countries to create an improved quality of life for people with dementia and their families on a global scale.
"The reason Mr. Martini deserved this Award very much is that he not only cared for his parents but used his experience as well to the benefit of the Alzheimer community in his country, Italy," said Marc Wortmann, executive director of ADI. "In him we honour the millions of caregivers around the world who do an incredible job day after day caring for their loved ones."
For more information on ADI, visit www.alz.co.uk. Or, to learn more about the Home Instead network, visit www.homeinstead.com.
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Weight Before Pregnancy Most Important to Risk for Complications
TUESDAY, May 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Expectant mothers and doctors have focused a lot on how much a woman gains during pregnancy, but new research suggests how much a woman weighs before getting pregnant may be far more important.
The study found that the more a woman weighed at the start of her pregnancy, the more likely she was to experience complications such as high blood pressure, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, cesarean delivery and preterm birth.
"Pregnancy complications in mothers and their infants occurred in 34% of women with a normal weight and in over 60% of women with severe obesity at the start of their pregnancy," said senior author Dr. Romy Gaillard. She's an assistant professor of pediatrics at Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
"Rather than focusing on maternal weight gain during pregnancy, strategies are needed to optimize maternal weight before the start of pregnancy to improve pregnancy outcomes," she said.
That doesn't mean expectant moms should feel free to "eat for two" throughout pregnancy, however. Weight gain during pregnancy still matters, according to Dr. Navid Mootabar, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y.
"The take-home is that if you want a healthy pregnancy, it's not as much about maintaining the proper weight gain during pregnancy as it is about going into pregnancy with a proper pre-pregnancy weight," said Mootabar, who reviewed the study's findings.
Obesity rates have been rising in the United States and other parts of the world. Gaillard said obesity among women of reproductive age is a major problem.
To see what affect weight before and during pregnancy had on pregnancy outcomes, researchers reviewed 25 studies involving almost 200,000 women. Data was collected between 1989 and 2015.
The average age of the women was 30, and they came from Europe and North America.
Researchers categorized the women by weight status using body mass index (BMI). BMI is a rough estimate of how much fat someone has based on height and weight. For example, a 5-foot-5-inch woman who weighs 148 pounds has a BMI of 24.6, which is considered normal weight.
About 4% of the women were underweight (BMI under 18.5); 68% were of normal weight (BMI 18.5-24.9); 20% were overweight (BMI 25-29.9); and about 8% were obese (BMI 30 and over).
In the obese category, 6% were considered grade 1 (BMI 30-34.9); almost 2% were grade 2 (BMI 35.0-39.9), and 0.5% were grade 3 (BMI 40 and over).
Just over 37% of pregnancies had an adverse event. Underweight women experienced an adverse event about 35% of the time compared to 61% for women who were obesity grade 3.
Gaillard said weight-gain guidelines can be used to counsel women, but aren't useful for predicting an individual woman's risk of pregnancy complications.
Dr. Jill Rabin is co-chief of the division of ambulatory care, Women's Health Programs-PCAP Services at Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, N.Y., and reviewed the study. She noted researchers cited several limitations in the data for weight gain during pregnancy, including self-reported pregnancy weights.
Rabin said the value of the study lies in the focus on pre-pregnancy weight.
"Pregnancy isn't a sprint, it's a marathon. What's important, really, is how are you going into pregnancy? And, it's not just weight, we need to optimize other metabolic and nutrition factors before conception," Rabin said.
As far as weight gained during pregnancy, Rabin said that varies by individual. "There's no one-size-fits-all answer. It really depends on how the baby is growing and how mom is utilizing her nutritional input, because everyone utilizes calories differently," she explained.
The biggest problem, Rabin said, is that many women don't see a doctor for pre-conception planning.
Mootabar agreed that women "need to get in touch with their providers before getting pregnant to discuss their risk factors. What happens now is a lot of women don't show up to their doctors until after they're already pregnant."
The study was published May 7 in Journal of the American Medical Association.
Here's more from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on weight and pregnancy.
SOURCES: Romy Gaillard, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, department of pediatrics, Erasmus MC Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Jill Rabin, M.D., co-chief, division of ambulatory care, Women's Health Programs-PCAP Services, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, N.Y.; Navid Mootabar, M.D., chairman, department of obstetrics and gynecology, Northern Westchester Hospital, Mount Kisco, N.Y.; Journal of the American Medical Association, May 7, 2019
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Webhosting.net Tailors Web Hosting, Software Development, and Consultative Services to Small Business Success
By: Laura Bernheim Posted: September 7, 2018
TL; DR: For more than two decades, Webhosting.net has scaled and evolved its platform alongside customer needs and industry trends to deliver hand-crafted solutions that resonate with small and medium businesses. In addition to traditional web services, the Miami-based company now includes a variety of cloud, hybrid, and application hosting packages as well as options centered around business continuity and disaster recovery. CFO James Park detailed how working with small-business clients changes everything from sales pitches, price points, and deployment times.
While many hosting and IT services companies aim to scale the size of their clientele to attract Fortune 500-caliber enterprises, Webhosting.net has spent decades perfecting the art of serving small- and medium-sized businesses.
The company takes a consultative approach to customizing web hosting and technology solutions for customers. By understanding the nuanced differences between how the distinct types of companies approach decisions, CFO James Park said Webhosting.net continually retunes various procedures to be the most effective.
For example, he said the bottom lines of enterprises are driven by CEOs who define the goals that need to be met and the orders passed several links down a chain. New initiatives may take six months or more to implement, with results taking years to accrue.
“When you’re dealing with smaller organizations, though, their appetite for waiting is very short,” James said. “You have to walk in, analyze the business, and understand their monetization strategy very keenly.”
Small businesses commonly need to see outcomes and growth within just a few months, he said, which means Webhosting.net’s recommendations need to be on point and much more nimble.
“It’s a very rapid, iterative approach to getting things done,” James said. “You have to understand the business so the initial starting point is as close to perfect as possible, otherwise you spin your wheels.”
Surviving the Dot-Com Crash and Finding the Path Forward
With a datacenter in Miami, Webhosting.net opened for business in 1998 — just a couple of years before the tech market’s value peaked in 2000 and came crashing down. The company enjoyed initial early success but quickly faced a very steep challenge.
“At the time, there was really no such thought of differentiation, market share, market growth, market capture, or so forth,” James said. “It was more of, ‘Here’s a domain name, and here’s some server space.’”
Founded in the late ’90s, Webhosting.net survived the dot-com crash by serving the tech needs of small businesses.
Starting a hosting company provided an essential service to the thousands of online startups and represented huge potential. When the industry crashed, many datacenters closed as companies vanished and took the demand for hosting with them.
“Going from launching in a period where the market stability didn’t really exist, we learned that the outlet into hosting had to take on a somewhat different shape than we initially envisioned,” James said.
For Webhosting.net, that meant a greater emphasis on more affordable services. The company expanded its shared hosting and VPS offerings and strayed a bit from dedicated servers. Colocation became much more popular, as James said, “customers would buy cheap hardware and needed to host their stuff somewhere other than a broom closet in an overheated, dusty office.”
In addition to the traditional hosting services, he said another industry emerged that would lead to Webhosting.net’s dual business nature of balancing server and networking expertise with an approach based in consultations and helping clients grow.
“As the internet bubble burst, the seeds of internet marketing were planted around the same time,” James said, mentioning email marketing, pay-per-click advertising, and search engine optimization. “That really took on a different dimension at the time. It was a massive business, and there were massive customers we could capture in a big way.”
Webhosting.net’s Unique Approach to Appealing to Small Businesses
Webhosting.net balances its offerings to maximize performance and cost in a way that enables small businesses to focus on efficiency. Whether the client is a pastry shop or an insurance broker, James said Webhosting.net helps them minimize costs while navigating complex requirements and regulations.
For example, a financial planning business will be handling sensitive personal information and financial data while accessing various banking and brokerage services — but can only support a handful of employees.
“They’ll have very similar needs to Bank of America, but, as a small shop, how the heck do you make it happen?” James said. “From a compliance perspective, they might have a consultant they work with, but that compliance consultant is not necessarily an infrastructure person. This is where we can come in and work with the business stakeholders to make sure their liability profile is managed as best as they can for the lowest possible price.”
Webhosting.net leases space in the massive NAP of the Americas datacenter in Miami, Florida.
Specifically, that means Webhosting.net doesn’t try to oversell or encourage customers to purchase products and services the business does not need. Although the strategy may hamper the company’s growth rate, James said Webhosting.net enjoys “insanely low” customer attrition rates and frequent word-of-mouth referrals.
“Overselling may satisfy a tactical need from a revenue-generation point of view, but, long term, it doesn’t help the organization retain the customers and keep them happy,” he said.
Virtualizing Disaster Recovery to Handle Customers’ Needs
The small business mindset forces Webhosting.net to think creatively when it comes to crafting products and services for customers. Delivering variations of enterprise-grade solutions helps small organizations stretch their financial and human capital, James said.
“If you don’t have the resources or the funding to meet a certain business need in what is considered the best way of doing things, you still have to find a solution that is effective,” he said, pointing toward Webhosting.net’s disaster recovery tools.
To help its small business clientele, the company focuses on the minimum amount of recoverability needed to survive a disaster. To calculate that, consultants work to establish an estimated window of downtime, required business functions, and make recommendations based on the budget limitations.
Webhosting.net’s business continuity products include backup, recovery, and replication services from VMware and Hyper-V that transfer and store customer data in Veeam’s cloud.
“We don’t do disaster recovery like IBM might do it,” James said. “We don’t have multiple off-site, physical locations people can go to. We do it all in a virtual fashion, and it’s recoverability that is both affordable and effective.”
Up Next: Emphasizing Education When Considering Cloud Migrations
As the hosting industry and customer base continue clamoring for cloud services and management, Webhosting.net is refining and developing offerings that emphasize transparency, support, and cost-effectiveness.
“Because this cloud word has so much buzz associated with it, we notice a lot of people who already have effective solutions in place think they’re going to save money or have better performance by moving to the cloud,” James said. “What most customers don’t understand is that it’s basically a menu-driven price, where you’ll have to pay extra for every little thing you want.”
James noted that the total cost going to the cloud will not necessarily be cheaper, and that’s not even weighing the costs associated with support and management.”
Although he said some business profiles lend themselves well to migrating to the cloud, Webhosting.net can help customers choose among private, public, or hybrid cloud solutions.
“Someone has to articulate a solution that is tied to an actual, real problem, as opposed to finding a solution for problems that don’t exist,” James said. “Our services offer a real-world analysis that provides for the management and support of a cost-effective and functionally effective cloud infrastructure.”
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Slik ble toktene i 1993 (gult) 1993 (rødt) og 1994 (grønt) gjennomført. Nesten 20 år senere er det nå tid for gjenta undersøkelsene av radioaktiv forurensing.
Survey of radioactive contamination in the Kara Sea
Fjords on the eastern side of the Novaya Zemlya islands were used as a dumping ground for radioactive waste right up until the early 1990s. Next week sees the start of a joint Norwegian/Russian research cruise to survey radioactive contamination in the area and check the condition of the dumped objects.
Published: 23.08.2012 - Updated: 27.08.2012
Samples will be taken of seawater, bottom sediments, fish, seaweed and bottom fauna in the dumping grounds, and the dumped objects will be studied with an underwater camera to assess their physical condition with salvage in mind. There is particular interest in the nuclear submarine K-27, which has two reactors with spent uranium fuel on board and was dumped at a depth of 30 metres in Stepovogo Fjord in 1981.
“It will be exciting to study the dumped radioactive objects and the surrounding sea floor. But it is also important for the Norwegian fishing industry, amongst others, to survey the general levels of pollution in an ocean so close to the Barents Sea,” says Hilde Elise Heldal from the Institute of Marine Research, who is leading the Norwegian side of the survey together with Bjørn Lind from the country’s Radiation Protection Authority.
Previous surveys
A total of three joint Norwegian/Russian expeditions to the dumping grounds were made in the early 1990s, the last one in 1994. The conclusion then was that radioactive contamination in the area was limited, but that there was a risk of future leaks from the dumped objects. No further expeditions have since been made to the area with Norwegian participation, although Russia has performed its own surveys.
Research cruise participants
On the Norwegian side, there will be participants from the Radiation Protection Authority, the Institute of Marine Research, the University of Life Sciences and the Institute for Energy Technology, while Russia will have participants from the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet), the Kurchatov Institute and research centre YMG. An observer from the International Atomic Energy Agency will also take part.
The expedition will sail from Kirkenes at the end of August 2012 and last around a month. It will concentrate mainly on Stepovogo Fjord on the eastern side of Novaya Zemlya.
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Settlement Stems From Cambridge Analytica Incident Scott Ferguson (@Ferguson_Writes) • July 12, 2019
After a long privacy investigation, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission voted to levy a $5 billion fine against Facebook, according to the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
The FTC voted 3-2 to approve the settlement, with three Republican members voting in favor and the two Democratic members voting against it, according to the news reports. The U.S. Justice Department must approve any final settlement.
The fine is the largest one ever levied by the FTC against a tech company and close to Facebook's recent $5.5 billion profit for the first quarter of this year. The company set aside $3 billion of that in anticipation of a fine.
The report of the proposed fine appeared to provide assurance to investors that it wasn't higher. Facebook's stock rose on Friday by 1.8 percent to $204.87.
The FTC and Facebook have been negotiating a settlement for months over whether the social network violated a 2012 agreement with the agency. The FTC investigation was launched in March 2018 as a result of the Cambridge Analytica controversy.
The now-defunct voter-profiling firm improperly obtained profile data for 87 million Facebook users without their consent (see: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: Data Scandal Intensifies).
The reported fine ups the risks for tech companies as regulators around the world are increasing their scrutiny of data management practices. Last week, U.K. regulators signaled their intent to fine British Airways £184 million ($230 million) and hotel giant Marriot £99 million ($125 million) over data security incidents under the E.U.'s General Data Protection Regulation (see Marriott Faces $125 Million GDPR Fine Over Mega-Breach).
But the U.S. lacks a federal privacy law covering consumer data. The FTC's strategy has been to allege violations of the FTC Act, which is intended to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive practices. In response to the Post's report, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Ore., renewed a call on Congress for new federal legislation.
"Given Facebook's repeated privacy violations, it is clear that fundamental structural reforms are required," Warner says. "With the FTC either unable or unwilling to put in place reasonable guardrails to ensure that user privacy and data are protected, it's time for Congress to act."
A Facebook spokesperson told Information Security Media Group that the company is not commenting on the reports of a settlement.
Do Fines Spur Change?
The proposed fine also drew criticism from other Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
"This reported $5 billion penalty is barely a tap on the wrist, not even a slap," Blumenthal writes on Twitter. "Such a financial punishment for purposeful, blatant illegality is chump change for a company that makes tens of billions of dollars every year."
A broader question is whether a fine will spur internal change within Facebook, as it was already under FTC monitoring when the Cambridge Analytica situation occurred.
Under the August 2012 consent order with the FTC, Facebook was required to obtain permission from consumers before making changes to privacy settings.
It also was barred from sharing data of its users to third parties without their consent. The FTC required Facebook to obtain third-party audits every two years certifying that it is in compliance with the settlement and had a privacy and security program in place.
Cambridge Analytica obtained around 87 million users' profile data, most of who were in the U.S. It obtained the data from Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University lecturer who deployed a quiz app on Facebook around 2013.
The app, called This is Your Digital Life, collected the personal information for people who used it as well as that of their friends, who had not provided their consent. Facebook later changed it rules to prevent such data harvesting. Kogan shared the data in violation of Facebook's policies.
Although Facebook endured many other privacy gaffs over the years that drew questions over how it was managing personal data, the Cambridge Analytica situation triggered a particularly vigorous outrage.
That was, in part, due to the firm's brief work with President Donald Trump's campaign, as well as rising awareness among the public of how their personal data is collected and transferred to third parties.
Earlier this year, the Electronic Privacy Information Center - whose complaints led to the 2012 consent order - launched a campaign called #enforcetheorder, alleging the FTC has failed act against Facebook.
EPIC said on Friday that it filed a Freedom of Information Act request that revealed 26,000 outstanding complaints have been filed with the FTC related to Facebook.
"The FTC has not taken a single enforcement action against Facebook since the 2011 consent order," EPIC notes on its #enforcetheorder page.
Of high interest when the FTC announces the new consent order will be under what monitoring terms Facebook will be bound by and how those differ from the 2012 order.
The Center for Democracy & Technology, a public interest group based in Washington, says it "looks forward to learning the final terms of the settlement, which are expected to include further restrictions on how Facebook manages user data."
Executive Editor Jeremy Kirk contributed to this report.
Scott Ferguson
Managing Editor, News Desk
Ferguson is the managing editor for the news desk at Information Security Media Group. He's been covering the IT industry for more than 13 years. Before joining ISMG, Ferguson was editor-in-chief at eWEEK and director of audience development for InformationWeek. He's also written and edited for Light Reading, Security Now, Enterprise Cloud News, TU-Automotive, Dice Insights and DevOps.com.
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Privacy and fair processing notice for public health services.
All local authorities have a duty to improve the health of the population they serve. The shared public health service of Camden and Islington Councils is responsible for protecting and improving the health of the population of Camden and Islington. To do this we provide a range of services, such as those to help people make a lifestyle change e.g. smoking cessation services, weight management services and contraceptive services, provide guidance and advice to the public and professionals and monitor and publish intelligence about local health and wellbeing needs to help the council, NHS and other partners plan services to meet the needs of the people of Camden and Islington.
To deliver public health, local authorities need to use available health data sources to get relevant health and social care information. This data can contain person identifiable data (PID) which may identify patients such as name, address, age, sex, ethnicity, disease, use of hospital services, and/or NHS Number. Some data may not be obviously identifiable; however there may be the potential to deduce individuals’ identities through combinations of information, either by the people handling the data or by those who see published results.
Camden and Islington Councils have access to the following public health data:
Primary Care Mortality Database (PCMD) – The PCMD holds mortality data as provided at the time of registration, which include: date of birth, date of death, sex, NHS Number, address, place of death and cause(s) of death as sourced from the deaths register of the death along with additional GP details, geographical indexing and coroner details where applicable. Data is supplied to the Public Health team under strict licence by NHS Digital and is limited to people who lived or were registered with GP Practices in the Islington and Camden areas.
Births datasets - Births files include date of birth, sex, birthweight, usual address of mother, NHS Number, postcode, place of birth and stillbirth indicators. Data is supplied to the Public Health team under strict licence by NHS Digital and is limited to babies born to mothers who live in the Islington and Camden areas.
Hospital Episode Data (HES) – is a data warehouse containing details of all admissions, outpatient appointments and A&E attendances at NHS hospitals in England. This data is collected during a patient's time at hospital and is submitted to allow hospitals to be paid for the care they deliver. HES data is also designed to enable secondary use, that is for non-clinical purposes that are not to do with direct patient care - such as research and planning local health services. The Public Health team receives HES data that is anonymous and is not identifiable under license from NHS Digital for non-clinical purposes.
National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) - The National Child Measurement Programme is a mandatory nationwide government scheme that is responsible for collecting annual information on the height and weight status of children in reception year (ages 4-5) and year 6 (ages 10-11). Using Body Mass Index (BMI), the results are used to monitor and assess childhood obesity trends nationally and in local areas to support public health initiatives and campaigns. It is the responsibility of Public Health Teams in Local Authorities to collect and process the data at a local level, before it is reported up to a national level, where the data is then collated by Public Health England’s Obesity Risk Factors Intelligence Team.
Psuedonymised data from General Practices in Camden and Islington linked to hospital data. The data includes information on diagnosis in the population such as heart disease, cancer, respiratory disease, alongside the management of these conditions such as blood pressure readings, cholesterol levels and gender, ethnicity and age of the population with these conditions. This dataset does not contain any data that directly reveals an individual’s identity, such as names, NHS numbers, addresses.
When the above data is processed for Public Health purposes the London Borough of Islington is the Data Controller.
The Public Health team is committed to using pseudonymised or anonymised information as much as is practical, and in many cases this will be the default position. Pseudonymisation is a procedure by which the most identifying fields such as the NHS number is replaced by an artificial identifier, or pseudonym which the Public Health team are unable to decrypt thus effectively anonymising the dataset.
Your data may also be joined up with other health and social care data that the using this method to increase understanding of the care experience received across the whole health and social care system.
How your data is used
All information accessed, processed and stored by public health staff will be used to measure the health, mortality or care needs of the population; for planning, evaluating and monitoring health; protecting and improving public health. It is used to carry out and support:
health needs assessments
health equity analysis
commissioning and delivery of services to promote health and prevent ill health
identifying inequalities in the way people access services
joint strategic needs assessment
health protection and other partnership activities
Any information held by the council about individuals will be held securely and in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Information will not be held for longer than required and will be disposed of securely.
The legal basis for the flow of data for the above purposes is set out in Section 42(4) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act (2007) as amended by section 287 of the Health and Social Care Act (2012) and Regulation 3 of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002.
How we hold and manage your data
All data that we hold is stored in secure systems within the council and in line with both the council and NHS Information governance framework. These systems are accessed controlled, so only a small number of relevant council employees have access to them.
Apart from data processed as part of the NCMP, Public Health do not share any person identifiable information that is processed.
Only aggregated analyses or reports as a result of processing data may be shared with key stakeholders such as local CCGs, GP Practices, other NHS Organisations and not for profit organisations that the Borough may do collaborative work with.
How to opt out
You have the right to opt of Islington Borough Council Public Health Team receiving or holding your personal identifiable information.
To take steps to doing this please send an email to foia@islington.gov.uk or write to:
Information Governance Team, Resources, 4th Floor, 7 Newington Barrow Way, Islington, N7 7EP.
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Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche records "Hello Stranger," a track from his 2017 album Pleasure, using Spire Studio.
Where did he record it? Under a bridge in Brooklyn, New York, of course.
This version of “Hello Stranger” was recorded and mixed with Spire Studio, which offers amp models and spaces to affect the sound.
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